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The filtering step has been moved to before the plotting step, so you can actually see the effects of your filter in real time prior to recording.
I also changed the plotting routine to highlight samples that are above threshold in green. Here's a new screenshot:
I also learned that the ability to skip silence using the custom thresholds is actually called "SkipSilence" in other audio apps. Although Worf is still unique in that you can draw your own threshold over the audio spectrum to specify exactly how you want things to be skipped. Other apps seem to call it a "beta" function and apply their own fixed default level.
UPDATE: I decided to throw in a notification message while recording in case people accidentally leave the recording thread running in the background. I also capped the maximum length of a single record file to 2 hours (about 110 MB) so people don't accidentally fill up their storage by leaving it running for days on end. I had to roll the revision to 1.2 for these things.


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How to draw a circle.
How to draw an owl. Step 1. Draw some circles. Step 2. Draw the rest of the #%@** owl.
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Owl from Car Design Fetish
Thanks, Matt Connery!
Thank you. Next week I'll be teaching 6 to 12-year olds how to draw comics. This topic is a significant help.
I never realized it was that simple to draw an owl.
My favourite one is this: http://chuckramos.tumblr.com/post/1515932408/via-barrichello
That's hilarious!
Obviously those who can, draw, while those who can't get made fun of. :)


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For Best Animated Feature, the nominees hail from the more traditional segment of the industry (CGI productions from the US), rather than stylized international films. Also, this year had three well-made stop-motion movies in contention, with only one, "Frankenweenie," making the short list.
As for Best Picture in the Drama category, the invisible effects-heavy movie "Life of Pi" is sharing the nomination with the political dramas "Lincoln" and "Argo," as well as the period western "Django Unchained" and another real-life re-creation of another US crisis situation abroad, "Zero Dark Thirty," depicting Navy SEAL Team 6's hunt for Osama bin Laden.
Here are the rest of the nominees:
Best Picture, Drama
"Django Unchained"
"Life of Pi"
"Zero Dark Thirty"
Best Picture, Musical or Comedy
"The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"
"Les Misérables"
"Moonrise Kindgom"
"Salmon Fishing in the Yemen"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
Best Director
Ben Affleck, "Argo"
Kathryn Bigelow, "Zero Dark Thirty"
Ang Lee, "Life of Pi"
Steven Spielberg, "Lincoln"
Quentin Tarantino, "Django Unchained"
Best Actress, Drama:
Jessica Chastain, "Zero Dark Thirty"
Marion Cotillard, "Rust and Bone"
Helen Mirren, "Hitchcock"
Naomi Watts, "The Impossible"
Rachel Weisz, "The Deep Blue Sea"
Best Actor, Drama
Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln"
Richard Gere, "Arbitrage"
John Hawkes, "The Sessions"
Joaquin Phoenix, "The Master"
Denzel Washington, "Flight"
Best Actor, Musical or Comedy
Jack Black, "Bernie"
Bradley Cooper, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Hugh Jackman, "Les Misérables "
Ewan MCGregor, "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen"
Bill Murray, "Hyde Park on Hudson"
Best Actress, Musical or Comedy
Emily Blunt, "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen"
Judi Dench, "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"
Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Maggie Smith, "Quartet"
Meryl Streep, "Hope Springs"
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, "The Master"
Sally Field, "Lincoln"
Anne Hathaway, "Les Misérables"
Helen Hunt, "The Sessions"
Nicole Kidman, "The Paperboy"
Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin, "Argo"
Leonardo DiCaprio, "Django Unchained"
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "The Master"
Tommy Lee Jones, "Lincoln"
Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained"
Best Screenplay
Mark Boal, "Zero Dark Thirty"
Tony Kushner, "Lincoln"
David O. Russell, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Quentin Tarantino, "Django Unchained"
Chris Terrio, "Argo"
Best Original Score
Dario Marianelli, "Anna Karenina"
Alexandre Desplat, "Argo"
Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimet & Reinhold Heil, "Cloud Atlas"
Michael Danna, "Life of Pi"
John Williams, "Lincoln"
Best Original Song:
"For You" from "Act of Valor"
"Not Running Anymore" from "Stand Up Guys"
"Safe and Sound" from "The Hunger Games"
"Suddenly" from "Les Misérables"
"Skyfall" from "Skyfall"
Best Foreign Language Film
"A Royal Affair"
"The Intouchables"
"Rust and Bone"
Best Animated Feature
"Rise of the Guardians"
"Hotel Transylvania"
"Wreck-It Ralph"
Cecil B. DeMille Award
Jodie Foster
Best Television Comedy or Musical:
"The Big Bang Theory"
"Modern Family"
Best Television Drama
"Breaking Bad"
"Boardwalk Empire"
"Downton Abbey"
"The Newsroom"
Best Miniseries or Television Movie
"Game Change"
"The Girl"
"Hatfields & McCoys"
"The Hour"
"Political Animals"
Best Actress, Television Drama
Connie Britton, "Nashville"
Glenn Close, "Damages"
Claire Danes, "Homeland"
Michelle Dockery, "Downton Abbey"
Julianna Margulies, "The Good Wife"
Best Actor, Television Drama
Steve Buscemi, "Boardwalk Empire"
Bryan Cranston, "Breaking Bad"
Jeff Daniels, "The Newsroom"
Jon Hamm, "Mad Men"
Damian Lewis, "Homeland"
Best Actress, Television Comedy Or Musical
Zooey Deschanel, "New Girl"
Lena Dunham, "Girls"
Tina Fey, "30 Rock"
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "Veep"
Amy Poehler, "Parks And Recreation"
Best Actor, Television Comedy Or Musical
Alec Baldwin, "30 Rock"
Don Cheadle, "House of Lies"
Louis C.K., "Louie"
Matt LeBlanc, "Episodes"
Jim Parsons, "The Big Bang Theory"
Best Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Nicole Kidman, "Hemingway and Gellhorn"
Jessica Lange, "American Horror Story: Asylum"
Sienna Miller, "The Girl"
Julianne Moore, "Game Change"
Sigourney Weaver, "Political Animals"
Best Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Kevin Costner, "Hatfields and McCoys"
Benedict Cumberbatch, "Sherlock"
Woody Harrelson, "Game Change"
Toby Jones, "The Girl"
Clive Owen, "Hemingway and Gellhorn"
Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Hayden Panettiere, "Nashville"
Archie Panjabi, "The Good Wife"
Sarah Paulson, "Game Change"
Maggie Smith, "Downton Abbey"
Sofia Vergara, "Modern Family"
Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Max Greenfield, "New Girl"
Ed Harris, "Game Change"
Danny Huston, "Magic City"
Mandy Patinkin, "Homeland"
Eric Stonestreet, "Modern Family"
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Scientists at the University of Manchester in England have, for the first time, monitored the brain as it slips into unconsciousness. Through new imaging methods they have been watching as the human brain "talks" to itself in an ongoing study. It is hoped that this work will help in understanding stroke victims and others suffering from head injuries.
Earlier this year, scientists were able to question a man thought to be in a vegetative state, using a new technique created by researchers in Cambridge and Belgium.
If scientists could help me understand why I lost half my vocabulary during childbirth, I would greatly appreciate it.


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(Wired) -- It appears that technology giant Samsung is handing out free Galaxy S smartphones to iPhone 4 owners frustrated by reception problems. An account on Twitter called @samsungukmobile is contacting people who've tweeted about their difficulties with the handset, asking them to submit their contact details to receive a free handset.
One of those offered a handset was Tiffany Nieuwland, who told Wired: "My iPhone and I have been inseparable for almost a month now, tomorrow being one month since the iPhone OS 4 launched. But the honeymoon period ended this week as repeated dropped calls, and a sudden unexplainable inability to make or receive calls or send texts left me disgruntled.
"So I did what anyone else would do: I vented my frustration on Twitter. Imagine my surprise, then, when this morning I am tweeted by Samsung offering me a free Galaxy S, their latest phone. Too good to be true? I decided to investigate.
"I called a friend at Samsung, and though she was initially sceptical, it has now been confirmed: the campaign is legit. Samsung is so confident about the superiority of the Galaxy S that they're sending free ones to existing iPhone customers so they can decide for themselves."
It's an interesting and unconventional approach to marketing the device, which is powered by Android 2.1 and features a whopping great big 4.0-inch AMOLED display. It's entirely possible that Samsung has taken a gamble that getting a few of the devices out in the wild, so that people can see and play with them, will be worth the initial outlay in terms of the effect they'll have on sales.
Tiffany added: "I've been waiting for an excuse to try out an Android for months, but it is yet to be seen if I can be persuaded to stray." Would you convert to Android if the phone was offered up free? Tell us in the comments.
Update: We've got official word from Samsung that this is legitimate. A spokesperson for the company told us: "Recently there has been a real increase in online activity from consumers dissatisfied with some of our competitors' products. We decided to contact a cross section of individuals to offer them a free Samsung Galaxy S as a replacement, as we're confident that once people have the phone in their hands, they'll see how impressive it is for themselves."
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US intelligence chief sorry for 'erroneous' answer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper apologized for telling Congress earlier this year that the National Security Agency does not collect data on millions of Americans, a response he now says was "clearly erroneous."
Clapper apologized in a letter to Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein. His agency posted the letter Tuesday on its website.
Leaks by former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden have revealed the NSA's sweeping data collection of U.S. phone records and some Internet traffic every day, though U.S. intelligence officials have said the programs are aimed at targeting foreigners and terrorist suspects mostly overseas.
Clapper was asked during a hearing in March by Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, if the NSA gathered "any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans."
At first, Clapper answered definitively: "No."
Pressed by Wyden, Clapper changed his answer. "Not wittingly," he said. "There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly."
Last month, in an interview with NBC News after revelations about the program, Clapper said: "I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful, manner" — because the program was classified.
In his letter to Feinstein, Clapper wrote that he was thinking about whether the NSA gathered the content of emails, rather than the metadata of the phone records — the record of calls to and from U.S. citizens and the length of those phone calls.
"I realized later Sen. Wyden was asking about ... metadata collection, rather than content collection," Clapper wrote. "Thus, my response was clearly erroneous, for which I apologize."
Feinstein said in a statement Tuesday: "I have received Director Clapper's letter and believe it speaks for itself. I have no further comment at this time."
Wyden spokesman Tom Caiazza said Tuesday that when Wyden staffers contacted Clapper's office shortly after the hearing, his staffers "acknowledged that the statement was inaccurate but refused to correct the public record when given the opportunity."
"Sen. Wyden is deeply troubled by a number of misleading statements senior officials have made about domestic surveillance in the past several years. He will continue pushing for an open and honest debate," Caiazza said.
In the letter, Clapper said he could now publicly correct the record, because the existence of the metadata collection program has been declassified since the deluge of leaks from Snowden. A copy of the letter posted on the DNI website was stamped June 21 but made public on Tuesday.
Snowden is believed to be in a Moscow airport transit area, seeking asylum from one of more than a dozen countries.
Since the revelations, the Obama administration has said the leaks have caused damage to national security, including tipping off al-Qaida and other terrorist groups to specific types of U.S. electronic surveillance.
But under pressure from lawmakers and privacy activists, the administration took the extraordinary step of declassifying many of the details surrounding the surveillance programs and how they work, to explain to Americans that NSA is not spying directly on them, which would violate its charter.


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You can even enter URLs that include parameters and leave out the parameters. Here's a way to search the Google Maps help center: [site:support.google.com/maps/bin/answer.py inurl:"hl=en" 3d]. I've used the inurl: operator to restrict the results to English pages, but it's not necessary to do that.
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Ancient Stonehenge gets modern-day revamp
STONEHENGE, United Kingdom - The Associated Press
The renovation includes a new building 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) from the stones where the 1 million a year visitors can watch an exhibition about Neolithic life. AP photoAfter thousands of years, Stonehenge has had a makeover. But visitors may initially feel something is missing: the prehistoric monument itself. Tourists now arrive at a gleaming new timber-and-glass visitor center some 2.4 kilometers from Stonehenge. The famous stone circle tucked into the rolling green landscape is nowhere to be seen.
It's a teasing introduction to the site, where new facilities and landscaping are designed to "restore the dignity" of Stonehenge, and transform the way more than 1 million visitors a year see it.
Simon Thurley, who heads governing body English Heritage, said visitors will now be able to see the stones "free from the clutter and rubbish" that have been built up around them.
Journalists and English Heritage members have been given a preview of the new center, which houses a 360-degree Cinerama-style "virtual tour" of the monument, along with an extensive exhibition about the Neolithic Britons who built Stonehenge starting 5,000 years ago.
When the building opened to the public last week, workers dismantled the old ticket office and other nondescript buildings clustered beside the monument. A busy road that ferried thousands of cars a day past the stones is being closed and grassed over.
The idea is to return Stonehenge, 130 kilometers southwest of London, to its rural landscape. Visitors will be bussed to the stones on a special shuttle. Or they can walk, exploring paths and an ancient processional approach route that for years has been cut in half by asphalt.
Even the new visitor building - two single-story blocks, one of glass and one of timber, under an undulating roof – is designed to fit unobtrusively into the landscape.
"If people don't remember it when they go home, but they remember the monument, that won't be a bad thing," said architect Stephen Quinlan.
Inside, the exhibition seeks to show the monument's prehistoric creators to be sophisticated people, who raised pigs and hunted, gathered from far and wide for feasts and built this remarkable, mysterious monument.
The face of one 5,000-year-old local resident has been reconstructed from his skull by Oscar Nilsson, a forensic sculptor. He had good teeth and handsome features, in a shaggy, prehistoric kind of way.
"The women here at English Heritage are very fond of him," Nilsson said.
All this comes at a price. The 27 million pound ($44 million) renovation was funded partly through donations and partly through a levy on profits of Britain's national lottery.
The admission charge has almost doubled, from 8 pounds ($13) to 14.90 pounds ($24) for an adult. There is the requisite modern cafeteria and a large gift shop, where visitors can buy Stonehenge jam, chocolate, baseball caps, mouse pads and fridge magnets, as well as "Stonehenge Rocks" T-shirts.
The commercialism is isolated from the monument, which retains its eternal mystery.
Still a mystery
Stonehenge was built in three phases between 3000 B.C. and 1600 B.C. Archaeologists agree it was a temple but to what gods, and exactly how it was used, remains unclear.
Recent research suggests the site may have started as a giant burial ground for elite families.
Archaeologists have found the remains of dozens of cremated bodies from about 3000 B.C. whose location was marked by bluestones.
Stones for the second Stonehenge, much of which still stands, were brought from up to 280 kilometers away. Construction continued for centuries, and the site may have been a place for Druid worship, a giant astronomical calendar or a place of healing.
Evidence suggests large crowds gathered at Stonehenge for the summer and winter solstices, a tradition that continues today. Thousands of self-styled Druids, pagans and New Age revelers gathered for the winter solstice on Dec. 21, the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere.
Senior curator Sara Lunt said there were still major discoveries to be made more than half the site remains unexcavated. But the original purpose of Stonehenge may remain a mystery.
"We know there was a big idea" behind Stonehenge," she said.


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Have we ever had a high level national security official who made as many foolish comments as John Brennan, President Obama's chief counter-terrorism adviser? I can't recall one.
Scott compiled an impressive assortment of Brennanisms here. I particularly like Brennan's statement, in response to a question about what the downside might have been be to treating Umar Abdulmutallab as an enemy combatant, that "there are no downsides or upsides in particular cases." It's comforting to know that Obama is receiving such thoughtful advice on national security matters.
Brennan's latest words of wisdom pertain to the issue of recidivism among former terrorist detainees. The Pentagon's most recent study on the subject concluded that approximately 20 percent of Gitmo detainees have either been confirmed as, or are suspected of, returning to terrorism. Speaking at the Islamic Center at New York University on Saturday, Brennan reportedly downplayed the 20 percent figure, stating:
You know, the American penal system, the recidivism rate is up to something about 50 percent or so, as far as return to crime. Twenty percent isn't that bad,
Brennan may be agnostic on how to deal with potential "ticking time-bomb" scenarios. But at least he's clear that there's no real problem with the large-scale release of terrorists where we can expect one in five of them to engage in future terrorism
As Tom Joscelyn points out, however, terrorism is not an ordinary crime. Thus, it's ridiculous to compare terrorist recidivist rates to recidivist rates for ordinary criminals. For example, "a serial thief is not nearly as threatening as a former Gitmo detainee who blows himself up in Iraq, killing 13 Iraqis and wounding dozens more." (Joscelyn also notes that the recidivism rate for terrorists has been rising dramatically as we track their behavior over time, and is likely to continue to rise).
Moreover, ordinary criminals have fixed sentences. They can only be held for so long regardless of how likely we think they are to return to a life of crime. By contrast, most of the terrorists we've released coud have been held instead; they were not released because a fixed sentence had come to, or was approaching, an end or because a court ordered that they be freed.
It's clear that the left, including the Obama administration, considers terrorism to be closely analogous to, if not nearly indistinguishable from, ordinary criminal activity. The surprising thing is that its chief counter-terrorism guy makes no real effort to conceal this belief.
Obama should relieve Brennan of his counter-terrorism duties so that he can devote more time to visiting Islamic centers.


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Second grade students in Mrs. Shockley-Lynch's
class at Snow Hill Elementary School (SHES) recently took part in a
presentation by Bonnie Bloxom, a nurse at Atlantic General Hospital. Bloxom
visited the class to provide a lesson about germs. Her presentation included
sharing daily healthy habits including proper hand washing techniques. Bloxom
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Lifting is a concept which allows you to transform a function into a corresponding function within another (usually more general) setting.
Lifting in general
We usually start with a (covariant) functor, for simplicity we will consider the Pair functor first. Haskell doesn't allow a
type Pair a = (a, a) to be a functor instance, so we define our own Pair type instead.
data Pair a = Pair a a deriving Show
instance Functor Pair where
fmap f (Pair x y) = Pair (f x) (f y)
If you look at the type of
fmap (
Functor f => (a -> b) -> (f a -> f b)), you will notice that
fmap already is a lifting operation: It transforms a function between simple types
a and
b into a function between pairs of these types.
lift :: (a -> b) -> Pair a -> Pair b
lift = fmap
plus2 :: Pair Int -> Pair Int
plus2 = lift (+2)
-- plus2 (Pair 2 3) ---> Pair 4 5
Note, however, that not all functions between
Pair a and
Pair b can constructed as a lifted function (e.g.
\(x, _) -> (x, 0) can't).
A functor can only lift functions of exactly one variable, but we want to lift other functions, too:
lift0 :: a -> Pair a
lift0 x = Pair x x
lift2 :: (a -> b -> r) -> (Pair a -> Pair b -> Pair r)
lift2 f (Pair x1 x2) (Pair y1 y2) = Pair (f x1 y1) (f x2 y2)
plus :: Pair Int -> Pair Int -> Pair Int
plus = lift2 (+)
-- plus (Pair 1 2) (Pair 3 4) ---> Pair 4 6
In a similar way, we can define lifting operations for all containers that have "a fixed size", for example for the functions from
Double to any value
((->) Double), which might be thought of as values that are varying over time (given as
Double). The function
\t -> if t < 2.0 then 0 else 2 would then represent a value which switches at time 2.0 from 0 to 2. Using lifting, such functions can be manipulated in a very high-level way. In fact, this kind of lifting operation is already defined.
Control.Monad.Reader (see MonadReader) provides a
MonadFix and
MonadReader instance for the type
(->) r. The
liftM (see below) functions of this monad are precisely the lifting operations we are searching for.
If the size of the containers isn't fixed, it's not always clear how to make lifting operations for them. The
[] - type could be lifted using the
zipWith-family of functions or using
liftM from the list monad, for example.
Applicative lifting
This should only provide a definition of what lifting means (in the usual cases, not in the arrow case). It's not a suggestion for an implementation. I start with the (simplest?) basic operations
zipL, which combines to containers into a single one and
zeroL, which gives a standard container for ().
class Functor f => Liftable f where
zipL :: f a -> f b -> f (a, b)
zeroL :: f ()
liftL :: Liftable f => (a -> b) -> (f a -> f b)
liftL = fmap
liftL2 :: Liftable f => (a -> b -> c) -> (f a -> f b -> f c)
liftL2 f x y = fmap (uncurry f) $ zipL x y
liftL3 :: Liftable f => (a -> b -> c -> d) -> (f a -> f b -> f c -> f d)
liftL3 f x y z = fmap (uncurry . uncurry $ f) $ zipL (zipL x y) z
liftL0 :: Liftable f => a -> f a
liftL0 x = fmap (const x) zeroL
appL :: Liftable f => f (a -> b) -> f a -> f b
appL = liftL2 ($)
We need to postulate a few laws so that the definitions make sense. (Are they complete and/or minimal?)
assoc :: ((a, b), c) -> (a, (b, c))
assoc ~(~(x, y), z) = (x, (y, z))
fmap snd $ zipL zeroL x === x
fmap fst $ zipL x zeroL === x
fmap assoc $ zipL (zipL x y) $ z === zipL x $ zipL y z
Today we have the
Applicative class that provides Applicative functors. It is equivalent to the
Liftable class.
pure = liftL0
(<*>) = appL
zeroL = pure ()
zipL = liftA2 (,)
In principle,
Applicative should be a superclass of
Monad, but chronologically
Functor and
Monad were before
Unfortunately, inserting
Applicative between
Functor and
Monad in the subclass hierarchy would break a lot of existing code and thus has not been done as of today (2011). This is still true as of Jan 2013.
Monad lifting
Lifting is often used together with monads. The members of the
liftM-family take a function and perform the corresponding computation within the monad.
return :: (Monad m) => a -> m a
liftM :: (Monad m) => (a1 -> r) -> m a1 -> m r
liftM2 :: (Monad m) => (a1 -> a2 -> r) -> m a1 -> m a2 -> m r
Consider for example the list monad (MonadList). It performs a nondeterministic calculation, returning all possible results.
liftM2 just turns a deterministic function into a nondeterministic one:
plus :: [Int] -> [Int] -> [Int]
plus = liftM2 (+)
-- plus [1,2,3] [3,6,9] ---> [4,7,10, 5,8,11, 6,9,12]
-- plus [1..] [] ---> _|_ (i.e., keeps on calculating forever)
-- plus [] [1..] ---> []
Monad can be made an instance of
Liftable using the following implementations:
{-# OPTIONS -fglasgow-exts #-}
{-# LANGUAGE AllowUndecidableInstances #-}
import Control.Monad
instance (Functor m, Monad m) => Liftable m where
zipL = liftM2 (\x y -> (x,y))
zeroL = return ()
Lifting becomes especially interesting when there are more levels you can lift between.
Control.Monad.Trans (see Monad transformers) defines a class
class MonadTrans t where
lift :: Monad m => m a -> t m a -- lifts a value from the inner monad m to the transformed monad t m
-- could be called lift0
lift takes the side effects of a monadic computation within the inner monad
m and lifts them into the transformed monad
t m. We can easily define functions that lift functions between inner monads to functions between transformed monads. Then we can perform three different lifting operations:
liftM can be used both to transform a pure function into a function between inner monads and to a function between transformed monads, and finally lift transforms from the inner monad to the transformed monad. Because of the purity of Haskell, we can only lift "up".
Arrow lifting
Until now, we have only considered lifting from functions to other functions. John Hughes' arrows (see Understanding arrows) are a generalization of computation that aren't functions anymore. An arrow
a b c stands for a computation which transforms values of type
b to values of type
c. The basic primitive
arr, aka
arr :: (Arrow a) => (b -> c) -> a b c
is also a lifting operation.


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The top spots at a few key federal agencies are now officially filled following Senate confirmation votes this week.
The Senate voted unanimously Thursday to approve Dan Tangherlini to be the administrator of the General Services Administration and Howard Shelanski to serve as the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget.
Senators also OK'd Brian Deese to serve as OMB deputy director for budget.
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Sen. Tom Carper, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, praised Tangherlini's confirmation.
"Over the past year, Mr. Tangherlini has led an impressive turnaround of GSA, and I am confident that he will continue this good work as administrator," Carper said in a statement.
Obama named Tangherlini acting GSA administrator last April during the fallout from an investigation into excessive conference spending at the agency. Obama formally nominated Tangherlini to serve as GSA's permanent head last month.
GSA has been roiled by high turnover in its top ranks for the last few years. Tangherlini is now the eighth administrator in as many years; two former administrators resigned amid controversy.
At his confirmation hearing June 18 before Carper's committee, Tangherlini was praised by lawmakers for his top-to-bottom review of the agency following the conference-spending scandal. But shortly before the hearing, the agency's inspector uncovered more wrongdoing — this time improper interference by GSA's acquisition management in the awarding of contracts.
Tangherlini, once again, promised an exhaustive review, directing Anne Rung, the newly installed chief acquisition officer, to examine all internal procurement policies.
OMB shuffle continues
The Senate also unanimously approved Shelanski's nomination to head up the Office of Regulatory and Information Affairs.
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"I believe that the President made an excellent choice in selecting Howard Shelanski to lead OIRA," Carper said in a statement. "He has the training and experience necessary to take on these important challenges and his leadership will prove to be an asset to the agency."
Obama nominated Shelanski, formerly an economist at the Federal Trade Commission, in April. At his confirmation hearing earlier this month, Shelanski promised to clear up delays in the regulatory process and to forge a better working relationship with Congress.
Finally, the Senate unanimously approved Deese to serve as deputy director for budget at OMB.
Obama nominated Deese, who played a key role in the 2009 auto bailout negotiations as deputy director of the National Economic Council, in April.
"Having strong leadership at the Office of Management and Budget is important at any time, but it is particularly important at this moment, when our nation is so desperately in need of a long-term budget plan to rein in our federal deficit and debt," Carper said in a statement. "Brian Deese has earned a well-justified reputation as someone who can tackle the tough public policy matters facing our nation … He has a passion for public service and for finding ways for our government to make smart choices so that individuals and businesses can flourish."
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Mosby & Co. to auction fine and decorative art, Chinese soapstone collection, hundreds of early posters on April 28April 3rd, 2012 by admin
FREDERICK, Md. – Ask any regular who attends auctions conducted by Mosby & Co., and they'll tell you what the Maryland-based company is best known for: everything. Owner Keith Spurgeon makes a point of personally selecting only the most interesting, best-quality pieces from dozens of collecting categories for his well-attended sales.
Spurgeon's April 28 Spring Antiques Auction, which will be held at the Mosby & Co. gallery in the Washington suburb of Frederick, Md., features 550 lots that range from sculptures, clocks and an old collection of Chinese soapstone to toys, historic Americana and a spectacular assortment of 19th- and early 20th-century posters.
The approximately 100 pieces of soapstone, to be apportioned into 30 lots, are from a single-owner collection that was started 60 years
ago. "It's a completely unpicked collection. It hasn't been touched in 30 years," said Spurgeon, who regards the contents as a buying opportunity for dealers or those who may be seeking a way to get into the Asian art market.
Sculptures from multiple consignors represent both European and American artists. Among them are three Frank Polk Western bronzes, including one of a cowboy and horse titled "Two Old Timers." A bronze depicting a male archer is signed "Schwatenberg, Germany," likely referring to Spiro Schwatenberg (1898-1922). Another noteworthy sculpture was created from wood by the Lithuanian artist Romas Kvintas.
The auction features several paintings and prints by listed artists, including a late 18th-century French religious genre painting of the Holy Family and John the Baptist; and a Dutch oil on canvas depicting a man praying before a meal. A small collection of mantel and wall clocks, mostly American in origin, are entered in the sale, as are a dozen pieces of fine porcelain, including a large Rosenthal nude with horse.
Around 110 lots are reserved for toys. The lineup includes Easter Parade toys (new/old stock), a turn of the 20th-century Buster Brown and Tige cast-iron pull toy by Watrous, a near-mint/boxed Popeye Express with circling airplane, and an Effanbee Charlie McCarthy ventriloquist doll that is part of a small collection of McCarthy toys, including automotive types. Also in the mix are a Lionel 2271 train set with GG1 locomotive, and a collection of Punch and Judy toys, books, inkwells and cap guns, including an American-made figural example by Ives. A collection of toys simulating insects includes examples from as early as the 1890s.
A full set of 12 carved wood folk art figures, probably from the 1970s, portrays the cast of characters from the Popeye cartoons. They include some of the more offbeat characters, such as Sea Hag, Alice the Goon, and The Three Birds, with the largest figure standing 89 inches tall.
More than 50 original animation cels will be offered. Most originated at Warner Bros. Studios, and some date to the 1940s.
The highlight section of the sale is the posters. Among the top lots is an untouched 1899 Alphonse Mucha poster of Sarah Bernhardt in La Tosca. The consignor, a Hollywood producer, purchased the poster in Paris in the 1950s and has owned it ever since.
A complete set of Richard Avedon Beatles posters published in 1967 by the German magazine Stern will be offered as one lot. Each of the now-famous, vibrantly hued psychedelic posters measures 19 x 27 inches.
A tremendous variety of posters will be auctioned: circa-1890 Buffalo Bill Wild West Show promos from the showman's French tour, a circa-1895 La Marque Georges Richard poster with artwork by "PAL" of both a bicycle and early auto, and many others with a circus, magic or transportation theme. An 1896 two-sheet panoramic published by Strobridge for Barnum & Bailey is a scrupulously detailed and colorful depiction advertising a traveling Indian village whose home life and occupations are "revealed to Christian eyes in living groups of strange and curious people."
Among the best of the magic posters is an 1870s three-sheet that came from a Florida collection. The woodblock print advertising Samri S. Baldwin, a k a "The White Mahatma," measures 81 x 42 inches.
Lithographed by Friedlander, a 1910 Wheel of Death motorbike-racing poster presents a bizarre scene of a skeleton holding a wood-slatted velodrome with three riders going full throttle around its inner sides.
The sale also includes a large selection of black Americana, including slave collars and shackles; a 19th-century faro gambling set, complete with a Moore's patented Derringer; and a Virginia Confederate ballot for the election of Jefferson Davis. An Indy 500 "Pacemaker" medallion awarded to driver Paul Russo will be auctioned, as well. These medallions are presented exclusively to drivers who have led laps at the famous car race, and it is known that Russo qualified for the award both in 1956 and '57.
Mosby & Co.'s Spring Antiques Auction will be held on Saturday, April 28, 2012 commencing at 10 a.m. Eastern Time at the company's gallery at 5714-A Industry Lane, Frederick, MD 21704. Preview hours are noon till 5 p.m. on Friday, 8-10 a.m. on Saturday, and by appointment during the week prior to the sale. Catered food service will be available during both auction sessions.
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Intel on Tuesday announced its first smartphone customers, signaling the arrival of Intel Inside smartphones after years of uphill struggle by the chip maker.
Lenovo and Motorola will release smartphones based on Intel's upcoming Atom chips code-named Medfield, said Paul Otellini, Intel's CEO, during a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
"The best of Intel computing is now coming to smartphones," Otellini said.
A Lenovo K800 smartphone demonstrated on stage during the keynote will be the first with Intel's x86 chip. The K800 has a 4.5-inch screen that can display video at 720p resolution, and the smartphone is powered by an Atom Z2460 chip, which runs at 1.6GHz. It will first come to the China market via China Unicom in the second quarter this year. It will be based on the Lenovo LeOS user interface.
Intel also announced a multi-year, multi-product announcement with Motorola which will cover smartphones and tablets. The Motorola phone will be released in the second half of this year, though the company didn't announce whether it would ship worldwide.
"We will have devices and carrier validation this summer," said Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola Mobility, during an appearance at the keynote. The product launches will be shortly after that.
Intel executives on the sidelines assured that the smartphones with Intel chips will surely ship this year. Intel in 2010 showed an LG smartphone based on the earlier Atom chip code-named Moorestown, but the device never reached customers.
The customer announcements are a big breakthrough for Intel, which so far had fallen flat in its attempts to enter the smartphone market. Intel's earlier Moorestown chips were considered power hungry, which led LG to scrap the first planned Intel-based smartphone. Intel also partnered two years ago with Nokia to develop the Linux-based MeeGo OS for smartphones, but Nokia abandoned the effort and adopted Microsoft's Windows Phone OS for smartphones. Intel is now backing Google's Android OS after merging MeeGo into the Tizen OS.
The Intel smartphone chip will be competitive on power and excel in performance, said Mike Bell, vice president and general manager of Intel's mobile wireless group, during an interview. Smartphones with the current Z2460 chip will provide battery life of up to eight hours on a 3G voice call, six hours of high-definition video decode, five hours of 3G browsing, and a standby time of 14 hours.
The Atom chip Z2460 chip has dense power management to deliver high performance while consuming less power, Bell said. The chip's operation will depend on the performance needed; the chip can deliver a burst in performance which could burn more power and hurt battery, but also reduce power consumption when the performance isn't needed, Bell said. The capability is particularly useful for tablets, which will also include Medfield chips, Bell said.
During the keynote Bell showed a reference design of an Atom Z2460 smartphone with a 4-inch screen and an 8-megapixel camera. The phone can play back high-definition video and could include NFC (near-field communications) capabilities. The Intel reference design smartphones outperform current phones on the market in applications like browsing, Javascript and graphics, Otellini said during the keynote.
The handset establishes Intel as a legitimate competitor to ARM, whose chips go into most smartphones. But while a door has opened for Intel, it faces many challenges, including software and adoption issues.
There are some applications in Android Market with native code to run on ARM, but Intel is trying to tackle that challenge, Bell said.
"We will be shipping to our OEMs… some Intel technology that will let the majority of those applications to run without modification on our platform as well," Bell said.
Analysts have said Intel's chips will get more power efficient as it advances its manufacturing technology, which is when it could pose a serious threat to ARM's dominance. The Z2460 chip is made using the 32-nanometer process. Intel could bring big power savings to smartphone chips with the 22-nm process, when 3D transistors could reach smartphones. Intel's initial chips made using the 22-nm process are already being shown at CES in laptops.
While Intel is throwing a lot of financial muscle behind the development of smartphones, the company has seen failures. Intel has tried to enter the TV industry multiple times, and its most recent attempt over the last two years was marred by a lack of interest in its products.
China is a good market, and having a relationship with Lenovo there provides a good entry point for Intel in the smartphone space, said Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at Insight 64.
Having Motorola as a customer also helps, considering its large market presence.
But the big story is the chip itself, which is a good entry point for Intel into the smartphone market, Brookwood said.
"If that was an accurate representation of the performance it delivers, it's a compelling story," he said, adding that the Intel smartphone looked faster than his dual-core ARM phone.
Intel has a long road ahead to gaining acceptance, but the company can afford some stumbles. Intel has a lot of perseverance and the company will continue to slog in the market, Brookwood said.


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June 18, 1998
PHOTO NO.: STScI-PRC98-22
The disk, possibly a remnant of an ancient galaxy collision, will be swallowed up by the black hole in several billion years.
Because the front end of the disk eclipses more stars than the back, it appears darker. Also, because dust absorbs blue light more effectively than red light, the disk is redder than the rest of the galaxy (this same phenomenon causes the Sun to appear red when it sets in a smoggy afternoon).
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image was taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, in visible light. Details as small as 50 light-years across can be seen.
Hubble's Faint Object Spectrograph (replaced by the STIS spectrograph in 1997) was used to observe hydrogen and nitrogen emission lines from gas in the disk. Hubble measurements show that the disk rotates like an enormous carousel, 341,000 miles per hour (155 kilometers per second) at 186 light-years from the center.
The rotation velocity provides a direct measure of the gravitational force acting on the gas by the black hole. Though 300 million times the mass of our Sun, the black hole is still only 0.05 percent of the total mass of the NGC 7052 galaxy. Despite its size, the disk is 100 times less massive than the black hole. Still, it contains enough raw material to make three million sun-like stars.
The bright spot in the center of the disk is the combined light of stars that have crowded around the black hole due to its strong gravitational pull. This stellar concentration matches theoretical models linking stellar density to a central black hole's mass.
NGC 7052 is a strong source of radio emission and has two oppositely directed `jets' emanating from the nucleus. (The jets are streams of energetic electrons moving in a strong magnetic field and unleashing radio energy).
Because the jets in NGC 7052 are not perpendicular to the disk, it may indicate that the black hole and the dust disk in NGC 7052 do not have a common origin. One possibility is that the dust was acquired from a collision with a small neighboring galaxy, after the black hole had already formed.
NGC 7052 is located in the constellation of Vulpecula, 191 million light-years from Earth.
Credit: Roeland P. van der Marel (STScI), Frank C. van den Bosch (Univ. of Washington), and NASA.
A photo and caption are available via the Internet at
GIF and JPEG images are available via anononymous ftp to oposite.stsci.edu in /pubinfo/gif/9822.gif and /pubinfo/jpg/9822.jpg.


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ZipIt Adam Software
I haven't had a lot of time for Zipit development lately, but I've just posted my ROM images to my website, in case anybody wants to play around with them.
Included are the "elinks" browser (no SSL yet, although I am working on it), ssh/sshd, some battery monitoring tools, the "dialog" tool for writing text-based menu-driven scripts, and various other utilities I've found useful. These are all built using shared uclibc libraries.
The ROM images are set up with my 'mtd' r/w flash modules, which allow you to customize the install without the danger of a full re-flash.
There are 3 flash partitions, with the first serving as a read-only "rescue" image. The other two partitions are user-writeable, which should make it easier to compile/install your own code. The utilities on the rescue partition should be sufficient to recover from any foul-up of the other two.
Rough installation notes are included in the 'readme.txt' file. More detailed instructions can be found in the HOWTO at ZipItAdamHOWTO. I will happily accept additions or corrections.
WARNING: while I haven't had any problems with this s/w load over the past several months, and have re-flashed countless times, you could conceivably turn your Zipit into a doorstop if something goes wrong. Either have the serial port mod in place, or be prepared to install it after something goes wrong.
You should also be somewhat familiar with Unix/Linux before attempting this upgrade, or be quite brave :-), as there is no hand-holding provided.
The files are at:
[WWW] http://www.mib.org/zip/TEST-ROOT First read the 'readme.txt' file before downloading!
-- Adam
Here's a rough listing of what's in the root/initrd filesystem, and what's included under /opt.
Note that most of the hard work getting this together was done by Ken/cynfab and ZipItPet - all I've done is write a few missing apps, and compile a few others.
I'll package up source code and buildroot configs at some point, but please email me if you'd like it sooner.
-- Adam root initrd ( / ): 760KB
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Last Sunday Petco Park hosted the 11th All-American Classic, and the second since Perfect Game began headlining the event last summer. Always one of the most highly scouted events on the summer circuit, this year's PGAAC saw more 225 scouts in attendance to evaluate 49 of the top amateur talents in the country, as well as the top draft-eligible talent north of the border.
The full showcase included multiple workout days at the University of San Diego, live-streamed (and archived) at Perfect Game's website, along with the nine inning game itself, which was carried on MLB Network. Jason Parks and Chris Rodriguez attended the events in person, while Nick Faleris followed remotely. This is what they saw.
Player Spotlight: Position Player
Nick Gordon | SS/RHP | Olympia HS (Orlando, FL)
Height/Weight: 6-foot-2/170 pounds
Draft Day Age: 18 years, 7 months
Commitment: Florida State
One of the highest-profile players in the 2014 draft class, Gordon routinely impresses on and off the field, with the San Diego showcase being no exception. With standout tools, an excellent feel for the game, and major league bloodlines through both his father Tom and brother Dee, Nick received plenty of scout attention as an underclassman, and continues to ride high on follow lists as he enters his draft-eligible senior year.
Scouting Notes: Top overall talent for me in the class; everything he does looks easy; natural glovework at shortstop with some swagger; soft hands; excellent backhand pickup; smooth; arm is very strong; no doubt at the position; body has more projection than his brother's, with more strength potential; plus run; lunges at the ball a bit at the plate, but hand-eye is exceptional and can put barrel on the ball; good bat speed; don't see a lot of power coming but he can sting the ball; timing can get disrupted by off-speed stuff; could develop into plus-hit-tool shortstop at highest level; bloodlines and makeup are there; could be a top 5 pick in 2014. –Jason Parks
Summer Stock: Gordon has had some ups and downs the past couple months on the showcase circuit, but he has shown so well in past viewings that his stock is unlikely to affected by a few hiccups here and there. At his best, Gordon boasts a dynamic defensive skill set, with impact potential in the hit tool. It has been a long eight months for the two-way standout dating back to the January Perfect Game World Showcase in Fort Myers, Florida, and evaluators will be champing at the bit to see a rested Gordon in a couple of months in Jupiter, and then again next spring. –Nick J. Faleris
Player Spotlight: Pitcher
Touki Toussaint | RHP | Coral Springs Christian (Coral Springs, FL)
Height/Weight: 6-foot-2/190 pounds
Draft Day Age: 17 years, 11 months
Commitment: N/A
The high-waisted righty struggled to command his offerings in game, but continues to flash some of the best, and most projectable, stuff in the draft class. Toussaint is a scout's player, with athleticism, physical projection, loud stuff, and natural arm speed – all of which were on display throughout the weekend's events. There are arms in this class producing more velocity, and bodies offering more projection, but you would be hard pressed to find a combination of present profile and projected upside to match Toussaint's.
Scouting Notes: Electric raw stuff; three-quarters slot; easy and lighting-fast arm; throws the ball downhill better than any pitcher at the event; lost his release early but showed the ability to make quick adjustments; fastball worked 92-94; touched 95; appears much faster; ball really jumps; impossible to touch when he spots it down; command was off in this showing; slow to the plate (1.65 seconds) with runners on; showed slide-step and held velocity; curve was poor early and then started to flash its promise; 72-75 mph with lots of bite; showed a cut-change offering in the mid-80s; more deliberate than curveball; arm speed and present fastball make me think a really, really good changeup is going to develop out of this arm; could end up as complete starter package; very inconsistent but power arm with very high upside. –Jason Parks
Summer Stock: The BP Prospect Team was huddled behind home plate last October for Touki's big coming out party in Jupiter—a three-inning outing for the Atlanta Blue Jays against defending champs Marucci Elite in which Toussaint fanned nine and showed a plus curve and lively low- to mid-90s fastball, all as a 16-year-old. He finished the tournament with 18 strikeouts over six innings, standing out as one of the top arms at the event.
This summer, Toussaint's carrying characteristic has been inconsistent command, though the "now" stuff and projection continue to impress evaluators at each step on the circuit. He's generally been 89-93, touching 94/95 mph, while showing a hard curve that will flash plus, and a low-80s true change. This June he started mixing in a cut-change that runs from the mid- to upper-80s with cutter action, and the pitch has made regular appearances throughout his various outings. It hasn't been a dominant summer, but for a player who has flashed front-end potential since the age of 16, Toussaint is doing what he needs to on the field to remain in consideration for early first round selection next June. –Nick J. Faleris
Five More from Parks
Scouting notes from Jason Parks on five more prospects who stood out in San Diego.
Alex Jackson | C/3B/OF | Rancho Bernardo HS (San Diego, CA)
Height/Weight: 6-foot-2, 210 pounds
Draft Day Age: 18 years, 5 months
Commitment: Oregon
Scouting Notes: Big talent; reminds me of Jorge Alfaro because of build and skill-set; arm is a 7; showed sub-1.9 pops; feel for catch-and-throw; shows leadership qualities behind the plate; moves better than expected; still new to the position but work ethic impressed; can stay behind the plate if he wants to; bat is highly projectable; both raw hit and power; good bat-to-ball skills; contact is easy and loud; power is going to be there; could be a 6/6 hit/power type if everything clicks; big makeup; potential to be a top-five pick in 2014.
Kodi Medeiros | LHP | Waiakea (Hilo, HI)
Height/Weight: 6 feet/185 pounds
Draft Day Age: 18 years, 0 months
Commitment: N/A
Scouting Notes: Impressive; deception pitcher with stuff but not a gimmick guy; worked from extreme low three-quarters slot—basically a sidearmer; fastball worked 93-94 with plus movement; ball was diving under barrels; upper-70s to low-80s slider was filthy; fastball disguise and pure funk on the late two-plane break; showed mid-80s changeup as well; curious to see if he can hold velo and command the fastball to both sides of the plate; can't wait to see him this spring.
Tyler Kolek | RHP | Shepherd HS (Shepherd, TX)
Height/Weight: 6-foot-6/250 pounds
Draft Day Age: 18 years, 6 months
Commitment: N/A
Scouting Notes: Big Texas beef; easy 6'6'' and easy 250; standard three-quarters slot; some effort; comes across the body a bit; jerky in the set-up with a smoother release and landing; starts with low hands and offers some deception in the swing; 97 mph on first pitch; fastball worked 93-98, touched 99; heavy pitch; some horizontal movement as well; low-80s slider with some tilt; overall command wasn't sharp and breaking ball didn't wow, but arm strength is exceptional and fastball is impact pitch; body and arm to chew innings.
Michael Gettys | OF/RHP | Gainesville HS (Gainesville, GA)
Height/Weight: 6-foot-2, 205 pounds
Draft Day Age: 18 years, 7 months
Commitment: Georgia
Scouting Notes: Physical and athletic; built like a free safety, with a strong upper body; clearly has raw physical tools; run is easy plus; clocked a 4.03 to first in game action; gets out of the box fast and reaches top speed very quickly; arm is a hose—looks like a 7 (plus-plus); batting practice performance stood out; loud contact from easy swing; barreling up everything; game swing was still impressive, but didn't find the same contact; not sure about the recognition; don't see impact bat but red ass player with tools and a chance to hit.
Luis Ortiz | RHP | Sanger HS (Sanger, CA)
Height/Weight: 6-foot-3/220 pounds
Draft Day Age: 18 years, 7 months
Commitment: N/A
Scouting Notes: Good size, strength; pitched from the stretch; starts with high hands; high leg lift; slight rock back and stays tall; good balance; good drive to the plate; arm is fast; fastball worked 92-95; downhill; some sink; slider at 83 with some late tilt; 1.35 seconds to home with runners on; looked comfortable on the mound; showed two quality pitches.
Three Noteworthy Developments
Nick Faleris has been following the progress of this draft class throughout the summer scouting circuit. Here are three performances he found noteworthy.
Sean Reid-Foley | RHP | Sandalwood HS (Sandalwood, FL)
Height/Weight: 6-foot-3/208 pounds
Draft Day Age: 18 years, 9 months
Commitment: Florida State
History: Reid-Foley's solid PG National showing in June kicked off his summer, and he quickly followed up that performance with a Tournament of Stars showing that earned him an invite to the USA Baseball 18U Team Trials beginning today in Fullerton, California. Two weeks ago the Florida State commit sparkled in a three-inning outing in Syracuse, New York during the East Coast Pro Showcase, easily carving through the outing sitting 92-94 mph and showing two future plus offerings in a low-80s slider and mid-80s changeup. His follow-up outing in Long Beach at the Area Code Games last week involved a step back, as he struggled to find consistency in his offerings and left some evaluators wondering whether he was running on empty after a long summer schedule.
Development: This past weekend in San Diego, Reid-Foley was once again dominant—this time in a one-inning showing during the Perfect Game All-American Classic. His fastball sat in the 92-94 mph range, touching 95, and his slider was back to flashing plus with hard bite and tilt. It was an important outing in front of a lot of high-level decision makers, particularly after struggling in front a lot of the same faces last week in Long Beach. Reid-Foley has raised his stock greatly this summer and should enter the spring as one of the top righty arms in the class.
Keaton McKinney | RHP | Ankeny HS (Ankeny, IA)
Height/Weight: 6-foot-5/220 pounds
Draft Day Age: 18 years, 5 months
Commitment: Arkansas
History: McKinney started the summer in style, sitting upper-80s to low-90s with a heavy fastball at the Perfect Game National Showcase in June, while showing off a highly deceptive changeup a grade better than he'd shown in past showcase outings, and among the best off-speeds of any arm at the Metrodome over those five days. McKinney maintained his stuff through USA Baseball's Tournament of Stars, earning himself an invite to the 18U Team Trials along side Reid-Foley. He showed well at the Area Code Games last week, as well, and entered the Perfect Game All-American Classic as an arm of interest, but not necessarily one of the big names in the class.
Development: McKinney breezed through his inning of work on Sunday, striking out three and walking one. The big Iowan set the tempo for the outing in his first four pitches, going changeup, fastball, changeup, changeup to big slugger, and Vanderbilt commit, Justin Bellinger, drawing empty swings on each of the off-speeds and sending Bellinger to the bench. As impressive as McKinney's changeup has been thus far this summer, it was at its best at PGAAC, and the deceptive quality of the offering, along with the late tumble, left the East Squad hitters helpless. It's a deep crop of high school arms this year, with a number of potential impact hurlers at the college ranks as well, but a dominant outing in front of the right collection of evaluators can do wonders for a players draft stock—McKinney's inning was just such an outing, solidifying for him a prominent spot on follow lists for next spring.
Jakson Reetz | C/ RHP/OF | Norris HS (Hickman, NE)
Height/Weight: 6-foot-1, 190 pounds
Draft Day Age: 18 years, 5 months
Commitment: Nebraska
History: Reetz entered the summer as a talented but raw backstop, flashing big athleticism and almost casual actions on the field, belying his loud and impactful tools. In the Metrodome in June, Reetz stood out at the PG National Showcase for his catch-and-throw game, gunning down multiple baserunners and showing sub-2.0 pop times to second, in addition to a couple of hard hit balls, in game. He has built on that showcase throughout the summer, making loud contact with increasing regularity throughout his showcase and tournament stops. Like Reid-Foley and McKinney, Reetz's Tournament of Stars performance at the end of June bought him a ticket to the USA Baseball 18U Team Trials, and the Nebraska commit continued a successful summer with impressive showings at both the Perfect Game 17U National Championship in July and the Area Code Games last week.
Development: Reetz added another impressing showing to his summer, earning MVP honors for the game. While he struggled some handling the arms while behind the plate, no player had a greater impact offensively. Reetz went 2-for-4 with a long opposite-field double off of hard-throwing Dylan Cease, and added three stolen bases to his output over the course of his four trips to the plate. There is simply no ignoring the growth in Reetz's game over the past two months, and he'll get a chance to add to his rapidly expanding resume should he earn a spot on the final USA Baseball 18U squad. His Marucci Elite travel club will be one of the favorites at the final event of the scouting circuit—the WWBA World Championship in Jupiter, Florida this October—and, should he attend, Reetz will be one of the most highly scouted catchers in the tournament. He'll almost certainly enter the spring as the top draft prospect in the Cornhusker State.
Quick Hits
Notes on six more players—two apiece—from Parks, Faleris, and Chris Rodriguez.
Grant Holmes (RHP, Conway HS (Conway, SC)): strong build; three-quarters slot; some deception in the arm swing and the high front side in the delivery; brings up a high leg and breaks hands late; arm-heavy delivery with some sling; good arm speed; fastball was meaty at 92-93, touching 94; showed good sink; slider at 82 mph with some bite; attacked and showed poise. —Jason Parks
Brady Aiken (LHP, Cathedral Catholic HS (San Diego, CA): Excellent size; major-league body; high three-quarters slot with a high front side; deliberate with the leg lift and plant; pretty easy and repeatable; pace was inconsistent and he struggled with runners on; slow release around 1.50 seconds to plate with runners on; fastball comfortable at 91-92 with some sink; long, tumbling curve at 73-74; good feel for the offering; fastball command limited the pitch. —Jason Parks
Justus Sheffield (LHP, Tullahoma HS (Tullahoma, TN)): Four-pitch lefty who continues to impress—showed all four pitches despite facing two batters; fastball worked in the low 90s; low-80s slider; low-70s curve; low-80s change; all pitches in line with his previous summer showings; advanced feel and pitchability; works the quadrants and already shows understanding of sequencing; repeatable motion and solid arm action; high-level follow, Day 1 candidate; Vandy commit. —Nick J. Faleris
Jack Flaherty (SS, Harvard-Westlake HS (Studio City, CA)): Potential five-tool shortstop, even money to shift to third due to maturing body—could be plus defender there; quick for size; good straight line speed that requires some ramp up; put together solid at-bats; sacrificed chance to swing for disciplined approach, refused to expand zone; flashed glove and arm at third in game, showing easy actions and good accuracy on the run; good jump on stolen base; diverse profile opens lots of developmental doors; first-round candidate; UNC commit. —Nick J. Faleris
Braxton Davidson (OF/1B, TC Roberson HS (Asheville, NC)): Big 6-foot-3, 215 pound frame; big trunk; square stance; a toe-tap timing; balanced, fluid swing quick to the ball; creates good loft; potential 6/6 hit/power guy; arm is solid and accurate; chance he's limited to first base, but could be a good one; hit tool is one of the most advanced in the prep class. —Chris Rodriguez
Ti'Quan Forbes (SS/OF, Columbia HS (Columbia, MS): Wiry, athletic build with plenty of room to fill out; open stance; quick-twitch swing with bat speed; some pre-load movement; line-drive stroke in game action; potential for some power down the line; athleticism plays on defensive side; easy actions; highly projectable at 6-foot-4, 177 pounds; very high ceiling, a lot to dream on. —Chris Rodriguez
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