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Those who follow the ever-growing netbook market have been waiting for one conspicuous straggler to arrive. Lenovo's IdeaPad S10 Netbook was announced way back on 4 August 2008, but only started shipping in late September.
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Sometimes the simplest custom sneakers are the best. This pair adheres to that notion, steering clear of any animal prints or colorful 'South Beach' flips and instead transforming one of the most beloved Air Jordan XI release of all time into a low model. Meet the Air Jordan XI Low 'Bred', a pair that would no doubt be a dream come true were they to ever make their way to retail. JWDanklefs opted to stay as close to the original as possible and ended up with a sneaker that most of have fantasized about at one time or another. Check out the Air Jordan XI 'Bred' re-imagined as a low after the jump and drop your two cents in the comments.
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Funny that these show up when there's a rumored pair of Black/Red lows releasing in June 2013.
Hoping for these as a general release and, with 2013 being the year of the snake, the snake skin lows too.
They won't release any lows of OG colorways 11's. That'll decrease the value of the regular OG colorways.
Don't these already exist? There was a pic here on SN of Jordan practicing in a low Bred XI. They're probably going to release these soon, no need for a custom.
@mr_ball210 I said that shit bout the snake lows on wdywt when somebody had red 11 lows on.. Jb gona do it, it's only the perfect year for them. 210
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@23kicksfor23chicks this colorway was suppose to drop this year if u dont remember. The bred lows and the concord lows were to drop, now there suppose to drop in 2013. Only difference was those have a leather up instead of a mesh.
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GUN MONKEYS is a Procedurally–Generated, Physics-based, Online Deathmatch platform game from multi award-winning indie dev Size Five Games.
In GUN MONKEYS, you'll take charge of a modern-day power company. In the distant future, a catastrophic experiment into Perpetual Energy obliterates all human life, leaving the world choc-full of free-for-the-taking energy, but unpleasantly lacking in people to take advantage of it. Your job as CEO is to send a legion of pleasingly-expendable monkeys forwards in time to collect Power Cubes and return them to present-day, all from the comfort of your PC.
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taylw006 | Dec. 2, 2013 | See all taylw006's reviews »This game is fun whilst playing with friends, however there are pretty much no other players to fight. The game has some great narration with some funny comments upon death. Me and my friend enjoyed playing it.
The combat could have improvements such as being able to aim in a direction other than parallel to the floor. If you plan to play with friends then it will be great fun, but otherwise don't buy
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Numbi | Sept. 27, 2013 | See all Numbi's reviews »I tend to avoid these multi-player only Indie titles as I have been burned before by games where the community moved on leaving empty servers. I gave this game a shot however as it has a free weekend and I have to admit that I was impressed enough to purchase the game. The levels are procedurally generated which is quite cool and it has an offline mode. The achievements and trading cards is what sold me on the game after I played it. The best part is that the game comes with two Steam keys so you can get someone else in on the action.
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Cabo Fishing Report November 22
The moon phase is over and the bite is wide open once again. Take your pick fishing, this is the best season for multi - day charters. Wahoo and Yellowfin tuna are stacked up on the inner and outer Gordo Banks. Striped marlin are balling up bait and keeping the birds busy from the lighthouse bank all the way to finger banks. And right off of lands end late season Blue and Black Marlin are biting steadily. Break out the light tackle and lock horns with huge roosterfish on live bait, three days of fishing is just about right.


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"Baby carrots cooked in a honey, butter, ginger, and lemon glaze. This goes really well with peppercorn steak and cheesecake."
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1 pound baby carrots
water to cover
1/4 cup butter
2 1/2 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/8 teaspoon ground ginger
I threw in a clove of fresh minced garlic in with the butter and sauteed it a bit before adding the honey, lemon juice and ginger. I made no other changes. These were out of this world......even my kids liked them!
Really nice flavor combination. I steamed the carrots instead of cooking in water, then sauteed them as directed until the sauce was glazed and very browned over the carrots. Converted some non-carrot eaters in our family to liking this vegetable!
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These are very good but I would cut back on the honey. The lemon off sets the sweetness of the honey very well. These would be easy to steam or par boil the carrots ahead of time and finish just before serving.
Very good. I sliced three regular size carrots into 1/8th inch rounds and used the recipe set to 1 serving. I also didn't have lemon juice so I used about an 1/8th of a teaspoon of lemon extract. The honey and lemon gave it a pleasant sweet taste and not at all overpowering. Will definately be cooking this again.
I loved these! I eyeballed the ingredients, probably added less honey and more ginger, and the results were excellent. I plan to make them again when we have guests next Friday.
Wonderful! Another great carrot recipe that my family will eat!
Dd LOVED the honey, lemon, ginger combo. (I did add garlic) First bite..."Is there ginger? (I used fresh grated, all I had) Yum. This is so good! I like this so much better than the orange juice version. Make this A LOT more, ok?" Winner , winner, chicken dinner!
The flavor was very good, but the sauce never formed a glaze or thickened at all. I just spooned it over a bed of rice.
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There was a little earthquake on the east coast yesterday, which shook up the Washington Monument and may have caused some damage to it. But you know what still stands unharmed: the cherry trees.
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There was a little earthquake on the east coast yesterday, which shook up the Washington Monument and may have caused some damage to it. But you know what still stands unharmed: the cherry trees.
(via National Geographic)
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Jeeeez! Just because you got an award from the IHEU, you then have to indulge in a bit of phallic symbolism. I dunno.
The trees will outlast most of our monuments I'm sure.
The cherry trees along the Potomac are absolutely lovely when in full bloom. However when the cherries are ripe, the bird shit that accumulates around the trees from the birds eating the fruit is quite amazing.
Global Warming Catastrophic Climate Change will take care of those trees, thank you very much.
Here in Texas, we're seeing a die off of our large trees, due to the (&#@$ hot weather. Those that survive will have weakened root systems, so any large storm (hurricanes!) will topple a greater-than-normal number.
Dog help us if we have another beetle, fungus or blight infestation.
This seems a slightly misleading photo because the cherries won't be in bloom at the moment, and I wouldn't describe established trees as 'fragile'. Any difference in stability probably has more to do with the sheer height of the monument relative to the trees.
One of my favorite things about the gift of the cherry blossom trees from Japan is this tidbit from the National Park Service site about the history of the cherry blossom trees:
1982: Approximately eight hundred cuttings from the Tidal Basin Yoshino trees were collected by Japanese horticulturists to retain the genetic characteristics of the trees and replace trees destroyed in Japan when the course of a river was changed. Other exchanges and gifts have benefited both cities. Through this cycle of giving, the cherry trees have fulfilled their role as a symbol and an agent of friendship.
Most of us know the cherry trees aren't in bloom, but it's tough to find pictures of them online that convey the location and kind of tree as well as a picture like that.
Using it isn't bad for another reason: If the trees were lost, so would be anymore of pictures like that. That would make the world a little less wonderful to live in. I'm thankful that they're fine, so that many more people will see the trees blossom again.
I never saw a large penis being waved at me that I didn't like.
Nice post.
I was gobsmacked to read about the 1,400-y-o-cherry in the piece Aquaria (thanks!) linked. I wonder if that age is accurate. Maybe they're longer-lived in that place; maybe it's an extraordinarily tough and well-cared-for tree.
It takes skill and care to get a flowering cherry past the century mark. Kudos to the people who do this in DC!
Marcus in #9: Not so much height as being alive (therefore supple) and having a higher roots-to-canopy ratio, so to speak. Some trees do fall in quakes, but that's more rare than buildings' falling.
And, 'Tis—they fruit too? Wow; must be an old cultivar.
You may shake us, but you'll never Prunus.
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I recently restored my PC and had to reinstall itunes. Now when I try to buy something, it tells me I need to answer my 2 security questions.
I've forgotten the answers, so I emailed itunes support. This was their 1st response:
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> Grace here from the iTunes Store. I understand that you would like me to reset your security questions for you. I appreciate that you would like to be able to access your account again as soon as possible so you can enjoy your iTunes Purchases!
> At this time, we have temporarily suspended resetting security questions through email support, so I will be unable to reset your questions today. However, Apple is currently working toward a resolution to assist with this issue. You will receive an email after the matter has been investigated and further information is available.
> I know you must look forward to using your account again, and while I am unable to assist currently, please know that I am eager to resolve this for you.
> In the meantime, I would like to verify your account so that I can reset your security questions as soon as we are able to do so again.
> Apple requires that you provide the following, for your security:
> At least one of the following:
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> - the phone number on the account
> Thank you for your patience and understanding in this matter. Thank you for being an important part of the Apple family - have a great evening!
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So I emailed them back with the information they requested, and this is the 2nd response I got:
Grace here again from the iTunes Store. Thank you for the information the you have provided me.
Unfortunately, at this time, I do not have an expected time for this issue to be resolved. This issue is affecting many customers worldwide so we are trying to get it dealt with as quickly as possible. I am keeping your case in my inbox so that as soon as I hear anything, I will let you know. Also, if you have any inquiries, they will come directly to me.
I wish I had more to tell you at this time but for now all we can do is wait until the engineering department has a resolution. I want to thank you for your patience in this matter and wish you a wonderful day!
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So am I s*** out of luck? Is there any other way to reset my security questions/answers?


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The jobs were still there, in Warren, Dearborn, and other suburbs. White flight was a real phenomenon in Detroit, Queens, Newark, and many other cities. Detroit started shrinking in the 50s while the US auto industry was still growing and the suburbs expanding. Punitive taxes by stupid governments hurt too. A Mayor Washington (Chicago) or Young (Atlanta) could have saved Detroit.
Unions didn't bring down GM. GM's German competitors have even stronger unions. Maybe anti-efficiency union rules hurt though.
Health care and pension costs hurt GM more than anything. GM's German competitors benefit from their government's health care and safety net.
I go to Detroit a couple times a year, I know what it's like.
Life develops gradually, and our laws reflect that. A very large percentage of fertilized eggs die naturally. So what? They aren't people.
I never said someone had to be normal to be a person.
An embryo doesn't have a mind and a fetus begins to develop one. Personhood clearly exists after birth, clearly does not exist at the embryo stage, and in between there is no magic moment, just gradual development, during which abortion becomes increasingly restricted by law.
Oh, J,
Detroit was the victim of racist white flight and crooked crony government, not progressive politics.
Our government has been pretty progressive since the beginning. Democracy. Increasing suffrage. Abolition of slavery. Federal subsidy of railroads. Construction of canals, bridges, highways, airports. Public education. Space exploration. The government provides the infrastructure, equal opportunity, and rule of law businesses need to thrive.
More recently it created the Internet. Look how many companies are thriving because of that.
We are not sliding downhill. Our pro-democracy and free trade policies are helping the world catch up, which is a good thing for humanity.
While he is a politician, Obama is neither sinister nor clever enough to do all that. He is too much of an accommodationist, which limits his effectiveness.
For example, Obamacare is needlessly complicated because it is modeled after a Republican plan and contains countless compromises with Republicans, such as not allowing young people to sign up for a public health option (must be private insurance). For political reasons the Republicans will never be satisfied with it though.
Obama did put his foot down and wouldn't allow the right wing or the Catholic Church to strip reproductive health care completely from the plan. But there is an option for those who don't want it.
As for not having insurance, that's just selfish. You are just begging to be subsidized when you have your first health crisis. Most people do sooner or later, and it's usually worse if they have no access to preventive care.
It's amazing how liberal Atlanta and our other growth centers are. New York, San Francisco, Chicago. Maybe that's because progressive policies enable people to contribute to society, whereas conservative policies keep them down and without opportunity. The private sector benefits from workers and entrepreneurs who have had great educations, clean environments, good health, and aren't held back by prejudice or class, and from smart government investment in airports and other infrastructure.
Benefits to working people amount to a subsidy for big business, because it allows them to pay lower wages. We should hike the minimum wage and not give EBT or welfare to the employed. If we lower taxes using the money we save, the net effect on the economy will be positive (better efficiency), and the distortion of big government subsidies on our economy (helping retailers and hurting manufacturers) will be reduced. Raising minimum wage doesn't grow unemployment in a linear fashion - because it also puts money in the pockets of consumers. Raising it too much would be bad of course.
The poor will always be a burden. We should minimize poverty by investing in education, providing opportunity, raising the minimum wage to make work more attractive and respected, making health care available and affordable for all, and by supporting reproductive choice so women aren't trapped in the poverty cycle.


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Medical Marijuana Looks For Another Step In MN House
A proposal to legalize medical marijuana is going before its second House committee.
More than 100 Los Angeles pot shops closed
Los Angeles has shut more than 100 pot shops since it began enforcing new rules for medical marijuana dispensaries.
Iowa Gov. Branstad warns about medical marijuana
Branstad on Monday told reporters he empathizes with those suffering from illnesses who believe they would benefit from using medical marijuana, but he fears there would be unintended consequences to its legalization.
Colorado collects $2 million in recreational pot taxes
Colorado made roughly $2 million in marijuana taxes in January, state revenue officials reported Monday in the world's first accounting of the recreational pot business.
Officials: 16 killed in road accident in Egypt
The Smithsonian Board of Regents on Monday named Cornell University President Dr. David Skorton to lead the world's largest museum and research complex in the nation's capital.
Colorado airs 'Drive High, Get a DUI' marijuana ads
I've been thinking about it, and I think it all started back when I was 5 or 6 years and Dad built... A woman smokes marijuana during a Prohibition-era themed New Year's Eve party at a bar in Denver, the day before Colorado allowed retail sales of marijuana to those 21 and over.
Medical marijuana refugees: 'This was our only hope'
They are of different backgrounds and ages, but they've all moved to Colorado for the same thing: medical marijuana to treat their sick children.
Medical marijuana facility planned for Charlottetown
Island businessman Edwin Jewell says he expects construction of a medical marijuana facility in Charlottetown to begin in the coming months.
California Democrats, eye on election, adopt activist agenda
California Democrats adopted a platform on Sunday calling for an inflation-adjusted minimum wage and an end to solitary confinement in prisons as part of a strongly progressive agenda in a state where the party has gained dominance by moving to the political center.
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As one of the largest producers of marijuana-infused edibles in Colorado, Dr. J's Hash Infusion makes chocolates, caramels and candies.
In this Oct. 19, 2009 file photo, Samuel Bagdorf of San Francisco, who suffers from anxiety disorders, lights his marijuana pipe at the San Francisco Medical Cannabis Clinic in San Francisco, Monday, Oct. 19, 2009.
Ill. medical marijuana law poses workplace dilemma
The Rockford Register Star reports that the law that took effect in January protects patients from arrest or prosecution for using marijuana.
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A California lawmaker has introduced legislation to regulate the state's free-wheeling medical marijuana industry - the farmers that grow the drug, the hundreds of storefront shops that sell it and especially the doctors who write recommendations allowing people to use it.
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A measure to overhaul the state's medical marijuana system cleared the Senate as the state moves to merge that largely unregulated market with the still-developing legal recreational market.
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What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Not one work of art, but several, and all by the same author, Dostoevsky. The Idiot and Poor Folk, Crime and Punishment, The Eternal Husband, The Possessed, and several short stories. When I was in my late teens. this was art, I felt, and it made me want to be an artist of some sort. That feeling, after side trips to acting and painting and poetry and play writing. led me to settle on fiction writing.
Stephen Dixon's latest book is Meyer. A prolific and profound fiction writer, he recently retired from teaching at Johns Hopkins.
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Chairman Hatch and distinguished members of the Committee, my name is Charles Curtis. I am the President of the Kansas City Metropolitan Crime Commission. Thank you for holding these hearings on "Project Safe Neighborhoods: America's Network against Gun Violence."
I would like to take this opportunity to tell you about the Kansas City Metropolitan Crime Commission, and our role in Project Safe Neighborhoods. This encompasses an effort that began in 2000 and has yielded some impressive results. These results include awareness among felons of strict enforcement of our Federal gun laws and a concurrent reduction in violent crime among felons.
The Kansas City Metropolitan Crime Commission
The Kansas City Metropolitan Crime Commission was established in 1949 as a watchdog group to improve law enforcement in our community. It is composed of a Board of 40 business and civic leaders.
In recent years, the Crime Commission has raised funds for our local Tips Hotline and a program that supervises those sentenced to community service. However, a new program was brought to our attention in 2000 by the U.S. Attorney for Western Missouri.
Operation Ceasefire
The U.S. Attorney noted that Kansas City, Missouri suffered from a high murder rate. Our city ranked number four in the nation for murders on a per capita basis. Because of this high rate of violence, the U.S. Attorney suggested that local law enforcement join Federal prosecutors to enforce the Federal law and strict sentencing guidelines for convicted felons who continued to carry firearms.
He explained that Richmond, Virginia and Milwaukee, Wisconsin had implemented this program and they felt it had reduced violent crime in their neighborhoods. The Kansas City implementation of this program - named Project Ceasefire -- emphasized three items.
1. Cooperation between Federal and local law enforcement as well as cooperation among officials in both the Missouri and Kansas sides of our metropolitan area.
2. Not only enforcement of the no-gun law for felons, but aggressive publicity of this fact to prevent felons from carrying guns.
3. Independent research and tracking of the impact of this publicity.
The U.S. Attorney asked the private Crime Commission for help with the second and third points - publicity of Ceasefire and tracking of its impact. As you may have heard in earlier testimony, the Ceasefire program has sentenced nearly 400 gun-carrying felons to Federal prison. However, we have more than 12,000 felons under some form of supervision in the Kansas City metropolitan area. In addition to strict enforcement of the law, we wanted felons to stop carrying guns.
We developed an advertising campaign to warn felons that strict penalties awaited them if they violated this law. The purpose of the advertising was to persuade the felon not to carry a gun. In addition, we wanted to reach his mother, wife, girlfriend and others so they would also discourage this dangerous practice.
Operating Ceasefire Funding
The Board of the Kansas City Metropolitan Crime Commission began a fund-raising effort to build a war chest to advertise the penalties of Project Ceasefire. Several months of fundraising from private companies and foundations enabled us to launch a multi-media campaign.
The campaign used television advertising, billboards and signs on buses. We also prepared brochures in English and Spanish for parole officers to review with their parolees. The television commercial we used was originally created in Milwaukee by Steve Laughlin, the president of ad agency Laughlin/Constable. The television commercial featured well-known defense attorney Johnnie Cochran. After explaining off-camera that a good attorney could get you off if you weren't read your rights or if the prosecution didn't have credible witnesses, he concluded with this line: "But if you're a felon and you carry a gun, even I can't get you off." He leaned into the camera as he said this line so you could see if came from Johnnie Cochran.
The billboards and bus sides featured a gun and the line: Felons with guns burn five years in Federal Prison.
These ads ran in 2001 and 2002.
Research Methodology
The Crime Commission assigned the task of tracking the results of the advertising campaign to two professors from the University of Missouri - Kansas City. Alexander M. Holsinger, PhD. and Kenneth J. Novak, Ph.D. from the UMKC Department of Sociology/Criminal Justice & Criminology conducted interviews with the general population and the offender population before and after the campaign ran to determine awareness of the program. They also analyzed the crime statistics from the police departments of Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas.
Even before the formal research was completed, we received anecdotal stories indicating the message was getting through. A suspect who confessed to a robbery told detectives he "went to his friend Leon to ask him if I could borrow his gun. He said, 'Sean, you know if you take this gun, it's gonna be five years if you get caught.'" A defendant who confessed to passing bad checks denied having a gun. He told the detective that he was a convicted felon and not even Johnnie Cochran could get him off if he carried a gun.
Research Results
In their final research results, the Professors reported the following:
? Murders in Kansas City, Missouri declined 23% to a 30-year low.
? "Awareness of Ceasefire was strongly related to the belief that felons, caught with a firearm, would serve 5 years or more in prison."
? "80% of the offender population had been exposed to some form of the Ceasefire campaign."
? Of those who had been exposed to Ceasefire, 91% answered 'five years' to the question 'how much time do felons with guns get?'"
? "Ceasefire exposure was the only significant predictor of a felon's belief that those caught with a gun will serve time."
Crime Statistics
The report also included this analysis of crime statistics from 2001 to 2002:
? In Kansas City, Missouri, violent crimes by non-felons increased by 23%, while violent crimes by felons increased only 7%.
? In Kansas City, Kansas, violent crimes by non-felons increased by 58% while violent crimes by felons decreased by 18%.
? Metro wide, the report concluded that Project Ceasefire has prevented 22 homicides and 50 violent crimes.
We have just launched our third year of Ceasefire advertising. Television commercials and billboards will again remind felons that they can burn five years in federal prison if they are caught with a gun. It's our hope that the anecdotal information and research data that has been so promising thus far will continue.
Thank you again for this hearing and for giving me the opportunity to share with you our experiences advertising Project Ceasefire and its role in Project Safe Neighborhoods.


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Make yourself at home in one of the 116 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators. Your Tempur-Pedic bed comes with cotton sheets. Windows open to city and mountain views. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have showers and hair dryers.
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Founded nearly a decade ago, Constellation Software Engineering, Corp. (CSE) delivers advanced systems engineering and software development services to its customers. A small, woman-owned business with a staff of less than 40 employees, it has maintained more than 35 service contracts with businesses in four states. At present, the company delivers IT architecture, end user and help-desk support, systems administration, requirements and configuration management, software design and development, testing and security services.
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Founded nearly a decade ago, Constellation Software Engineering, Corp. (CSE) delivers advanced systems engineering and software development services to its customers. A small, woman-owned business with a staff of less than 40 employees, it has maintained more than 35 service contracts with businesses in four states. At present, the company delivers IT architecture, end user and help-desk support, systems administration, requirements and configuration management, software design and development, testing and security services.
CSE was assisting the Goddard Space Flight Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission. The orbiter represented the space administration's first return to the moon since the Apollo program ended and was intended to capture high-quality images of the lunar surface including details regarding its composition. While aiding with the development of multiple embedded control
and management systems for the craft, the CSE staff was presented with a request by NASA management, which wished to receive ongoing, timely statistics regarding the progress of the mission systems engineering teams. CSE supported several individual projects at any given time, and assembling frequent comprehensive reports would have drawn key staff away from more critical efforts. Instead, the organization wished to provide the project managers with a more flexible solution that could deliver demand-based reporting, including the latest statistics, without requiring staff intervention.
Already aware of the value offered by IBM Rational® DOORS® software to support its requirements and document management efforts, CSE created a custom module within the IBM software that can be attached to each project. This access controlled module, when opened, actively scans all other modules associated with a particular project to gather the most up-to-date statistics available. On average, the process examines between 50 and 60 project documents in less than three minutes. With these statistics gathered, users can review the progress of the project in numerous customized views that support analysis and reporting efforts. For more than five years, CSE has used Rational DOORS software to encourage collaboration and communication among its design teams. Currently, the organization is supporting 12 different satellite projects with the application, the largest of these teams comprising roughly 40 engineers.
To simplify associated documentation processes, CSE is also heavily leveraging the IBM Rational Publishing Engine software. This IBM solution helps to automate the generation of configuration management documentation, mission and module reporting, and publication of the statistics gathered by the Rational DOORS software.
• Generates progress reports in less than 20 seconds; the previous processes required around 20 minutes
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