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Getting a deep, green clean means a healthier home and a healthier family. Terri shares her 'Top 7 Green Cleaning Secrets' to help you Do Your Part today!
1) White Vinegar Works Wonders
White vinegar is a natural disinfectant that works just about everywhere. Mix a half-and-half solution of white vinegar and water for a germ-busting disinfectant to clean kitchen counters, bathrooms, and even most floors. Add 1 cup of vinegar to your dishwasher to clean out its inner workings. Or cook ½ cup of vinegar with 1 cup of water in your microwave to loosen stuck on food and grease. One warning, don't use vinegar on marble or other porous surfaces.
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Oklahoma City Public School officials say the district is struggling to attract teachers to its urban schools.
OCPS had 270 openings to start the year. Two Oklahoma universities are teaming up to try to make a change.
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The Fisher-Price Sweet Treats Bakery Shop Ride-On is a two-in-one toy. It's a ride-on but it's also a bakery shop playset. Kids pretend to make, bake, and deliver cupcakes. It includes four cupcakes and a cupcake tray. Open the oven door on the front of the ride-on and place the cupcakes inside to "bake." Turn the oven knob to hear a timer sound effect. Press the buttons on the dash to hear sound effects and music. The Sweet Treats Bakery Shop Ride-On features E-Z turn front caster wheels for easy steering, ergonomic handle bars, and under seat storage for the cupcake accessories.
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Dry roast black peppercorns, fennel and cinnamon. Grind it in a mortar and pestle.
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In a pan add 2 tsp oil and 2 Tbsp spice paste. Saute. Turn off the heat.
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Kate Gosselin's days as a reality star are done for now.
TLC – the network that gave viewers a firsthand glimpse of Kate's tumultuous and highly publicized split from ex-husband Jon Gosselin while they continued to raise their eight children – will no longer follow the 36-year-old and her brood with cameras.
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Federal expenditures for USDA's food assistance programs totaled $60.7 billion in fiscal 2008, 11 percent more than in the previous fiscal year—the largest percentage increase in 16 years. Fiscal 2008 marked the eighth consecutive year in which food assistance expenditures exceeded the previous historical record amount. The five largest food assistance programs in fiscal 2008—the Food Stamp Program, the National School Lunch Program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), the Child and Adult Care Food Program, and the School Breakfast Program—accounted for 95 percent of USDA's expenditures for food assistance. Each of these five major programs expanded during fiscal 2008. This report uses preliminary data from USDA's Food and Nutrition Service to examine trends in the food and nutrition assistance programs through fiscal 2008. It also discusses a recent ERS report that examined some of the issues facing the National School Lunch Program.
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THE OCCURRENCE of von Recklinghausen's disease in an infant is not in itself remarkable, nor is involvement of the larynx in generalized neurofibromatosis noteworthy. A neurofibroma of the larynx causing respiratory distress in an infant with café-au-lait spots is, however, unusual. The Department of Pediatrics of the Mount Sinai Hospital recently had the opportunity to study an infant with von Recklinghausen's disease and persistent stridor caused by a plexiform neurofibroma of the larynx. The child died as a result of complications arising from the laryngeal lesion and came to postmortem examination.
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A 6½-month-old white girl was admitted to the Mount Sinai Hospital for the first and only time in January 1966, with a three-day history of increasing respiratory distress. The infant's mother was a 20-year-old gravida 1 who had an uncomplicated pregnancy and delivery. The birthweight was approximately 3,500 gm (7 lb 12 oz). Noisy respirations
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Public Attitude and Opinion toward the US Health Care System: A Focus on Age Group and Health Status Differences
Purpose: This study evaluates whether age and health status affect public attitude toward the U.S. health care system. Opinions about health care are measured by confidence in and quality of care received as well as a perceived need for health care reform. Design and Methods: This study uses a sub-portion of the 2008 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES), a nationwide survey which asked a representative sample of 1,000 participants several health-related questions. Results: Findings from this survey suggested an association between the participants' age and health status and their attitude toward health care. Interestingly, confidence in medical technology and quality of care was consistently high among all persons, regardless of age and health status. However, younger participants and those with worse health were less confident in their ability to pay for health care and were significantly more likely to support major reform. Those with worse health were also more supportive of universal health coverage, especially for children, than those participants with better health. Discussion: This study suggests an association between health status, age, and public opinion about the health care system and provides an urgent message for both policy makers and health care professionals to further investigate the underlying mechanisms causing these associations and to unsure that future health reform garner favorable public opinion.
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The Relationships Among Shyness, Fear, and Effortful Control During Middle Childhood
The current study explored the relationships among shyness, fear, and effortful control during the middle childhood years. The goal of the study was to learn more about the direct relationship between shyness and fear, and to examine the possibility that effortful control may attenuate the association between shyness and fear in children between the ages of 7 and 10. The Temperament in Middle Childhood Questionnaire for Children and Parents (TMCQ-C, TMCQ-P) was used to measure shyness, fear, and effortful control through both self-report and parent-report. A significant direct correlation was found between child-reported shyness and fear, but no shyness-fear relationship was found in the parent-report data. The hypothesis was not supported. Continued research may also explore what other factors, such as age and negative emotionality, are related to these constructs during middle childhood.
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Preaching to the Choir: Framing Incompatibilities in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate
As a political institution used to define citizenship, marriage is a promising field for gay rights advocacy. Framing—a cognitive schema that gives direction for interpreting and responding to information and events—is employed by social movements to gain governmental and public support. The Christian Right utilizes morality frames to create a religious-political ethic, whereas the gay rights movement situates same-sex marriage in liberalism frames based on principles of liberty and equal rights, therefore applying civil rights rhetoric and comparisons to the Civil Rights Movement. Ultimately, morality frames and liberalism frames are incompatible with each other because they are based on different values. Incompatibility in argument frames leads to rhetorical misfire on both sides, making it ever more difficult to come to a resolution.
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"I'm Late! I'm Late! For a Very Important Date!": Down the Rabbit Hole in Search of Rationality
What reasons could I offer for researching such a difficult and demanding problem such as rationality? Throughout my philosophy education, the issue of rationality has been lingering on the internal edifice of my intellect; waiting for words to give a meaning to its purpose. I wonder: why are some humans counted as rational and others as apparently irrational? What makes an action rational? What set of criteria could be given for rational actions? Is it possible that rationality is a function of our social surroundings? Could rationality be unconscious? Could other non-human beings be rational? These and other conjoining questions have confounded me, and thus I have decided to seek answers to a few of them. Thus, rationality is my primary research area. Specifically, I seek to discover whether rationality can be cut down into criteria; by doing this, ideally anyone could have identifiable characteristics to locate rationality in the world. The aim of my research is to see whether rationality can be enclosed in criteria—contained in a definition. By criteria, I mean that which defines essential characteristics of rationality; those properties that are needed for any discussion of rationality or needed for a being to be accounted as rational. For example, one major criterion of rationality is the 'use of a language'. So, in order for anything to be accounted as rational, it must fulfill this essential criterion. I'm researching rationality through a specific lens of the criteria needed for its existence, and this is aimed at proving my thesis that a private language-game exists. My analysis of rationality is a scientific account approached in a philosophical manner. That is, I seek an account of rationality which is concrete, and leaves no room for dispute. The result of whether this goal is accomplished will be seen in the pages to come.


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Keratinocyte growth factor
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The keratinocyte growth factor (KGF), also known as FGF7, is a growth factor present in the epithelialization-phase of wound healing. In this phase, keratinocytes are covering the wound, forming the epithelium.
KGF is a small signaling molecule that binds to fibroblast growth factor receptor 2b (FGFR2b).[1] For signalling to occur, a dimer is required between two FGF:FGFR complexes that is linked together by a molecule of heparin.
There are 23 known FGFs, and 4 FGF receptors. FGF:FGFR binding is complex and regulated by a variety of mechanisms in a tissue specific manner.
FGF10 is also known as "Keratinocyte growth factor 2".[2]
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Kitchen fire in Madison
One adult and one child were transported to UW Hospital for possible smoke inhalation following a kitchen fire on Madison's West side Thursday afternoon.
They say around 3:30 pm, the City of Madison Fire Department responded to 50 S. Gammon Road for a fire in a second floor apartment. A resident of the 8-unit apartment complex called 911 after they heard a smoke detector and noticed smoke in the hallway.
Crews first arriving on the scene saw smoke coming from a second story window. Upon entering building, firefighters encountered smoke throughout the hallway and witnessed several occupants exiting the building.
As firefighters were getting ready to enter an apartment on the second floor, a person bolted out of the apartment and collapsed at the top of the stairs. Firefighters assisted her to the ambulance. A young child who was home during the fire was found safe outside. Both were transported to UW hospital and are expected to be treated and released later today. A second child lives in the home, but was in school at the time of the fire.
Firefighters made sure the fire was out and conducted a thorough search of the building. Crews wanted to be sure everyone evacuated safely, since school was just released.
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Legitimate Authority Without Political Obligation
William A. Edmundson
Georgia State University College of Law
Law and Philosophy, Vol. 17, pp. 43-60, 1998
It is commonly supposed that citizens of a reasonably just state have a prima facie duty to obey its laws. In recent years, however, a number of influential political philosophers have concluded that there is no such duty. But how can the state be a legitimate authority if there is no general duty to obey its laws? This article is an attempt to explain how we can make sense of the idea of legitimate political authority without positing the existence of a general duty to obey the law. The explanation makes use of a distinction between laws of general application, on one hand, and on the other the particularized, directed efforts by state officials to channel and resolve disputes (including those arising from violations of the law). A state's legitimate authority entails a general duty to cooperate in the latter type of effort, rather than upon a dubious general duty to obey the law.
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American luxury cars used to embody huge interiors, acres of sheet metal, and comfortable suspensions that floated down the highway like a magic carpet behind a huge 8-cylinder engine. Fast-forward to the modern era and you'll find that American luxury cars have undergone a transformation that has seen them regain their competitive footing with the rest of the world's premium without sacrificing too much of their individual character. There are now luxury cars hailing from the US in almost every conceivable niche, giving buyers at various price points and driving preferences the chance to get in on the domestic game. Let's take a look at 10 American luxury cars that help to define the segment.


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- Bien Nacido Vineyard farms 900 acres of premium wine grapes in California's Santa Maria Valley.
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Chris Hammell manages about 900 acres of premium wine grapes at Bien Nacido Vineyards in Santa Maria in Southern California. Harvest should kick off in early September and wrap up in late October.
Anchored in the fertile farm ground in Southern California's Santa Maria Valley is Bien Nacido Vineyards , a 3,000-acre ranch including 800-acres of premium wine grapes grown in this cool-weather paradise amid sprawling, picturesque hillsides.
Since 1969, the Miller family has owned and operated Bien Nacido Vineyards, located southeast of Santa Maria in Santa Barbara County. Today, Stephen Miller and sons Marshall and Nicholas lead the operation.
"People say 800 acres of wine grapes is a huge amount," says vineyard manager Chris Hammell. "While the number is high, we have many small blocks which are custom farmed down to the row."
The cool climate and lighter soils are well suited for grape production. The elevation of the vineyards ranges from 200-900 feet.
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In addition to wine grapes, Bien Nacido also grows avocados, blueberries under hoops, lemons, and about 100 head of livestock, mostly sheep and goats. About 800 acres are leased out.
Bien Nacido also owns and manages Solomon Hills Vineyards to the southwest near Orcutt which has about 100 acres of grapes. This brings the Miller's total wine grape acreage in the county to about 900 acres.
One-third of the acreage is planted in Pinot Noir and Pinot Blanc with an equal planting in Chardonnay. The remaining third is mostly Syrah, with a sprinkling of Grenache, Viognier, Marsanne, Roussanne, Nebbiolo, and other varieties.
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The study of law is a full-time job. It is not possible to devote the time and energy to law school and at the same time be self-supporting. Reliance on part-time job employment should never be more than incidental and must not interfere with the full-time program of professional study. Even incidental part-time employment is discouraged for first-year students. In no event may any student undertake outside employment in excess of 20 hours per week during the academic year.
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text: Cohen Urges Seoul to Buy U.S. Missiles http://wp2.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1997-04/08/080L-040897-idx.html By Mary Jordan The Washington Post; 08 April 1997 page A11 "TOKYO, April 7 -- Defense Secretary William S. Cohen's Asian trip, which began here today, is supposed to be a goodwill swing through this critical region, but many South Koreans say he has come as a glorified missile salesman.... Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon said, however, that "the secretary of defense is not an arms salesman."" U.S. missile defenses to go ahead in Japan, Cohen says http://www.washtimes.com/news/news3.html#link By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES 08 April 1997 "Defense Secretary William S. Cohen said yesterday that Chinese opposition to setting up missile defenses in Japan will not stop U.S. efforts to protect troops there from attack by North Korean or other missiles. . . . . "Whatever the Chinese view is, that can be taken into account," Mr. Cohen said before meetings today with Japanese officials. "But the notion that we would simply allow our troops to be undefended is not a tenable position for us to take."" SOUTH KOREA - MISSILES - PURCHASES - ROSVOORUZHENIYE ROSVOORUZHENIYE HOPEFUL TO SELL ITS ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILE COMPLEXES TO SOUTH KOREA SEOUL, APRIL 7 http://www.russia.net/ria/hotline/hi07042.htm According to Orlov, the Russian side has presented its proposals to South Korean experts on the specifications of the S-300 PMU-1 and S-300 B missile complexes and explained the systems' combat characteristics in the course of the working meetings. Former 'cold warriors'debunk deterrence myth Time to consider the no-nukes option http://www.msnbc.com/news/66614.asp By James O. Goldsborough SPECIAL TO MSNBC "Momentum is building for nuclear disarmament. The momentum comes not from Cold War peaceniks, but from warriors who made their living off the Cold War... Last month, Washington's prestigious Henry L. Stimson Center published a report titled "Building a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World." Signed by such well-known security figures as Paul Nitze and Robert S. McNamara, the report stated: "The ultimate objective of U.S. national security policy should be the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction from all states not the preservation of nuclear deterrence in perpetuity."" Three ex-defense chiefs to attack chemical pact http://www.merc.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2317107-74d Three former defense secretaries will testify Tuesday that an international treaty outlawing chemical weapons is contrary to American security interests and should not be approved by the Senate. The former members of Republican administrations will appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as negotiations continue behind the scenes to free the treaty for consideration by the full Senate this month. Their appearance is part of an assault on the treaty by conservatives who hope to prevent its approval by a required two-thirds Senate majority. North Korea to decide soon on peace talks http://www.merc.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2315996-477 Amid a growing sympathetic international response to its severe food shortages, North Korea told the U.S. it will soon decide whether to enter peace talks with rival South Korea, U.S. officials said Monday. One official said the Clinton administration believed Pyongyang has been positively influenced by the "cumulative affect" of recent food aid appeals for North Korea and was optimistic it will agree to enter talks. In another major assist, the giant grain trader Cargill Inc. said Monday it reached agreement for an undisclosed amount of U.S. wheat, marking its first commercial sale of American grain to the regime. U.N. appeals for $126 million for N. Korea http://www.merc.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2309535-415 "The United Nations Monday launched an appeal for $126.2 million for North Korea to stave off an imminent famine over the next few months. Most of the funds, $95 million, are for food supplies and were announced last week by the World Food Program. In addition to the food aid, the appeal includes $10 million for the Food and Agriculture Organization, $4.7 million for the U.N. Children's Fund, $9.8 million for the U.N. Development Program." 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The annual Hoppel Tournament will be held starting at 10 a.m. Saturday at Beaver Local High School.
In the past, there has been a lot of great action at the tournament, and this year's tournament figures to be no different.
The Hoppel tournament is a long standing tradition at Beaver Local that has been held the past 35 years. The tournament is able to be held because of the support of the Hoppel family.
The Hoppels have been deeply involved in community activities for more than 70 years. Their contributions to the area go well beyond the wrestling mats. They take great pride in helping the area where they have earned six-state wrestling championships among their family.
The family holds the Everett Hoppel Memorial Wrestling tournament annually to honor their late father, who was killed in an industrial accident. This year's tournament features local teams such as the host Beaver Local, Wellsville, Indian Creek, Edison and East Liverpool.
The tournament will also have powers such as Massillon Washington, Lorain Southview, Minerva, Austintown Fitch and Ridegewood.
Minerva features a member of the Hoppel family in Harrison Hoppel.
This year, Beaver Local returns two-state qualifiers in seniors Ron Foster and Josh Henderson.
The Beavers have gotten off to a fast start this year with nine placers at the Cambridge Invitational and scoring a big win against Boardman. Fans can purchase tickets to the morning or the afternoon sessions as well as an all day pass. All day passes are available for $10.
The finals will start approximately one hour after the final round of action.


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When there are few things to cheer about, even small favors loom large and we have, at last, been blessed with one. Members of Congress, mercifully, departed Washington last week for their summer vacation.
We realize this exodus bears more than a slight resemblance to a mass flight from the scene of the crime. But we must be grateful; think of the damage left undone by their absence from Washington.
The history of representative government is replete with feckless legislative bodies — parliaments, legislatures, even a Congress or two — that trash the national welfare, serve only narrow (usually commercial) special interests and squander the public trust. The "do-nothing" Republican-run 80th Congress, which helped elect a vulnerable Harry Truman by blocking every Democratic initiative (sound familiar?), comes to mind.
But this Congress takes second place to none of its predecessors for squalid partisanship and contempt for the public it supposedly serves.
Its failure to deal responsibly with the debt ceiling actually lowered our national credit rating. Republican subservience to big business blocked a measure to protect critical U.S. computer networks from hackers. And GOP opposition to tax increases, however small, stymied "grand bargain" efforts by President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner.
Democrats don't have entirely clean hands in this national impasse. But the bulk of the blame belongs to Republicans bent on denying Obama anything that might help win him re-election.
Compare how little the 112th Congress has accomplished with what its predecessor passed: the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (restoring rights of women and others to challenge unfair pay), the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the largest U.S. economic recovery bill ever), health care reform (providing coverage to 30 million and controlling costs), financial regulatory reform and the repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
Public support for Congress measured by the polls is sinking. At present, it hovers around 10 percent and that raises a particularly perplexing question: Who are the hapless few who actually approve of this overpaid, underworked band?
All this brings to mind the decision of Oliver Cromwell, the English Lord Protector, to dissolve Parliament in 1653 with searing criticism that might well apply to this Congress.
"It is high time," he declared, "to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew and enemies to all good government. ... In the name of God, go!"
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He was among the first to hear the songs from "The Last Five Years." Now he's the latest in a long line of actors to sing them.
It all started in 1999, when Nicholas Belton was a sophomore at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Jason Robert Brown, the recent Tony-winning songwriter for "Parade," came to the school to lecture.
Says Belton: "He told us, 'I'm working on this show. It's about my wife and me splitting up. She's not going to be too happy with it, but this is how it goes.' Then he played us some of the songs that I'll now be singing at Crossroads (Theatre Company in New Brunswick)."
Brown's musical — which has received hundreds of productions since its off-Broadway debut in 2002 — tells of Jamie Wallerstein and Catherine Hiatt, a couple trying to make it in the arts. While that can be murderously difficult to achieve, Jamie writes a novel that makes him famous at an early age. "Just as Brown's 'Parade' did," says Belton.
Catherine, however, struggles to get acting jobs. The crisis arises because (at least as Brown tells the story) he's better at dealing with her failure than she is coping with his success.
Belton nods slowly in understanding. "When you're young and living in New York," he says, "career defines you. The show is very human, very honest and sometimes very hard."
Yet Belton understands Jamie's predicament. "I'm currently experiencing a very parallel existence, because I'm getting out of a relationship," he says. "And I'm the one who's ending it, too. The thing is, people assume that the person who's doing the dropping is doing just fine. That's not necessarily true. I'm not interested in hurting anyone, but …" he adds, before letting his voice trail off.
While Belton hasn't met with the household-name fame that Jamie experiences, he's had a taste of it.
"I played Fiyero in 'Wicked' in Chicago," he says. "After each performance, I'd come out the stage door and see so many teenage girls waiting to meet the cast. Some of them even dressed like characters in the show. … When I see all the effort these kids make, I feel the least I can do is meet them."
In 'The Last Five Years,' Belton could be said to be nontraditionally cast. Jamie is Jewish and he was raised Catholic. "I'm one of eight kids," he says. "We were living in South Bend, Ind., which, thanks to Notre Dame, is a big place for football. Basketball's big in Indiana, too. My family didn't have much interest in performing until my older brother got into it. After he found his way into acting, I did, too, and then it caught on with the rest of the family. Since then, my father's even directed a few shows."
But there's no denying that unmitigated "color-blind casting" was used in selecting Belton's co-star. Wendy Fox is black, in keeping with Crossroads' profile as an African-American theater.
"Well, they almost had to cast a white guy," says Belton. "Yes, there are some black Jews, but a black guy singing about the 'shiksa goddess' he's fallen in love with might seem a little odd."
Of course, one could effectively argue that calling a black woman a "shiksa goddess" is atypical, too. Fox has something to say about that.
"As I understand it," she says in a diplomatic voice, "the term 'shiksa' simply means non-Jewish. I qualify."
The Last Five Years
Where: Crossroads Theatre Company, 7 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick
When: Thursday through April 29. Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 3 and 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. Additional performance on April 18 at 8 p.m.
How much: $40 on Thursday and April 13; $65 on April 14; $50 for all other performances. Call (732) 545-8100 or visit crossroadstheatre company.org.


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Four Variables
You ask your boss what he wishes you would do with the project. He answers, in his own words, "Use fewer people to get more done, increase quality, and get done sooner". You're sorry you asked.
Resources, Scope, Quality, Time. Those are the dimensions of your project. Memorize those words and work from them every time you report status, and every time you think about what to do, or not do.
and make sure you control at least 2 of them in any project
Today I'm thinking about
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On comp.object, I once saw someone write that you can draw a triangle for managers with the following labels on the vertices: cost-savings, quality, and fast-delivery. Then you ask them to draw a point in the triangle closest to the thing that they want the most, the implication being that you'll lose on proportionately on the other two. I'm glad that that scope is mentioned here. For in-house development, it is often more malleable than the other three. --
Projects under stress often squeeze quality because no one can see it happening (until they release crap too late). I'll add something on that to
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Why separate quality from scope, other than to emphasize quality? Scope represents the cost or effort required to achieve an end. Lowering quality levels below what is specified (assuming that quality
specified) is a sneaky way of reducing scope by swapping in a lesser-quality imitation. Raising quality beyond what is required expands scope.
We separate quality just because there's the sneaky way of reducing scope, thus sabotaging the project privately while looking good publicly. This isn't a good thing. I'm not convinced, OTOH, that raising quality expands scope. For sure, the XP Testing practices provide known and high levels of quality while actually speeding up development. But it seems to me that over reasonable levels of quality, the scope curve is pretty flat, and that it's more a matter of which quality practices one uses. Discussion, please. --
The "time people scope" triangle seems to me to be a more powerful metaphor for stability than a square.. --
I, too, prefer the triangle as a metaphor. But the hidden tradeoff is to lose quality while appearing to make time/people/scope. If I had to drop something to get a triangle, I'd drop Resources, since they're generally more fixed anyway. maybe we should think of it as if changing Resources moved you to a different tradeoff triangle for Time/Scope/Quality. --
What about a tetrahedron (i.e. a three-sided pyramid) as a metaphor: Four corners and still proportional trade-offs? There is a nice extension to this metaphor: When you look flat on one of the triangular sides of a tetrahedron, the fourth vertex is hidden! --
Wouldn't it have to be an asymmetric tetrahedron, and probably one with curved faces? That is, the relationships between the vertices are not simple linear proportionalities.
In fact, now that I think about it some more, aren't we really talking about a region of a four-dimensional vector space with...no, I've thought about it too much now. Sorry
I find thinking about projects in terms of
to be very helpful. This includes separating quality from scope, since it gives more of an explicit trade-off. But don't forget the difference between
. --
A decline in internal quality is often a leading indicator for a future decline in external quality. The counter-argument from Marketing and Sales managers is often "If the customer isn't going to see a problem now, it isn't a problem now." Has anyone come up with effective arguments for spending time on internal quality?
Don't argue for it, just do it. Producing internal quality as you go along is not a time spender, it's a time saver.
is just one of our coding practices. We keep our nest clean because it makes us go faster. When we have failed to do this, we saw the problem first in our
, i.e. we were producing working functionality more slowly. --
While I certainly do agree with Ron, I also pushed myself to look at things from marketing/sales/management's perspective, and discovered that
, to them as well.
Smalltalk and ENVY facilitate
--you get rapid incremental recompiles, and distributing the results to the team is easy. Unfortunately, many of us are working in C++ environments. Given the current state of C++ tools, particularly in the PC world, frequent refactoring in large, ongoing C++ projects has a high cost (for a number of reasons, including compile times, the increased need for and difficulty of merging parallel changes made while the refactoring is underway, the need to jigger dynamic casts, etc.) It's a lot harder to "just do it" and hide the refactoring from interested onlookers. --
With lower internal quality changing and extending the software will be more time-consuming and hence increase
. Now. Does marketing want to sacrifice
? --
They want to defer paying
until after the next release. It's their version of XP. You Aren't Gonna Need That Internal Quality, so postpone it indefinitely. --
That's interesting. Why then is it right when we (development) do it and wrong when they do it ? Is it wrong when they do it ? Two conflicting XP processes ? Need to integrate them, take a larger view ? --
The problem with the business types practicing
is that this concept only works in conjunction with
. These two practices are yin and yang. When one practices
, one produces a lot of redundancy and unnecessary complexity. And how does marketing practice
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Thing is, three weeks without keeping your house clean is long enough to start slowing down. Seriously, I wouldn't raise the issue with marketing any more than I'd raise the issue of team formatting style: it's technical's responsibility. And if it was raised, I'd just tell them that the approach we use has been shown to let us go faster than the alternatives. If they don't like it, they can get someone else. --
I've seen some folks talk about 5 or 6 variables (more like "dimensions") rather than just 3 or 4: Cost, Quality, Schedule, Scope, Staffing, & Resources (sometimes staffing & resources are lumped together) --
We lump cost, staff, resources under resources, break out under that heading. Similarly break out unit, functional, parallel tests under quality. Etc. --
Anything more than two dimensions will confuse pointy-haired managers. ;-> Ask them how they want to trade off Time (Schedule), Cost (Staffing & tools), and Features (scope). Quality is not negotiable. As Schedule and Staffing are usually fixed, the only option is to vary Features / Scope -- which can be very effective. --
Perhaps, quality should not be negotiable, but often it gets squeezed. If a team (I'm talking about the whole team: supervisors, customers, whatever) continues to mention it in the negotiations then it may help members to point out to each other when and where the Quality squeeze is creeping in. --
be negotiable. If you make an FP error in an Ariane5, you lose a few billion euros. The same mistake in a space shuttle kills people. If you apply space shuttle quality standards to commercial software them Microsoft has cornered the market before you reach release 1.0. You might say that increased quality speeds up development, but only to a point. The graph has a U shape. Once you're on the wrong side of the U, then you need to
quantify and justify
the costs and benefits of the additional rigor. --
What you've discovered is that, at a certain point, Reliability and Performance cease being part of Quality, and start becoming part of Scope.
In many places I visit, they consider scope fixed, and feel they can only move the schedule or add people. It takes much work on my part to introduce them to the notion that they can hold schedule and reduce scope. -- Alistair
in the
says that there are four "Estimating Factors" (Figure 4.6). But I think they can easily be reduced to the Four Variables shown above:
Resources (
People, Cost, Tools/Techniques
c.f. the
However, Quality is not independent from Time and Scope. If you reduce Quality, eventually development slows to a snail's pace as the programmers struggle with bugs and bad code, and so Time must be extended or Scope reduced.
More scope takes more time, higher quality in same time reduces scope, more programmers change soope/time, etc. None of the variables are independent. Wasn't suggesting that they were.
Most current theory proposes an
relationship between quality and time and resources. Simply put, crappy code takes more time, effort, and manpower to get working. Scope is increased with good quality because of the reduction in time, effort, and manpower. What are the arguments contrary to this reasoning? --
Exactly! You can trade the other three variables off against each other by decreasing one of them to keep the other two steady or improve them. E.g. decrease scope to keep within budget and time, or increase time to maintain budget and scope. However, the opposite holds for quality. If you decrease quality, you soon
the time requirements, reduce the scope, go over budget etc.
What seems to be missing from this discussion is that what the four variables add up to, in a non-linear way, is efficiency (or effectiveness, or something like that). It is easy to see: by getting lazy, you can lower your scope, expand your schedule, and so on, without affecting the other variables. Maybe this is not mentioned because productivity is a sore spot for software developers. In non-Agile projects, mistrust tends to develop between management and developers; developers have to put in 50, 60, 70 hour weeks to try to prove that they are not lazy, because real programming productivity is so hard to measure.
A slightly off-topic example that comes to mind is NASA. When Daniel Goldin announced his "Faster, Cheaper, Better" policy, it was a thinly veiled admission that the agency was a bloated, inefficient bureaucracy, and that he intended to turn it into a lean, mean organization. (I'm taking "Better" in this context to mean both quality and scope.) (The failure of three Mars probes in a row underscores the point made earlier on this page that quality is the easiest variable to sweep under the rug.) Just the thought of trying to increase all the variables simultaneously...
In his book
, Kent Beck calls Quality a "strange" variable (sorry, I don't have the book on hand, so I can't provide the exact quote). He called quality "strange" because he was able to save time and increase quality by doing test first. It seems true enough, but he doesn't explain why. He leaves it a mystery. It's easy to explain in terms of efficiency. If you increase internal quality of the software, you are helping yourself code, and thus you increase your efficiency. And any time you change your efficiency level, you can make an apparent violation the conservation of the four variables.
(I say "internal" quality because I don't think that external quality (on the user interface, that is) has the same effect. That should actually slow you down.)
Do the variables add, or multiply?
With respect to your NASA example, apparently after the series of spectacular Mars mission failures the internal joke became "Faster, better, cheaper - pick two." The triangle reborn. --
I favor the punchier variant: "On time, on budget, on Mars - choose two." -- Anonymous
Resources, Scope, Quality, Time.
I prefer to think of it as 3 variables:
Effective Resources, Schedule, Quality.
Effective Resources is a measurement of how fast you can get work done -- it's basically the team's velocity (XP style).
Schedule is what is desired to be delivered when, it's a combination of Scope and Time, and is basically the "requested velocity".
In his book
, Kent Beck calls Quality a "strange" variable (sorry, I don't have the book on hand, so I can't provide the exact quote). He called quality "strange" because he was able to save time and increase quality by doing test first. It seems true enough, but he doesn't explain why. He leaves it a mystery. It's easy to explain in terms of efficiency. If you increase internal quality of the software, you are helping yourself code, and thus you increase your efficiency. And any time you change your efficiency level, you can make an apparent violation the conservation of the four variables.
Regarding the 3 variable solution above, this can be explained very simply: The Effective Resources is increased by the better internal quality of the software.
Same mechanism as the original author's, but with a different model.
I picture it working like this, for iteration N
Effective Resources(N) is proportional to Quality(N-1)
Quality(N) is proportional to (Effective Resources(N) / Schedule(N))
If you iterate this over time, you will see:
if Effective Resources > Schedule
the Quality goes up, so the Effective Resources go up, and reinforce each other
if Effective Resources < Schedule
the Quality goes down, Effective Resources go down, and it turns into a vicious cycle
Someone describes the four variables as an IronTriangle
where "quality" is in the middle and can't be changed. The reason being that sacrificing quality means sacrificing schedule. I find
to be the clearest way of understanding this: sacrifice quality for schedule and you've just taken out a high-interest loan on your source code. You'll be making interest payments in the form of increased cost of change from now until you improve quality again.
I've come to understand that
high interest.
I've had the opportunity to lead a few projects that were fanatical about
, so I've seen first-hand what happens when you let even a little bit intrude. The costs occur
within a few days, and quickly outpace the time savings I got from sacrificing quality.
By the way, when I say "quality" above, I'm talking about internal quality--the quality of the design, automated build, revision control system, and other technical issues. External quality seems like a scoping issue to me.
Anyone involved in embedded software development (especially high-priced equipment) knows that quality is negotiable. Calling back devices or sending out mechanics is very expensive. That's why quality is usually more important in embedded software development (NASA example) or software that could endangour people (medical applications). Quality is a variable, althoug it's usually pretty fixed in a department.
-- Wilco
I see the relationship between the 4 variables differently. The system takes four inputs (each of which can obviously be broken into component parts) Scope Quality Time Resources
The system adds Scope and Quality to get a total, and takes away Time and Resources. The result has to be zero or the project wont work. This is generally true, some things are fixed and others can budge. In an XP environment Quality is fixed, no bugs are acceptable. That means that to reduce time or resource use you must reduce scope.
There are essentially two sides to this idea, the scope and quality make up one idea, and Time and resources make up the other side.
One problem comes when you have a set up as follows. There is a set quality, scope and time, but the sum isnt 0. To fix it the manager throws resources at the problem to make it go away. The problem with this approach is that it all inputs are bell curved, so if you add a disproportionate amount of time or resources, you get a law of diminishing return happening after a certain point. Adding 200 developers to a project because it is due in a week is obviously not going to fix the problem. having one developer and giving them 2 years will not fix the same problem
Another problem is that if you add quality or scope to the project, you get an exponential result. For example, the more quality I demand, the more the time and resources need to increase in response. For example. I have a program with a given degree of complexity, lets say it helps control the space shuttle, the degree of acceptable errors is orders of magnitude higher than commercial software, so the time and resources must increase proportionately. This means every time your boss says "I need twice as many features" you have to say "We need four times as many staff and four times as much time, and you cant just add time or just add staff"
Hmm, That seems to be how it would work to me.
-- RichardKroon
Actually, I think that there are only three variables, because quality shouldn't be variable -- it should always be stuck at 100%, and I completely disagree with any arguments to the contrary -- they're all wrong.
100% quality is a theoretical ideal. While it is reasonable to work toward it as a philosophical goal, and reasonable to expect that a product will work without any showstoppers, a product can always be improved. There is no "perfect" product. Therefore, it is better to explicitly specify quantifiable levels of acceptable quality; e.g., a management-approved allowable number of flawed non-critical features, or require that the UI be user-approved, etc. Otherwise, a project can get stuck on endless tweaking of the user interface, endless re-writes of feature <x> to make it better (for some undefined value of "better"), and so on, all in an attempt to achieve some mythical "100%" quality level that will cost more to approach than the project is worth.
Oh, wow.
It blows my mind that you folks can just blindly accept quality as a variable that can be dialed up or down in the software-producing machine to affect other factors. By commonly-accepted definition:
Quality is conformance to requirements.
(See Crosby, Demming, et al.) Therefore, a product either meets requirements or it doesn't, but you can't turn a knob and claim that it's 50% "good" or 75% "good" or any other number like that; you can measure it in terms of defects, or percentage compliance, I suppose, but how do you say you're going to turn quality down in order to bring in the delivery date?
Does that mean you're going to not fix known bugs? Or, more acceptably, not include certain features? That makes a whole lot more sense than leaving something broken when you know it's gotta get fixed eventually anyway. And all the arguments about accepting bad software behavior as a factor in this "graph" is ridiculous -- bad behavior means
something is broken.
The broken bit is going to byte you square on the ass sooner or later, so why would you accept it and go on like it's all okay? The idea that an avionic failure won't kill people but a spacecraft fault will is a pointless and misleading argument. It's gotta work or it's kaka.
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You can't attach an Autoloader to a RAID controller. You need to use a
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