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The World of Tibetan Buddhism (Paperback) - Introduction
Brothers and sisters, I am very happy to be here and to meet people who are taking a keen interest in the Buddhadharma. I can see many familiar faces in the audience and am very glad to have this opportunity to spend some time with you once more.
During the next three days, I will be speaking on Buddhist thought and practice according to the Tibetan tradition. My talks here will follow two main themes. As to the first [Parts 1 and 3], I will be giving a general introduction to the Buddhist path, a broad outline of the theories and practices of Tibetan Buddhism. I usually explain that the Buddhism of Tibet is perhaps the most complete form of Buddhism. It includes all the essential teachings of the various traditions of Buddhism that exist in different parts of the world today. Since many of you have received a number of tantric initiations and teachings, I think an overview of Tibetan Buddhism for the purpose of providing a comprehensive framework of the Buddhist path may prove helpful in deepening your understanding and practice of Dharma.
The second theme [Part 2] concerns the altruistic attitude that characterizes a bodhisattva. In drawing from Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra (Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life), I will offer some comments on important sections of the text, concentrating mainly on the practices of love, kindness, and compassion. Intimately related to these practices are the issues of how to cultivate tolerance as well as the appropriate attitudes one should adopt towards one's enemy.
During these first three days, instead of being the Dalai Lama or Bhikṣu Tenzin Gyatso, I am Professor Tenzin Gyatso. On the fourth day, however, there will be a Green Tārā initiation, and on that day I will become Guru Bhikṣu Tenzin Gyatso!
As I mentioned earlier, a number of us here already know each other. Since our last meeting, many of us have led very busy lives. Whether we are doing something good and worthwhile with our lives or not, time never waits but keeps flowing. Not only does time flow unhindered, but correspondingly our life too keeps moving onward all the time. If something has gone wrong, we cannot turn back time and try again. In that sense, there is no genuine second chance. Hence, it is crucial for a spiritual practitioner constantly to examine his or her attitudes and actions. If we examine ourselves every day with mindfulness and mental alertness, checking our thoughts, motivations, and their manifestations in external behavior, a possibility for change and self-improvement can open within us. Although I myself cannot claim with confidence to have made any remarkable progress over the years, my desire and determination to change and improve is always firm. From early morning until I go to bed and in all situations of life, I always try to check my motivation and be mindful and present in the moment. Personally, I find this to be very helpful in my own life.
Over the three days we spend together, I shall be discussing various methods that we can employ as tools to examine ourselves, enabling us to embark upon a path of self-discovery and development. Taking your own body and mind as the laboratory, see if you can use these different techniques: that is to say, engage in some thorough-going research on your own mental functioning, and examine the possibility of making some positive changes within yourself. This is how a practicing Buddhist should perceive all the essential elements of the Buddha's teaching. There are also people here who, although not considering themselves practicing Buddhists, have a genuine desire to learn more about Buddhism in general, and the Buddhism of Tibet in particular.
This also includes those who, while practicing their own religion, take a keen interest in other spiritual traditions. I am certain that they can find within the Buddhist teachings various common concerns, such as meditation or contemplation on love and compassion, that can be incorporated into their own tradition and practice. Hence, such an ecumenical pursuit has great potential for benefit. Finally, there might be some people here who do not have any particularly strong feeling for spirituality but have come with honest curiosity and openness. These people can just sit and listen to my talks as one listens to a lecture. If, in the course of listening, you find something interesting, you can pay closer attention. Similarly, if there is nothing of much interest and value, you can take the session as a time for rest. However, if you do use it as rest time, please do so discreetly. Especially if you happen to doze off, do not start snoring, for you might disturb your neighbors!
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Nick of Time
By Tim Downs
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On 10/1 Terri Haynes wrote: ometimes a get a stroke of genius. I would like to think that my idea to read four books in the Bug Man series at once was a sign of my genius. Unfortunately, I think it was just a matter of timing. I received a copy of Nick of Time for review and realized that I hadn't read the three books in the ... Tea and Read: Nick of Time
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On 5/23 SJ wrote: Nick Polchak isn't so much a confirmed bachelor, then one who has been confirmed by his friends that it would take a miracle for him to get married. You see he's a little peculiar; he doesn't really like humans as much as he likes bugs. As a forensic entomologist, he is more comfortable watching ... great book
On 3/17 beechaplin wrote: Nick Polchak, a forensic entomologist ("Bug Man") just about to get married decides to travel to a meeting of all the big forensic minds in the US to meet up with a friend. After being stood up at the meeting, Nick, tries to track down his friend: at his house he sees blowflies through the window - meaning ... Booksneeze review: Nick of Time
On 3/13 Melanie Hammontree wrote: If you have read the other books in the series the book Nick of Time by Tim Downs is a great read. I received the book through book sneeze and ended up purchasing the first five in the series and reading them first. I don't like reading a book mid series. I can happily say that I am glad I did it that ... Nick of Time
On 2/1 Alicia wrote: Anyone with a mild interest in any of the forensic tv shows on today will enjoy this book immensely. The science is fascinating! Not only that, the characters are quirky enough that we care about them. They make us want to know more about them, and they provide a lightheartedness against the backdrop ... Nick of Time by Tim Downs
On 12/28 Joe wrote: From the back cover:"The Bug Man is getting married on Saturday...if his fiancee can find him."Forensic entomologist Nick Polchak lives in a world of maggots and blow flies and decomposing bodies. No wonder he's still single."But Nick has finally found a woman as strange as he is--dog trainer Alena Savard, ... Nick of Time by Tim Downs
On 11/30 Bluestocking wrote: Nick Polchak is a forensic entomologist. Basically it means that he can tell all of this very interesting stuff about a corpse based upon the types of maggots and flies that he finds on a decomposing body. This skill is very useful when determining time of death. Nick is a strange man; like many brilliant ... Nick of Time
On 11/23 Sminu Jasdip wrote: Tim Downs is the author of the Bugman series of novels. Nick Polchak is the bugman here - a forensic entomologist who specializes in crime-scene bugs. In 'Nick of Time', Nick will be married soon but is unsure of whether he wants to be married at all. He runs off days before ... Booksneeze book review - Nick of Time by Tim Downs
On 11/14 Iola's Christian Reads wrote: My husband doesn't like me reading Bug Man novels, because I have a tendency to laugh at the outlandish things Nick Polchak says, in much the same way as I laugh at Sheldon or Raj off The Big Bang Theory on TV. Nick is a combination of the two characters in that he is extremely intelligent, has a rare ... Nick is back - and getting married...


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Incomprehensibly Small and Incomprehensibly Large
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I usually begin with a story about lying on a cot looking up at the stars on a dark night in the mountains, seeing countless stars and the hazy Milky Way stretching across the sky. I talk about how they seem to be part of a celestial dome rising very high above me, and I note that I do not have any way to know, as I am looking at the stars above me, how far they are away from me. I talk about how ancient people used and envisioned the stars. I mention the experiment with the Hubble Space Telescope in which the "darkest" and most empty part of space was imaged, and found to contain countless distant galaxies (search on "Hubble deep field" or go to http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/science/hdf/hdf.html).
I mention that this often leads people to consider how insignificant they are in the scheme of things. My feeling is that you are only as significant (or insignificant) as your actions make you.
I then talk a bit about how we now know that "visible" matter is organized into atoms, which are very, very small. In a way, they are like the stars in that they seem to be incomprehensibly small, while stars seem to be incomprehensibly large and distant. I then pose the question, "How does the part of this world that we observe and experience on a daily basis fit into a physical reality that spans from the incomprehensibly small to the incomprehensibly large?"
I pass-out the blank worksheet "Comparison of Lengths Relevant to Our Universe" to every student, and have them organize into groups of 2-3. The task is to fill-in the exponents corresponding to 9 distances listed in a box on the page, and to locate those distances on the logarithmic scale. I give them a couple of minutes to start working with the page, and then interrupt to ask what they need help with. This usually involves determining one of the lengths involving light years on the board. I let them complete the tasks in their small groups, then I ask group representatives to call-out their results.
Working from a set of correct answers, we then discuss the scale. For example, we note that there is a greater difference (in orders of magnitude) between the size of a proton or electron versus the size of a hydrogen atom, and the height of a person and the peak elevation of Mt. Everest. It is usually noted that humans fall near the middle of the length spectrum of the universe, which was also noted by Primack and Abrams (2006). Some students place great importance on this. I tend to note that there is a practical limitation to the size of individual cells that will have predictable functions (they need to be larger than the length scale governed by quantum mechanics) and constraints on the upper size limit of organisms made of cells, which determines where we are on the scale.
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Robert B. Laughlin, 2005, A different universe, reinventing physics from the bottom down: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Basic Books, 254 p., ISBN 0-465-03828-X
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Hence great enthusiasm for these highly fascinating plants and an increasing desire for the bizarre creations developed. The growing and collection of cacti experienced an unprecedented rise in Germany.
The curator of the Botanical Garden in Berlin-Dahlem, at the time Professor Dr. Karl Schumann, then realized the trend and the expanding interest in cacti. In consequence he founded the cactus society. Nobody would have anticipated that this society was to become such a large community of cacti fanciers as the Deutsche Kakteen-Gesellschaft e.V. (DKG) represents today.
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When a player tells you to go .. one way or another....
#1 Posted 03 February 2017 - 01:06 PM
#2 Posted 03 February 2017 - 01:12 PM
#3 Posted 03 February 2017 - 01:27 PM
Not sure what you mean.
If a fast tank suggests going somewhere far away, and I'm a slow newbie, or really slow TD what should I be doing ? Following like a Lemming - or be slated as a Noob ?
#4 Posted 03 February 2017 - 01:38 PM
P.S. Given that I've only started playing this game since November 2016, I am the ubiquitious "Novice" here... and am keen to learn from anyone who has time to teach, rather than from those who like to vent their frustration against players who they deem inferior to themselves...
In future, assuming I can make it there.. once I've learnt the ropes, I'd gladly teach others, and ask them to join up and play as a cohesive team to play for real $. That'd be a good goal to aim for.
But that is a distraction from my question about which way to go... and how to know whether the person making the Call, is doing so, based upon information they have (insider), or if its something that can be learnt.
#5 Posted 03 February 2017 - 01:59 PM
#6 Posted 03 February 2017 - 02:03 PM
Creighton_Abrams, on 03 February 2017 - 08:06 PM, said:
Assuming you're in a medium, if your team is heavy-laden, follow the heavies, let them push, and cover their flanks
If your team is mostly meds or with some LTs, wolfpacking is generally the way to go.
Also in maps like Rockfield which is limited to certain shooting lanes and are mostly gauntlets, do not risk a head on engagement if you think you cannot generate more firepower and do not have the armor to withstand the battering from the opposing team. In open maps like Dead Rail or Desert Sands, you could afford to flank around and thus leverage your mobility advantage even better.
As for knowing where to go on a map on a certain tank, that's all experience you have to earn. Build your gut instinct by knowing your tank, the usual patterns of where certain tanks deploy on a map, whether your tank can do the same, etc. Also being aware on certain quirks of the map, shortcuts you can use to intercept your target, knowledge on where and when someone will be exposed to fire, etc. Once you get comfortable with your gut instinct, then you can start trying to visualize what will happen if you push with a certain tank down a flank in a map, all the potential firing positions, what is the most likely tanks you will face, etc.
Once in a while, though, you can and will be wrong. No getting around it.
"Fight to fly, fly to fight, FIGHT TO WIN!" - U.S Navy Fighter Weapons School TOPGUN.
"Nothing is right in tactics. A good fighter pilot must be free to propose improvements to his tactics or he will get himself killed." - Cmdr. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, USN.
"To be a good fighter pilot, there's only one prime requisite; Think Fast, and Act Faster" - John Trevor Godfrey, 336 Sqn RAF
#7 Posted 03 February 2017 - 02:12 PM
#8 Posted 03 February 2017 - 02:56 PM
Creighton_Abrams, on 04 February 2017 - 12:12 AM, said:
People will vary on this but I second the advice above that the fighting in Himmelsdorf is generally in the train yard, so expect most of your team to go that side and join them if they do - you don't want to be going alone on the other side unless your gut tells you it will be alright (and then, as Diamond says, you will still get it wrong sometimes). Also that Oasis Palms is most often contested in the dunes.
In my opinion, going to the middle in Canal at the start of the battle is a bad idea, but still at least a few guys will go there, to be sniped to pieces. I hardly ever see anyone go to the middle and be successful. If most of my team goes the rail line side, we invariably win the battle. So much so that I typically call for them to go that side, no matter what tank I'm in. If their team is there, you want to have the numbers. If their team goes centre, you get to snipe them from cover. If their team went around the other side, you can wait for them and take your time advancing and picking them off if they cap.
Mostly though, if playing in tiers up to at least 5 and someone calls for a side and most of your team follows, that's usually enough reason to go, even if it seems to be the wrong choice. There is strength in numbers, even if it is actually a bad call. Unless you think you can contribute by not following, perhaps by holding up the enemy or flanking them if you feel that they will mostly all go the other side, its best to stay closer to them.
Edited by Gandalf_Stormcrow, 03 February 2017 - 03:04 PM.
"It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish."
#9 Posted 03 February 2017 - 03:08 PM
#10 Posted 04 February 2017 - 04:19 AM
Creighton_Abrams, on 03 February 2017 - 11:06 PM, said:
Use common sense, go where the majority of your team players go
#11 Posted 04 February 2017 - 05:36 AM
_devXpert, on 04 February 2017 - 04:19 AM, said:
Use common sense, go where the majority of your team players go
As he said, there are varying results. Sometimes if you go alone, you might be able to flank the enemy team and thus take them apart from both fronts. Once in Yamato Harbour, I was in JPll and went with a Panther ll to the shipyard side of the map, while the other 5 went to the hills and encountered the entire enemy team. Me and the Panther ll went behind the enemy team and began dealing loads of dmg, taking them apart. Sometimes if you have a good idea where the enemies are going to go it might be better to go from the other side to either attack from the back or flank.
#12 Posted 04 February 2017 - 06:08 AM
Creighton_Abrams, on 03 February 2017 - 09:12 PM, said:
Starting from the last note; in Himmelsdorf meds and lights tend to spawn in the railway section, heavy tanks and TDs spawn in the town. Vineyards, meds and lights spawn on the right, heavies most often facing town on the left. Middleburg, same deal; meds and lights spawn on the hill, heavies spawn on the town edge.
On the second note, taking Middleburg again as example, if you find your team has more medium or light tank, then usually it's rushing up the hill and knock the opposing team's meds and lights. Otherwise if your team has more heavies/TDs, then usually the meds should come down and cover the heavies and TDs pushing the town because going up the hill with inferior numbers usually amounts to suicide unless the opposing team decides to form a lemming train and aren't watching their backs doing so. On Port Bay the meds and lights usually go to the open area (C Flag in Supremacy) with the heavies and TDs in tow, but sometimes when there are more heavies and TDs in my team I usually tell the team to go town together; while the C Flag area is elevated, the buildings in the port and town area usually are tall enough as cover as long as the team doesn't over expose themselves.
In town brawls, often it is which team can support each other better. If you can keep your heavies and TDs backs clear, they can help you out against the opposing team's heavies. Just kill the fast movers first especially if they're overly aggressive and isolated themselves going after your heavies.
On some maps like Rockfield etc. with long shooting lanes sometimes it also depends on which team can shoot straighter.
"Fight to fly, fly to fight, FIGHT TO WIN!" - U.S Navy Fighter Weapons School TOPGUN.
"Nothing is right in tactics. A good fighter pilot must be free to propose improvements to his tactics or he will get himself killed." - Cmdr. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, USN.
"To be a good fighter pilot, there's only one prime requisite; Think Fast, and Act Faster" - John Trevor Godfrey, 336 Sqn RAF
#13 Posted 06 February 2017 - 06:37 AM
#14 Posted 06 February 2017 - 07:24 AM
Then listen to players with those tags.
E.g. Oxo, Ghq, storm, ID, Rasa - all players will be of a good standard.
occasionally you get a good clanless player. But be suspicious of confident calls otherwise from no-clan players.
If anyone calls capture on copper field at start, they are dreaming. Same for Himmelsburg.
Base risky on winter melanoma. And rockfield.
Base is an option for canal if team covers. Or middleturd.
Capture is better on some maps late in battle if the alternative is chasing a lone survivor in a speedy light tank.
#15 Posted 19 June 2017 - 01:16 PM
#16 Posted 21 June 2017 - 01:03 PM
OP, you are a very peculiar player. We were in the same game about an hour ago. You drove a Cromwell, yoloing in the enemy territory with no purpose, then you just stopped in front of two heavies and a TD (i.e. Me) and firing one or two shots , and finally you are back to garage, all in about 20 seconds.....I guess half the team have shot you, idk, even my stock Stug driven by 75% crew managed to shot you.... weird, just weird...
#17 Posted 21 June 2017 - 01:06 PM
No such thing as a "team lead" in random battles.
Just stay with the bulk of your team.
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I was really fortunate, truly blessed, I had angels all around me. I had some key people at the right time, who did the right things, and they reached across to help me. It made all the difference. —Sam Bracken
"My beloved brothers and sisters, I testify of angels, both the heavenly and the mortal kind. In doing so I am testifying that God never leaves us alone, never leaves us unaided in the challenges that we face." — Elder Jeffrey R. Holland (October 2008 general conference)
Sam Bracken's childhood was one of unspeakable abuse and neglect.
By the time he was a teenager, Bracken had been beaten, starved, set on fire, molested, and exposed to all kinds of drugs and alcohol. At age 15, his mother kicked him out on the street and took up with a motorcycle gang.
Despite the hopelessness, the Lord did not abandon this troubled youth.
Thanks to a long list of loving friends, generous strangers, teachers and coaches — Bracken's "angels" — he found the LDS Church, earned a college football scholarship, served a mission and was eventually married in the temple. Today the father of four is a successful businessman and philanthropist. He is a speaker and author. He seeks out opportunities to mentor at-risk youths.
"I was really fortunate, truly blessed, I had angels all around me. I had some key people at the right time, who did the right things, and they reached across to help me," Bracken said. "It made all the difference."
Lost childhood
Conceived when his mother was raped, Sam grew up in Las Vegas in the 1970s. His dark childhood was scarred by poverty and a series of bad decisions by his mother.
When Sam was 7, his mother married Leroy Bracken. She worked three jobs, was rarely home and took pills to stay awake. According to Bracken, his stepfather watched TV in underwear, consumed alcohol and abused Bracken and his siblings. Lenny, a stepbrother who once poured lighter fluid on Sam's arm and laughed as he flicked a lighter, introduced him to marijuana and beer, Bracken says.
Big for his age at 13, Bracken passed as an adult at the casino where his mother worked. He was allowed to gamble, drink and meet women. He also befriended a kid whose father was a mobster.
At age 15, Bracken's mother moved in with a Hessian motorcycle gang and abandoned him, saying, "Someday you will thank me for this."
And that's only a sampling of his horrific childhood. Bracken details all the atrocities of his youth in his book. (More on the book later.)
Amid the despair, at least three blessings emerged.
At age 14, one of his teachers figured out he needed glasses, not special education courses, to succeed in school. His grades went from Cs, Ds and Fs to As.
Bracken also discovered he was gifted athletically. He started running track and playing football.
After his mother abandoned him, he went for a long run in the desert and collapsed in the dirt. At that low point of his young life, Bracken said a desperate prayer for God to help him.
"I had no place to go; I was at a loss. Then I get this impression to call my friend, Brent," Bracken said. "He was a Mormon."
A new course
Bracken's prayer was answered when Brent's family took him in for a time. He excelled in a "normal" family environment. A few coaches and teachers who were aware of his situation went the extra mile in helping him. Bracken raised his GPA to 3.9 and stood out in football and track. He also began investigating The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As he met with the missionaries and read the Book of Mormon, he gained a strong testimony of the gospel, but had to wait until his senior year for permission to be baptized.
As he continued to find success in high school football, many schools recruited Bracken. He was most thrilled with an offer from BYU and accepted it. But right before graduation, BYU withdrew its offer. Bracken was disappointed, but still had other possibilities. That summer, however, he injured his knee playing in an all-star game.
Just when he feared his career was over, Bracken's doctor, Andrew Welch, told him his knee would be fine. Welch had heard his patient was a good student and considering UNLV. The doctor believed there were greater opportunities out there and offered to help Bracken send letters and film to programs around the country.
"He asked why I was going to UNLV. I said I don't have a choice. He said, 'Son, you always have a choice,'" Bracken said. "It changed the trajectory of my life."
Several rejection letters came back before the day the phone rang. The call led Bracken to Atlanta where he accepted a scholarship from Georgia Tech coach Bill Curry.
Georgia Tech
Several people influenced Bracken's life during his days with the "Ramblin' Wreck" at Georgia Tech in the early 1980s.
One such individual was coach Curry.
First, the coach learned of Bracken's background and recognized his need for psychotherapy.
"He helped me rid myself of baggage so I could move forward," Bracken said. "It made a big difference."
Bracken made the dean's list and lettered as a freshman. He was slated to start as a sophomore and the future looked bright. The following spring, however, he suffered serious damage to both shoulders. Once again, his career seemed over and he spiraled into depression and self-pity.
A defining moment came one day when he was sitting on a Florida beach with some teammates. A flock of seagulls flew over him and unloaded a mess of smelly bombs. As his teammates rolled with laughter, Bracken began to see the humor, too.
"I recognized a great truth," he wrote. "Life is not fair, but nothing good comes from sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The course of my journey depends on the choices I make."
Bracken resolved to make a comeback. In addition to intense physical therapy, he turned to coach Curry for advice. The coach suggested Bracken make a binder with four tabs and label them "spiritual," "mental," "physical" and "emotional." Bracken was to evaluate and write about each section of his life, then make goals and a plan for how to reach them. The exercise proved to be just what Bracken needed. He also came away with a profound respect for Curry.
"The notebook changed everything," Bracken said.
Bracken returned to the gridiron with greater strength and confidence. He moved to the offensive line and earned a starting position. In 1985, he helped his team to a record of 9-2-1, a national ranking and a victory over Michigan State in the All-American Bowl.
Like family
One of the first people Bracken met when he arrived in Atlanta was Don Conkey. The men crossed paths at an LDS chapel where Conkey was a member of the bishopric. It was Conkey's habit to invite new visitors to his house for a meal, and he persuaded Bracken join him for breakfast. As they ate, Bracken told Conkey his story. Conkey, also a convert, listened to Bracken's unbelievable tale and felt prompted to offer the young man a home.
"I don't know why I did it," the 84-year-old said in a telephone interview from Atlanta. "I was impressed to do it, I did it and it changed both of our lives."
When Bracken wasn't staying at the dorms or needed to get away, he was welcome at the Conkey home. He earned his keep by helping Conkey with chores around the house. In time, Bracken became regarded as family. The Conkeys also assisted Bracken in his effort to remain active in the church.
"Had they not been there, it would have been easy to go back into other behaviors; I probably wouldn't have gone on a mission. They loved me and held me accountable. I had to report to Don and I didn't want to let him down," Bracken said. "My testimony grew over those years and when I went on a mission, I was ready. They made all the difference."
Preparing to serve
Bracken earned all-conference honors following his junior and senior years. He went undrafted, but received invitations to a few NFL training camps. He toyed with the idea of the NFL, but two meaningful experiences prepared him to pursue something else — a mission.
The first episode came when he was asked to briefly share his testimony and talk about his relationship with the Lord at the Fellowship of Christian Athletes breakfast prior to the All-American Bowl. There were thousands in attendance. He had spoken at firesides before, but never to a non-LDS audience.
"I felt weak all over. I don't remember what exactly I said," Bracken wrote of the experience in a March 1988 New Era article. "I told them about the Savior and how he'd taken upon himself the sins of mankind. I was doing pretty well emotionally until I started talking about my teammates. Then I started to cry because I loved them. I closed in the sacred name of the Savior."
There was a favorable response and people appreciated how he had presented his spiritual message. As a result, Bracken was later invited to speak at several different Christian churches and faiths in the Atlanta area.
The second experience started with an idea that came to Bracken during sacrament meeting. He wanted to give copies of the Book of Mormon to his coaches, teammates and friends. He fasted, prayed and eventually created a list with several hundred names, including Curry, teammates, the athletic director, professors, the president of Georgia Tech and several others. With the financial support of the Conkeys, each book cover was embossed with the recipient's name in gold. Inside, he posted two pictures — one of him in his football uniform, and one of him in a suit and tie. Next to the photos he wrote his testimony. One line read: "One can experience many victories in life, but no other experience can compare with the victories that come from obedience to the gospel of Jesus Christ."
The Conkeys hosted a party for Bracken at the end of his senior year and that's when he passed out the copies of the Book of Mormon. Of the hundreds he gave away, only one person declined.
"They were all very appreciative," Bracken said in the New Era article. "It was unbelievable to see the receptiveness of these people. I knew the Holy Ghost was helping me."
Mission miracles
Conkey knew Bracken didn't have any money, but he found a way around that. As the church's public affairs specialist in Atlanta, he was acquainted with prominent Mormons in the Southeast. He talked with Atlanta Braves' star Dale Murphy and Gerald Day, the dean of Tech's college of management and the future president of Snow College. They would work together to pay for Bracken's mission.
Bracken was called to serve in Toronto, Canada.
Before he left, he flew to Idaho to visit his mother, who was staying with relatives while she recovered from serious injuries sustained in a car accident. His aunt was very critical of Bracken for turning down the NFL and job options to serve a mission while his mother was in poor shape. He almost changed his mind about serving until his mother gave him her blessing.
"It was the strangest thing," Bracken said. "She said, 'No, you have to do this. This is something God wants you to do.'"
As they said farewell at the train station in Boise, Bracken felt impressed to promise his "very hardened, Hell's Angels biker-chick" mother that before he finished his mission, she would gain a testimony of the gospel and get baptized.
"I got on the train with tears in my eyes and thought, 'What in the world have I done? Am I a lunatic?'" Bracken said.
Over the course of his mission, Bracken communicated with his mother and sent requests to the church headquarters for missionaries to visit her in McCall, Idaho. After almost a year, he could tell she had not been taught, so he penned a candid, strongly worded plea to Salt Lake for someone to visit her.
The letter worked. An older couple found the humble home, and Bracken's mother responded positively to their friendship and gospel message. As Elder Bracken concluded his mission, he received special permission to fly to Idaho and baptize his mother before returning to Atlanta for his release.
"As I stood in the waters of baptism, performing that ordinance for my mother, who had made about as many mistakes as you can make in life, for her to come out of that water clean and pure, following Christ, was one of the most sacred, beautiful moments of my life," Bracken said. "She was the most unlikely Mormon you would ever imagine."
Bracken's mother eventually received her temple blessings and was faithful until she died in 2004.
Bracken was blessed to teach and baptize many converts in Canada, but it was also where he met his wife, Kim. Following his mission, they stayed in touch as she served a French-speaking mission in Montreal. After her mission, they dated and were married in the Washington D.C. Temple.
Reaching out
Today, Bracken is the global director of FranklinCovey Media Publishing. He and his family live in Kaysville. His oldest son, Beau, is serving a mission in Chile. "I'm pretty blessed in my life," he said.
With the help of co-author Echo Garrett, Bracken self-published his book, "My Orange Duffel Bag: A Journey to Radical Change," in 2010. The title stems from when Bracken moved to Atlanta and all his possessions fit into one small orange duffel bag. In addition to sharing his story, Bracken shares his "7 Rules for the Road," designed to help readers set goals and gauge their own progress.
The book sold about 12,000 units and won several awards before Crown Publishing picked it up.
Additionally, Bracken and Garrett co-founded "The Orange Duffel Bag Foundation," a nonprofit organization that provides professional coaching, training and ongoing mentoring for at-risk youths ages 12-24, as well as support for their guardians and caring adults. The program, with his principles and goals, has already started to change lives, Bracken said, with more down the road.
"I was a dope-smoking, little hippie kid in Vegas that grew up on the fringes of the mob and motorcycle gang members. There was no way a Utah family would have approved their kids playing with me. To help a kid (like that) is messy, risky and hard. It's not neat and tidy," Bracken said. "But if you can do nothing more than just help one person transition to a productive, positive life, it could change the whole trajectory and landscape of their life. It is so worth it. It made all the difference for me."
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Regional media reports over the weekend indicated that Israel is set to accept US Secretary of State John Kerry's framework proposal for reaching a final status peace agreement, while the Palestinians are looking to stall or outright reject the plan.
Israel's Channel 2 News reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman are all prepared to sign off on a non-binding version of the proposals, which, among other things, recommends:
Israel's Ma'ariv newspaper last week quoted senior Palestinian Authority official Yasser Abed Rabbo as rejecting the American proposal as "Israeli ideas."
Like his boss, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, Rabbo has made the "right of return" for millions of Palestinians to Israel a non-negotiable point in the peace process.
On the related point of recognizing Israel as a "Jewish state," chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told his audience at a conference in Munich last week that he could never agree to such a condition, as doing so amounted to "asking him to change his narrative."
Erekat went on to claim that his ancestors had lived in the region for "5,500 years before [biblical leader of Israel] Joshua Ben-Nun came and burned my hometown Jericho." Of course, such a claim means that Erekat and his Palestinian Authority colleagues are either liars, or are in possession of time-travel technology.
You see, the Palestinians claim to be Arabs. They also rightly claim that the Arabs are descendants of Abraham through his son Ishmael. And, as any casual student of history knows, Jericho was around long before the time of Abraham, meaning that the patriarch's offspring couldn't possibly have been around for the founding of the "oldest city on earth."
Meanwhile, Abbas' envoy to Iran, Jibril Rajoub, avoided such flights of fancy, and went straight to making threats. "If the talks fail, armed struggle against [Israel] could be a strategic solution for the Palestinian people," Rajoub was quoted as telling Iranian media, emphasizing that Palestinians "never abandoned the solution of an armed uprising."
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Whenever populations die out and species become extinct, the most serious consequence is the loss of the ecosystem services the creatures formerly helped provide ... but that's far from being the only serious repercussion of extinction. Few people, for instance, are aware of the enormous direct economic (and other) benefits Homo sapiens derives from its living companions on this global spaceship, and even fewer realize that the potential benefits are greater still! This range of direct and indirect, known and unknown benefits underline the importance of preserving biodiversity.
Medicinal Plants
Many examples of the direct "pluses" that Earth's flora and fauna provide us with can be found in the field of medicine. In 1955, Paul's father died after a grim, 13-year battle with Hodgkin's disease, a leukemia-like disorder. Just after his death, Canadian scientists discovered that an extract of the leaves of a periwinkle plant from Madagascar caused a decrease in the white blood cell count of rats. When chemists at Eli Lilly & Co. analyzed the periwinkle's leaves, they discovered a large number of alkaloids—poisonous compounds evolved by the plant to fend off predators and parasites.
Two of the alkaloids, vincristine and vinblastine, have since proved effective in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease. Indeed, with radiation combined with these and other drugs, it's now usually possible to control—or even cure—this kind of cancer. Thus a chemical that was later found in a plant species could have greatly prolonged Bill Ehrlich's life ... and it's now available to aid the 5,000 to 6,000 people, in the U.S. alone, who contract this disease each year.
As one measure of the economic value of the discovery, the world sales of vincristine, in 1979, totaled $35 million. (The drug is also used to fight a variety of other cancers, including several that afflict children and one form of leukemia.) Had the periwinkle become extinct before the 1950's, of course, humankind would have suffered a great loss ... although no one would even have realized it.
Furthermore, vincristine is just one example of the contributions made by plants to human health. There is evidence that Neanderthal people made medicinal use of plants, and many "folk" or "herbal" remedies derived from them are based not on superstition, but on the truly efficacious chemicals that plants contain.
This fact will come as no surprise, however, to folks who remember that the Peruvian Indians long cured malaria with an extract of the bark of Cinchona trees, which are members of the coffee family. The substance's active ingredient, quinine, became the main drug used against the disease—worldwide—for a century. And even the antimalarial drugs now in use have molecules whose design was inspired by the chemical structure of quinine.
Plants aid human beings—especially those in industrial countries—in the battle against another major group of killers, too: the diseases of the heart and circulatory system. Reserpine, from Rauwolfia (a group of plants related to the periwinkle), is widely used in the control of high blood pressure. Digitalis (foxglove), a member of the snapdragon family, is the source of a key medicine used in the treatment of chronic heart failure. (It stimulates the heart to pump blood more effectively with a smaller expenditure of energy.)
Entire books have been written on the plant products human beings use as medicines, and the examples given here barely hint at the many anticancer drugs, painkillers, diuretics, dysentery treatments, antiparasite compounds, dentifrices, ulcer cures, laxatives, and so on that Homo sapiens has obtained from plants alone. In fact, chemicals from flora are major—or sole—ingredients in about a quarter of all the prescriptions written annually in the United States.
Tiny Miracle-Workers
Perhaps even more dramatic are the contributions of the lower plants and bacteria that have provided humanity with antibiotics. (Antibiotics also have been found in higher plants, and these may become an important future source of medicine, but none is used medicinally yet.)
The impact on human health of this medical breakthrough can hardly be appreciated by anyone born since World War II, but the fears that—before that time—were associated with a wide variety of injuries and diseases have largely disappeared. War wounds and surgical operations were much less likely to kill after antibiotics became available for infection control. Scourges such as bubonic plague, tuberculosis, epidemic typhus, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, bacterial pneumonia, syphilis, and gonorrhea—the whole spectrum of diseases caused by bacteria—could, with the discovery of these "miracle" medicines, be treated more effectively.
It's astonishing that—in spite of all the already known benefits—systematic investigations of the medical usefulness of plant species have barely begun. For example, conservationist Norman Myers estimates that only about 2% of our world's quarter-million species (approximately) of flowering plants have even been tested for alkaloids, and no single plant species has yet been thoroughly screened for all of its possible beneficial effects.
If humanity is ever to take advantage of the potential medical bonanza available in plants and micro-organisms, heroic efforts must be made to maintain their diversity. Even a species studied thoroughly today and declared medically "useless" should be preserved against the possibility that future generations will disagree with us about that lack of value. After all, Penicillium notatum—-the source of penicillin—would have been "useless" at the time of the American Civil War, because the role of germs in causing disease was not then understood. Therefore, when the species-rich tropical rain forests are destroyed, both we and our descendants stand to lose many untapped treasures forever.
Animal Surrogates
The medical gifts that society has received from nature are by no means restricted to plant chemicals. Substances of animal origin have medical uses, as well. For example, cytarabine—derived from a sponge—is valuable in the treatment of leukemia, and the venom of a Malayan pit viper (a relative of the rattlesnake) is commonly employed as an anticoagulant to prevent the formation of blood clots, which—among other things—can cause heart attacks.
The major contribution of many species of animals, however, has been their availability as tools for experimentation. Rats, mice, rhesus monkeys, and chimpanzees (among others) have been used in very large numbers as surrogates for human beings in a variety of medical experiments and for the evaluations of numerous suspected toxins and cancer-causing agents. It's less well known that exotic species of wild animals—such as elephants, armadillos, and cottontop marmosets—often play similar roles.
It is, of course, impossible to predict the animal species that hold the greatest potential for rendering medical aid to humanity. The promise of beneficial drugs from immobile marine animals, which—like plants—have evolved complicated chemical defenses, seems enormous. But there's simply no way to know which animals will be in demand in future laboratories. Again, the only sensible strategy is to prevent extinctions wherever possible.
Future Food Sources
The most important role of other species in supporting humanity is as sources of food. Yet this area hasn't been examined any more thoroughly than has that of medical potential. For example, only about 3,000 kinds of plants (about one percent of the total number of higher plant species) have ever been utilized by people for food, and—of those—only a paltry 150 or so have been grown commercially to any extent.
This does not mean, however, that many of the currently unexploited species couldn't provide badly needed nourishment. Wheat, for instance, doesn't grow well in the tropics, partly because the fungus that causes wheat rust thrives in warm, humid climates and thus excludes one of the three great cereal crops from some of the hungriest parts of the world. But in those same regions, there are many potential crops of known value and numerous other plants that might help to feed humanity, but whose potential for development remains untested.
As a single example, there's a plant group called eelgrasses, which grow entirely under the sea and which could become an important substitute for traditional grains in densely populated seacoast regions. The Seri Indians of Mexico's west coast have long made flour from the seeds of one species. Here, then, is a potential crop that would need no fresh water, fertilizer, or pesticides to be successfully cultivated.
The plants that were the ancestors of wheat, barley, and rye still grow in Israel. However, these unimpressive, scruffy grasses show little sign of the potential that selective breeding has brought to fruition. There's no question that among the millions of populations and species of plants now threatened with extinction are many "Cinderella" equivalents to the forebears of today's major crops .... but they may be doomed to disappear without ever getting to "the ball."
Even fewer animals have been domesticated than plants. Virtually all of the domestic meat consumed by humanity comes from just nine groups of livestock: cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, water buffalo, chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys. Yet cattle, for example, are very unsatisfactory domestic animals for the semiarid regions of Africa. They don't thrive in the climate, and their need to trek long distances to water leads to degradation of the land as well as to eventual desertification.
It would be much more sensible to herd gazelles in such regions, as the antelopes can take advantage of a far wider range of native vegetation; can obtain water from their food, and thus avoid having to travel to it; and would cause less deterioration of the environment. There are—of course—economic, social, and environmental problems to solve before native animals can be herded on a large scale in Africa, but unless the species of the area are preserved, such options will disappear.
Other Essential (and Potential) Products
Finally, consider some of the myriad other "gifts" that human beings have received—or might receive—from various species. Wood comes to mind immediately. Many trees produce timber, but different varieties produce lumber of rather different characteristics. White pine wouldn't make good spars for an airplane wing, and balsa wouldn't make a decent piano sounding board. Even within a single species, different populations may have diverse growth characteristics and wood quality.
As you might imagine, there's been far too little exploration into the potential of tropical trees, and many species doubtless have as-yet-undiscovered desirable properties. Furthermore, today's desirable quality may not be yesterday's or tomorrow's. A few centuries ago, for instance, British naval surveyors valued oaks with low, spreading crowns from which they could obtain properly shaped pieces for crucial parts of ships. Now, however, that particular tree form is entirely wrong for most uses of oak.
Other inedible products that humanity derives from plants include natural rubber (superior, in many applications, to artificial types), tanning agents, dyes, fibers (such as cotton, flax, and hemp), natural pesticides (such as pyrethrum and rotenone), perfumes, lotions (witch hazel), waxes, gums, cosmetics, meat tenderizers, preservatives, gutta-percha (used for insulation and waterproofing), turpentine, candles, soap substitutes, fertilizers, brooms, and rattan furniture.
Then, too, many plants yield valuable oils. Those derived from safflowers, soybeans, peanuts, and olives are used in cooking. Linseed, soybean, and flax oils are ingredients in paints and varnishes. And, in addition to its well-known use as a laxative, castor oil is a fine lubricant of machinery. Plant materials are also widely utilized in the manufacture of products that range from plastics to explosives.
Animals, too—although not nearly so rich a source of goods as are plants—supply a wide range of products used in commerce including wool, shellac, musk, silk, down, sperm oil, and leathers. Many of these have qualities that are difficult (or impossible) to emulate with synthetics.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, we must reiterate that the potential for extracting useful products from plants and animals seems barely to have been tapped. For example, some tropical plant species produce an oil that shows promise of providing a renewable source of a low-sulfur petroleum substitute. With appropriate genetic improvement, "gasoline farms" may someday supply a significant fraction of our fuels.
Although this idea may seem strange at first glance, one need only recall that all fossil fuels were originally plant hydrocarbons. They were "processed" by geological action over millions of years into coal, natural gas, and oil. There's no theoretical reason why Homo sapiens can't short-circuit the plant-to-gasoline sequence by starting with plants especially rich in hydrocarbons ... no reason except, of course, the possibility that the very best plant sources may be unrecognized species and populations that are being pushed toward extinction at this very moment.
In other words, the destruction of Earth's flora and fauna that's proceeding today may be, unbeknown to us, wiping out species that hold secrets which might help to cure cancer, feed the burgeoning human population, or solve the energy crisis. The loss of these benefits alone would be a high price to pay for our cavalier treatment of fellow living beings.
EDITOR'S NOTE: For further information on direct benefits from other species, see Extinction by Paul and Anne Ehrlich (Random House, 1981, $15.95), upon which this column is based.
Paul Ehrlich (Bing Professor of Population Studies and Professor of Biological Sciences, Stanford University) and Anne Ehrlich (Senior Research Associate, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford) are familiar names to ecologists and environmentalists everywhere. As well they should be. Because it was Paul and Anne who—through their writing and research—gave special meaning to the words "population," "resources," and "environment" in the late 1960's. (They also coined the term coevolution, and did a lot to make ecology the household word it is today.) But while most folks are aware of the Ehrlichs' popular writing in the areas of ecology and overpopulation (most of us—for instance—have read Paul's book The Population Bomb), far too few people have any idea of how deeply the Ehrlichs are involved in ecological research (research of the type that tends to be published only in technical journals and college textbooks). That's why it pleases us to be able to present these semi-technical columns by authors/ecologists/educators Anne and Paul Ehrlich.


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The Central Connecticut women's basketball team has received commitments from Te'Jahne Malone and Kayla Miller for the 2012-13 season. Both student-athletes will enroll at CCSU as freshman next year after completing standout high school careers.
Malone, who goes by TJ, is a 5-10 guard/forward from Waldorf, Maryland. At Westlake High School she earned Girl's Basketball County Athlete of the Year honors in 2012 and was named Most Valuable Player. Under the guidance of coach Ardell Jackson, Malone led the Southern Maryland Athletic Conference in scoring on her way to a First Team All-SMAC selection as a senior.
"The addition of TJ Malone will give us another player capable of scoring and rebounding," head coach Beryl Piper said. "She will be a force on the boards. I can't wait to watch her get after it."
Miller, a 5-10 guard/forward from East Greenbush, NY, was a two-time First Team Big Ten All-Star at Bishop Maginn High School. Playing under coach Julie Reilly, she also earned Second Team Large School All-Area and Second Team All-Star honors from the Schenectady Gazette. A member of the National Honor Society, Miller also earned numerous scholar-athlete awards and was a standout triple-jump competitor for her high school's track and field squad.
"Kayla is an athletic wing player that has the ability to take it to the basket," said Piper. "We are excited to have a player with her speed and athletic ability join our program."
Earlier this winter the Blue Devils received a National Letter of Intent from Raven Makins and Nicole Ferguson. With the addition of Malone and Miller the women's basketball program will now welcome four student-athletes this fall.
Piper added, "I am very excited to have these two young ladies join Nicole and Raven in the Class of 2016."
TJ Malone on CCSU: "The coaching staff is knowledgeable and has the experience to lead a team to a championship. The team seemed to be united and family-like. Also, the college has one the best business progams in the area."
Kayla Miller on CCSU: "I chose CCSU because of its variety of academic opportunities and its intensive athletic program for basketball. As soon as I stepped on campus it felt like a home away from home."


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Pominville gets 1 of Wild's 3 goals in 2nd period to lead streak-stopping 4-1 win over SabresNHL.com @NHLdotcom
ST. PAUL, Minn. - The Minnesota Wild found some relief and satisfaction after their first game of the new year. The Buffalo Sabres were the perfect tonic.
Jason Pominville scored against his old team, and the Wild beat the Sabres 4-1 on Thursday night to stop a franchise-record streak of six straight losses in regulation.
Re-establishing their style and regaining the ground they lost will take some time, but for the Wild this was a strong start.
"I can't express how good it feels to get that monkey off our back," defenceman Clayton Stoner said.
Marco Scandella scored, just 106 seconds before Pominville. Jason Zucker had the third goal in the second period against Ryan Miller, one of the three goalies recently picked for the U.S. Olympic team.
"Ryan's been playing really good, and we didn't give him an effort in front of him," captain Steve Ott said.
The Wild sure weren't feeling sorry for anyone. They won for the first time since Dec. 17, and Niklas Backstrom picked up a victory for the first time in his last nine starts since Nov. 23. With Josh Harding sitting out with an illness, Backstrom stopped 19 shots.
"That's something we have to build on," Backstrom said. "I think that's the first step."
Miller made 28 saves, not nearly enough for a Sabres team with by far the worst record and fewest goals in the NHL. They were nearly shut out for the second straight game, following a 3-0 loss at Winnipeg on Tuesday, but Matt Ellis knocked in a loose puck in front of the net with 1:12 left.
"I think teams see what we have to offer, adjust, and we don't make any adjustments," Miller said. "We have to be adaptable."
The Wild entered the night with the second-lowest scoring average in the league, so naturally the first goal came more than 24 1/2 minutes into the game. Scandella flashed a big smile after he beat defenceman Christian Ehrhoff to the slot and turned a pass from Matt Cooke into his first goal in 13 games.
Then Pominville, who had the game-winner in October when these teams met in Buffalo, scored against his former teammate by using a snap shot to sneak the puck between Miller's glove and the post.
Zucker, playing on an all-21-year-old second line with Nino Niederreiter and Mikael Granlund, stretched the lead to 3-0 with his first goal of the season. He was recalled on Wednesday from Iowa of the AHL for the fourth time since Nov. 20.
"We didn't do anything special, but we did all the little things right," Pominville said.
Ten Wild players had points, including two assists each for Ryan Suter and Mikko Koivu, after coach Mike Yeo shook up his lineup yet again. Suter and Jonas Brodin were split up on defence, too. Even Kyle Brodziak scored, for the first time in 31 games since Oct. 26. He was awarded the goal with 26 seconds left when he was tripped just past the blue line with an empty net in front of him.
Yeo praised Koivu, Pominville and new linemate Dany Heatley for their leadership.
"If they had a tough shift, they got right back to it, got it right the next shift," Yeo said. "They play an important role on our team. We need them to continue to go out and perform."
Yeo's job has been put in jeopardy by the skid that began around Thanksgiving and kept up all the way through New Year's Eve. The Wild improved to 6-12-1 in their last 19 games with their first regulation win in 11 games since Dec. 8.
The Sabres already fired their coach, replacing Ron Rolston with Ted Nolan on Nov. 13. The results haven't been much better, though. They fell to 0-9-2 in their last 11 road games and have only one regulation win away from Buffalo all season. This might've been their worst game under Nolan.
"If it wasn't it had to be pretty close. It's just one of those things where when we're bad, we're bad," Nolan said.
NOTES: The Sabres lost here for the first time in four games since Dec. 13, 2003. They're 5-2 at Xcel Energy Center since it opened. ... Wild D Keith Ballard was a healthy scratch for the first time this season. ... Sabres RW Drew Stafford left the game with an upper-body injury. LW Ville Leino was scratched because of a lower-body injury. ... The Sabres have not gone without a goal in consecutive games since Oct. 9 and 11, 2003.


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What to work on during a Django sprint
Given that so many other people are contributing to Django, at the same time, during sprints. What should you work on? This document attempts to help you answer that question.
Next upcoming sprint
See Sprints
How to prepare for a sprint
- Join the #django-sprint IRC Channel.
- Read our "Contributing to Django" document.
- Install the "trunk" version of Django (aka the Django development version).
- Create an account in our ticket system. This will allow you to claim tickets you're working on.
- Read the page dedicated to this specific sprint.
What to work on? The short answer
Work on whatever you like.
Our development process during the sprint will fundamentally be no different from standard Django development -- that is, contributors scratch their own itches, solve the problems they want to solve, and generally do what they want to do. The difference in the sprint, of course, is that a lot of people are going to be in more-or-less real-time contact, which makes it easier for more contributions to happen faster. (Some sprinters will be in the same physical location and the IRC channel will be available for more rapid feedback.)
What to work on? The concrete answer
See the suggestions at the bottom of this page.
What to work on? The longer answer
If you're in doubt about what to work on, consider these pieces of advice:
- Fix existing bugs, rather than adding enhancements. Bugs are cases where we know something is not working correctly or as documented. Enhancements require a bit more of a judgment call from the maintainers about whether to include the feature, and one big goal of the sprint is to try and reduce the number of open tickets by getting patches committed and tickets closed.
- Choose noncontroversial tickets. If a ticket is very old, but hasn't been closed, there's usually a reason -- some issues are intrinsically controversial. For the sake of your own sanity, avoid these tickets during the sprint.
- Review existing patches. There are lots of tickets in Django's tracker that have a patch, but either need tests or need some improvement to address technical issues. These are quite long lists of tickets; if you want narrow these lists, try starting with tickets targeting the current development version. Another place to start is the list of tickets at the end of this page consists of tickets that have been worked on in past sprints, but haven't been committed; this means that there is probably a starting patch.
- Zero in a particular component you're familiar/comfortable with. It's overwhelming to browse the full list of open tickets, so do yourself a favor and narrow it down by component. (Do this by selecting "Add filter" on the right side of the page.) Example components are "Documentation" or "RSS framework." The nice thing about this approach is that, once you've fixed one or two tickets, you'll get on a roll and will have learned enough about that particular component that subsequent tickets for the same component will be easier to fix.
How to handle "big" tickets
If you're going to work on a really big item, either individually or as a group, remember to respect normal practices. Post a summary of any big discussions you have to the django-developers mailing list, and leave a comment on the ticket with a link to the discussion.
Remember that not everybody is going to be online all the time, and those that are may well be busy on other things. Large changes or things requiring community input will have to go through the usual, archived channels. That being said, an online or in-person discussion can get a lot further quickly, and then you can post a more comprehensive plan and summary than normal. So there are advantages to doing some design work in a sprint setting.
Working on smaller items
The biggest contribution anybody can make during a sprint is to help confirm bug reports, write patches, review proposed solutions and help get the tickets closed.
Pick an area you're interested in or want to learn more about. The general procedure is choose a ticket, replicate the problem, write a test, write a fix, go back to start.
- Search for tickets in that component in Trac (one of the search filters is on the component type).
- Read through the ticket titles until you find something interesting and try to replicate the bug.
- Once you've found a ticket that interests you, claim it, so that somebody else doesn't accidentally duplicate the work.
- If possible, write a test to duplicate the problem. Django's tests are in the
tests/directory, and we have some documentation about them. Copy existing tests as a start. If possible, look for an appropriate file to add your new test to, rather than starting a new file. But if you are working on a totally untested area, start a new file.
- Write a patch, whether that is code or documentation to fix the problem.
- Attach the patch to the ticket.
If your patch is more than a few lines long, don't forget to include your name in the AUTHORS file as part of the patch. We order that file alphabetically by surname.
Don't worry if it takes you longer than other people to write fixes initially. Some areas are genuinely harder than others. Some problems are disguised versions of something much bigger, so it might take a couple of attempts to get something that satisfies the maintainers. Not to worry; any serious patch is better than no patch because it gives us something to start from and incrementally improve.
Things for people not confident squishing bugs
If you're not confident fixing bugs in the core code, there are still other ways to contribute:
- Triage the unreviewed tickets -- try to reproduce the issues they describe, or handle them according to the triage guidelines.
- If the explanation of the bug isn't clear, work out what the reporter is talking about and add that in a comment on the original ticket.
- Find bugs that have been confirmed and explained, but haven't got a programatic test case. Every bug that is fixed in Django should be accompanied by a regression test to make sure the problem doesn't arise again. Once a test case exists, it's much easier for someone who understands the internals to fix the problem.
- Look for tickets needing documentation or needing improved documentation and try to complete them.
- Verify that old bugs still exist. Sometimes bugs get inadvertantly fixed; either they're re-reported but not identified as duplicates, or a fix for one bug corrects another bug. These old tickets will continue to linger in the bug tracker unless someone confirms that they are no longer a problem.
So you've joined the sprint and don't know where to start? Try one of these tasks!
- Whilst working on a task, assign it to yourself so other people know that it's yours.
- If you complete a task, edit this page and remove the task from this list and add it to the proper results section below
- If you make progress on a task and then leave it, edit this page leaving a note of what you've done.
- Any of the sprint specific goals and tickets: read the page dedicated to this specific sprint.
- FormPreview and related tickets
- Sort out what's happening with limit_choices_to (#1891, #2445)
- #1028 Add more elements to the high-level RSS Framework.
- #2539 add unit tests and docs for
Custom tags and filters can be restricted by namespace
- #4030 Review the suggested patch for enabling auto-translation of language names
- #7783 confirm which versions of postgres the patch works on.
- GeoDjango tasks
- #14643 & #14497 better widgets for readonly_fields
If you believe you've successfully dealt with a ticket, post it here so a core dev can have a look at it. Please order by ticket ID. Note: Don't close the tickets until they've been checked in.
Results of pycon08 sprint
- #2723 (dec 07 sprint work) Added unit tests and improved patch, marked as ready for checkin during pycon08 sprint
- #3542 (dec 07 sprint work) already marked as ready for checkin, patch updated to trunk
Results of 1stDecember07 sprint
- #2723 added patch (newforms-admin)
- #2856 added patch
- #4680 updated with tests
- #3542 added patch
- #4499 tested this, and could not reproduce
- #5622 added patch
- #6055 GenericRelation and db_column lookups
Results of september07 sprint
- #1919 filter truncatewords wipes newlines from string, so not chainable with markup filters
- #2504 ConditionalGetMiddleware causes Content-Length to be 0 on HttpResponse with fileobject
- #3055 Invalid ticket as model in GenericRelation requires content_type/object_id fields.
- #3485 Initial SQL fails when data contains a % in it when settings.DEBUG = True
- #3997 small note in the docs about fields being required by default in an instance
- #4094 patch to fix problem with months in databrowse calendar views
- #5116 let newforms.Select display disabled entries
- #5298 The extra_context keyword argument should be available in the auth app views
- #5418 Add assertNoBrokenLinks() to test system
- #5419 Fuzz testing assertions created along with some documentation
- #5494 Fixed a bug in javascript message catalog search.
Other branches
Task list (in order of importance):
- #5472 Add OpenLayers support in
- Fill out the documentation stubs and fix inconsistencies between the documentation and the code.


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Chris Jones creates sculptures composed of fragmented images from magazines and used books that are beautiful, frightening, and exquisitely detailed: a macabre headless horse, a 19th century stagecoach, a disheveled TV.
For his recent solo show at Marc Straus, Jones worked in New York and was interested in the history of the Lower Eastside and this specific gallery space. Based on his impressions, he created a fantastical trading post replete with sundry items such as shovels, bear heads, and lamps echoing this area's early 19th century and this building's evolution from a tenement to a store for varied immigrant trades. It is also an homage to THE STORE that Claes Oldenburg opened nearby in 1961, selling his food-like handmade Paper Mache objects.
Jones' work mimics the way in which we assimilate and process the world using our own personal histories and memories as a base to develop new connections. Jones has called on his own memories (through an art historic lens) and the viewers are in turn prompted to call upon their past to create their own personal stories as they relate to these wondrous pieces.


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Courtney Stodden reveals Oscar gown
She's not among the A-list stars invited to the Academy Awards this Sunday, but that hasn't stopped D-lister Courtney Stodden from getting into the Oscars spirit.
The 18-year-old reality star went all out with a bubble-gum pink dress at an pre-Oscars gifting suite on Wednesday in Beverly Hills.
She resembled a cake topper in the long lace gown which was secured at the waist with a bow.
She wore a fuzzy silver bracelet that resembled tinsel and accessorised with a sparkly pink handbag in the shape of lips.
The aspiring singer showed off the over-the-top garb while posing prior to the event at the L'Ermitage Hotel.
She later showcased two other outfits - all equally as garish.
At one point the blonde was seen in a see-through lacy pink top that reveals her slender waist and sizable bust.
She paired it with high-waisted canary yellow skinny trousers and sky-high plastic platform heels.
The teen bride, who is married to Doug Hutchinson, accessorised with a guitar-shaped Timmy Woods handbag.
Finally, Courtney donned a miniscule rose gold Shekhar Rhate dress that sport an extra swath of material at the back, giving the illusion of a short front and a long train at the back.
Continuing the lip theme, the television personality accessorised with a sparkling red lip bag, which she held up while pouting her own shiny pink lips.
Courtney wore her trademark platinum blonde hair extensions in a messy half updo, her loose curls falling over her shoulders.
Her makeup was typically heavy-handed, with huge fake black eyelashes and thick black eyeliner, paired with neon pink lipstick.
She posed seductively for the cameras, showing off her bright red fingernails.
Once inside the suite, Courtney enjoyed a piece of cake that was decorated with photographs of this year's Academy Award acting nominees.
She was snapped leaving the event looking satisfied as she carried two large bags no doubt filled with gifts from the event.
Other celebrities in attendance included Young And The Restless star Max Ehrich and the voice of Roger Rabbit Charles Fleischer.
LOL this cake
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2282475/Courtney-Stodden-reveals-garish-Oscars-dress-shame-shes-invited.html


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Darien forecast: Fog lifts, but showers loom
After areas of dense fog blanketing southwestern Connecticut burn off later this morning, this holiday observance of Veterans Day is expected to be partly cloudy and warm.
The National Weather Service days that, after skies begin to clear by midday, the daytime high temperature is expected to rise to the low-60s. There will be a light south wind 9 to 14 mph.
Tonight, however, there is a chance of rain or drizzle between midnight and 3 a.m. tomorrow. With more patchy fog, the overnight temperature is expected to dip to about 50 degrees. Chance of precipitation is 80 percent, the NWS says.
Tomorrow, showers are expected, mainly before noon. The high temperature should be in the low-50s, with the odds of precipitation rated about 80 percent. Nighttime should be mostly clear, with a low temperature in the low-30s.
Wednesday is expected to be sunny, with a high temperature about 50 degrees. Wednesday should be mostly clear, with a low temperature in the low-30s.
Thursday will be mostly sunny, the NWS says, with a high temperature near 50 degrees. Nighttime will be mostly cloudy, with a low temperature in the mid-30s.
The outlook for Friday, according to the weather service, is mostly sunny and temperatures in the low-50s.


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I don't know that "everyone" should watch any of these, but if I could push one show on anyone, you know what get's my vote.
Also glad to see In Treatment mentioned, which isn't talked about enough in terms of quality TV.
100 TV Dramas Everyone Should Watch#1
Tony, his spirits crushed after b-lining to the fridge first thing in the morning: "Who ate the last piece of cake?"


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The Third Saturday meeting of the African-American Genealogy Group of Kentucky (AAGGKY) will be on July 21, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. at the Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park, 6614 Danville Road, Nicholasville, KY 40356. Click here for directions.
Camp Nelson was the largest recruiting, mustering, and training center for African American troops (called U.S. Colored Troops) in Kentucky and one of the largest in the United States.
It is also served as a contraband or refugee camp for family members of the U.S.C.T. recruits. This camp, which was administered by the Rev. John G. Fee of the American Missionary Association and Captain Theron Hall of the U.S. Army, contained cottages, dormitories, a hospital, a school, a dining room, and a laundry and held over 3,000 people at one time. The illness and death which resulted from removal of the African American refugees from Camp Nelson in November 1864 led directly to the passage of a Congressional Act which freed the family members of the U.S. Colored Troops and the implementation of a more structured program by the Army to care for and educate these people. The Camp has a very rich and interesting history!
Staff of the park will present a program, movie and a tour of the grounds! Last year, we met at the park in June and had a great time! We need to let the staff know how to plan for the day, so if you plan to attend, please R.S.V.P. by Monday, July 16th. Hope to see you there.
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Novell Data Synchronizer and the GroupWise Connector provide the foundation for synchronizing data between GroupWise and Salesforce.com, SharePoint, and SugarCRM.
NOTE:This configuration does not include synchronization with mobile devices.
System requirements are listed in the Novell Data Synchronizer Installation Guide.
Make sure that the Linux server where you plan to install Data Synchronizer and the GroupWise Connector meets the system requirements.
If a Web server is currently running on the Synchronizer server, stop it, and preferably disable it.
Download the Novell Data Synchronizer ISO file to a convenient temporary directory:
On your Linux desktop, click root password.> , then enter the
Under, click , then click .
Install Data Synchronizer as an add-on product.
Complete installation instructions are available in the Novell Data Synchronizer Installation Guide.
Section 4.2, ISO File Not Browsable on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1
Section 4.4, Data Synchronizer Installation Program Behaves Strangely
When you run the Data Synchronizer Installation program in YaST, you might see the following error:
The proposal contains an error that must be resolved before continuing
This error indicates that you clickedwithout providing the configuration information for your Synchronizer system. Instead of clicking , click , then provide the configuration as prompted. After you provide the configuration information, click .
In the Data Synchronizer Installation program on SLES 11 SP1, if you browse to and select the Data Synchronizer ISO file, you receive the following error:
ISO image file not responding
As a workaround, type the full path and filename for the ISO file instead of browsing to it.
If you already have Python packages installed on the server where you are installing Data Synchronizer, the Data Synchronizer Installation program needs to update the existing packages, rather than install new packages. This does not happen by default.
When you run the Installation program, you see a list of all the packages that need to be installed. Review this list for packages that need to be updated. Click any existing packages so that the Update icon is displayed, then continue with the Data Synchronizer installation.
Data Synchronizer must be installed on a server with a 64-bit/x86 processor. If you try to install it on a server with a 32-bit/x86 processor, the Data Synchronizer Installation program does not detect the problem. It tries to run, but it cannot run correctly.
If the behavior of the Data Synchronizer Installation program does not match the installation instructions provided in the Novell Data Synchronizer Installation Guide, make sure that you are installing Data Synchronizer on a server that meets the documented system requirements.
There are currently no plans to make Data Synchronizer available in a 32-bit version.
Use only alphanumeric characters in the Synchronizer database password. Do not include special characters. The Sync Engine does not start if the database password includes special characters.
Before you run the Data Synchronizer Installation program, you must create a GroupWise trusted application so that the GroupWise Connector can log into a GroupWise Post Office Agent (POA) in order to access GroupWise mailboxes without needing personal user passwords. When setting up the GroupWise Connector as a trusted application, you only need to fill in three fields in the Create Trusted Application dialog box in ConsoleOne: , , and . Do not fill in any other fields. If you fill in additional fields, the trusted application does not work correctly with the GroupWise Connector.
If you have been participating in the Data Synchronizer beta, you might need to delete the existing Synchronizer certificate on workstations where you access Synchronizer Web Admin. You need to delete the existing certificate if you receive the following error when you try to access Synchronizer Web Admin:
Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to ip_address.
You have received an invalid certificate.
To delete the existing Synchronizer certificate in Firefox:
Select the certificate named DataSync Web Admin, then click Delete.
Click OK to close the various Firefox dialog boxes, then log in to Synchronizer Web Admin.
If the LDAP server is restarted while Synchronizer is running, Synchronizer loses its connection to the LDAP server. Occasionally, the connection to the LDAP server is lost for other reasons. To reestablish the connection, restart the Synchronizer services.
When the Sync Engine is stopped or restarted, it forces all connectors to stop as well. After the Sync Engine is restarted, restart the Connector Manager service. After the Connector Manager service is restarted, restart each connector in Synchronizer Web Admin or configure the connectors to start automatically.
When you use a group to add a large number of users to a connector (for example, 1000 users), all users might not be added to the connector during the same LDAP poll cycle. You can refresh the Add Users page or watch the log file for the connector to see when the process of adding users to the connector has been completed.
A similar problem can occur if you add multiple groups that collectively include a large number of users.
When you add or delete a large number of users or groups, the Manage Users page or the Manage Groups page might not display the presence or absence of the users or groups correctly. Refresh the page in your browser to display the users or groups correctly.
If a user's LDAP username includes a space, the user cannot log in to the Data Synchronizer User Options page.
In order to delete users from a connector, the connector must be running. If the connector is not running, some user event data is not properly deleted.
When you stop a connector in Synchronizer Web Admin and then start it again immediately, the status might indefinitely remain as. This can happen because the connector did not completely stop before you tried to restart it. The connector might have been completing a polling cycle before shutting down, even though Synchronizer Web Admin displayed the status as . When you try to start a connector that is still shutting down, it cannot start normally.
To restart the connector when this situation has occurred:
Restart the Connector Manager on the command line:
rcdatasync-connectors restart
This should change the connector status in Synchronizer Web Admin fromto .
Start the connector in Synchronizer Web Admin.
Start any other connectors that stopped as a result of restarting the Connector Manager.
Some connectors restart automatically when the Connector Manager restarts.
If this problem occurs repeatedly, wait a few seconds between the time when you stop the connector and when you start it again to allow the connector to shut down completely before restarting.
Synchronizer Web Admin allows you to manually create multiple instances of the same connector. This configuration is not currently supported.
If you have more users than a single connector can service, you can install one or more additional instances of Data Synchronizer until all users are being successfully serviced.
Refer to the Readme for each connector on the Novell Data Synchronizer Connectors Documentation Web site.
Novell Data Synchronizer documentation is available at the Novell Data Synchronizer Documentation Web site:
Novell Data Synchronizer Readme
Novell Data Synchronizer installation and administration guides
Novell Data Synchronizer connector documentation is available at the Novell Data Synchronizer Connector Documentation Web site
Connector Readmes
Connector Quick Starts
Connector installation and configuration guides
In addition to the Data Synchronizer product documentation, the following resources provide additional information about Data Synchronizer:
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Little Bronx Wentz Is Acting Out Because Of Ashlee And Pete's Divorce—So Sad
Bronx may only be 2, but he is definitely aware of his parents' messy and painful break-up.
Sadly, Bronx Wentz is starting to realize what is going on between his estranged parents, Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson. After Pete moved out of the family home, the 2-year-old, who doesn't know any better, started throwing temper tantrums and acting out. Have you ever faced this struggle, HollyMoms and Dads?
"It's hard on Bronx," a family friend tells In Touch magazine, "and many nights at bedtime, he will cry for his dad and can't be comforted by his mom."
"This is a very difficult transition for children. They will need to work with his age, development and level of separation anxiety to figure out the best way to move forward," relationship expert, Dr. Gilda Carle tells HollyBaby.com. "Also, play is one of the best ways for children to work through their feelings," she explains.
And although Ashlee's rep says that Bronx is doing well, the insider says that Pete and Ashlee are trying to be civil for the sake of their little boy. "Pete and Ashlee are both devoted to Bronx," the source adds, "and they want to make sure he's happy."
Have you ever had to deal with a hard divorce that affected your children?
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Lions defensive lineman Israel Idonije didn't have a single tackle on Sunday, but he may have played an important part in Detroit's win over Chicago anyway.
Some players on the Bears told Michael C. Wright of ESPN that they think Idonije, who played for the Bears from 2004 to 2012, tipped off the Lions to their stunts. According to those players, the Bears run a "power" stunt, and every time they ran it on Sunday, Lions running back Reggie Bush saw it coming and burned them on it.
The Bears have a new coaching staff this year, but head coach Marc Trestman retained defensive line coach Mike Phair, so the Bears may be doing the same things and making some of the same calls they had when Idonije played on their defensive line. So Idonije might have some information he could pass along to his new team.
But the Bears knew they were playing against one of their former teammates. They should have been prepared for the possibility that Idonije would have some information to share with his new team.