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Spherical video will shape your reality in 2016
360 video ecosystem is slowly coming together
360 video ecosystem is slowly coming together
Audi's E-Tron Quattro is a fully electric sport utility vehicle that can drive itself through traffic jams and find parking spots, but it's far from a reality. The concept car is what the German automaker sees as the future of transportation, but a car like this might make privacy advocates uneasy.
Ricoh Theta S review
Boston Children's Hospital partnered with an effects to to create more lifelike simulators
Your Uber drivers have been rating you and here's how you can find out what yours is.
The Food Printer from XYZ Printing will cost $1,800.
Earlier this month, Boeing's portable drone-destroying laser system disabled a moving, untethered drone during a test in California.
Intel has invested millions of dollars in a Chinese drone maker as it hopes to catch up to Google and Amazon.Â
Helped by laser arrays, breathing systems and other high tech tools, Northeastern University athletes are improving their game and their fitness
The normally lightly trafficked Microsoft store in Boston saw a little more action on Windows 10 launch day, but most people weren't interested in the new operating system.
At the robot hotel near Nagasaki, a mechatronic velociraptor and female android help check you in while a robotic porter takes your bags.
IBM and cooking magazine Bon Appetit created a web app that helps you find and created recipes using IBM's cognitive computer called Watson.
The Low Density Supersonic Decelerator or LDSD uses atmospheric drag to slow itself down before impact. It's paving the way to bring humans to Mars in the 2030s.
A new drone that's due out next year uses six rotors instead of four to help it capture more stable video and spend more time in the air.
An airplane powered completely by the sun took off Monday embarking on an around the world flight.

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He Can Marry, She Can't Vote:Another Day in Deranged America
He Can Marry, She Can't Vote: Another Day in Deranged America
By William Rivers
27 June 2013
Five years ago, I donned my best suit and took my lady out to a fancy restaurant on Copley Square. I wined her and dined her, and when the moment was right, I presented her with a small diamond that had passed from my grandfather to my grandmother to my mother to me, and asked her to be my wife. A year later, we were wed in a small ceremony in a plain white church in New Hampshire.
...and nobody thought twice about it, because I am a man and she is a woman, and we were therefore spared the tyranny of religiously-justified apartheid. Our right to marry, to join our lives together in a moral and legally-binding contract was never disputed, because I am a man and she is a woman, and the hateful interpretation of an ancient, outdated text did not apply to us.
That hate is still here, and will never really go away. The same ancient text that condemns unto death same-sex unions also condemns unto death those who work on the Sabbath, those who plant different crops side by side, and those who wear clothes made from different threads, with nary a word of condemnation for the institution of slavery or the brutal subjugation of women...and as long as there are people whose personal hypocrisy moves them to cherry-pick lines from that ancient, outdated text to justify their hatred (while wearing cotton-polyester blend shirts at the office on Saturday after fiddling with the beans and carrots and potatoes and cucumbers in their garden), we will never truly be free of it.
But on Wednesday morning, two surprising rulings from a conservative-leaning Supreme Court sent the legal justifications for America's anti-gay apartheid into a death spiral from which it will not recover.
The Court's 5-4 ruling on California's Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage did not name the proposition unconstitutional, but instead declared that its defenders did not have legal standing to appeal the lower court ruling that struck the ban down. In essence, the Court punted the issue back to California officials, who will almost certainly rely on that lower court's ruling, opening the door for same-sex marriages to commence in California in as little as one month's time.
After the Prop. 8 ruling was handed down, two of the plaintiffs in the case - Jeff Zarillo and Paul Katami - spoke passionately about the importance of the court's decision, and its meaning to them personally. "Today is a good day," said Katami, who then proposed to Zarillo right there on the courthouse steps, because he could, because the apartheid that declared him less free than me was gone.
The Court's other ruling on Wednesday will have dramatic, far-reaching implications all across the country. In another 5-4 decision, the Court struck down the 17-year-old Defense of Marriage Act, one of the most disgraceful pieces of legislation the last century had produced. In essence, DOMA made the definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman a matter of Federal law, thus nationalizing the religiously-justified apartheid that demanded some Americans be deemed less free than others. The case in question was titled United States v. Windsor, and was originally brought by lesbian widow Edie Windsor, now 84 years old, who was required to pay more than $300,000 on the inheritance she received from her late wife's estate.
Specifically, the Court struck down the part of DOMA that prohibited same-sex couples from receiving federal retirement, tax and immigration benefits, thus granting Edie Windsor and millions of other Americans a tremendous, life-altering victory. By not striking down the part of the law that declares marriage to be between a man and a woman, presumably that part of the law still stands. Lacking the teeth that were removed by the Court on Wednesday, however, that "definition" has about as much power as a mouse fart in a thunderstorm.
A number of voices were immediately raised in defense of same-sex apartheid. Justice Antonin Scalia, in his dissent, was particularly scathing. "As I have observed before," wrote Scalia, "the Constitution does not forbid the government to enforce traditional moral and sexual norms. However, even setting aside traditional moral disapproval of same-sex marriage (or indeed same-sex sex), there are many perfectly valid - indeed, downright boring - justifying rationales for this legislation. Their existence ought to be the end of this case."
In other words, we hate you because an ancient, outdated text tells us we can, and that should be the last word.
Not so much, Tony.
Former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee took to Twitter to voice his vast disapproval of the Court's decisions. Tweet the first: "My thoughts on the SCOTUS ruling that determined that same sex marriage is okay: 'Jesus Wept.'" Tweet the second: "5 people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of CA and congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all."
Challenge for Mr. Huckabee: find for me, please, any syllable, word, fragment or sentence uttered by Jesus in the text you so adore that speaks against same-sex marriage. You can't, because it isn't there. You have to reach all the way back to the bedlam of Leviticus to find a basis for your hate. Better check the tag on your shirt, hoss.
So that was Wednesday, a bad day all around for hate, and for the apartheid that hate would enforce on a segment of the American populace that has the crazy idea they should have the same rights I do.
But there was also Tuesday, when the same Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by striking down Section 4, an action that allows any number of counties across the nation notorious for suppressing minority voting rights to slip the federal leash.
Within hours of the ruling, Texas declared that it would "immediately" enact a vicious voter ID law previously banned by federal law. "With today's decision, the state's voter ID law will take effect immediately," read a statement by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. "Redistricting maps passed by the Legislature may also take effect without approval from the federal government."
Condemnation of the VRA decision came just as swiftly. Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) reacted with horror and sorrow:
"Although the court did not deny that voter discrimination still exists, it gutted the most powerful tool this nation has ever had to stop discriminatory voting practices from becoming law. Those justices were never beaten or jailed for trying to register to vote. They have no friends who gave their lives for the right to vote. I want to say to them, Come and walk in my shoes. I disagree that because the incidence of voter discrimination is not as 'pervasive, widespread or rampant' as it was in 1965 that the contemporary problems are not a valid basis for scrutiny. In a democracy, one act of voter discrimination should be too much."
Again, Justice Antonin Scalia is informative. In his rage against the Court's DOMA ruling, Scalia wrote, "We have no power to decide this case. And even if we did, we have no power under the Constitution to invalidate this democratically adopted legislation." He took this position on Wednesday, one day after voting to strike down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, another piece of democratically-adopted legislation passed in 1965 and renewed by a massive congressional majority in 2006.
One segment of the nation is lifted out of apartheid, another is shoved back down into it, and a Justice of the Supreme Court can't remember his justification for the latter a day after ruling against the former.
Just another day in deranged America.
William Rivers Pitt is a Truthout editor and columnist. He is also a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of three books: "War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know," "The Greatest Sedition Is Silence" and "House of Ill Repute: Reflections on War, Lies, and America's Ravaged Reputation." He lives and works in Boston.


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I haven't banned anybody yet (well except for one, for putting on his troll face and not cooperating at all.) I agreed to be very tolerant, give plenty of warnings, etc, to *all sides* of the debate and discussion, when I became moderator, and that's why I've been lax on banning people. I'll let Skeptics and Believers say what they want, as long as it remains civil enough.
EDIT: Insults are unavoidable in these debates / discussions it seems. Everyone says offensive things in the heat of the moment. So, I'm revising this topic to state that mainly unapologetic extreme libel statements (that obviously cross the line) And SPAMMING (and non-cooperation when warned and addressed by the Moderator) are bannable. And this if the person isn't going to apologize, cooperate, calm down, Etc, when warned, that will be the ban.
Hostile / Obvious Flame War threads will still be locked though, even if the person apologizes.
Here's what needs to be calmed down ...
* The Professor - Stop making Randi attack threads, stop making slanderous accusations against Randi that you cannot back up with valid evidence, don't post anything else that you can't back up with valid evidence either, stop taunting and harassing the skeptics, and stop responding to their attacks with more attacks. You need to focus on your MDC rejection, your alleged paranormal claims, and your protocols. Not this Randi / Skeptic attack tirade.
* Skeptics / Debunkers - Stop calling his daughter a nutcase, a mental basket case, a crack house addict, etc, unless you have valid evidence of this beyond insults of course, and even if you do, that's not appropriate terms to use towards ANYONE'S daughter, nor is dragging someone's family into a flame war appropriate. And stop responding to his attacks with more attacks.


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Royal horse guard, England, 2004. Charles Fréger
A sneak preview of images from the Rencontres d'Arles - the annual photo festival which takes place each summer in the south of France when the town becomes host to dozens of photography exhibitions, workshops, seminars, and film screenings.
Every other year a guest curator takes over several of the festival's
major exhibition spaces, and this year's curator is fashion designer Christian Lacroix. It's the first time that the guest curator has not been a photographer, but Lacroix is known to have a deep interest and commitment to photography, a fact I can attest to having met the designer a year ago at France's other photo festival - Hyeres.
While photographers chosen for the festival include some of the big names in fashion photography - Richard Avedon, Peter Lindbergh,
and The Sartorialist -Lacroix has also selected new photographers whose work deals with social, political, and conceptual ideas, as well as vernacular photography and archival photographs relating to the town's history. Some examples above and below.
For those eager to jump on a plane, the festival runs from July 8 to September 14, but the real action starts tonight.
Karen Elson, "English Sunbathing" Northumberland, England, 2001. Tim Walker
Vanités - Allégorie de la caducité, 2007. Guido Mocafico
The most beautiful day of my life. Jean Christian Bourcart
Emma Cruch, known as Cora Pearl. A.A.E. Disdéri, c. 1860


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L.A. Weatherman PRANKED on Live TV -- 'Happy Birthday Hugh Janus'
L.A. Weatherman PRANKED on Live TV 'Happy Bday Hugh Janus'
Someone ripped a page outta the Bart Simpson playbook this week to prank an L.A. weatherman ... asking for a birthday shout-out for "Hugh Janus" ... and it went down PERFECTLY!!!
Ya gotta see this ... KTLA weatherman Henry DiCarlo was giving his usual TV shout-outs for birthdays, anniversaries, etc. ... when he read the name of a supposed 10-year-old boy named "Hugh Janus."
That's when the two anchors LOST IT ... instantly realizing DiCarlo had been pranked and laughing their faces off.
Eventually, one of the anchors let DiCarlo in on the joke ... "I think it was one of those trick names and you fell for it."
Once DiCarlo realized he'd been tricked he admitted, "I got punked" ... adding, "Hopefully there's not a 10-year-old really with that name out there."
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Four years ago, Tom Beuglas started the Archer wrestling program and this year he has helped the Tigers pull off a legendary sweep. After winning the duals title last month, Archer cruised to the Class AAAAAA traditional title, becoming the first program to sweep both GHSA titles within the program's first four years. Archer finished with four individual champions including Ernest Alexander at 195, M.J. Couzan at 285 and brothers Daniel and Thomas Bullard at 138 and 145, respectively. Defending champion Collins Hill finished second and Camden County finished in third. Camden County featured one individual champion while Collins Hill took home two. Archer, which qualified 14 wrestlers for the tournament, placed 12 wrestlers to bring a 113-point lead into the finals round before winning by 131.5 points.
In other classifications:
Class AAAAA: Pope won its third straight traditional title after winning the last two Class AAAA titles before moving up to AAAAA after reclassification. Pope scored 215.5 points to blast past Ware County, who totaled 99 points and Ola, who finished with 80 points as a team. Jake Henson won at 152 for the second-straight year in a 7-1 decision over Sprayberry's Thomas Cook. Billy Meek atoned for a triple overtime loss one year ago with a title in 160 by major decision. Northgate's Tyler Askey captured his fourth state title and capped a perfect high school career as his prep career comes to a close with a 196-0 record. Askey's feat had not been accomplished in 30 years and he is just the fourth grappler in Georgia history to win four titles in four undefeated seasons.
Class AAAA: Gilmer fell just short of a traditional team title last year, but Sam Snider's squad managed five finalists to slip past Carrollton 182.50-161. The title is Gilmer's fourth in the last six seasons. Cameron Perry and Johnie Flakes at 126 and 138, respectively, helped the Bobcats to the team title. Southeast Whitfield's Carlos Fraire earned a tough 2-1 decision, appearing to injury his knee early in his bout at 220 against Griffin's Telly Sloan, but he rallied to take the individual title.
Class AAA: Woodward Academy coach Pete Fritts didn't believe his team was a favorite entering the weekend, but thanks to a pair of individual champions, Fritts and Chad and Chandler Pyke will take the traditional title back to Woodward Academy for the first time since 1972. Oconee County finished with 101 points, 37 points behind Woodward Academy. Fourth-place Buford won three individual champions including junior Chip Ness at 182 pounds, who earned his third individual title. He won at 152 pounds in 2011 and at 170 pounds last year. He improved his career record to 137-1 by scoring a pin of Dawson County's Gavin Brown.
Class AA: Despite a loaded field complete with four-time defending Class A champion Bremen ready to try and end their dynasty, Jefferson scored 192 points to win its 13th straight traditional title. Jefferson had five wrestlers compete in the finals Saturday with four winning individual titles. The Dragons also had five third-place finishers. Bremen finished second with 133.50 points, 58.5 points behind Jefferson. The Blue Devils won three individual titles with two more runner up finishes. At 285 pounds, Joe Bexley of Bremen won his third career title and capped a 54-0 season. He will head to The Citadel to continue his wrestling career.
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Note from Con Slobodchikoff: This post is by Karen London, PhD, CAAB, CPDT, who regularly contributes posts to this blog and is also a frequent contributor to Bark Magazine as well as author or co-author of a number of books on dog behavior.
One of the questions I receive most often is how to become a
canine behaviorist or trainer. Neither is a career with a typical path made up
of a standard educational program followed by an exam or an approved
internship. All of us in the field have carved our own way, which is why there
are so many variations on the story we each tell about how we came to do what
we do. While there are many paths to a career in this field, some basic advice
applies to all of them.
The most important advice I like to give to anyone with an
interest in this type of work is that there are two equally important aspects
of preparing for such careers. I feel strongly that the best trainers and
behaviorists have pursued both avenues as part of their education.
One is acquiring the knowledge you'll need in this field,
and that involves learning a lot about a variety of areas: canine ethology,
learning theory, coaching skills, proper equipment, and business. To educate
yourself in these areas requires a lot of reading of books and blogs,
supplemented by seminars, online or in-person courses, webinars, and workshops.
The second, and equally important area is practical
experience and hands-on work with animals. All the book learning in the world
will not take you very far as a behaviorist and trainer if you don't have the
skills to actually work with a dog. The best ways to acquire these practical
skills are with a combination of workshops, training your own and friends' dogs,
and volunteering at a place with a lot of animals, such as a shelter or humane
organization, a rescue group, a veterinary clinic, or a dog-training business.
In my experience, most people are stronger in one area or
the other. Either they are really on top of the knowledge and information side
of things but a bit weak on dog handling skills or they are highly skilled with
dogs but could benefit from having more information at their disposal. The
people who really excel as dog trainers and behaviorists are balanced—very
knowledgeable and highly skilled.
When I started doing this kind of work full time, I was far
more advanced in my book learning than my dog handling skills. I had completed
my Ph.D. in zoology with an emphasis in ethology, and I was in good shape in
terms of what I knew. (To clarify, I think it's critical not ever to be done
learning, so I follow my own advice and continue to learn, especially with a
lot of reading and also with webinars and conferences when I can). Though I had
good practical skills for working with large colonies of stinging wasps, as was
required for my dissertation work, I lacked enough experience with dogs, and
that's what I set out to correct.
I worked as a dog groomer for a year just to get to know my
new species of choice, while I worked as an assistant trainer and then as a
trainer. I remember after that year when I began my internship with behaviorist
Patricia McConnell, she once said to me, "I'm as proud of my dog training
skills as I am of my Ph. D. They were equally hard to acquire." That comment
has always stayed with me, reminding me of the importance of excelling in both
knowledge and practical skills. These skills must be practiced regularly to be
If you haven't yet worked a lot with dogs, you may wonder what
sorts of skills I'm talking about. The things that people who work with dogs
need to be able to do is practice with dogs of every temperament, size, and
learning style. They include:
Getting them in and out of kennels and crates
Using your own expressions and postures to set even fearful
dogs at ease
Having excellent timing with reinforcement, such as treats
and clickers or other markers
Using your voice and modulating its tone and volume
Managing the leash when working with exuberant or even
aggressive dogs.
Attaching and fitting all sorts of head collars, harness,
and leashes
Body blocking
Moving in space with dogs for turns, stops, accelerations
If you are interested in a career as a behaviorist or
trainer, know that you will be working with people as much as with dogs. If you
want to work with animals because you love them and aren't so fond of people,
this is not the right field for you. People and dogs are two of my very
favorite species, which is lucky since I spend so much time with members of
both of them.
Best of luck to all of you who want to be in this field. I
love my work and I would recommend it to anyone who loves dogs as much as I do!
--Karen London


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SAP's recently announced plans to overhaul its support services have user groups giving the thumbs up, although it may be some time before many customers feel a big difference.
Dubbed One Support, the effort is aimed at giving customers a single place to access support whether their problem concerns on-premises or cloud-based software. More than just providing convenience, this approach acknowledges the new complexities customers face as their SAP environments become a hybrid of deployment models.
For example, a customer may log a support ticket for a problem they believe involves their on-premises Business Suite implementation, said Jens Bernotat, vice president of strategy, maintenance go-to-market at SAP. But SAP technicians may investigate and subsequently determine the problem lies with an interface between the Suite and the customer's SuccessFactors application, which is cloud-based, he said.
SAP is also planning to roll out a universal toll-free number for support named Call 1 SAP in this quarter.
Logic and market forces demand a unified support model, according to Augusto Abbarchi, global head of SAP maintenance go-to-market.
"Customers are moving to the cloud to simplify," he said. "They can't accept the idea that getting support then becomes more complex. We think this is what the customer wants and that it's a potential competitive advantage."
Although One Support isn't yet finished from a technical standpoint, SAP user groups praised the announcement.
"I think it makes a lot of sense," said Andreas Oczko, vice chairman of DSAG (German-speaking SAP User Group).
Past acquisitions by SAP, such as Sybase and Business Objects, created a tangle of different support processes depending on the product, he added. "Sometimes it drove the customers mad."
SAP eventually harmonized support processes involving those vendors, but now it needs to do it again given the more recent purchases of SaaS (software-as-a-service) companies such as SuccessFactors, he said.
"This is a great step forward in simplifying customers' support interactions with SAP as more and more customers find themselves operating in a mixed environment of cloud and on-premises," Americas' SAP Users Group CEO Geoff Scott said via email. "SAP is a cloud company. [CEO] Bill McDermott has made that very clear. As such, combining support under one roof is essential to that vision."
One Support also got a nod of approval from the UK & Ireland SAP User Group.
"Naturally we welcome any enhancement to the Enterprise Support service that will help customers adopt the latest innovations from SAP or realise business value from deploying and utilising SAP solutions, regardless of whether they are on-premise, in the cloud or a hybrid of the two," chairman Philip Adams said in a statement.
One Support will be showcased at the Sapphire conference in Orlando next month, and work on merging SAP's various support portals will be ongoing over the next year.
SAP has the wisdom of experience on its side when it comes to making those types of hand-offs trouble-free. After its acquisition of Business Objects, SAP switched product support over to its own system, angering some users who couldn't immediately obtain login credentials.
There may be other considerations in play behind One Support.
For example, the new features will only apply to customers on Enterprise Support, which costs more than Standard Support. SAP may be hoping One Support will convince Standard Support customers that coughing up the extra money is worth it.
SAP is also facing pressure from third-party support providers, who offer steep discounts compared to vendor-provided support. One, Rimini Street, also recently introduced services aimed at hybrid deployments.
"One Support is SAP's attempt to refocus on the value of their maintenance," said analyst Ray Wang, chairman and founder of Constellation Research. "I think clients will have to judge for themselves if the new program meets their expectations, as this is a recommitment to delivering better support."
Chris Kanaracus covers enterprise software and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Chris' email address is firstname.lastname@example.com


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The increasing popularity of Agile approaches for software development is forcing an increasing number of organizations to deal with issues of Agile adoption (and adaptation). In this article I introduce patterns that focus on the dynamics of adoption rather than the structure that results from adoption. These two patterns - Pair Programming, and Simple Design - are a result of an Open Space session at XPDay Montreal 2006 and are an example of a larger effort of documenting agile adoption experiences in pattern format. This effort is intended to help those who are new to Agile software development answer the questions: "Where do I start?", "What specific practices should I adopt?", "How can I adopt incrementally?" and "Where can I expect pitfalls?"
Several times this year groups of software practitioners - I say practitioners because they were developers, analysts, customers, and managers who have a commonality of helping build software - came together and shared their experiences in adopting agile software practices. They then documented their successes and failures in adopting each of these practices, in pattern format. They agreed to use patterns because patterns are solutions within a context and are not prescriptive like 'best practices' tend to be. They used patterns to aggregate multiple experiences instead of 'war-stories' that usually don't transfer easily to specific projects because they are point experiences instead of aggregations. They used patterns because patterns are not prescriptive yet still give specific information on how to solve a particular problem. Patterns are an excellent vehicle to share expert information within context.
In this article I will report on the results of one of these meetings. Then I will tie this into a larger effort to document experiences of experts who have previously adopted and adapted agile. This larger effort is meant to help those starting their own agile adoption efforts. I hope you find this article useful and I encourage you to join us in our effort to document agile adoption experiences either as a reviewer or writer at the agile practice patterns wiki (Or contact me personally at http://elssamadisy.com/contact for more details). With that said, onwards!
XPDay Montreal
On a Saturday afternoon in September 2006 two Open Space sessions entitled "Agile Practice Patterns" and "Agile Anti-Patterns" were merged into one. We had a mix of attendees: a few consultants, some developers who were introducing XP practices in a grass-roots manner, and a group working together at the same company who were about to embark on adoption of some agile practices next Monday morning. This was a diverse group that had many points of view to offer. The consultants shared their experiences (both good and bad) in helping their clients adopt different practices. Developers who introduced practices in their own spheres of influence, each had insights into constraints unique to his/her own situation. The group embarking on adopting agile on their first project came to listen and learn and were invaluable in helping put together something useful for the ultimate consumers of such patterns.
In the limited timeframe available the group discussed and flushed out two agile practice patterns that included information needed for adoption. The discussion of the patterns led to "clusters" of practices that were called out but not documented in detail because of time constraints.
Pattern Format
The format we, the attendees of the Open Space session, agreed upon using is a modification of the Therefore..But format used on the original patterns wiki (Portland Pattern Repository http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ThereforeBut).
- Name
- Summary: A short sentence or two that briefly describe the pattern.
- Sketch: A story/narrative that acts like a 'sketch' in design patterns. (idea taken from Fearless Change1 )
- Context: Who and in what circumstances this pattern is useful.
- {Forces:} Used to elaborate context by giving specific issues. These issues are problems which are (partially) resolved by this pattern.
- Therefore: The pattern description.
- {But:} Negative consequences that can occur from applying this pattern.
- {How:} Steps, ordering, guides to adopting this pattern. Sometimes interleaved with Smells: to indicate where the adoption can go wrong.
- {a.k.a.} Similar published patterns.
Pair Programming
The first practice discussed was pair programming. This was one of the more controversial practices and did not have consensus among the group. The questions discussed were "how much slow-down - if any - is introduced by pairing?", "does design quality improve even if there is a mismatch in the experience of the pairs?", "is pairing appropriate in all cases - is there a context where you would not recommend pairing?", and finally "how can we go about adopting pair programming? Is it an all-or-nothing practice or are there intermediate steps that can be taken to give us a 'taste'?"
Pair Programming
Two developers work together side-by-side to solve a programming problem. This is a form of continuous code review that increases the quality of the software being built.
Sketch: Cindy Coder is having lunch with Dave Developer telling him about her experiences on her first Scrum/XP project - let's listen in:
"Cindy: ...and pair programming was one of the practices I was sure was going to be a waste of time! But looking back, all of my work done with pairing is of exceptional quality. This was true even when I coded with Natt the Newbie and Joey Jr. Developer. There is something about having to explain your code to your partner that just brings out the best quality. It is as if we are always performing code reviews. Also, now I know a much broader part of the code-base than I usually do. Because we're always coding in pairs at least two people know every part of the code - no more people bottlenecks.
Dave: Sounds almost too good to be true - and anything that sounds too good to be true usually is. What's the catch?
Cindy: First, it is a bit slower. But I figure the better code/design quality is going to help in the long run. That's just a hunch. Secondly, it is exhausting! Finally - it's not all rosy - there are some people on the team that are just not good at working closely with others. We've decided to leave them alone - but it does create a tension with those folks."Context: You are on a development team where design quality is of primary importance.
Or, you are on a development team which is concerned with bottle-necked (specialized) resources, and needs to be able to move developers on and off the project or survive loss of team members.Therefore: introduce a form of code review and inspection to increase quality. Train members of the team so that their skills overlap to remove resource bottle-necks.
Pair programming involves two people working on the same task. The person with the keyboard - the driver - is responsible to code the particular task at hand while the other person - the navigator - continuously looks ahead and thinks of the abstractions and design repercussions. Much of the communication is done via code - when the navigator has a suggestion she will take the keyboard to show what she means in code and tests.
Proper pair programming is a continuous form of Code Review, which is one of the few practices in our industry where there is experimental data 2 . This indicates that pair programming greatly improves code quality.
Developers also transfer their expertise to their pairs. By working on the same issue the specialist implicitly trains their pair by solving the problem together.
But: Although it has been reported that pair programming does not affect development speed this is by no means a consensus. A significant number of experienced practitioners (me included) find that pair programming does slow down development.
Moreover, pair programming is much more than two people sitting at the keyboard. If developers are not careful one of the pairs can easily monopolize the keyboard and coding. Pair programming is not for everyone.
Finally, there is less flexibility in work-times because developers must work together at the same hours to pair. So options like 'flex-time' will need to be made less flexible for pairing.
How: There are several ways to introduce pair programming. By far, the best is to have one or more experienced pair programmers on the team in order to 'spread the virus' by pairing with those on the team who are new to the practice.
Ping-pong pair programming is a common way to introduce pairing to a development team. This involves one of the pairs writing the tests and handing them over to their partner to implement the code that will make the tests work. Then the roles are reversed. In this way, keyboard monopolization is reduced, and some structure is put into pairing until the team becomes accustomed to the practice.
Simple Design
The discussion on pair programming was useful but not of immediate use to all participants. One team attending the workshop was starting agile practice adoption but had decided not to pair program initially. They had, however, decided to start with Simple Design. They had specific questions concerning this particular practice: "are there any practices that are required for, or that enable, Simple Design?", "how simple is Simple Design?", "does Simple Design always make sense?", "should we ignore our 'look-ahead' instinct, always?", "are there times where it does not make sense to do Simple Design?" All of these are very good questions. The following pattern attempts to answer these questions:
Simple Design
The complexity of your design should support the current requirements at hand (being built in this Iteration) and no more. Do not design for future flexibility, let new requirements "pull" more complex designs and rely on Automated Tests to enable Refactoring later.
Sketch: When Waterfall Will joined Scott ScrumMaster's agile development team a year ago he had many misgivings about the project team and their coding techniques. Most importantly, he had a burning question, "Where is the Design?!" He could not fathom how starting with a Simple Design could ever work. In his experience a team must set the Architecture and design upfront. Otherwise, the frequent changes that will be required to change the design incrementally will incur exponential costs.
Will decided to suspend his disbelief for a few months and give this new development technique a chance. Grudgingly at first, Will had to admit that the simple designs were elegant in their own way. As he observed again and again the resilience of these designs and how they could be easily changed according to new requirements due to the of the safety net of Automated Developer Tests he started to enjoy this way of development. Overall, his designs were much leaner with Simple Design. He recognized that this was not really getting rid of the design cycle but making design part of every day's work.Context:You are on a development team that is building a software system with requirements that change frequently. Therefore your team needs to build a system that is resilient to change. Competition from other companies mandates that minimizing the time-to-market be a high priority.
- Feedback between customers and developers is infrequent.
- Customers may not know exactly what they want until they see working software.
- Integration is infrequent, costly, and often extremely painful.
- Function completions are out of synch so integration is usually pushed to the end of the release cycle.
- A "hardening" phase is frequently scheduled before a major release date to ensure that the product quality is acceptable. This phase includes no new feature additions and is focused on bug fixes only.
- Functionality is very complex and developers have a tendency to "go off track" and come back to the customer with an incorrect solution.
Therefore: In the agile community we believe that building in complexity in hopes of reducing the cost of change for the future is a false hope. Generalizations provide much more flexibility than what is strictly needed by the current requirements. In the agile community, this type of generalization is known, derogatively, as Big Design Up Front (BDUF).
We are not fortune-tellers and cannot foresee all of the changes. The upfront design is not for free - the extended generalizations made to allow for change are more complex and harder to understand and maintain than a Simple Design. The cost of carrying that design will far outweigh the benefits gained.
Your design should only be complex enough to meet the requirements of the current iteration. Your design should be a Simple Design that has no generalizations for needs that will come in the future for two reasons: (1) you really don't know what the requirements will be two years down the road. Putting those generalizations will incur a 'Cost of Design Carry' over those two years. (2) by enabling Refactoring via Automated Developer Tests you will have reduced the cost of change and will be able to cost-effectively make the changes when new requirements dictate them.
- A team may drop Simple Design when some paths lead directly where a BDUF would have led them. They, thus, see the constant Refactoring as a waste. They don't realize that most of the BDUF still leads to over-generalization; conversely most of Simple Design leads to less complex designs.
- A team may interpret Simple Design as the design that takes the least time. Frequently that includes cut & paste solutions. This is NOT Simple Design. This is bad code.
- Teams frequently do not adopt Simple Design because it cannot possibly work in their opinion. It goes against all of their expertise and good sense. We highly recommend that teams suspend their disbelief as Waterfall Will did in the sketch of this pattern. Two to three months of practicing Simple Design diligently will make a believer out of a team!
How: So how do you apply Simple Design?
- Determine non-ambiguously what the requirements are for the task at hand.
- Determine what the solution will look like. This can be done by writing the tests first and letting them drive the solution, or more traditionally by coming up with a design before starting to code.
- If the solution uses existing code that is not general enough for the new requirements, Refactor the code to make it amenable to adding the new functionality. Rely on existing tests to verify that you have only changed design and not behavior.
- Add the new functionality with a solution that is only as complex as needed to meet the new requirements.
Simple Design should not be practiced without the ability to refactor and evolve the design. Refactoring, in turn, cannot be done effectively without a set of Automated Developer Tests. These are the necessary practices for simple design.
To effectively adopt the practice of Simple Design most developers must suspend their disbelief 3 for several iterations in order to observe it working effectively.
Variations: These are some common groupings and clusters of successful agile Iterations:
- Test-First Development, Simple Design, Refactoring
- Simple Design, Test-Last Development, Refactoring
Clusters of Practices
The Simple Design discussion at XPDay Montreal brought out the topic of clusters of practices. Simple Design cannot be effectively implemented without Refactoring which, in-turn, cannot be effectively implemented without Automated Developer Tests. Automated Developer Tests can be supported by either Test-First or Test-Last development. These are two very different ways to create the Automated Developer Tests.
We are well beyond the days of "thou shalt do all 12 practice of XP" but there is much truth and wisdom in clustering of practices together. Some practices, when used together, deliver more value than the sum of their parts. The individual practices within these clusters can be considered generative rules. By using practices within a cluster together they generate much more value than by doing each in isolation.
An example of a very common cluster is Test Driven Development (TDD) which involves many different practices. Unfortunately it is beyond the scope of this article to delve in deeply. This is, however, how TDD can be seen as a generative cluster of practices:
Aggregating Experiences
What I have described above is a slightly polished version of the two patterns that were discussed and documented at XPDay Montreal. Conferences are an excellent place to meet others in the field and exchange experiences and cross-pollinate ideas. They are also a great place for those new to agile practices to learn from more experienced practitioners. These patterns are not meant to replace the value gained by attending conferences or other ways of communicating, but they are meant to augment them. They are what many of us wished we'd had a few years ago when we were adopting agile practices for the first time. They are an aggregation without being an over-generalization of experiences and lessons learned.
Although these patterns seem simple it is important to keep in mind that they are an aggregation of diverse experiences and not a single report or recommendation. Patterns are a succinct way of describing practices within context - they are, however, very hard to write. The patterns reported here are in very rough form. They need to be read, reviewed, rewritten, and polished until they are more accessible to the public.
One important topic we have not covered in this article is that of Smells and how they can be used to drive adoption of practices. When we adopt agile practices, we are constantly asking ourselves "which practice(s) should we adopt and in what order?" All we have described so far is each practice and in which context is it useful. We have jumped directly to the solution without asking ourselves: what is the problem we are solving?
A useful metaphor is that of going to a doctor. When I am not feeling well I head off to the doctor's office. The doctor takes my blood pressure, checks my temperature and asks me where it hurts. This is usually followed by an examination of some kind and possibly some blood-work if it is serious. After gathering this data she will usually prescribe one or more medicines for me to take and tell me to discontinue the medicine and come back immediately if I feel any adverse effects. If the medicine has any side effects she will usually warn me and it will be printed on the medicine bottles.
Now let's compare this with agile development practices: Why does someone adopt agile practices? Usually it is because something is wrong with the way their team is developing software. There are pains that they hope to alleviate by adopting these practices. What are these pains? Which practices alleviate which pains? These pains are the development Smells - the symptoms of an ill software development process. What is the remedy? The remedy can be one or more agile practices. Therefore, for this picture to be complete, we need to discuss software Smells and associate them to the appropriate patterns. That, unfortunately, is an involved story and cannot be told here.
The Dynamics of Adoption
"So, how does this help me adopt agile practices?" you ask. With the building blocks at hand, that is: Smells, Practices, and Clusters of practices, it becomes possible to tailor your agile adoption in a step-wise and iterative manner.
- Start with an evaluation of the status quo - what is being done well and what needs improvement?
- Map the areas that need improvement to one or more Smells.
- Prioritize the Smells and pull the first one off the list.
- Check the Practice Patterns that address the Smell in (3). Read them and read their related clusters.
- Depending on your environment, choose one or more of the patterns in (4) - maybe even an entire cluster. Use the advice in the patterns chosen to start adopting those practices.
- Periodically evaluate that the Smell in (3) is indeed getting addressed by the practice being adopted. Adapt the practices for your particular environment.
- Go back to (1) until perfection is reached 4.
Adoption should be iterative and always goal-oriented. The goal is to alleviate the Smells currently present by adopting and adapting the applicable agile practices. The patterns are starting points. Use them with a modicum of disrespect. As you gain experience, adapt the practices to fit your needs.
Where do we go from here?
The patterns written at XPDay Montreal are very rough. They still need to be reviewed by a larger group to refine the context, correct errors or misstatements, and expand upon and verify the adoption strategies suggested. Furthermore, a typical adopter will consider more than just Pair Programming and Simple Design.
Finally, there are still many more practices that could benefit from this type of documentation. They really need to be paired with common software development Smells. This will enable the adopter to start from the symptoms instead of adopting practices wholesale as we have done in the past (dare I say incorrectly?).
Critical Mass
The work on agile practice patterns has yet to gain critical mass. There are patterns that are in different states of completion. Let's be honest, this may seem (I hope) like a good idea to you, but unless these clusters of patterns are written out, they cannot be used by adopters effectively.
I've been jokingly asked several times "so where's the book that has all of these adoption patterns?" Unfortunately we are not there yet. Nevertheless, over the next few months those of us who are participating in this effort hope to have the first usable set of agile practice patterns ready that a reader can use in his/her adoption strategies.
I invite you to get involved by contacting me at http://elssamadisy.com/contact or directly posting to the wiki. All of the work in progress will be made available on the wiki and we will intermittently write similar articles introducing the results of our work to a wider audience. Look for more articles and possibly a mini-book documenting the Smells, Clusters of Practices, and more Practices of Agile Practice Adoption in the near future here at InfoQ.
Related Work
Similar sessions, of varying length and size, were run at ChiliPLoP 2006 and XP2006. Documentation of these patterns is available at agile practice patterns wiki. Some of the patterns from the ChiliPLoP sessions were polished and are to be presented at PLoP in October 2006 (http://hillside.net/plop/2006/Papers/Library/AdoptingAgilePractices.pdf and http://hillside.net/plop/2006/Papers/Library/functionaltesting.pdf) and the patterns that came out of XP2006 are reported upon in the fall issue of Agile Development from the Agile Alliance. There is also work by others that documents agile practices as patterns, most notably Joe Bergin's papers presented at PLoP and EuroPLoP and Jason Yip's work on Stand Up Meetings to be presented at this year's PLoP conference, but this work does not focus on process adoption and adaptation as we do here.
Cost of Design Carry: The cost in time and effort a development team must exert to understand and maintain a piece of code. The more complex (generalized/flexible) a solution is the harder it is to understand that code correctly and modify that code when needed. The cost of design carry is a burden the development team carries every single time they must modify the code.
Development Practice: A development practice - a single action that is done by a development team. For example, writing Automated Unit Tests is a development practice.
Development Process: A collection of development practices performed together with constraints on their relationships and/or order. Examples of development processes are extreme Programming and Scrum.
Generative Practices (of software development): Practices are generative if they feed off of each other such that their value and effectiveness when used together is significantly greater than if they were used apart.
Pattern: "a proven solution to a problem in context." Patterns are a proven format for sharing expert information about complex problems. Patterns, including the ones presented here, are validated by their successful application in multiple instances. Documentation of a pattern generally includes: name, definition, context, problem - including identification of relevant forces, solution structure, implementation, and discussion of applicability and other usage issues.
Refactoring: Changing the design (structure) of an existing code base without changing the behavior.
Smell: A symptom of something going wrong. Smells are vague in nature and indicate that there is something wrong. Smells are not defined, they are recognized. A smell reflects a relatively vague sense of unease or discomfort. Reflection on a smell may result in the identification of a resolvable problem.
About the Author
Amr Elssamadisy is currently a Principal Consultant with Valtech Skill Development (www.valtech.com). He considers himself a programmer but has worked for consulting companies since 1999. So an outgoing, people-oriented, programmer is a better description. He has been working professionally as a software developer, architect, manager, consultant, etc... since the mid 1990s helping build software systems in C++, J2EE, and .NET. His first agile development project was a large project XP effort in 1999 where he had a chance to work and learn from some of the best in the field. Since then he has lead, participated, and mentored large and small development in both the .NET and J2EE worlds.
1 Fearless Change is a book by Mary Manns and Linda Rising that describes a set of patterns documenting organizational change.
2 There are many studies conducting controlled experiments on real-world projects that directly show the benefit of code reviews and inspections. The most notable of these are the ones conducted by Adam Porter and his research team. Here are three links to different papers published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2 of which from Porter's research group): http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=601071&isnumber=12999, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=585501&isnumber=12691 and http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/trans/ts/&toc=comp
3 Most experienced developers have problems building a simple solution only for the requirements at hand. Years of generalizing and designing ahead for future flexibility makes most developers very hesitant to trust that design will be changeable without an exponential increase in effort later on.
4 I use 'perfection' here to refer to indicate that process improvement is perpetual. So you find the most 'smelly' smell, address it until it is no longer the most smelly and go back to (1) to pick up another one.
"Pair-on Chair" image used with permission from Cenqua Pty Ltd.


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Naval Architect II in Mobile, AL at Austal
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- Three (3) to seven (7) years of shipyard design and construction experience or equivalent experience.
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Here is a version of classic Chicken Schnitzel that can be prepared during Passover with matzo meal. It's very similar to my classic chicken schnitzel recipe, but the ingredients are all kosher for Passover. Matzo meal coating, in my experience, can be a bit more fragile than a coating made from breadcrumbs. I find the easiest way to flip the coated breasts in the skillet is to use a pair of tongs, rather than a spatula—this seems to be the best way to keep the coating intact. Dredging the breasts in matzo cake meal (finely ground matzo meal) before the egg dip also helps. The paprika in the mix is optional. Use whatever Kosher for Passover oil you prefer– I try to use oils with a high smoke point for frying, like grapeseed.
Frying adds calories, but unfortunately you can't get that same schnitzel flavor and crispness from baking. That is why I like to serve this with a healthy side salad, like the Israeli salad shown here (click here for recipe), to lighten things up. I also serve it with fresh lemon wedges… the schnitzel is so good with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice on top. It's one of 0ur favorite non-Seder meals during the week of Passover!
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Passover Chicken Schnitzel
- 2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts (4 large breasts)
- Salt and pepper
- 1 cup matzo cake meal
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup matzo meal
- 1 tablespoon paprika (optional)
- Oil for frying (make sure your oil is kosher for Passover)
- Fresh lemon wedges or halves for garnish
- Lay down a 2-foot long strip of plastic wrap on your kitchen countertop. Place chicken breasts on the plastic, leaving a 2-inch space between each breast. Cover the breasts with another strip of plastic, so the meat is sandwiched between two layers of plastic.
- Use a mallet to pound the breasts until they are a little less than ¼ inch thick.
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- After frying, set the schnitzels on a wire rack or a paper towel to drain off excess oil. Sprinkle the schnitzels with additional salt to taste. Serve hot garnished with lemon wedges and your favorite condiment.


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It took Robert Nay a month of coding at the public library to develop "Bubble Ball," a free, physics-based puzzle game that has been downloaded more than two million times in two weeks.
Mr. Nay is 14, in eighth grade and lives in Spanish Fork, Utah. Last week, Bubble Ball knocked the hugely-popular game Angry Birds out of the #1-most downloaded spot in the App Store's free category, making iPhone game developers of all ages feel bad about themselves.
"Some of my closest friends in the programming world started sending me e-mails [saying] 'I need to get off my ass,'" said Carlos Icaza, co-founder of Ansca Mobile, which makes the software development kit (SDK) that Nay used to build Bubble Ball. Nay's video of Bubble Ball is below.
But those other programmers had better hurry up, because Robert, who plans to pursue a career in computing, said he's already plotting his next move…
Aside from excelling at school, Robert plays the piano, mandolin and trumpet. But given the response to "Bubble Ball," he said he's going to be carving out more of his time to work on his next application.
The young Nay, who built his first website in third grade, has already released an Android version of the app. He's started calling his company Nay Games and is working on a new game. Hire him, Rovio, before he takes you and the Birds out.
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Here's another sign that the tide might be turning against the Wingnuts— Glenn Beck's TV ratings are down 50 percent and major market radio stations are dropping him.
That's not all—a look at radio ratings shows that hyper-partisan talk has been declining or flat-lining between '09 and '10, despite the intensity of the election year. There's a demand for something different—smart, un-predictable, non-partisan news is gaining market share because it stands out from the pack. And leading industry analysts say there is a market for more independent voices.
"There are a lot of program directors whose radio 'spider-sense' is tingling," says Randall Bloomquist, a long-time radio executive and president of Talk Frontier Media. "They're thinking 'this conservative thing is kind of running its course. We're saying the same things from morning 'til night and yes, we've got a very loyal core audience—but if we ever want to grow, if we want to expand, we've got to be doing more than 18 hours a day of 'Obama is a socialist.'"
A look at radio's PPM ratings for the largest talk radio market in the nation bears this out. An apples-to-apples comparison of ratings between November '09 and November '10 in the New York area shows that Rush Limbaugh's ratings on WABC declined from 5.4 to 5.0—despite the crescendo of a GOP election year landslide. Likewise, year-end to year-end comparisons of the crucial 24 to 55 demographic show that Rush declined from 3.7 to 2.6—while his packaged follow-up acts Sean Hannity and Mark Levin narrowly declined and flat-lined, respectively. And Hannity was dropped from his Philadelphia radio station along with Beck last month after being dropped from his syndicator in Salt Lake City (!) last year before finding a new home in the area.
PPM is the new method of gauging radio market share that registers actual radio waves instead of relying on the very analog process of filing out forms that allowed fans to essentially 'vote' for their favorite radio hosts rather than mark what they were actually listening to—what Randall Bloomquist refers to as 'the emperor has no clothes' impact of PPM.
• Conservatives Invade Washington• CBS Wants More Katie Couric"I will tell you that a very senior talk radio executive, somebody with responsibility for a large number of talk radio stations, expressed to me just this week his concern that talk radio as we know it could be largely gone in five years and the reason for that is, just plain and simple, the aging demographics of the format," explains Bloomquist. "Depending on who you talk to, the median age for talk radio is somewhere between 52 and, and, and 63, and it's just going up… for the most part political talk, particularly ideological political talk of any stripe, appeals to old people."
Rush is an industry legend and the experts attest that despite his declining ratings in New York, he will continue to be a major, if irreplaceable, force in talk radio. But the larger trends are clear—backed up with both ratings and demographic data.
There is a striking contrast to this trend— The John Batchelor Show. Full, disclosure, I am a frequent guest on the show and co-host Monday nights—but the numbers are objective. Between Mark Levin's early evening lead-in and Batchelor's 9 p.m.-to-1 a.m. ET slot, the overall numbers double. In the 24 to 55 demographic they increase almost three-fold, from Levin's 2.5 to Batchelor's 8.3 at year-end—No. 1 in that demographic and timeslot. This is not a subtle shift—it is a decisive vote that elevates Batchelor ( a contributor to The Daily Beast) to first in his time-slot with content that offers not partisan talking points but professional insights from journalists posted around the world.
This seems to me analogous to the success of the Economist magazine at a time of generally declining magazine fortunes—people will seek out unique analysis and opinions that stand out from the pack. They will pay for the value-added of ahead-of-the-curve insight. Partisan news is the pack these days and its predictability provides no unique value to consumers. Batchelor's show gives in-depth analysis that acknowledges the wider world from Afghanistan to China to India and Iraq. This is depth and breadth is unmatched in any other medium, even in the city never sleeps, and it is gaining pick-up stations in major markets across the nation.
"Personally, I think that there's a great vacuum out there for non-partisan objective political commentary," said Michael Harrison of Talkers Magazine. "I think it'd be good for the industry and it has to be good for the country."
But Harrison cautions against reading the long-term decline of Rush into the numbers—especially using the relatively recent gauge of PPM. "I'm always asked is 'Rush Limbaugh's influence on politics fading?' My answer is it doesn't matter, he's never had that much influence on politics anyway. We do not give them as much credit for setting the stage for the political culture in America as the politicians and the political press do."
"I'm always asked is 'Rush Limbaugh's influence on politics fading?' My answer is it doesn't matter, he's never had that much influence on politics anyway."
"Beck on the other hand, because he has gone so far out there in terms of stirring the pot, it's much more unknown as to what his fate will be," says Harrison. "It's been an ongoing thing in this business where sometimes it's just hard to sell even big ratings to the major advertisers. There are sponsors that just say 'don't put us on shows where there is political controversy.'" It's clear that this is a fundamental hurdle for Beck on both TV and radio—live by the sword and die by the sword.
The trends aren't limited to Beck and Rush. "I don't hear a lot of program director who are just loving, loving on Sean Hannity," says Bloomquist. "The attitude towards Sean among stations that carry him seems to be 'we're stuck with him. He's doing okay, but he's not setting the world on fire'… and anybody who wanted to drop Levin who also carries Hannity has a bit of a problem because Hannity is very close personally and professionally to Levin."
Radio trends are determined market-by-market and individual show's ratings are a closely guarded secret. While the New York area is the nation's largest radio market—and WABC is the flagship station for Rush and the other talkers—there may be other areas where their brand has fared better. But interestingly, at least for Beck, the radio insiders haven't seen notable areas of strength for his radio performance. "The one place where [Beck] kicks ass in a top‑25 market is Tampa and that's because his show started in Tampa," says Bloomquist. "He's sort of viewed as a local personality."
"You don't see many trade ads saying 'We need the next Rush Limbaugh—we need a right-wing hard ass'" adds Bloomquist. "What they say is, 'we need somebody who can talk about a variety of topics, somebody that can connect with people who can do humorous topics, somebody who can have some fun on the air.' It's the circle of life, the wheel turned and in the process of turning pinned this format in the corner of all conservative talk all the time and I think there's a sense of fatigue there."
Be Different. Be Better. Be Yourself. These are good rules for media as well as for life. The cookie-cutter predictability of hyper-partisan talk radio talking points is provoking a backlash. They are failing to skate to where the puck is going: the millennial generation rejects hyper-partisanship in favor of news they can use—independent, intelligent analysis that plays offense from the center, punching left and right with a sense of humor. Playing to the lowest common denominator doesn't always pay. The American people will reward people who respect their intelligence—recognizing that the news doesn't need to taste like medicine or Kool-Aid.
John Avlon's new book Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America is available now by Beast Books both on the Web and in paperback. He is also the author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics and a CNN contributor. Previously, he served as chief speechwriter for New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and was a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun.


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Although West New York Commissioner Count Wiley believes the recall campaign and his candidacy for mayor are still on track, many believe that no recall will happen. They believe Mayor Felix Roque will walk away from current federal charges that claim he and his son allegedly hacked into the website of political enemies. Then, he will go head to head with former Mayor Sal Vega in a repeat of the 2011 election.
This means potential rivals will have until 2015 to sharpen their political swords. Vega, however, will have a problem, because like last time, Rep.Albio Sires will likely back Roque over Vega.
What will be different in 2015, however – if all factors stay the same as they are today – will be that Roque and not Vega will have the support of state Senator and North Hudson Mayor Nicholas Sacco.
While Roque has done much to mend fences with Sires and Sacco over the last few months, Sacco's support will be part of an effort to fortify his renewed relationship with Sires.
Vega might off set this a little with support from old allies currently in the administration of Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop.
But Roque may not be able to overcome the legal issue. Federal authorities appear to have offered him a deal with would allow charges to be dropped against his son, and would give probation to Roque. But apparently Roque would have to step down as mayor.
This would probably come too late for a special election in November and would either require the current commissioners to name a new commissioner and new mayor or leave the commissioner's seat open until November 2014 when there would be a special election.
(In West New York government, five commissioners are elected and choose a mayor from among themselves.)
Wiley and Vega would wind up at the top of a long list of people seeking to become mayor, and would put Sires in a terrible position of having to find an alternative candidate.
On a smaller scale, Vega appears to have won a small victory over Roque when a jury found last week that he was not negligent in a fender bender from 2009 when Vega was still mayor. West New York city attorneys under Roque decided to withdraw their financial support for Vega's case, saying that the accident occurred at a time when Vega was not acting in his capacity as mayor. Vega believed the lack of support was political to force him to drain his finances. Going into the final day of the court case last week, Vega felt confident that he did no injury to the people suing him.
"I didn't worry until it went to the jury," he said. "After that I started talking to God."
The jury took only 30 minutes to decide in Vega's favor.
Primary for U.S. Senate seat
The death of U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg earlier this year left shoes too big for anybody to fill. But that isn't stopping four Democrats and two Republicans from trying – not to mention at the cost of $2.4 million to county taxpayers if the state doesn't fork over the cash to pay for the Aug. 14 primary and the special election in October.
But there is a cost to local political organizations who claim they don't have the money to get the vote out for any of the candidates.
Tom Bartoli, who is running the Hudson County campaign for Newark Mayor Cory Booker, laughs and says there won't be a lot of voters to get out.
"This is a school board election on a state level," he joked. "I'm going to hold a vote by mail campaign on Seaside Heights boardwalk."
By this he means that most of the voters will be away on vacation and that turnout will likely be as little or less than the numbers that come out for a traditional school board election.
In the Democratic Primary, Booker is running against Rep. Rush D. Holt Jr., state Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver and Rep. Frank Pallone.
Vying for the Republican nomination are Alieta Eck, former president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and Steve Lonegan, former mayor of Bogota, former State Director of Americans for Prosperity, and candidate for governor in 2005 and 2009.
Castellano bows out
Hoboken Councilwoman Terry Castellano said she will not be running for mayor in the 2013 election. She also said she will not support either of the two candidates currently running: Assemblyman Ruben Ramos and Mayor Dawn Zimmer. Instead, she will concentrate on her own reelection as a council person in two years.
"I don't think either of the two people running for mayor has leadership qualities I can support," she said.
This election, she said, has taken a toll on her nerves, partly because her son has been recruited to work for the Ramos campaign, and she feels it was a back handed way to force her to support Ramos or to keep her from running on a third ticket.
She said, "My son is taking the job. He sees it only as a job. I just don't want people to think that I'm supporting Ruben just because my son is working for Ruben."
She said a nasty rumor has been circulating for months that she held back her support in exchange for jobs for her and her son.
"It's not true," she said. "The last thing I need is another hat. But my son working for the campaign makes it look like it's true."
She said she will shortly issue a letter to the press that will outline her position.
"I do not think Ruben or Mayor Zimmer have the material for a chief executive," she said.
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