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Student syndrome refers to the phenomenon that many students will begin to fully apply themselves to a task only just before a deadline. This leads to wasting any buffers built into individual task duration estimates. The term originated in Eliyahu M. Goldratt’s novel-style book[not specific enough to verify] Critical Chain. The principle is also addressed in Agile Software Development[not specific enough to verify]. For example, if a group of students goes to a professor and asks for an extension to a deadline, they will usually defend their request by noting how much better their project will be if they are given more time to work on it; they request this with the intent to distribute their work time across the remainder of the time until the deadline. In reality, however, most students will have other tasks or events that place demands on their time. They will often end up close to the same situation they started with, wishing they had more time as the new delayed deadline approaches.

This same behaviour is seen in businesses; in project and task estimating, a time- or resource-buffer is applied to the task to allow for overrun or other scheduling problems. However, with student syndrome the latest possible start of tasks causes the buffer for any given task to be wasted beforehand, rather than kept in reserve. Like students, many workers do not complete assignments early, but wait until the last minute before starting, often having to rush to submit their assignment minutes before the deadline. A similar phenomenon is seen every year in the United States and Mexico when personal tax returns are due, as large numbers of people queue until their post office closes, in order to get their tax return postmarked.

“Sting’s 1991 album The Soul Cages was dedicated to his recently deceased father and included the Top 10 song “All this Time” and the Grammy-winning “Soul Cages”. The album eventually went Platinum. The following year, he married Trudie Styler and was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in music from Northumbria University.” —Sting

“Over the years, O’Reilly has been criticized by or had disputes with many public figures including Al Franken, Bill Moyers,[21] George Clooney, Rosie O’Donnell, Ariana Huffington, Ludacris, Snoop Dog, Sean Penn, Mark Cuban, Chamillionaire, Joe Scarborough, and Keith Olbermann, sometimes in response to commentary by O’Reilly. He draws criticism from political media watchdog groups like Media Matters for America and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting” —Bill O’Reilly

“It’s kind of like being a Rock Star, but in a library — full of nerds” —John

ROFLCon summarized by the good folks at Super Deluxe, it’s too bad really -

“In Super Deluxe.com and Adult Swim.com, we have businesses whose potential for individual growth is limited by their increasingly complementary content. Rather than position them as competitors for the same audience, the smarter move is to consolidate the two brands to create a richer, stronger platform that builds on Adult Swim’s number-one position with young adults.” —Paste

screw the pooch (third-person singular simple present screws the pooch, present participle screwing the pooch, simple past screwed the pooch, past participle screwed the pooch)

1. to screw up; to fail in dramatic and ignominious fashion

The term was first documented in the early “Mercury” days of the US space program. It came there from a Yale graduate named John Rawlings who helped design the astronauts’ space suits. The phrase is actually a bastardisation of an earlier, more vulgar and direct term which was slang for doing something very much the wrong way, as in “you are fucking the dog!” At Yale a friend of Rawlings’, the radio DJ Jack May (a.k.a. “Candied Yam Jackson”) amended this term to “screwing the pooch” which was simultaneously less vulgar and more pleasing to the ear.

It is thought that humans can contract the disease by consuming material from animals infected with the bovine form of the disease. The only suspected cases to arise thus far have been vCJD, although there are fears — based on animal studies — that consuming beef or beef products containing prion particles can also cause the development of classic CJD.

Cannibalism has also been implicated as a transmission mechanism for abnormal prions, causing the disease known as kuru, found primarily among women and children of the Fore tribe in Papua New Guinea. While the men of the tribe ate the body of the deceased and were not affected, the women and children ate the brain and contracted the disease from infected brain tissue. —Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

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