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There are some important things to know when you're walkin' in this world alone as a single girl. There are pit falls to avoid, songs you shouldn't be listening to, and thoughts you shouldn't admit to thinking, like "Can I count my cat as a dependent on my tax forms?"
First and foremost you need to remember that being single is AWESOME! You are a free bird, a rolling stone, and you don't have to wear a football jersey on Sundays that is comprised of your least flattering color palette.
Being you is fantastic. I know, because being me is fantastic.
There will be some lows. That just comes with job. As your guide through this life, I like to test the limits of where our singledom can take us. I like to make a fool of myself in order to report back to you that what I did should be avoided at all costs. For instance, exactly four nights ago I cried on the phone to a guy I love and the only words I managed to get out were, "I…I…want…a…baaaaby!! (continued crying sounds)." I did this for you.
Here is our first list of Do's and Don'ts:
- Take notes when your girlfriends complain about their boyfriends or husbands. Reading these will get you through tough times.
- Don't spend time with a guy who says, "Are you PMS-ing?"
- Either be super low maintenance or go full blown crazy to the point where you throw phones in the street and threaten the lives of attractive women in your eye line. They both work surprisingly well. In between won't get you anywhere.
- Only wink at someone if you are a great winker. You either have it or you don't. I don't.
- If you don't want to date a 30 year-old who hangs out at clubs, don't BE a 30 year-old who hangs out at clubs.
- Change your hair every 6 months.
- Be a Girl's Girl. This involves giving girl friends approval of pictures they upload online, leaving a fun party early when they feel uncomfortable, and listening to the same story several times with consistent amounts of interest.
- Stop saying how much you want to get married if you're really just thinking about the wedding and forgetting you'll have to BE married after that.
- If you want to meet up with someone you met online, ask if they're a murderer first.
- Remember that no one is out of your league. Ryan Reynolds dated Alanis Morissette.
Till next time ladies. xo
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Book review of "Software Estimation"
Published over 6 years ago "Software Estimation" by Steve McConnell is a great read.
As a practitioner of the agile arts I must say in reading it now this book seems like the last great attempt to "fix" waterfall and "big design up front" (BDUF) methodologies which were known for their very distinct big phases of requirements, design, development, testing and release. The kicker for these techniques was often that the development and testing estimates were VERY far off. If they followed McConnell's advice as he laid out in this book they'd have had more success.
Agile basically works around many of the problems McConnell tries to solve by focusing on short iterations (of < 4 weeks) with new releasable and functional software produced at the end. Basically it avoids many of the risks inherent in Waterfall/BDUF by making the software cycle "too small to fail".
That said there are a great many things still to be learned from Steve's great book. Waterfall and BDUF are by no means dead and even so there are some lessons here about the inherent nature of (errors in) estimations by developers. Even in agile I have experienced serious under-estimation (by a factor of 2x or 3x) by developers - where a story that should have taken 1 sprint takes 3 or more. So we still have much to learn. However the key theme this book drove home to me was pretty much that "Software estimation is so hard that we pretty much gave up and are doing short iterations because that's the most we can estimate". I am sure that wasn't Steve's point but that was my inference because since the book's release estimation has taken the back-burner to story points, burn down charts, stand-ups and sprints.
More people are becoming Scrum masters and fewer are taking PMP
In this long blog article I try to capture some of the key learnings I made from this book
Part 1: Critical estimation concepts
CHAPTER 1: What Is an "Estimate"?
Tip #1: Distinguish between Estimates, Targets and Commitments
CHAPTER 5: Estimate Influences
Considerations in choosing estimation techniques
I just wish Steve McConnell was on twitter though - I could do with a daily dose of the knowledge and wisdom he puts into his books.
As a practitioner of the agile arts I must say in reading it now this book seems like the last great attempt to "fix" waterfall and "big design up front" (BDUF) methodologies which were known for their very distinct big phases of requirements, design, development, testing and release. The kicker for these techniques was often that the development and testing estimates were VERY far off. If they followed McConnell's advice as he laid out in this book they'd have had more success.
Agile basically works around many of the problems McConnell tries to solve by focusing on short iterations (of < 4 weeks) with new releasable and functional software produced at the end. Basically it avoids many of the risks inherent in Waterfall/BDUF by making the software cycle "too small to fail".
That said there are a great many things still to be learned from Steve's great book. Waterfall and BDUF are by no means dead and even so there are some lessons here about the inherent nature of (errors in) estimations by developers. Even in agile I have experienced serious under-estimation (by a factor of 2x or 3x) by developers - where a story that should have taken 1 sprint takes 3 or more. So we still have much to learn. However the key theme this book drove home to me was pretty much that "Software estimation is so hard that we pretty much gave up and are doing short iterations because that's the most we can estimate". I am sure that wasn't Steve's point but that was my inference because since the book's release estimation has taken the back-burner to story points, burn down charts, stand-ups and sprints.
More people are becoming Scrum masters and fewer are taking PMP
In this long blog article I try to capture some of the key learnings I made from this book
Part 1: Critical estimation concepts
CHAPTER 1: What Is an "Estimate"?
Tip #1: Distinguish between Estimates, Targets and Commitments
- When business people are asking for an "estimate", they're really often asking for a commitment or a plan to meet a target
- Estimation is not planning
- When you see a "single point estimate" ask whether the number is an estimate or whether its really a target
- A common assumption is that the distribution of software project outcomes follows a bell curve. The reality is much more skewed.
- What is a good estimate?
- The approach should provide estimates that are withing 25% of the actual results 75% of the time
- Events that happen during the project always invalidate the assumptions that were used in the estimate.
- The primary purpose of software estimation is to determine whether a project's targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them. The executives want a plan to deliver as many features as possible by a certain date.
- "A good estimate is an estimate that provides a clear enough view of the project reality to allow the project leadership to make good decisions about how to control the project to hit its targets"
CHAPTER 2: How Good an Estimator are you?
- Studies have confirmed that most people's intuitive sense of "90% confident" is really comparable to something closer to "30% confident"
- Where does the pressure to use narrow ranges come from? You or an external source?
CHAPTER 3: Value of Accurate Estimates?
- Is it better to overestimate or underestimate?
- If a project is overestimated, stakeholders fear that Parkinson's law will kick in - work will expand to fill the time allotted.
- Another concern is given too much time, developers will procrastinate until late in the project.
- A related motivation for underestimating is the desire to instill a sense or urgency
- Figure 3.1: The penalties for underestimation are more severe than the penalties for overestimation
- The Software Industry's Estimation Track Record
- Failure rates
- The Software industry has an underestimation problem.
- What top executives value most is predictability - business need to make commitments to customers, investors, suppliers, the marketplace and other stakeholders
CHAPTER 4: Where Does Estimation Error Come From
- Four Generic sources
- Inaccurate information about the project being estimate
- Inaccurate information about the capabilities of the organization that will perform the project
- Too much chaos IN the project to support accurate estimation (i.e. try to estimate a moving target)
- Inaccuracies arising from the estimation process itself
- Simple example of a Telephone Number checker and the requirements questions / uncertainties that could result in very different design approaches.
- The cone of uncertainty
- Initial Concept 0.25x to 4x (Range = 16x)
- Approved Product Definition 0.5x to 2x (Range = 4x)
- Requirements Complete 0.67x to 1.5x
- UI Design Complete 0.8x to 1.25x
- Detailed Design Complete 0.9x to 1.1x
- The cone of uncertainty is the BEST-case accuracy possible to have. It isn't possible to be more accurate - it's only possible to be more lucky.
- The cone does not narrow itself - if a project is not well controlled you can end up with a cloud of uncertainty that contains even more estimation error.
- "What you give up with approaches that leave requirements undefined until the beginning of each iteration if long-range predictability"
- Sources of project chaos
- Requirements that were not investigated very well
- Poor designs leading to lots of code rewrite
- Poor coding practices leading to extensive bug fixing
- Inexperienced personnel
- Incomplete or unskilled project planning
- Prima Donna team members
- Abandoning planning under pressure
- Developer gold-plating
- Lack of source code control software
- In practice, project managers often neglect to update their cost and schedule assumptions as requirements change.
- Omitted Activities (pp.44)
- Missing Requirements
- Non functional requirements: Accuracy, modifiability, Performance, Scalability, Security, Usability etc.
- Missing software-development activities
- Ramp-up time for team members
- Mentoring
- Build & Smoke Test support
- Requirements clarification
- Creating test data
- Beta program management
- Technical reviews
- Integration work
- Attendance at meetings
- Performance tuning
- Learning new tools
- Answering questions
- Reviewing technical documentation etc.
- Missing non-software-development activities
- Vacations, Holidays, Sick days, Training, Weekends(!?!?)
- Company meetings, department meetings, setting up new workstations
- Developer estimates tend to contain an optimism factor of 20 to 30%. Although managers complain that developers sandbag their estimates - the reverse is true. Boehm also found a "fantasy factor" of 1.33
- Missing Requirements
CHAPTER 5: Estimate Influences
- The obvious one: Project Size
- Diseconomies of scale a 1M LOC project takes more than 10x the effort of a 100k LOC project.
- The basic issues is that in larger projects coordination among larger groups of people requires more communication. As Project size increases, the number of communication paths among people increases as a SQUARED function of the number of people on the project.
Lines of code per staff per year
- 10k LOC project --> 2k to 25k
- 100k LOC project --> 1k to 20k
- 1M LOC project --> 700 to 10k
- 10M LOC project --> 350 to 5k
- Other influences: The kind of software being developed
- Personnel factors
- According to Cocomo II on a 100k LOC project the combined effect of personnel factors can swing a project estimate by as much as a factor of 22!
- The KEY personnel decision: Requirements Analyst Capability and only THEN the programmer
- The magnitude of these factors has been confirmed in numerous other studies
- Other influences: Programming Language
- Lots of other adjustment factors: See table 5-4 on page 66
- Key Learning: Small and Medium-sized projects can succeed largely on the basis of strong individuals. Large projects however still need strong individuals but project management, organizational maturity and how well the team coalesces are just as significant.
PART II: Fundamental Estimation Techniques
CHAPTER 6: Introduction to Estimation Techniques
CHAPTER 6: Introduction to Estimation Techniques
- What's being estimated - features, schedule, effort
- Project Size
- Small: < 5 total technical staff. Best estimates are usually "botom-up" techniques created by individuals who will do the actual work
- Large: 25+ people that lasts 6 to 12 months or more. For these teams the best estimation approaches tend to be "top-down" approaches in the early stages. As the project progresses more bottom-up techniques are introduced and the projects own historical data will provide more accurate estimates.
- Medium: 5 to 25 people lasting 3 to 12 months. Can use any of the techniques above.
- Software Development Style: Iterative vs. Sequential
- Evolutionary Prototyping
- Extreme Programming
- Evolutionary Delivery
- Staged Delivery
- Scrum
CHAPTER 7: Count, Compute, Judge
- Count first
- Count if at all possible, compute when you can't cout. Use judgement alone ONLY as a last resort
- What to count? Find something to count that's highly correlated with the size of the software you are estimating. And find something to count that is available sooner rather than later in the development.
- Historical data
- Average effort hours per requirement for development
- Average total effort hours per use case / story
- Average dev/test/doc effort per change request
CHAPTER 8: Calibration and Historical Data
- Used to convert counts to estimates - lines of code to effort, user stories to calendar time, requirements to number of test cases
- Your estimates can be calibrated using any of three kinds of data
- Industry data
- Historical data
- Project data
- Using data helps avoid subjectivity, unfounded optimism and some biases.
- It also helps reduce estimation politics
- Start with a small set of data
- Size (LOC)
- Effort (Staff months)
- Time (Calendar months)
- Defects (classified by severity)
- Be careful how you measure e.g. 8 hour work days? How about vacations? Overtime?
- It is surprisingly difficult in many organizations to determine how long a particular project lasted
CHAPTER 9: Individual Expert Judgment
- To create the task-level estimates, have the people who will actually do the work create the estimates
- When estimating at the task level decompose estimates that will require no more than about 2 days of effort. Tasks larger than that will contain too many places that unexpected work can hide. Ending up with estimates that are 0.25 to 0.5d of granularity is appropriate.
- Use Ranges to help identify risks and where things can (and often do) go wrong
- Best Case
- Most Likely Case
- Worst Case
- Expected Case
- Estimate Checklist
- Is what's being estimated clearly defined?
- Does the estimate include all the KINDS of work needed to complete the task?
- Does the estimate include all the FUNCTIONALITY AREAS needed to complete the task?
- Is the estimate broken down into enough detail to expose hidden work?
- Have you looked at notes from past work rather than estimating from pure memory?
- Is the estimate approved by the person who will actually do the work?
- Is the productivity assumed in the estimate similar to what has been achieved on similar assignments in the past
- Does the estimate include a Best Case, Worst Case and Expected Case?
- Have the assumptions in the estimate been documented?
- Has the situation changed since the estimate was prepared?
- Compare actual performance to estimated performance so that you can improve estimates over time.
CHAPTER 10: Decomposition and Recomposition
- The key is if you create several smaller estimates some of the estimation errors will be on the high side and some will be on the low side. The errors will tend to cancel each other out to some extent. Research has found that summing task durations was negatively correlated with cost and schedule overruns.
- Since developers tend to give near-Best case estimates, schedule overruns often compound on one another since the chance of each of the estimates coming in as scheduled is so very low.
CHAPTER 11: Estimation by Analogy
- Get detailed size, effort and cost results for a similar previous project
- Compare the size of the new project to a similar past project
- Build up the estimate for the new project's size as a percentage of the old project's size
- Create an effort estimate based on the size of the new project compared to the previous project
- Check for consistent assumptions across the old and new projects
CHAPTER 12: Proxy-based Estimates
- Fuzzy Logic
- Very Small
- Small
- Medium
- Large
- Very Large
- As a rule of thumb the differences in size between adjacent categories should be at least a factor of 2
- Story Points e.g. Fibonacci sequence.
- Cautions about rating scales - the use of a numeric scale implies that you can perform numeric options on the numbers: multiplication, addition, subtraction and so on. But if the underlying relationships aren't valid - that is a story worth 13 points doesn't really require 13/3 as much effort as a story worth 3 points - then performing numeric operations on the 13 isn't any more valid than performing numeric operations on "Large" or "Very Large"
- T-Shirt Sizing
- Remember that the goal of software estimation is not pinpoint accuracy but estimates that are accurate enough to support effective project control
- In this approach developers classify each feature's size relative to other features as Small, Medium, Large, XL etc.
- This allows the business to trade-off and look for features with the most business value and lowest development cost.
CHAPTER 13: Expert Judgment in Groups
- Group Reviews
- Have each team member estimate pieces of the project individually, and then meet to compare estimates
- Don't just average estimates - discuss the differences
- Arrive at a consensus estimate that the whole group accepts
- Individual estimates have a Magnitude of Relative Error (MRE) of 55%.
- Group-reviewed estimates average an error of only 30%
- Studies have found that the use of 3 to 5 experts with different backgrounds seems to be sufficient.
- Wideband-Delphi Technique
CHAPTER 14: Software Estimation Tools
- Allows you to simulate different project outcomes
- Data you'll need to calibrate tools
- Effort in staff months
- Schedule, in elapsed months
- Size, in lines of code
- Summary of available tools - see pp.163 (valid as of 2006)
CHAPTER 15: Use of Multiple Approaches
- Use multiple estimation techniques and look for convergence or spread among the results
CHAPTER 16: Flow of Software Estimates on a Well-Estimated Project
- When you reestimate in response to a missed deadline base the new estimate on the project's ACTUAL progress not on the project's planned progress.
CHAPTER 17: Standardized Estimation Procedures
Estimation should be fit into a Stage-Gate process
- Discovery
- Approved preliminary business case
- Scoping
- Approved product vision
- Approved marketing requirements
- Planning
- Approved software development plans
- Approved budget
- Approved final business case
- Development
- Approved software release plan
- Approved marketing launch plan and operations plan
- Approved software test plan
- Pass release criteria
- Testing and Validation
- Pass release criteria
- Launch
The process should
- Emphasize counting and computing rather than use of judgement
- Calls for the use of multiple estimation approaches
- Communicates a plan at predefined points
- Contains a clear description of an estimate's inaccuracy
- Defines when an estimate can be used as the basis for a project budget
- Defined when as estimate can be used as the basis for internal or external commitments.
PART III: Specific Estimation Challenges
CHAPTER 18: Special Issues in Estimating Size
- Using Lines of Code in Size estimation (data is easily collected but translation into "staff months" of effort is error prone)
- Function-Point Estimation
- The number of function points in a program is based on the number and complexity of
- External inputs (e.g. screens, forms, dialog boxes)
- External outputs (e.g. screens, reports, graphs etc)
- External queries
- Internal Logical files
- External interface files
CHAPTER 19: Special Issues in Estimating Effort
- Productivity variations among different kinds of software projects can show very different effort estimates (per LOC) and cost (per LOC)
CHAPTER 20: Special Issues in Estimating Schedule
- Basic Schedule Equation
- Schedule In Months = 3.0 x cubeRoot(StaffMonths)
- Schedules compress and the shorted schedule
- If the feature set is not flexible, shortening the schedule depends on adding staff to do more work in less time
- Numerous estimation researchers have investigated the effects of compressing a nominal schedule.
- All researchers have concluded that shortening the nominal schedule will increase total development effort.
- There is also an impossible zone and you can't beat it - the consensus of researchers is that schedule compression of more than 25% nominal is not possible
- Similarly you can reduce costs by lengthening the schedule and conducting the project with a smaller team
- Lawrence Putnam conducted fascinating research on the relationship between team size, schedule and productivity.
- Schedule decreases (and effort increases) as you add team members - until you hit 5-7 on a team. After that the effort goes up very much more quickly and schedule ALSO starts to get longer.
- Thus a team size of 5 to 7 people appears to be economically optimal for medium-sized business system projects.
CHAPTER 21: Estimating Planning Parameters
- Estimating Architecture, Requirements, Management effort for projects of different sizes. The larger the project the more the architecture, test, requirements and management costs.
- Developer-to-test ratio is settled more by planning than by estimation - that is it is determined more by what you think you SHOULD do than by what you predict you will do.
- Good analogy about ideal time and planned time: football game - 60 minutes vs. 2 to 4 hours elapsed time.
- Defect Removal
- Formal Design Inspections: 55% rate of removal (mode)
- Informal design review: 35%
- Formal code inspection: 60%
- Informal code review: 25%
- Low Volume (< 10 sites) Beta Test: 35%
- High Volume (> 1,000 sites): 75%
- System Test: 40%
- Other rules of thumb
- To go from one-company, one-campus development to multi-company, multi-cit: allow for 25% increase in effort.
- To go from one-company, one campus development to international outsource, allow for a 40% increase in effort.
CHAPTER 22: Estimate Presentation Style
- Communicating Estimate Assumptions
- Which features are in scope
- Which features are out of scope
- Availability of resources
- Dependencies on 3rd-parties (and their performance)
- Unknowns
- Expressing Uncertainty
- Try to present your estimate in units that are consisten with the estimate's underlying accuracy
- Ranges are the most accurate way to reflect the inherent uncertainty in estimates at various points in the Cone of uncertainty.
- Do not present a commitment as a range, a commitment needs to be specific
CHAPTER 23: Politics, Negotiation and Problem Solving
- Estimate negotiations tend to be between introverted and more junior technical staff and seasons professional negotiators.
- Understand that executives are assertive by nature and by job description and plan your estimation discussions accordingly.
- You can negotiate the commitment but do NOT negotiate the estimate
- Educate nontechnical stakeholders about effective software estimation practices
- Treat estimation discussions as problem solving, not negotiations. Recognize that all project stakeholders are on the same side of the table. Everyone wins, or everyone loses.
- Getting to Yes
- Separate the people from the problem
- Focus on interests, not positions
- Invent options for mutual gain
- Insist on using object criteria
Frank's Summary
This is a great book I should have read a few years ago. Everyone should. Even if you are doing agile development there are tons of great tips and tricks (e.g. effectiveness of design & code inspections, using best/worst case estimates, negotiation techniques) that are useful regardless.
Like I said above I think the rise of agile techniques pretty much indicates, at least to me, that most software practitioners do not have the patience, determination and doggedness to follow the practices McConnell outlines above. Because of that their estimates (and thus their perceived performance by their customers) is poor. Agile methods especially Scrum and Kanban have achieved success by trying to limit the cognitive planning and estimating load - keeping the process simple and light and "result" focused (ship!). What I like to call "Too Small To Fail". Even so a lot of organizations have trouble adopting agile and need help. There are various reasons for this but they are the same reasons their other processes were flawed - the problem is not in the process itself but how it is being executed and the ability of those trying to do the execution.
I just wish Steve McConnell was on twitter though - I could do with a daily dose of the knowledge and wisdom he puts into his books.
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LoveSarah 6 years
I got a cat in May and never told anyone at the apartment place. They wanted like a $500 pet fee, which I just don't have, so I figured I just wouldn't tell them. It's worked out so far, and we are just going to make sure we really deep clean the place when we move. If they do have to come to my house for some reason, I tell them they have to call first, and I usually just take Felix for a car ride, since he loves them! And I hide all the cat stuff :) but they have only had to come in once or twice, and that was because I requested them to fix something. Good Luck!
lawchick 6 years
I have been in this exact situation. I begged my landlord to let me keep my cat at the apartment, and he ultimately let me with the condition that I didn't tell anyone. I'm a lawyer and so was my landlord. There isn't a law that says they can't start enforcing rules that were always in place. Now if they just added this rule, it might be a different situation. I would have moved if my landlord hadn't let me keep my cat.
AnnaLove 6 years
I kept my chihuahua in my non-pet-friendly apartment for like 5 mos before anyone noticed. Then we started making her sleep in a cage which she HATED and so she barked a lot and a neighbor told on us :( Luckily my mom lived pretty close and my sister watched after Princess for the rest of the lease.I think as long as your pet is well-behaved no one will notice. Unless it's a big dog? If they start bothering you about it, I would take my doggy and my money elsewhere.
kbrelo 6 years
You know the answer to this one...Move! If you love them as you say you do, that's really your only option!
Huneybee 6 years
Actually, I dealt with this at my closing of my co-op. Now I don't know where you are from...but legally, they can't just wake up one day and decide to enforce the no-pet (or in this case no-dog) policy. I would call at attorney in your state to ensure that this is the case there too....but if they knew you had an animal when you moved in--your animal(s) should be grandfathered in. They can enforce whatever they want from this point forward, with whomever moves in/purchases now, but they can not make you get rid of your pets (at least not in NY). Again, I would call an attorney and get them to write a letter to the Board. I know that my co-op now is starting to enforce the no-pet rule...but even now, they can't do anything to me (and my 2 dogs and 3 cats) because we're already in. They do have the right to stop you from getting any other pets...but that's a whole different situation. Hope this helps!
miss-leanne 6 years
Offer to buy pet insurance.
karenz987 6 years
California has very different laws then I am used to. I manage condos in Ohio, as long as you are under lease and the lease you have states you have a pet and that it is ok there really shouldn't be anything they can do. My company recently bought a new building and we were not going to have it be a pet friendly building but the tenants who were under lease were legally allowed to keep their pets. I would look at you lease and see if there is anything in there about pet fees or pet deposits that you paid. A As long as you are under lease they cant change any of the lease terms.
colormesticky 6 years
I don't know what city you live in, but the cities in my area have a 2 dog/2 cat rule. If you have 3 dogs you might not be able to sweet talk your way into bending the rules because you may be breaking the law with one dog too many. :(
lola102 6 years
how terrible! good luck, i'd be so sad! finding an apartment in Los Angeles that allows pets has been a nightmare as well.
CaterpillarGirl 6 years
I bribed the apartment manager.
Mykie7 6 years
You're going to have to move. We had the same issue arise years and years ago. We had had 2 cats for 3 years only to find out upon lease renewal that it was a 1 pet rule, however they'd been ignoring it. They were going to begin enforcing it and it was up to the renters to comply. We talked to an attorney and tried every route we could, but they were in the right. We had to move.
TsuKata 6 years
Check with your local non-profit renters' advocacy group (google to find it), even if you're not renting. It may be that by not enforcing the rule for 4.5 years, the condo created a common law that supersedes the rule. The advocacy group will be able to help you understand the legal options you have, and they usually do it for free (though donations are appreciated).
GRRLMARVEL 6 years
Your best course of action is to go talk to the managers of the building. See if you can work a deal, especially if you are a renter in good standing. Most places are desperate for good renters who pay on time. You can do as another poster suggested and pay them more money for a deposit or pet rent. If they were aware of your situation and allowed it to happen, there might be something to that where you can dispute it. Also, check your lease and see what is says. Does it list the rule or is that just a word of mouth rule? If it's word of mouth, you never signed a legal document around it. Although it works in their favor if it is in the lease. You only "legal" route is to probably move. Although if you want to run the risk of staying as is and hoping they won't bust you... you can go that route. I know most places don't really check up on it. If you do get caught though it can be grounds of eviction... but they you will have to move anyway!
Alisha_Stiletto 6 years
Well, we can always *bend the truth* to use the law to our advantage in this case. Hypothetically speaking now - if a person has an anxiety disorder and registers their pets as service dogs - the pets can not be taken away from them. Dogs have to go through training and become certified, but its doable. I say Fake it and get the dogs certified. Yay!
Lovely_1 6 years
u gotta mvoe :( That's the unfourtunate thing about condos and apartments...
emo_stacer 6 years
What is the reasoning for the one pet rule. One pet can damage or produce the same amount to hair/danger as having many. Offer to get the place professionally cleaned at the end of the lease and in the meanwhile promise to fix/replace anything the pet damages.
mellymel919 6 years
Ask if you can pay more for additional pets.


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1. Do we have some mechanism for personally knowing our sheep? As leaders, we will give an account for how well we watched over our people's souls (Heb. 13:7). The Bible doesn't mandate only one way for doing member care, but we must work to have some process in place. If we never ask, "How is the congregation doing?" or better yet, "How are you doing?" we should not be surprised to find lots of people falling through the cracks.
2. Do we have some way of knowing when people are not showing up at church? You can eyeball it, check the friendship pads, or spy out the church mailboxes, but we need to have a general sense of who is not making faithful use of the means of grace. Our Book of Church Order stipulates we talk about it at every elders' meeting. The first step to noticing who's missing is to start looking and start talking about it.
3. Are we confronting cliquishness in our church? The line between community and clique is often blurry. But if there's one central difference it's openness. A healthy community welcomes new people in. A clique finds ways to keep new people out. Pastors need to confront the problem of "closed circles" head on-in preaching, in structural decisions, and in one on one conversations. The leaders also need to make sure they are not in a closed circle themselves. Good friends are good. Good friends to the exclusion of everyone else is very bad.
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5. Is it at least possible that we are more at fault than we think? Leadership doesn't mean saying you're sorry every time Mr. Sensitive feels offended. But it does mean always being open to the possibility that you've screwed up more than you thought.
6. Have we made promises we didn't deliver on? There's nothing more deadly than well-publicized, poorly executed good intentions. The elders launch a family visitation program, but only make it to half the homes. A pastor agrees to follow up his lobby conversation with a phone call and then forgets all about it. The church promises every member will get a mentor, but it ends up there aren't enough mentors to go around. Don't set the bar so high you're bound to crash into it.
7. Are these critics generally critical? Pastors can waste their time with divisive grumblers. When they do so, they are often too worn out to listen when a loyal member offers a thoughtful critique. We shouldn't spend a lot of time on the squeaky wheels unless it's an unfamiliar squeak. In other words, consider the source and remember "faithful are the wounds of a friend."
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The main reason is the lack of honesty and transparency. Our board never told the truth about our previous pastor's leaving ,that he "changed" his mind about women in leadership, that he had become hostile to the woman pastor on staff. They all just acted like he got some miraculous call to another church. You can be dishonest by what you do NOT say or do NOT reveal. They have now hired a big name pastor whose salary is being paid by a few "special" donors and this was never discussed with the congregation. Pastors and church leaders are human. It is easy to overlook a forgotten email but it is not easy to forget or pass over basic deceitfrulness.
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Green Tree Golf Club, Green Tree Course
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- 999 Leisure Town Rd, Vacaville, CA 95687
- (707) 448-1420
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|27 total holes at facility
|Green fees - $29 to $53 (estimate)
|Designed by William F. Bell
|Built in 1969
|Rye Grass
|Driving Range: Yes
|Public golf course
The Green Tree Course at Green Tree Golf Club is an 18-hole regulation length golf course in Vacaville, California. This short layout has 3 sets of teeboxes for a fun, but challenging golfing experience. There is another course on this same property, the Executive Course. Online tee times may be available at Green Tree Golf Club or at nearby golf courses, usually offered at a discount from the normal rate.
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Extra Gentle Cleanser remains one of Neutrogena's standout cleansers. It is an excellent option for normal to dry or sensitive skin, including those with eczema or rosacea. The fragrance-free, lotion-textured formula contains mild cleansing agents and some good anti-irritants, but these aren't as effective in a cleanser as they are when they are left on the skin. It will do a good job removing most types of makeup, owing to the emollients and solvents it contains.
Provides more than just gentle cleansing for even the most sensitive skin. This rich, dermatologist-recommended formula adds back moisture every time you use it. Skin is left more moisturized, so it retains resiliency and suppleness. With anti-irritants Chamomile and Vitamin E, its soap-free formula provides gentle yet effective cleansing, and it won't leave a filmy residue that can clog pores.
Purified Water, Glycerin, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Cetyl Ricinoleate, Isohexadecane, Tea-Cocoyl Glutamate, Methylglucose Sesquistearate, Stearyl Alcohol, Cetyl Alcohol, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, PEG-20 Methyl Glucose Sesquistearate, Bisabolol, Chamomile Extract, Tocopheryl Acetate, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, Stearyl Glycyrrhetinate, Tetrasodium EDTA, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Triethanolamine, BHT, Geranium, Dipropylene Glycol, Phenoxyethanol, Propylparaben, Methylparaben
Neutrogena At-A-Glance
Strengths: Inexpensive; several recommended cleansers; retinol options, in stable packaging; vast selection of sunscreens, most of which offer excellent UVA protection; several fragrance-free options; many of the Healthy Skin products are state-of-the-art; the foundations with sunscreen provide sufficient UVA protection; some praiseworthy makeup items.
Weaknesses: An overabundance of overlapping anti-aging products that is perennially confusing for consumers; irritating bar soaps; lackluster to downright bad toners; a handful of bland moisturizers and eye creams; some sunscreens too much alcohol or problematic preservatives; most of the Deep Clean products are terrible; mostly disappointing concealers; the lip balms with sunscreen provide inadequate UVA protection.
Johnson & Johnson–owned Neutrogena has been around for over 50 years, and they've come a long way since they launched their first transparent, bronze, detergent-based bar soap (it also contains tallow). The bars are still sold, and while we still don't recommend them (they are too drying for all skin types), the good news is that Neutrogena has come a very long way from where they started. In fact, several of their products represent truly state-of-the-art options.
Strolling the skin-care aisles of any drugstore or mass-market store reveals that Neutrogena vies for shelf space and prominence with only one other brand, Procter & Gamble's Olay. For the most part, both companies offer a similar assortment of products, with Olay being slightly more focused on anti-aging products and Neutrogena going for broader appeal, offering a nearly equal amount of antiwrinkle and anti-acne products. Regrettably the latter category presents few viable options.
Where Neutrogena really excels (and has for years) is with water-soluble cleansers, AHAs, retinol, and sunscreen products. Their Healthy Skin lineup offers some beautifully formulated moisturizers with glycolic acid, and the sunscreens offer something for everyone, including some ingenious options for those with oily skin (or anyone who finds the texture of high-SPF products as unappealing as slathering your skin with Crisco).
A recent self-proclaimed advance in sun protection came with Neutrogena's Helioplex complex. It is not the superior breakthrough Neutrogena makes it out to be. It's a good system to keep avobenzone stable for longer, but Helioplex isn't the only way to get the most out of this important UVA sunscreen. If it were, why didn't Neutrogena scrap all of their other sunscreens that don't use Helioplex technology? And why do they still offer a handful of SPF-rated products that leave skin vulnerable to UVA damage? Although they offer a proportionately greater number of sunscreens that provide excellent UVA protection, it's hard to unequivocally deem them a sun-care leader when they still sell inadequate sunscreens.
It's common to see commercials and magazine ads for Neutrogena's plethora of products designed to combat breakouts and blackheads. It's nothing short of amazing that, after all these years, the majority of these products, while well intentioned, still don't get it right. Far too many of them contain irritating ingredients such as alcohol, witch hazel, and menthol, none of which are the least bit helpful for someone struggling with breakouts. If your dermatologist recommends these products for acne without reservation, definitely consider a second opinion! Even Neutrogena's on-the-spot benzoyl peroxide product contains some potentially problematic thickening agents. Despite this, if you choose carefully, there are some great products (including a BHA lotion) that can make a positive difference.
What's most frustrating and, frankly, surprising, is that Neutrogena's enormous assortment of products represents both the best and the worst the cosmetics industry has to offer. Given their worldwide distribution and research capabilities, they really should be offering a consistent range of effective, irritant-free products to address a variety of skin types and conditions. As things stand now, healthy, protected skin is only assured if you know which Neutrogena products to look for and which ones to never put in your shopping cart.
For more information about Neutrogena, owned by Johnson & Johnson, call (800) 582-4048 or visit www.neutrogena.com.
Neutrogena Makeup
Neutrogena's "beautiful and beneficial" pronouncement is a great tag line, but most of their makeup doesn't live up to that assertion. This line was lacking in several key areas when it first hit store shelves in 1999, and although some things have improved, the number of problematic products is a bit startling. (We are not aware of any cosmetic line that uses menthol or its derivatives as often as Neutrogena.) Each product carries on about the vitamins it contains, yet compared to the leading roles played by cosmetic staples like silicones and thickening agents, the vitamins have mere cameo roles, and as such have little to no impact.
There are a few key items to seek out, especially if you're looking for makeup with excellent sun protection. We also found their lip gloss to be one of the best at any price, and a few of their foundations successfully bridge the gap between skin care and makeup.
The most frustrating aspect of this line is that almost all of it is packaged so you cannot see the color. Even worse, the color swatch on the box is a poor representation, not only of how the color looks in the compact, but also how it looks on your skin. What would truly be beneficial is for Neutrogena to offer more revealing packaging or provide testers or offer trial sizes. Their overall collection and in-store displays aren't nearly as tempting as most other drugstore makeup lines, so in most cases they're relying on their constant magazine and television ads to drive shoppers to explore the world of Neutrogena makeup, or they're relying solely on those who don't mind guessing what color they are really buying. It's obviously working, because despite the problematic elements, this is a line that has survived and is very well distributed.
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This may be good for someone who does not wear makeup. I normally use a separate makeup remover. I have tried this and what I noticed that it did not take off any of the foundation and blush. It left a white film over my face. This could be good to use in the morning if you have removed all of your makeup the night before or for someone who does not wear makeup. It's not a bad cleanser it's just too mild for me. I was very surprised the review said it takes off makeup.
Being only 13, I have very sensitive and quite dry skin. I don't have much acne but sometimes I get a few which I HATE! I tried clean and clear, which over dried my skin, and other brands that caused me to have a red face and breakouts. My mum bought me this basically just because of its name! I also have the neotrogena sensitive oil free moisturiser as part of my regime. When I first used this, my skin was recovering from a massive rash. After a few days, every part of my face was so clear!
I decided to try this product because of its BEST Beautypedia rating. I was very disappointed. I have sensitive combination skin. This cleanser leaves my skin feeling tight and dry. The cleanser definitely leaves a film on the skin that seems impossible to rinse off. I couldn't get it off even after following up with my other facial cleanser.
I really prefer my other cleanser (Neutrogena Acne Stress Control Power Clear Scrub) even though it has known irritants (menthol, fragrance).
This doesn't remove makeup, BUT IT DOESN'T CLAIM TO, so IDK, lol. I have combo skin and this works wonderfully on it. IMO it certainly never leaves a film - it's just a different type of cleanser than some people are apparently used to, or maybe people have just seen too many commercials that promote skin having a squeaky clean type feeling. I listen to skin care experts, and as a result I've continued to have beautiful skin into my 30's. Treat your skin like the organ it is, you'll see results.
I have combo/sensitive skin and was pleased that this did not irritate my skin. However... I am surprised this cleanser received a BEST rating from Paula since it's hardly a cleanser. It does not remove makeup well at all. It is also difficult to rinse off and leaves a light film. If you don't mind that film-y feeling, then this might work well in a morning shower where it's a bit easier to rinse off.
I have combination, acne prone skin, which gets really dry in winter (especially with the topical prescription acne cream I need to use). This the only (budget priced) cleanser I could find that didn't dry out my skin, and I have been using it for years. I find that it doesn't completely remove makeup however, so I recommend using a different cleanser at night if you wear makeup.
I've used Neutrogena's Fresh Foaming Cleanser for years but decided to try the Extra Gentle Cleanser since I moved to a very cold, dry climate and my oily but aging skin has been dry and flaky. The first time I used it my skin was burning! The second time it was less irritating but gave my skin an uncomfortable feeling. This is odd (for a gentle product) b/c my skin isn't sensitive and has only reacted to one other product like this ever. Seems to work for lots of people but I returned it today.
Neither my daughter (and she has very sensitive skin) nor I have had any problems whatsoever with this cleanser. However, I use it as a morning cleanser only, as I find the Fresh Foaming Cleanser is a better option for removing makeup in the evening.
Love this cleanser. I have both eczema and rosacea and have never had a problem with it! I think it does a superb job of cleansing the day's grime and makeup!
I was shocked when this face wash turned my entire face bright red and inflamed immediately upon use. It's labelled extra gentle and I don't even have sensitive skin. I use tons of different skincare products every day (total junkie) and I've never had a reaction like to anything I've ever used. I don't know what's in this stuff that caused such a reaction but it definitely was NOT extra gentle. My husband had a similar reaction so it was the face wash, not just me. So weird!
Great product. Leaves skin smooth and soft. Rinses well, but facial washcloth is advised.
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Recipe:Roasted Vegetable Soup
It looks like the cooler weather is here to stay for a while and a nice pot of soup may be in order. Roasted Vegetable Soup would be a good recipe to cook over the weekend and reheat on a hectic weeknight evening. Serve with some fresh bread and you have yourself a hearty, satisfying meal.
Smoked paprika has a very different flavor than regular paprika. It's flavor is much stronger with more depth. Kind of similar to the difference in flavor between a jalapeno and a chipotle pepper (a smoked jalapeno).
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Roasted Vegetable Soup
- 6 carrots, cut in half lengthwise (approximately 3/4 of a pound)
- 3 medium zucchini, cut in half lengthwise (approximately 1 1/4 pounds)
- 8 plum tomatoes, cut in half lengthwise, and seeded
- 4 large unpeeled garlic cloves
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, divided
- 2 1/2 cups chicken broth
- 1/2 cup half-and-half
- 1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Combine carrots, zucchini, tomatoes, garlic, oil, thyme, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper in a large bowl and toss well.
- Arrange vegetables evenly on a large rimmed baking sheet and bake for 35 to 40 minutes, stirring occasionally. Let cool slightly and remove peels from garlic.
- In a blender, combine 1/3 of vegetable mixture, including garlic and juices, plus 1/3 of chicken broth and process until smooth. Once smooth, pour into a large saucepan. Repeat this process two more times with remaining vegetables and broth.
- To the saucepan, add 1 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, half-and-half, and paprika. Cook soup over medium heat for approximately 10 minutes.
- Serve with sour cream.
Yield: 8 servings
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Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson - Spring 2006, Ohlone College Book Club
…is our book selection for Spring 2006. Housekeeping is the story of two sisters abandoned by a series of relatives until taken up by their eccentric Aunt Sylvie.
In 1981 Le Anne Schreiber wrote in the New York Times Book Review:
Marilynne Robinson has written a first novel that one reads as slowly as poetry - and for the same reason: The language is so precise, so distilled, so beautiful that one doesn't want to miss any pleasure it might yield up to patience.
Purchase copies in the Ohlone College Library for $10 USD each (cash only please) - buy from the Reference/Information Desk (not the Circulation/Checkout Desk).
Book Discussion
Librarians Kathy Sparling and K.G. Greenstein will lead a book club discussion on Friday, April 7, 2006, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm in Room 1307 (Video Conference Room in the Library).
Book Club Discussion Blog
Can't attend a live discussion? Librarian Kathy Sparling has set up a Blog for the Book Club. We will be posting topics for discussion there and you are welcome to join the discussion by posting your own comments in response. Visit the Book Club Blog at ohlonereads.blogspot.com (be sure you are using a current version of Netscape, Internet Explorer, FireFox or other browser if the blog doesn't display correctly - Netscape 4.x is outdated and the blog may not appear as intended!).


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ADS735 - Conflict Resolution and Development
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For students who commenced from 2014: ADS701 for students enrolled in courses A511, A611 or A727
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This unit will explore the impact of conflict on the development process, ways in which conflict can be resolved, and the impact of the conflict resolution process on forms of development. The unit will begin by assessing various forms of conflict and how such conflict occurs, paying special attention to intra-state, post-colonial conflict and terrorism, and claims to self-determination and religious uniformity. It then considers the literature on conflict and conflict resolution. The unit assesses the impact of such conflict on the development process generally, and the impact of victims of conflict in particular. The unit will then assess various methods of conflict resolution, including military victory, hearts and minds campaigns, foreign intervention and negotiated settlements. In this, it will assess the technical requirements for each of these methods, and their actual success or failure in resolving conflict. It will conclude with an assessment of these different methods of conflict resolution on the development process.
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