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Open Source Bridge 2014 sessions
Open Source Bridge took place June 24–27, 2014 in Portland, Oregon.
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* Beyond Leaning In: How to Negotiate to Get What You Want
Now that you know how important it is to ask for want you want, come learn how to negotiate in a way that will get you what you need. For everyone of any gender identity who works at a company or freelances, who feels like a newb or an expert, this presentation will teach you effective, practical skills to improve your negotiations and deal confidently with conflicts.
|Katie Lane
* Crash Course in Tech Management
Managing is a skill which you can master just as you did programming. This session will introduce you to many of the skills and resources you'll need to become a successful tech manager (and keep your team from wanting to string you up).
|VM Brasseur
* Open source software could save libraries! Maybe!
There are opportunities for open source to help save the day for libraries, ending many of librarians' and library users' woes.
|Coral Sheldon-Hess
* Patents are for babies: what every engineer should know about IP law
Don't leave IP law to the lawyers! Intellectual property law is a minefield wrapped in straightjacket sprinkled with arsenic-laced gumdrops. Invented for lawyers by lawyers, IP law makes many engineers resentful and dismissive. And yet most of us don't know enough about the details to protect ourselves and our own creations. This session will increase your understanding of how copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and open source licensing protect you, your code, your company, and your community.
|Belinda Runkle
* REI's Expedition into Open Source
The software engineers at REI build, maintain, and operate the cooperative's digital retail infrastructure, from our mobile apps to REI.com, and it runs on open source. We see many benefits to open sourcing our code, but it's uncharted territory for REI. This is our journey preparing the cooperative to contribute our code back to the open source community. Will we be successful? What have we learned? You'll find out!
|Rob McGuire-Dale
* Stop Crying in the Bathroom and Start Your Own Business
The tech industry has a 'diversity problem' and companies are courting women, people of color and other marginalized people as the pressure mounts to hire someone besides 24-year-old cis, straight white male programmers. However, for many marginalized people, working in startups, agencies, and large tech companies can be a miserable, demoralizing experience that literally results in crying in the bathroom. There's more to life than startups. Come hear ideas for making your own path in the tech industry, without compromising your dignity or your mental health.
|Kronda Adair
* Utilizing open source medical systems to reach the next 33 million
There is an increase in double burden of diseases in developing countries accruing from the rise of non communicable and infectious diseases. This situation is worsened by lack of adequate financing, inadequate infrastructure for delivering health care, low health literacy and inadequate personnel. Health information systems drive the global health agenda , and huge investments are continuously being made to bridge the digital divide to improve health care delivery. 1. What are the opportunities to effectively deploy open source technologies in developing countries? 2. How do we create ownership, partnerships and collaborations that support scaling open source medical records system 3. What are the effective design thinking techniques that drive development of open source record systems
|judy wawira
* On the Shoulders Of Giants - Emacs for the Curious
With the need for flexible editors to handle the variety of programming languages we face regularly, the Emacs community is experiencing another renaissance. Let's get you started with Emacs and I'll show you how to become proficient quickly.
|Howard Abrams
* Performance strategies for delivering web fonts at Wikipedia scale
Wikipedia supports almost 300 languages for its multilingual content communities. As mixed script web pages become pervasive and non-Latin language content grows exponentially, a breakthrough technology of delivering webfonts on demand has been deployed across 900 Wikimedia sites. This talk discusses user benefits derived from this technological advance as well some of the performance and scalability improvements made to deliver fonts at Wikipedia scale.
|Alolita Sharma
* A short examination on the intersection of security and usability (or How usable security could save us all)
This talk is geared for people with minimal experience with usability and some experience with security
|Morgan Miller
* Advanced Javascript Basics for Web Developers
Javascript is a necessity for modern web development. Whether it is to add more interactivity to your user interface, or provide a client to interact with your API, chances are, even if you're trying to avoid working in javascript, you're working in javascript. Projects like Coffeescript and Opal, while useful, still do not help understand the javascript outputted by these compile-able languages. One growing concern in this realm is that an application's javascript can sometimes be a security concern, easily exploited by a malicious user. In order to catch these concerns, you must know what your javascript does, inside and out. This talk will illustrate concepts to make sure your client code is secure, while still giving your team the flexibility it needs to keep building your stellar app!
|Lauren Voswinkel
* An Adventure in Data Modeling: The Entity-Attribute-Value Model
A case study on the trials of Emma's performance when implementing the Entity-Attribute-Value data model on their PostgreSQL database systems.
|Mark Wong
* Extending Gems - Patterns and Anti-Patterns of Pluggable Gems
The Ruby community has a strong tradition of building extensions to popular gems. But simple mistakes can make gems harder to extend than they need to be. Drawing from real-world examples, we'll examine the patterns of coding, configuration and documentation for maximizing your gem's flexibility.
|Jason Clark
* Freedom, security and the cloud
Cloud hosting is cheap. Cloud hosting is easy. What compromises are you making when you deploy to the cloud, both in terms of your security and in terms of your dependency on proprietary software?
|Matthew Garrett
* History of Concurrency
With new languages like Dart, Go, and Rust coming with powerful concurrency primitives (and languages like C# & Java adding more concurrency features), it's important to know where these ideas come from and where concurrency handling is headed.
|Michael Schurter
* IPv6 for Programmers
IPv4 is running out of addresses. IPv6 is the Internet Protocol which gives plenty of addresses for the future. It is starting to be deployed widely and open source applications and programming languages need to support it.
|Ian Burrell
* Internet Archive: More than the Wayback Machine
In this session we will: * Give you a tour of Internet Archive and its collections * Introduce you to the APIs and tools you can use to access and contribute to the Archive * Show examples of how other people and institutions are using the Archive
|VM Brasseur, Alexis Rossi
* Intro to the IndieWeb: How Far Can We Go?
What happens when an online service you use freezes your account, loses your data, or goes out of business? Have you ever used a service by a company that suddenly went under, stranding your data? Do you own your own identity or does somebody else? What happened to the web in 2003, and how did we get where we are today? This talk will teach you how to post on your own site and optionally syndicate to other sites (POSSE), how to authenticate with your own domain (IndieAuth) and steps to take data ownership back into your own hands.
|Amber Case
* Introduction to Scala
Scala is an up-and-coming language, used by companies like Twitter and LInkedIn. This talk will give an overview of Scala and introduce basic language features.
|Todd Lisonbee
* Introduction to Sphinx & Read the Docs
Learn more about how to document your software projects with the most powerful open source documentation tool. You'll learn more about how to think about semantics in documentation, and how to use these tools to make great looking documentation.
|Eric Holscher
* Learn you some Lisp for Great Good
Lisp is a wise sage atop a snowy mountain, waiting for students to climb and level up their programming prowess. Pray tell, how does one scale such lofty peaks? This session introduces Lisp for twenty-first century programmers.
|Howard Abrams
* Making Your Privacy Software Usable
Privacy enhancing technologies (PETs), like onion routing, PGP, and OTR often achieve a high level of security, but user experience (UX) built on top of the protocols is often a development afterthought. Without a concerted effort to examine how the system is used, people accidentally compromise their data or never attempt to use PETs. This talk will show you PET design done right and wrong through the lens of standard UX evaluation techniques. Our goal is to enable you to incorporate UX principles into your hacking from day 0.
|Jen Davidson, Sean McGregor
* Making language selection smarter in Wikipedia
It's time to make Wikipedia language selection smarter -- to offer a user languages he/she actually wants to see in an article, and in an efficient way. In this talk we shall learn about : 1.The need for a compact language selector 2.How we achieved it in an Outreach Program for Women project. 3.What criteria we use to determine which languages might be most useful to a user, and why 4.How we implemented the feature 5.What concerns we heard from the Wikimedia community about this project 6.How everyone can help pitch in to make this project a success
|Niharika Kohli, Sucheta Ghoshal
* Math vs. Mathematics
Most people got through their high school math classes by memorizing nonsensical statements and regurgitating them on command. If you came out of that class hating math, no one would blame you, especially not a mathematician. However, that class didn't teach Intro to Algebra, it taught Intermediate Following Instructions.
|Georgia Reh, Jenner Hanni
* OAuth, IndieAuth, and the Future of Authorization APIs
You use OAuth every time you log in to Facebook or Twitter, but what if you could use it from your own website? What if your own domain became a source of data, and you had your own personal API? By decentralizing authorization to your own domain instead of a silo, you control when, how, and to whom your data is shared.
|Aaron Parecki
* Power Tuning Linux: A Case Study
In this talk we will do a reality-check in terms of the power consumption on off-the-shelve systems running "out of the box" Linux distributions.
|Alexandra Yates
* Random
If you want to understand randomness better (and you should), this is the talk for you.
|Bart Massey
* Replacing `import` with `accio`: Compiling Pythons with Custom Grammar for the sake of a joke
In Python, overwriting builtin functions is fairly easy. You can even do it in the interpreter! But can you overwrite a statement, like import, just as easily? Let's go on an adventure, discovering how the import statement works, and how Python statements are defined in the CPython source code. We'll face some consequences of bootstrapping, and, to get our custom Harry Potter-themed Grammar to work, we'll have to compile a Python to compile a Python.
|Amy Hanlon
* The 20,000km view: How GPS works
GPS is more than just letting your phone tell you where you are. I believe GPS is a contender for "most amazing piece of engineering in the history of humanity", and I'll show you why.
|Jamey Sharp
* UX Design in Action: Redesigning the Mailman UI
One of the upcoming features in the Mailman 3 project is a front-end redesign of the mail archiver web interface. Learn more about the new interface, its progress so far, and the designing challenges of building a mobile-first responsive web site. The talk will also illustrate our design process and provide you with design methods and evaluation techniques that you can take back to your own project.
|Karen Tang
* When Firefox Faceplants - what the fox says and who is listening
Ever seen Firefox crash and hesitated to press that 'Send the Report' button because you don't know what would happen next? This is what happens next.
|Lars Lohn
* Who broke the code? Finding problems quickly in a quickly evolving opensource project
In this talk, we will overview the 0day kernel test infrastructure, an Intel project where the goal is to ensure the quality of Linux upstream and developmental kernels. The project runs 7x24 tests on bleeding edge code from 300+ kernel git trees.
|Timothy Chen
* A Few Python Tips
Nothing fancy here, just several tips that help you work effectively with Python. This talk is licensed CC BY; please feel free to reuse it at your company or conference.
|Sumana Harihareswara
* Build your own exobrain
Online services like "If This Then That" (IFTTT) are great for automating your life. However they provide limited ways for the end-user to add their own services, and often require credentials that one may normally wish to keep secret. The 'exobrain' project allows for service integration and extension on a machine *you* control.
|Paul Fenwick
* Confessions of a DBA: worst and best things I've done in production
In the past 15 years, I've done some pretty horrendous things around the M in LAMP. I will balance this with good things I've done too.
|Emily Slocombe
* Data Wrangling: Getting Started Working with Data for Visualizations
Good data visualization allows us to leverage the incredible pattern-recognition abilities of the human brain to answer questions we care about. But how do you make a good visualization? Here's a crash course.
|Rachel Shadoan
* Don't Let Your Tests Flake Out
The build's red with a test failure. You re-run the tests and suddenly all is well. What's going on?
|Jason Clark
* Know Thy Neighbor: Scikit and the K-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm
This presentation will give a brief overview of machine learning, the k-nearest neighbor algorithm and Scikit-learn. Sometimes developers need to make decisions, even when they don't have all of the required information. Machine learning attempts to solve this problem by using known data (a training data sample) to make predictions about the unknown. For example, usually a user doesn't tell Amazon explicitly what type of book they want to read, but based on the user's purchasing history, and the user's demographic, Amazon is able to induce what the user might like to read.
|Portia Burton
* Lightning Talk Workshop
Heard of lightning talks but never considered giving one? Never fear, lightning talks are easy! During this session, you'll write and practice your first lightning talk.
|Michelle Rowley
* Lights, Art, Action! An exploration in technology, art, and making mistakes
Curious about integrating open source and art? We'll explore a particular project in detail while providing both functionality and process recommendations. Both the art and the hardware will come to visit, along with the creators.
|Catriona Buhayar, Bill Madill
* Make your wireless router route (or anything else) the way you want it to, with OpenWrt.
How to build an OpenWrt image from source to do just what you want it to on your suitably chosen hardware.
|Russell Senior
* Making your mobile web app accessible
Accessibility - It's important. Learn how to make your mobile web app accessible to everyone.
|Eitan Isaacson
* Modern Home Automation
There are a few different options available to you to control your home automation system. Many manufacturers make it convenient to use their system by not only making a convenient to install their products and use their interface, but will actually host all the software portions for you. Many provide apps for your IOS or Android device and have web interfaces for your laptop as well, making the control of these devices very streamlined and simple, especially if there are many devices to be managed. Other more DIY-approach solutions also have interfaces to control your automation, although require a bit more setup. For example, with the power strip in the previous example, you first need to connect it to your wireless network, and then you'll be able to use the supplied phone/tablet app to toggle the ports on/off. As with anything DIY: The sky's the limit, although it requires more technical understanding of what's going on.
|Ben Kero
* My Journey into Open Source Design
Becoming a contributing designer on an open source project is often tougher than contributing code. The pathways to designing for open source projects are often unclear. Using my own experience joining the WordPress project, I'll share how I think open source projects can make it easier for designers to contribute their skills.
|Mel Choyce
* Network Science for Fun and Profit
Understanding the relationships between data elements has become increasingly valuable, as LinkedIn, Facebook and Google illustrate. Network science provides a means to understand, explain, predict and otherwise utilize these relationships. I will provide a brief overview of network science, with examples and illustrations using R, focused on providing an entry point to their use for fun and profit.
|John Taylor
* Open Hardware from Breadboard to PCB
So you've built a breadboard circuit with wires everywhere. What's next? A printed circuit board! I'll talk about your open hardware development options through the lens of my recent project turning a breadboard prototype into a finished Arduino shield for a curing oven at Portland State.
|Jenner Hanni
* Open Lighting Architecture: Blinky Lights!
Target audience will anyone with a interest into doing atypical stuff with SoC platforms including professional and hobbyist level implementations. Even if it's a simple XMAS light display, complex LED panel setup, or even driving consumer products like Hue lights.
|None None
* OpenStreetWhat? Mapping The World With Open Data
Come learn about OpenStreetMap, a Wikipedia-like project with over one million contributors aiming to map the entire world. We'll talk about the project, the data, and how to do some cool things with it.
|Justin Miller, Rafa Gutierrez
* SQL Utility Belt
SQL is an incredibly powerful language, but it can be difficult sometimes to advance beyond the basics. In this session, we will go over several tricks and tips to expand your SQL tool kit.
|Michael Alan Brewer
* The Outreach Program for Women: what works & what's next
We've mentored and interned in the Outreach Program for Women, and we know it works -- it improves the gender balance inside open source communities. We'll discuss why it works, how it builds off of Google Summer of Code, and discuss replicating it, expanding it, and looking at the next step in the recruiting and inclusion pipeline.
|Sumana Harihareswara, Liz Henry
* Unicode Beyond Just Characters: Localization with the CLDR
Unicode is much more than just characters. The Unicode Consortium defines open standards for collating, parsing, and formatting data in much of the world's languages. The Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) is the largest standard repository of locale data along with specifications for its use and is a powerful resource for software localization.
|Nova Patch
* Vim Your Way
You've learned to do things Vim's way; now it's time for Vim to learn to do things your way. We'll learn more about customizing Vim to fit your needs and workflow.
|Emily St.
* xmonad: the window manager that (practically) reads your mind
Many desktop environments try to be easy to use for the average user, but that's not you. You're at your computer all day writing code; you don't have time to waste _dragging windows_ (ugh!) or watching _animated transitions_ (yuck!). David Brewer will demonstrate how by using xmonad, a tiling window manager, you can bend your desktop to your will and control your windows with telepathy. Kind of.
|David Brewer
* Badging and Beyond: Rubrics and Building a Culture of Recognition as Community Building Strategies
What are the qualities you need more of in your open source community?
|Larissa Shapiro
* "Why are these people following me?": Leadership for the introverted, uncertain, and astonished
So you've had an idea, or noticed a gap that needs filling, or wondered why no one's talking about an issue you care about. Like the motivated and competent person you are, you start working, or writing, or talking. People start noticing you, listening to you, even asking for your opinion about their own projects--and one day, you realize they're treating you just like you treat your own role models. You find this unsettling. Surely motivation and competence aren't that special, you think. You, a leader? Can't be. And if you actually are a leader, what do you do now?
|Frances Hocutt
* Airplanes : Sailboats :: Mobile : Desktop
What if the way that airplanes were designed and how it improved sailing had some deep lessons around the future of user experience? Sailboats improved significantly after the discovery of flight, and mobile design is improving a great deal of user experience as well. How can we think about applying these lessons? What's still missing?
|Amye Scavarda
* Civilizing IRC and forums: moderation strategies for mutual respect
As a project's public IRC channel or forum grows, it's hard to keep it friendly. People get frustrated with each other, people have "different" senses of humor, disagreements escalate...oh goodness, it can be a mess. This isn't great for retaining community members or welcoming new ones. I'll share my strategies for dealing with problems, learned at the scale of hundreds of forum threads, tens of thousands of forum visitors, and dozens of IRC chatters every day.
|Britta Gustafson
* Code review for Open Source
Everyone knows that code quality is important, but what can we do to actually ensure that our codebases meet the standards we'd like? This talk dives into how to implement code review in your project. What do patch authors need to do, what do patch reviewers need to do, what strategies can you implement to get the best results, and how can you leverage code review to grow your community?
|Alex Gaynor
* DIY User Research for Open Source Projects
Open source is only about open code, right? Wrong. Interviews, questionnaires, quick usability tests, and many other research types all have a place in the open source development process. With a few easy steps and a set of scripts to follow, your community can make user research an easy and essential component of your open source project.
|Erin Richey
* Data, Privacy, & Trust in Open Source: 10 Lessons from Wikipedia
Few people today are not concerned with the way data is used to enhance or subvert individual privacy. This is especially true on the Web, where open source technologies are behind much of what we interact with and use on a daily basis. As the most fundamental aspects of our lives become networked -- social relationships, work, finance, and even how we get our food -- how can we make sure that open source technologies foster a sense of trust with users, protect their privacy, and still give data scientists the tools they need to gain insight?
|Steven Walling
* Deconstructing Open Source Contributions
Everyone wants to make contributing to open source projects more accessible and fun. But how do we do that? One way is to analyze past contributions to identify potential obstacles and opportunities for intervention and support. This workshop will use our own experiences as contributors to explore how the process works, using a simple but effective reflective activity.
|Shauna Gordon-McKeon
* Distributed Agile Development or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Remoties
This is the story of how the mobile web engineering team at the Wikimedia Foundation became an extremely high-functioning and successful agile team: by embracing - rather than shying away from - a distributed model. This talk will explore the agile team's journey and how we cope with the inherent tension of remoteness and the agile principle, 'The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation'.
|Arthur Richards
* Feminist Point of View: Lessons From Running the Geek Feminism Wiki
The Geek Feminism wiki is one of the central resources for feminist activism in geek communities ranging from open source software to science fiction fandom. Learn how the GF wiki started, how it's run, and what we've learned about doing activism the wiki way.
|Alex Bayley
* Forking Pop Culture and Remixing Code: Where Open Movements Intersect
Creative open culture communities operate in many of the same ways as open source communities and share many of the same principles. How are fan writers like open source contributors? What can hackers learn from remixers (and vice versa)? And what happens when creative communities start building open source projects to support their own work?
|Nancy McLaughlin
* From navel gazing to ass kicking: Building leadership in the journalism code community
Amidst all the hand wringing surrounding the "future of journalism," developers, designers, and data geeks working in newsrooms are building projects and tools that engage readers and ripple across the web. We'll discuss ways this community welcomes, supports, and promotes new members and leaders.
|Erika Owens
* From the Bottom Up: Building Community-Owned and -Operated Mesh Networks
This panel highlights the work of a few folks representing part of a broad, international movement consisting of network engineers, community change makers, researchers, architects, and thinkers who are building decentralized and autonomous communications infrastructure. We know that the Internet is deeply broken, and we are rebuilding, from the inside out. We mitigate the ills of interception and interference on the net by facilitating networks that are owned, operated, and governed by the people that use them.
|Jenny Ryan, Mitar Milutinovic, Marc Juul, Russell Senior
* Geek Choir
A hands-on session in which we show how to increase team identity, cohesion, and collaboration via singing.
|Michael Alan Brewer
* Generational Relay: Passing the Open Source Torch
People leave Open Source projects, and that's ok. Failing to plan for it isn't. How one community is recovering from the loss of its first generation and preparing for the rise of its third.
|Eric Steele
* Get more contributors! Lessons from the Drupal Ladder.
A small contributor pool is a recipe for burnout and can harm or hold back your project. Learn how offering a structured approach for step-by-step skill-building can combat imposter syndrome and build community, thereby increasing the number and diversity of your project's contributors.
|Rhys Fureigh
* Hacking In-Group Bias for Fun and Profit
Our lives and social interactions are governed by sociology and psychology. As geeks, we strive to understand how the technology around us works, and we strive to find ways to make it better. Society is basically one big, complex piece of technology, and, like all technology, it is hackable. This talk will explain how you can do that.
|Kat Toomajian
* Hold on to Your Asana
Yoga returns to Open Source Bridge! Come with your stiff shoulders, sore wrists, tight hips and aching back. Leave with ideas on how to incorporate 5 minutes of practice into your busy day to care for your body and mind.
|Sherri Koehler
* It's Dangerous to Go Alone: Battling the Invisible Monsters in Tech
It can be hard to focus on your love of coding when you are regularly battling invisible issues like insecurity, anxiety, and lack of confidence. This talk will identify invisible issues programmers struggle with, talk about their impact, discuss personal experiences dealing with them, and share some tools useful in fighting back.
|Julie Pagano
* Keeping your culture afloat through a tidal wave of interest ~~\o/~~
During the height of interest to the project, there were often several new people arriving in the channel per day. That may not sound like a lot, but everyone had questions and would be interested in different things; it could take a twenty minute conversation or so with someone who knew a lot about the project in order to properly greet, inform, and orient new people. The founders didn't have a few spare hours around the clock to personally devote to making sure that each new arrival was welcomed, felt welcomed, had their questions answered, and had their willingness to contribute channeled into something which needed the help and suited their skills. There was a lot about this that we could have automated or dumped into a higher-latency format like email. The first time someone proposed automating the welcoming dance it was like they'd slapped me in the face. The personal touch bit was crucial, and automating it would have struck all the wrong notes. The project was supposed to be for people, by people, and showing that we're human and we're committed to keeping it small and personal was crucial to keeping the culture intact.
|Azure Lunatic, Kat Toomajian
* Learning Open Source as a course in Africa University
PHP, MySql, PhoneGap, PrestaShop, Magento, Wordpress, Drupal.
|Olainiyan Adewale
* Mushroom Data Demystified
Mushroom Observer is a tool for logging and mapping fungus sightings. Beginners and professionals collaborate to produce a comprehensive data set, which has contributed to the burgeoning science of mycology. While this talk focuses on Mushroom Observer, it will be an overview of usefulness of open source amateur contributions to scientific research.
|Lauren Hudgins
* Open Source is Not Enough: The Importance of Algorithm Transparency
Opaque algorithms increasingly control our access to information, on the web and beyond. Why is that a problem, and what can we do about it?
|Rachel Shadoan
* Open Sourcing Mental Illness: Ending The Stigma
An open, honest discussion of mental illness from the perspective of a web developer. We can learn to survive, cope, and thrive.
|Ed Finkler
* Rocket Science On Github
Git isn't just for code. What about CAD files? Experimental test data? How do you manage a multidisciplinary project with git? Last year Portland State Aerospace Society, a relatively large open source rocketry project, moved all their work onto github. I'll share my experience with the switch from a few self hosted git repos to a full fledged github presence. What worked, what hasn't, github's features for non coders, and a little on the future of open science.
|Nathan Bergey
* Scottish Folk Dance: If you can follow code, you can dance!
Can you follow and write code? Do you participate in the ebb and flow of open source communities? Does pivoting those skills into a social form of exercise appeal to you? If so, then Scottish folk dancing might be for you!
|Darrick Wong
* Slytherin 101: How To Win Friends and Influence People
Do you wish that you were better at getting people to do what you need them to do? Do you keep getting put in charge of things and then get stuck wondering how the heck you're supposed to get things done? Do you keep getting into conflicts with other people because of stuff you've said, and you aren't entirely sure why? Fortunately, Slytherin House has you covered. Come to this talk and learn the basics of how to hack human relationships, using the tools of cunning and ambition to achieve inter-House harmony. As long as you promise not to use these techniques to support the next Dark Lord, of course.
|Denise Paolucci
* Speaker Support of Awesomeness: How I went from stage fright to stage presence and want to help others do the same.
Once upon a time, I was terrified of public speaking. I went from having stage fright to being a stage presence who speaks at conferences. I run a support group for old and new speakers called the "Tech Conf Speaker Support of Awesomeness." I want to talk about what we do, why we do it, and how well it's worked out so far. This talk is about speaking for the first time, improving your talks, and how conference organizers and attendees can help too.
|Julie Pagano
* Supporting communities with Gittip
There are lots of people doing good work in the world, and while there seems to be a myriad of ways to provide financial "donations", few of them provide a way to do so in a sustainable manner. We're going to look at Gittip, a freedom loving platform to provide a sustainable, predictable income to those making the world a better place.
|Paul Fenwick
* Surviving Support: 10 Tips for Saving Your Users and Yourself
When I open sourced my plugin to the WordPress community, user support was one of the last things on my mind - I was more excited to have written awesome code and a helpful site extension. Shortly thereafter though, customer support was the only thing I had time for. When your user base ranges in skill level from experienced developer to your grandmother, well… you've gotta be prepared for just about anything. This session will highlight the challenges and benefits of stellar support and offer a few tricks to make the process as painless as possible for both your user and yourself.
|Julie Cameron
* The Case for Junior Developers
Are you passionate about building tech, but think there is no place in your organization for junior developers? Come explore the true costs and benefits of hiring junior developers and see how you can improve your company while helping juniors become the best developers they can be.
|Shawna Scott
* The Keys to Working Remotely
When I tell people I work from home, they tend to assume I spend the day playing with my dog outside. It's beyond comprehension to most that I actually spend as much time working as they do, sometimes more. I hope to enlighten those close-minded people about the possibilities working from home offers and how to do it well. Session slides: http://www.carsonshold.com/talks/keys-to-working-remotely/
|Carson Shold
* The Promise of Collaborative Magic
Open source thrives on the idea of people helping one another in reaching their project's goals. But is it working the way that it's supposed to be? This session hopes to discuss the importance of constructive collaboration in our communities, how we encourage them, and what we can do if they're not working out the way they're supposed to.
|Josh Lim
* The joy of volunteering with open technology and culture
Volunteering is a fun way to explore your interests and passions. In this talk, I will detail my experiences in volunteering with open projects like Wikipedia and Mozilla. I will also talk about fun ways to introduce newbies into volunteering based on my experience with conducting outreach sessions for open projects.
|Netha Hussain
* Towards more diversity-friendly social networks
How can we make social networks more "diversity-friendly"? It starts with an anti-oppression attitude, embedded in the community guidelines and norms; and includes the right tools, technologies, and policies. This session will look at what does and doesn't work in a variety of online environments, and will include an annotated collection of resources on the wiki.
|Jon Pincus, Deborah Pierce
* Trust, Community, and Automatic Updates
WordPress shipped in October what is perhaps its most polarizing feature ever — automatic updates in the background of self-hosted web software, on by default and no easy way to turn it off. In most open source communities, this would be cause for open revolt. Learn how through trust, communication, and a steadfast commitment to its philosophies, the WordPress core team convinced a skeptical community to go along, even if it meant users giving up some control.
|Andrew Nacin
* Unicorns Are People, Too: Re-Thinking Soft and Hard Skills
As developers, we tend to value hard skills that can be quantified or measured objectively. Job postings search for unicorns, but we are people first and foremost and being human isn't as easy as programming. While the code comes easily, the soft skills that make us human are complicated and difficult to get right. This talk will explore the danger of neglecting so-called "soft" skills, what we stand to lose by overvaluing technical skills, and alternatives to the hard and soft dichotomy.
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* When Many Eyes Fail You: Tales from Security Standards and Open Source
It's often said that "given many eyes, all bugs are shallow" and open source proponents love to list this as a reason that open source is more secure than its closed-source relatives. While that makes a nice sound bite, the reality of security with many eyeballs doesn't fit so nicely into a tweet. This talk will explore some of the things that surprised me in going from academic security research to industry security research in open source and open standards.
|Terri Oda
* Working Effectively with People in Government on Open Source Projects
Ever thought about ways to use your open source skills to improve your city? In this session we'll talk about successful models for working with people in government, from pitching your project, communicating effectively, finding experts, tracking down data, to launching in the community.
|Jason Denizac
* Write an Excellent Programming Blog
As a member of the open source community, do you contribute only code, or also words? Writing about programming benefits yourself and others. This talk outlines solid article structures, suggests topics to write about, explains how blogging about programming is special, and inspires you to write articles of enduring value.
|A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
* Building a Translucent Mobile Crypto Currency with Couchbase Lite JSON Sync
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* Explicit Invitations: Passion is Not Enough for True Diversity
Open Source suffers from a lack of diversity. Underrepresented populations, for systemic reasons, might never show up unless Open Source communities 'hack' themselves through explicit invitation & removing barriers to participation. Mozilla is funding two pilot studies designed to explicitly reach out to underrepresented groups in open source today. Seeking people who like to solve problems and then engaging them in a 6 week, full time accelerator program we hope to explore the question: Can we seed our communities by hacking the social/cultural/systemic issues in order to gain technical contributions from a more diverse set of minds and give to participants an experience in tech that might have long term benefits to them?
|Lukas Blakk
* Extension Development with Mediawiki
Mediawiki is one of the most commonly used "wiki's" across a plethora of sites. So I will help you build your own "Mediawiki Extension" that will help you to enhance the features of your wiki.
|Richa Jain
* Extreme Software Portability as an Art Form
Writing portable software is hard. Throw in thousands of bad and worse shared hosting configurations, a decade of technical debt, the need to cater to a sprawling ecosystem, and PHP — and you have WordPress. We've found breaking changes harm our community and unfairly punish our users, so we don't make them. But that doesn't mean we don't innovate or evolve — we're just forced to get really clever. And it works, with adoption continuing to soar.
|Andrew Nacin
* Futel: the future of the past of telephony
Futel is more than a collection of payphones installed in publicly accessible locations. Find out what we hope to achieve by starting a free telephone network.
|Karl Anderson
* How I Learned Haskell by Writing Tiny Games
Earlier this year, I started teaching myself Haskell by using it to write short, text-based games. In this session I'll share what I learned, both about Haskell and about learning new things.
|Moss Collum
* How to Run 100 User Tests in Two Days
Have you ever dreamed of running a vast quantity of user tests in a very short amount of time? Let me show you how I pulled this off at two conferences.
|Daniel Sauble
* How to make generics in C: an adventure in sorting
This will be a talk on how to hack C to get generics-like support, which we used to make a super-fast C sorting library, all in headers. We'll also talk about sorting in general, and the various kinds of sorting algorithms, and why this hack helps so much.
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* Knitting for programmers
Yeah, you've seen us knitting during talks. I promise we're paying more attention than the people with their laptops open. Well, now learn how we do what we do... the programmer way. I'll start with the topology of individual stitches and go through geometry to design patterns, and by the end of it you'll know how to knit a sweater.
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* Life-Hacking and Personal Time Management for the Rest of Us
Almost all the books and articles out there about taking Agile methods into your personal life seem geared to people who have control over their schedules. What about those of us who have childcare, eldercare, or other incompressible schedule demands?
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* Modernizing a Stagnant Toolbox
WordPress turned 10 years old in May of 2013. On that day, the main repo didn't contain a single tool to make it easier for developers to work with and contribute code. Over the last year, this is how and why we changed all that.
|Aaron Jorbin
* NerdCred++; How to Customize your Bash Prompt
The terminal is a powerful tool on any developer's belt. The command line interface provides extensive functionality via simple entry of commands. In this workshop we will customize the development experience by adding personal ⭐flair⭐ and making the most of limited screen real estate. Customizing the prompt provides additional information and functionality with the bonus of flair. Participants will be able to take pride in custom craftsmanship with the result.
|Pamela Ocampo, Rachel Walker
* Nest + Pellet Stove + Yurt
Nest is a twenty-first century take on a nineteenth century thermostat. A pellet stove is a modern version of a campfire that won't burn the house down. A modern yurt is a high tech tent based on an age old Mongolian design. Can they all work together?
|Lars Lohn
* Net Art Praxis: Making Internet-Based Visual Art using Open Source
A discussion of the movement known as "net art" and its intersection with open source. We will look at the emerging aesthetic of net art, how the open nature of the internet is challenging the art world, and how to use amazing open source libraries to make visual art in the browser.
|Mark Hintz
* Tales from the Trenches: Battling Browser Bugs for "Fun" and (Non-)Profit
Web development used to be HARD. You basically had to rewrite your code for every new browser you wanted to support. But with modern browsers and libraries like jQuery, those dark days are over. Or are they? We pushed the limits of what the web can do while building VisualEditor (the new editor for Wikipedia) and found plenty of hilarious, insane, amazing and horrifying bugs in browsers even in 2014. All we needed to do was poke around in some unusual places.
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The Center for Tropical Forest Science, joint program of the Arnold Arboretum and the Smithsonian Institution, is pleased to announce the publication of The Ecology and Conservation of Seasonally Dry Forests in Asia, edited by William J. McShea, Stuart J. Davies and Naris Bhumpakphan. Though they may receive more that 150 centimeters of rain per year, the majority of remaining forest types in South and Southeast Asia have long dry seasons which may last several months. For many endangered species, such as tigers, elephants, deer, and primates, this unique habitat is central to their survival. The forests are also intimately linked to humans in the region, who have lived in and relied on them for centuries.
Despite the importance of seasonally dry forests, little is known of their ecology. This book draws connections between forests, endangered species, and agricultural communities in the region. The contributors, many of whom are in-country researchers and managers who have spent years studying this ecosystem, provide an overview of the ecology and conservation of Asia's seasonally dry forests. The book also includes case studies for the conservation of species dependent on these ecosystems, such as tigers, elephants, deer, banteng, and gibbons, and discussions of effective forest management and conservation.
The Ecology and Conservation of Seasonally Dry Forests in Asia is published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. William McShea is a research ecologist at the Conservation Ecology Center in the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Smithsonian Institution. Stuart Davies is Director of the Center for Tropical Forest Science-Smithsonian Institution Global Earth Observatory Program of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Naris Bhumpakphan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Forest Biology at Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand.


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It's all on Reid and McConnell
It's now the Harry and Mitch show.
After Senate Democratic leaders rejected a proposal Saturday by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) to end the budget impasse, the burden to find a solution now falls squarely on Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — two shrewd tacticians who have a long, complicated and contentious personal and political history with each other.
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Republican senators, eager for a way out of a shutdown fight that has roiled their party's brand, reacted to the leadership discussions positively, believing that the two crafty dealmakers could concoct a proposal to reopen the government and avert the nation's first-ever default as soon as next week.
Reid, however, was notably more dour.
When asked if he is confident he could reach a deal with McConnell, Reid told POLITICO: "No."
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"I'm just doing my best, I'm not confident in anything in the way Republicans have acted," the Nevada Democrat said.
McConnell, along with his close ally Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), quietly met with Reid and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) early Saturday to find a way out of the first possible default in U.S. history when the Treasury Department begins to run out of money Oct. 17. While senators said it was a positive discussion, how the impasse is resolved from here remains a major question going forward.
"Very pleasant" was how Reid described the meeting.
"They had a good talk this morning," said Schumer, who has had about a dozen Senate Republicans reach out to him in recent days pushing for a deal.
"We had a good meeting," McConnell added.
( Also on POLITICO: House takes back seat after W.H. rejects budget plan)
McConnell is widely viewed as being in a disadvantage in the talks. The GOP leader wants a way out of the politically damaging crisis, and Reid is not willing to give a whole lot.
McConnell, sources said, is eager to lock in lower-funding numbers at next year's $967-billion level after the automatic sequestration cuts take effect. That number is too low for Democrats, but sources familiar with the talks said they were willing to agree to a stop-gap spending bill until mid-January at the $986 billion level before the new round of sequestration cuts take effect. It's unclear whether McConnell would go for that.
Moreover, Democrats want a long-term increase in the $16.7 trillion national debt ceiling — potentially through next year — something Republicans blocked in a 53-45 vote in the Senate on Saturday afternoon. They want something far longer than what Collins proposed, which was through the end of January.
It's far from clear whether Republicans will get anything out of Obamacare, even though GOP demands to gut the controversial law was the chief disagreement that spurred the first government shutdown in 17 years. Potentially, Republicans may get a two-year delay of the 2.3 percent medical device tax in the law, given the levy's unpopularity even among Democrats. Moreover, in recent days, Republicans have been asking for a requirement for income verification of Obamacare subsidies as part of a deal.
( Also on POLITICO: House floor tactics spill into acrimony)
But it remains to be seen whether Democrats will accept those Obamacare demands, especially since they have drawn a hard-line against any negotiations and instead called for a "clean" increase to the national debt ceiling and extension of government funding.
Reid said Saturday that the fight over the health care law is no longer the issue for the GOP in the shutdown fight. The issue, he said, was "to do anything they can do divert attention from the fools they've made of themselves on Obamacare."
Reid said that he and McConnell would probably speak by phone before markets open Monday and during a rare Sunday session of the Senate.


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This winter's forecast: plenty of snow, and even more travelers fleeing it.
That's the message, at least, in this year's America's Favorite Cities survey. Every year, Travel + Leisure readers vote on dozens of qualities in 35 U.S. cities—from the best microbrews and museums to the most pet-friendly vacations.
Last year, Salt Lake City took the gold medal in the winter category, but this year, the snowy Utah city—along with Denver—skidded down the mountain of readers' affections, while warmer cities took their places, literally, in the sun. Compounding the situation, The Farmers' Almanac is predicting another big-snow winter for parts of the U.S., especially in the Northeast.
"More people appear to be flocking to warmer climates," confirms Suffolk County, NY, travel agent Tim Joseph, who is seeing an uptick in snowbird-style bookings for this winter. "But I suspect it has as much to do with the weather as the economy." Caribbean destinations, he points out, offer many affordable all-inclusive resorts —and that's one reason he loves Puerto Rico's San Juan, a top 5 city in the survey. "It's also a real foodie city, and it's still relatively low on the list for many travelers, so it's not too crowded."
San Juan may be getting a little more crowded this year, along with classic snowbird destinations such as Miami, Honolulu, and Phoenix, which all landed in the top 10. Winter-frigid Anchorage, Minneapolis, and Chicago occupied the bottom slots out of the 35.
Yet it's worth noting that plenty of top 20 cities aren't beachy paradises. Instead, they have mild winters, seasonal events, and often the best prices of the year. Take Houston—which barreled into the top 10 this year—where cooler temps, along with the world's biggest rodeo championship, make the city come alive.
In other top 20 cities, winter just means having the city to yourself. You'll find shorter lines at theme parks in Orlando and San Diego, and you'll have an easier time getting tables at hot restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
"I'm not looking for 90-degree beach weather," says publicist Sue Jean Chun, who regularly goes to New Orleans during winter—though not for Mardi Gras. "I just want a city where food and music are the focus."
The Connecticut resident also enjoys another simple winter pleasure in the Crescent City: "being able to walk out the door in jeans and a light sweater," she says, "rather than a puffy jacket and beat-up boots."
Voters took the whole "Windy City" notion pretty literally this year, sending Chicago from last year's No. 28 to last place. While it may not sound that enticing to stroll outside and admire the top-ranked architecture during winter, it's hard to argue with that soul-warming pizza, a night of theater, or a cozy evening in a bar —for which Chicago ranked in the top 3. To embrace the weather, go to one of the Polar Adventure Days on the city's Northerly Island, featuring ice sculptures, snowshoeing, and meet-and-greets with Siberian huskies.
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During my travels to California and Wales, I took sort of a new approach to life and eating: a "who cares, I will just eat more chocolate" approach. Plus I thought being well-fed would probably only help me in Wales. And then there was my favorite excuse: Renée Zellweger gained (a lot of) weight for Bridget Jone's Diary and then lost it again, just like that. So it can't be that hard to lose weight, right?!
Famous last words.
This week has been one long attack of hypoglycemia and what do I have to show for it? One pound lost.
But maybe, I should look at my athletic performance before I subject my family to 3 more weeks of Mom-on-edge. (insert bright light bulb and dinging sound)
Yesterday's intervals were 6 x 200 (following 50 min pulse class, 30 minutes strength training + jump rope, and 8km running working on technique) with 2 min breaks
All 36-38 seconds.
Today's 5 x 1000 (in warm temps) was avg. 3.49
Both of these are, if not the fastest, the second fastest, I have ever run. (I think I need to consult old blog posts)
Isn't it counterintuitive with a 4 lb weight gain + ultra marathon 11 days ago?
What was not surprising at all, is my swim 50 meter times went from 1:00 a couple months ago to 53 seconds today. A litte fat is a least good for swimming. But I knew that all along, though it was never incentive enough for me to gain.
Anyway, here I am.
And I have had a fantastic week (yes, despite the hunger) with the boys while SR and Natti have been in the Austrian Alps.
Christian and I started a new habit of running home 2km through the woods from daycare. He's so proud of it and is starting to value his running shoes.
And Annette Fredskov finished her project of running 366 official marathons in 365 days I and was there with the boys to join in the party. Can you seriously imagine doing this (never skipping a marathon despite feeling like crap, having two kids (she really does))? She is one strong woman. You would certainly not know she has MS. Coincidence or not, she didn't have one single attack the entire year.
|Annette Fredskov Jensen finishing 84.4 km to finish 366 marathons in 365 days. Congrats, to a kind, inspirational and always-positive woman and friend. Photo by: Christian Høeg
Isn't the Danish accent charming? And I TOLD you all she was wonderful!
I will close with saying that I have promised myself I will not show any pictures of myself in our new Team Salomon uniform until I have lost all 4 pounds. Hmmm. This is better incentive for me than a wedding dress. But then I ask myself - is my goal to be fast or look good in white polka dots? Hmm, that is a tough one. The answer is- whatever makes me happy, because that is of course what makes us succeed in life.


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ALBION – The margin of Albion's 35-16 victory over Central doesn't reflect the anxiety of the Briton faithful early in the fourth quarter. Clinton Orr scored three of his four touchdowns in the first half as Albion built a 21-7 cushion, but Wes Dolen preserved the lead with a pair of interceptions.
"I think last week's experience of giving up the lead late in the game helped today," Rundle said of the lessons the Britons learned in a 32-28 setback at Benedictine. "I was proud of our guys. I think they responded well."
Orr returned the opening kickoff 90 yards for a touchdown and he scored on runs of 5 and 25 yards in the first half.
Albion's offense was held to three yards in the third quarter as the Central defense ganged up to stop the running game. Central was unable to score in the quarter, losing a fumble and turning the ball over on downs at the Albion 29.
Central produced points early in the fourth as Kevin Sheldon kicked a 32-yard field goal and Josh Osborn scored on a 43-yard run.
Dolen made the first of his interceptions on a third down play in Central territory. On the next play, Briton quarterback Dominic Bona rolled out and found Brian Spencer in the back of the end zone for a 24-yard scoring strike. Bona was 9-of-15 for 160 yards in his first collegiate start.
"Dominic did well," Rundle said. "He did all the things we asked him to do. We told him he didn't have to win the game. He has a lot of playmakers and he had to do a good job of getting the ball to the guys he needs to."
Orr's 40-yard run with less than two minutes remaining completed the scoring. Orr rolled up 208 all purpose yards.
Albion surrendered 412 yards. Osborn averaged nearly eight yards per carry, finishing the day with 118 yards.
"It was not one of our better performances defensively, but we made plays when we had to," Rundle said.


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The 911 operator in Sherman had to think for a split second it was an April Fool's Day joke, but it wasn't.
A man, sounding somewhat sleepy and confused, called 911 at around 3 a.m. to report he was "scared" and "lost" and stranded on the railroad tracks in a Ferrari.
Grayson County 911 Call: "I took a wrong turn somewhere and I am so lost"
The 911 operator tried to help him figure out where he was, but when he looked around and told her what he saw, "railroad tracks and some woods" is all he offered her.
The bigger problem was he didn't know what to do about the train that was coming down the tracks.
"There is a train coming and I'm gonna… I'm gonna get killed," said the man. The 911 operator's response was "get out of the car."
He got out and stood there talking to 911 as his Ferrari was obliterated by the train.
"Yep, it's gone," he said. The screeching train could be heard in the background as it mangled his luxury car.
The driver was so lost he swore he was in Mansfield (103 miles away) until the 911 operator informed him his call came in to Grayson County 911.
His guesses as to where he was continued as he threw out Arlington (81 miles away), and McKinney (34 miles away).
The operator had an easier time figuring out his exact location when the train driver called 911 to report he had struck a car.
Officers arrived at the scene west of U.S. Highway 75 to find the train had pushed the car several hundred feet down the tracks.
The driver, Jeff Sabold, 46, was asked to perform a field sobriety test and then was arrested for driving while intoxicated. The 2000 Ferrari was lifted from the tracks and hauled away.
Sabold is listed as the owner of Automotive Concepts a luxury car service in Carrollton.


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Top This: Pizza del Papa (à la Keste)
Learn how to work a new topping onto your pies.
It's squash season. And you better believe it's always pizza season. At Kesté on Bleecker Street, chef and owner Roberto Caporuscio combines roasted, puréed butternut squash with grated smoked mozzarella and creamy ricotta to create the "butternut squash cream" for his Pizza del Papa.* The pizza is then topped with pools of gooey smoked mozzarella, marinated artichokes, roasted red peppers, and fresh basil. All that on Kesté's perfectly bubbly, airy, chewy Neapolitan crust? Man, we just had to make this one at home.
*Pizza del Papa, which means "The Pope's Pizza," received its name after Roberto's teacher, Antonio Starita, presented it to the pope in 2000. This pizza was sanctioned by the pope—you just can't beat that.
What You'll Need (for one pizza)
- 1 dough portion (Watch this video to learn how to make Roberto Caporuscio's Neapolitan style dough)
- 1 butternut squash, halved, seeded, peeled, and diced into 1-inch pieces
- 1 ball smoked mozzarella (1/3 finely grated for butternut squash cream, 2/3 cut into large strips)
- Ricotta (Roberto uses Calabro whole milk ricotta)
- Jarred, marinated artichokes, sliced thin
- Roasted red and yellow peppers, cut into large strips
- Fresh basil leaves
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Salt
- Pepper
Kesté Pizza & Vino
271 Bleecker Street, New York NY 10014 kestepizzeria.com
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When nothing else works, try this
From Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, an anecdote about how Charles Schwab wordlessly motivated the workers in one of his steel mills.
Charles Schwab had a mill manager whose people weren't producing their quota of work.
"How is it," Schwab asked him, "that a manager as capable as you can't make this mill turn out what it should?"
"I don't know," the manager replied. "I've coaxed the men, I've pushed them, I've sworn and cussed, I've threatened them with damnation and being fired. But nothing works. They just won't produce."
This conversation took place at the end of the day, just before the night shift came on. Schwab asked the manager for a piece of chalk, then, turning to the nearest man, asked: "How many heats did your shift make today?"
Without another word, Schwab chalked a big figure six on the floor, and walked away.
When the night shift came in, they saw the "6" and asked what it meant.
"The big boss was in here today," the day people said.
"He asked us how many heats we made, and we told him six. He chalked it down on the floor."
The next morning Schwab walked through the mill again. The night shift had rubbed out "6" and replaced it with a big "7."
When the day shift reported for work the next morning, they saw a big "7" chalked on the floor. So the night shift thought they were better than the day shift did they? Well, they would show the night shift a thing or two. The crew pitched in with enthusiasm, and when they quit that night, they left behind them an enormous, swaggering "10." Things were stepping up.
Shortly this mill, which had been lagging way behind in production, was turning out more work than any other mill in the plant.
The principle?
Let Charles Schwab say it in his own words: "The way to get things done," says Schwab, "is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel."
The desire to excel! The challenge! Throwing down the gauntlet! An infallible way of appealing to people of spirit.


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Nations top player back on the trail
Perhaps the end is in sight for Andrew Wiggins.
On Wednesday, Wiggins began a final round of visits that should give him and his family the information needed to make a college choice.
A 6-foot-7 small forward at Huntington (W.V.) Prep who hails from Canada, Wiggins began his second official visit Wednesday by traveling to Kentucky.
Wiggins has already visited Florida State where he has extensive family ties and will follow the Kentucky visit with trips to Kansas and North Carolina within the next week and a half.
"Not really," says Huntington Prep head coach Rob Fulford when asked if Wiggins has any kind of game plan for his official visits. "He's just focused on getting to know everyone. Other players, the staff, the administration."
His athleticism, being a top prospect since a young age and hailing from north of the border have caused Wiggins' recruitment to generate as much interest as any in recent memory.
But Wiggins himself has never gotten caught up in the hype. Named the Naismith player of the year for high schoolers, Wiggins has gone about his business in a humble manner while Huntington Prep has traveled up and down the Eastern seaboard and played to huge crowds.
"He has done a great job of balancing it out," Fulford told Rivals.com. "He has a very good understanding of what is going on and doesn't pay a lot of attention to all of the media hype."
After the visit process wraps, Wiggins will meet with his family and put a plan together for making a decision. There isn't any set timetable, but with the spring signing period and All-Star game circuit -- he's been selected to play in the McDonald's All-American and Jordan Brand games -- fast approaching, these final visits figure to play a big role in him and his family reaching a decision.
"I think the visits are crucial for them," said Fulford. "It gives his parents a chance to put names with faces and for all of them to evaluate the entire program and school for each visit."
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By Terry: Intensive Hydra-Plump Lipstick
Although I would never advise buying a colour on line you have read no reviews nor seen any swatches/pictures of, it is something I do sometimes, on this occasion I lucked out. I choose the shade Praline Cristalline (£25) and it turns out to be a slightly purples pink with silver micro glitter. I'm not a fan of glitter in lipsticks but this seems to work and has no gritty feel to it at all.
It lasts quite well and leaves an even stain of colour behind. I think if I could find swatches/pictures somewhere I might buy another one but for now I think I'd best not push my luck!
I bought this from Space NK.
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If you wanted swatches of any particular colour, let me know. I'm 5 minutes from a Space NK at work, and although I'm no Karlasugar, I could do you a few swatches :)ReplyDelete
I'm also 5 mins from a Space NK at work. Do you think we addicts naturally gravitate towards places of employment based on their proximity to expensive beauty products?!ReplyDelete
Anyway, I'd also be happy to swatch for you. Might stop me spending ...
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Thanks for the kind offers,although as I wedged it back in my makeup drawer for lipsticks I did tell myself I'd best cut down on my lipstick spending..will see how well that goes! Although if either of you see the new By Terry shadow colours in Goldy Honey,crem'e brulee,rose macaroon and peach loukoum, I'd love to know if you think they are worth buying, as its not like I don't have enough neutrals :)
Can't believe you work so close to a SpaceNK, glad I don't in a way as I'd be in there every lunch break x
Thanks for this review. Seems By Terry reviews are few and far between. Hope you enjoy this purchase. I was looking at purchasing their rose lip balm from Barney's New York. A bit pricey for a lip balm so i am still in the process of decision. :-)ReplyDelete


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Sweet Potato Wedges ~ Oven Roasted
Sweet potatoes have been finding their way into my grocery cart more frequently lately. I like to prepare them in a number of ways.
Baked whole, grated and prepared into Latke, pureed with a splash of cream and a knob of butter...
Or this way ~ cut into wedges, tossed in a bit of olive oil, seasoned with coarse salt & freshly ground pepper, or (spicy Cajun seasoning). I bake them in the oven set to convection roast, at 425-degrees (F)for 10 to 15 minutes; depending upon the thickness of the wedges. I like to roast them until just tender and beginning to take on a little color.
Delicious with a squirt of fresh lime juice, a sprinkle of cayenne pepper or ~ my favorite; Piment d'Espelette.
They make a nice little appetizer, too!
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Labels: Budget Friendly, Side Dishes, Vegetables
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I like to sprinkle a little cumin & cinnamon on mine! YUMM. They look great!ReplyDelete
Yum Mary ! Sweet Potatoes are becoming a fav of mine also. Love them cubed with Lipton dry onion soup mix sprinkled over and baked tender...great side dish to anything! I'm going to have to try these wedges...ReplyDelete
Sweet potatoes are a favorite here too. I love them made into oven fries with just a hint of olive oil and tossed in cinnamon and cayenne pepper. Next time I'm going to try your idea of cajun seasoning, thanks for the idea. Amazingly beautiful photography!ReplyDelete
I love love love roasted sweet potatoes. They are so easy and good.ReplyDelete
i need to make these, they look wonderful~ReplyDelete
Oh be still my heart! They're going on my grocery list! ♥ReplyDelete
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Our courses and tailor-made programmes cater for individuals, companies, expats, students, children, and au pairs, and can be taken in groups or privately. We also offer business English, and exam preparation courses for a wide range of internationally-recognised language qualifications, such as the IELTS, TOEFL and Cambridge exams. We also offer specialised training for the Inburgering exam and NT2 Staatsexams.
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My experience with Kickstart has been highly beneficial in both developing language skills and improving my knowledge of the Dutch culture. Josien's support is always spot on and very intuitive in relation to personal circumstances. She spends a lot more than the official time allocated to really get to know her clients and her approach is customised accordingly. She was recommended to me by other Shell colleagues who expressed the same sentiment and I was fortunate enough to benefit from this during the time I spent with her.
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Entering the Kickstart school premises alone gives you a push of energy and the commitment this will help to create is hardly unmatched in any other language school. The methodology and the approach used in the lessons also helps smoothly unlock the secrets of everyday Dutch. Kickstart School has helped me get in touch with the 'undutchable' culture of the Netherlands and its people. The individual language training I could experience at Kickstart School has been one of the best educational experiences I could have in Europe.
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Mio Fit's Super Bowl commercial features Tracy Morgan advocating the American knack for change, a move that effectively makes the whole situation absurd. Also, we find Tracy to be an interesting choice–since it is in fact a "sports" drink, maybe they should've made some kind of nod towards athleticism other than stuffing the former Tracy Jordan into a tracksuit.
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A clothes tree.
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A clothes tree is a pole, but I hang my clothes on another thing.
It is a long piece of wood or plastic, with several hooks on it. What should I call it?
A clothes tree.
Clothes tree must be American. I have never heard of it.
coat stand.
So in American English, for both coat-rack and coat-stand, they use clothes-tree. But in images.google.com it's only for the pole.
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Do people feel their privacy slipping away? They do.
Do people trust their government or corporations to protect their privacy? They don't.
Would they submit to having a computer chip implanted in their skin to help identify them? Many would.
That's just one of the surprises revealed by MSNBC.com's privacy survey, conducted over the past month.
The 30-question survey, developed in consultation with researcher Larry Ponemon of The Ponemon Institute, should not be considered scientific. More than 6,500 MSNBC.com users voluntarily took the survey by last week, when the results were analyzed. The survey reflects a self-selected group that likely is more interested in privacy-related issues than the general population. Nevertheless, the results are generally consistent with numerous surveys Ponemon and other privacy researchers have conducted.
The most obvious paradox on display in the survey results are that Americans are much more trusting than they say they are.
Video: Privacy lost While most people feel uneasy about their privacy, they have a lot of trouble defining just what it is and what they can do to protect it. As a result, they appear willing to tolerate many behaviors by their government and corporations that they might consider invasions of privacy.
People have almost no faith in either their government or corporations to protect their privacy, the survey indicated. When asked "Who do you trust more to protect your privacy — government or private corporations," a full 88 percent picked the third option — "neither."
But despite this near universal skepticism, consumers expressed a willingness to share intimate details of their lives with government agencies and businesses:
- About 40 percent of respondents said they would willingly submit to voluntary fingerprinting at their local police station.
- 60 percent said they would carry a high-tech driver's license with an embedded ID chip or biometric device.
- Nearly 20 percent said they would have a tiny microchip implanted under their skin that could be used to identify them and access their medical histories.
Convenience trumps privacy
"It tells me that there is not a lot of trust, that people believe their privacy is eroding, but that they value convenience over privacy," Ponemon said of the results. "It is surprising."
There's a degree of pragmatism in the choices, Ponemon said. Privacy-activist behaviors such as refusing to sign up for supermarket loyalty cards, toll booth E-ZPass electronic radio signal devices or express security lines at airports would result in "a very inconvenient life," he said.
The quest for convenience was nowhere to be found when MSNBC.com users were asked to define privacy. Many wrote in a passionate tone usually reserved for defense of a fundamental human rights – or constitutional discussions of liberty itself.
The most commonly used expression was that privacy is "the right to be left alone." Other answers included: "the right to protect myself from improper use of my personal information"; "the ability to share only what one chooses to share"; or the paradoxical "being left alone to do what I please, when, where & how I please (within limits of the law)."
Very few people are satisfied with the state of privacy in America:
- 7 percent said they did not think their privacy is currently being eroded.
- 9 percent said they believed their privacy is slipping away, but "I can live with that."
- 3 percent agreed that privacy is a relic, that no one enjoys privacy any more and "I can live with that."
- 80 percent indicated their sense of privacy is waning "and that bothers me."
Anything goes? Not quite
Despite this lament, a much smaller percentage expressed a willingness to draw a hard line against disclosing certain kinds of personal information. In addition to the results relating to ID chip implants and high-tech licenses, about 43 percent said they'd accept universal ID cards, often cited as a surveillance tipping point by privacy advocates. Some 57 percent said they'd be willing to submit biometric information when entering of leaving the country.
Not all data-gathering behaviors were deemed acceptable:
- 92 percent of users said they do not want the government tracking their Web surfing habits or reading their e-mail, electronically tracking their automobiles or eavesdropping on telephone calls.
- 62 percent said they were concerned or very concerned about the government obtaining a list of telephone numbers they had dialed.
- About 70 percent rejected video surveillance that created indefinite photographic records.
- 67 percent said they weren't willing to surrender more information or submit to intense questioning at airports — at odds with their support for biometric data collection at airports.
Consumers are savvy
While the results might seem paradoxical, Gartner researcher Avivah Litan said they actually show consumers are savvy. People don't see privacy as a black and white issue, she said, but they instead pick and chose the things they oppose.
"People's opinions are more subtle than we give them credit for," she said. "There are nuances. ... If they have nothing to hide, they are not worried about it. They are averse to government tracking but welcome improved safety at the cost of giving up personal information."
She said she was not surprised that almost 1 in 5 respondents were willing to have a chip implanted in their skin because of the way the question was posed, she said.
"People are open to having their medical information on a chip. If you are in a car accident and can't speak, it might save your life," she said. "Now if you said, 'Would you submit to an implant the government could use to track you?' they probably would have all said no."
The divergent results would be expected even if, in the end, those two questions would likely lead to similar outcomes, she said. A chip implant that begins with medical information could soon be expanded to include information accessible by prospective employers, government officials and even shopkeepers — perhaps you have an unpaid parking ticket, or your shoes are from last years' fashion season, or you are infected with the AIDS virus. You would no doubt be treated differently as a result.
People with serious medical conditions have likely thought through this complex issue, Litan said, and likely have much stronger privacy concerns.
"There's probably no one with AIDS in that 18 percent (willing to have a chip implant)," Litan said.
How you ask the question
The main distinction that usually arises in privacy surveys stems from Americans' built-in skepticism of government, Ponemon said. Americans are very wary of being tracked by their government, but otherwise behave in ways that indicate they are open to sharing their digital lives. As is generally the case with polls and surveys, the way the question is asked skews the results. If researchers ask, "Would you do this to be safer?" respondents are much more likely to say "yes" than if asked "Would you do this to be tracked by the government?"
In 2002, The Pew Research Center for People and the Press found the importance of question wording in a poll it conducted. Simply by dropping the word "your," from a question, its researches obtained a starkly different result.
When asked "Should the government be allowed to read e-mails and listen to phone calls to fight terrorism?" 33 percent replied "yes." But when asked, "Should the government be allowed to read your e-mails and listen to your phone calls to fight terrorism," only 22 percent replied in the affirmative.
In other words, it is OK for the government to read other people's e-mails.
Biggest threat to privacy
MSNBC.com users were asked to explain in an essay-style section what they perceive as the biggest threat to their personal privacy. Government and corporations were equally criticized.
Many expressed discomfort with collection and sharing of data by companies. The three biggest threats to privacy, said one writer, were: "Corporations storing my Social Security number. Corporations selling my information to other corporations. Corporations accessing credit scores without my consent."
Said another, "Credit card companies sharing information and then the new companies sending checks in my name to me hoping I will be dumb enough to cash them."
Criticisms of government practices tended to be a bit more philosophical, and nearly always invoked the privacy vs. security debate.
"Government intrusion into privacy on an ends-justifies-means rationale, willingness to violate constitutional protections to fight terrorism, general willingness to violate other people's rights if doing so makes us marginally safer," one writer said.
Another writer said he felt most threatened by "Exaggerated worry about terrorists." Another said simply, "The Patriot Act."
But not every writer felt privacy's biggest threat came from Big Brother.
For a few, the threat was much more local. One respondent, who wisely submitted his response anonymously, said the biggest threat to his privacy was right at home: "Marriage."
Lost laptops a big concern
The MSNBC.com survey also examined sentiment about identity theft and about the flood of lost data and lost laptops that have filled technology news sections since last year. Some 90 million notices have gone out to consumers from companies and organizations indicating personal information has been lost or stolen. About 1 in 3 MSNBC.com readers who took the survey said they had received such a notice. Of those, 39 percent said they'd received nothing as compensation for the incident, and about 60 percent of that group said they were concerned about being the victims of identity theft.
Overall, 9 in 10 said they were concerned or very concerned about lost data, but concern about ID theft hasn't led consumers to pull out their wallets. Only 1 in 10 respondents said they pay for a service to help them protect their privacy or their identity.
When asked to rank a list of potentially risky behaviors, consumers felt there was little difference between handing their credit cards to a waiter, using their credit card at a Web site, using a telephone to read e-mail, signing up for a supermarket discount card or using E-ZPass automatic toll payments. Online banking was judged slightly safer than many of those behaviors.
Filling out sweepstakes entries — a method commonly used by scam artists to find likely victims — was deemed a "most risky" behavior by 33 percent of respondents. But 23 percent said it wasn't risky and 21 percent rated it as mildly a neutral behavior.
Gullible Americans?
Such misplaced trust is another common trait among Americans, said Litan, who studies computer security trends and consumer sentiment at Gartner. U.S. consumers readily say they are skeptical of the government, for example, then turn around and say they are ready to provide their fingerprints anyway.
"Americans are trusting until they have a reason not to be trusting," she said. Unintended consequences of privacy lapses are almost impossible to predict, so they are easy to discount or ignore. Faced with the choice of some immediate benefit — say, a discount or speedier passage through a toll booth – and some uncertain privacy consequence, consumers pick immediate gratification almost every time.
"People can't predict the future," she said. "So they are trusting."
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Video game maker Zynga (ZNGA) was jumping nearly 8% on Tuesday afternoon, building on a 4% gain Monday, following comments by its CEO about new gaming programs.
Speaking at a Morgan Stanley conference, Don Mattrick said that Zynga would launch pilot programs across the globe for its real-money poker games before the end of the year. Mattrick also said gamers can expect new mobile versions of its popular games, FarmVille, Words With Friends, and Zynga Poker by the summer. As Reutersreports, updated titles like FarmVille 2: Country Escape will have soft launch later this month before becoming more widely available in June. The moves are being cheered by investors, who have been eager to see Zynga, once dependent on Facebook (FB), become a more agile mobile gaming company.
It's been an interesting few weeks for Zynga. At the end of February a fraud lawsuit linked to its 2011 IPO was dismissed in court in San Francisco, after getting a bounce from speculation about potential M&A news after Japanese online gaming firm Nexon Co Ltd said it was interested in expanding in the U.S. At the start of February it was upgraded to Buy at UBS.