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Walk held in honor of Trayvon Martin attracts hundreds including actor Jamie Foxx
Saturday was a day of remembrance for Trayvon Martin, as about a thousand people — including actor Jamie Foxx — united with the late teen's family to march, pray, listen to music and hear inspirational messages, while pressing for justice in his killing.
The Trayvon Martin Foundation sponsored the "I am Trayvon Day of Remembrance Community Peace Walk," to honor the unarmed Miami Gardens teen fatally shot in Sanford on Feb. 26 of last year by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.
"We're here to let the community, and particularly teenagers, know that they have the right to walk in peace without being followed, without being harmed and without being killed," Trayvon's mother, Sybrina Fulton, told The Miami Herald at the start of the event at Ives Estate Park at 20901 NE 16th Ave. in north Miami-Dade. She said the walk would be held annually.
Fulton, Trayvon's father Tracy and brother Jahvaris held up a huge banner and marched through the park as the crowd trailed them, chanting "I am Trayvon Martin." Many wore T-shirts emblazoned with Trayvon's picture, as the line snaked toward a band shell.
Last Tuesday would have been Trayvon's 18th birthday, which has inspired a series of activities all week in his honor, including a dinner Sunday night.
"This is not an event, this is a movement," Reverend Jamal-Harrison Bryant from the Empowerment Temple AME Church in Baltimore told supporters at the band shell. The goal, he said, was "justice for all people."
The shooting of black, 17-year-old Trayvon by Zimmerman, an Hispanic, sparked widespread outrage, and led to protests and rallies nationwide, as well as ongoing controversy over Florida's Stand Your Ground law.
Prosecutors say Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder, profiled the teen, who was wearing a hoodie and carrying a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea. Zimmerman said he fired in self defense. He is out on bond. His trial is scheduled to begin June 10.
"We did not come here today to grieve. We came to be energized and recharged," Bryant told the crowd. "We came to make a commitment to Tracy [Martin] and Sybrina [Fulton] that we are not going to rest until we see justice for their son. Trayvon Martin has become all of our sons and our brother."
Foxx, an Academy Award winning actor, wore a red t-shirt with Trayvon's picture at the center, and said he came in support because he is a father.
"Every once in a while, something comes around that touches you like nothing else," Foxx said, of Trayvon's slaying.
"I wasn't going to miss this day, and I'm not going to miss a day in the future when we can step out and remember Trayvon," he said.
Trayvon's parents expressed gratitude for Foxx's appearance, as well as for the crowd's support.
"We're not going to stop fighting. We are going to fight for our kid. We are going to fight for your kids," Fulton said. "It's not just about us; it's about all our kids."
Miami-Dade Commissioner Barbara Jordan also took the stage, saying Trayvon's parents "give a new definition to Stand your Ground: to stand for your children and to be committed to your children and to be committed to your community."
Gospel singers, mime dancers and others performed, as the day unfolded with celebration, tinged with sadness and reproach.
"It's a great event to keep the awareness, to keep the fight alive for Trayvon Martin and his family," said Martin Maultsby, 40, who lives in Miami Gardens and is the director of the Florida Youth Football League. "Any time you can come out to support your cause, it lets the family know they are not in this fight by themselves."


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J.C. Penney Has a Date With Destiny -- and Court
Department store retailer J.C. Penney seems unable to escape the grasp of domestic diva Martha Stewart, as it's being hauled back to court after a report by the New York Post suggested it was ending its contract with the home goods retailer. It just may work out in the end after all, though, as the judge has scheduled a hearing for Sept. 25 to hear about this latest development.
He's about to hand down a ruling over Penney's selling wares from Stewart despite exclusivity agreements she has with Macy's , and this reports might color what he decides.
Penney's got caught up in the crosshairs of the legal system after purchasing a near-17% stake in Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia as part of former CEO Ron Johnson's bid to remake the retailer. Out went regular doorbuster sales; in came low, everyday pricing. Stores-within-a-store, separated by brand, became de rigueur. It would be stealing a page or two from Apple's successful branding strategy, which Johnson knew so well since that's from where he came, with trained personnel giving out tips and advice.
Of course, we know how this story played out. Almost from the get-go, shoppers who had once been loyal to Penney's left the retailer in droves, heading instead to Macy's and rival Kohl's. Sales at the department store chain plunged from $17.8 billion in 2010 to under $13 billion last year. They're down another 22% over the last 12 months from the same period a year ago as consumers voted with their feet that they didn't like not having sales. It didn't matter that they were actually saving money under Johnson's plan; shopping isn't always a rational decision, and the idea that they thought they were getting a better deal with blowout sales mattered more.
It also didn't take long for Macy's to weigh in on its deal with Martha Stewart. Following the diva's release from jail for insider trading, Macy's took a risk in 2006 and spent a lot of money rehabilitating her image with an exclusive deal to sell her home goods. It sued Penney's -- and then Stewart -- for violating the exclusivity arrangement, even though Penney's items weren't the ones covered by the contract. Macy's said: Doesn't matter, exclusive is exclusive.
Earlier this year the court gave Penney a partial victory, saying the retailer could temporarily continue selling Martha Stewart's stuff, but couldn't identify it in any way, shape, or form as being related to her. So as I asked at the time, why bother? If it's the same cookware and stuff already being sold under the Penney brand, why spend the money for a branding contract you can't benefit from?
Another fallout from the makeover debacle was Johnson losing his job to turnaround specialist Mike Ullman, who apparently agrees with me, and reportedly is set to ax the agreement because of poor design, sales, and general ennui. Since the Post's report was based on unnamed sources, it's said the judge who has been presiding over the lengthy non-jury trial wants to know if it's true, because it may affect his ruling.
That could mean the penalties for having violated the contract won't be as severe since it will become a moot point, but the judge could just as well be irked at having wasted several years of time and resources to decide a case that's getting resolved anyway.
The biggest loser might just be Martha Stewart, who, despite saying she's still a Penney partner, obviously has the clock running down on her, and Macy's can't be all that pleased at how willing she was to dilute her agreement with them.
Regardless of whether it's good or bad for Penney's, the outcome will close another sad chapter in the storied history of a once-venerable retailer that still faces the difficult task of restoring its own good name with both the public and the financial markets as it tries to stave off catastrophe.
J.C. Penney's stock has lost more than half its value over the past year and some 80% from its all-time high reached just before the recession. Despite cloying ads apologizing for its missteps, shoppers haven't returned and sales last quarter were down 12% from last year, though that's slightly better than the 16% drop the quarter before.
The retailer can only hope the judge gives it a gift that finally allows it to escape the diva's clutches and to continue to repair its good name.
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. – No. 6 UC Santa Barbara used a trio of second-half goals to overcome San Diego at Torero Stadium on Friday evening in a non-conference match. Freshman Ema Boateng scored his first collegiate goal to capture the victory for the Gauchos; senior Josue Madueno and junior Achille Campion added a pair of insurance goals to lead UCSB to the 3-0 win.
With the victory, UCSB remains undefeated and improves to 4-0-1 on the season. San Diego, which had won its previous two contests, falls to 2-3-0. The win marked the fifth-straight shutout for the Gauchos over the Toreros; they have scored 10 unanswered goals against the program.
The Gauchos out-shot USD, 10-5, in the first half, but could not break through the Torero defense early in the game.
It finally looked as though UCSB was going to be able to snap the scoreless tie during the waning minutes of the first stanza after Torero goalkeeper Michael D'Arrigo took down Javier Castro in the box, earning a yellow card for himself and granting the Gauchos a penalty kick.
Senior Nic Ryan took the shot, but D'Arrigo made-up for his own foul by coming up with a clutch stop. Ryan got his foot on the rebound, but his shot sailed high and the game remained deadlocked heading into the halftime break.
The Gauchos were finally able to break through in the second half, and they did so in a big way.
Boateng got the ball rolling in the 69th minute when he split two defenders 45-yards from the goal before dashing up the field and sending a left-footed shot from 25-yards out to the back post in the upper left hand corner of the Torero goal. The freshman's first collegiate goal was assisted by junior Fifi Baiden.
Before the Gaucho fans had time to stop celebrating the 1-0 lead, UCSB gave them another reason to cheer just two minutes later when senior Josue Madueno's right-footed blast from the top of the 18-yard box deflected off of D'Arrigo's outstretched hand and then the left post before landing in the San Diego goal. The play began with a give-and-go from junior Dom Sarle.
UCSB capped the match off with one last strike in the 78th minute. Senior Peter McGlynn played a through ball from the right side of the box to junior Achille Campion who re-directed the ball past D'Arrigo with a right heel kick. The goal brought his team-leading total to four so far this season.
Santa Barbara tallied a total of 21 shots with 12 on-goal in the victory. Castro led all players with four shots while junior Goffin Boyoko's three shots during the game were all on-frame.
The UCSB defensive effort was solid as the Gauchos limited San Diego to nine shots and just four on-frame. Goalkeeper Austin Mansker made four blocks on his way to his second clean slate of the season. D'Arrigo had nine saves for the Toreros.
UCSB will be back in action on Sunday afternoon at Seattle University. The Gauchos will take-on the Redhawks in a 3 p.m. match. Gerry Fall, the Voice of the Gauchos, will be on hand to call all the action in a free online broadcast that can be heard by clicking here.
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- Reviving Growth in Latin America
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Looking for decendants from Gloversville,NY. SELINA BURR married HENRY CHURCHILL 1830. Any info would be great. Burr & Mills started a glove industry. Thank you
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Looking for family of HERMAN PREISS & JULIA KING. Childern were Arthur Preiss married Augusta ?, Herman Preiss married Magdalena Schupp, Julia Preiss ,Johanna Preiss married Ernest Ehman, Louis Preiss married Gertrude Linker this is my line , Aldeut Preiss.
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This nude mod replaces the the default Leon character you play in the game Resident Evil 4 with a nude version of the females Ada or Ashley that appear later inside the game. Depending on the options you choose you may play with either fully naked Ada or Ashley and if have the support from Ada or Ashley in the game in a specific chapters then she will also be nude, so you will have both nude while you play the game. Choosing the Special 2 costume option replaces Leon with Ashley, and the Special 1 and Normal costume options give you the nude Ada Wong character to play with. There is also a file containing some savegames that you can use to be able to check out a few different scenes where you can play with different character combinations.
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The New Independent Film Distributors' Business Model
I want to focus on how to rehabilitate the film distribution entities so that they may continue to exist. I know what you are thinking "What's she on about? We're fine. We survived the latest shake out and are all the stronger for having less competition." I am here to tell you that is fallacy. The old ways of bringing films to market are fading fast and it is time to reinvent your business. I want to acknowledge my gurus Gerd Leonhard, Seth Godin and Clay Shirky (though he is more my go to guy on all things having to do with immersive storytelling and audience collaboration) for being a constant source of inspiration for me in looking toward the future of media.
When Ted announced on his Facebook page that he would take part in a panel discussion at the upcoming Woodstock Film Festival concerning the new distribution paradigms, I had to look at who would be involved in this discussion. What people and companies would be taking part who are practicing radically changed business models for film distribution? It was as I thought; none. I posted a link on his page (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100326/1452138737.shtml) asking all involved in the discussion to read it and then talk about how they see the new paradigms. I don't know if anyone did, but I did get a response from Dylan Marchetti from Variance Films explaining to me how his company functions to actively engage audiences for films they've booked in the theater. It was a lengthy exchange that resulted in my writing this post. I don't think he read the article before he spoke because the point of that piece was to inform on how businesses need to form ecosystems around their companies, not continue only to sell copies of the content they distribute. Distribution companies should not be focused on selling copies, either for viewing or for owning. They should be selling access, creating networks of devoted fans around their brand and developing customized experiences instead. In other words, selling things that cannot be copied. This means they must first gather and cultivate a community of engaged followers and then develop, acquire, produce, and source material with only these people in mind.
Of the companies taking part in the Woodstock panel, I would say only Cinetic with their Film Buff organization has started with the potential to do this, but rather than building an engagement platform, they have merely built another online distribution portal (like so many others in existence that consumers have never heard of) to put copies out on the internet. Actually you can't see any of the films on the site, it just directs you to their existence on VOD channels. Their "community" engagement is only a call for an email address so that they may send marketing messages. What is communal about that? What connection would a consumer have to the company itself besides advertising? None. Cinetic has no idea who these people are, what drives them, motivates them, interests them. It is not fair to pick only on Cinetic, I can't think of a single distributor currently connecting directly with audience who can answer those questions. Troma comes to mind as a distributor with a very clear brand identity but even they are not directly in dialog with their audience. All current distributors are far too dependent on push marketing, usually hired from outside the company, and sourcing films purely on guesses based on audience reactions at festivals , favorable press or from hottest trends in market research. Every investment prospectus will tell you future earnings are not indicative of past performance, so why is that how decisions are continually being made?
What would I suggest for these companies? First, a total rethink of what business they're in. Distribution of goods is no longer needed from you. You should not think of yourselves in the film distribution business because distribution has become easy to access by anyone online. (I know Dylan, you're not online, but art house theater days are numbered too). Attention getting is now your main role. But from whom? If you don't have a following as a company, a deep relationship with a community, how will you get attention and keep it? By building a tribe around the people in your company and, in turn, the company brand itself. This starts by identifying what kind of group you appeal to or want to appeal to, actively seeking them out and forging those deep connections. At first, this will mean attracting people through outside means, appealing through media and various outside groups to introduce yourself. Eventually the effort to enlarge the circle will be done by the community members, but until you have one, you must do that work.
Often, in a rush to monetize, companies jump right over the relationship building. The dismal failure of paywalls in newspaper circles only serves to prove my point. They did not build up an engaged community first, and then ask for payment. They falsely thought that their paper subscribers would be willing to continue the previous paid relationship even after it was possible to get most of the news stories from aggregators for free online. There is a great video from Jeff Jarvis explaining the new business models for newpapers here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsb9NfJmqPY&) and lots can be gleaned from it for all corporate endeavors.
The reinvention
"The future leaders in business will be connectors, not directors"-Gerd Leonhard
The new model will be to build and foster a community around the brand as a company and to be in the entertainment fulfillment business. This community will have interests that the company can fulfill and that is the company's ONLY function. To try and serve a well balanced diet of wide ranging content is to spread too thin and attract no one. Mass is not your target.
You will be a resource to your community not only in entertainment but in anything that interests them. This means you MUST know what "that" is. Is it books, is it music, events, clothes, games, causes, other similar tribes? These will be your other revenue sources as you create a network of interconnection with other companies who have their own niches, their own tribes. Also, consider enabling community members to profit in what you have sourced, to be affiliates and to create networks of their own. The network will feed each other spreading the brand even further.
A key part of your site will be to connect your community to each other. Some companies have sites where they connect to the user, but they don't allow for intraconnection and some networking platforms are merely housed on a company website but members are never engaged by the company, merely left to use the tools as they see fit. Listening and collaboration will be cornerstones for this model to work. This isn't work to be left to interns, by the way, but by those in power within the company.
You will also partner with other tribes of like minded individuals. Through these interactions, you tribe influence grows. There is no need for shouting out messages, gaining favorable PR placement, buying media for attention or forcing members to spread the word. If you are fulfilling their needs admirably, they will do it. You will however, generously reward those members in your community who do enlarge your circle. Instead of paying large amounts of money to outside companies to get "buzz" and "traffic," you will invest that money in building experiences tailor made for your community. Development of experiences can only be done from active participation in the community and collaboration with them.
This model is far simpler to run as you won't be going for masses, you will only cultivate your community. It will be labor intensive work, but not prohibitively expensive. You will need to develop tools so that the tribe members can speak to each other and so that they can spread the word to their friends easily. You should be facilitating sharability at all times, not closing it off and being insular.
The filmmaker/artist whose content you will source (not acquire as creators will have an equal partnership in your tribe) will be encouraged to participate with the community. In fact, if they will not, then their work is not very attractive to your community. Engagement at all times is key, this is no place for egos.
How To Make Money?
It may be that while you are in audience building mode, you will be spending more than making to develop a truly exceptional experience for your community. If you start this now before your entire business collapses, you will fare better.
-Create an online experience that makes the lives of your community better, easier, richer and be the number 1 site they visit for news, information, resources and community tailored to what interests them.
-Fill the vacuum of the lack of curation. People are confused by where to find things they like and overwhelmed by the choice. In a sea of content, be their favored destination. In this way, you can take on the likes of Netflix, a company that offers a huge range that makes finding content specific to personal interests nearly impossible because they don't intimately know who their customers are. You will know this.
-Lock in the community by maintaining a dialog that will turn their initial attention into a revenue stream for your brand. A subscription model is what you should aspire to, but you cannot rush to that without first showing what you have to offer and reeling them in. First offer the ability to sample, share and then buy.
-Innovate in the online experiences you build to keep the community engaged and interested in making the circle bigger for you and for them. Incentivize those who are the most active at enlarging the community. Take the money you would have spent on outside marketers and use it to think of interesting incentives for your tribe.
I fear the problem for all of you will be waiting to see if another business model becomes successful before you decide to reinvent your own. This is extremely detrimental because waiting only results in being that much further behind. The first ones to embrace a new model win. It is why Netflix beat out Blockbuster. By the time Blockbuster conceded the model Netflix forged was legitimate, they could never catch up. Entrenched companies usually misjudge the speed with which change happens. Now is the time.
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Appeared in print as "Minimizing the impact of built-in contamination"
It is widely recognized that contamination creates problems in hydraulic systems. The explanation is straightforward — minimizing the gaps or clearances between moving parts improves efficiency and permits precise machine control. Particles compromise efficiency through abrasive wear and interfere with machine control when they become lodged in electrohydraulic valves.
Hydraulic equipment manufacturers have found that built-in contaminants introduced through the assembly of dirty components increase warranty costs. Three common strategies are employed by hydraulic equipment manufacturers to minimize the impact of built-in contamination:
1) Establish contamination limits for new components.
2) Verify that components comply with contamination limits.
3) Flush the assembled system to achieve roll-off cleanliness target.
The process of manufacturing components produces contamination and debris. Pictured clockwise from upper left are several examples: cutting a hose to length produces rubber and metal particles; machining a valve manifold produces cutting chips; welding the end-caps on hydraulic cylinder produces iron oxide; and fabricating a steel reservoir produces welding spatter as shown.
Set contamination limits
Establishing the contamination limits for components, like most other engineering decisions, involves a cost/benefit analysis. Although it is obvious that a clean part is preferable to a dirty part, there is a cost associated with achieving a given level of cleanliness. Therefore, consider the contamination sensitivity and working pressure of a hydraulic system when establishing contamination limits.
Generally, contamination limits for components are specified in terms of the milligrams of contamination and the length (longest chord) of the largest particle. As shown in Table 1, the volume-to-area ratio of hydraulic components covers several orders of magnitude. (Area, in this case, only applies to wetted surfaces that are in direct contact with the hydraulic fluid.)
Table 1: Wetted volume of hydraulic components
To account for differences in volume and wetted surface area, different units of measure are used to define the built-in contamination levels. Table 2 provides a list of contamination limits for new components expressed in common units of measure. For components that have a high volume-to-area ratio, mg/l is a common unit of measure. For components that have a low volume-to-area ratio, mass per unit weight or mass per unit area is more appropriate. The main reason for this is that the practical limit of detection in gravimetric contamination analysis is between 1 and 2 mg. This limit is not a function of accuracy of the analytical balance. It is the result of variation in the solvent and moisture absorption by the filter membrane used in gravimetric analysis.
Table 2: Upper control limits for built-in contamination hydraulic components
A common mistake in establishing component cleanliness specifications is to express limits in terms of an ISO Contamination Code. This is understandable because ISO Codes are a well known shorthand for specifying hydraulic fluid cleanliness. However, Contamination Codes, as defined by ISO 4406, only apply to fluids. So specifying a maximum ISO 18/16/13 contamination code for a hose, tube, valve, cylinder, pump, reservoir etc. is incorrect. The above limit might be suitable as a roll-off cleanliness specification for an assembled vehicle, but to use it for components is problematic on several levels. Of particular concern is the fact that the ISO 4406 Contamination Code makes no distinction between 15, 150 or 1500 ∝m particles. Large particles are of great concern in new hydraulic components because they can cause severe damage the first time the system is powered up.
Choose the right method of removal
Built-in contamination may be extracted from hydraulic components through pressure rinsing, ultrasonic cleaning, agitation, and functional bench test methods. A light petroleum distillate, such as filtered mineral spirits, is the preferred extraction fluid. This is because it is an effective cleaner that does not promote rust or interact with the filter membrane used to quantify the contamination level. ISO 4405, for determining contamination by the gravimetric method, is the standard for quantifying the contamination level. In this test method, particles are separated from the extraction fluid through vacuum filtration. The filter medium is dried in a non-ventilating oven, and the weight change (in mg) is recorded. Usually, the length of the largest hard particle is also determined through microscopic inspection of the filter membrane.
An evaluation of 100 hydraulic components showed that several had high levels of contamination before installation and use.
Contamination starts at the beginning
The Fluid Power Institute recently evaluated the contamination level of more than 100 new hydraulic components. This data set included hoses, tubes, fittings, valves, cylinders, pumps, and reservoirs. As can be seen in the graph, the contamination level in several new components exceeded 256 mg. This gives contamination a head start in attacking the hydraulic system at the beginning of its life.
The process of manufacturing components produces different types of contamination. Cutting a hose to length produces rubber and metal particles, as shown in the first photo. Machining a valve manifold produces cutting chips, as shown in the second photo. Welding the end caps onto a hydraulic cylinder produces iron oxide, as shown in the third image. Finally, fabricating a steel reservoir produces welding spatter in the form of molten metal, as shown in the final image. In all cases, post-processing must occur to prepare components for use in a fluid power system.
The assembly and filling process also introduces particles into a hydraulic system. Therefore, the contamination level of new systems should be verified as they are undergoing functional tests on the assembly line. Portable online particle counters are the preferred instruments for checking the cleanliness level. On-line particle counters provide a rapid means of analysis and are not susceptible to the pitfalls of bottle sampling.
The roll-off cleanliness target for a hydraulic system should be based on contamination sensitivity and working pressure as shown in Table 3. In some equipment, the system can be cleaned by simply cycling the machine's actuators. If the system incorporates components that do not completely discharge or return fluid to the reservoir, an auxiliary flushing cart may have to be used to achieve the desired cleanliness level.
Table 3: Roll-off cleanliness targets for new hydraulic systems
Once a system is assembled, purified, and shipped, it should remain sealed to prevent contamination. Oil changes in the first 2000 hr of machine operation frequently do more harm than good. That is because new oils are not necessarily clean, and end users often lack the equipment required to filter fluid into the system.
Starting a machine with a clean hydraulic system is the first step in achieving long and reliable equipment life.
Paul Michael is a research chemist at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. He can be reached at (414) 277-2238 or by email at [email protected]. Brian Blazel is an undergraduate research assistant at MSOE. He can be reached at [email protected].


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Two days before its season begins, the Crew has a local broadcast partner.
Two days before its season begins, the Crew has a local broadcast partner.
The Crew signed a two-year deal with an option for a third with Time Warner Cable SportsChannel after spending the past two seasons on Fox Sports Ohio. The deal will include more programming than before but on a network only available on Time Warner Cable.
Specific financial details of the agreement were not disclosed
�It�s tough because we had to make a decision that we knew was going to be unpopular with some of the fans, but we weighed the alternatives and what Time Warner Cable SportsChannel was bringing to the equation we thought was very meaningful for our club and ultimately for our fans,� Crew president Mark McCullers said.
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Fighters often want a rematch after losing a fight. Timothy Bradley didn't just want one, he needed a second go-round with Manny Pacquiao even though he defeated Pacquiao via split-decision in June 2012 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Two of the three judges thought Bradley won, anyway. Virtually everyone else — fans and reporters — had Pacquiao winning. The aftermath was disgusting. It showed how low some fans will go just because their guy was the recipient of what appeared to be a wrong decision.
Bradley had to read one story after another about how lucky he was to come away with the win. Reporters were doing their jobs, for the most part. But fans of Pacquiao apparently were so incensed that Bradley and his promoter —Bob Arum — received death threats. As if Bradley had anything to do with the judges. As if Arum would fix a fight that would go against his cash cow — Pacquiao.
In 20 years of covering boxing, it's got to be the most idiotic thing yours truly has seen. Just shameful.
That's why on Wednesday morning, Bradley talked about how excited he is to be getting another fight with Pacquiao. The two will tangle April 12 at MGM Grand (on HBO pay-per-view) for Bradley's welterweight title, the one he took from Pacquiao.
"There is still this dark cloud that is going over my head after the first fight and I feel like I can't move on with my career, man," said Bradley, who attended news conferences Tuesday in Los Angeles and Thursday in New York City to formally announce the fight. "And I can't move forward in my life without getting this matchup.
"I have to fight this guy again. It's my opportunity, man, and I'm very pleased Pacquiao and I came to terms to make this fight for the fans."
Bradley — a true class act — will never forget what has happened. He admits to being blindsided by it all. Even though we spoke to him on the phone, you could almost feel him shaking his head as he discussed it. When asked, he said he knew there a lot of idiots out there. He didn't know how low they'd stoop, however.
"I knew they were always out there, man, I just didn't realize how big this fight really was," said Bradley, 30, of Palm Springs. "Like I knew it was big, but I didn't know what I was up against. I didn't know that this guy, as an icon to many people, (they) like look up to this guy — meaning Manny Pacquiao — and that after all of this went down that I was going to be getting this type of treatment from people.
"I wasn't one of the judges. I felt the fight was very close, I felt I won the fight. I felt I edged it in the last couple of rounds, and that's my honest opinion. But the fans and a lot of the media didn't believe that when they were sitting there watching, so this time around I need to make it more decisive."
Interestingly, Bradley (31-0, 12 KOs) believes this chapter in his career has made him a better fighter. Motivated by all the negative publicity, Bradley took on tough Ruslan Provodnikov in his next fight, in March 2013, at Home Depot Center.
Bradley went against the grain and instead of using his superior boxing skills, he often went toe-to-toe with the harder-hitting Provodnikov. Bradley won the fight via narrow unanimous decision, but he ate a lot of mean leather, even tasting the canvas in the 12th round.
He then defended against Juan Manuel Marquez in October at Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas and won a split decision.
"I was in an award-winning Fight of the Year with Ruslan Provodnikov and I fought extremely crazy and gutsy in that fight and gained a lot of fans from that fight and put a spark in people's minds that, 'Dang, this dude is the real deal, he can fight,' " said an animated Bradley, whose fight with Provodnikov was voted Fight of the Year. "And then I go on and I out-box Marquez, who is probably the second-best counterpuncher in boxing right behind Floyd Mayweather.
"The fight with Ruslan made me realize that, 'Tim, you've gotta go back to your roots, you've gotta go back to your boxing skills. You can't sit here and exchange with these guys that are huge punchers because you're not a big puncher yourself.' The Marquez fight, I went back to my skills. I showed what I'm made of, I showed the world I can brawl, I showed the world that I can box."
As for Pacquiao (55-5-2, 38 KOs), Bradley believes he is not the same vicious fighter he once was. Bradley points to Pacquiao's recent decision victory over Brandon Rios in China. Pacquiao never seemed too interested in stopping Rios inside the distance.
Bradley says that Pacquiao is a "compassionate man" and intimated Pacquiao's "belief system" won't allow him to be the seek-and-destroy fighter he once was.
Moreover, during an interview with both fighters and HBO's Max Kellerman that has yet to air, Bradley said Pacquiao refused to say he would knock him out.
"He wouldn't say it," Bradley said. "And I'm like, 'Just tell him you're going to knock me out.' "
Bradley said the best Pacquiao would do is to say, "I'm going to ask God for that fire back."
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Open Source Bridge 2010 sessions
Open Source Bridge will take place June 1-4, 2010 in Portland, Oregon.
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* Foundations, Non-profits, and Open Source
Should you start a foundation? Should you start a nonprofit? What's the role of non-profits in the Open Source community today? How can you be a good citizen in the Open Source arena with a foundation to support?
|Carol Smith
* Functional Requirements: Thinking Like A Pirate
Creating functional requirements as a part of the planning process is like creating a treasure map. You want to get compensated for the value your cool built-with-open-source-thing is providing to your clients. Your clients want it to work better than what they originally had in mind. If you do the work upfront, you'll know when you've hit the X marks the spot.
|Amye Scavarda, Bill Fitzgerald
* How Two Fools Made Themselves Indispensible From Their Basement Office
Two unsuspecting university project managers became super heroes when they stumbled upon the magic of open source CMS and sold their vision to bring web design in house, thus saving the university tens of thousands of dollars, better meeting their students' needs for online information, creating reliable revenue streams and enabling departments to more efficiently do their business.
|Chris Chiacchierini, Mason Bondi
* Legal Difficulties Involving Open Source Companies and How to Avoid Them
The laws have changed and the open source community should take note.
|Martin Medeiros
* Moonlighting in Sunlight – How to work on independent projects and have a day job.
Best practices for employers, employees and open source projects to coexist without legal conflicts.
|Paula Holm Jensen, Marc Alifanz
* Teach your class to fish, and they'll have food for a lifetime.
You have so much you want to teach, how do you structure it so that your training course is both interesting and challenging? How much theory can you squeeze into an hour before your attendees have forgotten where you started? How do you structure your course to account for classes which move slower or faster than average? This talk will cover all of these answers and more.
|Jacinta Richardson
* The Naive Developer's Guide to Venture Capital
What you need to know before you even think about raising venture or angel capital, presented by a Silicon Valley founder who raised $9m from top tier firms.
|Joyce Park
* The Second Step: HOWTO encourage open source work at for-profits
Even at pro-FLOSS businesses, logistical obstacles and incentive problems get in the way of giving back. I'll show you how to fix that.
|Sumana Harihareswara
* The Story of Spaz: How to Give Away Everything, Make No Money, and Still Win
What motivates us as developers? How do we define success? Throughout the development of Spaz, we've learned a lot about what works, what doesn't, and what really matters. Come to hear the story, and participate in the discussion of how we define success in open source.
|Edward Finkler
* You Shall Not Pass: Managing Expectations and Boundaries with Clients
Open Source is great fun, even in the area of professional services. But sometimes, you want to be able to pay the bills with your awesomeness too. One of the areas of difficulty is setting boundaries with clients, even though you really just want to write amazing stuff.
|Amye Scavarda, Chris Strahl
* Activity Streams, Socialism, and the Future of Open Source
It may seem obvious to some, but the socialist imagery that Mozilla uses isn't accidental. Nor is the grounding of Activity Streams in socialist theory. What do these things have to do with open source an its future? A lot, and I'll paint a picture to tell you how it should play out.
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* Cassandra: Strategies for Distributed Data Storage
Cassandra is an open source, highly scalable distributed database that brings together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model. In this talk we'll discuss the strategies Cassandra employs to provide an eventually consistent data model.
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* Considering in-house automated web testing?
Interested in setting up your own test automation infrastructure? This is what you need to know.
|Adam Christian
* Creating a low-cost clustered virtualization environment using Ganeti
Creating a redundant yet scalable virtualization environment is often difficult and expensive. Ganeti is an open source project which offers many solutions to simplify a clustered virtual machine environment while enabling you to use low cost hardware. This session will walk through Ganeti covering its basic design goals/features, installation architecture, and production implementation.
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* Developing Replication Plugins for Drizzle
The Drizzle Project is a fork of the MySQL 6.0 server. One of the many goals of Drizzle is to enable a large plugin ecosystem by improving, simplifying, and modernizing the application programming interfaces between the kernel and the modules providing services for Drizzle. This tutorial serves to showcase the new APIs for Drizzle's replication through a series of in-depth examples.
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* Efficient Multi-core Application Architectures
This session examines common application architectures in regards to threading and I/O handling. Various threading models are described and weighed, explaining the pros and cons of each. For I/O, topics such as the the c10k problem and buffering are discussed with solutions. A C++ framework is introduced as an example, but the concepts are applicable to other languages as well.
|Eric Day
* Hair and Yak Again -- A Hacker's Tale
API design, parallelism, automated testing, parallel automated testing, deployment, build tools, meta programming, GUI design and construction, hardware interfaces, network protocols, databases, change tracking, file formats, and why simple software becomes an epic journey.
|Eric Wilhelm
* HipHop for PHP
HipHop transforms PHP source code into highly optimised C++ and then compiles it using g++. It allows developers to continue writing complex logical directly with PHP but leverages the speed benefits of using C++. Currently, HipHop powers the majority of Facebook servers, making this more than just a theoretical exercise. This session will cover how HipHop works, how to setup HipHop and the small changes that may be required to applications to allow it to work with both PHP and HipHop.
|Haiping Zhao
* Living Together In An Open Cloud World
With millions of users signing on daily to access their favorite social media services – be it Twitter, Facebook or Digg – a developer's worst fear is not having the backend support to house and provide access to such huge amounts of related data. Industry efforts to architect next generation databases that can scale massively by pairing open source databases and content management technologies with cloud-computing are underway. The door is also "opening" to a whole new world of user benefits which will be made possible by access to data -- cross-cloud -- in non-proprietary databases and content management systems.
|Jonathan Bryce
* Making your information online findable
It's not enough to have a website. You need to have your website (and your business) be findable, and not drive normal people (eg, everyone but you and your web designer) nuts. And you need to make sure that Google has it right. Here's how.
|VJ Beauchamp
* Open Source and the Open Social Web
Open Source software has been instrumental in the development of every revolutionary communications technology on the Internet. The Open social Web is no different.
|Evan Prodromou
* Professional JavaScript
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* SELECT * FROM Internet Using YQL
Treating the internet and all its sources as a database, YQL seeks to allow developers to explore government, social, api and all other external data in a standardized way. Further allowing developers to manipulate this data and mash different sources together, YQL works to open up the web and all its sources.
|Jonathan LeBlanc
* SuperSpeed me: USB 3.0 Open Source Support
USB 3.0 promises a 10x speedup and better power management than USB 2.0. But how do these devices actually work? Is there open source support for them? Come learn about these fast new devices that are finally hitting the market.
|Sarah Sharp
* Why the Sysadmin Hates Your Software
You've worked really hard on your software. It's stable and has lots of nice features and users love it. But your sysadmin hates it and complains about how hard it is to install, configure, and manage. What's up with that?
|Steve VanDevender
* eBooks, ePub, iPad, Kindle, o-my
Print is dead. Well, not dead yet. But it'll be stone dead in a moment.
|Lennon Day-Reynolds
* (CANCELLED) Getting Started with FPGAs and HDLs
Lots of attention has been given to GPUs for speeding up certain types of computations. While GPUs are very well suited for vector operations, there are other things they are not so well suited for. FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) are not used as widely yet, but they offer a much more flexible computing fabric than GPUs. You can implement a GPU in an FPGA, for example, or you could implement your own custom processor optimized for very specialized tasks. The barrier to entry can be high for FPGAs: how does a person with a software development background get started using them? And what about HDLs (Hardware Description Langauges) used to program FPGAs? What's the difference between simulation and synthesis? What kinds of tools are freely available? These are some of the questions that will be addressed in this session.
|Phil Tomson
* A Cloud To Call Your Own - Building Services On Open Nebula
Cloud computing, it's not all just hype! This presentation will highlight the benefits of an application centric view of infrastructure and operations and include a live demo building cloud infrastructure and providing services using Open Source tools. Starting with bare Linux images, Open Nebula will be automatically installed and configured on a cluster, while walking through the tools, architecture and resources you need to do the same thing.
|Andrew Clay Shafer, Keith Hudgins
* A day in the life of Facebook Operations
A look at the tools and practices used at Facebook to support the #2 site in the world.
|Tom Cook
* Agile User Experience Design
Agile processes can be very successful for both clients and developers, but the rapid pace and the lack of detailed long-term plans can make it difficult to design and build high quality user experiences. We'll talk about good ways to do that.
|Randall Hansen
* Best Practices for Wiki Adoption
Wikis are easy as pie to install, edit, and even to develop. The real challenge they present is in bringing together the right people in the right way to make things happen. There are ways to tackle that challenge that can give your open source community a fighting chance.
|Steven Walling, Ted Ernst
* Building Interactive Displays with Touchscreen 2.0
Touchscreen is a platform for creating interactive kiosk and dashboard displays. It powers presentations for visitors to the Open Source Lab's data center and the network operations center. Come learn how touchscreen works and how to use it for your own display screens.
|Peter Krenesky, Rob McGuire-Dale
* Connecting to Web Services on Android
This presentation will show how to connect to REST-based web services from an Android application. We'll discuss HTTP programming as well as XML and JSON libraries. This presentation will include a live demo of an Android application.
|Sean Sullivan
* Creating Embedded Linux Products with OpenEmbedded
Learn about the current state of embedded Linux distributions and advantages of the OpenEmbedded framework for developing Linux-based products.
|Scott Garman
* How To Report A Bug
Bug reports drive Open Source, but too often it's a hostile experience. As a user, how do you report a bug without being treated like you're dumping a sack of crap on the developer's doorstep? As a developer, how do you encourage users to report bugs? This is not a tutorial, but an examination of the social aspects of bug reporting.
|Michael Schwern
* How to write quality software using the magic of tests
Writing quality software is a worthwhile challenge. Learn how to harness the magic of testing to create better software. This presentation will provide you with an overview of the different kinds of tests, show code using different testing tools, and help you decide when and how to apply these to your projects
|Igal Koshevoy
* Infrastructure as Code
Learn how to manage your infrastructure as source code - from provisioning to application deployment and everything in between.
|Adam Jacob
* Introduction to MongoDB
MongoDB is an open source, high-performance, schema-free, document-oriented database that is rapidly gaining in popularity among web developers. In this talk we'll introduce MongoDB and the features that make it great choice for your web applications.
|Michael Dirolf
* Introduction to PostgreSQL
Interested in using PostgreSQL for you next project, or migrating to it? This tutorial will go over the basics of PostgreSQL administration and database application design.
|Josh Berkus, Christophe Pettus
* Making Drupal Go Fast with Varnish and Pressflow
You've launched your new web site and it's starting to get some attention. You've tuned your database and optimized your HTTP daemon, but what if it's not enough to keep up with all the hits you're getting? We'd like to introduce you to your two new best friends: Varnish and Pressflow.
|Greg Lund-Chaix, Rudy Grigar
* Node.js and you
Node.js is one of the most exciting things to happen to server-side development in the last few years. Here you'll find out why Node.js is a perfect fit for your next project and a better fit than existing languages for modern web development.
|Mikeal Rogers
* Open Source Storage Solutions and Next Generation Linux File Systems
Unlike most areas of enterprise IT, open source solutions in the storage industry have remained in the background. In 2010 this situation is going to change dramatically with new open source storage solutions, next-generation Linux file systems, and emerging cloud offerings making significant inroads.
|Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy
* Puppet for Beginners
Puppet is a powerful configuration management tool that makes life easier for people managing systems and applications. This tutorial gives you an in-depth and hands-on introduction to Puppet that is ideal for beginners to Puppet and configuration management.
|Teyo Tyree
* Relational vs. Non-Relational
What kind of database do you need? Thanks to new database projects like CouchDB, TokyoCabinet, Solr and others, there are more non-relational database options available than ever for developers. Yet good information on how to choose what kind of database you need is still scarce. We'll cure that in this talk.
|Josh Berkus
* Release your hardware hacker potential with gEDA
Ever wanted to create your own printed circuit board? There are open source tools for that. This session will take you step-by-step through the process of creating a printed circuit board using the gEDA suite of electronic design automation tools. Beginners are welcome, no previous hardware experience required.
|Eric Thompson
* Sphinx - the ultimate tool for documenting your software project
Open source software projects can succeed or fail based on their documentation. Thanks to Sphinx, open source developers now have a "documentation framework" that provides convenient indexing and automatic syntax highlighting, integrates your documentation with your code, and can automatically generate a beautiful manual as a PDF document.
|Nate Aune
* Stacks of Cache
This talk focuses on adapting and augmenting interfaces to memcache in order to overcome some of its limitations and to better utilize available resources. Then we'll talk about combining those interfaces in a simple, snap-together fashion.
|Duncan Beevers
* State of MariaDB
MariaDB 5.1 is branch of MySQL 5.1 and is drop in replacement for MySQL 5.1 with additional features, speed enhancements and bug fixes.
|Michael Widenius
* The Open Geo Stack
Location and mapping are making a huge impact on the web and mobile. Open Source is right there. Learn the elements of the geo stack, from mapping APIs to geo databases.
|Adam DuVander
* The Return of Command-Line Kung Fu
A follow-on to last year's highly popular presentation, Hal Pomeranz returns with another super-size helping of command-line madness!
|Hal Pomeranz
* The symfony framework behind the scenes at museum installations
The symfony framework is a full-stack web framework for PHP. It's great for building websites, but you might be surprised where else it comes in handy. David Brewer shows how Second Story uses symfony to build custom content management and delivery systems powering interactive installations ranging from collections of Disney memorabilia to maps plotting every monument at Gettysburg.
|David Brewer
* Unlikely tools for pair programming
Co-conspirators Jamey Sharp and Josh Triplett get up to a lot of miscellaneous hacking mischief together. Much of this hacking occurs while staring at the same screen, and tag-teaming the keyboard. Sometimes this happens with the two of them in different places. We'll demo our favorite tools and invite audience contributions to the discussion.
|Jamey Sharp, Josh Triplett
* Using Modern Perl
Since 2001, Perl 5 has undergone a renaissance. Modern Perl programs are powerful, maintainable, and understandable. Come learn how to take advantage of perl circa 2010.
|Chromatic X
* XHP for PHP
XHP is a PHP extension which augments the syntax of the language such that XML document fragments become valid PHP expressions. It fits somewhere between a templating language and a programmatic UI library. XHP allows you to use PHP as a stricter templating engine and offers a very straightforward way of implementing reusable, extensible components.
|Bob Baldwin
* Your Internets are Leaking
Using your computer on a public network is like having a conversation on a city bus: people you don't know can hear everything you say. They'll probably be polite and ignore you, but you still might not want to shout out your credit card number. Yet this is what your computer does. All the time. And you don't know it.
|Reid Beels, Michael Schwern
* libcloud: a unified interface into the cloud
What is possible when you can consume servers on various hosting providers with nothing more than a python script? This talk will discuss libcloud, an Apache Incubator project dedicated to building standard interfaces into the cloud.
|Alex Polvi
* Being a Catalyst in Communities - The science behind the open source way
How does Red Hat have wild success with Fedora and other FLOSS projects? By following a method firmly rooted in humanism, practice, and science. Learn in this session how to be an effective catalyst in communities of users, contributors, and businesses.
|Karsten Wade
* Free Content for Good: Producing 30 Hour Day
30 Hour Day was the first web-based live streaming telethon of its kind, designed to raise money for local charities in Portland and beyond. In this presentation, I'll share my "eureka moment" when I realized that 30 Hour Day could be the lightening rod for smaller charities in local communities around the world to use our content to raise money and awareness. We'll also have a preview of the next 30 Hour Day (July 2nd & 3rd at Pioneer Courthouse Square) and how you can get involved!
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* Free Speech, Free Software Across the World
How does free software help defend free speech in repressive regimes? Danny O'Brien will draw from the records of the Committee to Protect Journalists to explore how open source can help those at the cutting edge of free expression.
|Danny O'Brien
* Geek Choir
This is exactly what it looks like: We're going to make you sing. ;)
|Michael Alan Brewer
* Give a Great Tech Talk
Why do so many technical presentations suck? Make sure that yours doesn't. Josh Berkus and Ian Dees will show you how to share your ideas with your audience by speaking effectively and (when the situation warrants it) showing your code.
|Josh Berkus, Ian Dees
* Hacking Space Exploration
From creating remote-sensing CubeSats to analyzing aerogel: how the public is hacking into open source space exploration.
|Ariel Waldman
* HyperCard 2010: Why Johnny Can't Code (and What We Can Do About It)
Thomas Jefferson envisioned a nation of self-sufficient citizen farmers; programmers like Alan Kay and Bill Atkinson tried to help us code as easily as we might hang a poster on the wall. What happened to the HyperCard ideal? Have we settled for consumption over creation? I will explore the question through a case study, surveying the state of citizen programming in 2010 — from CouchApps to Shoes to plain-jane HTML5+JS to HyperCard 2.4 — and try to convince all comers that realizing the dream of the citizen coder is vital to continuing the ideals of open source.
|Devin Chalmers
* Making Robots Accessible to Everyone
I've been looking for an affordable, flexible, easy to learn robotics platform for years that I could use to teach kids the basics of programming/electronics/robotics. Last Fall, I finally found it.
|Brett Nelson, Jim Larson
* Move Your Asana
This yoga session is of benefit to anyone who sits and works on computers a lot. Breathing exercises and physical postures that can be done anytime to help maintain a healthy body and clear mind will be taught. Suggestions will be included for how to modify stretches to protect injuries and provide gentle opening.
|Sherri Koehler
* Organizing user groups, a panel discussion
User groups are a vital part of the open source community. Learn more about how to start a group, keep it going, and make an existing group better from a panel of experienced user group organizers.
|Igal Koshevoy, Jesse Hallett, Eric Wilhelm, Christie Koehler, gabrielle roth, Audrey Eschright, Sam Keen
* The Rise of Hacker Spaces
Leigh will be discussing hacker spaces, and the culture of DIY spaces for making things around the world.
|Leigh Honeywell
* Transparent, Collaborative, Participatory - Grass Roots Implementation of the Open Government Directive
The Obama administration signed the Open Government Directive on its first day in office, promising to make government more collaborative, transparent and participatory. This panel will explore nongovernmental projects currently underway throughout the US and world that aim to forward this vision.
|Mark Frischmuth
* Open Source Rockets
PSAS is a student aerospace engineering project at Portland State University. We're building ultra-low-cost, open hardware and open source rockets that feature perhaps the most sophisticated amateur rocket avionics systems out there today.
|Nathan Bergey, Andrew Greenberg
* Building A Mesh Network Wireless Temperature Sensor
The problem: My HVAC system is not balanced. Easy but boring solution: Hire a qualified contractor to fix it. More interesting solution: Use knowledge from dusty undergrad degree in electronics to cobble together some simple wireless temperature sensors using XBee modules and distribute them around the house. Then use Java programming knowledge to build up a monitoring system using open source software. Attempt to use readings from temperature sensors to figure out what's going on and fix it. This presentation will delve into the hardware and software aspects of the system, although with more emphasis on the software and the role that packages such as Apache Felix and Apache Mina play in the system.
|Michael Pigg
* Copyright lawyers can Gödel
"This compression algorithm is of course very inefficient, at least when applied to a small collection of documents. But if you were to apply it to a larger collection, say, all the music ever recorded and all movies ever made, some gains may be realized...
|Markus Roberts
* CouchApp Evently Guided Hack with CouchDB
Learn to hack Evently jQuery CouchApps -- p2p web applications that can be deployed anywhere there's a CouchDB.
|J Chris Anderson
* Drizzle, Scaling MySQL for the Future
Current state of Drizzle.
|Brian Aker
* Fixing SSL security: Supplementing the certificate authority model
The most common way of using SSL/TLS encryption relies on a public-key infrastructure that puts near-absolute trust in a large number of entities around the world, any one of which could accidentally or deliberately empower anyone to impersonate any site or service and spy on all of our communications. We've seen that these certificate authorities can make mistakes. We need new mechanisms to meaningfully double-check that they're doing the right thing.
|Seth Schoen
* Housetruck: Building a Victorian RV
As a "software person," I found the hard technologies of building with steel and wood made for a very different creative and hacking process. At the same time, I discovered many parallels to software development, embedded hardware, and even open-source philosophies.
|John Labovitz
* JIT-Compiling Domain Specific Languages
During this talk, we will survey real-world implementations of JIT-compiled embedded DSLs and their applications.
|Jeremy Voorhis
* Lightning Talks
|Peter Fein
* Listening to Data - Sonification Using Open Source Tools
Hearing your data - exploratory data analysis by way of algorithmic composition
|M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
* Multicore Haskell Now!
Multicore computers are here: is your programming language ready?
|Don Stewart
* Non-visual location-based augmented reality using GPS data
Augmented Reality and Geolocation have been hot topics this year, but there has often been a confusion between aesthetics vs. practicality, and fantasy vs. reality. This presentation will highlight the advantages and disadvantages of visual and non-visual augmented reality. We'll tell stories from our experiences building location-aware social networks with custom proximity notification.
|Aaron Parecki, Amber Case
* OAuth: an Open Specification for Web Services
Curious about OAuth? Ever wondered why OAuth has steadily gained popularity among major API providers such as Google and Twitter? Ever wondered how OAuth helps streamline consuming data from other providers? Learn more about OAuth the specification and how to implement OAuth with PHP5. The session will cover the basics of OAuth, and follow up with an OAuth implementation using php.net/oauth.
|John Jawed
* Practical Facebook stalking with Open Source tools
Facebook are full of juicy information about your friends and strangers alike! Learn how to use some simple open source tools and techniques to learn more about them.
|Paul Fenwick
* Serialist: lazy web-crawling in Haskell
Serialist (http://serialist.net/) provides a way to find, track and read serialized content (e.g., web comics). It's implemented entirely in Haskell and demonstrates functional web application development, crawling, scraping and distributed architecture. Serialist uses interesting graph algorithms to add and step through content lazily.
|Jamey Sharp, Josh Triplett
* Speeding up your PHP Application
Is your Wordpress site too slow? What's this HipHop PHP thing? How do I write really fast PHP apps? Drop by to get the answers to these questions.
|Rasmus Lerdorf
* The $2 computer: ultraconstrained devices do your bidding
"Do you watch television? Is your furnace loud? Do you have $2?" My 7-year-old's marketing suggestions aside, building custom gadgets to improve your life is remarkably simple, and I'll prove it by building something on stage that you can duplicate at home.
|David Hollingsworth
* The Fine Line Between Creepy and Fun
Social software is kind of a big deal right now. In the open-source spirit of transparency and dissection, let's talk about what makes social technology creepy, what makes it fun, and how to hack things to maximize your desired outcome.
|Audrey Eschright
* When Everything Looks Like A Nail
Markus: Nautilus? I thought you said noodle house! Matt: Wait, wait, I think I see her head!! Markus: Are you sure? Matt: Maybe It's Not Her Head...
|Markus Roberts, Matt Youell
* X Marks the Spot: Applying OpenStreetMap to the High Seas
The United States has a treasure trove of nautical charts in digital form, including plots of shipwrecks, navigation buoys, coastal and river depths, and other fine booty. OpenStreetMap is an open source, open format collaborative project for building a free map of the world. Join this session to find out more of the marine secrets of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), OpenSeaMap's plans to extend OSM to the high seas, and splicing the two (and your mainbrace) together. We'll use the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL), OGR, Python, and the OSM API.
|Liz Henry, Danny O'Brien
* iizip: Hacking together your own Dropbox
Dropbox, the leader in online storage and synchronization, is good, but not good enough. Find out how you can hack together your own equivalent that's more flexible, secure and convenient.
|Ben Dechrau
* import rdma: Zero-copy networking with RDMA and Python
Every time your server sends or receives a packet, it copies it to (or from) a temporary kernel buffer. What an incredible waste of CPU and memory bandwidth! RDMA solves this, at a huge complexity cost. This talk will cover what happens when a dynamic language meets a direct-memory-placement protocol.
|Andy Grover