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Tim Gehron has always been around baseball. It's in his blood.
First he was a promising player in Newberry Little League for a team which reached the regional tournament. Then it was as a pitcher for his American Legion team, where he threw four one-hitters his last year. Then it was working with Little League Baseball, traveling around the country helping to start Little League programs.
More recently, Gehron has been working as the clubhouse manager for the Williamsport Crosscutters. And while his co-workers have sat through the winter's dog days, dodging accumulating snowfalls, Gehron has spent the last two-plus weeks in the sunshine of Florida working in the minor league clubhouse during Philadelphia Phillies spring training in Clearwater.
"Quite frankly, I was surprised they asked me, sure," Gehron said. "I was never thinking I'd be approached about coming down here and having the opportunity to work spring training."
Gehron has spent the past two seasons working as the Cutters' clubhouse manager. It's a job he learned about through Cutters' Vice President and General Manager Doug Estes, and through his brother Bill, the Director of Food and Beverage.
Come gameday, he's constantly busy. During the game he's getting the team's workout clothes washed and ready for the next day. Postgame, he's washing uniforms, stalking around the clubhouse making sure the players, most of them first-time pros, have enough bats for a road trip, or all the equipment they could need.
And when there is free time, he's on the field during batting practice, taking throws from infielders for the coaches hitting grounders.
"I did the job last year and Steve Noworyta (Phillies assistant director of player development) approached me in August and asked if I would like to come to spring training," Gehron said. "They said they liked that I did a bang-up job. They said I ran a tight ship and they offered me an opportunity to come down."
Gehron always had aspirations to play professional baseball. He played on teams which included Ed Ott and David Croyle, both of whom played professionally.
Gehron had tryouts with the Pirates, Phillies and Royals, but none of them went anywhere. He went to Lycoming College the year the school discontinued its baseball program.
Despite his playing days being over, he's found various ways to stay involved with the game. From 1971-1976 he worked for Little League Baseball, and in 1973 he made a six-week trip through Florida during spring training to help towns that wanted to set up Little League programs.
He's been to spring training before, but never in this type of capacity. Not in a situation where the team is putting him up for six weeks in a suite.
"I'm looking forward to hanging out with some of the guys from the past years," Gehron said. "I'm looking forward to seeing the whole operation. I want to see how they do their laundry and get the stains out. I guess I'm just excited to have the opportunity to come down here."
Gehron's whole experience around minor league baseball, both in the two years as Cutters clubhouse manager and this spring in Clearwater, has really opened his eyes to the grind minor leaguers go through.
"It makes someone really appreciate the fact that people don't just become major league baseball players," Gehron said. "Even today, it's a long, tedious, hard process to get to rookie league baseball."


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In a previous issue, "Glad You Asked" received an inquiry from Tim Ridder of Rock Island, Illinois regarding normal sick leave usage within public works agencies. Tim noted that lost time due to illness was twice as high in his organization when compared to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report for private industry.
The comparison between private and public agencies is certainly an issue. General comparisons often show that public agencies have much more generous sick leave benefits, thereby resulting in greater usage, than the private sector. However, it is important to know whether you are comparing similar data. For example, is the data reporting only sick leave usage for unscheduled personal illnesses or does it include appointments and care for family members? Consider also that many public works employees may have higher exposure to elements of nature and physical strain on the job than employees in other local government departments, which could explain higher usage.
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Does anyone know if Adelina backed off the team event herself, or was just excluded by RF? Does anyone know how she feels about it?
Does anyone know when the participants in the pairs' free will be announced? Immediately after the ladies' short - or when? I suppose the teams must have chosen their pair, even if it hasn't been announced. It must be a rather odd feeling for some of them, not knowing if they will be even skating a free today or not, depending on whether their team makes it into the free. (Which is why I think it's rather odd scedulling to have one of the free skates the same day as some of the short.)
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As strange as it might sound, but I think Chan kind of "owns" it to his team to skate the LP now. I thought it was understandable he just wanted to do the SP before due to his OGM chances in the individual, but after his mistakes in the LP gave Russia a lead for now, I feel a little different. I wouldn't call him selfish or anything if he doesn't want to do the LP, but I think he should.
Russia has the lead now, but they might be more vulnerable in the LPs than it looks now. Plushenko nailed his SP (and deserves a lot of respect for that), but it's tough to say how he might manage with a whole LP. He could definitly loose to Chan and Machida, and maybe even Brown if he skates like he did at Nats. That could be up to 3 points Chan could gain for Canada alone. I&K could fall behind France and it's again 2 to 3 possible points for Canada. S/K did so well at Europeans, but I have no idea how they'll handle the pressure. Ladies is the weak link, sure, but Osmond should manage top 5 today, maybe even 4th/3rd if Kostner/Wagner don't deliver, and if France or China with Zhang make the LPs, she should be 4th there (maybe even 3rd if Gracie has problems with handling the pressure of being the last to skate to get her team the bronze medal). If Reynolds does the LP though, they're chances are going down a lot.
Meanwhile, I really want Japan to get the Team bronze, but I really want Ashley to do well today and proof everyone who insulted and attackted her after Nats wrong. Need more medals because of too many deserving athletes
Edit: Forgot that Kostner will be skating for Italy. I'm still stock in thinking with Marchei here ^^"
- February 8th, 2014 - 21:40 h
Nomination by name of the skaters participating in the Pair Skating Free Skating Team Event
- February 9th, 2014 - 10:00 h
Nomination by name of the skaters participating in the Men, Ladies and Ice Dance Free Skating/Free Dance Team Event
The SP for the individual discipline of Pairs is on Tuesday, Feb 11. Scheduling the Pairs FS for the team event for today (instead of tomorrow) gives the skaters an interval of two days before they compete again, instead of only one day.
I'm disappointed, I wanted to see V/T this evening.
Do we have a list of the participants in the ladies free skate tmrw?
Everything pointing towards Kevin Reynolds tomorrow. CBC showed him in their figure skating preview for tomorrow, along with Kaetlyn and Virtue/Moir.
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We are proud to officially announce that @Meryl_Davis and @CharlieaWhite, @GraceEGold and @jasonbskates will skate in today's Team Event!
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Starting Order
1 PARKINSON Paul Bonifacio ITA
2 BROWN Jason USA
3 REYNOLDS Kevin CAN
4 PLYUSHCHENKO Evgeny RUS
5 MACHIDA Tatsuki JPN
Team Ladies - Free Skating
Starting Order
1 OSMOND Kaetlyn CAN
2 GOLD Gracie USA
3 SUZUKI Akiko JPN
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I kind of think skaters like Abbott, Brown, Reynolds, the American pairs, should be especially grateful and realize how lucky they are because especially in the case of Reynolds they are so lucky to get a medal considering their world placements and they normally would not challenge for a medal. Poor Weaver and Poje bronze medal potential contenders individually but they won't skate in the team event probably . the medal placements are pretty well decided now at this point. Plushy can only fall to fifth no lower. there is sufficient gap betwee the teams the results would be almost impossible to change.


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RIDGEVILLE Quintin McGrew didnt know that he would land in jail after his baby boys dog mauling death, until sheriffs detectives called to tell him they had a warrant.
I was devastated, 28-year-old McGrew said at his home Tuesday. His wife, 23-year-old Chantel, sat beside him and vowed to remain there throughout the court proceedings to come.
The couples 2-month-old son, Aiden, died April 20, when a foster dog dragged him from a swing and chewed off his legs in the living room of the familys Ridgeville mobile home. Dorchester County Coroner Chris Nisbet ruled that parental neglect played a role in Aidens death and ruled the case a homicide by animal eating.
Our names are slandered, Quintin McGrew said. We really cant go anywhere. I cant go to the grocery store now.
Chantel had been out at an appointment with her stepdaughter at the time of the attack. Quintin, who runs a home computer repair business, had been asleep.
Dorchester County sheriffs investigators arrested Quintin on a charge of unlawful conduct toward a child.
Im here 100 percent, no matter what happens, Chantel said. Im not going to go anywhere else. Thats my best friend. Im sure not going to lose him.
Chantel said she and her husband hope to regain custody of 7-year-old Samantha and 2 1/2-year-old Robert. She said that protecting them is their top priority.
Im not going let them step foot out the door without holding their hands, Chantel said.
The McGrews sat down for an exclusive interview with The Post and Courier at their home Tuesday. The couple talked about their family life before the attack and the silence at home while their two surviving children remain in relatives custody.
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Skip to comments.CNN Poll of New Hampshire
Posted on 12/28/2011 8:37:17 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT
New Hampshire CNN Poll released today:
Romney 44%
Paul 17%
Gingrich 16%
Huntsman 9%
RPerry 2
none 5
BATTLE IS FOR 2ND PLACE. I believe Huntsman will do better than 9%, based on anecdotal evidence.
link to IA and NH CNN polls today
40-page PDF document.
Has anyone ever won Iowa and New Hampshire but lost the nomination? Romney basically has NH locked up and he could win in Iowa because the anti-Romney vote is split 4 ways. The possibility frightens me.
Can we secede NH to France?
I could not find a news article with the numbers, so I posted it.
in case you missed it:
CNN Poll of IOWA
Romney 25%
Paul 22%
Santorum 16%
Gingrich 14%
Perry 11%
Michele 9
Huntsman 1%
none 2
NH poll included independents (as it should). IA did not include independents, which appears to be a serious flaw. They can register R at their caucus.
Perry is at 2%?
Ebola would poll higher than that.
Yup. Gingrich could set himself for SC with a decent 2nd place.
NH is an OPEN primary in which do called
Independents can vote .
The Dems have organized and registered as indies in order to screw
With the GOP primary !
Why does the Rnc still allow open primaries in the age of
Soros , Axelrod , Moveon.org !
Because Mittens would not win otherwise?
IA had the same problem
With weak registration rules the Dems
Can abuse !
In a state that would go 70percent Romney/Paul/Huntsman, it is extremely unlikely they would go for Rick Perry, who is actually a conservative.
I think independents will give paul, santorum, and gingrich a boost
If any Dems wanted to copy "Operation Chaos" of 2008 they would be supporting Ron Paul in the GOP Primaries.
These so called independents are Democrats !
NH and IA are useless thanks to these sorry open primaries and sorry
Registration process !
Yep that spears to be the strategy.
Embarrass the GOP as the party of crazy 9-11 truther/ racist / Jew hater etc
Plus push Old Ronny to run as third party which may backfire on the Dems
"Can we secede NH to France?"
Better yet, trade all of New England for Poland.
Edmund Muskie won Iowa and New Hampshire in 1972.
In a friggin heartbeat. So sad how much I despise my countrymen and wish for foreigners. The devil has won.
I'll swap all of New England, Michigan, and Washington state to Canada for just half of Alberta.
Works for me. We need men, not whatever the hell they are. It isn't men.
A CNN Poll?... A Muppet Poll would have more credibility..
y'all type too fast for me to respond.
BUT yEAH. The poll shows much of ronPaul support is from young voters who describe themselves as liberal/moderate. He has expanded his libertarian base to now include ANTI-WAR voters from outside the party. THE Polls are picking up on that, on where his votes are coming from.
Iowa and New Hampshire can fight for irrelavancy. Florida is where every GOP nomination has been decided for the last 50 years.
there are only 4 campaigns in NH. ronP, jh, ng, mitt. And Huntsman never leaves the state.
Huntsman has the best campaign in NH ... and the worst candidate. Unlike IA, the single-digit candidates see their support drop to practically nothing as people abandon them.
I know IA and NH are irrelevant on their own, but if the same person wins both they almost always win.
"A CNN Poll?... A Muppet Poll would have more credibility"
CNN and MSNBC are all that is left of the merged media dynasty Air America and Pravda.
yer right ... Newt, can he survive til SC?
whodat. where'd ya pull that trivia from?
it is hard to see Santorum getting a bounce in Nh. Hucklebee won IA big and got 13% in NH. And he had an office.
Maybe RS can get to 10%.
I happen to have stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night.
you in corn country this week? A little cold for ya outside of Dixie?
Romney should win New Hampshire. He has a house there where he lives part of the time, and he was the governor of the state next door. Second place is where the battle is here.
Many Republicans voted in the Democratic Primary to try and screw it up. Are we some how immuned to such things. I didn't like the Republicans screwing with the Democratic Primary but many were cheer-leading the action. We can't complain about Dems doing it when our party did the same thing.
I happen to have stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Me too. I was in Fayetteville, NC.
Assuming of course the majority there were pleased by his stint as gov of Mass.
He's got $10 mil, just depends on what he does in Iowa and NH I suppose.
Is NH winner take all state or will delegates be distributed proportionately?
all the early states are breaking the calendar rules and lose half their delegates so NH is down to 12 or 13. it is required to be proportional. I think APRIL 1st is the first allowed date for winner take all.
10% threshold in NH. 9.9% gets you ZERO delegates (those delegates go to the winner) and 10.1% gets you ONE delegate.
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A U.S. federal district court judge ruled Tuesday that victims of terrorist attacks in Israel can proceed with their $3 billion lawsuit against the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
The PLO attempted to stop the lawsuit filed in 2004, claiming that two machine gun attacks and five bombings in and around Jerusalem were carried out during a time of war.
But Judge George Daniels ruled that the attacks targeted public places, revealing an intention "to cause far-reaching devastation among the masses."
Daniels said the PLO showed a "merciless capability of indiscriminately killing and maiming untold numbers in heavily populated civilian areas."
Thirty-three people died and hundreds more were wounded in the terrorist attacks, including many Americans.
The judge decided that the PLO's actions conformed to the legal definition of "international terrorism."
"Attacks upon non-combative civilians, who were allegedly simply going about their everyday lives, do not constitute acts of war," Daniels said.
The lawsuit was filed under the Antiterrorism Act of 1991, which allows U.S. residents, their survivors, and heirs to seek civil claims in American courts if they are hurt by acts of international terrorism.
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Why I Do Science: W. Michael Hanemann
Economics is a social science. While macroeconomics focuses on the aggregate interactions among individuals functioning through a market economy, microeconomics, the area in which I work, focuses on understanding how individuals make choices and what those choices reveal about their preferences. Much of my work answers those questions in the particular context of the environment, water, and climate change. I find them endlessly fascinating.
I decided to become an economist while I was an undergraduate in England because of my concern about alleviating rural poverty in developing countries. My professor had a distinctive approach to development economics. The most common approach was to do empirical research based on data collected by others — by census bureaus, for example. My professor felt that, to gain a realistic understanding of the choices confronting peasant farmers, his students should visit the country and actually live in the field for the duration of the growing season, observing farming practices on the ground.
He was starting a project that covered three remote parts of India. One day he informed me that he was deselecting me for the project because he had concluded that I was unsuited for roughing it in an isolated hamlet. He was absolutely correct, of course, but I was devastated.
So I migrated to Harvard and switched my field to public finance and the cost-benefit analysis of government programs. I soon became interested in applying this to the brand-new topic of government programs for environmental protection. But I have continued to embrace my old professor's philosophy: Before formulating a theory of behavior, one should first observe what people actually do— how they function, what choices they confront, how they see those choices — and then frame the theory around the observations.
I now do my fieldwork mainly in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., which accommodates my need to be within easy reach of a coffee shop or a bookstore, a need correctly identified by my professor in England. But fieldwork is a continuing source of interesting new questions regarding human behavior.
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The competition, designed to inspire innovation within best practices for teaching and learning, has a new format in its third year. The teams consist of at least one faculty member, one community partner and up to three GRCC students – operating within the parameters of a GRCC course. During GRCC's Winter 2013 semester contestants will design and complete service learning projects that fulfill course requirements while meeting a need in the community.
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"This is a way to expose the important work already done by GRCC's service learning program while continuing to expand its reach," said Mr. Oumedian , who retired as senior vice president of Pinnacle Automation and served as co-chairman of the alumni division of the Grand Rapids Community College Foundation's recent Open Door Campaign.
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- The Child Psychology course is partnering with Family Promise to provide child-care services to homeless families seeking respite or time to seek employment.
- The Community Transcultural Nursing course is partnering with the American Red Cross to teach GRCC students the life-changing skill of CPR.
- The Community Dental Health course is partnering with the Salvation Army-Booth Family Services to provide oral hygiene education to pregnant teens and teen mothers.
- The College Writing course is partnering with the Grand Rapids Public Library to administer the One Book, One City for Kids program in Grand Rapids Public Schools.
- The Consulting with Writers course is partnering with GRCC's Writing Lab to train students to serve as tutors.
- The Community Transcultural Nursing course is partnering with the North End Community Ministry to educate its clients on healthy meal planning and recipes when they select items from the food pantry.
- The Principles of Physical Education course is partnering with East Leonard Elementary in the Grand Rapids school district to administer the Organ Wise Guys program, designed to help children develop a healthy lifestyle.
"I'm extremely happy with the number and quality of proposals that have been submitted," Michael Schavey said in announcing the finalists. "There are a wide range of disciplines, including Psychology, Dental, Physical Education and English. "It's outstanding to know that through this event, faculty and students will understand the impact one makes when given the opportunity to apply their learning to benefit the community."
Judges with expertise in the field of nonprofit management, civic engagement, innovation, and pedagogy will score each project not only on how they augment course content but also on how they strengthen critical thinking and a sense of personal responsibility in students while meeting a community organization's goals. But just coming up with a great idea won't be enough to win this competition -- teams must also demonstrate how the projects' impact will be measured and on how their work will be sustained over time.
The Armen Awards Team, a group made up of GRCC faculty and staff, will present the awards at the end of April. Membership includes: Ann Sandberg, Becky Yoder, Julie Lenger, Klaas Kwant, Leigh Kleinert, Malinda Powers, Moss Ingram, Steve Abid, Armen Oumedian, Michael Schavey.
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Great Failure Of Xp
XP appears unsustainable in commercially viable enterprises. [See Note 1.]
XP in practice is no more effective than several prior methodologies. [See Note 2.]
XP is a step forward, but not a final solution.
In responses to a request by a participant that "this page be restarted from a clean slate", the original text of this page now appears at
is that it appears that it is, in practice, not sustainable in commercially viable enterprises. --
Alternative summaries, concrete examples, theories, or explanations would provide some grounds for discussion and are invited. Perhaps portions of
might be copied here.
It appears that Tom and I do actually arrive at the same conclusion from different directions. I do not want to stick my neck out quite as far as he does, however, and claim that XP simply
be sustained in a commercial environment. What I would like to do is challenge the Wiki community to point to current [Feb 03] products under development or on the shelf that are being developed and maintained using an XP environment. I can tell you for sure that XP does not fit into the medical device community nor into most of the industrial process machine control community.
In fact, there is only one gig I had in the past where the client could have benefited from a full-on XP implementation: a data processing system for handling credit/debit card transactions. The requirements kept changing on a weekly basis because all the banks kept changing the way they recorded and conveyed transactions. XP could have been applied properly in such an environment and probably been pretty successful. --
We have used XP (modulo teleconferences, frequent off-site meetings etc. instead of
) exclusively for the last two years and more, doing strictly commercial development. There are the usual limits to what I can state in public, but in general terms, during that time we have: ported Java to a new pda platform, implemented novel UI technologies for a range of mobile phones, supported a customer's developers in writing a proprietary messaging client, produced the SDK (including example programs and self-study materials) for an industrial hand-held, and written proof-of-concept mobile web services clients. Right now we are working on a soft real-time telematics product, also with XP. We have an active work queue out past Easter, and are recruiting. How's that for "sustainable in a commercially viable enterprise"? --
It may be difficult to judge 'commercially viable' in these times. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next five years.
Was that the sound of a goal-post shifting?
No, I'd say the same for any attempt to judge any methodology based on a short-term sample in these times. You
noticed the trouble in the economy haven't you?
Well, there have been layoffs at the shipyard down in Barrow, it's true, but then the hotels and such weren't hit as badly by the foot-and-mouth outbreak as many people feared, and have largely recovered. Some farmers did sell up, but the restocking has....oh wait, that's just our local economy. Which economy are you talking about?
The strawman says that
Xp [...] is not sustainable in commercially viable enterprises
. Are you suggesting that some sort of global economic problem might cause our XP-using company to fail (which it might), so that indicates a fundamental conflict between doing XP and being commercially viable?
I'm lost. If our example (a growing company with work in hand, and a history of work successfully done with XP) doesn't falsify the claim made, then what sort of example would?
I have provided, as requested, "current [Feb 03] products under development or on the shelf that are being developed and maintained using an XP environment", lets see a reasoned response from the other side of the argument, please.-- KB
What other methodologies satisfy the criteria of being "...sustainable in commercially viable enterprises?" I personally have never worked for a private, commercial company that even pretended to follow a waterfall methodology, and during my work as a contractor, I have seen little evidence of work actually being performed following a waterfall methodology, despite CMM or ISO certifications and truck loads of documentation. The most recognizable process I have seen is: start with a 1 sentence description of a feature, have development write code based on their own opinions, have testing write tests based on their own opinions, let the two departments argue about the results until upper management decrees "ship it as is."
I've added a second strawman that reflects my growing doubts about whether XP is any more effective than several earlier methodologies. The focus of the second is not to claim that XP doesn't work, but instead that XP has not, in practice, demonstrated the compelling advantages that it seemed to originally promise. --
Please provide a list of these compelling advantages, and some indication of how the performance of XP and other methodologies with regard to them is to be compared. Thanks.
Initial Project Definition: Requirements Document versus
Schedule Time to complete - Requirements Document: Medium to High;
: Low to Not Possible - Low if onsite customer already has an office close to developers, time to move customer onsite increases with distance, may not be possible in situations such as commercial products.
Human Resources Needed to Complete - Requirements Document: Low to Medium;
: Low
Human Resources Idle During Step - Requirements Document: Low to High; High if programmers are idle, Low if programmers can be immediately available following document approval.
: Low, programmers can start when they become available.
Completeness - Requirements Document: Medium; advantage of having multiple sources, disadvantage that the sources go away after the document is approved.
: Medium; disadvantage of having a single source, advantage is ongoing availability of the source.
Skill Level Required - Requirements Document: High; eliciting requirements is difficult.
: Low
Effort Needed to Maintain Compliance - Requirements Document: Medium; a Quality Assurance person is assigned part time to audit mapping of requirements into design, dependent upon the QA person assigned.
: Medium to High;
is used to maintain integrity, dependent upon the particular pairs implementing individual features.
Software Design: Design Document versus
Schedule Time to complete - Design Document: Medium to High;
: Low
Human Resources Needed to Complete - Design Document: Low to Medium;
: Low
Human Resources Idle During Step - Design Document: Low to High; High if programmers are idle, Low if programmers can be immediately available following document approval.
: Low, programmers can start when they become available.
Completeness - Design Document: Low to Medium;
: Medium to High
Skill Level Required - Design Document: Medium;
: High, testing philosophies not normally understood by programmers.
Effort Needed to Maintain Compliance - Design Document: Medium; a Quality Assurance person is assigned part time to audit mapping of design into development, dependent upon the QA person assigned.
: Medium to High;
is used to ensure use and completeness of tests.
Software Integration: Integration Test Phase versus
Suggested evaluation criteria: Schedule Time to complete, Human Resources Needed to Complete, Human Resources Idle During Step, Completeness, Feasibility, Effort Needed to Maintain Compliance
[Question: Is the above providing any value to anyone (or am I just rambling)?]
Please provide a list of these compelling advantages, and some indication of how the performance of XP and other methodologies with regard to them is to be compared. Thanks.
Here is
's summary of XP's claimed promises, taken from Kent's preface to
(p xvi):''
XP promises to reduce project risk, improve responsiveness to business changes, improve productivity throughout the life of a system, and add fun to building software in teams -- all at the same time.
On pages 11-12 of the same text, Kent suggests that XP enables a four-step strategy, as follows:
Spend less
Earn more
Spend later and earn sooner
Increase likelihood that project will stay alive
Based on these claims, it appears that there are eight dimensions along which we might contrast and compare methodologies:
Risk management
Responsiveness to business changes
Lifecycle productivity
Total project spending
Total project earnings
Project cash flow (earlier revenue and later spending)
Likelihood of completion (
Perhaps the next step is to compile a list of candidate methodologies to be contrasted and compared along these eight dimensions.
It seems very rational to me to not look at XP as the ends, but as a means by which one can improve productivity. Individual changes can provide improvement, but all those pieces together are going to provide the greatest benefit. So the success of XP should be judged by the positive change in the software project, not by whether the project was terminated or not.
What I think that people fail to realize about XP is that people are typically motivated by the things that XP heavily reduces. Guilt and fear. In addition for XP to be successful the people involved in the process must want to see the software project succeed. In every project I have been in, someone associated with the project wanted it to fail. So here is a classic example of XP working and the project failing.
A developer who shall remain nameless (me) was hired to help a failing software project for a company who shall also remain nameless (forget about it). The first thing I did when I got on the project was to asses the difference between where the project was, and where it needed to be in order to be successful. Then I drew a straight mental line between these two things, and tried to determine how to
Right away, we started developing lists of features that were in the project and organizing the features based on value to the software. (seeing this was a contracting project, and the client viewed the splash screen as one of the most important parts of the project, it had a high value.) Three weeks from the beginning of this process we delivered the first iteration of the software to the client. The project had been worked on for 11 months, and not one single thing had been delivered yet! When I arrived they had passed, I believe, the 4th time their estimate on its first iteration. The first date was almost 6 months prior to the first release.
Three weeks later, we had another release with the exact features set we promised. Three weeks later we had another.
Then things started to go bad. The only person who could look at the software and evaluate the project looked at it and gave the client his belief that it would be 6 months before the software project would be ready, and provided an 8 page list of features he believed would fill the 6 months. The project was on the verge of cancellation. However, I had estimates and velocity at my disposal. Based on yesterday's weather I predicted the software would be complete with all the features he listed in 3 weeks time.
He didn't believe me, called the software pathetic. I asked him if we provided the improvements he had asked for in 3 weeks if he would be willing to make another evaluation. He called me completely unreasonable and refused to work with me ever again. (I'm not kidding folks, this is really how the conversation went.) So as the saga unfolded I found out that the software we were writing replaced the software he had written. If our project succeeded it would take away a significant amount of his value to the company. Ahhhhh, now I began to understand...but too late...
3 weeks later we turned in a new version of the software. He confirmed to the company that we had repaired everything he had asked for, and issued a new, longer list of things needing to be fixed, including changing several things back to the way they were in the previous release. We did exactly that, but now our velocity was higher and we predicted 2 weeks. Two weeks later, on the day we turned in our release, the software project was canceled before the new release was even evaluated.
The reality is if we had never switched to XP, never delivered the software, the contract likely would have continued for another few months before they canceled it. So what happened then? Did XP fail? Was it XP's fault that because we delivered on time with the features promised the project was canceled? Yes of course. But then, if you look carefully, that is in the client's Bill of Rights.
XP doesn't make everything work in a software project, it simply gives you the ability to know what is happening. Which of course is often the death of things. But tell me what it's worth to you to be able to predict -- and that accurately -- where your software project will be in 3 weeks. If it worked on a project that was 6 months overdue, just think of what it could do for a project that began with it. (Of course they might decided to cancel that one too...another failure of XP? I don't think so.)
-- Todd Edman
You know what? As long as you guys got paid based on the three week or two week turnaround, the project was successful. I worked on a web site design project where my graphics partner and I put a bunch of time into creating a design and navigation map for the site - then the project was cancelled. Since we had already submitted our billing based on phases, we got paid for the time we put into it. It was a success, even if we never got any more work out of that customer.
This is a good time to point out, that anytime a person is working on some sort of agreement, contract, etc, where it will take some time to complete a project, always use the phase-payment structure. This is "escrow" and I am also advising that you go through an escrow-agency, as this will provide insurances and guarantees that you would not otherwise get. You are guaranteed to get your money this way, as each stage/phase is completed, and do not start the next phase until you are paid for the last one.
Yeah, actually, I use this approach as part of the sales pitch whenever I am trying to land a new client. I always tell 'em that they'll get something usable at each milestone, so when they pay for work they have something in their hot little hands. Also, each milestone's work has already been completely documented so that the client can take that package and shove it into the lap of another engineering design house and they can run with it. See? See? I'm always looking out for you, Mr. Client!
I have yet to lose a job to somebody else based on a completed milestone that didn't satisfy a client's expectations. And none of them have wanted to use anybody else after seeing my fine, upstanding work.
I don't believe in XP. I only believe in the Second and Third Levels of the
! Harrumph! -- AugustDriveller
XP is a step forward, but not a final solution.
I think the difficulty arose when XP was presented as a nice, tidy solution as opposed to a somewhat interrelated set of improvements. XP, like any process created by human beings, is imperfect, however, that does not mask its successes. XP is not a great failure, but neither is it an absolute success. I think it is worthwhile to violate one long espoused tenet and tear XP apart and look at its individual components. Please note that XP was the culmination of a single, 11 month project; it should not be surprising that it is not a complete, general purpose solution. --
- I find this the most fascinating aspect of XP. It takes the long held view of programmers that the cost of upfront documentation far outweighs its value, but marries it with the traditional viewpoint that programming is inexact process and a heavy level of testing is necessary. Traditional literature typically weighted the importance of the three tasks as Documentation, then Testing, then Programming; though in practice, the weighting seemed to be Documentation, Programming, then Testing. Test First Design reverses the precedence of the latter: Testing, then Programming, then Documentation. For Test First Design to be accepted, therefore, two items need to be re-evaluated in most development organizations. It must be believed that Testing is a valuable step and not one to be pushed off to the end and done by some of the most lowly paid employees. It must also be believed that Documentation is not that valuable and does not need to be done first by some of the most highly paid employees.
"It must also be believed that Documentation is not that valuable and does not need to be done first by some of the most highly paid employees." That's quite a stretch. Don't forget that for some products the documentation is a vital part of the delivery. For instance, you can't pretend to build medical devices without reams of supporting documents.
My intent was to merely describe what the preconditions for belief in Test First Design might be and not to directly discuss the correctness of those assumptions. My assertion is merely that if one believes that up front documentation is an important precursor to writing software, then one is probably likely to reject Test First Design in favor of Waterfall Design, whereas if one does not believe in the value of documentation, one is likely to accept Test First Design. I am merely trying to uncover some of the underlying assumptions that I feel make Test First Design an interesting topic.
Perhaps a clearer restatement would be that "It must also be believed that Documentation is not that valuable
in the creation of software
...." Documentation may very well be important in the approval, sale, and delivery of the software (assuming this is the intended meaning of the medical device comment).
- I am very favorabably disposed to the idea of increased user interaction with the development team, but feel that the hope for a single customer voice is naive. Most companies have many semi-autonomous groups whose only point of interaction may be the development team. Thus it seems that the responsibility for the resolution of conflicting propositions should rest within the development team. This may be a lesson to be learned from C3ProjectedTerminated, as it appears there were at least two customer voices and one did not feel it was being heard. Another concern I have is the approach of bringing the user to the development team, rather than bringing the development team to the user(s). There is simply too much about a task that is difficult to communicate verbally; the developers should have a chance to experience it first hand.
A "Top 10 Dying Technologies" list that includes XP:
[quote] began to lose ground in 2003 due to the proliferation of offshore outsourcing of applications development. [/quote] Hard to compete on any level with cheap outsourced labor, so can it really be said that RAD & XP are a failure?
Various prolems with XP are listed at
Listed? Read with a critical eye. Here's a gem from this:
Would requirements review have saved C3? We can't say for certain, but we do know that "feature-itis," which comes at the expense of scheduling, is a predictable result of letting the programming team decide (and continuously change) the requirements priorities without informing the project sponsors.
As mentioned below, see
. There are commercial successes here.
"Several prior methodologies" also have their own individual success stories; examples are welcome.
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Dubai - The Proteas have been ranked at No 4 on the inaugural International Cricket Council (ICC) Twenty20 table which was released at the ICC headquarters in Dubai on Monday.This means that the Proteas are ranked in the top four in all three formats of the international game.Those ranked ahead of them are World Twenty20 champions England, Sri Lanka and New Zealand and they will have the chance to improve their position with three away matches against both New Zealand and England next year. They do not have any Twenty20 fixtures against Sri Lanka during their upcoming tour of South Africa in December and January.The rankings do not affect the draw for the 2012 edition of the ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka as the groups have already been settled with the Proteas in the same section as Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.In the individual rankings there are four South African batsmen in the top 20 headed by Graeme Smith (10). The others are JP Duminy (13), Jacques Kallis (17) and AB de Villiers (20).Johan Botha (5) is the leading ranked South African bowler followed by Morne Morkel (11) and Dale Steyn (16).Kallis is ranked No 7 among the all-rounders with Albie Morkel at No 9.The No 1 batsman, bowler and all-rounder on the rankings respectively are Eoin Morgan of England, Ajantha Mendis of Sri Lanka and Shane Watson of Australia.ICC Twenty20 Championship table:1. England 1272. Sri Lanka 1263. New Zealand 1174. South Africa 1135. India 1126. Australia 1117. Pakistan 978. West Indies 899. Afghanistan 7510. Zimbabwe 54Note: Bangladesh, Netherlands, Kenya, Ireland, Canada and Scotland will have to play eight T20Is before they will have a ranking. The table reflects all T20Is played since August 2009.Batsmen1. Eoin Morgan (ENG) 2. B.McCullum (NZ) 3. Kevin Pietersen (ENG) 4. M. Jayawardene (SL) 5. Suresh Raina (IND) 6. T.Dilshan (SL) 7. K. Sangakkara (SL) 8. Umar Akmal (PAK) 9. Shane Watson (AUS) 10. Graeme Smith (SA) Bowlers1. Ajantha Mendis (SL) 2. Graeme Swann (ENG) 3. Saeed Ajmal (PAK) 4. N.McCullum (NZ) 5. Johan Botha (SA) 6. Shahid Afridi (PAK) 7. Shaun Tait (AUS) 8. Darren Sammy (WI) 9. Harbhajan Singh (IND) 10. Lasith Malinga (SL) All-rounders1. Shane Watson (AUS) 2. Shahid Afridi (PAK) 3. David Hussey (AUS) 4. M.Hafeez (PAK) 5. Chris Gayle (WI) 6. Yuvraj Singh (IND) 7. Jacques Kallis (SA) 8. T.Dilshan (SL) 9. Albie Morkel (SA) 10. Abdul Razzaq (PAK)
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Intel Summary
CEO: Brian Krzanich; Revenues: $53 Billion (2012); Employees: 105,000 (2012)
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Intel is the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. It develops advanced integrated digital technology products, primarily integrated circuits, for industries such as computing and communications. Intel supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks that are the "ingredients" of computers, servers, networking, and communications products. Intel is successfully evolving from a company with a primary focus on the design and manufacture of semiconductor chips for PCs and servers to a computing company that delivers complete solutions in the form of hardware and software platforms and supporting services. Intel's business segments are PC Client Group, Data Center Group, Intel Architecture Group, Software and Services Group and Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group. Intel is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
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Greenhouse gases:
- In 2008, Intel set a goal to reduce the absolute global-warming gas footprint from their operations 20% below 2007 levels by 2012. They exceeded this goal, reducing their absolute emissions more than 60% below 2007 levels by 2012.Further reduce direct GHG emissions 10 percent on a per chip basis from 2010 levels by 2020
- Achieve additional energy savings of 1.4 billion kWh from 2012 to 2015
- Since 2008, Intel has been the largest voluntary corporate purchaser of green power in the U.S., according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). As of early 2013, their annual green power purchase commitment represented the equivalent of 100% of their U.S. electricity use.
- Reduce water use on a per chip basis (assuming a typical chip size of approximately 1 cm2) below 2010 levels by 2020.
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Intel is engaged in a range of climate and energy-related initiatives. For instance, Intel founded and co-chairs the Digital Energy and Sustainability Solutions Campaign (DESSC). This coalition brings together information and communications technologies (ICT) companies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and trade associations that advocate public policies that will promote the enabling role that ICT plays in improving our environment and driving long-term economic growth.
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- Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes. Listed on North America and World indexes (14th year)
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- U.S. EPA. Climate Leadership Award and Sustainaed Excellence in Green Power Award
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DAYTONA BEACH -- The team of Coke Zero 400 winner Tont Stewart was fined and had race points taken away in the wake of rules violations at Daytona International Speedway. Stewart's qualifying time for Saturday's big race win was disallowed after officials discovered an unapproved open vent hose inside of his Stewart-Haas Racing No. 14 Chevrolet in a post-qualifying inspection.
Though Stewart posted his third victory of the season, his team was docked six championship points Tuesday. A corresponding six-point penalty was also issued to Margaret Haas, the No. 14's car owner of record. Steve Addington, Stewart's crew chief, was fined $25,000 and placed on probation until Aug. 22 for the infraction. NASCAR also placed car chief Jeff Meendering on probation until Aug. 22.
Stewart's team leader denied any rules violations were done on purpose.
"While we respect and accept NASCAR's decision, we want to be clear that there was no malicious intent," said Greg Zipadelli, Stewart-Haas' competition director. "In a rush to replace a cracked rear windshield that happened during tech inspection prior to qualifying, we jostled a cooling hose that was behind the seat. We understand NASCAR's position and will abide by its decision."
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After just 10 months together, Kristin Cavallari and Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler have called off their engagement.
"She got dumped," a source told People Magazine. "She's absolutely devastated. She can't believe this is happening."
The couple became engaged in April in Mexico and were planning a spring wedding.
The former reality star and her fiancé had registered for their wedding at Williams-Sonoma and Crate & Barrel.
Cavallari had planned to move to Chicago during the upcoming football season to be closer to Cutler.
"She was planning her dream wedding, the date was set, the location – everything was set," the source says. "She's in shock that the dream wedding she was planning is going to end this way."
Just a week ago, Cavallari Tweeted about her engagement party. "Thx to all my amazing friends for making my engagement party a blast last night!"
Cavallari was spotted on Saturday at The Beverly, an L.A. lounge, without her engagement ring.
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GOP Now Eating Crow On ObamaCare
Its being reported all over, but you will not find it on Fox News or here on the tribune. So, I'll post the facts here and let the right wing eat crow.
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--We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's and ********. --We'll keep Bill O'Reilly and Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood . --You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us. --You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.
Posted 1012 days ago.
--You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them. --We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street. --You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies and illegal aliens.
Posted 1012 days ago.
--We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. --You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.
--Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military. --We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and the coal mines, and you can go with wind, solar and biodiesel.
Posted 1012 days ago.
Here is a our separation agreement:
--Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.
Posted 1012 days ago.
Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al: We have stuck together since the late 1950's for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.
Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.
Posted 1012 days ago.
Odds are looking better to take back the senate and restore our republic
Posted 1012 days ago.
Woof, Obama sure doing a good job of applying equal protection to everyone under the law!! Lol.
This law is not only the biggest joke but is a total mess!
Posted 1012 days ago.
"All the administration is doing is making the system easier to work with"
With all due respect. I disagree. They are simply buying votes for 2014.
Posted 1013 days ago.
Unitedfor(a very slanted version of the)truth seems to have disappeared.
What? No answer for my exposure of the way the Washington Examiner twisted and fudged the Cal. Medical Association story?
When you gonna stand up for the real truth, Unitedfor(not even the)truth?
Posted 1013 days ago.
Oh, artic, you are so lost in delusion. All the administration is doing is making the system easier to work with while all the bugs are worked out. Eventually it will be overlaid just as was always intended. The ACA is alive and well. It is not going anywhere. Even the Republicans are saying that by 2017, which is the first opportunity they could have to repeal the law, it will be way too late to do so. Get used to it, it's here to stay.
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"I happen to be able to keep my group insurance precisely because it meets the mandates of the ACA -- always did, does, and will do."
Now this is funny, all of this talk for the last how many months about the people who had insurance cancelled because it did not meet the mandates of the ACA. They were told, dont worry, not a problem, the ACA will give you BETTER insurance. But whoa, wait a minute, NOW, Obama came out and said they CAN buy insurances that does not meet the mandates. Why? Oh yea, they found out the people are not going to buy into the ACA. So instead of facing the voters in the mid terms, he guts his own program. They administration just got caught with their pants down, NOW, damage control.
Posted 1013 days ago.
Won't work Blues!
Posted 1013 days ago.
The largest teacher union in Michigan is defending 39-year-old Neal Erickson, who was convicted of raping one of his male students for three years. The union demands that Erickson receive $10,000 in severance pay.
For what? Ovamacare?
Posted 1013 days ago.
The "Reagan Democrats" of the 80s may soon give way to the "Obamacare Republicans" of today, an outcome that could spell trouble for Senate Democrats seeking reelection as disaffected white voters increasingly reject Obamacare and its redistributive design.
How? All of Americans now have better healthcare, can keep their plans and doctors, and are getting $2500 a year savings. America should be jumping for joy over Obamacare.
Problem is Americans never liked it and now dislike Obamacare more than ever.
Posted 1014 days ago.
"The sad reality is that when the law takes effect come Jan. 1, more Americans will be without coverage under Obamacare than one year ago," Representative Fred Upton, a Michigan Republican who is chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said in an e-mail. "Rather than more White House delays, waivers, and exemptions, the administration should provide all Americans relief from its failed law."
Posted 1014 days ago.
Sure it will, bluetiered, and when it does your health care costs will go down $1000 and your copay will go away, right Blusie?
Posted 1014 days ago.
ObamaCare is dying from a lack of interest among the very people it was supposed to help. A New York Times survey showed that 77% of those who are currently uninsured do not approve of ObamaCare and have no intention of signing up.
With the president in full retreat and the individual mandate eroding, the end of ObamaCare is in sight!
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The keyword in Uniteds comment is everything that was sold to the public.
Posted 1014 days ago.
No such thing as New Deal or Great Society.
Posted 1014 days ago.
As much as the right-wingnuts psss and moan about the ACA, I happen to be able to keep my group insurance precisely because it meets the mandates of the ACA -- always did, does, and will do.
For now you do. Obamacare is supposed to be more affordable. Better sign up and save, plus Obama says it's better than other plans in the private marketplace.
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Damn! Jordan Brand is selling people flea market variant knockoffs?! These look terrible. Good bye to "Legendary" and hello to cost cutting. Out.
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The Concords are dropping in just two weekends, but some of you may already be looking forward to 2012 and the release of the Air Jordan IV in the 'White/Cement' colorway. This interesting new set of images of the upcoming drop shows the box-tag for the release – a re-designed Jordan Brand shoe-box tag that features a new font as well as a red/white color. However, one curious thing to notice is that the tag details the color as 'Cement Grey' opposed to the 'Tech Grey' that had been noted on earlier official Jordan Brand catalogs. So is it Cement, or Tech? And will we get a special OG-inspired box, like with what we saw with 2011's Air Jordan III releases? Check out the new pics below and be sure to let us know your thoughts in the comment section below. If you want to cop the White/Cements in advance, take a look at the few available pairs from el-store on eBay.
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Damn! Jordan Brand is selling people flea market variant knockoffs?! These look terrible. Good bye to "Legendary" and hello to cost cutting. Out.
These are a must for the 2012 sping/summer line up
jordan brand needs a new box
these are FAKES!
Regardless of all these "mistakes" some of you are pointing out about the shoes. I and I am sure the rest of America will still buy the shoes.
Y is everybody sweatin these shits. So many fours have re released and them shits is truly uncomfortable and they gonna crease in like an hour after walkin. I sold my military and grey yellow and black for shorts to bless somebody else with trash...... obsidian and playoff 12s. That's. Real comfort
Looks good but the overall shape of the shoe looks off.
Its clearly says "early sample"...I wouldn't trust em at all. JB contacted MN about that Label. This is the only guy with it. Picture surfaced yesterday. Probably printed it himself. Im just waiting till 2/18/2012 to cop. Never will I touch an early release.
double up on these bad boys
they should be a shamed of themseleves for having thay price on these. THe spot, the upside down air jordan tag in the tongue. and to me the tag on the frist of the tougue looks old. 55 dollars lol
All this hype for most likely nothing. shame on you sneakernews, this shouldn't be news. In the eBay description they note that this is an early production(sample) pair so they probably printed their own label to put on the box.
Yeah dog the flip Air Jordan in the inside of the tongues was there since the 99 joints. I wish they would put the Nike Air back like my crumbled sole blk joints.
anyone notice the air jordan on the inside of the tongue is upside down O.o and thats not the camera?
Can't wait to get these joints. I hope they drop the Bred 4's as well next year
Not for nothing, these 4's would be a lot sweeter with the "Nike aire" on the back heel/pull tab and the clear orange " Nike air" hang tag
Fuck the talk about quality and sticker tags gimme the damn shoe me myself need to pairs this summer my shoe game really gone be on fire
a lot of people on youtube got the pair already and say the quality is better but i dont belive them until i cop a pair.
who cares about a box/sticker! i just want the shoes!!!
upside down tag, spot on shoe, different sticker? something is real fishy here; pussy (get it?)
after the fake concord scandal, i am hesitant to ever buy a shoe before release date from a suspect source.
New sticker
the air jordan on inside of tongue is upside down....FAKES????
I know these are not as good as the 1999 retro but I'll take 2 purrs please!
OMG a new box looking ass
Lol, that's a big spot on the first pic! I'll wait till 2012
those guys sell B grade jordans i bought the cool greys from them early lastr year then i bought the retail pair huge difference in quality! on top of that my soles werent even icy!!!!!!!
:O New jordan box? Or cement 4 box?
Counting down the days
The tag on the inside is supposed to be upside down the box tag is the new one for 2012 the spot is probably because they are b-grades that got out look at all the other 4's and youll see the air jordan on the inside of the tongue is upside down
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Dumbass.... Go back to wearing vans.
Mars Blackmons
I agree
I hope to never see your name on any post .........EVER!!!! smh idiot
Weakest Dude in America!! hahahaha
You don't know your jordans! Even Stevie wonder see that's how the tongues are! ROOKIE
either a troll or its drake
HEY DUMB ASS back when these dropped people would rock the tounge down so the "AirJordan" would be right side up learn the history!!
lmao^ realistically?
thats how 4's come..do your research...i'm 16 and i know that.
google that before you be the little boy who cried "FAKES"
the air jordan is flipped upside down on the 4s cuz back in the day cats would flip the tongue down and then the patch would be right side up...get your knowledge up homie
have you honestly never had IV's before or what
To remind us of the increase!
it looks the same but maby it a new tag?
just the label sadly, i saw the story about 'em on modern notoriety
pass. what else is new sneakernews.
jeez i cant wait. the new box label is ill
People complaining about that grey can just suck it because I'll be one of the first in line for these.
****Fire red 4s (they are not going to have his face on the side) (Crickets chirping)
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