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Kathleen Madigan's Friday evening performance may not have sold out the Reg Lenna Civic Center, but she did fill the theater with a sea of laughter and applause.
Almost every one of the seats in the nearly 1,300 capacity theater was kept warm during Madigan's stand-up act. But, before she took the stage, the audience was treated to two other ladies of laughter.
The evening began when Journey Gunderson, executive director of the Lucy-Desi Center for Comedy, stepped out onto the stage in a tight black evening cocktail dress, which was a piece from the collection of Melody Thomas Scott that would be auctioned during the festival.
After highlighting some of the other events that would occur during the weekend, Gunderson surprised the audience by announcing a cameo performance.
"It's my pleasure and honor to introduce a surprise opener for Kathleen Madigan tonight," said Gunderson. "A hometown favorite, who we all love from 2012, is back in town and stayed to support her friend Kathleen. It's my honor to introduce the hilarious Tammy Pescatelli."
Pescatelli's act quickly garnered the audience's attention. Her tough, no-nonsense, but less than serious attitude worked a rumble of laughter out of the darkness.
"People say to me all the time, 'Where do you get your material?" and I'm like, 'I wake up,'" said Pescatelli. "Did you see that (Oprah) just did the commencement speech for Harvard. In her speech, she told Harvard graduates, 'You now can go forth into the world and make your resume reflect anything you like it to say.' The rest of us have been doing that for years – I invented the Internet."
Pescatelli closed her short opener with some banter between herself and a man in the front row of the audience. She joked that the man kept looking at his watch, and that she'd finish when she felt like it. Her last joke touched on a woman in Florida being eaten by an alligator. She then introduced Madigan.
"He had to eat her, he kept getting crap from his gator friends" said Pescatelli. "Quite clearly she's the best in the business. You've seen her on every possible show on television that deals with comedy, and she has a new special that's coming out exclusively on Netflix this fall. Please welcome the fabulous, the funny, the talented – Kathleen Madigan."
Madigan's straight-forward approach allowed her to capture the audience's attention with little struggle. She took the stage and addressed the audience by asking where everyone came from.
"It's a lovely little town, and I thought there can't be that many people, but clearly you have the cars – there's lots of parking here huh?," said Madigan.
She went on to talk about mermaids in Norfolk, Va., and thanked the one audience member who cheered when she announced that she was originally from St. Louis, which she said flip-flops with Detroit for being ranked No. 1 in murders.
"Not this year, No. 1 in murder is Flint, Mich.," said Madigan. "That's impossible, there's not enough people in Flint, like are you taking people from other cities and saying count it, count it, count it – somebody already took mermaids and we need something."
Madigan kept the audience roaring with laughter throughout the course of her performance, and a great number of the patrons stood for an ovation as she left the stage.
The Lucy-Desi Center for Comedy annually hosts a Festival of Comedy, which occurs Aug. 1-4, and in the past has hosted comedians such as Ray Romano, Ellen DeGeneres and Paula Poundstone. In addition to the GIs and Kathleen Madigan, the festival will also feature Bill Engvall tonight at 8 p.m. The festival will also feature "Comedy Late Night" with 16 new voices of comedy, which will serve as the recording platform for the festival's first live album, Aug. 1-3. For more information visit www.lucycomedyfest.com.
During the festival, the Lucy Desi Museum, established in 1996, will also be open to the public. The Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Center and the Lucy Desi Museum are located at 2 W. Third St. in Jamestown. For more information visit lucy-desi.com.


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Muslim-Americans being targeted
To the editor:
Muslim Americans are being treated poorly at our borders. An NPR radio program (On the Media) recently told the experiences of two groups of Muslim citizens who were returning to the US from a wedding in Toronto, Canada. At both Niagara Falls and Detroit, they were detained for six hours and had electronic devices confiscated. One member of the party was singled out and pat searched every 15 minutes. Other Muslim travelers, including children, have also been demeaned and psychologically abused by agents from Homeland Security at border crossings.
We abused Blacks and Native Americans in the US for centuries and have now added another minority group to scapegoat. Politicians and cable news outlets that exploit these prejudices are encouraging these antidemocratic practices.
We are concerned that this agency, Homeland Security, has become a law unto itself with little meaningful oversight.
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Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth have split!
Get the tissues ready Sugarscapers, because Miley and Liam are no more.
Yup, we'd like to say we are shocked, but after Miley blatantly made a pass at her ex Nick Jonas (who wasn't actually there) onstage the other night we kind of got the impression that the Cyrus heart lie elsewhere.
Apparently though, that weird dedication thing she did for him was NOT the reason that her and buff Aussie man have split and he moved out of her parents house last month.
According to the National Enquirer Miley is jealous of how Liam's career is suddenly taking off, especially as he has just landed a part in a movie opposite Sir Anthony Hopkins in Arabian Nights, and he is sick of her family interfering in their relationship.
A source told the US a mag: "The result was a vicious fight – and Liam bolted. He said he's tired of her folks' interference, and that Miley's jealous that his film career has taken off."
They added: "Miley, her family and all her baggage are too much for him to handle."
Oh dear. Is it wrong to day we would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when all that went down?
Liam is now living with his bro Chris (remember that hottie we told you about) at the Hollywood apartment they previously shared; while Miley seems to have confirmed the split to the mag, saying: "(We) are on a break."
So there you have it Miley and Liam are no more, which is a shame because we had just made the name 'MiLiam' up.
Are you sad? Do you care? Whose arms do you reckon the two will be falling into now. Comments please…
P.S. Liam if you're reading this, it's more than fine for you to pop down to Sugarscape for a shoulder to cry on.


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In a press release sent out today by the 2010 Teen Choice Awards, they announced that Twilight Saga film stars Robert Pattinson and Ashley Greene will be attending the star studded event this year, which airs on Monday, August 9th from 8 to 10pm ET/PT! So far, these are the only Twilight stars confirmed to attend, but with the many Twilight-related nominations, we can hope for more! Details on their appearance below:
Music sensations and TEEN CHOICE nominees Jason Derulo and Travie McCoy are set to perform at TEEN CHOICE 2010 airing Monday, Aug. 9 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. Derulo will sing his chart-topping single "In My Head,' and McCoy will perform his smash hit "Billionaire' with Bruno Mars.
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Yes, Magic Mike fanatics, that bearded man in glasses is Channing Tatum. The actor, who stars in the upcoming sequel to the 2012 hit about a troupe of male strippers, went undercover to surprise a lucky group of fans attending an advance screening of Magic Mike XXL. The epic prank video, a partnership with charity fundraising platform Omaze, kicks off with a makeup and costume team turning Tatum from the Sexiest Man Alive into a marketing representative tasked with tricking viewers into thinking he was questioning them about the movie. Magic Mike XXL hits theaters July 1st.
Singer Dave Matthews made a fan's day by pulling her over while traffic was stopped. He noticed his band's bumper sticker on the woman's car as she was in gridlock in front of his hotel. The fan says she heard a tap on her window and realized who it was. Without hesitation, she pulled over and Matthews gladly posed for a photo. He then asked her to point him in the direction of a good bar. It isn't the first time Matthews has doen this. In 2013, he was riding his bicycle when he got a flat tire. A couple discovered him stranded on the side of the road and gave him a ride to the show. As a reward, Matthews had them join him for dinner, gave them backstage passes and moved them to the front row for the show.
Food Network chef Bobby Flay was outed as a cheater during his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony on Tuesday, when a banner proclaiming the celeb as such appeared as he received his honor. Flay is in the midst of a messy divorce from former "Law and Order: SVU" star Stephanie March, who branded Flay a cheater in their divorce papers. Just as Flay's star was announced, the small plane appeared, pulling a banner behind it saying, "cheater." A visibly shaken Flay continued with the awards ceremony as if the plane was not overhead. Was March behind the stunt? Her attorney said, "Stephanie is absolutely not behind this."


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HI Shlomi
HI Shlomi is situated in the heart of one of the most beautiful nature sites in Israel - the Upper West Galilee, at the foot of the Khanitta range.
100 rooms with A/C, shower and bathrooms. Half of the rooms have T.V.
A classroom with audiovisual equipment, lookout balcony, activity rooms, synagogue and Sefer Tora.
The spacious Dining Room seats 320.
Breakfast included in the price. Additional meals (including packaged meals) should be ordered in advance.
The food is Kosher. There is a possibility to order in advance Kosher Mehadrin meals.
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Check in is from 15:00 between Sunday to Friday. On Saturdays check in is an hour after Shabbat ends (evening).
If the reservation is made by a guest holding an Israeli passport, V.A.T. will be added according to law regulations. This will be payable on arrival at the hostel.
IMPORTANT: this hostel will not accept your same day booking if it's done after 4 pm local time.
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Initially i started learning from agile web development with rails and then i thought of learning ruby first so i switched to PickAxe book. But i am finding pickAxe book very much difficult(although i was good at c++ programming). please suggest me that from where should i learn it now. online videos, or any reference links.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (July 4, 2008) – The U.S. men's teams sailed while the U.S. women's teams sank on Friday at the World University Championship for beach volleyball in a soggy Hamburg, Germany.
As rain poured down and temperatures dropped, the team of Joey Dykstra (Hermosa Beach, Calif./USC) and Mark Van Zwieten (Pompano Beach, Fla./Florida Atlantic), ranked third, and the team of Clint Coe (Long Beach, Calif./Long Beach State) and Duncan Budinger (Encinitas, Calif./Long Beach State), seeded 23rd, both won all their matches and advanced to Saturday's fourth round, where they must face each other.
Dykstra and Van Zwieten opened play on Friday be beating 20th-seeded Constantin Quadt (20) and Alexei Prawdzic of Switzerland, 24-22, 17-21, 15-8, in the second round. They followed that up with a victory over fourth-ranked Sebastian Dollinger and Florian Lüdike of Germany, 21-18, 14-21, 15-12.
"This is the same team that knocked Stein Metzger and Mark Williams out of the qualifier in Berlin a few weeks ago and has been in a couple of FIVB main draws," wrote U.S. team leader Ali Wood from Germany. "Dollinger is 6-9 and created a whole new challenge for Joey's block. Kazmarek has a wicked left hand and a great jumper."
Coe and Budinger beat out the 10th-ranked Chinese team of Gong and Zhou, 21-16, 21-17 in the second round and then defeated the 16th-seeded Chinese team of Pan and Zhang, 27-25, 19-21, 17-15.
The team that loses Saturday's fourth-round match will drop to the consolation bracket and still have a shot to make it to the semifinals.
On the women's side, Lauren Fendrick (Carlsbad, Calif./UCLA) and Keegan Featherstone (Manhattan Beach, Calif./UC Irvine), ranked fifth, started out Friday with a second-round loss to New Zealand's 19th-seeded Anna Scarlett and Susan Blundell, 21-14, 18-21, 20-22. Fendrick and Featherstone won their first consolation match against 26th-ranked Tse Wing Hung and Kong Cheuk Yee of Hong Kong, 21-18, 20-22, 15-8. But they were knocked out of the tournament by France's fourth-seeded Laura Longuet and Celine Gemise Fareau, 21-9, 21-14. Their final ranking will be 13th.
Finally, Olivia Waldowski (Irvine, Calif./UC Santa Barbara) and Kari Pestolesi (Huntington Beach, Calif./UC Irvine), ranked 23rd, who were already in the consolation bracket after a first-round loss Thursday, defeated Spain's Hopf Aguilar sisters, ranked 18th, 21-17, 21-15 in their first match on Saturday, but then fell to Austria's Jill Jasbar and Conny Rimser, seeded 17th, 12-21, 21-18, 10-15. Their final ranking will be 17th.
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What a week
Is it the understatement of the year to say it's been an exhausting week? As we wrote this Friday afternoon for the print edition, the news seemed to have reached a sustained crescendo, with tension not wanting to let go as a manhunt for Monday's marathon bombing overwhelmed greater Boston. Now we update this editorial for the Web, knowing that the second suspect is in police custody.
We hope this is the final wave for now, and that now that it has broken, the waters will smooth out for the weekend.
Wishful thinking? Maybe, but can anyone be blamed for that?
The week began, ended and was dominated by Monday's bombings that killed three people and wounded more than 180 others near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. It was a horrific act of terrorism that pierced Americans more keenly than any act of violence since Sept. 11, 2001. Many other mass murders had higher death tolls, but the public nature of this one stood out.
Authorities now say the bombing was done by a pair of brothers, the older of whom was shot and killed by police. No motive has been given. We don't know if they acted alone. The public has been caught between speculation and paralyzation.
Paralyzation described Boston Friday, a metro area locked down for the sake of one man. People were told to stay home and businesses not to open. It was crazy.
People there are emotionally wiped out. Five days' worth of fear, anger, bewilderment and fatigue took their toll.
That feeling has extended, to a lesser degree, nationwide. We saw and heard it among people here as they couldn't help but talk in amazed voices about the latest developments from Boston.
Some local runners channeled that tension into a symbolic act of solidarity – the Boston Strong LP tribute run planned for 6 p.m. Monday. This is happy news amid the strain. The run will start near the village beach and follow Mirror Lake Drive and Main Street around Mirror Lake, ending in front of the Conference Center at Lake Placid. Local businesses are contributing, including to provide a reception afterward, and donations will be accepted for The One Fund Boston Inc., a charity set up by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Tom Menino to assist bombing victims.
Meanwhile, there's local tension that might not seem excessive if people weren't also concerned for Boston all week.
Elementary and middle school students took state tests in English language arts Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday; next week they'll tackle three days of math exams for a total of nine hours of testing per kid. From what we've heard, it's gone smoothly so far, except for a test boycott among many parents in the Saranac Lake Central School District that resulted in more than 50 children sitting the tests out. For some schools, that's enough absences for the state Education Department to consider consequences down the road – silly ones, like developing a plan to improve attendance in general. Between that and kids talking about the boycott that wasn't their idea, there's a lot to think and worry about in the Saranac Lake school community.
In Lake Placid, the village board is more tense than we've seen it in a long time, due in part to a sewer under-billing error that is prompting the village to ask for payback from some homeowners outside the village. (Editor's note: The previous sentence has been corrected.) It's also the beginning of construction season, and Old Military Road was closed. Detours aren't relaxing.
In Tupper Lake, school officials say they will have to raise taxes – probably over the state-imposed cap – and dip into reserves just to stay solvent. Meanwhile, there is great anxiety about the state's future plans for Tupper Lake's largest employer, Sunmount Developmental Disabilities Services Office. The CSEA union, which represents Sunmount workers, rallied hundreds of local members on this cause Friday.
Yeesh. That's a lot. We probably left out a lot, too – but on the flip side, we also left out all the wonderful, ordinary, good and happy things that go on every day here. So please excuse us if we came across as gloomy; we were just trying to explain that people have a lot going on right now. We actually are optimistic that some of the dilemmas will resolve themselves, storms will blow over and fears will dissipate.
On that note, we hope you have a relaxing and happy weekend. Appreciate the good things.
Next week will be better – right?


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Topic: Model Generation (Automatic)
I am a newbie to RoR but have experience in CakePhp Framework which is derieved from RoR.
Is it possible to autogenerate the Models from the Database Table along with the Relations between the Tables?
All i see is manual connetion between the Models as well as manual Table Creation.
I am little confused because this was possible in CakePhp.
Thanks .


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Pickled snap peas and homemade dressing give Kelsey's salad major zing.
Giada makes baked orzo with fontina and peas as a complement to steak.
Michael Symon blanches peas and adds them to ricotta for a creamy dip.
Whip up this creamy dish that features russet potatoes, garlic and peas.
Creamy peanut butter is key to Melissa's noodle, snow peas and shrimp dish.
Grilled cod wrapped in prosciutto is grilling at its healthiest.
Bill's sugar snap pea salad is dressed simply with mirin and soy sauce.
Make baby food, and then you can raid Junior's stash for your own cooking.
Giada prepares herbed chicken and a medley of spring vegetables.
Pumpernickel rounds are topped with hummus of avocado, peas and lime juice.
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Westfield man jailed after hitting parked cars, house
WESTFIELD – A Westfield man is in Chautauqua County Jail after police said he drunkenly hit multiple cars, one of which hit a house, before fleeing the scene.
Numerous charges have been lodged against Howard F. Nichols, including driving while intoxicated and fleeing the scene of a property-damage accident. The incident occurred Tuesday on Clinton Street in the village.
Police around 7 p.m. received a report of a property-damage accident. While en route, officers were advised that multiple cars and a house were struck by a vehicle. The driver was observed fleeing the scene on foot.
After catching up with him, officers noticed Nichols, 40, of Cass Street, had multiple lacerations on his head from the accident.
"He hit one vehicle which in turn hit another vehicle," said Robert Genthner, Westfield police chief. "The first car he hit also hit the house."
Genthner could not provide an estimate on the amount of damage caused by the accident.
Nichols was charged with DWI, obstruction of governmental administration, unlawful possession of marijuana, failure to maintain lane, not wearing a seatbelt, leaving the scene of a property-damage accident and not using head lights at night.
Nichols was arraigned in Westfield Village Court and bail was set. He was remanded to the County Jail and will appear back in court at a later date. Police said additional charges are pending following further investigation.


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My Big, Fat Chocolate Chip Cookies
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 1 (8-ounce) block dark chocolate, coarsely chopped
DirectionsWatch how to make this recipe.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper. Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt into a medium bowl and set aside.
Place the butter, sugar, and brown sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer; cream together on medium speed until light and fluffy. Scrape down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula. Beat in the vanilla and eggs. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and continue to mix until a smooth batter forms. Turn off the mixer and fold in the chocolate chunks using the spatula.
To form the cookies, scoop about 1/4 cup of cookie dough into your hands and roll it around into a ball; place them about 3-inches apart onto the prepared cookie sheets; you should get about 4 cookies on each pan. Press down the tops of the dough slightly and bake until the cookies are light brown, 12 minutes for chewy cookies, or about 15 minutes for crispy cookies.
Allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. Repeat with remaining dough/cookie sheets.
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Editor's note: CJR's Dean Starkman was invited to give the opening keynote speech at this year's Narrative Arc Conference, at Boston University. The three-day conference at the end of March gathered some of the best nonfiction writers in America to talk about the craft. Starkman edits The Audit, CJR's business desk, and is our Kingsford Capital Fellow. In the speech, he took off from his seminal piece in our 50th anniversary issue—"Confidence Game: the limited vision of the news gurus"—and discussed how powerful reporting and agenda-setting narrative writing need to fight their way back into the center of the discussion about the future of news. The following is a written version of his speech:
It goes without saying that I'm honored to be speaking to this particular group about this particular subject.
I'm going to open with a quote from the great Bostonian and important American historical figure, Ram Dass, who often says: I'm not here to tell you anything new. I'm here to remind you of things you already know. He would probably add, "Om."
The reason I'm here, I believe, is that I'm perceived to have been engaged in the battle over the future of news with the technological vanguard and am now asked for a report from the front, to find out how it's going. What are the prospects for our side?
Last fall, I wrote an essay called "Confidence Game: the limited vision of the news gurus," about the ideas of leading journalism academics, concentrating on the work of Jeff Jarvis, Clay Shirky, and Jay Rosen, touching on that of a few others. I identified what I called the future of news, or FON, consensus, and argued mostly against it.
The genesis of the article, the reason it came about, is that, like you, no doubt, I was unnerved by the collapse of the financial models that had supported long form investigative and narrative journalism. Like you I was spooked by the array of new technologies and communications tools that were replacing old distribution methods, and I was a bit intimidated by the sweeping pronouncements from new journalism theorists who seemed connected to a technological culture with which I was quite unfamiliar.
Like you I listened to a discourse that seemed to consign old journalism forms and methods, and even old journalism values, to the dustbin of history. And did so with a certitude and certain relish that I didn't fully understand.
As Shirky wrote in Here Comes Everybody, his 2008 popularization of network theory:
The hallmark of revolution is that the goals of the revolutionaries cannot be contained by the institutional structure of the existing society. As a result, either the revolutionaries are put down, or some of those institutions are altered, replaced or destroyed.
Or as Jarvis wrote in a 2009 blog post which was an imaginary address to a gathering of news executives:
You blew it. So now, for many of you, there isn't time. It's simply too late. The best thing some of you can do is get out of the way and make room for the next generation of net natives who understand this new economy and society and care about news and will reinvent it, building what comes after you from the ground up. There's huge opportunity there—for them.
And I thought, well, we certainly did fuck some things up, God knows.
And I have to say, I listened to the discourse that was going on about journalism by these new entrants, and I learned a lot. I learned about the value of networks, the potential of something called peer production for journalism, about free content, and sharing, about branding and entrepreneurism, about journalism as conversation, about horizontal communication, , about "iterative" journalism—reporting on the fly, fixing mistakes along the way—about the value of informality and spontaneity over hidebound formal style and narrative forms.
And I thought, well, who can object to sharing? Freedom and things for free? Isn't horizontal better than top-down? One sounds democratic. The other like a form of oppression. More on this later.
I kept listening and was a bit suspicious of all the buzzwords and catchphrases I came across. Google juice, Generation G. "Small is the new big. The mass market is dead, replaced by the mass of niches." I couldn't help but notice the names of the new media startups all had the same kind of flavor. Here for instance are some panelists at a new media conference at the Paley Center this very week. "newsIT." "Contently." "Engagio."
You can't make this up.
We laugh, but there IS an element of marketing and management consultancy mixed in with the news media thinking that bears keeping in mind and watching out for.
Anyway, I kept waiting to hear about things that I cared about: What about public service reporting? What about long-form, investigative narrative, which is expensive, time-consuming, risky, stressful, but is also the thing that exposes wrongdoing, clarifies public understanding, sets agendas, holds powerful institutions to account, and generates reform? What about that? Where does that fit into this new world? Never mind how to pay for it—that's another question—but just, what about it? Isn't that important, too? For some of us, it's not just important. It's the core, the key value around which healthy news cultures are built. It's the point.
So I started to read the future of news literature, and read and read and read and read—these folks write a lot—and well, I couldn't find much about it. I think I know why, and I'll try to explain later. But that thing—the long-form narrative, the exposé, the investigation, the things we do—didn't fit into what new media adherents call "the conversation."
What I also noticed in my reading was that, while we were given to understand that the old order was not only failing but discredited—in fact failing because it was discredited—the outlines of the new order were still rather hazy. As Shirky wrote in an essay now three years old: "If the old model is broken, what will work in its place? The answer is: Nothing will work, but everything might. Now is the time for experiments, lots and lots of experiments "
As I mentioned in my essay, most of the most influential works in future of new theory—Shirky's Here Comes Everybody, and cognitive surplus, and Jarvis's What Would Google Do?—dated to 2008-2010, which as you'll no doubt recall was a time of maximum panic in the newspaper business and in the media business generally. People think of the media's great reordering/meltdown as starting first with the tech wreck of 2000 and the subsequent ad recession, and the rise of Google and Craigslist soon after, and to some degree that's true. But as John Morton, the leading newspaper analyst, ran the numbers and demonstrates, the most shocking plunge in values came surprisingly late, around mid-2007. That's when revenues, which had been edging down, really fell off a cliff and stock market values of news organizations plunged. For instance, the market capitalization of the Journal Register Company, publisher of the New Haven Register and hundreds of smaller papers, fell more than 99 percent from the start of 2007 to 2009, when it finally filed for bankruptcy and was reorganized. It was during this period that what I called the future of news consensus took hold and gathered force and when what I guess I'll have to call traditional news values and forms were in full retreat.
So the financial rout was accompanied by what can only be called an ideological ass-whipping.
Now, of course, I believe the triumphalism was premature—not to mention not always very nice—but also in a couple of key ways, it was misguided. It was misguided in that it sought to throw out not just the bad things, but everything. Not just monolithic news organizations, not just Murdoch and Gannett, not just he-said/she said journalism, and horse-race journalism, and bureaucratized, play it down the middle journalism, not quasi-monopolistic business practices, and gouging rates for classified and display ads, and people who didn't pick up the phone when you called the newsroom, and letters to the editor that went into a black hole, and all that. But everything—Ida Tarbell and Sam McClure and Walter Lippmann, and the great Wall Street Journal editor Barney Kilgore, the Journal leders and A-heds, Bob Greene's investigations at Newsday and the investigative reporting renaissance that he led, the long-form narrative movement that folks like Roy Peter Clark and Mark Kramer taught and preached.
Now, I don't think the new vanguard meant to throw all this out. But there was just a lot they didn't know, a line of tradition that someone needed to trace and to explain. So, we're supposed to be storytellers. Let's construct some narratives:
FON thinking has roots in the non-journalism academy, particularly in the notion of so-called peer production, the participation of citizen-amateurs in professionalized activities. Based on ideas promulgated by prominent legal theorist Yochai Benkler, media scholar Henry Jenkins, and Shirky himself, peer-production theory holds that dramatically lowered costs of organizing, communicating, and sharing will upend many sectors of modern life, journalism very much included. Advocates of peer production (also known as social production) often point to such successful open-source collaborations as the Linux operating system and Wikipedia as harbingers of the networked future.
Peer production is itself a subset of a larger body of thought about networks and society. It tends to view a wired society as a fundamentally different one—less hierarchical, more democratic, more collaborative, freer, even more authentic—from those that preceded it. Manuel Castells, an important network theorist, contends that technology will transform nothing less than "the process of formation and exercise of power relationships." Or as Nicholas Negroponte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology put it, the Internet is about to "flatten organizations, globalize society, decentralize control, and help harmonize people."
If some aspects of peer-production theory and its FON offshoot sound familiar—anti-institutionalism; communitarianism laced with libertarianism; a millennial, Age-of-Aquarius vibe; a certain militancy—some scholars have traced its roots to 1960s counterculture. Fred Turner, a Stanford communications theorist and a cautionary voice on the potential of peer production, chronicled the development of a network of 1960s idealists surrounding Stewart Brand, the visionary founder of both the Whole Earth Catalog, the iconic communitarian manual, in 1968, and Wired, a New Economy-era magazine that is still the digital bible, in 1993. These "New Communards," as Turner calls them, drew from California's defense-centered research culture as well as the counterculture to become the vanguard of the digital revolution, helping transform the very idea of the computer from a symbol of bureaucracy and control to one of personal and social liberation.
Clearly, as I've written, there is a culture gap between the peer-production advocates and professional journalism, it seems safe to say. Where a professional journalist might think of the glories of "Watergate," peer-production adherents would think "pre-Iraq War coverage." Where establishment journalism might fondly recall elegant Wall Street Journal narratives and great regional exposés at The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Miami Herald, FON adherents think "pre-financial crisis Wall Street coverage" and "Gannett." In this, they have a point. What's more, peer-production advocates have had to face down some predictably defensive and mule-headed responses from segments of the old guard.
But the more I read the more I came to understand some of the euphoria we heard in some circles at the collapse of old media, a circumstance most of us here viewed as a disaster. I came across some media criticism and journalism scholarship of the 1980s and 1990s, and, it pays to remember a lot of the concerns were about monolithic media concentration, the idea that the power of the press - this cornerstone of democracy—had been consolidated into a few hands, and not always particularly public-spirited hands either. Ben Bagdikian wrote The Media Monopoly in 1983, and in 1989, I noticed, he updated it with a piece called "the Lords of the Global Village," asserting things had only gotten worse—his targets were Gannett, Murdoch, Robert Maxwell, Time Inc., Bertelsmann, and the like. James Carey, a Columbia journalism professor and wonderful cultural critic who died in 2006 and wrote mostly before the mainstreaming of the Internet, argued for what he called a journalism of conversation as a sort of connective tissue of democracy. He bridled at a press that he perceived talked at its readers rather than with them. In a 1991 essay, he wrote:
Republics require conversation, often cacophonous conversation, for they should be noisy places. That conversation has to be informed, of course, and the press has a role in supplying that information. But the kind of information required can only be generated by public conversation; there is simply no substitute for it A press that encourages conversation of its culture is the equivalent of an extended town meeting. However, if the press sees its role as limited to informing whoever happens to turn up at the end of the communication channel, it explicitly abandons its role as an agency of carrying on the conversation of the culture.
He goes on to say such a press treats readers as objects rather than subjects of democracy. You see a lot of Carey in future of news discourse. Some of us were actually working inside the monolith and so it's harder for us to know what it felt like to be on the outside.
Reading these critics I got this image in my head. It reminded me of a time when I was home from college one summer. I grew up in Evanston, Illinois, and one night some friends and I noticed that the lights were on at Dyche Stadium, the Big Ten field where Northwestern plays football, and we snuck in to play Frisbee. And there was nothing more exhilarating than running around on this big professional-type field throwing a Frisbee—front of 50,000 seats and just fling the thing 30 or 40 yards, not having to look down and worry about potholes or uneven ground. I thought that must have been what it felt like when old media collapsed—all these fences had come down and everybody gets to play and run around on the field. In fact, in an e-mail exchange with a new-media thinker he made a joke that he and his cohort were the guys cutting across Bill Keller's lawn. And I understood where he was coming from.
But my sense was that, certainly when I was writing the piece last summer, that the debate had sort of gotten stuck at that phase—the fences had come down sometime around 2007, and here we were four years later, and everyone was still running around the field celebrating, maybe still tearing up the divots. And not enough intellectual work—certainly in what I had read—had been to advance the discussion.
Okay, let's say we didn't like the old system and that we want to replace institutional journalism with a networked model. What will this networked system look like, and while peer production has had notable successes in some fields of cultural production—Wikipedia and the Linux operating system are the most often cited examples—does it work for journalism? Will it cover the Providence Police Department?
More importantly from my point of view was this: Will it be able to produce great stories? That's what journalism does, isn't it? And it seems to be a hole—and not a small one—in a peer-produced model of news. It doesn't really have any great stories, and, worryingly, it doesn't seem to have any way to produce them.
I don't say this as in, haha. I say it because it's a critical problem.
I've written that a centerless model for enterprise journalism, is having trouble producing great stories for the same reason that Here Comes Everybody wasn't written by "everybody." Important books, like great journalism, require authorship, a power journalists require and deserve at least as much as academics. Can Plan B support authors? If so, great. But as I've asked, how exactly?
The larger question looming behind this entire debate, though, is whether the FON consensus believes that the story really is the thing, that is, whether it believes in the centrality of the great story. I'm happy to have that debate. But, as I've said, relegating the story to the margins of journalism would be a bold position for a journalism academic to take.
And, you know, it was never Bill Keller's lawn. It's the public's lawn, so it was time to bring some seriousness of purposes to the discussion.
And this brings us to McClure.
Okay, this was a very peculiar man. Considered by many to be a genius, he was also just an impossible boss—a font of enthusiasms, you might say. He was forever steaming in from Europe, throwing the office into turmoil with new schemes, ideas, and editorial changes. "I can't sit still," he once said to Lincoln Steffens. "That's your job and I don't see how you can do it!" Staffers would literally rent hotel rooms so they could hide and finish their stories, but apparently McClure would always find them.
The son of an Irish shipyard worker and his wife, Samuel Sidney McClure was brought to the U.S. as a child after his father was killed in a work accident. He was raised amid severe privation in rural Indiana, moving among relatives, and grew into a high-strung, impulsive boy. He ran away "dozens and dozens" of times, his biographer notes. He worked his way through Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois, founded by abolitionists and a center for social reformers and as a collegiate orator, once made this declaration about the abolitionist movement, so revealing of his character: "It was when they believed in what seemed impossible that the abolitionists did the most good, that they created the sentiment that finally did accomplish the impossible."
Modern journalists have an ambivalent relationship toward muckrakers, I would suggest. And it's understandable. They were moralistic. They were deeply religious, part of the religious left you might say. They wrote in such high-flown language, in such high dudgeon. We remember them, inaccurately, I should add, as intemperate hotheads.
Vanderbilt English professor Cecelia Tichi wrote this: "Say the word 'muckraker, and the listener's mind shuts as quickly as it opens. For muckraking suffers from both too much and too little familiarity. The term floats freely in the popular culture, but the texts themselves lack literary prestige, no matter how skilled their practitioners ."
But there's a reason why—despite our own ambivalence and their strangeness—the muckrakers are considered foundational figures in American journalism. In my book on the financial crisis and the financial press, called The Watchdog That Didn't Bark, I'm going to argue the muckrakers—at least in their earlier, purer incarnation around McClure's, bestowed on us great gifts—qualities that still guide, and I have to say, challenge us, today. These are the values we have to hold onto and insist up on in the current debate. It's the circus tent—in Roy Peter Clark's wonderful phrase—we have to hold up in the windstorm.
The first is what I call a certain journalistic purity. They had clean hands. The muckrakers literally stumbled upon their subject—institutionalized corruption-while searching for great stories. It was not, as some would believe, the other way around.
Most muckrakers' early careers were not political. Many weren't even journalistic.
McClure's first job was at a bicycling magazine, The Wheelman. He left to form a literary syndicate, signing up magazine editors and assembling a stable of writers to write fiction and poems for them. When he started McClure's, in 1893, it was because he collected 2,000 unpublished manuscripts, mostly fiction, and figured he could sell the public on a new literary style, realism, while undercutting the likes of Harper's and the Atlantic on price.
At its start, McClure's would be filled with fiction writers. An early contributor (and investor) was Arthur Conan Doyle. Later, the magazine would attract Stephen Crane, Emile Zola, Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, Jack London, O. Henry, many of whom McClure knew personally. Willa Cather was a contributor and would help write McClure's autobiography.
McClure described his plans for the magazine this way in a letter to a friend: "I will have History, Politics, Finance, Invention, Education, Health, Science, etc., etc., treated say one topic a month by great thinkers." Its editorial direction was, as historian Harold S. Wilson puts it, "confused."
As I noted, McClure considered himself a storyteller first. "The story is the thing," he often repeated, almost as a mantra. As he wrote in 1906, after McClure's had become a national sensation, "When Mr. Steffens, Mr. Baker, Miss Tarbell write, they must never be conscious of anything else while writing other than telling an absorbing story: the story is the thing." Phillips, told Baker: "I take it you will make your articles compact with incident and fact. Your strong point is in making things alive, human, with stories of individuals." McClure's articles were closely edited and read as many as thirty times, sometimes by everyone on the staff.
Harold Wilson said: "The McClure articles imitated the short story with quickly initiated action and a climax. But the most weighty criterion with McClure was that the story be readable, that it be as interesting and exciting on its second or third reading as on the first. But more, like all great Victorian literature, the article needed a moral, but the 'ethical element' was present 'unconsciously.' "
What these writers understood quite consciously was that the story was an effective—perhaps the most effective—way to explain complex problems to a mass audience. Rather than being top-down communication, it was a means of democratizing information, a tool of empowerment.
Perhaps many in this room would disagree with me, but the fact that they had no political ax to grind—that they saw themselves as journalists, not activists—not only gave them credibility but allowed them to speak not in the name of a partisan interest but the public interest.
A second quality they brought was a fidelity to facts and fact-gathering. The muckrakers were hardly the first to practice the "journalism of exposure," but McClure and Tarbell brought qualities that particularly matched the sensibilities of their well-educated, middle-class, Midwestern audience. It was deeply religious, but also influenced by the new social sciences, particularly sociology, then coming of age. It demanded not polemic but facts.
And McClure was known for his fidelity to facts. As historians Arthur and Lida Weinberg wrote: "Where Joseph Pulitzer or William Randolph Hearst went in for sensationalism and scandal mongering, McClure wanted to analyze complex issues and explore them with scientific precision.
Indeed, one of the main reasons Tarbell and McClure picked Standard as a target was the mass of documentation on the company accumulated over the years by various investigations: government reports, court records, and transcript testimony, including from Rockefeller himself. And "History of Standard Oil" just bludgeons you with facts—charts, graphs, court records, tables, you name it.
Third was their towering journalistic ambition. The muckrakers steered directly toward the biggest, hardest problems (e.g. political corruption, industrial consolidation) and the most powerful institutions (Standard Oil) and the most powerful people (Rockefeller).
Fourth, and aligned with the third, the muckrakers recognized the importance of agency. Moralists that they were, they understood that great economic events, like great financial events, are not natural phenomena, something that just happens, but instead are the result of the decisions made by individuals, people, and that powerful individuals had more influence than those with less power. Muckraking at its best was an early (and effective) attempt to hold powerful people and institutions to account.
The epigraph to Tarbell's History is a quote from Emerson: "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man."
Finally, McClure and the muckrakers, after a fashion and without intending to, crafted what can be called a journalism ideology of sorts, an ideology of anti-corruption, a keystone value of American journalism to this day. McClure might call it, anti-"lawlessness."
The January 1903 issue of McClure's is considered a landmark because it has three classic muckraking articles by Tarbell, Baker, and Steffens. McClure himself realized only at the last minute what he had in the issue, and hurriedly wrote an editorial to explain what it all meant.
"We did not plan it so," he wrote. "[I]t is a coincidence that the January McClure's is such an arraignment of American character as should make everyone one of us stop and think," he wrote. "Capitalists, workingmen, politicians, citizens all breaking the law or letting it be broken. Who is left to uphold it?"
In an appeal to what was then a developing idea of a public interest, he answered his own question: "There is no one left. None but all of us."
It is worth noting that Tarbell never condemned Standard for its size, only for lawless acts—chiefly colluding with railroads to drive competitors out of business. She had no trouble acknowledging the genuine achievements of Rockefeller and his cohorts and devoted an article to "The Legitimate Greatness of the Standard Oil Company."
It was the very fact that it could have succeeded without resorting to illegal acts that so exasperated Tarbell. As she says in her memoir, "I never had an animus against their size and wealth, never objected to their corporate form. I was willing that they should combine and grow as big and rich as they could, but only by legitimate means. But they had never played fair, and that ruined their greatness for me."
The historian Richard Hofstadter wrote a memorable passage explaining the muckrakers' immense popularity. It was their willingness "not merely to name the malpractices in American business and politics but to name the malpractitioners and their specific misdeeds and to proclaim them to the entire country." Because of the muckrakers, "It now became possible for any literate citizen to know what barkeepers, district attorneys, ward-heelers, prostitutes, police court magistrates, reporters and corporate lawyers had always come to know in the course of their business."
In my book, I'm going to discuss how muckraking qualities and values were incorporated into mainstream media, including, by the way, business news, after WWII via the work people of like Clark Mollenhoff, who investigated Teamster corruption in the 50s and 60s, Bob Greene, and the rise of a period of neo-muckraking in the 1970s and the spread of what can be called the investigative reporting movement. In the mid-70s muckrakers even got their own trade group, Investigative Reporters and Editors. I'll argue that the muckraker's principles, for various reasons, were abandoned during the mortgage era.
In "Confidence Game" I asserted that, as journalists from Tarbell to the people in this room have demonstrated, the long-form narrative is journalism at its most subversive. I think most of the people in this room know what I mean when I say that. But as a reminder, I'll read the five opening paragraphs from one of my favorite newspaper stories:
OAKLAND, Calif. — On the eve of the 1986 leveraged buy-out of Safeway Stores Inc., the board of directors sat down to a last supper. Peter Magowan, the boyish-looking chairman and chief executive of the world's largest supermarket chain, rose to offer a toast to the deal that had fended off a hostile takeover by the corporate raiders Herbert and Robert Haft.
"Through your efforts, a true disaster was averted," the 44-year-old Mr. Magowan told the other directors. By selling the publicly held company to a group headed by buy-out specialists Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and members of Safeway management, "you have saved literally thousands of jobs in our work force," Mr. Magowan said. "All of us-employees, customers, shareholders-have a great deal to be thankful for."
Nearly four years later, Mr. Magowan and the KKR group can indeed count their blessings. While they borrowed heavily to buy Safeway from the shareholders, last month they sold 10% of the company (but none of their own shares) back to the public-at a price that values their own collective stake at more than $800 million, more than four times their cash investment.
Employees, on the other hand, have considerably less reason to celebrate. Mr. Magowan's toast notwithstanding, 63,000 managers and workers were cut loose from Safeway, through store sales or layoffs. While the majority were re-employed by their new store owners, this was largely at lower wages, and many thousands of Safeway people wound up either unemployed or forced into the part-time work force. A survey of former Safeway employees in Dallas found that nearly 60% still hadn't found full-time employment more than a year after the layoff.
James White, a Safeway trucker for nearly 30 years in Dallas, was among the 60%. In 1988, he marked the one-year anniversary of his last shift at Safeway this way: First he told his wife he loved her, then he locked the bathroom door, loaded his .22-caliber hunting rifle and blew his brains out.
The date was May 16, 1990. The publication was the WSJ. The reporter on the story, it may surprise you to learn, was Susan Faludi.
This is an example of explaining a complex subject—the leveraged buyout—to a mass audience. And that story only gained power as you read its 7,700 words.
Similarly, if you wanted to learn about the true nature of Citigroup in 2003, the fact that it was built on a subprime-foundation, you could read Mike Hudson's 10,000-word epic "Banking on Misery," which ran in tiny Southern Exposure magazine and won a Polk Award in 2004. Unfortunately, only a small number of readers saw that piece.
Everyone here could name their own stories, and then multiply them by 1,000.
In his description of this conference, Mark Kramer wrote that its purpose is to "recognize the civic, ethical, political and literary achievements of the finest storytelling journalism
This conference is about our new genre, still in progress, about understanding its heritage, integrity, power, and the craft skills that make it work."
My purpose, as I said at the beginning, is to report back from the future, the future of news, or the debate about it anyway, and to tell that it will be okay. And maybe better than okay.
The first phase of the debate—the triumphalist phase—I sense is coming to a close. People aren't running around the field so much anymore. On the other side, panic time is over.
We still have a few issues to work out.
One is which model of journalism is really the more democratic: Is it professional reporting on behalf of the many (and, I should add, benefiting from all the new connections), or networked citizens providing information to each other? I'd say the latter is more democratic within the network but the former, mine, is, by definition, intended for the broader audience. If you think of my model as top-down communication, it's elitist. But if you think of it as a division of labor, then it's not.
Another issue to be worked out is the degree to which activism and journalism can be blended. Networks are built for mobilization, for instance, and some folks from technology backgrounds have interesting and very valid ideas about combined exposure and reform.
As an e-mail correspondent wrote me recently: "I do think it's important not to confuse means and ends when we discuss the core of the subject. Holding-power-to-account is a means, not an end."
I'd just observe that I recognize there's a not-small element of a status struggle in all this. I'm pushing models and forms that place professional journalists at the center. That's me and that's what I do. New entrants, I'd gently suggest, are pushing for one in which technically grounded folks act as nodes for a new type of communication, and that's what they're good at.
It's time for people who believe in the power of the narrative to respectfully but firmly insist on its place in the new digital landscape. I'd put it at the center.
But the fact is, the more you learn about the new technologies, the more you come to understand what a promising time this is. The struggle for primacy between technologists and professional writers is normal and even good. But eventually it's got to come to an end, and—sorry to end on an ecumenical note—the two cultures have got to come together.
There's too much important work to be done and, really, amazing potential for journalism now with the longform narrative playing an indispensible, central role.
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MALIBU, Calif. (Jan. 19, 2012) – Summer Ross, a two-time world champion and the USA Volleyball Female Beach Athlete of the Year for 2010, will play sand volleyball at Pepperdine University, the school announced on Thursday.
Pepperdine women's sand volleyball coach Nina Matthies announced the addition Ross (Carlsbad, Calif.) – one of the sport's most highly touted junior athletes – to its 2012 roster. Ross transferred to Pepperdine after spending a semester playing indoor volleyball at Washington.
Ross established herself as one of the best junior sand volleyball players during the 2010 season, becoming the first athlete, male or female, to win both the FIVB Youth World Championships and the FIVB Junior World Championships in the same year.
Ross won the prestigious titles with two different partners. Ross teamed up with Jane Croson to take home the gold medal at the 2010 FIVB Youth World Championships on July 29-Aug. 1 in Porto, Portugal. The pair went a perfect 7-0 to become the first U.S. women's team to medal in the event.
Ross then teamed up with Tara Roenicke at the Junior World Championships on Sept. 16-19 in Alanya, Turkey. The duo became the United States' first medalists in the event after winning seven-consecutive matches.
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Ross had a solid rookie season while playing indoor volleyball for the Huskies in 2011. She averaged 1.56 kills, 2.23 digs and 1.07 blocks while leading Washington to the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Ross' older brother, Chase, is currently a senior outside hitter for the Pepperdine men's volleyball team.
In addition to Ross, Caitlin Racich (Santa Barbara, Calif.) will be playing in the sand for the Waves. The remainder of the 2012 roster will be announced soon, and will include several members of the 2011 indoor volleyball team that reached the Elite 8 of the NCAA Tournament last fall.
Pepperdine announced the addition of sand volleyball last fall, and is one of around 20 institutions to sponsor the sport in its first season as an NCAA sport. The Waves open the inaugural season in March, and will compete in hopes of making it to the AVCA Collegiate Sand Volleyball Championships in Gulf Shores, Alabama on April 27-29.
The Huskies opted not to sponsor sand volleyball during sport's infancy, which contributed to Ross' decision to transfer.
"Playing indoor volleyball at Washington was an honor, and I am so grateful to my coaches, teammates and fantastic fans in Seattle, but I had to listen to my heart," Ross said. "I knew I had to get back on the beach.
"I'm not completely closing the door on indoor volleyball," Ross said. "But it will be the inaugural year for sand volleyball at the Division I level, and I wanted to contribute to the sport's growth and success.
"I am excited to play sand (volleyball) at Pepperdine because it is a Christian school with experienced and knowledgeable beach coaches."
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Big Books for Little Listeners will be held at the Princeton Public Library on Wednesdays
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* Listening station. Me and Erik from edlug/infoseed are trying to get hold of an old laptop which we can recycle into a dedicated listening station. We just need a working laptop with semi-decent sound and hard disk space that we can install a dedicated Linux setup on. Chris is off the rails, if he doesn't get a laptop in two weeks, he may buy a Forest ipod, or even a Zune!
* The Internet connection. Is such a mess. We need to replace the PC and the various modems, switches and routers currently above the kitchen with one modem/router within arms reach of the ground. The only thing preventing us from doing this is people who use our wireless connection and steal all the bandwidth. The PC above the kitchen currently runs a traffic shaping script that prevents the effect of these people from being too bad. So we need a modem/router with built-in packet shaping, or at least port blocking or limiting bandwidth per wireless connection or something. Find out if my router, the router in the office at the forest, or infoseed's router could be setup to do this.
* Sharing the Internet connection with infoseed. Both the forest and infoseed are throwing away money here. Collaborate with Tom from infoseed to run a cable from the forest down to infoseed, and have us both share one broadband connection from one router. Split the cost 50/50. Probably best to drop infoseed's current broadband account, not the forest's.
* The Linux computers. Are pretty much fine. Swithun said floppy disk access was not working. Get a floppy disk and test this. Maybe replace Epiphany web browser with Firefox as the default, confuse people less.
* The mac jukebox. Is running a proprietary operating system and music player. I want to get all the music on it backed up, then install Ubuntu on the mac, or replace the mac with a PC running Ubuntu, then put the music back onto the Ubuntu machine and play it using rhythmbox, which is like itunes. Rip songs using soundjuicer or goobox (if we need to rip to mp3). Questions: has the mac ripped all the Forest music into a file format that is compatible only with itunes? Any new PC we replace it with needs to be of decent reliability, many of the infoseed machines are a bit too old and unreliable to replace it.
* Propoganda -- the forest is using a fair bit of free software and recycled computers now, in part thanks to help from infoseed, edlug, me, and others who partly do it because we believe in the practical philosophy behind free software. I would like to have like an A4 piece of paper explaining why the forest computer software looks different and why we use it, and about reusing computers, put up on the wall somewhere. This is a starting point.
* Organise a workshop at the forest or infoseed which people can come to to get a 30-minute to 1-hour tutorial on how to use Ubuntu Linux and ask questions. Lots of people have installed Ubuntu themselves or had us install it for them in recent months, others may be interested. Showing people how to use it is one really important thing that nevers gets done, because the install process always ends up taking so long. It will be more efficient to get lots of people to come to us all at once than for me to go to each of them. This may be more of an infoseed concern than the forest.
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Topic: Categorizing users.
What would be the best way to allow different signup for different users?
For instance, we have 3 types of users: Manager, Worker, Client.
Should i just create a boolean field in the user table?
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What would be the best way to allow different signup for different users?
For instance, we have 3 types of users: Manager, Worker, Client.
Should i just create a boolean field in the user table?
If the users behave similar, but have a few differences, then I recommend considering doing Single Table Inheritence. Just put a "type" string column in your users table and then you can sublcass User with whatever you want:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
class Manager < User
class Worker < User
class Client < User
otherwise... polymorphic association if each kind of user has distict different attributes.
what if i just use acts_as_tree and have the following
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :category_of_owner, :foreign_key => "owner_id" , :class_name => "Category"
has_many :category_of_client, :foreign_key => "client_id", :class_name => "Category"
has_and_belongs_to_many :category_of_worker, :foreign_key => "worker_id", :class_name => "Category", :conditions => ["usertype LIKE ?", "Worker"]
class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
acts_as_tree :order => "name"
belongs_to :owner, :foreign_key => "owner_id", :class_name => "User"
belongs_to :client, :foreign_key => "client_id", :class_name => "User"
has_and_belongs_to_many :worker, :foreign_key => "worker_id", :class_name => "User", :conditions => ["usertype LIKE ?", "Worker"]
in the HABTM, would rails be smart enough to find the join table on its own? or am i defining these wrong way.
That way you can override any methods in the subclass which need to behave differently depending on the type of user.
This sounds like something that will be useful in my application, but I was hoping you could expand on it a bit further. What is an example of something you would put in the subclass?
I found my answer in another discussion... http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=22104#p22104
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Skip to comments.Clinton says Obama beating the clock on economy
Posted on 04/29/2012 7:47:14 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Campaigning with President Obama for the first time, former President Bill Clinton said Sunday night the economy is recovering faster than expected under Mr. Obama and that full employment could still be years away.
If you go back 500 years, whenever a countrys financial system collapses, it takes between five and 10 years to get back to full employment, Mr. Clinton told supporters at a fundraiser at the home of former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe in McLean, Va. By that standard, he said, Mr. Obama is beating the clock, not behind it.
Mr. Obama told the crowd, You guys get two presidents for one, which is a pretty good deal.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I think I'm supposed to infer that all the various national economies of the world, decades and centuries apart, have universally recognized features and are directly comparable.
Dementia has definitely set in.
Pretty good deal for "YOU GUYS".
C'mon November. OMG
I always thought Slick Willie could stoop lower than what he has previously demonstrated ... with him, there's always lower... the kind of guy that looks up to boot scrapings.
Who to believe, Bill Clinton or the Federal Reserve Policy makers? The Feds outlook;
However, the Fed is forecasting slower growth in 2013 and 2014.
I'll say he's "beating" SOMETHING....and it's NOT a damned clock.
10 years???
Maybe he wants us to change the constitution so he can be in office in 10 years, Just have Patience, It might take a decade before we can judge him. .
The economic dog named "clock", then he is eatin that tenderized mutt.
It takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'.
A Bill Clinton BULL$HIT ALERT.
Coming from an impeached President that was too busy having sex with interns to care for the economy which led to the biggest layoff period in history, major inflation, a crashed tech industry and a crashed housing industry, both of which are still hurting our economy, and major energy reosurce reductions due to his policies of selling energy resources to the Chinese, etc.
I could go on and on, but if Clinton says Obama is a good thing then we know he is lying...his lips were moving.
"...it takes between five and 10 years..."
Joe Biden, April 2, 2010:
"Well, I'm here to tell you, some time in the next couple of months, we're going to be creating between 250,000 jobs a month and 500,000 jobs a month."
He's beating something, but it ain't no clock.
I think that there is a good chance that Obama will have to raise the debt ceiling BEFORE the election. This 2.2% 1st quarter GDP growth is a real killer.
Bubba is most likely doing this not as a bootlicker, but out of desire to help Hillary in 2016. I doubt Bubba has really warmed to 0bama, but he knows that if 0bama gets reelected, Hillary gets to run for the presidency as an open seat in 2016, and that's easier than running against an incumbent Republican. If Hillary didn't intend to run in 2016, I doubt Bill would do much of anything to help 0bama win a second term.
Oh Bill, Yoo So Funny!!!
If you go back 500 years, whenever a countrys financial system collapses, it takes between five and 10 years to get back to full employment,
What in the hell are you talking about, you reflexively lying puerile dumbass?
These Communists have had full cover from their staunch allies in the TraitorMedia for so long, that they just shovel pure unadulterated horsesh!t at will.
"Who to believe, Bill Clinton or the Federal Reserve Policy makers?"
They are both liars, economically ignorant, and enemies of the American people.
Now look at total employment historical stats:
How's this for an average, yuh Clock Beater!
Average Unemployment:
2006 4.6
2007 4.6
2008 5.8
2009 9.3
2010 9.6
2011 8.9(and this is a horse crap phony number)
The economy is recovering?
Oh, that's precious.
Very funny . Bill Clinton is a pantload and everyone knows it.
He's not "beating the clock on the economy". He's just beating on the economy.
The "L" is silent.
I thought that was outlawed.
I think the Clinton Cigar Caper is outlawed in some States, but in D.C., Sodomy is the first order of business.
All that blow has addled whats left of his brain.
Here of late, notice how Willie is beginning to look like George Soros more and more every time you see him.
Felon, scoundrel, scoff law ex-President Clinton campaigning for Comrade Obama, in a sane world this should be the kiss of death.
Obstruction of Justice, Perjury, Witness Tampering, Abuse of Power.
All these felony crimes committed by a sitting American President in an attempt to deny a WOMAN American Justice.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are fabricating a war against women susposedly launched by the Republicans.
Just who is this clintoon guy? Among other actions, isn't he the one who masturbated into a sink just off the oval office in the White House and who put a cigar into an intern's vagina? Yea...I want to be influenced by that moral miscreant.
The only thing Obummer is beating is his me*t.
"Here of late, notice how Willie is beginning to look like George Soros more and more every time you see him."
I hate to admit it, but you beat me to it.
Well, I have learned a few principles
Women's rights and war on women mean women actually having the right to choose not to have an abortion, to at least live a partial stay-at-home mom life, and they project their own behavior into whomever disagrees with them. For people like me, it's hogwash, but to someone who is hyper-partisan, it just sounds fabulous. I don't like Romney, but given how wierd, unhinged, and despicable his opponents get, especially the guys like Obama and Clinton, well is it me, or is it just well, wierd how unhinged the Democrats have been getting lately.
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Looking for a Great Bike for loaded touring, commuting or general riding? Here it is! Up for sale is my 2011 Surly Long Haul Trucker 56cm Touring Bike. The bike has less than 500 miles, and is in excellent condition. The only reason that I'm selling the bike is that it is just too big for me. I really needed a 54cm but did not want 650mm wheels. I never got to use the Trucker for its intended use as a fully loaded tourer, but only commuted to work on a few occasions and did some group rides. Color is Gloss Black. Asking $950. Bike is located in Virginia Beach, VA. I would prefer not to ship it but will consider. Additional info upon request.
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Crankset SUGINO Touring Triple 48/36/25T, 170mm Crank Arms
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Rear Derailleur Shimano LX , T661SGS. Black
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