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A Stanford undergrad's new super-nerd study suggests that there are really 13 positions in basketball—not just five. And NBA front offices might be able to use this new information (plus an esoteric branch of mathematics) to more effectively construct their teams. If Moneyball revolutionized baseball, "Muthuball" could mark a new frontier for the NBA.
This year's MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, the summit of the wonkiest minds in sports, hardly resembled its inaugural event, in 2007, when 175 geeks gathered in classrooms on MIT's campus to discuss their budding cottage industry. Having expanded recently to two days, and moved to a convention center in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, there were far fewer pocket protectors among the 2,200 attendees than league commissioners, team ecutives, and even cerebral athletes. The panels with recognizable names took place on elevated stages in spaces as vast as airplane hangars. Everyone in the audience was looking for an edge on the competition, fully aware that the next Moneyball-like, game-changing idea would probably come from someone sitting next to them.
Meanwhile, the heart of the conference still pumped through two smaller rooms at the end of a hallway, adjacent to a game area with a Pop-A-Shot. One room was devoted to research presentations. The other was reserved for a series of talks called Evolution of Sport. The EOS talks were billed as the "opportunity to present a message, an idea or a revolutionary thought that could someday change the face of sport"—TED talks for an audience fluent in ESPN. According to conference organizers, the EOS edicts were to be bold, unique, inventive, analytical, concise, respectful, curious, humorous, honest, and, most of all, inspiring. Over eighty EOS were submitted for consideration; eleven were chosen to inspire.
The only undergraduate in that group was a Stanford University senior named Muthu Alagappan. He was presenting on behalf of Ayasdi, a company run by Stanford mathematicians, whose proprietary software is used by physicians, environmentalists, and the government to understand cancer, diabetes, and oil spills. Muthu had used it to scheme the NBA.
Muthu grew up in Houston, and when we were introduced in the convention center's hallway before his presentation, which he called "From 5 to 13: Redefining the Positions in Basketball," he told me he was hoping to meet Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, the conference co-chair. Morey is such a rock star around MIT that Bill Simmons once nicknamed him Dork Elvis. He was one of the first basketball ecutives to bring to an NBA front office the sort of quantitative analysis that revolutionized baseball in the last decade, and because of his organizing role with the conference, he also has emerged as the public face of basketball geeks.
Muthu didn't find Morey before his EOS talk, but he did have an intrigued audience when he finally made his pitch for the future of sports. He spoke with a polished, unassuming authority, like a hospital resident who rides a disarming smile into his operating room. In fact, he was three months from graduating with a degree in biomechanical engineering, and planning to stay in Palo Alto for medical school. When he stuffed his hands into the pants pockets of a dark suit, which he wore without a tie, Muthu opened with a parable about medicine. Almost two thousand years ago, he said, the Roman physician Galen theorized that all illnesses could be categorized by fluids. Galen is still admired as a medical visionary, but as science evolved, doctors quickly understood the simplicity of his logic.
"Physicians began to realize that disease classification was actually much more complex," Muthu said. "By doing so, for the first time in the history of the world, physicians became more than just spiritual healers. They could actually save lives." He paused, not too dramatically, and made his point: "Today, I believe basketball is on the verge of a similar revolution."
Over the next half-hour he explained why. Muthu's conclusion was that NBA players account for thirteen positions, not just the five traditional roles, and he thought this discovery wasn't just academic. It could alter the way all basketball players are evaluated and make people like Morey fundamentally rethink the way they assemble teams.
Not long afterward, Morey took the stage in the spacious ballroom to present the conference's awards. Bill James, the godfather of sabermetrics, who published advanced baseball research as early as the 1970s and inspired the last three decades of innovation in sports, won for lifetime achievement. The Tampa Bay Rays scored the award for best organization. The reigning NBA champion Dallas Mavericks were also honored. And then Morey announced to polite applause the prize for the conference's best EOS talk. The winner was Muthu Alagappan.
Billy Beane, the Oakland Athletics general manager lionized in Michael Lewis's Moneyball, once turned down an athletic scholarship from Stanford and instead was drafted in the first round out of high school by the New York Mets. Four years later, he made the big leagues.
No one would ever confuse Muthu for Billy Beane. "As an Indian kid in Houston, basketball is what you do," Muthu said. "I tried out for my middle-school team and didn't make it. That was the start of me realizing I was not made to play basketball." Instead he played tennis and thrived nationally as a debater in high school. At Stanford, he danced Raas and Bhangra, traditional Indian styles, and biked to class. When he did find time for basketball, about once a week, Muthu played point guard. There was no other choice for a 5-foot-9 guy with a slight build. But he also felt out of position, since ball-handling was not his strength. Even in pickup games, he thought, there was an unrecognized nuance to basketball positions.
Muthu began his deep dive into NBA positions one Friday last summer, during his internship with Ayasdi, by picking seven rudimentary statistics on Yahoo! Sports for every NBA player: points, rebounds, assists, steals, turnovers, fouls, and blocks. Then he adjusted them for playing time. Within three hours, he had a graphic with dense groups of color-coded nodes, representing last season's NBA players, connected by lines, expressing statistical affinities. The nodes were the players, the groups were the newfound positions, and the lines linked statistically similar players. This was his groundbreaking similarity network of NBA players. It looked like a postcard from a molecular biology convention.
"We expected to see five categories, or five flares, corresponding to the five positions of basketball. We actually found something much more interesting: We found that there's thirteen positions in the NBA," he said at the MIT conference. "And for each position, for the first time, I can topologically and mathematically define what it means to play that position. I can tell you which players in the NBA play which position. And I can tell you who epitomizes the position best."
The first thing to know about the thirteen NBA positions—Muthu labeled them offensive ball-handler, defensive ball-handler, combo ball-handler, shooting ball-handler, role-playing ball-handler, 3-point rebounder, scoring rebounder, paint protector, scoring paint protector, role player, NBA first team, NBA second team, and one-of-a-kind—is that the idea of thirteen NBA positions is a misnomer. Anyone who's ever watched basketball knows that there are more than thirteen positions, and not even Isaiah Thomas would put together a team based solely on five positions. Indeed, the best basketball players are like soccer midfielders: They can function anywhere on the court, they make their teams better, and they're not defined by position. But Muthu's positions weren't all that rigid. Tony Parker is an offensive ball-handler, which separates him from John Wall, considered a combo ball-handler, not based on anything stylistic but solely because of their statistics. Tyson Chandler, the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year, is a paint protector who specializes on one side of the floor. Kevin Love and Blake Griffin are actually scoring paint protectors. Some players are in a league of their own: Kevin Durant and LeBron James, for example, are NBA first-teamers. Derrick Rose and Dwight Howard are one-of-a-kinders whose statistical combinations make them NBA outliers.
But the insights from Muthu's similarity network were far more profound than what meets the eye. Muthu noticed that intrinsic talent alone was not the reason Carmelo Anthony, Dirk Nowitzki, and Chris Bosh clustered together. It was their statistical profiles that linked them as "scoring rebounders," one of the most valuable player types in all of basketball. Devin Ebanks wasn't considered so valuable. Ebanks is a forward in his second year with the Los Angeles Lakers who, on the afternoon of Muthu's talk in March, had scored exactly 32 points in 36 Lakers games. And yet Muthu insisted that the comparisons for Ebanks, another scoring rebounder based on his metrics, were not just not dismal. They actually made him one of the most promising prospects in the game.
The reaction to this curious insight was similar to the way hardened baseball scouts condescended to early sabermetricians. He's not undervalued. He's Devin Ebanks! Then something astonishing happened. A few weeks later, when Kobe Bryant missed time with an injury and Metta World Peace was out because of a suspension, they were replaced in the starting lineup by none other than Devin Ebanks. And in Ebanks' first start since December, the player Muthu's model compared to some of the game's all-stars scored 12 points in 32 minutes, both career highs. Ebanks started every regular-season and postseason game when Bryant or World Peace sat in street clothes, and he reached double figures on four occasions. The model wasn't suggesting that Ebanks was Dirk Nowitzki's equal, and even after his starting stint, it was impossible to know whether Ebanks could ever sustain his per-minute stats. But Muthu had gone out on a limb by proposing that Ebanks could play the role of "scoring rebounder" at a low price, providing more bang for a team's buck. For six weeks, at least, Ebanks proved him right.
Muthu had been unsure of his original findings, so he had explored the data on his own for about a week. Before long, in addition to briefing his bosses on what he had discovered, he contacted some basketball geeks out of the blue. He was encouraged when most of them replied. "That's when we realized we were onto something," he says.
One of the expert quants was Ken Pomeroy, the proprietor of KenPom.com, the leading site for college hoops analytics. Pomeroy was compelled to offer feedback, he says, because Muthu's was a fresh way of attacking a stale problem. Pomeroy also had thought about the way players were classified into positions, and he believes the next step for NBA front offices is figuring out how to measure "fit," or the way pieces of one team interact with each other. "There aren't many ways to get ahead anymore, but this is one of those things that could allow someone to get ahead," he said. "It's an interesting concept—a new way of thinking about things." Buoyed by that affirmation, Muthu applied, and was accepted, to speak at MIT's sports analytics conference.
McKinsey Global Institute, the research arm of the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, released a report last year about big data. The study concluded that big data, which is exactly what it sounds like, can unlock the secrets of every industry imaginable. It improves decision-making and increases efficiency. It is, McKinsey says, the "next frontier for innovation, competition and productivity."
The problem with big data, though, is figuring out how to make sense of it. Ayasdi was founded by Stanford academics in 2008, and its founders spent three and a half years developing Iris, the company's signature software, for that express purpose. What Iris does, basically, is turn complicated spreadsheets into intelligible visualizations, which then lead to breakthroughs. "Every data set analyzed by Iris has led to identification of previously undiscovered knowledge," the company boasts on its website. Ayasdi touts examples of Iris's success in understanding breast cancer mutations, diabetes types, and leukemia patients.
Gunnar Carlsson, Ayasdi's co-founder, is a Stanford mathematics professor from the university's Applied and Computational Algebraic Topology research group who has made a career from studying topology, the very kind of analysis that might allow Muthu to unlock secrets of the NBA. Carlsson's expertise means he also spends time explaining what topology is. "In general, topology is the part of mathematics that deals with representing data in space," he told me. "It's viewed as this esoteric thing, because it's trying to measure something a little bit more nebulous than just a number."
As the supply of data has swelled in the last two decades, Carlsson said, so has the demand for topology. The thing that distinguishes his field, and Ayasdi's software, is that it allows even brilliant mathematical minds, computer scientists, and biologists to essentially work in reverse. "We think of it as the 'Jeopardy!' model for data analysis," Carlsson said. "You don't want to have to ask a question. You want to look at your answer first, then ask the question."
Eight of the company's 14 employees boast Ph.D's in math, science, or engineering, and Muthu was the first undergraduate on Ayasdi's payroll. He found his internship through Stanford's Mayfield Fellows Program, which places a dozen aspiring entrepreneurs every year with Silicon Valley staples like Facebook, Google, and Twitter, and counts among its alumni Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the founders of Instagram. Muthu was hired on the sales side of the company but began plugging data into the software right away. "You get this network with a lot of answers embedded in it, and you can ask an infinite number of questions," he said. "But it's about asking the right question."
And sticking up for Devin Ebanks wasn't what Muthu set out to do. That is, how to find an undervalued player wasn't the question worth asking. Not really, anyway. The shape of the data actually answered a far more fascinating question: How could this knowledge help NBA teams win championships?
The categories that Muthu unveiled weren't basketball positions so much as they were assets. And in order to fully understand them, you had to visualize them. To do so, at the MIT conference, Muthu flashed slides of the topological networks of two different NBA teams last year. The first team was balanced: two scoring rebounders, two paint protectors, two role players and a variety of ball-handlers, spread out in a way that would seem aesthetically pleasing to someone who doesn't know a block from a charge. The second team was messier: too many ball-handlers and not even one scoring rebounder among the types scattered in the same places. More than anything, the second team just looked wrong, like a car with three wheels about to tip over. Muthu cycled through the networks once more for effect before he revealed those teams. The first was the Dallas Mavericks, which won last year's NBA championship. The second was the Minnesota Timberwolves, which won 17 games, the fewest in the NBA last year.
"The exciting thing is that within seconds we can do this for every team in the NBA last year," Muthu said. "And also for every team in NBA history."
Muthu wasn't finished yet. He promised Ayasdi's software could handle the biggest of big data—the stronger the matrix, the richer the model. Instead of plugging in basketball's seven basic statistics, a progressive NBA front office, perhaps the Oklahoma City Thunder's, might use player efficiency ratings or win shares and watch the data's shape evolve in real time. The software could function as a metric for coaches, specific lineups, or plus-minus matchups. In the same way Ayasdi researchers looked at cancer genomes, Muthu's method, when used properly, could take existing statistics and make NBA teams see themselves and their opponents unlike ever before. The software's untapped potential tantalized like a freakish vertical jump.
"The network shown is almost a proof of concept," Muthu said. "As the data gets better, the network gets smarter." In other words, Muthu was talking about a tool with the power to change the way sports teams are constructed. What's more, he was making it sound like a no-brainer.
About halfway through "Moneyball," Michael Lewis draws a line for the first time from the U.S. financial markets of the 1980s to the process of scouting baseball players in the 2000s. Actually, he writes, the strategy of exploiting undervalued assets was exactly what derivatives traders did three decades before Beane. Those people "were highly trained mathematicians and statisticians and scientists who had abandoned whatever they were doing at Harvard or Stanford or MIT to make a killing on Wall Street," Lewis wrote. "The fantastic sums of money hauled in by the sophisticated traders transformed the culture on Wall Street, and made quantitative analysis, as opposed to gut feel, the respectable way to go about making bets in the market." Those traders spawned the quants that made way for Beane, who in turn blazed a path in sports for his acolytes. And what happened next?
"The chief social consequence was to hammer into the minds of a generation of extremely ambitious people a new connection between 'inefficiency' and 'opportunity,'" Lewis wrote, "and to reinforce an older one, between 'brains' and 'money.'"
Muthu got his first taste of media attention after the conference, with coverage in The New York Times, Wired, and the seminal basketball blog TrueHoop. About a month later, his work was once again featured and debated in The Wall Street Journal, Slate, and Kottke. Some eggheads still scoffed at the name Devin Ebanks, as Muthu expected, since it was no secret that much of his research was still more theoretical than practical. But something Muthu said must have been insightful, if not downright inspiring. He had won an award!
I knew that Muthu did meet Morey eventually, considering Morey presented him with his prize, but what I really wanted to know when I spoke to Muthu after his trip to MIT was whether any NBA teams had approached him about working with Ayasdi. As it turned out, they had. By the beginning of May, Muthu said, the company had spoken with representatives from at least four NBA teams about possible partnerships, and one Major League Baseball team had expressed interest in applying topology tools to its troves of data. Muthu was planning to take the summer between graduation and medical-school orientation to work on other ways he could connect with professional sports teams.
So what was true in business three decades ago—the path from inefficiency to opportunity, and then from brains to money—is still pretty much true of sports today. There's just one truly delicious caveat. The riches for the best and brightest Wall Street traders back then amounted to more boatloads of money than they could dream of spending. That's not the case on this side of sports. Some private investors in Silicon Valley approached Ayasdi about making money off sports, but Muthu remains nonplussed. "The thing I'm most interested in is not gambling or predictions or fantasy," he told me, "but in-game strategy and GM-type decisions." It was the latest example of the brains in sports chasing another kind of fabulous wealth. The wins are their spoils.


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Consider a supervised learning problem where we have access to labeled training examples (x(i),y(i)). Neural networks give a way of defining a complex, non-linear form of hypotheses hW,b(x), with parameters W,b that we can fit to our data.
To describe neural networks, we will begin by describing the simplest possible neural network, one which comprises a single "neuron." We will use the following diagram to denote a single neuron:
This "neuron" is a computational unit that takes as input x1,x2,x3 (and a +1 intercept term), and outputs , where is called the activation function. In these notes, we will choose to be the sigmoid function:
Thus, our single neuron corresponds exactly to the input-output mapping defined by logistic regression.
Although these notes will use the sigmoid function, it is worth noting that another common choice for f is the hyperbolic tangent, or tanh, function:
Here are plots of the sigmoid and tanh functions:
The tanh(z) function is a rescaled version of the sigmoid, and its output range is [ − 1,1] instead of [0,1].
Note that unlike some other venues (including the OpenClassroom videos, and parts of CS229), we are not using the convention here of x0 = 1. Instead, the intercept term is handled separately by the parameter b.
Finally, one identity that'll be useful later: If f(z) = 1 / (1 + exp( − z)) is the sigmoid function, then its derivative is given by f'(z) = f(z)(1 − f(z)). (If f is the tanh function, then its derivative is given by f'(z) = 1 − (f(z))2.) You can derive this yourself using the definition of the sigmoid (or tanh) function.
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A neural network is put together by hooking together many of our simple "neurons," so that the output of a neuron can be the input of another. For example, here is a small neural network:
In this figure, we have used circles to also denote the inputs to the network. The circles labeled "+1" are called bias units, and correspond to the intercept term. The leftmost layer of the network is called the input layer, and the rightmost layer the output layer (which, in this example, has only one node). The middle layer of nodes is called the hidden layer, because its values are not observed in the training set. We also say that our example neural network has 3 input units (not counting the bias unit), 3 hidden units, and 1 output unit.
We will let nl denote the number of layers in our network; thus nl = 3 in our example. We label layer l as Ll, so layer L1 is the input layer, and layer the output layer. Our neural network has parameters (W,b) = (W(1),b(1),W(2),b(2)), where we write to denote the parameter (or weight) associated with the connection between unit j in layer l, and unit i in layer l + 1. (Note the order of the indices.) Also, is the bias associated with unit i in layer l + 1. Thus, in our example, we have , and . Note that bias units don't have inputs or connections going into them, since they always output the value +1. We also let sl denote the number of nodes in layer l (not counting the bias unit).
We will write to denote the activation (meaning output value) of unit i in layer l. For l = 1, we also use to denote the i-th input. Given a fixed setting of the parameters W,b, our neural network defines a hypothesis hW,b(x) that outputs a real number. Specifically, the computation that this neural network represents is given by:
In the sequel, we also let denote the total weighted sum of inputs to unit i in layer l, including the bias term (e.g., ), so that .
Note that this easily lends itself to a more compact notation. Specifically, if we extend the activation function to apply to vectors in an element-wise fashion (i.e., f([z1,z2,z3]) = [f(z1),f(z2),f(z3)]), then we can write the equations above more compactly as:
We call this step forward propagation. More generally, recalling that we also use a(1) = x to also denote the values from the input layer, then given layer l's activations a(l), we can compute layer l + 1's activations a(l + 1) as:
By organizing our parameters in matrices and using matrix-vector operations, we can take advantage of fast linear algebra routines to quickly perform calculations in our network.
We have so far focused on one example neural network, but one can also build neural networks with other architectures (meaning patterns of connectivity between neurons), including ones with multiple hidden layers. The most common choice is a -layered network where layer is the input layer, layer is the output layer, and each layer is densely connected to layer . In this setting, to compute the output of the network, we can successively compute all the activations in layer , then layer , and so on, up to layer , using the equations above that describe the forward propagation step. This is one example of a feedforward neural network, since the connectivity graph does not have any directed loops or cycles.
Neural networks can also have multiple output units. For example, here is a network with two hidden layers layers L2 and L3 and two output units in layer L4:
To train this network, we would need training examples (x(i),y(i)) where . This sort of network is useful if there're multiple outputs that you're interested in predicting. (For example, in a medical diagnosis application, the vector x might give the input features of a patient, and the different outputs yi's might indicate presence or absence of different diseases.)
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Hysterical, and truly cruel. And, do not feel bad for the guy who got laughed at by 25,000 people. He so richly deserved it:
That's just vicious. Hysterical, but vicious. These videos are not safe for work, by the way, in that you will laugh really loud and get fired. See the full prank war series here.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Two men were found guilty on Wednesday of plotting to murder and rob British Grammy Award winning singer Joss Stone because they were angered by her links to the British royal family.
Junior Bradshaw, 32, and Kevin Liverpool, 35, planned to behead the singer before throwing her body in a river near her rural home in southwest England, prosecutors said.
The pair had a deep hatred for Stone because she had performed at a charity event organized by Princes William and Harry and she attended the wedding of William and the Duchess of Cambridge, formerly Kate Middleton.
Prosecutors said handwritten notes found at the men's flat described Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Stone as "devils" and talked of "destroying the queen's system".
Liverpool was jailed for life with a minimum term of 10 years and eight months after being convicted of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to rob following a three-week trial at Exeter Crown Court, southwest England.
Bradshaw will be sentenced later, the Press Association reported. Both men had denied the charges.
"You intended to rob her and kill her and dump her body in the river, according to your words, and then leave the country with your accomplice Junior Bradshaw," Judge Francis Gilbert told Liverpool.
The prosecution alleged they planned to attack Stone at her home in Devon in June 2011. They were arrested nearby and police found a Samurai sword, three knives, two hammers, masks, gloves and a hosepipe in their car.
The prosecution claimed the pair had scouted Stone's home, although no direct forensic evidence was found to link the defendants to any of the weapons.
Reporting by Oxana Andrienko, editing by Paul Casciato


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Windows Media Player 7 (WMP7) is a mammoth upgrade to Microsoft's media player software, enough so that the company might have been better served coming up with a new name. For Windows users, WMP7 replaces both Windows Media Player 6.4 and the built-in CD player, but it also potentially replaces a slew of third party applications as well. This is because WMP7 is an "all-in-one' digital media solution, offering a wide range of features that will help you find, play, organize, and even create digital music and video on your PC. In this way, WMP7 has transcended its previous role as a media "player," entering the realm previously dominated by such players as Real Jukebox and MusicMatch Media Jukebox.
In my review of Windows Me, I panned WMP7 for its bloated size and slightly schizophrenic interface. I also chastised Microsoft for including this application in Windows without providing any way to not install it or uninstall it later. But for users of other OSes, Windows Media Player 7 is an option, and I've actually started using it as my primary media player. In other areas, however--notably audio encoding and portable device compatibility--Windows Media Player 7 falls short, so I can't yet recommend it as the one-stop solution for all your digital media needs. In this review, I will take a look at WMP7 and discuss the areas where it excels as well as those where it falls flat.
First of all, WMP7 is a big application. It takes up a whopping 18MB or more of RAM, far more than media players like Winamp. But I don't see this as an issue at all: On a modern Windows 2000 system with 128 MB or more of RAM, 18 MB is a drop in the bucket, and that's RAM that would just be sitting there unused anyway. My feeling is that anyone who worries about this kind of thing has some priorities mixed, as Windows 2000 is smart enough to funnel RAM where it's most useful. If you're hitting the threshold of available RAM on a regular basis, you've got more important issues to resolve than the media player you'd like to use.
But WMP7 is big in other ways: Many people will want to run the application full screen, even on 1024 x 768 systems, simply so that they can take in all of the information it presents. Other programs--such as Real Jukebox--have far less cluttered and "big" interfaces. How big is WMP7? To simply view the entire width of the display in the Web-based Media Guide, you will need an 800 x 600 display, minimum. And you're definitely going to want to expand the window vertically (Figure), so you may as well just get used to the full screen display.
Overall, the user interface is one of WMP7's biggest limitations. It's an odd mix of a curved fascia stuck inside a rectangular window that's been rendered in HTML. And the dialog boxes, especially for setting options, are hard to navigate and poorly organized. On the other hand, one must consider the competition, and WMP7 is no more difficult to use than Real Jukebox, especially when you're first learning how it works. But Real Jukebox presents a much more refined user interface than WMP7, there's just no contest.
The main screens in WMP7--Now Playing, Media Guide, and the like--are easy to reach, however, and fairly obvious. And WMP7 basically does it all, when it comes to digital media playback: It can handle CD audio, Windows Media audio and video, MP3 audio, AVI video, and a host of other formats. Notably absent from the list, however, are QuickTime 4.0+ and RealAudio/Video, which are popular on the Web.
Using the Media Guide
If you're online, WMP7 launches with the Media Guide screen by default (Figure). This is simply a Web page that's hosted on Microsoft's Windows Media Web site and it's analogous to the MSN Web site you see when you launch Internet Explorer. I'm not a big fan of these types of sites and Microsoft's is particularly bad. However, it is updated on a daily basis, so there is always new content. But this content isn't yet rich enough to be targeted at particular users, so you'll be bombarded with information about Brittney Spears and Dr. Dre whether you want it or not. Actually, that's not strictly true: You can tell Windows Media Player to not load the Media Guide by default, and I recommend this. The current version is just too weak to be of any interest.
Most alarmingly, there's no easy way to purchase music online using this service, though that was touted as a major feature when WMP7 was launched in July. I'm still trying to find EMI's supposedly extensive collection of singles for purchase. I'm sure it's out there somewhere, but the Media Guide isn't any help at all.
Conclusion: The Media Guide is a joke.
Playing CDs
The WMP7 CD player is straightforward and easy to use (Figure). Like other PC-based CD players, WMP7 will access an online CD database such as CDDB when you insert a music CD and correctly display artist, album and track information. And, like other CD players, WMP7 lets you add CD information when it isn't available from CDDB. Likewise, you can edit the information provided by CDDB, which will change your local copy, not the Internet version. Subsequent CD plays will access the local database instead of CDDB.
Conclusion: Playing CDs with WMP7 is no better or worse than other tools.
Burning CDs
WMP7 also lets you record, or "burn," your own CDs, using music that's stored on your system in WAV format, Windows Media (WMA) or MP3 format. WMP7 can create CD-quality recordings, but your results will vary based on the quality of the source. To create your own CD, however, you'll need to first create a playlist (see Organizing music and video with the Media Library, below), which is a bit of a limitation. Programs such as Adaptec CD Creator allow you to easily create music (and data) CDs by simply dragging and dropping the files you wish to include. In WMP7, however, this functionality is exposed only through the File menu and you are presented with a list of available playlists, so you need to think ahead (Figure).
Conclusion: Burning CDs with WMP7 is needlessly convoluted.
Encoding music from CDs
The process of copying a CD audio track to your local system is called encoding, and you need to specify the format that the file will take when it is encoded. Today, this is typically MP3 format, but WMP7 only encodes in its own Windows Media format (WMA), which is a major limitation. By default, WMP7 includes licensing information when you copy audio tracks to your PC, however, and I recommend turning this feature off so that you can more easily use that music on other PCs or with other devices. On that note, I recommend skipping out on WMP7 for encoding anyway, as it won't encode in MP3 format. There may come a day when the world uses WMA as a standard audio format, but that day is not yet upon us.
That said, WMP7 is a fine encoder if you're interested in WMA format. It can copy in digital mode if your system supports it (and it probably will), which is faster and offers higher quality (Figure). You can specify the bit rate of your encoded audio tracks as well, an interesting exercise in compromise: Lower bit rates make smaller files, but don't sound as good. I generally encode MP3 files at 160 Kbps for near CD quality, but I've heard that WMA format can achieve similar results at lower bit rates. You'll want to experiment with this, however, taking into account how these recordings will sound on portable music devices, if that's a possibility. In my personal experience, WMA format is slightly better sound at the same bit rate than MP3, but I still wouldn't mess with anything below 128 Kbps. Your results will vary.
Conclusion: Unless you're married to Microsoft's audio format, skip out on WMP7 for encoding. I recommend Real Jukebox for this purpose.
Organizing music and video with the Media Library
The WMP7 Media Library is, in my mind, the reason you'll want to use this program. Audio and video that are playing in WMP7 are automatically added to the Media Library, which organizes this content by artist, album, and genre (Figure). And you can drag and drop entire drives worth of music into WMP7 to automatically add your entire music collection to the library. If you need something more specific, you can create playlists, which can contain any songs (or videos) you'd like. So, for example, you might create playlists such as "80's synth bands," "British Invasion," or whatever.
The WMP7 Media Library really makes it easy to organize and play back digital audio. You might shuffle through your entire collection, through all the rock songs, or through all the songs by Def Leppard. Or you might decide to play songs from a certain album. While it's true that other media players off similar functionality, the Media Library is the best of the lot, and it's very easy to use. The only minor complaint is that you might not want every single media file you play to be added to the library, and there's no way to turn this off. I occasionally find myself manually deleting files from the library because they no longer exist in that location on my systems.
Conclusion: The Media Library is the reason you need to try WMP7
Finding music on the Internet
WMP7 offers a Radio Tuner feature that allows you to connect to radio stations from around the world, over the Internet or, if you have the appropriate hardware, using standard AM and FM signals. You can search for radio stations by format (Rock, oldies, etc.), band (AM, FM, Internet), language, location, callsign, frequency, or keyword. While it's unlikely that I'll ever use this feature on a regular basis, it works as advertised, and you can quickly begin listening to rock stations in Seattle or Classical music stations from New York (Figure).
The Radio Tuner feature requires you to be connected to the Internet, and it offers a Media Library-like playlist feature so that you can easily save your favorite stations for easy use later on.
If you're looking for a Napster-like tool for downloading music and saving it to your local hard drive, you've got two options: The Media Guide offers this sort of functionality, but it's limited to throw-away songs from groups that are trying to suck you into a retail purchase. Or you could simply use Napster or one of its clones to find Internet music download sites, though this is of questionable legality at this time.
Conclusion: The Internet Tuner works great if you're into that kind of thing and have a 24/7, cable modem connection.
Connecting to portable devices
WMP7 supports a number of portable devices, though it's currently (and irritatingly) limited to a range of Windows CE-based PocketPCs and Palm-sized PCs, dedicated portable audio devices, and CompactFlash drives (Figure). Given the wide range of MP3 players our there, it's sort of depressing that popular players such as the RIO 100/300 are not supported, though I expect this to happen over time.
Like the CD burning function, copying music to portable devices requires that you organize the songs you want to copy into playlists beforehand. Numerous applications allow you to drag and drop any songs into portable devices, however, making this a big limitation and irritation.
Conclusion: Unless your device is supported, you're going to be out of luck. And the lack of drag and drop audio copying makes this program less than elegant for the job. Stick with the tools that came with your device or look for freeware/shareware solutions, such as the excellent J. River Media Jukebox or Real Jukebox.
Customizing Windows Media Player
WMP7 can be customized or personalized in a number of ways, including a "skinning" function that changes the way the application looks and an interesting visualization feature that provides an undulating graphical display that moves in concert with the currently playing song. You can also choose to use and/or display a graphic equalizer, and other audio-video effects.
The WMP7 "skins" feature is an interesting preview of the next version of Windows, which will offer a similar way to change the look and feel of its user interface (Figure). WMP7 skins only work in a special "compact mode," so there's actually no way to change the default WMP7 window. But compact mode offers developers a number of interesting ways to change no only the user interface of WMP7, but its functionality as well. It requires a lot of work, however, and an understanding of XML to make it happen, so the casual Photoshop user need not apply. The skins that ship with WMP7 are uniformly horrible, but you can download a number of new skins from the Windows Media Player Web site (there's a link from within the program, which is nice), some of which offer a number of powerful new features. On the other hand, most of the skins on the Web site stink as well, and they're nowhere near as refined as the skins that are available for Winamp and other popular players. I hope to see this change over time as developers get more attuned to the WMP skin programming model.
The WMP7 visualizations are interesting: When you switch the player into the "Now Playing" screen, you can view a set of animated graphics that move to the beat of the music (Figure) (Certain skins also support this feature in Compact Mode). In addition to the wide range of visualizations that ship with the player, a number of new ones are downloadable from the Web.
Conclusion: WMP7 isn't as configurable as other players, but it's skinning and visualization features are Good Enough. Something this trivial isn't a reason to choose one player over another.
Windows Media Player 7 is a great digital media player, but it falls short as an all-in-one tool. Many of its features--the online Media Guide, the CD burner, the WMA-only media encoder, and its support for portable devices--are poorly executed or incomplete, and a decision to use WMP7 or skip it over may rest in one of these areas. But while I do turn to other tools for certain functionality, WMP7 excels at organizing and playing digital audio, and I'll keep it in my stable of digital media tools, however, simply because of its excellent Media Library.
I recommend Adaptec EZ CD Creator 4.x for audio CD creation and Real Jukebox for MP3 encoding, so my search for that elusive all-in-digital media tool is still ongoing. But perhaps a future revision of WMP will right these wrongs. Regardless, I suspect that Microsoft's solution for digital media is here to stay.


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The end is not in sight for Mount St. Joseph's dominance of the Catholic Academies golf scene, as the 10-time defending league champion Magic return a group of players that includes both the individual league champion and the PIAA District 1 champion from 2012.
Senior Alison Snakard, who won the AACA tourney last fall, is the team captain this season, while District titlist Isabella DiLisio is a junior who is already being recruited at the highest levels of collegiate golf.
Because of the way golf competition is structured in the PIAA, with a regional tournament scheduled in between the district and state playoffs (most sports go straight from Districts to States), teams must get down to business right away. The Mounties actually played their first match (and a league match, at that) on August 15, and as of last Thursday, the team was already 3-0 in Catholic Academies competition.
Gwynedd Mercy, probably the top challenger, fell to Mount St. Joe in the season opener, 203-240, then the Magic overcame Villa Maria, 220-247. Last Thursday, the Mount was able to complete a round against Sacred Heart before midday rains arrived, winning 215-323.
After sampling several Gaelic coaches, first a Scot and then an Irishman, the Magic found this year's new mentor much closer to home. Former Temple All-American Michael Brown is a Philadelphia-area native who lives in Blue Bell. He's the father of current Mount sophomore Claire Brown, who is a member of the golf team and is the youngest of three sisters to attend the Mount.
When the school began looking for a new coach for the team last winter, Michael Brown was asked for suggestions, and he suggested himself. He was already familiar with both the school and its golf program, and he knew that he'd be working with a talented and dedicated group of girls.
In addition to playing for Temple, earning All-American honors in 1983, Brown was also head coach of the Owls from 1985-89. More recently, he's been instructing young players in a Police Athletic League (PAL) golf outreach program called Kids on the Hill.
Snakard, the Mount team captain, is one of three senior veterans on the roster, along with Emma Feeney and Julia Shinkle. A year below them are DiLisio and another experienced junior, Maggie Schoeller.
Keeping Claire Brown company within the 10th-grade contingent are Mara Boston, Megan Bray, Joannie Gannon, and Laura Park. Brown noted that there are also six freshmen candidates who show potential, and he has been rotating them into the interscholastic matches.
Last Thursday at Flourtown Country Club (one of the Mount's home venues this year along with Whitemarsh Valley), DiLiso led the way against Sacred Heart by scoring an even-par 35, while Snakard secured a 40.
Schoeller came around in 46 strokes, and the team score was rounded out with a pair of 47's from Feeney and Shinkle.
As usual, each team designated eight official participants, and the top five scores were figured into the team tally. The other players for the Magic in this match were Boston, one of the sophomores, along with two ninth-graders, Caitlyn Bell and Caitlin Mahon.
Mount St. Joe figures to be one of the top teams in Southeastern Pa. this season, but at the outset the team that must be regarded as the favorite is Radnor High School, the defending state champion and the two-time winner of the District 1 title.


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Krysta Harden, deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), visited the University of Delaware College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) on Thursday, Nov. 21.
Harden met with University officials, distinguished alumni and students, took a tour of the UDairy Creamery and participated in a discussion with students on issues such as the need for Congress to pass a comprehensive food, farm and jobs bill to support a strong U.S. agricultural sector.
Harden, who was raised in Camilla, Ga., and comes from generations of southwest Georgia farmers, said it is important for students to get hands-on experiences and step outside of their comfort zones in order to become well-rounded individuals.
"There's nothing like testing yourself," said Harden. "Learning, dealing with challenges yourself is so different from the classroom. It's good to have that foundation that you really don't know how you're going to react until it's you making the decisions. So I think it's very important to make sure you have good practical experience."
Harden said she was impressed with CANR, saying, "It is a wonderful campus. I just felt right at home immediately. Folks are very welcoming and encouraging. There's a great energy here, a good dynamic with the students. Everybody is smiling — maybe it's the ice cream, I don't know, but people are in a good mood here. It's great."
She was also impressed with the UDairy Creamery and the creamery's ice cream truck, the Moo Mobile, which came to UD's campus through a partnership with CANR and the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics. "I love the Moo Mobile," Harden said. "I think that was a great idea, and I love the marketing. I love how it ties the business school and (CANR). It's a great opportunity."
Harden said these types of interdisciplinary collaborations are important to universities, especially to students studying agriculture.
"That's one thing about agriculture and all aspects of the food chain, from production through marketing of products, you have to know about business," Harden said. "Having the two disciplines together at these early stages is great."
She added that it is beneficial to have students learning about management and marketing issues, as well as financial planning and budgeting.
Of the flavors she tried at the UDairy Creamery, Harden singled out the sweet potato pie, saying she had never had that flavor before.
Before leaving, Harden said that she had a great time visiting UD and the CANR campus. "It was wonderful to be here. I'm very excited about the future of all the students I've met. I think you have something good going on here. I really do."
Article by Adam Thomas
Photos by Danielle Quigley
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Q: We have just had our new contemporary bedroom suite delivered and I feel like we made a mistake. Our previous suite was traditional and I was looking forward to a new modern look, but so far our bedroom seems a little "anemic" and is sadly lacking ambience. I've tried changing the linens to add more pizzazz, but the space still feels underwhelming. Any suggestions?
A: I am curious as to why you decided on the selection of the contemporary design over a new traditional suite. I understand that you were ready for a change, and clearly you chose a big one. I suspect that you had a vision in mind when you selected this contemporary design. Think back to when you were excited to make this change. Did you visit a location that presented contemporary furnishings or was it a photograph in a magazine that initiated the idea?
If you can revisit - even if it is in your mind - the space that inspired this choice, you may be clearer on what is missing from your room. Successfully changing a space entails much more than interchanging parts. The whole room must be considered, and the details are just as important as the main pieces.
Make a list of the things you liked about your previous bedroom and what things you wanted to change. This may help identify what's missing. You used the word ambience, which leads me to believe it is important that this room offers you a specific vibe. For instance, did the old design provide a "cocoon" feeling, whereas the simplicity of the new design is free-flowing?
There are ways to transition differing design styles. Wall colour and fabrics will certainly help you re-establish a sense of comfort while experiencing a fresh, new environment.
Avoid the Band-aid approach of changing bits and pieces. Hiring a designer to get your project more focused would definitely be worth considering. In the meantime, look through design magazines to help visualize your space. I suggest you look at a magazine called Elle Decor, available at most magazine stands. The publication tends to offer transitional decor - modern and traditional - in an eclectic manner. Use the photographs to inspire your design. Study all the elements that they showcase, in particular, pay close attention to wall, floor and ceiling colour; baseboard and door mouldings; window sizes and drapery treatments; size, number and placement of wall art; notice the primary, secondary and tertiary colours used in the space.
Now look at how to apply what you have noticed to your room. Your bedroom suite is an important element, but it is only one element. Take all the elements mentioned above and make a plan before you start costly purchases. Make a project file for this space by placing a photo of the room as it exists beside a picture from a magazine that inspires you. Take this with you when you are shopping. The bedding you selected may be fine once taken into consideration with other items, but it must be part of the plan. Plan, and execute to the plan.


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NWSB Managing Editor Q weighs in with his Washington State Cougars vs. Arizona Wildcats Thursday CBB basketball Preview and a free prediction to boot. College basketball odds favor the Bulldogs by 15.5. The total is set at 141. The Gonzaga Bulldogs are 2-2 while on the road this season, 6-1 against conference opponents. Look for the bigs Robert Sacre and Sam Dower to dominate Thursday night.
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Last week, Transparency International published its 2013 Corruption Barometer, which reports the findings of a survey of 114,000 people in 107 countries on their interactions with corruption, the institutions and sectors they see as most corrupt, and their perceptions on whether they have a role in combating corruption. The report captures a number of trends, including the view that corruption is worsening across many sectors; it also calls for governments to strengthen their accountability platforms and enhance standards for procurement and public financial management.
This year's survey found that 27% of people report having paid a bribe in the past year, nearly the same percentage as in the 2010/2011 report (26%). This indicates that more than a quarter of people surveyed have been touched by bribery.
There was a follow-up question: If the respondent did pay a bribe, what was the reason? The answer given most often, with 40% of responses, was "to speed things up." This high rate of bribes for speed of service, to me, suggests a troubling complicity: The person paying the bribe may feel entitled to more rapid service at the expense of others.
While many of the trends captured by the report can be confirmed by evidence gathered in some of our World Bank investigations, we also tend to see corruption often occurring in more subtle interactions, and focusing on bribery alone would miss much of the story. So I was glad to see that the report balances its analysis with more elusive means of purveying influence.
For instance, the survey asks about the importance of personal contacts or relationships in peoples' dealings with the public sector. 65% of people surveyed answered that personal contacts and/or relationships are either "important" or "very important." This is an alarmingly high figure, since necessary governance and civic tasks such as filing taxes, registering a business, and obtaining a license for a vehicle are most efficient when they are standard and impersonal.
It is easy to think of corruption as someone else's problem; something involving people in distant places where "that's just how business is done." This view is common, but it is wrong. Generally, individuals — not countries or companies — are corrupt, and bribe payers can be found everywhere. Of the 503 entities currently debarred by the World Bank, 262 are based in industrialized economies. The bottom line is, corruption can happen anywhere, so what can we do to reduce corruption risks?
Enforcement is important. Corruption steals from the poor, so any response to corruption must also consider the people who bear its cost. 1.2 billion people live in extreme poverty today. Every dollar lost to bribery and poor governance denies them the benefits of shared prosperity. It forces them to make unjust choices, such as whether to pay for a meal, or for a kickback to obtain medical care for a sick child. But enforcement is not enough.
The World Bank estimates that up to $1 trillion is paid in bribes every year. The Africa Progress Panel, chaired by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, estimated that the Democratic Republic of Congo lost $1.35 billion — twice its health and education budgets — in just five natural resource sales that used undervalued prices. Were those funds preserved, and used properly, the benefits to the world's poorest would be profound.
In fiscal 2012 the World Bank lent $4.19 billion to help countries improve public sector performance and accountability. We helped the Malawi government remove 5,000 ghost workers from the payroll, saving enough money to hire 10% more elementary school teachers. We also helped train journalists from 22 Sudanese media outlets in government budgeting, enabling them to "follow the money" and enhance accountability. Collective action blending enforcement, advocacy with strengthened governance, and accountability works.
The outcome of collective action has so far reflected well on the global radar: some national authorities are enforcing anti-corruption laws in previously unthinkable ways. In the mid-1990s, bribes were still tax-deductible in many wealthy countries. By 2012, the OECD Working Group on Bribery tallied 709 enforcement cases, 286 ongoing investigations, and 300 sanctions — including 66 people sent to prison — by OECD member countries since 1997. And certain governments are adopting new tools to uncover misconduct, such as whistleblower protection and monetary reward programs.
Yet the most important, and most powerful, ally against corruption is best represented by the commitment of individuals to say no to corruption. We are all connected to, and bear responsibility for, the places where we work and those that make the things we buy. We already tell them to be green — let's also tell them to be clean. Firms are turning toward ethical business practices, as they learn that wrongdoing of the corrupt few can create countless problems for the honest many. We, their employees and customers, can encourage this movement. We, through our government and our wallets, can help keep them honest.
By working ethically, buying ethically, and supporting national and international anti-corruption efforts, we can make considerable progress in defense of the world's poorest. Together, let's build our collective action and say "No to Corruption."
If you say no to bribery and
If you say no to bribery and unethical practices - you are doomed!!
...The Truth of this article
...The Truth of this article summed up in this sentence:"...wrongdoing of the corrupt few can create countless problems for the honest many. "
The reason of bribery is to
The reason of bribery is to be entitled to more rapid service in 40% according to your records. However you should think over the quality of the services required. Many times the speed leads to a better qualified officials what means you may save time and a lot of money for your business by paying bribery. Think over the costs of a jurisdiction procedure. The lack of expertise, misleading information from govermental officials may be the reason why some businessmen decide to pay for a better service. You must know that I am not the supporter of the bribery. I just try to be realistic.
"The committment of
"The committment of individuals to say no to corruption" is the important sentence in this article. We are collectively not doing enough to consider this point of the ethical dilemma when an individual realises that there are two choices, and he/she can opt for or against corruption. The only work i know on this is by Integrity Action with cartoon stories to illustrate the decîsion point. The background to their work is that once someone has been faced with the the decision point and its implications, they will not slip so easily into the "everyone else is doing it" response.
A good article. Corruption
A good article. Corruption can be almost invisible or - in the case of some organizations I have seen - quite blatant. Human nature is such that power (usually but not always linked to money) is irresistible to many. We have to do the best we can but bear in mind the myth of Sisyphus pushing his stone endlessly up the hill!
Greed is a simple word yet
Greed is a simple word yet powerful.
it runs in every raise, it runs in every country and continent
from wide and beautiful Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americans
Its agley its dark; I can name well known figures but they will call me mad, a black wowman saved from a tree.
In governments they are; and hold powerful jobs they don't qualify and tax pays money they spend without a blink.
It comes with pride and power.
And the most powerful are its allies.
Its carried on by the vain and have time on their hands and that want to destroy the very essence of what's human, honest and good because of their pride. They think they own the world and try their very best to prove it true.
The greedy one may have no founded reason to destroy but just a show of how he can and fills his evil vengeful self with a pat on his back.
He weaves a web of lies but you can not prove it. Its your word against him who has a web of those who support him. Stupid as he may he surrounds himself with cockroaches of his kind to punish the hard worker that may show his weakness' even though not known to the innocent abused worker who tolls day and night for the little pay to keep his family afloat;
Alas for you one day you fall and if you don't a deadly death through the almighty who watches over the weak and mild, and innocent.
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This was an all out brawl!
NCAA meets MMA
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That was one of the most disturbing things I've seen in sports in a while - completely despicable, especially since this sort of thing happens with regularity in these Chinese games (3 brawls in the last 6 years). Also consider that the Chinese players, who started all of the fights and didn't restrain themselves one bit, where grown men, army solders beating on amateur college students. The Chinese fans are just as bad as the players for reacting the way they did, scumbags - every last one of them. I hope no country agrees to another exhibition game with these morally-bankrupt ingrates for an extremely long time and the Olympic comity should ban them from participation.


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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
A darling french dresser
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Gorgeous, as always!! You are amazing.ReplyDelete
Nice! I love the color and think the paint brings out the dresser's details! Awesome work, as always!ReplyDelete
Absolutely stunning!ReplyDelete
Love the color and contrasting hardware!ReplyDelete
Those 19702's french dressers are everywhere, but yours is unique in the detail on the drawers. You don't see that as often.ReplyDelete
I love your color choice - a lot. You did a beautiful job.
So beautiful. That is a great color for that dresser. Well done as always.ReplyDelete
That turned out very, very pretty Natalie.ReplyDelete
I honestly think I have a problem...forgetting before photos! Not sure if it's pure laziness or paint fumes getting to me but I just want to kick myself every time!
Hope your feeling well:)
I LOVE that moment when you start painting and all of a sudden you see those beautiful lines and details coming out (I'm getting excited right now as I type about it)! This is awesome as always!ReplyDelete
Wow beautiful job. I love all the detail on the dresser.ReplyDelete
You are not the only one guilty of forgetting before photos. I almost always do it. I think it is because I get so excited to see the transformation that I just dive in!ReplyDelete
oh well, maybe next time!
You did a great job on the dresser! It is stunning.
So pretty!ReplyDelete
I swoon for this piece. I live in the phoenix area and might just have to get our dresser refinished in that color. You make furniture look so beautiful.ReplyDelete
Sharp,I love the grey and white and all the details!ReplyDelete
Really gorgeous! So striking with the white hardware. Your work is always so beautiful.ReplyDelete
Very darling, I love it.ReplyDelete
Can you tell us the paint color you used for this piece?ReplyDelete


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