cleaned up calls on 'render'; use symbols over strings when we can; commented Gemfile about a bad heroku gem (rails_12factor)
nested imports working, now what to do with them?
initial explorations of use of css to mark talks, people, & so on -- pretty unimpressive so far
figured out how to break out the assets into component files; leaving turned off for now
DRY'd found & search_q methods still further