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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi cross country teams will travel to Fayetteville, Ark. to compete in the 24th Chile Pepper Festival on Saturday, Oct. 13. The men's 10k race will begin at 9:45 a.m. and the women's 6k will follow at 10:30 a.m. at Agri Park.
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2011 Chile Pepper Festival: Last season at the Chile Pepper Festival, the women's team finished 11th out of 34 teams in the 6k, despite missing critical runners, while the men's team finished 12th out of 32 teams in the 10k. Current Islanders BreAnna Briggs, Shelby Polasek, Cecilia Jones, Vanessa Galindo and Jasmine Boutte all competed. On the men's side, Patrick Kimeli clocked his fastest 10k time of his Islanders career, while leading the men's team with a time of 29:58.1. Current Islanders Christoph Hintz, Philipp Baar, Valentinas Rudys and Paul Hansel all competed.
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SLC Honor: Briggs was named the Women's Southland Conference Cross Country Athlete of the Week, during the week of Monday, Oct. 2. Briggs led the women's team for the third straight race at the 13th annual Islanders Splash on Aug. 28. The Wasmego, Kan. native finished second with a 5k time of 18:12.7 to lead the women's team to a first-place finish. It was Briggs second Southland Conference weekly honor this season after being named the Athlete of the Week during the week of Sept. 4 for her performance at the Rio Grande Valley Classic. On the men's side, Kimeli received honorable mention accolades for his third-place finish at the Islanders Splash. The Eldoret, Kenya native clocked an 8k time of 26:07.0 to help the men's team clinch first place for the third straight year.
Islanders Head Coach Shawn Flanagan is in his 12th season as the head coach of the Islanders cross country team and 32nd season as a Division I coach. Flanagan started the cross country program in 2000. He has won four Southland women's titles, four Independent women's titles and three Independent men's titles. Altogether, Flanagan holds 30 Conference titles as head coach, including the 19 conference titles he won at UTSA. He also sealed three conference titles as an assistant coach at the University of Texas, totaling 33 Conference Championships to his name.
2011 Success: The women's team clinched their fourth Southland Conference title in five years while the men placed third at the conference meet. Kimeli advanced to the NCAA Championships for the second straight year.
Up Next: The Islanders will look to continue their success at the Southland Conference Championships on Friday, Oct. 26, in Beaumont, Texas, hosted by Lamar.
Keep up with the Islanders: For the latest information, follow Islanders Cross Country on Twitter (@IslandersTFXC) and Facebook (Texas A&M Corpus Christi Track & Field/Cross Country).


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Pictures and reviews from the SFR basement show
Here are photos from the SFR show at our office space in RI.
Below are pictures of me, B. Dolan, Prayers for Atheists, Shane Hall and band, Prolyphic, Storm Davis, and crowd goers. All photos taken by Amanda Goss.
Thank you to everyone who attended and helped make this show a success. All the performers, Ryan G. for supplying the PA system, Erich for helping with mixing, the owners of the Grant for allowing us to throw the show, Storm for running the store amidst all the madness, and many others. If I missed your shout out, then feel free to speak up and post your reviews.
The show was an incredible success. Everyone threw the fuck DOWN. I'm very happy about this event. If you missed it, and you were in the general vicinity of RI, then you are the SUCK!!! haha. Even Trav made the trip from CT. Maybe next time?
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i love that hat sage
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Sage Francis
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Well, thank you. It is courtesy of Cross Colors.
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hahaha loving this
Sat Feb 28, 2009 6:46 pm
Sage Francis
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Oh, and I can't forget this photo. This is me and my half-brother Adam. It's the first show of mine he's seen so that was cool.
There were people at this show that I haven't seen in ages. Close to a decade for some. Very weird. Glad it was such an intimate and cozy setting or else I might have missed them.
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haha, he's a good one, that Dave Booth.
Truly an awesome show - Shane & band, Pro, B. & Sage all were amazing, and it was an honor to share the stage with 'em! Thanks to everybody who came out.
(Extra special thanks to Shane for keeping my amp from crashing to the floor throughout our set.)
Sat Feb 28, 2009 7:40 pm
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Here's how it went down:
We arrived at the spot, drove around because we didn't like the 2 hour parking signs in the lot, parked there anyway.
The little mall is really cool. It has a nice feel to it. It's hip but not hipster, there wasn't fakeness.
I went down and walked over to the water boy. "How much for one of these?" "One dollar." Then Bobby came over. "How much for one of these?" "One dollar." I think I saw him posting a sign sometime around the beginning of Prolyphic's set.
So, after a lot of running around talking about how the bassist was late, Shane took the stage. I liked his set. He called us fuckers a lot. He started off a little shaky, but his first couple of songs were pretty true to form. I thought that The Fat Lady... was clearly the strongest performance. The bassist was punished by Eric (unintentionally, I'm sure) for being late.
Then Prolyphic had a ground-level set. The hip hop heads woke up. I think some kid in the front row tried to spit every single lyric in real time, which was really odd when Prolyphic was right up in his face. There was a half-time show brought to you by Neti & Co. [Did anyone bite on that offer?]
It was almost 10pm by the end of the second set. I hadn't eaten since lunch. So Bobby and I went up to the coffee shop on the main level. The cafe was pretty good, I had a piece of gluten free cheesecake with too much lemon in it for my taste and a red eye that was super fucking hot but tasted great. It cost money or some shit, I made Bobby pay.
Prayers for Atheists started playing while we were up there. I thought they'd take a little more time setting shit up. We finished our food and took the coffee down. I have to say, I was shocked how much I liked this set. I mean, I liked Jared and all, but that's typically not my type of music. There was a shitload of energy, though, and everything else just flowed with it. There were many veins popping on stage. It was great. This will some day be my "I'm fucking sick of the marketing department" music. Just drop the album.
Another break to clear the stage and allow vegan drummers to redress. Then something strange happened. The water boy took the stage! Holy shit! He totally wasted Justin Timberlake and took out a few fans with the mic stand. This B. Dolan guy was goin off. He performed a bunch of new material. [No one liked when I yelled that we'd be gentle to you on your first live performance, sigh.] It was good shit. I've never seen him perform his hip hop set live, so that was great for me.
After that was the big guy in his cross colours hat, of which I wonder how many in the audience understood. [Bobby hasn't heard of Karl Kani.] This performance brought more new material and some quite old material. More lyrics that reference his age. The house blew up -- except the people at left stage, bunch of statues... I should have stood over there. The set was capped off with a triumphant return of the water boy. This time he brought out his fat guy bee dance.
Then we threw all of Shane's shit in my car and drove off to go zombie fighting. Along the way I met a bunch of people who I may or may not still consider to be entirely textual, had some Syrian falafels, slept on an upside down air mattress, got stuck in Shane's mudway, and watched a minivan burn to a crisp. It was an eventful 24 hours. Totally worth it.
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I am a loser for not having a car and being stuck a school. If I was home I would of been there in a second. It looked amazing. This guy votes for another. :/
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i have got to say - these things make me want to cry for living so far away.
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freaky head in a ball staring at you
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Shit that looks fantastic. Proper basement style, I love it! Nice write ups too - good work, thanks for the review. It's been way too long. And I haven't been to a hip hop show for about a year either - it's bringing it all back! Congratulations on the basement takeover - looks like it was teh i11n3ss.
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Very Cozy show. And right in my frontyard. It was fun.
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Really great show. I saw about 349893 people I haven't seen in a really long time. I def. wish I could have been a little less 'out of it' but I dragged my ass out anyway with an ugly case of food poisoning so it was a bit expected. It made me proud to be from the same state as these fine fellas, which might be kind of silly, but true regardless.
Unfortunately I missed Shane's set while I was deciding if I felt good enough to go to the show or not, and arrived in the middle of Pro's set. Everything I heard after I got there was awesome though. Prolyphic was sounding intense. I haven't heard Jared's band play in a while, and I was really impressed with how tight they sound. Of course Bernard and Francis both had me cracking up and put on a great show. I'm looking forward to more of these. It seems like a cozy place to perform where the artists have total control of the show.
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Tons of fun for a great little venue. Loving the new spot for the SFR store. Always great to see B. Dolan perform, especially some of the new material with Alias. Completely surprised and impressed with Prayers for Atheists, not my usual style at all but had me bouncing and hyped up for the whole performance. Can't wait until they get something recorded.
G;ad to catch up with great people like niki, frezz, and debbie I never see these days and meet redball. Always a good time. Sorry I didn't stick around after the show but glad I missed both of the zombie dudes.
Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:52 pm
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Also a great set by Sage. Some quality writing in the new material. Love to hear some more about when either of those albums are slated to see the light of day. I think we're overdue for a "Sick Of" release for sure.
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Everything works as expected with each of these servers and I am able to stream content. If I connect to the internet on my PS3 by online gaming or if I just do a search for media servers on the PS3. The console drops the PS3 media server and Tversity. I am unable to get the console to recognize them again. Nero is still there and works fine.
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Gervase Markham, the Mozilla Foundation's licensing officer, in an article in the Times Online, talks about being questioned by a northern UK Trading License Officer about giving away software.
The trading officer was concerned by a group that was burning the free Mozilla Browser on CDs and selling it. She was expecting Gervase to object to their scheme; but he didn't and "wrote back, politely explaining the principles of copyleft – that the software was free, both as in speech and as in price, and that people copying and redistributing it was a feature, not a bug. I said that selling verbatim copies of Firefox on physical media was absolutely fine with us,..."
Wide distribution is "the gold" for copyleft products and creative distribution is useful for promoting the products. This gives me an idea for non-profits. Why not let non-profits package up useful free software and sell it on CDs as a fund raising idea. Getting useful software compiled on a CD is a nice backup to downloading and if they were to write useful manuals about how to use the software they have then added in that value added component ala the Red Hat model.
There are many magazines that do this (Maximum PC, Personal Computer World, PC Utilities, PC Advisor, Computer Music) so why not needy organizations?
The non-profits could also promote their cause through providing information on their services on the CD. This could of course be done on-line as well, but somehow the package idea seems more appealing to me and I think the product feel of it would work better.
Compiled packages could be oriented to specific user groups, like children, various non-profits, seniors, newbies, sports teams, etc.
For example: A disc with the following might be quite useful for a small school that, who knows,...may even run Bingos for fund raising. This is a quick sample, but you get the idea.
- Bingo-cards is a virtual bingo tumbler.
- Class is a student scheduling and reporting system.
- Emilda is a complete Integrated Library System.
- SchoolTool is a project to develop a common global school administration infrastructure.
- OpenGrade is software for teachers to keep track of grades.
- GCompris is an educational software which propose different activities to children from 2 to 10 years old.
- Tux Typing is an educational typing tutor for children. It features several different types of gameplay, at a variety of difficulty levels.
This idea is not unlike Ubuntu's use of Synaptic Package Manager or Automatix but a little more user specific and user friendly.
Why would I purchase one of these discs? To help a non-profit raise funds, not through donations, but through social entrepreneurship. Someone else will have done the work to find this software and there is value in organizing information after all. Saves me time.
This works just as well for 'for-profits'.
Let's be careful before we start evangelising free software as ideal for those antithetical to profit.
If you discover you can sell a GPL work in a particular market for more than the costs of your labour and materials in packaging it, where in the GPL does it stipulate that profit must be avoided, or that it must be disposed of in a particular way?
The GPL is about liberty, not profitability.
Free as in freedom, not as in beer.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against charity, nor in charities or non-profits exploiting free software, I'm just reminding you that the fact that some free software is free of charge can similarly be observed for proprietary software. The ethical superiority of free software does not come from being 'free of charge', but by being 'free of encumbrance'.
Ethical businesses choose free software because it does not suspend the public's liberty.
Whether it's sold at a profit or not is a matter independent of the public's liberty. You can give it away or sell it for a 200% mark-up, the price is not determined by the GPL.
The GPL embraces your right to charge any amount for your labour. It does not oblige a non-profit economy.
I couldn't have said it
I couldn't have said it better myself. Even while I was reading the article, a "reply" to the same effect was forming in my mind.
People !! Lets not forget what "FREE" in Free Software stands for !!
Non-profits? Sell things?
Actually, in most jurisdictions non-profits may not sell anything; what they may do is hand out goodies as an incentive to donating.
However, unless these are specifically technically-oriented non-profits, they would first have to find someone to reliably put together a good software collection, document it, test it, etc, or the whole thing may backfire.
Does this include local
Does this include local sports clubs (that aren't profit oriented) that sell food at their games to help offset their costs?
Sell Free Software
I think this is a great idea for anybody in general - not just for non-profit orgs. This idea proposes something positive that will increase the usefulness of Free software. Works such as these leads to a win for the user.
So go right ahead, improve and sell some Free software so you can help support non-profit charities do what they do best. Your proposed idea is what free software is all about - users having the freedom to improve and share their software so they can help their neighbours. Non-Free and Partially-Free software will never have this advantage.
They don't need permission
"Why not let non-profits package up useful free software and sell it on CDs as a fund raising idea."
What do you mean "let" them? There is nothing stopping them. At least not for GPLed software.
Yes , you are correct, nothing to stop them.
Thin, thin margins
Um. A little economics lesson and a small dose of reality for those who may need it: making a big profit by duplicating something anyone else can duplicate is almost impossible. It's certainly not a get-rich-quick scheme.
There are a few companies which have specialized in keeping the costs of disk-duplication low, and thus can offer low prices on a wide variety of public domain and free-licensed software (including "content"). But the margins are thin, and the product is "perishable". Consequently, their margins are very narrow.
Mass-pressings of free software tend to create a lot of waste, because as soon as the new version of the software comes out, the old version becomes nearly worthless (probably less than the cost of duplication). On the other hand, short runs involve less-reliable CD-R or DVD-R media, which means more customer-dissatisfaction, and the accompanying costs of service and replacement costs. Then there's the whole problem of taking orders and shipping efficiently ("fulfillment").
I don't want to imply that it's impossible to make any kind of living doing this kind of publishing—some people have clearly managed to. It's just that it's not going to be "easy money" by any stretch of the imagination.
Now, for a non-profit, you do have a small edge, because you aren't really selling the disks or the software, you're selling goodwill, but if people are going to buy that, then adding a premium is really only a small inducement (though that can be helpful, of course).
This sort of thing can work at conventions or other events, if you can find a lot of people dedicated to a single cause in one place, or if the premium represents a kind of souvenir of the event.
Oh yes the margins are thin, but then the capital and labour costs can be very low and if a nonprofit is only trying to raise a modest sum and sells only locally it might work. Also most non-profits, at least Canadian ones, can enter social enterprise and raise up to 10% of their annual budget through sales before it begins to affect their charitable status.
More on margins...
I agree that it can be done, but it's not as easy as it sounds. I don't want to be a killjoy, but I've tried this a little, and they don't sell like you might hope. I'm just trying to remind people to have realistic expectations.
Customers expect free software to be nearly free in cost, and they become very sensitive to the packaging costs. This is sort of counter-intuitive: logically, if the software costs you nothing, you shouldn't be worried about spending an extra $10 on the packaging, just so it'll look nice on your shelf (it'll still be $100+ cheaper than the proprietary alternative).
However, Human nature being what it is, people disrespect what they get for free. They figure "it's free, therefore it must be worthless, so why I should I pay to get it?" We don't want them to think this way and it isn't logical, but that's still the way they think. So, it becomes very hard to sustain even $5 per disk for selling CDs.
That's problematic, because although it is possible to manufacture, package, and distribute disks for less than $1 (today we have a number of retailers selling $1 DVD movies, so I surmise the marginal costs must be lower than that—if I had to guess, I'd say $0.30-$0.50 each, including disks, labels, clamshells, shipping, and handling), but those have to be done in mass pressings.
For a small business or organization, it's more realistic to imagine buying CD-Rs and labels, and copying them on a PC with a CD burner (or at most, a specialized duplicator that can usually do 6-10 CDs at a time). Even if you assume the labor is free (volunteers with free time on their computers to make copies), the costs involved in making each disk are going to run you around $2-$3 in most cases.
You can't push that too far, because if you try to skimp too much (e.g. use 'generic' disks or not include labels), you wind up with a shoddy or unreliable product (disks that won't read, or that you can't recognize from the packaging). If all you're really selling is the packaging, then the packaging needs to look good!
So, it's difficult to overcome those scale economies. Cottage industry is not a very efficient way to do that. Instead, you see some commercial interests who specialize in disk-duplication and packaging, who duplicate all kinds of disks, and then sell those at rock-bottom prices (at least this was true a few years ago. I haven't checked on them lately, and I bet broadband is eating into even their market).
So, if you're the Red Cross or the American Heart Association, you could probably get away with this (hire a high quality duplicator to make you a million copies of a themed GNU/Linux distribution). But if you're a homeless shelter in Austin, you're not going to have an easy time of it.
One place you might be able to go as a business idea, is to actually sell the fund-raising aspect of it. Get good at the duplication, and create a flexible branding system. Then market packages as local fundraisers, the way they do with chocolate bars and coupon books here in the USA (do they do this in other countries?). I've always been a little suspect of these schemes, but local school districts and other groups keep buying into them, so they must work at least a little bit.
One edge you'd have over the others is that it's relatively easy to put local branding on a distribution (change splash screens, KDE theme, etc to advertise the cause you are supporting). Supporters of these organizations, would be happy to have such reminders of the group they are supporting, and they'd provide visibility for the group.
In fact, of course, given that many of us would just like to see free software achieve this kind of market penetration, one could imagine a non-profit GNU/Linux-promoting group providing this service, which would make it easier to present would-be fund raisers with a better deal than the chocolate bar and coupon book people can offer. You've got to do the marketing right, to position it as a superior alternative to those things, of course, and non-profit or not, it'd have to produce enough money to sustain itself, or it'll wind up failing on you, and leaving the community with a bit of a black eye, instead of net promotion of free software.
I wrote though, because I saw what to me seems like a bit of undue excitement in the comments. Yes, it's cheaper to produce CD-ROMs nowadays, but the same technologies that make it possible for you and me, make it possible for all the competition, and other technologies like broadband, make CD-ROMs less relevant than they used to be. Thus, the per-disk cost you can expect to ask for is dropping, and that puts you in a sticky place financially. I'd especially consider it dubious for for-profit ventures, who'll have to pay for the labor straight-out.
Non-profits have a bit of an edge in that they can often summon volunteer help, so that 'sweat equity' can be turned into revenue.
I've not addressed the question of whether non-profits can sell things. I'm not a lawyer, but I believe that they can under certain conditions, in some jurisdictions, and under certain legal organizations (there's more than one legal entity called a "non-profit" in the USA for example, usually distinguished by the part of the law that defines them: you'll hear labels like '501C' or '503B' referring to their particular legal status). Non-profits, as the name suggests, can't legally turn a profit, but they can raise funds and they can pay salaries, just like other corporations.
I completely agree with you
I completely agree with you Terry.
I was once involved in helping a friend start-up his own OSS Distribution venture (http://www.opensourcedeal.com).
Although we did break even pretty soon, there were no sizeable profits involved. People are somehow vert skeptical in buying Free/Open Source Software.
This sort of a venture is a healthy option as a side-business, non-profit involvement in the OSS community, etc. , but hoping that you will one day be juiciest comnpany attracting millions of dollars of revenue on your online store, a house-hold name that s/w engineers cannot do without or a one-stop monolpolized shop for Free Software , is just being _too_ optimistic.
If the users have to pay a small fee, i feel its ok!! but.....
Several softwares on the web are free( take for example a free GRE online exam software, www.maxmytest.com ) but are backed up by advertising models so why cant people sell open source softwares for a small fee.I think its ok!!


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But the pull of San Francisco -- attracting young superstars, hot startups, major established companies and an increasing share of venture money -- is threatening to create a new center of gravity for technology.
It won't happen right away. After all, most of the top tech firms, including 10-year-old Facebook, still are outside San Francisco. But much of the excitement in the tech world has shifted north, creating the possibility that the seeds of the next innovation cycle are taking root in that city.
The urban shift also is changing Silicon Valley.
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Giants such as Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Google and Facebook are in large part the result of innovative cultures that brought together talented workers and great ideas to create dynamic and innovative companies. And those cultures were shaped by the geography of what I'll call the traditional Silicon Valley -- that stretch between San Jose and Palo Alto -- marked by an abundance of office space, easy access to parking and leafy, remote suburbs.
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Then something changed. Young tech workers, with their careers less tied to long-term employment at any one company, now want to live and often work in San Francisco.
"That was my No. 1 thing," said Jialin Luh, a 32-year-old product marketing manager, about her job search criteria. "I love the city. I like the energy and consider myself an edgy person. If I moved out of the city, I might become really boring."
Now tech firms are sprouting in San Francisco, and the gritty, frantic and condensed urban environment is shaping the development of the new wave of tech companies such as Twitter, Airbnb and Salesforce.com.
Square, for instance, wanted to promote a collaborative and open work culture, so it ditched cubicles to allow employees on a team, engineers and designers alike, to sit side by side at long wood tables, echoing the feel of a crowded city cafe. In fact, the layout of the company's headquarters is like a city grid, with a main boulevard and conference rooms named after San Francisco streets.
And for some, San Francisco represents the best of both worlds. Noting that there are now almost 2,000 new firms in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, the co-founder of Salesforce.com, said the company gets the "great energy of the city but we have the virtual extension of the valley."
San Francisco-based companies might have a high-end coffee bar with a full-time barista or video game terminals and roof gardens, but they don't tout these perks the way valley firms do. They highlight access to the city as their biggest draw.
And they look to the city for some-thing nebulous but valuable as well: A daily jolt they say does not exist in a cloistered world like Silicon Valley. When they step out of an office on Market Street, for instance, workers bump into people from other tech companies and those outside the industry, an especially useful experience for companies making technology for consumers.
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In Silicon Valley, some employers are trying to capture that energy.
"What is happening in San Francisco is driving the need to create a sense of place," said Kevin Schaeffer, a principal at Gensler, an architecture and design firm behind the Facebook campus in Menlo Park and other South Bay campus remodels. "What people are craving is to see more people that they interact with more."
Of course, it takes some work for an office park in Menlo Park's baylands to feel like a city. But that didn't stop Facebook from trying, and to a large extent, succeeding.
In renovating its campus, the former Sun Microsystems' headquarters, Facebook's architects looked to San Francisco's Mission District and downtown Palo Alto. They envisioned an environment like a city street, where accidental meetings take place and residents are constantly altering the environment, like the murals in the Mission.
The final result works. When I walk around Facebook, it feels urban in a small-town way. There is a bike repair shop, a bank with tellers, a pop-up store with a new merchant every day, and a juice store on what appears to be a typical retail street. But there's also a grittier element, too, with what's essentially Facebook graffiti scrawled on walls.
Other Silicon Valley firms have worked to make their campuses destinations, not just because they are worried about attracting and retaining workers but because they hope that employees will do their work differently and better.
Intuit's campus at Mountain View's North Bayshore was known by some as "the Ikea office," a maze of unconnected buildings separated by a sea of parking lots. The office space was a drawback, especially for new recruits.
The result is that Intuit is transforming all its offices. Its headquarters, another Gensler project, has amenities in one building called the Campus Center, a 22-acre site that includes cafeterias with a pizza oven, a fitness center and something called "TechKnow," modeled after the Apple Genius bar.
But it also includes couches, coffee shops and "flexible" spaces with movable whiteboards, walls and furniture. The multiple kinds of spaces have helped nudge employees to give up having an assigned desk. Now more are assigned only to a building, said Penagos, who carries any documents she needs in a rolling suitcase. It's part of the effort to make Intuit, founded in 1983, feel like a nimble startup. "We want our employees to think of the entire campus as their work space, not just their assigned seat," she said.
The effect is that there is a buzz at Intuit, something that Chris Chapo, Intuit's vice president of data science and analytics, appreciates.
"I am not just stuck in my little place," said Chapo, who has worked at Apple and J.C. Penney. "Now I hear all the time people collaborating and working together, and that helps my team but also the people walking by."
Duncan Wannamaker, 25, who joined Intuit as his first job out of college, said he feared corporate life would be like the 1999 movie "Office Space," which satirized a software firm. But he describes the new Intuit work spaces as "non-stuffy." "Many of my meetings take place in bean bags or lounge chairs," he said.
That urban feel
Some of these changes may seem artificial -- like recreating Manhattan in a Las Vegas casino -- but the goal is that by including some urban startup features at the office, companies are betting that employees will feel more creative and do better work.
Patty McCord, the former director of talent acquisition at Netflix and now a consultant, added that valley workplaces are becoming more urban as a reflection of the consumer bent of this tech boom, the idea that "now tech is for everyone."
"The nature of work has changed profoundly along with the nature of products we are making now," she said.
Young companies without the cachet of a Facebook have to work hard to attract young workers with a lot of choices. Some, such as Evernote, the note-taking application firm, take their workplace as seriously as their products.
The private company is housed in a nondescript former bank in Redwood City. Overlooking Highway 101 at the end of a cul-de-sac, the firm is hidden by a Kmart.
But step inside, and the company feels like another world.
Next to the receptionist's desk is an espresso bar, where executives including the chief executive do shifts making cappuccinos and holding office hours. The company sees the building as its product, said Jeff Zwerner, Evernote's vice president of brand.
To create more "density," as Zwerner calls it, the company took down walls, put workers at long desks with no dividers, and like Intuit and Square, set up mini-breakout spaces for quick meetings. That design appeals to younger workers, who want opportunities to collaborate, he said. There is also a fake pop-up storefront and plants growing up the walls.
"We're curating how an employee is taken care of to maximize their output and happiness and quality of life," Zwerner said. "It really changes what it means to be working."
How well this effort by South Bay companies will work remains to be seen. But there are early signs of progress.
Luh, the die-hard San Franciscan, agreed to interview at Evernote despite her determination not to commute.
It wasn't San Francisco's mid-Market district or South Park. But she could see herself working in the office with its big windows and treadmill desks.
"If it hadn't been as beautifully designed and well-lit, I am not sure I would have gone further in the process."
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Mrs. Ballinger was a homemaker and of the Baptist Faith.
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The BOE made the right decision. Normally I would be a little suspecious of the Board's action, but under the circumstances they needed to fast track this solution. Sports keep at risk students in school. Sports do play an important part for not only students but also the community as a whole. Parkersburg should be proud of its high school. Few communities have such a facility...Parkersburg High School is such a treasure. It should be cared for and appreciated by all. The football stadium should be the best in the state.
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The BOE needs some buisness leaders on it that have the ability to manage the buisness at hand ,not make quick decisions that will trouble the system for years to come. That comes from experience in buisness,something that a lot of people don't have.
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If you are. Worried about money lets cut. Out money for unnecessary teachers and administration at school and district levrls
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New board and new superintendent are needed. First, elect board members who look out for all students' education and not just the the jocks having a place to play; second, hire a superintendent with the backbone to be a real leader.
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They could have played at Erickson just as South played at Stadium Field all those years. But having said that, I do not begrudge PHS this money.I just want the distribution of funds to be more even. And I do not just mean the PHS South thing.But this editorial is spot on. There are leaking roofs in many local elementary schools. Organized sports play a very important part in SOME young peoples lives. But as always, the few get all the attention. There are lots of other areas of learning that the BOE could fund that are an important part in ALL students lives. Football, and more specifically PHS football took priority of all the other county needs.As I said I don't mind them getting their funds. As long as all the other REAL needs in county schools are met first. They are not too good to use the other stadium for a year or 2.
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organized school sports play a very important part in young peoples lives. It can provide educational opportunities for students to go on to college. And even perhaps become a major league baseball player, such as Nick and Steve Swisher. To ignore the repairs would be foolish as it must be done. I hope the board will give equal consideration to Erickson Stadium when funds are available. If the board did not step forward and quickly, it would have potentially caused the cancellation of football and soccer for the 2013-14 seasons. The board should be complimented.
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Central Micbigan University
December 13, 1965
-'~ ' .
Central Michigan University Board of Trustees
Meeting of December 13, 1965
ML Pleasant, Michigan
Members present: Mrs. Jean Backus: Lloyd M. Cofer, Mrs. Katharine C.
Hafstad; Lawrence D. Rahilly; John W. Sivier; James Umphrey; E. Allan
Morrow, Chairman; Judson W. Foust, President. Also: Norvall C. Bovee,
Treasurer; Byron P. Gallagher, Legal Counselor; Mrs. Doris L. Crippo,
Absent: Walter Wightman.
The next meeting of the Board will be held on February 9, 1966 in the
University Center. The frequency of meetings was discussed and it was
the concensus of opinion that there should be at least ten meetings per
It was moved, seconded and carried that the Minutes of the meeting held
on October 20, 1965, be approved.
It was moved seconded and carried that Mr. E. Allan Morrow and Mr.
Lawrence D. Rahilly be excused from the afternoon session for the
purpose of attending a hearing in the Court of Appeals in Lansing on
the proposed Injunction.
It was moved, seconded and carried that the document entitled "Bylaws of
Central Michigan University" as submitted be adopted as interim Bylaws
only, that the new Chairman of the Board appoint a committee to study,
draft and present a set of Bylaws for consideration of the Board at the
February meeting, using these interim, Bylaws as a guideline, and that
Mr. Byron Gallagher, Legal Counsel for the University and the Board of
Trustees, meet with this committee to assist them in the drafting of the
Bylaws. (Copy of Bylaws on file in the Secretary's Office.)
Mrs. Katharine C. Hafstad was nominated for Chairman and Mr. Waller W.
Wightman for Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the 1966 year.
It was moved, seconded an! carried that the nominations be closed and
that a unanimous vote be cast for these two nominees. (Per the interim
Bylaws, these are effective as of January 1, 1966.)
Mr. N. C. Bovee was nominated for Treasurer, and Mrs . Doris L. Crippo
for Secretary of the Board of Trustees for the 1966 year. It was moved,
seconded aoo carried that the nominations be closed and that a unanimous
vote be cast for these two nominees.
It was moved, seconded and carried that the Board of Trustees for Central
Michigan University apply for membership in tbe Association of Governing
Boards of Universities and Colleges.
It was moved, seconded and carried tbat we subscribe for nine copies of
the" EPE 15-Minute Report for Colleges and University Trustees." (1
copy for each member of the Board and 1 copy for the President's Office.)
The Chairman of the Faculty Survey Committee stated that in looking over
the summary of the Survey which he submitted at the August meeting of the
Board, no further action needs to be taken at this time but that the results
be usa! as resource mate rial in connection with future policy actions of
the Board. (Copy of summary on file in the Secretary's Office.)
It was moved , seconded and carried that the Chairman appoint a committee
to develop a policy relative to future appointments and to report to the Board
at the February meeting.
Pres ident Foust called attention to "Procedures for Implementing the
Policy on Tenure" which is in effect at Western Michigan University.
Copies of this have been given to the Chairman of the University Senate.
Mr. Bovee gave a report on tra ffic ordinance. It was moved, seconded
and carried that we request enabling legislation granting the Board of
Trustees ordinance ma.ldng power.
President Foust read a request from Mr. Austin Buchanan, Director of
Admissions, relative to using some of the Board of Trustees Grants for
good transfer students from community or jlUlior colleges. The concensus
of opinion was favorable to this request.
Mr. Bovee reported on the Unpaid University Staff Obligations as of
June 30 , 1965. It was suggested that information on this be placed in
each staff member's file for future reference.
President Foust reported on the proposed activities of the Alumni Development
Fum for the solicitation of fums. It was moved, seconded and
carried that the Secretary of the Board write a letter commending the
Alumni Development Fund Board for their efforts to raise money for
various University needs.
It was moved, seconded and carli ed that Graduate Assistants be granted
the r emission of fees in addition to salary, effective fall semester, 1966.
It was moved , seconded and carried that we intervene in the University
of Michigan suit in Washtenaw County relative to the constitutionality of
the Hutc hinson Act, and/or commence suit in Isabella County if necessary.
President Foust reported on certain changes in payroll and in classifications
for Departmental secretaries. The Board concurred in the recommendations
and suggested that these ch anges be included in the formal
recomm€ll.dations for the February Meeting.
Pres ident Foust recommended that the name of the Department of
Industrial Arts be changed to the Department of Industrial Educatio n.
The Board concurred in tbis recommendation.
It was moved, seconded and carried that ]1.11'. E. Allan Morrow be commended
for the considerable time and effort be bas made in serving as Chairman of
the Board since the formation in 1964.
It was moved, secondcd and carried that approval be given for Central
Michigan University to apply for a grant as a part of a project totaling
$263,189 for UHF Television, Channel 14.
Reports were made on the following items:
1. Senate Committee Investigation
2. Public Relations Program -
Agenda item for next meeting of the Board
3. Land Acquisition
4. Change in marki~ system for Student Teaching per action of the
University Senate
5. Negotiations for new bus - Division of Field Services
6. Meeting of Academic Affairs Committee with University Senate
7. Form of AlUlUal Financial Report
8. Athletic Insurance Policy
It was moved, seconded and carried that the following recommendations
as presented by President Foust be approved::
Mr. Stewart Allen, Instructor , Engli sh Department, effective
October 15, 1965.
Mrs. Jean R. Lev.ris. Assistant Inst ructor (Temporary), English
Department, effective JaIBlary 29, 1966.
Mrs. Sharon Marchlewicz, Clerk Jr. C-O, Chemistry Department.
effective October 15, 1965.
Mr. Casimer Mankowski, Custodian M- l, Maintenance Department,
effective October 29, 1965.
Dr. Thomas E. Smith, Assistant Profess or, Psychology Departm€ll.t,
effective January 31, 1966.
Dr. Ruth Cook, Assistant Professor , Home Economics Department,
effective June 11, 1966.
Miss Esther R. Altman, Associate Professor, Student Personnel
Services, effective July 1, 1966.
Miss Racbel Loughridge, Professor , For eign Languages Department,
effective January 29, 1966.
Resignations continued -
Mr. Richard Sweet , Stockr oom Anendant M-2 . Chemistry Department
, effective November 13 , 1965.
Mrs. J o Ann Colias, Clerk Sr. C-l , University Center Bookstore,
effective Octobe r 29, 1965.
Mr. Jack Morr ison , General Maintenance M-l, effective October 27,
Mr . Lewis Hurley, Watchman M-l, Security , e ffective October 30,
Mrs. Aletha A. Dickinson, Typist C-O, Graduate Studies Office,
e ffective December 17, 1965.
Mrs. Betty J. Vernon, Clerk Jr. C-O, Music Department, effective
November 26, 1965.
There were twenty-nine Temporary Groundsmen resignations
since the last Board of Trustees meeting, October 20, 1965.
Dr. Ole H. Kristoffe r son, Lecturer in Geology, Geography Department,
(three- fourths time!, effective for tbe !:pring semester, 1966.
Dr. Robert B. Newcombe, Lecturer in Geology, Geogra;phy Departme
nt, (on~fOllrth tim~, effective for the spring semester, 1966.
Mr. James Good, Ins tructor (part-time), J ournaJism Department,
effective for the spring semester, 1966.
Mrs. Jo Ann Thompson , Assistant Instructor (Temporary), parttim
e, English Department, for the period October 25, 1965 -
November 5, 1965.
Dr. Herbert S. Verter, Assistant Professor , Chemistry Department,
for the periods December 20 - December 31, 1965 and Jarruary 31 -
February 4, 1966, to do research work on ACS-PRF 04-01.938 grant.
Mr. Howard O. Ho11aoo, Instructor (Temporary), Psychology
Department, for the spring semester, 1966.
Mr. David R. Comtois, Instructor (Temporary), Psychology Department,
for the spring semester , 1966.
Mr . William Trembath, Instructor (Temporary) , Psyc hology Department,
fOr the spring semester , 1966.
Appointments continued-
Mr. fllarshall Hier, Instructor (Temporary) . Psychology Department
, for the s pri ng semester, 1966.
Jo.lr. Stepben Holder, Assistant In st ructor (Tempor ary) , part- time,
Englisb Departmcnl, for the pcriod October 20, 1965 - January 29 ,
1\.1I"s. Catheri.ne Neison, Instructor (Te mporary), part-time ,
Englisb Department , for the period October 18, 1965 - January 29 ,
:Mrs. Marie Schneider, Clerk Jr. C- O, half-time, Industrial Arts
Department, and one-balf time, History and PoliticaJ Science
Department , effective October 4 , 1965.
Mrs. Evelyn Biziorck, Key Punch Operator C-l, Business
Division, effective beginning October 25, 1965.
Mrs. Helen Davis , Clerk Jr. C-O, Chemistry Department, effective
beginning October 14, 1965.
Miss Kathleen Fitzpatrick , Clerk Jr. C-O, half-time , Art Department,
effective beginning October 4 , 1965.
:Mrs, Rita Deni, Clerk Jr. C-O, Music Department, effective
beginning November 29, 1965.
Mrs . Elizabeth Moore, Clerlc: Jr. C-O (Temporary), Economics
Department, e ffective November 10 , 1965.
Mr. Charles Brock , GeneraJ Maintenance M-l , effective beginning
November 15, 1965,
Mr. Basil Host, Custodian M- l , Housing, effective beginning
November 15, 1965.
Mr. Otto H. Lueder, Custodian M-l, Maintenance, effective
beginning November 15 , 1965.
Two Temporary Groundsmen were awointoo since the last Board
of Trustees Meeling, October 20, 1965.
TRANSFERS AND RECLASSIFlCATIONS:
Mr. Ronald V. ruley , Stockroom Attendant M-2, Chemistry
Department , from that of Custodian 1ti- l , effective November 10,
Mr. Donald B. Pumfrey, Custodian M-l, from that of Temporary
Groundsman, e ffective November 15, 1965.
Recommend approval of Leave of Absence, without pay, for Jo.fiss Ottllia
Kaminske, Assistant P rofessor, Commerce Department, for the faU
semester, 1965.
Recommend approval of the Schedule for Off-Camp.1s Classes for the
Spring Semester, 1966 . (Copy on file in the Sec retary's Office.)
The Cooperative Agreement between Delta College am Central Michigan
Unive rsity is Cor your information. (Copy on file in the Secretary's
Of:f1c e. )
Recommend approval of list of January, 1966, Prospective Graduates.
(Copy on file in the Secretary's Office.)
Recommend that the following statement be approved for permanent
insertion in the University's catalog in the section dealiDg with scholarships:
"The Joseph and Selma Bell &holarsbip Fund was establisbed
in 1959, by Joseph and Selma Bell of Riverdale , minols. As
community s pirited citizens and long time friends of Central
Mi cbigan Universi ty they have given expression to their love
of country and young people by cr eating this scholarship in
their name. The earnings of the fund are to be used to help
worthy and patriotic students. "
Recommend that the following firms be approved for the projects listed:
1. Davermnn Associates, Inc.
924 GranclvUle Avenue, S. W.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
s. Studies - Men's Pbysical Education and Recreation
2. Tarapat a-MacMahon Associates, Inc.
1191 West Square Lake Road
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
a. Studies - Social Science Building
Recommend that the resolution concerning t ransfer of securities be
approved. (Copy on fil e In the Secretary's Office.)
Recommend that:
1. A supplemental request he filed with the Department of Administration
asking that the amount for the City Sanitary Sewers
pr oject be increased from the initial reques t of $50, 000 to
2. The University guarantee the City payment of $35,000 to $40, 000
for the initial portion of thIs line a nd that such funds be advanced
from the Univer sity General Fund as needed by the City and
subsequent replacement to the Ge neral Fund be made from one
or two sources:
a. State appropriation
b. Construction Fums for next dormitory quadrangle
Recommend acceptaa::e of check in the amount of $5. 00 from the
International Business Machines Corporation, Matching Grant, for the
Development Fund.
Recommend acceptance of check in the amount of $600 from the Gerber
Baby Foods Fund to the Long Term Loan Fund.
Recommend acceptance of check in the amount of $150 from Miss Daphne
Dodds for the support of the Francis H. Dodds Poetry Reading Award
for the years 1966--67, 1967-68, and 1968-69.
Recommend acceptance of check in the amount of $25. 00 from the Chrysler
Corporation Fund. to our Development Fund.
Recommend acceptance of supplies and elJlipment from The Dow Chemical
Company to our Chemistr y Department. Es timated value - $1541. 72 .
Recommend acceptance of a gift of books to our Chemistry Department
from a laboratory of The Dow Chemic al Company. Estimated value _
Recommend acceptance of the follOwing gifts to the Central Michigan
University Lihrary and the Clarke Historical Library:
To the University Library:
Mr. Robert L. Drake, Supreme Court, Lansing, Michigan, two copies
of the p.1bUcatton, Commentary on the r..fichigan Juvenile Code.
Estimated value - $4.00
Congressman Elford A. Cederberg, House of Representatives ,
Washington, D. C. , a girt copy of Selma Kau sc's Mahala . E stimated
value - $5. 00 ---
Mr. Carl Marzan! , 100 West 23rd Street , New York 11 , New York ,
a gift of s everal books, Estimated value - $1 8.90.
Dr. Grant H. Brown, Campus , the twelve-volume set of Worits of
Fie lding and lxIok plates.
Mr. J. Allen Lampman , 1010 Glenwood P lace, Mt, Pleasant, about
f ifty volumes of the P ublic Acts of the State of Michigan. Estimated
value - $50.00.
To the Clarke Historic al Lib rary:
Dr. Normal'lE. Clarke, 19344 Warwick , Birmingham, a collection
of books. Estimated value - $750.50.
Mr. Hans E. Lantzsch, Ec or se Public Schools, Ecorse, Michigan,
a coll ection of Fathe r Coughlin's &..cial Justice and pamphlets pJ.blis
hed by him. Estimat ed value - $40.00.
Mr. G. E. Strang, Davison, Michigan , a gift of the Strang family
Bible and photograph album containing the pictures of the pa rents
and brother of James J. Strang. Estimated value - $100.00 .
Mr . R. A. Ewing, Copemish, Mi chigan, a gift of the large collection
of publications fr om the private press of the late C. W. Wood
of Cop emish. Estimated value - $75.00.
Mrs. R. W. Finch , MI. Pleasant , Mic higan, two o ld religious
volumes In the D.!.tch language. Estimated value - $25.00,
Mr. Henry C. Appel t , Muskegon, Michiga n, a la rge coll ection of
books in the German language. Estimated value - $935.00.
Mrs. Howard Guthrie, Mt. Pl easant, Michigan , Spanish-American
War photogr aphs and the vo lume Wright's Offic ial History of the
Spanish American War. Estimated value - $15.00 .
Mr. Louis K. Cramton, Midlan::l , Michigan, a gift of books,
Estimated value - $62 . 00.
Recommend acceptance of $2,000 grant from the National Science Foundation
in support of a project initiated dur ing the past summer In a program
of Research Participation for College Teacher s. (Copy on file In the
Secretary's Offioe.)
Rc<.'Ommend accepta ~(> of grant, not to exceed $5000 from the Department
of He alth , Education , aoo Welfare for coooucting a soort-term
Institute for Advanced Study in English. (Copy on file 1n the Secretary's
Office. )
Reconun(>nd acceptance of grant, not to exceed $5000 for conducting a
short-term Institute for Advanced Study in Reading from the Department
of Heal t h, Education. and Wel fa re . (Copy on file in the Secr etary's
Office. )
Recommend acceptance of grant in the amount of $4 1, 780 for support
of the "Summe r Institute in Biology for Secoooary School Teachers"
from the National Scie nce Foundation. (Copy on fil e in the Secretary's
Recommend accet:tance of grant in the amount of $81 ,060 for support
of the "Summer Institute In Mathe matics for Secoooary School Teac hers"
from the National Sc ience Foundation. (Copy on file in the Secrehry~8
Office . )
Recommend that the emeritus rank be establis bed as follows:
Mis s Racbel Loughridge - Profe ssor Emeritus
On motion, meeting adj ourned.at 3:10 P.M.
Mrs. Doris L. Crippo
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Five key players
RB Ray Rice has 1,937 yards and 12 touchdowns rushing and receiving in 19 games this season.
"Ray Rice is the heart and soul of the Ravens' offense. With Ray Lewis retiring and Joe Flacco coming on the way he has, Ray Rice doesn't get enough credit for what he means to that team." -- Eddie George, four-time Pro Bowl running back and current TV analyst.
QB Joe Flacco passed for a career-best 3,817 yards in guiding the Ravens to the playoffs for the fifth straight season.
"When you look at the criticism that Joe Flacco has been through, our guys have been through a lot. We've been to three AFC championship games. We've been to the playoffs each year, and we just haven't got the job done. But now we're here on the big stage, and Joe deserves all that credit." -- Running back Ray Rice
MLB Ray Lewis made 44 tackles in the Ravens' three playoff victories. Lewis returned from a torn triceps in time for the playoffs, at which time he announced his retirement after the Super Bowl.
"Of course, we want to send him off the right way. Yeah, it's Ray's last ride, but I wouldn't be so certain about that. Ain't no telling. He might make a comeback. He may play 10 games next year." -- Safety Ed Reed
WR Torrey Smith caught 58 passes for 1,053 yards and 10 touchdowns the first 19 games, including two touchdowns in a playoff victory over the Broncos.
"It's who we are. That's what our city is, a tough city. You get knocked down, you've got to get back up. That's how life is. You just can't lay down and roll over. You've got to continue to fight." -- Smith, on how he and his teammates are fighters
DT Haloti Ngata was selected to the Pro Bowl for the fourth straight season, and he is considered the anchor of the Ravens defensive line.
"Did you see him chase down RGIII out of bounds? That's pretty insane, a 340-pound guy moving that fast. No matter how banged up he is, he can still move around pretty good." -- Ravens defensive end Paul Kruger, on Ngata's tackle of Robert Griffin III
Three intangibles
1. The Ravens want to send Ray Lewis into retirement with a Super Bowl victory. Lewis, a 17-year veteran, announced his retirement just before the Ravens first playoff game, and the Ravens feel as if they are riding on that emotion.
2. Ravens coach John Harbaugh is the one person who knows how Jim Harbaugh thinks. While that cuts both ways, John has the edge in coaching experience.
3. It's likely no team will be better prepared for Colin Kaepernick. Not only have the Ravens had two weeks to prepare for him, but they also have two quarterbacks -- including Bay Area native Dennis Dixon -- whose experience running the read-option offense has provided optimum simulation for the Baltimore defense.
Three matchups Ravens must win
1. Outside linebacker Terrell Suggs, approaching full strength after suffering a torn Achilles tendon during the offseason, must finds ways to beat 49ers left offensive tackle Joe Staley and get consistent pressure on Kaepernick while being mindful of Kaepernick trying to run around the left side.
2. Wide receivers Anquan Boldin and Smith need to use their size and strength against cornerbacks Carlos Rogers and Tarell Brown. Boldin and Smith rely upon their physical attributes to create mismatches against smaller defenders.
3. Defensive tackle Haloti Ngata, 6 feet 4 and 340 pounds, is big enough, strong enough and agile enough to overpower most interior offensive linemen. The Ravens are counting on him to use that rare combination to collapse the pocket and disrupt Kaepernick's timing, in addition to clogging up the running lanes for Frank Gore and LaMichael James.
Five key numbers
0 -- Quarterback Joe Flacco navigated his way through three playoff games without having any of his 93 passes intercepted. He passed for eight touchdowns during those three victories. The last five quarterbacks with a minimum 8:0 TD-INT ratio in the postseason won the Super Bowl and the Super Bowl MVP.
6 -- The Ravens are 6-0 under coach John Harbaugh whenever they have an extra week to prepare for an opponent. By comparison, the 49ers are 3-0-1 under coach Jim Harbaugh.
6.2 -- The Ravens faced the read-option only once this season, Week 14 against the Washington Redskins. The Redskins averaged 6.2 yards on their 15 runs out of the read-option.
15 -- The Ravens tied for the second-fewest passing touchdowns allowed in the regular season. They allowed four in three playoff victories against quarterbacks that combined for 94 touchdown passes: Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and Andrew Luck.
.650 -- The Ravens are 13-7 in postseason play, the best winning percentage in NFL history.
Top 3 Strengths
Quarterback play: Joe Flacco is in the midst of one of the more impressive postseason runs in NFL history, with eight touchdowns and no interceptions in three playoff games. His success passing also has opened up the running game and made the Ravens a well-balanced offense.
Run defense: The Ravens allowed only 3.5 yards per carry in their three playoff victories, down from a regular-season average of 4.0, which ranked eighth in the NFL.
Right side of offensive line: Right offensive tackle Michael Oher and right guard Marshal Yanda comprise one of the most imposing duos in the league. Running back Ray Rice gained the lion's share of his 1,390 yards rushing running behind that pair.
Top 3 Weaknesses
Aging defense: Free safety Ed Reed, outside linebacker Terrell Suggs, middle linebacker Ray Lewis and defensive tackle Haloti Ngata no longer are as dominant as they once were. The Baltimore defense allowed an average of 350.9 yards per game in the regular season, up from 288.9 in 2011, when the Ravens finished third in team defense.
Time of possession: The Ravens finished 29th in average time of possession, at 28 minutes, 40 seconds -- every other playoff team finished in the top half. By comparison, the 49ers were fifth at 31:46.
Penalties: Only one team (the Rams) were flagged more times than the Ravens' 121, and no team had more penalty yards than their 1,127.
-- Steve Corkran, Staff


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Trey Anastasio Band,
Friday, 10/07/2011
House of Blues, Myrtle Beach, SC
Set 1: Cayman Review, Burlap Sack and Pumps, Alaska, Sweet Dreams Melinda, Push On 'Til the Day, Magilla, O-o-h Child, Valentine, Let Me Lie, Snake Head Thumb, Night Speaks to a Woman, Black Dog
Set 2: Shine, Sand, Liquid Time, Mozambique, Alive Again, The Devil Went Down to Georgia, The Way I Feel, Last Tube, Show of Life, Tuesday
Encore: Ocelot, The Land of Nod[1], Pigtail[2], First Tube
[1] Debut.
[2] TAB debut.
Notes: This gig featured the debut of "The Land of Nod" (Trey original) and the TAB debut of "Pigtail" (Anastasio/Marshall).
Musicians: Trey Anastasio, Russell Remington, Jennifer Hartswick, Russ Lawton, Tony Markellis, Ray Paczkowski, Natalie Cressman