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Sangeet Pratiyogita (Music Competition)
- Organized by Shree Baba Harvivallabh Sangeet and Research Academy
To encourage the young to appreciate and perfect themselves in the field of
Hindustani Classical Music, and to bring out the best amongst the competitors,
an open competition in Hindustani Classical Music was started by Shree Baba
Harivallabh Sangeet Mahasabha (Regd.) in the year 1979. Since then it is
organized every year.
General Rules for the Music Competition:
There are Four Categories for the competition namely:
There are Two Age Groups namely:
There are Three Prizes in each category
To & fro Second class train fare will be given to
the First position Winners (Male). In case of female winners, to & fro second
class train will also be given for one escort (in case, accompanying the
In addition, the winners from the Senior Age Group (Varishth Yuva Varg) will be
initiated as 'Performing Artists' during the Shree Baba Harivallabh Sangeet
Sammelan next year.
Music Competition 2014 – A Note for the Participants
The Music
Competition 2014 will be held on December 23, 24, and 25, 2014. The
Competition will
start at 10.00 A.M. on all the days and will continue till late in the
The Schedule of
Music Competitions 2014 is as follows:
25, 2014
Senior Age Group
– Non - Percussion, Percussion.
Accommodation in
Halls & Dormitories is available on request (on first come first served
basis) at Shri Devi Talab Mandir and Shri Kali Mata Mandir in Devi Talab
Complex. Arrangements have been made to provide Beddings on Hire @ Rs.50/-
per day.
Please send your requests on
phone to Shri Mahesh Dixit, Chairman Accommodation Committee at
098156-27634 or in writting to Sh. S. S. Ajimal C/o. Leader Valves Ltd;
Industrial Area, Jalandhar 144004, Phone : 0181 – 2490666, 2490777, 2490888
Attention – Participants:
Special Recognition will be given to Dhrupad Gayan
All accompanying instruments – Harmonium, Sarangi, Violin, Swar Mandal etc. will
be given same weightage and will be taken at par for the purpose of counting the
1. Categories
competition will be held in the following categories of Classical Music
Vocal – Gayan-Kanth
– Non – Percussion – Swar Vadya
– Percussion – Taal Vadya
- Thumri, Dadra, Tappa
2. Age
There are the following Two
age groups in each category :
Sr. No.
Junior (Yuva Varg)
to 16 Years
as on 1st Day of Competition.
Senior (Varisht Yuva Varg)
to 25 Years
3. Time Allowed:
Junior age group (Yuva
Varg) – 6 to 8 minutes.
Senior age group (Varishth Yuva Varg) – 8 to 10 minutes.
This time duration includes the time taken by the competitor for the tuning of
instruments etc.
A warning bell will be sounded to indicate that only 2 minutes are remaining
and the competitor should wind up the performance within the next 2 minutes.
The Final bell will be sounded at end of allotted time to tell the competitor
to stop the performance.
Negative marks will be
given if the competitor fails to complete performance by the final bell.
4. Prizes, Awards & Recognitions:
All the contestants shall
receive "Certificate of Participation" from Shree Baba Harivallabh
Sangeet Mahasabha.
The winners securing First,
Second and Third position shall be awarded Cash prize, Medal / Memento and
Merit Certificate.
The winners from the Senior age group (Varishth
Yuva Varg) shall be initiated as 'Performing Artists' during the next year's
'Shree Baba Harivallabh Sangeet Sammelan' and shall be given an opportunity to
perform during at the 'Sangeet Sammelan'.
The committee may reduce
the number of prizes in a particular category/age group if the number of
contestants falls short of Six ( 6 ) in that particular category/age group.
The judges may, in
exceptional cases, in consultation with the Music Competition Committee, award
Special prize to a competitor whose performance merits special consideration.
5. Accompanists with the competitor:
A maximum of Two ( 2 )
Accompanists will be allowed to accompany the competitor. However, a competitor
in Vocal category, in addition to the two accompanists, will be allowed to play
Tanpura or Swarmandal himself/herself.
Accompanist (on Tabla,
Harmonium, Tanpura) can be provided on a request made at the time of submitting
the application.
6. Application for
The participants shall seek
entry to the competition by submitting an application in the prescribed format,
available from the office of General Secretary of the Mahasabha at the under-noted address and also at the Site Office of the Mahasabha at Devi Talab Mandir
(only on the day prior to the commencement of the music competition). The
participant can also download the application ( Click to download ). The application sent by
post/courier will be accepted at the following address:
Mrs Purnima Beri,
General Secretary, Shree Baba Harivallabh Sangeet Mahasabha (Regd).
Care - Leader Valves Limited, Industrial Area,
Jalandhar City - 144004, Punjab
7. Last Date for Submission of
Application Form:
The last date of receipt of Application (along
with Entry fee of Rs.150/- for Junior Category and Rs. 200/- for Senior
Category, Proof of age & two recent passport size Photographs – one affixed on
the application form and the other enclosed with it) sent by post/courier will
be Two ( 2 ) days prior to the commencement date for the competition.
The Applications will also
be accepted at the 'Harivallabh Site office' at Devi Talab Mandir, Jalandhar,
One ( 1 ) day prior to the commencement date for the competition, from 10 A.M to 5 P.M.
Entries to the competition
will close at
5.00 P.M. ONE day prior to the commencement date for the
competition and final list of competitors drawn immediately thereafter.
8. Late Entries:
Competitors who wish to
submit their applications after the deadline may be allowed to present their
applications beyond 5.00 P.M. (ONE day prior to the commencement
date for the competition) with a late fee of Rs.100/- per day.
Supplementary lists of such
contestants will be prepared and appended to the main lists.
However No late entry will
be entertained for a particular category/age group after the judgment in that
particular category/age group has been completed.
9. Entry
Entry fee for the competition is 150/-
for Junior Category and Rs. 200/- for Senior Category.
The competitors who send
their application by post/courier should send their entry fee through a bank
draft drawn in favour of Shree Baba Harivallabh Sangeet Mahasabha, payable at
Jalandhar, Punjab.
Those submitting their
application forms by hand at the Harivallabh Site Office at Devi Talab,
Jalandhar, can pay the Entry Fee in the form of a bank draft drawn in favour of
Shree Baba Harivallabh Sangeet Mahasabha payable at Jalandhar or in Cash at the
site office and obtain a receipt for the same.
10. Exemption from Entry Fee/ Late Fee:
No Entry Fee/ Late Fee will
be charged from the competitors who are staying in an orphanage/destitute home,
provided they produce a written certification for the same from the head of
that institution.
11. Proof of Age:
The participants shall
attach documentary proof of his/her age with the application. Legible photocopy
of a document will be accepted. However, in case of dispute the contestant
should be able to produce the original document.
12. Lists Of Competitors:
List of competitors whose
application forms are received within the deadlines will be prepared and
displayed in the office of the Mahasabha at 6.00 P.M. a day prior to the commencement of
the competition. Supplementary Lists of those who submit their applications
with late fee will be displayed from time to time and shall be appended with
the main list.
13. Order of Participation:
Draw of lots will take
place at 6.00 P.M a day prior to the commencement of the competition to
determine the order of participation in each category & age group.
A list of order of
participation will also be displayed at the venue of the competition
immediately thereafter.
Competitors, whose entries
are received with late fee, will be entertained at numbers that come after the
completion of that particular category/age group from the main list.
14. Judges:
There shall be a panel of three judges (at all
levels of competition) for the conduct of competition whose judgment will be
final. The committee will decide norms of judgment.
Each judge will hand over the judgment at the completion of performance by a
competitor for tabulation by the Music Competition Committee.
The decision of the judges will be final, and no
objection whatsoever will be entertained.
15. Criteria for Judgement:
The performance of the
competitors will be judged as per the following criteria:
Vocal – Gayan, Kanth
Sangeet :
of Raag & Correct Intonation of Swaras,
Variety & Perfection of Taans,
in Taal & Lay
Standard & General Impression in Presentation
Non-Percussion – Swar
Vadya :
of Raag & Correct Intonation of Swaras,
Variety & Perfection of Taans, Toras & Jhala
in Taal & Lay
Standard & General Impression in Presentation
Percussion – Taal Vadya :
of Taal
Variety & Clarity of Bol
16. Discipline:
Every competitor is
required to be present in the competition hall when his/her name is announced
for presenting item. In case the competitor fails to reach the stage even after
three calls, he/she will stand disqualified from the competition.
The participants will
observe strict discipline and any of them found indulging in indiscipline of
any nature (such as approaching the committee or judges, disrespect towards
committee members, judges, use of foul/derogatory language etc.) are liable for
disqualification from the competition.
17. Declaration of Results/
Presentation of Awards:
The result of the competition will
be declared immediately after the competition of a particular category is over.
Awards will be presented to the
winner of First, Second and Third positions (& Special Prizes, if any) on
the first day of Shree Baba Harivallabh Sangeet Sammelan (around 8.00 P.M.)
18. Participation by First Prize
Competitors who were declared as
First Prize winners in a particular category & a particular age group,
during the earlier held "Harivallabh Sangeet Pratiyogita" also referred to as
'Music Competition' will not be allowed to compete in the same category &
age group again.
19. Review of Rules
The Mahasabha
reserves the right to amend any rules to make the competition more meaningful
and transparent.
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Snooki Tries on Wedding Dresses Ahead of Jionni LaValle Nuptials: See a Picture of the Pregnant Bride-to-Be
Say yes to the dress! With her wedding to fiance Jionni LaValle and the birth of the couple's second child mere months away, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi is in full-on planning mode. One of the items on her to-do list? Picking out a wedding dress!
PHOTOS: Celeb wedding dress predictions
On Thursday, May 29, the pregnant Jersey Shore alum, 26, took to her blog to share a photo of herself trying on gowns for her big day. The picture shows the reformed party girl in a vintage-y lace number with a low back and strings of pearls draped across her shoulder blades.
"This is NOT [the] dress, but something like it," the second-time mom-to-be wrote under the selfie. "How gorgeous is this dress? I loved it but needed more of an UMPH. I'm too short for an elegant mermaid dress, but I loved how vintage and classy this was. Can't wait for the big day to show you all the dress I did pick out!!! Xoxoxo"
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As previously reported, the Snooki & JWoww star plans to say "I do" to her fiance of two years this fall—around the time she's expecting her second child, a baby girl. (She and LaValle, 26, are already parents to son Lorenzo, 20 months.)
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"I can clarify that our wedding is still on, and we are madly in love with each other," she gushed to Us Weekly back in April, when she first revealed her second pregnancy. "We've waited long enough and cannot wait." She added later in a blog post: "Jionni and I are VERY happy together. He's my best friend and I'm his...The wedding is still on as scheduled and it will take an apocalypse to change that."

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At 7:38 p.m. on June 14, the Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E voted unanimously to approve Georgetown University's 2010-2020 campus plan.
At 7:38 p.m. on June 14, the Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E voted unanimously to approve Georgetown University's 2010-2020 campus plan.
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Meeting at the luminous House of Sweden for its annual meeting, the Georgetown Business Improvement District heard from Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier and elected new directors.
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The 19th Annual Taste of Georgetown served up the culinary hits.
Tonight's ANC meeting will have updates on G.U. campus plans and Hyde-Addison development as well as discussion on changes to the Georgetown post office property.
Chef Mike Isabella held a welcome party -- "Tacos & Tequila" -- at his newest effort, Bandolero, for friends, foodies and neighbors May 29.
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POTSDAM The Potsdam Board of Education on Tuesday approved 11 members for the Joint Advisory Committee, a varied group of volunteers who will study merging the Potsdam and Canton school districts.
The committee will consist of 28 members, 14 from each district, who will meet once a month during the feasibility study to provide input and feedback to the consultants.
Potsdam Superintendent Patrick H. Brady said that, although he recommended 11 committee members whom the board approved, three more still must be found and approved before the first Joint Advisory Committee meeting next week.
Cantons still looking for a few, Mr. Brady said. Theyre having a special meeting on the 14th in order to make their appointment, but rather than put you guys through another special meeting, I would ask that we just find those three additional people and have you retroactively appoint them.
The committee will include students, teachers, parents, administrators and community members from both Canton and Potsdam districts.
The 11 members approved Tuesday include Natalie Higley, a high school parent; Kim Busch, a middle school parent; Maureen Moose, an elementary school parent; teachers Emily Brouwer and Robin Hart; Bill Sokol, a student; Brian Grant from Clarkson University; Melissa Cummings from SUNY Potsdam; Joann Chambers, a Potsdam administrator; Rob Bicknell, a community member; and Theresa Witmer, a retired music teacher.
The three spots left to fill are a non-teaching staff member, a senior citizen and an athletics leader.
The first work session meeting for the Joint Advisory Committee is scheduled for Nov. 20.
The board briefly discussed whether public comments should be allowed during the work sessions.
There will be other venues for public comment, Mr. Brady said. Theyre going to have a lot of work to do within that time period.
Mr. Brady said a subcommittee called the Communications Committee recently was established to help both public and internal communication efforts during the merger initiative.
The Communications Committee will meet Tuesday to decide whether public comment will be accepted during the monthly work sessions of the Joint Advisory Committee.
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At a fundraiser in May, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (paraphrased above) characterized almost half of the American populace as hopeless plebians desperately attached to the sore teat of the government. As a generally left-leaning graduate student dependent on federal research grants for income, I can only assume I'm included within this group. Maybe I should feel insulted, but I'd rather understand the worldview that allows a presidential candidate to become a Simpsons-style caricature of himself and still garner support from half the country. This could lead to a discussion of zero-sum games or the psychology of authoritarianism. For now, I want to focus on something more fundamental and (seemingly) nonpartisan - the notion of causality.
As far as I can tell from the rhetoric, the current Conservative narrative goes something like this:
Once upon a time there were two brothers, Lefty and Righty. Every day after school Righty would invest time into his lemonade stand, "Trickle-down treats", which he built with his own hands using personally obtained venture capital. By age 10 he had successfully incorporated all neighborhood lemonade stands into his company, allowing him to create 50 jobs for area children. He eventually went on to additional fame and fortune as the CEO of bootstrapped bootstraps, the finest purveyor of self-replicating footwear accessories. Meanwhile, Lefty delved into Marxist literature, writing diatribes on dialectical materialism whilst demanding the occasional handouts from Righty and thus depriving his brother from his grand ambition: opening the Grover Norquist bathtub emporium.Essentially, the message is that hard work leads to success; therefore, success comes from hard work. Likewise, laziness leads to economic hardship and dependency, meaning that poor people are lazy, entitled fuckwads.
This notion of economic causality is actually a very comforting thought, perhaps increasing the appeal of the right beyond their legitimate economic base. After all, most people (rightfully) believe they work hard and deserve the American dream - a house, two cars, and plenty of useless Chinese-manufactured crap to regift to their 2.5 kids when they move to Florida in their old age.
Yet the world is not causal. As great sages have said before me, "shit happens". Kids happen. Unexpected bills happen. Market changes happen. Still, many hold onto the notion that hard work guarantees success. Fortunately, as someone who can program, I'm in the position to play armchair economist and ask what happens when the only factors distinguishing the economic success of one person from another are the random vicissitudes of life. Now let's play make-believe with the economy!
Simulating the economy
Here's my scenario: In the beginning there are 500 families, each with 80 dollars to their names. I then simulate their economic histories through the course of 50,000 days (about 137 years), so there are multiple generations here. On each day of the simulation, I guarantee every family an income of 80 dollars. However, each family also has daily expenses that are sampled from a normal distribution, where the mean of the distribution is given by the following, where $x$ is total savings up to that point: $$ f(x) = \frac{80}{1+(0.01)0.995^{-0.01x}} $$ Basically, this function means that families with very low savings are spending almost all of their incomes on expenses, while wealthier families devote a much smaller portion toward expenses. I also set the standard deviation of the expense distribution to one-fifth of the income. This allows for families to lose or gain money with each passing day, though they do have a slight positive edge on average. Additionally, families with positive savings (those who aren't in debt) invest their savings, which yields returns (or losses) through a normal distribution with mean 0 and a standard deviation equal to 1% of the accumulated wealth of the family.
Now, I know the model is not taking into account many aspects of economic life - rare extreme disastrous events (black swans to use Taleb's terminology), loan interest, the idiotic spending habits of certain individuals. However, the main point I want to address is what happens when everyone follows the same (not unrealistic) economic strategy. My Python code is below. It runs the simulation, plots the economics histories, and plots the fraction of wealth accumulated by the top 20% and top 5% of the population over time. I encourage you to try it for yourself and modify it if you want. If you think I'm being a total idiot, I encourage you to show me a better way!
from scipy import stats import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # Run the simulation histories = [np.zeros(50000) for x in xrange(500)] income = 80. expense_func = lambda x: 1./(1.+0.01*0.995**(-0.01*x)) for his in histories: his[0] = income for i in xrange(1,50000): print i for his in histories: saved = income - stats.norm.rvs(loc=expense_func(his[i-1])*income,scale=income/5.) if his[i-1] > 0: his[i] = his[i-1] + saved + \ stats.norm.rvs(scale=0.01*his[i-1]) else: his[i] = his[i-1] + saved # Plot money vs. time for his in histories: plt.plot(np.arange(0,50000,50),his[np.arange(0,50000,50)]) plt.xlabel('time') plt.ylabel('Dollars') plt.show() # Plot fraction owned by top 20% over time wealth_frac = [] for i in xrange(50000): wealth = sorted([his[i] for his in histories]) wealth_frac.append(np.sum(wealth[400:])/np.sum(wealth)) wealth_frac = np.array(wealth_frac) # Plot out fraction owned by top 20% over time plt.plot(np.arange(0,50000,50),wealth_frac[np.arange(0,50000,50)]) plt.xlabel('time') plt.ylabel('Ownership by top 20%') # Plot fraction owned by top 5% over time wealth_frac = [] for i in xrange(50000): wealth = sorted([his[i] for his in histories]) wealth_frac.append(np.sum(wealth[475:])/np.sum(wealth)) wealth_frac = np.array(wealth_frac) plt.plot(np.arange(0,50000,50),wealth_frac[np.arange(0,50000,50)]) plt.xlabel('time') plt.ylabel('Ownership by top 5%') plt.show()
In the end the richest family ended up with 38,281,980 dollars, while the poorest had only had 1,528 despite the fact that they pursued the same economic strategies. I can only assume the richest family - represented by the black line in the first figure - would be lauded for their success, a testament to the value of hard work. After all, Grandpa Richy McRicherton started with 80 dollars in his pocket and ended up a multi-millionaire. Meanwhile, the poorer families might be decried for their use of public services and desire to fund them.
Obviously this wasn't totally realistic, since no one ended up in debt in the end, but the inequalities stand out over repeated simulations. A couple issues - although the figures appear to show that the top 20% started with 50% of the wealth, this is actually due to a sharp upswing in inequality at the beginning of the simulation as the families depart from the equal starting values. Curiously, the top 20% reaches a high of owning approximately 80% of the wealth, which falls in line with the famous Pareto principle, but this may just be a coincidence. I would need to run the simulation for longer to see if the top 20% continues to account for approximately 65% of the wealth or if there is another longer term trend. Either way, enough inequality occurs to allow the top 5% to control between 35% and 40% of the total wealth in the end, and a few different runs with varying parameters show this to be robust to changes in the values used in the simulation.
So what can we conclude from this excercise (assuming my simulation wasn't totally naive)? 1.) inequality is the natural tendency for unconstrained economic systems and 2.) the causal economic storyline is bullshit.
John Galt can kiss my ass
Saturday, September 15, 2012
The Origins of Bureaucratic Architecture OR How I Learned to Quit Complaining and Love the Paperwork
I highly recommend reading Michael Lynch's Origins of Genome Architecture, if you haven't already. In short, it provides a bridge from understanding the fundamentals of population genetics - particularly genetic drift, mutation, selection, and recombination - to understanding how the quintessential features of eukaryotic genomes may have come about. Even if you don't completely buy into his non-adaptationist paradigm, I believe his thinking provides an excellent basis for forming null hypotheses when testing evolutionary scenarios. However, it has also shaped my thinking on some decidedly non-biological concepts - in particular, how bureaucracies become the mazes of paper-shuffling complexity we know and love. The analogy isn't perfect (no populations, non-random duplications), but I thought it was worth writing down. Here's how I see it, as told through the parable of Bob the accountant:
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Bob works at the University of University of HappyFunVille where he is universally loved by graduate students and faculty alike. He keeps track of the cash flow in the Department of Totally Fund-able Research. When members of the department come back from trips, they fill out a single small form that lists expenses and a funding string. They usually get their reimbursement within a week.
The University implements a computerized system to keep track of accounts across the whole campus. They announce that this will herald a new golden age of efficiency, as promised by Interfacial Solutions, the contractor hired to implement the software. Bob now has a new job function. He must provide an entirely new set of information to the software for travel reimbursement on top of maintaining consistent records for the Department. Travelers must now fill out a pre-authorization form with expected expenses a week before traveling in addition to the reimbursement form after coming back. Bob occasionally loses one of the forms, and reimbursement now takes an average of two weeks.
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On a whim, the Dean favors the Department of Totally Fund-able Research and provides funding to hire a new staff person, Bob II. In fact, Bob II ends up with the same job title and description as Bob I. Bob I complains to the chair of the department that Bob I is redundant, so the chair assigns Bob I to his old task of keeping the intra-department financial records while giving Bob II the task of dealing with the University's computerized reimbursement system. Bob I enjoys having less work to do, and Bob II excels at his specialized job. However, the Bob's don't coordinate their schedules, so no work gets done when either Bob goes on vacation. Mistakes in the reimbursement process, though rare from each Bob, now occur twice as often in total. Reimbursement now takes an average of 3 weeks.
The department switches all their records to the computerized system, eliminating Bob I's remaining function in the department. However, the University lacks a good mechanism for laying him off, so he just sits around accumulating the signs of old age until the day when he's eliminated in a massive budget cut.
EpilogueThe Dean diverts increasing resources to the computerized record center, allowing them to hire 3 new people in the reimbursement department, each of whom specialize in a separate task performed by their predecessor and each of whom have a non-zero probability of losing a form or making a typographical error. Reimbursements now take 6 months. The Dean proposes hiring new staff to solve the problem.
Friday, September 14, 2012
The Power of Randomness: Integration for the lazy
I had some great math teachers growing up, but they left out some of the techniques I use on a daily basis nowadays. I have a particular fondness for algorithms that rely on randomness to generate their solutions. True, they usually aren't the most efficient things in the world, but I think evolutionary biologists have an aesthetic predisposition to solutions with stochasticity at their cores. Also, they often work when nothing else will, including my will to perform symbolic integration.
A couple weeks ago I needed to calculate Bayes factors to evaluate whether the genotypes in a controlled cross were segregating according to Mendelian expectations. It was a bit more complicated than that, but the gist is that I wanted to evaluate the likelihood that the genotypes were segregating 1:2:1 relative to the marginal likelihood that the genotype probabilities were completely unknown.
Let's say that for a particular locus, I obtained perfect Mendelian segregation for double heterozygous parents in 100 offspring, meaning there were 25 AA, 50 Aa, and 25 aa individuals. I can obtain the likelihood for that particular data under the model of double heterozygous parents using the multinomial distribution. That is, I could calculate the likelihood as follows: $$ P(D|p=0.25,q=0.5)=\frac{100!}{25!50!25!}(0.25)^{25}(0.5)^{50}(0.25)^{25}=0.00893589 $$
That's easy enough. However, the marginal likelihood for the multinomial distribution under the prior probability that the genotype probabilities are completely unknown (a uniform prior) would be calculated using the following integral: $$ \int_0^1 \int_0^{1-q} \frac{100!}{25!50!25!} p^{25} q^{50}(1-p-q)^{25} dp dq $$ I was not going to try and integrate that, so I decided to let randomness do the work for me using Monte Carlo integration. This is a fairly naive technique in which I let the computer randomly select points in the domain under consideration (in this case between 0 and 1 along both the $p$ and $q$ dimensions) and then average. This average then approaches the integral as the number of sampled points approaches infinity. Also, in this case my multidimensional volume ($V$) is 1, as both axes of integration are of size 1. However, in general I would have to correct for the volume of the multidimensional domain of integration. In math-speak, I'm saying the following is true: $$ \int f(x)dx = \lim_{n \to \infty} V \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^nf(x_i) $$ where x could be of any dimension.
Below, I use Python to calculate the marginal likelihood of the multinomial using Monte Carlo integration with 1,000,000 random samples. In practice, I generally settle on around 100,000 for efficiency's sake, but more iterations will give a more precise answer. Here is the answer from Wolfram Alpha. I estimated the answer twice, and my results closely bracketed the actual solution.
import numpy as np from numpy import array, log, exp, random from scipy.special import gammaln ## Integrates over the two free parameters in the multinomial formula ## Helper function to calculate the factorial in order to get the multinomial probability # @param x The argument for the factorial # @return The logarithm of the factorial def log_factorial(x): return gammaln(array(x)+1) ## Helper function to get the multinomial probability # @param n The total number of individuals # @param xs A list of the numbers for each category # @param ps A list of the probabilities for each category # @param The multinomial probability def multinomial(n, xs, ps): xs, ps = array(xs), array(ps) result = log_factorial(n) - sum(log_factorial(xs)) + sum(xs * log(ps)) return exp(result) # @param n_genos The number of genotyped individuals at the locus # @param n_h1 The number of individuals homozygous for allele 1 # @param n_he The number of individuals heterozygous # @param mc_steps The number of steps to use for monte-carlo integration over the multinomial formula # in order to generate the marginal likelihood under a uniform prior def mc_integrate_multinomial(n_genos,n_h1,n_he,mc_steps=10000): p_H1 = random.rand(mc_steps) p_He = random.rand(mc_steps) samps = [] for i in xrange(mc_steps): probs = [p_H1[i],p_He[i],1-p_H1[i]-p_He[i]] if p_H1[i] + p_He[i] > 1.: samps.append(0.) continue samps.append(multinomial(n_genos,[n_h1,n_he,n_genos-n_h1-n_he],probs)) return np.mean(samps) >>> mc_integrate_multinomial(100,25,50,mc_steps=1000000) 9.6417526480793174e-05 >>> mc_integrate_multinomial(100,25,50,mc_steps=1000000) 9.7326408809908908e-05
There are better ways to do this - namely through importance sampling or MCMC. However, if most of the function's volume is not too constrained, plain Monte Carlo integration works well enough. In future posts, I will discuss MCMC more thoroughly, especially with respect to Bayesian analysis.
Saturday, September 8, 2012
The genome as Detroit - my reaction to ENCODE
Ten years ago we saw the culmination of two decades worth of work in the publication of the human genome, a bloated mess of a As, Cs, Gs, and Ts half-full of seemingly repetitive nonsense obtained at the price of a dollar per precious base pair. Then, the media fed the public's collective chagrin as they announced the paltry figure of 1% deemed "functional" at the time. That word - functional - only encompassed those portions of the genome known or predicted to be translated into proteins or transcribed into the limited suite of RNAs with well-defined catalytic roles at the time. Over the last decade - using a set of model systems from the weedy thale cress to the diminutive fruit fly - that word has evolved to encompass an alphabet soup of specialized RNAs, regulatory binding sites, and activity-modifying marks that have yielded ever-increasing insight into the dynamics of the eukaryotic genome. Of course each small step in that pursuit hardly merited the front cover of multiple high-profile journals. And so the ENCODE project bid the scientific community to hold its collective breath until this past Wednesday, when the fleet of ENCODE publications sailed forth into public view with a large "80% functional" above each masthead.
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Yes, 80% of the human genome was found to either produce some RNA, or sometimes bind to a regulatory protein, or contain marks indicative of transcriptionally active regions. The authors also demonstrated that, on average, most of these regions are less variable than expected if selection were not acting to constrain them. This does imply that certain subsets of these elements do have biochemical roles with enough impact on reproductive success to overwhelm the stochastic fluctuation of variant frequencies from generation to generation and that the data sets were large enough to detect these subsets. Yet the 80% figure implies, at least to the average person, that the overwhelming majority of our genomes cannot sustain mutation without a non-negligible impact on fitness, which would be extraordinary, but for now remains disingenuous.
The New York Times used a Google Maps analogy for ENCODE, and I thought this could fit quite well. I could envision the human genome as a major metropolis, Detroit perhaps. The downtown still contains the bastions of yesterday's economic glory, without which the city might completely turn to shambles. As someone viewing a Google map of Detroit, I could easily posit that these buildings still serve valuable economic and governmental functions, similar to how the ENCODE elements conserved across class Mammalia likely encode important developmental and housekeeping functions within humans. However, as I pan over the extremities of the city, I would find houses in various states of disrepair. Certainly, from my vantage point many would have all the characteristics of functional domiciles - roofs, driveways, fences - to discriminate them from rural areas of the country without human presence. Yet if I were to explore those areas on the ground level, I would find many of the homes abandoned. Granted, this wouldn't stop the occasional transient homeless person from squatting for certain periods of time; but that hardly meets the usual definition of functional.
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This is how I suspect much of the human genome works. Most of it is capable of binding the occasional transcription factor, transcribing the odd RNA, and accepting contextual epigenetic markings. On rare occasions the insert of a duplicated gene or the local rearrangement of the DNA may provide opportunities for sections with previously transient but useless biochemical activity to take regulatory roles that have non-negligible effects on fitness and eventually become conserved, much like how the introduction of a successful business into a dying community can drive the revitalization of existing infrastructure. However, like the successful business and its surrounding region, the conserved genomic elements wink in and out of existence on a longer timescale.
I am excited by the genomic "Google map" that the ENCODE project has provided us, and I am sure it will lend considerable insight into human disease when combined with the theoretical power of population genetics. I just don't think the authors should imply that everything with the characteristics of function is presently important.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
The Stationary Distribution: A third way
Ian Carroll helpfully reminded me that I had neglected the easiest (and most computationally efficient) way of calculating the stationary distribution of the Markov model in the previous post, and I would be remiss if I didn't demonstrate it and the logic behind its use. This time we take advantage of the definition of an eigenvector. Recall that our goal is to find the probability distribution of states that, when left-multiplied by the transition probability matrix, results in the same distribution. In math-speak, this is the following: $$ {\bf v^TP = v^T} $$
Now, with that in mind, recall (or learn for the first time if you're one of today's lucky 10,000) that the eigenvector ${\bf u}$ and corresponding eigenvalue $\lambda$ for some square matrix ${\bf A}$ are defined as follows: $$ {\bf Au} = \lambda {\bf u} $$
More specifically, these are called the right eigenvectors/eigenvalues, since they are defined when the vector is multiplied on the right. We can also define the left eigenvectors/eigenvalues as the ${\bf u}$, $\lambda$ combos that satisfy the following: $$ {\bf u^TA} = \lambda {\bf u^T} $$ Now, if we plug in our stationary distribution vector ${\bf v}$ for ${\bf u}$, our transition matrix ${\bf P}$ for ${\bf A}$, and let $\lambda = 1$, we get the familiar ${\bf v^TP = v^T}$. Also, finding the left eigenvalues and eigenvectors for a matrix is the same as finding the right-side versions for the transpose of that matrix. This means that, computationally, we can take the eigen decomposition of ${\bf P^T}$, find the column in the ${\bf U}$ matrix corresponding to an eigenvalue of 1, normalize that vector (since it can be scaled by any arbitrary constant), and that will give the stationary distribution. I demonstrate this below:
import numpy as np from numpy.linalg import eig transition_mat = np.matrix([ [.95,.05,0.,0.],\ [0,0.9,0.09,0.01],\ [0,0.05,0.9,0.05],\ [0.8,0,0.05,0.15]]) S,U = eig(transition_mat.T) stationary = np.array(U[:,np.where(np.abs(S-1.) < 1e-8)[0][0]].flat) stationary = stationary / np.sum(stationary) >>> print stationary [ 0.34782609 0.32608696 0.30434783 0.02173913]
We get the same stationary distribution as before without having to perform and extra exponentiation or matrix multiplication! The glories of the eigen decomposition never cease to amaze!
Monday, September 3, 2012
Faith, Science, and a line in the sand
Jerry Coyne's blog, Why Evolution is True, reported today on a free homeschool course offered by Cambridge University (edit: the Faraday Institute, which apparently only rents space from Cambridge) that purports to profess the inherent compatibility between science and Christianity. As a scientist with an interest in promoting scientific literacy among all people, my initial reaction is that anything wrapped up for fundamentalist consumption without the addition of incestuous clones riding dinosaurs around an ecologically unsustainable garden is probably a good thing. After all, such a course might provide the right frame for at least opening up a discussion with the scientific community that doesn't devolve into the tried tripes of the intelligent design community such as irreducible complexity and the inadequacy of "microevolution".
The problem I have with the course and with others who follow the same line of thinking is neatly encapsulated by this quote from theologian Alister McGrath, which appears in the course materials:
I think it's fair to say that nothing that we observe in nature, for example, its regularity, or indeed these remarkable anthropic phenomena, prove that there is a God, but the really important point is they are absolutely consistent with belief in God, and therefore I'd like to suggest that we don't think about nature proving that there is a God; that's how an earlier generation might have approached this. For me the really important thing is that the world as we observe it corresponds with what Christians would say the world ought to be like, that there's a correspondence between the theory and the observation.
He is right in saying that nothing in nature could prove there is a God, but in identifying a harmonious correspondence between Christian theory and observation, he says precisely nothing. Faith, by definition, exists in the absence of evidence, and without any way to falsify Christian doctrine based on observable phenomena, there is no basis for saying that it is ever consistent with observation. This is the fundamental divide between science and faith. Scientists make predictions that must be testable and falsifiable. If a scientist's predictions fail, that person will (hopefully) suck it up and go back to the metaphorical or literal drawing board. Religions, on the other hand, behave more like highly unethical scientists - celebrating whenever the stochasticity of the universe happens to occasionally fall in line with their vague predictions and chalking the rest up to God's mysterious ways.
This is not to say that scientists cannot have faith. There are scientists who genuinely believe their faith gives them strength, inner peace, etc. We are all capable of some irrationality (read: belief without evidence), and that is not always a bad thing. But injecting faith into science through "theistic evolution" and the like will never be science and, if it were, Faith would no longer be faith.


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POINCIANA, Florida (WKMG) -- A husband and wife who teach in Osceola County were arrested on child abuse and other charges after a boy in their care was burned on his face with a cigarette lighter, according to deputies.
Bianca Vacek, 51, and Thomas Vacek, 53, both whom teach at Poinciana High School were arrested Tuesday in Kissimmee.
Bianca Vacek faces charges of aggravated domestic child abuse, battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting without violence. Thomas Vacek faces charges of failure to report child abuse and resisting arrest without violence.
According to the Osceola County Sheriff's Office, deputies took a report from the boy's mother who said she noticed what appeared to be a burn mark on her son's face. The boy had been staying with the Vaceks for the past week, according to deputies.
The boy told his mother that while Bianca Vacek was drunk, she burned him with a cigarette lighter, according to the Sheriff's Office.
A doctor said the victim had burn marks near his mouth and nose, and detectives also discovered that Thomas Vacek had knowledge of the incident and did not report it to law enforcement, deputies said.
Detectives tried to speak with the Vaceks, but they did not cooperate and both resisted arrest when deputies attempted to take them into custody.
The Osceola School District told our partners atWKMG Local 6 that Bianca Vacek teaches exceptional student education and Thomas Vacek teaches 10th-grade reading.
School officials said both teachers have been reassigned out of the school until an investigation is completed.
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Google has been working for years to add 3D buildings and objects to Google Earth and more recently to Google Maps. Well, volunteers and enthusiasts do much of the work, the actual 3D models, Google just takes care of the rest, provides the tools and decides which models get in and which don't.
Now the company is announcing a change in the way it reviews 3D models, there are some stricter rules, but they're also clearer, which Google believes will make it easier for those creating models to make sure their work gets in on the first try.
"It was over five years ago when we came up with the initial Acceptance Criteria for photo-textured 3D buildings in Google Earth," Jordan Van Wyk, 3D Modeling Specialist at Google wrote.
"Since then, we've learned many things and have also made many improvements to the 3D modeling process—including the release of Building Maker and two updated versions of SketchUp," he said.
"Given all of these changes, we realized that our Acceptance Criteria were due for an overhaul," he announced.
"Our new Acceptance Criteria have been completely rewritten with the goal of making them clearer and easier to follow," he explained.
Google has revised some of the sections that were most regularly misunderstood.
Google now requires that 3D models only have image textures for the roof and the main facade. However, the other sides have to be textured as well, as closely as possible to the real thing.
Google is also banning non-permanent structures, such as cars and people, keeping the 3D building layer filled with only, well, 3D buildings, or at least stationary, permanent objects.
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BiographyInspired by grimey, war-torn Balkan towns and dying, broken down American cities, Ghost Towns, the brand new album from John Statz, is the direct result of several years of hard touring around the United States, Canada, and Europe. Whether it was bullet holes and bombed rooftops in Sarajevo, or desolate abandoned buildings and decaying main street America, the album title seemed very pertinent to the state of the world today. Many of the songs were written on the road, in varied locations such as West Virginia, Colorado, Hungary, and on a night train headed into Bosnia-Herzegovina.
While the title does not tread lightly, the album is full of upbeat tracks, as this is John's first full-band record. Joined by a talented group of Madison, Wisconsin musicians (including Blueheels/Blake Thomas drummer Adam Cargin, and songwriters Jeremiah Nelson and Whitney Mann), the album finds a comfortable mix between the straight-ahead rockers and the mellower tunes. Tracking locations for the record varied from the 100+ year old farmhouse his father grew up in to the new Blast House studio in Madison, to Jeremiah Nelson's bedroom and sonic laboratory. Two of the songs were actually written, recorded and mixed at Budabeat Studios in Budapest, Hungary.
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New officers have successfully been elected on Tuesday! BTSD officers for 2010-2011 are:
President: Bill Anderson
Vice-President: Yuksel Boz
Treasurer: Nick Denton
Secretary: Alex Bernard
Safety Officer: Mr Chris Miller
Marketing position will be taken care of by all officers.
Congratulations to new officers, and good luck for the year to come!
I hope everyone had a wonderful spring break. Tonight marks the beginning of Spring
Quarter classes. We meet in the usual place (B138 West) at the usual time (Sunday,
6:30-8:30 PM, Tues. & Thurs. 7:00-9:00 PM).
We have a busy spring ahead of us and a busy summer to follow. Officer elections are only
a month away, spring testing is May 8th to be followed by the club birthday party! After
that, we roll right in to summer with the WTSDA 2010 World Championship taking place in
Greensboro, NC in July. Information about all of these events is regularly given out in
If we haven't seen you on the training floor in awhile, spring is a good time to come
back out. Shake off the winter hibernation and get ready to train hard!
Tang Soo!
On Tuesday, January 5th, BTSD is going to be co-sponsoring a blood drive in the RPAC from 1 - 7 pm. This is a great and relatively simple way to make a difference and get credit for community service. We hope that all BTSD students will be able to make some time that day to donate blood, as well as encourage friends to join them.
Thursday, December 18 was the final class for BTSD in 2009. We will resume classes in Winter Quarter on Tuesday, January 5 at 7PM. Be ready to work off all the extra food you've consumed!
Have a safe and enjoyable break!!!
It was a wet afternoon, but thanks to all of the BTSD students who came out to represent the club and talk to new students. The fun continues throughout the week with our first class tonight and the Martial Arts expo on Thursday. Click the above photo to see our collection of photos from the week.
This week is Welcome Week at Ohio State. There are lots of great activities going on this week, and getting involved is the key to having a great time at OSU. Here's just a quick list of things we'll be doing this week.
Student Involvement Fair September 21
Monday on the Oval, we (and thousands of our best friends) will be on the Oval talking about student activities. Check out our booth in the Sports Club area and meet the instructors and students. In addition to BTSD, there will be representatives from other sports clubs, greek life, community service groups, and more. And lots of food.
BTSD New Member Night September 22, 7PM
This will be our "official" night for prospective members to try Tang Soo Do. However, new students are welcome at any time. In addition to class, we will be having brief demonstrations throughout the night to show what makes our martial art unique.
Martial Arts Expo September 24
The Martial Arts Expo is a yearly tradition at OSU, where all of the clubs come together for an evening of martial arts demonstrations and clinics. Clubs will have info booths, some will be doing demonstrations throughout the evening, while other clubs may be giving seminars. If you are interested in martial arts, but not sure what is for you, this is a GREAT opportunity!
In the not-so-distant past, Scouts could get a merit badge as a Master-At-Arms. Here is a link to the article. That's right, we used to teach quarterstaff techniques to our youth!
Here is the entire text, a free download at Lulu. In addition to quarterstaff, the badge covered boxing, jujitsu, fencing, wrestling and more. Obviously, at 39 pages, it is a very brief overview of the arts, but a neat idea nonetheless.
To get you started on your Tan Tui path, we've created a few informational handouts, starting with the roadmap for Tan Tui #1.
Unless you've actually practiced the form, this outline will be pretty useless. That's a design feature, not a fault. :) This guide is more like a set up notes rather than instructions. More will be coming soon, but will be for student access only. Tang Soo!
Having a strong command of the Korean names for our techniques is an important step in understanding Tang Soo Do and is a critical requirement for being an instructor. As a student gets closer to attaining Black Belt, they suddenly find themselves responsible for a heavy load of terminology.
Those of you starting this undertaking may find the following resource useful. Arrowhead Tang Soo Do - a WTSDA studio in Glendale, Arizona - has developed a tool for studying and memorizing TSD terminology. Check it out, and see how you fare!
In class last night, I briefly alluded to the Sip Sam Seh when I mentioned "The source of the will is in the waist." For those of you who are curious and want to learn a little more about this poem, please check out the following resources, and the translation that follows. As mentioned in class, a lot of this material is rather advanced and esoteric, but there are small amounts of info that can be appreciated more as you advance in rank and experience.
Never neglect any of the Sip Sam Seh.
The source of the will is in the waist.
Pay attention to the slightest change from full to empty.
Let energy flow through the whole body continuously.
Stillness embodies motion, motion stillness.
Seek stillness in motion.
Surprising things will happen when you meet your opponent.
Give awareness and purpose to every movement.
When done correctly all will appear effortless.
At all times pay attention to the waist.
Relaxed clear awareness of abdomen, the energy can be activated.
When the base of the spine is erect, energy rises to the top of the head.
The body should be flexible.
Hold the head as if suspended from a string.
Keep alert and seek the meaning and purpose of your art.
Bent and stretched, open and closed, let nature take its course.
Beginners are guided by oral teaching.
Gradually one applies himself more and more.
Skill will take care of itself.
What is the main principle of the martial arts?
The mind is the primary actor and the body the secondary one.
What is the purpose and philosophy behind the martial arts?
Rejuvenation and prolonging of life beyond the normal span.
So an eternal spring.
Every word of this song has enormous value and importance.
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I see it's a bunch of the grouchy old boardies trying to troll everyone and push this Fun rumor. Good job everyone.
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Fuck i really hope they are not on the lineup
my source on the inside who texts me every year just told me the lineup would be released the 23rd and the headliners are bjork, mumford and elton john.
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Let's be clear: this isn't a worst dressed list. It's a list that falls somewhere between What Were They Thinking When They Put That On? and That Dress Was Perfect Until…. Jennifer Lawrence, for example, can be found under the former, while Miley Cyrus, whose deep-v, off-white cocktail number features neon side panels and a mesh, mulleted skirt, is most definitely the latter.
Now let's discuss the others. Julianne Hough fills out her shimmery, body-con gown nicely, but the slope of the see-through back is a little disconcerting. Ginnifer Goodwin's color choice is perfect, but those bell sleeves are way too distracting. Lucy Hale could have pulled off a clever take on a black mini, had that long skirt-train-thing not happened, and Vanessa Hudgens managed to make a pretty Jenny Packham gown look like it was made of spiderwebs. Ouch.
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"Why the hell is Yahoo toolbar necessary?"
Version: Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI
Like other graphic editors.
There are BIG yahoo toolbar which contains unnecessary (at least for graphics editing) buttons like yahoo search, yahoo mail, yahoo music etc. I closed the toolbar but next time I started the program it appeared again. It seems like that I cannot permanantly close the toolbar. What the hell is wrong with it?
Version: Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI
A great program to use to make, edit and correct graphics and images. Althought this isn't my favorite version of PSP, it's still a good one... any version from 7+ is great! This one is a bit tricky to use, but you'll get used to it after a while and much practice with it.
Only a 30-day trial. A bit tricky for the novice with PSP, but, a great program!
"Still a good program, but this version has a tendency to hang"
Version: Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI
This is still a great alternative to Photoshop. Does most of what PS does at a fraction of the cost.
Unless you need the color changer or additional RAW access, there's no real reason to upgrade from PSP-X.
I've been using PSP since the early JASC versions and--until now--they've all been stable. This version has a frequent tendency to hang, necessitating a forced shutdown & restart (on more than one computer, so not related to the particular computer).
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Version: Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI
I've been using PSP since version 3.
This 11 version is definitely oriented to photo management.
There are new tools specifically designed for photo acquisition,retouching and sharing.
There are some new filters (like the "Time Machine") but they are only regarding photographic images(I think because Corel devoloped Corel Painter for artistic purposes,however PSP and Painter can be used together)
Some controls have a different interface but almost all function are still familiar.
The Browser function has been changed (again!).It was explorer-like (with all files and folders in the same page to navigate within),now you have a "collection" of folders (which of course you can add as you want).Being now PSP photo dedicated,browser has tagging and calendar tools to organize better your albums.
All cons for me are related to the new browser.
I preferred the previous explorer-like version.Moreover i can't find a good place to put it without covering the opened images (i must close and open it each time)
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Have been using PSP since it was Shareware and it has proven better with every revision. XI brings to fruition all the laborious functions I had been using into single-button selections (and better than me in many cases.) All I can say about this version is "WOW".
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Hong Kong diocese shows sympathy for drive to ensure voting rights
Catholic World News - July 24, 2013
The Hong Kong diocese has expressed strong support for efforts to ensure that the people of Hong Kong will be allowed to elect their own political representatives, saying that acts of civil disobedience could be justified to advance that goal.
In a public statement the diocese said that complicated voting rules, which limit the power of people in Hong Kong to choose their representatives, are an offense against basic civil rights. Acts of civil disobedience could be "reasonable" in response to such offenses, the statement indicated.
The statement was perceived as encouraging for the Occupy Central movement, which has threatened massive demonstrations next year, possibly shutting down the commercial center of the busy city, in a bid to expand democracy.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Christianity Today compiled a list of top 10 biblical archaeology discoveries of 2013. Among the list is the discovery of a previously-unknown destruction level at Tel Gezer, where Southwestern professor Steven Ortiz serves as principal investigator and co-director of the Tel Gezer Excavation Project.
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Having roots in the first Exchange Club, founded in 1911 in Detroit, today's Exchange Club of Newport Harbor is the oldest surviving service club in Newport Beach.
This dedicated and honorable group of members holds onto the timeless morals, values and traditions started in 1926, when a group of Newport Beach businessmen met at the Newport Harbor Yacht Club to discuss and solve problems in the fledgling community. These pioneers helped bring together our earliest neighborhoods in West Newport, Balboa and Corona del Mar.
Some key contributions of the early club are the establishment of the Newport Harbor High School district, which gave us our own local high school, the expansion of the Boy Scouts to include younger kids in a new organization called the Cub Scouts and the creation of the Sea Scouts in its current location on the Coast Highway.
Notables like Joe Beek, Theodore Robins, Gordon Grundy, A. J. Twist, Jack King and Jerry Wooters exemplified the dedication and hardworking ethics of the membership. These qualities built our local Exchange Club into one of the finest in the nation.
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