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Chris's Villas offer accommodation all year round and many diners choose to stay the night after enjoying a meal and a fine wine or two.Chris's is located high above Skenes Creek and the villas are elevated, so the impact of the ocean views is stunning. Recently renovated, the villas are contemporary and well equipped.All of the apartments are self-contained and contemporary, with modern fittings and floor-to-ceiling windows, a balcony and a dizzying sea view. A complimentary Continental breakfast is included in the tariff.Chris's Restaurant and Villas is an icon of the Great Ocean Road. A personal approach to hospitality has made Chris's one of the most loved places in the region and a passion for the food of Southern Europe combined with the freshest and purest produce has made the cuisine world famous."From the ashes of last years fire has risen a splendid new structure of glass and timber, cleverly angled and tiered to make the most of the panorama. The restaurant looks down on Skenes Creek meandering down to the Southern Ocean below, with Apollo Bay's boat harbour in the distance. Chris's food-like his hospitality- is genuine and generous." Gourmet Traveller Guide 2005.Chris's Restaurant is operating seven days a week. From Melbourne Cup to Easter it is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Out of season Chris's is open nightly for dinner at 6pm and lunch on Saturdays and Sundays. For reservations please contact the restaurant.
The contemporary and stylish King Studios have polished wooden floors and floor to ceiling windows, are fully self-contained, air conditioned and offer panoramic ocean views from Cape Patton to Apollo Bay. They sleep two in a King size bed. Outdoor occasional furniture and a balcony offers privacy in a peaceful bushland setting overlooking Bass Strait. This tariff includes a continental breakfast.
The Queen Studios are comfortably appointed, tastefully decorated, self-contained, air conditioned and have panoramic ocean views.
They are split level with floor to ceiling windows, a kitchenette, a large screen television and CD and DVD players. The balcony overlooks Bass Strait from a peaceful bushland setting. The tariff includes a continental breakfast.
One Queen Studio is fitted with a King size bed on the same level as the bathroom for guests with mobility concerns.
Comfortably appointed, tastefully decorated, fully self-contained, air conditioned and offer panoramic ocean views.
The Villas sleep four with a Queen bed in one room and a double bed or two singles in the other. The balcony overlooks Bass Strait from a peaceful bushland setting.
The villas are split level with an open living, kitchen, dining area towards the view and the bedrooms and bathroom to the back. Each Villa has a large screen television, DVD and CD players and comfortable occasional furniture. The tariff includes a continental breakfast.
On-site parking available.
To confirm any reservation a non-refundable deposit equivalent to the value of the first night's accommodation is required. In the event of an early departure the right is reserved to charge the full amount of the reservation. Cancellations are not accepted by telephone. Cancellations must be made in writing or by email.
From the Skenes Creek Bridge (five kilometres on the Melbourne side of Apollo Bay on the Great Ocean Road) follow the Skenes Creek Road inland towards Colac. Three kilometres up this road is the entrance to Chris's Restaurant and Villas - not to be confused with Beacon Point Lodges (Ocean View Villas)! Just follow the directions of the Greek Goddess!
You can set your satilite Navigation systems to 280 Skenes Creek Road.
They have disabled facilities in Chris's Restaurant. Contact them with your requirements regarding the villas.


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Health makeover topic of presentation
Dr. Terry Shintani will present "The 7 Step Health Makeover: Lose Weight and Reduce Your Need for Medication" at 7 p.m. Jan. 10 at the Cameron Center in Wailuku.
Shintani received his master's degree in nutrition at Harvard University and his medical degree and law degree from the University of Hawaii. He is board certified in preventive medicine and is a professor at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine and is on the National Advisory Board of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.
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DR. TERRY SHINTANI, "The 7 Step Health Makeover: Lose Weight and Reduce Your Need for Medication"
Shintani is also the author of 10 books including "Eat More Weigh Less Diet," "Hawaii Diet" and the "The Good Carbohydrate Revolution." He has been featured in Newsweek and on CNN, CBS, ABC and NBC. He also was designated a "Living Treasure" of Hawaii.
The free presentation is open to the public, and refreshments will be provided.
The Cameron Center is located at 95 Mahalani St. For more information, contact Steve Blake at 572-8371, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Rotary talk to focus on foster care
Ethan Aronson, the community liaison for the Hui Ho'omalu foster care program, will speak at the 7:30 a.m. breakfast meeting of the Rotary Club of Kihei Sunrise on Wednesday. The meeting will take place at the Five Palms Restaurant at the Mana Kai Maui Resort in Kihei.
Hui Ho'omalu is a program of the Partners in Development Foundation. The group was established to assist the state in licensing, supporting and retaining resource families throughout the islands. Aronson worked with numerous teens in care in Alaska prior to moving to Maui five years ago. He will explain this program and answer questions.
The cost of the breakfast is $22. The public is invited. For more information, contact President Patty Hemmen at 280-8372 or visit the club's website at www.kiheirotary.org.
Von Wellsheim will talk about bamboo
Upcountry Sustainability will present an evening with Rich von Wellsheim at 7 p.m. Jan. 7 at the Pukalani Community Center pool room annex.
Von Wellsheim is president and co-owner of Whispering Winds Bamboo in Kipahulu. He will introduce attendees to the growing and management techniques that he and his partners have developed on the 20-acre plantation they manage. He'll discuss harvest and post-harvest processes, including borate treatment. Finally, he will describe a roadmap for making bamboo a viable building material in Hawaii, plus efforts to obtain International Code Council certification. The event is free and open to all. For more information about the presentation, call 573-9260.
Library to share history of Sun Yat-sen
"A History of Dr. Sun Yat-sen on Maui" will be offered at Lahaina Public Library at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the children's section.
Busaba Yip, cultural director of the Wo Hing Museum in Lahaina, will conduct a brief presentation about Dr. Sun Yat-sen, known as the "Father of Modern China."
Sun was a Chinese revolutionary and a western medical doctor who began his education in Hawaii. Yip's presentation will commemorate the 101-year anniversary of Sun's presidency.
Following the presentation, Yip will lead a walking tour of Lahaina Chinatown, from the library to the Wo Hing Museum. The one-hour program is suitable for ages 12 and older.
Lahaina Public Library is located at 680 Wharf St. For more information, call the library at 662-3950.

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What fuel-specific information is available through the Alternative Fuels Data Center's (AFDC) Station Locator website?
Most Clean Cities coordinators and stakeholders are familiar with the AFDC Station Locator website and the general station information listed there, such as the address, phone number, hours of operation, payments accepted, and who can access the station. You may not be aware of the fuel-specific information available. Below is a complete list.
Using the AFDC Station Locator Data Download feature, users can obtain a detailed spreadsheet with the above fuel-specific station information for stations currently in the database. We encourage you to stay tuned as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory is working to add new fuel-specific data and search options to the Station Locator database in the near future.
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A prank you pull on your friends when you ejaculate an awkwardly large amount of semen in all of his/her electrical sockets.
Bryan, what the fuck bro?!? I haven't had power in 3 weeks because you gave me the Soggy Socket!
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Preparing for vacation...What do you do?
What do you do to prepare for vacation? Do you make a list? What do you as far as preparing your house,if you plan to be gone more than a couple of days?
We are leaving for 9-14days to visit home(4hrs away)
I'm trying to make sure I remember to do everything as far as with my house and with packing and all.LOL
I have 3 kids, a dog, and a ferret...they are all going with us!
We will FOR SURE be hitting the beach and the zoo while on vacation:0)
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We are leaving in 2 weeks for vacation. I've alredy started packing caryon luggage for the kids. I make lists of what each person neeeds, and things we need as a family. I also have a list of things that would be easier to buy once we aree there, like sunscreen and extra diapers. (The less we carry with us on the plane, the better!)
I for sure make a list. I make a list for each person in the house and I check it off as I pack it. I usually pack things a week aheaad that we won't be using, then the day/night before I pack almost everything except things we will use in the morning.


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For a perfect time out, go on a hiking tour where you spend the night on the mountains. In Vorarlberg, there are several rewarding routes to huts in splendid location.
Vorarlberg has a wealth of programmes and activities within a compact area in store. All-in packages which the different regions offer at given times are a good choice if you want to discover Vorarlberg at bargain rates.
Small helpers come in handy to assist you in preparing a tour or finding your bearings on site. Interactive maps give a detailed description of many routes. For every mapped itinerary, there is information which can be downloaded and printed. Extra information on sites worth seeing or places to rest, photos or bus stops can be retrieved via different layers.
It is the twofold embrace of nature and culture in one region which brings unexpected treasures to light, the deeper you search. Precious terrain for modern-day pleasure hiking. The breath of the mountains has a soothing effect, slowing down the hectic pace of life to time that is measured on a human scale.
Ongoing upgrading is a matter of course for Vorarlberg's hosts. The following hotels and resorts have reported major improvements:
Find accommodations for your holiday and book online!
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Hello everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful new year!
I'm writing you today to do something I should have done months, & arguably years ago.
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Fantastic News! Access to a laser cutter!
I have found a laser for hire locally, and I'm producing again! In fact, last week, I finished the last of the standard clear acrylic panels. This is a huge... Read more
Thanks to a certain backer you get an update this morning. <3
Hokay Jacob you win.
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Hello all! Short update, since I need to be working. But I have a feeling you all want to know this!
I've graduated, hooray! This semester I'll be working on... Read more
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I'm not doing well, guys. This summer was really hard, and it hasn't let up this fall. I'm trying to graduate in December, & wound up needing a full load... Read more
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Planning Ahead and a Small Reveal
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I'm also sorry that the other half of you haven't even gotten... Read more
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Hello! I've been quiet lately, but right now there's nothing but good news to share.
I just finished marking the backer report with all my shipments from the last few... Read more
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I put a button on it... I know not what it does, because I built it in my sleep! -Goon, from Titan A.E.
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Finals; Time to Get it Done
tl-dr edition:
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An Irish farmer who had given Rihanna permission to use his grain field to film her new music video shut down the production on Monday and chastised the pop singer for her "inappropriate" wardrobe.
Rihanna, 23, was dancing in a red handkerchief bikini when Alan Graham, 61, noticed her and drove over in his tractor to put a stop to things.
"I have an ethos and I felt it was inappropriate," Graham told the BBC. "I requested them to stop and they did."
Graham said he granted permission for Rihanna and her film crew to use his field even though he wasn't familiar with the often scantily-clad Grammy winner, whose hits include "S&M" and "Disturbia."
The shoot, for Rihanna's new single "We Found Love," has resumed in a different location, according to reports.
The two parted on good terms, according to Graham, shaking hands as he went on his way.
"I wish no ill will against Rihanna and her friends," he said later. "Perhaps they could acquaint themselves with a greater God."
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At New York's Fashion Week the mood may be black, but the clothing wasn't.
The surprising trend from New York Fashion Week wasn't jumpsuits or shoulder pads or piles of fringe. It was all the practical sportswear (gasp!) coming down the catwalk, in exotic prints but price-conscious fabrics, such as cotton and T-shirt jersey.
You know these separates. They're like old friends -- well-fitting trousers that hit at the natural waist, silky blouses, anorak jackets and mid-thigh-sweeping shorts, the stuff you'll grab from your closet over and over.
Designers aren't taking lots of chances with their spring 2010 collections. In this economy, they need to make sales, it's as simple as that. And what they do at the designer level always trickles down to clothes sold at every price point, from boutiques to suburban strip malls.
"Designers have more reality in mind than fantasy," Tom Julian, a noted trend forecaster and president of Tom Julian Group, said via e-mail Wednesday while shuffling between shows. "One can observe more wardrobe versatility in the collections with tailored (silhouettes), with knits, with outer wear, (and) with fun items like shorts and camisoles."
But even items as basic as a T-shirt dress don't have to be boring. Cotton, for example, was fancied up with eyelet or dyed with an intricate pattern.
"There's a lot less novelty," said Sharon Graubard, senior vice president of trend analysis for StyleSight, a trend forecasting firm. "I think what women really want is something they can wear over and over again."
That said, you can't overlook the wow factor. Graubard was particularly impressed by "all the sophisticated prints, the marbelized effects and the mysterious ombres on chiffon. There was a lot of visual poetry with the way things move and the way they were cut, with the layering and the collaging.
"I think the customer has gotten more sophisticated and can really recognize workmanship and all those things that have an emotional pull," Graubard said. "You have to entice women to get into the clothes, and that's where the colors and prints and beautiful fabrics come in."


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text: This civic theatre on a mountain above the Mediterranean, at Taormina in Sicily, illustrates the development of the rear wall of the stage in later versions of Greek theatres, particularly Roman ones. Access from beneath the stage is possible via trapdoors now missing. Note how the landscape remains a powerful factor for spectators who can see the snowy crest of the active volcano, Mount Etna, in the distance.


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iPhone App Delivers Food to the Park
GPS helps runners bring Pinkberry to sunbathers.By Daniel Maurer
GPS helps runners bring Pinkberry to sunbathers.By Daniel Maurer
"I thought there'd be more food there, but there wasn't. I filled up on Chateauneuf du Pape in place of food."By Helen Rosner
Plus: CNN launches a food blog, and exchange sodas for veggies, all in our morning news roundup.
If you ask.By Daniel Maurer
Meatpacking District: With the wave of recent restaurant and nightlife closings, this area seems doomed, but Los Dados and long-delayed Merkato 55 might be able to salvage the hip destination, at least "on its western perimeter." [Zagat] Midtown East: Midtown Lunch finagled a sneak peak of Sakae Sushi's conveyor belt and loses his cool: "If you've been to an outlet overseas, you may end up disappointed by the first US location which lacks some of the uniqueness or 'cool' factor of the locations in Asia. That's because they felt a more subdued location would be more appealing to the clientele of Midtown.… Even when we get something cool, we get screwed." [Midtown Lunch] Park Slope: Lebanese Laila has closed, which doesn't seem like a surprise since it was across the street from "the better, cheaper Olive Vine." [TONY] South Slope: The Fourth Avenue soup man has officially given up his spot in preparation for a new fancy condo. [Eat for Victory/VV] Upper West Side: China Fun is getting in on the New Year shill fest: Submit 500 words (or fewer) on why you want to celebrate the Year of the Rat at China Fun (firstname.lastname@example.com), and you could win a banquet for eight. West Village: After losing its lease, Italian sandwich destination Crosby Connection is moving from its hole-in-the-wall to an actual restaurant space a couple of blocks away. [The Gluttoness]


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The Oklahoma City Thunder currently have the best record in the NBA at 29-7, but they've come a long way to get here. During the 2008-09 season, their first year in
The man behind the scenes of the Thunder's success is a man named
In 2001, Presti was just a 25-year-old intern for the Spurs. Former Spurs assistant coach and current Los Angeles Lakers head coach
Presti convinced the Spurs to take a look at a 19-year-old Frenchman by the name of
"We worked him out and he was terrible,"
It was that second workout that got the Spurs hooked on
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Kikker is Verliefd.
Kikker zit aan de kant van de rivier
Hij voelt zich vreemd alsof hij droomt
Wat is er toch met hem aan de hand?
In de wei komt hij Varkentje tegen
Hallo Kikker, zegt Varkentje. "Je ziet er slecht uit.
This may look like gibberish to you but I can assure you it is not too hard to learn the contents of this passage.
You have several options to decipher these words. One, you can ask me and I will translate. Since this is written in my mother tongue, Dutch, it should be easy. Two, you can borrow the translated version, in English, called "Frog in Love" by Max Velthuijs. Lastly, if you want to figure it out on your own, since you are adventurous and curious, the library offers another solution: MANGO Languages.
Besides learning a new language in the more traditional ways available at the library – books such as "Spanish for Dummies" by Susana Wald and Cecie Kraynak, "Teach Yourself Swahili" by Joan Russell, "Hebrew for Dummies" by Jill Suzanne Jacobs, or language programs on CD like the "Behind the Wheel" series by Mark Frobose – the library offers the above-mentioned online language learning service, MANGO.
This new tool allows you to learn more than 40 languages, including Dutch and English as a Second Language (for speakers of 16 different native languages). There's no limit to the number of patrons who can access Mango at one time.
This service is available by going to our website, www.ccpl.org, going to Resources, then to Research Tools and selecting the Language Learning section or the All A-Z listing of databases. Users can use an email address to register with Mango, and the service will keep up with your progress.
Mango will come in handy while you prepare for the library's celebration of "International Talk like a Pirate Day" on Sept. 19.
Library programs
Adults and Teens
Mount Pleasant Reel Club – A book/movie discussion group (adults)
Wednesday, Sept. 4 at 2 p.m.
Read the book, come watch the movie with us, and then participate in a lively discussion.
Book: "Push" by Sapphire
Movie: "Precious" starring Mo'nique, Gabourey Sidibe and Sherri Shepherd (rated R, 109 minutes).
Savvy Social Security Seminar: What Baby Boomers Need to Know to Maximize Retirement Income (adults)
Saturday, Sept. 7 from 10:30 -11:30 a.m.
Join financial advisor John Williams for this free seminar to learn about strategies to maximize your Social Security benefits.
Monday Book Discussion (adults)
Monday, Sept. 9 from 10:30 -11:30 a.m.
"The Paris Wife" by Paula McLain
"A Moveable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway (optional)
Second Saturday Writing Critique Group (adults and teens ages 16+)
Saturday, Sept. 14 from 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Open to all writers. No registration necessary. For more information, please call the Reference Desk at 849-6161 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Growing Citrus in Containers (adults)
Tuesday, Sept. 17 from 2 - 3 p.m.
Children's programs
PLAY: DIY Arts and Crafts with Ms. Grace (all ages)
Saturday, Sept. 7 from 1:30- 3 p.m.
Being crafty and creative is easier than you think with Ms. Grace's help.
Talk like a Pirate Storytime (ages 3-5)
Thursday, Sept. 19 at 11:30 a.m.
Celebrate International Talk like a Pirate Day with pirate songs, stories and crafts.
Wee Reads (birth through 24 months with adult)
Thursday at 10 a.m., Sept. 19
Time for Twos (24 to 36 months with adult)
Tuesday at 10:30 a.m., Sept. 17
Preschool Storytime (ages 3-5 years)
Monday at 3:30 p.m., Sept. 16
Thursday at 11:30 a.m., Sept. 19
Mirjam Veldkamp works in the reference department at the Mount Pleasant Regional Library Branch (1133 Mathis Ferry Road.)
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Governor Jerry Brown has called for $1.49 million in new funding for mapping fault zones throughout the state.
The governor says budget cuts have stalled the state's efforts in mapping fault zones. Right now only one scientist is mapping the entire state. The funding would go to adding three more.
The worry is that earthquakes can happen any minute, like the central coast saw in 2003 when a 6.5 magnitude earthquake happened on the San Simeon fault zone, killing 2 people and causing about $240 million in damage.
"In general we know where the earthquakes faults are but they actually do more intensive studies to look at what areas have actually had active ground faults or active earthquakes in the past 11,000 years or so and should those areas be classified in a special zone to restrict building on the earthquake fault," said Ron Alsop of San Luis Obispo County's Office of Emergency Services.
If a new zone is discovered, and a building is on it and it's sold, there needs to be a disclosure that it's on a fault zone.
The governor's proposal includes money for better technological tools to find fault zones that are obscured by trees, roads and buildings. Governor Brown is also proposing an additional $1.3 million a year in dedicated funding to be paid for with increased building permit fees.


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The bottom of the vertical section.
VT : * Vermont Ice Climbing : ... : The Commitment Slide (WI2-3)
Feb 21, 2013
Looking down on the easy part of the Commitment Slide from the point where it starts to get vertical. Note the size of the jeep.
VT : * Vermont Ice Climbing : Williamstown/Brookfield Ice
The Commitment Slide looking up at the start of the steeper section
giants staircase starts here and goes left. there is another line that follows the bolts straight up... its an 8 or 9...
OR : Mt. Hood : French's Dome
Jul 17, 2011
we belayed the start of the 3rd pitch of giant's staircase from these anchors... not much of a ledge... there was a much better anchor system up and to the left--could've had a bbq at that belay stati
CA : Tahoe : ... : Luther Spires (crag)
luther... epic
The view becomes distracting... so do the fearless marmots!
CO : Alpine Rock : ... : Mt. Evans Bouldering
Amazing rock!!!
avalanche gulch in august, 2010
CA : Northeast California : Mt. Shasta
the view from 50/50... march 2009
CA : Tahoe : ... : D.L. Bliss State Park
CA : Sierra Eastside : ... : Buttermilk Country
buttermilks in august!
CA : Sierra Eastside : ... : Owens River Gorge
CA : Sierra Eastside : ... : Central Gorge
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Leaders of the Mexican revolution who's images appear in Rivera's work depicted as heroes
Name of the chapel at the agricultural school where Rivera painted (according to the film) "Nature and Revolution" and a "New faith" in the new social order
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On the precipice of my first "primal" anniversary I find myself looking around. There is a fair amount to examine, really; me, of course, my environment, and my tribe. Maybe more, I guess that's why I'm here: to think out loud.
To begin with, there is what is now and what was. Then there is what is to come. Should we talk about it all? Probably. What is to come is the question I want answered but I've learned that "now" and "was" can't be separated from it.
Let's not start at the beginning, though. That would be tedious. Maybe it's enough to say that once upon a time I thought things were the way they were and that there was not much to be done about it. I was who I was and my relationship to my environment was fixed and the world smiled upon me with benign indifference. One moment was all it took to learn that I was wrong about everything. At the time, and due to the extreme circumstances leading to my realization, this did not appear to be a good thing. In fact, it did not appear to be survivable.
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LISBON - A member of Gov. John Kasich's cabinet visited town Tuesday after watching the governor deliver his State of the State address earlier in the day in nearby Steubenville.
Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services Director Orman Hall toured the Fleming House, an alcohol/drug abuse treatment and transitional residence for woman and their children. Hall said when Kasich was preparing to deliver the speech in Steubenville, he told his cabinet directors to find a local program of excellence to spotlight, "and I thought of the Fleming House."
Hall said Fleming House, which is run by the Family Recovery Center, and the Columbiana County Mental Health and Recovery Board is recognized as operating among the premier substance-abuse programs in the state.
The rise in opiate addiction - prescription painkillers - is the biggest substance-abuse problem facing Ohio. In 1997, seven opiates were prescribed for every Ohioan, but by 2010 the figure had skyrocketed to 67.
In Columbiana County, the number of deaths by accidental opiate overdose has tripled from 0.89 per 100,000 residents in 2000 to 2.78 by 2008. The number of clinic patients with opiate addictions has more than doubled, from 1.8 percent in 2001 to 4.2 in 2009.
While the problem is much worse in southern Ohio, Hall said every county is affected, and then he highlighted some of the Kasich administration's two-prong approach to address the epidemic, such as cracking down on so-called "pill mills" while continuing to focus on treatment.
Preliminary data for 2011 showed the rate of opiate prescriptions per person dropped last year, "so we have seen a decrease," said Eric Wandersleben, communications manager for Hall's department.
Several past and present residents of the Fleming House addressed the gathering, and each told about how the program saved their lives and the lives of their children in almost every sense.
"Hi, my name is Amy and I'm an alcoholic. When I came to this home I was a broken person, but this program works," said Amy, who is now in college.
Another Amy spoke of how her child was taken from her because of her drug addiction and officials wanted to put her up for adoption. Amy said she had gotten her life together at the Fleming House, and now she is scheduled to be reunited with her daughter.
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His first project (a restaurant) was carried out in the Balearic Island of Ibiza in 1990 and in 2003 he established his company "Contemporain Studio", on the premise that very few bars and restaurants were executed whereby interior design, lighting, ambiance and food worked together to make a coherent whole. "The interior designer is an actor", he has stated. "He must dress up and change roles, understand new identities and integrate them with his own."
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August 31, 2009 - Cheryl Clarke
Our state government needs to get it together quickly and get a budget passed. Too much time has gone by since June 30, the deadline for the 2010 budget and now the legislature is on a break. If the average taxpayer ran their household that way, refusing to pay their mortgages and other bills, we would all be thrown out on the street. We still have to pay our bills, on time, while trying to live within our means, on a budget that includes an ever rising cost of living, while our income remains the same or goes down. Senior citizens are suffering, but many others are in the same boat now, living on "fixed incomes." Get it together Gov. Rendell and legislature. We've heard enough excuses and finger pointing. Your time is running out to remain in office. The voters will see to it.
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ORONO – Growing up in West Enfield, Matt Mulligan always thought it would be fun to play football.
He used to play catch with his cousin Kendall Ring, who played at Mattanawcook Academy and Bates College, but there was no organized football at Penobscot Valley High School in Howland.
Despite not playing organized football until his sophomore year at Husson College in Bangor, the sport may wind up being Mulligan's meal ticket.
The University of Maine senior was the focus of four National Football League scouts Wednesday afternoon during the annual pro day testing conducted on the UMaine campus.
Scouts from the Miami Dolphins, Detroit Lions, New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons put five hopefuls through a variety of strength and agility drills to evaluate their skills.
Three other former UMaine players, H-back Anthony Cotrone and defensive linemen Bruno Dorismond and Reggie Paramoure, along with Husson College defensive end Shane Rogers, joined Mulligan for the workout. It was witnessed by some 30 UMaine and Husson team members, several coaches and a handful of local media.
"I think it's real exciting not only for the players being tested but for the young guys that are here to watch their teammates," said UMaine head coach Jack Cosgrove.
Mulligan, who checked in at 6-foot-41/2, 258 pounds, put on an impressive show in Latti Fitness Center. In the bench press, he cranked out 34 consecutive repetitions with 225 pounds, which is believed to be the best effort in the country this year by a tight end in NFL testing.
He also soared to 351/2 inches in the vertical jump.
"I know it's miles ahead of all the other tight ends in those two categories," Mulligan said.
Cotrone pumped out 28 reps on the bench and Dorismond finished with 27.
The group then moved into the Mahaney Dome for the 40-yard dash, standing broad jump and three speed/agility runs. Mulligan, Cotrone and Rogers also ran several pass patterns.
Cotrone, who arrived at UMaine as a quarterback but was transformed into a fullback/tight end, appeared to be the fastest, most efficient performer in most of the exercises.
"I came in prepared," said the 6-2, 253-pound Cotrone, who has been working out at DeFranco's Training Systems in New Jersey since December.
"It's something you always dream of and it's finally here," said the New York native. "I did a lot better than I thought I was going to do today as far as benching and jumping and I ran real well today, so I feel pretty good about everything."
Cotrone said he has had interest from 10-12 NFL teams and had private workouts with the Bears and 49ers. He also has tested with the Jets, Packers and Eagles.
Mulligan, who broad-jumped 9 feet, 8 inches, was a bit disappointed with his 4.89-second clocking in the 40-yard dash. He nonetheless got plenty of positive feedback from the scouts.
"They said, 'minus your 40 [time], you play faster and you look quicker for a big dude,'" Mulligan said, "'we're bringing you in for more of a blocking, check-down tight end.'"
"They know that I'm a bruising tight end," he added.
Mulligan has been training with UMaine assistant track coach Dave Cusano, a former Black Bears football star who has worked with a handful of the Bears now on NFL rosters.
Mulligan did plenty of blocking the last two seasons in UMaine's spread offense. He had 13 catches for 157 yards and two touchdowns last fall.
It has been a whirlwind transition to football for Mulligan, who started out playing basketball at Husson (2003-04). Yet the former PVHS basketball and soccer standout seemed to be built for football.
Mulligan had always thought his size, strength and aggressive approach might not be best utilized in non-contact sports.
"Even when I played soccer, I was out to run kids over. I wasn't really out to score goals," he said with a laugh.
Husson athletic director and football coach Gabby Price quickly saw the potential.
"He gave me my first shot, worked with me," Mulligan said. "I had a lot of struggles, a lot of things I didn't understand, but he was always patient and I definitely give him a lot of credit."
In 2005, Mulligan transferred to UMaine, where Cosgrove and the Bears' staff continued to help teach him the game.
Mulligan's limited experience, and the potential for improvement, have actually helped make him a commodity, according to his Boston-based agent, Kristen Kuliga.
"There's tremendous interest in him," she said. "He hasn't played the game for that many years, so I think some teams look at that as a positive in that they can kind of mold him they way they want."
Kuliga, who has represented former NFL and CFL quarterback Doug Flutie for 14 years, said 20 NFL teams have inquired about Mulligan, who is likely to be a free-agent signee.
In an effort to make himself more marketable, Mulligan is learning to be a long-snapper. He made an impromptu debut at the position during an all-star game in Virginia last fall.
"Ever since then, I've been working on it," he said. "The scouts said if I work on it, that's going to help me out immensely."
Mulligan and Co. plan to keep working hard leading up to the NFL draft in April.


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Perspectives on the Ecology of Decision Modes: Reply to Comments
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Perspectives on Psychological Science, Vol. 5, pp. 213-215, 2010
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Top Ten Tuesday- Things Moms Ponder About
I do a lot of thinking. Okay, I'll be honest, it's not usually about anything great- but I do think! So this week I decided to compose a list of the Top Ten things that moms ponder about:
10. Why is it that when a mom receives a piece of jewelry it is loosely tucked into a slit in a box; while her child's toy is surrounded by a force field and zip strips?
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2. Is there such thing as a self-cleaning toilet? They make self-cleaning ovens- why not a self-cleaning toilet?
1. What does happen to the missing pair of socks?
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First Law Of Programming
Lowering quality lengthens development time.
Quality software takes the least amount of time to develop. If you have code that is simple as possible, tests that are complete and a design that fits just right, additions and changes happen in the fastest possible way because the impact is lowest. Consequently, if you hack something out, the more you hack the slower you go because the cost of addition or change grows with each line of code.
Suggested rephrasing: Attempting to rescue a poor schedule by reducing quality actually lengthens development time.
Suggested re-rephrasing: Attempting to rescue a poor schedule by reducing internal quality actually lengthens development time.
(The rationale for this rewording is to make it clear that we are not talking about renegotiating usability with the customer, rather we are talking about our own development process -- the internal view.)
Suggested re-re-rephrasing: Fast, Cheap, or Good. Pick any two.
Suggested re-re-re-rephrasing: Quick Fixes Aren't
Hmmm... why does the motivation for reducing quality make any difference? It doesn't matter if you are in a hurry, lazy, or think that foo will always be 7. The same result will always be produced: longer development time.
Not always true. Read below.
Another rephrasing: Development velocity (dependent variable) is directly proportional to development quality (independent variable)
Or something along those lines anyway. How about increasing development quality increases development velocity and decreasing development quality decreases development velocity.
I think what this author means is that developing a product of lower quality than what will be accepted by the customer lengthens development time because it takes more time to
do it over
than it takes to
do it right
. Generalizing a bit, whenever the quality of intermediate results is out of whack with the expected quality of the product, it will waste time. This is also true when you try to build it better than it needs to be. --
I'd like to suggest that there's more to it than that. We all know that in the interest of time, we often let quality slide. The impact of that, however, slows even the delivery of the lower-quality software. The code is harder to read, therefore harder to evolve. It is almost certain that quality will slip below even the lower level we might accept. The code we write that
work, doesn't, because of defects lurking elsewhere, and we are slowed down in rooting them out. The simple fact is, it takes longer to produce code once it falls below some level of quality measured in clarity, freedom from duplication, and correctness -- even if we accept that low quality as being somehow
. --
I think we should differentiate between "quality" and "integrity." I would categorize knowingly and intentionally developing a less than satisfactory product is an integrity problem not a quality problem. I agree that I could greatly reduce my development time if I was content to declare development done after typing in virtually anything. If we assume a conscientious development team, however, I believe they will be most efficient when producing well crafted code. I find it hard to envision a developer who would choose to develop code that in that developer's mind was done more poorly than necessary. I would also anecdotally note that I find that poor code seems to concentrated in the areas where developers struggled with the code; places where the final code took much longer than expected. Part of the issue is that "quality" and "development time" are not particularly well defined, and by using different definitions, different conclusions arise. --
shortening the schedule lengthens development time
The less time you have to do it, the more time you ultimately spend re-doing it to make it work. In my experience
have a real hard time understanding this.
The only solution to this is to refuse to accept a time frame that is less than you are comfortable with. Period. The time you have to complete a project may be created by someone else but the power to accept or reject it is yours. If you accept an estimate you know is wrong you have professionally validated it and the fault is no longer your boss's -- it is yours. If you are not comfortable with an estimate do not accept it. Afraid of the negative consequences this might have on your career? Think instead of the positive consequences it will have on every hour of every day you work.
-- RodneyRyan
Your discomfort may come from project definitions that are too large or vague. Ask, "what part of this would you like to see next week?" You may also be concerned that only Joe knows some crucial part of the assignment. Then ask, "How about Joe and I working on this together?"
My experience building products in startups--making lots of mistakes along the way and hopefully learning from them--says that both this law and the corollary are off the mark
as stated.
Lowering quality lengthens development time
in the long run,
but can shorten development time in the short run if you're starting from a good place. It's a trick that you get to pull once, or maybe twice, before
builds to the point of slowing down development. I've been part of pulling this trick a couple of times, when "making the numbers this quarter" at a startup had particularly high stakes.
The corollary sounds reasonable on the surface, but the fact is that most developers are lousy estimators. Some developers who have been burned a few times will err on the conservative side. Sometimes a team doesn't know what it can do until it gets challenged. Some challenges introduce a focus that's lacking while a team is carefully laying out a grand plan. Sometimes a team doesn't
until the stakes get raised. In some situations the solution isn't to refuse schedules you aren't comfortable with, it's to be up front with your discomfort and be open to the possibility that you may learn and grow through the experience. --
I no longer believe that you can use
to speed up, even in the short run, though I must have believed it for a long time, since I've done it often enough. Today, instead of lowering quality, I'd reduce scope and use simple solutions. I feel confident that there's no problem that I could solve with a "low quality" solution that I couldn't solve just as quickly, or more quickly, with a simple solution that didn't compromise quality. A big part of the trick is
, so that the product is always ready to ship. --
accumulates when you reduce scope and use simple solutions. The quality that is so important in the context of this page is the code quality that lets you pay back that debt without surcharge. For Ron this is instinctual so he doesn't even think of it as debt. However, I view the strict avoidance of technical debt as equivalent to
, which can be made to work, but is rarely, if ever, faster. --
, at least as I understand it, doesn't accumulate when you reduce scope and continue to refactor. Rather, when you decide to make a near-term decision to keep scope constant but reduce internal quality for forgoing refactoring, the pent-up need to refactor gets scored under
. And if you decide to forgo rigorous test cases and rely instead on lightweight smoke testing by developers,
accumulates, as does immediate risk. --
This law is partly aimed at people who say "we do not have the 6 months you estimated so you will have to hack it out in 3". A perfectly reasonable request - a sloppy job takes less time, right?
Right - a single, small and isolated job can be hacked quickly out.
However, since software builds on itself and you have to use what you wrote then to write what you need now, that growing sloppy code will slow you down the further you go on hacking.
I all too commonly see programmers cave in to outside pressure for various reasons and say "sure I can
to hack it out in 3" and then fail in a flurry of bad code, taking 12 months to do what they would have done within the estimated 6 months if they had taken it slow and careful. This mistake of just
hacking it out in 3
is commonly promised and rarely fulfilled, and if so always in a storm of unreadable source code that is discarded in the next release.
What usually provokes an
estimate that is a lie
is this. The manager is talking to the big boss and is offered a project. The big boss asks "when can you have it done?" The manager blurts out "I can have it for you in 6 months!". He then goes to his programmer and asks for an estimate, hoping that it is less than the 6 months he promised the big boss. When the programmer says it will take at least 9 months, the manager panics. He cannot go back to the big boss and revise his estimate, so he says to the programmer "I hate to tell you this but we only have 6 months -- can you just hack it out?" The programmer thinks for a minute and says "well, I can try..."
18 months later the project is a mess of unreadable source code, the programmer is exhausted and the manager frustrated. The problem is
that the programmer started with a time frame that is a lie -- why would he have said he could hack it out in 6 if he
he could not (the manager never even heard the word
)? The problem is that the programmer sucks! (thinks the manager) So, the project is canceled, the source code discarded and the programmer fired.
This could have been prevented if the programmer had said when confronted with the managers demand for 6 months "I really want to give it to you in the time frame that you are suggesting, but that is impossible and
hacking it out will just take longer
." Then, other options for meeting the deadline, such as reducing scope that Ron suggested, could be explored. Once the manager is taught that hacking takes longer he will certainly not pressure anyone to do it!
If the manager does not accept the programmer's estimate and does not entertain other options for meeting the deadline then the manager is not asking the programmer for an estimate. He is forcing the programmer to accept a time frame because of some other agenda unrelated to programming. The programmer can then decide if he wants to accept that agenda or not, but that is a different story.
In the industry sector that I work this mistake of promising to hack it out is literally responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars wasted on garbage source, tens of thousands of miserable programmer hours and projects that were estimated at a sensible 1 year, attempted to be hacked out in 6 months, and 2 years later being restarted yet a 3rd time.
The majority of this could be prevented if when confronted with a demand to just hack it out the programmer explains that lowering quality lengthens development time.
-- RodneyRyan
No disagreement here, though this suggests a rephrasing of the law:
Attempting to rescue a poor schedule by reducing quality actually lengthens development time.
Rodney and Ron, I agree with the bulk of the positions you are stating. In particular I appreciate your insight into how early the quality issue becomes a real factor. Part of that picture is the skills and preferences of the developers involved. I am particularly intolerant of Big Balls of Mud, while I cannot help but observe that others are much more tolerant and
of working with such products. The decision on how messy to allow the work to become ought to take into account the people involved as well as the short term and long term constraints. This is a hair that can be split and split to infinity, and knowing that I will never be comfortable with any single rule on how to make judgments about it. I may be repeating some of Dave Smith's points above.
When I posted my original response at the top of this page, my principal intent was to make sure we discriminated between internal quality and external quality in this discussion. My initial reading of the opening statement at first perplexed me because it seemed counter-intuitive. If the customer will settle for very low quality, then that's a smaller project and should take less time. (This may lead to a debate over the meaning of the word "quality". If so, fine.) To reduce to absurdity: if the customer wants zero quality, I can deliver in zero time. But this was not the intended topic.
The one thing I will add to Rodney's discussion above is my discomfort with the "either or" tone of some of it, which may underly a desire to control an aspect of these situations which cannot be controlled. It is often unreasonable to expect to educate a manager on the complex dynamics of quality within the scope of a single project. Therefore, giving a manager an ultimatum is not a win-win strategy. I'll bet Ron would be quick to point out that when there is doubt among programmers and lower management about what can be delivered in the proposed time frame, the most practical and cooperative posture to take is to be honest about the
perceived risk
and to offer a risk reduced alternative which would also be attractive to upper management. This is undoubtedly going to be in the form of an evolutionary development plan. In the course of that evolution, the developers can honor their own needs with respect to how much internal quality is needed to meet the ultimate goals. If the experience teaches upper management something, celebrate.
A very real, very common situation in which the customer will accept
low quality is when a buy decision is based in part on a feature checklist, and where the actual end user isn't the the one making the buy decision and writing the check. Once I understood this, some management motivation that I'd previously written off as being evidence of pointy-haired stupidity made a lot more sense. --
Note that the customer has some minimal concept of quality. Consider the following dialog:
Customer: I need a program to do foobar, and I need it now. I don't care about quality.
Me: In that case, I'm already done. Just run "foobar.exe" on your machine. That'll be $100,000.
Customer: When I type "foobar.exe", I get "File Not Found".
Me: Well, obviously I had to leave a few errors in to meet your aggressive schedule. I'll be happy to fix them, for a price.
You couldn't actually get away with this, because the customer has some minimum concept of quality. This may be as low as actually receiving an executable that the operating system can actually load (even if it dumps core later on), but there are standards. I used to work on Web browsers, where the standards weren't
much higher, though. --
Should this really be a LAW? Shouldn't we reserve words like "law" for something fairly provable, as they do in science? I'm skeptical that
in software engineering is understood well enough to be a law just yet... (See
.) Also, why "programming"? I'd like to think that our industry has grown beyond thinking of what we do as just
. How about
Theorems or Observations of Software Development
Law is short for
surprisingly fundamental and important observation
. Programming is the activity of reasoning about the future behaviour of a computer and expressing decisions from that reasoning in a formalism translatable to machine instruction. On this site it is considered to include activities often attributed to specialties elsewhere. See
Yours appears to be a rather loose, personal definition of "law". My dictionary (Webster's New World, 2nd ed. 1978) has 13 definitions under
, but none of them even come close to yours. Excluding all the definitions related to legal/judicial, religious, and sports, we have these: "8. a) a sequence of events in nature or in human activities that has been observed to occur with unvarying uniformity under the same conditions: often
law of nature
; b) the formulation in words of such a sequence [the law of gravitation, the law of diminishing returns]; 9) any rule or principle expected to be observed [the laws of health, the law of grammar]; 10) inherent tendency; instinct [the law of self-preservation]; 12)
Math., Logic, etc.
a general principle to which all applicable cases must conform [the laws of exponents]."
Now, I'm sure we can find plenty of counterexamples to the statement "Lowering quality lengthens development time." This blows most of the definitions cited above, because they require "unvarying uniformity" or "all applicable cases must conform." The only one you could stretch might be "10) inherent tendency; instinct" -- but even this one is stretching it thin to call a law.
So why not couch the statement with the appropriate caveats, and say something like "Lowering quality
end up lengthening development time, especially when done in an ill-considered attempt to reduce development time." And call it "<your-name-here>'s Warning on Software Project Management."
All you have to do is find a counterexample and present it here. No complaints about how some people have chosen to name or not to name a Wiki page -- just a counterexample, or counterexamples, please.
By a counterexample, I mean a situation in which you can cut corners
significantly speed up the delivery of something with
business value
There is no mention of "business value" in the statement "Lowering quality lengthens development time." If we're going to have a "law," I suggest it include all assumptions, definitions, and qualifications.
On that, see the argument in
. Any theory of software development (which is what the First Law hints at) will come with its own operational definitions, which are part and parcel of the theory.
Sure, but they need to be stated; they can't just be left implied, or anybody could defend
ridiculous theory by saying "My theory is right because of other considerations I haven't mentioned yet..."
It is possible but seldom useful to argue against a theory on the basis of its definitions. Internal consistency and fit to known fact are better targets.
The First Law can be seen as a corollary to Weinberg's Law of Requirements: if a program doesn't have to be correct, it can fulfill any other requirement you care to state, including timeliness. By "correct" we can't mean "correct according to a specification" because that would be begging some important questions -- so I'd rather use "delivers the requisite business value".
I've worked on many projects (far more than I care to admit) where poor managers forced developers to cut corners -- on requirements, design, coding (no refactoring, forced reuse of inappropriate code, no reviews), and especially testing. In some cases, we actually finished "early" (and delivered crap); on most cases, we met our formal schedule (again, with crap); and yes, in some cases, it backfired dramatically and caused us to overshoot our schedule by a wide margin (in the worst case, we lived in an endless
). Happy?
Were you asked for crap? If you don't deliver what you were asked for, can you say that you "finished early"?
Of course not. Very few users will ever actually say "I need something quick and dirty, and I need it in two months. Six weeks would be better. But I don't want you to pull any resources off of Big Project X. So feel free to cut corners as necessary; it doesn't have to be pretty..." But sometimes that is what the
requirements (the stated, functional requirements PLUS the schedule and budget constraints) end up doing. What will a software manager do in that kind of situation? Some will try to carefully explain exactly what trade-offs the user is making. Some will promise the moon and fail miserably. And some will push their developers to cut corners and get something quick and dirty out the door on time. As someone said above, "Fast, Cheap, or Good: Pick Any Two."
I don't understand how you can NOT see that sometimes, if you cut corners, you can still finish on time or early (and deliver crap). In no way am I saying this is a good thing; it is a thing to avoid at all costs. There are plenty of reasons to avoid sacrificing quality. I'll even say that the
for causing a schedule slip is a very good reason for not cutting corners. (And that is what I say to managers who suggest it.) But you can't tell me that
every time
a project reduces quality, it
lengthen development time.
This deserves clarification : by "development time", do you mean the time elapsed until you ship what is required? Or just the time elapsed to ship something, no matter what? (See the little story above.)
These "crappy" applications that were delivered - nobody ever worked on them again? Nobody ever fixed the bugs that were in there - and nobody ever will? Otherwise... you obviously need to add that rework, repair or maintenance to the "development schedule".
Again, a mixed bag. In some cases, yes, the unfortunate souls who had to maintain the apps had struggle to fix major flaws. (In a couple of those cases, our managers had to negotiate for hours to devote to fixing "recurring problems;" I'm pretty sure that the users realized that they were paying for the corners we cut earlier.) And in some cases, no, the users just lived with "crappy" apps as-is: they still got some critical functionality they needed, and they made a conscious decision to have us work on other things (sometimes more new fuctionality) rather than fix the problems in the "crappy" apps. So obviously they got
business value.
I think that last situation gets closer to the mark. However, I would still challenge it. We only need to prove that in all such cases a high-quality system with business value roughly equivalent to the crappy system (e.g. one with less functionality but more reliable) could be delivered in less time.
You're off in theory land, man.
Yes. But then, calling something a "law" is a matter of theory...
In the real world, you often have to work within constraints imposed by your manager and users. It doesn't matter whether you think it is counterproductive to cut corners; sometimes you're still forced to do it.
I believe you are incorrect on both counts, at least if I interpret your "you" literally. I (personally) do not have to accept unreasonable technical constraints, and nobody can force me to do so. I believe the same goes for every programmer.
Pennywise, pound foolish. Most programmers put into that situation will do their best anyway, and manage to cobble together a passable application that they aren't entirely ashamed of. Stupid? You bet! But it happens all the time in the real world. If you're lucky enough to have avoided these situations, I'm truely happy for you. But don't extrapolate your theory to the rest of us.
I don't count myself particularly lucky. It is (again) a matter of theory whether the statement "nobody can force to to do low-quality work" is true. Philosophical theory this time rather than software theory. Regardless, you can't appeal to "what usually happens in the real world" as an argument against the Law as stated on this page. We only have to prove that
in principle
delivering quality work would take less time.
Maybe the creator of this page should have called it SoAndSosFirstLawOfProgramming
, or better yet SoAndSosLawOfSoftwareProjectManagement
. It's certainly not
widely considered
the single most important issue in programming.
If lowering quality implies increased development time, then the converse (logically) should also hold. As logically, if A -> B then �B -> �A. That is, the proposition is effectively stating that decreasing the development time will increase the quality, in its strictest form (that is, ignoring the equality case, where nothing actually changes).
To me, this seems somewhat absurd regardless of your DefinitionOfQuality
, as it means that arbitrarily small time project time scale (e.g. 1 second) would lead to inversely proportionally high quality. In the limit, this leads to the logical conclusion that not doing a project gives the highest possible quality solution, which I'm not sure many customers seeking a high quality solution would accept.
I would suggest here that sadly, the scenario is multi-variate and quality along with development time are simply two of these factors. Variables such as the scope of the work also come into play, as people above have already indicated.
-- "Not increasing" does not mean "decreasing" and vice versa.
And anyway, that's the contrapositive. Converse is a -> b <-> b -> a, which is
true in the general case.
Law #1: Know what you want to acomplish before you start writing anything.
Law #2: Know what they who pay want to receive before you start writing anything.
Law #3: The goal will change AT LEAST once.
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