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Software Managers all around the globe, need to have some metric to estimate their workers. Sometimes the management event wants to create a precise and measurable way to know the programming progress and the developers productivity and performance. One of those methods is called SLOC – Source Lines Of Code. This metric is used measure the size of the software by counting the lines of the program source code. Some managers tend to love SLOC because it can be automated so it requires very little effort and the effect of it can be visualized. That is exactly what managers like! it is easy and it can be easily inserted into their reports, what could be better than that? It seems just perfect.
Well, those managers forgot one little issue here – this metric does a very poor job in measuring programming progress and developers productivity. I think that the amount of line of code is meaningless and it tells nothing about the project or about the developers. Let me quote Bill Gates: "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight". I would add another analogy: Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring house building progress by size. Building the skeleton of an house takes 3 month while the completion of it takes 1 year. If the construction manager would measure the progress by the size of the house, he would understand that the first three month were very productive while the other nine month were very poor and the workers were lazy! It is the same with software projects, it is more likely to gain the biggest amount of code line by the beginning of the project. Another thing is that it tells you nothing about the complexity of the problem, sometimes using a design pattern can decrease the amount of written code, is it a bad thing? Skilled developers may be able to develop the same functionality with far less code! An experienced developer will implement some functionality in fewer lines of code than another developer with relatively less experience, though they use the same language.
I think that those who use SLOC is wasting their time and I am sure that they can find better things to do, if they don't – they are just a spoke in the project wheels and they will be more helpful at home. This method creates a negative psychological impact on the developers, a programmer who is being measured in lines of code, will be rewarded for generating more lines of code even though he could write the same functionality with fewer lines. What do you think? is there a possibility that he will "blow" his code with unneeded complexity?
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Nick Cage
Said on September 9, 2008 :
So give us a better metric.
Said on September 9, 2008 :
@ Nick Cage
I will post about it in the following weeks.
Said on September 9, 2008 :
In my opinion, a better metric is velocity – the number of estimated/ideal hours for tested components that were created and deployed to the target environment (production or demo) per iteration. This needs to be adjusted by bugs created in an iteration.
Said on September 9, 2008 :
This is why I love languages that do not restrict whitespace.
I'm super fucking productive!
Said on September 9, 2008 :
SLOC is actually not that bad if you are using fully vetted specs. I worked at places where we had marketing/functional/technical spec fully locked down to the hour and pseudo-code. If you assin that to a developer and he is producing only 200 lines of code / week. There is a problem.
I completely agree with all the diffences you mention…thats why SLOC derivatives are better than SLOC alone.
I am not some big proponent of SLOC, I do think it does give you some kind of baseline. For example, there are tools that exponse SLOC metrics as KPIs. The manager can then see the developers that are doing a poor job, quickly drill into their work time sheets and see…"Oh this guy was at a conference" or "this guy was on this". I have seen tools like this used pretty effectively before managing decent sized teams 50+ developers. The number might be misleading, but a high level u can drill into why.
"sometimes using a design pattern can decrease the amount of written code" …actually almost all of the design patterns INCREASE the amount of code.
Said on September 10, 2008 :
Ok, so, today I finished a refactoring and I remove some lines of code. OMG, I have negative productivity!
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Said on September 10, 2008 :
SLOC is used as a software progress metric used by lots of the companies. It can be used and measured according to me. However, it cannot be the only metric that defines the plans and progress. As far as I know, Function Point is another metric used and i think, it gives more healtier results for estimation.
Function Point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_point
Thanks for the post.
Said on September 10, 2008 :
A feature driven development, and actual implemented features count looks more useful.
Said on September 10, 2008 :
This sounds a bit like "you shouldn't use 'miles' to measure travel progress, because the number of miles doesn't tell you how long it'll take till you reach your destination, or if you've been driving in circles." That is, maybe you just don't know what SLOC are good for?
Your house-buiding analogy is quite good I think: Nobody in their right minds would use size as a *progress indicator* for houses. But does that really mean that "size" is a useless measure, and that those using it are wasting their time? IMHO it would make sense for a builder to tell his client at the beginning of a project something like "a house of that size would take about 6 months to build, with 10 people working on it full-time, and an estimated cost of X". Of course that doesn't mean that every meter of a 10m house costs exactly X/10. Everybody knows that. But still, on average, and for comparable, the total size of a house is a handy indicator for the total cost of a project, for the cost of maintaining it, and so on.
Said on September 10, 2008 :
It's not enough simply to point out that counting the amount of code-lines isn't good, you need to suggest a better way for managers to estimate the project's progress or to evaluate the developer's contribution. In other words, maybe SLOC is like democracy – it sucks, but it's the best thing we have.
Said on September 10, 2008 :
Actually, Bill Gates' analogy (measuring weight in airplane building) was better than yours (measuring the area covered by a house under construction). The size of a house may not increase whatsoever once the frame is up; the size of the codebase and the weight of an airplane do increase as parts are added. The size of a house is an important aspect of a house' value for its own sake — not so for weight in airplanes or code-size in software. On the contrary, at any given level of power a plane's weight counts against its payload (besides adding to running costs). At any given computer speed and memory size, code size is a limit to useability and maintainability.
People may reject a house solely on its being too small; no one ever rejected an airplane that met all other spects solely because it didn't weigh enough; no one ever rejected a program that satisfied all its requirements save for a minimum required number of lines of code.
In that sense, code-size is not even analogous to miles traveled — even though you may get lost and go into circles, a successful trip is defined by the number of miles traveled in the correct direction. Not so for software development — no requirements document ever says something like "must contain at least 100,000 lines of properly-targeted code."
The only way to measure progress is via verifiable milestones in a development plan. My milestones, I mean sets of tests that the current codebase is able to pass.
Of course, objectively defining progress requires work and measuring progress against those definitions takes work, both of which reduce resources available to development. Projects with talented and trustworthy developers will always be more economical than projects with development teams requiring more oversight. (Projects with teams requiring oversight that don't get oversight will be the worst of all.)
Said on September 10, 2008 :
I think LOC is good- just not as a "measure of progress". For example, reducing LOC in a project can be a good thing if you keep the same features – it means your code is more efficient. But you'll never know if you're not measuring LOC.
Said on September 10, 2008 :
A point that has been missed here, IMO, is that once a developer knows his/her lines of code are being scrutinized they will intentionally write code that is more verbose.
For example, I can use C#'s ternary operator and use one line of code or I can use an if…else block and expand that same evaluation to at least 8 lines. I can make use of automatic properties and have an entire property declaration on a single line or I can break it out into a private member variable plus the individual get/set blocks for several more lines of code. Hell, I might even throw in some additional uneeded validation code for good measure and for at least 2 or 3 more lines. Finally, counting lines discourages good refactoring practices.
Another thing to consider is that more lines of code is not necessarily a good thing. In many cases this is just code bloat.
So what happens when developers start adding more lines to ensure they're being "productive"? Well, they increase the cyclomatic complexity of the methods they write which makes maintenance more difficult, which leads to delays and new bugs, which comes down to more development time and more cost to the company.
Sorry, Nikki, but in software development "size" is not an indicator of productivity. When you compare it to your 'miles' analogy you're truly missing the point. In development, you can usually say that smaller is better. You could also say that when driving, finding the shortest path to your destination and reducing your miles will actually get you there faster and reduce your gas costs.
Sorry, guys, but using lines of code as a productivity metric just doesn't wash.
Said on September 11, 2008 :
I don't know how many of u have designed a Business Intelligence application, but there are multiple approaches to this. Some users want to see the relevant metrics that deliver "true" insight. For example, say you are tracking 5 metrics that measure developer productivity. The user then picks only 2 out of the 5, because they are the most relevant to them how they run the business.
However, there is also the approach of "just report the numbers" and allowing the users (more hands on) mining or drilling into their own data. For example, manager logs into his portal and sees that Developer A wrote 125 lines of code in the last 2 months..he can drill in and find out why for himself.
If someone asked me today to write a business intelligence portal for development management. You better believe SLOC would be a metric that I would track. It is easy to understand (I disagree with all the semantics) and think its easy to justify why or why not someone is productive. Integrating that metric with say a time entry system to see how the LOC measure against current projects wouldn't be hard.
Said on September 11, 2008 :
In my last place of work, the boss there had the great idea of measuring performance by lines of code, till I started screwing with his statistics. Id go around and refactor his work, and by the end of the week, his automated program said I did -300 lines of code!
Andre Lombard
Said on September 13, 2008 :
I just recently finished a 6 week development task that added a huge chunk of functionality to an application. My progress was -17000 lines of code! This is just under half of the original size. The app is now more modular and easier for a new developer on the team to understand.
I agree with Jeff's cyclomatic complexity comment. A good tool to measure this is NDepend.
For counting lines of code, I can recommend http://www.locmetrics.com/ (it is _very_ fast) and it will give you various metrics (like logical lines, which exclude white space and comments).
Said on September 13, 2008 :
The reason any manager should want to measure any type of performance is to help Developer see his progress.
Manager need to be carefull that they are not measure activity but results.
Said on September 25, 2008 :
@skitzo lol
I hope I never work for a shop that measures progress / success by LOC.
As a matter of fact, if I were a manager hiring people based on developing a sample application that adhered to specific guidelines I'd take the one-liner aka the programmer with the most succinct source code over a verbose programmer any day.
if (foo)
bar = "1";
bar = "2";
bar = foo ? "1" : "2";
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Said on January 13, 2009 :
The basic problem with the article is that it assumes that the metric will be used to measure the productivity of individuals. If this happens, you can kiss the metric goodbye. If any individual feels that rewards and punishments are being distributed on the basis of the metrics, then they will game the metrics to make themselves look good. The metrics will become worthless.
Lines of Code is a good metric for normalization and for estimation, assuming that common sense is used(you can't add lines of assembler to lines of Perl). The most useful numbers are the new and deleted lines. For small bits of code, this information can be used to plan verification effort (inspections and tests). For example, if a 10000 line file has been modified by removing 100 lines and adding 150 lines, the amount of effort that is needed to reinspect and retest this file should be more closely related to the 250 lines of changes than to the 10050 lines of the total file. Other calculations such as defect density, verification speed are useful. Lines of code produced vs lines inspected or unit tested is also a useful measure. Check out http://www.thedreaming.org/~tomw for more on metrics, many of which are related to lines of code.
Said on October 7, 2010 :
On average, a programmer writes ten to one hundred lines per day, incl. debugging and database.
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So I've been planning on starting on my basement project for a while now finally started framing last week. I've never done any framing myself but I've done my research and feel comfortable starting the basic walls. As for soffits and tricky corners, I may have to ask the experts here or call a professional.
I'll post periodic updates and pictures here hoping experts to tell me what I'm doing right or wrong.
I've had a discussion with a Home Depot manager who is a building contractor himself. he mentioned I don't require any insulation, just put plastic moisture/vapor barrier for my location. I'm in Kansas City btw. my basement does not feel damp and haven't had any water/dampness issues yet. The house was built towards the end of 2008. I've attached photos of my first 16' wall that I just raised.
Thanks for looking.
ARe the crown of the studs all the same way...crown facing toward the inactive side of the wall which would be the outside wall?
not square
My first roadblock :furious:
Turns out that the framing wasn't aligned properly as I was trying to put the second frame. my frame wasn't right up against the right wall and I didn't use a plumb bob to check if it was straight (my first framing :( ).
Long story short, I need to move the top an inch to the right or the bottom an inch to the left. I'm thinking the top would be comparatively easier to move? There are 12 joists that I nailed this frame to and 5 nails driven using powder actuated nailer. What are my options at this point?
Why does one have to create walls in the basement? Why not create a floating or hanging roof and finish the floor? Wouldn't that create a place to hang out?
What is that white piece behind your frame?
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I have also recently started the job of finishing my basement but did things a little differently than you are.
I was told not to use plastic sheeting against the foundation as that will only trap moisture and eventually lead to mildew. I ended up using paper faced batt insulation. From what I was told, the paper on the insulation acts as the moisture barrier.
I also did not frame directly against the concrete foundation walls. I did not build the walls in sections and raise them into position. Instead I placed the bottom plate (which needs to be treated lumber) about two inches away from the foundation wall. I then added the vertical studs on each end, the top plate, followed by the studs in between. I don't know if this method is the preferred way but it worked very well for me. The benefit that I realized was that the plumbness of the exterior walls was irrelevant to the plumbness of my walls. When you leave a space, you can ensure that each stud that you put up is level and that the corners are truely 90 degrees.
As far as your problem goes, I don't know how you can unattach the stud wall without causing a great deal of damage. The only option that I see is to cut the top plate between each joist and pry the remaining nailed pieces out from the joists. This way you would only need to replace the top plate. I used screws for all of my framing which probably took longer and was more expensive but was nice for instances like this.
I am no expert, I just thought I would share a little bit of my experience in my basement. Here is a pic also of my framing.
Good luck,
Thanks for the reply. I'm thinking in the same direction to cut the top plate but since it's tightly jammed in there, I'm not sure how easy it would be to to pry the nails out without damaging the studs.
btw, your framing job looks really nice and clean.
that's how it's done around here! don't ask me why as I'm not qualified to answer the question. that white thing was my projector screen that I painted on the wall.
You want to move the wall plumb and it is nailed to the joists above?
Why not just cut the nails with a sawzall, putting the blade in between the topplate and the joist or blocking. Tap it plumb and re-nail. A chalkline along the joists would be a good idea as well.
problem solved! :thumbup: used hacksaw and was able to cut the nails and move and straighten the studs :D now my total upper body is sore!
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R-13 (cavity) required per code (minimum). No vapor barrier. A, B, C; http://www.buildingfoundation.umn.ed...jectReview.htm
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A bit confusing but what I got out of the articles is, according to code, I shouldn't use vapor barrier.
I'm in zone 4A and my basement wall R value is 10/13. so what's the best way to handle the vapor? leave it open or are there any material available that takes care of it. I know the house has moisture treatment applied on the outside walls. please advise.
you will also need some fire block foam or fire caulking and put it at the backside of the top of the wall plate where the space between the new wall plate and concrete block wall is. this stops drafts from entering the floor cavity above if ever there was a fire that got into the wall down there. fire foam is easier to work with than fire caulk...
inside and outside corners
I've seen several ideas for framing inside and outside corners. any recommended methods? (pictures appreciated)
a good and strong inside corner consists of.. on one wall put two ganged up studs in with 3 or 4 2x blocks spacing the 2 studs to 4 1/2" ( imagine 3 studs nailed together but the blocks take the place of the middle stud) .
on the other wall add one stud that nails to the ganged up studs. there will be 1 1/2" for drywall to nail to coming out of the corner of the wall and the other side will have 1" to nail drywall to.
you can also pre build the inside corner first and then put it into the wall...
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Reporting on campaign events this year, I've been struck by the political system's indifference to the greed of the 1 percent, income inequality and government spying.
It's sharply at odds with the anger visible in the Occupy movement and with the sense of economic injustice evident in the meetings of blue-collar workers I've attended. The political process is divorced from reality.
One congressional race in particular illustrates the point. It's for the seat representing the 33rd Congressional District, which occupies a portion of Southern California reaching from the San Fernando Valley suburbs through the wealth of Beverly Hills and Malibu to Santa Monica and Venice and middle- and working-class suburbs south of Los Angeles. Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman has been the representative for almost 40 years and now is retiring.
The Democratic 33rd has a per capita income of $61,273. With so many rich people, many of them political activists or dabblers, the district is a political fundraising treasure chest, and the winner of this election will have influence with donors.
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From the beginning of Waxman's career, he has fought for those who needed a break in education and protection against pollution, tobacco, overpriced drugs and bad medical care.
Rather than shouting on cable television news, he has shown his fury at injustice through influential legislation when the Democrats were in power and with muckraking investigations that turn up real evils.
Looking for a new Henry Waxman, I hit the 33rd Congressional District campaign trail. Sadly, I couldn't find anyone with Waxman's vision among the 17 candidates for the June 3 primary election.
Sorting them out is like shopping at Costco. So I chose a few Democrats who seem to have the best chance; a Republican, Elan Carr, who has surprising potential; and Marianne Williamson, an independent who is certainly the most intriguing candidate. Under California's primary system, the top two finishers will compete in a November runoff whether they are Democrats, Republicans or independents.
Only once did I get a sense of outrage. On a recent Monday night I drove to the Saban Theatre, a lushly restored former movie palace in Beverly Hills, to hear Williamson, who is well known as a spiritual adviser, author and inspirational speaker. People outside California might find it unusual that anyone could make a lot of money doing that, but here it's part of life.
While Williamson is an independent, she said that if elected, she would caucus with House Democrats.
The theater was packed with an audience ranging from the young to the middle aged. It was a contrast to the older folks I encounter among the usual sparse audiences at political meetings.
Williamson spoke in a rich clear voice, her sentences simple but powerful. The audience listened intently.
"Martin Luther King said we aren't living up to our creed," she said. "What is our creed? Our creed is that all men are created equal. Our creed is that there should be equal opportunity in this country. Our creed is that all men should be equal before the law. ... No man would be above any other man. It wouldn't just mean all men; it would mean all men and all women. It wouldn't mean just white men, it would mean black men and black women. It doesn't just mean straight men, it means gay men and women."
I thought of Aimee Semple McPherson. She was an evangelist who found her way to Los Angeles in the 1920s. As a spiritual adviser and inspirational speaker of the day, she began drawing thousands to large halls and churches and finally to her own Angelus Temple. She, like Williamson, spoke simply and clearly. As an immigrant from Canada herself, she understood how restless Southern Californians, in particular, were ready for her straightforward message. A biographer, Nancy Barr Mavity, wrote of the Los Angeles of Sister Aimee's time, "No other large city contains so many transplanted villagers who retain the stamp of their indigenous soil."
Williamson, like McPherson, is a migrant. She is Texas born and a college dropout. Reporter Terry Pristin wrote of her in a 1992 profile that "she roamed around the country, leading a dissolute life as a singer, cocktail waitress, office temp and bookseller and getting involved in a series of unhappy relationships."
That history meshed with Los Angeles and the rest of Southern California, still a place of immigrants and children of immigrants, with the fears and insecurities such a status brings with it. These people embrace leaders who preach populism and protest. Like the region's earthquakes, protests unexpectedly emerge with a bang. Some of them come from the right, notably those that produced anti-tax Proposition 13. Others are from the left, such as the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations and the Free Speech Movement. Protests have come from the old with the Depression-era pension movement; from the docks led by Harry Bridges' longshoremen's union; and from Central Valley by farmworkers under Cesar Chavez's banner.
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I have been in love with Bill Bailey for some time now. So when it transpires that our interview will take place at a bar so close to his home that once the allotted time is up, he could feasibly launch himself from his seat and land back on his sofa with his wife and son within seconds, with nothing more to show for his efforts than a couple of smashed window panes, it's a blow. None the less, I dry my eyes, raise a smile, and head to the west-London gastropub for 5.40pm, as arranged.
Bailey arrives moments later. He is friendly and polite, and briefly scours the bar menu before ordering a large glass of merlot and a plate of lamb kofta. His food arrives and he nibbles and laughs and jokes between mouthfuls, and all is going very nicely indeed until, several gulps later, the conversation leaps from a mutual appreciation of the clearance rails at TK Maxx to British politics – and with this untraceable digression, the comedian's entire demeanour shifts: his previously animated face crumples forward in his hands, silver rings pressing hard against his forehead.
I begin to wonder whether a long day promoting his latest tour on various radio shows has taken its toll. Or perhaps the tortuous ambient beats which spill out from speakers at every corner of the pub have done him in. For a few moments he lays there; all that is visible of the usually charismatic 44-year-old is the top of his head, with that semi-circle of hair swaying at his shoulders.
Then, without warning, he is back to life, with a tirade against the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Yvette Cooper, and her Tory Shadow, Theresa May, whose name he spits as if ejecting an olive stone from between his teeth. He is explaining why, having been at the Radio 4 studio that morning while the pair had been conducting an on-air debate, he will no longer be voting at the next general election: "They were going: 'Ne ne ne ne neeee!'" he demonstrates with two flailing hands, thumb and forefinger pinched into crab shapes. Mid-flow, he stops, and takes another slurp. Without looking up, he stabs a fork at his plate, chews, swallows, licks his lips and politely dabs a napkin along his perfectly triangular goatee. "So I just can't really be bothered," he finishes, placing his elbows square on the table, raising those huge quizzical eyes with a slightly alarming grin.
It's difficult not to love Bill Bailey. Even if we were holding our meeting somewhere really exciting, crammed with really exciting people, rather than here, in a near-empty gastropub in Hammersmith, he would, no doubt, still be the most interesting feature in the room. Even if he didn't have a physique which inspired the name of his show Part Troll; even if he wasn't sat before me this evening in a pin-stripe suit jacket and a bright white T-shirt with the head of a gorilla in headphones emblazoned on the front; even if he wasn't waving his arms enthusiastically at any given opportunity, it would still be a stretch not to want him to be my friend.
There is, above all, something irresistibly contagious about Bailey's passion for music, which rises to the point of spontaneous combustion during his live shows, as he bounds across the stage colliding with various instruments – at one point hammering out an imitation of a 1970s cop-show theme tune from his piano stool, swiftly followed by the Bee Gees' "Staying Alive" from his bassoon. "Bassoon players are actually obsessed by the Bee Gees," Bailey announced at a recent performance as he prepared to take up his next tune on the motion-censored Theremin. "For many years they have been incorporating the Bee Gees into classical works." He is, simply, a musical prodigy; other than cello and violin, he is unable to name a single instrument he cannot play; from the age of four, he'd spend hours at the piano, encouraged by his mother, who'd sit on the back of the sofa and listen to him tinkle away. Academically, he verges on genius too, achieving top marks at his private school in Bath with very little effort.
Bill Bailey was actually born Mark. A music teacher at school gave him the nickname, due to his ability to play the jazz song "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey" on the guitar, and it stuck. He was an only child, raised in the town of Keynsham, an unremarkable spot somewhere between Bristol and Bath, by his mum, a nurse, and his dad, a GP, with his maternal grandparents living in an annex of the same house.
In 2005, Bailey's mother died. "That year, and the year after that and I think the year after that, I was in a bit of a daze," he says. "You just think your parents are always going to be there." Even though his mother's cancer was terminal, the shock of her death was still devastating. "Before it happened, I expended so much energy thinking I must be able to sort this out," he recalls. "There was a terrible, slow, drawn-out inevitability to it all." He was locked into doing a show when she passed away. "I look back now," he continues, "and I don't know what the hell I was doing. I was going through the motions, not really engaging in anything."
As a teenager, Bailey says, "I'd gravitated towards people whose family life wasn't as ordered as mine, to those with younger parents, and a more relaxed home environment than my own." His adolescence synchronised with the emergence of punk. "When I was 15, I went to see the Stranglers at Bath Pavilion," he recalls. "I saw Jean-Jacques Burnel take off his bass and whack a skinhead over the head with it because he gave a Nazi salute. I thought: 'This is brilliant!'" Not long after, he joined a band, Behind Closed Doors, and with that, any commitment to school work went out the window. Then came the new-wave era and "appalling memories" of Spandau Ballet and his "short spiky-blond" hair-do. At present, he is planning a final blow-out before total baldness sets in: "A Hoxton mohawk, perhaps."
When he does, Bailey will simply call upon his very nice hairdresser, who visits him at his very large, very grand home, which stands back from an affluent, tree-lined street in Hammersmith. Along with a parrot, a chameleon, an unspecified number of cats, a few fish, two starlings, a guinea-pig, a rabbit and four dogs – three of which he rescued as puppies and had shipped over from their native Indonesia – Bailey also shares his home with his wife, Kristin, and their five-year-old son, Dax. What's it like inside? "It's a one-bedroom flat," he replies, deadpan. "There's straw on the floor and we shuffle around eating pineapple out of tins."
So then, to Bailey's wife, Kristin. The pair met at one of Bill's gigs in 1987. She was running a bar in Edinburgh. He was drawn to her "wild spirit", and pursued his wife-to-be via a daily letter for 12 months before they finally got together in 1988; 10 years later, they married on a whim, in Indonesia. "We were travelling around Asia and sailed into a place called Banda, with a beautiful lagoon, and a smoking volcano on one side and a Dutch colonial fort, an old church and remains of a little town on the other. We decided to get married there and then," he recalls.
Today, Kristin, a former costume designer, handles her husband's business affairs. Until relatively recently, one can't imagine it would have been much of a job. In the late Eighties, Bailey was trudging his not entirely successful stand-up routines up and down the country, performing with the likes of Mark Lamarr to markedly empty comedy clubs. In 1994, he performed the show Rock at the Edinburgh Festival with Sean Lock, with no more success – one night there was only a single face in the audience, that of Dominic Holland, a fellow comedian. At that stage, Bailey says he nearly gave it all up for a career in telesales. And it wasn't for want of trying that this plan failed – after two weeks selling advertising space, he was sacked for refusing to wear a tie.
Before that, Bailey had been something of a drifter. "In my twenties, I floated around for years," he recalls, "doing the odd theatre job but mainly leading a hedonistic lifestyle, getting intoxicated in plenty of different ways in plenty of different places." Ultimately, travel has given him a sense of appreciation for what it is to live in the UK. "Life is cheap in most of the world," he says. "I feel angry about it all the time. In India, a bus goes over a cliff and it's: 'Hey, tough! Never mind!' It makes you value the kind of structured, civilised ways we live our lives in this country."
Today, Bill Bailey is doing rather nicely. Following a breakthrough role, in 2000, in the television sitcom Black Books, alongside Dylan Moran and Tamsin Greig, he had a long-running captaincy on Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Last year he quit the show. Officially, because of a conflict in schedules, although at a recent gig in Bristol, he made a pointed comment about the feckless indie kids who feature in the programme. Now he is in his element, touring his most spectacular gig to date: Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra, which has been "the fulfilment of a life-time ambition". In this, accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra, Bailey celebrates the power of various musical instruments, one by one – at one point describing the role of the oboe through the history of the Emmerdale theme tune. It packed out London's Royal Albert Hall and various venues around the country, and moves to the 02 in Greenwich next week.
When he's not working, Bailey enjoys the simple things, like shopping in TK Maxx, and bird-watching: "As I get older, I have a very strong urge to know about stuff," he says. "I want to learn the names of trees and birds; that's the sort of knowledge I want to pass on to my son." He enjoys spending time with his five-year-old – picking him up from school, taking him to swimming lessons and piano classes. Like his father, Dax – who was named after a child Bill and Kristin met in Indonesia, not the German stock exchange or a hair product or a parasitical worm – has a great affinity with the piano. "I'm ashamed to say, it's without practising either," Bailey adds. "He just turns up and there it is, just as it was for me."
On the rare occasion that he is neither touring nor hanging out with Dax, Bailey might well be found at a Bikram yoga class in nearby Chiswick. A slightly incongruous hobby, which came about thanks to his former personal trainer, "a man who is inordinately clumsy for someone so fit. He was permanently in plaster, having come off his bike or fallen down the stairs or banged his head." All the same, he heeded his trainer's advice and now attends exercise classes in which a group of bodies, largely female, take on a series of contorted positions in a room heated to melting point. Funnily enough, he loves it. "At yoga you get some sense of spiritual space so that people don't intrude," he says. "You can go there and close your eyes and no one will talk to you. People are too worried about not fainting to bother with some bloke who was on the telly."
At several points during our conversation, Bailey brings up his experience with relatively new-found fame. He says he enjoys touring European cities where, unlike here, he can move around largely unnoticed. But he insists that he is still a cult figure. He doesn't want to be seen as part of popular culture, something which can be packaged and sold off. It's an aversion which becomes all-too-apparent when Bailey launches a scathing attack on the supermarket chain Asda, who recently approached him to appear in their advertising campaign.
"What annoyed me about that is that they thought they could just buy my popularity!" he spits, clearly rather cross. "They thought: 'He's a popular guy, people like him. We'll buy that off him and use it to make ourselves look nice and popular and lovely.' It was like: 'What's your price? Here's money. Here's a shit load of money. Here's loads more money!'" So how much did they offer him? "Many hundreds of thousands. They offered me £300,000 on the table there and then. 'Here you go, boom.'" He drops his hand hard on the table. "And I was intrigued. I went: 'Oh, tell me more' – like, never in a million years was I going to do it, but basically, they would have doubled it.
"Part of me thinks I should have taken it and no one would have batted an eyelid, you know?" With that, Bailey lets out a big, heavy sigh, as if the weight of the world has just been dropped on his shoulders. It seems he might collapse back on to the table-top at any moment, and is clearly in need of a big old hug, but then the waiter arrives to remove his empty plate. "Thank you so much," Bailey says, straightening his back, giving his head a swift shake. Without looking up, he dabs a napkin along his upper lip, places it neatly on the table. Finally he lifts his head and smiles. "So that was that."
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Gender: Male and Female
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Founded in 1970, Twin Lakes Summer Camp, located in central Mississippi, specializes in providing a Christian environment, quality facilities, excellent staff and exciting activities for campers ages 5-12. Day, Overnight and Leader In Training programs are available, as well as year-round facility rental.
Each week of camp is groudned in Biblical teaching where the campers learn from qualified, Christian summer staff members what it is to have a growing relationship with Jesus Christ. From our morning and evening cabin devotions,thematic assembly times, object lessons at each activity, as well as, purposeful and dedicated time with each camper, each campers experience is both personal and meaningful.
We haven't even mentioned all of the exciting activities available. Each camper takes part in everything that Twin Lakes Summer Camp has to offer. Horseback riding, challenge course, rock climbing and waterfront are just a few of our camper favorites! A new addition is "sling-shot paintball." And additional tried and true favorites are super fun games, canoeing, archery, four square, tennis, rope swings, three-story treehouse, disc golf, hammock land, counselor hunt, volleyball, soccer, face painting, cotton candy, sno cones, ice cream, s'mores and so much more!


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Claude Julien calls his team out for lack of effort after Game 1 loss
|05.15.11 at 12:31 am ET
Bruins coach Claude Julien was not satisfied with the level of his club's intensity following a 5-2 loss to the Lightning in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals Saturday night at TD Garden.
"I think we could've had a better effort," Julien said. "I think overall, as a team, we're definitely going to need to be better and get a better effort. The rust was even on both sides, as far as time off. You don't want to use rust as an excuse."
The Bruins actually came out strong, applying early pressure on Tampa Bay goalie Dwayne Roloson before the Bruins had a defensive breakdown over an 85-second span that gave Tampa Bay a comfortable three-goal cushion in the first period.
"The effort was something we're going to need more of," Julien added. "The other part was the fact that we gave them that 3-0 lead. It was like the Montreal series. I thought we gave them some easy goals and that was more of our doing than it was theirs. Until that point, I thought we had started the game really well and had good momentum but those three goals certainly set us back."
The Bruins will not be on the ice Sunday but return to practice Monday at TD Garden, with Game 2 scheduled for Tuesday night in Boston before the series shifts to Tampa Bay for Games 3 and 4 Thursday and Saturday.


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John Cena Turning Heel?, Kevin Nash's WWE Return, More
— John Cena was moved to both the 10pm and the 11pm timeslots on this week's RAW from CM Punk's hometown of Chicago because Punk's TV ratings patterns haven't been good. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that some WWE sources feel that Cena's feud with Kane is going to lead to a Cena heel turn. However, it still seems likely that WWE would risk turning their biggest star.
— Kevin Nash wrote on Twitter last night that he was fine and should be back in action in a couple of weeks.
— WWE referee Justin King will undergo undisclosed surgery in a few weeks and is expected to be sidelined for several months. The surgery is not related to any injuries on the job.


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CTX (Class to Xml) tool is a very simple tool which provides you a code editing environment in C# and VB.NET, compiles the source codes and lets you see the Xml output of all serializable types once successfully compiled.
Do you use Xml Serialization in .NET – if yes, you might be interested in this tool!
Have you ever thought "Hmm…now that I have written a serializable class, I wonder how will it look when it is Xml Serialized"?
If yes, you are in good company :). Sometime back I was involved in a project in which I had to develop a lot of business entity classes which would be Xml Serialized. Since these classes had to adhere to a specific schema, I had a tough time synchronizing the Xml Attributes and the final xml schema it generated when xml serialized.
The sequence of how I would go about doing this was like this:
- I would develop a draft version of xml schema.
- I would create a simple console project in which I would start writing the class to be serialized.
- This project will have a small code snippet which will create an instance of the serializable class and xml serialize it and then finally print out the xml output.
- I will keep comparing this output with my xml schema until they are in sync.
As I got involved in more and more projects (many of them my own 🙂 ) which came to have similar requirements, I decided to create a little tool which would automate the above tasks.
Introducing the Class to Xml (CTX) tool – a very simple tool which provides you a code editing environment in C# and VB.NET, compiles the source codes and lets you see the Xml output of all serializable types once successfully compiled.
How to use the tool
- Open up the source code files of the serializable classes you want to get the xml for (including all the files that are referenced) and select the language.
- Press F5. The whole list of files will be compiled.
- If compilation is successful, the Output pane would list all serializable types available in the assembly. If compilation failed, the Errors pane would list the errors.
- After successful compilation, select the required serializable type in the combo box; the Xml representation is displayed in the Serialized Xml text box.
The current test version source code (probably terrible) in Visual Studio 2005 is available here (The site is down due to site maintenance, please wait while I resolve this ASAP).
Do check it out and let me know your comments.
I plan to finalize the code soon…er, I have no idea how "soon" though 🙂


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Eventbrite Adds an Invite-Only Feature
Here at Eventbrite, we're inclusive by nature. We're constantly designing new features that help you share more events, more easily, with more of your friends. Recommendations based on the events your Facebook friends are attending? Check. Simple social media buttons? Yup.
But we also know that for some events, more social isn't what you're looking for. It's kind of awkward when someone who didn't go to your high school shows up at the reunion…
That's why we're excited to announce a brand-new "invite-only" feature. We've offered "private" and "password protected" settings for a long time, but this takes things a big step further. When you enable the new feature, only users specifically invited to a given event will be eligible to purchase tickets.
Here's how it works. Go to the Edit page and scroll down to Step 8. You'll see a new checkbox that lets you set the event to invite-only. Note that if you select this option, only guests who receive an invitation will be able to register.
Once you've selected the invite-only privacy setting, we place a large notification message on your Manage page to highlight that invitations must be sent for attendees to register.
The invitations your guests receive will appear in this format:
And if someone visits an invite-only event page without an invitation, he or she will see a limited view of the page, with both the "Where" and "Ticket type" areas hidden:
And that's it! We've been getting requests for this feature for awhile, and we're really excited about the improved experience it will offer for many organizers. So to help get the ball rolling, we put together a quick list of 10 types of events that we think can benefit from "invite-only":
- Company events
- "Members only" events
- Class reunions
- Industry-specific events
- Private tastings
- Book and album release parties
- VIP tickets
- Giveaways to clients
- School dances
- Gallery openings
Plus many, many more. Here's a full tutorial on the feature.
Enjoy, and let us know how you plan to use invite-only! And while you're at it, check out this little video we made…


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Auditing firm used by city faces state probe
Forest Grove officials say they have no complaints about the Tigard-based firm that is owned by a county commissioner
The auditing firm used by the City of Forest Grove is being investigated by its state oversight agency on complaints of professional misconduct.
Neither of the complaints against Pauly Rogers and Co. is related to its work in Forest Grove, and the city's finance director said he has been pleased with the service given by the Tigard-based firm.
Pauly Rogers' primary trouble stems from its contract with the City of West Linn, where it gave clean audits as an employee embezzled $1.4 million over a five-year period.
The firm, which has dozens of contracts with public agencies and non-profit organizations throughout the Portland metro area, is under scrutiny by the state Board of Accountancy for both its work in West Linn and for a recent audit the firm completed for the Portland Public School District.
The school district filed a complaint detailing concerns about the methods of a Pauly Rogers auditor, noting missing paperwork and violations of generally accepted accounting principles.
The City of Lake Oswego terminated its contract with Pauly Rogers in May, shortly after the theft in West Linn was discovered.
Earlier this month Forest Grove decided to re-bid its auditing contract, but city officials said it had nothing to do with the trouble in West Linn or Portland.
'They've been our auditors since 1997 and they've done a good job,' said Paul Downey, the City of Forest Grove's finance director.
'It's not that we're dissatisfied with their service,' Downey said at the Feb. 12 city council meeting. 'But many cities rotate auditors every few years and it may be time for the city to do that.'
He said the firm would be encouraged to submit a bid for the new auditing contract.
Pauly Rogers' president Roy Rogers, who is a Washington County Commissioner, said last month that the complaints involve audits supervised by his former partner, L. Parry Ankersen, and that he was not informed about the complaints until recently.
'I was not involved with the preparation, supervision or the review of anything regarding the City of West Linn, and I have no knowledge of any of the activities,' Rogers said.
He said he also did not participate in the Portland Public Schools audit.
'That complaint, if you read it, is focused on Mr. Ankersen,' Rogers said.
Ankersen denied any wrongdoing. He said he recently left the Pauly Rogers firm and moved to a new office in Lake Oswego. Ankersen declined to discuss the topic further, saying it was a private matter.
'These matters will be investigated,' he said in a written statement.
'I intend to cooperate fully with the board. I expect that there will be no adverse findings with respect to my work on these audits.'
Investigations complex
The two investigations by the Board of Accountancy are still in the beginning stages, said the board's administrator, Carol Reeves.
She said that although both complaints are high priorities - the board itself initiated the West Linn complaint - lack of staff and resources often delay investigations for a year or more. In the case of the Pauly Rogers complaints, she estimated that they would not go before the board for a decision until next fall.
'Both of these (complaints) are very complex. They require expertise, and the board has not yet determined how we will conduct the investigation,' Reeves said.
The board, a group of seven accountants appointed by the governor, is charged with regulating the performance of all services provided by the more than 8,500 accountants registered to practice in Oregon.
Once an investigation is complete, complaints typically go to a complaints committee that reviews the research and then makes a recommendation to the board on how to respond.
If wrongdoing occurred, the board has significant discretion to discipline, Reeves said. Fines could be levied, licenses can be revoked - or the board may require an auditor to get additional training.
But wrongdoing, she said, is not easy to determine.
Audit quality difficult to judge
'I wouldn't be able to recognize if an audit was good or bad,' Reeves said.
Although the industry has standards and principles guiding auditors through its work, much of what an auditor does and how he does it is guided by a number of variables, making each audit unique and difficult for someone outside the accounting industry to second-guess.
Fraud, such as was discovered in West Linn, does not mean an auditor did poor work, the experts say. Indeed, they argue that one of the biggest misperceptions of their industry is that they are supposed to discover fraud if it is occurring in the agency they are reviewing.
Phil Hopkins, audit manager for the state Audits Division which is managed under the Secretary of State, said that most auditors are hired to review financial statements prepared by the staff of the agency they are reviewing and determine, using tests, whether it is likely that the statements fairly represent an agency's financial position. Fraud, if done well, can be hard to find because auditors are not looking at every transaction.
'They're not responsible for detecting it,' Hopkins said, 'But they are supposed to go through scenarios to come up with a risk assessment of whether there may or not be fraud.'
Downey, the Forest Grove finance director, has monitored the situation in West Linn and told councilors that officials in that south suburban city shoulder some of the blame.
'Part of the responsibility sits on West Linn because they didn't make their books available to the auditor,' he said.
Cathy Brucker, the finance manager for the Tualatin Parks and Recreation District, said her agency also has been happy with Pauly Rogers.
'We had no concerns with the job they were doing while they were here,' said Brucker.
The park district employed Pauly Rogers from 2000 through 2004 before recently selecting a new auditor.
Brucker said the move was not related to job performance.
And the City of Gresham, which is in the end of its third year of a three-year contract with the auditing firm, is putting the contract up for new bids this year.
The city has no complaints with the work that has been done, said Terry McCall, Gresham's finance and management services director.
'It's a reputable firm that has been in business for years,' McCall said. But, 'I don't think we can ignore the West Linn situation.'
John Schrag, Jim Hart and Mara Stine all contributed to this story. More details about the West Linn and Portland School District complaints can be found in an earlier version of this story at www.localnewsdaily.com.


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A burglar broke the passenger-side windows of at least five vehicles on Shore Boulevard and Beaumont Street in Manhattan Beach.
The vandalism appears to have taken place early Saturday morning. Reader Dimash sent in the accompanying photo and tip, saying that he notified the police.
"Can't really blame mute swans for this," Dimash writes in an e-mail.
Overnight car break-ins continue to be a frequent problem in Sheepshead Bay and Manhattan Beach, and is a recurring topic at the 61st Precinct's Community Council meetings. Thieves smash windows and ransack the cars for anything from loose pennies to GPS devices and merchandise left in the car. The precinct has said in the past that the perpetrators are often drug users seeking to fund their addiction.
Police continue to remind residents not to leave anything of value in an automobile, including pennies in the cup holder. While incidents have been reported all over the neighborhood, dimly lit streets like Shore Parkway in Sheepshead Bay are frequent targets. Try to park on a well-lighted block whenever possible.


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Will Rose, the Esperanza's photographer, has been keeping himself busy documenting life on board the ship as well as some of the incredible sights the crew have already encountered on their journey north. They've seen whales, the Northern Lights and the Persaid meteor shower. Not that I'm jealous.
More of Will's photos will be appearing in the Esperanza Flickr set.


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Influenza, or flu, is a contagious respiratory infection caused by several flu viruses that infect the nose, throat and lungs. People infected with the seasonal flu virus feel miserable with fever, chills, muscle aches, coughing, congestion, headache and fatigue for a week or so. Most people who get the flu get better within two weeks, but some people may develop serious complications, such as pneumonia. Pandemic influenza is when a new flu virus strain occurs that can spread easily from person-to-person and the virus is one for which most people have no immunity.
Why Is the Study of Influenza a Priority for NIAID?
Each year, seasonal influenza sickens millions and causes thousands of hospitalizations and flu-related deaths. Even healthy people can get very sick from the flu and spread it to others. Flu infection can present particularly serious problems for young children, the elderly, pregnant women and people with certain medical conditions, such as asthma and heart disease. In addition to seasonal influenza, NIAID is also working to prepare for a potential pandemic flu threat. Pandemic flu occurs when a new flu virus strain emerges for which humans have little to no immunity, which enables the virus to spread easily from person-to-person. Flu viruses of this type can sicken millions around the globe.
How Is NIAID Addressing This Critical Topic?
NIAID is conducting and supporting research to find new and improved ways to diagnose, treat and prevent influenza infection. This includes working toward a universal flu vaccine that could provide long-lasting protection against multiple strains of influenza, such as those that cause seasonal flu as well as emerging forms capable of causing a global pandemic.
To learn about risk factors for the flu and current prevention and treatment strategies visit the MedlinePlus flu site.
NIAID has a longstanding commitment to conducting and supporting the basic research necessary to understand how influenza strains emerge, evolve, infect and cause disease (called pathogenesis) in animals and humans. Results from this research are used to inform the design of new and improved influenza vaccines, diagnostics and antiviral drugs to treat flu infection.
Developing new and improved influenza vaccines as well as a universal flu vaccine are high priorities for NIAID. Specifically, NIAID conducts and supports research to find innovative technologies to improve vaccine production flexibility; new more broadly protective flu vaccines; create vaccines that are effective against newly emerging influenza viruses; develop adjuvants to boost vaccine results; and create a universal flu vaccine effective against multiple influenza strains.
NIAID conducts and supports research to find faster, more accurate, cost-effective, and portable ways to diagnose the flu. Rapid diagnostics that enable medical professionals to quickly determine if a patient has the flu – and if so, which strain – can ensure that the patient receives the most appropriate care.
Time is of the essence when treating influenza. Several antiviral drugs are approved for flu treatment, but they are most effective when taken within the first two days after flu symptoms appear. NIAID conducts and supports research to develop a new generation of antiviral drugs to treat the flu and the severe illness that can result from it.
What's New:
Latest News Releases
NIAID Flu Experts Examine Evolution of Avian Influenza , January 18, 2017
For Researchers:
NIAID conducts and supports clinical research to find new influenza vaccines, treatments and diagnostics through its Division of Intramural Research, the Division of Clinical Research, its Vaccine Research Center and through its Vaccine Treatment and Evaluation Units
NIAID encourages partnerships among other agencies and foundations, private industry, federal and local government and other organizations with similar goals to help build and sustain research infrastructure and to translate and implement research findings as public health practices.


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Optilock bases are machined from a solid block of steel just like Sako steel rifles. The front bases have a solid angled left side and a similarly angled right side with a clamping device. This base design connected to Sako rifle's integral dovetail rail allows you to adjust the horizontal position of the scope objective end without touching the scope adjustment.
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Fri, 10/18/2013 - 03:49pm
Krueger Elementary will be honoring our Veterans with our traditional Halls of Honor. We would like to invite your family to participate in honoring our Veterans. If you have a family member who has served or is currently serving in any military branch of service, please click here to download the form, fill it out and return it to your child's teacher by Oct. 25.
We will celebrate Veterans' Day in many ways. Our entire student body will meet in the gym on Friday, Nov. 8th to jump start us into the next week's activities. Our program will begin at 7:55 and should be over by 8:30. If you have a loved one who has served or is currently serving for our country, we would love to recognize them during the program.
During the week of November, 11th – 15th there will be many activities. Each branch of the military will be honored on its own special day. You may want to contact your child's teacher to see if you could meet with their class or eat lunch with your child during the day.
After our PTA Meeting on Tuesday evening, Nov. 12th at 6:00, there will be another chance to recognize your family member. Please plan on attending the PTA meeting and celebrate along with our Fifth Grade Choir as they honor all of our Veterans past and present.
As always, our students love to see our service men and women in their uniforms. This is one way of helping students to plan for their future. So if your uniform still fits and you would like to wear it when you come, we would have one more chance to say, "Thank you!" when we see you in the hallways.
We will honor our servicemen and servicewomen from this branch on the following days:
Monday, November 11- ARMY- Wear Green or Camouflage
Tuesday, November 12- NAVY- Wear White and/or a Sailor Hat
Wednesday, November 13- MARINES- Wear red and/or blue
Thursday, November 14- AIR FORCE- Wear Blue and/or gray
Friday, November 15- COAST GUARD- Wear Red, White and Blue


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Lions wide reciever Calvin Johnson didn't practice at all this week due to a knee injury, but that's of no concern to head coach Jim Schwartz who said Johnson has missed full weeks of practice before and has still played.
"[H]is health is a more important thing," Schwartz said.
Johnson has been bothered by a knee problem lately, and he admitted it affected his ability to plant and cut last week against the Seahawks. But he'll continue to tough it out, and he'll play in Week 9 versus the Jaguars.
Fantasy Analysis:
I so want to drop a "We ain't talking about the game. We talking about practice." Except to see Johnson miss a lot of practice time for as long as his knee is bugging him, but he will most likely suit up every week. We know he's not the No. 1 WR in fantasy right now, but you should still start Calvin without question, especially against a Jacksonville pass defense which could be without its top two corners this Sunday. If anything, I think you should buy low on him. And if you want to sell him, you should still aim high; you'll find plenty of people who believe he will turn it around.


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Leonie is visiting her father's office for lunch when she meets Vidal, the president of the company. Asked out to lunch by this billionaire industrialist of aristocratic Portuguese heritage, Leonie is over the moon. But later that night, he reveals his true desire: her body. Shocked, Leonie declines his marriage proposal the next day. Two years later, Leonie asks to speak with Vidal, who she swore never to see again. Her father has embezzled corporate money, and Leonie attempts to repent, but Vidal demands coldly, "I order you to marry me."
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text: The immense complexity of designing, developing, and maintaining Information Technology (IT) systems has been widely noted. One or more problems may occur with local workstations, their connection to a network, the network itself, its connection to receiving workstations, the receiving workstations, user error or misbehavior (inadvertent or intentional), and even the actions of IT technicians themselves. The range of material that IT technicians must master ranges from basic computer and network hardware, through ever-changing operating system, network, and application software, to a variety of client services, permissions, and administration. US Navy ships are increasingly dependent upon IT systems, which has created an urgent and growing need to accelerate the development of IT expertise. Tutorial instruction has been shown to both accelerate and deepen learning, but providing a single human tutor for each of the 1500-2000 sailors receiving IT "A" school certification training each year is unaffordable. Digital (computer-based) tutoring systems may offer a solution. Assessments of a DARPA Digital Tutor project have found that it can in 16 weeks produce sailors whose IT knowledge and troubleshooting capabilities substantially exceed those of other sailors receiving 35 weeks of classroom instruction and those of experienced ITs with 7-9 years of experience in the Fleet. These findings suggest both monetary and operational value in terms of cost-effectiveness and return on investment over current education and training practices in IT and related areas.


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It's the fight for the beat matchers, the match for the scratchers, and the fix for the mixers… The OUSA Future DJ competition is the DJ battle on campus that gives the bedroom DJ's of Otago their first shot at playing out, and puts some of the best local DJ's up against their little known foes. The Future DJ comp is a sweet social night that gives DJ's the chance to win some sweet booty (money that is…) and gives them a chance to show off their best 15 minute mix in an attempt to walk away with the title of Future DJ champion.
The competition will be held at Re:Fuel on Wednesday the 27th of July, and entries close at 5pm on the 25th of July. Future DJ is the easiest way for an upcoming DJ to get recognised and past champions have gone on to big things!
You've got to be in it to win it so ENTER HERE!