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I'll be back in the a.m. hours with more on an inspiring win by the New England Patriots. First, though, how about that flea flicker?
There's a number of versions of that already floating around on the Web, including this one, this one and this one, which adds a bit of urban flaaaava to it. I prefer the one above, though, because it plays so beautifully to the salt shaker-in-open-wound feeling Anthony Smith must have right now.
Also, it's not Donte Stallworth who made that reception, it's obviously Jabar Gaffney. At least it was called a "razzle-dazzle play," though. That was clutch.


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MUSKEGON, MI – A suspect in connection with a fatal dog shooting in Muskegon Sunday is currently lodged in jail, facing criminal charges.
Shots were fired around 6:45 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 26, in the city of Muskegon. Officers responded to the area of Larch Avenue and Jarman Street on reports of a dog shot, according to police.
Police arrived to the area and found the deceased dog, which was recovered by its owner, according to the police report.
Authorities said the suspect had fled the scene following the alleged shooting, but was tracked by officers. A foot chase followed, police said.
The suspect was apprehended at the intersection of Holbrook Avenue and Hoyt Street. The suspect allegedly confessed to the shooting and was lodged at the Muskegon County Jail on resisting and obstructing police charges.
The report has been forwarded over to the Muskegon County Prosecutor's Office for review, police said.
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The Bainbridge Island Community Woodshop, a local non-profit organization, is kicking off a series of meetings starting at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Senior Center Commons followed by a public meeting on Monday at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall to discuss building a community woodshop on the former gravel pit area at the Johnson Farm.
City taxpayers purchased the property in 2001 to be used for various purposes including small-scale agriculture, education programs, public open space and affordable housing.
The woodshop would use about 1.3 acres of the 14.5-acre property on Fletcher Bay Road. The site is no longer suitable for farming.
The concept for a Bainbridge Island Community Woodshop began in late 2008, and the all-volunteer organization behind the woodshop has doubled since 2008 with nearly 100 members.
The woodshop has offered classes through the park district and launched a community-service program to provide woodworking repairs, but is still looking for a site to create a community workshop.
The shop would offer classes, likely through the parks district, and would be available outside of class time for members.
The shop, bathrooms and a small conference room would total approximately 4,500 square feet. The parking lot and bathrooms would be accessible to other users of the farm.
A preliminary site plan and sketches are available on the City's website at http://www.ci.bainbridge-isl.wa.us/ (click on the calendar on November 15, 2010 for the link to the materials).
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The show currently on view at ArtRage -- the Norton Putter Gallery on Hawley Avenue -- is interesting for several reasons.
The dozens of photographs dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries are all about men; but it's what so many of the photos don't say that makes them compelling.
The images are culled from the collections of several collectors, which makes one wonder how such a narrow spectrum of collecting could resonate with so many. Finally, the collectors of these photos went to great lengths; scavenging garage sales, flea markets, antique stores and, as one collector claimed, "dumpster diving," to find the images that they just had to have. Their passion for collecting is apparent in this show.
The images -- daguerreotypes, tintypes and black and white photos -- comprising this exhibition, titled "Men Only: Vernacular Photographs of Male Affection from the Collection of William Knodel," are known as "vernacular" photographs; they are found images. Like found objects they were cast off and forgotten; left for someone else to find and appropriate.
Enter William Knodel, a Syracuse resident who began collecting vernacular images of men in the 1970s. It's his collection, which has grown to almost 400 photographs over the years, that comprises the bulk of this exhibition.
The show, which was curated by Syracuse-based writer, curator and editor Nancy Keefe Rhodes, also includes images collected by other "wonderful scavengers" as Knodel describes them in the show's small brochure. These other collectors are David Deitcher, Russell Bush, John Ibson, Kevin Bentley and Pierre Borhan -- all of whom have authored books on the topic of "Men Only" photos.
One of the most striking aspects of this show is its installation. All of the photos, which are small, are presented in decorative frames. Some hang on the walls, others stand on side tables. It's obvious that these photos have been lived with and looked at; hung on the walls of dens, propped up on end tables and woven into the daily lives of their collectors. These photographs have been carefully selected and lovingly presented.
So what about these images of men?
It's difficult to classify them because there is so much ambiguity in so many. There are photos of men posing beside one another with an arm thrown over a shoulder or a hand resting on a knee. There are others where men are holding hands or sitting on one another's laps. The show's brochure cautions viewers not to jump to conclusions. The conventions of the days -- late 19th and early 20th centuries -- accepted these poses among subjects.
"Men had their pictures taken together in couples and in groups with a frequency that now seems hard to fathom," Keefe Rhodes writes. "(It) didn't necessarily mean what they might now."
But that's not to deny that overtones of homosexuality exist in other photos. There's an image of two sailors engaged in a kiss that's as ardent as the couple portrayed in Rodin's marble sculpture titled "The Kiss." Another portrays a bearded man dressed in 19th century woman's clothing, his hand resting on the shoulder of the man seated before him. A couple of images offer full frontal nudity, further fueling the power of suggestion.
There are many photos, however, that speak to the familiar camaraderie between and among men: fishing companions, a boy's basketball team, a group of boy scouts. There's a photo of what looks to be the Stanford Crew Team standing with their backs to the viewer; they are completely nude. And there's a wonderful image of 11 young men standing in shorts and shirts before a tent marked appropriately, "Men Only."
Yes, this show is about men, but it could also be about women or men and women. The subjects portrayed in these photos represent friendship, companionship, camaraderie and passion; universal nouns that help to define the human condition.
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MARTINSBURG – Local people are beginning to enroll for health care coverage under the federal Affordable Care Act, but area professionals involved with that process are continuing to try to make it as easy as possible.
That's why members of the "Eastern Panhandle Collaboration for Outreach, Education and Enrollment under the Affordable Care Act" – including officials, organizations, state and local agencies, hospitals and clinics – got together Tuesday morning.
At the one-hour meeting hosted by the Shenandoah Community Health Center, they updated one another on first-day enrollment numbers – online marketplaces went live Tuesday for the first time – and discussed the various venues in the tri-county region now available to help uninsured people obtain health insurance.
The good news is that several options and locations are available to the public for this purpose.
Individuals can enroll at Shenandoah Community Health Center, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, the Berkeley County Health Department, Berkeley Medical Center, Jefferson Medical Center, Tristate Community Health Center and Starting Points in Berkeley Springs. Information is also available at the Eastern Panhandle Free Clinic in Ranson.
Shenandoah Community Health Center and the Berkeley County Health Department received grants to hire employees who are trained and available to help citizens as they enroll for health care coverage.
Residents as well as patients can receive help through the Shenandoah Community Health Center, according to its enrollment coordinator Sara Koontz, who chaired the session. She and four other community assistors will be working in various locations – including Martinsburg, Berkeley Springs, Charles Town and Winchester, Va. – helping individuals.
A "remote station" is also being set up near the health center's Tavern Road site. Additionally, these employees have laptops that can be taken out into the community. Fellow employee Katherine Lluberes is bilingual and will be available to help Spanish-speaking people.
Appointments are already being requested, according to Koontz. Email requests to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Dr. Diana Gaviria said a mini-grant had been used to hire J.P. Shanholtzer as a community assistor to help with public education, outreach and enrollment at the Berkeley County Health Department.
By law, citizens must have health insurance beginning Jan. 1, 2014, or pay a penalty.
An open enrollment period began Tuesday and runs through March 31, 2014. Information on marketplace coverage is available online at HealthCare.gov and enrollwv.org.
Kelly Tanksley, director of development for the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Library, said free computers are available through the library system and can be used by individuals interested in researching or signing up for health care coverage.
DHHR Community Services Manager Kathy Bradley said it's good that people have options.
"And it's important to know there is no wrong door when it comes to enrolling. You can go to Enroll America, to one of our community partners who are here today or even call the toll-free telephone number that goes into the marketplace. There just is no wrong door for applying for affordable health care," Bradley said following Tuesday's meeting.
At that time, she reported two individuals had applied in Jefferson County, one in Morgan County and several in Berkeley County during the first few hours when enrollments were being accepted.
In addition, letters were sent statewide to approximately 117,000 individuals already receiving some form of public assistance informing them that they were automatically eligible for the expanded Medicaid coverage. Of the approximately 10,000 letters sent out to recipients in the Eastern Panhandle, DHHR officials have received responses from about one-third of those individuals, Bradley said.
That means about 3,000 other people are now going to be receiving health coverage who were not eligible before, she said.
"I'm really proud to say that we worked hard and were ready to go," Bradley said.
Delegate Stephen Skinner, D-Jefferson, said he was pleased about the expanded Medicaid program.
"In the beginning we didn't know if that was going to happen, so I worked with some of my colleagues to write a letter to the governor asking him to please sign us up for Medicaid expansion. We'll take credit for convincing him that West Virginia was exactly the kind of place it would have an enormous impact," Skinner said.
"The people it will help are working folks, working at part- or full-time jobs at the minimum wage with no access to health care coverage – until now," he said.
People without Internet service can also call 800-318-2596, a toll-free, 24-hour health insurance marketplace to get additional information.
Ashley Adams, eastern regional coordinator for West Virginians for Affordable Health Care, said it was a time to celebrate because so many people will now have the necessary insurance coverage.
She said her nonprofit organization projects 170,000 West Virginians will be enrolled in the next three years.
"We've been waiting for this for so long, but now the wait is over. It's a very exciting time," Adams said.
– Staff writer Jenni Vincent can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 131.


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One in five UK professionals complain that their careers are being held back by older colleagues retiring later.
The average age of a FTSE 100 board member is 57 and one in six directors is now over 65.
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SUMMERSIDE – Restaurants that participated in the Summerside Lobster Festival's Go Lobster campaign sold three to five times more of the tasty crustaceans than they did last July.
Don Quarles, executive director of the nearly rebranded festival, said Thursday that the 18 local restaurants who participated in the campaign reported favourable results.
Prize packages from the campaign were awarded to people from as far away as British Columbia, he added.
Each participating restaurant served up their own lobster themed creation for the month of July. Eaters who got a stamp on a special passport from each restaurant were invited to submit them online using a special code and were entered in a chance to win a prize pack.
"It is great to see the City of Summerside and our local restaurants promote the Island's lobster industry and my department is pleased to have partnered on this campaign," said Fisheries Minister Ron MacKinley.
Summerside Mayor Basil Stewart added that he's also heard positive reviews from the various participants.
"This new initiative generated additional business for participating restaurants, and it gave residents and visitors an opportunity to enjoy many special lobster menu items. I understand that many restaurants are leaving their special lobster dishes on their menu year-round which is great," said Stewart.
Go Lobster was developed by the Summerside Lobster Festival and with promotional partner, Revolution Media, along with financial assistance from the Department of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Rural Development, the City of Summerside's Department of Community Services, the P.E.I. Fishermen`s Association and 18 participating Summerside restaurants.


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Vedic Astrology and Hindu Tantra are part of a comprehensive yogic science for understanding the outer world and the inner psyche as well as how they interface together. Along with Ayurveda, Vedanta and Vaastu Shastra, they all reflect the pranic force or Kundalini, the transcending energy of consciousness and its ability to unfold our higher potential in life. The sacred key to this transformation rests in awakening the Shakti force in whatever we do, and acting with grace, decisiveness and the determination born of a motivation to reach the ultimate.
The Goddess possesses all forms of beauty and bliss in the world of nature through the Shaktis or innate powers of the mountains, the flow of rivers, the glittering dance of the stars in the heavens, and the delight of the Earth's flora and fauna. Her beauty and mystery hold the alluring attraction of the unknown which draws us into the vast domain of her eternal secrets. Shakti represents what is gupta or hidden, not what is evident or easy to see. A special vision and effort are necessary to pierce beyond her veil to her luminous core. As the divine word or yogic knowledge, the Goddess endows us with a sharper focus through which we can discern her many leveled teachings that reveal the whole and the essence of all that we encounter. Her mantric language expresses a Tantric symbolism through the elements, qualities, beings and forces that interact and interrelate in the subtle currents behind our outer existence.


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LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Saturday has been circled on the calendar for Trojan and Duck fans long before the 2012 season even kicked off. Preseason favorites to represent the Pac-12 in the national title game, it was supposed to be the hottest ticket in Los Angeles as USC hosts No. 2 Oregon. But now the stakes are quite what they used to be.
After suffering its second loss of the season, this time on the road at Arizona, USC is down to No. 17 in the BCS standings and No. 18 in the AP Poll.
Gone for the Trojans is any hope of a BCS National Championship and a trip to New York for a Heisman ceremony at the end of the season seems far off for any player from Troy. So what does that mean for "unfinished business?"
For now, it means just getting back to work and preparing for the undefeated Ducks.
"We all know we screwed up last week," said Coach Lane Kiffin. "We should've won the game. We're moving forward, and it's good to have a game like this. It's good to have a game to be a big game with a national ranked opponent like this, so you don't sit around and keep looking backwards."
"I really think that both games we've lost, we've killed ourselves," quarterback Matt Barkley said. "We can't play a game like that this week, Oregon is too good. We have to be disciplined and play good football."
"I wouldn't say we're going nowhere," said receiver Robert Woods. "We're still going forward, we've got a new opponent, so we're just pushing forward."
The Trojans didn't get away with giving up over 100 yards in penalties at Arizona and they certainly don't expect to win against Oregon if they play that undisciplined again.
Kiffin is nearly out of ideas on how to get his guys to stop drawing flags. His last plea to his players this week was to put together a "highlight" reel of every penalty this season, showing his team exactly what each one has cost.
"It was pretty quiet," Woods said of the meeting room when Kiffin played the film, "sitting there, watching all the dumb mistakes, and all the situations we were in at the time."
"Just little things that really hurt the team," Barkley explained. "We were playing good football, we really were. We were moving the ball, making plays – on both sides of the ball, but at crucial points you just shoot yourself in the foot so you realize those can't happen if you want to win a big game."
"It's not a street fight. It's a game and there are rules within it," Kiffin said. "A lot of them have the mentality where they are trained to protect their brother and unfortunately that's cost us in a lot of these situations, where we get retaliation off of something that happened to somebody else and like what usually happens in football, the second person gets caught."
The Ducks come to the Coliseum as the top scoring team in the country. They put 70 on the board last weekend against Colorado and needless to say, the Trojans will also have their hands full trying to stop Kenjon Barner and company.
"Kenjon, if you go back to our game last year, Kenjon hurt us more than LaMichael did and definitely more than De'Anthony did," Kiffin said. "De'Anthony, I don't know, had two yards a carry or something like that, so Kenjon has done really well stepping in and taking those carries that LaMichael was getting."
"Stopping the run, definitely," explained safety Jawanza Starling of the priority of the Trojans' defense. "Stopping the run will be key to winning the ballgame. We have to play disciplined and stay disciplined. They get a lot of big plays because somebody on the defense gets out of position or makes the wrong read."
The last time the Ducks lost was 11 games ago, to then-No.18 USC in Eugene.
Though the BCS title game is further than a longshot, a win against Oregon will keep the Trojans in the hunt for a return trip to the Rose Bowl.
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PORTAGE, MI – By 2010, former Portage City Councilwoman Elizabeth Campbell had racked up more than $50,000 in credit card debt and was behind on her bills.
Faced with that reality, Campbell, who at the time was the treasurer of the Portage Rotary Club, began raiding the organization's coffers, according to a 41-page Portage Public Safety report obtained by the Kalamazoo Gazette under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act.
"There was no extra money coming in at that time," Detective Randy Dylhoff, the lead investigator of the embezzlement case, said in the report. "She was behind on credit cards, and the payments started doubling."
Campbell, 42, was ordered this week to stand trial in Kalamazoo County Circuit on one count of embezzlement of more than $20,000 but less than $50,000.
The felony is punishable by a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
According to Dylhoff's report, the embezzlement began on Jan. 21, 2010, when Campbell closed one of the club's accounts at Keystone Bank and withdrew a total of $12,606 that was broken down in to three cashier's checks.
Campbell deposited two of the checks totaling $1,327 into two Rotary Club accounts at Michigan Commerce Bank. However, the remaining check for $11,279 went into a new account set up by Campbell at JP Morgan Chase.
Dylhoff said the Chase account, which Campbell set up under the name of Portage Rotary Charities, was opened in February 2010 and from that date until February 2011, Campbell wrote checks out of the account for her personal use.
The scheme continued in June 2012 when Campbell obtained a cashier's check from Michigan Commerce Bank for $26,827 from the Rotary Club's Big Idea Fund.
That money, according to Dylhoff's two-month investigation, was then used by Campbell to open up a new account at Bank of America, again under the name of Portage Rotary Charities. Once the money was in place, Campbell used the money from June 26, 2012 to Oct. 10, 2012 to issue checks to herself, her father and her husband that ranged in amounts from $800 to $7,970.
"She said those checks went to pay her credit card bills," Dylhoff said in the report. "SHe had in the area of $50,000 to $60,000 outstanding in credit card debt."
Campbell's last move came in March when she closed out a Portage Rotary Charities Fund at Michigan Commerce Bank and received a cashier's check for $25,848 and $3,000 in cash.
Dylhoff says in his report that the cash Campbell received was to be used for change at a Living History event sponsored by the rotary club and that Campbell was supposed to only withdrawal $2,000 in cash. The remaining money was to be deposited into a new account set up by the club at Horizon Bank.
However, Campbell kept $1,000 of the cash for herself, used the $2,000 for change at the Living History event and deposited the rest into the new Horizon account.
To make up for the $1,000 that she took and did not deposit at Horizon, Dylhoff said Campbell withdrew $1,000 from the club's "fireworks CD" and deposited that into the account at Horizon with the $25,848.
By the end of it all, Campbell had taken $39,107 for herself from the Rotary Club, Dylhoff concluded in his report.
"I told her in reviewing the records from the Rotary Club and all the accounts she had opened, it appeared to be as one big shell game she was playing," Dylhoff recounted in his report of his Aug. 19 interview with Campbell.
"She was moving money from one account to another, then back to the original account, opening and closing accounts in a short period of time in what appeared to be an attempt to cover something up. (Campbell) said she did try to move funds around to make it difficult to follow."
Dylhoff's investigation of Campbell began July 31 when Rotary Club President John Crandle filed a complaint at Portage Public Safety headquarters.
Prior to that day, Crandle and the club's newly elected treasurer, Dan Gavlas, were trying to consolidate the club's accounts and transfer them to Horizon Bank and had tried to obtain financial records from Campbell, who served as the club's treasurer from July 2008 to June 2010.
On July 25, Gavlas had gone to Michigan Commerce Bank to get records pertaining to the club's certificates of deposit. That's when Gavlas noted the $1,000 withdrawal from the club's Fourth of July fund.
"When Gavlas saw this account activity, he knew something was not right," Dylhoff said in the report.
Gavlas told Dylhoff that the day after the discovery, the Rotary Club had a board meeting and Campbell was to attend and provide the financial records he and Crandle had requested. However, Campbell did not show up.
From the meeting, Gavlas said he drove back to his office and came upon Campbell who was in the parking lot waiting for him.
"She told him they needed to talk," according to Dylhoff's report. "They went into his office, and she admitted that she had taken money out of the (Ken Schuring Scholarship Fund) and Big Idea account and used them for personal bills.
"... She was having financial problems and overextended her credit cards. They were having difficulty making the credit card payments."
The discovery of the financial irregularities and Campbell's admissions led to her resigning in August from the Portage City Council and as Rotary Club president.
Dylhoff's investigation led to the Kalamazoo County Prosecutor's Office in October authorizing one count of felony embezzlement of more than $20,000 but less than $50,000 against Campbell.
Campbell waived an evidentiary hearing in the case earlier this week and was ordered to stand trial in circuit court. A pretrial hearing is scheduled for Nov. 25.
Rotary Club officials have said previously that Campbell has already paid back more than half of the money she stole by tapping into retirement savings and the remainder was covered by the organization's insurance company. Officials have said they do not want Campbell to serve jail time for her misdeeds.
Dylhoff's report says the money Campbell paid back to the Rotary Club came from a 401k that Todd Campbell cashed in for $38,000 as part of the couple's divorce decree. The cashing out of the 401k left $25,000 for Campbell to give to the club.
The remainder of the stolen money was covered by an insurance bond certificate that covered the club for lossees up to $40, 000. According to Dylhoff's report, the Rotary Club board was not aware the club possessed the insurance until July 29.
Campbell's attorney, Don Sappanos has said that in addition to the money she has already paid back to the Rotary Club, Campbell also plans to pay back the organization's insurance company for the funds it provided.
Sappanos also noted that after taking Campbell's case in October, he had received numerous calls of support for Campbell from local business people, Rotary Club members and her former employers.
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After years and much money invested in technology to record and store data on virtually every transaction and from the vast array of instrumented objects, customers want to get more mileage out of that information. Businesses want information that is more timely and useful, particularly if it can directly and positively affect growth and profitability.
Data analysis encompasses various problem domains including retail sales, fraud, consumer/client acquisition and retention, security, and financial services, and therefore many technologies. Key standards and technologies used to support the creation of solutions to the various problem domains are given along with the value they deliver.
For years, the IT industry has spent untold time and money creating systems to record data and transactions. In addition, the number of devices that produce data that is collected is growing exponentially. Furthermore, vast data storage systems are available to store this data, and fast networks exist to transmit it between data centers and machines that process it. Businesses want to take advantage of the investment in the available data to gain timely and useful insights to feed growth and profitability.
What is business analytics?
Business analytics is technology that delivers immediate and actionable insights into how a business is performing. It enables you to spot and analyze trends, patterns, and anomalies so you can plan, budget, and forecast resources. The goal is to make smarter decisions that lead to better and more profitable outcomes. The opportunity to create business value through data is enhanced by the sheer volume of available data. The challenge lies in producing analytic output that creates this value in a cost-effective manner. Business analytics refers to the analysis and organization of data and the delivery of meaningful business information on time and in convenient forms. For example, real-time alerts or executive dashboards are forms of presentation that show high-level measurements of corporate performance. By delivering information online, rather than in static reports, business analytic tools allow you to know relevant business facts sooner while allowing you to "drill down" to examine details by clicking a chart to see the numbers behind it.
Business analytics is not a single product or technology, but a technology domain that requires many products to interoperate. An analytics system analyzes data that is likely stored in disparate databases and warehouses in various data formats. In addition, the system might also incorporate real-time data feeds to analyze in conjunction with historical data. While the data is analyzed, rules might be applied, predictive or optimization models incorporated, and different forms of output produced depending on the scenario or problem being solved.
Consider a retail store trying to retain existing customers. The customer's product-buying history might be stored in one database while the customer's transaction history is in another. The retail store can glean what types of products are purchased, how much money a particular customer has spent on these products during different times of the year, and how purchasing offers influence buying decisions, and so on. The retail store also has real-time data that is not stored in the aforementioned databases, such as what is moving onto and off of its shelves now based on live sales data. Using all of this data, a predictive model can be built to determine with a level of confidence how likely a particular customer is to purchase incoming or existing products at the store. Based on these various factors, this model can be combined with business rules, customer demographics, and historical buying patterns and choices to make intelligent decisions. For example, a store might take action in real time through a special offer at the point of sale, or it might determine the best time to offer and advertise incentives and sales and who to target with them. Analytics can yield interesting and useful customer insights to understand customer trends and behavior and to make sure that customers know about specific and targeted offers.
Scenarios are made up of multiple databases with historical information, real-time data feeds, predictive or optimization models, business rules, and a user interface dashboard all working in concert with one another, but not designed or developed to necessarily solve the particular problem. Standards best address these complex interactions between the various products and systems due to the tight communication required. Standards provide customer benefit as they know that their data, rules, predictive models, and so on are stored in a format or are accessible in an open way and not controlled by a single vendor. Standards allow the freedom of action customers desire to not be locked into a particular tool set, data format, or protocol. In addition, standards allow disparate systems to work together without these systems being built with the other in mind.
The focus of business analytics is to develop new insights and an understanding of a business based on statistical methods and analysis applied to this data, leading to better and more informed decisions. Business analytics software can provide this and other types of actionable insights for these and other types of problems by analyzing huge amounts of data in a short period of time.
Analysis of data
Data analysis is not new; however, some of the challenges today include these:
- The vast amount of data that you must process, or you can process, to produce accurate and actionable results
- The speed at which you need to analyze data to produce results
- The type of data that you analyze—structured versus unstructured
Amount of data
Analytic systems today must be able to handle Internet-scale data volumes. Online data is growing rapidly, and terms like terabyte, petabyte, and exabyte are commonly used. (See Table 1.)
Table 1. Definitions and estimations of data volumes
|Gigabyte: 1024 megabytes
|4.7 Gigabytes: A single DVD
|Terabyte: 1024 gigabytes
1 Terabyte: About two years worth of non-stop MP3s. (Assumes one megabyte per minute of music)
10 Terabytes: The printed collection of the U.S. Library of Congress
|Petabyte: 1024 terabytes
1 Petabyte: The amount of data stored on a stack of CDs about 2 miles high or 13 years of HD-TV video
20 Petabytes: The storage capacity of all hard disk drives created in 1995
|Exabyte: 1024 petabytes
1 Exabyte: One billion gigabytes
5 Exabytes: All words ever spoken by mankind
In 2002, there were about five exabytes of data online. In 2009, that total increased to 281 exabytes, a growth rate of 56 times in seven years. According to Forrester Research Inc., the total amount of data warehoused by enterprises is doubling every three years.
Internet-scale refers to the terabyte and petabyte age of data sizes and the ability to scale to meet the processing requirements to handle this amount of data in a timely manner. The amount of data to be processed includes stored data, as well as real-time streaming data. Virtually everything is electronically recorded today: video and audio surveillance, banking transactions, purchasing transactions, email traffic, instant messaging traffic, Internet searches, medical images and records, and more.
For example, consider the simple scenario of driving home from work and stopping to buy gas. As you leave your place of work and walk to your car, you are likely recorded on video surveillance cameras. As you drive, your cell phone might be sending GPS location information that is recorded. You then receive a text message while driving home. The time and content of these messages are stored by your carrier. You wait to answer it until you pull into the gas station, where another set of video surveillance cameras records the activity. Your gas purchase transaction is then recorded, along with your frequent buyer card that you scanned at the pump. The gas station happens to be in a high-crime area that the city is monitoring with technology such as ShotSpotter (see Resources for a link). ShotSpotter uses microphones positioned in various locations to record and listen for gunshots. If a gunshot is heard, authorities are notified immediately and video surveillance is taken of the area. Therefore, while you are at the gas station, audio is being analyzed and recorded.
A sizeable portion of the rise in warehoused data can and will be attributed to Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). EMRs and advances in medical imaging, along with the length of time they need to be stored (seven years according to U.S. federal law), will continue to contribute to the massive growth of warehoused data. This warehoused data creates data volumes at a scale previously unthinkable. In addition, video and audio feeds are extremely costly to store due to the large volumes of this type of data collected, coupled with its poor compression characteristics. This high volume makes real-time analysis of this type of data important, which enables a selective way to store only the pertinent parts.
Data is being recorded everywhere from virtually everything that moves, and many things that don't. In addition to a typically recorded transaction, many innocuous objects, such as parking lots, buildings, and street corners, are instrumented and record large volumes of data around the clock.
With the amount of stored data growing constantly and exponentially, so too is the amount of data that a business analytics system must process to produce relevant results. Consider that Twitter processes seven terabytes of data every day, while Facebook processes 10 terabytes each day. The CERN Hadron Collider generates 40 terabytes every second. Without analytic systems that scale to these volumes, the data collected loses value.
To put this volume in perspective, Yahoo! reported using Hadoop to sort one petabyte of data in about 16 hours (see Resources to learn more about these benchmarks). This sorting required about 3800 nodes with two quad core 2.5 Ghz processors per node. All other things being equal, sorting an exabyte on the same cluster would take about 1000 times longer, or almost two years.
Business analytic systems also process real-time streaming data that has not yet been stored. The speed at which the large sums of data and the real-time data is processed is critical to produce key insights in a timely manner. In some business analytics use cases, the correct insight or answer, but provided late in a non-timely fashion, can often be considered the wrong answer. The business analytics system must be able to handle large volumes of data, process it efficiently, and come to its result in a window of time that is relevant to the user. For example, a facial recognition system working off a real-time video feed is of much higher value if the system indicates that a wanted suspect is at a specific location one minute, instead of one day, after the fact.
Structured versus unstructured data
Most data produced today is unstructured. Unstructured means there is no latent meaning attached to the data such that a computer program can understand what it represents. Structured data is data that has semantic meaning attached, making it easier to be understood. For example, the following text message or email contains unstructured data:
Hi Joe, call me...my numbers are home – 919-555-1212, office – 919-555-1213, cell – 919-555-1213.
By reading this message, a human knows the latent meaning and that of the data and can tell you what the home, office, and cell numbers are. To represent the same data in HTML, the data now looks structured through its layout and how the HTML is organized in a nested fashion. The data, however, is unstructured to an analytical system because there is no meaning associated with it. HTML, emails, text messages, blogs, video, and audio all represent unstructured information. If the relevant phone number information is put into HTML, you might have this:

List of Numbers
 HNumber: 919-555-1212 ONumber: 919-555-1213 CNumber: 919-555-1214
The HTML looks structured as described here, but not the type of structure that applies the latent meaning to the data. This data is still unstructured as far as an analytics processing system is concerned. Furthermore, if you used XML without a schema, it would also be unstructured in the same way that the HTML is:
<List of Numbers> <HNumber>919-555-1212</HNumber> <ONumber>919-555-1213</ONumber> <CNumber>919-555-1214</CNumber> </List of Numbers>
XML is often referred to as semi-structured. There is structure in the relationships of the data, but the data is not structured with regard to the meaning of that data. With a schema, you can now say that the above XML is structured because you now have a way to attach meaning to the data. With a schema, you know that the HNumber, ONumber, and CNumber elements all represent different phone numbers for Home, Office, and Cell, respectively. Databases contain structured data as well. Data stored in rows and columns with a schema allow the meaning of the data to be understood by a computer program.
Some of the value of different analytics products is their ability to process large amounts of unstructured data to discover the latent meaning. Consider the text message, HTML, and schema-less XML examples above. A computer program can figure out that those are likely phone numbers because they match a pattern of three digits, followed by a separator [in the form of a hyphen (-), a period (.), or a space ( )], followed by three more digits, a separator, then four digits. More processing can be done to infer that the three numbers are from North Carolina due to the 919 area code. You can imagine a similar algorithm for an international number with a country code.
Structured data is simpler to process because more information is available to the program beforehand in order for it to determine the data's meaning. This approach is more efficient as opposed to spending compute cycles to figure it out. Much of the growth of data in today's age, however, is that of unstructured data, making it critical for systems to be able to process it efficiently and to correctly determine the meaning contained within it. For example, emails and text messages as well as audio and video streams are some of the largest categories of unstructured data today. This type of unstructured data continues to grow unabated, making the efficient processing of it critical to the continued success of business analytic processing systems.
While the amount, speed, and type of data are all challenges facing business analytic systems, great strides are being made in addressing these issues. Processing on huge datasets that used to take weeks now takes minutes. Real-time feeds can be processed efficiently while the data is still in motion, running on scale-out clusters with fail-over capability, and all performed on commodity machines. This kind of processing enables the creation of applications unthinkable just a few years ago. For this area of computing to have maximum benefit, software standards play an important role.
Predictive analytics
Predictive analytics is where software uses various historical data sources to make predictions about future events or behavior. The predictions are provided with a level of confidence for the prediction.
Data in motion analytics
Data "in motion" analytics is the analysis of data before it has come to rest on a hard drive or other storage medium. Due to the vast amount of data being collected today, it is often not feasible to store the data first before analyzing it. In addition, even if you have the space to store the data first, additional time is required to store and then analyze. This time delay is often not acceptable in some use cases.
Data at rest analytics
Due to the vast amounts of data stored, technology is needed to sift through it, make sense of it, and draw conclusions from it. Much data is stored in relation or OLAP stores. But, more data today is not stored in a structured manner. With the explosive growth of unstructured data, technology is required to provide analytics on relational, non-relational, structured, and unstructured data sources.
Business rules
Rules are used to define or constrain some aspect of the business to make more intelligent decisions. Rules are stored outside of application logic, making it easy for a business person to add or modify the rules while not taking the system offline.
Reports take the form of user interface dashboards of varying degrees of complexity.
Key standards
This section describes some of the key standards and their relevance and value to supporting data analysis.
UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture) is an OASIS standard in which IBM was the chair of the technical committee (see Resources). UIMA is a framework to process unstructured information, discover the latent meaning, relationships, and relevant facts contained in that data, and represent those findings in an open and standard form. For example, UIMA can be used to ingest plain text and determine the people, places, organizations, and relationships, such as "is friends with" or "is married to" contained in the data. These findings are represented in a data structure defined by the UIMA standard.
UIMA defines four terms to help in understanding its role and purpose:
- Artifact—A piece of unstructured content
- Analysis—Assigns semantics to an artifact
- Analytic—Software that performs the analysis
- Artifact metadata—The result of analysis of an artifact by an analytic
Consider a large collection of fast food restaurant surveys, which amounts to a large amount of unstructured text. This information is analyzed to find the most common reasons for complaints, to identify the names and locations of stores with the most complaints, and for each type of complaint, to see which stores generated the most complaints. You can use UIMA to glean this type of information so you can see trends and the type of complaints. You can also see which complaint types become rarer and which increase.
Referring to Figure 1, the raw survey data represents the artifact (1), as it is unstructured content. The analysis assigns meaning to the artifacts (2). For example, stores 15 and 38 have the most complaints about the desserts, while store 27 has reduced its complaints by half since the last survey. The analytic is typically proprietary software that performs this analysis and produces the artifact metadata (3). The artifact metadata is contained in a data structure known as the Common Analysis Structure (CAS).
Figure 1. High-level view of UIMA
One goal of UIMA is to support interoperability of analytics. The CAS allows for the sharing of these results across analytics. This approach benefits customers by allowing them to share the data representations and interfaces between various tools and products that support UIMA. Given the example in Figure 1, an analytic could interoperate with a tool that performs the analysis on the artifacts if both supported UIMA. This ability enables various tools to interoperate and allows customers to choose different vendors for the analysis of their unstructured data.
UIMA supports a common data representation of artifacts and artifact metadata independently of the original representation of the artifact. It also allows for platform-independent interchange of artifact and artifact metadata while allowing you to discover, reuse, and compose independently developed analytics. Furthermore, UIMA provides interoperability of independently developed analytics. UIMA is the leading technology in this area and is backed by Apache open source implementations. The 1.0 specification is complete as of March 2009, with no further work planned. (For a link to the UIMA specification, see Resources.)
PMML (Predictive Model Markup Language) is an XML-based markup language developed by the Data Mining Group (DMG) in which IBM is a contributor. (See Resources.) PMML represents a predictive model that is created after analyzing historical data for various insights.
For example, assume that a telecommunications company wants to analyze historical data to predict, with some level of certainty, whether customers will drop their land-line service in favor of cell service. The algorithm (1 in Figure 2) looks at historical data and produces parameters for an equation across multiple input fields (age, salary, marital status, home owner or renter, level of education, and so on) that best can predict whether the customer is likely to drop the service. The algorithm produces a PMML model (2) which is the input to a scoring process (3). The scoring process outputs a prediction (4) on whether a particular customer is likely to drop the service along with an indicator of the confidence of this prediction. Higher confidence in the prediction that you will lose a customer might dictate a more aggressive response.
Figure 2. High-level view of PMML
PMML is a model exchange standard to share models between vendors. PMML provides applications with vendor-independent models with the goal that proprietary issues and incompatibilities are no longer a barrier to the exchange of models between applications. This is beneficial and allows users to develop models within one vendor's application and use another vendor's applications to visualize, analyze, evaluate, and use the models. Because PMML is an XML-based standard, the specification comes in the form of an XML schema.
Adoption of PMML in the industry is strong, as indicated by this list of current adoption in the industry. (For a link to a web page, see Resources.)
- Augustus / Open Data Group
- MicroStrategy
- Pervasive DataRush
- Rapid-i
- R/Rattle
- Salford Systems
- Weka
- Zementis
RIF (Rule Interchange Format) is a W3C standard in which IBM was the co-chair. RIF represents, in XML, the executable form of a business rule. Business rules can be used in business analytic systems in various ways. Rules are used to determine specific actions that the system takes based on various conditions and input. For example, a mortgage lending company would have rules to determine if a person qualified for a loan. Factors such as income, debt, and credit score would all play a role. The rules might be of the form: If borrower has income above X, debt less than Y, and a credit score above Z, the borrower qualifies for a given loan amount. Different vendors have their own proprietary way to write the rules, but RIF enables a common and interoperable format for their executable format.
RIF was designed primarily for the interchange of rules between rule engines. RIF delivers value because it provides interoperability between rule execution systems while preventing lock-in by rule vendors. This interoperability enables users to employ various tools to create their business rules but interoperate with various rule execution systems that support RIF.
RIF became a W3C recommendation in June 2010. Therefore, industry adoption is developing as this list of reference implementations of RIF indicates. (For a link to a web page, see Resources.)
- OntoBroker
- fuxi
- Eye
- VampirePrime
- RIFle
- Oracle (OBR)
- STI Innsbruck (IRIS)
- riftr
- WebSphere ILOG JRULES
- Drools
These implementations were of the RIF standard as it was developed. Several of these companies might implement the full standard, although that is not assured.
XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is an XML-based standard by XBRL International used for financial reporting. XBRL is relevant because it is mandated and/or adopted by various governments and countries as the standard format for providing financial reports. With its use growing, the analysis of XBRL documents and the data they contain becomes relevant.
Traditionally, reports are produced in HTML or PDF. These formats, while easy to read by a human, though, are not structured. XBRL is structured because it is provided in XML with a well-known schema, but it is not very human readable. Therefore, meaning can be inferred from the data making the document structured and more useful by a computer program.
Recently, the SEC began to require 500 of the largest public companies to begin filing their financial statements using XBRL. This requirement will gradually expand to include smaller public companies in the future. Companies with market capitalization above $5 billion began filing in XBRL in 2009, but this year they must submit financial statements with more detailed tagging of footnotes. Those with market capitalization above $700 million must make their initial submission in XBRL without detailed tagging of footnotes. All publicly held Korean firms have been required since October 2007 to electronically file their periodic and other financial reports in the XBRL format. Required XBRL filings are being used in Japan by the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), which accounts for 90% of all trades made on Japanese stock exchanges. Since 2008, the TSE requires all listed entities to file their financial information with the TSE in the XBRL format.
XBRL has been adopted and mandated across several of the most mature world economies. Table 2 identifies several of the XBRL adoptions across the globe.
Table 2. XBRL adoption
|Dutch Tax Authority
|Corporate tax returns
|Australian Prudential Review Authority (APRA)
|Prudential filings
|Bank of Jamaica
|Financial companies' registered filings
|United States
|Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC)
|Call report modernization
|United States
|Securities and Exchange Commission
|XBRL voluntary filer program
|National Bank of Belgium
|Belgium companies' annual account filings
|Bank of Japan
|Financial services companies' filings
|Bank of Spain
|COREP filings
|Ontario Securities Commission (OSC)
|Voluntary filer program
|Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE)
|TSE registrant financial report filings
Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a high-level language for representing ontologies of information or models. For example, Joe is a human, is married to Jane, and is a male. Sam is a human, is married to Sue, is a male, and is a husband. Therefore, you can deduce that Joe is a husband. These interactions are being explored because XML Schema often has poor semantics and requires more human interactions to deduce similar facts. With OWL, you are able to more easily deduce knowledge programmatically, making OWL useful for exchanging models and using them in rule-based systems.
The following depicts a retail scenario that uses the various standards mentioned previously.
Figure 3 shows the high-level components in this scenario. The components consist of:
- Databases that contain historical data (data at rest)
- Feeds of real-time data (data in motion)
- Engines that perform the analytics on that data
- Predictive analytics
- Business rules
- User interfaces using dashboards to display results or alerts, while allowing user interactions
Figure 3. Components of the scenario
Figure 4 shows current and future key integration points between the different components (in Figure 3) where the various standards discussed previously interact and provide interoperability benefits. Historical data use a variety of standards, such as XML, CSV, XLS, PDF, DITA, and XBRL. The analytic engines frequently use UIMA. Predictive analytics and business rules commonly use the PMML and RIF standards, respectively.
Figure 4. Key integration points
Scenario details
The next several figures step through the scenario and explain the value that the standards bring. The standards play an important role, especially when you deploy this type of solution into an existing heterogeneous customer environment. This scenario depicts a large retail store solution that is attempting to use historical and real-time data to increase sales, retain existing customers, and attract new ones.
Figure 5 shows the retail chain's historical data in different databases and stored in various data formats. This scenario includes data such as customer transaction data, preferences, purchasing history, demographic information, survey data, customer call center notes and recordings, and so on. In addition, a real-time data feed is provided. This feed might include data such as up-to-the-minute transactions per store or region, live transaction data per customer or group of customers, live customer call center feeds, video surveillance feeds, products in route to various store locations, and so on.
Figure 5. Historical and real-time data
Each successive figure uses shading to indicate the new portion of the picture that was added. Figure 6 shows Hadoop used for historical data analysis to provide analytics on structured and unstructured data. For example, the analysis of this historical data might reveal information about buying patterns for particular customers, purchasing preferences, attitudes on competing retailers, and more. Note the introduction of the UIMA standard to share the analytical output with other systems to enable interoperability.
Figure 6. Historical data analysis
Figure 7 shows the introduction of a real-time analysis engine. These engines can ingest and process real-time in-motion data that is structured or unstructured. In addition, you can feed results from the historical analysis into the real-time engine to help discover additional insights. For example, consider a historical analysis that shows sales of a particular product are best during the weekend days but sluggish otherwise. Furthermore, the real-time analysis shows that the particular product is low in inventory and that the weekend is approaching. An alert can be raised about this situation in hopes of correcting it.
Figure 7 also shows a two-way connection between the real-time analysis engine and the historical data in the databases. The engine might use historical data to correlate with the real-time data and might also store data periodically. For example, assume that the real-time data contained audio feeds from customer call centers. You would not want to store every minute of every call, but maybe you want to store random calls for quality review later. Calls where the system detects an angry customer could be recorded for later review and analysis.
Figure 7. Real-time data analysis
Figure 8 shows predictive analytics as part of the scenario. (View a larger version Figure 8.) Modeling tools can be used to create a predictive model in PMML. This PMML model can be stored in the database and understood by a real-time analysis engine. For example, you might use the predictive PMML model in this case to determine the likelihood that a particular set of facts from the real-time and historical data will lead to a customer switching loyalties and shopping at a competitor. As the real-time analysis engine processes data, it can use this model to score the facts it is uncovering. This scoring allows the engine to make additional and further insights about the data it is processing.
Figure 8. Predictive analytics
Figure 9 shows that you can inject new PMML models into the analysis engine in real time. (View a larger version Figure 9.) This injection is a powerful concept as you can create and deploy new models while the system is running and based on the data currently being collected.
Figure 9. Real-time PMML model injection
Figure 10 depicts the introduction of business rules into the scenario. (View a larger version Figure 10.) As the real-time analysis engine is processing incoming and historical data looking for sales trends, it can invoke rules created with a business rules management system to make additional intelligent decisions. For example, a rule might say: "If customer A, B, or C (part of your Gold customers) hasn't had a purchasing transaction in the last N number of days, and if their survey data indicates that they may move to a competitor, offer them a specific discount."
Figure 10 also shows the standard, RIF. RIF is used to represent an executable form of a rule. This form enables vendor's rule systems to share rules allowing customers not to be locked into a particular rule vendor.
Like the real-time injection of new predictive PMML models depicted in Figure 9, Figure 10 shows how you can inject new rules in real time as well.
Figure 10. Business rules deployment
Figure 11 shows how dashboards and visualization features are utilized. (View a larger version Figure 11.) You can create these features by combining the real-time information being processed and historical data stored on traditional or OLAP databases and surfaced as a real-time alert or as an informational dashboard.
Figure 11. Dashboards and visualization
With the explosion of collected and available data, coupled with the expectation of gaining new and additional insights from that data, the pressure is on to handle, efficiently process, and make sense of data in volumes previously unimaginable. To achieve these goals requires multiple systems and technologies, both legacy and new, working together. This integration between technologies calls for standards to enable the interoperability required to integrate the data, products, and technologies to efficiently achieve the goals expected by business and consumers.
- ShotSpotter: Visit the ShotSpotter website.
- PMML Powered: Visit list of companies that have adopted PMML, courtesy of the Data Mining Group.
- Hadoop Sorts a Petabyte in 16.25 Hours and a Terabyte in 62 SecondsRead more about the results and rules for sort benchmarks.
- Implementations - RIF: View a summary of the implementation reports received by the W3C.
- OASIS Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) TC: Read more about standardizing semantic search and content analytics in the UIMA project and specification at OASIS
- Apache UIMA: Learn about the Apache UIMA project through its documentation and source code.
- PMML 4.0 - General Structure of a PMML Document: Explore how to use XML to represent mining models in the PMML project and specification at The Data Mining Group.
- RIF: Check out the RIF project and specification at W3C.
- XBRL: Visit the XBRL project and specification at XBRL International to learn more about this language for the electronic communication of business and financial data.
- The Apache Hadoop project: Learn about the Hadoop framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters
- OWL Web Ontology Language Overview: Read further about the Web Ontology Language at W3C.
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Back in June, Davey Wavey met up with OurSceneTV host Matt Maggiacomo during a NYC visit. It was, as we've since learned, a prelude to a bathhouse visit. But that wasn't the only thing they filmed together. The gay shirtless twosome also taped an Amazing Race casting reel, apparently, and sent it off to the show. Now producers of the CBS series — currently airing its "all star" season with former Jerry Falwell ghost writing gay Mel White and his bisexual son Mike White — have called him back for some follow up Qs. Does this mean Davey & Matt will be battling to be the next Reichen & Chip (minus the whole "being married" thing)? Not quite. Casting folks are fickle. But while Davey says some of his creature habits (going to bed at 9pm) will make him a terrible contestant, something tells me his clothing phobia will pair nicely with reality cameras.
Now Queerty, don't take this the wrong way, but Amazing Race sticks to people who are interesting.
Davy can be annoying, but I like him most of the time. However I am in LOVE with Magic Homo and I would love to watch him on AR every week.
I say go for it! Davey would be awesome! Bring back morning goods too!
Haha awesome
What's happening to his hairline?
@Kyle: thanks for pointing that out—the Wavey Diva's hairline sure looks it's going through a "recession" there. Roids, do ya think??
His face ruins it for me
it's beneath my dignity to comment on this tool.
btw this wasn't me.
what does he DO? what is the purpose of his films? seriously, snark aside why is he on here?
is it self-publicity for its own sake? vanity project? or some post-modern warholian thing?
apart from anything else the guy is tasteless, as can be attested from his interior decor, and woeful taste in art — a stoning offence in the book of 'mo.
which all goes to prove: THIS GUY CAN TEACH US NOTHING.
That would be hilarious, esp when they send them to the antarctic and he refuses to put on a shirt and his nipples freeze and fall off.
SOOOOOO desperate to be on TV and be famous. Guess his whole "spirituality" bs is not cutting it any more. No more illusions, other than fame, is what he seeks. Sad, ugly, little man.


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Queen Anne's County Sheriff Gary Hoffman is using Valentine's Day to track down some special criminals.
Hoffman is offering rewards to significant others or spouses of female fugitives who can provide tips on where to find them.
In a video posted online, Hoffman said, "If you give us information -- the first tip that leads us to the arrest of our most wanted Valentines -- I will personally give you a dozen roses, as well as a separate card that you can have. And no one will know about this Valentine's special. This will be just between you and me."
Hoffman said no one took him up on the offer last year, but he already has a few tips this time around.


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Milik Gantz scored 17 points and Dyllon Hudson-Emory and Justin McCarthur scored 15 points apiece, leading Bishop McDevitt to a 73-57 victory over Lancaster Catholic in a District 3-AAA consolation game Monday night at Lebanon High School.
It was the second time this season McDevitt beat Lancaster Catholic.
The Crusaders won 55-52 in Lancaster in a non-league game on January 5.
The victory in the rematch put McDevitt in the PIAA playoffs - and set up a fifth-place game Thursday against Northeastern at a site and time to be announced.
Lancaster Catholic will take on Boiling Springs in the seventh-place game on Thursday. The winner goes to States; the loser is done.
McDevitt jetted to a 21-9 first-quarter lead on Monday night and never looked back.
Erik Goldbach hit five 3-pointers and scored 21 points, Evan Purvis added 15 points and Patrick Kenney drilled four 3-pointers and chipped in with 14 points for Lancaster Catholic.


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KALAMAZOO, MI – Fourteen Southwest Michigan high school and college-age students have been chosen as the 2014 YWCA Young Women of Achievement.
To be eligible, the women need to be residents of the greater Kalamazoo area, have "records of accomplishment" in both their academic and extracurricular activities and "have made significant contributions to their high school and/or community, demonstrate leadership ability and exemplify qualities of character and thought consistent with the mission and vision of the YWCA," the organization said in a press release.
The students will be honored at the 30th Annual YWCA Women of Achievement Award Celebration on May 29 at the Radisson Plaza Hotel & Suites.
At that event, Anne Wend Lipsey, who recently retired as head of the Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes food bank, will receive the 2014 YWCA Lifetime Woman of Achievement Award.
The YWCA also will honor the four 2014 Women of Achievement: National Book Award finalist Bonnie Jo Campbell; Mary McLean, who has worked with YWCA of Kalamazoo and Family and Children Services; La June Montgomery Tabron, CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation; and Dorothy Young, former principal of Kalamazoo's Hillside Middle School.
Here are the 2014 Young Women of Achievement:
Katherine Andrews
Daughter of Carrie and Marvin Andrews, representing Portage Northern High School and nominated by Shari Smith
School Activities: IB Diploma Candidate, Volleyball Team, Forensics Team, ARK Club Founder/President
Community Involvement: Tutor at Portage Community Center, Kalamazoo Children's Choir
Academic Achievements: Highest Honors, National Merit Semi-Finalist, National Honor Society Member
Lauren Brady
Daughter of Alyce and John Brady, representing Mattawan High School and nominated by Mike Dudley
School Activities: Cross Country and Track Teams, Global Aid Project Founder/President
Community Involvement: Tutor at Mattawan Middle School, Kalamazoo Art Hop Artist (since 2009)
Academic Achievements: Dual Enrollment at WMU, Honors/Advanced Placement Classes
Alexsandria Denise Burse
Daughter of Sherri Guidry, representing Mentoring and Providing Scholarships (MAPS) Program, attends Loy Norrix High School and nominated by Dr. Carla Campbell-Jackson
School Activities: Link Crew, Senior Class President
Community Involvement: MAPS Program, Jack and Jill of America, Peace Jam Coordinator, First United Methodist Church Youth Member, Anti-Texting Campaign
Academic Achievements: 3.2 GPA
Chasity Cooper
Daughter of Carol Cooper, representing Douglass Community Association, attends Kalamazoo Central High School and nominated by Stephanie Moore
School Activities: Senior Class Treasurer, Volleyball Team, Track Team, Basketball Team
Community Involvement: Douglass Youth Advisory Council Chair, Boys and Girls Club Youth of the Year 2013, Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Academic Achievements: National Honor Society Member
Cia Mia Elder
Daughter of Marcia Nyland, representing Parchment High School and nominated by Scott Karaptian
School Activities: Student Council President (Junior and Senior years), Varsity
Cheerleader, Varsity Track, Varsity Basketball
Community Involvement: Jeter's Leaders, Salvation Army, Girls on the Run, Red Cross Blood Drive Volunteer, Washington Writer's Academy Mentor
Academic Achievements: Honor Roll, Student of the Month, Daughter of the American Revolution Good Citizen Award
Sidney Haverdink
Representing Schoolcraft High School, nominated by Larry Ledlow
School Activities: Volleyball Team, Basketball Team, Band, Choir, Chamber Singers
Academic Achievements: National Honor Society
Sherin John
Daughter of Biji and George John, representing Kalamazoo College, nominated by Michael A. McDonald
School Activities: K-Crew, Resident Assistant, Health Guild
Community Involvement: Kalamazoo Central High School Tutor, Kids in Tune Violin Instructor, WoodsEdge Mentor, Sisters in Science Program Board Member and Mentor
Academic Achievements: Heyl Scholar majoring in biology and music
Emily Elizabeth Juzwiak
Daughter of Ann and Paul Juzwiak, representing Portage Northern High School and nominated by Krista Hovestadt
School Activities: Latin Club, Varsity Soccer, Varsity Basketball, Spanish Tutor
Community Involvement: St. Catherine of Siena, March of Dimes Breadlift, Winterblast Half Marathon Volunteer
Academic Achievements: Highest Honors, IB Diploma Candidate, National Honor Society Member
Mariah Miller
Daughter of Mandy and Todd Miller, representing Community Healing Centers, attends Vicksburg High School and nominated by Sally Reames
School Activities: Band, Choir
Community Involvement: Community Healing Center's Roof Sit, Church Missionary Tours
Amanda J. Mills
Daughter of Joni and Dave Mills, representing Western Michigan University and nominated by Dr. John Dunn
School Activities: Phi Beta Kappa member, Pi Mu Epsilon member, WMU Student Ambassador
Community Involvement: Kalamazoo Gospel Mission, Calvary Bible Church, Portage Central High School Basketball Camp, Taught English in Spain
Academic Achievements: WMU's Lee Honors College, Presidential Scholar for WMU Spanish Department
Symphony Teneal Ollie
Daughter of Terri Benton–Ollie and O'Neal Ollie, representing Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority's AKA Teen Program, attends Kalamazoo Central High School and nominated by Sadie Miles
School Activities: Student Government, Varsity Basketball Team Captain, Varsity Volleyball, Varsity Track
Community Involvement: Advisory Council with Superintendent Rice, Douglass Community Association Tutor, Girls on the Move Volunteer, Northside Rocket Football Jr. Coach, Salvation Army, Allen Chapel AME Church
Academic Achievements: 4.0 GPA, National Honor Society member
Alexandria Oswalt
Daughter of Julia and Michael Oswalt, representing Vicksburg High School and nominated by Keevin O'Neill
School Activities: Volleyball Team, Tennis Team, National Honor Society Member
Community Involvement: Vicksburg United Methodist Church, Vicksburg Volleyball Camps, KAMSC Sizzlin' Summer Math & Science Program
Academic Achievements: National Honor Society member, KAMSC Medallion Award, Excellence in Education Student Scholarship Award
Amanda Scharrer
Daughter of Deborah Kinney and Kenneth Scharrer, representing Kalamazoo Valley Community College and nominated by Laura Cosby
School Activities: Student Strengths Ambassador, Cougars Creating Community, Recognition Committee Chair (first student to hold position)
Community Involvement: Women Empowering Women, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Gallup Education Conference Speaker, "I'm Worth It" Women's Empowerment Series Speaker
Academic Achievements: Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, Associate of Arts: Communication
Abby Visser
Daughter of Kristy and Dave Visser, representing Kalamazoo Christian High School and nominated by Sue Van Hamersveld
School Activities: Varsity Soccer, Volleyball, Student Council, Homecoming Hostess, School Plays
Community Involvement: Mission Trips, Soccer Kiddie Camp Coach, Church Youth Group
Academic Achievements: National Honor Society member, AP Courses
To reserve a seat at the 2014 YWCA Women of Achievement Award Celebration, please contact Kellie Swikoski at the YWCA of Kalamazoo at (269) 345-5595 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Stu Martin was a versatile drummer who performed with many top jazz artists before his untimely death in 1980 at the age of 42. His son Zeke is a similarly adaptable drummer who leads Boston-based The Zeke Martin Project (ZMP), which prefers not to confine itself to only one style of jazz. "4" is the group's aptly named fourth CD since Landscapes in 2001.
The opening "It Ain't You," one of four tunes composer-credited to "ZMP," snares you with its funky shuffle rhythm and an old school soulful theme played on organ by Yusaku Yoshimura, who also delivers a well-constructed solo. Guitarist Wan Gigi is both earthy and prodding in his improv. "Song for Eugenia" finds Zeke and his late father in dual solo roles to start, followed by Yoshimura's electric piano exposition of the delicate, reflective theme. Rozhan Razman's strong bass lines, Yoshimura's flowing solo, and Zeke's sensitive drum support highlight this track.
The funk of "It Ain't You" is revisited for "What You Gonna Say," this time with the tenor sax of Kevin Choo in the lead. Razman's bass and Gigi's metallic guitar fills blend neatly. Choo's sax appears to utilize a very pleasing wah-wah effect at one stage. There's notably outstanding drum work by Martin during Choo's theme reprise. "Say Something @ 6am" has a contemporary jazz gloss in its laid-back vibe and mechanical rhythmic pulse, and is obviously aimed at a different market.
The next two selections are presented in a piano trio format. Yoshimura's "Tusutsu Motase" has an appealingly sculptured theme that combines intimations of foreboding with an overriding meditative outlook. The pianist's solo and his interaction with Martin help make this a worthwhile listen. "Yearning" features Razman's sinuous bass, Yoshimura's shimmering electric piano, and Martin's vigorously constructive participaton. Once again, this trio proves its mettle.
The full quintet returns for "Know Time," which also marks a revisit of contemporary jazz territory, with synthesizer and distorted guitar voicings. However, emphatic solos by Yoshimura and Gigi ultimately bring this workout more in keeping with the fusion genre. There's a little something for almost every taste on this recording, which may or may not be in its favor, depending on what you are looking for.
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#24025 - macross (08/31/2012) [-]
Im 15 what are some really good first jobs?
#24126 to #24025 - suppgurl (09/01/2012) [-]
im 14, live on long island, new york, so we have the bay between the north and south forks, i work on a charter boat doing fucking nothing but raising sails and playing pokemon, it is a really lazy first job, but its good money. just ask your parents to get you a job by asking their friends and junk
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Private employers... until you turn 16 most places won't hire you. At least they wouldn't in the state of kentucky! Fast food service is a really good first job though, it gives you a broad aspect of job experience. You have to deal with customers, work with others, and learn to be productive i think that would end up being the best and most probable opportunity.


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Say "trumpet" and what do you think?
Loud and shrill? Marching bands and "Reveille," perhaps.
Sometimes loud, occasionally shrill, the trumpet certainly is a commanding presence at football halftime shows, but "Reveille" is played on a bugle — and the trumpet can do so much more. Have a listen to Chet Baker's "My Funny Valentine" or "Let's Get Lost," or pretty much anything by Wynton Marsalis.
Among the bright young practitioners of the trumpet arts is Joey Pero, whose new CD, "Resonance," explores the range and dexterity of the instrument.
In addition to the concert, Pero will lead educational sessions at the university, says Peter Wood, professor of trumpet. Wood is responsible for bringing Pero and his colleagues to Mobile.
As editor of the International Trumpet Guild reviews column for the ITG Journal, he reviewed Pero's CD and says it "absolutely blew my mind."
"It's so incredible," Wood says. "Such a clean player, from both a classical and jazz standpoint. (Pero has) extremely fine upper range abilities, but he also plays Bach partitas (and) concertos with finesse and skill. He is definitely one of the most astounding up-and-coming artists on the scene today, and one we should be watching for."
In July, Wood and members of the USA brass ensemble traveled to Syndey, Australia, for the International Trumpet Guild conference at which Pero was a featured performer. Wood says he got to know the 28-year-old rising star and was impressed by his friendliness and his desire to teach the finer points of trumpet musicianship to young people.
"He's an extremely personable guy who likes to deal with kids in educational settings as well," says Wood. "He is super friendly, and he said he would love to come to Alabama."
As it happens, Pero and his mates will be touring the region and they called to say the group would be available after a gig in Nashville. Wood says the Mobile audience will be in for a treat during the performance, which will feature cuts from the "Resonance" CD.
"Joey can play some blistering, high screaming stuff, then two seconds later drop down and play the most gorgeous Chet Baker-like lines," he says.
Pero is an alumnus of the Juilliard School and the New England Conservatory. He has been mentored by Wynton Marsalis — who gave him his 24-carat Monette trumpet) — Charles Schlueter of the Boston Symphony, Ray Mase of American Brass Quintet, and jazz legend Maynard Ferguson, with whom Pero toured in 2005.
Pero's critically acclaimed debut recording "Resonance" and live adaptation have inspired audiences and critics alike to laud Pero as "quite possibly one of the most unique artists in decades."
The seamless movement between musical genres has musical greats such as Marsalis, Freddy Cole and Phoebe Snow saying that Pero has created an entirely new style of jazz, exciting and fresh and necessary to inspire a new generation.
"The world has needed a musician like Joey," says Snow. "He will define an entirely new style of music and musicianship; but most importantly he is exciting to people of all ages."
Pero's live adaptations of "Resonance" have enthralled audiences laughing, crying, screaming and standing worldwide, according to a news release. A recent review of his show on AllAboutJazz.com stated: "Pero's mature-beyond-his-years display of trumpet skill spewed sparks from his trumpets."
"He has the scream chops of Maynard Ferguson, the technical wizardry of an Allen Vizzuti, and the jazz-tech chops of Clifford Brown," the reviewer wrote. "Joey's boyishly engaging onstage persona (almost Elvis-like with tux and scarf donned, spit-curls draped over forehead) seem to make this writer believe this kid is truly an honest-to-goodness American Idol."
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Imported Shrimp Has a Carbon Footprint Ten Times Higher Than Rainforest Beef
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Ten times! And as Tom Philipott, Mother Jones's resident food/enviro/politics guy points out, the glut of cheap South Asian shellfish is what's turned shrimp from a luxury item (remember when shrimp cocktail actually seemed fancy?) into an everyday, Taco Bell and Red Lobster kind of meat.
Check out the Mother Jones article for more details and links to other research. One of the most interesting statistics is that, in 1990, 80% of America's shrimp came from domestic wild fisheries. Today? We import 90% of the shrimp we eat.
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