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Since I am fortunate enough to have authors and reviewers with much more depth in SQL than I working on the SQL quiz, I will post this objection and leave it to them (and the rest of you) to respond. Then we will conclude a next step for this quiz.
05 July 2011
UNION ALL and sorting - first objection for a SQL quiz! (3466)
Since I am fortunate enough to have authors and reviewers with much more depth in SQL than I working on the SQL quiz, I will post this objection and leave it to them (and the rest of you) to respond. Then we will conclude a next step for this quiz.
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It is true that the correctness of answer 6891 relies on UNION ALL preserving the order of the rows. It is also true that this is not documented.ReplyDelete
However it is a well known practice that using UNION ALL avoids doing an "outer" sorting (see for example this tip: http://www.oraclebrains.com/2007/09/sql-tipsuse-union-all-instead-of-union/ ) I cannot conceive of examples in present Oracle releases where the optimizer might decide to do otherwise for a UNION ALL.
On the other hand it is a slight possibility that Oracle may change the implementation since they do not document that UNION ALL will preserve ordering (perhaps doing each subquery in parallel and merging results.) If that should ever happen, answer 6891 would become false.
As of present Oracle releases and to the best of my knowledge and common sense about the optimizer - I will claim that the answer is correct right now. But I concede it relies on undocumented behaviour and as such could be suspect.
For now I will add a warning to the quiz and show an alternative that should be safe "forever".
And I ask for discussion: Do any of you have experience or cases where a UNION ALL does not preserve ordering? Other comments, please?
- Anonymous05 July, 2011 16:59
Hello All,ReplyDelete
I also thought a little bit over the same issue,
and what Kim says is probably right, though undocumented ...
To tell the truth, I found the last choice even more intriguing, because it presented a feature
which also went undocumented as far as I know, namely, the fact that using aliases with same names
as existing columns and specifying those aliases in an ORDER BY will in fact perform ordering by the alias,
and not by the column ...
If the old SQL-ists probably remember, using
aliases in an ORDER BY was NOT an option at all
in older versions ... it was even stronly documented that a UNION query can ONLY be ordered by
specifying position numbers of columns from the select list, and never column names ...
Adding an ORDER BY with column names was automatically considered as belonging to the LAST query in the UNION,
and NOT to the overall UNION query ( I even remember a bug related to this, back somewhere in Oracle V6... ).
What I really missed in this quiz was a choice
with an ordering based on GROUPING or GROUPING_ID, which is in fact the recommended deterministic way
of ordering such queries.
Also, it looks like when specifying several groupings in a GROUPING SETS clause, but without specifying
an ordering at all, then Oracle presents the results of each grouping set
one after the other, without "mixing them up",
therefore (probably), most of the examples I saw about GROUPING SETS do not contain an ORDER BY clause,
the documentation just mentions in a phrase that the correct ordering would probably be based on using
one or more GROUPING functions.
In summary, a good quiz in my opinion.
As a preparing quiz author for this competition,
after I saw this verbose quiz categorized as Intermediate, I just started to wonder how an Advanced quiz
will look along these lines ...
It's true, long does not always means very complex, but however it takes up your time
"to compile" it ... so I had a strong feeling that maybe some different scoring calculation should
be applied to this competition,
because, by its very nature, a good and complex SQL quiz will probably require some more
"business/application level introduction" than we are used to from the PL/SQL quizzes.
I'd like very much to also hear Steven's opinion
on this issue, a one coming both from a specialist as from somebody who is
auto-considering himself "not an SQL specialist"...
Thanks a lot to all and hope for an interesting competition, the start was promising anyway :) :)
Best Regards,
Iudith Mentzel
Thanks for the comments, IudithReplyDelete
- About the ordering by column aliases:
In the diagram for the ORDER BY clause in the documentation there are 3 possibilities: expr, position and c_alias.
Interestingly further down in the docs where ORDER BY clause is described in words, only expr and position is discussed. Looks like the c_alias was put into the flowchart only :-)
Good point about a choice ordering by GROUPING - that would have been ideal if I had remembered that.
- About the difficulty level:
Intermediate was chosen for the topic (actually it was discussed among reviewers whether it should be beginner knowledge :-) I feel that knowing GROUPING SETS may not necessarily be beginner knowledge, but an intermediate player should know it. Advanced I would use for SQL MODEL clause or advanced analytic functions, for example.
The verbocity of that quiz mostly is due to 6 choices with a good deal of code. But that is the same for all players, so it at most means that everybody scores on average a little lower for this quiz than another intermediate quiz with less text. Ranking would not be influenced. And the challenge scoring algorithm has always weighed correctness much higher than time anyways.
So how much text is in a quiz should not (IMHO) influence the difficulty level. (Personally I prefer a slightly more verbose quiz if that means less ambiguities, but that is just my preference - I prefer answering correct rather than quickly :-)
Hope you all keep trying the "SQL Challenge" - we will all endeavour to make the quizzes interesting :-)
I think many people here would have heard about Tom Kyte's opinion on this:ReplyDelete
In short, he thinks we should never rely on sorting without 'ORDER BY'. And I agree. It is undocumented. It may be not correct. It is not a best practice.
And if it's not best practice, we should not promote its usage, should we?
I agree, Scott.ReplyDelete
Problem is that I *do* have ORDER BY, and no documentation I have found states much about how ordering of inner selects may or may not be preserved.
Yes, I admit it is not the very best answer I have concocted - we have added a warning and alternative answer to the quiz and I will try not make this same mistake in the future. I just do not believe it to be "wrong enough" that it warrants a re-score, that's all.
But I may be overruled by general consensus - I do not claim infallibility :-)


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I admire Elizabeth Edwards! She is a very strong woman of faith morals and charactor and if she was running for office instead of the sneaky cheat- liar, I would have voted for her!ReplyDelete
What really irratates me is that skank her dummy slept with! She really thinks she hot looking??? She must have a magic mirror!
John Edwards deserves reil skanky whats her face!
Elizabeth, if you read this, more power to you! Your beauty and grace out shines that low life cheater and just know, the good people of this country KNOW what kind of people they are...and they WILL reap what they sow!
Its unfortunate that that little girl will always be looked upon and being conceived in a most horrible way!
- AnonymousOctober 29, 2010 at 5:03 AM
I can so sympathize with the putting on lipstick comment. I had to put on a dress (which feels like a 'rape me' suit), high heels (hooker garb), and make up (I'm not pretty enough as I am) for a job interview. Just putting on heels hurt and felt degrading. I felt like I was having to 'doll up'. When my husband had been paying for prostitutes and strippers it killed me inside to feel like I was having to sell myself. Luckily all my interviews were with women so I didn't feel so exposed and vulnerable. If I had to get in front of a camera for public view I would have been dying inside. I feel for those women in the public eye who have been devastated and humiliated for all to see.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 5, 2011 at 6:12 AM
I dont think its the wife that is humiliated. Its the cheaters!ReplyDelete
I admired Elizabeth Edwards, but her lying cheater husband and his skanky whore that couldnt find a man to begin with, are the trash! Theres a reason no single man wanted that trash..only a stupid married one who thinks he's missing something would lay with that thing!
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Summer is now over and with it, some pretty horrible films (The Apparition, Piranha 3DD, The Watch). We welcome the Autumn, with open arms and a slew of thought-provoking cinema worth spending your time indulging in. So to cleanse your palate a bit from the garbage of Summer, here are the best 9 movies you need to see for the month of September. Some we've already seen, some we're betting our reputation on. There are no bad films on this list, just movies that you'd have a blast watching or debating with friends at dinner.
9. REC 3 (Horror, September 7th)
Plot: A couple's wedding day turns into a horrific events as some of the guests start showing signs of a strange illness.
Why you should see it: Spanish language horror movies have become highly respected in Hollywood due to the inventiveness and ingenuity of the stories that Spanish directors and writers come up with. The REC series from Spain is perhaps the most famous and successful of them all. Part 1 was a game changer and Hollywood remade as 'Quarantine'. Part 2 was relentless with its fast paced action and gore and now Part 3 blends humor with all the action and blood we've been accustomed to. You won't find a better horror franchise in the 21st century than REC.
8. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (Documentary, September 21st)
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7. Looper (Sci-Fi, Drama, September 28th)
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5. Toys in the Attic (Animation, Family, Fantasy, September 7th)
Plot: A teddy bear, a mechanical mouse, and a marionette join forces to save their kidnapped friend, Buttercup the doll, from the denizens of the Land of Evil.
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4. End Of Watch (Crime, Drama, September 21st)
Plot: Two young LAPD officers (Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña) are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious Mexican cartel, during a routine traffic stop.
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3. Dredd (Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, September 21st)
Plot: In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO.
Why you should see it: While it is a complete rip-off of the Indonesian action flick 'The Raid: Redemption', 'Dredd 3D' could be, along with 'The Raid,' the best action films of 2012. It's a non-stop action extravaganza, it's relentless with its violence and pacing. There's not much character development here and it doesn't matter. Throw in the best 3D and sound of the year and you have yourself a damn good entertaining movie.
2. Arbitrage (Drama, Thriller, September 21st)
Plot: A troubled hedge fund magnate desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.
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1. The Master (Drama, September 14th, expanding from September 21st)
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Why you should see it: If there was ever a movie to see not only this month, but this year, it is 'The Master'. After the Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes divorce, the timeliness of a Scientology inspired movie will attract a curious crowd to see the so called origins of the religion. We're predicting Best Picture and Best Actor win for the film and Joaquin Phoenix. Why? One name… Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia, There Will Be Blood) a three time Oscar nominee. He is considered a film master and under his directional style, the subject matter and the performances, there is no doubt the film will be an immediate frontrunner in all the major categories this award season.


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I am a very nice person who was once a bully. I felt victimized by a girl in my elementary school named Trezana. It was so severe for me that I wanted to drop out of school. I don't think she was actually that bad.. I am just a very sensitive person and any little teeny bit of criticism to this day makes my heart pound intensely and it's just absolutely overwhelming for me.
I noticed some girls in school who were very awkward. At first it was just one girl, Catherine. Then a new girl, Elizabeth, came to our school and she and Catherine became great friends. There was something about their awkwardness that just drove me insane. I decided it was impossible to avoid picking on them, so I began just really letting them have it. I definitely made Catherine freak out in anger one day, when I caused her to break a styrofoam hat she'd made for Crazy Hat Day, which was somewhat satisfying, but Elizabeth always just kind of took it.
I can't say for sure why I bullied them, but the strange thing was that I remember standing up for another girl around that same time as she was being bullied, so I know that I wasn't all bad. This was at a time in my life when my dad was at his worst state of his bipolar disorder and had dropped off one of our cats at a park to die because he thought our cat would get us all sick. He was also recently taken out of our house on a stretcher when he attempted suicide by swallowing a bunch of pills. I was in therapy at the time too and was prescribed anti-depressants, which I swallowed the entire bottle of the day after my dad did. I can only assume that all of that fucked up shit is what caused me to lash out at those poor girls. And their exceeding awkwardness. Hiyo!
i apologized to Catherine in the beginning of 9th grade and to Elizabeth on MySpace when I was 19 or so. I still feel like I need to do more, but I don't want to make them relive it, you know?
Sorry this isn't about high school. I thought it still might be relevant.
I think weird, disconnected cliques can happen in any sized school. My school only had about 120 students per grade, and I was in the 'leap' stream, which meant that I often had the same group kids for several classes a day. One time, some kids were passing around a get-well card for a popular kid who was scheduled to go for heart surgery, and I realised that I wouldn't have remembered his name if it hadn't been written in big letters on the piece of paper.
Also, licorice and fennel are gross.
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The JV Club is refreshing and uplifting. Even though I grew up and now live in India, I can relate to the lives of so many of your guests. That's possibly the strongest message from your show, that we're all so similar no matter what boundaries and cliches we place upon ourselves. And that things always get better! I featured your podcast on my blog recently 🙂
Hey, I heard an Eric slipped into the shout-outs! I'm guessing that was for someone who comments on iTunes because it's not an uncommon name, and I'm pretty new to the scene. But I'll go ahead and pretend it was for me. 🙂
Anyway, I knew this was going to be a really entertaining podcast as soon as I heard Danielle break out those goofy voices. You've been picking some great guests so far, Janet, and I think it really does help that you already know them a little (or a lot) because it means they're more willing to open up about some of the things you talk about.
The one thing that really stood out this week for me was the story about using ketchup to fake having a period. I thought it was disgustingly hilarious, and I just hope that image doesn't pop into my head the next time I'm eating french fries or something.
BTW, I watched Burning Love over the weekend and thought it was great. My favorite episode was probably the Homeless No Mo' project. You made some great faces in that one, and I'm laughing just thinking about it. I've already been going out of order with the podcasts, so I'm probably going to listen to the one with Erica Oyama and Beth Dover next.
Keep up the great work, and can't wait to hear more about the launch of Huff Post Live!
I'm a long-time listener, first-time commenter. Janet, I love, love, love this podcast, and I think it's become my favorite. There's an atmosphere of sweetness, honesty and vulnerability that works so well with the focus on childhood and adolescence, and which is such a great complement to the sometimes impenetrable walls of macho wit put up by comedians on most comedy podcasts. And you seem like such an invested, empathic, and kind person who really wants to cultivate that atmosphere and make your guests as comfortable and open to sharing as possible. It's great.
Re: bullying, there's a fantastic moment in the "Reunion" episode of 30 Rock where Liz arrives at her high school reunion, dogged by memories of being bullied by the popular kids at school, only to find that everyone resents her and perceived her as a bully. There's an early flashback from her point of view of a cheerleader-type jeering "Hey, Liz how's your telescope?" followed later by an extended flashback where we see her rejoinder: "I don't know, Kelsey, how's your mom's pill addiction?" which leaves the girl in tears. I had a similar epiphany about my middle school experience, well after the fact.
In middle school I was physically bullied and socially humiliated by conventional popular bullies, and as a bookish nerd, I (and most of my nerd friends) developed a scathing sarcasm that we used to "get back" but also to make fun of other kids, little siblings, etc. Because we ourselves had been victimized, and because our "erudite" "joking" sarcasm didn't resemble the treatment we received from bullies (we were being verbal and witty, rather than physically violent or vulgar), there was never, ever a consideration in our minds that such mockery was just as much bullying. I didn't make that realization until years later. We were using our victimhood to justify what was ultimately bullying behavior on our part.
The irony is that the stuff "meathead" bully-types made fun of us about was typically just superficial or didn't apply to us (I got called a "f-ggot" a lot, or they made fun of my glasses or something like that). But the zingers a clever honors-English kid could throw back at them could be exceedingly caustic, and pretty spot-on, and probably actually did a lot more damage. Luckily, while Middle School was largely a hellish Lord of the Flies situation where everyone was miserable and constantly sniping back and forth, high school was more low-key, with different groups more or less coexisting and mingling without taking pot-shots at each-other.
Ah, I'm glad you brought up Robocop. My dad brought me and my brother to see that movie when we were really young. If we saw it in the theater (I don't remember this) I would have been 3 and my brother would have been 5. My parents were divorced and I don't think our dad knew what to do with us. But after that, my mom decided we could watch whatever movies we wanted. Which was awesome growing up!
It's shameful to say, but I did bully someone out of anger. I was going through difficult times at home, and was angry. I severely bullied this one girl in hopes of making me feel better, but I felt worse. What I did was in such conflict of who I really am and I couldn't live with myself. A few days later, I walked up to the girl and sincerely apologized, to the point where I was in tears. I'm happy to say, though, that this girl is now one of my dearest friends.
Given that it was a faintly-remembered maybe-COSMO article, I wonder how much scare-mongering about a large clitoris might've played into the androgyny/intersex concern…and, of course, before he started writing and directing films about how to objectify everyone around your teen self, John Hughes's most notably successful pieces for NATIONAL LAMPOON were the short fantasies "My Vagina" and "My Penis", about teens of the inappropriate genders awakening one morning to discover the "opposite" sort of genitalia in place, and their subsequent adventures…I wonder how much these were still part of the school-corridor folklore by the time your vague noises were heard about such things by one of your guests, Janet…and congratulations on the new gig. Somehow, I'm also reminded of the FRASIER episode about confronting one's teen bullies as adults.
I've contacted 6 bullies on Facebook. I got 2 apologies and 1 fuck off.


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Jennifer Connelly links arms with her son Kai at the 2013 Artwalk NY held at 82 Mercer on Tuesday evening (October 29) in New York City.
The 42-year-old actress and her 16-year-old son walked the red carpet at the Coalition for the Homeless' premiere art auction.
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Regarding "VA mum on new health care site" (July 13, page 1).
I am not against the construction of a new hospital, but I strongly disagree with the choice of location. I find the delay, silence and apparent secrecy surrounding the project disturbing. It makes we wonder if the hospital will even be built at all, despite the Veterans Affairs's claims to the contrary.
The fact that there are, besides Deshon Woods, three other properties in three townships under consideration as the location makes me quite upset. To think they destroyed Deshon Woods, that beautiful, 20-acre, old-growth forest that was a public park, only to potentially not even build there is disgusting. If the original intention was to build it there, it should be built there. That's the least they can do now that they have turned that beautiful forest into a desert.
This project was stopped because the CEO of the developer the VA hired is in prison for corruption. Doesn't the VA check out its contractors before hiring them? Apparently, someone at the VA was asleep at the wheel, and now that forest, and the residents and taxpayers of Butler Township, have had to pay for it.
All I can say is that, after everything they have done, they better build that hospital there. They can't bring the forest back, so that's the least they can do now, rather than letting it sit there desolate.


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The official music video for Christina Aguilera's single "Not Myself Tonight", which was written Ester Dean and Polow da Don, who also produced the record. The single appears on Aguilera's upcoming album Bionic, due out in stores June 4th, 2010
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Picture of the Week: Carrie Underwood Splurges on New Music
It's difficult to tell for sure, but it looks like Carrie Underwood chose Best Buy to purchase a copy of her new album 'Blown Away' on Tuesday. We wonder if they asked for her phone number or zip code as she checked out? Or to see some identification?
"Just bought 'Blown Away!' Glad they finally have a section for us country folk! Ha ha!" the singer tweeted on Tuesday night. Underwood tells Taste of Country that she doesn't buy many albums; she's more likely to support her artist friends by downloading singles. One album that did grab her attention was the new project by Canadian Christian rock band Thousand Foot Crutch. Prior to that, fellow 'Idol' famer David Cook's album was the last one she'd purchased.


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Last night I made this fantastic meal... I've made it before, and I was testing it out again to see if I should put it in my annual Christmas cookbook. It'll definitely be in there! This is the "Star-Anise Glazed Tempeh with stir-fried peppers" from "Vegetarian Suppers" by Deborah Madison. Seriously, this recipe is reason enough to buy that cookbook. It's quick and delicious and different flavors than things I usually make - a bit sweet, a bit salty... mmm! I served it with saffron rice - white basmati flavored with saffron.
Also! tonight I made a second attempt at the apple-hazelnut bread I made the other night. Usually I"m one to reduce oil in a recipe, but this bread was WAY too dry the first time around. My standard M.O. is to follow a recipe faithfully the first time, and then start making changes as needed. That first loaf had a wonderful flavor, but was actually too dry to enjoy in the end. This time I added 2 Tablespoons of canola oil, and another 2 Tablespoons of olive oil. I haven't tasted it yet, because I'm planning on taking it on my trip with me to feed my friends - but it looks amazing. This time it rose nicely, and feels heavy and moist. Smells good too - it's got cloves, cocoa powder, and rum as speices - but just in very small amounts.
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One of the words Pope Benedict repeated the most during his sermons and speeches while visiting America was truth, although when Benedict uses the word, my mind's eye sees it with an upper-case T as Truth. The phrase "dictatorship of relativism" from his sermon to the cardinals before the conclave that elected him is clearly one of the central concerns of his pontificate. Nowhere is this concern more necessary than in America, and the Democrats would do well to examine why this is so. A recent article in the Washington Post catalogued the variety of ways in which American culture posits that truth is up for grabs. For starters, when researchers entered some 100 terms drawn from U.S. history texts into the Google search engine, 87 times, the first hit was for Wikipedia, the on-line, consumer generated encyclopedia that is, well, not exactly authoritative. The article also noted that 11,000 different websites credit Abraham Lincoln with a quote he never said. The quote itself speaks to the phenomenon in question: "How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg." The religious consequences of this view of truth as something humans manufacture are obvious enough. But, the political consequences are also troubling and worthy of examination. N.B. The Washington Post ran its story about truth in the Style section. Barack Obama especially needs to help Truth make a comeback. Polls consistently show that 10% of Americans think he is a Muslim. His former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, has given voice to the absurd proposition that the U.S. government created the AIDS virus to extinguish minorities. And, this week's cover of the National Enquirer blares the headline "Obama Marriage Explodes" with the promise of photos and love notes inside. For years, Democrats have been winking at the idea that truth is a relative notion. Men were not supposed to have an opinion about abortion because they could not get pregnant. A white man could not speak on racism because he was not black. But there are no privileged hermeneutics in a democracy. One man's opinion has as much value as another's and everyone casts a secret ballot where they can mark their preferences without having to give an account of their motives to anyone. Only if the culture itself puts a premium on truth v. opinion, on knowledge v. information, only then can our democracy function and flourish. As he comes to terms with the various slanders hurled against him, Obama could do worse than to quote Pope Benedict. Freedom divorced from truth can become a form of slavery that is especially pernicious because it is not without its allure. "Pushing the envelope" and "being edgy" are seen as good things in the market-driven culture of the 21st century. Obama, and the Democrats more generally, need to reassure Americans whose sense of security has been shaken by the economic downturn, that they understand that they, too, are responsible to truths that are greater than their own self-advancement. This is an opportunity for the Democrats. They should seize it. Michael Sean Winters
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The first Truth the Democratic Party needs to address is that the unborn child is a human being made in the image and likeness of God and that a just society must protect his/her rights. Until that fundamental Truth is acknowledged, anything else the party tells is a bunch of lies!


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On Stout's Hall of Fame day and in a steady rain, fifth-ranked UW-Whitewater defeated the Blue Devils 41-7 Saturday afternoon at Don and Nona Williams Stadium in Menomonie, Wisconsin to retain a share of first place in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. UW-W, 5-1 overall and 3-0 in the WIAC, will host UW-Oshkosh, 6-0 and 3-0, Saturday, October 20 at 1:00 in Perkins Stadium for Whitewater's annual Homecoming and Athletic Hall of Fame game.
UW-S received the kickoff, but as happened on four of the first five Blue Devil possessions, the Whitewater defense forced a three and out.
While the defense was doing its job, the Warhawk offense went 59 yards on 11 plays, consuming 5:51 on the clock, with Desmin Ward scoring from one yard out at 8:23 for a 7-0 Whitewater lead. Ward ran the ball nine times for 42 yards on the drive, and quarterback Lee Brekke completed both of his pass attempts.
Whitewater's second drive used just six plays to cover 49 yards, with Brekke going 2-2 on the drive again. Brekke connected with fullback Bernie Tamsett for the ten yard score to push the lead to 14-0 with 2:46 left in the first quarter.
Eric Kindler's 27 yard field goal at 10:38 in the second quarter made UW-W three for three, and increased Whitewater's margin to 17-0.
Zach Howard's 28 yard punt return, to the Stout 28, set up the Warhawks' fourth score, another Kindler field goal, this time from 42 yards with 7:46 left in the half to make it 20-0.
Stout finally got on the board in the second quarter, striking quickly on a five play, 71 yard drive. The big play was a 35 yard Michael Blizel to Trevor Morning pass that put the ball at the three yard line. Morning caught two long touchdown passes (39, 45) against the Warhawks in last year's meeting between these two teams. Eric Brown ran it in on the next play to cut the lead to 20-7 with 3:39 on the clock.
UW-W took less than two minutes to get those points back, using just three plays to eat up 68 yards. Ward rushed for 38 yards, followed with five more, then, with Brekke's play action occupying the defense, Brekke found Joe Worth for a 35 yard touchdown, Worth's first of the season. UW-W led 27-7 with 1:46 left in the half.
Stout managed four yards rushing, 16 yards of offense and one first down in the first quarter. By halftime Whitewater had accumulated 278 yards of offense, split almost evenly between passing (131) and rushing (147). Brekke hit the first seven passes he attempted, ending up 8-12. Stout had 107 yards at intermission.
Brekke's pass to Steve Morris at the right corner of the goal line, Morris' team high third touchdown reception, increased Whitewater's lead to 34-7 at 9:15 in the third quarter. The 38 yard completion is UW-W's longest of the season.
Stout mounted a scoring threat in the third, but facing a fourth and one at the Whitewater 18, Blue Devil running back Tanner Kuehn was tackled for a two yard loss by Jake Hohlstein.
Early in the fourth quarter, after the Warhawk defense stopped UW-S inside their five yard line, UW-W returner Zach Howard brought a short punt back 19 yards to the Stout 9. On the next play, sophomore QB Matt Behrendt found Worth for his second touchdown of the day, ending the scoring at 41-7 with 12:45 remaining in the game.
After playing in wet conditions all game, the teams made it through three quarters without a turnover. That was particularly noteworthy because Whitewater came into the game leading the WIAC in turnover margin. But the ball suddenly became a hot potato, as the teams combined for five turnovers, two fumbles and three interceptions, in the next five possessions. UW-W defensive back Andrew Keister accounted for two of the picks.
UW-W limited Stout to 136 yards of total offense, just six of those coming on 17 rushing attempts. The Warhawks had eight tackles for a loss and three quarterback sacks.
Whitewater's Ward, the leading rusher in the WIAC, carried the ball 24 times for 120 yards.
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When artist Amanda Burnham first moved to Baltimore, Maryland, she didn't know anyone. So, she spent a lot of time in her 7th floor apartment that had interesting views of the city. The time spent observing and recording her surroundings later informed her temporary, site-specific installations that are a patchwork representation of Baltimore. Burnham draws and paints street signs, fire hydrants, architecture, and store fronts, piecing them together in a manner that's fractured yet cohesive. Taking elements of a neighborhood (or neighborhoods), she fashions her own view of the city, creating work large enough for a viewer to walk around and between. In an interview with Dwanye Butcher of Visual Baltimore, Burnham explains why she chooses to work this way (and why she reuses paper and boxes):
The idea of things being layered and pieced together is important to me. I see this city, and really all cities, as these giant ad-hoc organisms – collectively authored, chop-a-bloc, joints exposed – an ongoing melange of edits, adjustments, negotiations. I hope to suggest that with the deliberately collage-y, visually dense, maximalist aesthetic of my drawings. I also love paper and what it does when treated as an object – the shadows it casts, the way tears and cuts are line. Most of the paper I use is really cheap stuff – low grade drawing paper that comes in rolls, kraft paper, packing materials. Boxes. That's important because I'm not rich, but also because I see it as conceptually significant – resourcefulness is an ethic I sometimes see evidenced in the forms of the city, and it's one I really respond to.
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I arrived in Mumbai scared. It was a little after midnight, not an hour when I like to make the acquaintance of a foreign city. I had asked my hotel to send a driver to meet me at the airport and had no good reason to think they would. It was my first trip to India, a country that, by all accounts, stands alone in its ability to bug-eye visitors. And I had read Maximum City.
No book read before visiting a place had so successfully made me want to stay home.
"There will soon be more people living in Bombay than on the continent of Australia," Suketu Mehta portentously begins, before presenting a tableau of the more colorful residents: religious gang leaders, mobsters, hit men, bar girls, the ever-multiplying poor. He describes a city so fraught with divisions - Hindus and Muslims, rich and poor, natives and newcomers - that it resembled a volcano about to blow. He so vividly captures the slums, the millions of people deprived of plumbing and running water, that I seriously expected to have trouble finding toilets.
Out of his 542 pages I gleaned two encouraging lines. One claimed that, despite the city's fabulous wealth and searing poverty, there was very little street crime. You may get mugged in Delhi, he said, but not in Bombay.
The other came at the end of a beautiful passage describing a departing commuter train. It is packed solid but, as a man comes running down the platform, arms reach out to pull him up. They belong to people who are already impossibly squeezed and damp with sweat. At that moment, he writes, no one thinks of the man's religion or place of origin, only his need, like everyone else's, to get to work. No one wonders how he will fit.
"Come on board, they say. We'll adjust."
Actually, the middle of the night is not such a bad time to arrive in a city like Mumbai, as darkness hides a multitude of sins. The same cannot be said of smells. A gust of sewage hit me as we trundled across an overpass. (My hotel had come through on its promise of a driver.) Back down on the street I saw my first homeless, three men curled atop a low brick wall, evenly spaced and fast asleep.
My hotel was in Colaba, the touristy tip of the city. In the morning, in a little dining room off of the lobby, stretched a buffet of curried vegetables, dhal, rice, roti. Indian breakfast: one of the beauties of being in India.
I headed for the Gateway of India and made a wrong turn, walking for blocks in the opposite direction. It was seeing my first cow, and a garlanded temple, that threw me off. By the time I found the famous arch, I was a little weak. Painted wooden boats bobbed atop the brown Arabian Sea, here where King George V arrived in 1911, and women in saris licked conical-shaped ice cream on sticks. Behind me rose the great mass - domed pinnacles and echoing arches - of the Taj Mahal Hotel. I went in for lunch and used the rest room.
Mumbai's carnivalesque character, I soon discovered, was centered here, in the hotel-and-trinket district. The tourists attracted hustlers, vendors - stalls cluttered the sidewalks of Colaba Causeway - and street kids scandalized by the condition of your shoes. They swung battered boxes of brushes and polishes and looked at you with insistent stares. Most people performed a service (contributing to the city's vitality); begging seemed to be the domain of young women with babies, and the deformed. One morning, a young man rolled toward me on a wheeled board, his stiff legs crossed and pointed straight up behind him.
Once you passed Chhatrapati Shivaji (a k a the Prince of Wales Museum), life returned to a certain (Indian) normalcy. Walking up Mahatma Gandhi Road, I was surprised by how quiet the largest city, and financial capital, of the second-most populated country was at 9 in the morning. Cars passed on the street, a tireless horn section, but the sidewalks were fairly deserted.
Finally, I spotted a pedestrian. Feeling a kinship, I asked for directions.
"Cross the road," the young man said. "If you survive that you'll go straight up till you reach Victoria Terminal."
He wore dark trousers and a light-colored shirt open at the collar. He was, he told me, originally from Madras. (Are Westerners the only ones who call Indian cities by their new names?) I asked how he liked Mumbai.
"From a working point of view I wouldn't live anywhere else," he said. "There's a certain level of efficiency here that you don't get elsewhere. People are fairly punctual. They help each other. But it's going downhill."
"In what way?" I asked.
"People are not so law-abiding. Mugging is not going to happen to you. At night, women can go out without a problem. But people will drive through red lights. I stop at the lights. I throw trash in the bin. And I expect others to do the same.
"We just had Diwali. People are not supposed to use fireworks after 10 o'clock. But after 10 o'clock you heard them. My children could not sleep."
Then he wished me a good day and headed off to his job in a nearby bank.
Despite the heat, I kept on walking. The train station sat like an ornate Mayan temple, constructed by a people who had disappeared. Crawford Market, a short stroll north, buzzed with robed merchants wreathed in clouds of dust. Cobwebs hung from ancient archways. In the hall across the street I stepped over fish laid out on wet concrete, swerved around piles of melting ice. Normally I love markets; even in the poor Caribbean, they're picturesque. This place had a harsh, utilitarian cacophony.
Outside, I wandered through warrens of streets full of men. It seemed a city devoid of charm. But eventually a great space opened up, dusty grounds stirred by white-pantsed cricketers.
"In USA only Christians?" one reserve asked, after finding me a seat in the shade.
"No," I said. "We have everybody: Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists."
His friends now crowded around. They were all college students, enjoying a break. They asked my profession; as soon as I told them, one of them cried: "Bombay is the best city!"
Everyone loudly shouted his agreement.
Their university bordered the east side of the Maidan. The campus seemed a kind of Oxford of the Tropics, august stone buildings set down on palm-fringed lawns. I paid 20 rupees to visit the library: high vaulted roof and stained-glass windows. Students sat studying at long wooden tables breezed by fans. I felt guilty - just as I had on the Bund in Shanghai - for finding comfort in a world built by Westerners.
Back at my hotel, the elevator operator greeted me warmly. He was a wiry young man in a buzz cut and a fusty gray uniform. A book sat facedown on his little wooden stool. I asked him what it was. He picked it up and showed me the cover: Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
There was no way I could walk to Bandra. I choose an unair-conditioned taxi outside the hotel, driven by Mohammed. We headed up Marine Drive, between a gracious crumble of art deco and the polluted Arabian Sea. (If attended to like Ocean Drive, this would be one of the world's glamour thoroughfares.)
One hour and several slums later, we arrived at the Taj Land's End hotel. I said I could be hours; Mohammed said he would wait.
Maya glided through the lobby in a white spaghetti strap blouse and a gauzy green skirt down to her ankles. She looked impossibly cool. And remarkably young for the mother of two grown children.
Back in her SUV, she said that some of the houses around were owned by Bollywood stars. We passed a church, with swirling crowds, and I suddenly realized it was All Saints Day. Bandra, Maya said, was a Catholic area, traditionally the place for people from Goa and Portugal. She was from Delhi; her family from Kerala. But she loved vacationing in Goa.
We cruised down the main street - Levi's, Nike, Nine West, Baskin Robbins - and then into a dimmer, dustier realm. People were everywhere, on the sidewalks, in the street, moving in streams, brushing our car. They were like figures in a video game, except that they were real. Maya drove unfazed, while I squirmed in the passenger seat. "I can see you moving," she said, smiling.
"They'll adjust," I told myself.
One man tossed an empty bottle onto the ground. "He had good intentions," Maya said. "He moved toward the trash can."
A short while later, we saw a man spit. "I don't know why," Maya said, "people can't swallow their saliva."
She designed clothes, and needed to stop to see her tailor about an order. He inhabited a small, low-ceilinged room with two young men working foot-operated sewing machines.
"The problem here," she said, after we'd returned to her car empty-handed, "is that people don't do things on time. You tell them you need something in two days and they say, 'OK.' "
But, she had told me earlier, she wouldn't live anywhere else.
Her apartment was on the top floor of a building graced by a small statue of Ganesh, the lovable, elephant-headed god. We sat on her terrace, high above the fray. Her husband arrived and swiftly refused the Indian wine that Maya had offered me.
"So you're going to tell Floridians about India?" Prasan asked, taking a seat.
"Yes," I said. "God help them."
Prasan was a radiologist, working at hospitals around the city. Many people in his financial position had drivers, but he couldn't stand the idea of somebody driving his car. The traffic was horrendous. "As you get older," he said, "it gets to you."
They both practiced yoga, which was becoming popular after its American success.
Our conversation moved to food, and the use of ghee, or clarified butter. It was a delicious if unfortunate ingredient for a people who, Prasan claimed, have narrower arteries than Westerners. Heart disease, he said, is the No. 1 killer in India.
Around 10 we headed out to a restaurant. Waiters swiftly filled the little tins on our plates with soup, dhal, hot yogurt with crushed nuts, potato, and less identifiable things which we all scooped up with warm roti. As soon as a tin emptied, the waiters returned. "All you can eat," said Prasan, "for 99 cents." He kept them busy. Finally pushing his plate away, he announced: "I'm not going to yoga tomorrow."
They drove me back to the Taj Land's End. A small crowd emerged from the darkness and pounced on the car in front of us.
"Must be a Bollywood actor," Maya said.
A few yards away, Mohammed sat unmoved on the hood of his taxi.
Saturday night I took a taxi to the racetrack. The season was over, but I had been invited to dinner in the Mini Turf Club.
The driver dropped me on a bridge and pointed vaguely through the night at what he assured me was a track. I walked past a two-story shantytown, fringed with shadowy figures that paid me no attention, and down a dark driveway into the wedding of the minister of civil aviation's daughter. Once again, I had made a wrong turn. I borrowed a cell phone from one of the guests and called my hosts.
A few minutes later, I was drinking a Kingfisher a few doors down with the uncle and aunt of a friend of a friend. Menu wore a yellow polo shirt and a matching Livestrong wristband; Ruma wore a sari. Waiters moved unobtrusively around white-clothed tables, literally yards from the slum I had passed coming in. I had still not accustomed myself to the Indian proximity of elegance and squalor.
Menu used to own horses, but he had sold them a number of years ago. Though he and Ruma still lived nearby; we could see their apartment building through a large window. They employed three people, which meant, Menu said, that they supported three families. This was their way of helping the poor.
On the drive back to my hotel, we passed through the red-light district. Alone, I might have thought it just another poor neighborhood, with perhaps an inordinate number of hangers-on. The women glimpsed in doorways were modestly dressed; they looked cheerless and unalluring. Bare light bulbs illuminated shabby hallways painted garish colors.
Eventually we headed down Marine Drive - the Queen's Necklace - and then onto Colaba Causeway. Just before reaching my street, Menu turned through an entranceway and into a large courtyard. This, he said, was a Parsi residence.
Menu was a Parsi, a member of the Zoroastrian group that came from Persia and, for more than 1,000 years, has retained its beliefs and customs in India, as evidenced by this compound, whose well-kempt courtyard seemed of another place from the world outside. I had read that there was a tradition in Mumbai of restaurants at intersections run by Parsis (as Hindus considered a corner location unlucky), but I had not heard about the housing complexes.
"You see how spic-and-span it is?" Menu asked, as he drove slowly through. "Only Parsis can live here. Even if a Parsi marries a non-Parsi, it can be difficult getting in."
A temple stood in the middle of the courtyard. "You see the emblem of fire?" Menu asked. "Parsis worship fire."
On our way out, we passed a group of teens sitting on a stoop. "They don't look like Indians," Ruma said. "They have beautiful complexions." By which she meant, it took me a while to realize, "light."
At St. Thomas' (Anglican) Cathedral the priest followed the choir in stocking feet. Suneta, changed out of her red-and-white robe, told me at the coffee hour that she also sang at Holy Name, the Catholic cathedral. "I'm very liberal," she said. She had sat on Mother Theresa's lap as a child and felt that that moment had established the course of her life.
Back at my hotel, I packed and read the Times of India. There were pictures of Minister Patel's daughter's wedding, but unfortunately I didn't feature in any of them. I went downstairs to find Mohammed, or one of his colleagues.
Near the airport, we stopped at a light. Soiled children surrounded the taxi, hawking their wares. One boy carried a pile of books nearly as tall as himself; they were encased in plastic so they wouldn't topple over. I read the titles: Clear Light of Day, by Anita Desai; Shalimar the Clown, by Salman Rushdie; Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell; The World Is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman.
The light changed to green before I could read more. The cars moved forward. The children adjusted.
Getting there: I flew British Airways from Miami to London to Mumbai and had two of the most pleasant back-to-back eight-hour-plus flights of my life. My coach seat seemed to recline a little bit farther back than other coach seats, and - miraculously - I actually managed to sleep some.
Getting around: I walked a lot. It was hot and I was sweaty, but going about on foot seemed preferable to fighting traffic and dodging other moving objects in a taxi. And, unlike a lot of other Indian cities, Bombay is walkable, without the sprawl of Delhi and the dust of Jaipur. And the sidewalks are generally in good shape. But there are times when you need a taxi, and they're fairly cheap. I learned to find a driver with a high head rest and then sit behind him so I couldn't see what was happening in front of us.
Lodging: The Taj Mahal Palace and Tower in Colaba is the grand hotel of Mumbai, with a spectacular setting on the waterfront near the Gateway of India. www.tajhotels .com; 011-91-22-6665-3366. Doubles start at around $420.
I stayed at the perfectly fine Hotel Godwin (three stars) a few blocks from the Taj. A good breakfast buffet - with a mixture of Indian and Western foods - is included in the price, which was about $50 a night. Staff (with the exception of the elevator operator) was aloof, but I found that to be the case in similar hotels throughout India. 011-91-22-2287-2050.
Eating: Mumbai has lots of restaurants - Indian and international. The Taj Mahal Palace and Tower alone offers Japanese, Chinese, Mediterranean as well as Indian cuisine. I had a wonderful Chinese meal at 5 Spice (296/A Perin Nariman St., Sangli Bank Bldg., in the Fort area). The place has an extensive menu and a dessert recommended by my Indian friend called Mission Impossible. (I could tell you what it consists of, but it's better as a surprise. It took three of us to finish it.)
Sights: The Gateway of India; the Prince of Wales Museum (with a very informative and impassioned audio tour); Victoria Terminus; Mani Bhavan (the house Mahatma Gandhi lived in while in Bombay, now a museum); Chowpatty Beach (for the people watching, not the swimming); the Maidan (where cricket matches seem to be forever in progress); Churchgate Station (get there around noon to see the dhaba-wallahs as they head out to deliver home-cooked lunches to office workers); Haji Ali Mosque (at the end of a causeway into the Arabian Sea); Mumbadevi Temple.
Shots: I updated my tetanus and hepatitis-A vaccinations. Talk to your doctor, and/or visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web site at www.cdc.gov.
Information: www.incred ibleindia.org.
- Thomas Swick
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PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) reported fourth-quarter earnings on pace with Wall Street expectations on Monday and said the spin-off of its chemicals business is on track to close within the next two weeks.
The Pittsburgh-based supplier of protective and decorative coatings revealed record quarterly net income of $227 million, or $1.46 a share, compared with $216 million, or $1.39, in the year-earlier period.
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Excluding one-time tax and acquisition charges, PPG earned $1.53, matching average analyst estimates in a Thomson Reuters poll. The company also achieved record full-year adjusted EPS of $7.94 and said profit improved in each major global region.
PPG CEO Charles Bunch said the quarter capped off an "exceptional year" for the company, driven by strong operating performance and several major strategic initiatives that he says have accelerated the pace of the company's transformation.
"We grew our sales and earnings despite moderate overall economic conditions that varied by region and end-use market, and continued negative impacts from currency translation," he said.
PPG anticipates further acquisition and separation-related costs in the first quarter of 2013 related to the split of its chemical business and merger with a subsidiary of Georgia Gulf, however, it expects to complete the spin-off later this month.
Revenue for the three-month period was $3.6 billion, up from $3.5 billion a year ago, virtually matching the Street's view. Sales in the industrial coatings segment grew by 9% to $1.1 billion, while those in the performance coating group ticked up 1% to $1.2 billion.
Looking ahead, PPG said economic trends will remain varied by region in 2013, with solid growth expected in North America and weakness in Europe.


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Memorial to a fallen soldier
Army Spc. Andrew R. Looney died in Afghanistan when a suicide bomber attacked him and another soldier, Pfc. David T. Miller. Miller, from Wilton, NY, was also killed.
Tonight there was a memorial service for Looney at the Owasso High School. The road leading to the school was lined 4 or 5 deep for nearly a mile. People stood crying on the sidewalk as a procession of motorcycles and police cars drove by, followed by Looney's family.
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Bungie to Reveal Destiny This Weekend
The first official look at Bungie's new video game franchise will be unveiled on Feb. 17th.
According to the Destiny Facebook page, Bungie will give the world the first glimpse at the highly anticipated new sci-fi franchise on Sunday. There has been little concrete information about just what Destiny is and how it will play, but we do know a few facts about the new series already.
Destiny will debut on the Xbox exclusively for one year, with a new entry expected every two years. It's expected the series will transition to next generation consoles as well. The game will go multiplatform eventually, though like Call of Duty, the planned downloadable content (yes, they are already planning DLC), will also be a timed exclusive on Microsoft's console. The deal between Activision and Bungie will last for several games, so like Halo, Destiny will be Bungie's primary focus for pretty much the next decade.
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by Michael Caruso
Tempesta di Mare, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra, continued the celebration of its 10th anniversary season with a concert last Sunday afternoon in the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill. The March 25 performance fielded one of the largest period instrumental ensembles I've encountered since I first started covering the local classical music scene in 1976, testifying to the remarkable success Tempesta has made of itself over the past decade. What was once a small baroque chamber ensemble is now an internationally acclaimed orchestra that performs all over the world — and against all odds continues to record and release new CDs.
Sunday's concert was entitled "Party of the Muses," a name taken from the program's final and largest score, Suite IV from Johann Sigismund Kusser's "Le Festin des Muses," here receiving its U.S. premiere. Two other works of the afternoon were receiving their modern world premieres. "Concerto grosso in E minor" by Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel and "Sinfonia in G" by Johann Samuel Endler. No Tempesta program would be complete without at least one score composed by its favorite baroque master, Johann Friedrich Fasch, and this one was no exception. Fasch's "Orchestral Suite in F" opened the concert and will be a part of the ensemble's forthcoming CD on the Chandos label.
The afternoon's most memorable performance, however, was that given Pietro Antonio Locatelli's "Concerto for Violin in B-flat," featuring the ensemble's concertmaster, Emlyn Ngai, as soloist. Ngai's playing Sunday stands as a template to the development in the level of playing of local period instrumentalists during the 10 years of Tempesta's existence.
Prior to its founding by flutist/recorder player Gwyn Roberts and lutenist/theorbo player Richard Stone, Philadelphia lagged light years behind other major cities when it came to the quality of our period instrumentalists. Right from the start, Tempesta's directors changed all that by hiring excellent musicians who were also stellar performers.
Fasch's music has been Tempesta's special project over the years. Roberts and Stone have discovered, uncovered and recovered countless scores by the baroque master that were lost to one degree or another but that now have found second lives under their caring hands. His "Orchestral Suite in F" employs the full complement of players — horns included — and it sounded splendiferous Sunday afternoon before a large and enthusiastic audience.
Only a few weeks ago in this column I lamented the absence of the Concerto Soloists' Sunday afternoon concerts in Holy Trinity Church on Rittenhouse Square. I wrote too soon. Tempesta is joyfully filling the void. Now if we could only get the group involved in the Bach Festival and then bring it back to Chestnut Hill.
Piffaro, the Renaissance Band, returns to Chestnut Hill 8 p.m., Saturday, March 31, in the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, 8855 Germantown Ave. The program is entitled "West Becomes East: Piffaro's Journey, Part 2, Musical Sojourns in El Nuevo Mundo (The New World)." Piffaro will be joined in concert by The Rose Ensemble, a vocal group from Minnesota, and actor Dito Van Reigersberg. For more information call 215-235-8469 or visit www.piffaro.com.
Gianandrea Noseda guest-conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra March 16-18 in the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall. His program consisted of three splendid works — Rossini's "Overture to William Tell," Prokofiev's "Violin Concerto No. 1 in D minor" and Mendelssohn's "Symphony ('Scottish') No. 3 in A minor" — yet the performances they received Saturday night were anything but spectacular.
Although Noseda invested a great deal of effort and imagination into his choreographic antics on the podium, the underdressed maestro did not put nearly as much effort or imagination into the textures of orchestration in any of the three pieces, especially the Rossini and the Mendelssohn, two works of exceptionally evocative scoring. Both the "William Tell Overture" and the "Scottish" Symphony are masterpieces of scenic tone painting that convey the inner emotional turmoil of the former and the scintillating joy of nature in the latter. And yet, under Noseda's command, both came across as monochromatic sketches because the conductor failed to balance and voice the contrapuntal lines.
Although the Prokofiev fared somewhat better, it didn't receive the interpretation it deserves. Balancing Rachmaninoff's romanticism against Stravinsky's neoclassicism, Prokofiev invested his "First Violin Concerto" with both lyricism and astringency. Soloist Juliette Kang (the orchestra's first associate concertmaster) failed to achieve a melting tone in the slow passages and seemed to be laboring almost grimly to keep up with the technical requirements of its faster sections.


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Far from diverting employees from their jobs, social media and smartphones actually make staff more productive - and employers should learn to deal with that new reality.
Access to social networks via mobile devices gives staff a "virtual co-presence" with direct benefits for the business in which they work, according to a new study.
That core presence enables workers to complete collective tasks more effectively by giving them a greater freedom over when and where they do their jobs, the study of technology companies in the UK, Germany and Finland found.
"This was an investigatory study, rather than a statistical proving. But it was very obvious that social media allows people to accomplish a lot more," said Joe Nandhakumar, professor of information systems at Warwick Business School, which conducted the research.
"We can feel that in the academic environment. If you take that connectivity away, we are completely unable to work," he said.
According to Nandhakumar, evidence from the research suggests that knowledge workers who manage their presence successfully and control their responses are better at organising workflow.
He argued that social media is not an entertainment medium with side-benefits for business. "It's not a by-product. It's the main thing," he said.
Nandhakumar pointed out that social media is a central part of the culture of knowledge workers, "It's not a secondary effect. You can't avoid it. You can't ban it, so how do we make this work for the organisation?" he said.
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He warned against organisations treating social media and easy access to it via mobile devices as a distraction for employees.
"They said that about email. They said that about the telephone. Businesses should change - social media is a fact of life," he said.
"You can't stop people having this connectivity so we need to find out how we can manage it and how we can make it into something more positive rather than trying to ban it. Anything can be a distraction - a computer can be a distraction - it depends on how you use it."
Nandhakumar said successful organisations used to focus strongly on processes and then on connecting people. Now social media can provide a layer on top of ERP systems. "We can have the people on top of the processes to get the best of both," he said.
"What we should do as companies, we should empower employees to deal with social media and how they can spend their time productively. We can't really control these things. They are there for the knowledge worker."
The Warwick Business School paper is entitled Exploring social network interactions in enterprise systems: the role of virtual co-presence. It is due to be published in the Information Systems Journal.
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Tagliaferro Named Salesperson of the Year
Senior Account Executive Jeff Tagliaferro has been named New Hampshire Motor Speedway's 2013 Salesperson of the Year.
Tagliaferro, who started at the speedway in June of 2012, has made an immediate impact in the corporate sales department. The Bedford, N.H., native handles over 50 accounts on a daily basis and has landed 15 new clients over the last year, including Chip Ganassi Racing, Homans Associates, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare and Central Paper. He was also influential in landing the New Hampshire Travel and Tourism speedway showcar, which was a major showpiece at several NHMS community-related events throughout New England.
"Passion alone won't get you over the mountain, that takes other skills that Jeff displays day in and day out," said David McGrath, vice president of marketing and promotions at the speedway. "One just has to look at his daily call sheet to see how he frames his day around consistently developing new business calls, consistently creating strong relationship building opportunities for the speedway's revenue growth today and tomorrow."
Tagliaferro was instrumental in the handling the speedway's largest sponsorship partner OSRAM SYLVANIA, which hosts the annual SYLVANIA 300, the second race in NASCAR's Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. Among the major changes Tagliaferro made to ensure this was the "best race weekend to date," according to executives at OSRAM SYLVANIA, was to relocate the hospitality suite to the infield, increasing its size and visibility. OSRAM SYLVANIA has sponsored the SYLVANIA 300 since 2003.
"He is without a doubt the caliber of account executive you want on your sales team," said McGrath. "Showing the other members the way, he was an obvious choice to be recognized as our 2013 Salesperson of the Year."
Tagliaferro previously spent four years as the General Manager of Wildcat Sports Properties/Learfield Sports at the University of New Hampshire.


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Alan Jackson, 'Thirty Miles West' – Album Review
There's a song on Alan Jackson's 'Thirty Miles West' album that could be the title-track. Actually, 'Nothin' Fancy' could be the title-track for his entire career. This isn't the best song on the project — one gets lost in the long, sleepy melody — but it's a message that speaks to why we love this country legend.
On his first album in over two years, Jackson returns to relying on familiar emotions and a voice that God would envy if he were capable of such things. His every-man narratives are sharper than any that dotted 'Freight Train' and (with few exceptions) 'Good Times.' He sounds like a man just back from vacation: refreshed, confident and full of good stories.
The heart of Jackson's new album is the woeful ballads. There's 'So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore' (arguably the best of his career) and 'She Don't Get High,' the story of a couple who have lost their sizzle.
"I'm not the song that she sings / I can't give her those wings / Hard as I try I'm not the sky she's looking for / She don't get high anymore," he sings.
'When I Saw You Leaving (For Nisey)' is a song Jackson wrote while supporting his wife through cancer treatment. It's as open and honest as 'Sissy's Song,' and if he's willing release it as a single — no easy task as he'd then have to perform it every night — it's a sure hit.
Early in the album, 'Everything But the Wings' is the first stop-and-listen moment. The nearly five-minute love song holds nothing back in telling a woman how the singer feels. Jackson is something of an introvert, but he's not shy about exposing his heart and soul on songs like this. He's completely committed to the emotional country ballad.
The delicious middle of 'Thirty Miles West' also offers 'Dixie Highway,' an over seven minute-long jam with Zac Brown. The project could use a few more shots of adrenaline to appeal to younger listeners, but no longtime fan of Jackson's will be disappointed with the songs he's assembled.
Perhaps the only criticism comes in song order. In two cases, two similar songs are placed back-to-back. 'Look Her in the Eye and Lie' is a similar sentiment to 'So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore' (albeit one from a new perspective), and 'Life Keeps Bringin' Me Down' is a familiar upgrade to 'Long Way to Go,' the track preceding it.
However, when one needs to get to the track list before voicing a serious complaint, it's a sign that he's nitpicking. 'Thirty Miles West' isn't an album that's going to be favored by younger country fans, but those who've built a family as Jackson has built his career will be satisfied with his best work in years.


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As one of the largest Stockists of Tresor Paris in the UK, you are sure to find what you are looking for at Market Cross Jewellers. We have an excellent range of Bracelets, Earrings and Necklaces in a variety of styles and colours for you to choose from. Tresor Paris become popular with their stunning and unique bracelet design, commonly using magnetite beads and a mixture of crystal encrusted beads, they became a common fashion statement and won a place on thousands of wrist around the world.
Market Cross Jewellers are proud to be official UK stockists of Tresor Paris jewellery online and in-store. Over the years we have hosted several Tresor Paris events in our stores and have been lucky enough to have the official Tresor Paris bus visit our store for the day. When you buy a piece of Tresor Paris from us, you can be assured that you are purchasing a genuine Tresor Paris piece with a full manufacturers warranty and an official Tresor Paris presentation box/bag.


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Jacques Pepin: More Fast Food My Way "Chef's Dream" Jacques assembles fresh bluefin tuna tartare with apple. He also prepares lamb burgers with feta cheese cooked rare and served with yogurt-cucumber sauce.G
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Pasta, Please" Test cook Bridget Lancaster shows host Christopher Kimball how to make foolproof Spaghetti and Meatballs. Next, equipment expert Adam Ried reviews sous-vide machines in the Equipment Corner. And finally, test cook Julia Collin Davison updates a recipe for the perfect Spring Vegetable Pasta. D
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Coastal Cooking with John Shields "Pacific Northwest" Penn Cove Mussels on the Pacific Northwest's Whidbey Island open up about their famous Marinated Mussels recipe. Other recipes include Wildwood Planked Salmon from Tillicum Village, Salmon Jerky, BBQ Oysters and oysters on the half shell. D
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Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Rustic Yet Refined" Joanne makes us a classic Italian frico and then with her student Stephanie demonstrates how rustic and refined can work well together in the same meal, making a spiced lentil and herb salad and halibut wrapped in prosciutto. Recipes: Frico with Bacon and Potatoes, Prosciutto di San Daniele-Wrapped Halibut Fillet, and Spiced Lentils and Herb Salad. Student: Stephanie Gerbracht, Wine Sales. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Edinburgh" Edinburgh is the historical and cultural heart of Scotland. We'll explore the castle, peek at the new parliament, dabble in the local literature, sip a little Scotch, get wrapped up in a kilt, and then stowaway on Her Majesty's yacht Britannia.G
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My daughter also loves chocolate and she has one Lady Godiva chocolate after dinner every night. Only the best for her too. But is this truly my child? How can she stop at one? Her father doesn't particularly like chocolate but somehow my addicted to chocolate gene and his take it or leave it chocolate gene have combined in her to create the chocolate in moderation gene. Why can't I have that gene?
Coincidentally or otherwise, many of the worlds oldest supercentenarians, e.g. Jeanne Calment (1875-1997) were passionately fond of chocolate. Jeanne Calment habitually ate two pounds of chocolate per week until her physician induced her to give up sweets at the age of 119 - three years before her death aged 122.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The MIT men's fencing team fell to three Division I foes en route to a 1-3 outing at the Brandeis University Invitational on Sunday. The Engineers (5-3) defeated Vassar College (14-13), but lost to Boston College (14-13), St. John's University (21-6), and Yale University (15-12).
The foil team put together the best record of the day as it finished at 17-19. Its best outing was a 6-3 decision against Vassar which helped lead MIT to its lone victory. Spencer Sugimoto paced the Engineers with an 8-4 record while Jason Chen and Benjamin Switala finished at 5-7 and 4-8, respectively.
In its match with Yale, the epee team picked up Tech's only victory with a 5-4 decision. The corps posted a 15-21 record behind Trevor Chang's team-best mark of 7-5. Gabriel Chan went 5-7 as Matt Gethers notched a 2-8 ledger. Jeremy Hurwitz won one of his two bouts.
The sabre squad posted a 13-23 ledger with Igor Kopylov leading the way at 6-7. Namit Setia finished with a 4-5 mark, followed by Rangarajan Nadadur (3-6), and Raymond Wu (0-5).


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Alfresco Drives CMIS Discussions at AIIM
Alfresco Founder to Present on CMIS; Participate in AIIM CMIS Demo and Host Networking Events
CMIS will take center stage at this year's event as AIIM plans to leverage the new draft specification to host a federated demonstration allowing attendees to access conference materials stored in multiple content management systems (CMS). The proposed CMIS standard currently is being advanced by an OASIS technical committee and is designed to enable content to be accessed regardless of CMS. Developers can build and test CMIS applications using Alfresco which then can be deployed on SharePoint, EMC, IBM, or OpenText. Alfresco is participating in the AIIM CMIS demonstration by providing access to a hosted Alfresco implementation, which uses an Alfresco ECM repository and delivers out-of-the-box, collaborative content management. The OASIS Technical Committee expects to reach standards approval on CMIS by the end of 2009.
Alfresco also will make a CMIS and Cloud Computing Developer Kit available to AIIM attendees. The developer kit includes example code for connecting Alfresco to Joomla!™ and Drupal, plus examples of CMIS using Java, Flex, Javascript and Alfresco, as well as a live Alfresco system to develop and test CMIS applications.
"CMIS has huge momentum and will become the foundation for building a new generation of content collaboration and social computing applications," said John Newton, CTO, Alfresco Software. "The AIIM Conference presents the perfect venue to demonstrate the benefits of CMIS in action with live systems and discuss how ECM vendors, users and developers can leverage this emerging standard to provide a new range of content applications that will bring content management technology to the masses."
Detailed information on the Alfresco activities at AIIM include:
- "Open Source Collaboration: Enabling CRIX Consortium Members to Accelerate Collaboration and Information Flows" presented by Dr Ian Howells, Alfresco CMO, and Mark Vermette, CRIX Product Manager, on March 31 at 3:30 pm;
- "The Impact of CMIS in an Interoperable World" presented by John Newton, Alfresco CTO on April 1 at 10:10 am;
- Alfresco will be exhibiting at AIIM in booth 542 and will be demonstrating live CMIS Integrations with Joomla! and Drupal, as well as Alfresco ECM and the Alfresco Network;
- Rivet Logic & Alfresco "Open Source ECM in Action" Reception on April 1 from 5:00pm at the Marriott Hotel; and,
- Optaros: Drupal & Alfresco Integration built using CMIS
- CIGNEX: Case Study on Liferay & Alfresco Integration
- Rivet Logic: Replacing your Legacy ECM with Enterprise Open Source Alfresco
- Rothbury: Adobe Flex & Alfresco Integration
- Microstrategies: Kofax & Alfresco Integration


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