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PITTSBURGH - If West Virginia's opening game in the NCAA tournament tonight is anything but a rough, physical, no-blood-no-foul kind of event, the Mountaineers are going to be very disappointed.
But so, too, will Gonzaga.
In fact, that was pretty much all either side seemed thrilled to talk about on the eve of the game.
The travel difference of WVU playing 75 miles from home and higher-seeded Gonzaga 2,200 miles? The Zags are used to it.
The relationship between old friends Bob Huggins and Mark Few? After 30 years, Huggins can't go anywhere without running into old coaching buddies.
Two teams with heavy doses of freshman contributors? Hey, doesn't it balance out?
But ask about physical play and the floodgates open.
"Yeah, we see the Mountaineers play. They're on ESPN quite a bit,'' Gonzaga's 7-foot, 260-pound senior center Robert Sacre said. "We know Huggins' style of play. We're all prepared for that.''
As will be West Virginia when the No. 10 seeded Mountaineers (19-13) face seventh-seeded Gonzaga (25-6) tonight at Consol Energy Center. The 7:20 p.m. game will be televised by TNT, with the winner advancing to play Saturday against the winner of tonight's second game between No. 2 Ohio State and No. 15 Loyola (Md.).
In fact, to a degree, at least one Mountaineer seems amused at the notion that Gonzaga feels it is just as physical as WVU.
"I think they're very physical in their conference. But we play Big East,'' said the most physical Mountaineer, 6-foot-9, 260-pound Deniz Kilicli. "I play guys like Sacre and [6-7, 240-pound junior Elias] Harris 16 times, 17 times, you know?
"So I think they're not going to be as prepared as we are. They're definitely physical and they want to play physical. So we'll see what's going to happen. But I think we're going to beat them on the physical end.''


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Colony, the Times Square-area music store variously referred to as Colony Records, Colony Music or just The Colony since 1948, is now a memory. Owner Richard Turk confirmed that the last day of business was Sept. 16. When Turk closed the door to the public for the last time after 6 PM that Sunday, on the corner of 49th and Broadway, a crowd of 100 people was there to wish him well. They applauded, he told Playbill.com. "Every 'character store' is gone now," Turk said, lamenting what he sees as the corporate, mall-like quality that pervades Times Square today. He said the closure after 64 years of selling classical, pop and Broadway sheet music and cast recordings (41 years at its present location) was a perfect storm of "technology meets economics." In short, it's easier for records and sheet music to be bought off the internet; brick-and-mortar businesses are not easy to maintain in the high-rent world of Manhattan real estate. As of Sept. 26, the inventory has been sold off or returned to publishers and record labels, the 5,000-square-foot venue (formerly a bank) has been gutted and the 15 employees have been let go. The exact day that Turk turns the keys over to the landlord is yet to be determined, but it's imminent, he said, adding that since Aug. 23, when The Colony (as he calls it) was first reported to be shuttering, the end has been "a humbling experience." In recent weeks, hundreds of people — musicians, actors, singers, fans of show music — have stopped by the store to share their memories. He captured more than 100 of their stories on video, possibly for future blog or website posting. An independent company is working on a film documentary about Colony, and Turk said he thinks the store's history and memorabilia would make for a good coffee table book. Political leaders, Tony Award winners, film stars, movie directors and pop music icons (Neil Diamond, among others) have visited Colony over the years. Woody Allen shot a scene for "Broadway Danny Rose" there, and its exterior was seen in shots for the TV series "Smash." (The store is in famed pop-music mecca The Brill Building, at 1619 Broadway, the lobby of which serves as a location shoot for the Broadway-themed series.) Bette Midler has tweeted about the Colony closing, and Turk said he heard from Tony winners Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone and Alice Ripley, plus singer-actresses Liz Callaway and Ann Hampton Callaway recently.
Turk, who owned Colony with partners Alan Grossbardt and Michael Grossbardt, is in discussions about how Colony might reinvent itself solely as an internet operation, possibly representing publishers of sheet music (the store's bread and butter over the years) but nothing is clear or for sure at the moment, he said. (The business was founded by the fathers of Turk and the Grossbardt brothers in 1948, at the northwest corner of 52nd Street and Broadway, in the shadow of the Colony Theatre, now the Broadway Theatre. It moved to 49th Street and Broadway in 1971.) The current location's iconic Colony neon signage (two signs, over each entrance door) will be taken down and preserved. Turk said he's gotten a number of calls about the signs, including from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The larger original signs crumbled over time and were replaced, though the neon "cheerleader" who (according to the store's ad tagline) "found it at Colony" remained in a store window display for years. The owners still have her. What fans of music lose most, Turk said, is access to a knowledgeable staff who could direct jazz and classical players to the right sheet music, or Broadway chorus kids to the right audition song. Turk wondered aloud, "Where will they go to ask for a recommendation…?" Lindsay Mendez, the jazz and pop singer and stage actress of Broadway's Godspell and Everyday Rapture and Off-Broadway's Dogfight, echoed the feelings of many other artists when she was asked by Playbill.com to reflect on the Colony experience: "Colony was one of the first places I visited when I moved to New York and was 18 years old," she said. "I would sit and browse music for hours and just loved spending time in there. But my favorite memory was walking into Colony with my friend Ryan Scott Oliver, and seeing his first vocal selection book on the shelves. The staff was so kind and excited to have it there, and it was just so thrilling to know that his music was a part of that place…a part of New York theatre history." (Kenneth Jones is managing editor of Playbill.com. Follow him on Twitter @PlaybillKenneth.) |
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Amos Nascimento
T PHIL 240 Introduction to Ethics (5) VLPA/I&S
Critical introduction to various philosophical views of the basis and presuppositions of morality and moral knowledge. Critical introduction to various types of normative ethical theory, including utilitarian, deontological, and virtue theories.
T PHIL 250 Practical Reasoning (5) I&S, QSR
Introduces concepts and methods useful for practical analysis of arguments in everyday contexts; meaning, syllogisms, inductive and deductive inference, informal fallacies, argument structure, moral reasoning, and legal reasoning.
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Andrea Sullivan-Clarke
T PHIL 314 Philosophy of Crime and Punishment (5) I&S
Examination of philosophical theories regarding criminal habits and punishment and the philosophical problems connected with specific topics in criminal law. Examines proper subject matter of criminal law (drug use, pornography, euthanasia); limits of criminal sanctions; crime and privilege (corporate crime, white-collar crime, blackmail); justifications for punishment; mercy; and execution.
T PHIL 350 Contemporary Search for Meaning (5) I&S
Examines the search for human meaning and value as it has emerged in the writings of modern philosophy, psychology and literature. Explores how the quest for different forms of meaning has developed and how that quest has been answered.
T PHIL 353 The End of the Modern World: 1600 - 2000 (5) I&S
Investigates the origin, influence and definition of the modern period. Explores the fundamental images and assumptions of this period and discusses the forces that are undermining them. Concludes with a consideration of what may replace these images and assumptions in the next few decades.
T PHIL 354 American Modes of Thought and Experience (5) I&S
Explores the roots of the American experience in its European intellectual and cultural background. Focuses on the peculiarly American angle of vision and value in the development of its cultural heritage. Examines the contribution of tradition and change to that experience and to subsequent philosophical reflection upon it.
T PHIL 355 The Mind of Modernity (5) I&S Forman
Looks at how since the sixteenth century, new and competing ways of understanding ourselves, the natural and human worlds, and our place in them, have defined European modernity. Examines a selection of original artistic, scientific, philosophical, and literary texts. Emphasizes reading, discussion, and writing.
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Michael Forman
T PHIL 356 Themes in American Philosophy (5, max. 10) I&S
Examines the origins, development, and present status of movements in American philosophical. Includes thinkers such as James, Dewey, Pierce, Royce, Whitehead, Santayana, Rorty, and others. May be repeated for credit with instructor's approval.
T PHIL 357 The Greek Mind and Imagination (5) I&S
Explores what makes the contribution of the Greeks so unique in the formation and heritage of Western Civilization. Examines some of their major human expressions and achievements in art, philosophy, literature, and history. Attends to the continuing influence of these ideas, values, and institutions on the world today.
T PHIL 358 History of Philosophy: Medieval and Modern (5) I&S
Explores continuity in the concerns of thinkers from different places and eras, including such medieval and early modern philosophers as Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Hume, and Kant. Examines how they address questions about reality, thought, and the beautiful and the good.
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Amos Nascimento
T PHIL 359 Themes in Existentialism (5, max. 10)
Examines the human predicament as treated in the writings of existentialist philosophers and writers such as Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Marcel, Heidegger, and Sartre. Examines historical origins, development, and present forms of existentialism. Assesses existentialism's impact on psychology, religion, literature, and the arts. May be repeated for credit with instructor's approval.
T PHIL 360 History of Philosophy: Modern and Contemporary (5) I&S
Examines idealism, pragmatism, and existentialism in historical context to discover ways in which they are responses to past ideas and ways in which they are new. Focuses on the way issues in philosophy remain the same even as ways of thinking about them change.
Instructor Course Description:
Amos Nascimento
T PHIL 361 Ethics in Society (5) VLPA/I&S
Examines the meaning, nature, legitimacy, criteria, and foundations of moral judgment. Explores ethics as a branch of philosophy while focusing on particular ethical problems, such as war, race, abortion, justice, sexuality, medical issues of life and death, the environment, and the transactions of the business world.
T PHIL 362 The Beautiful and the Good: Philosophy's Quest for Value (5) I&S
Examines ideas about the beautiful and the good in the history of philosophy. Includes ideas of early thinkers and how they were adopted, transformed, or rejected by later thinkers. Studies different ideas from the history of philosophy about what the beautiful and the good are, how we know them and how we achieve them.
T PHIL 364 Topics in the Philosophy of Science (5, max. 10) I&S Fine, Hankinson Nelson, Woody
Study of one or more current topics in philosophy of science such as scientific realism, explanation, confirmation, causation. Can not be taken if T PHIL 363 already taken. Prerequisite: one T PHIL course.
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Amos Nascimento
Mark Jenkins
T PHIL 367 Utopias (5)
Explores the ideal society of the classical era and the Renaissance, and contrasts these early visions with the modern models of mass society and competitive markets in the light of the revolutionary experiences of the 19th and 20th centuries. Covers Utopian literature, political philosophy, economics, art, and music.
T PHIL 410 Social Philosophy (5) I&S
An examination of topics pertaining to social structures and institutions such as liberty, distributive justice, and human rights.
T PHIL 414 Philosophy of Law (5) I&S
Nature and function of law. Relation of law to morality. Legal rights, judicial reasoning.
T PHIL 451 The Enlightenment (5) I&S
Examines the Enlightenment as historical epoch, philosophical attitude, and social and political project. Explores ideas of selected thinkers (e.g., Jefferson, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Kant, Hume, Voltaire) and the reactions they inspire. Highlights themes such as liberalism, human rights, rationalism, republicanism, and neoclassicism.
T PHIL 455 Medicine and Morality: Issues in Biomedical Ethics (5) VLPA/I&S
Provides students with knowledge of ethical theory which is then applied to questions in medicine such as right to die, allocation of scarce medical resources, informed consent, and patient confidentiality.
T PHIL 456 Environmental Ethics (5) VLPA/I&S
Critical exploration of selected philosophical and literary texts pertinent to ethics attending the natural environment. Topics for consideration may include animal and nature rights, social ecology, natural value (instrumental, inherent, intrinsic), anthropocentrism v. Deep Ecology, and environmental aesthetic theory.
Instructor Course Description:
Amos Nascimento
Jane Compson
T PHIL 458 Ways of Knowing (5) I&S
Investigates key concepts and problems involved in the analysis and appraisal of human knowledge and critical thought. Emphasizes discerning the difference between truth and falsity, knowledge and opinion, correct and incorrect judgment and how these are critically grounded. Analyzes different theories of knowledge.
T PHIL 460 The Meaning of the Person (5) I&S
Explores philosophical and psychological concepts of the self and their implications. Discusses what it means to be a person and what constitutes a person. Asks how philosophy and psychology agree and disagree on what it means to be a person.
T PHIL 466 Modernity and Its Critics (5, max. 10) I&S
Considers various attempts to specify and critique the contours of Western modernity - in culture, philosophy, and political economy. Themes selected include the impact of Cartesian philosophy, science, and rationality on our concepts of the world, ourselves, our bodies, time, and human relations.


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Grilled Sweet Corn with Chipotle-Lime Butter
Nutritional Information
Serves 8Amount Per 1 ear corn with 2 tsp. butter:
Calories | 157 |
Protein | 4g |
Total fat | 9g |
Carbs | 20g |
Cholesterol | 20mg |
Sodium | 119mg |
Fiber | 2g |
Sugars | 7g |
This recipe calls for roasting and grinding dried chiles, but if you want to skip the first two steps, substitute chipotle chile powder. The Chipotle-Lime Butter will keep up to a week in the fridge and can be used on bread or baked sweet potatoes.
- 4 dried chipotle chiles or 1 1/2 Tbs. chipotle chile powder
- 1/4 cup grated lime zest
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 lb. salted butter (2 sticks), softened
- 8 ears corn
1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Roast dried chipotles on baking sheet 5 to 7 minutes, or until puffy and crisp. Cool.2. Remove tops of chiles and discard seeds. Grind chipotles down to fine powder using mortar and pestle or coffee grinder.
3. Combine chipotle chile powder with lime zest, salt, and butter in medium bowl; mix well with electric mixer. Transfer to 1-cup serving bowl, smoothing surface with spatula or knife. Chill.
4. Heat grill to medium heat. Remove all but 1 layer of husk from each corn ear. Trim silk from ends.
5. Grill corn 10 to 12 minutes, turning occasionally. Peel off remaining husk and silk. Serve with Chipotle-Lime Butter.


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Where work meets play. The power of Windows, the productivity of Office Home & Student 2013 RT, and the joy of Xbox, music, movies, and games not to mention apps, social media, music and more. Surface is also cloud-connected with SkyDrive, so you can access your content from anywhere, at any time.
Product Highlights:
- Super thin with a depth of just 0.37inches it is perfectly portable and ultra compact. The exterior is made from a highly durable VaporMg that is three times lighter than aluminium.
- The screen's 16:9 aspect ratio is ideal for watching HD movies and playing games. The extra-wide viewing angle lets you share content with people around you.
- The integrated Kickstand enables hands-free entertainment. To use Surface as a tablet, just flip the Kickstand closed and it disappears into the casing.
- Surface is equipped with front and rear-facing LifeCam cameras so you can capture all of life's important moments in photos or video. The rear camera is angled upwards at 22 degrees, so when Surface is resting on the Kickstand, the camera looks straight ahead.
- Surface with Windows RT is incredibly thin, but still features a full-size USB port, microSD card slot and HD video out port. Easily transfer files or use compatible accessories.
- Live tiles and notifications keep the info you want flowing to you in real time. With connected standby and up to 8 hours of battery life, you're always up to date.
- Pin favourites to your Start screen, and arrange them the way you want. Create your unique picture password to sign in.
- Surface with Windows RT is designed to run apps from the Windows Store, so you know you're finding trusted applications that help you see more, share more and do more.
- Keyboard Sold Separately.
Windows RT:
- Windows RT is a new version of Microsoft Windows that's built to run on ARM-based tablets and PCs. It works exclusively with apps available in the Windows Store.
- Surface with Windows RT comes installed with Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013 RT
- Surface with Windows RT features device encryption and comes with Windows Defender
*System software uses significant storage space; your storage capacity will be less. See surface PDF (opens in a new window)
- Battery life Information How long the battery lasts for (and if applicable) until it needs recharging
- Up to 8 hours
- Bluetooth Enabled Information Wireless way of transferring data between electronic devices over short distances
- Brand
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- Computer Support Helpline Information We offer access to a 90 day helpline when you buy a new laptop or desktop computer from John Lewis. The service is available for a period of 90 days from the date you make your purchase.
- Free 90 day computer support
- Dimensions
- H211 x W378 x D52 mm
- Finish
- Black
- Headphone socket
- Memory Card Slot Information A memory card slot allows you to transfer photos and files directly from a memory card.
- microSD (up to 64GB)
- Model name / number
- NFC enabled Information Devices with NFC can be tapped together to establish a wireless connection for sending or streaming files and other data
- Operating system Information Determines the interface you see on screen and the types of programmes you can run.
- Windows RT
- Pixels Per Inch (PPI) Information The resolution of an image within a certain space. The more pixels per inch, the higher the detail on the screen.
- Ports Information Ports used to connect other devices, for example USB to connect peripherals or HDMI to connect to a high definition display.
- 1 x USB 2.0, Micro HDMI
- Processor Information The processor (also called CPU) is the "brain" of your computer and enables programmes to run.
- NVIDIA Quad-core Tegra 3 T30
- Processor speed Information Determines how quickly programmes run. Processors with 'Turbo Boost' can enhance their performance to deal with more demanding tasks.
- 1.3GHz
- Screen Resolution Information Picture quality defined by the number of individual dots (pixels) used to create an image. The higher the number of pixels, the higher the image quality.
- 1366 x 768 pixels
- Screen size Information Measured diagonally.
- 10.6"
- Screen Type
- ClearType Full HD IPS LCD Display
- Sound
- Built-in
- Voice Recognition
- Webcam (front-facing) Information Used for making video calls
- 1.2 megapixels
- Webcam (rear-facing) Information A camera on the back of the device, typically used for taking photos and videos.
- 1.2 megapixels
- Weight
- 680g
- Wireless networking
- Wi-Fi- 802.11b/g/n
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Auckland Luxury Serviced Apartment Hotel in Auckland City
With a stay at Auckland City Oaks, you'll be centrally located in Auckland, minutes from Aotea Centre and Sky Tower.
This 4.5-star apartment is close to University of Auckland and Mt. Eden.
Make yourself at home in one of the 120 individually furnished guestrooms, featuring kitchens with refrigerators and stovetops. Windows open for fresh air and city views. Cable programming and DVD players are provided for your entertainment, while complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected. Conveniences include safes and desks, as well as direct-dial phones with voice mail.
Make use of convenient amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access, babysitting/childcare, and a television in the lobby.
For your convenience, a complimentary breakfast is served daily.
Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, a 24-hour front desk, and multilingual staff. Parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.
Hotel Amenities
- General
Guests can enjoy a complimentary light breakfast. Wired / WIFI high-speed Internet access is complimentary. Guests also have complimentary access to an offsite Gymnasium located within a 5 minute walk from the property.
This luxury hotel also offers multilingual staff, laundry facilities, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Limited onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis (surcharge). A total renovation of this property was completed in March 2010.
The perfect affordable property if guests are looking for an affordable quality establishment in the heart of Auckland.
- Free breakfast
- Air-conditioned public areas
- 24-hour front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free Wi-Fi
- Tour assistance
- Total number of rooms - 120
- Luggage storage
- Laundry facilities
- Number of floors - 10
- Multilingual staff
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Babysitting or childcare
- Smoke-free property
- Television in lobby
- Elevator/lift
- Parking (surcharge)
- Parking limited (surcharge)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Year Built 2005
- Security guard
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Internet
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- Parking
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- Room Amenities
- Cooking facilities
- DVD player
- CD player
- Premium bedding
- Air conditioning
- Direct-dial phone
- Voice mail
- Premium TV channels
- Kitchen
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Window opens
- Clock radio
- Desk
- Welcome amenities
- Electronic/magnetic keys
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Climate control
- Microwave
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Free Wi-Fi
- Dishwasher
- Stovetop
- Washer/dryer
- In-room safe
- Soundproofed rooms
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Extra towels/bedding in room
- Television
- Cable TV service
- Individually furnished
- City view
- Dining
Guests are offered a complimentary continental breakfast.
- Accessibility
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Roll-in shower
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible path of travel
Policies & Fees
- Check-in
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
- Check-out
Check-out time is 10 AM
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Diners Club, JCB International, MasterCard, Visa
- Pets
Pets not allowed
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
- Fees
- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Self parking fee: NZD 25 per night (in/out privileges)
- Deposit: NZD 250 per stay
- Crib (infant bed) fee: NZD 20 per night
- Rollaway bed fee: NZD 25 per night
- Onsite credit card charges are subject to a surcharge
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
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Book a stay in any room or rate category and receive complimentary wireless Internet access throughout the building, per room per day (data limit of 250mb)
Some restrictions may apply.
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April 28, 2012
A Woody Guthrie centennial benefit concert hosted by Fishken and Groves and featuring Debra Cowan and Geoff Bartley will take place at 7 pm on Saturday, April 28, at First Parish on the Common in Bedford.
Donation: $20/adults and $15/seniors and students. Tickets are available at Bedford Florist in the Great Road Shopping Center, and Fetch-It, 48 The Great Road.
The concert benefits the Huntington's Disease...
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Bedford, MA 01730
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Hello everyone, good to see lots of Scorps fans here!
I've been a fan since I was completely blown away with the Blackout album at age 15. Now, I'm 42 and have a wife who is also a huge Scorps fan! We are counting down the days to see them in Toronto on June 27 - 5th row center seats, YEAH!!
My little story in case you are bored enough to read it... I also played guitar, but stopped playing 20 years ago. I would always try to start again, but after trying to play for 10 minutes or so, would get frustrated and put it away for another year.
Then 9 months ago I thought I need to do something really special for our 10th anniversary in January. I came up with the idea to secretly learn to play "Still Loving You" while my wife was working during the evening. I had to practice it for months. She was blown away when the day came to play it for her.
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The problem with this was the integrity of the teams suffered, and by virtue of that suffering, so did the integrity of the WVSWA. These are historical records, and their integrity is worth preserving. I don't foresee the International Olympic Committee adopting an aluminum medal for fourth-place finishers anytime soon.
The second reason is that there are fewer student-athletes playing football in West Virginia than at any time in the past 60 years. Minor fall sports, particularly soccer, have pulled from its ranks as have greater social and entertainment options. When I began attending selection meetings 15 seasons ago, there were 123 football-playing schools in the state. There are now 116. A mere 20 years ago, there were 134.
To keep honoring an increased number of players from the traditional number while fewer schools and students were participating in the sport had the undeniable effect of watering down the product.
Making young men - and their coaches, families and schools - happy by honoring their hard work is a positive side effect of naming an all-state team, but it is not the reasoning behind compiling such a list. The reason is to honor the best of the best not for their work, but for the results that labor produced.
There are sure to be more than a few who question why this player or that was not named a first-team selection. There always is, and I anticipate those will increase in the next week as subsequent teams are released. Class AA is released Thursday and Class AAA on Sunday.
The lists were compiled during an eight-hour session by eight writers from different newspapers in Wheeling on Nov. 30 after voting took place among roughly 50 writers and more than 90 of the state's head coaches over the previous month. In looking at the lists, I can say that the responding question to every complaint will be, "Who do you take off there to make more room?"
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This exciting concept within big data gives you the opportunity to gain insight by combining a variety of data sets that would not traditionally sit together. By enabling you to link up your traditional analytical data sets with many different types of information, a new world of analytical possibilities is opened.
So what's so exciting about this?
Well, it allows you to collate data sets that don't obviously relate to each other. Data experts can then analyse this collated data, to spot patterns or create new insights you would previously have been blind to. Variety, when tackled well in big data, allows you to see new revelations in the data your organization already produces.
An example: Judith is a brand manager, she loves her job and is very good at it, but knows she would benefit from being able to listen even more closely to the voice of her customer.
Taking traditional financial information, Judith can already see the performance of her brand. It doesn't take a data scientist to see which week did well, and which week did badly. But it won't tell her why.
Harnessing variety in data, Judith's data team can create relations between this data and what's being said on social media about her brand, as well as in text-input fields on customer satisfaction surveys. These disparate sets of data can be brought together, contextualized, and visualized in a way that gives Judith clues as to what her brand has done to influence customer behavior.
Suddenly, Judith now has the vision to generate hypotheses on ways to amplify positive results and mitigate negative trends.
Most importantly, she can take action.
Today we're going to take a look at the V that makes big data big: Volume.
It's no secret we're inundated with data these days, from mobile devices, machines, social media, transactions, satellites pretty much everything is throwing data out. And technology has reached a point that allows us to capture and keep everything, too.
Why would we bother?
Because controlling such a vast quantity of data can reveal information and patterns about the people and objects that we otherwise can't see.
An example:
John runs a tradeshow and wants to make it a really unique and repeatable experience for all his attendees.
Tim is an attendee at the show, and has been for five years. John's company has been tracking his every data point with the show for that whole time from his online activity before the show, checking in to his hotel, scanning his ticket as he enters the show, the stands and sessions he has attended in previous years, even down to what he has had for his lunch.
Keeping hold of all of this data on Tim means John can present him with a really personalized experience with a dedicated map and timetable guiding Tim to the content he has a history of making a beeline for, and even getting him a voucher for his favorite vegetarian lunch!
That's a lot of data, but what makes this really big data is that John's company has been collecting this information from every one of the attendees at every one of its shows allowing it to offer this personalized and highly valued experience to everyone.
With good management of the volume of data, big data allows organizations to grow and experiment based on previous encounters.
Today we're going to take a look at the V that allows big data to be immediate and reactive: Velocity.
As well as having to master the sheer volume and variety of information within big data, organizations also have to be able to contend with the speed at which all of this data is generated. Real benefit can be gained by pouncing on this data in real-time -- affecting outcomes while they are still forming.
What kind of benefit?
Well, as we've already established, data can take many different forms. How working on this stream of real-time big data will benefit you will depend on your industry. For this example I'll focus on the financial services sector.
Andy is in charge of online security for a big bank, trying to make sure his customers' money is safe. When he can detect fraud after the event, it's fairly useless, but if he can spot it as it happens, it can be priceless. If a malicious computerized attack is started on Andy's bank, it will be generating thousands of events every second -- but Andy has put the right system in place to detect these events by comparing them to the way actual, normal customers behave. And it happens in real time, so alarms are going off to let him know.
As Frank Bria told us in his Big Data Republic article, Big Data Tackles Fraud:
Many fraudsters will access online banking and go directly to the transfer section of a Website without first checking balances and transactions. That clickstream is foreign and unfamiliar to the complex event processing engine and thus gets flagged.In this way the bank can stamp down on the illegal activity as it happens, rather than chasing up after the event.
I want to tackle Hadoop, but before we get there, we're going to need to explore MapReduce. MapReduce is a programming model for processing large datasets, and the clue to its function is in its name.
When you want to pull certain information from your datasets, it "maps" out the relevant information for your query.
Then it "reduces" the information down, sorts it based on any rules you've applied, and gives you just the data you were after.
An example:
Virginia is a medical researcher looking to carry out research on diabetes patients. For the purposes of her study, she wants to see any geographical concentrations of diabetes patients who are male, between the ages of 40 and 50, and who smoke.
The map in the MapReduce model finds the data sets which fit Virginia's needs.
Then begins the reduce function -- aggregating geographical data of these records and providing an ordered list of cities with the highest population of the defined type. This simple process has allowed Virginia to identify areas of concentration for further study.
MapReduce itself is pretty straightforward, but once we start ramping up the amount and types of data used we will need Hadoop's help -- which is where things get a bit more complex.
Hadoop is the open-source software framework that quickly became almost synonymous with big data. But what does it actually do?
Whereas traditional data queries were run on one server, Hadoop enables you to run data queries across a large number of machines. By spreading the computational load across many servers, Hadoop enables you to deal with big data in a timely fashion.
An example:
Tobias runs an online DVD store -- and he wants to increase sales by recommending products to customers as they check out. But he doesn't just want to recommend bestsellers, he wants a smart system that recommends based on the buyer's demographics and taste.
That's where Hadoop helps out. For each customer, Hadoop enables Tobias to spot patterns across all of his customers' data, based on age, sex, genre preference, actor preference, period of production, and many other defining elements. He can access this information quickly, because different elements of the search can be carried out individually and simultaneously, instead of having to take place on a single machine.
Using MapReduce (as discussed in a previous video), these queries are then returned in a way that can guide the customer and increase Tobias's revenue.
Like the animal, Pig is not a fussy eater, getting its name from its ability to crunch through data, no matter what form it takes. It acts as a scripting interface to Hadoop, meaning a lack of MapReduce programming experience won't hold you back.
Example: Harvey works in a government office, looking to formulate new solutions for his city's parking problems. He knows how to use data, but writing his own mapper and reduce functions is a little beyond him.
Luckily, he's been set up with access to the databases through Pig, meaning he can draw on sources like parking ticket records and population density maps. Taking advantage of Pig's eat-anything attitude, he can also mine topics from a call for email suggestions his department sent to local residents, as well as sensor information about the amount of traffic on the roads. In spite of his limited programming capabilities, Pig allows Harvey to query these data sets and sketch out some draft suggestions he can use to alleviate the local parking problems.
Big data is awash with acronyms at the moment, none more widely used than HDFS. Let's cut to the chase... it stands for Hadoop Distributed File System.
This is the system of distributing files that allows Hadoop to work on huge data sets at speed. It spreads blocks of data across different servers, as well as duplicating those blocks of data, and storing them distinctly.
Let's see why with an example.
Sarianne works in the financial markets, and runs a lot of predictive models to make sure her investments are minimum risk.
Utilising HDFS, her queries through Hadoop can run quickly because the data blocks are stored separately -- meaning all the computation can happen in one go, rather than queuing up behind each other.
As an added benefit, if one server fails (as one is bound to, given the amount of servers and disk drives needed to run big data projects) it won't stop Sarianne's models from pulling the data they need, because HDFS duplicated those blocks -- meaning Hadoop can return Sarianne's results in double quick time.
ETL is central to a lot of big data work, standing for Extract, Transform, and Load. But what does that mean? Let's explain it with an example:
Lauren is a data scientist working at a university, looking to bring together different datasets to make sure students are offered courses which best suit their profiles. To do this, she needs to pull data from lots of places into a centralized data warehouse.First, she needs to extract data from the original sources, which can include existing university databases, as well as web crawling for social media information on students.
Next, Lauren has to transform this extracted data so that it fits in a way the centralized data warehouse can use it. For this, she can use a series of rules or functions to get the data into shape -- for instance, changing DOBs to reflect age, deriving aggregated values, deduplicating records, or joining data from multiple sources, depending on what the final data warehouse needs.
Finally, Lauren can load this data into the data warehouse, giving her a way to gain new insight on students by mining for patterns in this collected data.
Structured data is a data worker's favorite expression, because it means less work is required to gain insight.
Let's look into this with an example:
David is a Data Scientist with a lending firm. He's looking for patterns he can use to identify riskier potential customers so his employer can charge them a premium to offset that risk.
He has extracted data from the internal CRM database, and to his pleasant surprise, it's structured data. This means it is neatly arranged in columns and rows, and properly titled, identified, and structured.
He doesn't have to spend long getting the data into shape before he can start mining it -- because his mining tools will already understand the way the data in this record relates to each other.
He's already hard at work seeking insights on riskier customers, but he can't fight the nagging feeling that there is unstructured data lurking somewhere that he could use to gain even better insights. We will get into unstructured data later, but David already knows it will take a lot more work than structured data did.
More often than not, unlike structured data, unstructured data isn't neatly arranged in columns and rows, properly titled, or identified and structured. This makes it much harder for data workers to gain insight.
You remember David, a Data Scientist with a lending firm? He's got all he can from the structured data available to him -- built some pretty good models -- but he's looking to get an edge on his competitors.
His team has found a load of data on his customers, and it stretches from years and years of scanned documents, to uploaded photos and email. It's very information rich, and could tell him a lot about his customers, but it won't fit neatly into any of his columns or rows.
Luckily for David, he has a series of more advanced tools at his disposal, which allow him to categorize, tag, pull key comments, and make correlations between different sets of this data.
It's harder work for him, but David knows this data is more likely to reveal actionable insight on his customer base and their habits -- so he can target and sort them based on the loans they are more likely to take.
OpenStack is a cloud computing project that aims to provide scalable, open-source solutions to businesses. Let's look at how this applies to big data with an example.
An educational collective is looking to get insights on its syllabus. Sara is in charge and has had some early successes. As a result, many other educational institutions have become interested and want to get involved.
Being on OpenStack, Sara's project benefits from being able to scale in a robust fashion (due to the open-source nature), bringing in data sets and computational needs of the added schools. It's a dynamic system, with schools adding and removing data, and the OpenStack allows virtual machines to be created and destroyed as needed.
Hadoop and Cassandra integrate really well with the established OpenStack setup. All this cloud-stored data can be mined and analyzed until the data teams come up with new syllabus hypothesis they can test and adjust -- creating a more seamless year of study for prospective students.
Hive allows users to take advantage of Hadoop using a language similar to SQL, something most relational database developers have in their toolkit.
Let's examine how it helps with an example
Michael is a medical researcher who has had experience running relational data-bases, but knows that real insight could be found by accessing more data. After years of lobbying, he's managed to create a project which combines data from a variety of hospitals.
The upside is he has much more data to experiment with, the downside is that to get results quickly, he's having to use Hadoop, something he is unfamiliar with.
However, by leveraging Hive, he can write instructions in Hive Query Language (HQL), which isn't a huge leap from the SQL he knows so well. That means less time studying up on his language, and more time looking for correlations that can help patients recover quicker.
Sentiment analysis is one way data miners can take the legwork out of understanding the meanings and feelings behind statements made in social media and other forums.
Let's take a look at how it works with an example.
Fatima works on the marketing team for a company developing casual games. It launched its flagship game, Disgruntled Dogs, seven days ago -- and Fatima wants to know how the game has been received.
The sales team can pull sales data, which is a good indicator of success, but analyzing conversations will give Fatima a more nuanced idea of what people do and don't like. Gathering together all mentions of her company, the game's title, and mentions of a few key characters and elements of the game results in a pool of over 1,000,000 mentions -- in the first week. This is a well talked-about game!
The technology Fatima has chosen is effective but relatively simple. It aims to "read" the words and the way they are used, based on a set of semantic rules, to determine the feelings expressed -- in this case via the polarities "Positive" or "Negative."
Oh dear, it seems people have an overly negative view of Disgruntled Dogs. Still, it's better that Fatima can find this out quickly, and it gives her company the chance to alter the way the game works or change messaging to make sure this negative sentiment doesn't result in poor sales.
Machine Learning is a form of artificial intelligence that can be used to automate a lot of big data processes.
Here's an example
By using machine learning technology, customers to Tobias's online movie store get a more personalized, evolving service. Based on pages and products viewed, a customer to the site is presented with potential films he or she might like to purchase. This is based on the machine learning engine spotting correlations in the data of customers with similar demographics who have viewed similar pages, and recommending potential purchases from their purchase history.
As this is an automated system that "learns," Tobias doesn't need to be constantly tweaking the algorithms, and the machine learning tool continues to learn, so when a new natural purchasing trend emerges among customers, it makes recommendations based on having recognized these new patterns.
Data Munging is boring but necessary, as it involves getting raw data ready so that the exciting work of analysis can be done.
Let's look at this with an example
Sara's hard at work on data from her local schools, but oh boy, what a mess! Attendance registers are pretty clean, but each school uses different formatting for keeping track of grades and discipline, some keep dates in different formats -- not to mention all the unstructured data sitting there in the form of comments and social media interactions.
Before Sara can get anywhere with this, she needs to do some serious munging, or wrangling. That means getting this information to match up with each other -- so she'll need to extract all of this raw data and run algorithms on it to match up with her preferred columns and rows -- and depositing the finished dataset in her data store so she can start running queries.
Unsupervised learning allows us to apply labels to data that was previously undefined.
Let's explore this with an example
The last time we saw Tobias, he was using machine learning on a suggestion engine to get more products sold based on which films his customers were viewing. He also uses machine learning -- more specifically, unsupervised learning -- in his marketing campaigns. In this simple example, he'll send two versions of his newsletter: one featuring full-price blockbuster Hollywood films and one featuring sale-price world cinema.
It would take him months to sort through his customer list manually and determine who should get which version. To divide his customer data quickly into two coherent sets, he can use unsupervised learning algorithms, which will define the two groups for him by sorting them into clusters. This will allow him to increase the chances of his newsletters finding a receptive audience.
Supervised Learning's main difference to its unsupervised counterpart is the presence of a "training" set of data used to prepare an algorithm before it is unleashed on a "live" data set.
Let's explore this with a simple example
Remember Michael, the medical researcher?
He now needs a set of patients to test a new treatment on. To find the right patients for the test, he uses a smaller training set of data (in which he has already identified the correct patients for his test) and creates an algorithm that can pick these candidates out based on the data held on them -- a combination of age, weight, addictions, previous ailments, genetic dispositions, and existing medication needs.
This is possible because the data set already contains all of these classifications. If it didn't, he'd need to use unsupervised learning to identify the inherent classifications in the data.
Once he is happy with the results returned from the training data set, he can unleash it on the wider set of patients, as well as applying it to the data from any patients to be captured in the future -- and go about trying to improve their lives.
Semi-supervised learning meets unsupervised learning half way by combining both labelled and unlabelled data in the learning process.
Here's a simple example of how it might work for a business
We're back with Tobias and his online DVD business. We've already seen him use unsupervised learning to split his mailing list into two groups so that each can receive messaging more likely to result in a sale. Now, he wants to define these groups to a higher degree of accuracy. Unsupervised learning allows him to do this by working with labelled data (which can be expensive or time consuming to come by) with unlabelled data (which is more readily available and generally cheaper) to train the algorithm.
Using his labelled data as an anchor point, semi-supervised learning can then spot where clusters of the unlabelled data points can fit around it. What this means is he essentially has access to a bigger training set of data... and more data means more accuracy. Adjusting his groupings, he will be able to more accurately split his data into clusters in the hope that those marketing newsletters will yield even more sales.
Entity disambiguation can be used to make sure that products, people, or topics that share a similar or exact name are properly differentiated from one another.
Let's explore this with a simple example
Last time we saw Fatima, she was using simple sentiment analysis technology to discover how people felt about her game Disgruntled Dogs.
The results weren't great, but when discussing her findings with the team, it was pointed out that their launch coincided with a Twitter campaign from residents in a localized area who were fed up listening to their neighbors' dogs yapping. The terms "disgruntled" and "dogs" turned up a lot in the campaign, meaning Fatima's sentiment analysis was not just focused on how people felt about her product.
Entity disambiguation can help define the search so it only pulls information relative to her needs. This can be done via establishing rules or through machine learning. In Fatima's case, she is using supervised learning on a training set of data to define terms which do or don't define the comment as being useful to her, by analyzing the words surrounding her key terms. She can use that training set to create an algorithm, which will allow her to run sentiment analysis on a smaller but more relevant group of results. Only time will tell if Disgruntled Dogs is better received than her first study revealed.
Sarianne is hard at work in the financial markets. After some exploratory queries of her stored data, she's realised it's a mess. She needs a system to make sure the errors and lazy management stop as soon as possible.
Creating a data governance plan allows her to dictate how certain data will be collected and initiate plans to monitor its quality as it is entered. Crucially, a well drawn governance plan will also allow her to hold departments and team members responsible for their own areas of data. It will put a stop to data issues being brushed under the carpet or dismissed as being a wider company problem.
These rules will help Sarianne going forward, but what about all that rotten data she's already got?
It's a pain because it doesn't just involve fixing the data. It also involves identifying and locating poor data in a nebulous collection. It's like looking for a slightly bent needle in a stack of needles.
Luckily, Sarianne and her team don't have to do all this manually. Statistical and database methods can be employed to automate some of these processes. For instance, statistical models can be used to compare every entry against a mean, thus exposing potentially erroneous entries that deviate from the norm.
And there's the rub, because we all know those outliers could easily be correct data points that signify some insight that can be found. Tools or no tools, Sarianne has got her work cut out for her.
There's validity, which is all about making sure new data conforms to the defined rules of your business. We all know how irritating it can be to get incomplete phone numbers, postcodes where names should be, or prices in the unique identifier fields.
There's consistency, which Tobias can use to make sure he has the right information on his customers. If one entry says a customer lives in Perth, Australia but a ZIP code in Beverly Hills appears elsewhere, an alarm bell should be ringing.
There's accuracy, which is incredibly hard for Tobias to achieve, because there isn't really a go-to, faultless version of his data out there. Having said that, if he had an external database of postal codes and their relevant geographic locations, he'd have a better chance of figuring out if that customer really lived in WA6000 or 90210.
There's completeness. In Tobias's case, a problem there would look like blank cells in his records. That's very difficult to fix, short of just making stuff up.
There are many more criteria for checking data quality. Tobias can put a data governance plan in to improve data input, but there are no easy criteria to use once bad data has been collected and stored.
Sarianne is still slogging away on her financial data and has thrown herself into fixing up the poor-quality data her company has spent years ignorantly collecting.
She uses parsing to find syntax errors in her data collections. For instance, if a financial transaction record's time format doesn't comply with what she would expect to find in the system, parsing will quickly flag it up as erroneous -- after all, you can't fix what you don't know is broken.
Once found, she can use data transformation in some cases to map this data into the format the business needs.
It's not new to any kind of data work, but duplicate elimination plays a huge role in Sarianne's data cleansing routine. She can use an algorithm to find those suspected duplicate representations and then get to work deduping.
She can also use statistical methods to find clusters, and mean and standard deviation as a way to compare the data to itself and find outlying elements. It could flag up erroneous data, but you'd need to take care not to simply be working to correct outliers.
These tools and more are at Sarianne's disposal, but they will never replace her ability to spot deviations and use reason and hard work to increase the data quality overall.
All this data, from star ratings to personal opinion, was added for human consumption. There's no easy "export as XML" function on Amazon review lists. That is where data scraping comes in. In essence, it's about Tobias identifying the elements he needs and running a program to export them into a database of his own. Of course, he'll need to match up the ratings across stars, percentages, scores, etc., as well as figure out what kind of sentiment analysis he wants to carry out on written comments -- but that's up to him.
Now, this "meant for human eyes" data is computer readable, and Tobias can begin munging and rearranging that data until it suits his analytical needs.
Tobias has made great progress with his data warehouse setup, and he's running business-wide reports on DVD sales like his life depends on it.
But now he wants Sioban, his head of product development, to have access to the data that enable her to spot gaps in what they offer customers.
So he sets her up with a data mart -- which is an access layer built specifically to get data out to its users.
It allows Sioban to have an isolated slice of the overall data. As a result, she can munge, extrapolate, parse, and run experiments on her data without affecting the overall company data.
Hue is the Hadoop User Experience, but what can it do for you?
At its core, Hue provides a user interface which makes Hadoop (and Hadoop services) easier to use.
As an example, let's take Sarianne -- she's hard at work looking for insight in the millions of transactions her financial services employer has collected.
It's time to open the workload out to the wider team -- but rather than having everyone learn to code the hard way like she does, she makes use of HUE. This slaps an easy to navigate graphical interface onto many Hadoop tasks -- so that the people around her can have access to the data without worrying about the inherent complexities in the Hadoop and HDFS world.
Major components of Hadoop have been rewritten for 2.0 meaning Hadoop can now burst through the 4,000 machines per cluster barrier. It can also now support YARN, the newer, more scalable and flexible version of MapReduce.
At this stage, though, 2.0 isn't as stable as the original Hadoop. So before you jump in you have to think: Do you want stability, or can't you wait for that extended level of flexibility and scalability?
Much has been made of Hadoop 2.0's ability to utilise YARN -- but what on earth does that even mean?
YARN stands for Yet Another Resource Negotiator -- so let's have a look at its impact with an example.
Sarianne is working on the biggest group of the biggest data sets she's had access to since starting work at the Financial Services provider. Previously, the versions of Hadoop and MapReduce would have limited how much could be done at the same time because everything was batch-oriented.
Now, MapReuce 2.0 (or YARN) allows more to happen simultaneously, by splitting the old MapReduce JobTracker into a ResourceManager and ApplicationMaster, meaning less of a queue, and more everything-at-once functionality.
Long story short, with YARN and Hadoop 2.0, Sarianne has more power than ever.
There are many benefits to using Cassandra, but the most obvious in a big data context is its ability in a real time environment.
For instance, the speed at which Sairanne can gain insight when placing financial trades can mean the difference between a big gain and huge loss. Because of the caching techniques at work within cassandra, this data can serve her purposes with an emphasis on speed and opening up great opportunities for analytics.It's the ideal distributed system when Velocity is the main V on your agenda.


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Both the Mountaineers (5-5) and the Highlanders (5-6) are dealing with mercurial starts to their seasons. WVU's up-and-down opening headed up again following Wednesday's 76-71 win over Oakland. That snapped a two-game skid including losses to Duquesne at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh and to Michigan at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Radford is winless for December, with setbacks to Delaware, William and Mary and Charlotte.
After WVU Coach Bob Huggins left him home for the Michigan game, center Aaric Murray returned to record a team-high 12 points and 10 rebounds against Oakland. Still, Huggins said after Wednesday's game he still was searching for consistency from his roster. The Mountaineers are consistently taller than the Highlanders. Radford has a trio of players standing 6-foot-8 - freshmen Kion Brown and Lucas Dyer and sophomore Jalen Carethers - but no one taller.
WVU has its Noreen, plus fellow 6-foot-10 post players Murray and seldom used Volodymyr Gerun and 6-foot-9 Deniz Kilicli.
Radford is led by 6-foot-4 guard Javonte Green. His 13.8 points and 7.2 rebounds per game are the best on the team.
As tough as it might be for the Noreens to face each other Saturday, Kyle figures it'll be even tougher for their parents, Jerry and Karen. The two will be in attendance at the Coliseum, but they'll probably be neutral in their dress.
The jawing, mild as it is, between the brothers has gone silent, Kevin said. They both want a win, but that won't break their familial bonds.
"I haven't talked to him in about a week," Kevin said. "We both know what's coming up here. We're still brothers, but at the same time we're competitors against each other now, so it's definitely a little different for us."
Contact sportswriter Derek Redd at derek.r...@dailymail.com or 304-348-1712. His blog is at blogs.dailymail.com/marshall. Follow him on Twitter @derekredd.