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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Rec Letter Fuckedupness
I recently wrote a recommendation letter for a student of whom I think highly. The letter was my usual, short and direct: The student has done impressive work, the forthcoming paper makes what I see as a real advance in the debate about x (and here's why), and the teaching record is solid. I ended with a sentence about how the student once had a hard time in dealing on his/her feet with a particular kind of objection, but now has developed a stronger response. I then said the stuff about "highest recommendation" and what not.
I just got a phone call from someone at another university asking how to interpret the letter. The simple and direct approach apparently now is taken as evidence of lurking defects. The lack of gushing praise about being "the best student in 40 years" or similar nonsense is now taken as an implicit assertion that the student is, after all, not especially good. And the claim about the student once having problems (now overcome) in formulating a real-time response to a particular kind of objection is now taken as the claim that the student's entire project is a crashing failure.
Apparently my letter got the application placed in the "no thanks" pile! Luckily, someone had the good sense to think twice, and I was able to set everything aright. But I can't help but worry about how my recommendation letters get read. I always avoid vapid gushing and useless hyperbole. And I always include some example of how the student has matured over the course of writing the dissertation. I'd been thinking that cutting to the chase, giving non-nonsense evaluation of the work, and saying something about how students improve was a good thing!
Perhaps there's a code word we could come up with that will indicate to letter readers that the short and direct approach is being taken, and should not be received as an implicit condemnation, like "No B.S." just below the signature?
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I've thought before that if I am ever in the position to give a letter of recommendation, I'd start it with a couple of sentences explicitly explaining how I intend the letter to be interpreted. I've also thought this might be off-putting. But I've heard so many stories like this about people reading far too much _into_ letters of recommendation, that I'm really tempted just to tell the readers explicitly at the outset that I intend the letter to be read _only_, and _not_ read into.
- October 26, 2010 at 2:55 PM
I was going to suggest adding "I really mean it" at the end, but surely it's only a matter of time until you'd have to add "no, really" after that, and so on. Maybe a better idea would be comparisons with other younger philosophers (though not things like "as good as the young Quine", unless you knew the young Quine.)
- October 26, 2010 at 3:09 PM
It's a serious problem. Rec letters are usually so inflated that they really don't mean anything, but non-inflated letters read like kisses of death. I think that something like the "no BS" label is what's needed-- something to say to readers that the non-inflation is due to the writer's desire to keep rec letters meaningful assessments of candidates rather than moves in a PR game.
- October 26, 2010 at 3:26 PM
Perhaps add a qualifier such as, "This student was among the top n% of those I've supervised -- and not in the oft-used sense in which all of my students are somehow in that top n%. This student is in the top n%, and the rest are in the bottom 100-n%."
- October 26, 2010 at 4:22 PM
I was going to say comparisons with other philosophers, too, but as 3:09 intimates, some letter-writers inflate that comparison, too. (I've seen absolutely preposterous examples -- more ludicrous than 'Young Quine' -- from a couple of super-famous philosophers.)
The general approach suggested by 4:22 seems promising. That is, add a clause that beaks the rote nature of praise. "Among the top students I've seen here at SLAC and as good as my contemporaries in the 90s at Leiterific U" has become rote (for a recommendation to graduate school). Disrupt the cant while saying something logically equivalent, like "very few of the philosophy majors here are suited to the top graduate programs, but Mordecai will impress Prof. Snoots more than his average student."
I dunno. I think it's even harder for job letters. Yeah, it really is difficult collective action problem, since we all want the standard to return to "and I actually mean what I'm saying," but we're all loathe to put our own students at a disadvantage. Ugh.
- October 26, 2010 at 5:14 PM
The signing statements just multiply the problem. Use color coded paper (include a guide, of course). White for "No BS," yellow for "I mean a lot of what I say," and red for "Everything I say is hyperbole. Just throw the whole application away."
- October 26, 2010 at 5:17 PM
Heh. The funny thing is just think how many other job searches didn't call for clarification about your letters of recommendation. Your students must be grateful that you are taking a stand on hyperbole in letter writing.;)
- October 26, 2010 at 6:14 PM
Certainly you should include a condemnation of those who do inflate - 'This letter does not conform the deplorably modern practice of inflating praise for one's own students in order to get them in ahead of better candiadates and boost the prestige of the
that will cast the Certainly you should include a condemnation of those who do inflate - 'This letter does not conform the deplorably modern practice of inflating praise for one's own students in order to get them in ahead of better candiadates and boost the prestige of the letter writer's own institution'.
That will cast the writer of inflated letters in a bad light, and by extension his candidate, which should discourage the writing of inflated letters as counter productive.
- October 26, 2010 at 7:24 PM
sorry that somehow got mixed up in cutting and pasting. Here is how it should read:
Certainly you should include a condemnation of those who do inflate - 'This letter does not conform the deplorably modern practice of inflating praise for one's own students in order to get them in ahead of better candiadates and boost the prestige of the letter writer's own institution'.
That will cast the writer of inflated letters in a bad light, and by extension his candidate, which should discourage the writing of inflated letters as counter productive.
- October 26, 2010 at 7:26 PM
You seriously put something negative about a student in a recommendation letter? And one "of whom you think highly"? Like another commenter said, I'm sure your students are grateful for all your scruples!
- October 26, 2010 at 8:02 PM
- Spiros said...
No. Learn to read. I didn't write anything negative. I wrote something that, as it turns out, people who don't know how to read will *take* to be negative. It's not negative to say of a student that when she began writing, she had trouble handling a certain kind of objection, but now has found a very powerful response. In fact, that's straightforwardly *positive*. But in the culture of hyperbolic praise, it's *taken* as a red flag, *despite* the fact that the letter is *obviously* positive (like when I say that the candidate in question gets my "highest recommendation").
The whole point is that the profession is so fuckedup that unless a rec letter is nonsense it's taken as negative.
- October 26, 2010 at 8:54 PM
Perhaps bursting into rhyming verse would convey your enthusiasm with greater precision? Here are a few suggestions:
This student of mine is better than Quine!
She's quite a savant, far better than Kant!
You can safely assume she is better than Hume!
Jokes aside, however, I am pretty sure that the general (or at least widely held) presumption is that the only meaningful letters are negative ones. Otherwise, all departments want to place their students (however feeble), and generally will write all sorts of laudatory bullshit.
- October 26, 2010 at 9:33 PM
As others have tried to point out, your mention of the student's early "trouble," while not strictly negative, is certainly not "straightforwardly 'positive'."
The reason it might well be "'taken' as a red flag"--regardless of "the culture of hyperbolic praise"--is that it seems irrelevant in the context of a job letter. The ability to overcome a weakness qua philosopher is not exactly a trait that many departments are looking for in hiring (as compared, say, to grad admissions).
If the student no longer had the trouble by the time he/she was going on the market, the relevance of mentioning the trouble is hardly obvious. If it is not meant to qualify your support for the candidate, what other function does it serve, since it does not help the candidate?
Anyway, I gather the point of your post was merely to vent. If this is indeed the case, my apologies.
- October 26, 2010 at 10:06 PM
- Spiros said...
I think you're dead wrong about what's relevant in hiring and also wrong about the comment being positive. When hiring (esp. at the asst. rank), departments most certainly want someone who doesn't shut down in the face of criticism, or simply plods through as if the criticisms didn't exist. They want a colleague/instructor who can mature in the fact of objections. And they want to hire someone who has matured in the process of writing her dissertation (viz., someone who won't show up acting like a grad student). Being able to see one's way through an serious objection is a mark of philosophical skill, and an indication of philosophical promise. This is obvious.
The fucked up part, to repeat once again, is that departments *don't* like letters that explicitly state of an applicant that he or she is this kind of philosopher (viz., the kind of philosopher they want). Apparently they instead like letters that simply gush meaningless shallow nonsense about "the best student in 20 years" and such.
There's probably a story to tell about how the culture of rec letter hyperbole is connected to departments with a habit of making bad hires, but who knows. The fact is this: an honest assessment hurts job candidates, even when the honest assessment is wholly and highly positive. So it seems to me that rec letters are a waste of everyone's time. They're at best simply the profession's equivalent of TV commercials.
- October 26, 2010 at 11:18 PM
If your letter was the sole reason the candidate was put into the "no thanks" pile, perhaps the candidate was not otherwise strong enough compared to the rest of the pool. Either that, or philosophers put for too much emphasis on such letters and not nearly enough on other aspects of the application.
- October 26, 2010 at 11:22 PM
Instead of "No B.S.," I vote for something like: "Fo' Realz"
- October 26, 2010 at 11:32 PM
Safe to say, we're all against the hyperbolic letters norm.
However, just today I was reading through a stack of apps and when I came across one that wasn't shiny, slick, and filled with delight, it gave me pause. Nothing particularly negative, just a certain short and to the point quality which threw me off. It was almost as though the author was trafficking in the subtlest kind of irony. Then the mention of the student's inability to field what I think is an obvious softball objection to his view. How should I interpret this from a philosopher I know to be a crotchety old dick... hmmmm maybe I'll call him and ask for some hermeneutical guidance.
Only joking, it wasn't me.
- October 26, 2010 at 11:34 PM
I'm a newish assistant professor and I've just plain refused to write letters for grad school except for the very best students. I think it isn't in the very good though not the best students' interest. As this is my policy, I say so in my letter and that seems to have helped (as word has gotten back to me). Not sure how one could incorporate that into a job letter though.
As for the absurdity of letters of rec, I've noticed that there are various sorts of summer seminars (2-3 week things) aimed at 'junior philosophers' (within 5 years of phd), *all* of which require - as application material - not only writing samples, cv's, statements of intent on why I want to participate detailing what my current research is and blah blah blah, but also 1-3 letters of rec. This is crazy. I'm not asking for a job - I want to participate in a seminar. Judge the work I give you. That ought to suffice. What purpose do these letters serve? Is it to see if the applicant has the right connections? As it stands, I don't apply because I'm loathe to ask people at my department and my grad school for these letters.
- October 26, 2010 at 11:43 PM
I think you're dead wrong about what's relevant in hiring and also wrong about the comment being positive."
As someone instructed another commenter, "Learn to read."
I wasn't endorsing the vetting and hiring practices of many departments. I was purporting to describe them, somewhat less dismissively.
I realize attitude can go a long way in professional philosophy, but seriously.... Yes, it is "obvious" that the ability "to see one's way through [a] serious objection is a mark of philosophical skill, and an indication of philosophical promise." Mentioning in a job letter that a candidate eventually learned how to do this is unlikely to inspire sufficient confidence in the candidate.
Except, that is, in your own mind. Oh, if everyone else weren't so stupid, dishonest, shallow, blah, blah, blah.
- October 27, 2010 at 12:07 AM
I reacted to the rec letter as others did. If I received a letter saying "x used to have a problem with Y', I would take that as code for "x has a problem with y". Since I have never seen such an 'obstacles overcome' message in a rec letter before, I would think it was significant, and that the significance wasn't on the surface. Agree that there is a problem with inflation, but I think you got this one wrong.
- October 27, 2010 at 1:13 AM
Perhaps that part of the letters of recommendation which deals with assessing the candidate's intellectual and academic achievements should be systematically dropped (writing samples and publications can speak for that). And let rec letters only address things like reliability, collegiality etc.?
- October 27, 2010 at 4:14 AM
I agree with Spiros that the 'growth' bit of the letter is positive. (I'm not interested in whether it will "inspire confidence", whatever that means.) And if the subtext is, the candidate isn't a fully mature philosopher, that's okay with me. My department has hired ABDs, just-minteds, etc., and they've all needed a little on-the-job ripening.
Also: the suggestion that recommendation letters be eliminated, that their influence be damped, or that they report exclusively on collegiality and reliability, that's not a good suggestion. We hired a logician not too long ago. I read his work. Seemed cool, but WTF do I know? I have one colleague who spends about a quarter of his time on logic, so I trusted him, but I was very happy to have the epistolary advice of some of the world's leading experts.
(Is that an acceptable use of 'epistolary'?)
- October 27, 2010 at 6:39 AM
I'm not asking for a job - I want to participate in a seminar. Judge the work I give you. That ought to suffice. What purpose do these letters (for summer seminars) serve?
To keep you having to brown-nose and beg for a few more years?
- October 27, 2010 at 7:09 AM
"To keep you having to brown-nose and beg for a few more years?"
My thoughts exactly.
- October 27, 2010 at 9:48 AM
I think the bit about "overcoming obstacles" is not a straightforward positive thing. Are you talking about rec letters for philo jobs? This makes a big different. The letter of rec for a job should communicate the applicant's readiness to flourish in a professional job context. People on SCs already know that grad students improve their philosophical abilities, learn to develop better objects and so on, in their PhD programs. But is this applicant ready to be a professional now? To carry on his research program and so forth? Show us that he is ready. The story about "overcoming obstacles" makes the applicant come across as "still a PhD student, who needs mentoring, but is capable of greatly improving." I wholeheartedly agree that inflated letters is a shitty practice, but maybe the "realistic" bit should be communicated in some other way.
- October 27, 2010 at 1:57 PM
In light of the incompetence of letter readers and this recent incident, I'd urge you to modify your letter such that your mentioning of improvement CANNOT be interpreted as a red flag.
Say something like: "During her evolution as a student, X has also demonstrated an ability to respond well to criticism, and improve ... This speaks strongly towards X's characteristic willingness and enthusiasm to improve as a researcher and teacher"
It is really unfortunate that letter readers will over-interpret what is written in letters.
7:24. Condemning inflationary letters in a letter of rec for a student is inappropriate and plain idiocy. The effect will not be to weaken letters of others, but to weaken the strength of your own letter (as written by some self-important kook). Now isn't the time to get on your high horse about letter writing inflation. Just do what's best for your students (given the foolishness of your comment, I only hope I am correct to assume that you aren't writing letters for anyone)
- October 27, 2010 at 1:59 PM
it should read "learn to develop better objections." (this is 1:57) Not learn to develop better "objects"! Worrisome Freudian slip on my part...
- October 27, 2010 at 2:01 PM
I think Spiros is right now, While reading letters on two SCs (one for philosophy, one for biology) in the past three years, I specifically looked for these kinds of examples -- since the teaching environment is a /community college/ evidence of adaptability is super, super crucial. (One of our standard interview questions is "Explain one way in which you've adapted to an unexpected change or circumstance in a professional environment and how you handled the situation" -- a question almost all the philosophers bombed, but most of the biologists were able to give a decent answer to).
Let's be real. There's no way to make systematically accurate rule-of-thumb generalizations about how people will read what's in rec letters, because its impossible to predict what an SC is really looking for. So people can only write what they deem best represents their actual recommendation and hope that the people sitting on the SC have the sense to tell the difference between crap and not-crap.
(Also, stuff like this makes me SO GLAD that I am not in the R1 world, sometimes.)
- October 27, 2010 at 2:20 PM
How important are reference letters, compared with publications? My main supervisor is a bit of an arse so may not even be fair in my recommendation letter, and certainly will not inflate. Do I have no hope of a job or will 2 or 3 (or 4 or 5) decent publications swing the balance? I have one so far but am optimistic of others…
- October 27, 2010 at 7:30 PM
As someone who regularly reads and writes letters of recommendation for research-oriented departments, here are my thoughts.
The main problem with adding an "overcoming past difficulties" part to a letter is that it flouts the convention of not mentioning difficulties a candidate has had in the past. Such difficulties are usually not mentioned unless they are persisting problems for the candidate or they need to be cited in order to explain something like a gap in the c.v. If you flout this convention, don't be surprised if you are misread.
As for avoiding letter inflation, the best immediate strategy is to make explicit comparisons to others recently placed. The only long-term way to avoid the problem with letter inflation is to develop a reputation for giving accurate assessments in your letters. If your assessments pan out on a regular basis, people will take your claims about a candidate seriously. If not, then not.
- October 28, 2010 at 9:22 AM
These truly are the end of times.
- October 28, 2010 at 1:33 PM
"I agree with Spiros that the 'growth' bit of the letter is positive. (I'm not interested in whether it will "inspire confidence", whatever that means.)"
There I could have gone--to a crappy job, if any--but for the grace of letter writers who had some idea what it means to make a helpful assessment that doesn't risk suggesting a basic deficiency.
- October 29, 2010 at 7:29 PM
I've been on dozens of search committees over the years and have read thousands of recommendation letters for job candidates. I think Spiros's practice of mentioning ways in which he's seen candidates grow or overcome deficiencies is solid, not uncommon, and should be more generally adopted.
Letters of only sugar-coated praise are useless; it's a waste of time to read them. A well-crafted letter that speaks substantively to the candidate's abilities and how they were developed is often very helpful. To be honest, I put the applications with bullshit letters on the B or C list, almost instantly.
The people who passed on the person Spiros wrote for are jackasses.
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- October 29, 2010 at 10:57 PM
Yes, but given that most, but not all, people on search committees are jackasses, what should Spiros do?
- October 30, 2010 at 8:10 AM
I think this whole thread has overlooked the fact that letters from the UK are almost always understated by US standards. They're simply more honest and I think far more helpful. Anyone who has been on a few search committees knows the difference, and knows how to read a UK letter. Maybe what's needed is for people like Sprios to simply say that he writes recommendation letters "in the UK style."
- October 30, 2010 at 9:13 PM
But I thought one of the reasons why UK students have trouble getting jobs in America is precisely because the letters are understated?
- October 31, 2010 at 2:12 AM
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what this also says is that those of us with difficulties like Asperger's are even more at a disadvantage- cuz I am incapable of what you describing (gushing and glowing) for the most part- especially about myself..
- November 1, 2010 at 6:08 PM
Wait. Quine rhymes with mine? I thought it rhymes with pin.
"To keep you having to brown-nose and beg for a few more years?"
Sounds like inflated rec letters pass the brown-nosing on to someone else.
Growth is good. Who wants to hire someone who stagnates?
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McKinley Tech Breezes By Roosevelt High in Halloween Shutout
The McKinley Tech Trainers of Washington, D.C. performed like Halloween monsters at the McKinley Tech Stadium football field on Oct. 31, shutting out the Roosevelt Roughriders 38-0.
McKinley's defense was a scary sight for Roosevelt, and the multiple fumbles and interceptions the Trainers caused set the tone for the blowout. The Roughriders hurt their own cause with missed opportunities, including an interception return by senior defensive Kelvin Malloy that was stopped one-yard short of a touchdown to end the first half.
Although it was Senior Night, McKinley's freshman running back Danzel Brown was a dominating presence on the field. Brown, who averages a team-high 59 yards per game, had two scoring runs in the second quarter. Seniors De'Marko Moorer, Anthony Carthen and junior Shaquante Simms also had rushing touchdowns.
The matchup marked the sixth-straight win for McKinley Tech, all of which were shutouts. It was also the second time Roosevelt failed to score against McKinley this season; they lost 44-0 on Sept. 27. The lopsided victory solidified the Trainers' spot at the top of the DCIAA Stripes League.
McKinley head coach Alimamy Kallay said his team won't get too comfortable, despite their recent success.
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With the win, McKinley Tech improved its overall record to 6-4. They will face Eastern High School on Nov. 8 in their last regular season game.
Roosevelt's overall record dropped to 3-7; they will host Bell High School on Nov. 8.
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The Royals (19-28) are looking to bring out the brooms tonight against the Indians (27-17). Chances are good given that we've won eight of our last 10 games – the best record in the league during that span – and we are due for some sweeping this season. We turn to Kauffman Stadium pitching machine Jorge De La Rosa (4-3, 3.59 ERA), who is 3-1 with a 2.39 ERA in four Kansas City-based starts this season. Here are some notes, reminders and lineups. Enjoy…
BID ON BASEBALLS, BATS, JERSEYS AND MORE: Don't forget your check books for tonight's game. Before the game and in between innings, from 5:30-8:30 p.m., the Royals Wives will be in the concourse between sections 101 and 102 running a Silent Auction to raise money for Harvesters. Here's a small sampling of what you can bid on: David Ortiz autographed ball, Johan Santana autographed ball, Billy Butler autographed bat, Royals helmet signed by the entire 2007 team, Royals autographed lineup card from the May 2 game, Grudzielanek Gold Glove autographed photo and Gil Meche Opening Day autographed photo. Some pretty good items, right? For the complete list, click here.
FROM THE GAME NOTES: Last night's win gave the Royals a six-game Wednesday winning streak. Since dropping their first two hump day battles against the Red Sox and Blue Jays, the Royals have posted Wednesday wins in succession in Detroit, in Minnesota, here over the Angels and A's, last Wednesday in Oakland, then last night.
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GORDON AIMS HIGH: Heard Alex Gordon on 810 WHB's "The Program with Soren Petro" today. Any guesses on how many career home runs Gordon said he'd hit?…Without hesitation, he confidently answered, "500." That's a number that will put another Royal in the Hall of Fame and, after last night, only 497 to go!
HOT AGAINST THE LEFTIES: The Royals face left-hander Jeremy Sowers tonight. We started the season 0-10 against southpaws, but have since won our last three straight games when opposed by a left-handed starter.
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Defending Sprint Cup champion says this is the time of season great teams, drivers shine
HAMPTON, Ga. -- In one moment, Brad Keselowski, the defending Sprint Cup champion, wanted to make excuses for his team's downturn in 2013 and why it has still not locked up a playoff spot.
In the next moment, however, Keselowski seemed to find the voice of a champion, which is to accept the responsibility to pull his team together and make another run at the title.
Keselowski is 11th in the points race and has no wins heading into Sunday's Advocare 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, a 1.5 -mile slick oval. The No. 2 Miller Lite team then has the race at Richmond International Speedway, the final event of the "regular season" and the last chance to make the 12-driver Chase for the Sprint Cup.
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If he misses the playoffs, it will be the first time since 2006 a defending champion has not made the Chase. (Tony Stewart won the 2005 championship, but did not earn the chance to defend his title).
So whose fault is it anyway? Keselowski started his Friday news conference by providing some alibis and defending his position in the standings.
"There have been a lot of circumstances that have been out of our control that put us in this position not to be locked in this so late in the season," Keselowski said.
His equipment was confiscated in April at Texas Motor Speedway and there was a debate with NASCAR about whether the rear end parts were legal. NASCAR docked the team points and Keselowski lost the services of crew chief Paul Wolfe and some other key team members for two points races. That was a setback and distraction.
In addition, the Ford cars were first off the assembly line with the new Gen 6 car and Keselowski indicated that he and other Ford drivers have had to scratch back to get even with Toyota and Chevrolet.
But after offering those alibis, Keselowski said his fate lies with him here in the last two weeks of the "regular season."
"Our back is against the wall," he said. "These are the times when great teams step up and make something happen, or when great drivers step up and make a play.
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Friday, May 6, 2011
The University of West Georgia will hold its spring commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 7 at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. in the coliseum on the Carrollton campus. Both ceremonies can also be viewed live online.
The 9 a.m. ceremony will include graduates from the College of Arts and Humanities, the College of Science and Mathematics, the College of Social Sciences and the Richards College of Business. The 2 p.m. ceremony will consist of graduates from the College of Education, the School of Nursing and the Graduate School.
The morning ceremony will feature a commencement address by Georgia Speaker of the House David Ralston. The attorney from Blue Ridge has served in the House of Representatives since 2002 and was elected speaker on Jan. 11, 2010.
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I don't think so, but I don't know, so I ask.
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Early Thursday morning, The George Mason University website said Fairfax Campus classes were delayed and Administrative Offices were closed until noon due to a power outage.
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Hopewas (a user here) sent a quote from NYU's Washenick which said that there will 'never be a secret ingredient for hair loss that works'
That is just so hard to believe.
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Angels' Trout showing why scouts live in hit-and-miss environment
You can always tell about tools. A stopwatch will show you if a kid can run. Radar guns are a reliable gauge of throwing ability.
If finding ballplayers were as simple as identifying the best athletes, you could perform most of your scouting on a spreadsheet.
You might never miss if they didn't have to hit.
"That's definitely the hardest thing to predict," Padres General Manager Josh Byrnes said Wednesday. "College bats have been down because we've signed so many kids out of high school. … And it's tough to find a slam-dunk high school prospect."
The Padres' continuing search for high-impact hitters resumes Monday with the First-Year Player Draft, an event that rivals the quest for the Holy Grail (Monty Python's version) for false steps and ultimate futility. Not since the 1973 selection of Dave Winfield has the Home Team spent its first-round draft choice on an elite, enduring position player and their recent history has been beyond horrific.
Shortstop Matt Bush, the No. 1 overall selection in a 2004 draft that also included Justin Verlander and Jered Weaver, was being retrofitted as a relief pitcher when he was confined to a Florida jail on March 22 on seven charges related to an alleged hit-and-run accident.
Donavan Tate, the No. 3 overall selection in 2009, carries a .225 batting average for the Padres' Single-A Fort Wayne TinCaps, and has not hit a home run since 2010.
Worse, the second high school center fielder selected in 2009 was Mike Trout.
The 20-year-old Trout has been one of the breakthrough talents of this baseball season — a swift, acrobatic rookie who has helped the Angels regain relevance after a sluggish start. Just promoted to the big leagues on April 28, Trout is hitting .303 with five homers and eight stolen bases and he covers ground as if he were being chased by a cheetah.
Playing left field Tuesday night in Anaheim, Trout raced into the gap and reached over the wall to steal a home run from the Yankees' Nick Swisher in the second inning, approximated a blur en route to a third-inning triple and made a diving stab of a sinking liner by Curtis Granderson in the ninth. Trout makes tracks so quickly that he creates suspense in routine grounders and turns seen-it-all scouts into salivating spectators.
"You've got to kick yourself when you've (had) a chance to get a guy like that and didn't," Byrnes said.
Byrnes gets to kick himself in stereo. He passed on Mike Trout twice.
Then the general manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks, Byrnes spent the 16th and 17th selections of the 2009 draft on high school slugger Bobby Borchering and Notre Dame outfielder A.J. Pollock. The strikeout-prone Borchering has yet to escape Single-A. Pollock has hit .229 since he was promoted to the Diamondbacks on April 18, and projects as a fourth outfielder.
Trout, the 25th player picked in that June draft, projects as a superstar. Or, as Angels teammate Torii Hunter put it, "a freakin' stud." If Trout's bat lagged behind his legs and his arm at Millville (N.J.) High School, he now has enough tools to accumulate some serious hardware. Asked to identify what player he would choose if he could have anyone over the next 15 years, Byrnes picked, "the guy you just mentioned."
What seems clear now, however, was much murkier then. The baseball season is shorter in New Jersey than in the sun belt, and the competition is not as keen. Though baseball executives easily recognized Trout as the best athlete in the 2009 draft, his bat was regarded as raw. To raise his stock, Trout experimented as a switch-hitter, but even the Angels grabbed another high school outfielder first.


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So much of fashion's love affair with the 70s is inspired by California cool, and Ed Ruscha was smack in the middle of the scene, creating works like The Back of Hollywood, which is layered with color and meaning. The scale of the piece, literally a reference to CinemaScope's size and saturated colors, the subject dealing with the age-old issues of glamour and illusion, and the insider nod to a landscape piece melding with Ruscha's visual language of text, makes this piece created in 1977, as relevant now as it ever was.
What could be a better ode to this piece than the smoking suit, with shades of a film noir Hollywood detective - as popular and chic this season as when it burst on the scene in the 70s, echoing film stars from the late 30s.
Details: Yves Saint Laurent Rouge Pur Couture -1: Le Rouge $30; Jennifer Ouellette Stiletto Petite Fedora $315; Valentino Leather Gloves $345; Stella McCartney Flora velvet tuxedo jacket $1,975; Prada Nappa Gaufre Clutch Bag $1,025; Vionnet Suede and satin ankle boots $1,055; Gucci Silk crepe de chine blouse $750; Gucci Bootcut velvet tuxedo pants $750.
p.s. You still have time to enter Trust Your Style's Cecilia Wong giveaway!


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This is a sort of follow-up post to ZeroMQ, iOS and Python from a year ago. I again wrote a test app and server. Of the earlier components, iOS stayed, but ZeroMQ I replaced with WebSockets and the server is this time written in Clojure.
Idea of the exercise is the same as last time: two-way communication between an iOS client and server over a persistent connection. WebSockets is a more mainstream technology than ZeroMQ with a wide variety of servers available, even if it is a young spec and not quite everything has stabilized yet.
On the iOS side there's two options, short of writing the protocol implementation yourself: some kind of horrible Javascript-UIWebView bridge and Square's SocketRocket. I went for SocketRocket. It's available from CocoaPods and at least in this brief test worked fine.
Last time I was planning on doing the server in Clojure but ran out of patience. This time the technology stack was easier. I pretty much followed Jay Fields' example with just a few changes here and there and had a server running in no time.
The system doesn't do anything fancy, or do it particularly beautifully: the app waits for a button tap, sends a number wrapped in JSON to the server, the server increments it and sends it back.
The code is on BitBucket as always. Enjoy.
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I added a
--text option to nsstringfromenumgen so it can be used with JetBrains' excellent Objective-C IDE, AppCode. AppCode doesn't integrate with OS X services, but you can configure nsstringfromenumgen as an "External Tool" and provide the selected text as a parameter. There's still an extra copy & paste step not needed with Xcode and Services, but it's not too bad.
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Making sense of enum values in C is too difficult. Usually sooner rather than later while debugging you need to see what's inside an enum value, but C provides no introspection tools. You just get an integer value, no mapping to the original symbolic name. That's why every enum should be accompanied by a stringifying function, but that requires manual labor. Few programmers are happy to write those functions and fewer are going to update them. Automation to the rescue.
I'm working in the context of Objective-C, and so is Wolf Rentzsch, who recently blogged his script for generating NSStringFromEnumName functions. I have used a very similar solution for a long time, and I expect so have many others.
But you don't have to be jwz to doubt the wisdom of parsing C with a bunch of ad hoc regexps. I was always unhappy with it and knew there were various not-so-corner cases I wasn't handling properly. Using a real C parser seemed like the right thing to do, but it hasn't really been feasible until pretty recently, after the advent of libclang.
So, here it is, using Python and clang, my most recent take on NSStringFromEnum. It might not be any better for being based on libclang, but it's different.
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I wrote some example code for you.
Background: last week a coworker asked me what's the flavor du jour in two-way communication between a network server and an iOS app, should he just go with BSD sockets or is there something better? I suggested he should take a look at ZeroMQ. Not that I actually knew very much at all about it, but I had heard the name and seen that some people were pretty enthustiastic about it.
Turns out he had deadlines and wasn't too keen on building the library with an outdated zsh script that didn't seem to work.
I started fiddling with it myself on the weekend to have some idea about what I'm talking about. True enough that the script provided on the web page wasn't up to date, and once I fixed it I got only an ARM binary which isn't very useful in development when you want to test on the iPhone Simulator. After some more poking I finally managed to massage a working fat library out of it. And objc-zmq provided a nice simple Objective-C wrapper around the C API.
Not satisfied with playing with just one unknown technology, I thought I'd do the server in Clojure. After shaving the JNI yak for a couple of hours, trying to build a working version if the Java binding, I decided it wasn't worth it. Python was an easy fallback, but to keep things at least moderately exciting I used gevent which was also something I hadn't tried before.
It worked out pretty nice. The Python server is extremely simple and the iOS app isn't complex either. This hardly counts as a strenuous test of ZeroMQ, but at least from the code perspective it was really pleasant to work with. No hassle with buffers, just complete messages from an extremely simple API that enables the most common communication patterns with a couple of keywords. They wisely keep out of the marshalling business, telling people to use Protocol Buffers or something else for defining message formats.
The example project is available on Bitbucket. It works on my computer at the moment; see the Bitbucket page for details about the bits it requires.
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Announcing RCRunner, a GUI test runner for MacRuby and Cocoa.
Cocoa unit testing can be a pain. In addition to the usual difficulties of writing tests for user interface heavy code, the Apple sanctioned solution, SenTestingKit, can isn't the greatest testing framework around and the default way of using it rules out debugger.
GHUnit helps somewhat. It's a GUI test runner with additional testing methods. However, with it you are still writing your tests in Objective-C. On the plus side it's the same language you're probably writing your app in. On the minus side Objective-C can be verbose and sometimes, especially when writing test code, brevity would be welcome.
Enter MacRuby. You get the conciseness of Ruby with full access to your Objective-C classes. And Ruby probably has the greatest density of testing frameworks per active programmer among all the languages in popular use today.
There's a nice article about TDD, Objective-C and MacRuby on the MacRuby site. However, the approach taken in it still uses a Xcode build phase script to accomplish testing. That makes debugging hard and you have to hunt through the build logs for your errors.
RCRunner is a separate GUI program you run. You tell it names of Ruby modules and it uses any test cases it finds[1]. You can breakpoint your code and thanks to Ruby, reload the test code. You can inspect errors and log output test by test.
[1] At the moment it supports only MiniTest but adding support for other frameworks isn't difficult.
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If you want to go Flashless on Mac and Safari, it's possible to use Firefox as a fallback, too, not just Chrome. While Firefox does load Plugins from
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins and
~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins, it looks in other places too. I just tested and it seems to work fine from
~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/<profile name>/plugins and I suspect
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins would work too.
So you can copy
Flash Player.plugin,
NP-PPC-Dir-Shockwave and
flashplayer.xpt to one of the Firefox specific folders and launch Firefox from Safari's Developer menu. Chrome starts up faster, though.
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When putting together user interfaces with Interface Builder, you connect things together with bindings, actions and outlets and it's good. Understanding the result later on is a completely different matter. It can be time consuming and difficult to browse the objects inside one by one, trying to comprehend the whole. Even more so if you're trying to read someone else's work.
Out of that frustration came xibgraph. It takes a XIB file and outputs the connections contained inside:
At the moment it supports bindings and actions. Outlets are next.
xibgraph supports a couple of different output formats. JSON is supported out of the box and if you install pydot, you get DOT, the format understood by Graphviz and OmniGraffle too.
It hasn't been tested on a particularly wide variety of XIBs, so it's very plausible it will produce wonky results or just outright refuse to work with your files. If so, patches and bug reports are welcome.
xibgraph is MIT licensed and written in Python. It requires PyObjC (it seemed like the easiest way to get XPath support on OS X) and probably Python 2.6. Everything but the DOT support should work without additional requirements on OS X 10.6.
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I usually use Murky, dvc or some other shell for Mercurial. Not always though, for various reasons, and when running
hg status I'm always frustrated when copy and pasting file names.
bzr provides neat, non-cluttered lines that can be copied whole to get a file name without a hassle, but
hg takes the traditional one-character prefix approach to status display and as a result makes you manually select a part of a line instead of just grabbing a whole line.
So I wrote a small extension to help. Meet hg-status-sections.
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The biggest problem with Objective-C's
@synthesize directive for properties is how difficult it's to augment the synthesized code. You often need to add logic to a property setter, but while you're adding it, you're losing the probably correct implementation Apple's code creates for property flags like
atomic and
At the moment, when you synthesize a
readwrite property called
foo you get a setter method called
setFoo. If you need to add logic around it, you can either store the value in a private property and add a public property with a different name or use a subclass. Both are a bit of a hassle. Usually I just end up writing my own method, including the logic for implementing the modifiers correctly.
In an ideal world the language would support something like around/before/after methods in CLOS, but those features are rare. There's a simple way
@synthesize could make things easier without requiring massive changes to the runtime. It could give you for both the getter and setter two methods. There would be the public methods they create in the current implementation, but there'd also be methods with names like
__synthesized_property and
__synthesized_setProperty. The public methods would rely on the semi-private methods to actually implement all their logic. Then if you needed to add logic around the accessors, you could override the public methods and call the semi-private ones to get access to the synthesized accessor logic without jumping through hoops or risking getting the implementation wrong.
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There are several small things Emacs could be doing to make it nicer to write code. One I was missing was making it possible to go with one press of the return key between braces in a C derived language from this:
if (test) { }
to this:
if (test) {
<-- insertion point here
That is, pressing return before the closing parentheses, brace or bracket should move the closing character two lines down, indent it properly, and move the insertion point to the new empty line in the middle and indent it property. The way TextMate does it.
Here are a few of elisp functions to accomplish this:
(defun char-isws (c)
"Is character c a whitespace character?"
(or (char-equal c ?\ )
(char-equal c ?\t)
(char-equal c ?\n)))
(defun line-next-non-ws ()
"Return the next non-whitespace character on the current line or nil."
(let ((cc (char-after)))
(if (and cc (char-isws cc))
(if (re-search-forward "[^[:space:]]" (save-excursion (end-of-line) (point)) t)
(defun newline-and-indent-extra-for-closing-paren ()
"Insert a newline and indent. If the next non-whitespace character is a closing paren, insert two newlines and indent the two new lines correctly, placing the point on the first of the two new lines."
(let ((nc (line-next-non-ws)))
(if (or (null nc)
(not (= (char-syntax nc) ?))))
Now you can bind return to
newline-and-indent-extra-for-closing-paren in a suitable language keymap. I've been using this with
scala-mode and it works well there.
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I recently transferred all my photos to iPhoto. I share them on Flickr, but I've been unhappy with iPhoto's built-in Flickr support — it has an arbitrary 500 photo limit on web album size, it's crashy, it does weird synchronizations that take ages when combined with lots of large photos and a slow internet connection, it has multiple times failed to send all the full-resolution images — so I've been exploring alternatives. There's at least FlickrExport and Flickr's own Uploadr.
Although the tools work, there's a downside compared to iPhoto's built-in Flickr support. iPhoto has wonderful geotagging support, as does Flickr, but iPhoto doesn't write the data to EXIF tags and that poses a problem for the tools. Uploadr reads just the files and so never sees the data, and apparently iPhoto doesn't provide the data to FlickrExport, either. The result is that Flickr won't know the locations of the photos.
There's a way to work around this problem. The solution is AppleScript. iPhoto exports
photo objects that can tell you their location as set inside iPhoto. The downside to this approach is that it's AppleScript, but apparently the alternatives like Python or JSTalk aren't quite up to tasks like these without application support.
This script will write the locations of the selected photos relies on ExifTool. It will litter your photo directory with files ending with
_original that should contain the unmodified images. You should make sure the modified files are ok before deleting the originals. The usual caveats apply: I'm no AppleScript expert and this has not been tested particularly rigorously. I'd be careful especially if you don't live in the NE hemisphere. And you might want to reduce the number of dialogs. Do what you want with it.
-- This applescript will geotag the selected photos with the
-- location information set in iPhoto.
-- You must have exiftool installed; by default it's loaded from
-- /opt/local/bin, where MacPorts installs it from the package
-- p5-image-exiftool.
-- Author: Juri Pakaste (http://www.juripakaste.fi/)
-- Based on the Set Geo Data.scpt script by
-- Andrew Turner (http://highearthorbit.com)
property exifToolOriginal : "_original"
property exifToolPath : "/opt/local/bin/exiftool"
on extract_decimal(realnum)
set res to realnum - (round realnum rounding down)
end extract_decimal
on roundFloat(n, precision)
set x to 10 ^ precision
(((n * x) + 0.5) div 1) / x
end roundFloat
on d2s(degs)
log "enter d2s"
if the degs < 0 then
set the degs to degs * -1
end if
set the degrees to round degs rounding down
set the minssecs to extract_decimal(degs)
log "minssecs: " & minssecs
set the minssecs to minssecs * 60
set the mins to round minssecs rounding down
set the minssecs to extract_decimal(minssecs)
log "minssecs 2: " & minssecs
set the secs to minssecs * 60
"" & degrees & "," & mins & "," & roundFloat(secs, 2)
end d2s
on exportCoords(image_file, lat, lng, alt)
set the northSouth to "N"
set the eastWest to "E"
if the lat is less than 0 then
set the northSouth to "S"
set the lat to the lat * -1
end if
if the lng is less than 0 then
set the eastWest to "W"
set the lng to the lng * -1
end if
log "calling d2s on " & lat
set the latstr to my d2s(lat)
set the lngstr to my d2s(lng)
set exifCommand to exifToolPath & " -GPSMapDatum=WGS-84 -gps:GPSLatitude='" & latstr & "' -gps:GPSLatitudeRef='" & northSouth ¬
& "' -gps:GPSLongitude='" & lngstr & "' -gps:GPSLongitudeRef='" & eastWest ¬
& "' -xmp:GPSLatitude='" & latstr & northSouth & "' -xmp:GPSLongitude='" & lngstr & eastWest & "' -xmp:GPSMapDatum='WGS-84'" & " -xmp:GPSVersionID='18.104.22.168'" & " " & quoted form of image_file
display dialog of ("running: " & exifCommand)
set output to do shell script exifCommand
display dialog of output
--do shell script "rm '" & image_file & "'" & exifToolOriginal
end exportCoords
tell application "iPhoto"
copy (my selected_images()) to these_images
if these_images is false or (the count of these_images) is 0 then ¬
error "Please select one or more images."
repeat with i from 1 to the count of these_images
set this_photo to item i of these_images
tell this_photo
set the image_file to the image path
set lat to the latitude
set lng to the longitude
set alt to the altitude
end tell
if lat < 90.1 and lng < 180.1 then
my exportCoords(image_file, lat, lng, alt)
display alert ("No location set for " & name of this_photo)
end if
log "read image, lat: " & lat & ", lng: " & lng
end repeat
display dialog "Geo Exif write complete."
on error error_message number error_number
if the error_number is not -128 then
display dialog of ("failed on: " & image_file)
display dialog error_message buttons {"Cancel"} default button 1
end if
end try
end tell
on selected_images()
tell application "iPhoto"
-- get selection
set these_items to the selection
-- check for single album selected
if the class of item 1 of these_items is album then error
-- return the list of selected photos
return these_items
on error
return false
end try
end tell
end selected_images
Update (2010-02-28): Thank you to @simonmark on Twitter, who pointed out the script had some issues. My version broke if file names had single quotes in them and Simon's version broke with double quotes (admittedly probably rarer in file names.) I was going to leave it as it was, but found the
quoted form method of
text objects in AppleScript Language Guide which, assuming it works correctly, should make the script always work properly (at least in terms of file name handling.) I also copied Simon's better error display code and replaced the
extract_decimal implementation with something that isn't quite as silly as my previous version was.
Update (2010-06-02): I set up a Bitbucket repository for this and other scripts I've written for iPhoto.
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I put up on Launchpad a backup utility I wrote called Chipmunk Backup. It's not extremely configurable nor does it have a huge set of features. It's a simple tool for maintaining a number of GnuPG encrypted full backups of a directory in a remote, rsync-accessible location.
There's no ready to download archive, but checking out
lp:chipmunk-backup with bzr should give you a working version.
It's written in PLT Scheme and is known to work with version 4.1.4.
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Emacs tip #0: Always search EmacsWiki when you think you might need something.
Emacs tip #1: To navigate studlyCapped words,
M-x c-subword-mode, as found on the CamelCase page. I had to add the following lines to my
.emacs to get it work with
M-f worked right out of the box:
(define-key global-map [(control right)] 'forward-word)
(define-key global-map [(control left)] 'backward-word)
Before that, they were bound to the
-nomark variants.
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I have a somewhat difficult relationship with Django's admin site. It's a very useful feature, but I haven't really done enough with it to know when I'm going to hit a wall, if that wall's in the code or in my understanding, and how hard it's going to be to climb over the wall.
This time I wanted to have inline admin forms, except that I didn't actually want to have the forms there, I just wanted to have links to the objects — and not their views on the actual site, but on the admin site. As far as I can tell, there's no built-in support for this.
According to the admin docs, there are two subclasses of
TabularInline and
StackedInline. Looking at django/contrib/admin/options.py confirms this. And as the docs say, the only difference is the template they use. The stacked version comes pretty close when we add all the fields to an
InlineModelAdmin subclass's exclude array, but it doesn't have the link.
To solve this we first create a new subclass:
class LinkedInline(admin.options.InlineModelAdmin):
template = "admin/edit_inline/linked.html"
When you want to create inline links to a model, you subclass this new
LinkedInline class. So to use a slightly contrived example, if we have a Flight with Passengers:
class PassengerInline(LinkedInline):
model = models.Passenger
extra = 0
exclude = [ "name", "sex" ] # etc
class FlightAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
inlines = [ PassengerInline ]
And yes, we have to exclude all the fields explicitly: an empty
fields tuple or list is ignored.
The new template is easiest to create by cutting down aggressively the stacked template. Like this:
{% load i18n %}
<div class="inline-group">
<h2>{{ inline_admin_formset.opts.verbose_name_plural|title}}</h2>
{{ inline_admin_formset.formset.management_form }}
{{ inline_admin_formset.formset.non_form_errors }}
{% for inline_admin_form in inline_admin_formset %}
<div class="inline-related {% if forloop.last %}last-related{% endif %}">
<h3><b>{{ inline_admin_formset.opts.verbose_name|title }}:</b> {% if inline_admin_form.original %}{{ inline_admin_form.original }}{% else %} #{{ forloop.counter }}{% endif %}
{% if inline_admin_formset.formset.can_delete and inline_admin_form.original %}<span class="delete">{{ inline_admin_form.deletion_field.field }} {{ inline_admin_form.deletion_field.label_tag }}</span>{% endif %}
{{ inline_admin_form.pk_field.field }}
{{ inline_admin_form.fk_field.field }}
{% endfor %}
The primary/foreign key fields are necessary to keep Django happy.
The result looks about right, it just lacks the links. It seems that Django doesn't give the template all the information we need to make them work: there's
root_path that gives us
app_label contains the application's name and
inline_admin_form.original.id contains the id of the inline object. What is lacking is the path component that names the model. I don't think it's available by default (is there a clean way to ask Django what's available in a template's context?), so we need to add it. Amend
LinkedInline to look like this:
class LinkedInline(admin.options.InlineModelAdmin):
template = "admin/edit_inline/linked.html"
admin_model_path = None
def __init__(self, *args):
super(LinkedInline, self).__init__(*args)
if self.admin_model_path is None:
self.admin_model_path = self.model.__name__.lower()
inline_admin_formset.opts.admin_model_path will be bound to the lowercase name of the inline object's model, which is what the admin site uses in its paths.
With this, we can now replace the
div in the template with this:
<div class="inline-related {% if forloop.last %}last-related{% endif %}">
<h3><b>{{ inline_admin_formset.opts.verbose_name|title }}:</b> <a href="{{ root_path }}{{ app_label }}/{{ inline_admin_formset.opts.admin_model_path }}/{{ inline_admin_form.original.id }}/">{% if inline_admin_form.original %}{{ inline_admin_form.original }}{% else %} #{{ forloop.counter }}{% endif %}</a>
{% if inline_admin_formset.formset.can_delete and inline_admin_form.original %}<span class="delete">{{ inline_admin_form.deletion_field.field }} {{ inline_admin_form.deletion_field.label_tag }}</span>{% endif %}
{{ inline_admin_form.pk_field.field }}
{{ inline_admin_form.fk_field.field }}
That's it. Now Flights get links to Passengers without big forms cluttering up the page.
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These days I use an iPhone as my mobile music device. I have a bit over 1800 songs on it. I usually use shuffle and had it stuck in a weird state a couple of weeks ago — it was constantly playing me just a few tracks. I usually listen for just half an hour to an hour at a time, so I don't know if it would have started looping or what, but those were basically always there for a week's worth of commutes. I finally restarted the phone and that seemed to help, but what do you know, a couple of weeks, several restarts and one operating system upgrade later, it's again playing me exactly the same tracks.
As much as I love the The Roots, honestly, at this points Adrenaline!'s "Once a-again, once a-gain..." start makes me mostly think "once again indeed."
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Prep roundup: Hot start carries Sissonville past Wayne 63-36
Sissonville jumped out to a 23-5 first-quarter lead and cruised to a 63-36 home win over Wayne in boys basketball Friday night.
For the Indians (2-3), Trent Stowers posted a game-high 21 points while Zach Null chipped in 15. Grant Ferguson tallied 14 for the Pioneers (2-2).
With the Tigers leading 29-26, the Dots' Noah Frampton hit a 3-pointer, Adam Sigman converted 1 of 2 free throws and Cam Cottrill added two foul shots for the final margin.
Frampton led the Dots (5-1) with 12 points, and Cottrill had 11. Mackenzie Martin led Chapmanville (1-3) with 19.
Austin Breeden added 16 points for the Patriots (2-2). Nathan McNeil scored 18 points and Taylor Clark added 11 for the Red Dragons (1-2), who were without starter Thad Moss, who is sidelined with an ankle injury.
Justin Wojcieszak led the way with 25 points, Elias Beacom added 22, Zack Moore had 15 and Ben Parsons 11. For Calvary (8-1), Trent Spears scored 18, Jace Heller 15 and Michael Salmons 13.
For the Spartans (6-0), Rondell Watson had a game-high 20 points. Bryce Woodliff added 15 points and six assists while Tyler Canterbury finished with 12 points.
Jordan Miller led Covington (0-8) with nine points.
The Cavaliers blew open a 23-17 game in the second half, outscoring the Warriors 37-11 in the final 16 minutes. Tyler Corbin scored 13 points to lead Cross Lanes Christian.
Girls basketball
Haeley Moore paced Winfield (3-2) with 14 points. For Riverside (2-6), Brittany Wood netted 12 points and grabbed 14 rebounds.
The Black Eagles (4-2) led for most of the game before finding themselves trailing by a single point late in the contest before Cashwell's shot put them ahead for good.
Cashwell finished with 16 points to lead SC. For Capital (3-2), Khadijah Lee and Dashia Foster each scored 14 points with Foster grabbing 11 rebounds.
Marissa Mullins added 15 for the Tigers, while Hannah Preservati had 13. Sierra Jordan tallied 20 for the Knights and Alex Ellis chipped in 18.
Rachel Ruble contributed 12 points for Wood County. Hannah Williams netted a game-high 19 for Elk Valley Christian, while Chelsea Burdette had 16.
HURRICANE 60, POINT 33: Abby Watson connected on 6 of 7 attempts from behind the 3-point arc and finished with 29 points to lead Hurricane to the home win. Taneisha Sturdivant had 10 points and 13 rebounds for the Redskins (3-2). Kaley Bruner and Hannah Porter each scored 12 points for Point Pleasant.
Kennedy Walker contributed 12 points for Parkersburg (4-3). Breanna Propst posted a double-double with 18 points and 11 rebounds for St. Albans (3-3).


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Making good on fixed ocean cargo schedules may be easier said than done
September 25, 2011
Analysts with the Paris-based consultancy, Alphaliner, are advising shippers to cast a critical eye on ocean carrier promises for "daily cut-offs."
In its latest weekly report, Alphaliner asks the question: "Daily Maersk - what does it really mean?"
As reported in LM, Maersk enthusiastically announced its new product with the promise of a level of reliability on its Far East-North Europe services that would be "unmatched."
The deployments from Shanghai, Ningbo, Yantian
and Tanjung Pelepas to three European main ports would be on time or shippers would be compensated for the time lost, carrier spokesmen added. But
However, According to Stephen Fletcher, Alphaliner's Commercial Director, shippers should "look beyond the hype" to understand what the product offers and the potential implications for the industry.
"Although Maersk currently offers seven sailings a week from the Far East to North Europe, it does not provide daily departures due to vessel bunching at the Far East ports and the need to insert intermediate ports between its four
core Far East origin ports," he said. "To overcome this, the carrier would offer daily cutoffs at the Far East origins which does not require a departure every day between
Daily Maersk port pairs."
Furthermore, said Alphaliner analysts, not all of the European ports are called on by all seven of Maersk's FE-North Europe strings. For example, only four
of the seven strings call at Felixstowe and five call at Rotterdam.
"In addition, with the different sequence of calls at European ports, the transit time varies depending upon the loop into which container is loaded," said Fletcher.
For example, of the five weekly Maersk strings that serve the key Shanghai-Rotterdam route, the transit time for this port pair varies between 26 and 32 days.
"Maersk's 'giant conveyor belt' moves at different speeds across, and is not a standard product offering effective daily connections in the Maersk network," Alphaliner concluded.
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Some "sources" are saying that the Sox will be very interested in Young if the Phills make him available.Although this article is mostly about NYY, its where I got the rumor.
Although Young hasnt showed much power this year, he has had his usual near 300BA and respectable mid 300 OBP. Maybe playing for a contender would ignite something and boost his numbers a bit, not to say they are bad right now.
He has a full NTC and could veto any deal, but if he accepted, what do you think it would cost for a 2 month 3b veteran rental who would probably have interest from multiple teams? He is only owed 3M for the remainder of the season with texas already picking up 10M of his deal.