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Discover God�s Blueprint for Living in Protection, Prosperity and Power!
�Remember His covenant forever, the word which He commanded, for a thousand generations.� (1 Chronicles 16:15)
Covenant is not some spiritual idea limited to those who lived in Bible times � it is a theme that covers the scope of Scripture and its power is available for your life today! Understanding the Secret Power of Covenant will:
� Dramatically change the way you pray � from begging like an orphan to receiving from your Father like a son or daughter
� Unlock and release your covenant inheritance of divine protection, prosperity, and power to overcome
� Release God�s supernatural restoration in your family as covenant is accessed and practiced
For too many Christians, God�s covenantal blessing is not a lifestyle, but a life preserver they cling to during times of crisis, need or lack.
It�s time for you to break this cycle, experience God�s perfect plan for your life, and live in His covenant blessing!
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The Secret Power Of Covenant Paperback Book was published by Destiny Image in January 2014. The ISBN for The Secret Power Of Covenant Paperback Book is 9780768442472.
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By analyzing historical sales growth rates for both companies, the answer is in 2023, just 11 years from now.
I like to distill our economy's complex transition from store-based retailing to web-based retailing into a more easily understood battle between the Titans of Retailing: Walmart, which dominates store sales, and Amazon, which dominates e-retailing.
At first blush, it seems hard to compare the two at all. In its fiscal year 2012 (ended Jan. 31, 2012), Walmart's global sales totaled $444 billion, making it the world's largest company in terms of revenue. If Walmart were a country, its economy would be the world's 28th largest, just ahead of Austria and South Africa. By comparison, Amazon finished 2011 with sales of $48 billion—about one-tenth that of Walmart's sales. If these two are the Titans of Retailing, Walmart deserves upper case T and Amazon a lower-case one.
Amazon Grows Four Times Faster Than Walmart
Yet, this is not a matter of where these companies are today. It's a matter of how fast they are growing into the future. In the last 10 years, Walmart has grown at a compounded annual growth rate of 8.24%. Amazon, by comparison, has grown at 31.4% per year for the last 10 years—almost four times as fast as Walmart.
In Walmart's defense, it's fair to note that it's harder for the world's largest company to grow at an Amazon rate because it's operating from a much larger base. The best small companies typically grow faster than the best large ones for that very reason.
But what if we looked back to when both of these companies were small. That would have been when they each went public and barely registered on any business analyst's radar. In the year before it went public in 1970, Walmart generated total sales of just $31 million. (Today it sells that much merchandise in about 18 minutes of operation.) When Amazon went public in May 1997, it had just reported 1996 sales of only $16 million.
From Start-Up to $48 Billion in 15 Years
At the end of its first 15 years as a public company, Walmart had stunned the retailing world by generating sales of $6.4 billion. That was a stunning achievement for a retail chain—easily the fastest growth rate ever recorded by a retail chain. But it pales in comparison to Amazon's growth in its first 15 years as a public company. During that period, the Seattle-based web merchant grew from a standing start to $48 billion in annual sales—fully 7.5 times the size Walmart reached after its first 15 years as a public company.
That brings us to projecting how these two titans of retailing will grow during the next 15 years. In my presentation at last week's IRCE 2012 conference, I projected Walmart's growth during the next 15 years at 9% per year, which is slightly faster than its actual growth rate in the last 10 years and assumes a gradual economic recovery.
In contrast, I projected Amazon's annual growth rate at 30% during the next 15 years. Before you suggest that such a rate is way too generous, consider this. Amazon grew at 31.4% per year in the last 10 years, but its growth actually accelerated in the last five years to a CAGR of 35%, even as the U.S. economy weathered a Great Recession and a tepid recovery. Here's another consideration: In its second 15 years as a public company, Walmart grew at a compounded annual rate of 23.6%, which equates to 55% of its annual growth during its first 15 years as a public company. If Amazon's growth rate slows in its second 15 years as a public company in the very same manner as Walmart's growth did in its second stanza, Amazon would still grow in its second 15 years at 39%, or just over half of its first 15-year growth rate.
Why Walmart's Focus Must Be Online
Given this context, projecting Amazon's growth at 30% per year for the next 15 years seems more than reasonable, and some might say even conservative. And if these 15-year growth projections are accurate—30% for Amazon and 9% for Walmart—then Amazon becomes a larger company than Walmart in 2023, just eleven years from now.
I'm not saying this will happen, but it is clearly where the trend lines are leading. And you can bet this is exactly the scenario Amazon wants to happen. Its strategy does not envision playing second fiddle to Walmart or anyone else. Walmart's challenge, of course, is to prevent this projection from being realized. But in order to do that, the Titan of Store Retailing must make online retailing its top priority, because the days of rapid growth of store-based retailing are over.
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By Ann Tatko-Peterson
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 at 9:24 am in Schools.
Update: Antioch trustees approved the trip. Antioch's "Music Masters" are Hawaii-bound.
Antioch Unified School District is set to decide Wednesday whether 27 Antioch High students can miss four days of school for a music competition trip. Music Masters Director Ron Molina shortened the trip from six missed days, but that still may not save the excursion to Hawaii. As board member Claire Smith noted in a Times article by Rowena Coetsee, "If the children are not at school, they cannot learn." OK, with that, I take exception. Schools have put such an emphasis on college preparation, that enrichment programs have gotten short-shifted to the point that perhaps we are profoundly hurting our children's education. I know, because while honors and AP classes prepared me for college, it was the enrichment end of my education that prepared me for my career.
I was luckier than most American students. With a father in the military, I attended a Department of Defense school in Ramstein, Germany, for my last three years of high school. We had the best of the best in terms of teachers. Funny thing about that group of the best, they taught dozens of advanced placement courses while also running one of the most extensive extracurricular programs I've ever seen in a school. Teachers encouraged me to make the most of both offerings, and so, I did. By the time I graduated, I had enough AP credits to fulfill a semester and a half at Penn State, which allowed me to double major and still graduate from college in four years and two months.
Those were academics as we define them today. But they weren't how I learned. The real lessons came outside of the classroom and more specifically, on the trips I took with fellow students. I belonged to the Future Business Leaders of America, and by my senior year, was president of the club on the state level. That club alone resulted in my missing 10 days worth of school for leadership conferences in four different cities. I also attended speech competitions — a half dozen more missed school days — where a once shy kid turned into an orator capable of speaking confidently in front of six judges and more than 200 other students. I was a section editor for the yearbook (which included two more missed days of school for a big conference) and the overall editor of the school newspaper (three missed days for a major newspaper convention in which I met and learned from New York Times and Washington Post editors and writers). Altogether, I missed at least three weeks of school in my senior year — the same year I pulled in 22 credits on the AP tests.
And here's the real kicker, what I really learned happened on the road, well beyond my high school. I met like-minded students with unique ideas and skills that over time I integrated with my own philosophies. I learned about winning and losing in competitions. I experienced the cultures of the places visited and saw firsthand the power of teamwork at play. Today, I cross paths with a lot of smart people, some of whom made academics the benchmark of their education. Sadly, a lot of these folks have no idea how to interact or work with colleagues.
So, I take exception to board member Claire Smith's explanation that children not at school fail to learn. Instead, the board should work with teachers to outline a plan so students can make up missed tests. (In our school, the teacher who organized the field trip held a test session during the week after our return; he or she then administered all of the tests and handed them over to the respective teachers for grading.) Smith also used the "other opportunities" line to excuse the board possibly denying Antioch's trip to Hawaii. She noted that the students could have gone during spring break — a time usually reserved for family vacations. Again, look at the bigger picture. These students have few years left with their families, let's not infringe on that time. Allow them to have a valuable learning experience, even if it's one that comes outside of the classroom.
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Syfy's newest Canadian import, "Lost Girl" (premiering Jan. 16 at 10 p.m.), has found much success in its home country. In fact, it was the highest-rated Canadian scripted series debut ever on Showcase, its network to the North.
So how will it fare on American TV? Well, judging from the first episode, it'll fit quite nicely on Syfy's programming slate alongside "Being Human."
Anna Silk stars as Bo, a Succubus who doesn't actually know she's a Succubus until two supernatural cops track her down after she sucks the life out of a date rapist in an elevator. (How very "Dexter" of her.)
Turns out, she's part of a supernatural race called "Fae" -- and so are the cops ( Kris Holden-Reid and K.C. Collins), though they're different species with different powers. This doesn't sit well with the "True Blood"-style Fae hierarchy, who force her to fight to the death with some other creepy creatures. When she survives, she has to choose whether to align herself with the light or the dark Fae.
Since Bo's a rebel who never even knew this underground, "Harry Potter"-style world existed, she declines to choose, instead staying with the feisty teenager, Kenzi ( Ksenia Solo), whom she rescued from the creepy date rapist before. She's the Robin to her Batman, if you will.
The fast-paced series has a rock-edged soundtrack, mild snarkiness and plenty of sensuality (which is to be expected from a show about a woman who feeds on people's sexual energy). Bo is a vaguely "Buffy"-esque heroine, who has apparently found a skilled tailor to craft her entire wardrobe out of form-fitting black leather. Which is to say we love it. It's not exactly groundbreaking TV, but it's fun, sexy and filled with "Degrassi" alums -- easy to watch and incredibly addictive.
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Change at Sf.net
I very much feel like I've been running non-stop for the last couple of months. Last month we pushed out a new unified theme, while recovering from the attack earlier this year, making many small tweeks to the user interface. And now to top it all off this month we open sourced our new beta tools.
I have a feeling 2011 is going to be a long, tiring, and ultimately a great year. It's certainly started out that way!
Open Source, Open Process, and an Open Framework
I think the decision to open source the forge is a huge step forward for sourceforge.net. We are moving towards:
I can't take credit for any of this. Since I started here two years ago, I've had the pleasure of working with a great team of people who care about Open Source, care about the site, and want to make things better.
We've released several libraries along the way, but I know we've all been looking forward to the release of the forge platform. It's built on a powerful and flexible python stack, and while we know there are many places where we could have done better, we are proud to be a part of building the future of sourceforge.net.
And I think it's paying off, I know that I'm personally very excited to see community participation already at this week's PyCon sprint.
Now that the code is out in the open, and the community is looking at it more deeply, we are going to start focusing a bit more on opening up our development processes.
We track the work we do right on sourceforge, in the new ticket tracker:
And we are interested in hearing the feedback of the community, and seeing people get involved in the sausage making process.
We're also working hard to make this new forge an open platform. Tools like the tracker, wiki, and forum are all plugins, and new tools can be easily created by anybody with the desire to make it happen.
Ultimately we think this is going to mean that the open source community gets better tools to manage their projects, and can focus their efforts where it counts — on doing the work that can change the world.
Feeling the Open Source Love
It's kind of humbling to reallize how impossible this project would have been without the contributions of literally hundreds of open source developers that gave us everything from webob to mongodb, from html5lib to kombu, and from jquery to python.
I am so very grateful to live in a world where so many have given so much to make it possible for small teams like ours at sf.net to build stuff that works as quickly as we have. And given horror stories I've heard this week, I'm also grateful to be privileged to work for a company that understands that open source and business opportunity can go hand in hand.
I particularly want to thank the TurboGears community, which provided us with lots of assistance along the way, and who put up with me being crazily busy and not as attentive as I wanted to be, or should have been. You guys rock, and we could not have done this without you!]]>
A bit of background
We built TurboGears 2 on top of a the Pylons framework, and I have been working with Ben and the Pylons folks for a couple of years now.
Pylons is a lightweight framework that is neither full stack noropinionated. The Pylons team has recently joined up with the repoze.bfg folks to create a new low-level non-opinionated web application development library called Pyramid which is based on repoze.bfg and now part of the larger Pylons Project.
Pyramid status
You can use Pyramid to build web applications right now. It has more plug points, and is in many ways more flexible and extendable than the original Pylons and will provide an even better foundation for a full stack framework like TurboGears.
Pyramid has a strong, highly documented, well tested, approach, is already starting to show the fruits of merging in ideas from TurboGears, and Pylons. We expect it to be a great choice for those who want a flexible, non-opinionated and very fast framework for their projects.
The future of "Full Stack" frameworks
Fortunately, that's not where the story ends. The Pylons Project leaders recognize that a "low level" framework is not enough.
Most web developers need to get things done quickly, and want a full stack setup and ready to go, so they can immediately start developing features rather than infrastructure.
That's where we come in. TurboGears was the pioneer of the "full stack" set of integrated components approach among the modern Python web frameworks, and we have already developed many full stack tools.
Next Steps
So, our first step will be to add the TurboGears2 package to the legacy support in the Pylons Project. So, the Pylons 1.x and Turbogears2 packages will be maintained side by side as part of a single overall project. This change won't impact the TG2 code, except that we will be officially acknowledging that both codebases are
tightly linked and now are part of a single project.
Maintaining the existing Pylons1+tg code will only be one part of the larger Pylons Project.
Big Harry Audacious Goal
Ultimately, we will also be working with the Pylons Project folks to create a new generation of rapid application development tools on top of Pyramid, using the TurboGears "Full Stack" philosophy. We will help to pick default templating engines, default session support, default data persistence mechanisms, integrate widget libraries and build high level tools like OAuth or OpenID support.
The main benifits of this merger will come when we reach across framework boundaries, work together with with Repoze, Pylons, and other web framework developers to build a set of high level tools that make building complex, modern web applications easier and faster. There's a lot we can learn from each-other, and even more that we can do if we work through our differences and find new ways to collaborate.
There is no future but what we make
It's been a great ride. And, it looks like just when we thought things were settling down, there's another drop, and the roller coaster ride that is TurboGears isn't done yet. I am forever grateful for the chance
to work with all the TurboGears developers, to face challenges, and to build something that's been so valuable to so many. And I'm looking forward to what we can do together with the Pylons and Repoze folks.
Technical debt can be assessed like real debt, to a large degree. How much are you paying monthly because of the debt? An annoying little thing, or wanting to upgrade to a new version just for newness' sake has a low interest rate.
– Dave Brondsema
But it got me thinking, perhaps "debt" isn't the right metaphor for this at all. Annoying issues that don't cost anything, and don't technically need to be "repaid" aren't properly debt at all.
Perhaps technical warts would be a better term for those kind of things. It feels good to fix them. But rather than feel righteous for spending time fixing them all and "paying down our debt," perhaps we ought to feel a little bit self indulgent for spending time and money on what amounts to cosmetic surgery for our code.
I'm not saying cosmetic surgery is never valuable, or that warts are never painful, and certainly not that you should ignore them. After all warts can be cancerous, and could perhaps kill you. But after investigating and discovering that they are benign, perhaps it's not worth the cost to have them removed.]]>
I still don't believe that it makes sense to focus on technical debt.
Technical debt is a fact of life, and it's a sign that you're writing better code now than you did before. It's a sign that the team is learning, and that things are getting better. So, you should learn to live with it, or even to celebrate it.
But, that does not mean you should ignore technical debt either.
Technical debt can have real costs, can create real project risk, and most importantly can limit the capacity of the system to produce value. If it's doing that, you need to fix it. But even then you are better to FOCUS on the long view of increasing the capacity of the system. In other words:
In other words elevate the priority of learning above the need to "fix" things now. That way you'll avoid future mistakes, get more done, and at the same time continue to deliver value to customers.
In the end I don't like the term "Technical Debt" as a catch-all because it's a way of lumping all kinds of different code problems together into one basket which results in trivium being treated with the same seriousness as potentially project destroying technical risks.
So, you do need to pay attention to all technical debt, but some of it should be ignored, some of it should be responded to immediately, and some of it should be "fixed" when you next work on code that touches that thing. Not fixing the critical things is dangerous, and I thought everybody knew that. My point in my last post was that fixing the non-critical things with the same urgency is more insidious danger.
Focusing on it exclusively leads to a weird situation where you're fixated on the past, and not moving forward anymore. And ultimately it short-circuits the critical thing, which is growing the capacity of the team to deliver value.]]>
But we rarely take the *long* view. Push harder and you can make this quarter's numbers a bit better. Push harder and you'll get this sale in before the end of the year.
Developers do this too. We push harder to get a product out the door on time, push harder to get a feature in to this release rather than the next.
And here's one which I think is particularly pernicious, because it seems like long term thinking — push harder to reduce "technical debt" right now.
Technical debt is the distance between how you'd write it knowing what you know now, and how you did write it knowing what you knew then. If you're constantly focused on fixing past mistakes, you're not learning the things that will turn the code you're writing today into "technical debt."
My recomendation is to focus on other things, focus on solving the problems you're facing today the best way you know how, focus on cleaning as you go, focus on growing the team's ability to learn — in other words:
Don't focus on maximizing the utilization of the system,
focus on growing the capacity of the system.
There are a lot of things in projects I've written that I wouldn't do the same way again. But if I get caught up in fixing every bad API decision in TurboGears or whatever, I would be paralyzed and unable to move forward. Of course it's not hypothetical, I've definitely been there, done that. But I've learned from that mistake, and hopefully I can maximize the capacity of the system by helping you to avoid it. ;)]]>
There's definitely more to come in terms of releases and code, but I thought it'd be worthwhile to start with a quick run through of the tech stack and a bit of a description of what we're doing.
Our first rule for libraries and tools on the new forge, was that we needed to use open source everywhere. Partly this is just because having the freedom to look at the code and modify it where we need fixes, makes it's the easiest and best way to develop software. Partly it's because we're an open source code hosting platform, and we want to use what we promote. But perhaps most importantly, it means that we're not prevented from sharing our work with others, or from inviting others to work with us in the future.
At the same time we had a company wide decision to standardize on the technology stack that we'd used in the "consume" project last year. So, we're using:
The combination of these means that we have:
The choice to use Python has been particularly valuable, since there are (literally) dozens of libraries that we were able to use to help us with everything from encrypted cookie sessions, and mongodb drivers, to markdown text processing, and syntax highlighting.
We're still in the early days and have a lot more to do, but the goal is an open extensible, system that supports open source projects, and ultimately encourages more people do download and use a wider variety of open source applications.]]>
The first thing we did was create some new pages for downloads. Recently we releases a new service designed just for open source project leaders who want to use sf.net as a directory and downloads service.
But, we're also aware that one of the most important services we provide is project hosting. For the last several months a small group of us have been trying to bring sourceforge.net's tools into 2010. And now we're releasing an early preview of those new developer/community tools:
We have a long way still to go, but every long journey begins with a single step, and today's step is allowing you to try the new forge, to create new projects at:
Where you can go to get a new project, with our new tracker, wiki, git, svn, and other tools. Projects can have subprojects, and links to other tools hosted off site, along with the many features that sf.net brings (free web hosting, hosted apps, etc).
But, why do all this?
In 1999 SourceForge was cool.
It provided all the tools that an open source project needed to get going, from cvs hosting, to bug tracking, and e-mail list support.
They pioneered free free software project hosting, and helped to transform the software development culture from one which barely new about free software or open source, to one where nearly everybody I know uses open license software. Oh sure, some of them might not know it, but they have it on their phones, in their TVs, their wireless routers — not to mention all the websites they use everyday that run on open source.
But, time passed.
More alternatives came out, more projects (including my own) started self hosting, and the landscape of open source software development changed. SourceForge.net took a long time coming out with support for new tools like svn, and then git.
Still, SourceForge has a special place in my heart. Partly it's nostalgia, I suppose, but I still think:
We (Open Source developers) still need tools like git, mercurial, and svn hosting. We still need bug trackers and mailing lists. And in a meeting of other open source project leaders last fall, nearly every single one of them identified the time wasted integrating and administering these tools as one of their most important frustrations.
Not enough…
But, for many sourceforge.net and other free project hosting services were just not good enough, they weren't scriptable, the weren't extensible, their data wasn't portable, and so they felt like they had to take on that cost.
And I fundamentally believe that open source projects live an die by communication, and that sourceforge.net can do something new by integrating the various kinds of "conversations" that happen around the project. We can integrate mailing lists and forums, we can integrate SCM and ticket trackers, etc.
New and improved
So, a couple of us have been quietly working on something new. The new forge is designed around a few core ideas:
So, what we're announcing today is more of a commitment to getting there on all these things, and a commitment to the "release early, release often" project management strategy.
So, expect us to take your feedback and make things better. Expect us to release lots of small fixes, and expect a few places where things are broken/incomplete because we value feedback more than polish at this point.]]>
Meanwhile Gerry Weinberg, who wrote several books that I love, and gives lots of great advice, including the some of the best advice I've ever read about how to give advice, says "every problem is a people problem."
So, which is it?
Are bad things that happen the result of bad processes, are they the result of things people do?
I've been party to a bit of discussion about this in the last month or two, and in the end it's all pretty silly.
Processes are created by people, implemented by people, and are designed to accomplish the goals of people.
People run processes!
So, whenever something is broken, it's people who will need to find the problem and fix it.
People can and do think of ways to improve processes everyday, but I'll eat my shoe if you find a process that thinks of a way to improve people.
But there's still a HUGE problem.
Modern companies seem to have a persistent failing — they look for people to blame when something goes wrong — and ignore the context in which those problems happened.
When something goes wrong, fire some people, and replace them with new people who make the same mistakes all over again.
Sometimes you "get lucky".
The company might get lucky and find a person who's able to raise awareness, reveal the larger contextual problems, and succeeded in spite of the fact that everything's stacked against her.
More often than not though, the poor new guy doesn't see the systematic pressures that caused everything to fall apart, at least not until it's too late.
Sometimes replacing what's broken isn't enough.
Sometimes it's the equivalent of a mechanic replacing your car's engine several times in a row, because it keeps burning up — without ever checking to make sure oil is flowing normally, and the cooling system is working.
The easy way out.
It's often easier to blame people because they don't "control" them they way they do the context. This blame game is as old as the hills, but definitely not as pretty.
Help people fix processes
The solution is to ask people to look for the systematic pressures, give them the tools to find them, and to empower them to change the way work gets done.
In the end, people will improve the processes, if they believe they are allowed.
Sometimes a design isn't working because you think you can't change the one element that needs to be changed.
–Ryan (via svn)
The same thing is true when you are designing the processes by which work gets done.]]>
Sometimes we think we know that a piece of code is important so we spend some time optimizing it. And in the end it's less clear, and less maintainable, and it turns out that our bottlenecks are all elsewhere.
But, sometimes we do know where bottlenecks are going to be, we've learned from experience, and we know what needs to be done.
We know that architecture determines performance, and architecture isn't easily bolted on at the end of the project.
So we have a conundrum. We shouldn't optimize yet because we don't know where the bottlenecks will be. We shouldn't wait to optimize because we can't easily retrofit a good architecture on a complex system.
Some of the conundrum is only apparent — there's a difference between architectural problems that need to be set up front, and the kind of low level micro-optimization that obscures more than it helps. But, sometimes these conflicts are real — how do I know if I need a multi-process multi-consumer queue system for PDF generation before we build the system and benchmark it? If you don't need it, that kind of extra architectural complexity just obscures the bit of code that actually solves the problem.
Solving the problem by going meta
Perhaps the problem really is that we're dumb and optimize the wrong things at the wrong time. The solution to that problem is to get less dumb. Which means that we ought to spend time optimizing "learning", both within our project processes, and across projects.
Codifying this learning is what the Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture book was all about.
And I think it's great as far as it goes, and if you haven't read it you should buy it now.
But there are a lot of patterns that I can identify from my last half dozen projects that aren't covered in PoEAA, so it would be great to see a next generation of books and blog posts that cover the modern architectural trade-offs that you have to make, something that covers some of the paterns of the web.
Scalability via in HTTP, etags, caching, and load balancing (the whole RESTful services argument), networked async processing patterns, etc. Scaling to the public web levels requires a whole different set of architectural principles than scaling to the old "enterprise" levels did, and that knowledge seems very much in flux.
It would be great if it also provided some advice for those of us who've moved into what Neil Ford has called the world of the Polyglot Programmer, patterns for coordinating activities across language barriers in a sensible way. That's part of the nature of modern web systems too.]]>
People want TurboGears to do more than it does, they want other open source projects to grow, they want new open source projects in specific areas, and they want Open Source like activity in other professions like nursing or construction.
I definitely don't have the answers. But I've had this conversation with a lot of folks over the last couple of months, and some of them had some great ideas.
So, in the spirit of opening up a larger conversation about these issues, here are a couple of thoughts distilled from all those conversations.
Institutionalizing Open Source Values
It is of course possible to create cultural institutions around which money can be channeled into Open Source development.
And all the legal mechanisms needed to structure those institutions in the right way are available today.
But the trick it seems is to create the institutions in such a way that money is delivered in small enough amounts that individuals remain in control. Money is powerfully persuasive, but one of the keys to the current success of open source is that collective action is always purely voluntary.
But at the same time the money needs to come in large enough amounts to make a difference. People need to be able to support lives and families on the work they do advancing various projects. To the extent that this is reliable income, we can remove competing priorities, and developers will be able to devote themselves more fully to projects that advance the common good.
So, the key to making all of this work is going to be the "bureaucracies" we create to manage the flow of money. They need to be tuned properly to the nature of the work, stable enough to provide a level of personal security, and perhaps above all they need to be financially transparent.
Creating the right kinds of organizational structures will help us channel the right amounts of money to the right people, and creating the wrong kinds will create perverse incentives that pollute the whole system.
Most of what's been happening so far in this direction are ecosystems of companies built around open source offerings. This has worked pretty well, but it's clear that there can be conflicts of interest, and the nature of commercial ownership leaves even the best run companies vulnerable to sudden changes (acquisition of small open source companies by huge proprietary competitors is already a fact of life).
But, what seems more interesting to me at this point is the number of foundations that are being are created for popular projects or groups of popular projects, etc.
These institutions will continue to grow, but they have the potential to change the way projects are run, so I expect a lot of fits and starts as we mature.
Open Source for other Professions
With that thought in mind perhaps lawyers, doctors, and other professions already have a form of the Open Source ethic, which has grown up around large institutions, and functions to spread knowledge and advance the state of the art of those groups. These institutions work to create new knowledge, train practitioners, and they seem to work pretty well.
If you haven't caught on already I think it might be fair to say that this sub-section of these professions is called "academics." ;)
Of course the university system isn't perfect, and it's taken hundreds of years to evolve to it's current state, but I think it does provide some insight into how we might evolve larger institutional presences around open source, not in the next few years, but in the next few decades.]]>
One thing we learned is that you have to enforce some stuff on the Python side of the world in order to make working with totally schema free data stores easier.
So, just like in Flash Gordan, we've got Ming to rule Mongo.
Rick's blogged about it at length here:
And all I can say, is that I'm very happy with Ming as it is now, and it's meeting our needs quite well. We are of course open to suggestions, and we're hoping that we can open up more stuff as we go.
If you want to see the details, they can be found on the (of course) sourceforge.net site:
If you're looking for a larger exampel of Ming in actin Chris Perkins (coding machine that he is) and some other TurboGears devs are already looking at building a content management system with Ming and tg2:
If you use Ming, and like it, feel free to let us know.]]>
But beyond that In the past few weeks used Genshi, Mako, Jinja, Django Templates, and Cheetah, and have been looking at, but not yet using out chameleon.genshi.
I figure all this promiscuous template library usage means that I should put my thoughts down somewhere. There are advantages and disadvantages of all these libraries, but I think that the choices are pretty clear once you know your constraints.
I'm not going to commit to covering them all in depth, but I'm going to try to put my thoughts about them down over the next few days.
For today let's talk about the pros and cons of Django Templates. This is another post that has been developed over the last year or so, where typed stuff up while working on fossfor.us.
Django made making fossfor.us easy in lots of ways. Want threaded comments? Add the existing app in a couple hours — Done! Want OpenID? Again add an app — Done!
But it also had frustrations, and one of the biggest for me was the template language.
First the good
Django templates operate in a sandboxed environment. This is good because it limits the ways that designers can blow-up your web-app. In fact this seems to be an underlying design decision of the Django framework. It's the reason accessing non-existent variables just returns empty strings, because as the Djanogo book tells me "you wouldn't want a designer to be able to take down your website with a typo."
I can respect that, and I definitely see the benefits of sandboxing template code, particularly in places where end-users might be allowed to edit templates.
Easy to learn, and easy to use
They also provide a very simple syntax, that's very well documented. This makes it easy for designers to figure out.
All of this is good.
But there are some negatives
Django developers seem to love them, but I feel like there are some significant drawbacks to using django templates.
Not trivial to use outside of django.
You can do it, but it's not easy, and you end up with a lot of Django loaded that you don't need. Fortunately there's Jinja which is somewhat Django template like, but which isn't at all dependent on Django itself. So, if you're not using Django, I think it's sane to recommend that you use Jinja templates. And tomorrow I'll blog more about why I think that Jinja is just a better version of Django templates.
Won't let you follow the fail early philosophy of development
When you use Django Templates in Django, I have two major issues. THe first is the decision to always treat undefined variables as variables that contain an empty string. Generally "fail fast" is a good engineering principle, because it's helps you find problems sooner, and makes debugging much easier.
Of course the Django guys are smart, and the knew about this so they planned for it.
Well sort-of, apparently it's easy enough to make invalid variables return something other than an empty string by setting the
TEMPLATE_STRING_IF_INVALID config variable to something else, which gets displayed if you access an undefined variable in a template (say you make a typo. And this does makes it easier to find template errorsmore quickly.
But it's not really "failing fast."
I want an all out failure, not a small difference in the rendered page.
With that said, this as faar as it goes, I think it is good.
TEMPLATE_STRING_IF_INVALID should be a configuraiton option, (though perhaps with a better name) and people should turn it on in development and off in production. Pylons does this with it's
c variable, and I think it's very helpful.
But what I want is the exception, not just some random other text inserted, so then I looked into what it would take to force django template rendering to stop silently suppressing exceptions, and it's not that hard on first glance.
The template renderer depends on a special attribute
silent_variable_failure being set to
True on the exception, so all we would have to do is just disable this checking when the
fail_fast config value was set to
True and we'd be good to go.
Seemed like a good idea, but in reality — not so good.
Django's admin will totally break if you do such a thing, and it turns out that even setting the TEMPLATE_STRING_IF_INVALID parameter makes these pages render quite badly.
I ultimately found this tidbit in the Django Template Docs:
While TEMPLATE_STRING_IF_INVALID can be a useful debugging tool, it is a bad idea to turn it on as a 'development default'.
Many templates, including those in the Admin site, rely upon the silence of the template system when a non-existent variable is encountered. If you assign a value other than " to TEMPLATE_STRING_IF_INVALID, you will experience rendering problems with these templates and sites.
Generally, TEMPLATE_STRING_IF_INVALID should only be enabled in order to debug a specific template problem, then cleared once debugging is complete
Oops, that's exactly what I don't want. In practice this was not as bad as I thought it would be, but it was not good, and it made my life harder because the time between making a typo in a template and finding the problem increased, which also increased the dificulty of finding the cause of the problem.
My other frustration with Django Templates
Beyond that, the fact that Django template sandboxing excludes all expressions pushes lots and lots of work into filters and up into the "views" which other frameworks call "controllers" and means that django views mix presentation and action logic even more than is common in other MVC like web frameworks (Rails, Pylons, TurboGears, etc.).
Having a full featured experssion language like python in templates has been very useful to me in capturing presentation logic in the template.
And at the same time creating anything like a "macro" or a "template function" (a bit of reusable template code) requires some slightly complicated python gymnastics.
And I really want to be able to have code-reuse in templates without jumping through hoops. That's part of what a template language is for, so I really don't like giving it up.
With all of that said, if the benifits of Django (reusable apps mainly) are important to your project, you should use Django, and if you are using Django you absolutely should use Dango Templates. They aren't bad really. It's just that I'm used to the other options that do it better.
So, ultimately if you're not already using Django, I think you should consider one of the other options, as I think they all do better on template code reuse, and allowing fail fast behavior.
More Soon
Tomorrow I'll try to write a bit more about Jinja, but I think this post pretty much sumarizes why I think that Django Template users outside Django proper should really just use Jinja2.]]>
And it is about all those things. Because all those things revolve around a central idea:
sometimes things get harder before they get easier.
That "harder" is what Seth calls the dip.
And it is is difficult, but it's also important because it makes being on the other side more valuable — after all not just anybody is willing to work their way through that dip.
For Seth, there's obviously a lot about marketing, and reaching a wide audience. Obviously, it takes work to develop a new skill, grow a network of helpful people, or sell a new product. But given that our economy is "dipping" and that many of us have personal dips to work through, I'm finding Seth's message very timely and relevant at the moment.
Getting through the dip is about the choices you make
If you're like me and the people I know in southeast michigan, you are actually facing multiple "dips" at once. We are struggling our way through problems at work, financial problems, interpersonal problems, and we're trying to figure out what to do about all those things.
One of the core ideas in "The Dip" is that you have to choose which battles you will fight, or you'll loose them all. Some battles beg to be lost. You have to give up fighting on some fronts in order to win on others.
So, to go back to yesterday's post, you have to say No to some things, in order to make it through any of the dips. You can't have everything, you have to choose. And once you choose, you have to make it happen.]]>
Where David Allen lead me wrong
The first insight I had is that Getting Things Done (GTD) has steared me wrong. This is hard to say because I think it's a great book with a lot of great insights. In particular the strong admonition to get everything you need to do down on paper has changed the way I live and think. That list includes all the major and minor commitments I've made, and having it out of my head and in a system that I trust reduced my stress levels imensely.
But I found that I still have a lot of stress. And I found that I was still thrashing back and forth between projects without making the kind of decisive progress on any of them that I wanted to.
Why wasn't the GTD process enough?
Because, as I eventually learned the GTD "inbox processing" strategy as described in the book is broken. You are supposed to choose between three options for each input: do it, deligate it, or defer it. But really there's a key fourth option that is the really important one if you're life is anything like mine.
What is that all important forth option?
Wait, there's science behind this!
This is really critical because like any queue that's processed by a limited resource (in this case my time and attention) filling it too full actually causes the system to break down. This process of breakdown even has a technical name that feels exactly right, it's called "thrashing."
Every programmer and computer user knows what this is like. Open too many apps at once, and your machine grinds to a halt, data keeps getting swapped out to disk and the rate at which the machine can process information goes down exponentially.
Ok, so know I knew the name for my problem. Naming it is good, but it's not the solution.
So, how do I stop thrashing about and get stuff done?
At some point, i'm not exactly sure where, I had a realization that in life, just like a manufacturing line, or a software resource issue, there are two keys to preventing thrashing.
This is where Getting Things Done's todo list system provided me with a lot of help. It helped me reduce my task-switching costs, and that's allowed me to get a better balance on these two pressures.
Letting the work FLOW
I think there's a very clear analogy with what happened at Toyota in the early days. Manufacturers had die presses which took a long time to change, so they would run them for a long time. This was great in that it helped keep the machine working and limited the downtime. But it also meant that there were long delays in the system since the switching time and the time for the long runs added up. Toyota decided that since they couldn't afford more machines, they needed to figure out ways to reduce the cost of switching, which reduced total cycle time, made them more responsive to bugs (quality problems) and helped them to get more done in less time.
Reducing the cost of switching made it possible for the system to run differently, rather than batching up lots of work and pushing it through, it Toyota discovered that you could pull what you needed through the system just in time. This same thing works for time management, when you aren't overloaded you can be more responsive to today's needs, and you avoid the inevitable mismatches that come with long delays between request and response.
What happens when there's still too much to do?
But, to come back to my main point, even when you've done everything you can do to reduce the task-switching costs, you still can have significant thrashing problems when the resource (that's you or me) gets overscheduled.
Most projects I've worked on ended up in this situation at some point, where working harder stopped producing results because of schedule pressure and resource contention.
This is why saying no is a critical skill.
If you limit the commitments you make, you can provide rapid turn around on the commitements you do make, and everything runs much more smoothly because you're thrashing less, and wasting less time on task switching.
Beyond the basics, I've discovered that one really critical notion is to have enough slack in your system to handle emergencies. If you schedule the system full, any high-priority, high-urgency task that enters the system can break the whole process.
Without slack in the system emergencies snowball…
I know this from experience, as I've had my share of emergencies in the last couple of years, and when there was slack in the system things settled down quickly, and when there wasn't I ended up with new emergencies caused by the first emergency delaying things just a little bit too much.
So, when you are tempted to take on another commitment, think about what would happen to your life if you had to take a week off to deal with a death in the family, or to help a sick relative. If you don't see any path to recovery, perhaps you're over-scheduling your most important resource — you.
When No, really means Yes
In the end I discovered the biggest irony of time management: it's only when you say No to some things, that you have the ability to say Yes, and make real commitments.
When you say no to helping a friend move, or to visiting family, or whatever feels valuable to you you will feel terrible. But, if you don't say no sometimes to at least some of these things, you'll end up not being able to do any of those things anyway, because you're always behind and never quite able to fulfill the commitments you make.
I learned the hard way, hopefully you don't have to ;)]]>
I agree, but I think that any discussion power politics is pretty risky, particularly since we use authority, power and force pretty interchangeably in many situations. And it's hard to nail down exactly what people mean because there's some confusion even at the level of what the words mean.
So, from my perspective (heavily influenced by Hannah Arendt here's a reasonable definition of terms:
( * Arednt fans should note that I am using force differently than she does.)
Power and Authority in Open Source
Open Source projects have powerful people, in that they have people who somehow manage to get a group of people to work in common on some larger goal. And there's often some sort of formal authority which resides in the BDFL or project leaders. Authority often centers around who has commit access and who can flip the commit bit. But there's very little force or violence involved, and the authority that we give is always tentative and revokable in the case of an "unfriendly" fork of the community.
The fact that there's often not much money going on reduces the chance of economic violence and removes the main way that developers encounter force. So, nobody can force you to work on stuff you don't want to, and nobody can force you to stop working on the things you really want to see done.
Open source is Force/Violence free
At least that's how it often seems. But I there can be significant social pressures to work on one thing rather than another, and many people often feel like they have a right to tell you what you ought to be working on.
None of this counts as force, but it does seem to indicate some imbalances in the system, where there are producers and consumers of open source and the producers seem to often feel like they can never do enough to please all of their consumers.
And because there's a lack of resources going to the producers, it's consumers are often frustrated by the slop pace of development. But all of that is another post for another day.
P.S. A Science Fiction book recommendation
Ursula K. LeGuin wrote a great book that I've been thinking a lot about when talking to people about the subject of the difference between "commercial" software culture, and the somewhat anarchistic Open Source culture. The book The Dispossessed, is one of my favorite Science Fiction novels, and and though it came long before "Open Source" or even "Free Software" even existed as such, I think it has a lot to say about the strengths and limitations of the "Free Software" culture.]]>


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12 Types of Content Strategies SEOs Should Know and Use
Its been said time and again, to search engines, "content is king", but when it really comes down to it, many companies say they don't have the time, patience, or budget for content creation. It begs the question; why then should they be ranked high in the search results? Maybe, just maybe, they're not thinking about it logically and aren't considering all the options at their disposal.
Here are 12 different types of content (not necessarily mutually exclusive) that when implemented properly, can drive tremendous volumes of visitors, links, and even business:
1. widgets/badges - for those unfamiliar with widgets, a widget is typically an interactive tool, that can be embedded in a web page. Since they're interactive, often they can help potential clients find solutions quicker than they otherwise might have, making them a very powerful online marketing tool. Sometimes widgets are also made available for download to other websites, making them a powerful link acquisition tool too. Below is an example of one such widget.
2. videos - a good video is difficult to beat. People like to hear and see things for themselves, as opposed to reading about them, or being told about them. Video makes this possible, and accordingly is very popular. At the same time, video can be instructional, entertaining, and/or informational. When well done, videos will drive tremendous volumes of traffic, links, and/or potential clients to a site ... and offers additional opportunities to appear in the search results
3. images - if a picture can say a 1000 words, then its also possible for images to generate 1000 visitors or links. We've seen many client sites, who's images drive 20%+ of their overall website traffic volumes. In many cases, images are the reason people visit websites ... they need to see what they're buying! All that to say, do not underestimate the power of good quality images!
4. research - people often buy from websites they've heard about before, because familiarity breeds loyalty and trust. One means of breeding familiarity and trust is to perform and publish unique research that others in your industry or potential clients will find useful. When well thought out, timely, and topical, such research can generate thousands of links, visitors, and potential clients. Good research also helps to establish you as an authority in your space.
5. awards - everyone likes to receive cudos, or acknowledgement of a job well done! Now image that you as a site owner offer the ability for others to take those cudos, and post them on their site for all to see. Its a powerful tool, often generating thousands of visitors and/or links.
6. contests - while not for every business, contests can generate alot of relevant links, and accordingly help a site rank much better. The key is to ensure that the contest somehow relates to your business.
7. news - sites that are routinely first to publish industry news, are often visited more frequently, generate more links, and are viewed more as industry authorities. Alternatively, those running news stories after the fact, typically don't experience all these benefits, unless they add some value or unique intepretation angle. Of course, one way to ensure the news is new and fresh is to make the news (aka a publicity stunt) ... so get creative!
8. blog posts - perhaps one of the most popular techniques to create content, and one of the most poorly done! Most don't understand the subtle nuances of creating blog content. I've posted about it previously (12 Common Blogging Mistakes to Avoid) as have many others, but the majority still continue to write blog content as if it were for another form of offline media.
Blog content generally consists of one of the four types listed below:
a. editorial/opinion based
b. entertaining
c. resource/educational
d. news (see #7 above)
The type you choose should be based on your objectives.
9. do something "remarkable" - if a company truly does something remarkable and unique, and publishes it on their site, the content will take on a life of its own. What does this mean? Well, if you're a sausage manufacturer, manufacture the largest sausage on the planet. If you own a burger joint, offer a $2700 burger on the menu. Even if no one ever orders it, its something to mention on your website, and something interesting that others will notice and talk about (which results in links, visitors, and often clients). Consider this term alone "most expensive martini" ... there are 1200 mentions on it in Google, and presumably a good number of those mentions link to it!
10. create an ebook - much easier said than done, but creating a ebook can result in perceived authority, visitors, links, and .... business!
11. make and distribute applications - if you can find a way to make potential clients lives easier (online or offline), it can have a profound impact. Creating an online application such as a WordPress plugin, a calculator, or industry software, and hosting it for download via your site, can increase awareness of your site, your perceived authority in the industry, attract large volumes of visitors, links, and yes, even business.
12. user generated content - content added by others, is content that you didn't have to add yourself. With most business owner's arguing they don't have the time or budget for content, user generated content (UGC) would appear to be a logical solution. Although, most business owners then become concerned with their inability to control the content. Precautions can be taken however in most situations, making UGC a solution worth investigating.
If you know of other types of content strategies not encompassed in this list, please let me know, and I'll gladly add it with proper attribution to you.
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With regards to the widget-bait, surely the Offshore Accounts link (in this example) will get you banned?
Creating an ebook is my favourite. Works like a charm.
I'm not sure that content is king per se. There's no doubt that links are king as far as SEO is concerned.
Sure, great content as a way to get links is a valid strategy, but great content without great promotion is a dead end.
Number seven is an interesting one. I don't necessarily think that you need to break the news, or be the news, you can also aggregate the news, or find a new way to present it.
If you can aggregate all the news on a particular topic, from all the available sources, in one place, that can provide outstanding value to your users.
Actually, content is king. Video, audio and written. links from youtube or vimeo back to your site will help. Adding keywords helps as those ARE used by the search engines contrary to popular myth. Submitting on a schedule helps as does blogs, press releases and articles. All combined into a cohesive strategy work.
The rest is just crap meant for you to waste your money on.
Michael Murdock, CEO
basically if you utilize every factor to be successful online you should be in good shape.
Great list. For those that think it's too much work, don't go complaining when you don't get the rankings!
Simple flash games and widgets are great but I heard that they can sometimes get your site banned. Is sit true ? What is the right way to go with widgets.
Videos are definitely something that begs lots more exploration, there is a definite trend towards them and it is time to hop on the bandwagon. You can create a little funny with a cool punchline, or do a technical presentation or tutorial….hmmmm, that got me thinking.
Images and videos really work well and creating an application is the best way to get attention. Nice Blog
what about offering images for people to put in their site ?
I think out of this list, number 9 is the most important. Because without being remarkable, none of the others will work. To borrow Seth Godin, you have to be the "Purple Cow"; something thats stands out from the crowd, and is worth making a remark about. Sounds easy, not easy to do in practice.
A very good list to work on.


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5.0 Mustang & Super FordsProject Vehicles
1988 Mustang LX Hatchback - Fox 500 Project - It's Alive!
Paul's High Perfomrance And Littelfuse Wire And Fire The Fox 500
OK, OK. We know a lot of sand has dribbled through the hourglass since we last checked in on the Fox 500, Editor Turner's seemingly decade-spanning project of conjoining a tired but solid T-top Fox with a hulking GT500-based powerplant from Ford Racing Performance Parts. Trust us, there were good reasons for our time lapse. Part of it was just life getting in the way, but also we were waiting on a couple of product introductions that seemed ideal for this step in our project.
We're thrilled to report that our Ford Frankenstein is indeed alive. The Fox 500 runs--and has even rumbled around the Jackson, Michigan, shop of Paul's High Performance under its own power. It was fun to watch, actually, with PHP's ever-philosophical Karl Roekle driving while sitting on a milk crate in our gutted interior.
At the risk of gross oversimplification--and not counting the suspension, rollcage, and brake upgrades that have made for the Fox 500's solid, safe foundation--our project posed two distinct sets of challenges for the savvy, hands-on PHP crew (as well as our other project partners) to overcome in getting this thing both running and fully functional. The first, and most obvious, encompassed the mechanical or physical issues of trying to bring together a powertrain and platform that are quite literally from two different centuries. We showed you a lot of how that was accomplished in our last installment (5.0&SF, Oct. '08, p. 102.)
The second hurdle was no less daunting, that being how to wire everything to communicate nicely in an electronic sense, 'cause we all know how dependent modern powertrains like the GT500's are on the absolute rule of electrons. Without a processor in command, this baby simply couldn't run. Besides, the editor will probably think it's kind of nice to have, oh, say, functioning headlights and wipers. Put simply, failure on the electrical aspects of our project would have left us with nothing more than an interesting full-scale static model.
As we mentioned, a couple recent products proved to be really timely and efficient. The first of these comes from Ford Racing in the form of its Control Pack, 5.4L 4-V Supercharged (PN M-6017-54SC.) As its name suggests, this is a PCM-centric kit specifically engineered and calibrated to get one of FRPP's 5.4-liter supercharged crate engines (PN M-6007-C54, like ours, or M-6007-TVS, with the TVS blower upgrade) quickly up and running in such diverse platforms as street rods, kit cars, old muscle cars--or maybe even a crazy editor's Fox Mustang. To do so, FRPP modifies a GT500 PCM's electrical harness to the point where it needs no more than just seven wire connections to fully integrate with the intended vehicle (six connections if you don't want to control an electric fan).
Also, the kit's GT500-based Silver Oak PCM calibration is simplified by removal of the anti-theft provisions that normally make it codependent on a Shelby's instrument cluster for engine operation. To prevent evildoers from potentially using such a PCM to circumvent security on a factory Shelby, the programming also specifically requires use of a return-style fuel system for the engine to operate. In other words, attempting to plug this FRPP PCM into a returnless-fuel GT500 would result in a no-start condition. But more than just a PCM and harness, the kit includes everything necessary to make a crate motor run with OEM driveability, right down to an electronic throttle-control accelerator pedal.
OK, so FRPP's kit quickly took care of all aspects of powertrain control, including driving the fuel pumps, but what about the rest of our car's wiring needs? You know. Those little things like lights, wipers, horn, power accessories, instrument cluster, and so on.


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Simple Pleasures
This question occurred to me last night while I was enjoying a bit of a snack before bed...
It had been ages since I had something like this; so simple and so tasty. It was just some whole wheat bread, not even toasted, spread with really nice strawberry jam. that's all.
I know that we see and often make elaborate items, from grilled cheese sandwiches to multi-layer cakes.
But what have you had recently that it just simple, plain even, but really soul-satisfying?
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The Voice 2013's Amy Whitcomb Talks Montages: "It's Been Very Frustrating"
The Voice 2013 has its fair share of talented contestants, however, with so many contestants and so little time, we barely get to see a few of them. Pop/rock vocalist Amy Whitcomb has been montaged for not only her blind auditions, but for her battle round performance against former contestant Agina Alvarez. When Wetpaint Entertainment caught up with the performer, she recounted how frustrating the ordeal was.
"Honestly, it's been very frustrating," said the Team Adam member. "This is frustrating because I've put in just as much work as everyone else that's been aired, and not getting as much exposure." Furthermore, we learned from Amy that the contestants whose performance are lumped into a 10 second reel aren't even warned ahead of time about it!
"We do get a little blindsided by the montages," Amy said. However, the singer she says she's "working hard to make sure the contestants know in advance just so they can prepare their family and friends and fans because there's a lot of disappointment that comes with that."
A lot of Amy's frustration also stems from her vastly different experience on The Sing-Off where she got "a lot of face time" she was grateful for. But Amy isn't bitter. No, really, she isn't! The leopard-print jumpsuit wearing songstress understands that things need to be done in order to make the show as great as it can be.
"It's been a wonderful experience behind the scenes for me growing as an artist and musician," she said, "so even though I really would love for America to hear me sing, I've still been learning quite a bit so hopefully it will still open doors and create new opportunities for me."
At the end of the day, Amy says "there's a lot of contestants, there's a lot of talent, and so it's bit of shock when it happens, but you know you have to dust it off and keep on going."
Now that the show has advanced to the knockout rounds, we sincerely hope to see more of Amy, and the other montaged singers!
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 06:26:17PM -0700, Ken Bloom wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:30:30AM -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:46:35AM -0700, R. Douglas Barbieri wrote:
> > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/dsurvey/?topic_id=96
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> > > This is the first time I've ever submitted anything open source-ish.
> > > Bill, don't laugh! I have to say it is really rewarding to see something
> > > I worked on available internationally. :-)
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> > Yeah--it's *real* fun to discover inadvertantly that a product you've
> > written is an official debian package.
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> > http://packages.debian.org/ditty
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> Why can't I be so lucky? (http://sf.net/projects/zmanim) Is it because
> I include my own debian/ directory?
I can't even imagine *why* someone would add ditty to debian. I'll
have to ask the guy who submitted the request to the debian requests
list. I was actually shocked to find a few people who used the
thing. I had posted it to freshmeat, and then forgot about it. The 0.2
code was hideous, so I had removed it from my site. Then I later
learned it had made it into debian unstable before I dropped the link,
so I had to fix up some of the code to be a little more presentable,
so I wouldn't feel embarrassed by the 0.2 code.
It's a fun little toy, and has some potential non-essential uses as an
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Homemade Portable Pizza Oven
After a lot of research about wood-fired artisan pizza ovens I started thinking it might be fun to come up with an idea to build an affordable unit that anyone could do and have in their backyard..so i did it ..I built a 900+ degree oven for less then 300.00 and it is fun to take it RV camping and of course you could be a big hit tailgating with it as well ..I started out searching craigslist and found a magic chef wall oven for free...I liked the idea since I was able to start with an oven..I gutted it and disassembled it then put it back together but repacking the insulation with kiln insulation..I put a inverted wok in the top to work as a dome and laid in a layer of fire-brick on the bottom where I placed a 10psi propane burner that is removable as are the firebricks..I used a corderite pizza insert for my cooking platform I then placed 2 kiln shelfs on top and put the whole unit on a 4-wheel dolley...anyway it works great and did not take more then a few hours to do and since it is portable and will bake a pie in 90 seconds it is something you could take on the road...Any comments anybody??Oh btw I did come up with a fabulous recipe that i use both in it and my home oven where i also use a corderite cooking stone and a terracotta top with firebrick walls all removable in a few minutes..
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MAC Cosmetics – Matte2 Swatches
Here are the Matte2 swatches for you! These were out at my local MAC store, so for those who have heard it was pushed back – my best advice is call your local counter/store to check (that's what I did). My store had Plushlash and all the new lashes available, too.
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Inland Valley Chapter No. 140 of the <MC>National Association of Women In Construction will hold its annual Construction Industry Showcase on May 14 at Pomona Valley Mining Co., 1777 W. Gillette Road, Pomona. According to a news release, the 6 p.m. event will honor scholarship recipients from local colleges who are majoring in construction-related programs, local high school students who participated in the association's National Education Foundation Cad/Design Drafting Competition and grade-school pupils who participated in the Block Kids Contest. Cost: $45 if prepaid; $50 at the door. Reservations are required by May 11.
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March usually means an Irish holiday, the talk about college basketball tournament brackets, and closing in on the start of the spring equinox. It also means the final month of the Monster Jam season has arrived, and with very few major stadiums left, the focus by all teams is to win and gain that extra edge heading into Las Vegas.
Two major events encompassed the first weekend of March, with the sport's biggest names headlining both cities.
Up north, the Motor City of Detroit hosted it's second event of the year, and to make sure it was their biggest, the heavy hitters came to play. The Andersons, Dennis and Ryan, stepped into Ford Field alongside Tom Meents and his Max-D machine, hoping to gain that extra edge where American auto makers call home. Also in attendance, the driver that has won the most racing titles this season, Jimmy Creten in the Bounty Hunter.
The racing bracket ironically would come down to a father vs. son matchup, something that even the most diehard fans had trouble picking. On one end, Dennis has not been winning racing titles like crazy as in previous years, but on the other his son has not lost a stadium round of racing all season.
On this night, one streak ended as it was Dennis piloting his Grave Digger to victory over his son's 1950 Willys, Son-Uva Digger, for his second racing victory of the year. It was a close win, to the point officials reviewed tape to be sure, but it was confirmed that daddy was on top on this night.
With freestyle approaching, both Andersons were hoping for a victory, as Dennis prepared to give fans a performance that would take home three trophies on this night.
But, unfortunately, Dennis would not be able to even score on this night. An issue was discovered by his crew and he was unable to take home another Double Down in front of his Detroit fans.
Not wanting the Anderson name to go unrecognized, Ryan set out to take home another freestyle win, something he's done often this year. With former Digger driver Rod Schmidt, now driving the Monster Mutt Rottweiler, in the hot seat for majority of the night, Ryan went off on the track, putting in a run that even his dad could be proud of.
Anderson topped Schmidt by just one point, enough to take home the freestyle win and also making it a sweep for the Andersons in the Motor City.
Meanwhile, down in El Paso, Texas, the elder son, Adam, brought in Grave Digger the Legend to perform not on one night, but two, as El Paso hosts two stadium events this weekend, the only such event of it's kind. Adam started the night by being top qualifier, out-running Neil Elliott in Max-D by just over a second.
He would work his way through the bracket and ironically in the end would face Elliott in the finals. Despite a hard effort, it was the Legend reigning supreme on this night as Adam would win his second straight racing event. Unfortunately he too was unable to Double Down, as he would end up short in his freestyle, with Elliott taking that crown.
Charlie Pauken was in attendance with his Grave Digger, but in a surprising move Pauken did not want to compete for points. He was still going to run, but it would be just for the fans.
It was clear why he decided to do so, as when he came out on the track to perform, another engine began roaring to life. Suddenly, out of the tunnel came a second Grave Digger. Team driver Carl Van Horn had a weekend off from competing, so he was in attendance helping his teammate in the Sun Bowl.
But, the opportunity was too sweet to pass up, so both Pauken and CVH hit the floor to perform a tandem freestyle in front of the sold-out El Paso crowd, which meant much more than any trophy.
El Paso hosts one more stadium event today, a 2 p.m. matinee, which is also sold out. After that, one more major stadium event is left before the World Finals. Next Saturday it is a trip to the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, New York, the football home of Syracuse University.
Dennis will be in attendance, along with Tom Meents, as the two have one more face-to-face run before they take a week off to prepare for Las Vegas.
Results from El Paso will be posted later today or tomorrow morning. Be sure to visit MonsterJam.com for photos of this past weekend's performances and also all the up-to-date information in Las Vegas for World Finals XIV.
An afternoon of Monster Jam action saw the Anderson name on top once again, this time in the other competition. Adam Anderson didn't make qualifying due to issues, and didn't have repairs finished in time to make racing. On this day, it was Damon Bradshaw that took his Monster Energy machine to victory, which would mark the one year anniversary of him getting his new Cohen-designed chassis.
The freestyle afternoon would be one of high jumps, big air, and massive destruction. Bradshaw didn't make it to bonus time for his run, but the fans were still happy.
Neil Elliott couldn't get the victory in his spiked Max-D machine, and for the second straight day, Charlie Pauken opted to only show off for the fans, not for points, as once more he and fellow Grave Digger driver Carl Van Horn put on a dual freestyle for the El Paso fans, hoping to follow up last night's performance that saw Van Horn perform a donut on the sidewalls of his monster tires.
In the end, it was Anderson filling the clock, filling bonus, and keeping the fans screaming as he would bring home a fourth trophy for the Anderson household to enjoy on this weekend of action.


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The University of Illinois will host a 2012 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Regional on Saturday, April 7 at 4 p.m. (CT) at the Assembly Hall. The No. 22 Illini, who will host an NCAA Regional for the first time in school history, will welcome No. 2 Oklahoma, No. 11 Stanford, No. 14 Denver, No. 24 Kentucky, UIC and individual competitors to Champaign for the meet. Ticket and event information can be found below along with media credential request procedures.
Complete regional assignments can be found HERE.
Live Stats and Video
Live scoring for the NCAA Champaign Regional can be found HERE.
Click the links below to watch the live stream.
Broadcast | Vault | Uneven Bars | Balance Beam | Floor Exercise
Ticket and Parking Information
Tickets can be purchased through the UI Athletic Ticket Office by calling 1-866-ILLINI-1. All tickets for the NCAA Regional are general admission. Ticket prices are $10 for adults and $6 for students. Free parking will be available in the lots around the Assembly Hall.
Fan Village Information
A "Fan Village," which will feature a sign-making station, temporary tattoos and a balloon artist, will be open to the public on the main level of the Assembly Hall in Room 133/134 when the doors open at 3 p.m.
Practices/Press Availability
Practices are open on Friday, April 6 and media will be permitted on the floor to conduct interviews with the coaches and/or student-athletes AFTER the completion of the practice sessions. Credentialed media may obtain footage for promotional purposes DURING the practice sessions.
Practice Sessions, Friday, April 6:
Session 1: 1:15-3:00 p.m. (Illinois, Oklahoma, Stanford)
Session 2: 4:00-5:45 p.m. (Denver, Kentucky, UIC)
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Accredited members of the media and photographers can apply for credentials to the 2012 NCAA Regional by contacting sports information director Matt Wille at email@example.com. Credential requests should be submitted no later than 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 5. Credentials may be picked up on Saturday, April 7 at the Media Will Call located at the Northeast Entrance of Assembly Hall beginning at 2:30 p.m.


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Blackberry 8350i problems with youtube??
I have a blackberry 8350i and when i go to youtube and try and watch a video it gives me an error or when it does play it takes forever!!! Even when i try the Blackberry app Xenozu it still doesnt load or if it does very blurry... any solution to this?? Thanks..
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