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Well, the O's are back in the win column a little more often than not lately. That sounds so positive as compared to how the team is truly doing.
I had my first week of finals, and this week brings another. Hoping to be done everything by Wednesday. Also was in Cleveland all this past weekend, including attending the Indians vs. Tigers game Friday night. Caught 5 baseballs even without a glove, would have had 12+ with one because of how empty it was and how many I had to let drop so my hands wouldn't break.
Instead of doing stat analysis, or game by game conversations, I am just going to look over a few topics shortly. This week, I will be once again doing the game by game stuff with more topics thrown in weekly.
The bullpen has been good, the starting pitching has been mostly solid, and the hitting is more inconsistent than Kyle Boller. Moves are coming soon. Corey Patterson is hitting .370 in Norfolk, and will probably be up for Montanez soon. By all the talk, that may not be all. In terms of pitching, there won't be any big moves that we can foresee coming since no pitcher is really too far out of it. The hitting is the problem.
From the Orioles website (orioles.com):
Those are the averages of Orioles hitters. Names aren't even important. Knowing the numbers of slugging and hitting with RISP aren't important, either. It has come down to guys needing to hit in general, not just in the clutch. Markakis, Wigginton, and Wieters are all below .300. Nobody is above .300 (except Felix Pie, whoopee). Guys are below .200. That's just great…
Good bullpen news:
The O's seem to have found a closer in Alfredo Simon. And a new (maybe temporary but still for now) set-up guy in Uehara. In 6 appearances, Simon is 3-3 in save opportunities, and in 6 IP, has only allowed 6 hits, 0 ER, and has 7 Ks and only 4 BBs. Uehara, in his 2 IP in 2 appearances, has only allowed 1 H and 0 ER, along with 2 Ks.
Ohman, through 11 IP in 16 appearances, has still not earned a run. Berken and Meredith are both also set in position so far, neither with an ERA over 2. These 3 combined have the following stat line:
36.2 IP, 27 H, 5 ER, 26:11 K:BB ratio, and a stellar ERA of 1.23.
Pitching looks good. Matusz had his first rocky start after 4 consecutive quality starts, but he should be back on track soon enough. Especially with his T-shirt Tuesday being tomorrow night.
The Orioles homestand now looks like this:
3 games vs. Mariners
3 games vs. Indians
2 games vs. Royals
Even with 2 of those M's games being against Lee and Hernandez, the O's should be able to split this 8 game homestand, if not wint 5 or 6 at least. That would be a huge boost. We will have to wait and see what the club does in terms of roster moves to set this team straight.
Always remember to follow along with the sites I have listed under links. They will always have the best O's info available.
Keep up with http://baltimoresportsreport.com/ They have daily articles and write-ups about Baltimore sports and a lot about the Orioles. Taking part in the discussions on the site is very interesting. They also have lots of interesting stuff like contests and interviews with players and commentators.
Bullpen: What's your deal?
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So as I said a few entries ago, I am busy in my finals weeks in school and have been loaded with papers to get in and tests to take, so haven't had much time for extra O's writing. But don't worry, I have still been keeping up with it all and will be posting a big entry on the Yankees and Red Sox series overall, and including Minnesota in that too probably since I will write it Sunday night. Will be in Cleveland this weekend, and going to the Indians vs. Tigers game, so will put up a picture or two from that.
I currently do some writing for Baltimore Sports Report and this week I was asked to do a piece on the bullpen situation, specifically Arrieta vs. Jim Johnson. I was actually surprised by this request. I do not think the organization is debating in the bullpen specifically between these two. Instead, I will talk about the bullpen options and what I think should be done.
So here is the bullpen overall as of last night (Wednesday night):
Matt Albers, Cla Meredith, Jason Berken, Mark Hendrickson, Will Ohman, and Alfredo Simon. You can count Koji Uehara in too, though as of me writing this he isnt officially on the roster until gametime tonight in Minnesota.
Well, let's look now at the options in the minors (that I consider to be MLB bullpen ready):
Alberto Castillo, Jim Johnson, Jake Arrieta, Kam Mickolio, and Pedro Viola.
Now how are those guys doing? Castillo was on and off, having solid outings, but then having no so great ones, like facing Robbie Cano in Baltimore last week (I don't like thinking about that). He is also a lefty with Hendrickson and Ohman, so the O's don't feel the need for another lefty in the 'pen, especially with his inconsistent pitching types (throws overhand, side-arm, and every so often a 3/4 pitch). He can be kept in AAA for now and will be used when needed. Good to have a veteran guy there though if need be for one.
Kam Mickolio won't have a chance at anything until he gets his command issues under control, and until that happens, there's no reason to even discuss him as an option. Pedro Viola is a high ERA pitcher with some experience in AAA, but he is also a lefty and won't be used this year unless injuries really start coming. My consistent on Jake Arrieta is that he has a great arm and needs to keep with his development work in Norfolk, and I see no reason to mess with it. Especially with the record we have now, we are not in contention, so there is no reason to mess up a guy's track in the organization when he could turn out to be a great starter of the future for the O's.
Now to Jim Johnson. The guy is given no breaks on a club that gives too many breaks to almost every player. Trembley did finally work with MacPhail and punished some guys like Mickolio and Atkins for their horrendous stats, but then there are guys like Jones, Reimold, and Scott who are still consistently playing despite their terrible hitting numbers on the year. Johnson is a veteran of the team, despite being only 26, and he should be given breaks as much if not more than a guy like Jones who hasn't even played a full season with the team yet. Also, people do not realize this, Jim Johnson is not doing horribly in his set-up role. His overall ERA may be 6.52 overall, but in the 8th innings, he has a 4.05 ERA. While that might not be incredible, it is still early in the season to be judged on ERA completely and he was pushed past his limit by pitching 2 or so innings in some games. That is not what he has been good at, and it is not something he is used to. Side note: He has better command during day games. 7:1 K:BB on day games and 2:3 on night games. Allowed his only homerun on the year during a night game as well.
Hm. Well, Albers definitely has proven himself lately after blowing 2 straight games against the Red Sox a week and a half ago and being on the chopping block for a bit until he caught fire and has been great as of late, finding his control once again. Cla Meredith, Mark Hendrickson, Jason Berken, and Will Ohman are basically locks for the season as long as none of them making any negative transitions. There are basically 3 spots or so that are up in the air and most likely will change at least a few more times throughout the season.
Arrieta needs to stay and develop. Don't push him. Viola is worse than Castillo, so if any lefty would be used it would be Senor Alberto. Gonzo is still hurt. Mickolio does not have his command down yet.
The best bullpen would be Meredith, Hendrickson, Berken, Ohman, Johnson, Albers, and Simon. I love Alfredo, and he is on the top of my list to be the closer until we figure out the Gonzo situation. If we let him close, JJ can go back to set-up, and I think we are set with that. That is the order that has obviously worked best, so I do not know why we have strayed away from it. I know I have left Uehara out so far. That is because I have no opinion on him. He hasn't really shown much for the team. Ever. Except that he can get injured. So this bullpen isn't the one as of now since Koji is taking JJ's spot (for now), but I expect him to get injured or for JJ to come up somehow. By the end of this month, the bullpen should be what I said or switch maybe Simon out for Uehara (I hate that idea but the O's will do it because they don't like winning it seems).
Now, the other issue is what to do when Arrieta and Tillman are ready for the bigs. Both will get rotation spots soon enough, and whoever is kicked out is either off the team or in the bullpen, depending on who. For instance, Hernandez could be converted to a bullpen guy. Guthrie, though, is a starter and we would not try him in the 'pen. We will just have to wait and see how that works out along with the constand and nagging injuries that come about. The issue they will have to deal with is that the starting pitching has been very good quality so far, and the bullpen is the main issue (in terms of pitching, the hitting is what overall drags us down the most), so it will be a tough decision to demote a guy like Hernandez or Guthrie if they keep up with solid starts (both of them have had bad starts their last times out, but we will see if that trend continues, although both were against the Yankees).
Take a Step Back
As I said in an earlier entry, the next few weeks may be scarce interms of my entries, and most likely will not have game summaries and info on a daily basis. Still trying to get out a post every day or two about different topics. Since I have baseball games myself also, I did not get to catch the first few innings of each Yankee game, so that's another reason why I am behind.
As for this entry. I have a question for the O's. What the hell happened? The whole Boston series, the team looked legitimate. May have lost 2 of 3, but were in all 3 games, showed tons of patience and hitting, and kept up with positive starting pitching. The bad part was the bullpen, specifically Albers who blew the two games we lost in that series. The good part was that the bats were coming alive. We were having double digit hit games, multi-hit games for a lot of guys, and the bats of Markakis and Jones looked to be coming back.
The O's arrived back in Baltimore, and decided to just stick with the trends from the beginning of the season after beating the Yankees on Tuesday. While Sabathia and Burnett were on top of their games, specifically Burnett who pitched his best stuff in a long time (unfortunately it had to come against us), but why did the bats just die. At least against Sabathia we got some hits, but it just looked flat out horrible. We lost the touch that the guys were able to find against the Red Sox on Sunday and the Yankees on Tuesday to bring guys in who were on base and not rack up the LOB statistic. Wednesday went back to the old crap where we get hits all spread apart and not score. Last night was just horrific. We had 3 total hits, and the whole lineup just looked out of it, specifically Wieters. The last two nights he has look mezmorized at the plate. Not sure what is going on, but I am hoping Crowley can help him get back on track to hitting .300+. He dropped below .300 last night, which is hard to see when he was one of the positive aspects of our offense before. Wigginton continued his hitting with one hit in each of the two past games. Who would have guessed Cesar Izturis would be our hottest bat at any time in the season. More to come on him later. I want to write a post about it, but might wait to see how he does vs. Lackey tonight.
The bullpen went back to the 'Opposite Day' concept. Here is what the stats and happenings are for the bullpen guys:
-Albers has pitched 2.1 innings (1 IP Wed. and 1.1 IP Thurs.) and in those outings only let one hit thru and got a K. He looks to have gotten his fastball under control. That is a good sign since he is a guy the team is hoping to build with for the future in the 'pen.
-Castillo was brought up and had solid innings before yesterday of strikeouts and no runs. Unfortunately for him, he was brought in to face Robbie Cano, who smacked his 2nd HR of the night off of Castillo's low speed side arm on the 2nd pitch.
-Hendrickson and Meredith both pitched an inning on Wednesday. The difficult part of this one is that neither looked bad. They both looked on top of their stuff, just the Yankees lineup is overpowering and talented. Luckily, between the 2.1 innings they pitched, they only let up 1 ER, but had 7 hits combined. Would have been more runs but Hendrickson inherited some Guthrie allowed hits.
-Berken and Ohman came in for 9th inning pitching in the 2 games. Berken smoothly got 2 outs, and Ohman got 3 with 2 Ks and 1 H. Sad that they couldn't be for saves.
Just looks like the pitching is going downhill. Starters haven't looked stellar. Sorry to Matusz, but you threw some ugly pitches. Overall, still looked great, but against a team like the Yankees, you can't even give up one bad pitch without paying the price. Guthrie just was disgusting.
Hopefully this weekend the O's can rebuild on their offense and the power they have shown a little bit lately. My hopes are for Wieters to get back with it, Jones to have a 3-3 or 4-4 night (he sincerely needs it), and Markakis keeps the slugging up. The reason I think those things are most important are because they are the heart of the lineup and that has been troubling all season.


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Oregon State Police troopers are continuing the investigation into Tuesday afternoon's fatal traffic crash that resulted in the death of 18-year-old Savanna K. Holloway, of Cascade Locks, along Highway 35 about 10 miles south of Hood River.
Holloway was a graduate of Hood River Valley High School in 2012 and attended Parkdale Elementary and Wy'east Middle School. According to the OSP, she had recently been attending Columbia Gorge Community College.
Savanna Holloway, a 2012 Hood River Valley High School graduate, touched many others' lives before her death on Tuesday.
Savanna's parents, Sheri and Scott Holloway, issued this statement on Thursday:
"We are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of our daughter Savanna, who died in an auto accident on Highway 35 Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012.
"We want to thank family and friends for all of their tireless help, support, love and prayers we have received. We want Nicholas Laurance to know that our thoughts and prayers are also with him and his family. It was a tragic accident that he could not have avoided."
Savanna was active in FFA and the Eagle wrestling program. Members of both groups met Thursday to grieve together and to talk about ways to help the family, said Trent Kroll, wrestling coach at HRVHS.
"Savanna was a member of our statistics crew from her freshman year through her senior year," Kroll said. "She spent evenings and weekends doing the jobs you don't often get much attention for: scoring, compiling, helping at tournaments and quietly taking care of more details than we can list.
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"Right now our thoughts are with Savanna's family and those close to her."
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Hood River Alliance Church will be hosting the service for Savanna at noon Saturday, Oct. 20, with a reception to follow. The address is 2650 Montello Ave. (at the corner of Rand and Montello). Desserts or salads for the reception would be appreciated.
Contributions to benefit the family can be made in care of the Hood River Alliance Church, Anderson's Tribute Center or May Street Elementary School.
On Oct. 16 at approximately 3:10 p.m., a 2004 Honda CRV sport utility vehicle driven by Holloway was trying to access Highway 35 from a gravel driveway on the east side of the highway, according to OSP Sgt. Les Kipper's initial information release on the crash.
According to Senior Trooper Mark Jubitz, who was on the scene within minutes along with Patrol Trooper Brent Ocheskey, the accident occurred just a few hundred feet south of milepost 92 near the Saw Tooth Roadhouse restaurant.
According to OSP, when Holloway entered Highway 35, she pulled in front of a northbound flatbed truck loaded with pears and the truck collided into the driver side of Holloway's Honda.
The flatbed truck's driver, Nicholas V. Laurance, 29, of Mt. Hood-Parkdale, was not injured.
Holloway was pronounced deceased at the scene.
Jubitz confirmed an additional driver was involved in the accident, but was uninjured. The third driver's commercial truck and trailer — hauling wood chips — was traveling southbound on Highway 35.
Following the crash with Holloway's vehicle, Laurance's truck also reportedly struck the wood chip truck and trailer. Both Laurance and the commercial driver were wearing safety restraints.
As of press time, additional crash details were still under investigation. A final crash report, according to Jubitz, should be issued within a week.
"The crash report is divided up among several troopers," said Jubitz. "With a fatality there are several components.
"Trooper Ocheskey will be writing the crash report and has interviewed a subject. We have called in a traffic reconstructionist technician who will diagram the scene. Another trooper has conducted an interview with the second subject. I have another section of the report. All portions will have to be completed before the report is issued."
Public reports posted on social media indicating that Holloway may have been in the area prior to the crash trying to recapture loose farm animals are still unconfirmed.
OSP troopers from The Dalles Area Command office are continuing the investigation. Senior Trooper Brent Ocheskey is the lead investigator.
OSP was assisted at the scene by Hood River County Sheriff's Office, Parkdale Fire Department and ODOT crews.
Arrangements for Holloway and her family are being handled by Anderson's Tribute Center.
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|The Art Market: Rich pickings in Moscow-on-Thames
|Resource:FT 2012-11-26 08:57:05
Russian art is all over London this week. First, the Saatchi Gallery opened its new double show on Tuesday. Part of this features Charles Saatchi's latest acquisitions, the other part is a selection of Moscow art from the 1960s to the 1980s, put together by London-based financier Igor Tsukanov, and including some of his own holdings.
This is followed next week by the Russian art sales, which tend to focus on 19th-century and early 20th-century art and objects. First comes MacDougalls, with a paintings sale on Sunday that is seeking up to £16.4m for 45 lots – although one of its stars, "Moonlit Night, Crimea" (1859) by Aivazovsky, estimated at £400,000-£600,000, has already found a private buyer. Another work by the same artist, showing a swooning couple on a gondola in Venice, is available for up to a punchy £2m. The catalogue says it belonged to a "senior Communist party official" in the 1930s – clearly one with surprisingly bourgeois taste.
Christie's continues with a joint paintings and works of art sale on Monday (pre-sale target up to £16m). Sotheby's then holds its Important Russian Art sale on Monday evening and two others on Tuesday, aiming for a high pre-sale estimate of £24.4m for the series.
These figures may seem paltry in view of the fortunes owned by many Russians: Moscow is this year home to more billionaires (79) than New York (57), according to Forbes. Yet while Russian buyers are very active in international art – both modern and contemporary – they have less interest in their home-grown creators. Jo Vickery, Sotheby's department head, qualifies the market for Russian art as "stable", and the firm has ended its paintings auctions in New York to refocus them on London, where some 500,000 Russians are now thought to live.
Hardly a week goes by without news of a new online site for selling art, so it seems inevitable that there will be consolidation in the sector. Blacklots.com, a nifty idea from former Phillips de Pury chairman Rodman Primack to hold "flash" auctions online of one or two items every day, has been absorbed into Paddle8. The brainchild of Alexander Gilkes, another former Phillips man, this organises online "curated shows" with galleries and for fairs; it got $4m this year from investor Mousse Partners. However, it has "re-skinned" itself as a virtual auction house specialising in charity auctions, as well as adding an inventory management system – an area in which the site Collectrium is already active.
Russian investor Sergey Skaterschikov has been looking closely at the whole online sector for art, and says he is not seeing the predicted boom in business so far. "In Silicon Valley, we were used to seeing other e-commerce companies multiplying their turnover by three or four in a single year," he says. "But this hasn't happened in the art sector. I am not sure anyone has cracked the model yet." As analyst Anders Petterson of ArtTactic puts it: "The market is slow in embracing the online model because the art market remains highly individualistic, and people still like the personal aspect of buying art."
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A growing trend in the art market is the way auction houses are holding more selling exhibitions. Christie's in New York on Saturday opens a show of new work by realist painter Jacob Collins; next year it is showing contemporary Chinese ink painting in New York and Hong Kong. Sotheby's, meanwhile, has just shown Wanderlust, curated by adviser Nicolai Frahm in its New York gallery S2. It has also shipped a lot of 19th-century European decorative art to Hong Kong in the hope of interesting Chinese buyers in everything from fiddly porcelains and silver to a sensual Godward painting. But although some of the shows are organised in co-operation with dealers, the trade is looking askance at these initiatives, which they see as a worrying encroachment on their traditional territory.
With Christmas around the corner, the pop-up shop organised by Studio Voltaire in London's Mayfair offers artists' creations by the likes of Jeremy Deller, Mark Leckey, Mark Titchner, Cory Arcangel and Paulina Olowska – homewares, clothes, etchings, photographs, bags, T-shirts and scarves. The price range is from just £1 to £20,000. The shop aims to raise money for Studio Voltaire, a south London-based arts organisation that houses 45 artists, and has nurtured such talents as Turner-shortlisted Spartacus Chetwynd and given exhibitions to Phyllida Barlow and Liam Gillick.
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There has already been extensive coverage of the problems of Sheikh Saud Al-Thani. He is one of the world's biggest art "buyers" but, according to three auction houses who have just obtained a world asset-freezing injunction in a London court against him, he sometimes fails to pay for his purchases. Sheikh Saud spent almost $20m in a sale of ancient coins in New York earlier this year, but has yet to pay for them, and finally auctioneer AH Baldwin and two other firms took him to court. The injunction judgment of the London court states that Sheikh Saud also owes £4.3m to Bonhams, $42m to Sotheby's and undefined sums to four other unnamed auctioneers. Bonhams and Sotheby's refused to comment.
Meanwhile a public filing at the New York Department of State lists assets that he has pledged to Sotheby's Financial Services: four Patek Philippe watches, including one that he bought for $11m in 1999, diamond rings, 50 works of tribal art, a Fabergé egg (presumably the Winter Egg, which made $5.5m at Christie's in 1994) and hundreds of rare books. No total is given for the pledged works. In its SEC filing for the third quarter, Sotheby's notes: "As of September 30 2012, $56.1m ... was due from one buyer," but this person is not identified.


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'You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," Rahm Emanuel famously told a group of corporate executives a little more than four years ago, when he was President-elect Obama's chief of staff. Emanuel's words apparently have been forgotten in the nation's capital, where lawmakers manufactured a potentially serious crisis by timing billions of dollars of tax cuts to expire at the end of 2012, days before huge across-the-board spending cuts were set to take effect. The deal that the Obama administration struck this week with Congress to avoid sending the country over this so-called fiscal cliff did little more than push the tough bargaining off for another day, when the stakes may actually be higher.
We reached this point because Democrats and Republicans have repeatedly failed to reconcile their political and philosophical differences over the struggling economy and the mounting federal debt. The outlines of a "grand bargain" seem obvious: higher taxes, less military spending and slower growth in entitlements, particularly Medicare and other healthcare programs. Such a deal requires members on both sides to depart from party orthodoxy, which means it requires both political courage and the right incentive to act.
One might have thought the fiscal cliff provided that incentive, with the government's top economists warning that the country would quickly fall into another recession if the across-the-board tax hikes and spending cuts went into effect. Nevertheless, the grand bargain again proved elusive. Granted, the GOP agreed to the first major increase in tax rates in almost two decades, albeit only on some of the households in the top bracket. But the compromise that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) worked out with Vice President Joe Biden raised less than half the revenue President Obama sought, and included none of the simplifying, pro-growth reforms both sides say they support.


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Has anyone recently been up that trail from humber park to the summit of san jacinto peak in the last few days or week?
i am considering hiking/skinning up that trail to san jacinto peak and then skiing down.... i was wondering how much snow coverage there is the trail given all this new snow. thanks!


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newtype Vect k b = V [(b,k)] deriving (Eq,Ord)
Elements of Vect k b are k-linear combinations of elements of b.
Whenever we have a mathematical structure like this, we want to know about building blocks and new-from-old constructions.
We already looked at one new-from-old construction: given free k-vector spaces A = Vect k a and B = Vect k b, we can construct their direct sum A⊕B = Vect k (Either a b).
We saw that the direct sum is both the product and the coproduct in the category of free vector spaces - which means that it is the object which satisfies the universal properties implied by the following two diagrams:
So we have injections i1, i2 : Vect k a, Vect k b -> Vect k (Either a b), to put elements of A and B into the direct sum A⊕B, and projections p1, p2 : Vect k (Either a b) -> Vect k a, Vect k b to take them back out again.
However, there is another obvious new-from-old construction: Vect k (a,b). What does this represent?
In order to answer that question, we need to look at bilinear functions. The basic idea of a bilinear function is that it is a function of two arguments, which is linear in each argument. So we might start by looking at functions f :: Vect k a -> Vect k b -> Vect k t.
However, functions of two arguments don't really sit very well in category theory, where arrows are meant to have a single source. (We can handle functions of two arguments in multicategories, but I don't want to go there just yet.) In order to stay within category theory, we need to combine the two arguments into a single argument, using the direct sum construction. So instead of looking at functions f :: Vect k a -> Vect k b -> Vect k t, we will look at functions f :: Vect k (Either a b) -> Vect k t.
To see that they are equivalent, recall from last time that Vect k (Either a b) is isomorphic to (Vect k a, Vect k b), via the isomorphisms:
to :: (Vect k a, Vect k b) -> Vect k (Either a b)
to = \(u,v) -> i1 u <+> i2 v
from :: Vect k (Either a b) -> (Vect k a, Vect k b)
from = \uv -> (p1 uv, p2 uv)
So in going from f :: Vect k a -> Vect k b -> Vect k t to f :: Vect k (Either a b) -> Vect k t, we're really just uncurrying.
Ok, so suppose we are given f :: Vect k (Either a b) -> Vect k t. It helps to still think of this as a function of two arguments, even though we've wrapped them up together in either side of a direct sum. Then we say that f is bilinear, if it is linear in each side of the direct sum. That is:
- for any fixed a0 in A, the function f_a0 :: Vect k b -> Vect k t, f_a0 = \b -> f (i1 a0 <+> i2 b) is linear
- for any fixed b0 in B, the function f_b0 :: Vect k a -> Vect k t, f_b0 = \a -> f (i1 a <+> i2 b0) is linear
Here's a QuickCheck property to test whether a function is bilinear:
prop_Bilinear :: (Num k, Ord a, Ord b, Ord t) =>
(Vect k (Either a b) -> Vect k t) -> (k, Vect k a, Vect k a, Vect k b, Vect k b) -> Bool
prop_Bilinear f (k,a1,a2,b1,b2) =
prop_Linear (\b -> f (i1 a1 <+> i1 b)) (k,b1,b2) &&
prop_Linear (\a -> f (i1 a <+> i1 b1)) (k,a1,a2)
prop_BilinearQn f (a,u1,u2,v1,v2) = prop_Bilinear f (a,u1,u2,v1,v2)
where types = (a,u1,u2,v1,v2) :: (Q, Vect Q EBasis, Vect Q EBasis, Vect Q EBasis, Vect Q EBasis)
What are some examples of bilinear functions?
Well, perhaps the most straightforward is the dot product of vectors. If our vector spaces A and B are the same, then we can define the dot product:
dot0 uv = sum [ if a == b then x*y else 0 | (a,x) <- u, (b,y) <- v]
where V u = p1 uv
V v = p2 uv
However, as it stands, this won't pass our QuickCheck property - because it has the wrong type! This has the type dot0 :: Vect k (Either a b) -> k, whereas we need something of type Vect k (Either a b) -> Vect k t.
Now, it is of course true that k is a k-vector space. However, as it stands, it's not a free k-vector space over some basis type t. Luckily, this is only a technicality, which is easily fixed. When we want to consider k as itself a (free) vector space, we will take t = (), the unit type, and equate k with Vect k (). Since the type () has only a single inhabitant, the value (), then Vect k () consists of scalar multiples of () - so it is basically just a single copy of k itself. The isomorphism between k and Vect k () is \k -> k *> return ().
Okay, so now that we know how to represent k as a free k-vector space, we can define dot product again:
dot1 uv = nf $ V [( (), if a == b then x*y else 0) | (a,x) <- u, (b,y) <- v]
where V u = p1 uv
V v = p2 uv
This now has the type dot1 :: Vect k (Either a b) -> Vect k (). Here's how you use it:
> dot1 ( i1 (e1 <+> 2 *> e2) <+> i2 (3 *> e1 <+> e2) )
(So thinking of our function as a function of two arguments, what we do is use i1 to inject the first argument into the left hand side of the direct sum, and i2 to inject the second argument into the right hand side.)
So we can now use the QuickCheck property:
> quickCheck (prop_BilinearQn dot1)
+++ OK, passed 100 tests.
Another example of a bilinear function is polynomial multiplication. Polynomials of course form a vector space, with basis {x^i | i <- [0..] }. So we could define a type to represent the monomials x^i, and then form the polynomials as the free vector space in the monomials. In a few weeks we will do that, but for the moment, to save time, let's just use our existing EBasis type, and take E i to represent x^i. Then polynomial multiplication is the following function:
polymult1 uv = nf $ V [(E (i+j) , x*y) | (E i,x) <- u, (E j,y) <- v]
where V u = p1 uv
V v = p2 uv
Let's just convince ourselves that this is polynomial multiplication:
> polymult1 (i1 (e 0 <+> e 1) <+> i2 (e 0 <+> e 1))
So this is just our way of saying that (1+x)*(1+x) = 1+2x+x^2.
Again, let's verify that this is bilinear:
> quickCheck (prop_BilinearQn polymult1)
+++ OK, passed 100 tests.
So what's all this got to do with Vect k (a,b)? Well, here's another bilinear function:
tensor :: (Num k, Ord a, Ord b) => Vect k (Either a b) -> Vect k (a, b)
tensor uv = nf $ V [( (a,b), x*y) | (a,x) <- u, (b,y) <- v]
where V u = p1 uv; V v = p2 uv
> quickCheck (prop_BilinearQn tensor)
+++ OK, passed 100 tests.
So this "tensor" function takes each pair of basis elements a, b in the input to a basis element (a,b) in the output. The thing that is interesting about this bilinear function is that it is in some sense "the mother of all bilinear functions". Specifically, you can specify a bilinear function completely by specifying what happens to each pair (a,b) of basis elements. It follows that any bilinear function f :: Vect k (Either a b) -> Vect k t can be factored as f = f' . tensor, where f' :: Vect k (a,b) -> Vect k t is the linear function having the required action on the basis elements (a,b) of Vect k (a,b).
For example:
bilinear :: (Num k, Ord a, Ord b, Ord c) =>
((a, b) -> Vect k c) -> Vect k (Either a b) -> Vect k c
bilinear f = linear f . tensor
dot = bilinear (\(a,b) -> if a == b then return () else zero)
polymult = bilinear (\(E i, E j) -> return (E (i+j)))
We can check that these are indeed the same functions as we were looking at before:
> quickCheck (\x -> dot1 x == dot x)
+++ OK, passed 100 tests.
> quickCheck (\x -> polymult1 x == polymult x)
+++ OK, passed 100 tests.
So Vect k (a,b) has a special role in the theory of bilinear functions. If A = Vect k a, B = Vect k b, then we write A⊗B = Vect k (a,b) (pronounced "A tensor B").
[By the way, it's possible that this diagram might upset category theorists - because the arrows in the diagram are not all arrows in the category of vector spaces. Specifically, note that bilinear maps are not, in general, linear. We'll come back to this in a moment.]
So a bilinear map can be specified by its action on the tensor basis (a,b). This corresponds to writing out matrices. To specify any bilinear map Vect k (Either a b) -> Vect k t, you write out a matrix with rows indexed by a, columns indexed by b, and entries in Vect k t.
b1 b2 ...
a1 (t11 t12 ...)
a2 (t21 t22 ...)
... (... )
So this says that (ai,bj) is taken to tij. Then given an element of A⊕B = Vect k (Either a b), which we can think of as a vector (x1 a1 + x2 a2 + ...) in A = Vect k a together with a vector (y1 b1 + y2 b2 + ...) in B = Vect k b, then we can calculate its image under the bilinear map by doing matrix multiplication as follows:
a1 a2 ... b1 b2 ...
(x1 x2 ...) a1 (t11 t12 ...) b1 (y1)
a2 (t21 t22 ...) b2 (y2)
... (... ) ... (...)
(Sorry, this diagram might be a bit confusing. The ai, bj are labeling the rows and columns. The xi are the entries in a row vector in A, the yj are the entries in a column vector in B, and the tij are the entries in the matrix.)
So xi ai <+> yj bj goes to xi yj tij.
For example, dot product corresponds to the matrix:
(1 0 0)
(0 1 0)
(0 0 1)
Polynomial multiplication corresponds to the matrix:
e0 e1 e2 ...
e0 (e0 e1 e2 ...)
e1 (e1 e2 e3 ...)
e2 (e2 e3 e4 ...)
A matrix with entries in T = Vect k t is just a convenient way of specifying a linear map from A⊗B = Vect k (a,b) to T.
Indeed, any matrix, provided that all the entries are in the same T, defines a bilinear function. So bilinear functions are ten-a-penny.
Now, I stated above that bilinear functions are not in general linear. For example:
> quickCheck (prop_Linear polymult)
*** Failed! Falsifiable (after 2 tests and 2 shrinks):
(0,Right e1,Left e1)
What went wrong? Well:
> polymult (Right e1)
> polymult (Left e1)
> polymult (Left e1 <+> Right e1)
So we fail to have f (a <+> b) = f a <+> f b, which is one of the requirements of a linear function.
Conversely, it's also important to realise that linear functions (on Vect k (Either a b)) are not in general bilinear. For example:
> quickCheck (prop_BilinearQn id)
*** Failed! Falsifiable (after 2 tests):
The problem here is:
> id $ i1 (zero <+> zero) <+> i2 e1
Right e1
> id $ (i1 zero <+> i2 e1) <+> (i1 zero <+> i2 e1)
2Right e1
So we fail to have linearity in the left hand side (or the right for that matter).
Indeed we can kind of see that linearity and bilinearity are in conflict.
- Linearity requires that f (a1 <+> a2 <+> b) = f a1 <+> f a2 <+> f b
- Bilinearity requires that f (a1 <+> a2 <+> b) = f (a1 <+> b) <+> f (a2 <+> b)
Exercise: Find a function which is both linear and bilinear.


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Some women who spent the better part of the late eighties and early nineties wearing out their tape players with "Hangin' Tough" and "Step By Step," or forcing their Barbies to have sex with their Donnie Wahlberg dolls, might find this news shocking. For me, it makes total sense.
You see, I was born with a faulty gaydar. I suspect my mother ate too much fruit during my time in utero, and as a result I was destined to fall in love with the least heterosexual member of any given boy band.
Or... maybe I just liked guys who posed on the right side of large groups, wore Dwayne Wayne glasses, or resembled Tilda Swinton with a Jheri-Curl.
Anyway, no boy band could compete with NKOTB for my affections, and yes, inexplicably, Jonathan was my favorite.
|Admittedly, photographs like this render gaydar all but useless.
Happy Birthday to you
This is your day
On this day for you
We're gonna love you in every way
This is your day (Yo-ooour Da-aaay!)
Haaaaaappy Birthday to you (To You)
Happy Birthday to you
You´re still young
Age is just a number
Don´t you stop having fun
This is your day (Yo-ooour Da-aaay!)
Haaaaappy Birthday to you (To You)
To you (To You)
To (sung in falsetto) Yoooooooo-ooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuu!
I would play this in my room, swooning, imagining Jonathan--resplendent in his cross necklace and loafers--singing to me. Only later would I realize that this song was written for Jordan and Jonathan's mother (the "we" should have tipped me off, not to mention that the "age is just a number" line doesn't really apply to many twelve year-olds).
The fact that Jonathan could only be trusted with singing an asexual birthday ode to his mom, instead of something more manly like Joey's heartfelt, helium balloon rendition of "Please Don't Go Girl" or a tough, one-shoulder overall number like "You Got It (The Right Stuff)," should have been a red flag. But I continued in my adoration. He just seemed so... nice. Non-threatening. Probably good at teaching girls how to blow-dry their hair.
Incidentally, I went on to pin my prom hopes on a then-closeted classmate, cock-block myself for two years of college with a gay boyfriend, and marry a man who, in jest, likes to occasionally announce that he is gay (most notably right after our wedding ceremony).
I totally called Clay Aiken, though. So there's that.


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I don't mean to be dismissive of fears that education data gathered together in a big national pool could be misused, or hacked or leaked in some inappropriate way, but I do hate to see the downside expressed with little understanding of the potential upside. The fractured and disorganized state of education data has its downside, too.
A nonprofit startup called inBloom was one of the stars of the SXSWEdu event earlier this month in Austin, Texas. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York -- and funded well enough that it was able to host one of the big evening reception events for attendees -- inBloom was set up to host a vendor-neutral data service to collect student data gathered in many different software systems and services and feed it back in such a way that the data would become more useful.
One of the goals is personalization, or what the education world calls adaptive learning, where the software starts to understand which concepts the student understands and which ones he or she struggles with. It can adapt automated tutorials, or provide recommendations to the teacher about how to alter lesson plans to improve learning for that student. Everyone should be in favor of that, right?
Before the inBloom people got a chance to showcase their project to the SXSWEdu crowd, they were already under a cloud: a Reuters story by education reporter Stephanie Simon, "K-12 Student Database Jazzes Tech Startups, Spooks Parents." Organizations sounding the alarm included Parent Teacher Associations and the American Civil Liberties Union. The Electronic Privacy Information Center is suing the U.S. Education Department over rules that would allow the student information collected by government agencies to be shared with private organizations.
Echoes of the Reuters story continued to reverberate over the following weeks. "New York Parents Furious At Program, inBloom, That Compiles Private Student Information For Companies That Contract With It To Create Teaching Tools," reported the New York Daily News, playing up a connection with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., parent company of the New York Post and Fox News. The theme trickled down to a Denver Post blogger covering the story as it cropped up in complaints from parents at a Jefferson County, Colo., school board meeting.
It strikes me that at each stage the story lost a little more context. What is it that inBloom was supposed to accomplish in the first place? Or is it just a conspiracy between Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch to plunder the data about our precious children for commercial purposes? Parent protests seem to be motivated by the belief that this data could all be siphoned off into some marketing list and used to spam their children. The cast of characters plays neatly into the fears of everyone who worries about public education being privatized and corporatized.
The News Corp. connection is that one of its subsidiaries built the software infrastructure for the database. Going forward, inBloom stresses that it will operate the repository on a nonprofit basis, sharing data only at the direction of its member school systems. So, yes, data will be shared with commercial organizations -- organizations the schools contract with to provide educational software and services. That's the promise, whether or not you trust it.
School officials see enough potential that inBloom is part of statewide data integration initiatives in New York and Louisiana, as well as district-level pilot projects in Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, North Carolina and Massachusetts.
One reason for confusion: inBloom's stated goal is to play a middleware role in education application integration, with benefits that are understandably obscure to the average PTA mom. Frankly, when I attended the first in a series of SXSWEdu presentations explaining the service, I came away mystified by inBloom CEO Iwan Streichenberger's explanation. I understood that he was saying inBloom would magically solve all sorts of problems and make our education system infinitely better, but how exactly? Even the advocates of the service acknowledge that what it does is boring, by itself, a matter of providing the integration plumbing that will make multiple education software products work better together.
This is not a matter of dictating the standards for formatting, tagging and transmitting data because those already exist. Rather, inBloom aims to "operationalize" the standards with a data service that can broker connections between applications. In addition to promoting personalization, inBloom says it can assist by providing a catalog of educational Web applications and enabling single sign-on between them.


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LXer Weekly Roundup for 08-Feb-2009
At the beginning of the week Debian went into a deep freeze until their announced release date for Lenny on Valentine's Day. A group of developers have brought the dark horse of file managers Midnight Commander back from a deep sleep. Jimf exposed me to midnight commander, it was way over my head at the time and in a related article Carla Schroder says you "You Get What You Pay For" that talks about projects having a hard time making ends meet. Both of which I will be talking about again soon..
Ever since KDE 4 came out it has taken a lot, and I mean a lot of heat. Not all of it undeserved but still. The story seems to be changing tune however with the latest 4.2 update. Because when you can get Glyn Moody to ask himself if Linus jumped too soon in regards Linus's recent admission that he has switched to Gnome from KDE and get Bruce Byfield to say the wow factor has returned, you can't be doing too bad. A story sparked a debate in the forums about the merits of making KDE work on windows and challenging Microsoft on its own turf, and whether it is a wasted effort.
Here is something I was totally unaware of, apparently Windows 7 "Starter" which will be the one of the so far announced 6 versions of Windows 7 that will be aimed at the netbook market will only be able to run three programs at a time. Only three? Really? Why? Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. I don't mind though, I'm glad to watch. And an article that hit our newswire that spawned an online documentation project at thetuxproject.com
A recent article on the ascendant state of the WINE Project by Thomas Wickline got me to confess to how much, I have not used it. It got me thinking about it and I thought I would post this great article I found on LWN called "Common Wine Myths" Also, Tech Republic has a list of 10 obscure Linux applications you need to try that seems to have perked some interest.
I interview Jesse Trucks of LOPSA and share my opinion on "The Death of the Newspaper" and to wrap things up I have a nice piece of non-research enititled Netbook Linux at a Crossroads and Ken Hess asks "Are You Smart Enough To Use Linux?" Great way to alienate prospective Linux users Ken, telling them that Linux is really complicated and that they are probably too stupid to use it makes me ask, are you a Linux advocate, Windows advocate or just trolling?
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Dominick M. Dimacale 5/31/2007 4:21:23 AMGreat floral image here Marylee...Dominick #665430
Joze vauh 5/31/2007 4:33:31 AMI love colors. Nice compositio too.
Emily E. Bem 5/31/2007 4:33:36 AMGorgeous is EVERY way....super pov!!!! :) #4350135
Armando -. Arturo 5/31/2007 5:10:54 AMHow nice is this!!. wonderful capture Marylee,love the POV. #4350337
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Jennifer L. Alder 6/26/2007 3:22:49 PMCongrats on your Finalist, Marylee :) #4440497
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You are on such a roll, Marylee! Four finalist!WOW!WOW!WOW! #4441551
anonymous 6/26/2007 4:58:09 PMCongratulations on your beautiful finalist Marylee! #4441740
Allison Gaulin 6/26/2007 5:02:49 PMOh my gosh- have I missed this masterpiece? It is BEAUTIFUL Marylee- congrats!!! #4441801
Barbara Waldoch 6/26/2007 5:28:56 PMCongratulations on your beautiful finalist, Marylee! #4442097
Datha Y. Thompson 6/26/2007 6:57:48 PMGorgeous!! Congratulations Marylee :0) #4443292
randy dannheim 6/26/2007 7:19:34 PMMarylee, congratulations on your finalist and good luck in the next round - wonderful image. #4443623
Dinah K. Hampton 6/27/2007 5:04:46 AMWonderful image Marylee, congrats on the finalist. It's a beautiful photo. Love the POV taken on this one. #4446440
Karen M. Tawater 6/27/2007 8:28:59 AMJust absolutely gorgeous! Congrats on this being a finalist - Good luck Girl! #4448091
Jennifer L. Alder 6/27/2007 12:21:02 PMCongrats on your second place win, Marylee!!! This is just a stunning image! :) #4449428
Allison Gaulin 6/27/2007 12:28:59 PMYOU WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!! This is a STUNNING image Marylee- I hope you are celebrating!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #4449477
Violeta Harrington 6/27/2007 12:29:51 PMCongrast for the win!!!! way to go, Marylee! #4449482
Datha Y. Thompson 6/27/2007 12:32:11 PMCONGRATULATIONS on this Gorgeous WInner Marylee!!! :0) #4449501
Deborah M. Noell 6/27/2007 12:50:52 PMWAY TO GO!!!!!!! HUGE CONGRATS!!!!!! You ROCK!!!!! #4449600
Emily E. Bem 6/27/2007 12:57:29 PMYou are just soaring here, woman!
Kay E. Mahoney 6/27/2007 1:26:45 PMCongratulations on your second place winner. #4449842
Janine Russell 6/27/2007 10:38:39 PMMarylee, congratulations on your Second Place Win! #4451544
Sinta D W Plock 6/28/2007 9:57:38 AMCONGRATS Mary,way to go girl !!!
Sam Britt 6/28/2007 11:06:51 AMCongratulations on your winner, Marylee. #4453563
Donna W. Neal 6/29/2007 12:06:13 PMCongratulations Marylee #4457056
Jessie L. Cole 7/25/2007 4:58:52 AMWow I missed this one...! Way to go Marylee...! :) #4553664
Amanda O. Cannon 7/25/2007 5:08:52 AMCongrats to you on this winning photo. Its gorgeous!!!! #4553724
Joy L. Barber 7/27/2007 4:55:09 AMCongrats on your win! Daisies are my favorite flower I love the dof in this shot! #4566788
Sinta D W Plock 8/25/2007 12:13:36 PMCONGRATS girlfriend,this is GORGEOUS !!
Patrick R. McMullen 8/26/2007 5:02:35 AMCongratulations MaryLee! Nice use of the dof and great eye for the compostion also!
Bill Knaps 10/22/2007 12:41:57 PMCongrats Mary Lee and what a great shot....Bill #4962390
Jennie A. Dillman 11/3/2007 12:37:55 PMBEAUTIFUL MARYLEE..GREAT JOB.. THIS IS VIRGINIA FROM SOA...JENNIE ON HERE... #5023625
Shelly B. 11/6/2007 5:01:01 AMhow very pretty this is! Congrats to you!!!!!!! :0) #5034276
Jennie A. Dillman 11/6/2007 10:17:30 AMHEY LADY.. GLAD TO SEE THIS.. I KNEW IT WAS A WINNER WHEN I FIRST SEEN IT..BIG, CONGRATS!! JENN...va. #5035660
Sue Marshall 11/10/2007 6:49:50 PMHi Marylee big congrats to you girl what a beautiful image I am thrilled for you!! Sue :-) #5055693
Jennie A. Dillman 12/6/2007 6:49:38 AMWHAT TOOK THEM SO LONG ON THIS ONE.. I KNEW WOULD DO IT.. COMGRATS!!! JENN.. #5175118
Michelle Alton 12/6/2007 5:04:48 PMMaryLee...you have always been a big winner in my book. Congratulations on this! It's wonderful, and you are on a giant ROLL!
Michelle Alton 12/6/2007 5:04:48 PMMaryLee...you have always been a big winner in my book. Congratulations on this! It's wonderful, and you are on a giant ROLL!
Michelle Alton 12/6/2007 5:04:48 PMMaryLee...you have always been a big winner in my book. Congratulations on this! It's wonderful, and you are on a giant ROLL!
Susan Heath 12/7/2007 8:17:02 PMCongrats on this beauty!!!! #5181338
Mitzie Loland 12/8/2007 1:57:02 AMA beautiful photo Marylee :) #5182102
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Monday, April 26, 2010
My Vacation - Part 1 - Africa
If you, like most people, like your information neatly packaged in structured, speed-readable communication, the long and short of what follows is that my wife and I set out on an European vacation that was rudely cut short because of the volcano trouble. We decided to redirect to countries broadminded enough to offer citizens of India visas on arrivals (since we didn't want to waste time queuing up outside snotty bureaucratic satraps with bank statements and IT returns). Thus, we landed up in.......Uganda
Also, apologies if I seem uncommunicative but the fact is that Uganda has the feeblest internet in the world. And the missus isn't too keen on me spending hours on the computer, cursing silently at the monitor or pulling my hair out or both, as is my wont when the internet refuses to respond.
So, that's that. The complete executive summary. You don't need to read on, unless you are one of those very few in the world who have nothing else to do)
Life has been whooshing past these past few days.
First it was the proposed get-away. Did I mention it? The missus and I were planning to visit Europe for a long relationship-rebuilding vacation. This has been necessitated by the missus' firm conviction that I love my computer more than I love her. Completely untrue of course. I don't take my computer to dinner or to a movie. Not always anyway. That argument of course did not cut much ice and said vacation was planned in great earnestness and detail. Which Venetian canal to cruise down in gondola with gondoleer singing which Italian love ballad and so on.
But I digress. The said proposed vacation necessitated many subtle strategic moves such as ensuring that my Airtel bills and Icici credit card dues were paid off. They are direct descendants of Gnghis Khan where it comes to tardy settlement of dues, the aforementioned Airtel and ICICI chaps. I have heard that they behead their defaulters and pile up the skulls in neat little heaps outside villages as a deterrent to other potential defaulters. I'm a sentimental kind of guy. I'm very attached to my head, unattractive as it may be to other people. So I pulled out the old cheque book and did the necessary writing. I just don't remember if I dropped it into the box. Guess I'll find out. If they come at me with machetes, it was nice knowing you folks.
Coming back to the res, the next on the list was helping the missus pack our suitcases. This is an enterprise fraught with danger because my darling helpmeet, the apple of my eye, the nuclear reactor of the little submarine of my life, my safe and secure elastic rubber cord in the Great Bungee Jump that is worldly existence, is apt to get a tad ballistic when I can't find my things when she asks for them.
"Get me that striped shirt"
"Er, which striped shirt?"
"The black one, the one I've been telling you about for the last ten minutes"
I found something which answered loosely to that description.
"What is this?"she asked, holding the shirt up like an exterminator holding up a recently exterminated pest. Never a good sign.
"Black striped shirt?" I answered hopefully.
"This color is called 'blue'. These little squares are called checks. Stripes are – Oh, you're hopeless, Naren" and in a marked manner, got up and picked the shirt herself. I swear it wasn't there a moment ago. The missus must be a prestidigitator or something.
She went back to the suitcase.
"Now, please pay attention. AND SHUT THAT COMPUTER."
And so on. Finally she got the suitcases packed. She'd tucked in an enormous amount of stuff including my wedding suit aka my ticket collector disguise. "Just in case we go to the opera" she told me. I fervently hope we don't. No offense, but opera always sounds like people panicking in song. The missus doesn't care much for the music either, but she likes the spectacle.
"Have you called the cab?"
Thankfully, I had. Having thus saved my marriage by the merest skin of my teeth, we set forth for the Airport.
And to our dismay, were resolutely told by the Emirates people to take a walk. They didn't say that in so many words, of course. They are too well bred for that. But in the round about way so popular with the airline people, they told us that there was a volcano blasting away in Iceland which is why we couldn't fly to Rome, though Rome airport was open, because of back-log problems and they would be happy to refund us our money in due course or reschedule our flight as and when it pleased them.
First, dismay. Then anguish. Then anger (I chose the charged-with-sarcasm route, completely wasted on the rhinoceros hides that airline employees are equipped with). And then the missus, practical as ever, said "Where can I book tickets for some other destination?"....... (contd)
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Hahaha! Looking forward to part 2!
- April 26, 2010 at 11:41 PM
ROTFL! As always hilarious...waiting for part-2! :)
- April 26, 2010 at 11:54 PM
- Saumya said...
I have a feeling guys go through some sort of training to pick the wrong shirt on purpose. They are thereby absolved of further packing duties.
Very funny...waiting for the rest
- April 27, 2010 at 12:58 AM
I did not know Uganda gave visas on arrival to Indians :) Which other country does that (other than Thailand) ?
- April 27, 2010 at 1:16 AM
Oh lovely - travel mayhem with Mr & Mrs S! Will look for part 2. About the computer love - I call it my significant other's mistress - now we have a mobile mini mistress in the form of an Iphone! Sigh - a mere woman cannot compete :(.....but if it means we will get part 2, sorry Mrs. S, but please allow Mr. S some alone time with his computer! ;)
- April 27, 2010 at 5:29 AM
Semi-Regular reader, first-time commenter here. All your posts are funny but today's was howlarious, as they say! Keep it going! Can't wait to read Part 2!
- April 27, 2010 at 10:50 AM
Waiting eagerly for Par 2,3,4,.........
- April 27, 2010 at 11:40 AM
prestidigitator ....LOL!
- April 27, 2010 at 12:04 PM
Hi Mr.shenoy... newbie to your blog but liked it a lot. this post is very funny :)..waiting to see how you end up in africa :)
- April 27, 2010 at 7:30 PM
- mentalie said...
the customer service industry is full of rhinoceri. it's a new private sector CRM initiative i'm told. and much as i love animals, i'm tempted to shoot each and every one of them!
ps: yes, i'm one of the select few who have no life and always read your epistles to the end. in my defense, errr, umm, uhhh...
- April 27, 2010 at 7:43 PM
- Not Specified said...
As always hilarious!!!
I'm one of the few with loads of free time to while away.. your blog is one of my preferred getaways :)
So how was Africa?? Waiting eagerly for more details of your Ugandan sojourn !!
- April 27, 2010 at 8:16 PM
release the second too soon
- April 27, 2010 at 8:19 PM
- April 27, 2010 at 10:36 PM
Ha! I was hoping for a Africa vacation post ever since I saw the album on FB. Pliss be uploading part 2 as soon as your creative genius cleans it up with a few finishing touches.
- April 27, 2010 at 11:05 PM
In memory association tests, most rational men would associate Africa with Zulus, lions and Mt Kilimanjaro, but for me it will always be Kishore Kumar going
"..honeymoon Afreeeka!
Bale bale bale bale ballele
aiko liko aiko liko"
Jhoom machake chodooonga kyonki
meri lottery lag jaane waali hai!"
- April 28, 2010 at 10:01 AM
Awesome post!! Waiting for part 2.. Hope Mrs. Shenoy gives you some time with the Computer...
- April 28, 2010 at 12:05 PM
- Abhishek Bhardwaj said...
Funny post as ever !
Please write ur post more often.
Always eagerly waits for ur posts.
What a turnaround Europe to Africa !
Waiting for the next post !
- April 28, 2010 at 4:01 PM
Can't wait for the upcoming posts... pls post soon!! Sorry Mrs. Shenoy!!
- April 28, 2010 at 4:28 PM
- Drenched said...
Oh, so it was for this cancelled European trip that you were doing a Lido or Moulin Rouge #youchoose kinda poll on Twitter? Sad. I suppose at least in Uganda and other places of Africa you didn't encounter names (of volcanoes or otherwise) which seemed like they'd been named by someone who slept with his head on keyboard. Did you try to stand in the middle of the road and wave an "I heart Idi Amin" banner just to ruffle a few feathers? :D Or are the Ugandans too uptight about it? Pliss to continue the travelogue.
- April 29, 2010 at 6:00 PM
b-eau-ti-ful.... :)
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Friday, March 6, 2009
Froggie's Friday Book Review
Last week here I reviewed Gena Ayers Walls' book, "The Netherland Leatherlin Legacy and Allied Families Crane and Walls." When I opened my email a couple of days ago, I was pleasantly surprised to see an email from Gena, advising me that she had stumbled upon my blog and thanking me for reviewing her book. Also, Gena mentioned that she still has a number of books that are available for purchase. The cost of the Netherland book that contains 175 pages of documents and photographs and mentions over 10,000 names, is $65, with shipping and handling included.
From Gena's email I learned that she has now published a second family history book, entitled "Franklin Folks, Descendants of Job and Hannah Wheeler Franklin." Gena's new book chronicles this large family of Habersham, Georgia, beginning with Job and Hannah and their seven children, Nancy, Jeremiah Richard Warren, Wesley, Thomas Alfred, Jonathan Mitchell, Sarah Jane and Moses. According to Gena, Job and Hannah Franklin's seven children produced a total of 54 grandchildren, and today these descendants have familial links with almost everyone in Habersham County, Georgia. Published by Gateway Press, a division of the Genealogical Publishing Company of Baltimore, the 600 page book is 8.5 x 11 inches, hardbound, and contains 280 pages of photographs and evidentiary documentation.
The index included in "Franklin Folks" is a handy reference itself, since it contains over 10,000 names that represent approximately 1150 families. Among the surnames in the book's index are Allen, Adams, Barron, Belew, Benefield, Brown, Burrell, Carter, Church, Davis, Dawkins, Dodd, Dover, Edmonds, Fry, Garrett, Henderson, Ivester, Loudermilk, Rudeseal, Shirley and Shore families. "Franklin Folks," like the Netherland family book, can be purchased directly from Gena Ayers Walls for $55.00 plus $5.00 shipping and handling.
Gena's books, comprehensive and well-documented with copies of photographs and actual family records, are indeed finds for family researchers everywhere. If you have ties to Crane, Walls, Leatherlin/Neatherlin/Netherland, families, or to the Franklin family of Habersham, Georgia, these two books are must-haves.
To order a copy of either of these books by Gena Ayers Walls, please contact Gena by email at firstname.lastname@example.com, or by snail mail at: Gena Walls, 7418 Swanson Drive, Richmond, Texas 77469.
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On behalf of the IronPython team, I'm happy to announce the second beta release of IronPython 2.7.4. This release includes everything from IronPython 2.7.3 and earlier. Like all IronPython 2.7-series releases, .NET 4 is required to install it. Installing this release will replace any existing IronPython 2.7-series installation.
This is the last beta release. The final release is scheduled for August 10.
Improvements in IronPython 2.7.4 are mainly a collection of bug fixes, many of which are directed at getting IPython working.
Android and Silverlight 4 assemblies have been dropped from this version. The Android assemblies need some more work to be usable with Xamarin.Android, and Silverlight 4 is just plain dead.
For Visual Studio integration, check out Python Tools for Visual Studio which has support for IronPython as well as CPython, and many other fantastic features.
IronPython 2.7.4 is also available for embedding via NuGet. The main package is IronPython, and the standard library is in IronPython.StdLib. Because this is a prerelease package, you must use -IncludePrerelease on the command line or select "Include Prerelease" from the package drop-down menu.
A huge thanks goes out to Pawel Jasinski, Michael van der Kolff, and Aleksander Heintz, who contributed most of the changes for this release.


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East Rutherford, N.J. – After getting squeezed back at the
break, Rustler Hustler inched his way closer to the lead throughout the
allowance/optional claiming feature at the Meadowlands on Saturday before grabbing
the front in the lane and drawing off to a three-quarter length score.
Trained by
Patricia Farro and ridden by Chris DeCarlo, Rustler Hustler covered the mile
over yielding turf in 1:40.43 and returned $5.80, $3.40 and $3 as the favorite
in the field of seven colts and geldings.
Screenplay completed the $28.80 exacta and paid $4 to place and $3.60 to
show. Gimme Credit was another 3 ½ lengths
back in third, good for a $3.20 show mutuel.
4-year-old colt by Ecton
Park from the Cozzene
mare Cozzy Temper, Rustler Hustler posted his third win this season and sixth
lifetime in taking the Big M feature.
Live racing
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A humane officer with Better Days Animal League is currently investigating the abandonment of a Rottweiler/ shepard-mix puppy that was found by Carbaugh's Coin Laundry at the intersection of Maple Street and Cito Road.
Witnesses told officer Jeff Bliss a woman was walking the dog around 11 p.m. on Sunday, March 17, when she reached down and unhooked the dog from its leash. Witnesses reportedly tried to make contact with the woman, who fled the scene on foot. She is described as middle-aged with a large build, Bliss told the "News."
Anyone having further information regarding the abandonment of this five- to six-month old puppy should contact officer Bliss at 485- 0064.
Waterfall Woman Charged In Thefts
A 45-year-old Waterfall area woman has been arrested by the Mount Union Borough Police Department for allegedly stealing money from various accounts belonging to Mount Union Medical Center.
Wendy Wright was charged last Thursday with three counts each of unlawful taking or disposition and failure to make required disposition of funds. Wright allegedly took approximately $91,000 from the medical center's credit card, bank and petty cash accounts. The thefts occurred over a five-year period dating back to 2008. Wright was hired in 2004 as the medical center's business manager.
An affidavit of probable cause filed in the case indicates Wright used petty cash and the medical center's American Express credit card for her own personal use, such as for airfare, hotels, rental cars and vacations.
Wright has been on administrative leave since October 2012. She was remanded to the Huntingdon County Jail in lieu of $15,000 bail following her arraignment by Magisterial District Judge Mary Jamison. A preliminary hearing was tentatively set for March 19.
Woman Injured In Vehicle Rollover
A McConnellsburg woman was transported to Chambersburg Hospital last Friday morning for treatment of injuries suffered in a vehicle rolledover along Lincoln Highway.
According to state police, Lindsay M. Atherton, 23, suffered unknown injuries during the 9:22 a.m. accident in Todd Township. Atherton was injured when she lost control of her eastbound 2002 Toyota Camry, which crossed the road, struck an embankment and rolled onto its roof. Police did not say if she was wearing a seat belt. She will be charged with failure to drive on roadways laned for traffic.
Hit-And-Run Reported
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg investigated a hit-and-run accident that occurred last Friday morning in McConnellsburg Borough. Police said a legally parked 2011 Jeep Compass was struck on the left front corner at 9 a.m. by an unknown vehicle, which then fled the scene. The exact location of the hit-andrun was not revealed by state police.
Local Woman Crashes Car Into Dog Spa
An elderly Fulton County woman escaped injury when her automobile crashed into a dog spa in Hagerstown, Md.
The Washington County Sheriff's Office was called in to investigate the incident that occurred Friday afternoon at the Bow Wow Station & Spa LLC on Oak Ridge Drive. The woman, who was not identified, was reportedly bringing her dog to the spa at 1:15 p.m. The dog was sitting on the floor by the woman's feet and is accused of hitting the gas pedal while the woman was pulling into the spa.
Brake Line Cut
A vehicle parked at the Cardinal Glenn Apartments in Ayr Township had its brake line cut on Saturday, March 9. State police said the mischief is believed to have occurred at 2:15 a.m. Victim is a 37-year-old Mc- Connellsburg woman. Anyone having further information linked to this case should immediately contact state police Trooper Piasecki at 717-485-3131.
Car Hits Deer
A Hustontown man escaped injury when his 1996 Chevrolet Corsica struck a white-tailed deer along King Road.
According to state police, Alexander L. Bookheimer struck the deer before his car travelled onto the berm and struck a culvert at 8:14 a.m. The vehicle then rolled onto its roof. Bookheimer was wearing a seat belt and will be cited by state police for insurance violations.
Man Cited For Trespassing At Cardinal Glenn
Twenty-two-year-old Mc- Connellsburg resident Hakeem Lowery Jefferson has been cited through the office of Magisterial District Judge Wendy Mellott with criminal trespassing. Jefferson allegedly trespassed at the Cardinal Glenn Apartments on Friday, March 15, at 1:49 p.m. He had previously been given notice he was not permitted on the property.
Fort Littleton Man Accused Of Institutional Vandalism
Thirty-five-year-old John David Hartman of Fort Littleton is accused of institutional vandalism in connection with an incident at the Franklin County Prison. Hartman allegedly kicked out a cell door window during his incarceration on Thursday, March 7, state police in Chambersburg said.
Accused Of Violating PFA Order
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg have accused a McConnellsburg man of violating a protection from-abuse order last Wednesday.
According to reports, Roy Roger Martz Jr., 34, allegedly arrived at 328 Reservoir Road in Todd Township at 6:47 p.m. and refused to leave the property belonging to the victim, a McConnellsburg woman. Charges against Martz were filed through Magisterial District Judge Wendy Mellott.
Teens Charged In Fight
Two teenage girls have been charged with harassment following an alleged fight at Forbes Road Junior/ Senior High School on February 22. State police said a 13-year-old girl from Harrisonville and a 14-year-old Waterfall area girl were charged through Magisterial District Judge Devin Horne.
Unwanted, Unused Prescriptions To Be Collected
Pennsylvania State Police in conjunction with Fulton County Medical Center and the Fulton/Franklin County Drug and Alcohol Advisory Board will hold a prescription take-back event on Saturday, April 27. Recognized nationally, the event allows local residents to turn in unused, unwanted and expired medication. The local event will be held at the Medical Center between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Police Search For Juvenile
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg are currently searching for the whereabouts of a juvenile who has been missing since Thursday, March 14. The 15- year-old Fort Loudon area boy reportedly left his residence located at 150 Carrick Valley Road in Todd Township between 8:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. The juvenile, who was not identified by state police, may be in the Chambersburg or Waynesboro areas. Anyone having information regarding this missing teen should contact state police Trooper Garner at 717- 485-3131.
Mischief Reported
A 73-year- old McConnellsburg man told state police investigators a mailbox at 315 Valley View Drive in Ayr Township was damaged between 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 12. Anyone with further information linked to this case of criminal mischief should contact state police Trooper Miller at 717-485-3131.
Truck Strikes Utility Pole
A 2005 Ford F-150 struck a utility pole along Crossroads Road Monday morning, state police said.
The truck driven by a male juvenile from Mc- Connellsburg travelled off the slush- covered, Ayr Township roadway at 8:45 a.m. and spun counterclockwise into the pole. The teen was wearing a seat belt andwas not injured. He will be charged with failure to drive on roadways laned for traffic.
Police Make DUI Arrest
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg have arrested a McConnellsburg woman for driving under the influence of alcohol. Twenty seven-year-old Tasha Mae Knepper was stopped by state police along Lincoln Highway on Saturday, March 13, in Licking Creek Township. Charges will be filed through Magisterial District Judge Devin Horne.
Vehicle Towed From Crash Scene
A 2003 Subaru Legacy was towed from an accident scene in Bethel Township after after it crashed into a utility pole.
According to state police, on Monday, March 18, Tremayne A. Williams, 23, of Clearville, was travelling westbound when he failed to negotiate a lefthand curve in the Bethel Township roadway. The Subaru went onto the berm and struck the pole at 3:55 p.m. one mile east of the intersection of Pigeon Cove Road.
Williams was wearing a seat belt and escaped injury. He will be cited with failure to drive on roadways laned for traffic.
Two Arraigned In Pa. Turnpike Corruption Probe
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Two more defendants who are charged in cases involving their work at the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission have been arraigned.
Former turnpike commission chief executive Joseph Brimmeier and former commission employee Melvin Shelton showed up Thursday at a suburban Harrisburg district judge's office to hear the charges against them.
Both were released on $100,000 unsecured bond.
Eight defendants were charged Wednesday. Most of the charges relate to what state prosecutors call a "pay to play" scheme for contracthungry vendors.
Brimmeier allegedly helped ensure turnpike contracts were awarded to vendors who gave money to Democratic candidates. The grand jury says Shelton held himself out to be a labor relations specialist but acted more like a Democratic Party functionary.
Shelton declined comment. Brimmeier's lawyer says his client will be exonerated in court.
Boy Used School-taught Skills To Avoid Fire
CASTLE SHANNON, Pa. (AP) – A fire chief says a 10- year-old boy used fire safety skills he learned at school to save himself and lead his mom to safety from their burning Pittsburgh-area home.
Castle Shannon fire Chief Bill Reffner says the boy "knew to get down low and he crawled to the door and got out safely."
Ben Honsinger, a fourth grader at St. Bernard's School in nearby Mount Lebanon, says he remembers the lessons he learned in school from local firefighters about staying low to avoid smoke.
Honsinger says he was sleeping when a neighbor who spotted smoke banged on the door before 5 a.m. Thursday.
Ben says, "I started lowcrawling down the stairs. I was ... scared, but I just remembered that."
The chief says the fire likely resulted from an electrical problem in a vacant duplex unit under renovation.


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Gilded Lace Shawl
Pattern Type: Knit
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Sizes Included: 36" square
Yarn Lines: Gloss DK Yarn
Yardage: 984
Needles/Hooks Suggested: Size 7 (4.5mm): 47" or longer circular
Fiber Type: Wool & Blends
Weight: DK
Lace shawls come in many shapes and sizes. Ilove working with lace weight yarn; however,once the weather begins to cool its just not quiteenough warmth for me. For me this shawl is theantitheisis of lace knitting. DK weight yarn,straight geometric shapes...and well I do lovebold colors, so that part is noting new for me.Taking a traditional square shawl shape andadding in additional "squished squares" (as mymiddle school math teacher referred torhombuses) brings a lovely lace detail. This laceshawl is making me wish for wintery weather so Ican show it off!
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DailyDirt: Anthropomorphizing Animals
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
- Orangutans at a Milwaukee zoo get to play with iPads and even have access to the internet. Pretty soon the zookeepers will have to install internet filtering software so that these orangutans don't try to gamble away their bananas via online casinos. [url]
- The "Monty Hall Dilemma" is a probability problem that most people don't solve correctly by instinct, but some birds seem to? Given "three doors" with mixed grain as a prize, pigeons seem to learn how to optimize their door-choosing strategy better than people. [url]
- People like sledding on snow-covered hills with inner tubes and lunch trays. Crows like to sled down snow-covered rooftops using jar lids. Sledding is just fun, but you'd think that animals that can fly wouldn't be so entertained by sliding along the ground.... [url]
- To discover more interesting biological curiosities, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]


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Gerard Butler Enjoys Fred Segal Lunch with Friends!
Gerard Butler dons a cool pair of shades while heading out for lunch with friends at Fred Segal on Monday (October 7) in West Hollywood, Calif.
The 43-year-old actor was seen kissing model Alexandra Durlene on the cheek before saying goodbye.
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The day before, Gerard rocked a plaid shirt while arriving on a flight at LAX Airport in L.A.
It was recently announced that Brenton Thwaites is joining the cast of Gerard's upcoming film Gods of Egypt.
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As President Obama prepares to speak at a joint session of Congress, the lines in the sand over a public option in healthcare reform are wearing thin for Democrats.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi says there will be no healthcare reform legislation in the House without a public option. Democratic centrists say the Senate cannot pass any bill that has a public option in it.
But there is broad and robust agreement among Democrats on a more critical point: Congress must move on healthcare this fall. Put another way: It's time for leadership – and not only from the White House.
"We as a caucus know where we are and what we can get," said Senate majority leader Harry Reid after a caucus lunch today.
Sen. Max Baucus (D) of Montana, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, has been leading bipartisan negotiations over healthcare reform with the so-called Gang of Six since last spring, signaled Wednesday that he is about out of patience.
"There is a time and a place to discuss and to reach decisions," he said. "Today, I told leadership, the president, Democrats, ranking member [Charles Grassley] and others that next week we are going to mark up a bill."
But he also signaled that a public option won't be part of that bill. "Senate Democrats know the importance of passing healthcare reform and also know that to get it passed, we need 60 votes," he said after the caucus meeting today. With the loss of Sen. Edward Kennedy (D) of Massachusetts, Democrats – including the two Independents who vote with them – are down to 59.
The public option is a non-starter for Republicans, too. But for now, the minority party isn't the issue. Democrats need to rally their own members around a bill and restore momentum to their president's agenda.
The great divide
On one side of the intra-party fault line are the dozens of conservatives and moderates that gave Democrats their majorities in the House and Senate. Many got hammered at home over the August recess by voters alarmed at the prospects of a big government role in healthcare.
On the other side are party progressives who campaigned on a public option and don't want to see it negotiated away. They say the public alternative to private health insurance is critical, because it gives private insurers incentive to lower the cost of healthcare
"It's important to have a genuine incentive to insurance companies to respond. Otherwise, the only incentive for them is just to accept more payments and then go on doing what they've done before," says Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D) of Hawaii, a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Hawaii has had a public option for health coverage since 1974.
In a leadership shuffle today, Sen. Tom Harkin (D) of Iowa left his chairmanship of the Senate Agriculture Committee to chair the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee left vacant by Senator Kennedy. Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D) of Arkansas became the first woman to chair the Agriculture Committee.
Still optimistic
"Do I think a public option is still possible? With the right leadership and the president weighing in, yes I do," said Senator Harkin, after Wednesday's caucus meeting.
Harkin says that it's important to have floor votes on a public option to see where Democrats stand. "Three committees in the House and one in the Senate have passed a public option. To say that the Senate doesn't have 60 votes when you've never tried it means you're not for the public option," he said.
"We need to find out why someone opposes a public option, and to say: What else can we do for you that will make you more comfortable voting or the bill? That's leadership," he adds.
Freshman Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D) of New Hampshire says that she still supports a public option, but "my first priority is getting healthcare passed and figuring out how to get the votes to do that."