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The Top 10 Photos of 2010
Kelly O'Connor is not a professional photographer – but she takes some of the best sports photographs that I have ever seen. And since I started this blog, she's been kind enough to allow me to pick and choose whatever fits my entries from her online photo gallery.
Her job involves working at Boston University for former president John Silber, but for the last five years, one of her hobbies has been shooting pictures of the Boston Red Sox and their minor league prospects. Nearly all of Kelly's photos have been taken from the stands as a ticket-buying fan, but she's managed to grab images of great Red Sox moments and displays a unique ability to capture the personality of the players.
As 2010 winds down, I thought it would be fun to post the "Top 10 Photos of the Year" involving members of last year's PawSox. With a huge assist from the "Official Unpaid Photographer" of my blog, here goes:
(all photos courtesy of Kelly O'Connor)
10. Gil Velazquez safe at second base on a double. How about the framing in that shot? It couldn't have been done any better if Kelly had asked the trio to pose.
9. Lars Anderson rides the tarp. This play happened on the day that Josh Beckett made a rehab start at McCoy Stadium. My radio partner Steve Hyder pointed out early in the broadcast that the PawSox seemed to have a little extra pep in their step with Beckett on the hill, and moments later, Lars made a tremendous sprawling catch. Nice timing by Hydes, and a great photo by Kelly.
8. Josh Reddick tagged out at the plate. Josh didn't have a great year – although his .326 average (.566 slugging) after July 1st bodes well for next season – but hustle is never an issue for the young outfielder. He's fun to watch on a daily basis.
7. Ryan Kalish follows the path of his first MLB hit. Kelly took several great photographs of Kalish throughout the year, but this is my personal favorite. It's an unusual angle and I think it somehow captures how the big leagues were not "too big" for this 22-year-old kid.
6. Jacoby Ellsbury smiling while on rehab at McCoy. Jacoby didn't do much smiling last year as he battled broken ribs. Here's hoping that he's healthy and happy in 2011. A healthy Ellsbury could be a bigger addition than Carl Crawford.
5. Daniel Nava belts a grand slam on his first big league swing. Daniel's father Don didn't do a very good job of catching the swing on home video, but Kelly nailed the money shot. Oddly enough, she says she nearly missed it too because she was telling the fans seated around her who Daniel was!
4. PawSox relievers break out of jail. Leave it to Chad Paronto to choreograph a hysterical pre-game routine for the Pawtucket relief pitchers as they would sprint to the bullpen at the start of the game and scale the 5-foot tall wall. Classic! That's Tommy Hottovy on the far right electing not to go with the Fosbury Flop.
3. Outfielders celebrate. Josh Reddick, Bubba Bell, and Daniel Nava celebrate a Pawtucket victory with a flying 3-way hip bump. Let's hope celebrations of that nature are more frequent next season.
2. Daniel Nava in pre-game prayer at Fenway before debut. Here's what Kelly had to say about this photo:
I always wonder what's going on in a player's head before the game, when he's just been called up–what it's like to work so long and so hard toward a goal, and then to have those long moments where that achievement is both in hand–there you are, in the park, in the lineup–and not yet experienced. I knew from McCoy that Nava had a pregame ritual of sorts where he would be out on the field, but clearly gathering his own thoughts, whether praying or meditating–a very private moment in a very public space. I actually debated a little bit whether I would put up that shot, because of that private aspect.
I love that photo and I'm sure that Daniel Nava does too.
1. Chad Paronto proudly displays the WWF Championship belt that he received from his teammates. As I've written previously, the veteran reliever kept all of us in stitches last year. I'm still holding out hope that the Red Sox bring him back in 2011.
Those were my choices for a Top 10, but I left out dozens of great pictures. Here's a link to Kelly's favorite photos from last year:
Thanks again to the great Kelly O'Connor for allowing me to share her work.
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Overture, curtains, lights…
We're formally opening a new Data Center today here at Cisco. In light of that, let's forgo Data Center Deconstructed's usual video Q&A and spend some time kicking the site's proverbial tires.
Located in Allen, Texas, the new Data Center is a tier 3 facility with a 38,000 sq. ft. (3,530 sq. m.) hosting area and powered by redundant 10 MW feeds providing 5.25 MW of capacity for IT.
I participated in several of the design meetings for the Data Center and am enthusiastic about a lot of the features that have been incorporated into its design. (No surprise, the facility uses all of the green strategies I discussed in Energy Efficiency Makes Two Kinds of Green and then some.) A few of my favorite features:
- The active-active configuration. The Allen Data Center is linked to another tier 3 Data Center in Richardson, Texas, so each facility is a primary Data Center that also serves as a secondary facility for the other. Cisco calls the pair a Metro Virtual Data Center – I call it really hard to knock offline. (We like this model so much that we're planning to build similar pairs in other theaters.)
- The server cabinets. As shown in the image below, the Data Center's cabinets have exhaust chimneys that allow hot air generated by hardware to flow into a plenum space and avoid mixing with incoming chilled air. This helps the cooling system operate more efficiently. (We used a similar design in our Richardson Data Center, too.)
- A rotary UPS. If anything in a Data Center's standby infrastructure is going to fail it's the batteries, so I'm happy to dispense with a static UPS at this site. The rotary UPS contains a large, spinning flywheel and in the event of a utility power failure that kinetic energy will supply several seconds of ride-through power, long enough to transfer the Data Center's electrical load to standby generators.
These are some of my favorites, but they're just part of what this Data Center has to offer. For a deeper look, check out the interactive videos and detailed case study about the facility. Happy viewing!
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Stunning pictures, great information – it's great you are so open about infrastructure.
It will be 5+ years before we have anything comparable to this.

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For someone who writes about relationships, it is pretty risky to make the statement that age matters; however, I believe in speaking the truth. I also believe in voicing the concerns of the those that visit this site. From this vantage point and with respect to love and heartbreak, age definitely matters.
Here is the reason why: we each have a grand plan for our life based on age. It goes something like this:
• In my teens, I'll get into a good college or get a good job.
• In my early twenties, my career will start to take off.
• By my mid-twenties, I will meet the person of my dreams.
• In my thirties, I will be married and have 2.2 beautiful children.
• In my forties, I'll be running the company for which I've been working.
• In my fifties, I'll reflect back on my life and my grown children and smile.
• In my sixties, I'll retire and travel the world.
Sound familiar? Give or take a few years and interchange a couple of details and these types of age confined dreams are quite universal. So what happens when things don't go as expected? What happens when instead of two kids in our thirties, we end up with our heart in two pieces? We feel broken; not only is our heart shattered, so too is our self-perception.
It is critical to understand that the pain one feels after a break up is only partially due to the separation from our mate. What causes equal, if not greater agony, is dealing with our crushed dreams. Our dream to be a certain age and have accomplished certain things has been stolen. To overcome the challenge of heartbreak based on age related fears, we must face them head on.
Fear: I'm getting older and will be alone. So you are 35 or 45 or [insert your age] and you are alone. You are scared. This is natural. Many people have a fear of aging – period. Heck, the entire beauty industry thrives on our distaste of aging. When you mix the panic of being alone with an aversion of getting older, the combination results in a very potent fear.
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Fear: I am damaged goods. Almost all of us have had experiences which have left us feeling less than perfect; however, they are experiences, not who you are. I have always been puzzled by the statement, "I am divorced." If this is your situation, remember, it is not a I am statement, it is an I have gone thru statement. No one is fundamentally flawed – especially not those who work actively to heal their wounds.
Hope: Absorb the power provided by an example. Find someone around you who has triumphed over adversity in their life. Find someone who has been dealt an unexpected hand and turned it around to their benefit. Ask them to tell you their story. If you don't see anyone that fits the bill in your immediate surroundings, pick up a Chicken Soup for the Soul book and read hundreds of inspiring stories. You will find that people do not become their bad experiences, rather they work through them and come out stronger. So will you.
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* The systems is rock solid with nwchem and ADF. Only G09 crashes
* Gaussian has now released G09E, and the release notes say: "A Sandybridge/Haswell binary distribution is also available". Remains to be found out if this new version solves the issue. I can't check, as I don't have access to that version.
Update 18 Oct 2015:
TL;DR version: G09D (EM64T and AMD64) crash within the first 30 min to 4 hours. An NWChem job has so far run 6 days without crashing and is still going strong.
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This isn't much of a post yet. I'm mostly posting this so that people searching online will see that they aren't alone.
I just built a new node:
AU$559 Intel BX80648I75820K 6 Core i7-5820K 3.3Ghz 15MB LGA-2011-V3 (No Heatsink)
AU$407 Gigabyte X99-SLI Intel X99 S2011-3 8xDDR4/4xPCI-E/Intel GBLan/ATX Motherboard
AU$50 DeepCool FrostWin v2.0 CPU cooler
AU$155x2 Patriot 16G Kit (8Gx2) DDR4 2133 Desktop RAM
AU$185 Antec HCG-900 High Current Gamer Gaming PSU
AU$39 Gigabyte N210SL-1GI 1GB GT210 PCI-E VGA Card
AU$68 Seagate 3.5" Barracuda 1TB ST1000DM003 SATA3 7200RPM 64MB HDD (carbon)
AU$76 Antec GX500B-W Dominator Window USB3.0 Gaming Case without PSU
I've got an installation of up-to-date Jessie on it, with the following kernel: Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u5 (2015-10-09) x86_64 GNU/Linux.
When running G09D rev. 01 EM64T I keep getting random errors along these lines (these are collected over a couple of days and between restarts):
[100433.566789] traps: l703.exe[11236] general protection ip:df18ca sp:7fc96f595268 error:0 in l703.exe[400000+a46000] [ 2587.899019] traps: l703.exe[3727] general protection ip:9c9757 sp:7fa6fc436ce0 error:0 in l703.exe[400000+a46000] [26439.755347] traps: l502.exe[3235] general protection ip:ab8a55 sp:7ffe29504c10 error:0 in l502.exe[400000+dc8000] [43030.457126] traps: l502.exe[427] general protection ip:11565a7 sp:7f2ec1fff268 error:0 in l502.exe[400000+dc8000] [ 2587.899019] traps: l703.exe[3727] general protection ip:9c9757 sp:7fa6fc436ce0 error:0 in l703.exe[400000+a46000] [37460.207608] traps: l703.exe[14649] general protection ip:a38ae0 sp:7f1a813cf8c0 error:0 in l703.exe[400000+a46000] [ 8865.403861] traps: l502.exe[12449] general protection ip:d75df7 sp:7f7de40dcce0 error:0 in l502.exe[400000+dc8000]
Sometimes the crashes happen after 30 minutes, sometimes after 3 hours. Most happen within four hours. I seem to remember that one ran up to 12 hours, but nothing's gone beyond that. Some short (1h 30 min) calculations have managed to run to completion.
I've checked each RAM stick with memtest+ -- they are fine -- and they are distributed as recommended in the motherboard manual.
The temperature is running below 40 degrees Celsius.
The harddrive is fine according to SMART.
I log everything every two minutes, and so can go back and look at what happened right before the crash, but there's nothing odd.
My current best three hypotheses are:
* There's an issue with G09D EM64T and the new generation of LGA2011-v3 i7 intel cpus specifically
* There's an issue with any version of G09D and the new generation of LGA2011-v3 i7 intel cpus
* There's an issue with my system which is independent of G09D.
To test, I'll be:
* Do runs with G09D rev. 01 AMD64
Done -- this also crashed.
* Do runs with NWChem 6.5 (ifort, mkl)
Running -- 6 days so far without a crash!
* Update the BIOS (long shot)
* Remove CPU and check for bent pins (long, arduous shot)
I'll be posting updates...


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The glorious right hand of the Lord
"And the Lord said unto Moses, Is the Lord's hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not." Numbers 11:23
Suggested Further Reading: Luke 12:22-31
Which of his people have found the riches of his grace drained dry? Which of his children has had to mourn that the unsearchable riches of Christ had failed to supply his need? In grace, as well as in providence and nature, the unanimous verdict is that God is still Almighty, that he does as he wills, and fulfils all his promises and his counsels. How is it, then, that such a question as this ever came from the lips of God himself? Who suggested it? What suggested it? What could there have been that should lead him or any of his creatures to say,"Is the Lord's hand waxed short?" We answer, there is but one creature that God has made that ever doubts him. The little birds doubt not: though they have no barn nor field, yet they sweetly sing at night as they go to their roosts, though they know not where tomorrow's meal shall be found. The very cattle trust him; and even in days of drought, ye have seen them when they pant for thirst, how they expect the water; how the very first token of it makes them show in their very animal frame, by some dumb language, that they felt that God would not leave them to perish. The angels never doubt him, nor the devils either: devils believe and tremble. But it was left for man, the most favoured of all creatures, to mistrust his God. This high, this black, this infamous sin, of doubting the power and faithfulness of Jehovah, was reserved for the fallen race of rebellious Adam, and we alone, out of all the beings that God has ever fashioned, dishonour him by unbelief, and tarnish his honour by mistrust.
For meditation: Man is good at taming and training animals (James 3:7) but they still have a thing or two to teach him about God (2 Peter 2:15-16; Luke 12:24).
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If You put in an order for a new combine and don't see it until next year, join the crowd. Agricultural machinery sales have skyrocketed, leading to lags in delivery of new equipment. While consumer goods languish in stores, it's the opposite in agriculture. U.S. manufacturers of ag equipment are basking in a rosy sales climate. (See "Over the top," page 47.)
The U.S. manufacturers aren't the only ones experiencing good sales. Reports from the first Agrievolution conference held recently in Rome show a strong global demand for ag equipment. "This is going on all over the world," reports Rusty Fowler, president of Krone North America. "The agriculture business worldwide is in a boom."
The boom has led to tight supplies in equipment, which may be similar to the equipment shortages experienced in the 1970s, Fowler adds. "I think the lessons we learned from the '70s have to be remembered. This won't last forever."
Driving the global demand is an effort in some countries to make up for lost time in crop production. The Russian ag manufacturing representative at Agrievolution told the assembly that the average age of all Russian equipment is about 25 years old. Now that Russia's financial and political sectors are relatively stable, Russian farmers are finally able to borrow money to grow crops and purchase new equipment. As a result, producers in Russia and other former Soviet bloc countries are on buying binges. The same is true in emerging countries like India and China that also are investing in their farmers.
In the end, manufacturing also will play catch-up, and soon there will be plenty of equipment for everyone to buy. including U.S. farmers.


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Michael Lawzano, 76, of New London, died at 2:35 p.m. on Saturday, March 16, 2013, at Hannibal Regional Hospital.
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- Censorship – No government of any form presiding over any land, people, or assets in any form within the United States of America shall pass any law, nor ratify any treaty, which imposes or administers any kind of censorship on the Internet, except content found to be illegal content in accordance with this act.
- Culpability – Only the creator or uploader of data is responsible for whether that data is legal to upload, possess or make available to other users or information services.
- Restrictions on the Internet – No federal union or sovereign state may pass unilateral restrictions on the Internet.
- Content removal – Notice must be given to an administrator of the information system and to the uploader of the content within at least 30 days in advance of any deletion of data from any information system or service, or within 24 hours of the transfer of the data in question from publicly accessible storage to privately accessible storage.
- Judicial proceedings – Anyone undergoing judicial proceedings based on this document must be judged in the courts of the nation where the alleged offence was committed.
- Appropriate punishment – TBD
- Rights of the user – Addresses right to anonymity, privacy, use of proxies, encryption without fear of discrimination or suspicion.
- Liability and Settlement of Copyright Infringement Claim – All calculations related to this are to be carried out in a consumer, retail, individual level pricing upon which the production cost, marketing cost will not influence, capped at 200% of calculated damage.
The sub-Reddit page for FIA is located here, where it was created by a user named "RoyalwithCheese22"
The act seeks to protect transformative works taken from copyrighted materials, such as mash-ups, memes and other types of content shared on sites like Reddit, YouTube, Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter. It also aims to address issues at an international level not just in the U.S.
1) If an individual resided in more than one country when committing violation(s) of this document, they shall be judged based on their physical location at the time of the offence.
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The green and white A1 bus goes to the city and stops outside Arrivals at Terminals 1 and 2. It departs every 40 minutes, 24-hours a day, and a single ticket costs AED 4. Travel time to the city is approximately 40 minutes according to traffic. Alternatively, CityHoppa runs shuttle vans and private cars from the airport to Abu Dhabi city centre.
Car rental companies represented at the airport include Thrifty, Avis, Budget and Europcar.
Metered airport taxis are readily available outside the arrivals hall and trips to the city centre cost around AED 75. The journey to Abu Dhabi takes approximately 30-35 minutes.
Abu Dhabi Airport has a city terminal where passengers can check in up to 12 hours before a flight, and then be shuttled to the actual airport. The three terminals at the airport are within walking distance of each other.
The City Terminal offers a business centre with internet access, showers, ATMs, a duty-free shop, restaurants, and a VIP lounge. Facilities at the airport itself include duty-free shops, a meet and assist service, a VIP lounge, pharmacy, medical service, ATMs, bureaux de change, restaurants and cafés, a business centre and post office.
There are many parking options at Abu Dhabi International Airport: short-term parking is conveniently located near the terminal and costs AED 20 per hour; daily parking is available for rates ranging from AED 800 for four days to AED 1,200 for a week; and long-term parking is charged at AED 120 per day (the long-term lot, which is further away, is serviced by free shuttles to the terminals).
Abu Dhabi International Airport offers free wifi access.


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In an earlier article, I looked at how FoneMonkey, the free and open source testing tool from Gorilla Logic, can be used to automate functional testing of native iOS apps. In this article, I take a look under the hood at the several interesting and unusual techniques FoneMonkey uses to achieve its recording and playback magic. This should provide a deeper understanding of user interface handling in iOS, as well as some advanced Objective-C coding techniques for doing things like intercepting method calls.
How FoneMonkey Recording Works
As every iOS developer knows, user interactions are delivered to application code via any of several different mechanisms including
UITouch events,
UIControl actions,
UINotifications, and various delegate protocols. FoneMonkey does recording and playback via techniques that work in conjunction with each of these mechanisms.
It may at first seem like you could implement a tool like FoneMonkey by simply recording and replaying every UI event received by an application. The resulting blizzard of events, however, are too numerous and in many cases too low-level to produce readable or maintainable scripts. Events need to be filtered, aggregated, and translated to the semantics of UI components in order to provide understandable automation scripts.
For example, a swipe on a
UITableView consists of the initial touch, a series of events reporting the dragging of your finger, and a final event reporting the end of the gesture. The result is that the table scrolls. Such a sequence could be recorded verbatim as the complete event stream, or it could be aggregated into a single "Swipe" command with a starting and ending coordinate, or as FoneMonkey does it as a semantically richer "Scroll" command with arguments specifying to which row the table should be scrolled.
From a readability and maintainability perspective, and to enable users to create an automation command from scratch without recording, most users would prefer an approach that allows you to say "Scroll the table to row 4," rather than "Swipe the table from this pixel coordinate to that coordinate." As another example, consider moving a slider. Again, you could script this as a series of events corresponding to the finger drag or a swipe vector, or specify that the Slider should be moved to a new value (not coordinate), which is how FoneMonkey does it.
Sometimes simple touch interactions such as pushing a button can be recorded understandably as a "Touch" command rather than as something semantically richer. Pushing a button can be recorded as something like "Touch Button" with virtually no loss in script readability.
Because some interactions an be recorded as lower-level commands such as "Touch," and because others are better represented as higher-level commands like "Scroll" or "Slide," FoneMonkey injects monitoring into various points along the iOS UI-processing chain to capture interactions at different "semantic levels."
Because recording and playback logic is often component-type-specific, FoneMonkey implements recording and playback logic as category extensions (called "FMReady") to various
UIKit classes. Fortunately, most recording and playback logic is inherited by subclasses without requiring further specialization. As we'll see below, it is straightforward to extend FoneMonkey recording and playback by implementing your own category extensions.
Segregating extensions in Objective-C categories makes it easy to set up your builds so that testing-specific extensions are compiled and linked into your application ony when required for testing, and be omitted from non-test builds.
Event Filtering
FoneMonkey implements event filtering by intercepting calls to the
-sendEvent: method of the application's
UIApplication class. All touch and motion (shake) events are first delivered to this method. FoneMonkey accomplishes method interception through a technique known in Objective-C as "method swizzling," which allows the method implementation of one class to be swapped with that of another.
Method Interception
FoneMonkey intercepts
-sendEvent: as well as various other methods of iOS UI classes with Objective-C categories that swap ("swizzle") the original method of a class with a replacement method from an associated category. (Figure 2)
For example, in the code below, a
UIAppliction category swaps
sendEvent: implementation with its own method called
@implementation UIApplication (FMReady) + (void)load { if (self == [UIApplication class]) { Method originalMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(self, @selector(sendEvent:)); Method replacedMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(self, @selector(fmSendEvent:)); method_exchangeImplementations(originalMethod, replacedMethod); } } // This method will be called in place of sendEvent: - (void)fmSendEvent:(UIEvent *)event { // Send the event to FoneMonkey for possible recording [[FoneMonkey sharedMonkey] handleEvent:event]; // Call the original (now renamed) sendEvent: [self fmSendEvent:event]; } @end
In Objective-C, a class's static
+load method is called when the class is first loaded, providing for additional static initialization of a class. In the above code, FoneMonkey uses the
+load method to swap the implementation of
sendEvent: with
fmSendEvent:. The
method_exchangeImplementations call swaps the method implementations such that calls to
sendEvent: at run-time result in calls to the
-fmSendEvent: method defined in the category.
-fmSendEvent: forwards the received event to the
handleEvent: method of
[FoneMonkey sharedMonkey], a singleton instance of the
FoneMonkey class. (This singleton instance provides many of FoneMonkey's core API's for event handling, recording, and playback). The next line calls
-fmSendEvent: which appears to be a recursive call, but because we've swizzled the methods, the selector now refers to the original (now renamed)
-sendEvent: method.
Customizing Event Recording
By default, FoneMonkey records a
Touch command whenever a
UITouch with
UITouchPhaseEnded ("touch up") is received. This default functionality is implemented in FoneMonkey's
UIView (FMReady) category as well as several subclasses that specialize the handling for various kinds of UI components. You can filter which touch events are recorded for some component class by overriding the
-shouldRecordMonkeyTouch: method in an associated class category. For example, the class below changes recording for
MYCustomView so that it records only "touch down" events.
@implementation MYCustomView (FMReady) - (BOOL) shouldRecordMonkeyTouch:(UITouch*)touch { return (touch.phase == UITouchPhaseEnded); } @end
-recordMonkeyTouch: returns
YES, then FoneMonkey calls the category's
-handleMonkeyTouchEvent:withEvent: method.
For example, the code below records a custom "Start" command at the beginning of a touch, and an "End" command when it's finished.
@implementation MYCustomView (FMReady) - (BOOL) shouldRecordMonkeyTouch:(UITouch*)touch { return (touch.phase == UITouchPhaseBegan || touch.phase == UITouchPhaseEnded); } - (void) handleMonkeyTouchEvent:(NSSet*)touches withEvent:(UIEvent*)event { UITouch* touch = [touches anyObject]; NSString* cmd = touch.phase == UITouchPhaseBegan : "Start" : "End"; [FoneMonkey recordFrom:self command:cmd args:nil]; @end
This action is illustrated in Figure 4.
Recording Finger Dragging
Some components, such as painting canvases, respond to finger-dragging motions. Finger dragging generates a touch event for a set of (x,y) coordinates comprising the path of the dragging gesture. FoneMonkey coalesces this set of events into a single "Move" command with an argument list containing the x-y pairs.
To enable drag recording for some class, override
shouldRecordMonkeyTouch: similar to described above.
@implementation MYCustomView (FMReady) - (BOOL) shouldRecordMonkeyTouch:(UITouch*)touch { return (touch.phase == UITouchPhaseMoved); }
The above category causes finger dragging on the custom view to be recorded. Each drag operation will be recorded with a "Move" command similar to the one below, which corresponds to a diagonal path from (0,0) to (4,4).
Move MYCustomView theView 0,0,1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4


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By Olivia MaddoxJune 15, 2012
Drought conditions around Indiana took a turn for the worse with 88 percent of the state now affected by ongoing dry weather, according to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor released Thursday (June 14).
The Drought Monitor, a service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is updated weekly and reflected conditions as of Tuesday (June 12).
Total Indiana land area affected by drought jumped 40 percent since the last Drought Monitor was released last week. Only a cluster of 11 counties in southeast Indiana, about 12 percent of the state, are not affected. Moderate drought has spread to cover about three-fourths of northern Indiana while most of central Indiana is considered abnormally dry. Five counties in southwestern Indiana are rated in severe drought.
The high-pressure system that has dominated the Midwest in recent weeks has prevented weather changes - including fronts bringing much-needed rain - from moving into the area, according to the Indiana State Climate Office based at Purdue University. The next possibility for showers is sometime late next week, but state climatologist Dev Niyogi said soil is losing moisture at a rate faster than it can be replaced.
"We should not fall into false security if we get rain," Niyogi said. "Every passing day we are losing more moisture from the soil because of the growing crops. It will take time, conservation and much-needed rains to reverse."
More soybeans around the state are showing signs of stress, said Purdue Extension agronomist Shaun Casteel. "I'm seeing more plants flipping leaves over to reflect the sun," he said. "These plants can probably recover without too much damage if we get rain."
In areas of severe drought, leaves have started clamping down, meaning plants are going into survival mode.
Some fields have become islands where some plants have emerged and others haven't, Casteel said. "Late-planted beans in dry soil might still emerge with rainfall. However, if the seed has cracked open and the root emerged it could become a worst-case scenario."
After several weeks with little or no rain, the condition of the state's corn crop runs the gamut, said Purdue Extension agronomist Bob Nielsen.
Several areas of the state are under severe stress and, early in the growing season, Nielsen said there's already concern about the impact it will have on yield. Other areas around the state are not exhibiting drought symptoms.
"If we begin to get rain, the corn crop won't recover completely, but it will be better than we thought," Nielsen said.
More moderate temperatures since Memorial Day have helped, Nielsen said, but a return to hotter weather and continued drought could tip the scales.
"We're tip-toeing on the edge of something serious," he said. "Right now, it's wait-and-see; it could go either way."
Nielsen said the corn crop under the most stress is consistent with areas of severest drought in the U.S. Drought Monitor, including counties in southwestern, north central and northeastern Indiana.
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Every now and then, the stars align just right and you manage to get on a roll at the very moment your chief rival stumbles. AMD has been enjoying just this kind of fortune for the past year or so, with the one-two punch of the ongoing success of the Hammer architecture followed by Intel's abrupt and ugly collision with the "power wall." While Intel prepares itself for a full recovery via next year's launch of the Merom/Conroe architecture, AMD is gearing up to consolidate and expand its gains.
AMD recently brought online Fab 36, a brand new 90nm fab in Dresden, Germany, that will eventually enable to company to move to 65nm production.
Fab 36, located next door to an existing fab outside the city of Dresden, adds 13,400 square meters of clean-room space to AMD's manufacturing arsenal. Combined with factory capacity at Chartered Semiconductor that's available to AMD under an existing alliance, AMD will have a substantial part of the infrastructure needed to churn out 100 million processors a year by 2008, said Daryl Ostrander, senior vice president of logic, manufacturing and technology at AMD.
As the quoted ZDNET article later notes, 100 million processors a year translates into 30 percent market share. That's a pretty ambitious market share number, so how realistic is it?
In Q1 of this year, AMD's share of the worldwide market for x86 processors was up, at 16.9 percent. That's a good start, but the more recent numbers are even better: the news just broke that in September, AMD took the sales lead from Intel in the US retail desktop market. Market research firm Current Analysis puts the score at AMD 52 percent, Intel 46 percent.
AMD may climb higher, yet, as the Christmas buying season approaches, but Intel isn't going to stay on the ropes forever. I'd expect to see some of these gains slow next year, as Intel goes fully on the offensive and puts up a stiffer fight.
As for the kinds of things that AMD will be churning out next year at the new fab, Tech Report has the scoop, such as it is. Unfortunately, AMD hasn't released a detailed roadmap, but they have given some general indications about where they're headed.
First up on the list of things coming soon are some new extensions to the AMD64 instruction set. I would expect these to be performance-enhancing instructions aimed at specific types of tasks, much like the various SSE extensions are. Hester mentioned the possibility of accelerating 3D rendering with these extensions, but beyond that, their exact nature and use remains a mystery.
Next, the "multi-core" architecture line is distinct from dual cores because they're talking about the possibility of two, four, or eight cores per chip. Hester stressed the need for AMD to pay attention to the software ecosystem before moving ahead on adding additional cores for specific markets, especially in the desktop, where truly multi-threaded applications are still relatively scarce. I tried to tease out whether AMD would aim to deliver a quad-core processor on the 90nm fab process, but Hester wouldn't say.
Not a lot of surprises in the paragraph above or in the article's presentation slides. Obviously, the company wants to stay up with Intel's server-oriented technologies, like virtualization and such, and of course they'll be putting more cores on each chip as the market demands.
Speaking of more cores, here's a quick answer to Scott's question in the article: for the consumer and workstation markets in 2006 through early 2007, adding cache will probably be a better use of transistors than adding more than two cores. The only reason that the Xbox 360's Xenon CPU can get away with skimping on cache in favor of a third core is because its cache has some peculiar, game-specific, software-controlled features that let it do more with less. For a desktop PC, a three-core design won't make sense for quite a while.
The one other thing I'll comment on are the proposed AMD-specific ISA extensions. AMD has tried this move before with 3DNow!, and they've never managed to get that much support for them. It appears that they're flush from the success of x86-64, and they're confident that their growing market share will give them the clout to make it really happen this time.
Personally, I'm skeptical that ISA extensions will have enough of an impact on the price/performance equation to significantly affect purchasing decisions. Intel isn't going to support these extensions (AMD knows this), so it'll be up to software makers to include optional support in their applications. Some game developers may do this, but will they see enough of a performance boost to make such support worthwhile?
Ultimately, a new set of ISA extensions with a flashy name and a special logo program are going to be just one marketing weapon among many in the next phase of the war with Intel. AMD has established itself as the current CPU vendor of choice for tech savvy gamers, and a set of 3D-oriented ISA extensions that have some level of game studio support will help them reinforce that image in the face of Conroe.


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Washington State coach Mike Leach took time on Sunday to explain how and why he makes good Thanksgiving gravy.
He failed to give any explanation as to who will be his starting quarterback the day after Thanksgiving when Washington State hosts rival Washington in the Apple Cup, not yet ready to make a decision about whether Jeff Tuel or Connor Halliday will get the nod against the Huskies.
``They both have done some good things. They both have a level of inconsistency. Some of it has been musical quarterbacks and some of it has been my fault,'' Leach said during a conference call. ``But by the same token we try to get on the guy that is hot and that has been tough to identify.''
Tuel and Halliday played in Washington State's 46-7 loss to Arizona State on Saturday, the Cougars eighth straight loss. After putting a scare into UCLA a week earlier with a massive second-half rally that fell short, the Cougars (2-9, 0-8 Pac-12) struggled in the desert against the Sun Devils and for the second straight road game that got out of hand in the opening minutes.
Tuel completed 8 of 16 passes for 63 yards, while Halliday was 13 of 33 for 173 yards. Both threw interceptions and Halliday had the only touchdown with a 54-yard TD pass to Kristoff Williams in the final minute of the game.
``I think we played hard, we just had some guys out of position at some times, didn't execute and the game just kind of got away from us,'' Washington State running back Carl Winston said.
The Cougars continued their maddening trend of playing competitively against the top of the Pac-12, only to follow up with a dud against others. The Cougars played even with Oregon and flustered Oregon State earlier in the season, only to follow up with a lackluster effort at home against California. Washington State was on the verge of an upset at Stanford, then responded by getting blown out at Utah.
And just last week, after all the unwanted attention from claims of abuse by former wide receiver Marquess Wilson, the Cougars staged a strong second-half rally that fell short 44-36 against UCLA.
Their answer to another strong performance against a top-tier squad? Washington State trailed 18-0 after one quarter and 46-0 after three quarters to the Sun Devils.
``It's definitely hard, kind of like (we) have mood swings,'' Washington State defensive back Deone Bucannon said.
Washington State needs a victory over the rival Huskies to avoid going winless in conference play for the second time in the last four seasons and to avoid yet another nine-game losing skid to close out a season. The Cougars lost their final nine games of the 2009 season, also the last time they were winless in conference play.
Even for being a program that has seen more struggles than successes in the past, going winless in conference play has been rarity. In the past 40 years, Washington State has been shutout in conference play only three times (1975, 1998, 2009).
While beating Washington wouldn't provide a remedy for all the problems the Cougars have faced in Leach's first year with an underperforming record and Wilson's claims, it would give at least some solace of optimism heading into the offseason.
``I'm kind of looking forward to it,'' Leach said. ``... I think they're already motivated. I think the biggest thing need to focus on is our effort, our work, our development.''


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Hope Collegeaccounting majors spent a portion of their Homecoming helping the homeless.
Gathered as "Team Hope," they participated in the Holland Rescue Mission's "Rescue Run" on Saturday, Oct. 10.
The Hope racers included Brian Bredeway '02 and seniors Larry Figueroa of Holland;
Kurt Goldsby of Rochester Hills; Jason Ruud of Muskegon; and Lauren Zahn of Saline.
Rudd took first place in his age group, and Bredeway took second in his.
Kurt Dykstra of the Holland City Council, who is a part-time member of the economics, management and accounting faculty, gave the official welcome and started the race.
"Everyone had a great time while raising money for the homeless of Ottawa County," said Lynne Hendrix, professor of accountancy and director of the accounting internship program.


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Softer edges for spring, even for boardroom
NEW YORK (AP) — You don't need to be buttoned-up to be the boss.
The styles shown Wednesday as New York Fashion Week neared its end showed women softening their edges — but keeping their confidence. At Michael Kors, the models resembled a secretary pool from the 1970s that had since moved into the corner office. Those bow blouses now have a luxury coat and handbag to go with them.
Gone are the minimalist, sharp-edged looks shown on so many runways for fall. There are looser, less restrictive outfits for spring that are more soft and feminine, but still grown up.
"You know it's funny, last fall we had this very sharp, strong, urban collection, which really was for me this reaction to how fast life has gotten," Kors said backstage before his show. "But sometimes I think life is a little too fast. And when we go out to dinner put your phone down, put your BlackBerry down, have a conversation. Write a thank you note, a real one. Walk down the street in the summer when the weather gets warm and wear something that catches the wind."
Oscar de la Renta showed it's possible to be feminine and still feel like you own the room. Vera Wang softened up her look with fabric petals. Gilles Mendel's collection started with an ingénue who grows in confidence and becomes a woman.
"She's strong, she appreciates quality, she loves clothes. I like a celebration of this woman," Mendel said at his J. Mendel show.
With a palette that includes mint and blush tones and softer blouson shapes, spring styles are for a woman who's not afraid to wear a pink dress to the boardroom.
Even the bra tops appearing on so many runways are being paired with palazzo pants, not skinny jeans, making them almost — almost — office-appropriate.
Kors offered scarf-neck georgette blouses with the bow undone, a whisper light wool georgette pleated skirt in "banker" gray and a crisp white trench to top it off. There was also a sand-colored suede trench. Good thing his muse can make decisions.
A ticking-stripe boyfriend shirt was worn with denim shorts and a wrap made of white fox — yes, summer fur — with an unexpected stripe lining.
He had some moments that seemed 1970s inspired, with disco studs on slinky dresses with full hemlines and palazzo pants with bra tops.
"The challenge is to have romance for everyday life," Kors said, "and how do you have charm in everyday life?"
A good place to start is smiling models, and Kors had those. Karolina Kurkova, Frankie Rayder and Karen Elson are among the catwalkers who make infrequent runway appearances, but always seem to turn up for Kors.
To say the designers at Proenza Schouler loosened up their look for next spring, you have to know the starting point: The collection typically is inventive, cool and fairly aggressive.
Their clothes are for the model types — the young women who jet-set the globe in search of the next great party, the one that starts after midnight.
So to see the words "understated domesticity" and "serene and polished" in the notes Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough used for their runway show was more than a little surprising.
But, as promised, there was movement and ease, mixed with their other hallmark, experimental fabrics.
Accordian-pleat, below-the-knee skirts were shown in a myriad of metallics, tiered tops and jackets were paired with cropped, loose-leg pants, and a series of cotton crepe outfits were printed with the shadings and shadows of well-loved garments.
Don't worry, they took care of their model friends, too. They can wear the stunning top cast in copper, a breast plate held in place with some wide ribbon, that closed the show. Not many others can.
Pearls were still being sewn on the showstopping red carpet looks an hour before Marchesa's show, but the audience would never have known the frenzy.
When it came time for models to come down the runway in an elegant space at the New York Public Library, the delicate dresses floated with ethereal calm.
Some gowns had pearls, others butterfly appliques — and some had both. There was more of a light lingerie feel to the silhouettes than big sculptural pieces designers Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig have turned out in seasons' past.
The inspiration, according to Craig, is a Victorian-style curiosity case, where people would display treasures such as butterflies and birds.
Chapman said, "We were thinking about the romance of it and the idea of collecting all these different things and putting them together. So then we ... came to the idea of, you know, old pieces of lingerie mixed with Irish laces mixed with bird motifs, and so it's a melting pot of ideas but done in a very relaxed way."
This isn't the fashion show to see what everyone will be wearing. It's the show to see what Hollywood lovelies will wear to big events.
Predictions? The opener, a powder-blue lingerie top with a gold, metallic lace embroidered skirt, and the finale gown with an empire waist, gold lace bra top and blush tulle skirt with rose ribbon flowers will be on the red carpet soon.
Gilles Mendel's catwalk saw a young ingenue grow into a woman.
He started with short shift dresses in white, yellow and pink, and moved from there into red leather, gray lace and his signature fur. The python motorcycle jacket over a patent-leather skirt must have been his muse's transition phase.
"She's strong, she appreciates quality, she loves clothes," he said of his J. Mendel customer — and inspiration. "I like a celebration of that woman."
Think of a Charlotte Gainsbourg type, he said in a backstage interview.
Dr. Betsey Johnson was in the house with a dose of pretty, a dose of hip-hop and a whole lot of rock 'n' roll during her ever-loopy, always fun runway show.
Taking on a medical theme with looks dubbed "Tylenol Tara" and "Benadryl Barbie," models in teased pink hair put on the swagger in the 71-year-old's trademark poofy prom dresses and metal "Betsey" necklaces. They pranced in metallic black, white and pink petticoats, or flirted in tight minis and leggings done in black, and sexy animal and floral prints.
Post-bankruptcy, the first season of her Style network reality show a wrap, Johnson has no intention of growing up, though her adorable granddaughters, Layla and Ella, now join her on the runway for her traditional cartwheel and splits.
That is, after the day-of-the-week girls waved American flags and showed off their short boy undies in bright yellow, green and blue.
Lepore thinks we're emerging from an edgier, harsher period into a new Romantic era. In fashion, anyway. And so her designs are full of what she calls "a softness, a sexiness, a boudoir feeling, a neo-Romanticism."
Her preview was one of those collections that made fashionistas happy: Pretty, flouncy, colorful, wearable. Her emphasis on softness came through in the very first garment — a pair of silky shorts with a flouncy ruffle, in a blush color but with a white stripe.
Lepore's colors went from eye-popping, as in a bright poppy red and a crisp aqua, to subtle, as in a daffodil color akin to a minty green, and that pale blush. She also favored a floral print in many garments, including a distressed style that she said modernizes the look while keeping the softness.
Packham put out a casual ease without sacrificing glamour.
There were scarflike halter-neck tops and palazzo pants, and drop-waist dresses and a fully beaded T-shirt dress. The inspiration for Tuesday's spring preview started with the 1975 movie "Picnic at Hanging Rock," an Australian film set in a boarding school at the turn of the 20th century.
"So it was a little Edwardian, a little '70s rock 'n' roll, and we thought it all had an upbeat mood," she said. She carried the theme through with fancy jeweled embellishment on easy-to-wear gowns.
Jacobs has lots of cheerleaders in the fashion world. But in his spring Marc by Marc Jacobs collection, he put some on the runway, too.
At least, that was the feel of some of his clothes for the designer's more moderately priced line, and one he has lots of fun with.
Shiny short satin dresses, rompers and jumpsuits for the girls, and satin football-style jackets for the guys, in bright reds and pinks, made it seem like these kids were headed to a hipster pep rally.
Jacobs also had fun with tuxedos. A blue tux jacket was paired with tuxedo pants in the same color, but these were funky short tuxedo pants, and they were paired, like all the outfits, with sneakers — some low-tops here, and high-tops elsewhere. Great for the prom, preferably a fashionable one.
There wasn't much on the runway, and that's intended as a compliment. Just take a look at the white wool-silk coat or hammered-satin sheath.
They were, by definition and design, simple, elegant and chic.
Rodriguez is never much of an over-offender of bells, whistles and gimmicks, but he turned out a spring collection of pared-down, well-cut, wearable clothes — or they would be if the hemlines were a bit longer.
"I want you to leave here saying, 'I want the clothes,' 'I want those shoes,' 'I love that dress,'" Rodriguez said. "Sometimes fashion is made for fantasy ... but I want to dress women."
Rodriguez didn't bow to the trend of a looser shape; his silhouettes were trim and unfussy, his signature. They weren't constricting or boring, though.
He used the graphic play of black and white to his advantage, opening the show with a shorts suit that had white wool on the shoulders, a black laminated inset on the bodice and black laminated wool shorts.
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Jocelyn Noveck, Nicole Evatt and Leanne Italie contributed to this report.


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First of its kind ordinance will be put to citizen vote
More than 100 community members offered vocal support during Monday night's Mount Shasta City Council meeting for an ordinance that would prevent corporations from cloud seeding and bulk water extraction within city limits.
The council heard dozens of passionate appeals during public comments, then voted unanimously to order a special report on the Mt. Shasta Community Water Rights and Self Governance Ordinance, which will appear on the November election ballot.
The Ordinance was brought to council after 700 certified voter signatures were gathered from residents.
If the Ordinance is passed in November, it will be the first of its kind to regulate chemical trespass due to cloud seeding, although 130 communities in the United States have passed similar ordinances to protect themselves from a variety of other corporate activities.
City manager Kevin Plett began the discussion in the community building with staff's recommendation to order a report on the Ordinance, due to its "broad nature."
Plett explained that the council had three options: to adopt the Ordinance, to order a special election or to order a 30 day special report, which would put it in the correct timeframe to be included on the general election ballot in November.
Community input
Mayor Mike Murray opened public comment after congratulating proponents for successfully collecting the required number of signatures.
"You're really sending the message that you care about the environment," he said.
Forty-six community members then stood to speak, a process that took more than two hours. Only one spoke against the Ordinance. Many comments were greeted with loud applause that echoed off the walls.
"I am the 'official' proponent," Molly Brown said, "but I represent many who have been working hard on this for 18 months."
Thomas Linzey, the executive director and founder of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund in Spokane, Wash., explained the Ordinance is designed "to put decisions back into the citizens' hands," and gives them the right to choose what happens in their community.
Linzey said the Ordinance would establish water rights for residents, and would make it unlawful for corporations to do anything that would result in a toxic or potentially toxic chemical being in the body of a Mount Shasta resident.
The Ordinance would establish community rights that are superior to state and federal law.
"It's been a pleasure to work with Mount Shasta citizens," Linzey said, as he offered his continued advice and services to the city.
The crowd cheered, applauded, and got on their feet following Linzey's presentation.
Kirsten Moller, executive director of the Global Exchange, an international human rights organization based in San Francisco, said, "After speaking with the people of Mount Shasta, I realized the power of the love this community has for their environment... what's happening here is being talked about in Bolivia and Equator... Mount Shasta is making news around the world."
"Increasing the amount of precipitation is crazy to me," said Mount Shasta resident Leslie Ellorin, whose house was severely damaged in January due to heavy snow. She talked about the intensity of Mount Shasta's natural storms as well as the cost of snow removal and other related costs, such as the green dump site.
"We do not have the right to play a role in weather decision making," Ellorin finished.
"When you're born in a place, you feel very connected to the land," said lifelong Mount Shasta resident Tatiana Diakoff. She added that she has a vested interest in maintaining the resources of Mount Shasta and stewarding them responsibly.
"Cloud seeding hasn't been proven effective, and it's unclear what its effects are. This is an issue that needs to be looked into further... [this ordinance] gives the community a way to say we don't want cloud seeding," Diakoff said.
"I live in McCloud, but I consider myself to be a citizen of the mountain," said Angelina Cook. "I have always regarded myself and my species as a strand in the intricate web of life... the headwaters of the Sacramento River is what I consider to be the aorta of California."
Cook expressed concern that cloud seeding would pollute the Sacramento River, which provides water to the entire state.
Cook gave the meeting a moment of levity by urging councilors to support the Ordinance, and telling them, "just remember, we are your bosses."
"The water means more to the people who live here than money or gold," said Sara Wellborn, a two year resident of the area.
Mark Gibson compared the evening's community involvement to a discussion during a Mount Shasta City Council meeting about 15 years ago, during which opposition was expressed for constructing a prison in Siskiyou County.
At that time, so many residents flooded the meeting to speak against the idea, the council agreed unanimously that they would not be in support of a prison anywhere in Siskiyou County, Gibson said.
"Self governance feels really key in this," said Jennifer Matthews in expressing her hope that the ordinance would require multinational companies take responsibility for the many kinds of pollution they cause in small communities.
"I'm glad to have this open dialogue and a respectful debate on this topic, because this is something that goes beyond the political spectrum."
"We're gathering our power," said Ana Holub. "We need the safety of our earth and environment back."
The only person to speak against the ordinance was Dan Dorsey, a 25 year resident of the area. He said in his opinion, the Ordinance would discourage business. He also said he strongly disagreed with many of the audience's comments.
"Where are the jobs?" he asked empathetically. "We need anything, we're losing jobs right and left... right now I wouldn't mind looking at an 'ugly, large facility' as long as it's creating jobs... I?hope [the council] will make sound decisions based on fact."
Council comments
After everyone was given an opportunity to speak, Mayor Murray closed public comment and turned the meeting over to the councilors.
Sandra Spelliscy thanked everyone present for their interest.
Ned Boss indicated that he had taken several pages of notes and said he would be reviewing them and perhaps contacting some of the speakers for further information.
"I love your passion," said Russ Porterfield. He commented that the strength of the evening's participation showed a lot.
"You might be surprised at what I think about this whole issue," he said.
Tim Stearns said the strength of the grass root movement within the community was exciting.
He said he'd read over the Ordinance "several times," and brought forward some concerns he had about how it was worded.
"I'd like to adopt a legally enforcable document that gives power to the community to control our water and air without unintended consequences," said Stearns.
Stearns said he believes the Ordinance defines chemical trespass too broadly and spoke about possible costs it could incur. He suggested the document be studied more over a period of 30 days, during which time some modifications could be made before its placed on the November ballot.
Boss then moved to have the report conducted and to put the Ordinance up to vote.
With the modification that council share information with the proponents and contact other cities that have enacted similar ordinances, the council unanimously agreed.


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The finished piece that will be appearing in Blanket Magazine in June. The project was about astrological signs. I did Libra, since I am a Libra. I could do whatever I wanted for this project, and it was definitely a lot of fun, especially using those warm colors.
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We reported that the Minneapolis Star Tribune had plagiarized one of its editorials from a New Yorker commentary by Hendrik Hertzberg in "The Star Tribune digs Hendrik Hertzberg" and noted the credulous conclusion of Star Tribune editorial page editor Susan Albright that the plagiarism was accidental in "A failure of a different order." Even Star Tribune reader's representative Kate Parry found that conclusion a bit difficult to swallow. As we noted in our original post and as Parry noted in her column, our former law partner Norm Carpenter had brought the plagiarism to our attention.
After Parry's column ran, Norm received a telephone call from Star Tribune/New Yorke reader Dave Valen. Valen told Norm that he had shared a similar experience last spring. He had found a Star Tribune editorial cribbed from a Hendrik Hertzberg New Yorker commentary. He told Norm that he called Kate Parry, left a voicemail message regarding his observation and subsequently received a phone call from Star Tribune editorial page editor Susan Albright. Valen gave Albright the information and appears to have been blown off by her.
Norm forwarded Valen's phone number to me and I gave him a call. Valen told me that he had thrown away the Hertzberg piece and the related Star Tribune editorial. The incident happened long enough ago that he could not even recall the subject. I pressed him on the subject; he vaguely recalled that it involved a government reform. Taking a look through Hertzberg's New Yorker commentary pieces this year, I quickly found "Count 'em," on the circumvention of the electoral college. I called my day job colleague Peter Swanson of Swanblog at home and asked him to search Star Tribune editorials with the word "electoral college." In about five seconds Peter found this March 27 Star Tribune editorial headed "How to drop out of the electoral college":
This country could form a more perfect union by accepting a novel idea: that the president of the United States should be elected by the people of the United States.
That's not the way it's done, of course, and, given the Constitution's enshrinement of the Electoral College, things aren't likely to change. To quit the college would take approval of two-thirds of both houses of Congress and three-quarters of state legislatures, so fuggedaboudit.
But now comes a gaggle of bipartisan reformers with a cheeky idea worth considering. What if legislatures, one by one, entered their states into an interstate compact under which members would agree to award their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote? The compact would kick in only when enough states had joined it to elect a president – that is, when a majority of the 538 electoral votes were assembled. As few as 11 states could ensure that the candidate with the most popular votes nationally would win the presidency. As a result, the Constitution and the Electoral College would stay intact, but the college's fangs would be removed.
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Now that Minnesota is a battleground getting lots of attention, it's a lot to ask the Legislature to do the right thing and endorse the new compact. But it really should. So should other states – both red and blue – join, for the sake of a better democracy.
Unlike the incident that we first brought to the attention of the Star Tribune, this editorial appeared to have been cribbed without attribution rather than plagiarized. I thought that if a high school or college student had done it and been caught, that his paper would have received a failing grade and that the student would have received a warning not to do it again.
A week ago yesterday, on the Wednesday morning before Thanksgiving, I called the Star Tribune and left a message that I had found a prior incident of cribbing or copying and ended up speaking with Susan Albright. I identified the Hertzberg piece and the Star Tribune editorial, asked if she recalled the conversation with a reader who had previously discussed them with her, and asked for a comment. She said that she did not recall the conversation, but that she would investigate the incident and call me back that afternoon. Toward the end of the afternoon she called me back and said, given holiday absences of relevant personnel, that she would not be able to complete the investigation that day. She also said that she had checked a log she keeps and found that she had indeed spoken with a Dave Valen on March 28 (I can't remember if she told me whether her log reflected the subject of the conversation).
On Tuesday I called Albright to ask about the status of her investigation. She was busy, so I emailed her a message stating that I intended to write about the incident on Wednesday evening and asked if she would be able to bring her investigation to a conclusion by that time. She responded:
I'm sorry I missed your call; I was in a meeting about this issue. Now that the relevant people are here, we are dealing directly with the matter.
We are taking this very seriously, and are digging deeply to sort it all out. We feel an obligation to be fair and deliberate about this; it is far too serious a matter to jump to conclusions without a thorough review. We will be looking closely at everything that this writer, who won't be writing during the process, has produced over the past year. You are right in surmising that this is the same editorial writer who wrote the Nov. 10 editorial.
I appreciate your professionalism and consideration last week given the holiday staffing issues and absences we had.
John Hinderaker and I confered and decided that we would not write about the incident until we could include a comment from Albright. Today's Star Tribune carries the following editorial note by Albright:
Two weeks ago I wrote in this space about a Nov. 10 editorial that we learned contained, without attribution, phrases from a New Yorker commentary by Hendrik Hertzberg. Since then we have received an inquiry about a March 27 editorial that contained similarities to a March 6 Hertzberg piece.
We want you to know that we are taking this matter very seriously. We have an obligation to everyone involved to be fair and deliberate in evaluating this; it is too serious a matter to jump to any conclusions without a thorough review. Since both of the editorials in question were written by editorial writer Steve Berg, the Star Tribune will conduct a review of his writing over the past year. During this review he will not be writing.
In my editor's note about the Nov. 10 editorial, I did not name the writer. The subsequent questioning of the earlier piece caused us to rethink that stance, since both were written by the same person and other writers were becoming objects of conjecture.
We strive to be candid about our processes and practices, so when the review is completed, I will be writing about this again.
In all of this I only sought a comment from Albright regarding the apparent cribbing of the Star Tribune's March 27 editorial from Hertzberg's New Yorker commentary. No such comment has been forthcoming.
UPDATE: The Associated Press is now following this story, and crediting Power Line.
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