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Recreating the magic of the bookshop online through technical innovation
The Brief
This was an industry first – using AI to re-create the sense of discovery you get in a 'real' bookshop.
The Approach
The key to the project was to encourage dwell time, inspire our audience with books and writers that might be new to them, and above all change the behaviour of consumers, using digital technology to create relationships between authors and readers.
The Work
Using dynamic artificial intelligence software we created a cross-platform multi-touch capable environment allowing users to follow a journey of discovery based on their behaviours. The network of new sites is an industry first, providing a brand new way for consumers to connect and interact with books and authors online.


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TH!NK Electric cars coming to U.S. in 2009
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TH!NK GLOBAL importing them from Norway
Talk about turnarounds being fair play: TH!NK GLOBAL was once a part of Ford Motor Company, but was sold to a group of Norwegian investors in 2006; it has now produced an all-electric powered car that it plans to import and sell to Americans.
TH!NK was started in the mid 1990s, developed by Norwegian company, PIVCO (Personal Independent Vehicle Company). PIVCO's launched a third-generation vehicle in 1995, named CityBee (in Europe) and Citi (in the U.S.). 120 CityBees/Citi's were built, with over one-third shipped to California to participate in the Northern California Bay Area Rapid Transit's (BART) station car program.
A fourth-generation vehicle was then launched in 1998, co-designed with Lotus Engineering, and TH!NK City was launched. Ford then bought PIVCO in 1999 and over 1,000 renamed TH!NK AS vehicles were produced; the vehicles were leased and there was a waiting list.
Ford Motor Company then began to run into financial difficulties. In 2004 Ford abandoned the program and sold the technology, and now TH!NK GLOBAL is here. The TH!NK City car is designed for short jaunts and can go 110 miles on a single charge at a top speed of 65mph.
The cars have been sold in Norway this year and next year will ship to France, Switzerland and other Scandinavian countries, with a few of the test cars coming to the U.S. next year. TH!NK announced the North American launch at the Fortune Brainstorm Green Conference in Pasadena, California, and it is also getting some help from its VC investors, Rockport Capital Partners and Perkins Caulfield & Byers.
The TH!NK City is expected to be priced at $35,000 or less and to compete with Toyota's Prius and similar sized economy cars. Because frequently required battery replacement (every several years) is so expensive for electric cars, TH!NK is considering leasing the batteries to customers and reducing the price of the car accordingly.

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- De-clutter: Find ways to store odds-and-ends in containers and cabinets or donate belongings to charity.
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- Spruce up: Add curb appeal by weeding and sprucing up the garden with low maintenance, drought-tolerant plantings -- also called xeriscaping. Giving the front door a new coat of paint is a low cost way to add curb appeal.
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|Inside cover art from the graphic novel Valentia (2012).
|MuVIM hosts excellent rotating exhibits in the Sala Parpalló.
|For the "Dibujante Ambulante" exhibit about Roca, they did an amazing job
putting you the visitor inside Roca's work, surrounding you with it.
|Following the exhibit, I bought a bunch of Roca-related items at the awesome Librería Dadá:
one of his books, a new Valencian fanzine (brilliantly) called "arròsnegre" to which he contributes...
okay, and I also finally bought a book on my other art obsession, the Valencian street artist Escif.
• Paco Roca, Arrugas (2007), and Memorias de un hombre en pijama (2011)
Paco Roca, a native of my beloved adopted town Valencia, has been producing graphic illustrations since the mid-1990s, though it has only been in the last five years, and particularly with the animated film Arrugas (2011), that he has risen to a certain international fame. The movie, which received high critical acclaim, is about a group of retired "ancianos" who've been put in a retired home. One of them battles with Alzheimer, and the plot centers around his and his friends' efforts to avoid detection of his illness and being banished to the dreaded second floor, where themore troublesome "lost cause" clients are put. The movie, based on Roca's 2007 graphic novel Arrugas (which means "wrinkles"), is a nice example of his ability to blend humor and social commentary together into a sweet story, and animate it with stunning and imaginative visuals.
|The MuVIM exhibit gave me an idea of the breadth of Roca's activities...
|... and the long, winding history of a graphic artist. People who work in this
area really have to be creative and open-minded about the projects they take on.
|It is a credit to Valencia's MuVIM that it was one of the earliest to
feature the Arrugas film, supporting a local artist.
|This drawing by Roca in the MuVIM exhibit explains his motivations
for tackling the Arrugas project: how the elderly ("ancianos") are ignored
by society and treated as if they are uninteresting and invisible.
But Roca is not a one-hit wonder. Some of his others works worth
|Here you can see an example of how Roca creatively illustrates what it is
to lose one's memories with the onset of Alzheimer's.
|Pardon the photo's blurriness, but I hope you can still appreciate the wit and playfulness
with which Roca parodies capitalism and its malicious affects on society.
|These two pages on "tupper" (tupperware leftovers) culture in Spain are why
I had to immediately buy Memorias de un hombre en pijama. Brilliant!
• VALENTIA: 1 ciudad, 34 autores y 23 historias (2012)
Valentia: 1 ciudad, 34 autores y 23 historias (2012). I cannot more highly recommend this book, especially as a souvenir for any expats or exchange students sentimental about their time in Valencia. ("Valentia" is the old Roman name for Valencia.) As the title explains, it is the brainchild of 34 authors, a mixture of relatively known and unknown writers and illustrators in Valencia. And it is "cien por cien valenciano", which is to say that not only are the contributors "Valencian", but the topics in the 23 different stories all center around the city... stories about falleros, the Turia fountain at the Plaza de la Virgen, the Miguelete tower, the dragón del Patriarca, the "rat penat" of Jaume I, neighborhood tales about Ruzafa and Benimaclet, football-mania and Valencia CF, and (of course) cooking paella. Needless to say, graphic illustrations of Valencia's many iconic sights and city images feature prominently throughout. If you are smitten with Valencia, this is possibly one of the best keepsakes you can buy to take back home with you.
|I love this illustration of all the contributors to Valentia!
|The story, "La fuente del Turia", by Ana García and Maríá Lorenzo
is inspired by this well-known Valencia landmark.
|Abraham García and Miguel Delicado's story, "El hombre de los puentes",
features various bridges along the Rió Turia, such as la Peineta shown here.
|Any truly Valencian creation will have the mandatory paella image stamped
somewhere on it, though I particularly like this inside cover illustration of paella.
|I was excited to learn about a book signing with the
Paco Roca and Alberto Sanz signing, or really illustrating my copy!
• Javier Mariscal, Chico & Rita (2010)
Javier Mariscal. He is older and more internationally established than Roca, and works on artistic projects well beyond the world of comics. Long well-known in Spain, I first learned about Mariscal from the animated film, Chico & Rita (2010). Produced by
|Alongside Chico & Rita, this "Bar Cel Ona" logo is probably
one of Mariscal's most famous works.
As I said, Mariscal has a much longer history than this film. He became famous in 1979 for his now-iconic "Bar Cel Ona" tourism logo. In the late eighties he opened a workshop, Estudio Mariscal, from which he has worked on a variety of projects collaborating with numerous other artists and designers. In 1992 he designed the mascot, Cobi, for the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, an Olympics that were really a turning point for the city and Spain in the eyes of the world. Not all of his projects are international in scope. In 1995, Mariscal worked with school children in Valencia to design a collective mural in defense of the use of the Valencian language in public schools. With the success of the movie version, he's just released a graphic novel version of Chico & Rita (2012), too.
|Cobi, the official 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics mascot
|Mariscal and the defense of Valencià language collective mural/protest in 1995
Lightning doesn't strike twice. Mariscal, alongside Paco Roca, is proof that Valencia is clearly an incredible place for cultivating the graphic art imagination. Maybe it's the water. Maybe it's fallas. Or it could be the big bright sun, the vivid light. Whatever it is, it's working!
• ... and beyond: El Víbora and Valencia's Futurama shop
|Paco Roca drew this cover for El Víbora in 2001.
The first I stumbled upon at the MuVIM exhibit, the provocative graphic art
|Aspiring artists often make their start at the fringe. Paco Roca got going professionally
contributing to these adult graphic art magazines. It seems like porn is always at the cutting edge.
Futurama Comics. Located across the street from the MuVIM, Futurama is a local institution and been around selling comics to comic fans for decades. If you're in town, help support them by stopping by, browsing their substantial collection of comics, and purchasing some works by local artists such as Paco Roca or Escif (they carry his street art book there).
It's by supporting these kinds of local and (non-local institutions) and art publications (conventional or not) that artists are able to get buy as they grow into their craft, needed especially in an economy like this one. I'm certainly won over to comics and graphic arts. These artists have gained my respect for their creativity and cultural importance, and for the visual magic they've contributed to Valencia, Spain and beyond.
|I leave you with this excellent piece of advice on Spanish moms' secret
to the perfect "sofrito" from Paco Roca's exhibit: buy tomatoes at the market,
because the supermarket tomatoes "no saben a nada"!


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Welcome to Our Lady of the Annunciation Parish, Pagewood
We give thanks to the Lord that Our Lady of the Annunciation Parish has been for its people a place where they can meet their God in the Eucharist, grow together as a faith community, and hand this faith on down through the years to all of us.
The Pastors of this parish have been men of God, faithful stewards of the vineyard of the Lord with joyful and thankful hearts. May Our Blessed Mother protect all our Priests.
May Our Lady of the Annunciation keep us always in her loving care and may she find in the young hearts of all of us a willingness to place ourselves wholeheartedly at the service of God and His Church, and a desire to find our peace in His unique plan for us.


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Don is a Solutions Architect within Dockers Customer Success Team where he works with strategic Docker enterprise customers, providing technical leadership, deep technology expertise, and architecture experience. Prior to Docker Don worked at Cisco in their Advanced Services consultancy division. Outside of work Don is a keen Landscape Photographer.
Don BauerLead DevOps Engineer
Don Bauer started his career twelve years ago in a metrics analyst and systems engineering role with Charter Communications. Since then, he has held roles in development, infrastructure, architecture and operations for both enterprise corporations and startups. He immediately recognized a common thread in each role that allowed him to focus on enabling teams and companies to succeed through standardization, simplification, and automation. Don believes companies and teams succeed through transparency and experimentation without the fear of failure. In his current role, Don operates with one simple principle: to automate himself out of a job.Currently, Don is the Lead DevOps Engineer for Citizens Bank under the umbrella of the company's innovation initiative. He primarily focuses on automating the integration and delivery of software and services, and he supports innovation using technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. Don is also a Docker community leader and co-organizes Nashville's Docker and Golang meetups.
Dinant PaardenkooperInnovator
Experienced System Engineer that always looking for new ways to improve and translate customer's needs by using and adopt the latest technologies.
As Docker System specialist for over 2 years, he has built op the experience that is needed, to help Dev/Ops teams work together and change the way they think.
Ell MarquezTechnical Evangelist@ello_o_punk
Ell Marquez has been part of the open-source family for a few years now. In this time, she has found the support needed from her mentorship relationships to grow from a Linux Administrator to an OpenStack technical trainer at Rackspace. Recently, she took the leap to join Linux Academy as a technical evangelist focusing on container technologies.
Elodie RafalimananaSoftware Engineer@eloone
Elodie is a Software Engineer at Adobe where she builds high scale event-driven applications using Docker. With 8 years of experience in software development, and a lot of code reviews done in different settings, she will share her findings on how to do efficient code reviews. Her mission at DockerCon is to reveal the secrets and techniques of Diplomacy to help the Tech community build software together more efficiently.
Elton StonemanDeveloper Advocate@eltonstoneman
I'm a Pluralsight Author, Microsoft MVP and Developer Advocate at Docker. I've been architecting and delivering successful solutions with Microsoft technologies since 2000, most recently Big Data and API implementations in Azure, and distributed applications with Docker.
Currently I'm interested the evolution of the Microsoft stack, exploring the great opportunities to modernize existing .NET Framework apps with Docker, and run them alongside new .NET Core apps in Windows and Linux containers.
I'm a regular presenter and workshop host at conferences. I've been fortunate to speak at NDC, DockerCon, SDD, DevSum, Container Camp and Future Decoded. You'll often see me at user groups too – Docker London, London DevOps and WinOps are my locals.
Franco FioreseIT Strategist and Solutions Consultant
As an IT Strategist and Solution Consultant at DXC, with a long time experience in IT, Franco take cares of clients, helping them establishing the journey of digital transformations. More recently worked on the solution of the Cloud platform for the public sector in Italy as well as the introduction of innovative platform to support DevOps and agile processes.
He lives and works in Rome, Italy.
Frederik BankeSenior Software DeveloperFrederik Banke is a Senior Software Developer at Santander Consumer Bank Nordics where he is part of the team that builds website software for consumer finance. He has worked with developing and hosting critical websites for more than 15 years. During the last years, containers and cloud computing have changed the infrastructure landscape a lot. His interest is in how to make software exploit containers in a way that makes it possible to monitor and scale the applications in maintainable ways.
You can find him blogging at www.datadriven-investment.com
Georgi ParlakovWeb Developer@gparlakov
Georgi Parlakov is full stack developer mainly DotNet/Angular, keen simplicity advocate, Docker novice, loves RxJs and ngrx and an aspiring open source contributor. He is also father of a beautiful girl, blogger, occasional meetup and event speaker and keen on all things dev like Azure, TDD, F#, typescript.
Gareth RushgroveProduct Manager@garethr
Gareth Rushgrove is a product manager at Docker. He works remotely
from Cambridge, UK, helping to build interesting tools for people to
better manage infrastructure and applications. Previously he worked
for the UK Government Digital Service focused on infrastructure,
operations and information security. When not working he can be found
curating the Devops Weekly newsletter or hacking on software in
new-fangled programming languages.
Girish RanganathanPrincipal Architect
Girish is a software technologist who has played a pivotal role in architecting and developing a variety of large scale distributed systems. His recent interests include cloud native, microservices, service mesh and serverless. He strongly believes that simple ideas can go a long way into building efficient, reliable, secure and scalable systems. He is always on the lookout for what's next and how it can be used to build better systems or improve existing ones.
Gregory BohnckeTechnical Architect
As Technical Architect I have to act as lead developer of the lead developers. With 8+ years development background, in extremely varying development domains. I bridge the gaps between Business, Security, Ops, Infra and IT development, ensuring that all the software development teams within Tele2 Netherlands develop in a uniform and consistent way.
Guillaume MoriniSolutions Engineer@GuillaumeMorini
Guillaume is working at Docker, working with customers to help them to jump into containers world. His favorite topics are around Automation, Orchestration, Cloud and Networking, and like to develop micro services applications on his spare time. Before that, Guillaume worked for Cisco on Data Center infrastructure automation and hybrid cloud environment.
Harish JayakumarDirector, Solutions Engineering, North America@harish_jkumar
Harish Jayakumar leads the Solutions Engineering team in North America. He works closely with customers in adopting Docker in their organization. Outside of that, he is a regular speaker at Meetups, evangelizing and talking about Docker, Orchestration and DevOps. He has several years of experience working on infrastructure and systems management solutions both as a Product Manager and a developer. He tweets @harish_jkumar
Ian CampbellMember of Technical Staff
Ian is a Member of Technical Staff at Docker where he currently focuses on build tooling.
Ian JumaInfrastructure Engineering Lead@ianjuma
Ian Juma is an Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Strong engineering professional skilled in Python, Scala, Go, and Databases.
Indy BainsLead Platform Engineer@ibains007
Indy is a highly experienced platform architect, software engineer, RedHat 7 Certified System Administrator and AWS Certified Solution Architect with nearly two decades of delivery experience on UNIX/Linux platforms on large-scale enterprise projects. He specialises in creating continuous delivery and deployment environments, and implementing infrastructure-as-code.
He has lead on numerous projects that have used Docker at its core to deliver critical national infrastructure.
Israel Vega, Jr.@ivega11
Israel Vega, Jr. has worked with Microsoft for 11 years (non-contiguous). He lives in Tampa, FL with his wife and 3 kids where, when he is not working, enjoys sunshine, playing dominoes, and investing in real estate. Working within the Azure engineering organization, he focused on partner enablement and customer escalations and in his new role as a Principal PM Manager with Commercial Software Engineering (CSE), is now focused on customer scenario validation and providing engineering feedback. His core technical expertise are in the areas of identity, security and application development. Add a mix of IoT, containers (Windows and Linux), core infrastructure, and legacy workload migration, and he is a sure hit at parties. He has a wealth of customer experience working with high impact orgs like UBS, H&M, Ecolab, PWC, EY, and Deloitte and has been recognized in the industry for both his strategic technical consulting as well as his Information and IT Digital transformation expertise.
Jaana B. Dogan@rakyll
Jaana B. Dogan works on making Google production services more monitorable and debuggable. Previously, she worked on the Go programming language at Google and has a decade-long experience in building developer platforms and tools.
Javier RamírezIT Architect@frjaraur
I am working at Hopla Software, building Customers Solutions with Containers and Microservices since 2016. I worked around Monitoring and Automation in Telco for many years before containers arrived and still interests in how to manage infrastructure health in production environments. You can find my work as @frjaraur and @codegazers. I love astrophotografy and spend most of time writing code while waiting for clear nights to take some pics.
Jean RougeSr. Software Engineer
Jeff MitchellExecutive Director & Head of Enterprise Delivery
My background is very much in technology and started by developing communications protocol software at American Express. I went on to develop real-time financial feeds in stock exchanges for Dow Jones Telerate. Since 1997 I have worked within Mizuho International based in London. Whilst at Mizuho I established and built out core technology teams which over the years expanded and consolidated into the current Enterprise Delivery dept. which oversees Enterprise Messaging, Enterprise Data ,DevOps, Agile practices, and Robotics.
Jeff NickoloffCo-founder@allingeek
Jeff Nickoloff co-founded Topple (gotopple.com). He and his team provide: custom software development; Docker, containerization, and microservice consulting; and various engineering training services. He is an experienced software engineer, people manager, published author, and blogger. He enjoys reducing "time to root cause", product experimentation, building engineering teams, and taking on the most difficult problems.
Joan Anton SancesSoftware Architect@jantonsg
Joan Anton is a software architect at Desigual. Passionate about new technologies, he has been participating in several and different projects such as ecommerce projects (desigual.com), b2b sites and mobile applications. Nowadays he is focused on leading new projects based on containers, micro services and promoting devops culture. Joan Anton tweets @jantonsg
Jorge EjarqueResearcher
Jorge Ejarque holds a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in 2015 and he is a Researcher at Barcelona Supercomputing Center since 2005. He has contributed in the design and development of tools and programming models for distributed computing. He has worked in several National and International R&D projects and was a member of the experts' board of the Spanish National Grid Initiative. His current research interests are focused on parallel programming models for distributed platforms.
Justin CormackSr. Software Engineer@justincormack
Justin Cormack is an engineer in the security team at Docker. This means he is fortunate enough to get to work across the whole product, from the open source projects to desktop and enterprise.
Jules TestardSoftware Engineer@julestestard
Jules Testard is a Software Engineer at Docker Inc. After being a database researcher for some time at UC San Diego, Jules transitioned to cloud computing first by building the initial version of the AWS Glue web service at Amazon and now building on the Docker Enterprise Edition product at Docker.Jules is passionate about building the robust, scalable, distributed systems today that will shape the way we build, ship and run the software of tomorrow.
Kenia ValladarezSoftware Engineer@kaxcode
Kenia was once accountant with a dream to not be so #basic. Now, she is a "cloudy" software engineer, an amateur gopher, and a fan of containerization at Cloudreach. Kenia pushes commits and tweets at @kaxcode.
Kevin CrawleyDeveloper Evangelist@notsureifkevin
Kevin is a Developer Evangelist at Instana, an APM and container monitoring service provider and speaks internationally on topics including distributed computing, microservices, containers, monitoring, observability, tracing, logging, deployment automation, public speaking, alert fatigue and human ops. He is passionate about sharing knowledge and the experiences gained during his career as an application developer, team leader, and site reliability engineer. He has successful implemented Docker in production utilizing ECS, Docker Swarm/EE, and Kubernetes at multiple organizations over the past 4 years. When he's not on an airplane Kevin enjoys cycling, camping, hockey and sightseeing.
Laura Frank TachoDirector of Engineering@rhein_wein
As the Director of Engineering at CloudBees and a Docker Captain, Laura has a deep knowledge of developer tools. She has worked on CodeShip, a SaaS CI/CD platform designed to streamline testing and deployment of code, since 2015. Before CodeShip, she co-maintained several open source projects to support Docker in the early stages of the project, including Panamax and ImageLayers, and came to work on developer tools and open source by way of OpenStack and HP's public cloud offering. She is a member of the Moby Project's Technical Steering Committee and frequent international speaker. She currently lives in Vienna.
Lee NambaEMEA Practice Manager@leenamba
Lee is the EMEA Practice Manager at Docker where he works with strategic Docker enterprise customers, providing technical leadership, deep technology expertise, and architecture experience. He previously worked at Atos as a senior enterprise architecture. In a previous life, he started and sold a software company in San Francisco. He is based out of Paris, France.
Lee CalcoteHead of Technology Strategy@lcalcote
Lee Calcote is the Head of Technology Strategy at Solarwinds, where he stewards strategy and innovation across the business. Previously, Calcote led software-defined data center engineering at Seagate, up-leveling the systems portfolio by delivering new predictive analytics, telemetric and modern management capabilities. Prior to Seagate, Calcote held various leadership positions at Cisco, where he created Cisco's cloud management platforms and pioneered new, automated, remote management services.
In addition to his role at Solarwinds, Calcote advises a handful of startups and serves as a member of various industry bodies, including Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the Distributed Management Task Foundation (DMTF) and Center for Internet Security (CIS). As a Docker Captain and Cloud Native Ambassador, Calcote is an organizer of technology conferences, an analyst, author, speaker in the technology community. Calcote holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a master's degree in Business Administration from California State University, Fresno and retains a list of industry certifications.
Liz RiceTechnology Evangelist@lizrice
Liz Rice is the Technology Evangelist with container security specialists Aqua Security, where she also works on container-related open source projects including kube-bench and kube-hunter. She has a wealth of software development, team, and product management experience from working on network protocols and distributed systems, and in digital technology sectors such as VOD, music, and VoIP. When not writing code, or talking about it, Liz loves riding bikes in places with better weather than her native London, and competing in virtual races on Zwift.
Loke JohannessenSenior System Specialist@acehege
Loke is a lazy guy who hates doing the same chore more than once, his wife might hate it, but as Senior Systems Specialist managing & developing Alm. Brands application server platforms, it comes in handy to be lazy by nature.
Manik TanejaSr. Product Manager@manikt
Manik Taneja, is a Sr. Product Manager in the product development team at Docker Inc. He leads the strategic direction, road map, and life cycle of the Docker Engine, from upstream containerd to downstream Docker Engine – Enterprise/Community product. He has 10+ years of experience in the Cloud, Data Center Infrastructure and IoT space. He has previously held roles across Software Engineering, Technical Marketing and Product Management, and resides in San Francisco Bay Area with his loving wife.
Marc MeunierDirector of Business Development
Marc is a Business Development Director and part of the edge leadership team at Docker. He facilitates engagements with technology partners that foster the development and expansion of edge solutions. With over 15 years of experience in product development, he understands the challenges that companies face in this rapidly evolving space. In previous roles, Marc has lead development teams through the design, prototype and deployment of secure connected devices. He is based in Waterloo, Canada.
Mark ChurchProduct Manager@churchofmark
Mark Church is a Product Manager at Docker focused on Platform Ops, Networking, and Storage. In Mark's not-so-distant previous life he worked in the field helping companies design, implement, and service their container infrastructure. Widespread Docker evangelism and also thorough day-2 operationalization of container technology are the principles Mark used to make Docker projects successful in large organizations. Prior to Docker, Mark held a variety of engineering roles at Cisco Systems where he helped design web-scale data center networks for companies such as LinkedIn, Airbnb, and Salesforce.
Mark MillerSolutions Architect
Mark is a Solutions Architect for Capstone Consulting and a Docker Accredited Consultant. He is the Cloud and Container architect for Lindsay Corp on the Fieldnet application. He consults with customers providing technical guidance towards using containers in the enterprise to advance cloud native apps as well as traditional apps. With more than two decades of experience in software development he helps customers transform the way they enable more agile and robust architectures that run in the cloud, on premise, and in a hybrid cloud environment on the Docker Enterprise platform.
Mathias KriegelIT Operations@mathkrieg
Mathias is responsible of leading the IT-Ops team at Desigual, where he also develops the role of Cloud Architect and is in charge of leading & developing the company`s cloud strategy. Mathias comes from a sysadmin background where he specialized in cloud, containers, virtualization and configuration management tools. Mathias tweets @mathkrieg
Michael IrwinApplication Architect@mikesir87
Michael Irwin is an Application Architect at Virginia Tech who is striving to modernize how software is developed and run on campus by driving the adoption of Docker-based workloads, CI/CD pipelines, the public cloud, single-page applications, and more. As a Docker Captain and Community Leader (meetup organizer), he has the opportunity to share his expertise and experiences with others, but also learn how others are using the latest technologies. When developing, he writes code in Node, Java (Java EE mostly), and JavaScript, but actively contributes to projects written in other languages and frameworks. He's blessed to have a beautiful wife and four fantastic daughters!
Michael ParkerSoftware Engineer
Michael Parker is a Software Engineer at Docker. Having spent his early career designing video games, he moved into software for materials science, then most recently working on a suite of microservices for price comparison before joining Docker in 2018.
Mijo SafradinLinux Engineer
Mijo Safradin works as a Linux engineer at Robert Bosch GmbH. He is the responsible service owner of a worldwide available container platform that enables software developers, engineers and production workload.
Mike Noe
Mike Noe is an excitable and passionate problem solver. With more than 15 years in operations and engineering, Mike has worked in healthcare, music, military intelligence, and finance industries. Mike can often be heard evangelizing automation, atomic workloads, active monitoring, and, obviously, containers. Mike has supported and developed production Docker environments for over the last 2 years. Prior to joining Franklin American Mortgage, Mike was a soldier in the US Army, supporting intelligence missions. Since then he has gone on to earn a Masters in Information Technology Management from Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN. Mike will also be speaking for the first time at DockerCon18 Barcelona on the trials and tribulations of creating the "DevOps" culture!
Moustapha GueyeSolutions Architect
Moustapha Gueye is a solutions architect who started his career at SUN Microsystems as a sysadmin. Based out of Paris, France, he is currently supporting one of the biggest French banking companies and other customers helping them apprehend containers and their ecosystem.
Niko VirtalaCloud Architect@nikovirtala
Niko is a Cloud Architect at VR Group Ltd. In this role he drives Finnish Railways towards multiple clouds with modern architecture and technologies, such as containers and serverless. Niko tweets @nikovirtala
Nils De MoorCTO@ndemoor
Nils is an open source aficionado. After a brief passage through the academic world where he researched simulation of distributed systems, he decided to try his luck as an entrepreneur and cofounded Woorank as the CTO. By grabbing millions of data points every day, he developed a passion for automating, scaling and distributing services at scale. In his free time you can find him in the basement tinkering with arduino's, RPi's and the bunch to automate everything he doesn't want to waste time on.
Oliver PomeroySolution Engineer
Oliver is a Solution Engineer at Docker, based out of the London office he supports the adoption of Docker Enterprise Edition within our largest UK customers. He comes from an infrastructure background having worked as a Solution Engineer and Technical Presales at Hewlett Packard helping customers adopt the latest datacentre technologies.
Pierre-Antoine CouaillierSolution Architect
Pierre-Antoine is a solution architect at Docker, with more than 10 years of experience in ops teams, with a focus on automation. Based in Paris, France, he works with customers in southern Europe, helping them to be successful in their adoption of the Docker platform.
Pierre GayvalletSr. Software Engineer@wayofspark
After 10 years of web development, Pierre decided to do something new by joining Docker. He's currently a software developer in the Desktop team, working on Docker for Windows and Docker for Mac.
Radu GheorgheSoftware Engineer@radu0gheorghe
Radu Gheorghe is a software engineer, search consultant and trainer at Sematext. He works mainly with Elasticsearch, Solr and logging-related projects.
Rafał KućConsultant@kucrafal
Rafał, in his professional life is a Sematext trainer, consultant and a software engineer, http://solr.pl co-founder and the Solr Cookbook and Elasticsearch Server books author. In his personal life Rafał is a father and a husband.
Remy Clement-HausmanSolutions Architect
I have been a Solutions Architect for 1 year and a half now, working in the Docker world for over 3 years. I am based in France, and take care of our south Europe customers. I come from the Ops world, and was a long time ago a system engineer at Sun Microsystem and Atos. I spend my time with my wife, my kids and my dogs. And when I can, I try to spend some time on video games.
Roberto HashiokaSoftware Engineer@rhashioka
Roberto Hashioka is a Software Engineer on the Docker Data Engineering team, where he is responsible for building data pipelines and developing business metrics analysis & reporting with focus on driving the business forward through data. Roberto began his career at Credit Suisse Hedging-Griffo as a Financial Advisor for Private Equity funds. After that, he worked as a Quant Analyst/Engineer at Neo Investimentos developing the automated electronic trading platform and its quantitative trading strategies. He holds bachelor degrees in Business Administration and Computer Science and a diploma in Global Business Management from University of California, Berkeley Extension.
Rosa M. BadiaGroup Manager@rosabadia
Rosa M. Badia holds a PhD on Computer Science (1994) from the Technical
University of Catalonia (UPC).
She is the manager of the Workflows and Distributed Computing research
group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).
She is also a Scientific Researcher from the Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC). Her current research interest are
programming models for complex platforms (from multicore, GPUs to
Grid/Cloud, and containerized clusters). The group lead by Dr. Badia
has been developing StarSs programming model for more than 10 years,
with a high success in adoption by application developers. Currently the
group focuses its efforts in PyCOMPSs/COMPSs, an instance of the
programming model for distributed computing including Cloud, and its
application to parallelize Big Data and Analytics.
Dr Badia has published near 200 papers in international conferences and
journals in the topics of her research. She has been very active in
projects funded by the European Commission and in contracts with
industry (IBM and Intel).
She is currently participating in the following European funded
projects: the BioExcel CoE, CLASS, LANDSUPPORT, NEXTGenIO, MUG, TANGO,
mf2C, the EXPERTISE ITN and it is a member of HiPEAC2 NoE.
Sarah ChristoffSystems Engineer@schristoff25
Sarah is a systems engineer who loves the latest in technology and making the cloud a lot less scary. When she's not cloudbusting, she's writing in her blog Cat on a Computer. She believes clouds should be like cats: agile, fluffy, and easy to take care of.
Scott CoultonPrincipal Software Engineer@scottcoulton
Scott Coulton is a solutions architect with 10 years of experience in the managed services and hosting space. He has extensive experience in architecture, and rolling out systems and network solutions for national and multinational companies with a wide variety of technologies, including AWS, Puppet, Docker, Cisco, VMware, Microsoft and Linux. His design strengths are in cloud computing, automation and the security space.
Sean GillespieStaff Software Engineer@swgillespie
Sean Gillespie is a Staff Software Engineer at Pulumi, where he focuses on developer tools for the provisioning of cloud infrastructure using real programming languages. Prior to Pulumi, Sean worked at Microsoft on the .NET Core runtime and garbage collector. Sean is passionate about developer tooling and productivity and tweets @swgillespie.
Sebastiaan van StijnSr. Software Engineer@thaJeztah
Sebastiaan van Stijn has been using Docker since version 0.5, and actively contributed to Docker open-source since 2014. He currently is a maintainer and curator for the Docker Engine, the Docker CLI, and a member of the Moby Technical Steering Committee (TSC). In a former life, he was working as a PHP back-end developer. Sebastiaan likes to compete with Gordon the Turtle for being the most noisy community member on GitHub, and visiting concerts in his free time.
Sergei EgorovStaff Engineer@bsideup
Sergei is an active member of the Open Source community, member of the Apache Foundation, co-maintainer of the Testcontainers project, and a contributor to various OSS projects (Apache Groovy, Testcontainers, JBoss Modules, Spring Boot, to name a few), likes to share the knowledge and was presenting at different conferences and meetups in Russia, Germany, Norway, Ukraine, Denmark, Spain and Estonia. He is passionate about DevOps, clouds, and infrastructure. Started his journey with Docker in 2014. Before Pivotal, he was working at Vivy, N26, Zalando, ZeroTurnaround, TransferWise and other startups.
Silvia PuglisiSoftware Engineer@nopressure
Silvia Puglisi (a.k.a. Hiro) is Software Engineer based in Barcelona, EU.
She is currently working at torproject.org as Systems Engineer and she is also part of the Information Security Group in the Department of Telematics Engineering at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) where she got her Ph.D. Silvia researches topics in the fields of privacy and anonymity of users in online communities and social networks.
Silvin LubeckiSenior Software Developer@silvin_docker
Silvin is a senior software developer at Docker, and a Go addict. He works within the Developer Solution Group on Kubernetes development tools (Compose for Kubernetes, Application packages) based in Paris. He also maintain the Docker CLI in his spare time.
Simon FerquelSenior Software Developer@sferquel
Simon is a senior software developer at Docker. He works within the Developer Solution Group on Kubernetes development tools (Compose on Kubernetes, Application packages, Docker for Desktop…). As an expert on Microsoft OS and SDKs, he contributes to making a great Docker developer experience, especially on Windows.
Stefan TrimbornSolution Architect@stefan_tr1mb0rn
Stefan has been around the IT business for over 10 years. Developing from a System Engineer to a Solution Architect for Docker, he was able to gather a lot of experience in different IT solution areas from small business to global enterprise. He previously worked at Trend Micro as a Technical Consultant to provide quality security products to customers. Today his mission is to provide the best service for Docker customers with a wide knowledge of different infrastructure solutions such as OS, networking or storage. He is based in Frankfurt, Germany.
Steven FollisSolutions Engineer@steven_follis
Steven Follis is a Solutions Engineer at Docker Inc. leveraging container technology to foster greater agility, efficiency, and security for enterprise organizations. Leveraging years of experience in the Microsoft ecosystem, he bridges the gap between traditional Windows shops and the emerging shift to container platforms.
Steve RichardsSolutions Architect@stevejr123Steve is a Solutions Architect at Docker and is based in the UK where he works with customers to design and architect solutions for their modernised applications. He previously worked at a London based startup managing their EMEA DevOps practice. Steve has a keen interest in building developer tooling, CI/CD platforms and trying to automate everything!
Outside of work Steve can be found on the sidelines for his son's football team or his daughter's hockey team, otherwise he is trying to finish the building of his latest Lego purchase! He tweets at @stevejr123
Sune KellerIT Architect@sirlatrom
Sune is an MSc Eng, currently DevOps architect at the Danish financial corporation Alm. Brand. He is currently building on top of the existing in-house Docker-based platform to ensure devs and ops can spend as much of their time as possible on tasks that can't (just yet) be automated away.
Tammy WhiteCloud Systems Developer@TheRealTammyW
Tammy began her IT journey waaay back in the late 90's in the Air Force. She's been everything from a cable dog, to Unix Engineer to DevOps Engineer, to now a Cloud Engineer. A constant student of the world, she loves learning new technologies. She has multiple tech degrees and a master of management, and discussing new ideas and viewpoints are her passion. You can find her @TheRealTammyW
Tobias FensterCTO@tobiasfenster
Tobias is the CTO for Axians Infoma and responsible for internal infrastructure including dev, test and integration as well as helping data center partners and customers with their infrastructure. He is mainly working with Windows containers and on strategies for modernizing traditional environments with Docker.
Tonis TiigiSoftware Engineer@tonistiigi
Tonis Tiigi is a software engineer at Docker and a maintainer of Moby/Docker engine. He has recently been working on the builder features of the platform, for example, multi-stage builds, and is the author of Moby BuildKit project.
Torin SandallSoftware Engineer@sometorin
Torin Sandall is the co-founder and technical lead of the Open Policy Agent project. Torin has spent over 10 years working as a software engineer on large-scale distributed systems projects. Previously, Torin was a senior engineer at Cyan, Inc. where he designed and developed core components of their NFV platform. Torin has spoken on policy-related topics at conferences such as KubeCon, LinuxCon, Velocity, and more.
Viktor FarcicPrincipal DevOps Consultant@vfarcic
Viktor Farcic is a Senior Consultant at CloudBees and member of the Docker Captains group.
He coded using a plethora of languages starting with Pascal (yes, he is old), Basic (before it got Visual prefix), ASP (before it got .Net suffix), C, C++, Perl, Python, ASP.Net, Visual Basic, C#, JavaScript, Java, Scala, etc. He never worked with Fortran. His current favourite is Go.
His big passions are Microservices, Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment (CI/CD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences (latest can be found here).
He wrote The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit: Automating the Continuous Deployment Pipeline with Containerized Microservices and the Test-Driven Java Development books.
His random thoughts and tutorials can be found in his blog TechnologyConversations.com.
Will HallPrincipal DevOps Engineer@hn_will
DevOps engineer at CyanConnode, world leading IoT provider of secure Narrowband RF mesh technology. Also organiser/community leader of Docker Cambridge.
Xinfeng LiuSolution Architect
Xinfeng Liu is a solution architect of Docker Inc. He has many years of experiences in system infrastructure and application development. He is specialized in performance tuning and trouble-shooting.
Yuvraj MehtaGroup Product Manager
Yuvraj has over 10 years of experience in deploying, building and bringing to market enterprise software. At Docker, Yuvraj is part of the Product Management team, helping enterprises securely adopt Docker EE.
Zack ButcherSoftware Engineer@ZackButcher
Zack is a core contributor to Istio and a founding engineer at Tetrate. Previously he worked at Google on Istio and on a variety of teams across Google Cloud Platform, focusing on authorization, policy, and the internal system Istio draws from. He's spoken about OSS projects like Istio and gRPC previously at DockerCon, Kubecon, QCon, OpenStack Summit, and meetups around the world.


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October 10, 2014
Balancing Work Life and Personal Life
I used to coach the cheer team...an 11 month commitment, which included practices, traveling to games, camps, and then creating dances and cheers on my "off" time.
Then I was also on two committees for work, and at one point, taught 5/4 sections. CRAZY!!! I never had time for myself....especially with having to grade essays...forget about it!
But this year, this year is different. I'm not gonna lie, it's because I'm actually in a relationship. I am being forced to have a personal life ;) But this has been the best thing for me. We should not be spending 100% of our time doing school-related activities. Yes, I still have to grade essays and stuff...but I've been really trying to get as much graded at school as possible.
This year I've utilized my TAs to the fullest. They grade quizzes and tests [multiple choice and/or fill in the blank, and I grade the written portion]; they grade little homework assignments; they enter grades into my paper gradebook and then I put them in the computer gradebook. This has really helped save me some time.
So this weekend, I am headed to Arizona with my hunny and we are going to see the U of A game, and then Sunday we'll see the Cardinals game. This is the first time in my teaching career that I've done a weekend "vacation" during the school week/year. Usually I would wait til Summer, or Thanksgiving, or Christmas break to take a little trip. So this is good for me! I may have to grade a tiny teeny bit in the car ride there...but then I'll be 100% focused on us :)
So this is sort of a friendly reminder to make time for yourself. Don't let school overwhelm your life...just don't let it. It's a conscious decision we have to make every day. I still struggle with it every day, but I try my best to balance my life better now :)
Have a great weekend everyone!
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Great topic! It is true...with doing extra-curriculars, it is so easy to get swept away and let school be your life. It's something I was guilty of in my first years of directing the school play. It is almost hard work to not let work take over your life, but it IS worth it! Enjoy your mini-vacay with the hunny. :)ReplyDelete
This was a very refreshing blog post to read this morning. I, like u last year, have overwhelmed myself with committees and clubs for my school. At one time I was actually doing 4 things for the school, which was killing me because I never had time to grade ANYTHING. Lucky for you, you have TA's. I wish I had one, but 74 students to 1 exhausted English teacher is my cup of tea this year.ReplyDelete
:::Currently at a Dunkin Donuts waiting for my car to be fixed and grading papers::: (lol)
I'm happy for you that you found yourself a relationship and that's helping you get away from the temptation of school (as I like to call it). Us, teachers we sometimes get caught in our work-- leaving work hours after the bell rang just help tutor a struggling student, grading papers for hours while listening to a good audio book. I, myself, still struggle just putting it all away and taking time for myself.
Having a relationship is a great way to get your me time. Wish me luck that this season I find myself a man!
-Kristine Norat


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This has been such a busy month and lots of good and bad happening. Still I managed to get this firing done as I wanted to enter a couple of art awards. Good for me to make an effort and actually do something. At least now with computer magic we can either email or burn images and the selection panel do the rest. This digital age makes things so much easier. I could have never taken the hundreds of photos trying to get the right light, angle and clarity. Still it would be nice to have a professional to resort to now and again.
Anyway here are some of the better pieces from the flames. The porcelain has won me over. Only tried a few pieces as I didn't want to ruin the whole lot and loved the results. Only wished I had tried it a long time ago but they say there is always a reason our development moves along certain paths.
This old barbed wire is courtesy of Merluna Station - I love the random rusting - the iron red mimicking local surroundings.
I really love the woven baskets - their intricate patternings and shapes used for so many things - beautiful, strong but delicate utensils no manufactured piece could ever match. I feel such an emotional bond when I am throwing and decorating the forms inspired by them.
These last two images couldn't be more different but I love the total contrast - but they still both have the attention to individual detail I love to give each pot I throw or handbuild. It is so satisfying looking at what you create and revisiting the thoughts you had working that particular piece. They all tell a story, albeit one known only to the potter but alluded to in the little signs captured by the flames.


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I guess Austin Mahone just gets inspired in his bathroom. Hey, I'm not judging.
The Secret singer admitted to MTV News on Thursday night that that's where he wrote his next single, "All I Ever Need."
"I like to write songs with my friend Robert. I was weird; we wrote it in my bathroom for some reason," Mahone said on the iHeartRadio Awards red carpet. "I mean, it's a pretty random place to write a song, but I know my fans are gonna love it, so check it out."
Well, at least he admits it's kind of weird. But this isn't the first time he's gotten creative in the bathroom. Remember this One Direction cover?
"All I Ever Need" follows "MMM Yeah" as the second single off the May 27 EP, and this one is extra-special, he said.
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In theory, getting divorced should be a fairly simple process as long as there aren't many areas of contention. One man who has been separated for six years from his wife is finding out just how complicated a divorce can be if everything isn't done just right.
In Canada, there is a central registry for all divorces. When a person files for a divorce, the information is put into the database. The database is checked to determine if that person already has a divorce petition on file. In most cases, that doesn't cause any issues.
The man in this case filed for a divorce, but the petition was dismissed in 2001 because there was a custody issue. When the petition was dismissed, the application for divorce wasn't cleared out of the central registry. That made a judge believe that the man was trying to get a second divorce when he filed his divorce petition again after the custody issues were settled.
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When it comes to getting a divorce in Canada, everything must be executed properly. When there are issues during the process, errors might occur that can prevent you from getting a divorce.
Source: CTV Atlantic, "Clerical error lands N.S. man in divorce nightmare," Nov. 05, 2015


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EDMONTON, ALTA - Brayden Harris' Short-handed goal in the second period would prove to be the winner, as the NAIT Ooks defeated their cross-town rival MacEwan Griffins 2-1 in ACAC men's hockey action, Friday night at the NAIT Arena.
From puck drop to finish, like every other time these two teams have met over the past several seasons, it was a battle. It began as a back and forth gridlock in the first period as both teams took turns handling the momentum. It wasn't until 17:10 into the opening frame that a goal would be scored, as Tanner Younghans found the back of the net on the power play, to give the NAIT Ooks a 1-0 lead through 20 minutes.
The second period would closely mimic the first as yet again both teams exchanged unsuccessful chances with only one goal being scored, which was ironically on the penalty kill when NAIT had a 3 on 2 rush resulting Brayden Harris beating Marc-Olivier Daigle along the ice.
The Griffins would pick up momentum in the third as the Ooks found themselves in penalty trouble. Ryan Baskerville cut the Griffin deficit to one on the power play as he beat Brendan Jensen. Jensen, however, would prove to be the deciding factor in this one as he stood tall in the final frame weathering the Griffin assault, giving his team the 2-1 victory.
Following the game Ooks head coach Tim Fragle said: "We played a very solid first 40 minutes, but in the third, we got into some penalty trouble and began to sit back and let them dictate the play. Brendan Jensen made some key saves for us down the stretch when we needed him most."
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MacEwan Griffins - Ryan Baskerville
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With the win tonight, the Ooks improve to 9-4 and sit 3rd in the ACAC two points back of the Red Deer Kings for 1st. The MacEwan Griffins fall to 9-3-1 and sit 2nd, one point back of 1st.
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The two teams will now faceoff again tomorrow night at the Downtown Community Arena to finish off the first half of the season.


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Sorry I been gone. I've been busy with my job, my other projects, and family shit. But I have been keeping up with what's goin on in the world.
So one of the things I have grown anxious about is how crime is going to be used in the upcoming election. Listening to Barack's victory speech in Texas, which he said "As Commander in Chief, my job will be to keep you safe. And I will not hesitate to strike against any that will do us harm." So now he's gotta look as tough on national security as John McCain. Pity. It's this part that is making me a little queasy.
So if Obama nabs the nomination, not only will his ability to "push the button" be called into question, but he will also be scrutinized for how tough on crime he is. So far, his talk about crime has been about how he led mandatory taping of police investigations in the Illinois legislature, and his support of death penalty, racial profiling and mandatory minimum sentencing. But a look at his Senate page on crime is much more frightening. It includes, as his accomplishments, legislation to increase restrictions and surveillance on "sex offenders" to increasing the capacity of local police officers to use technology—I guess for better surveillance. (Talk Left has a great blog entry on Obama and criminal justice issues).
But I hope that he can figure out a way to get through this without using "tough on crime" rhetoric as a selling point. Regardless, there are several high-profile reforms coming down the pike that I hope can move us away from such draconian practices and reduce the numbers of people in prison.
The New York Times reported on a new program in the city to provide young people with therapists who work with the families to help get at the root of the issues instead of sending them to prison:
"When Jacob Rivera, 15, was resentenced in May on an assault conviction, he felt he had received a "blessing."
Only months earlier he had been sentenced to a year in state custody, and he had already spent weeks bouncing between a juvenile detention center in the Bronx and a residential treatment campus upstate. Two of his older siblings had spent time in those facilities and, he said, had "come out a mess." He could see his future.
But the court gave him a second chance because his case had not been properly reviewed for inclusion in a new alternative sentencing program, which the city started in February 2007. The program, called the Juvenile Justice Initiative, sends medium-risk offenders back to their families and provides intensive therapy.
The city says that in just a year, it has seen significant success for the juveniles enrolled, as well as cost savings from the reduced use of residential treatment centers."
Mother Jones has a pretty good news analysis of the fight on the federal level to end mandatory minimum sentencing for crack cocaine:
"Speaking before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Gretchen Shappert warned that shorter crack-cocaine sentences will cause a "loss of the public's trust and confidence in our criminal justice system"—a possibility that is only slightly less troubling than Attorney General Michael Mukasey's claim that reduced sentences will mean that "1,600 convicted crack dealers, many of them violent gang members, will be eligible for immediate release into communities nationwide."
These statements are scare tactics aimed at reversing a decision by the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the agency responsible for setting sentencing rules in the federal courts, which has pegged March 3 as the first day federal prisoners doing time for crack offenses are eligible to petition for reduced sentences. This countdown comes just after the Commission's introduction of less-harsh crack-sentencing standards in November, and the December announcement that this reduction will be applicable to inmates currently incarcerated as well as future offenders. The Justice Department, citing "public safety risks," is trying to overturn the rule. But giving inmates the chance to obtain shorter sentences won't spur a mass prison exodus: Judges will still decide which inmates deserve a reduction and which don't. No one is guaranteed an early release."
Mother Jones is the shit. They also have a great story on a corporate prison executive whom Bush is appointing to be the trail court judge in Tennessee.