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FT:The Crisis Will Spread Without a Plan B
Nouriel Roubini and Arnab Das of Roubini Global Economics warn that the IMF and EU should abandon their Greece bailout plans. It's too late; officials are being stubborn; time to move on and restructure Greece's debt and cut interest rates.
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A gangsta term for "Thank you" or "Thanks. Normally used by typical white folk in online Mmorpgs when thanking their fellow friends for buffing them with boons.
"Hey, you need some buffs before you go in to solo that dungeon?"
"Yeah fenkz bro"
"Yeah fenkz bro"
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Local mother determined to get care for her son
December 31, 2012
KEARNEYSVILLE — Kasey McDaniel has faced many challenges in her 19 years....
We have been where you are. Doctors told us the same thing. From experience I will tell you that doctors do not always know everything. Believe in yourself and your child and GREAT things will happen. I too was told my son would never walk, talk, crawl, or know his own name. He has defied all the odds. Keep your head up and keep fighting the good fight.
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Having a child myself with a disabilty and it is heartbreaking to watch them go through so much and you feel helpless but we as parents feel it is our fault but we are giving these children for a reason that only GOD knows and our job is just to love them and give them the best life you can. My heart goes out to any parent that has to face the challeges that many parents never have to think about.
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And while the Up in the Air star has yet to conquer the language, Canalis, an Italian talk-show host who appears in sexy lingerie ads for Roberto Cavalli's spring 2010 line, tells PEOPLE her handsome beau "is learning."
For his part, Clooney, 48, gives his teacher high marks. "She's always nice to me," he says. "She always says nice things."
Others are also saying nice things about Canalis, 31, who has been hand-in-hand with Clooney on plenty of red carpets during this current awards season. On Tuesday, they were together at the National Board of Review Awards at Cipriani in New York, where Clooney picked up a Best Acting award for Up in the Air.
"She's stunning," Vera Farmiga, Clooney's love interest in Up in the Air, told PEOPLE about Canalis. "She's a real gentlewoman. I dug her."
The film's producer, Ivan Reitman, said Canalis is "gorgeous" and that Clooney "seems to really dig her."
But onstage, Farmiga, 36, couldn't resist a good-natured onstage dig at her handsome costar, who has long been one of Hollywood's most sought-after bachelors.
Before honoring Clooney for his role in Up in the Air, Farmiga kidded that the title of Clooney's movie Good Night and Good Luck is "what every woman hears at the end of a date with George, except the beautiful Elisabetta."
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We have said for years that better leadership is needed from the Buffalo Board of Education. For decades board members have presided over a district that has failed to provide a quality education to most of its students.
To get a better board, we need better candidates. That's why word that Carl P. Paladino is considering a run for the Buffalo School Board may be a good thing. The abrasive businessman's last try at office came in 2010 when he ran unsuccessfully for governor, though he won Erie County.
This will be a pivotal year in the makeup of the School Board, with six of the nine seats up for election this May. The three at-large seats will come up for election in May 2014.
Whoever fills these seats will have a direct impact on the more than 37,000 students for years to come, just as the $1 billion Joint Schools Construction project winds down and implementation of reforms coming from "Say Yes to Education" ramps up.
The district's new superintendent, Pamela C. Brown, has set a lofty goal of graduating 80 percent of students, up from the current dismal 50 percent.
Whoever fills those School Board seats should possess the fiduciary skills and leadership background to be able to make policy decisions critical to the development of a high-quality education. They also must understand that while part of their role is to select the superintendent, it is also important they step back and allow her to do her job.
It's important to reiterate these points, because while this particular School Board has members whose resumes look good, the results have been as dismal as the district's graduation rates. Poor.
And it's no surprise given the low standards needed to qualify to run. Members need only to be at least 18 years old, be a qualified voter in the district and, oh yes, be able to read and write.
Because the election is held in May, turnout is very low. Some races attract only a few hundred voters. Candidates backed by politically connected operatives serving special-interest groups ranging from the teachers union to various politicians find an easy road to election. And once they're in, they are on a board that budgets nearly a billion dollars each year.
We're not sure Paladino is the right person for the job. He has made caustic and confrontational statements regarding "the sisterhood," referring to black females in power on the board and in the district.
But if his candidacy raises the profile of the job and draws some selfless individuals with the necessary skills to lead Buffalo schools out of the mess they're in, he will have done the city a service.
His quote in The News on his reasons for considering a run, "I think it's time for change …," is on the mark. But his followup, "I'm going to destroy them," referring to the board members, "All nine of them," is, well, 100 percent Paladino.
Having said that, Paladino doesn't owe anybody anything, and that kind of independence is needed on the School Board.
At $5,000 a year in salary for long hours of work, School Board members are virtual volunteers. But their influence over the lives of thousands of young people and future of the city demands that the best candidates join the race.


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A person who's humor is lacking substance. A new-school comedian who thrives off of retelling old jokes to appease any audience willing to listen to him.
Feeling left out, the neo-soul sucker started telling his same old, played-out jokes to entertain the crowd.
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A person of African American Heritage who has a purplish hew to the dental margins.
" Boy you-all doan want to get bit by one uh them Blue Gum N-Words! They bite is poisonouser than a rattlesnake!"
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Usually refers to a lazy black American who refuses to work.
Look at that ol blue gum just watching us do all the work!
Stop blue gumming and get to work!
Stop blue gumming and get to work!
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A person of african american decent. Also see nigger
Damn blue gums stole me bicycle
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A synonym of African American, this word describes the bluish color typical of a black mouth.
Hey! Somebody hang that bluegum!
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An African or African American with exceptionally dark skin.
He ain't high yellow, he's a bluegums.
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Any black person whose gums are blue in color. Used to differentiate from the more common pink-gummed black person.
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A black person of the darker variety such that the gums are of a blue color.
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Rights traded
Suter wanted to play with Parise at home in Minnesota
Carle wanted to be back in Tampa
Garrison wanted to be in his hometown Vancouver
Bieksa was never moved and said publicly he had no intention of leaving Vancouver
Jovo wanted to be back in Florida
Pitkanen wanted to play with Jokinen in Carolina
Hamhuis wanted to be home in BC
So you have Gonchar, Salo, Hamrlik, and Allen. And Gonchar, Hamrlik, and Salo are all old shells of their former selves
Dang we shoulda chased Bryan Allen
1. They weren't traded, their rights were.
2. I'm not really too upset about a guy who is mildly dirty as long as he's physical. That Allen video didn't break my heart.
3. Salo and Gonchar had stats either better or favorable to Kronwall last season, despite their age. Hamrlik wasn't great last season, but his 13 points and plus 11 are still better than all but two of our returning d-men.
4. Also, I think you're stretching this "wanted to be back in..." such and such place argument. Carle played 12 games in Tampa about four years ago. Fairly sure his roots aren't sunk too deep. Jovo hadn't played in Florida in 13 years, and I can't find one source that suggests that the reason Pikanen signed with Carolina is because of Jussi Jokinen.
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Term for Rohypnol, a sedative that was made in the early 1970s by Roche and was used in hospitals only for deep sedation. It is now a fairly infamous date-rape drug. Has also been known to be used recreationally
I like it when
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What desperate sick fuckers use to get laid. Its a pill form of the drug rohypnal which causes the taker...or in this case victim..to lose all self control, independence and slight conscious loss so that they can be raped without resistance. Most cases involve the rapist putting the disolvable pill into an unattended beverage.
"Dude here put this in her drink and she'll be easy to handle"
"You fucking sick roofie slipping cunt i hope you die.
"You fucking sick roofie slipping cunt i hope you die.
от ohwefoh 29 септември 2006
n. Generic slang term used to describe any date-rape drug (GHB, Rohypnol or Ketamine for example).
He slipped a roofie in her drink and she passed out.
от sensible_summer 16 юли 2005
a date rape drug, that can commonly be found in punch at college frat parties
dudee did you see sean last night?
Yeah he doesn't remember anything he got roofied.
Yeah he doesn't remember anything he got roofied.
от lauraisbanginnn 17 септември 2012
date rape pill commonly slipped into drinks
sawgwa goes into boys cars with them and slips roofies into their drinks then rapes them. it is kind of strange.
от mermottermatelf 06 декември 2008
What anyone with a penis will need before they can bang Lindsay Lohan.
I had to slip 3 roofies into LiLo's drink before it had any effect on her.
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he slipped her a roofie and fucked her good.
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The vocal reaction you have when you're totally pissed off after hearing one too many bleeps while watching an R-rated film on a "family" channel.
I was really looking forward to seeing this movie, but all these fucking bleeps are driving me crazy!
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LORETTO - Have you ever been to a vacation spot a couple of times? Slowly, you discover the hidden hot spots, the secluded restaurants, the best places to relax about which first-time tourists are unaware. You find the shortcuts and learn to deal with the local residents.
Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic High School girls basketball has gotten to be that familiar with the postseason. The only difference is that the Lady Marauders have been there so often it's like they live there.
Guilfoyle was right at home at DeGol Arena Wednesday night in punching its ticket to the PIAA Class A finals with a 52-41 victory over Homer-Center, its fourth trip to the state finals in five years and third in a row.
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Lady Marauder Halee Adams fights for a rebound.
"It's unreal. I've only dreamed about getting here three years in a row,'' Lady Marauder senior Kelsey Livoti said.
Livoti's words read like she was experiencing unrestrained joy. To hear them, though, it was as if she was having pizza for lunch. It was enjoyable, to be sure, but also something not out of the ordinary.
Consider this: None of these Lady Marauders have ever lost a playoff game. Livoti and her fellow senior, Chelsea Kerr, are 23-0 heading into Saturday's noon game at Bryce Jordan Center against Steelton-Highspire, a team Guilfoyle beat by 10 in the first game of the season.
Every win has made it that much easier for Guilfoyle the next time out. There's almost nothing they haven't seen.
"You know what the atmosphere is. You know how hard you need to play to get where you want to be,'' Livoti said. "The fans, every component, comes together. It helps because I know what's coming.''
That seemed to hold just as true for sophomores Halee Adams and Elyssa Ehredt, who were starters on last season's championship team, or soph Kayla Bates, who was coming off the bench a year ago, or even 10th grader Devin Stessney, who played sparingly as a freshman.
"We've been in this position before. We were pretty confident,'' Stessney, who, like Livoti, scored 11 points, about five points better than her average. "Just [having experienced] the little things helps.''
Homer-Center came out in a zone defense that was effective against North Catholic in the quarterfinals. Not known as a 3-point shooting team, Guilfoyle calmly made three treys in the first 11 minutes.
The Lady Marauders won the crucial moments at the end of the first and second quarters. In the fourth, Homer-Center got what had been a 17-point BG lead down to four, but the Guilfoyle players never panicked. They made 12-of-17 free throws down the stretch, held the Lady Wildcats scoreless for nearly 6 minutes while their own offense struggled and got almost every defensive board against a taller team.
Guilfoyle then put it away on Ehredt's driving layup on which she was fouled intentionally for a four-point play. Ehredt only took two shots all game, but made them both.
"I knew what to expect, having played in games like this before,'' Adams said. "It helps us, because we know we can make foul shots and things like that at the end.''
Homer-Center, by contrast, never had advanced this deep into the playoffs before. Although the Lady Wildcats mounted a valiant comeback, Guilfoyle pounced on any opportunity it was given and made it count.
"Having been here before is definitely advantage,'' Homer-Center star Kaitlyn Skinner said. "For us, in our first time being here, I think it meant more to us than them. We were just so intense and so happy to be here. We fought really, really hard. I'm proud of the way we played.''
Guilfoyle, though, was more like the Terminator: cool, calculated, unrelenting and fairly unemotional. It was more like a mission for which the Lady Marauders had been trained, drilled over and over again to a machine-like efficiency.
"When things get tough, I try to keep my emotions down on the ground, and I think we held our composure really well. I couldn't ask my teammates to do a better job,'' Livoti said. "I thought [the younger players] were a little nervous, but I liked the vibe coming in. Nerves are always going to be there, but I thought they were ready.''
Now they are ready to head back to the Bryce Jordan Center, their favorite home away from home.
It seems like the Bishop Guilfoyle Lady Marauders have a standing reservation there.
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When a college party is busted, students often move their activities to another location.
Some believe the same thing could occur in Altoona this weekend for State Patty's Day.
In State College, 34 bars, restaurants and six-pack stores have agreed to not sell alcohol during the unofficial holiday weekend, hoping to counteract rowdy, often destructive, students.
With their State College options now limited, some think the partiers might decide to come to the Altoona area.
Champ's Bar and Grill Manager Scott Lucchesi said he's worried what the weekend might bring.
"It's just a stressful situation," he said. "We're worried. We don't really know what to expect."
In addition to Champ's Altoona, Lucchesi also runs its State College location as well as The Phyrst in downtown State College, one of the 34 businesses that agreed to close or cease alcohol sales over the weekend.
In exchange, they were promised a $5,000 subsidy.
For Champ's Altoona, Lucchesi said he hopes the distance between the restaurant and Penn State Altoona campus will provide a buffer zone.
There are no specific plans to prepare staff for an influx, but if students do come and cause trouble at either Champ's location, Lucchesi said he'll know how to prepare for next year.
Changes could include limiting alcohol sales or at least increasing security, he said.
State College Borough and university press releases said although incidents have decreased, police still made 225 arrests last year, and the local hospital treated 60 people for alcohol-related causes.
Not all businesses are worried, though.
Zach's Sports and Spirits Assistant Manager Shaun McIntyre said he didn't hear any rumors about Penn State students visiting, and doesn't imagine they would cause any problems.
Zach's is normally packed on weekends, with McIntyre saying he couldn't even begin to guess the number of patrons on any given Friday or Saturday night.
With larger crowds being the norm, he didn't think he'd have to worry about accommodating them or reining them in, he said.
Phil Cox, owner of The Island nightclub, also said he doesn't expect to see a lot of students, but that doesn't mean he's not prepared.
"We're always ready for a pretty big crowd here," he said, and he'll inform weekend staff to make sure they're ready for anything.
From what he's seen and heard, many still plan to go to State College for the weekend because the event is, after all, a campus-centric event.
They'll just buy booze here before they leave, he said.
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Can you remember being very angry?
February 4, 2013
Can you think of a for instance when something made you so angry you reacted angrily, outwardly, violently? How did you feel? What did you think? How did you resolve the problem......
I agree in most part with this article, except for one thing.
It is a clear point. 80% percent of the shooters involved in these mass shootings came from well to do family and life. Why do people continue to ignore that fact? This is why we will never have a solution to these problems because they do not take into consideration every contributing factors.
Everyone of these shooters were on a "mind altering drug". That is a fact.
Everyone of these shooters received a prescription from a Doctor. That is a fact.
That is just a few things. The escape? Must be those guns! It is ridiculous.
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Professor Kenneth Johnson FRS, FEng has been awarded the prestigious Timoshenko Medal.
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Engineering graduate, Junior Under Officer Angela Laycock received the Sword of Honour prize at Sandhurst.
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A new study by researchers in the Department's Institute for Manufacturing's (IfM) Sustainable Manufacturing Group, sets out a vision of a sustainable clothes industry.
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Jo da Silva has been named 'Individual of the Year 2006' for her role in a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees project.
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Professor Ann Dowling has been recognised in the New Year Honours list and is to become a Dame for services to Science.
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A Cambridge engineering graduate who founded an engineering software company has donated more than £2million to endow a post in solid mechanics.
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Dr Kenichi Soga, Dr Sang Ratnam and Robert Whittle were awarded this year's George Stephenson Medal.


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We rolled in around 10 pm last night. It was a full day of moving and then jumping in the car to drive six hours with several stops for bathroom breaks. But we made it.
This morning we were up and off to tour all three schools - Gray goes to an elementary school in our neighborhood that is K-2, Carter goes to an intermediate school grades 3-5, and Noah is in middle school. Then they all needed back packs. And then I got to stuff their backpacks with the eleventy hundred things listed on their school supplies sheets.
They are in bed now, excited for their first days. I'll see them off and await the arrival of our moving truck and then the sweet return of school buses and a slower pace as we ease back into life, now here.
There's a dishwasher at our new house! And a chipmunk in the backyard! PS I am exhausted.


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CHAMBERSBURG - In general, the team that accumulates the most hits and commits the fewest errors will win a baseball game, right?
This was not the case for Mifflin County Monday as the squad traveled to Chambersburg and fell, 4-3.
It was too little, too late for the Huskies as the squad plated two seventh-inning runs to bring the score to within one - but a missed squeeze play led to an out at home, killing the momentum and deflating hopes for the comeback.
"The defense did a great job at adjusting and threw a pitch out," Mifflin County coach Travis Zook said. He added that his team, despite collecting 10 hits, was never able to string any of them together until late in the game.
"We really didn't start putting things together until the seventh inning," he said. "We hit the ball hard, put it in play and swiped a couple of bases off of their mistakes."
For Zook and his pitching staff, the anemic run production has become tiring as, he explained, the team has plated just eight runs in four games. The pitching staff, including Heath Hidlay, who threw four and two thirds Monday, has kept its ERA under three-and-a-half - doing everything it can to help the Huskies win.
"Hidlay threw a great game today," Zook said. "Only having three runs is unacceptable - we should be scoring more runs on 10 hits."
The Huskies played error-free ball as well, and according to Zook, a great game overall.
Mifflin County (1-3) faces another Mid-Penn Commonwealth challenge Wednesday on the road at Central Dauphin.
Mount Union 13, Moshannon Valley 2 (6 inning)
HOUTZDALE - Starting pitcher Darrian Stapleton tossed another excellent game and an eight-run sixth inning propelled Mount Union to its fourth win Monday over Moshannon Valley, 13-2 in six innings.
Stapleton went the distance for the Trojans - surrendering seven hits, striking out two Knights and, most importantly, walking zero.
"Darrian has been strong, " Mount Union coach Nick Imperioli said. "He's had excellent control and he's been ahead of most of his hitters - he had another strong game."
With the game still in doubt at 2-2 in the top of the fourth, Brady Goodling unleashed a two-out, bases-loaded double that gave the Trojans the lead for good.
"I thought we hit well," Imperioli said. "Late in the game we had quite a few clutch hits."
Cole Boozel homered and collected three RBIs while Goodling also accounted for three runs in the victory.
Mount Union (4-1) hosts Bellwood-Antis today.
Halifax 16, East Juniata 6
COCOLAMUS - Riding a three game winning streak, the East Juniata Tigers took the diamond Monday against Halifax - a formidable Tri-Valley League opponent - with hopes of extending the streak to four straight.
The Wildcats had other plans, though, and the visitors used 17 hits to 10-run the Tigers, 16-6 in five innings.
Halifax jumped all over starting pitcher Ryan Stuck to build a four-run lead in the first that proved insurmountable for the Tigers.
"They (Halifax) came out and jumped right on him with three straight hits and drew a walk," East Juniata coach Tim Brubaker said. "From there it seemd like they were hitting the ball very well and we just did not make good pitches."
After leaving two guys stranded in the home half of the opening stanza, the Tigers took the field in the second only to surrender five more Wildcat runs. Halifax picked up where it left off in the first and collected hit after hit and induced an East Juniata error that made the Tigers look to their bullpen. Jeremy Pannebaker stepped in for the home squad and induced an inning-ending double play.
Down 9-0, Bailey Coder led off the second inning with a solo shot that started a five-run rally for the Tigers - but the team would score just one more the rest of the way while the persistent Wildcats would plate seven more to put the game away.
East Juniata (3-1) travels to Greenwood Wednesday.
Line Mountain 15, Juniata 12
MIFFLINTOWN - Through the first three games of the season, Juniata struggled to hit. The Indians hit plenty on Monday - but had more than their share of errors, which led to a 15-12 loss to Line Mountain in Tri-Valley League baseball.
On the good side, the Indians pounded out 15 hits, including home runs by Dakota Sweitzer - who had four hits, including a double, and drove in four runs - and Ty Treaster.
But the Eagles' nine errors were matched and then exceeded by nine for the home team, and that was the difference.
"We would climb right back into it, every time being down by one run, and would shoot ourselves in the foot," Juniata coach Nick Beward said.
"Offensively we swung the bats really well tonight. That's the one positive we can take away," he said. But? "We threw the fundamentals right out the door and became real lackadaisical, fielding-wise."
Juniata (1-3, 1-2) travels to Newport Wednesday.
Lancaster Country Day 14, Greenwood 4
LANCASTER - Greenwood scored first and was up 4-0 in the middle of the third, but Lancaster Country Day put nine runners across the plate in the bottom as the Wildcats (0-6) continue to look for their first win under Mark Sherman after the Tri-Valley league baseball loss.
Line Mountain 8, Juniata 7
HERNDON - Juniata plated five runs in the fifth to take a three-run lead over Line Mountain Monday but the Indians surrendered five in the seventh and Line Mountain erased a four-run deficit to take the game, 8-7.
Kristen Pray, Micheh Horning and Tiffiany Shoop all had multiple-hit games for the Indians. Pray and Horning knocked in two runs apiece as well. Brinley Irvin smacked a double in the loss and tossed four strikeouts from the circle.
Juniata (2-4) hosts Newport Wednesday.
Halifax 5, East Juniata 4
HALIFAX - East Juniata took an early 2-0 lead and scored again in the sixth to tie the game, but a walk-off run in the seventh helped Millersburg to a Tri-Valley League softball win over the struggling Tigers, who fall to 0-4.
Milton 7, Midd-West 0
MIDDLEBURG - After five innings, Milton sat on a slim 2-0 lead. But that seems to be the breaking point for Midd-West - the Mustangs gave up five more runs in the final two frames in the 7-0 Heartland Conference softball loss Monday.
"I don't know if it's the mental part of it, focus. Maybe we need to drill harder physically," said Midd-West coach Pete Voss, noting his team seems to break down after four or five innings.
It was nothing big; Milton had a solo homer in the first and a couple doubles.
"We played some tough teams," Voss said. "I was pleased with the effort."
Midd-West (0-5, 0-4) travels to Danville today.
Hollidaysburg 5, Mifflin County 4
HOLLIDAYSBURG - Hollidaysburg found a way to beat the Huskies at tennis - just keep playing until you win.
The Golden Tigers scheduled a nine-match visit for Mifflin County Monday - five singles and four doubles - enough stretch for Hollidaysburg to take a 5-4 non-league victory against a team accustomed to the more traditional 3-2 format used in the Mid-Penn.
Mifflin County coach Glenn Kyle said the difference may have been the wear and tear on No. 4 and No. 5 players Nate Koller and Cody Donaldson, who won long singles matches they normally would not have played before hitting the court for the doubles session.
Matt DeBenedetto also picked up a singles win. Clay Morgan and Will Fox had the lone doubles win for Mifflin County.
The Huskies (5-4) host State College today.


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When you jack off and then orgasm , you use a rubbing motion on your cock like when you squeeze the rest of the yogurt out from the bottom of the gogurt tube.
I had to get the excess cum out of my cock last night even though it was sore. So Patricia started gogurting it.
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The act of slurping up man yogurt from a condom just like a gogurt, sliding your finger from the bottom to the top till maximum slurpage is achieved.
I was craving some gogurt the other day, but I didn't have any, but I did have a nut waiting to be busted and a rubber, so later that day I was totally gogurting that shit.
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The act in which a blowjob is given in the same way a child would eat a gogurt
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NIAGARA FALLS – An Ontario Avenue man told police Tuesday that he was robbed a knifepoint this week after he was followed home from a corner store.
The victim he left the store at about 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, and when he got to his door a teenage boy, wearing all black clothes and a hood, jumped on him and demanded that he hand over everything. The victim said that when he tried to push the teen away, the youth displayed a pearl-handled knife and threatened to "stick him."
The victim told police that he offered the suspect a beer, but the teen refused and demanded everything in his pockets, which was $3. The robber took the cash and fled, according to police.


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Late last year, we reported that Rupert Grint narrarated a documentary called "We Are Aliens" for the National Space Centre in Leicester, England. Aside from a short audio clip released in January, not much else has been seen or heard... until now.
The official website for "We Are Aliens" published several short video clips from the documentary, ranging in topics from the Mars Rover to Jupiter's moon, Europa. Anyone with an interest in science will definitely find these clips fascinating.
View all of the clips AT THIS LINK or check out two of them below.
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Very gay person.
Jonny is very homogay.
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The step beyond gay. A man that has taken time to go out of his way to make sure u know he's gay. This term doen't apply to women because lesbians rule... sept if they're butch and goss
"Holy crap look at that dude's scarf and pink button-down shirt thats open at the top. He's so homogay"
লিখেছেন- Taildrag 20 de সেপ্টেমবার de 2005
when something is more gay than gay. thus, makes it homo gay.
"Hawthorne High School is homo gay."
লিখেছেন- pedro 16 de ফেব্রুয়ারি de 2005
extremely gay, therefore just about as gay as it gets.
Woah my friend, you ARE the homogay.
লিখেছেন- Molly Williams 3 de মার্চ de 2003
A term (noun or adjective) to describe someone who too closely follows the 'gay stereotype.'
Usually used amongst super-christians.
Usually used amongst super-christians.
The homogays are staging capchta images to convert our children.
লিখেছেন- Gatodo 11 de মে de 2011
used on SNL (saturday night live) by mango meaning just gay...probably could be used as super ultra uber gay
"Why does everyone think I'm the homo gay?"
-Mango (Chris Kattan)
-Mango (Chris Kattan)
লিখেছেন- the homo gay 12 de মার্চ de 2005
The splicing of "homosexual" and its more common synonym, "gay". Saying "homogay" takes off two syllables that would otherwise need to be said in saying "homosexual". Semi-formal way of saying "gay".
He is homogay. (ho-mo-gay instead of ho-mo-sex-u-al)
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5 Things No One Tells You About Raising Teens
Full disclosure: I've been married 16 years, I have three kids who are ages 10, 12, and 14, and there's a mole on my right inner thigh that's changed shape recently. That last confession has nothing to do with this column, but my lawyer says that every full disclosure has to include one status update on my body moles.
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Maybe I shouldn't have picked a lawyer who graduated from DeVry.
I know what you're thinking: "Oh, but Kristi, you're too young and hot to have kids that old! Are you sure they're yours?" No, I'm not. But I'm too far along in the parenting game to ask for maternity tests now. The interesting thing about raising kids is that you never picture yourself with teenagers. You picture yourself with cute little babies and scrappy kindergartners, but imagining a future version of you standing shoulder to shoulder with a future version of your offspring is next to impossible. Now that this future is here for me, it's way more fun than I expected. Here's what no one told me about raising older kids.
#5. Your Kids Can Be a Substitute for Friends Now!
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By the time your children have figured out how to do #2 on or around the toilet, there's an amazing chance you've already lost every real world friend you've ever had. Not because you're terrible or your kids are terrible or you insist on talking about your child's doodies, but because the energy and time it takes to maintain real world friendships are long gone. For some of us, this was true without even adding kids to the equation, which was weird because of the constant doody talk.
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"Say 'Doodies!'"
Early along, my husband and I figured something out -- these baby humans will be older one day, and maybe they'll even be fun to hang out with. Why not train them to like the things we like so they'll do them with us now that we don't have any friends? It's like the Bible says, "Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it." Yes, the writer of this verse (God?) probably meant "Teach your kids to love God (me?) and they will always love God (me?)" but there's no reason you can't apply the same principle to making your kids take up your stupid hobbies with you.
For our family, that means my daughters watch musicals and do Pinterest crafts with me and my son plays music with his dad. Or the girls play Minecraft with dad and I sulk, because what's so great about digitized LEGOs? If I wanted to spend the rest of my life marveling at pretend worlds THAT LOOK TERRIBLE, I would have stuck with the Star Wars movies. The point is that raising a family takes forever, and you're going to need some shared interests to pass the time if you don't want to go bananas. Hey, if your thing is playing Barbies and Hot Wheels and intentionally losing Candyland after an hour of gameplay, then young children are probably a blast for you. If not, don't feel bad about your parenting skills. It's them, not you. And know your kids are going to be way more fun in a few years.
Obviously, if your hobbies include doing the molly drug at the dancing clubs, it's probably best to leave your kids out of the picture.
#4. Competitive Parents Are in for a Weird Surprise
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For anyone who has a competitive streak, there's a whole new dimension of strangeness that comes with raising older children. Before I get to it, let's set up the background. For some of us, having a normal adult conversation includes resisting the urge to top everything the other person says. If "Congratulations on your baby" and "I just had a baby 10 years ago, but mine came out of my mouth" come out in the same breath, guess what? You're a topper, and maybe a liar. It's OK. I top people too. Let's make a deal to work on it.
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Now, as a new parent, this competitive streak is first going to manifest itself by you measuring up your own babies to other people's babies. Which infant is hitting their milestones first? Who's rolling over and who's lazy and worthless? How many times have you heard someone say "I didn't talk until I was 3, but I immediately spoke in complete sentences"? The only reason they know that is because their mama freaked out that she had a late talker, so she added some spicy compensation to the story. "I hungry" is technically a complete sentence, but that doesn't mean you should be proud of it. I know all about this because for some ungodly reason none of my kids started walking until they were exactly 15 months old, which is 72 in baby years. Have you ever seen a 15-month-old kid still crawling when his peers are already parkouring around them? "Take Me Down to Humiliation City" is the song I wrote about it.
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That was a joke for my 14-year-old. Go do your homework, Mr. Harrison!
Once you get past the "How does my kid stack up to your kid on a literal level?" stage, something new happens. You might find yourself asking another question: "How does my kid stack up to me?" Get yourself psychologically prepared for the day you end up on the losing end of that equation. Moms, one day your little girl is going to be the teenage knockout who turns the heads you used to turn, and don't think for one second you won't notice the shift in energy. Dads, your little goofball who currently wears underwear with cartoon figures on the one side and unwashable stains on the other side might one day walk up on stage and blow a room away with his guitar. Or maybe your kid goes further in his or her athletic career than you ever could, or is funnier than you, or is more charming than you. The same competitive spirit that compels you to constantly compare yourself to your peers is going to rear itself when you figure out you've been out-personed by your children. Surprise! Raising older kids gives you a whole new way to be terrible!
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"If you'd just stop being pretty, we wouldn't have a problem, MaKenna!"
This also explains in-law tension and how some multigenerational holiday get-togethers often end in yelling or angry silence before the pumpkin pie even comes out. Go to an office party, and everyone can keep their jealousies at a reasonable level. Get with family, and one-upmanship is part of the evening's entertainment. When does that nastiness start? Certainly not when your kids are still making knock-knock jokes that end in questions about the universe.
#3. Welcome to the World of the Nameless
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Maybe it's because I'm from the South or the 1880s, but when I was a kid, I was taught to speak to adults as "Miss or Mister First Name," if not "Ms. or Mr. Last Name." So my Sunday school teacher was Miss Lulubelle Jean or something along those lines, which was nice, because it's jarring to hear an 8-year-old address a senior citizen like they're two equals shooting the breeze. If you're a little kid using an old man's first name, he better be your stepdaddy.
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Jeff and Dakota, best friends 4-ever.
When you're raising older kids, there's a nebulous world of communication between you and your kids' friends. They will not know what to call you, so you exist as a hovering nameless ghost-mom there for rides home and pizza payments. "Miss Kristi" sounded appropriate when my kids' friends were tiny, but not from 6-foot-tall man-boys with man-voices. On the other hand, "Mrs. Harrison" is my mother-in-law's mother-in-law's mother-in-law. The phrase is so formal that you'd probably have to go back to colonial times to find anyone who wanted the moniker.
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"My friends call me Kristi, but you can call me DJ Lipliner."
In the end, I'm guessing most of my kids' friends probably don't know my name at all, even after eating my food and staying in my house and imposing on my mental sanctity. Which is fine, because it's kind of Zen not having a name. Maybe I can convince them to call me Rumpelstiltskin one day.


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Pretzel dough puts a twist on sandwich rolls
I am assuming you A) live under a rock or B) have seen the Wendy's commercial for burgers served on a pretzel roll.
A year ago, I'd only seen pretzel rolls, I swear, as part of Country Fair's breakfast sandwiches. Now they're everywhere. In addition to Wendy's, National Restaurant News listed more than a dozen restaurants nationwide that are using them, including TGI Fridays, which serves sliders on pretzel rolls. Every foodie website suddenly has a pretzel roll recipe.
Pretzel rolls are soft pretzel dough shaped into rolls. They're not squishy like regular bread and much sturdier even than kaiser rolls, making it easy to pile your sandwich fillings high -- perhaps too high. It took me half an hour to eat one with ham, cheese, lettuce, tomato and onion. I wasn't hungry again for 12 hours.
Pretzel rolls are great for sloppy stuff, such as pulled pork or Greek dogs, and anything else you might want to serve during a football game -- especially for diners eating on your couch.
Five things I learned:
1. My rolls were roughly half the size of the moon. I don't think they were supposed to get that big, but I had to add almost five cups of flour to get the dough right. The recipe said it was supposed to be "no longer sticky and pulls away from the side of the bowl," and that would take about three or four cups of flour, but I kept touching it and it would stick to my finger, so I'd add another one-third cup flour. That went on for some time.
The dough behaved well after that, so I don't know what happened. I do know that next time I'll shape them into much smaller balls.
2. This recipe was pretty standard for most homemade bread in that you have to mix, knead, rise, punch down, shape and re-rise. They're also a lot like bagels, which you have to boil.
The difference when making something with the look and feel of soft pretzel dough is adding 3 tablespoons of baking soda to the boiling water.
According to Food Network cook Alton Brown on www.goodeatsfanpage.com, the baking soda bath causes the outside of the pretzel dough to "gelatinize," a chemical process that will make them turn dark brown when baked.
3. Another thing that helps the rolls turn brown is the egg wash you paint all over the raw dough. It contains a smidgen of sugar and protein needed to cause a Maillard reaction (browning), which makes it a little shiny and crusty, too.
4. Add the baking soda to boiling water slowly. It foams instantly, like opening a pop bottle after shaking it. If you add it all at once, you could have a mess on your hands and stove and range and counter and floor.
5. Speaking of chemical leaveners, by which I mean baking soda and baking powder, what good are they? If I run out of one, can I use the other?
Baking soda and powder make the difference between most baked goods and, say, hard tack, for those of you who remember that stuff. Personally, I'd rather eat roofing shingles.
If you're going to eat flour, fat and sugar, you're going to need carbon dioxide to put some space between the solids. Yeast makes carbon dioxide when it eats sugar, which is what makes bread rise.
Chemical leaveners such as baking soda and baking powder make carbon dioxide in reactions facilitated by water. They work differently. Baking soda reacts with acids such as lemon juice or vinegar. (Think science fair volcanoes.) Baking powder is baking soda already mixed with dry, acidic ingredients that react with water.
Soda is used when the recipe already contains acids. Powder is used when it doesn't. Sometimes you need both, when you have just a little acid.
Baking soda has other genius uses as well, namely gelatinizing the surface of boiling bread dough.
JENNIE GEISLER writes about her adventures as a home cook every Wednesday. You can reach her at 870-1885. Send e-mail to email@example.com. Visit her blog at GoErie.com/blogs/loaves. Follow her on Twitter, @etngeisler.


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It's what you get when you wash your face with the same thing you use to wash your junk.
"Steve only has one bar of soap in the shower. He totally has junkface."
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A marketing ploy by Neutrogena that seeks to create a demand for a product we don't need on the premise that what we've been doing is wrong. Specifically, that we should segregate our bathing products. Junkface is in fact a myth, one more product created by our shitty consumerist society to convince us that we are inadequate.
"Maybe I'll finally be happy if I buy into the idea that junkface is actually a thing I should be concerned about."
"I just realized the reason I hate myself is because I have junkface. Thanks Neutrogena!"
"I just realized the reason I hate myself is because I have junkface. Thanks Neutrogena!"
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Being so fucked on any type of illicit drug you lose control of your facial features. Most commonly induced by poppers or exctasy.
"check out james or should i say junk face his own mother wouldn't recognise him in the state he's in"
بواسطة Brano نوفمبر/تشرين الثّاني 27, 2008
The act of stripping down naked and doing a handstand, resting your legs against the door frame, while the woman is in the bathroom doing her business. Once she's done she will open the door and walk face first into your junk. The door must open inward for this to work.
I told the wife I'll give her a surprise. She was "surprised" when she received the junkface from me this morning.
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Michael D. Long turned 21 on Sept. 11, 2001.
Stationed at Ft. Bragg, N.C., where he was assigned to the Army�s 82nd Airborne Division, he had gotten engaged two days earlier.
Long had taken an unlikely course to the 82nd. As a teen in Southern California, he spent his time skateboarding and listening to punk rock music. Among his favorite bands was Operation Ivy, which in their song �Unity,� sang: There�s a war going down between my brothers tonight, I don�t want no war going down ... stop this war.
He�d known tough times, though, having come from a broken home and at times having no home at all. After finishing high school, when one day a friend said he planned to join the Army, Long without thinking much about it said, �OK, me, too.�
The friend backed out, Long didn�t, drawn in some part by the adventure and epic heroism depicted in movies such as �Saving Private Ryan.�
That�s what pushed him to seek the airborne assignment and his first jump was as breathtaking as he imagined.
�I�ll never forget the experience,� Long said. �It was just amazing.�
His first deployment was in 2000 to Egypt. It was around the time of the USS Cole bombing by al-Qaida, but few then had an inkling what that attack foretold
After Sept. 11, everything changed.
�Everybody knew war was coming ... we just didn�t know when,� he said.
During this waiting period, his four-year commitment to the Army lapsed. He decided to re-enlist, but switched to the 173rd Airborne Brigade, stationed in Zicenza, Italy. He said he wanted to get there with his wife, Lucy, whom he married in December 2001, and he joked that the guys in Italy never deploy.
But he was to be in Europe only briefly.
In late March 2003, just days after the start of the Iraq war, the 173rd Airborne was deployed to Northern Iraq. After assembling at the Bashur Airfield, they pushed on to Kirkuk trailing Special Forces and allied Kurdish forces. They rode in on requisitioned flatbeds, which he said made them feel sort of like sitting ducks.
When they arrived in Kirkuk, they found a city destroyed. Utilities weren�t working, and the residents, a melting pot of Arabs, Turkmen and Kurds, were fighting one another.
�We didn�t know what the hell was going on,� he said.
Long spent most of that year in Kirkuk.
The men slept in the offices of a government building. In the beginning especially, they didn�t have much food or water. They encountered random violence and, increasingly during the deployment, improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, which would go on to become the signature weapon of the insurgency and take countless soldiers� lives.
Long bristles at how death is treated in the military. He said the dead are venerated as heroes but rarely grieved as human beings. And quickly, it�s time to forget and move on.
There were bright spots, though, to his time there, like playing with the children who lived near their compound.
�I loved the kids. They were great. It�d be interesting if Iraq were ever that stable where I could go back to Kirkuk and hit up the old neighborhood,� he said.
He wondered if the same shops would still be there and if the kids were getting an education.
In February 2004, Long�s brigade returned to Italy, where they spent about a year before being deployed to a remote area in southern Afghanistan in March 2005.
�We did a lot of working with villages. We did a lot of food supply,� he said.
As a sergeant of a four-man team, he helped train Afghan police officers and patrolled villages in the region looking for weapons. There, too, he got to know many of the local children who would come running after them asking for chocolate.
While there, he befriended stray animals, including a puppy he called Baby. His superior ordered the dog destroyed, however, because it was aggressive toward to the Afghan police, who beat it.
Sometimes his team found IEDs. That�s when a demolition team like the one made famous in the movie �Hurt Locker� would be called in.
�They take hours to show up,� he said, chuckling over the recalled irritation.
The terrain was dry, rugged and, at times, it was bitter cold. But against the odds, he said they did good work.
�There was a lot of stuff we helped take care of out there, stability in the region,� he said.
The brigade returned to Italy in March 2006. By summer, he was back in the United States and out of the Army, his second commitment complete. (The documentary �Restrepo� follows the brigade on its next tour, focusing on an outpost in the Korengal Valley of eastern Afghanistan. One of the men featured was his roommate.)
He went to see Lucy in North Carolina. After they were married, her health had steadily deteriorated from complications related to lupus, an autoimmune disease. During the years of his service, he said she had withdrawn from him, and eventually they were divorced. She died several years later.
Talking about her, his face flushed red and eyes welled with tears as memories of the relationship filled him with regret and sadness.
He came to Southwest Colorado because his father lives in Pagosa Springs. He worked in roofing until he lost his job and decided it was good time to give college a try. With help from the GI Bill, he enrolled at Fort Lewis College.
�I was like a wrecking ball for a long time,� said Long, who is majoring in history. �Fort Lewis has been really good for me.�
Still, Long, who is tattooed over his arms and chest with imagery related to the wars and to ska music, feels fundamentally changed. He feels a separateness from people, and he often walks from place to place by alleyways.
Asked if he would do it again, he said he didn�t think so: �I�d stay home, take care of Lucy.�
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Hundred Person Project
The purpose of this little thought experiment was to express in an amusing way the notion that projects with large staffs may not get any more work done than projects with small staffs. Large projects (as opposed to large problems, with thanks to Alistair for the notion) do seem to have very high overhead. This would suggest that the same amount of actual development could be done by a smaller project in the same amount of time.
and I were talking about this today while preparing our Smalltalk Solutions talk. Chet, fix this to be better if you like ...
Imagine a hundred person project, scheduled for a year, or 200,000 person hours. Of the 100 people on the project, how many are actually programmers? We guess maybe 40. So there will be 80,000 programmer hours.
How much programming will these programmers actually do? (In XP terms, what is their
?) In a conventional project,they clearly spend the bulk of their time preparing for meetings, attending meetings,writing documents, writing comments, and reading documents to figure out how to write their code. We think their
is about ten, that is, in a typical week, they actually spend a half-day coding.
asserts that the
couldn't possibly be that bad, and has visited projects that report more programming than that by far. 30 or 40 hours in a week, even. If this is true, the reasoning below is not valid.
Don't all programmers REPORT 40 or more hours of programming a week?
Therefore there are 8,000 actual hours of programming, per year, done in a 100-person project.
Alistair believes that we can't convert our measures of actual development time to real time into estimates of how long development will take. However, that's what we do all the time. There is some communication mismatch here, I believe. If we can't multiply programming time times
to get elapsed time task estimates, then what's below isn't valid.
Our XP developers have load factors of 2 to 2.5 by actual measure. Therefore you can get 8,000 hours of programming done in 20,000 real hours. That's ten people, one year.
is a ten-person project, with overhead. Doctor, it hurts when I do this. --
I like the math, but I'd like you to try it another way. What if the question was not how much programming you get done, but how much you learn (this fits with HowardBaetjer
idea)? How fast can a 100-person society learn compared to a 10-person society? --
See LargeProjectLearning
. (And fill it in ... I can't, yet.)
(Indented stuff is InterpolatedComments
. I guessed the attributions. I inserted new ones because I think every change of author needs a fresh attribution, to emphasis that change. I removed some formatting. This is something of an experiment, to see if it is any clearer. --
Suppose the project is to produce a Smalltalk framework for other programmers to use. Or suppose you are in the position of Sun, having to create a raft of libraries for a new language or a new operating system. Say you have 10 programmers on the project but 100,000s are going to be working with the code you produce. How do you deal with that?
My guess is that you see the code as the product, and you do produce things like documentation (and maybe even comments?) although it's for the external client programmers rather than for the internal team. --
The product is whatever the customer wants. Certainly we'll do a manual when we need one. And if comments were useful (as in your scenario they might be) we would do them. --
A flip side of the question is, how do XP teams deal with the 3rd party frameworks that they buy in? Say you've got this GUI library full of neat widgets. Hey, at the end of the first 3 week iteration, 95% of the widgets are not being used! You don't need 'em. Delete the source. --
Of course there is a difference between how we treat the code we write: we refactor it, pat it, prick it, mark it with a C[3]; and code we buy. We don't refactor the base image, we extend it. Ditto other 3rd party code. Reasons available on request, but I suspect they're obvious to us all. --
Would it make sense to split a group of 20 into two groups of 10, with each group treating the other as "3rd party" and/or client? Is this the way to scale XP? --
The difference is that 3rd party code comes complete and ready to run. If both sides are evolving rapidly, the interface might (read will) become the problem. My customer (the other team) needs things now. In XP, we are the other team, and we fix the other class if it needs it. So this would be a big deviation from the XP "philosophy", I suspect. --
By the way, I'm putting forward the (old) idea that the way to deal with a 100 person project is to split it into 10 10 person projects. --
No, the way to deal with a 100 person project is to fire the bottom 90% of the staff.
I wonder about that also. Is XP suitable for production software as opposed to in-house development? Seems like you need clients there (when you develop code for retail sale), or do you
it yourself? --
is an important part of XP. It replaces huge requirements documents, with their large cost in time and clarity, with presence of someone who actually knows and can decide. This is consistent with Baetjer's notion that software development is very much about mutually discovering, with the client, what is needed.. --
I have more than a dozen years experience in packaged business software. It never worked unless we had real clients that were really available almost any time for consultation. Only difference is we usually had more than one flavor of real client, which has its own problems - they seldom agree. --Bob Haugen
I have seen two different groups that did the same thing in Smalltalk. Both were interested in making a framework and products that used it. Both the frameworks and the products were similar, at least they solved the same problems. One project started with two gurus who gradually grew the core group to five or six, but added on dozens more to make applications. They spent a lot of their time teaching people Smalltalk. The other started out as a 100 person project, with 15-20 people devoted to the core frameworks and the rest to building applications. Although both groups had plenty of problems, the first group was more successful. The people I talked to on the second group said they would have been done long before if they had just done it with their best 15 people instead of with the entire group.
One problem is that it is hard to get a large group of really good people, so the average experience and skill goes down on large projects. Also, large groups require several managers, and they can start having political battles with each other. In a large group, some people are sure to leave before the project is over, and that slows things down a lot. If someone leaves a small project then the damage is even greater, but you can work harder to make sure that nobody leaves and you have a good chance of keeping them all.
Large groups produce more code than small groups. The small project produced half as much code as the large project, but it seemed to me that their system did at least as much, if not more. The small project had a more sophisticated design at its core, and built simple designs for things that were not at its core. The larger project had a less sophisticated design for the core business objects and had a more sophisticated design for technology objects that did things like persistence and workflow. I think this was because the designers on the big project had a harder time figuring out what the core problem was, so they would carve out pieces that they understood and work hard on them. Even though the small project was not really following
, in this case it was following
It is an exaggeration to say that a
is a ten person project with lots of overhead, but sometimes it is true.
's example sounds like an example of
-- SteveAlmond
in The
talks about overhead in large projects. He also points out that good programmers can be 10 times as productive as average ones. (I've known programmers whose productivity was negative.) --
Seems to me that "Client presence" is important enough to be "
" and warrants some explanation of its own.
I got into a bit of a disagreement this morning with another developer about XP and the minimal requirements documents it advocates, and I don't think I really convinced him. If anyone could provide some more background on why
is superior to a BloatedRequirementsProcess
I, and probably others, would find that very helpful. --
Actually, after further reading, it looks like
provides some ammunition against a BloatedRequirementsProcess
. --
OK, lets work the numbers.
was using traditional methodologies, 18 months invested we were 1/2 functionality complete.
came in and we started over using
methodology. It took 9 months to get to functionality complete. But wait, we used half as many people including overhead (non-combatants). But wait again, the rewrite used some information collected during the original go. I would say about 1/3 of the total effort was saved. But wait yet a third time. That 9 months also included training of all the people in a new methodology, which was also changing as we went along too. I would estimate we back out 1 month. Now lets do the math.
((18months x 2 functionality) x 2 head count) / (9 months + 3 scavenging - 1 training) = 6.5
Each person on the project (including overhead people) resulted in about a 6.5x performance gain. This number is not inconsistent with
's experiment on the
. The same functionality was added to two systems. One Built extreme, one built traditional. Tom showed a 10x improvement, but that did not include overhead.
So now take your 100 person project and divide by 6.5. We can do it with about 15 people and that includes overhead. --
I think that Extreme Programming is a confession that "traditional" design methodologies don't work, yet XP doesn't solve the problem either. If you had a real workable technology for designing a software system, it would result in a flexible, reusable and extendible program. If you get lost using a map, you make a better map, you don't start out in whatever direction looked the simplest. -- GregFoxx
And how do you make a map? Travel the terrain and record what you encounter!
''No, you take pictures from a satellite."
In what way does XP not solve "the problem"? I presume the map thing is an analogy suggesting that you can't write quality software by
. That suggests that you haven't tried it it yet. Those of us who propound it have tried it. And we're serious guys. Or we're hallucinating. Get an XP person to hang with and try simplicity. We think you'll like it. --
P.S. When lost in the woods, walk downhill. It tends to lead to a river. When you reach a river, walk downstream. It tends to lead to a town. Hmmmm ...
The "better map" suggestion makes perfect sense if you know what is going to happen. In the case of uncertainty about the future, you are better off going in a promising direction that you can easily change. The greater the uncertainty, the greater the value of fancy footwork and the greater the risk of relying on maps. --
There seems to be a hidden assumption on this page - that a
is going to have
than a ten-person project.
From above:
No, the way to deal with a 100 person project is to fire the bottom 90% of the staff.
Good point! Programming productivity shows the 80/20 (or 90/10 if you prefer) rule in action. The other thing to note is that there always is the productive 10% - even when the stars are gone, someone else rises to the challenge. When the
can't just be duped anymore, someone will learn JCL!
only one problem - the people who decide who gets fired are usually a significant fraction of those that need to be fired (i.e. the overhead and management)
Another way of thinking about why projects are better broken down ...
network theory. In this theory, the distance across graphs stays small as we scale up when we have mostly nodes in small clusters and a few random non-local links. Think of teams as clusters, and the links as communication channels, and you can see that breaking down the 100-PP into 10x10-PP might actually be a sensible and even optimal approach.
For more links on small world theory see
I'm just waving my hands here. But it may be a justification for the 10-person approach. In my own company we have CentresOfExcellence
for various technology areas. This sounds good on paper but in practice it means we have formed IslandsOfExcellence
all over the country with little communication going on. With this setup it is virtually impossible to form a 10-PP to complete a large project - you cannot gather the diverse skills required in a single physical location. Drives me nuts. --
As I look through this page I'm trying to find something useful but I keep thinking that I've wandered into a slashdot reunion. Sure there are projects out there that are wildly overstaffed, but what about projects that work on big problems?
I work on a forty person project (i.e. forty developers who touch the code). It's a CAD system of 2 million source lines compiled into a single huge executable (yours for $400,000/seat). There is no way that we could cut it down to a 10 person project. The combined scope of the tool covers enough disciplines to keep 10 people busy just keeping up with their fields, much less editing any code.
Of course we are split into groups of 5 to 10 people to handle subsections of the tool, but it's still one big project. --
Isn't that the point? The groups of 5 to 10 people which actually do the work? Composed to result in a big product? --
P.S. When lost in the woods, walk downhill. It tends to lead to a river. When you reach a river, walk downstream. It tends to lead to a town.
Alas, projects often find themselves lost in swamps.
Hideous, hideous!
Can somebody with actual experience working on a Hundred Person Project do some refactoring here? I'm afraid to touch this thing for fear of injecting a large quantity of bias. --
, under the guise of
The premise of this page is incorrect and incomplete. A "scheduled person-hour" is not the same unit of measurement as an hour of actual programming. An average employee completes about 40 scheduled person-hours per week, regardless of how the time is spent; an average 100-person project completes about 208,000 scheduled person-hours per year. There is insufficient information to support the hypothesis that projects become less efficient as they become larger, and so no conclusions are possible.
One of the first projects I worked on out of school was a large one for a US defense contractor. I don't know the total head count (it was 25+ years ago), but it was 50+. The system was a new development and consisted of multiple hardware platforms, running multiple operating systems, and coded in multiple computer languages. Each system had its own development team and although communications within teams seemed adequate, communications between teams required more effort and reducing the amount of time for purely technical work. Short of drastically extending the development deadline, I do not think it would have been feasible to reduce the number of people in order to cut the additional communications overhead. Due to the varying skill sets required, I am not certain there would even be a 10 person team that could have done it all.
I think there are large projects whose scope requires more than a single 10 person team. The best way to minimize the communications overhead is to divide the work into many smaller pieces, but even so, the ratio of time spent on communications versus that spent on purely technical work is going to be higher than in a project consisting of a single 10 person team. Unfortunately, there is no way to "buy back" that extra effort, one can only minimze it.
The notion that a 10-person team, even one consisting of gurus who get along very well and are operating at peak productivity, could develop a project of the scope of
, or other large-scale applications within any reasonable time-frame, strikes me as ludicrous. We're talking things on the order of
tens of millions
of lines of code, with extremely complicated user requirements (that require this many lines of code to specify).
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Also hanging there you'll see a bit of the dress I bought the day I found out we were having a girl. That dress makes me so happy that I probably will display it more openly somewhere in my house someday.
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