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For the past couple of weeks, the Ravens' offensive starters have answered the question with little more than a dismissive shrug.
No, they are not concerned that the offense has gotten very little going in about three quarters of work. They don't think it's a big deal that quarterback Joe Flacco has thrown one more interception than touchdown pass. They are not worried that Ray Rice has found yards and running room hard to come by or that the team's other receivers behind Torrey Smith have done nothing against a first-team defense.
Not long after the Ravens' 27-23 comeback victory over the Atlanta Falcons last Thursday, the tone of several players started to change.
"We got to get our feet wet for real now," said wide receiver Jacoby Jones, who has caught one pass for 4 yards this preseason.
Heading into Thursday's nationally televised preseason game against the Carolina Panthers at M&T Bank Stadium, the Ravens' intent is clear. In what is expected to be the last extended playing time for the starters before the Sept. 5 regular-season opener in Denver, the Ravens are focused on developing some momentum and rhythm on offense.
It is something that has eluded Flacco and company for the first two preseason games as penalties, poor run blocking and subpar execution have made it difficult to sustain drives and put up points.
"I think it's very important just for us to play well, more so than anything else," offensive coordinator Jim Caldwell said. "Any unit that takes the field, we want them to go out there and be in sync, move the ball and put some points on the board. We're looking forward to that. In the third game, [starters] typically … end up playing a little bit more. It depends on what [coach John Harbaugh] wants to do in that regard. But, we want to see our effectiveness and our execution climb up a notch or two."
Flacco has been at the helm for eight full drives this preseason, not counting a kneel-down, and only one has resulted in points. That was the 77-yard touchdown completion to Smith (Maryland) on the Ravens' first play of their second drive against the Falcons last week.
Of the other seven drives, two have resulted in interceptions and the other five have ended with punts by Sam Koch. On their seven non-scoring drives, Flacco and the first-team offense have failed to get a first down three times and twice gotten only one first down before punting.
"We're not going to overreact to something like this and get all crazy and things like that," said Flacco, who is 14-of-18 for 175 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions this preseason. He's expected to play into the third quarter Thursday. "We'll get through this. We feel like we've had a great camp, and we're continuing to get better. This is one of those things we'll have to look at and make sure we improve on."
Flacco downplayed the perception that the offense is struggling, insinuating that it's more of a media-driven narrative. Rice did the same, saying after last Thursday's game that "You're calling them struggles — I'm calling them preseason work. That's what you work on in the preseason. If you don't have things to work on in the preseason, then obviously you're the greatest team in mankind."
It's certainly true that the Ravens haven't asked Flacco and the offense to do a whole lot, keeping the play-calling as vanilla as possible because they don't want to put anything on film that will help the Broncos' preparations for them on Sept. 5. For example, Flacco has attempted just one pass over 10 yards.
The two interceptions stand out, but Flacco's preseason numbers aren't significantly different than some of the league's other top quarterbacks, like the Broncos' Peyton Manning (13-of-20 for 176 yards, one touchdown and no interceptions), the New England Patriots' Tom Brady (18-of-20 for 172 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions) and the Falcons' Matt Ryan (14-of-24 for 186 yards, one touchdown and no interceptions).
But the offense's inability to sustain drives has been disappointing to Harbaugh and Caldwell, who have noted the unit's shortcomings so far that go well beyond the passing game. As a whole, the Ravens are averaging just over three yards per carry on the ground and Rice has needed 11 carries to accumulate 17 rushing yards. Penalties have also hurt the Ravens, as two calls on A.Q. Shipley, who is battling with Gino Gradkowski for the starting center job, stalled drives last week.
"We haven't game-planned either one of these games," Harbaugh said. "The last game — we just looked at [the Falcons] for one day, a little bit at what they do, and played what we would call a camp game. We're not trying to scheme anything. We're just trying to get good at the fundamentals and then evaluate our players. But, at the same time, we didn't play fundamentally very well, and that's the issue. I'm not worried about scheme or result as much as how you play. And we put ourselves in a hole too much to even get a look at ourselves. You can't be in first-and-25. You can't turn the ball over. All of those things we've got to do a better job of."
Not having Pro Bowl guard Marshal Yanda, who should make his preseason debut Thursday after offseason shoulder surgery, certainly has been a factor, as has working in so many new pass catchers with Anquan Boldin now in San Francisco and tight end Dennis Pitta potentially lost for the season with a dislocated right hip.
But the players know that none of that will matter come Sept. 5, which is why a sense of urgency has taken hold.
"Just the point of preseason and training camp in general is to find our identity and see what we're going to be, and work on a couple of things that we're going to do throughout the year," said Pro Bowl fullback Vonta Leach. "We run a lot of basic stuff. I think it's 'be ready when it's Week One versus Denver.' That's what we're doing, that's what everything we're geared toward."
Asked if he was at all concerned about the offense's sluggish play, Leach smiled broadly: "I feel very good where we're at," he said. "We just have a few things we have to clean up and get better at. But overall, I like where we're at."


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Denver, Colo., Jun 20, 2012 / 04:17 am ().- Blogger Leah Libresco, known for writing about ethics and religion from her perspective as an atheist, announced June 18 that she now believes in God and intends to enter the Catholic Church.
"For several years, a lot of my friends have been telling me I had an inconsistent and unsustainable philosophy," the Washington, D.C.-based author of the "Unequally Yoked" blog wrote in a post announcing her intention to convert.
The 22-year-old Yale graduate says she came to believe "that the Moral Law wasn't just a Platonic truth, abstract and distant. It turns out I actually believed it was some kind of Person, as well as Truth. And there was one religion that seemed like the most promising way to reach back to that living Truth."
"When I was talking to a post-modernist friend afterwards," Libresco said to CNA on June 19, "I told him, 'I guess you were right. (The concept of) "Truth" was a gateway drug.'"
"He replied, not very much in jest: 'Told you so.'"
In recent years, the writer and researcher had – despite her atheism – developed an interest in Christian accounts of morality, developed by authors like C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, and Alasdair MacIntyre. Her blog, "Unequally Yoked," chronicled her engagement with Christian theological claims.
Raised in a non-religious household, Libresco explained in a biographical statement that she "met smart Christians for the first time" during college. She was "was ready to cross-examine them" from her perspective as an atheist, but found there were "some big gaps in my defense of my own positions."
"I realized I didn't have a clear enough idea of what Christianity entailed to be able to imagine a world where it was true. I felt embarrassed and told my friends to take their best shot at convincing me."
Through her blog, the atheist thinker looked to test her arguments against belief, seeking out "people to ask me tough questions and force me to burn off the dross in my philosophy."
The odyssey was personal as well as philosophical, involving a romantic relationship with "one of these smart Christians."
"I talked with deacons, priests, and Dominicans and attended RCIA classes – until I got kicked out," she wrote in the biographical statement, composed before her conversion.
"Neither my boyfriend or I looked likely to switch teams in the near future, and, after two years of dating, we were at the point where a relationship that was incompatible with marriage seemed foolish, so, regretfully, we had to split up."
But she continued "seriously exploring Christian claims," in light of her own belief in philosophical concepts including objective morality. Her blog featured a "test" in which atheists and Christians swapped roles, composing answers to questions from the perspective of the opposing worldview.
Libresco's atheism finally ended after a recent Yale alumni debate, where a friend "prodded me on where I thought moral law came from in my metaphysics."
"I talked about morality as though it were some kind of Platonic form, remote from the plane that humans existed on. He wanted to know where the connection was."
Pressed to define the connection between humanity and the moral order, Libresco came up short: "I don't know. I've got nothing." Then she remarked: "I guess Morality just loves me or something."
In Monday's blog entry, the "Unequally Yoked" author said her writings, hosted by the Patheos website, would move from the service's "atheist channel" to its "Catholic channel."
Libresco said she had been using the Church's Liturgy of the Hours, as well as the ancient "Breastplate of Saint Patrick," for most of her "prayer attempts." Despite lingering "confusion" about some Catholic teachings, Libresco has begun RCIA classes at a Washington, D.C. parish.
The former atheist summed up her feelings about her announcement with a quotation from Tom Stoppard's play "Arcadia": "It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong."
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Obama lands in Myanmar, a first for a US president
President Barack Obama makes an historic visit to Myanmar Monday, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the Southeast Asia nation in the hopes his high profile presence encourages the government's shift from military rule to fledgling democracy.
Obama landed in the country once known as Burma Monday morning local time, the start of a quick stop in which he'll meet with President Thein Sein before visiting with famed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at her home where she faced house arrest for years before being elected to Parliament.
The president also will deliver a speech at the University of Yangon, a recently reopened school that has been the center of political movements in the nation for decades, urging Mynamar to do more to give all citizens a voice.
"Instead of being repressed, the right of people to assemble together must now be fully respected," he plans to say, according to excerpts released by aides in advance. "Instead of being stifled, the veil of media censorship must continue to be lifted. As you take these steps, you can draw on your progress."
Some human rights organizations criticized the president for traveling to the nation that still is engaged in ethnic fighting. On Sunday, Obama defended his trip, saying political prisoners have been released and that opposition leader Suu Kyi, who was imprisoned for nearly 15 years until 2010, now serves in the government.
"I think it's important to recognize this is not an endorsement of the Burmese government," Obama said in Thailand.
"This is an acknowledgement that there is a process underway inside that country that even a year half two years ago nobody would have saw," he added. "There is an articulated commitment to further political reform. If we waited to engage until they had achieved a perfect democracy my suspicion is we'd be waiting a long time."
Obama said one of the goals of his trip was to highlight the progress that has been made but also to show the much greater progress thatneeds to be made. "The country has a long way to go. I'm not somebody who thinks that the United States should stand on the sidelines and not want to get its hands dirty when there's an opportunity for us to encourage the better impulses inside a country."
A senior administration official speaking on background told reporters that the United States is pledging $170 million over two years as partof a reestablished USAID mission in Myanmar. In return, the Myanmar government has agreed to a host of changes, including ending its military relationship with North Korea. Myanmar was one of the only few remaining military partners the North Koreans could count on.
"This is the beginning of our mission within Burma,'' the official said. "But at the same time …these are going to be partnerships. And in order to continue to implement these programs, the Burmese are going to have to continue to take steps."
The stop in Myanmar is part of a whirlwind tour of Southeast Asia, part of a second term focus on the fast-growing region that Obama said could strengthen the U.S. economy and security.
"The United States is and always will be a Pacific nation," Obama said at a news conference with Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Sunday. "The Asian Pacific shapes so much of our security and prosperity ahead and it's critical for creating jobs and opportunity for the American people. That's why I've made restoring America's engagement in this region a top priority as president."
After the brief six-hour visit in Myanmar, Obama heads to Cambodia for a summit with Asian leaders. He returns to Washington early Wednesday.
Even as he looked to Asia, Obama was reminded anew that other priorities remain on the agenda with escalating violence in Gaza that has left 45 people dead. In his first comments about the situation, Obama Sunday repeatedly backed Israel's right to defend itself. "There's no country on Earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders," he said. "We are fully supportive of Israel's right to defend itself."
He also urged a step back from the violence lest it do even more damage to long term wishes for peace.
"If we see a further escalation of the situation in Gaza, then the likelihood of us getting back on any kind of peace track that leads toa two-state solution is going to be pushed off way into the future," Obama said in his news conference with Shinawatra.
In Thailand on Sunday, Obama met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej, an iconic figure who has ruled the nation for more than half a century. The 84-year-old Massachusetts-born king, the longest-serving monarch in the world, is in poor health and has lived at a hospital for several years. He also met with the prime minister.
"We will continue to build on a strong foundation in expanding our trade and investment to promote growth and create jobs,'' Shinawatra said at a dinner for Obama. "The world is changing fast, and only through trust, partnership can we ensure peace and prosperity for both nations."
Since World War II, the United States and Thailand have significantly expanded both diplomatic and economic relations, though recently the Thai government refused to allow NASA to use an airfield for monitoring atmospheric conditions. But Thailand did announce its intention to join a new trade agreement – the Trans Pacific Partnership – that will include environmental and labor standards.
"We felt it was very important to begin this trip by visiting a U.S. ally,'' said Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor. "Allies are the cornerstone of our rebalancing effort in Asia…So it was very important for us to send a signal to the region that allies are going to continue to be the foundation of our approach."


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Want to explain to younger people what American culture was like before all the changes of the '60s came along? You couldn't do much better than sit them in front of a screen to watch an early episode of "The Flintstones."
The Flintstones celebrate Christmas in this 1993 special. Who wants to wait 10,000 years for the birth of Jesus?
The Flintstones turn 50 today, or 12,010 if you consider they're supposed to have lived around 10,000 B.C. The first episode, "Flintstone Flyer," appeared on ABC in prime-time on Sept. 30, 1960. Google is celebrating with a doodle (Google "Flintstones" to see it).
The show was hardly ground-breaking– it was a barely disguised ripoff of "The Honeymooners" from the early 1950s that Jackie Gleason decided not to sue over.
Most of its appeal came from the clever ways modern inventions were duplicated in mock Stone Age terms– Barney makes a a helicopter that resembles a foot-powered eggbeater, monkeys use their tails to reset bowling pins. Polaroids were all the rage, so when Fred clicked the shutter of an instant camera, a bird inside used his bill to carve the image on a stone tablet.
Watching the first episode today, spousal relations a half-century ago seem almost as far away as the Stone Age. Wilma waits for Fred at home with a dinner on a tray so he can eat in front of the TV, Fred and Barney pull a fast one to get out of the opera with their wives so they can go bowling.
Then there's the Winston commercial and billboard that lighted up Bedrock at night. Beyond the dismay that the network thought it perfectly acceptable for a cigarette maker to sponsor a cartoon (the sponsorship apparently ended when Wilma became pregnant), the stereotyped concept of the lazy husband who won't even the lawn…well, maybe it's not so out of date.


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Three up, three down: J. Upton on power trip
Up: Justin Upton
OK, six games into his Atlanta Braves career, and Upton has five home runs. The exclamation point came Saturday night, when brother B.J. led off the bottom of the ninth with a game-tying home run off Cubs reliever Carlos Marmol, and one out later, Justin delivered the walk-off shot in the Braves' 6-5 victory. That was Justin's fifth home run of the season, which equals his career best in April, and there are 20 games remaining on the Braves' April schedule.
Up: Justin Upton
OK, six games into his Atlanta Braves career, and Upton has five home runs. The exclamation point came Saturday night, when brother B.J. led off the bottom of the ninth with a game-tying home run off Cubs reliever Carlos Marmol, and one out later, Justin delivered the walk-off shot in the Braves' 6-5 victory. That was Justin's fifth home run of the season, which equals his career best in April, and there are 20 games remaining on the Braves' April schedule.
Upton had five home runs in April of 2008 -- all against Colorado -- and five again in 2011. He, however, only had 14 April home runs total in his five previous Aprils. And now Justin Upton and the Braves head to Miami for the Marlins' home opener. The last two seasons, Upton has hit .402 with three home runs and 13 RBIs in 13 games against Miami. And that was with Arizona.
His new team, Atlanta, was 37-17 with a 2.67 ERA against Miami without Upton the last three years. That includes going 14-4 with a 2.00 ERA a year ago, when the Braves were held to two or fewer runs in 12 of 18 games against Miami, which opened this year with a 1-5 trip against the Mets and Nationals.
Down: Pittsburgh Pirates
Looking to snap that 20-year losing streak, the Pirates stumbled in the opening week. They lost two of three at home to the Cubs, and were the victim of the one save Marmol recorded before the Braves knocked him out of the Cubs' closer role.
Then, the Pirates went to Dodger Stadium, where they were not only swept, but were limited to two runs. The runs came on Andrew McCutchen's two-run home run in the top of the first on Sunday. That home run saved the Pirates from being shut out in three consecutive games for the first time since August of 1968.
It didn't, however, provide much of a lead. The Dodgers tied the game at 2 in the bottom of the inning. Shouldn't have been a total surprise. The Dodgers have won 11 of their last 12 games against the Pirates and eight in a row against the Bucs at Dodger Stadium, the club'?longest home winning streak against Pittsburgh since winning 11 straight from June 14, 1977 to July 29, 1978. Now, the Pirates head to Arizona to face the Diamondbacks, who are tied with Colorado for the NL West lead at 5-1, and are coming off a weekend sweep in Milwaukee.
The Pirates are last in the Majors with a .119 average, and eight runs scored. That's equals the fifth-fewest runs scored in the first six games of a season, according to Stats, Inc. The 1963 New York Mets scored six runs in their first six games, and the 1943 Cincinnati Reds, 1919 St. Louis Cardinals and 1907 Brooklyn Superbas scored only seven runs.
Up: Colorado Rockies
Coming off the worst season in franchise history and with the only key offseason additions being setup reliever Wilton Lopez and starting pitcher Jon Garland, coming back nearly two years after shoulder surgery, the Rockies have equaled the best start in franchise history.
They won five of their first six games, and the lone loss was in the season opener at Milwaukee, when Lopez blew an eighth-inning lead. They are 5-1 for the second time, as the 1995 club started 7-1 en route to claiming the first NL Wild Card in the Rockies' third year of existence.
It may only be a week into the season, but the Rockies are in first place (tied with Arizona) for the first time since May 18, 2011. And while they lead the Majors with a .333 average (Baltimore is second at .301) and 13 home runs (Oakland has 12), the key has been a pitching staff that ranks fourth in the NL with a 2.80 ERA.
Now, however, comes a challenge. After their first Coors Field sweep of San Diego since April 2003, the Rockies open a three-game series on Monday night at San Francisco, where they are 54-107 all-time, their worst record in any NL city other than Atlanta. They have won a season series in San Francisco only twice in their 20 years of existence, and were a combined 10-26 the last four years.
Down: Seattle Mariners
Well, the Mariners finally get to play their home opener on Monday night, and they will be hosting a Houston team that, after winning its season opener, has lost five in a row and scored only nine runs (going 6-for-29 with runners in scoring position). Don't, however celebrate, too early.
The Mariners have lost four of their last five, including Felix Hernandez giving up a two-run home run to Alex Rios that rallied the Chicago White Sox to a 4-3 win on Saturday. Yes, Houston has struck out at least 10 times in each of the first six games, including the opposing pitcher matching or setting a career high, but the Astros will call on Philip Humber for the Mariners' home opener.
Big deal? Well, Humber will be facing the Mariners for the first time in 352 days since he pitched a perfect game for the White Sox at Seattle. Humber is 4-6 since that game with a 7.04 ERA. The Mariners will have to rely on scouting reports against an Astros team with only three players who ever had an at-bat at Safeco -- Carlos Pena, Chris Carter and Ronny Cedeno.
Up: Oakland A's
The A's haven't slowed down since the 2012 season ended. Remember a year ago. They were 13 games out of first place in the AL West at the end of June with a 37-42 record, and finished up June by losing three in a row to Texas.
Talk about a turnaround. The A's went 19-5 in the month of July, sparking a 57-26 surge to the end of the season. They finished with a sweep of Seattle, allowing the A's to claim a division title despite spending only three days in first place (the second day of their season and the final two days of the season).
The A's started off in an ugly way this year, losing their first two games to Seattle, and scoring just one run. They, however, have won five in a row since, including a three-game sweep at Houston, allowing the A's to regain their spot atop the AL West. A's shortstop Jed Lowrie, who had the same job with Houston a year ago, had two home runs among his seven hits in his return as a visitor at Minute Maid Park. The A's ERA is 2.86, and just as importantly they led the AL in runs scored (38) and home runs (12) entering Monday's games.
Down: Matt Cain
The Giants' right-hander needed only 30 pitches to get through the first three innings against the Cardinals on Sunday. He threw 34 more pitches in the fourth inning, but only got two more outs. Cain, however, did allow nine earned runs, giving up seven hits and two walks, equaling the most earned runs allowed in an inning, according to Stats, Inc.
The nine runs allowed by Cain were the most -- earned or unearned -- allowed in an inning since Ernie Shore with the New York Giants gave up 10 runs in an inning in his Major League debut in 1912. Seven of the runs allowed by Cronin, however, were unearned. Cronin did not return to the big leagues until 1914, with the Boston Red Sox, and wound up 65-43 with a 2.47 ERA during a career that included four years with the Red Sox and two years with the New York Yankees.
Cain has allowed nine runs in a game only one other time, and that was also against St. Louis, as Busch Stadium, on April 18, 2008. The three-time All-Star has finished in the top 10 in the NL in ERA in the four years in between nine-run explosions.
Tracy Ringolsby is a columnist for MLB.com.


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Jeremy Lin's pull-up three over Dirk Nowitzki in the fourth quarter Sunday was more than just the exclamation point on the rally that led the Knicks to a stirring comeback win.
It was the official end point of Phase 1 of Linsanity. That's the phase where everyone shakes their head in dazed wonderment at what this kid is able to do on the basketball court while silently wondering when his coach is going to turn back into a pumpkin.
Lin is going to have games like Sunday's when he scores 28 points and dishes out 14 assists to bring his team from 12 points down to a 104-97 win, the most impressive of this dizzying run. He's also going to have games like he had on Friday night, when he turned the ball over nine times and played a major role in helping the Knicks lose to a bad Hornets team wearing uniforms that were twice as frightening as the Knicks' play.
In other words, he's an NBA player, capable of ups and downs and all the kinds of games in between that we take for granted from every other starter in the league. The story about his arrival is and will remain an irresistible one, but now that he's arrived the story needs to keep being written without any special credit given for the path he took to get here.
Given the way he played on Sunday, special credit isn't the least bit necessary.
Playing the best team he's ever faced with a defense designed specifically to stop him, Lin didn't back down in the least and kept finding ways for the Knicks to battle through the Mavs.
Had Lin failed, it would have not been a good sign about his staying power because it would show teams could scheme their way into stopping him. The Mavs are a great defensive team and they had a great plan, but it simply wasn't enough to stop Lin from getting the job done.
It helped that, unlike Friday night, most of his teammates came ready to play. The Knicks moved the ball like the textbook Mike D'Antoni offense, pinballing from one man to another until there was an open shot they could bury.
Steve Novak buried five of them at the start of the fourth quarter, taking the Knicks from three down to six up in the process, and then became the latest to steal one of Aaron Rodgers' moves in a swag moment no one saw coming.
J.R. Smith strolled off a plane from Vegas making buckets, working hard on defense and making the perfect first impression on a Garden crowd that was determined to love him.
Tyson Chandler did what Tyson Chandler does just about every night, Landry Fields scored in the first half before Smith and Jared Jeffries glued everything together one more time while also reminding us that dribbling is not for everyone.
Amar'e Stoudemire's defense remains terrifying and his lack of hops when directly under the basket is dismaying, but he grabbed a bunch of offensive rebounds down the stretch to give the team second chances.
That leads us to the next big question for the Knicks and, no, it has nothing to do with Carmelo Anthony's return ruining everything because Anthony is a big, ball-hogging monster who is jealous of Lin's success or whatever WFAN callers are running with these days.
If you watched the Mavs trapping Lin 30 feet out and totally selling out to keep him from the lane without realizing that you can't do that when Anthony is on the court, then there's no amount of reason that's going to make you realize how basketball works.
It has to do with a rotation that has grown exponentially, without even including the in-uniform but unused on Sunday Baron Davis, and D'Antoni managing it without turning anyone off over the second half of the season.
Additions by subtraction -- no more Billy Walker or Mike Bibby -- take care of some issues, but balancing out everyone's time while keeping everyone sharp will take a little trial and error.
It's a good problem to have, especially when you've got Lin running the show to make sure everyone gets their chance to shine and that any errors can be erased in a flash. Lin's not the question mark, he's the given that will make the rest of the engine run and that's why it is time to stop talking about where he came from.
Now is all about where he and the Knicks are going.
Josh Alper is a writer living in New York City. You can follow him on Twitter and he is also a contributor to Pro Football Talk.


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Follow Friday – January 18, 2013
The new year is off to a great start! How many of you have already given up on your resolutions? How many have created new goals to work towards? Have you considered writing your family history? Not sure where to start? Here are two places to look where you can get started!
Lynn Palermo has posted a Family History Writing Challenge for February! Take a look and consider signing up for this challenge. You can grab a badge for your website or blog on Lynn's blog, the Armchair Genealogist.
Also explore the Sort Your Story software which allows you to write family stories and include photos and documents within an ancestor's profile. Very easy to use and organize your information and thoughts.
So what are you waiting for? Go grab Lynn's badge and start writing! By the end of February you may be motivated enough to keep going and write a family history book!
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EBay for iPad has been around since August 2010, and since it's release the app has been able to maintain a four star rating (out of five) with over 35,000 ratings, which is no small feat when it comes to App Store reviews. With such high praise from users, it's high time that eBay for iPad received the AppStorm treatment. All you need to do is hit the jump. (more…)


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With four state championships to its credit, Baker School�s football team has as many titles as the other Okaloosa County schools combined. But in recent years, the Gator program has fallen on what many would consider hard times.
With four state championships to its credit, Baker School�s football team has as many titles as the other Okaloosa County schools combined.
But in recent years, the Gator program has fallen on what many would consider hard times.
Baker won the last of the four championships in 1993. The Gators won their last playoff game in 2001 and last made the playoffs in 2008.
Yes, there has been a bit of a drought for the proud team.
Things have been looking up recent years. Three years ago, former Gator standout Matt Brunson was named Baker�s head football coach after 10 years as the Crestview High School head coach.
Brunson's first two teams turned in winning records going 7-3 and 6-4. The back-to-back winning seasons were the first at Baker in close to a decade.
The Gators are off to another strong start this year, winning their first three games by a combined score of 132-54.
Baker routed an outmanned Holmes County team 55-6 on Friday and the game wasn't as close as the score indicated.
It might be early in the season, but talk is starting to turn toward Baker's Nov. 1 trip to Northview and an 8-0 Gator team taking on the defending state champion Chiefs for the District 1-1A title.
The Gators are off this week before going on the road Sept. 27 to play Rocky Bayou Christian.
The Gators follow their trip to Rocky Bayou with a trip to Freeport for the district opener. After the Freeport game, Baker heads to North Bay Academy on Oct. 11 before returning home for the War of Highway 4 against rival Jay.
The Gators will honor members of the 1983 and 1993 state championship teams the night of the Jay game.
Franklin County follows Jay on the Baker schedule, setting the stage for the big battle at Northview. The Gators close out the regular season at home against South Walton on Nov. 8.
A lot can happen in the next six weeks, but there is no reason to believe this Baker squad isn't capable of running the table heading into the Northview game. In fact, while I know coaches don't like to talk playoffs too early, I'll be surprised if the Gators aren't 8-0 when they face the Chiefs.
Senior tailback D.J. Thomas has been almost unstoppable in the first three games, having scored eight touchdowns and run for more than 580 yards.
Sophomore quarterback Jon Beck is quickly coming into his own as a passing threat, which opens up holes for Thomas and the other Gator running backs.
Defensively, the Gators are rock solid. If they are suspect on defense it might be in the secondary, where teams with great speed might give them trouble, but Baker won't see that kind of speed until Nov. 1.
Anything can happen in the next six or seven weeks, but there is reason for Gator fans to be optimistic.
Time will tell if the 3-0 start propels the Gators to the playoffs, but if I was a betting man my money would be on the Gators.
The talent and time is right for Baker to make another run at, and deep into, the playoffs.
Randy Dickson is the Crestview News Bulletin�s sports editor. Email him at email@example.com, tweet him @BigRandle, or call 682-6524.


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Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn has apologised to Michael Schumacher after another mechanical failure forced his retirement from the Canadian Grand Prix.
Schumacher has now retired from five of the opening seven grands prix, with four of those being down to failures outside of his control after his DRS jammed open in Montreal. Brawn explained what the issue was after the race and said that while the afternoon may not have been going to plan he was sorry that Schumacher's bad luck was continuing.
"Michael was caught in a train of cars in the lower half of the top ten, and although we tried something different by stopping early in order to get him into clean air, it didn't quite work for us," Brawn said. "He then suffered a hydraulic issue which left his DRS jammed open and it was not possible to fix it in race conditions. I can only apologise to Michael for a further technical failure."
Schumacher himself failed to blame the team and retained a positive outlook, but also revealed that he was unaware of the problem until he ran off-track at turn nine.
"Unfortunately, our weekend in Montreal didn't turn out trouble-free for me and a hydraulic problem with the DRS forced me to end my race early," Schumacher said. "At first, I didn't know exactly what the problem was; I overshot the corner, ran through the grass and asked myself what was going on. Then the team told me about the problem and I saw it in the mirrors. Of course it's disappointing for all of us but it's not a question of pointing fingers; stuff like this happens. I know the team are doing their best and that it probably hits them even harder than me. We'll be back on the attack in Valencia."


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2014 CMS Summer Meeting
University of Manitoba, June 6 - 9, 2014
The course employs many features of a "flipped classroom". Class work is based on solving problems (without a calculator!). Theoretical concepts are introduced when the problems being worked on require them. Students are expected to complete assigned readings to learn (or review) and practice concepts prior to the class in which they are needed.
I will describe how the course works and why we consider it a success.
The competition's purpose is to attract as many students as possible and show them that mathematics can be accessible, useful, interesting, and even fun. Since joining the International Association "Kangaroo without Borders" in 2006, the CMKC has formed hosting partnerships with multiple universities and prestigious organizations across the country. Over the past 9 years, the CMKC has grown significantly from its humble beginnings with approximately 300 participants at 3 locations to 3332 students nationwide in the 2014 competition at 26 locations.
Training activities were developed as a direct response to the parents and participants' request for more practice opportunities. All training activities provide participants with rich instructional and problem solving experience, as well as with opportunities for socializing and communicating with other people of similar interests.
All of the components of this national program are inclusive and open to students from a diverse range of abilities, regardless of their gender or family and financial backgrounds. The mathematically promising students from all ages uniquely benefit from the CMKC program. These students are usually under-served in the public education system, which does not provide them with enough challenging and motivating tasks.


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Open Source Bridge 2012 sessions
Open Source Bridge took place June 26–29, 2012 in Portland, Oregon.
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* The Art of Open Source DJing
Conditions are rough for an aspiring DJ. More and more venues are starting to care if their performers have a license for their music, and the cost of software, hardware, and music is often more than they would care to spend. Thankfully one does not have to sacrifice on quality when replacing two of these with gratis components.
|Benjamin Kero
* Open Source Music
What kind of open source music can you make? All kinds! Let's get our feet wet and jam!
|Cameron Adamez
* How to Encrypt Your Content on Any Website: Privly
Privly lets you post content on the web (Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, Diaspora, ..., everywhere) without letting host sites have access to your data. Come find out how to un-send emails and manage your data across many websites simultaneously.
|Sean McGregor, Sanchit Karve, Jennifer Davidson
* How and When to Do It Wrong
Constraints make good art. Everyone knows the right way to design and implement software — but is the wrong way really so bad? This talk demonstrates unconventional approaches to solving common and real problems and explores their benefits and drawbacks.
|Chromatic X
* How Much Work Does it Take and What Is it Like to Integrate an Android SW Stack on a Gadget?
We all know about the Android Open Source project and that in theory anyone can make an android device with their very own customised AOSP ROM. But, what is it like to work on something using AOSP. How deep is that rabbit hole anyway?
|Mark Gross
* Future of Wearable Computing: Constraint, Context and Location
Google will release a wearable heads up display this fall, and it may help to usher in a new era of augmented reality and wearable computing. What does this mean for us? How do we build for the next generation of machines? Who was here before us, and how can we learn from them?
|Amber Case
* From OAuth to IndieAuth: Own Your Online Identity
Sick of writing sign-in code? Not sure whether to support Twitter logins, Facebook logins, or both? Try IndieAuth! IndieAuth, built on top of OAuth, is a new way to sign in to websites online using your own domain name. This talk will show how OAuth and OpenID paved the way for IndieAuth, and will provide details about how to use this on your own websites.
|Aaron Parecki
* Building the Open Source Battle Rifle
A look at the technical and legal issues surrounding home construction of firearms, focusing on semi-automatic AK-47 style rifles.
|Beth Flanagan
* Wise 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
* Why You Need to Host 100 New Wikis Just for Yourself
The Federated Wiki offers a new form of conversation well suited for charting our collective future.
|Ward Cunningham
* Thriving in Chaos: An Introduction to Systems Thinking
For centuries we have learned to solve problems with a linear approach. This originated with Isaac Newton in the sevententh century and assumes that everything in the world is connected through cause and effect. Systems thinking throws away that assumption and examines the universe as small pieces connected into a complex network. You will learn how a systems thinking approach can be used to create robust groups that don't have leaders.
|Alex Kroman
* Text Lacks Empathy
Have you ever written a nice friendly email and gotten a reply that seems like they read a whole different email? Textual communication has special problems. This talk will help you mitigate them: ensuring that what you mean to say is what is understood; interpreting messages that seem totally out of whack; and increasing empathic bandwidth.
|Michael Schwern, Noirin Plunkett
* Supporting Oregon K-12 Education with Open Source
How a partnership between the Oregon Department of Education and Oregon State University is using open source technology to help Oregon's K-12 teachers.
|Greg Lund-Chaix
* Rise of the Indie Web
Meet the pioneers of the new Indie Web, learn what's changed, and how you too can reclaim your content, your data, your online identity. Join our panelists as they debate a variety of different approaches and learn how you too can get started and join the new Indie Web.
|Tantek Çelik
* Painting the Bikeshed: Lessons from A Drupal 8 Initiative Lead
In March of 2011 I was named by Drupal project lead Dries Buytaert as lead of an initiative to improve configuration management for the next release. This talk will discuss how I went from lone coder to community leader and some of the lessons I learned along the way.
|Greg Dunlap
* Open Education Tools for Mentoring and Learning
The internet is full of information. Some of this information was made to help people learn. A subset exists under open licenses. These open educational resources (OERs) are used all over the world for learning and teaching. This talk will cover what some of them are and explore ways they have been (and can be) used for mentors and self-learners--both as individuals and in peer-study groups.
|Molly de Blanc
* Logic Lessons That Last Generations
In the 1980s, my grandfather reached onto the bookshelves of his cigar-smoke-seasoned garage laboratory and pulled down a three-ring binder that would change my life. Come hear how a 50-year-old introduction to binary logic has managed to stay relevant after all these decades, and what it means for our own efforts to teach and document technical subjects.
|Ian Dees
* Keynote: Open Source, Open Hostility, Open Doors
Jason Scott, a member of the activist preservation group Archive Team, describes how open source projects and outlook have helped and improved the achieving of the group's goals.
|Jason Scott
* Keynote: Fear, Uncertainty, and Dopamine
Beer, cookies, psychopathy, happiness, regret—these are all things the world's greatest scientists have studied in detail. Learn how humans work, and how to get the most out of interacting with them.
|Paul Fenwick
* Keynote by Sumana Harihareswara
Sumana Harihareswara gave our opening keynote, "Be Bold: An Origin Story".
|Sumana Harihareswara
* How to Win Collaborators and Influence Community: Encouraging (& Not Discouraging) Novice Coders
Interested in helping others learn to code? How do you help give them a running start, without throwing roadblocks in their way? Come get better at helping other people get better.
|Liene Verzemnieks
* Easy Beats Open: The Challenge of Growing Open Source
"Open Source, in its majestic equality, guarantees both programmers and non-programmers alike the right to alter and recompile their software." The battle for Open Source Legitimacy is largely over: in many sectors, it's actually the preferred alternative. In the task-focused world that most casual computer users inhabit, however, "open-ness" is a meaningless abstraction and the walled gardens of closed source competitors offer compelling advantages. In this session, I'll explore the reasons that people make their choices, point out why "moral arguments" about open source are unlikely to change those choices, and discuss ways that our communities can further the ideals of Open Source without demonizing Grandpa's iPad.
|Jeff Eaton
* Bring Out the GIMP, Open Source Art Programs and Their Value in Both Tech and the Professional Artist Community
We have come to a point where nearly everyone is expected to have at least cursory knowledge of graphics applications, and rather than shell out $650 for a program you're primarily interested in using for editing screenshots many in the tech community knows to download GIMP and use that $650 to fuel their caffeine and online gaming addictions. Unfortunately this is not the case with artists. From the moment you enter art school you're chained to proprietary applications and I know I don't have to proselytize to you lot about that. So we end up with one group of people being paid to use a free program for the most rudimentary of tasks and we have a second group of people who could be exploiting the most bleeding edge features of that program, but who are instead spending money they don't have on products they may not need. There's also the option to pirate those applications, but that's a whole other talk.
|Cloë Latchkey
* Anti-Censorship Best Practices: How to Make Keeping it up Easy and Taking it Down Hard
What do bananas have to do with censorship? What do polyamorous people have in common with fax machines? How can you help your ideas have cyber-sex? In this far-reaching seminar, join Social Justice Technologist and free software developer maymay as he explains the 101's of how to make keeping your content up easy and taking it down hard. More important than merely a crash-course on tools, learn the fundamentals of how to build anti-censorship techniques directly into your publishing process using nothing more technologically complex than copy-and-paste. Whether you're a non-technical individual or a savvy multi-national organization, you'll discover how you can put data portability, distributed publishing, and censorship circumvention tactics to use right away in order to stay one step ahead of those who would call you "obscene."
|Meitar Moscovitz
* 29 Ways to Get Started in Open Source Today
Learn how to get started in open source. You can help your favorite open source project, even if you don't think you're "a good enough programmer". You just have to know where to start, and here you'll learn 29 different starting points where you can pitch in and make a difference in the software that you use every day.
|Asheesh Laroia
* When Google Maps Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade
Make your life sweeter by replacing Google Maps with open-source alternatives.
|Wm Leler
* Using XMonad for a No-Nonsense, Highly Productive Linux Desktop Experience
Many Linux 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 want to mess around with *dragging windows* or (ugh) watching *animated transitions*. David Brewer will demonstrate how by using xmonad, a tiling window manager, you can free yourself from the tyranny of the mouse.
|David Brewer
* Sorry for Browser Hacking
The web was born of a series of deeply audacious hacks that created and transformed the browser into the most important, transparent, buggy and misunderstood software ever. A big part of the credit for this goes to the ability of any programmer to hack the browser itself using the technology of the web itself.
|Jeff Griffiths
* Solving Interesting Problems by Writing Parsers
What do you do when you have to parse weird message formats? You write parser! Or, in this case a regular expression. See how I make a moderately challenging problem easy for everyone.
|Jacinta Richardson
* Put the "Ops" in "Dev": What Developers Need to Know About DevOps
How thinking about operations can help you make your code better, stronger, and faster.
|Greg Lund-Chaix, Lance Albertson, Rudy Grigar, Kenneth Lett
* Practical Lessons from Exotic Languages
Esoteric programming languages never really get the attention they deserve in the mainstream programming culture. We'll examine idioms from several exotic languages and explain how they can improve the quality of more common codebases.
|Corbin Simpson
* Outreach Events: My Triumphs, My Mistakes
We all love sprinting with other experts, but how do you design an event effectively to reach out to and train newbies? It takes more work than you might think (publicity, prep, structure, and followup), but here's how.
|Sumana Harihareswara, Asheesh Laroia
* Machine Learning in the Open
Machine learning and data mining methods underlie many exciting products and services, but their underlying workings remain opaque to many, even developers. I will provide a brief tutorial on some of the most important concepts and methods from machine learning and data mining, with motivating examples and illustrations from open source tools. Particular emphasis will be placed on learning methods and their appropriate use.
|John Taylor
* Introduction to Linux Containers
This presentation will be of interest to system administrators and developers that want to provide isolated environments for production applications or test machines without the overhead of virtualization.
|Brian Martin
* Information Radiation and You
Building your company's status board is more than just putting charts on a screen - numbers are just data, whether you write out the digits or plot a squiggly line. Learn to transform your data into information, and let that information instruct you.
|Pieter van de Bruggen
* Getting Started with MongoDB and Scala
This talk is for application developers who want to get started with Scala and MongoDB. We will discuss how Gilt Groupe's engineering team adopted Scala and MongoDB. We will demonstrate how you can connect to MongoDB within a Scala application.
|Sean Sullivan
* Dread Free Continuous Deployment Using Dreadnot
Learn how to use Dreadnot, an open source deployment orchestration tool creating using Node.js and Twitter Bootstrap, to integrate with a variety of integration and infrastructure tools to enable rolling deployments with the click of a button.
|Russell Haering
* Don't Fear Unicode
Unicode isn't new, but it still seems hard when your starting at the beginning and haven't even been told the difference between a glyph, a codepoint, a character and a byte. Every year there are talks and tutorials at conferences about it, but if you haven't grasped the basics, you can feel frustrated and lost much too quickly. This talk will cover the essentials of Unicode, locale and how they affect things like regular expressions, reading and writing files and sending data out to the world. Perl will be the programming language used to demonstrate these ideas, but much of the content should be accessible to all programmers.
|Jacinta Richardson
* Developing and Using Pluggable Type Systems
A pluggable type system extends a language's built-in type system to confer additional compile-time guarantees. We will explain the theory and practice of pluggable types.
|Werner Dietl, Michael Ernst
* Design and Command Line Applications
Design has permeated our culture and our tools, but the software you're building doesn't have a graphical interface. That doesn't exempt you from thinking about user experience design! Learn how UX principles apply to even basic command line scripts.
|Pieter van de Bruggen
* Coordinating Usability Testing in Free Software
Freedom 4: The freedom to use the program effectively, efficiently and satisfactory. For a software to truly be free, people need to be able to easily use it without help. A primer to usability testing in a distributed and independent development environment.
|Jan-Christoph Borchardt
* Building and Testing REST APIs in Node.js
Learn about techniques, libraries and patterns useful for building REST APIs using Node.js
|Russell Haering
* Building Web Apps with Clojure
Get ready for a whirlwind tour of the current Clojure ecosystem of web app technologies. This talk will demonstrate how fast, responsive apps can be built on this up-and-coming functional language, which is based on Lisp and runs on the JVM.
|Scott Becker
* Adventures in Hipster Programming: Solving a Math Puzzle Using a Genetic Algorithm Programmed in OCaml
I heard Will Shortz pose a mathematical puzzle on NPR on a Sunday Morning in January and I thought, "Hey, I can solve that with a genetic algorithm!" In OCaml. I'll show you how in this talk.
|Phil Tomson
* ZenIRCBot and the Art of Pub/Sub
How Pub/Sub helped my IRC bot stop living in the past and live in the moment. Also, special bonus features for polyglots!
|Wraithan (Chris McDonald)
* Wireless Communication with an Open Source Software Radio
You use wireless technology every day. Do you want to know how it works?
|Jared Boone
* What Is My Kernel Doing?
Ever wonder what your kernel is doing? We instrumented kernels on both web servers and personal workstations, and then measured to see what they're doing.
|Randy Appleton
* Web Actions: A New Building Block for the Web
A web action is the user experience, code, and service for taking a specific discrete action, across the web, from one site to another site or application. You've all seen the buttons: Share, Read later, Follow, Like, Favorite, etc. More than any one social site or service, web actions are the emergence of a whole new hypermedia building block. This talk will give an overview of the anatomy of a web action, discuss web action user flow, and highlight best practices for both publishers and service providers.
|Tantek Çelik
* Understand "Inform 7" as Teh Awesome.
Y'know those "Interactive Fiction" (IF) text-adventure thingies? Inform 7 is a language for writing IF in the style of English prose. It's also a neat idea for general modeling. Let's build a simple world together while learning some of what Inform 7 is about.
|Bart Massey
* The Style of Style Guides
When you code, should you indent 2, 4 or 8 characters? Where should you put the braces? What should your variables and functions be named? Is it worth having an argument about any of this? This talk offers an analytical approach to deciding which elements of style will benefit your code. We'll discover which is the "best style" and which is the style you should use.
|Michael Schwern
* The Bacomatic 5000: Migrating from Arduino/AVR to ARM Using Libmaple
Using open source hardware and software I will present migration paths from the Arduino to a more powerful architecture without significant cost increase or having to relearn everything.
|Donald Davis
* Setup Automation with PowerShell: Forging the Weapon of One Man's War Against Manual Setup Checklists
Tired of VBScript? WMI? Batch scripts? Tired of scripting and programming in angle brackets and closing tags? Come and learn about the creation, design, and usage of Carbon, my open-source, PowerShell-based setup automation framework.
|Aaron Jensen
* Nginx, Overview and Deployment
As the #2 most popular web server, NGINX has gained attention because of its performance, scalability and ability to manage concurrent requests. What are the basics that every developer needs to know about NGINX? Why would you choose Nginx over some other web server? What are typical deployment scenarios?
|Cliff Wells
* Model Data Without Making Tables — A Pervasive Linked Data Stack
Want to be agile? Why bother modeling your data with a static table, declaring classes, and setting up mapping from tables to objects and finally to HTML and back again? The linked data standard presents a more powerful data model, and lets you use your website itself as a database.
|Leif Warner
* Lye: How a Musician Built a Music Box
Musicians tend to demand specialized tools for computer-aided music generation. Come listen to me dissect a tool I wrote to satisfy my needs.
|Corbin Simpson
* Libuv: The Power Underneath Node.js
Learn about the magic that powers nodejs and has enabled other projects to do cross platform non blocking io goodness.
|Brandon Philips
* Let's Make an IRC Bot
Let's make an IRC bot together. A room of people will either come together, or break up into teams to create an IRC bot within the context of a session. What the bot will do, is up to the people in the room. The outcome is different every time, but it will surely teach us something about technology, and human nature.
|Eric Holscher
* Internationalization @Wikipedia: Helping Add the Next Billion Web Users
This presentation is about open source internationalization (i18n) tools and technologies that are being developed and rolled out to support 284 languages for Wikipedia communities that enable millions of users to read and edit Wikipedia content with open source IMEs and web fonts.
|Alolita Sharma
* Identity, Reputation and Gratitude: Designing for a Community
How is Wikipedia designing its user experiences? In a larger sense, how do you design for a collaborative community -- the type of social network where people make things together? Brandon Harris, senior designer for the Wikimedia Foundation, explains.
|Brandon Harris
* Go Go Gallimaufry
At one point it was popular to refer to the eyes as windows to the soul, and common wisdom accepted that you could learn a great deal about a person's inner thoughts by looking at their eyes. Then that notion fell out of fashion, except perhaps in love songs. But once we learned how to track people's eye motions, record them, and analyse the data, we realized that there may have been something to it.
|Markus Roberts
* Getting a Handle on Privacy and Security
When was the last time you read a Privacy Policy, or looked at self-signed certs in the browser? How about cookie management? I bet you have awesome passwords! Lets face it, the browser does little to help the normal user in understanding and managing their privacy and security. This talk explores some of those issues, looks at projects Mozilla is working on in the area, and hopes to get developers and user experience people engaged in improving the usability of privacy and security in the browser. Slides at https://speakerdeck.com/u/mixedpuppy/p/getting-a-handle-on-privacy-and-security
|Shane Caraveo
* Forking and Refining Data on the Open Web
Github has revolutionized social coding but where does social data stand in relation?
|Max Ogden
* Firefox Crash Reporting: Using Big Data in Your Open Source Project
Learn how Mozilla collects and analyzes three million crash reports a day with Python, PHP, PostgreSQL and HBase.
|Laura Thomson
* Experiences from Building a Science Cloud with OpenStack
How to tame your OpenStack installation for a production environment.
|Chris Hoge
* Data-driven Interfaces on the Web Using Clojure
C2: A declarative visualization library written in Clojure for building interactive, data-driven interfaces on the web
|Kevin Lynagh
* Dark Arts of Data Storage: What's Your Filesystem up to?
Ever wonder what happens to your data between the write() call and the disk drive? Or feel the need to scrape your bits off the drive after an accident? If so, this talk is for you! Come learn the dark art of how filesystems work.
|Darrick Wong
* Cutting Through the Crap: The Essence of Content on the Future Web
The mobile revolution has shown us that our content management and web publishing technologies are entangled and flawed. But by thinking deeply and re-examining the essence of our content, we can help to architect a flexible future for the web.
|Lyza Gardner
* Comparing Open Source Private Cloud Platforms
Private cloud computing has become an integral part of global business. While each platform provides a way for virtual machines to be deployed, implementations vary widely. It can be difficult to determine which features are right for your needs. This session will discuss the top open source private cloud platforms and provide analysis on which one is the best fit for you.
|Lance Albertson
* Building a Visual Editor for Wikipedia
Why isn't editing Wikipedia as easy as using a word processor? Want to know how to build a reliable rich text editor in a web browser? Learn about how we are building a Wikitext visual editor, and how you can get involved!
|Roan Kattouw, Trevor Parscal
* Building Developer Platforms
How do you transform your site or service into a platform others build on top of? How do you clear the path, lower the barriers, and make it easy for new developers to get started?
|Scott Becker
* Anatomy of an Open File Format: Where MBTiles Came from and the Mapping Problems It Solves
MapBox is a company building beautiful maps and open source tools. At the heart of our work are open software and standards, and at the heart of that is a file format for storing maps called MBTiles. We'll talk about where the need for this format came from, how it was created, and what problems it solves.
|Justin Miller
* An Open Source Hardware Sensor Network for the Rest of Us
The physical world contains huge amounts of data that are underutilized by most people. The vision is to build a sensor network platform that can act as a hardware extension to a person's identity — importing data about their environment, activities, energy/resource usage, and others into a personal data locker.
|Eric Jennings
* An Introduction to Luvit
Luvit is a new open source asynchronous framework. We will dive into what this project does, how it works, and what the goals are for the future.
|Brandon Philips
* Accessibility in Mobile Platforms: Bridging Divides
Mobile devices are changing the way we interact with the web, both as media consumers and social beings. We will explore the opportunities and challenges this change brings to users with disabilities.
|Eitan Isaacson
* <Your Favorite Programming Language> Loses
Every programming language ever created has some horrible mistakes: your favorite is no exception. We'll talk about some fundamental principles of PL design and how they fail to play out in various real languages.
|Bart Massey
* Your Open Source Startup
Are you ready to take your Open Source project to the next level? Maybe it's time for a startup.
|Evan Prodromou
* What the Hell Is Wrong with You People? Pushing Change Across an Organization from the Basement Office
You have a great idea, perhaps the best idea ever, but you work with a bunch of know-it-alls, scaredy cats, well poisoners and lazy asses. You need a project management cycle that praises, emboldens, listens and inspires. You need a project management cycle that works.
|Chris Chiacchierini, Chris Langford
* What We Talk About When We Talk About Project Management
We ask for a lot of things under the heading of 'project management'. This leads to pain and suffering when we are not clear for what we are asking for, or we're not set up to support what we're asking for. This is particularly special in open source companies and projects.
|Amye Scavarda
* Toward an Open Source Process for Security Vulnerabilities
Security vulnerabilities can be a source of anxiety and lost sleep, or they can be a carefully managed opportunity to bring communities together, practice safe operational practices, and prevent problems. Join me to discuss how we can all manage our security issues sanely and cooperatively, and lose less sleep!
|Larissa Shapiro
* The Art of Customer Engagement and Retention: Premium Support for Freemium Software
Your project won't be successful if people can't use it successfully. There are a lot of tricks to good tech support that won't break the bank.
|Chris "Fool" McCraw
* Scaling Your Community by Nurturing Leaders
In this session, we'll talk about strategies for nurturing, empowering and rewarding community leaders to help scale your open source community. Most of the examples will come from 10gen's experience working with the community around the open source database MongoDB.
|Meghan Gill
* Pro-Style Code Review
Code review is awesome. Do more of it.
|Lennon Day-Reynolds
* Open Source and Intellectual Property - Busting [some of] the Myths
"If it's open source, that means it's public domain, right?" "Well, it's fair use if you only copy 5% of it." "I know, let's get a trademark and then nobody can use our idea!" A discussion of common myths about intellectual property and how it applies to open source.
|Paula Holm Jensen
* How We Went Remote
Hiring remote workers is great for filling those holes on the team...but if you don't have the correct infrastructure in place you're just setting yourself--and your remote team members--up for a world of hurt. This session will detail how our engineering department went remote and thrived because of it.
|VM Brasseur
* How Not to Release Software
You've seen a million best practice talks. This is quite the opposite: I'll instruct you in the ways I've failed over twenty years of software development, and advise you how not to make the same mistakes.
|Laura Thomson
* Free for Open Source: Marketing to Developers
Developers, like hipsters are simultaneously dead simple and infuriatingly difficult as marketing targets. Learn how supporting open source can be used as a tool to entice developers into your product's world.
|Michael Bleigh
* Beyond Excel: Bringing Web Connected Science to… Scientists
Come learn how team Hydrasi is partnering with scientific organizations to combine Open Source technologies and give them tools they never realized they could have. We'll blend stories of working with organizations such as DEQ, NOAA, and the Army Corps with your own story to explore ways scientists can partner with techies to make the world a better place.
|John Metta, Bill Jackson
* A Snapshot of Open Source in West Africa
Ever wonder why Wikipedia fund raising focuses that much on Africa? Are you curious about what Open Source means for West Africans? What it is used for and where it is going? Join to hear real world examples about us trying to build communities and businesses around open source in West Africa.
|Renaud Gaudin
* A Crash Course in Tech Management
'Programmer' and 'Manager' are two different titles for a reason: they're two different jobs and skill sets. If you have managerial aspirations (or have had them foisted upon you), come to this session to learn some of the tricks of the managerial trade.
|VM Brasseur


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Annie Payne
My name is Annie Payne and my personal and family history business is called History from the Heart, which I founded and opened on 1 January 2006.
I work with people who want more than a family tree. Through individual projects, workshops and some innovative products I have created and developed, I can help people to gather, organise and preserve their family stories as a heritage legacy.
Typically, I work with:
- Adults with elderly parents who want to capture their parent's stories
- Busy, time poor people who struggle to find the time to capture family stories
- Elderly or end of life people who need help to write their stories.
Due to years of personal history experience, I have created affordable products and services to help people to reveal, record and preserve their
stories as a family legacy for the future.
I help people to add buds, flowers and foliage to their family tree.
- Member (since 2006) of Association of Personal Historians.
- Only Australian selected for inclusion in "My Words Are Gonna Linger" APH's inaugural anthology of stories.
- Contributed to Modules #2 and #4 of the APH Tool Kit (a how-to manual about running a successful personal history business.
- Honorary member of the South Western Canada Region of APH
- Member of the selection panels for both the Keynote Speakers and Workshop Presentations for the 2010 APH Annual Conference, Victoria, Canada
- Finalist in Belmont Small Business Awards, 2006
- Author of 'Inside the Clare Valley' published in 1998 by Seaview Press
- Regularly interviewed on ABC Radio Perth's Afternoon program
- Regularly interviewed on 6PR Radio's 'Sunday Cafe' program
- Article 'The Gift of Love' published in Flourish Magazine, Autumn 2007
I am an experienced public speaker and regularly speak to groups about the following topics


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DvdDisc necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 29 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
Hi End / Luxurious New York Moving Company
Right Choice is a New York moving company. This is not a typical moving company since they deal with Hi-End clients only ! those type of clients that don't have the patience for the moving logistics; clients that their time is very important for them and they wouldn't spend their time on a moving day. Therefore, Right Choice ends up DOING THE ENTIRE MOVE ! that is disassembling packing, labeling wrapping, discontinuing services ( like gas, electricity, cables, direct TV, security etc')
In the new property Right Choice will unpack, reassemble, set up , put all objects in place , connect the various services and clean up. ( all is based on prior walk through)
As u understand client's duty is to provide Right Choice with properties keys. On moving day, client can go vacationing.
Right Choice is a member in the exclusive club of Gilt.com - logo attached
None - we are requesting original & unique work
Please read the guidelines document attached
Provide a high conversion , user friendly design for the "target audience" requested to be complied with the overall concept.
Feel free to play around and experiment. Just provide quality NON-PLAGIARIZED (thieves will be reported) work that complies with the guidelines.
a) Designer to provide a Home Page. The winner will be asked to provide 1 internal page based on the winning design
b) theme color - Client rather go with a dark background. However, you have a free hand to play. Feedback will be posted to all designs anyway.
c) logo - attached are 2 types for the logo, Feel Free to modify the logo if you find it necessary
- Header:
- large phone number
- main menu: Home, Services, Gilt Members, Moving Green, About, Projects, Contact
- Seal/icon "Gilt Member Business - Click Here"
- Get a quote Icon or Form
- Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin Logos ( you may place them anywhere you see fit)
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Flash container, Text container, any promotional side banner you may think fit ( "discount for Gilt Members", "get a quote", etc')
- footer : Privacy, Copyrights, site links, ORAIKO logo
This is the 10th contest launched by ORAIKO. We will make this one a successful contest too.
Designers, Please read the guidelines document attached.
As we will entertain all submitted design, please respect the requirements and submit designs that comply with the posted guidelines
keep the good, creative work. DON'T PLAGIARIZE ! thieves will be reported !
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Less cabinet, more merchandising space. With optimal refrigeration and a multitude of different display fittings, the Monaxis NC system provides an ideal setting for the lead product group, fruits and vegetables.
There's practically no ceiling, so the produce compartment is wide open to the customer's view. An intermediate panoramic thermopane wall can be used to create temperature zones to suit different product groups. Reliable refrigeration through air conduction that operates like a "waterfall" makes the Monaxis NC system particularly suitable for displaying sensitive, fresh convenience products.
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USpicy 18W LED Nail Lamp with Powerful Functions is Being ReleasedJul 31, 2012USpicy nail dryer team is now releasing the newest LED nail dryer this month which is totally a powerful nail lamp machine for this season.
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Pool play at U23 World Champs enters deciding phase
While the temperature dropped from tropic to around 21 degrees Celsius on Thursday, tension was rising in Slupna Park.
Spain's Lobato/Soria upset Canada's Humana-Paredes/Pischke
Brazil's Allison Cittadin
Francioni/Gustavo Albrecht Carvalhaes and Norway's Lars Fredrik Tvinde/Hendrik
Nicolai Mol both added two more wins to their unbeaten status at the FIVB Beach
Volleyball U23 World Championships on Thursday.
Brazil and Norway set to clash for top position in pool C at U23
Angela Lobato Herrero and
Paula Soria Gutierrez booked an important win on Thursday on their way to the
knockout rounds of the FIVB Beach Volleyball U23 World Championships in
Costa Ricans looking up to best U23 players of the world in Myslowice
Andres Felipe Flores Garita
and Victor Alpizar Campos are by far one of the shortest and skinniest men's
teams at the FIVB Beach Volleyball U23 World Championships, but the two Costa
Ricans make up for it in fighting spirit.
Mexico's Santoyo and Lopez overcome jetlag and book first win at U23
Gloria Itzel Santoyo Salazar
and Frida Carol Lopez Olmos felt a bit hopeless on the first day of the FIVB
Beach Volleyball U23 World Championships. But on Thursday the 36th seeded
Mexican students got their act together and booked their first win in
Main draw continues on Friday at 8.00 with the final round in pool play and the first knockout round. The top 4 teams in each pool advance to the elimination rounds, the pool winner and the two best runners-up go directly to the second elimination round on Saturday. The semifinals and medal matches for both genders are scheduled for Sunday on centre court in Slupna Park.
The town of Myslowice is hosting the U23 World Championships for the second time in a row. Last year home team Kantor/Losiak won the gold in the men's competition and Germany's Bieneck/Schneider in the women's. Losiak is the only player who was able to return to defend his title. With Kantor injured he is playing with Bryl this time.
The second edition of the FIVB U23 World Championships is the first of four age-group events this year. The 2014 calendar also features the inaugural U17 in Mexico, the U21 in Cyprus and the U19 in Porto.


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New Delhi: Indian Premier League franchise Delhi Daredevils have signed up three domestic players, including a teenaged allrounder Pawan Negi, for the upcoming IPL season.
Delhi's 19-year-old allrounder Negi and the batting duo of Manprit Juneja (Gujarat) and Kuldeep Chandrakant Raval (Saurashtra) will join the Daredevils in the season starting April 4.
"We are delighted to have signed up talented cricketers we spotted on the domestic circuit this season," the team's Mentor TA Sekar said in a statement.
"Together with picking up Kevin Pietersen this season, we have been taking the steps necessary for us to become a competitive squad again. We are confident that we will have the right mix of players to choose from for all our games this season."
Delhi Daredevils also announced buying out former India all-rounder S Sriram, South African allrounder Robert Frylinck, legspinner Vivek Yadav and left-arm spinner Rajesh Pawar's contracts.
Sriram, 35, played one game while the other three did not figure in any of the matches for Delhi Daredevils last season. Earlier, allrounder Andrew McDonald was traded with Royal Challengers Bangalore.
"We were tracking 21-year-old Manprit Juneja before he scored 201 on first class debut against Tamil Nadu. We are confident he will make his presence felt in the Delhi Daredevils squad and push real hard for a place in the middle-order this season," Sekar said of the youngster.
Sekar said Negi's ability to be nagging with the ball and his effectiveness as a middle-order batsman made the him an exciting talent.
"He can be an effective left-handed allrounder. He caught our eye when taking six wickets for Delhi in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy tournament at Lahli in Rohtak," Sekar said.
The left-handed Raval slammed two half-centuries for Saurashtra in the West Zone league games of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in Rajkot.
"He fits into the team's scheme of things well since he has the game and the temperament to be an impact player in the middle-order," Sekar said.
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All In One Keylogger for Windows
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W.H.: Obama 'welcomes' surveillance debate
President Barack Obama is looking forward to national debate over surveillance policies triggered by the disclosure Wednesday of a highly classified National Security Agency program to obtain records of telephone calls made by million of Americans, the White House said Thursday.
White House Spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters traveling with Obama on Air Force One that the discussion about balancing national security and individual privacy is a valuable one.
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"The president welcomes the discussion of the trade-off between security and civil liberties," Earnest said. "The close examination of some of these complicated issues could cause people to arrive at differing opinions…. The president welcomes that debate. He has his own ideas, he's presented them."
( Also on POLITICO: Obama names Susan Rice head of NSA)
Earnest declined to comment on classified matters, but noted that the order to telecom giant Verizon that was obtained Wednesday by Britain's Guardian newspaper does not authorize listening to anyone's calls. The White House spokesman also said the program has been effective at countering terrorist threats.
House Intelligence Committee Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) was more specific, saying the call tracking had "thwarted" a specific terrorist incident in the United States.
"Within the last few years, this program was used to stop a terrorist attack in the United States," Rogers told reporters Thursday. "We know that. It's important. It fills in a little seam that we have, and it's used to make sure that there's not an international nexus to any terrorism event that they may believe is ongoing in the United States."
( PHOTOS: Pols, pundits weigh in on NSA report)
Attorney General Eric Holder emphasized that the administration had kept federal lawmakers fully informed about the program.
"Members of Congress have been fully briefed as these issues, these matters have been underway," Holder said at a Senate hearing. He said he was "not really comfortable in saying an awful lot more than that" in an unclassified setting.
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) said she had doubts about claims lawmakers had been kept in the loop. "This 'fully briefed' (claim) is something that drives us up the wall…. 'Fully briefed' doesn't mean we know what's going on," she said, urging a classified hearing or briefing that all senators could attend.
( Also on POLITICO: Report says Panetta revealed SEAL unit info)
And Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) said he was concerned that data on calls by members of Congress and Supreme Court justices could have been swept up in the program, though Holder said there was "no intention to do anything of that nature."
Elsewhere on Capitol Hill, the top two leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday that the widespread monitoring of Verizon phone calls made in the United States has been going on for years, and that Congress is regularly briefed on it.
Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) also defended the National Security Agency's request to the company for all the metadata about phone calls made within and from the United States.
"As far as I know, this is the exact three-month renewal of what has been in place for the past seven years," Feinstein said. "This renewal is carried out by the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court] under the business records section of the Patriot Act. Therefore it is lawful. It has been briefed to Congress."
Chambliss said the report in the Guardian Wednesday was "nothing new."
"This has been going on for seven years," he said. "…every member of the United States Senate has been advised of this. To my knowledge there has not been any citizen who has registered a complaint. It has proved meritorious because we have collected significant information on bad guys, but only on bad guys, over the years."
The Obama administration is defending the program, arguing that the policy is a vital tool in monitoring terrorists and has the approval of "all three branches of government," according to a senior administration official.
"On its face, the order reprinted in the article does not allow the government to listen in on anyone's telephone calls," said the official, who asked not to be named. "The information acquired does not include the content of any communications or the name of any subscriber. It relates exclusively to metadata, such as a telephone number or the length of a call."


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As I've grown up my tastes have changed. Somewhere during the timeline of life, candy floss fell out of favour and a love of lattes came about. I can't handle too much sweet stuff and now add a sour squeeze of lemon to just about everything I eat.
I used to be a pretty fussy kid. As a grown-up I've totally turned in to an experimental eater. I'll try most things once - jellyfish, grasshoppers, chicken feet and guinea pig are some of the more unusual things I've sampled overseas.
But there have always been a handful of foods that don't float my boat. I'm one of the few people that doesn't dig avocado. And there's something about raw mushrooms that I can't swallow.
Oysters, pate and mussels are just too slimy, and the insides of animals don't really appeal. Other foods I avoid because they just don't feel nice to digest, leave me feeling sluggish or just seem to suck a little bit of the zest for life out of me.
I've always found the texture of food to turn me off more than taste. As a kid, I'd get stuck in to a bowl of creamy tripe every week. My grandma would dish up a pile of steak and kidney and whip-up home-made brawn using the meat from a pig's head.
Then I found out what all these things really were and I vomited a little bit in my mouth. As The Guardian food blogger, Oliver Thring, points out, it's our association with food that make us cringe.
A new survey of 2000 Brits reveals their most hated foods are snails, followed by tripe and oysters. "Snails are snails, for God's sake: maggoty, warty little pellets sliming their way across the garden," Thring writes. And fresh oysters don't taste bad, just salty. "But it's a "slopping, snotty, slippery, squelchy thing, and it's alive," he says.
The Fussy Food Nation report also featured liver, olives, black pudding, kippers, blue cheese, beetroot, sardines and brussels sprouts in the top 20. In the top 40 were some of my icky picks - avocado, pate, prawns and mushrooms.
Check out the top 10 most hated foods here.
The study, commissioned by fridge maker, Hotpoint, asked participants what put them off food.
Almost 60 per cent admitted it was the texture that was a turn-off, while more than half said it was the smell.
One in seven said being force fed certain grub as a child has led to hate forever, according to the report published in the Daily Mail.
Thring says some of the most delicious foods are the ones you have to train yourself to eat. It's true, the first sample of an olive doesn't hit the mark, but the tenth is on the money.
Despite this, there are some foods I'm prepared to banish for life. All the old offal favourites won't be making their way on to my menus. And I only need to try a portion of guinea pig one in Peru to know it's not for me.
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What foods do you hate? What's the weirdest thing you've eaten? Have you trained yourself to like certain foods? How have your tastes changed over time?


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I have to get 2 kills to complete an assigment on BF3. But the problem part is, whenever I start to use mortar, I get shown on the map with mortar icon (pretty normal) but I would like to move mortar after I have the shot, so I wont be a clear target.
Most of the times, another mortar guy kills me with mortar because he sees my location, but at killcam I see him with a gun (not mortar) and running around. So it means there must be a way to quit mortar screen and continue running around like nothing happened.
So how can I do it?


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By Lisa Capobianco
Staff Writer
If asked what is one highlight of the Apple Harvest Festival that draws thousands of visitors to the event every year, residents and non-residents of Southington will say, "Apple fritters."
The old-fashioned desert, coated with a cinnamon topping, brings a line full of visitors too long to count, and volunteers from Zion Lutheran Church can attest to that. For the past 44 years, the local church has volunteered to prepare, cook, and serve the fritters at the booth.
John Miller has been a parishioner of the church for more than 40 years, and he is in charge of all the apples. Miller worked at the apple fritter booth at age 12, and looks forward to the event every year. He said making the apple fritters every year has been "woven into the fabric" of his congregation.
"Many hands make light work," Miller said. "It is amazing how much we can accomplish."
Miller said the process of preparing and making the apple fritters is not easy. Volunteers from the church must work collaboratively together to accomplish a series of tasks weeks before the festival begins.
Hundreds of volunteers all take on a specific task, starting in September. They must steam clean booth equipment and complete the dry-mixing process for all the ingredients before weighing, measuring and packaging them for individual mixes. Volunteers also weigh and bag pre-diced Cortland apples delivered from Lyman Orchards in Middlefield. Besides preparing the ingredients and equipment, a group of volunteers organize the booth, where they must keep an inventory of supplies at the time of the festival. There is even a refrigerator at the booth to keep the apples fresh throughout the week.
Miller said working together gives parishioners an opportunity to develop long-lasting friendships.
"It really has become a part of our church over the years," he said. "Everybody has fun doing it."
Although Miller could not reveal the apple fritter recipe, they did share the origin of the recipe. Dot Czarnota, a former parishioner of the church, discovered the recipe more than 40 years ago. Czarnota tried the recipe over and over again until she found the perfect fit for the festival. Volunteers have continued to use Czarnota's recipe to this day.
Lori Cote, the chairperson who oversees all aspects of making the apple fritters, said their booth is unique because it is the only booth open during the week when the festival is not running. She also said parishioners benefit from working together to make the booth a success.
"It is important to our church, it helps get people together and to get to know each other," Cote said. "It is like a big family."
It's time to make the apple fritters
By Lisa Capobianco