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Alex Karev (Justin Chambers) and intern Jo Wilson (Camilla Luddington) have been dancing around the possibility of a relationship for most of Grey's Anatomy Season 9. With the finale on the horizon and Jo's relationship with Jason ending in the worst way, is a relationship in the cards for these two this year?
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"We're going to see some real interesting growth from Alex in [Season 9, Episode 23: "Readiness Is All]," showrunner Shonda Rhimes hinted to TV Guide. "He's going to discover some stuff about himself and we're going to discover some stuff about Jo."
At the beginning of the season, Shonda Rhimes said her goal was to have Alex find his "person" this year. For a while, it looked like Jo was custom made for that role, but Camilla Luddington recently hinted that things might not turn out the way viewers expect. Apparently, Shonda agrees.
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Catch the next new episode of Grey's Anatomy on Thursday, May 9, 2013, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.
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It appears the box lunch and the price tag of fifty dollars has really upset and turned off a number of people and as I stated that was never my intention. I know full well that one cannot please everyone and only a fool will try so call me a fool if you want but rather than the box lunch, we will go back to what worked for the last four gatherings and ask everyone to please bring a covered dish of your choice on Saturday. For those of you that are coming from far away and are staying at a motel where it is not possible to create something it would be a big help if you could bring some fruit like a water melon or grapes for all to share. Because of this last minute change I am not real sure of what kind of food to expect but knowing how wonderful the people of Benedicata and Sherman are when it comes to this kind of function I am sure it will all work out. In the past outings we had Lisa Rush to coordinate this but we do not have here this time. If there is a person who would like to coordinate the food please let us know.
Instead of fifty dollars per family if twenty five is not a burden that should cover the cost of the paper plates forks knives etc along with water soda and beer. It should also be enough to pay for the porta-johns and the facility. Out of this money, we will also purchase hot dogs that we will steam so that no one will have to slave over a stove or grill that day.
For all of you that have sent in their money we will credit your money towards the cost of the t-shirts you ordered and if you did not order, any we will give you a refund on Saturday.
Sorry for all the confusion on this one. Looking forward to seeing you all in Benedicta
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Since March 30, Toronto men and women have been experiencing iLoveKickboxing.com workouts at the newest location in Vaughan. The program focuses on taking real workouts used by professional fighters, and making them accessible for men and women looking to lose weight and tone muscle.
"It's great to finally be open to the public!" stated owner of the Toronto location, Linda Watson. "And the reception has been great. Our members are really loving the workouts. The feedback we're getting is tremendous. People have been saying, 'Finally there's a workout that isn't so boring!'"
New members to the Toronto location began with a trial offer of 3 classes for $19.99. The trial offer also includes a free pair of high-end boxing gloves, valued at $45.00 MSRP. After their trial is over, members can upgrade to a full-time membership. Members also have access to the 300 iLoveKickboxing.com locations throughout the U.S., U.K., New Zealand and Australia.
"The support for franchisees has also been incredible," Watson stated. "They really know this business, and help you get off the ground. I couldn't be happier."
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(Westlake Village, CA) Although April 22, 2010 was national Earth Day, Fornoff Electric is extending it to Earth Month with sponsorship of an essay contest featuring energy-saving prizes valued at over $10,000. Essay entries from Conejo Valley homeowners of 100 to 500 words will be accepted now through May 22, 2010 at www.fornoffelectric.com.
The essays will be judged by a Blue Ribbon panel of local business people and news media, including Jill Lederer, president of the Conejo Valley Greater Chamber of Commerce, Henry Dubroff, editor of Pacific Coast Business Times, and Jo-Ann Capelaci, owner of Colours & Concepts interior design.
Mark Fornoff, owner and president of Fornoff Electric, said, "We challenge homeowners in the area to tell us in their essays why they think it is important to them to save energy costs and to help the environment. Ten people will win full-home energy and electrical safety inspections, plus we'll install great, energy-efficient devices valued at some $10,000."
Entries can be made online at www.fornoffelectric.com and clicking on "Essay Contest" on the website. Contest rules are posted and a section is provided to submit the 100- to 500-word essays. Entries may also be mailed to: Fornoff Electric Earth Day Essay Contest, 31125 Via Colinas, Suite 907, Westlake Village, CA 91362. All entries must be received by midnight May 22, 2010, starting April 22, 2010. The panel of judges will review the essays and announce prize winners by June 1, 2010.
The Grand Prize consists of a full-home energy evaluation and electrical safety inspection, installation of a Steady Power whole-house energy saving system that can reduce electric bills by 10 to 20 percent, and installation of up to 15, energy-efficient, L.E.D. ceiling or outdoor flood lights. Total value is $4,200.
The Second Prize is a full-home energy evaluation and electrical safety inspection, installation of a Steady Power whole-house energy saving system, and installation of up to five, energy-efficient, L.E.D. ceiling or outdoor flood lights valued at $2,200. Prizes three through 10 consist of full-home energy evaluations and electrical safety inspections, plus one dimmer switch installed in any room in each of the winners' homes. The value is $500 for each homeowner.
Fornoff Electric will do the free in-home inspections and evaluations, plus the installation of equipment, which is being supplied by MC2 Wholesale Lighting & Electrical Supplies in Westlake Village.
No purchase is necessary. The contest is open to all legal residents of the United States, ages 18 and older, who own and live in the Conejo Valley; one entry per person. All entries become the property of Fornoff Electric. Fornoff Electric can be reached at 805-496-9620 or online at www.fornoffelectric.com.
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About MC2 Wholesale Lighting & Electrical Supplies: The five principles of MC2 have over 135 years of combined electrical experience, making the company one of the top independent materials stocking distributors serving the electrical contractor industry. MC2 is located at 31312 Via Colinas, Suite 104-106, Westlake Village, CA 91362. Telephone: 818-879-5054. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. Website: www.mc2wholesale.com.
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The writing is on the wall. Cyber careers offer great potential. People hoping to expand their opportunities, find work, or change careers are turning to HCC for cyber courses and certifications.
"This is a tsunami. Everyone is trying to decide what lifeboat to get in," says Sharon Schmickley, HCC chair of the business and computer systems division. "Our job is to find out what the workforce needs and provide students with pathways to these jobs."
Cyber security is an occupational field that is still evolving in terms of qualifications. What skill set does a professional need? In addition to a range of technical abilities, the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education includes the capacity to be fast, flexible, and responsive in high-pressure situations when workloads surge; be extremely collaborative; and possess advanced analysis capabilities and problem-solving dexterity. Cyber professionals also must be adept at project management and be able to thrive in a work environment characterized by unconventional hours and shifting responsibilities.
Michael Tano, an HCC cyber security student who now works full time at Magellan Health Services as a security officer, gives the college a lot of the credit for his career. "The network security program at HCC is unique because it teaches you to think in multiple contexts," Tano says. "You learn to think in terms of business and technical requirements and be well-spoken and well-rounded enough to understand what upper management needs before you implement a technical solution."
Individuals switching careers or needing to upgrade their cyber skills are turning to HCC for industry certification training such as Security+, A+, Net+, Microsoft Certified Engineer, or Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Staff training through the college's continuing education and workforce development division is also on the rise. "Companies such as SAIC and Technica are sending their employees to us for certification classes at our Ecker Business Training Center and online," says Patty Keeton, HCC executive director of workforce development.
Robert Collier and Millicent Carroll are a team with a game plan. Connected by marriage and the business they've run for a dozen years, the couple provides web design and Internet marketing services to small businesses. Their focus is about to change.
"When it comes to cyber security, so much attention is centered on the government sector," says Collier. "However, the more cyber crime makes the news, the more likely it is that business owners will look for help in protecting their networks."
Collier and Carroll are strengthening their technical prowess at HCC to offer that protection. They plan to test networks for vulnerability to hackers and "harden" them to protect customer data, intellectual property, and the financial security of small businesses. Both full-time students, Collier is studying network security, while his wife is specializing in electronic discovery and computer forensics.
After earning his associate degree, Collier plans to pursue his bachelor's in cyber security/information technology. "You have to be on the field to get in the game and become a player in the industry," he says. "I'm definitely getting the right start at HCC. My teachers are great motivators, and I'm paying a fraction of the cost that I'd pay anywhere else."


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Social service agency United Family Services is changing its name to Safe Alliance following a year of studying how it can keep meeting the area's needs. The name change comes as the nonprofit tightens its focus on providing shelter, advocacy and counseling to women and children victims of abuse and sexual violence.
Meanwhile, a search is underway for a new leader of the organization's Lake Norman office, in Cornelius. Former area director Kathryn Sellers has been promoted to be the nonprofit's director of process improvement in Charlotte. Lucille Metts, who runs the Cabarrus office, is the interim director for Lake Norman.
Safe Alliance plans a reception Dec. 5 at 8am at Andre Christine Gallery, 148 Ervin Road, Mooresville, to introduce the new name in the Lake Norman area.
The name change took effect Tuesday, and Safe Alliance said it will spend the coming months on legal and marketing efforts associated with the rebranding. The changes include a new logo that incorporates a lotus flower, which officials said is a "powerful symbol of the work we do."
"The lotus flower begins life in mud at the bottom of a pond. It grows upward through the water's waves and currents and blooms into a beautiful flower when it surfaces. This speaks directly to the inspirational journey our clients travel with Safe Alliance. Clients utilize the knowledge, resources and tools gained through their engagement with our agency to empower themselves to blossom like the lotus flower.
United Family Services has been around for more than 100 years. In a statement this week, President and CEO Phil Kline said the organization was "once again responding to meet the needs of the community."
"Following a year-long strategic planning process we have restructured our services and chosen a new name and logo that best aligns with our new structure. We are now Safe Alliance and we provide hope and healing to survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and child abuse and help adults and children build safe, healthy relationships," Mr. Kline said.
Here's the group's current description: "Safe Alliance supports victims of domestic and sexual violence, and child abuse and helps people build safe, healthy relationships. We do this through a continuum of shelter, counseling, legal and advocacy services serving over 20,000 people a year in Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Union and south Iredell counties while reaching 20,000 more through advocacy and education. "
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BOTH aspirin and the anti-blood clotting drug warfarin prevent strokes in patients suffering from the heart condition of atrial fibrillation, a study in the US has shown. In this condition, common in people who are aged more than 60, the upper chambers of the heart fail to contract effectively. Strokes occur five times as frequently to people with this condition as to those who have normal heart rhythms.
After an average period of observation of 13.5 months, 8.3 per cent of the patients in the trial receiving placebo had suffered either a stroke or an arterial blood clot. By contrast, the figure was only 1.6 per cent for patients receiving either drug, a risk reduction of 81 per cent, according to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine (vol 322, no 12).
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CFM International partners General Electric and Snecma have finalised the architecture of their LEAP-X turbofan, which is under development to equip the next generation of narrowbody airliners from Airbus and Boeing.
The engine is being designed for a possible service entry in 2016, offering a 16% reduction in fuel-burn compared with the best-selling CFM56, which it will eventually replace. However there are widespread expectations that the airframers will not bring their new 150-seat aircraft to the market before the end of the next decade.
"As the entry into service date moves to the right, we get the benefit of that additional time to put more efficient components into the engine," says LEAP-X programme manager Ron Klapproth.
The LEAP-X will have a bypass ratio of around 10, compared with 5-6 for the CFM56 family, and a core pressure ratio double that of the current engine, at 22. The powerplant will also feature a two-stage high-pressure turbine driving a 10-stage compressor, and the low-pressure turbine blades will be produced using ceramic matrix composite (CMC), says CFM International executive vice president Olivier Savin.
"Last year we didn't talk about CMC even though we were working on it, because we didn't want to promise something that was not mature enough," says Savin. This year...we think that it's achieveable and it's useful."
The LEAP-X core will undergo bench tests starting in mid-2009, and the first run of the full powerplant demonstrator is scheduled for 2012.
"We need to have the core on test a minimum of seven years before certification," says Klapproth.
The first phase of performance tests of LEAP-X's 18-blade, 1.8m (71in) diameter composite fan mounted on a CFM56-5C core at Villaroche in France are around two-thirds complete, with results "in line with predictions," says chief engineer Jerome Friedel.
The fan demonstrator will be shipped to GE's Peebles facility later this year for acoustic and crosswind trials, before being returned to Villaroche for 5,000 cycles of endurance testing.
The composite fan and casing, produced using three-dimensional resin transfer molding, are expected to yield more than 450kg (1,000lb) in weight savings per aircraft, says Savin. The CMC low-pressure turbine will save a further 150kg.


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Major League Baseball's All-Star Game is July 10th and the rosters are set. Each year, comparing my All-Stars with the actual rosters is fun and interesting. No sense in wasting any time. Having not looked at the rosters yet, we'll begin with my National League All-Star team. After revealing my team, we'll scope out the real All-Star team, compare and contrast, I'll defend my picks, and we'll do the same for the American League (which will be the topic of discussion next week). All stats used are as of games completed through June 30, 2012.
C – Carlos Ruiz (Philadelphia Phillies) .356, 11 HR, 43 RBI. Ruiz leads all NL catchers in hits, batting average, on base percentage (OBP), slugging percentage (SLG), and OPS (on base + slugging).
1B – Joey Votto (Cincinnati Reds) .350, 14 HR, 47 RBI. Votto's batting average is fifty-seven points higher than anyone else at his position, in the NL. Statistically, he's first by a landslide in every category except HRs and RBIs, where he's second in both.
2B – Aaron Hill (Arizona Diamondbacks) .300, 11 HR, 37 RBI, 7 SB. This was a four-man race. Hill wins out because, while other categories are close, his OBP, SLG, and OPS are all much higher than those of Brandon Phillips, Dan Uggla, and Jose Altuve.
3B – David Wright (New York Mets) .355, 9 HR, 50 RBI, 8 SB. Wright may not have elite power, but he has everything else. Other third basemen are enjoying nice years, but Wright's average, OBP, and SLG are astronomically ahead of his competition.
SS – Ian Desmond (Washington Nationals) .276, 13 HR, 43 RBI, 8 SB. This is an extremely close two-man race between Desmond and Starlin Castro of the Cubs. Desmond gets the nod for two simple reasons. His overall numbers are slightly more impressive and his team is 17.0 games ahead of Castro and the Cubs, in the standings.
OF – Carlos Beltran (St. Louis Cardinals) .310, 20 HR, 61 RBI, 7 SB.
OF – Carlos Gonzalez (Colorado Rockies) .337, 17 HR, 58 RBI, 10 SB.
OF – Andrew McCutchen (Pittsburgh Pirates) .346, 15 HR, 51 RBI, 14 SB. This group of three is at or near the top of the outfield crop for just about every statistical category. The NL is stacked with amazing outfielders, but the only three other five-tool OFs, who could be considered in the same tier as these guys are Matt Kemp, who is injured, Melky Cabrera, whose HR and RBI numbers aren't quite good enough, and Ryan Braun, who is a cheater. So there you go!
SP – R.A. Dickey (New York Mets) 12-1, 2.15 ERA, 0.88 WHIP, 116 K. As recent as a few months ago, if you were to ask me if R.A. Dickey would ever be the starting pitcher in an All-Star game, I would have been confident enough to tell you I would bet absolutely everything I had against it…I'm glad I'm not a betting man. Dickey's 12 is already a career high in wins and his WHIP (walks + hits per inning pitched) and ERA are somewhere around about half of what they've been for the majority of his career. Quite impressive for a man in his late 30's.
Reserve Hitters
C – Yadier Molina (St. Louis Cardinals) .312, 14 HR, 45 RBI, 7 SB.
C/DH – Buster Posey (San Francisco Giants) .298, 10 HR, 41 RBI.
1B – Paul Goldschmidt (Arizona Diamondbacks) .292, 11 HR, 35 RBI, 6 SB.
2B – Brandon Phillips (Cincinnati Reds) .287, 10 HR, 46 RBI, 4 SB.
MI – Jose Altuve (Houston Astros) .308, 5 HR, 23 RBI, 12 SB.
3B – Hanley Ramirez (Miami Marlins) .259, 12 HR, 43 RBI, 10 SB.
SS – Starlin Castro (Chicago Cubs) .296, 6 HR, 40 RBI, 16 SB.
OF – Giancarlo Stanton (Miami Marlins) .282, 19 HR, 50 RBI, 5 SB.
OF – Melky Cabrera (San Francisco Giants) .354, 7 HR, 39 RBI, 10 SB.
OF – Matt Holliday (St. Louis Cardinals) .307, 12 HR, 49 RBI, 3 SB.
OF – Martin Prado (Atlanta Braves) .321, 5 HR, 31 RBI, 9 SB.
OF – Ryan Braun (Milwaukee Brewers) .308, 22 HR, 55 RBI, 13 SB.
Reserve Pitchers
SP – Gio Gonzalez (Washington Nationals) 11-3, 3.01 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 112 K.
SP – Cole Hamels (Philadelphia Phillies) 10-4, 3.08 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 111 K.
SP – Madison Bumgarner (San Francisco Giants) 10-4, 2.85 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 92 K.
SP – Chris Capuano (Los Angeles Dodgers) 9-3, 2.69 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 89 K.
SP – Zack Greinke (Milwaukee Brewers) 9-2, 2.82 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 102 K.
SP – Matt Cain (San Francisco Giants) 9-3, 2.53 ERA, 0.95 WHIP, 114 K.
SP – Johnny Cueto (Cincinnati Reds) 9-4, 2.26 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 79 K.
SP – Stephen Strasburg (Washington Nationals) 9-3, 2.81 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 122 K.
SP – James McDonald (Pittsburgh Pirates) 7-3, 2.44 ERA, 0.98 WHIP, 86 K.
RP – Craig Kimbrel (Atlanta Braves) 23 SV, 1.50 ERA, 0.77 WHIP, 50 K.
RP – Joel Hanrahan (Pittsburgh Pirates) 20 SV, 2.10 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 35 K.
RP – Santiago Casilla (San Francisco Giants) 21 SV, 2.70 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, 28 K.
RP – Tyler Clippard (Washington Nationals) 13 SV, 10 Holds, 1.83 ERA, 0.90 WHIP, 39 K.
RP – Huston Street (San Diego Padres) 12 SV, 1.29 ERA, 0.67 WHIP, 28 K.
Between the two teams, 11 players were different. Some of it was due to fan voting, some of it was not. Here are the differences and why Plattner's Picks went the way they did. We'll do a quick breakdown of my team versus the real All-Star team and why my picks are the correct ones!
Aaron Hill vs. Dan Uggla: Hill is hitting .300, Uggla is hitting .232; enough said.
Hanley Ramirez vs. Pablo Sandoval: At .300, 6 HR, and 25 RBI, there are no less than eight 3B in the NL who are better than Sandoval. This is the downfall of fan voting.
Brandon Phillips vs. Rafael Furcal: Of all major categories, Furcal is only better in OBP and SB, and not by much in either category.
Matt Holliday vs. Matt Kemp: I only left Kemp off my team because of his injuries. In my book, he's the best OF and maybe even the best player in the National League.
Martin Prado vs. Jay Bruce: Bruce not making my team was a direct result of the "every team gets an All-Star" rule. Look past the 12 HR and 23 RBI edge for Bruce and Prado is better almost everywhere else. He has twenty-five more hits, more SB, thirty-eight less strikeouts, and his average is sixty-four points better.
Paul Goldschmidt vs. Bryan LaHair: Goldschmidt has more runs, hits, doubles, RBI, SB, a better batting average, better OBP, SLG, and OPS. LaHair has two more HRs. You tell me??
Tyler Clippard vs. Aroldis Chapman: Clippard has the better ERA, Chapman the better WHIP. Clippard has 23 combined saves and holds to Chapman's 15. Finally Clippard has 1 blown save to Chapman's 4.
Chris Capuano vs. Clayton Kershaw: Besides W/L record, their numbers are eerily similar, so why not take the guy with the far better record? Capuano is that guy.
James McDonald vs. Lance Lynn: I admit it's hard to leave a 10-4 starting pitcher off your All-Star team, but I managed to do so with Lynn, thanks to his 3.62 ERA and 1.25 WHIP. Compare those numbers to McDonald's (2.44 and 0.98) and it's not even a contest.
Johnny Cueto vs. Wade Miley: Same record, but Cueto's ERA is much lower than Miley's, plus Cueto plays for the first place Reds.
Santiago Casilla vs. Jonathan Papelbon: Paps clearly won here on name recognition only. Casilla has more saves, lower ERA and WHIP, and plays for the better team.


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Estimating stories for an upcoming project is one of the more difficult tasks that agile teams have to perform. It's never easy to determine how difficult it will be to implement a particular feature, especially when you've got different personalities, goals, and levels or experience in the same room. Unfortunately this all leads to people coming up with excuses and roadblocks which lead to inaccurate estimates.
I've identified seven problems pitfalls of the agile estimation process that I'm sure many other teams have experienced:
1) Estimating Time Rather Than Complexity
The point of estimating stories with planning poker cards is that you estimate based on the story's complexity, not on how long it will take you to complete the actual feature. A story that's an 8 is more complex than one that's a 5, but it doesn't meant that the 8 will take two days. It could take an hour or a week, it's all relative.
Why it's Bullshit
Estimates based on time make planning commitments difficult and velocities unreliable.
2) Not Estimating For "Simplest Possible Solution"
The "Simplest Possible Solution" is just that, what's the simplest way that the feature described in the story can be implemented. When you get away from this you start going down all sorts of "what if" roads that always end up bumping up your estimate.
Why it's Bullshit
Trying to guess what the product owner will want or what the completed feature entails is a waste of time.
3) I've Never Done That Before
There aren't many software problems that haven't been solved. Most of them are things that have been solved a thousand times in a hundred different ways. Adding complexity to a story because you've personally never solved that problem is shortsighted.
Why it's Bullshit
Just because you've never done something doesn't mean it's complex. Lean on your team or network of developer peers to help solve these problems.
4) Estimating Stories In Excessive or No Isolation
Stories should be estimated in isolation, just as they should be written so as not to depend heavily on one another. However, developers will often try to assign too much complexity to a story because of assumed tasks or features that they think would accompany the story in a completed state. For example:
As a user I should be able to login
As a user I should be able to upload a profile photo
As a user I should be able to change my address
Some developers will see the first story and immediately think of the complexity of creating a user model, the controllers and views that go along with the entire registration process.
Alternatively some developers will see the last story and think "Oh I just need a form field for the e-mail address when the user is editing their profile."
Why it's Bullshit
The first extreme gives you chunks of related stories with too much padding that are never as complex individually as they are as a whole. The latter only (sometimes) works when the actual stories are extracted out into a bunch of very small stories, which has its own set of problems.
5) Gaming Velocities
If you're looking to "guesstimate" how long a project will take to complete, you could grab some story cards and pick out what you think might be a week of work. If you add up the points assigned to those stories you'd have an estimated velocity. However, if you've padded your stories, or purposefully pick out a small number of stories, your project is going to appear much lengthier than it really is.
Why it's Bullshit
You don't look any better completing 50 points per iteration when you padded the hell out of your estimates than you do when you do 20 points per iteration with accurate estimates.
6) Always Assume The Worst!
There seems to be this mantra with some developers, "Always assume the worst!" When you come across a slightly vague story, let your imagination run wild and assume that the product owner is going to want the most complex solution possible.
Why it's Bullshit
Remember, every story is a negotiation. You're not going to know the exact details of the story until you have your planning meeting with the product owner. Often times the product owner would never have been able to dream up the solution on which you based your estimate.
7) Padding Padding Padding
The problem of padding estimates creeps into nearly all of the above six issues. It introduces bad data early in the life of the project and makes every other step of the process unreliable. It's almost always in an effort to cover one's ass but it's painfully transparent and reeks of amateurism.
Don't pad your estimates.


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Turning Point Foundation's Kinetic Sculpture Vehicles to Join the Sierra Clubs "Green Block" at Ventura's 4th of July Street Fair
Turning Point Foundation (TPF) will be joining the Sierra Club at their annual "Green Block", located on Oak Street from Main to Santa Clara Street, with kinetic vehicles on display at Ventura's annual 4th of July Street Fair. This years Kinetic Sculpture Race at Ventura Harbor is scheduled for Saturday, October 25th 2008. This unique, FREE, family event features people-powered works of art built to travel over an exciting all terrain course. Racing over land, sand, water and mud, these Kinetic Sculptures can have over 100 gears; ingenious treading, flotation and propulsion; athletic pilots and mechanically advanced pit crews. These uniquely engineered machines are transformed into moving, artful sculptures. Humorous rules and a variety of judging criteria determine each entry's score, and the first one across the FINISH LINE is not necessarily the winner! Be sure to stop by and see the vehicles-we will have temporary tattoos for the kids and DVD's of last years Kinetic Sculpture Race, filmed by Magnificent Obsessions for the first 100 to ask.
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Sure wish water was a doable thing, though.
Well, like I say, it is. It's just that you wouldn't be using software, you'd be using other methods, like compositing. It's what professionals did for many years before there was fluid sim software, and in fact they still do it today. Same with fire.
Here's a crappy video I did years ago to show how quick and easy it is to composite a flame into a video. Did the anim in Carrara (I think), downloaded a flame against a black background, texture mapped it on a plane, and voila. Took all of maybe 1/2 hour. Crappy compositing job, but the concept is what's important.
You can find a jillion flame videos on the internet and composite them in a snap. Same with fluids. But I know everyone here wants to do it in software for some reason, so I won't push it.
And here's a still image, candle rendered in Carrara, flame composited using an internet download. You can find flame, smoke, explosions, etc., or make your own using a video camera.


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On a ten-month deployment to Iraq and Kuwait last year, U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Bonnie Wysocki served as an inspector with the Coast Guard's Redeployment Assistance and Inspection Detachment (RAID), helping to ensure the safety of military containers being shipped back to the United States.
The only woman on her team, Petty Officer Wysocki was mobilized as an inspector for hazardous materials. She traveled around the region to inspect and seal containers and check cargo for compliance with international shipping standards—ensuring that hazardous materials such as acetylene, oxygen, fire extinguishers, batteries, radioactive instruments and fuel were properly loaded and labeled. In this capacity, Petty Officer Wysocki and her team played a critical role in making sure that troops and their equipment could return home from Iraq, or redeploy to Afghanistan, safely.
For more than 220 years, the Coast Guard has safeguarded America's maritime interests and natural resources on our rivers and ports, in the littoral regions, on the high seas, and around the world. The Coast Guard saves those in peril and protects the nation's maritime border, marine transportation system, natural resources, and the environment.
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Mike, Lu & Og was an American animated television series that ran on Cartoon Network, produced by Kinofilm Studios. The show was the seventh Cartoon Cartoon, based on a short for The What-A-Cartoon! Show. Created by Chuck Swenson, the show follows a girl named Mike, a foreign exchange student from Manhattan; a stuck up island princess named Lu; and a native boy and gifted inventor named Og. The trio takes part in a variety of adventures as Mike and the island's natives share their customs with each other. 26 half-hour episodes were produced, featuring two stories per episode. The series aired from 1999 to 2001 on Cartoon Network, and featured voice actors Nika Frost as Mike, Nancy Cartwright as Lu, and Dee Bradley Baker as Og. It began airing on Boomerang in May 2006. Mike, Lu, and Og stopped airing on Boomerang in June 2008 but returned on September 1, 2008, and can currently be seen on Cartoon Network Video.
Manhattan-born Mike (short for Michelene) enjoys the features of the tropical island but, in return, misses the life that she had in New York and, as revealed in a particular instance, her school. Fortunately, Og is able to recreate many of the things that Mike misses most about the United States. It is also suggested throughout the show that she attended a parochial school in New York.
His family owns three animals; a pig, a goat and a hedgehog who are capable of speech and well learned in philosophy. Often, Og engages in conversation with the three animals.
Og enjoys experiencing new things. This is expressed when Og made a video game for himself in one episode, performed in a fashion show in the nude in another episode, and made joo joo bombs in a following episode.
He has a large collection of "tea-pot cosies", and speaks in a squeaky falsetto similar in style to Kenneth Williams, although whether this was intentional or not remains uncertain.
Margery fancies herself to be an artist and a writer -- particularly a historian. Throughout the series she is working on a book about the island's history titled "Cuzzlewits End".
The majority of Margery's artwork has to do with the island's famous ancestors. She is building a sculpture of several ancestors on the side of a mountain (reminiscent of Mount Rushmore).
Margery is also the island's chef, preparing meals and tea for everyone on her side of the island, as well as preparing buffets and elaborated meals for special occasions.
She is level headed and gets Alfred out of trouble. She wears the pants in the family but allows Alfred to think that he's the head of the household.
Old Queeks claims to be psychic and "to know all-see all". In one episode Mike becomes suspicious of Queeks and decides to investigate him. She climbed up the opposite side of the mountain and found that Old Queeks was not psychic but that he spied on the Islanders through a telescope. Even after Mike informed the Islanders about Old Queek's telescope, they still held onto their beliefs that he was psychic and communicated with a higher power(s).
He lives on the top of a mountain in a cave, and enjoys using "bat products" (ie: products made with bat guano). This includes everything from toothpaste to snacks.
Lancelot tends to be the savior of the Islanders and Mike (especially Lu) when they're in trouble.
Lancelot follows the trend of the rest of the pets, where they seem to have more common sense than the Islanders.
Their captain is known to force his men to put on eyepatches, to he can sneak into his treasury and put a stuffed animal finger puppet on his hand, engaging in conversations with it, speaking for it in a squeaky voice.
In the only episode taking part on the Cuzzlewits side of the island, they are revealed to have a far greater number then the people on the side of the island, where Mike lives.
The parents of The Cuzzlewits and The Islanders do not get along. That is why they live on opposite sides of the island.
In "The Three Amigas", Lu becomes envious of the fact that Mike and Hermione become best friends, have sleepovers, and have left her out of their fun.
The Cuzzlewits are shown to all have the same genetic characteristic - an underbite which causes their 2 center lower teeth to be bucked teeth.
|1 The Tube/Roller Madness
|2 Sultans of Swat/Tea for Three
|3 Losing Lancelot/Buzz Cut
|4 Elephant Walk/Palm Pet
|5 Yo, Ho, Who?/A Boy's Game
|6 Whole Lotta Shakin'/Mother of All Marathons
|7 Hot Couture/Opposites Attack
|8 Scopin' It Out/The Good Ship Bad
|9 High Rise/The Great Snipe Hunt
|10 JuJubombs/Turtle Stew
|11 A Bicycle Built For Me/Crowded House
|12 Nobody's Nose/Scuba Dooby Doo
|13 High Camp/Sneeze Please
|14 A Learning Experience/We the People
|15 Money/Repeat After Me
|16 Thanks, But No Thanks/Hot Dog
|17 That Sinking Feeling/Founder's Day
|18 Giant Steps/Night of the Living Ancestors
|19 For the Love of Mike/Sparks
|20 Brave Sir Lancelot/The Big Game
|21 Flustering Footwear Floatsam/Fathers and Pies
|22 Queeks, Queeks, Who's Got the Queeks?/Alfred, Lord of the Jungle
|23 The King of Curtains/Margery the Duck
|24 A Freduian Split/Fitness Fever
|25 The Hunter and the Hunted/To Serve Lu
|26 The Three Amigas/Sleeping Ugly


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SCADA water station 'honeypot' attracts 39 attacks from 14 countries
SCADA hit the front pages about two years ago when it came out that the Stuxnet virus had attacked Iranian centrifuges for processing nuclear materials.
Supervisory control and data acquisition systems remain "the talk of the security community," says Kyle Wilhoit, a researcher at security-software supplier Trend Micro Inc., in a March-published whitepaper, "Who's really attacking your ICS [industrial control system] equipment?"
While the SCADA security challenge is widely recognized, just how bad it is can be hard to say, since, for most companies, little is to be gained by talking publicly about the problem.
Wilhoit developed a "honeypot" architecture that emulated several type of ICS/SCADA devices and "mimicked those that are commonly Internet facing." It took only 18 hours to find the first signs of attack on one of the honeypots, Wilhoit says.
Over the course of 28 days, there were a total of 39 attacks from 14 different countries. Of the 39, 12 were unique and could be classified as "targeted," while 13 were repeated by several of the same actors over a period of several days and could be considered "targeted" or "automated." China accounted for the majority of the attack attempts at 35%, followed by the United States at 19% and, surprisingly enough, Laos at 12%.
In most SCADA deployments, Wilhoit says, firewalls are a rarity. So he didn't use one either. He also found evidence that "Google-dorks searches" — which involve the use of clearly defined search parameters — can be used to find embedded systems on the Web. Hackers use a website called Pastebin to share information about SCADA devices.
For the study, three honeypots were created. Each was Internet facing, with three different static Internet IP addresses in different subnets scattered throughout the U.S. The researchers made it easy to find the entry points using Google Search and they named the servers "SCADA-1," etc., to make their purpose plain. As to results, a simple port scan didn't count as an attack. It's just a "drive-by."
Wilhoit says repeat offenders often came back at dedicated times on a 24-hour basis and tried again to exploit the same vulnerabilities, as well as others. There were also a surprising number of malware exploitation attempts on the servers.
Wilhoit's recommendations for improved SCADA security are too numerous to list here. Security can be "baked in" or "bolted on" to devices. The basics include: don't have devices connected to the Internet if they don't need to be. Install the latest patches. Don't cheat on log-in credentials or two-factor authentication. After that, it's a matter of diving into the details, which can't in this case be avoided.


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Taking steps to eliminate team dysfunction
Most teams struggle to sustain the benefits of teamwork
Most businesspeople know that the sharing and challenging of ideas that occur in a well-run team beats anything that individuals working alone can achieve.
But most teams struggle to sustain the benefits of teamwork. They watch the few golden moments overshadowed by complaining, back-stabbing, passive-aggressive behavior and other common ills of teams at work. Managers and organizational leaders put up with the dysfunction of their team because they think it is the price they have to pay for those intermittent golden moments.
What if team dysfunction could be eliminated or significantly reduced? Would that improve the productivity, creativity and success of your organization? That's what happened at a medium-sized company we recently worked with.
The owner/CEO expected people to do their jobs and leave him alone to do his. For as long as possible, he would ignore the fact that key team members would stop talking to each other. Then he would explode emotionally and demand collaboration while watching every move. As is typical, the team was not working consistently as a team, and a sledgehammer wielded by the boss was needed to force cooperation — a tremendous waste of time and energy.
For simplicity's sake, let's say that there are three types of teams:
• Those that are dysfunctional and perform less than they would if they never met as a team. These teams are below average, and the members spend a lot of time blaming others, usually outside the team meetings, for problems or failing to achieve goals. There is little cooperation between team members and little, if any, joint problem-solving. Team meetings include reporting on progress, but there is more empty talk about doing things than things actually happening. And most team members accurately feel meetings are a waste of time and that they could get more done if they just were allowed to do their jobs alone.
• A high-performing team is characterized by team members who trust the efforts of everyone involved and "pick each other up" before there are missed deadlines and goals. There is lots of collaboration, cooperation and joint problem-solving. People are held accountable for their statements and given support by other team members to increase the probability of successfully reaching their goals. And most team members look forward to meetings, appreciate the power of multiple minds in helping them meet challenges and appreciate the synergy of working together—producing outcomes that exceed their individual contributions.
• An average team has most of the characteristics of a below-average team but sometimes functions as a high-performing one. In other words, an average team muddles along and sometimes, every once in a while, flirts with functioning well. The trouble is, an average team cannot sustain itself at the high-performance level and does not know what actions it should take to keep itself functioning at a peak level.
Emotion intelligence
There is good news in the work of Vanessa Druskat and Steven Wolff, who have developed a systematic way to assess the key attributes that make for peak team performance.
Druskat of the Whittemore School at the University of New Hampshire and Wolff, a principal of GEI Partners, have been studying team performance for over 20 years. They have conducted groundbreaking research into the emotional intelligence of teams and its meaning for team performance.
Their assessment tool, the Team Emotional Intelligence Survey, has been used to improve team performance around the world. Studies have consistently shown a relationship between improved team emotional intelligence and improved team performance, viewed both from the perspective of individual team members and from the perspective of individuals who are external to the team and benefit from that improved performance.
Indeed, team emotional intelligence has been shown to account for 25 percent of the difference between average- and high-performing teams.
Two of the key attributes measured by the Team Emotional Intelligence Survey are interpersonal understanding and proactive problem-solving. Through a series of interventions at our example company, we were able to improve both of these attributes and watch as the organization processed more orders (and the related work) than it ever had before or than the leaders thought possible.
Admittedly, these were subjective reports of improved performance, but they were backed by new levels of both gross revenue and net income without an increase in the number of employees.
The other key attributes measured by the Team Emotional Intelligence Survey are: the ability to effectively address problematic behavior; caring behavior toward members; the team being able to evaluate by itself how it is doing; developing the emotional resources to process difficult issues and the feelings attendant to them; the ability to create a sustained "can do" attitude; an understanding of the team's role in the organization; and the ability to build relationships with external stakeholders that can aid or benefit from the team's performance.
In other words, if you buy into the idea that two or more minds are better than one but you are frustrated by your team's functioning level, there is a way forward.
Brad Lebo, a principal at Vital Growth Consulting Group, Portsmouth, can be reached at 603-502-9955 or email@example.com .


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Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi has said he is happy to face former team, Mali in the Africa Cup of Nations semi-final on Wednesday.
Keshi managed Mali for two years before being fired after failing to get the team beyond the group phase of the 2010 tournament in Angola.
"It's a good feeling because I had two wonderful years in Mali. The Mali people were so nice and I enjoyed my relationship with the players, some of whom have kept in touch," he said at the pre-match press conference in Durban ahead of Wednesday's clash.
He also admitted that many of the current crop of Mali players are those whom he handled when he was in charge of the Eagles.
Nigeria is yet to lose to Mali in three previous encounters (two of them won by Nigeria and the other drawn), which have produced only four goals but the supercharged Eagles look to go on rampage at the Moses Mabhida Stadium on Wednesday evening.
Yakubu Ayegbeni scored the only goal in Mopti to hand Nigeria the bronze medals at the expense of the host nation at the 2002 finals and Jay-Jay Okocha's thunderous free-kick from 35 yards made it 2-1 in another bronze medal match in Monastir at the 2004 finals in Tunisia.


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