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I get a lot of emails from new homeware shops introducing themselves. I like to support small businesses as I have one myself and it's exciting to get access to businesses in their early days without all the bells and whistles of commercial thinking which can lead to things feeling a little homogeneous. At this stage the shops often have a home-made charm, the product offerings are off the beaten track and the interactions with the seller actually feels pretty intimate. I thought I'd start a new series of sorts to share a few of these shops with you.
I received one such email from Kate Williams last year about her new store Handpicked By Kate and we exchanged some messages about the challenges of running online businesses and arranged to chat in the new year.
Sometimes its just important to get on the phone and talk to people – I don't always have the time but it's so worth the effort when you do – you get so much more out of a proper conversation and when you work for yourself I think it's even more essential to exchange ideas and chat to like-minded people.
Kate, based in Fulham has a background in interiors and events and got asked all the time where she got this or that piece in her home (all the best people do!). I loved Kate's style instantly because it was my 'alternative style' – and by this I mean how I would furnish my interiors if it didn't already have a distinct and more minimal look. Confident with mixing colour and pattern the eclectic collection of homewares for me is a cross between British tastemaker Ben Pentreath and global aesthetic of Anthropologie.
Also – I found her product choices very unique. I'm always reluctant to feature shops that have products that I've seen a lot of before – and i've pretty much seen everything – but as I browsed the store I kept expecting to read the name of a brand I knew but found not one – so refreshing! Expect delightful brands like Mister Berwyn's illustrated textiles, Bloomsbury Ceramics – wonderfully modern vintage ceramics inspired by the art of the Bloomsbury group and gorgeous hand-painted lamp bases from Rosanna Londsdale.
I've included some images of Kate's own home so you can see how her style translates. She is totally skilled at confidently layering colour and pattern… how great is the geese fabric pin-board and hound-print storage skirt in her kitchen? I also love her use of mixing sweet and sentimental artwork like a cross-stitch from her birth – so lovely!
Handpicked By Kate has a lot of exciting new updates coming up with the look and feel of the store so keep an eye out and meanwhile snap up some of these beauties before everyone else discovers them.
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Author: Rohini Wahi
Rohini is a London based freelance journalist and trend forecaster for the design industries. She has worked for Elle Decoration, Living Etc, Houzz and Design Sponge amongst others.
She loves a period drama and keeps a tidy home. Launched in 2007 The Beat That My Heart Skipped focuses on home inspirations, design trends, lifestyle and food – coupled with an insight into Rohini's work and home life – from key picks at trade shows to styled weekend soirees. To contact Rohini for queries, work for hire or just to say hi drop her a line at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Well, we made it. It's the weekend before Thanksgiving and I literally could not be happier!
The auto show this week was absolute chaos and my thesis is winding down to a finished product *thank goodness* so from here on out, I'd like to dedicate at least half of my brain capacity to thinking about holiday cooking, holiday baking, holiday decorations, holiday clothing and watching holiday movies. And, in light of all that, I've been pinning all the holiday goodness like a madwoman. I also wanted to share with you some of the grocery-store buys that have been saving my life lately, so you can find those first above all the links 🙂
Go buy this yogurt immediately ^ – they have it at Target and it is heaven in a small plastic container.
Trader Joe's individually-sized trail mix is the best snack to take on the go. It doesn't have to be refrigerated, is super healthy and makes portion control easy!
Admittedly, I've been eating way too much of this. But Target's organic popcorn is my favorite late-night snack 'cause it's pretty healthy as far as dessert goes. Still working on the portion control for this one…
Hot chocolate is a must in the winter. Preferably in a Christmas mug, as well.
This tortillas are my absolute favorite. They're only 80 calories, which means stuffing them with turkey and avocado and pesto and provolone (my favorite lunch!) is less of an issue…
And now for the links!
6 Grocery Store Finds You Should Always Buy in the Fall – 'cause buying seasonal just means better food for less, ya'll.
7 Healthy Eating Tricks You Should Try This Week – literally yes to all of these.
Vegan Sugar Cookies – perfect for holiday parties & gifts!!
5 Clean Eating Tips for the Holidays – these are actually genius. especially the smoothie for breakfast thing.
Healthy Thanksgiving Swaps – #1. sub pumpkin for everything.
3 Modern Holiday Traditions to Start – a MUG party? stop. the cutest.
Have a great weekend, babes 🙂
xo Jordan


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I had an interesting experience last night that I would like to share with the world on this Valentines Day, 2018.
Because my sweetheart has conflicting "obligations" tonight that does not include me, (Wednesday Feb. 14) we decided to do our traditional Valentines Day date last night on the Tuesday. After a nice dinner, we went to the movie about Churchill titled "The Darkest Hour." Good flick – it accurately documented the struggle Winston Churchill faced as to whether the U.K. should risk everything, and fight the Nazis to the bitter end, or sign a nonaggression treaty with Hitler, providing temporary PEACE AND SECURITY to the U.K. in exchange for granting the Nazis silent acquiescence to their fundamental idealism and aggressive expansionism. I get this. If one chooses to just look away, and not confront lying hoaxes head-on until the bitter end, then organized Evil wins a great victory. As Edmund Burke said: "Evil can only flourish when good men DO NOTHING!"
Last night, after reflecting on the evening's entertainment, I had yet another night dream of the Savior. As usual, He came to me with His wide smile and loving embrace, then uttered just His usual three simple words: "Come, Follow Me." And away we went.
We were suddenly in a huge metropolis consisting of diverse people of all races and religions. I was shown this large, abandoned dwelling in the very center of the city that was to be the focus of our attention in this night dream. It was much like the "Old Granville House" in the classic movie "It's a Wonderful Life" but much larger in size.
Soon we were observing a well-attended, TELEVISED, public meeting concerning the fate of the old, neglected, boarded-up house. The meeting began with a very detailed "scientific" report presented that the old house was "dangerous" and a "public menace" and should be immediately "condemned" by the city officials, and immediately 100% leveled and torn down. The real estate underneath it was clearly extremely PRIME and VERY VALUABLE – for it was in the very heart of the bustling metropolis. An architect presented his drawings showing what was being planned to be BUILT in its place, after the official destruction order was issued. MOST people in the large crowd murmured agreement – "TEAR IT DOWN, TEAR IT DOWN – IT IS OUTDATED AND AN EYESORE – WE WANT A FULLY MODERN CITY WITH NEW, MODERN BUILDINGS!"
The "mayor" restored order by hitting his gavel and saying: "Calm down, calm down, this is a public meeting, and we will hear all sides of the argument before rendering our decision." With this, a number of grey-haired elderly folks came to the front and testified: "Call us hopelessly romantic, but we remember how wondrously beautiful this Old House once was. It was the cultural center of our city. There were lavish balls and all high society gathered there socially, and regularly." With tear-filled eyes they said: "During our national wars and conflict, this wondrous Old Building was our beacon of light and hope – inspiring us that we could overcome and shine against ANY enemy. Please, please, please, don't tear it down!"
Another expert came forward and testified: "Don't forget, this Old House is officially registered on the National "Historic Registry" – if you decide to tear it down and replace it, you will be tearing down a real part of our national identity along with it." Another man and his wife came forward and testified: "I don't agree that this Old Building is TOTALLY structurally unsound and dangerous. Our religious group holds meetings there, and we have fixed up a large portion of it, as you well know. Perhaps we can agree to only tear down a PORTION of the building that is so obviously neglected and falling apart? I think you may be right – a part of the Old House may indeed need to be modernized and renovated – but PLEASE – not the WHOLE THING!"
Finally, three men arose. One was an attorney, one had a bald, shaved head with FIRE in his eyes, and one was a tall man full of wisdom and middle-class-level wealth. The attorney spoke for the three of them, and said: "We would like to offer our services to this fine metropolis. We have done our own independent analysis of the Old House over many years – and found it to be 100% structurally safe and sound. My report can be read in my book on the subject, if you would enter it in as "evidence." The House was built on a solid foundation of bedrock by the original founder of this metropolis "in the beginning" – long before any other structure in this fine city was ever constructed. Its core pillars are still rock solid in every way. We would like to see this wondrous Old House fully and totally restored to its original state and glory. We employ many workers who will donate their labor and expertise to this venture, free of charge. It will once again be the light of hope and heart of this great city. Will you allow us to do this project?"
The MONEY POWER and BANKERS immediately responded forcefully to the Mayor and Council: "Gentlemen, please, we have already been over this for many years. Even if fully restored, the Old House is outdated and its architectural style is arcane and out-dated. It doesn't fit with our grand modernization master-plan. You need to look to the FUTURE, not be misty-eyed over the past. If you wish to attract modern research scientists all over the world to our new Research Park and be eligible for billions in Government Grants, then demolish the old eye-sore and embrace the future world. Don't waste any more time!"
That was where the Savior left me, and I returned awake in my bed with a clear understanding of the meaning of His special teaching parable shown to me. I was not shown the final decision – for I think the jury is still deliberating – and the "final decision" is yet being debated.
The Old House, my friends, is the Holy Bible. Loved by some, but viciously hated by the vast majority of "worldly" folks who believe it is musty and outdated, and thus an embarrassing eyesore. Some cling to the more "habitable" parts of it, while doing their best to ignore other parts of it that they don't like. The main point is, there is a very organized group of people who have been trying for many years to take it COMPLETELY down. But it is God's WORD – built and protected by the CREATOR Himself for thousands of years. It's foundation is solid and its pillars are indeed eternal. But if His people collectively decide to remove it, they will simply have to live with the consequences.
Where do you stand? I know who the "attorney," and the "shaved head man," and the tall man are, do you?


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I know this much to be true….
Today, on Thanksgiving, I am grateful and thankful for so many things….From little to big and all in between…From the very depths of my chubby little heart, I am thankful for:
1. Ryan. I cannot describe in enough words how much this man means to me. He has the ability to piss me off in 2 seconds flat and he has the ability to make my heart stop with the color of his eyes and the beauty in his smile. I love him. I love his face. I love his heart. I am thankful he puts up with my crazy ass mood swings, my accident prone ability to get hurt at least on a weekly, if not, daily basis, my OCD need for cleanliness and all my other quirky personality traits. He is the father I always imagined him being, and I hope one day Maddox and Cameron will realize how blessed they were to have him as their father. I am grateful that he understands my background, my culture, and never asks or expects for more. He is simply everything I need and I wish Thanksgiving was everyday so that I could reflect and appreciate him more. In a word he is Genuine. I couldn't describe him any other way.
2. Cameron's health. Who knew this chubby, fearless, naughty baby was born with a serious heart condition and had heart surgery at the tiny age of 3 days old? He is our walking miracle. He is our answered prayers personified. He is healthy. We went from weekly visits to the cardiologist, to monthly, to quarterly, and now we are at 6 month visits. For us, this is huge. For us, we thank Dr. Sperazza in Oklahoma City, for repairing his valve when we arrived that night at Children's Hospital and Cameron was basically comatose, and to God for allowing him not to have the surgeries they warned us of him having throughout his childhood. He is healthy, happy, fearless and strong and I am so very thankful, every single day.
3. Maddox. He is everything good, sweet and kind. He is sensitive, he is smart, he is athletic, he is beautiful. He has his father's eyes and my olive complexion and I know when he is in his teens, I will have my hands full. He is growing like a weed and I can't believe he is already in school, but he will always be my baby.
4. My family. My mom who Cameron asks for on a daily basis. She is the grandmother she never had, the grandmother I never had, and the grandmother I want my kids to have. My father, who is starting to come around more. He's always been there when we wanted or needed something, but maybe just maybe, he is starting to realize 35 years later that he can give more, by just simply being there. It's not perfect, it's not even really great, but its progress and that's more than I've seen in my lifetime, so I'm thankful. My in-laws who moved into town and are closer to the boys and us and are there for us when we need them. I'm so very thankful for my family.
5. Our careers/finances. We both survived being laid off, starting new jobs, starting a new business, and are succeeding. The finances could always be better. But it could have been a lot worse and it wasn't. We are so grateful and thankful.
6. Our health. We are healthy. I may be clumsy, I may be accident prone, I may be on antibiotics for the rest of the year, but we are healthy.
7. My friends. I may not see them as much as I like, even if it's once a year. But to my friend who reads this blog from her deer stand, and texts me to tell me how much my pain and suffering delights her and I text back that Bambi is a survivor and will not die today, I am thankful. They make me see my world from a different perspective, they are there for me, and they know I will do anything for them as well…To all I call friend, I am grateful and thankful to you.
8. Dr. Pepper, chocolate, and bread. I love you. I crave you. I miss you when I try to quit you. I am so grateful to the makers of you. My ass and thighs may disagree, but I do not. I am thankful for your yumminess and I think your diet families should slowly go extinct…
9. Sirius radio. You make my time in the car and at the store fly by with your non-stop, commercial-free music that takes me back in time.
10. The internet. I can shop, blog, research, and find the inspiration that I need at just the click of a button.
There is literally hundreds more little things I am grateful for that I can blog on and on about, but I am sure you understand where I am going with this. Today, my stuffing wasn't perfect, the sweet potato casserole was, the crescent rolls burnt, and the hashbrown casserole was not as great as the version Ryan first tried, but I am thankful we had the food to eat, the family to eat it with and the friend to share it with. Today is almost over but the thoughts of everything I am thankful are ever-present and I hope to live a life where I am not blinded by the kindness of strangers, or the importance in the little things. I pray that everyday begins and ends with a prayer of thanks for all that I have, and I hope I reflect it, because I know I don't always do that, and for that I apologize. Thanksgiving is much more than the best turkey recipe, best apple pie, best turkey induced nap, it's a day of reflecting on all that we should be thankful for, and I wish Thanksgiving came around more than just once a year.
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Bahar you are a wonderful, unique person. I am thankful that we met way back when and have managed to stay friends ever since. Even if we go two months without talking, we pick up right where we left off. Yes bambi may have gotten away last night, but today is a new day and i will send u many pics very soon. They will include everything from a picture of the poor defenceless corpse to the skinning and butchering process…just u wait!


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Sweet Morning/Afternoon Tea Platter
Selection of Bite Sized Cakes, Tartlets and Slices. Selection varies daily. (32 pieces)
Savoury Morning/Afternoon Tea Platter
Smoked Salmon Bagel Bites; Bite Sized Egg Salad Wraps; Savour Herbed Scones with Dill Cream Cheese and Ham; Mini Ham and Egg Quiche. (32 pieces)
Rice Paper Rolls Platter
Rice Paper Rolls with Chicken Mint and Coriander; Ginger Prawn; Barbeque Pork
With Vietnamese dipping sauce and hoisin sauce (32 pieces – 16 large rolls cut in half)
Antipasto Platter
Leg Ham; Salami; Proscuitto; Mediterranean Chicken Skewers; Provolone Cheese; Giardineri; Kalamata Olives; Grissini Sticks
Cold Meat Collation (GF)
Mediterranean Chicken Pieces; Rare Roast Beef; Champagne Ham; with Tomato Chilli Relish and Mustard.
Sushi Platter
Teriyaki Chicken, Smoked Salmon, Tuna and Vegetarian Sushi with Wasabi, Pickled Ginger and Japanese Soy. (40 pieces)
Vegetarian Platter
Hummus Dip; Basil Pesto Dip; Lavash Crisps and Assorted Vegetable Crudités; Spinach/Fetta and Olive Quiche Fingers; Marinated Kalamata Olives.
Cheese and Fruit Platter
Brie Cheese, Blue Cheese, Cheddar Cheese with Dried and Fresh Fruits, crackers and fruit bread
Seasonal Fruit Platter
Selection of seasonal fruits sliced and ready to eat
Hot Breakfast Platter
10 x Mini Chipolata Sausage or Bacon Roll; 10 x Mini Ham and Cheese Croissants; 10 x Breakfast Tomato Mushroom and Cheese Mini Quiche
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Quiche Platter
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Asian Platter
20 Cocktail Spring Rolls (V); 20 Cocktail Samosas (V); 12 Mini Thai Fish Cakes (GF); 12 Chicken Satay Skewers (GF) with Sweet Chilli Dipping Sauce
Assorted Finger Food Platter
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Chicken Gourjons
Fried finger sized fillets of chicken in seasoned herbed bread crumbs Served with a basil aoli dipping sauce. (Approx 30 pieces)
*Gluten Free option available (using polenta crumb)
Chicken Skewers (GF)
Your choice of Satay, Tandoori or Mediterranean or a mixture of all (25 pieces)
Beef Burger Sliders
Mini Hamburgers with Lettuce, Tomato, Onion, Ketchup and Mayonnaise (20 pieces)
Mini American Style Hot Dogs
German Cocktail Weiner with Onion, Mustard and Ketchup (20 pieces)
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Loveblock Sauvignon Blanc 2019
Loveblock is the project of husband and wife team, Kim and Erica Crawford. After selling their enormously popular brand Kim Crawford, they forged ahead with this organic vineyard in Marlborough, believing deeply in embracing a natural life and protecting the environment. Kim is the winemaker and has fashioned a deliciously pure and balanced Sauvignon with white peach, fig and herb notes in the nose and mouth. This will pair particularly well with sushi and sashimi, lemon grass-accented Asian fare, green salads and crispy asparagus dishes.
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8.559687 - SCHICKELE, P.: Year in the Catskills (A) / Gardens / Dream Dances / Diversions (Blair Woodwind Quintet, Felix Wang, M. Rose)
Peter Schickele (b. 1935)
Like other American composers before him—Gottschalk and Ives spring to mind, as do Gershwin and Bernstein—Peter Schickele embraces all levels of American musical styles and traditions in his eclectic work. Unlike other American composers, however, he also created a fictional musical character, P.D.Q. Bach, through whom he satirizes and parodies Baroque and Classical musical styles as well as the musicologists who study them. (Surely Ives would have approved.) The result is a body of music for the concert stage, film, television, and theater that is often infused with much good humor, and a repertory of satirical pieces that reveal keen and sometimes serious understanding of stylistic practices and historical detail.
The son of immigrants, Schickele was born in Ames Iowa and raised in Washington D.C. and Fargo, North Dakota. His family was musical and played much chamber music, a practice to which Schickele has attributed his early knowledge of string quartets. Although he played the bassoon—he claimed to have been the only bassoonist in Fargo, North Dakota—he gravitated early to composition. After graduating from Swarthmore in 1957, Schickele studied composition with Roy Harris and Darius Milhaud, both of whom were notable influences, before attending the Juilliard School, where he studied with Vincent Persichetti. Schickele's parodistic tendencies were apparent early: he performed a humorous concert with conductor Jorge Mester while still a Juilliard student, and in 1965 he performed a similar concert at Town Hall, New York, that introduced the public to P.D.Q Bach. Two years later he formed a "chamber-rock-jazz" trio called Open Window that performed his chamber works. This blending of styles has often resulted in the juxtaposition of seemingly incongruous musical resources, such as the amplified keyboards (piano, organ, and harpsichord) and orchestra for The Fantastic Garden (1968), "rock group" and orchestra for Requiem Mantras (1972), or bluegrass band and orchestra for Far Away from Here (1984). But his grasp on these resources is generally firm and has resulted in Schickele's receiving honorary doctorates (Swarthmore, 1980; North Dakota State University, 1995), several GRAMMY® awards, and ongoing commissions for new works.
Schickele's chamber works, and those for woodwinds in particular, have been described by musicologist Deane Root as "strongly tonal…[and] postmodern in their small forms, neo-romantic in their light, impressionistic textures, and neo-classical in their instrumentation, meter and mood." Root's need to use disparate stylistic terms to describe Schickele's music further suggests Schickele's diversity and range. The composer, perhaps in part owing to his background as a bassoonist, is especially attracted to the challenges of composing for woodwind ensembles, the various possible combinations of which make possible all the characteristics earlier described by Root. Schickele commented on this attraction to interviewer Angela Fox, noting that the sound of each wind instrument is different and that "the French horn, well, that isn't even a woodwind and so it can really stick out. The blending is tricky—so while I want to take advantage of the variety, I also want to explore the blending." Schickele's explorations are a listener's delight.
A Year in the Catskills, the major new work on this collection, was, like several other pieces, especially commissioned from Schickele for the ensemble premiering it. Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music is fortunate enough to have the Blair Commissioning Project, funded by the James Stephen Turner Family Foundation, which allows each of the school's faculty ensembles to pick a composer and ask her or him for a new work. The Woodwind Quintet decided on Schickele, whose background suggested to flutist Jane Kirchner that he was the man for the job: "We felt we needed a composer who understands these instruments—and Schickele is a bassoonist as well as an incredible composer." Something else was part of the mix, noted Kirchner. "We also love this man's humor, because, even though we take music seriously, we find much joy in our work, too."
The joy Kirchner spoke of is immediately evident in the Blair Quintet's recording of A Year in the Catskills, a five-movement work that beautifully demonstrates Schickele's versatility. The composer has described Spring: Fantasy, the first movement, as a pastoral fantasy, and its vacillation between whimsical and more reflective passages foreshadows the contrasts of the subsequent movements. Summer: Imitations, the second movement, is aptly named in that it is a series of canons, a compositional device especially popular in the Baroque era (ca. 1600–1750) in which a melody is heard in one voice and then imitated in its entirety in one or more subsequent voices. For much of the time in this movement, the instruments imitate each other a single beat apart, about which Schickele noted, "It's one of my favorite textures." The third movement, Fall: Variations, also recalls Baroque canon techniques, in this case a set of canonic variations based on the bass line from J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations. (Schickele based his earlier New Goldberg Variations (1995) for cello and piano on the same melody.) The bassoon repeats the bass line while the other instruments play a series of playful variations over it, and if, by Schickele's admission, some of the ideas for these variations were left over from the earlier work, they nonetheless sound fresh and perfectly suited for this instrumentation. Winter: Lament, which follows, is perhaps the most evocative of the movements, although it is more melancholy than profoundly tragic. This movement features exquisite solos for the oboe and unaccompanied clarinet. Schickele has described the work's finale as "a bebop jazz kind of thing," and although fans of Charlie Parker might have a hard time finding the essence of bebop in the fast movement, a more general feeling of jazz greatly contributes to the movement's effect.
The other works included here combine winds and, on several occasions, other instruments to further demonstrate the scope of Schickele's writing. For instance, Gardens, a triptych for oboe and piano, suggests a post-impressionist concern with color and irregular structures, while What Did You Do Today at Jeffrey's House? is a playful trio of memory pieces drawn from the composer's experiences with a childhood friend that ends with a boogie-woogie flourish. The suite Dream Dances contrasts dances expected in a Baroque suite—a minuet and sarabande, for instance—with a jitterbug and a galop that tips its hat to Rossini. Finally, Diversions, for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon, reaches into decidedly unexpected musical territories: while Bath, the first movement, is contemplative, Billiards, according to the composer, provides "sound equivalents of the way in which billiard balls set each other in motion," and Bar is meant to evoke a bar on the West Side of New York City.
According to Deane Root, Peter Schickele is "one of the most widely performed and published of contemporary composers," and this highly satisfying collection of pieces for winds (and friends) suggests why. Engaging, intelligent, and never too serious, these works, especially in these performances, delight.
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Benefits Street star White Dee has been attacked while on a personal appearance, it has been reported.
Dee - who rose to fame on the controversial Channel 4 show - hurt her back after being hurled in the water of the hotel pool and as she struggled to get out the alleged culprits laughed at her, report the Daily Star.
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- Luke, Leah, Owen, and Sophia said...
Oh he is a handsome devil!!! I just love him!!!
- February 25, 2010 at 8:44 PM
- Nikki said...
Mandy he is seriously a beautiful baby. Love those blue eyes and little lips. Want to make one for me?
- February 25, 2010 at 8:48 PM
- The Garrity's said...
He is the perfect combination on both of you!!!!
- February 26, 2010 at 11:27 AM
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He has a perfect mouth. Have you noticed??
Of course you have. :)
- February 26, 2010 at 3:24 PM
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Thanks for the comment, what an amazing experience to have a private show. I was very jealous when I clicked on the post.
I think I have come across your blog before! You have a beautiful baby by the way!
- February 27, 2010 at 10:14 PM
okay Easton doesnt look as much like Bennett as I thought.. both super cute though!
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CB net= Classical Bayesian Network
DAG= directed acyclic graph
In supervised learning, you are given the graph (aka structure) of a CB net, and some data, and you evaluate the node probability matrices from the data. In unsupervised learning, you are given only data, and you are expected to come up with the structure and node probability matrices of the CB net from that data. Nowadays there are computer programs that do both supervised and unsupervised learning of a CB net on classical computers. I believe a quantum computer can do unsupervised learning of a CB net at least quadratically faster (due to Grover's algo) than a classical computer. In fact, I have a patent for doing unsupervised learning of a CB net on a gate model QC. (The Quail group at NASA has proposed doing this also with a D-Wave annealer QC).
And yet, many of the examples of CB nets that show up in the literature (See, for example, the wonderful work of Andrew Gelman) were obtained "by hand"—their structure was derived without the help of a computer, arrived at partly by logic and partly by hunch. The quality and value of these CB net models depends on how well they fit the data.
So can I provide some guidance on how to find the structure of a CB net by hand? I don't know how the experts do it, but I'll tell you how I think about it.
There is one situation that I like to call the Snow White CB net (I call it Snow White because it's the fairest CB net of them all). It concerns finding a CB net that connects a collection of sets.
Snow White DAG
Suppose you have sets which are not necessarily mutually disjoint.
- Merge all sets that are equal into a single set.
- Write an undirected line connecting those pairs of sets that overlap (but not if they don't overlap).
- If , then replace the undirected line joining them by an arrow pointing from to . Thus
all mean the same thing.
- If and overlap, but neither is a proper subset of the other, then replace the undirected line between and by
- Go back to step 1. Exit loop when last two repetitions yield the same DAG.
At the end, you will have a DAG in which the arrows all indicate a subset relationship. Also, by the end, all the root nodes (the ones with no incomming, only outgoing arrows) will be mutually disjoint sets. This is all very trivial and I'm sure a lot of people have come up with the Snow White DAG on their own. I just mention it in case you haven't yet.
PS. In the above convention, a typical operating system with folders is represented by a tree, with the arrows pointing away from the multiple innermost folders towards the single outermost folder. The outermost folder is often called the root directory in operating system parlance, but here I am calling the innermost folders the root nodes.


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