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'History Of The Eagles Part 1′ Documentary To Debut At Sundance
The long-talked about Eagles documentary, History Of The Eagles Part 1, has finally scheduled its first public viewing.
Ringo Starr, Joe Walsh, Jeff Lynne Come Together for 'Songs After Sandy' Hurricane Relief
A number of rock legends and some newer artists are contributing exclusive tracks (and a couple of other cool items) to help fund relief efforts in the south Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook.
"Live from Daryl's House" Celebrates 60th Episode With Joe Walsh
Daryl Hall's award-winning web-to-cable series Live from Daryl's House celebrated it's 60th episode with special guest Joe Walsh. The legendary Eagles guitarist appearance on the latest episode featured hits from his own catalog like "Rocky Mountain Way," "Life's Been Good" and a number from his recent release, Analog Man, called "Wrecking Ball," plus Hall solo numbers "Someone Like You" and "Wrong Side of History."
Bruce? Ringo? Dylan? 6 Potential Guests At Tonight's Love For Levon Helm Concert
Tonight, an all-star lineup of music legends will take the stage at New Jersey's Izod Center for the "Love For Levon" concert. The concert, paying tribute to the late drummer/singer Levon Helm from The Band will feature Roger Waters, Joe Walsh and Gregg Allman, among others. The event website also mentions that other "legendary surprise guests" will perform. But who might those guests be?
Gregg Allman, Joe Walsh, John Mayer To Show 'Love For Levon' Helm With Concert
When much-beloved drummer/singer Levon Helm of The Band passed away on April 19, musicians from all genres and generations paid tribute at their concerts, in interviews and on Twitter. But on October 3rd at New Jersey's Izod Center, a number of legends will pay tribute to him at a concert called "Love For Levon."
Paul McCartney Comes To PBS's "Great Performances" Next Month
Earlier this year, Paul McCartney released Kisses On The Bottom, a new album of pop standards that pre-date the rock and roll era (along with two new songs written in that style). And while he didn't tour to promote it, he did perform the songs on the album at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles (where he recorded the album) on February 9.
Joe Walsh & Ringo Starr: Bandmates, Brothers-In-Law
Joe Walsh played in the first two All-Starr Bands (as well as Starr's short lived late-'90s backing band, The Roundheads), and these days, is Ringo's brother-in-law. He says that the first All-Starr Band was one of the greatest groups he's ever played in. And as huge of an experience as that was, being a part of the Starr family is even more of an eye-opener.
Ringo Starr Talks All-Starr Band: "Two Hours Of Joy"
A Twitter novice, Ringo explained that he's only been tweeting (or "twittering," as he puts it) for a little more than a week. He picked it up as a way to combat boredom while on tour
Joe Walsh Talks CMT 'Crossroads' Duets With Billy Gibbons, Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley
As a member of the Eagles, Joe Walsh is part of one of the most influential forces in the cross-pollination of country, rock and pop. He takes that combination a step further with the premiere of his CMT "Crossroads" episode this Saturday.
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2013 Mid-Year Review, Part 1Posted by Rich Williams on Jul 10, 2013 in Black and White, Boston, Bridge, Cityscape, DC, Dusk, Fisheye, Massachusetts, Mid-Atlantic, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Skyline, sunrise, Sunset, Washington | 3 comments
There's hardly any need to state the obvious, but I'll say it anyway: it's been a while since I've blogged. As I dust off the cobwebs from this site, I'll provide two reasons to explain my extended absence.
First, 2013 has been an unusually slow month in terms of landscape/cityscape photography. I simply didn't get to travel as extensively as I liked, and as a result, my output suffered to a degree. Second, I've been playing with the idea of giving my blog a makeover and redesign. I'm still not sure of the direction to which I want to steer, but having been using this format for over two years, I'm hungry for a change. So until I get a new design up and running, I may as well share with you some of my most memorable images I've captured over the last six months.
First, I've had the pleasure of visiting Philadelphia twice this year so far. The above image is Center City and the Ben Franklin Bridge at dusk on a chilly February evening. Down below, we have the Ben Franklin Bridge taken earlier in the afternoon as well as a sunset capture of the skyline taken later in the spring.
And, yes, I returned to Washington, D.C., one of my favorite stomping grounds. Over the course of two trips (which were mostly social and left me with little time to shoot on my own), I checked out the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, revisited the United States Capitol at sunset, and indulged in some fisheye fun inside the Washington Metro subway stations.
The sole lighthouse I've visited so far this year has been Annisquam in Gloucester, Mass. Here, we have a sunset shot taken back in January:
And, finally, I did my annual sunrise shot of the Boston skyline. Mother Nature decided to cooperate with me that morning and deliver a freakishly calm Charles River, resulting in a beautiful mirror-like reflection.
That's all for now. The second part of my 2013 mid-year review will drop soon.

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Online Marketing Data Suggests Obama Will Win Big Tomorrow wordstream.comSubmitted by larrykim Nov 05 2012 in Social 4 Comments Discuss (4) |
By Larry Kim November 05, 2012 Posted In: Marketing Strategy Comments: 0 *If online engagement metrics are any indication!Election Day 2012 is tomorrow – will President Barack Obama get another four years? Or will Republican challenger Mitt Romney take the win?Political wonks may know that statistician Nate Silver has predicted a win for Obama based on election polls and public opinion polls.
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Matthew Barby @matthewbarbyAnother fantastic article with some great statistics to back it all up, Larry. Keep them coming!
Tad Chef @onreact_comThere is one major problem with this, it's global data, the president is chosen in the US though. Most people around the world know Obama because he is the president already. Also Democrats are always more popular in the world than Republicans and people all over the world love Obama. That's why Obama is leading on social media and traffic-wise globally.
Larry Kim @larrykim AMATrue however the margins are quite large.
Ross Hudgens @RossHudgensCrazy that a poll could have insufficient sample size and also sampling bias while also surveying the entire United States/World. This could be it - as mentioned, Romney's audience is way more likely to not use social. Although, as Larry mentioned the margins are quite large, and I do believe Obama will win. :)


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Assistant Safety Commissioner Earl Sweeney said police typically issue the pistol licenses, but some towns designate others to issue them.
"Each town keeps their own records, and neither the Department of Safety or any other state agency as far as I know has any idea who does or does not have a license or how many are issued in a particular town or city or statewide," Sweeney said in an email.
The names of people issued licenses are exempt from the state's right-to-know law "because the Legislature has decided that it is not good public policy for the criminal element to possibly know who might own a gun," Sweeney said.
In New Hampshire, people are not required to have a license to carry a concealed pistol or revolver in their home or place of business, "so one is not necessary if you simply want to protect yourself against a potential home invasion," Sweeney said.
A license also isn't required to carry a concealed but unloaded firearm in public or in a vehicle, or to carry a loaded pistol or revolver on the street or in a public building if the weapon is visible and is not covered by an outer garment, except in a courthouse or on the property of a school, or in any private business that has banned firearms on their property.
The state law governing the licenses states the applicant must be "a suitable person," which Sweeney said means "a lot is left to the discretion of the local official as when a person would not be a 'suitable person' and there is no specific test written into the law to help them determine this."
He said convicted felons aren't allowed to possess deadly weapons, so they can't receive a license.
"Other typical reasons for denial would be that the applicant has a criminal record of convictions for violent offenses, has been involuntarily committed to a mental institution for treatment of a diagnosable mental illness that involved dangerousness, is under indictment and awaiting trial for a felony, is known to be mentally ill or incompetent, has made statements threatening people in the community, is under a domestic violence protective order or a bail order from a judge not to possess firearms, or has carelessly and inappropriately brandished or mishandled a firearm in a way that would demonstrate that they would pose a danger to themselves or others," Sweeney said in an email.
"None of these reasons are specifically mentioned in the law, but they are typical of instances where police chiefs have concluded that someone was not a 'suitable person.' The police in a specific city or town should not issue a license to someone who is not a resident of their community," Sweeney said.
Manchester police conduct a criminal background check and a local history check on each applicant, placing that information in a packet for a detective to review. An applicant, for instance, can be disqualified for such things as a person's mental health history, police Capt. Nick Willard said.
Applicants fill out a questionnaire and pay a $10 fee. The licensing authority has 14 days to grant the license or state in writing why the application was rejected.
In 2012, 35 of 1,466 applicants were denied a license. Among those rejected were three people charged with a criminal offense for falsifying their application or misrepresenting information.
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Everybody knows that bad people can be converted. The world is full of such stories. John Newton, the "wretch" who wrote "Amazing Grace" was a slave-trader who repented of his sin. "I was blind," he said, "but now I see." We've all heard testimonies of lives turned around by Jesus; I myself have introduced alcoholics, drug addicts, prostitutes, and former prisoners. I think to myself, "Now that's a testimony! I wish I'd been worse before I became a Christian—at age seven. Thank God I at least got kicked out of high school."
So this is my tentative conclusion from a lifetime of Baptist testimonies: bad people can change. If your life is really bad, so that you get completely disgusted with yourself and you hit rock bottom, real change is possible. If you find yourself in the mud with the pigs like the prodigal son—if you've got nowhere to go but up—you'll think about going home and be converted. Some of the witnessing techniques I learned started by showing people how bad they really are.
When we come to the story of Paul on the road to Damascus, we are tempted to hear it as another of those testimonies of a really bad person turning to Jesus. After all, in 1 Timothy Paul calls himself "the chief of sinners." The Damascus road experience is held up as the paradigm for Christian conversion.
The problem with that reading is that Paul is only the chief of sinners in his own mind as he thinks of himself in relation to God. If you look at Paul objectively, he was a good and religious person. He says in the letter to the Galatians, "I advanced in Judaism beyond many among my people of the same age, for I was far more zealous for the traditions of my ancestors" (1:15). He says in the letter to the Philippians that he was "a Hebrew of the Hebrews, a Pharisee of the Pharisees; as far as zeal went, he was so zealous that he persecuted the church; as far as righteousness under the law went, he was blameless" (3:5-6). Some have portrayed Paul as a man wracked with a guilt problem like Luther or Augustine, who finally found grace and peace on the road to Damascus. But there is nothing in the Bible to lead us to think that.
On the contrary, here is the story we get. Although born a Roman citizen in Tarsus (in modern Turkey), Paul was educated in Jerusalem under the rabbi Gamaliel. He was most likely present when the unpleasantness caused by the pretender Jesus of Nazareth disturbed the city. We know that Paul stood by approving as the Christian preacher Stephen was stoned as a heretic. The next thing we hear is that Paul is so upset by this cult group called "The Way" that he is threatening them and talking homicide. He is not just following the crowd on this issue; he is leading the way. Paul goes to the high priest and gets something like a religious warrant to take to the synagogue in Damascus, which says that if he finds any of those Jews who are followers of Jesus hiding out in Damascus he is authorized to arrest them and bring them back to Jerusalem to face trial. Paul himself says in a letter, "I was violently persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it" (Galatians 1:13).
Does this make Paul an evil person? No, it makes him a passionately religious one. He sees the Jesus cult as a real threat to Judaism, and he has the same kind of anger about blasphemy that we see often among Muslims today, but only rarely among Christians. He is desperately trying to do the right thing when he sees God's kingdom under attack by a fake Messiah. I take Paul's word for it that he followed the Jewish law perfectly. He never violated the commandments—like the rich young ruler who came to Jesus. His conscience was clear.
At this point it seems to me that the Damascus road story is not about the conversion of a bad man. It's about how a good man got converted. Saul did not bottom out or even glimpse the meanness in his own heart. He met the risen Jesus Christ. That's why this story is in the lectionary for the Easter season: this is yet another appearance by Jesus, another of those times when he "showed himself" to select people. Paul makes it clear in his letters that he considers Jesus' appearance to him every bit as real as Jesus' appearance to Peter, John, Thomas and the rest. However physical or spiritual the Easter Jesus was, he was just the same on the road to Damascus.
So this is a story of a perfectly religious person on a trip to do his religious duty to arrest false teachers when something utterly unexpected happens. "Suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him." This idea of God in lightning or a bright fire is a common way of thinking of the divine presence. So Paul is having some kind of encounter with the holy. But then a voice speaks to Paul. He must have guessed it was God's voice. The voice calls him by name, his Jewish name, "Saul, Saul"—saying it twice like "Abraham, Abraham" or "Moses, Moses." "Why are you persecuting me?"
Huh? I'm confused. I'm on your side, God. I'm persecuting the bad guys. Why would you say I am persecuting you?" In his confusion Paul asks, "Who are you, Lord?"—although the same words could mean "Who are you, sir?" But the reply comes: "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting."
In that moment Paul knew that he had been wrong about everything. The lie that he was out to expose was actually the truth. The people that he wanted to see dead were actually followers of the Messiah. And in hurting them he had been hurting the Messiah. Saul had based his life and his career on the assumption that Jesus could not possibly be alive. He knew that Jesus had been put to death as one more false teacher pretending to be the Messiah, and that if he had been the Messiah God would not have allowed him to be killed. Saul was absolutely certain of that. But now the Crucified One appeared before him surrounded by the glory of God. The risen Jesus spoke to him by name, and Paul spent the rest of his life proclaiming the very truth he had tried to extinguish: that Jesus is in fact the Messiah, that he is in fact risen from the dead, and that it is by uniting ourselves with Jesus that we are restored to fellowship with God forever.
If Paul had a besetting sin, it must have been certainty. It is a form of pride, to believe that you are right about everything important—and you see that tone become a problem in some of Paul's letters. The thing is, most of us crave certainty. We think faith and certainty are the same thing. That's one reason some people commit themselves to a faith group: they want to settle on one particular answer to life's questions and move on. Paul believed the scriptures without reservation. He thought at the time that his scheme of interpreting them was the correct one. He had been to the best schools.
But that sense of certainty about religion was what led Paul to dismiss as ridiculous and dangerous the claim that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah, or that God would have let the Messiah be executed by the Romans. He was sure that that was impossible. Until he met Jesus. The account doesn't say that Paul saw anything. He heard a voice and it was Jesus. The reality he experienced—that Jesus was actually alive, and that Paul was on the wrong side against the Messiah—changed everything.
We can think of times our religion has been on the wrong side and against Jesus: the Crusades, the Inquisition, the persecution of Jews. And in this country, Baptists were often on the side of slavery and segregation, restricting the role of women, and persecuting gays. They were good religious people who did those things. They were trying to do the right thing. But they were, like Paul, zealous for their traditions rather than listening to the voice of the living Jesus Christ.
I think that in Protestant churches there are many good people doing what they believe is right—some zealous, some not. Often they are following the traditions they have inherited. They believe in God and can affirm the creeds in a general way. As far as they know, they are blameless under the law; they very rarely do things they know are wrong at the time. Like Paul, they believe in the institution and are willing to defend it from harm.
But the question that Paul's story raises is: Can these good people be converted? Is it possible for them to be knocked off their high horses, or knocked off the straight and narrow, by the voice of Jesus? Is it possible that there is something more than doing the right thing and giving your fair share? Is it possible that Jesus is alive, and can speak to you, and that he has a mission for you? In Paul's case, that mission was something unthinkable: offering salvation through the Jewish Messiah to the Gentiles.
One of the core ideas of the Baptist churches from the beginning was that every person has to make an individual response to Christ, a free response. The church is a gathered body made up of people who have encountered Jesus and chosen to follow him. The way they talked about this was to say they believed in "a regenerate church membership." Every person in the church had been re-generated, born again, converted. There were to be no members who simply grew up in the faith but had not personally encountered the divine and changed their minds.
It is not the case that Paul's dramatic conversion is intended to be a model. His experience is unique. Jesus is going to encounter every person in a different way. For most of us there won't be a flash of light. We may come to know him gradually as in a sunrise.
But I do think that Jesus wants to disturb every one of us with the thought that what we are doing in the name of religion may be hurting Jesus himself. That was his message not only to Paul but earlier to the Pharisees. In our zeal to stand up for the right and to enforce it we may be working at cross purposes with the Messiah and his kingdom. And whenever we fight to maintain the status quo, whenever we assume that the kingdom is in the past rather than in the future, we are fighting Jesus. "Why are you persecuting me?"
Many of us are, after years in church, full of certainty about how things are. We are pretty much capable of carrying on church work without Jesus. We don't expect much from God, and we don't think God expects more than is reasonable from us. It is very hard for us to entertain the thought that like Paul we might have become disoriented to God. We might be upside down to what God is trying to do. The first step toward righting ourselves and hearing the voice of Jesus is to allow ourselves to doubt our view of reality. I'm not a great fan of Oliver Cromwell, the Puritan revolutionary, but I often think of the letter he wrote in frustration to the general assembly of the Church of Scotland, which said, "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken."
Of course it is possible that I am mistaken. In fact, that may be the one thing I am absolutely certain of. But I am as certain as I can be about anything outside my control that there is a Jesus who died for us and rose again. The evidence I have from the Bible and history and experience is that the risen Jesus is wild, coming and going as he wills, and that he is generally disruptive to our plans. Jesus is always calling us to focus on things beyond our present priorities. He calls us to focus on people who are not even in our field of vision at this point. And while his voice messes up our plans, his voice always tells us "You are forgiven. You are loved. You are accepted. And you are called." No matter how good you are in your own estimation, you are forgiven. No matter how together or proper your life is, you are called to something more.
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ROYAL OAK, Mich. (May 23, 2013) - A new Education Trust-Midwest analysis of charter schools scheduled to open in Michigan this fall shows chronically low-performing operators are continuing to expand rapidly in the state, regardless of what's best for students. The data demonstrate Michigan needs to seriously consider holding charter authorizers more accountable for school quality.
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ROYAL OAK, Mich. (May 23, 2013) - A new Education Trust-Midwest analysis of charter schools scheduled to open in Michigan this fall shows chronically low-performing operators are continuing to expand rapidly in the state, regardless of what's best for students. The data demonstrate Michigan needs to seriously consider holding charter authorizers more accountable for school quality.
Our analysis found that while some strong operators have been approved to expand this fall, some of Michigan's worst operators also are continuing to replicate. We examined the operators slated to open 32 new charter schools this fall, based on a recent Michigan Department of Education release. Authorizers have the power to rein in low-performing operators, yet many have not done so.
"The Education Trust–Midwest believes all Michigan students deserve a high-quality school, no matter its governance structure," said Amber Arellano, executive director of the nonpartisan research and advocacy group. "That's why we support the expansion of high-quality charter schools in Michigan. Sadly, too many of the new charter schools opening are run by operators who are failing to do right by our parents and students."
"Some of these operators' student achievement levels are worse than our most struggling public school districts, such as Detroit and Flint public schools," Arellano added. "Our state holds schools accountable in Michigan. Now we need real accountability for authorizers who continue to approve the expansion of failing school operators -- this is needed whether we're talking about traditional school districts, or non-profit or for-profit operators.
The ETM analysis found there is great variation in charter operator performance. Some newly approved charter schools have operators with strong track records of student achievement. For example, National Heritage Academies is set to open the Oakland Scholars Charter Academy in Waterford this fall.
At the same time, other operators' track records are weak, and sometimes even abysmal. This disturbing pattern follows the state legislature's 2011 decision to lift the state's cap on charter school expansion without regard for an operator's performance. Consider:
• Leona Group, L.L.C., a for-profit operator based in Arizona, has among the worst track records in Michigan among traditional public districts or charter operators. It currently operates 26 schools in Michigan in Detroit, Dearborn, Melvindale, Benton Harbor, Traverse City, Flint, Saginaw, Highland Park and Warren. An example of Leona's low performance is Mildred Wells Academy, a Bay Mills-authorized school in Benton Harbor. Open since 2005, only 6 percent of its students met state standards last year in math. That's lower than student scores in the struggling Benton Harbor Public Schools, and far below the state average of 40 percent.
• At Leona's Cesar Chavez Academy in Southwest Detroit, students performed worse than Detroit Public Schools (DPS) in reading on the 2012 MEAP. Chavez students, 92% Hispanic, performed worse than DPS Hispanic students by nearly four percentage points in reading. Despite these numbers, Leona was approved to open another K-5 Cesar Chavez campus in Detroit that will enroll 300 students.
• CS Partners, in Brighton, operates nine schools in Michigan, according to the state. One example of CS Partners' low performance is Pansophia Academy, in Coldwater, which is co-operated with MEP Services. Pansophia, a Central Michigan University authorized school, has been open since 1995. About 48% of its students are low income. The school performed worse than 90 percent of Michigan schools in the state's 2012 accountability system. On the 2012 MEAP, its students scored well below the state and Coldwater Community Schools in all subjects. Only 2 percent of its students met science standards, compared with 15 percent statewide and 17 percent in Coldwater public schools.
• Midwest Management Group is opening a new school in Flint, even though its existing schools struggle mightily. For example, its Woodward Academy in Detroit performs below the average for Detroit Public Schools in reading and math, and far below the statewide average.
"Leading states make sure their charter operators meet minimum performance standards before allowing them to expand," Arellano said. "We need to provide such quality assurances for all of our children here, regardless of where they live or who they are. Our students deserve no less."
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Quiz: Are you smarter than an 8th grader from 1912?on July 31, 2013 @ 1:52 pm (Updated: 2:28 pm - 7/31/13 )
The Smithsonian Magazine published a reproduced copy of the exam, which we've copied in this blog.
The Dori Monson Show crew decided to take the challenge and see how many questions they could answer. Dori was the clear winner in the math section, while news anchor Ursula Reutin was able to answer some of the physiology questions.
But overall, that had Dori asking if today's students are as smart as generations past.
"Eight graders knew this stuff 100 years ago! This is crazy," said Dori. "But the fact that they could ask questions like that, this is what's happened to our education system - how many eighth graders do you think could answer?"
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Helping ActiveRecord finders help you
Posted by Jamis on October 06, 2006 @ 10:52 PM
For an application I helped write a few months ago, I found myself needing a way to randomly display a single record from the database. I considered creating a new action that would do this, but I disliked that approach for two reasons:
- it was almost exactly the same (code and view) as displaying a specific record by ID, and
- adding the specialized action wasn't very RESTful, which is something I've been trying hard to internalize
My action for displaying a single record looked something like this:
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def show @thing = Thing.find(params[:id]) respond_to do |wants| wants.html wants.js wants.xml { render :xml => @thing.to_xml } end end
This allowed my (RESTfully routed) application to happily respond to URL's of the following format:
I realized that all I was wanting was a special case of the ID, the case where the ID is randomly selected. In other words, I wanted to be able to say:
But if I did that, the string "random" would be passed to the
Thing.find method, and that would be bad, right?
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class Thing < ActiveRecord::Base def self.find(*args) if args.first.to_s == "random" ids = connection.select_all("SELECT id FROM things") super(ids[rand(ids.length)]["id"].to_i) else super end end end
And voila! It all Just Works.
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2. mdaines said...
Or perhaps this? (or imagine it as it would be inside the find method, with "super")
Thing.find(:first, :order => 'RANDOM()')
I assume that doesn't work for all the ActiveRecord adapters? Or is RANDOM actually really standard? And maybe the following would be useful?
Thing.find(:random, :limit => 5)
Has someone made that plugin already?
3. Jamis said...
Alas, neither "rand" nor "random" exist for MySQL 4.1, which is the database we're using. Same with sqlite, which is the DB I've been using for my test and development environments.
The point of the article, though, was not to demonstrate a technique for grabbing a random record from the database, it was to demonstrate how you can override find to make your controller actions polymorphic. Sorry I wasn't clearer about that thesis.
4. Kevin Marsh said...
Nice tip… you could even use this for latest, newest, oldest, etc. It really does expose more of your app to the world as a "resource". I like it!
5. Jesper Rønn-Jensen said...
I really like the idea to let the model pick the random thing. Also heads up for the elegant way you avoid things that are database specific.
Recently I ran into this exact thing with an :order => "rand()" that works with MySQL and MSSQL but not on Sqlite.
Your example could be taken further to see if order by rand() could be emulated.
6. Jamis said...
Kevin, your idea of using this technique for returning things like 'latest', 'newest', 'oldest', etc. really made something click for me. What this technique is all about is allowing find to return records for pseudo-ids. To be really useful, you'd need to make sure your implementation takes into account things like the :conditions option and so forth, as well as considering the current query scope, but none of that is particularly hard. Definitely a fun plugin idea, though!
7. Mislav said...
Jamis, RAND function exists even before MySQL 4… In SQLite, however, it does not.
As Jesper said, we should probably take advantage of the SQL functions in MySQL, Postgres and MSSQL and fall back to emulation (your solution) for SQLite (and maybe some other db).
8. Jamis said...
Ah, so it is! I must have mistyped something when I first experimented with that, because I got errors, but I can see it works now.
Very well. But again, the point was not "how to select a random record from the DB" (which you don't often need to do) but rather "how to override find to make your actions polymorphic".
9. email@example.com said...
I must say I don't really like this. I'm all for the pragmatic approach and I would mind using this in my code, but it seems ugly to have to go through an if statement for all your finders.
Couldn't you just do something like this inside your controller:
def random @things = Thing.find(:first, :limit => 1, :offset => rand(Thing.count-1)) render :action => 'show' end
I'm not sure that render :action will work, I'm not into the RESTful routing etc yet.. So maybe this:
def random redirect_to :action => 'show', :id => rand(Thing.count) end
11. Jamis said...
Jeroen, it's definitely an esthetics issue. Myself, I find adding a specialized "random" action (and, potentially, "latest", "first", etc. actions) unappealing (especially in the face of RESTful conventions). The
if statement in the find method is a fair tradeoff. Note that you can always refactor the logic into a separate AR method, and have the find simply case it away—much as the base implementation of find does.
12. firstname.lastname@example.com said...
Jamis, I admit haven't explored REST all that much, but are you saying a method named "random" in your ThingControler isn't very REST compliant?
Isn't REST all about how the outside world interacts with your application and not how the internals (controllers etc) are setup?
13. Jamis said...
Jeroen, REST is about exposing resources via unique URL's, rather than about exposing remote procedure calls. Having a specific action named 'random' is not a violation of REST—the whole RESTful thing is pretty laid back, and doesn't take offense very easily. :) That said, the implementation of the RESTful helpers in Rails are more opinionated, and although you CAN have specific URL's for specific actions, that's not the default.
Also, it's an esthetics thing. Me, I like having the
show method "do the right thing" with pseudo-ids. It "feels" right, whereas multiplying the actions in your controller "feels" wrong. One of these days I'll analyze my feelings and write something about why I think that, but for you now you'll just have to take my word for it. :)
14. mdaines said...
Sqlite seems to have 'random' but not 'rand', at least sqlite3 does. That find statement I quoted above works on my sqlite3 development database. (Using sqlite for test and development databases is hella convenient, I must tell you!)
15. email@example.com said...
But won't this mean that over time my controller methods will end up with if statements all over the place. Like:
def show if ID is really an ID do this if ID is actually a random things, do this if ID is "give me latest entry" do this end
Maybe that's not all that bad though..
p.s. when I post this form without a name, my message is lost
16. Jamis said...
Jeroen, something I'm coming to feel very strongly about, and which has changed greatly the way I write Rails apps, is that the controllers should be absolutely minimal, and as much (non-view) logic as possible should be delegated to the models. How that is actually accomplished is up to you; I find that overloading
find for lookup-based logic is quite handy, but you may prefer to add a specialized finder method that does the branching logic. My ideal controller action is one or two lines related to finding, creating, updating, or deleting the record (or records) in question, and then a three or four line
respond_to block indicating what to render and how. There are, of course, exceptions to every rule, but I find that 80% or more of my actions can be done this way if I refactor stuff into the models themselves (appropriately).
(Regarding posting without a name, yah, names are required, but the validation logic is buggy right now.)
17. Rob Pitt said...
Pretty much all the databases have some sort of ORDER BY RANDOM but they are all different, you have to do things like:
case connection when ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::PostgreSQLAdapter ... end </pre
The benefit of Jamis method is it's cross-compatible with only a small speed penalty on small-medium datasets.


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Audio system buyers guide
Dennis Hissink : 2005-12-28 20:40:00
Audio system buyers guide :
Consumers interested in a high quality audio experience this holiday season are encouraged to visit the Consumer Electronics Association's (CEA) new website, www.GreatAudio.com. The site offers information and tips for consumers on how to evaluate and purchase quality audio systems. A dealer locator also assists consumers in finding local retailers to assist them with audio demonstrations and purchases. According to CEA's 12th Annual Holiday Sales and Forecast Survey, home theater speakers, systems, but also plasma televisions, big screen TVs and high-definition televisions (HDTV) are ranked among the top ten consumer electronics gifts on consumers' wish lists this year.
GretagMacbeth customer loyalty programme
Mark Peters : 2005-12-15 15:27:00
GretagMacbeth customer loyalty programme :
Colour Confidence, the leading independent colour management specialists, are today announcing their central role in the GretagMacbeth Customer Loyalty Programme. The Customer Loyalty Programme has been launched to allow existing Eye-One users to upgrade to the latest technology and receive a discount based on the age of their existing system. Customers who wish to take advantage of the Customer Loyalty Programme can order the appropriate solution at Colour Confidence's standard web price. The new Eye-One will then be shipped to the customer and when the old Eye-One system is returned, the customer will be refunded the trade-in value.
Canadian Photoxels.com website joins DIWA Awards
Mark Peters : 2005-12-06 09:00:00
Canadian Photoxels.com website joins DIWA Awards :
Photoxels.com, a major digital imaging website based in Canada, becomes the 12th member of the DIWA Awards organization. Their success is the result of drastically simplifying the mysteries about photography and digital imaging, making it readily available to anybody. Still, the information provided is truthful and the product reviews are objective and trustworthy, a must to be accepted as a DIWA Awards member. DIWA (Digital Imaging Websites Association), a world-wide organization of collaborating websites within digital imaging, today has the pleasure of welcoming the high quality Canadian digital imaging website, Photoxels.com, as the second DIWA member on the American continent.
Nikon EN-EL3 battery recall
Dennis Hissink : 2005-11-08 09:11:12
Nikon EN-EL3 battery recall :
Through strict quality control procedures Nikon has detected that on rare occasions some rechargeable Li-ion batteries of the type EN-EL3 for Nikon Digital SLR cameras may become defective, resulting in an overheating during recharging. Investigations have clarified that the cause of the defect is not a design fault, but has resulted from a temporary problem in a manufacturing process that occurred during the production of this battery type between May and September 2004. In the interests of its customers and as a reflection of Nikon's commitment to safety and product quality, the company has initiated a voluntary recall and replacement program of all EN-EL3 batteries manufactured during this period.
Canon dSLR EOS website Picture Styles
Jasper Huitink : 2005-10-09 23:13:54
Canon dSLR EOS website Picture Styles :
Canon have launched a new website dedicated to Picture Styles, which Canon suggests is "like selecting the best film for the subject or desired photographic expression". As well as being able to shoot pictures with the Canon dSLR EOS 5D and Canon dSLR EOS-1D Mark II N cameras using a specific Picture style, you can also apply them to RAW files from older Canon DSLR cameras (right back to the D30) using the newly-released Digital Photo Professional v2.0 software. "Color creativity with digital cameras has undergone enormous development and evolution since the advent of EOS digital cameras. The results of that progress have now been incorporated into Picture Style."
Nikon D2x dSLR website unveiled
Jasper Huitink : 2005-10-05 23:03:58
Nikon D2x dSLR website unveiled :
Nikon Europe launches a new website today dedicated to its highly sophisticated Nikon D2x professional digital SLR camera, celebrating its amazing attributes and images taken using the Nikon D2x digital Single Lens Reflect, by leading professional photographers from around the world. 'The Grand Total' website features interviews, anecdotes and images from professional photographers in the United States of America, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The professionals featured address an exciting variety of disciplines, including sports, automotive, lifestyle, nature, wildlife and fashion photography.
Fuji Photo Film launches Halloween pandamonium
Mark Peters : 2005-10-04 21:01:40
Fuji Photo Film launches Halloween pandamonium :
Fuji Photo Film today announced "Fujifilm Halloween Pandamonium" a national sweepstakes campaign being launched in conjunction with popular family events hosted by zoos across the country where Fujifilm will have a key presence this Halloween season. Fujifilm Halloween Pandamonium events will take place at the following zoos: the Bronx and Central Park Zoos in New York City; Brookfield Zoo in Chicago; Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden; Detroit Zoological Park; Denver Zoological Gardens; Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens; Memphis Zoo; Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C.; Oregon Zoo in Portland; and the San Francisco Zoological Gardens.
Lexar Media expands relation with Sony Electronics
Dennis Hissink : 2005-10-02 21:40:55
Lexar Media expands relation with Sony :
Lexar Media announced that it has expanded its licensing relationship with Sony. Under the agreement, Lexar has granted to Sony a license to Lexar's patents for Sony products not covered by the companies' existing cross-license agreement. This agreement builds on the relationship when Lexar and Sony signed a fundamental patent cross-license agreement under which Lexar gained the right to manufacture and sell the Memory Stick products. "As one of the first companies ever to work with NAND flash memory, with a heritage dating back to 1994, Lexar has some of the earliest patents on flash system design and performance," said Eric Whitaker, executive vice president and general counsel, Lexar.
Sony Alpha A7 II
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Pentax K-S1 Sweets Collection
Fujifilm X-T1 compact system camera
Fujifilm X30 compact camera
Fujifilm X100T compact digital camera
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Envirothon is a competitive learning event for high school-aged students. Envirothon tests the student's knowledge of environmental resources including soils, forestry, wildlife and current environmental issues. "Like" the Indiana Envirothon on Facebook and check outCanon's Envirothon site.
How Envirothon works
Teams of five students, representing a school or organization, compete by answering questions and by studying resource problems in each of the five environmental areas. Before the competition, students study, with their advisors, to develop a greater understanding the environment.
At the Envirothon competition, students test their knowledge under the supervision of environmental instructors. Students use teamwork to develop creative solutions to environmental problems.
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March 29. 2012
Warmup, Workout, Stretch, Recover - Are you doing the right thing?
by Cat Fitzgerald
No specific movement this month; instead I want you to simply be present in your training and try this methodology: Warm up, Workout, Stretch, and Recover.
There has been a lot of controversy lately about whether or not to stretch and if flexibility is necessary or a better condition than "inflexible" (see articles in Men's Health, New York Times, Miami Herald, Shape, etc). Critical thinking skills seem to be drowning like Dolphins in the vast fear-mongering drift nets of media and politics. I have read many of these articles and, while the cover may spell dismay over your time spent stretching, the conclusions that they draw are that stretching is fine, if not great, it is when and how you stretch that matters. Flexibility in body is akin to that of mind. If you are too flexible it is difficult to come to a decision or answer a call to action, it creates a sloppy feel. I don't generally refer to that as flexible (see last April's article). Skipping ahead: I find it best to do a warm up, then workout, and stretch at the end (unless I am doing a resistance stretch as my workout). Each section has its' own goal; don't conflate them. Warm up: Goal, to get the blood flowing, boost the heart rate a bit, and take an inventory of the body to check for injuries, aches, elasticity, etc; How, start with slow motions that grow in range of motion, and possibly speed, from hips out (Hula dance, to torso circles, arm circles, elbow, wrist, neck [keep extension], legs circles, knees [mogul skiing] to ankles and toes). This is also to build a constant dialogue and feedback system for you to use during your workout and then for your stretch. Workout: test previous experience, maintain or increase an aspect of our activity/sport/strength/happiness etc. Stretching: (what I find to be of most use for the professional athlete to daily grinder) to relieve tension and blocks to mobility; to increase functional use of muscle (maximize muscles ability to contract and elongate) in concentric (contracting and shortening a muscle – like walking upstairs), eccentric (contracting and elongating a muscle – like walking downstairs), and isometric (a static contraction of muscle – like sitting against a wall as if you were in a chair, but without one) capacities; improve my athletic endeavor through speed, power , fluidity, dynamics, ease and speed of recovery and other qualifications in and quantifications. I personally use resistance stretching , plyometrics, and bodyweight exercises in my own blend as my workout (tweaked for the individual sport). Keeping the goal of stretching as trying to maximize the three methods of muscle movement (isometric, concentric, and eccentric) then we are creating an essential element to our training.
March 21. 2012
Go Freediving with Goldfish Kiss
by Rebekah Steen
It's absolutely amazing when you learn a new sport and simultaneously discover an ability you never realized you had. It was time to take a deep breath, dive in and have some one on one quality, uninterrupted time with the ocean. So to be quite obvious, learning to freedive was an all-around rather awesome experience.
I took a FII Level 1 freediving course on the Big Island (officially certified now—the card is in the mail) and really, it was one of the most exhilarating, eye-opening weekends I've had in a while.
Here's why:
I knew the class was going to be awesome when the guy who sat next to me, Aquil, had flown all the way from Dubai to take it. He had 21 hours of flying, I had about 21 minutes—you get the picture. Our instructor was Martin Stepanek and he can hold his breath for eight minutes. He's dove to 400 feet deep, which just so happens to be the world record. Now I know why Aquil flew from Dubai.
So I had a total bada** yet modest instructor, and over the course of the weekend, learned how to properly breathe for a dive and the ins and outs of making it all safe. After two days I was able to hold my breath for three minutes, and dive to a depth of 66 feet three different times with one breath.
Freediving is also an amazing workout. It's a relaxing, peaceful sport but it mimics interval training so it's a total fat blaster. When you pop up from a dive, you are breathing as if you ran up a flight of stairs, only you were swimming with dolphins instead. I'll take Flipper over the Stair Master any day.
Some people get into freediving for recreation, to help with spearfishing, to survive big wave surfing wipeouts, or to compete (good luck beating Martin). Me? I got into it completely out of the blue.
Find your nearest Instructor and take a Course at FreeDivingInstructors.com!
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March 2. 2012
The Gift
We all train, yet, most of us miss its hidden gifts. We tend to look at training as the gift and other things, such as a better body and less stress, as nice, secondary benefits. Training with only these goals is Sisyphean, a dead end. Inherent in any training is a deeper level of work at whichpoint, while we work to grow and evolve into that next physical level, we are actually train for life.
Freediving is a great example of just that. To get better, it is not enough to simply be good at CO2 resistance, be hydrodynamic, or equalize well. All of that is important, true, but, as a reader of this column, it is safe to assume that these are things you are already good at and know to work on – though being a first-timer does not preclude you from the following. Here is the gift, the key to the next progression of excellence:
I'll leave the touchy-feely for your private time; what I am referring to is the ability to deal with primal, basic, hard-wired emotions. In the work that I do, we face a lot of Fear, Anger, Sadness, Joy, Frustration, and the list goes on. However, for the purpose of our discussion, I will only use Fear, Happiness, and Shame. Fear is future-based. Shame stems from the past and Happiness, while it transcends both, is the only emotion that can live in the immediate, in the here and now.
What happens when you are at 60' and even the slightest bit of anxiety enters your thoughts? Your heart rate shoots up, there's a release of adrenaline into the system, O2 metabolization becomes less efficient. It all equals less down time. Now, before you start sending me hate mail, I love Yoga, Meditation, and other contemplative practices, but I bring up Yoga and Meditation specifically because they have long been the loudest promoters of the "Here and Now" existence, of "Be." Here's the rub: Anyone can learn to be still on a mountain or at a spa retreat. It is easy to not honk your horn at the car in front of you if you are driving through Yosemite. It is a piece of cake to relax, breathe, let go and "Be" while on a massage table – though it sometimes seems less so in a Yoga studio with the instructor turning you into Gumby's whining little bitch. And that's the gift: the opportunity to not hide from or ignore discomfort, pain, loss, or pretend these feelings do not exist, but to process these emotions in a process them in a productive, positive way.
We learn how to process emotions and how to actually be in the Here and Now versus being in the past or the future or elsewhere altogether. We learn how to be aware of our goal during the dive without the future-reaching Fear and Anxiety of expectation and then we get to take that trained skill into our lives and relationships. The very training we used to create a new competitive edge in our sport, or to reach a new personal best, translates to development of the person we are at home, on the road, when we are full of Joy or in a Panic.
Keeping this in mind, let's get ready to stretch. The Bladder Stretch – Lateral Hamstring, works on Bladder health, bone strength and density, improves balance, and helps to eliminate back pain. As we go deeper into the rabbit hole, this stretch can help you feel more hopeful and results oriented, while helping you increase your Self-Esteem and decreasing narcissistic behaviors. Deeper still and we discover that this stretch helps us to resolve Fear. Not Fear of [Fill in the Blank], but the pure, abject emotion of Fear. It helps to dismantle the negative processes we can fall prey to when we feel Fearful, and helps to create a positive processing MO.
Bring Abdominals toward spine, rather than pushing them out (as show on the picture)
Start lifting your spine from the sacrum up, one vertebra at a time.
Keep your thighs relaxed as you lift and lift until you are resting on your upper back. Keep your Abs sucked in toward your spine.
Lower yourself, again, one vertebra at a time, keeping your thighs relaxed and abs sucked into your spine, until you reach your starting position.
Be sure to go through your lower back before you reach the top of your glutes.
Take today's stretch and feel it. Train yourself to know the difference between productive discomfort and counterproductive suffering. Add in breathing, centering. This is your first step to real cross training: Physiologic, Psychologic, Emotional, and Spiritual. Methodological Integration.


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Drivers in a US city were duped into downloading malware onto their computer by fake parking tickets.
Criminally minded 'hackers' have managed to con residents of Grand Forks, North Dakota, into infecting their own computers with malware - using a fake parking ticket scam.
This attack is believed to be the first 'real world' scam successfully orchestrated by hackers, although experts predict that it is unlikely to be the last.
The scam's bait came in the form of yellow parking tickets placed on the windscreen of numerous vehicles parked in the city's car parks.
The tickets informed drivers that their vehicle was "in violation of standard parking regulations" and instructed them to visit a website in order to "view pictures with information about your parking preferences".
The scammers had the foresight to set up a hugely convincing website featuring images of cars parked in recognisable locations around the city, so the drivers had no qualms about believing it was genuine.
On visiting the site, the drivers were instructed to download and install a tool bar to search for images of their own vehicle. However, far from being legitimate functionality, the 'Vundo Trojan' was released onto their computer once they had done this. The Trojan then proceeded to download numerous other malicious applications, including a fake anti-virus scanner.
It is not yet clear how many individuals fell prey of the scam, or the extent of the damage called by this 'real world breach'.
"Attackers continue to come up with creative ways of tricking potential victims into installing malicious software." said Lenny Zeltser, an anti-virus analyst writing on the SANS Institute blog.
"Merging physical and virtual worlds via objects that point to websites is one way to do this. I imagine we'll be seeing such approaches more often."


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Post-practice interviews
I'm sure you saw that Chris Kreider and Derek Stepan were elevated to a line with Ryan Callahan in practice today, with Brian Boyle being reunited with Brandon Prust (Artem Anisimov on the left) and Ruslan Fedotenko dropped to the John Mitchell-Mike Rupp line. FWIW. John Tortorella: Henrik Lundqvist: Ryan… Read More →


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Photo #: 80-G-687598
"Carlson's Canyon" Bridge Attacks, March-April 1951
Photograph "Carlson's Canyon # 12", taken 2 April 1951 showing the damage done by the 5th and 6th Navy carrier air strikes, flown on that day. All the laboriously-repaired bridge spans were destroyed and the concrete piers further damaged.
The bridge was originally knocked out by Navy carrier planes on 3 March, was repaired and destroyed by air strikes on 15 March, repaired again and totally wrecked on 2 April. After that, it was abandoned and a bypass constructed.
This railway bridge-tunnel complex was located south of Kilchu, in northeastern Korea.
Note numerous bomb craters in the vicinity.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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16 November 1999