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GREENVILLE, Ill. -- The men's basketball team won a tough game Saturday against MacMurray College. The final score was 99-71, and K.J. Hilliard knocked down 16 points.
Other Panther leading scorers for the night included Simon Martin with 15 points, Travis Garrison with 14, and Jose Garcia with 12.
Hilliard and Martin were active in rebounding, bringing down eight each. Jonas McBride was tops with five assists.
The Panthers improved their record to 10-3 mark since the start of 2012. They have a 13-8 (8-5 SLIAC) record. The Panthers travel to Webster University to play the nightcap Wednesday at 8 p.m.


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Antiquing is hands down one of my favorite things in the whole world. Antiquing in the fall is beyond memory making goodness. These ladies are doing what some of us only dream of doing- walking out their dreams by doing what they love. There is nothing sweeter to the soul than being around women who do what they love and love what they do. It's contagious- it looks like they are spreading the love. I think I might be coming down with something…Enjoy! Thanks Ladies.
~Kasse D.
What a beautiful day it is here in West Texas! We would like to send out a big thanks to Kasse for this chance to share our story with her readers. We appreciate and admire what Kasse is doing on Rural Women Rock!
First things first, as much as we would like to be, we are not actual Rodeo Queens. Brainstorming one night on what to call our little tribe, Mary mentioned how much she always wanted to be a Rodeo Queen and the title just stuck!
We are the producers of Petticoats on the Prairie, a Vintage Market here in the great state of Texas! We are a diverse group of women who were brought together by a mutual love of antiques, cool junk and shopping. Never in our wildest dreams did we think our event would take off the way it has, and we consider ourselves very blessed! The Rodeo Queens are Cecilia Scott, Janie Conley, Mary Smith, Leeann Moore and Cat Geiger.
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What a beautiful day it is here in West Texas! We would like to send out a big thanks to Kasse for this chance to share our story with her readers. We appreciate and admire what Kasse is doing on Rural Women Rock!
First things first, as much as we would like to be, we are not actual Rodeo Queens. Brainstorming one night on what to call our little tribe, Mary mentioned how much she always wanted to be a Rodeo Queen and the title just stuck!
We are the producers of Petticoats on the Prairie, a Vintage Market here in the great state of Texas! We are a diverse group of women who were brought together by a mutual love of antiques, cool junk and shopping. Never in our wildest dreams did we think our event would take off the way it has, and we consider ourselves very blessed! The Rodeo Queens are Cecilia Scott, Janie Conley, Mary Smith, Leeann Moore and Cat Geiger.
Our very first show was held in the Fall of 2010, at the beautiful Black Locust Farm in Ira, Texas. We owe so much to the owner of this magical place, Fran Farmer. She believed in what we were doing and gave us the chance to share our dream with the rest of West Texas. Our goal was to create a very unique shopping venue that brought together the best of the past and
the present. Our shows bring together incredible vendors with everything from junktiques and vintage clothing to homemade beef jerky (which is mighty good by the way!)
The best part of this journey has been the amazing, kind and talented people we have met along the way. Men and women who are living their own dreams, embracing the creative lifestyle and getting out there and making things happen for their businesses! We are truly inspired by each vendor we have ever had at our shows, and we realize we would not be able to do this without them. The Rodeo Queens do strive to make each vendor feel appreciated, welcome and valued, and they have blessed us in return. We often say we have the best vendors in the state of Texas, and that goes for our shoppers too. Many new and treasured friendships have been made in the last few years!
Time to meet my fellow Rodeo Queens....let's start with Cecilia.
Dale Evans was Cecilia Scott's role model when growing up in West Texas. After high school, she headed to Texas Tech and graduated with a double major in Home Economics Education and Design. Cecilia taught home economics for three years, moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth area and began working with builders on model homes and new construction interiors. She taught interior design classes at several Tarrant County College campus locations. Cecilia began a successful free-lance design business in residential design. Her work on the Ft. Worth Designer Showhouse to promote preservation in the Ft. worth area was her favorite project! After moving back to Colorado City with her husband, Tom, to live in a renovated church, she became the director of the downtown Main Street Program. Cecilia was one of the creative minds behind Junktique Jamboree, a successful shopping event for the downtown area. Cecilia's focus is once again on her design projects, Rodeo Queen events, and Petticoats on the Prairie!
That brings us to Leeann.....
Leeann Moore lives on her 113 year old family farm where she grew up. She left for college and returned home often for visits with her family. In 1999, she returned to Texas after 34 years of living and rearing her children in Spokane, Washington. In 2004, she completed the return to her roots by moving back to the family farm from Dallas and in 2005 marrying Gene Kuhel. Leeann retired from a 42 year career as an elementary teacher and a university professor. Retirement just meant opening up time for things that she and Gene love to do: antiquing, attending estate sales and auctions, managing their book stores, running the farm, traveling, writing, and seeing their five children and their beautiful grandchildren. They love acquiring and restoring vintage trailers. Leeann is a member of Sisters on the Fly (#2011), a national association of women who hold gatherings with their vintage trailers.
And now for Janie Conley...
Janie Wooten Conley is a retired school teacher who taught for 30 years. She and her husband and"the cutest and sweetest dog in the whole-wide world" live in Big Spring, Texas. She is also the proud mother of two sons—William and Kyle. Once retired, she became involved in the formation of Petticoats on the Prairie. Janie inherited her love of antiques from her late mother, Betty Joe Wooten. She loves antiques and vintage collectibles that can be found in antique stores, estate sales, garage sales, and thrift stores. Going to Antiques' Week in Round Top is one of her favorite things to do. Janie says that her absolute favorite thing about "junkin'" is meeting wonderful women from all over the United States.
Another one of our Queens is Mary Smith...
Rodeo Queen Mary Smith was born to a Sicilian mother and a Polish father and raised an Air Force brat. Returning from Greece, Mary landed in San Angelo, Texas, where she fell in love with everything western. After graduating from Angelo State University with a degree in Nursing, Mary packed her boots in her wagon (a 1980 yellow Camaro) and moseyed out to Colorado City, Texas where she currently resides. Known as "Nurse Mary" for 19 years at the Colorado schools system, Mary and her husband, Alan, now own and operate a local antique store, "What's in Store". Mary's creative signatures are her innovative window displays and quick wit.
Finally, rounding out our group is Cat Geiger...
Cat Geiger is a 40-something wife and mother who makes her home in Westbrook Texas. Cat was born in San Antonio, raised in La Vernia, Texas and went off to study Communications and Psychology at Texas State University in San Marcos. Her husband Roy is a cotton farmer and supervisor at Sid Richardson Carbon Company. Their ten year old son, Will, is the light of their lives! She works at KVMC/KAUM Radio as a broadcaster and loves her job. Cat wears many hats at POTP, serving as our Marketing Director, Photographer and resident Graphic Designer. She confesses to being a "late bloomer" when it comes to her love of junking, but she is currently being trained by some of the best pickers in Texas. Cat is also proud to be Sister #2743 of Sisters on the Fly and is currently on the hunt for her own vintage trailer.
Apart from working on their shows, the Rodeo Queens managed to find the time and put together a cookbook in the Fall of 2011. It was a compilation of treasured recipes from their family and friends and we were all thrilled (and blessed) to have the cookbook sell out within a matter of months! We are so grateful to everyone who sent us recipes!
We would love to invite each of you to our upcoming show in Colorado City, Texas.
We are so happy to be teaming up with Sisters on the Fly and are also bringing Author Irene Rawlings to the show as our very special guest. The party is October 19th and 20th at the Mitchell County Fairgrounds and we would love to welcome you for 2 days of antiquing, visiting and fun!
Again, many thanks Kasse for allowing us to share a little bit of our history with your readers. You can find out more information on our Facebook page, and also on our blog at petticoatsontheprairie.blogspot.com. Wishing you all many blessings!
Happy Junking from the Rodeo Queens!


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March 28. 2013 10:26AM
Women's jail likely to leave Goffstown
State House bureau staff report
The House Public Works and Highway Committee voted 19-1 on Tuesday, March 26, to send a capital budget to the House floor that approves borrowing $38 million for construction of a new women's prison near the men's prison in Concord, putting the future of the Goffstown site in question.
If the Concord site proves unacceptable after testing, then the prison would be built on the site of the former Laconia State School.
The House Public Works and Highways Committee voted on the project and full capital budget March 26.
The committee also agreed to allow the State Liquor Commission to bond $19.9 million for the construction of new retail stores in Salem, Epping and Warner and to renovate the northbound and southbound stores on Interstate 95 in Hampton.
Gov. Maggie Hassan had included both requests in her $130 million capital budget, which includes funding for construction projects and physical improvements to facilities.
Campbell said the committee agreed to place the full $38 million Hassan request in the capital budget for fiscal 2014 and 2015 rather that spread out the expenditure over two two-year budget cycles. He said the committee wants to move as quickly as possible because "We don't want the court running the women's prison."
Inmates at the current women's prison in Goffstown have sued the state over the conditions there, alleging the prison does not allow women to receive the same services or participate in the same programs as inmates in the men's prisons in Concord and Berlin.
Men at the state prison in Concord have access to medical care at all times, while in Goffstown there is no backup to the infirmary nurse, according to supporters of the lawsuit.
Inmate advocates have said that at Concord, a mental health staff provides consistent care for male inmates with structured group treatment and activities, crisis intervention and a special unit for the mentally ill, while similar services are not available in Goffstown.
The Department of Corrections has said that if the women's prison is built near the men's prison, resources, personnel and services could be shared.
Campbell said the committee informally agreed to the $38 million in funding as long as the project goes forward on a "construction management" basis, with the department reporting back to the 10-member joint House-Senate Capital Budget Overview Committee in nine months and then on a quarterly basis.
Hassan said in her budget address in February: "For too long, our corrections system has woefully neglected women." She said the new prison is necessary "to ensure justice and to improve our public safety."


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GTAs are used in assessment activities with various programs by participating in an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) or Clinical Practice Exam (CPE).
The OSCE is primarily used to evaluate or assess a learner's skills on a very structured/specific skill. Learners complete an OSCE to evaluate a specific physical exam skill such as the heart exam, knee exam, abdominal exam, etc. OSCEs can also be used to assess interviewing/communication skills, or diagnostic reasoning skills. OSCE encounters happen one-on-one with a learner and are usually 15 minutes in length. These encounters are typically used with more novice learners who are not yet fully integrating their communication and physical examination skills.
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Welcome to the Baylor University Department of Risk Management webpage. We support Pro Futuris by offering a wide variety of services to all students, faculty, staff, alumni and visitors of Baylor University including programs in areas of safety, asset protection, compliance and insurance. Our focus is geared toward Aspirational Statement Five Baylor will be a community recognized for Judicious Stewardship ... where the value generated by and derived from a Baylor experience is supported through a diversity of revenues, prudent management of our resources and risks, and the pursuit of outstanding quality and character in every area of university life."
We set our sights on a culture of prevention throughout the organization, seeking to involve all parts of the university in moving beyond simply responding to events, but taking responsibility for individual opportunities to evoke change. Our goals are:
Risk Management protects Baylor's assets which include its faculty, staff, students, and visitors through prevention, education, and training processes.
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The Motorcycle Aftermarket Group (MAG) continues to be a force of acquisition in the motorcycle industry, as the group has announced its purchase of Motorcycle Superstore. Forming from the purchase a Death Staresque retail group with Motorcycle Superstore and J&P Cycles, MAG has added one of the largest online retailers of sport, street, & off-road motorcycle products to its existing interest in the largest online v-twin parts and accessories retailer.
"Since founding Superstore 14 years ago, I've seen it grow from a humble start-up to one of the nation's largest retailers in the powersports industry," said Motorcycle Superstore Founder Don Becklin. "Joining forces with J&P Cycles and creating the Retail Group represents an exciting new opportunity. Superstore has found a strategic partner that opens the door to more success and growth for all parties involved."


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The 35-year-old pedestrian who allegedly caused the bus driver to swerve is at Nassau University Medical Center in serious condition.
Police say he repeatedly ignored the bus driver's horn and continued to cross the street even as the bus was bearing down on him.
As the bus swerved to avoid the man, a 6-year-old boy was putting on his pajamas.
"It is a bad thing that happened to my brother, he's dead now, he is gone, he is an angel now," said Joshua Granados, victim's brother.
Josue Granados witnessed a horror last night that no child, no person ever should.
One second his little brother David was putting on his pajama pants and the next second, he was pinned under a bus.
"I want him back, I want God to get someone else instead, I wish no one rented buses so this wouldn't happen," Joshua Granados said.
The Granados brothers were just a year apart, raised more like twins.
Tuesday night, their mother was cooking dinner as the boys got ready for bed in their first floor bedroom facing Fulton Avenue.
Wednesday, friends cleared away debris in what is left of it.
"When I see the bus, I think he was on the bed, but he wasn't on the bed," said Maribel Molina, David's mother.
7-year-old Josue escaped with barely a scratch, but 6-year-old David was trapped under the bus.
Police say the 50-year-old driver of the NICE bus swerved to avoid a pedestrian in the road.
"He did not react to the sound of the horn and continued to walk from south to north," said Inspector Kenneth Lack, Nassau County Police Department.
In the process of trying to avoid the pedestrian, the bus driver lost control and drove up onto the lawn of 505 Fulton Avenue in Hempstead and then plowed into the front bedroom where the Granados brothers were getting ready for bed.
Their father Santos rushed to rescue his younger son.
"I opened the window and my son was there," Santos Granados said.
The cruel randomness of David's death, a child run over by a bus in his own bedroom, seems even more devastating when described by his big brother, who seems to have not fully grasped the terrible loss his family has suffered.
"The bus crashed on my brother for good," Josue Granados said.
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Ninth Annual Poets House Bridge Walk
A Benefit for Poets House with Sandra Alcosser, Galway Kinnell, Tracie Morris, Marie Ponsot
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"An event that may make you fall in love with New York city all over again." —Time Out New York
Join Sandra Alcosser, Galway Kinnell, Tracie Morris, Marie Ponsot, and others as we celebrate poetry and New York City. The Walk features poetry readings in Manhattan, on the Brooklyn Bridge, and at Brooklyn's Fulton Ferry Landing. The evening concludes with a festive dinner to benefit Poets House.
In honor of Poets House co-founder Elizabeth Kray, the Elizabeth Kray Award for Service to Poetry, "the Betty," is presented every other year to someone who has made an extraordinary contribution to the field. This year, we are delighted to recognize Robert Bly for his role in opening American letters to voices from around the world.
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Tattoo artist does some Smik work
HE'S written "Tripper" on the inside of someone's lip, drawn dog paw prints on a woman's side and even tattooed a "sleeve" on his mum's arm.
Now tattoo artist Chris Hoye, along with business partner Shane Black, has opened Smik Tattoo on the Pacific Hwy at Woodburn, and is soon hoping to open another shop in Casino.
"When I was at school I did drawings with acrylics and oil paintings and won lots of competitions in Coffs Harbour, where I'm originally from," Mr Hoye said.
"I've been doing tattoos for the last five years now and it makes me feel good when I see someone really happy with the work I do for them."
Smik Tattoo opened its very bright and elegant studio on December 19 and is already a hit with some of the locals.
"I would like to get really involved with the community," Mr Hoye said.
"I am hoping to do charcoal drawings at the local markets and perhaps teach the younger generation the basics of drawing."
Mr Hoye said his "self-taught" foray into drawing and art started when he lived on a farm.
"My step-dad was a spray painter and he taught me some stuff," he said.
"I used to draw cows and rusty old tanks over and over again."
Smik Tattoo also does body piercing and is happy to look at any artwork you'd like turned into a tattoo.
If you are opening a new business in the Lower to Mid Richmond or know someone who is and would like us to introduce you to the community call the editor at 0413 986068 or email rivertowntimes@ northernstar.com.au.


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He could be successful as PF in the nba but understand this, the competition in the nba is many times better than that of college and Beasley is quite light and thus strength will be an issue against nba PFs. He won't get the rebounds he gets in college that's for sure, unless he's a freak like Marion
Have you ever seen beasley play? He is 6'10" and has an unstoppable post game and is the best rebounder in college hoops. How do you figure him as a small forward?


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Ziman created the multi faceted body of work Ghosts as a direct response to an examination of the international arms trade, specifically on the African continent where the AK-47 has proliferated widely, fuelling and sustaining the conflict across the continent. Ziman collaborated with six Zimbabwean artists to create hundreds of faux brightly beaded AK-47's and ammunition out of wire and traditional glass beads. The resulting photographs created highly alluring, aesthetically dramatic and unsettling compositions; a subversion of the stereotypical visual perception. The figures 'perform power'; evoked through narratives embedded in the symbolic exchange between man and object. They assume domineering gestural behaviors, while the brightly beaded 'guns' and multi-coloured faceless body suits, create a strangely beautiful fashion editorial."Shocking, beautiful and sad".
Series: Ghosts
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Elizabeth N. Johnston, passed away April 25, 2012, in Missoula, Mont., at the age of 81.
Elizabeth N. Johnston, passed away April 25, 2012, in Missoula, Mont., at the age of 81.
Her life will be memorialized with family and friends on Wednesday, Oct. 17, at 6:30 p.m. in Church of the Apostles United Church of Christ, 336 Barnett Ave., Waynesboro, Pa.
In spirit of her giving nature, nonperishable food items for the senior citizen food bank at the church will be welcomed.
Elizabeth was the reading coordinator at Fairview Avenue Elementary School, Waynesboro, for 25 years starting in the early 1970s. During the fire at the old Fairview building, she grabbed as many student coats as she could carry out.
She was also instrumental in starting many parent workshops for the district.
An active volunteer on the Appalachian and Tuscarora trails, she served as the first president of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club, and received the Silver
Service Award from the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. An active birder and Audubon member, she enjoyed sharing her love of the outdoors with many, including the students at outdoor school.


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Don't think I woul dbe into giving up that much for Clowe - he's a good player, big and mean but that's a lot for a rental. I'd say Roy probably has as much value as Clowe and he got a 2nd and a decent prospect.Jovocop wrote:Raymond + a prospect + a 1st rounder for Clowe? UFA for UFA...Diehard1 wrote:So far they've got the top 9 guy and they've signed Higgins, so they've done 2 of the 4 things I wanted. Now they needx to trade Lu and try and trade Ballard, if possible. We'll see what happens, Gilman says they are aggressively going after guys.Diehard1 wrote:Just as the headline states - what would you do if you were Gillis? Here are my thoughts (yep, there are a few of them):
1) Trade Luongo - notice I didn't say try to trade him, I said trade him. This circus has gone on long enough, good on Lu for not making it worse but he wants to go and he's not necessary anymore. Gillis should take the best offer on the table, whatever it might be, and move him while getting a decent backup for injury cover in return. Don't need this distraction during the playoffs, wondering who might start the next game if Schneids looks shakey one game (and he will, goalies always do).
2) Try to trade Ballard - and this time I mean try, you don't have to do it but it might be a good idea. We all know he's as good as gone in the summer as he's redundant with Garrison, Hamhuis and Edler ahead of him on the left side, never mind the fact his salary is high. He's not all that valuable but if you can get something for him and replace him with a depth guy for this year you do it, if not you try to trade/buy him out in the summer. I'd get rid of Ballard over Booth simply because Booth fills a need (LW with Raymond and Higgins both UFA) more than Ballard does, even though Ballard has been better this season.
3) Find another top 9 forward - ideally this is a center, but a guy who can play center or wing would be fine. He needs to be able to take faceoffs, preferably is a left handed shot and has a little bit of offense. The biggest lift the top 9 will get is Kesler's return in a few weeks, other than that the depth on wing is very good when healthy.
4) Trade one of Higgins/Raymond - This assumes everyone is healthy, or close to it. I say this because I hate losing assets for nothing, and there's no way Gillis signs both. I'd offer one a contract and see if you can sign him, then trade the other. Ideally you keep Raymond because physical wingers in Jensen and potentially Laganiere (if signed) are close to the NHL.
All of these aren't mutually exclusive - i.e. you could get a top 9 guy in return for Lu - but this is what I would do. Don't trade too much youth but a pick or a prospect is fine, just not multiple of each unless it's a long term sloution.
Luongo for a top 4 RH defenseman + a 1st rounder
Ballard for a backup goalie
Lineup for the playoffs:
Daniel / Henrik / Clowe
Burrows / Kesler / Higgins
Booth (hopeful) / Roy / Hansen
Weise / Lapierre / Kassian
Bieksa / Edler
??? / Hamhuis
Tanev / Garrison
I'd be happy with a Boyd Gordon type (faceoff specialist), another winter (Clowe, Pominville, etc) and some depth on D if Barker isn't going to stick around, and it looks like he isn't.


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PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — A replica of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to the New World nearly 400 years ago is undergoing major repairs.
The 56-year-old Mayflower II was brought to dry dock in Fairhaven, Mass., in December for routine maintenance and inspection. During that work, it was discovered that the wooden vessel needed repairs to its frame that could not be deferred.
The work is necessary to keep the ship seaworthy and to meet Coast Guard regulations. This work was originally planned for a later phase of the ship's restoration plan.
Once the work is completed in May, the Mayflower II will return to the Plymouth waterfront as part of the Plimoth Plantation living-history museum.
The ship is a full-scale reproduction of the Mayflower, which sailed from England to Plymouth, Mass., in 1620.


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Do you need to do a school report on Finland? Are you looking for information about countries in Latin America? This guide is designed to help you find print and Internet based resources about nations and regions around the world. You may have to consult a variety of sources before you find all the information that you need.
Print Sources
You can probably find many resources about countries in your public library. Most public libraries use the Dewey Decimal Classification system. The Dewey number that you might find useful is the 900's. You can look for information about individual countries by looking for the region or specific country in this section. For example, Russia can be found at 947. Search the catalog for the call number of the region or specific country in which you are interested. If you have trouble locating information, ask the library staff for help.
For quick reference information, try looking in an encyclopedia like World Book or Encyclopedia Britannica. Look for an entry on the country that you are researching. These encyclopedias are good starting points for your research. They have detailed information about many aspects of the country, and entries often include illustrations and maps.
Another excellent reference book is the Europa World Year Book 1998 two-volume edition (Europa Publications Limited, London, 1998). Updated annually, this reference book provides an alphabetical list of the countries of the world as well as information about the United Nations and its organizations. An individual chapter for each country covers topics such as recent history, economic affairs, public holidays, statistics on population and agriculture and other important facts about the country.
Your library may also have Countries of the World and their Leaders (Gale Research, Detroit, Michigan, 1996). This two-volume set is updated annually. Often shelved in both the children's and the adult departments, this resource gives general information about countries including details about government, climate, and industries.
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The IPL has indexed many sites that provide information about nations and regions of the world. You can find these sites in the reference, teen and youth departments. The following list includes general information about countries such as geography, statistical data, maps, flags, and more. Many of these sites provide links to other websites that may offer more detailed information. You may also wish to look in other collections of the IPL to find the kind of specific information you are seeking. For example, if you want to know more about the language of the country, you may look at the IPL's Arts and Humanities—Language and Linguistics section and view some of the resources in the collection.
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Remember: Just because the information is on the Internet doesn't mean that it is accurate or even up-to-date. Evaluate your sources!
You may try searching for information about a country by using your favorite search engine. Or, you could try Yahoo's Regional—Countries category and look for a specific country in its alphabetical index. Yahoo! Kids World Factbook can be used by students to search for sites about countries they are researching. Most of the Yahoo! Kids World Factbook's information comes from the CIA World Factbook, but it offers some slightly different features.
The Argus Clearinghouse also provides links to sites about countries. It rates pages in terms of various features such as design, resource information, and organization, so you can go to the best pages on your subject.
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Central Michigan can boast of some of the top facilities in the Mid-American Conference.
The Chippewas compete in McGuirk Arena on John Kulhavi Court, part of the $22.5 million CMU Events Center that opened in December 2010.
The facility features a pair of club rooms, the largest of which is a 1,600-square-foot space with room for 130 Chippewa fans and plush leather-chair seating for 88. It also features a 360-square-foot outdoor patio and is available for receptions, meetings and banquets.
The renovation upgraded several of the basic amenities for patrons of McGuirk Arena. In addition to 1,400 square feet of dedicated concession space, the number of restrooms in the facility was quadrupled. The chair-back seating ratio climbed from 14 percent to 41 percent, and a climate control system was installed in the facility.
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Other functionality upgrades included a satellite training room, improved arena lighting and a brand new state-of-the-art video scoreboard on the west wall.
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A philosopher wrote a blog post on the New York Times' website, and I don't agree with him. I started this website–The Beautiful Brain– two years ago with the intent to explore the very pursuits this philosopher deems misguided, so I've written the following to keep track of my differences of opinion, and to provide an alternate point of view for anyone interested.
In an essay published in the New York Times' Opinionator blogs section, philosopher Alva Noë (author of the 2009 book Out of Our Heads) takes aim at the kingdom of present-day neuroscience by directing his attacks at one of this kingdom's most speculative and remote outposts: Neuroaesthetics. The following is my paragraph-by-paragraph response to Noë's essay. The essay can be read first in its entirety here.
Art and the Limits of Neuroscience
By ALVA NOË
What is art? What does art reveal about human nature? The trend these days is to approach such questions in the key of neuroscience.
Noë's first-down play call is an immediate flag for me. The trend these days? Just a major trend, generally, out in society, these days? This opening generalization blows up a balloon Noë will set out to deflate. But the balloon is filled with unfounded air.
Yes, some approach the mega-question "What is art?" in the key of neuroscience. But I'd imagine even those people who do occasionally set forth speculative, neuroscience-infused ideas about why we create art and what it reveals about human nature would acknowledge that neuroscience is still, today, just one way among very many ways to talk about art– that art historical discussion is still a major "trend," not yet offset by the trend (in Noë's formulation) of looking at it through the lens of neuroscience.
For example, the entry wall text at the Guggenheim's current Cattelan show in New York City makes some big statements about the role of art in our world, but none of which are injected with an ounce of current neuroscience. This is because– even for those interested in the neuroscience of art– neuroscience is, for now, but one key still buried in a thick book of musical theory about how to approach the meaning of art– and when it comes to someone as embedded in the politics and culture of his time as Cattelan, there would be no sense yet in incorporating the neuroscience we have at our disposal in 2011 to display in this wall text for the general public visiting the show. Thousands will see the Cattelan show at the Guggenheim. None will read about any neuroscience there, and for good reason.
Noë is doing some overly negative poking at a young and humbly speculative field. This field is eager to test out new tools and put forth some bold ideas in journals and specialty books, all backed by empirical studies. But it is a field which is not claiming full explanation or revelation, not claiming it's ready to replace the art historical wall text at the Guggenheim with a few paragraphs on edge detection, peak shift, color opposition, and association cortex. This is not the trend. Rather, this is someone you'd want to invite to dinner because the wide-ranging conversation about the perception of art could suffer from being a bit outdated and run-of-the-mill for 2011 if they aren't there.
"Neuroaesthetics" is a term that has been coined to refer to the project of studying art using the methods of neuroscience. It would be fair to say that neuroaesthetics has become a hot field. It is not unusual for leading scientists and distinguished theorists of art to collaborate on papers that find their way into top scientific journals.
I'll step aside here and let the conclusions of one of the papers Noë links to in this section speak for itself. From Zeki and Lamb, 1994 (Perhaps this neuroscience-of-art trend is a little less recent than Noë led us to believe with his above "these days.." formulation), after pages of inspired work:
In the last few pages, we have tried to use kinetic art and its development as a means of illustrating our general point that, in creating his art, the artist unknowingly undertakes an experiment in which he studies the organization of the visual brain. We have tried to analyse kinetic art in terms of the known neurology of the brain in general and of the pathways subserving visual motion in particular. We have shown that area V5 must be critical for kinetic art. We have therefore also shown that it is possible to relate the experience of kinetic art to the healthy activation of small parts of the brain. We do not mean to imply that the resulting aesthetic experience is due solely to the activity of V5 but only that V5 is necessary for it. It is perhaps a measure of how far we have come along in visual physiology that we can do so and can also begin to enquire into the relationship between physiology and visual art. It goes without saying that there is much in kinetic art which we have left unexplored, even at this level, and there is much at a higher level which we are not even competent to explore. The relationship of brain organization to aesthetics, the symbolism inherent not only in kinetic art, but in all art, the relationship of art to sexual impulses — these are all subjects which are worthy of study, though in a millennial future when we have learned a great deal more about the brain. In other ways, however, the millennial future which poets and artists have dreamed about is already here and, however small our contribution, it is satisfying to us to try to formulate the beginnings of an understanding of the relationship between the organization of the brain and its manifestation in art. [full paper]
Does any of the above warrant attack for overreaching or presupposing? To me, this is a humble but exciting new voice in the conversation, not the end-all answer-man shouting over everyone in the room. Personally, I'd like to hear more in years to come. Noë, it appears, would not like to hear much more. He goes on to speak directly about Zeki, the author of the above passage:
Semir Zeki, a neuroscientist at University College London, likes to say that art is governed by the laws of the brain. It is brains, he says, that see art and it is brains that make art. Champions of the new brain-based approach to art sometimes think of themselves as fighting a battle with scholars in the humanities who may lack the courage (in the words of the art historian John Onians) to acknowledge the ways in which biology constrains cultural activity. Strikingly, it hasn't been much of a battle. Students of culture, like so many of us, seem all too glad to join in the general enthusiasm for neural approaches to just about everything.
I interviewed John Onians in 2009 after I attended a neuroaesthetics conference in Copenhagen. You can listen to our talk in a podcast here— the interview gets underway just after 8 minutes in. (please excuse the production value, it was the first episode!). Here's an excerpt from about 11:50 in to give you a sense of how different this John Onians (quoted directly) was than the Onians which Noë refers to (without specific quotes) above:
Me: What can the findings of neuroscience– the hard cellular data, the brain scans– what can that add, or further, in our understanding of art and art history?
John Onians: The more I learned about neuroscience the more I discovered that there were some areas of knowledge that were particularly helpful to art historians… But it is certainly true that there is not a large body of data which can be presented as a single, coherent framework. I think it's quite helpful for scientists if people in the humanities come into this area. Because in the humanities, we can use the material in the way we use all the other knowledge and theoretical frameworks in the humanities. We're not making scientific claims about our work. We're saying, "I have a hunch about how this may help me."
I'm not sure where Noë is looking, but when I talked to Onians, I got the sense that neuroscience is a new tool that he is encouraging those in the humanities to add to their toolkit, not as a field that is "fighting a battle" with the humanities. Noë is actually being more divisive here than the chief example he uses to further his argument has ever been.
What is striking about neuroaesthetics is not so much the fact that it has failed to produce interesting or surprising results about art, but rather the fact that no one — not the scientists, and not the artists and art historians — seem to have minded, or even noticed. What stands in the way of success in this new field is, first, the fact that neuroscience has yet to frame anything like an adequate biological or "naturalistic" account of human experience — of thought, perception, or consciousness.
This is an outrageous claim. Neuroscience is young, and we actually do have some absolutely astounding accounts of human experience from the thousands of brain scientists who have carried out steady, empirical work over the decades (check out John Kubie in the comments section of Noë's piece for a nice response from a member of the scientific community).
Take the biology that gives an account for the very real experience of our visual blind spot, for one small example. And if we're talking about the neuroscience of art, are you going to tell me that the underlying neuroscience of color and luminance as applied to the study of Monet's "Impression Sunrise" is of no interest?
And that no one has noticed? A section on these neuroscientific insights appears on the Wikipedia entry for Monet's "Impression Sunrise" painting, where they take up almost as much space as the "History" section.
Noë continues:
The idea that a person is a functioning assembly of brain cells and associated molecules is not something neuroscience has discovered. It is, rather, something it takes for granted. You are your brain. Francis Crick once called this "the astonishing hypothesis," because, as he claimed, it is so remote from the way most people alive today think about themselves. But what is really astonishing about this supposedly astonishing hypothesis is how astonishing it is not! The idea that there is a thing inside us that thinks and feels — and that we are that thing — is an old one. Descartes thought that the thinking thing inside had to be immaterial; he couldn't conceive how flesh could perform the job. Scientists today suppose that it is the brain that is the thing inside us that thinks and feels. But the basic idea is the same. And this is not an idle point. However surprising it may seem, the fact is we don't actually have a better understanding how the brain might produce consciousness than Descartes did of how the immaterial soul would accomplish this feat; after all, at the present time we lack even the rudimentary outlines of a neural theory of consciousness.
False. The insight that the brain operates similarly to a computer put us light years ahead of Descartes in terms of understanding how the brain might produce consciousness. We still have a LONG way to go, but certainly theories like Daniel Dennett's "multiple drafts" or Benard Baars' "global workspace" are more on target than Descartes' ghost in the machine.
Noë is severely undervaluing the work of a lot of important thinkers since Descartes. Continuing:
What we do know is that a healthy brain is necessary for normal mental life, and indeed, for any life at all. But of course much else is necessary for mental life. We need roughly normal bodies and a roughly normal environment. We also need the presence and availability of other people if we are to have anything like the sorts of lives that we know and value. So we really ought to say that it is the normally embodied, environmentally- and socially-situated human animal that thinks, feels, decides and is conscious. But once we say this, it would be simpler, and more accurate, to allow that it is people, not their brains, who think and feel and decide. It is people, not their brains, that make and enjoy art. You are not your brain, you are a living human being.
I re-read this section several times to try to figure out Noë's deductive steps. In the meantime, here's Dave the commenter again, with more valid criticisms:
Let me see if I can understand the authors' argument. It seems to go something like this:
1) We need a healthy body, a normal environment, and social contact in order to be mentally healthy (that is, in order to not have a mental illness).
2) Therefore, we need a healthy body, a normal environment, and social contact in order to be CONSCIOUS.
It should be apparent that the leap from 1 to 2 is just plain silly. Mental health does not equal consciousness. If it did, we would have to say that people suffering from depression or schizophrenia do not have conscious experiences, or that moving to a deserted island would make your consciousness disappear.
The author seems to think that because the brain interacts with its environment, consciousness must therefore take place in the environment instead of in the brain. Perhaps I'm missing something, but this just seems loopy.
The statement "It is people, not their brains, that make and enjoy art" sounds like the denial stage of grieving over the decades-in-the-making entry of modern neuroscience into the discussion of art objects.
Moreover, it's like saying, "It is people, not their stomachs, that process food." Remove the stomach and try to process food. Remove the brain and try to make and enjoy art. But remove a finger or three, a limb or two, even another internal organ or more, pluck us away at a young age and put us in a remote territory, and we're still making and enjoying art, thanks to our intact brains. I can't go along with Noë's argument here, just as I couldn't believe in a lot of his arguments in Out of Our Heads. He rightly points out the need for integrative neuroscience, yet doesn't take us anywhere new. As the Scientific American MIND review of his book noted, "The problem is that where Noë clears away stale ideas, he offers little of substance to replace them. One comes away from the book without a definitive example of a conscious state that would require more than a brain."
Noë then offers more towards the above claim:
We need finally to break with the dogma that you are something inside of you — whether we think of this as the brain or an immaterial soul — and we need finally take seriously the possibility that the conscious mind is achieved by persons and other animals thanks to their dynamic exchange with the world around them (a dynamic exchange that no doubt depends on the brain, among other things). Importantly, to break with the Cartesian dogmas of contemporary neuroscience would not be to cave in and give up on a commitment to understanding ourselves as natural. It would be rather to rethink what a biologically adequate conception of our nature would be.
At their best, Noë's ideas remind us that the brain is an embodied organ; that the nervous system extends to all the far reaches of the body; that the brain is shaped through learning, which takes place in a dynamic environment where we interact with others. But this interaction in the environment leads to neuronal reorganization at every step of the way inside our heads.
At their worst, as in the above passage, Noë's ideas start to sound like a vague "everything is connected" New Age agenda. It's provocative to ask the reader to consider a "break" with deep-seated understandings of contemporary neuroscience– but in the end, there are no alternatives to be found here. We'd do better to turn back to the heavy-hitters: Dennett, Damasio, Edelstein, and countless others who prefer to explore the mind as it is achieved by what rests between our two ears.
Noë continues:
But there is a second obstacle to progress in neuroaesthetics. Neural approaches to art have not yet been able to find a way to bring art into focus in the laboratory. As mentioned, theorists in this field like to say that art is constrained by the laws of the brain. But in practice what this is usually taken to come down to is the humble fact that the brain constrains the experience of art because it constrains all experience. Visual artists, for example, don't work with ultraviolet light, as Zeki reminds us, because we can't see ultraviolet light. They do work with shape and form and color because we can see them.
Now it is doubtless correct that visual artists confine themselves to materials and effects that are, well, visible. And likewise, it seems right that our perception of works of art, like our perception of anything, depends on the nature of our perceptual capacities, capacities which, in their turn, are constrained by the brain.
But there is a problem with this: An account of how the brain constrains our ability to perceive has no greater claim to being an account of our ability to perceive art than it has to being an account of how we perceive sports, or how we perceive the man across from us on the subway. In works about neuroaesthetics, art is discussed in the prefaces and touted on the book jackets, but never really manages to show up in the body of the works themselves!
What works has Noë been reading? Not Margaret Livingstone's, whose Vision and Art is bursting with… art, including the Monet example given above. Apparently not much of Zeki either, who consistently deals with real art in the body of his works, including the very paper that Noë links to.
And what theorists like to say that art is "constrained" by the laws of the brain, a supposition that Noë keeps returning to in this essay? That's like saying that sports are constrained by the laws of physics. In fact, it's the laws of physics that give rise to every physical aspect of sports– the outcomes, the boundaries, even the miracles. There is something dissonant about Noë's conception of cause-and-effect when it comes to art and the brain. Writing, as Noë does above, that the "brain constrains our ability to perceive" seems to suggest that we first have an ability to perceive, and then the brain comes along, and somehow constrains perception. Explain to me the cause and effect in this model of perception– it's nonsensical.
Again, neuroscience is young. If we know anything about visual perception, it's that it happens in stages in the brain, and in anatomically distinct regions that are responsible for different parts of the process. Some of the most compelling findings in perceptual neuroscience only have to do with the early stages of processing: lines, color, motion, coherence, object recognition. There are as of yet more unknown aspects of perception, often referred to as "higher" brain functions, though they undoubtedly trickle top-down to influence the very early stages of perception: the integration of one's own memory and emotions, associations with anything relevant to the work at hand, intellectual significance. No one is claiming to have answers to everything yet– just go back and read Zeki's passage quoted above to remind yourself of the end-of-the-day humility of someone at the center of the work that Noë is criticizing.
Noë continues:
Some of us might wonder whether the relevant question is how we perceive works of art, anyway. What we ought to be asking is: Why do we value some works as art? Why do they move us? Why does art matter? And here again, the closest neural scientists or psychologists come to saying anything about this kind of aesthetic evaluation is to say something about preference. But the class of things we like, or that we prefer as compared to other things, is much wider than the class of things we value as art. And the sorts of reasons we have for valuing one art work over another are not the same kind of reasons we would give for liking one person more than another, or one flavor more than another. And it is no help to appeal to beauty here. Beauty is both too wide and too narrow. Not all art works are beautiful (or pleasing for that matter, even if many are), and not everything we find beautiful (a person, say, or a sunset) is a work of art.
Again we find not that neuroaesthetics takes aim at our target and misses, but that it fails even to bring the target into focus.
Why do I value Monet's Impression Sunrise? For many reasons. Some art historical– its significance to the school of impressionism, its departures and influences. Some personal and indescribable– waves of feeling, a sudden mood. And some reasons, despite Noë's overbearing negativity, stemming from recent offerings of perceptual neuroscience. When I read Livingstone's account of Sunrise, I was given an awareness of the perceptual process occurring inside my own biology that added deep value to my conscious awareness of viewing the art, just as my own emotional resonances and art historical understanding of the piece had.
Livingstone's work led me to some new questions I hadn't really considered before in studying art history: Maybe some artists have intuitively, quite unconsciously, tapped into universal features of our neurobiology to induce widespread appreciation of their artistic output? Maybe it follows, then, that it could be interesting and useful to study these universal aspects of our biology of perception?
Yet it's early. Neuroaesthetics, like the neuroscience of consciousness itself, is still in its infancy. Is there any reason to doubt that progress will be made? Is there any principled reason to be skeptical that there can be a valuable study of art making use of the methods and tools of neuroscience? I think the answer to these questions must be yes, but not because there is no value in bringing art and empirical science into contact, and not because art does not reflect our human biology.
"Value" here is totally relative, totally subjective. If this passage told me anything, it's that Noë and I have a very different definition of what a "valuable study of art" is.
To begin to see this, consider: engagement with a work of art is a bit like engagement with another person in conversation; and a work of art itself can be usefully compared with a humorous gesture or a joke. Just as getting a joke requires sensitivity to a whole background context, to presuppositions and intended as well as unintended meanings, so "getting" a work of art requires an attunement to problems, questions, attitudes and expectations; it requires an engagement with the context in which the work of art has work to do. We might say that works of art pose questions and encountering a work of art meaningfully requires understanding the relevant questions and getting why they matter, or maybe even, why they don't matter, or don't matter any more, or why they would matter in one context but not another. In short, the work of art, whatever its local subject matter or specific concerns ― God, life, death, politics, the beautiful, art itself, perceptual consciousness ― and whatever its medium, is doing something like philosophical work.
I'm with Noë here– art and philosophy are doing similar work.
One consequence of this is that it may belong to the very nature of art, as it belongs to the nature of philosophy, that there can be nothing like a settled, once-and-for-all account of what art is, just as there can be no all-purpose account of what happens when people communicate or when they laugh together. Art, even for those who make it and love it, is always a question, a problem for itself. What is art? The question must arise, but it allows no definitive answer.
Absolutely! No one is saying they have a definitive answer, though.
For these reasons, neuroscience, which looks at events in the brains of individual people and can do no more than describe and analyze them, may just be the wrong kind of empirical science for understanding art.
Here Noë is being quite authoritative on two positions: first, that neuroscience is trying to be definitive about art (even Zeki doesn't claim this), and second, that it's the wrong kind of empirical study for understanding art. This is like telling your daughter she can't go on a playdate with a new friend from school when a) your daughter hasn't asked to go on the playdate yet, but merely mentioned that she talked to a new student that day, and b) you've personally never met nor seen this new student yourself. But no playdate!
Noë's concluding sections are hasty, over-the-top, and they put words into the mouth of an entire scientific field:
Far from its being the case that we can apply neuroscience as an intellectual ready-made to understand art, it may be that art, by disclosing the ways in which human experience in general is something we enact together, in exchange, may provide new resources for shaping a more plausible, more empirically rigorous, account of our human nature.
Noë's legion of strawmen rushing in with their ready-made neuroscientific answers to the deepest questions apparently need to go back home and question how empirically rigorous they've been. But if Noë has anything more to say about this "more plausible" and "more empirically rigorous" study of the perception of art, it's not to be found here. Stirring up the conversation with alternative propositions or lines of research is a good thing; but putting words in a entire field's mouth, telling it what it is not and will never be: these are things that, when posted on the New York Times' site, amount to a swell of unfounded negativity in full public view. Noë comes off in this essay like Raymond Tallis, minus the humble Socratic admission of knowing that he doesn't know. We'll have to wait to see what Noë does suggest in his forthcoming book on art and human nature.
For the rest of the scientists out there studying perception and adding valuable voices to the chorus of a deepened and widened understanding of and appreciation for all forms of art, we can continue to thank the labs that slowly but surely generate the insights we find useful and insightful enough to include in peer-reviewed journals, academic textbooks, and books for the general public. The deepest questions– the rings of the "target" Noë believes neuroscience can't even bring into focus– will not be answered instantaneously. That is why they are the deepest questions.


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That's what I was thinking, I would have said it as:

Vir infirmus inopia cibi est...

but that is what confused me, the 'est' at the end.

So would it be like 'The man IS weak because of lack of food'

because normally I would have written it

Vir est infirmus inopia cibi...

This language...

hic haec hanc hoc aahhhh! ;D
The man is ill from not having an abundance of food?


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That Social RockMelt Browser Is Available for the iPhone
RockMelt, the super social desktop browser based on Chrome, is now available on the iPhone. Unsurprisingly, it's as social network friendly as ever. Hell, when you open up the browser for the first time, you have to connect your Facebook account to use RockMelt.


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Truman Brown
School: Layton
Grade level: Senior
Position: Guard
Nickname(s): Tru, T-money, T-bone
Favorite food: Sweet pork burrito from Cafe Rio
Favorite TV show: "Grey's Anatomy"
Favorite movie: "Black Panther"
Favorite band/singer: Jeremy Zucker
Favorite class/subject: Math
Favorite athlete: Kawhi Leonard
Favorite hobby: Playing golf with family.
Favorite board game/card game: Codenames/Clue
Favorite website/app/video game: Fortnite
What I'd like to win a lifetime supply of (other than money): Clothes
Most exciting sports moment you've ever been a part of: Hit a 3-pointer against American Fork to send the game to overtime. Layton won 82-73 in double overtime.
Best advice ever received: TCOB: Take care of business, for everything.
Plans after high school: Serve an LDS mission, hopefully get a chance to play basketball in college and go to medical school
Performance review: Averaged 16.7 points, five rebounds and 2.3 steals in Layton's three state tournament games, which included wins against Cyprus and Westlake and a loss to Lone Peak in the 6A semifinals.


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Wednesday September 19, 2018; 05:23 am EDT
Fight hunger slurping soup from 10 area restaurants
What does it take to get 13 restaurants, four local businesses, three community organizations and dozens of students working toward a common goal?
The realization that in spite of the overall wealth of Anne Arundel County — it's the 18th richest county in the nation — thousands of citizens still need help putting food on the table.
Spurred by that knowledge, these 20 have helped South River High School teacher Wes Baker and his students achieve the ultimate goal of all fundraisers. All the money they collect at Empty Bowls goes directly to the Anne Arundel County Food bank.
Local potters like John McClure, above, make the bowls that will be filled with soup from 10 different restaurants at the Empty Bowls fundraiser at South River High School Wednesday, November 20.
"One hundred percent of the money from Empty Bowls goes to the Food Bank because my students, parents and I have worked to get everything we need donated," Baker says. "Businesses and organizations in our community have been passionate about this cause."
Last year's event raised $4,500.
The concept of empty bowls is simple and provocative. Local businesses donate soup, bread and other supplies. Local potters handcraft bowls. Local students plan, promote and staff the event. Soup eaters pay an entrance fee, choose one of the artisan bowls, then partake of any (or all) of the donated soups. They leave with their bowl, a reminder there are some in our county who struggle to keep their own bowls full.
Chevys kitchen manager Celia Guzman stirs chicken tortilla soup.
This year, 10 local restaurants are donating 100 bowls of soup each.
"It's a way to touch many people at one event," says Brendan O'Leary, manager of Annapolis Chevys, one of the donating restaurants. "We're trying to impact lives through our business."
Several local pottery groups craft the bowls: Annapolis Pottery, Providence Center, Xpress IT studios, the South River High School ceramics class and Maryland Hall potters. At Maryland Hall, John McClure leads a group of six crafters creating some 150 of the 300 or so bowls to be filled.
10 Restaurants,
"I like to make sure the time and money I contribute go to local needs," McClure told Bay Weekly. "All the Empty Bowls funds go directly to the food bank."
Last year 300 people ate to end hunger. This year Baker and his students are preparing for that many and more.


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BOSTON (AP) — The Oklahoma company that tried and failed to give away a former prep school campus in Massachusetts has donated the property to a Christian foundation, which will continue looking for a permanent owner.
The Hobby Lobby craft store chain, founded and owned by the Green family, on Wednesday announced the donation to the National Christian Foundation, effective Dec. 28.
The announcement came two months after the Greens' extensive efforts to give away the 217-acre campus in Northfield for free suffered a huge setback when the recipient backed out. The company then turned to the Georgia-based foundation, which has handled donated property from the company previously.
"We had hoped to be able to find a qualified recipient of this property ourselves and made great efforts to do so," said Les Miller, a real estate analyst for Hobby Lobby. "When we were unable, we decided to enlist the help of NCF. ... We are confident they will be able to find a long-term owner for this property."
But the new owner may not get the campus for free. Aimee Minnich, president of the foundation's Heartland office in Kansas, said the best use of the campus "may include donation, sale, or some combination of those two."
The foundation also doesn't yet have explicit standards for an owner, as the Greens did. The family was seeking to find one owner with orthodox Christian beliefs who was committed to honoring the legacy of the prep school's founder, 19th century evangelist D.L. Moody. Minnich said Wednesday that the foundation is looking "for an end user that fits the history and culture of this beautiful campus."
Northfield Town Administrator Tom Hutcheson said the community is eager to welcome a new owner at the campus, which has been vacant since 2005, when the Northfield Mount Hermon prep school moved out to shed costs and consolidate at a nearby campus.
"It's been vacant for quite a while, too long, really, for the town to be comfortable," Hutcheson said. "I think that there aren't many people who would object to some group which fitted the campus coming in."
The Greens bought the campus in 2009 intending to give it to a new college named after Christian apologist and writer C.S. Lewis. When that venture stalled in December 2011 because of fundraising woes, the Greens decided to give the campus away.
The offer drew numerous groups for tours of the rolling campus near the New Hampshire and Vermont borders. Grand Canyon University was selected in September, and planned a $150 million investment that would bring 5,000 students to the town of about 3,000. But the Arizona school backed out weeks later, citing tens of millions in unanticipated building and infrastructure costs.
The Greens spent $5 million to upgrade the campus, but any new tenant would face expenses including the kinds of possible upgrades that spooked Grand Canyon and $1 million in annual utility bills.
During the Green's search, Northfield residents of liberal Massachusetts voiced concerns about prospective owners for various reasons, including their conservative Christianity and — in Grand Canyon's case — a large influx of residents to the small town. But other residents are desperate for a new tenant and the new life and commerce it can bring.
Hutcheson said he knows nothing about the National Christian Foundation's plans, though Minnich said the group has scheduled a trip next week to meet residents. Hutcheson said robust communication among the foundation, interested owners and the town's decision-makers would help the new relationship.
"That was one thing that we didn't have last time. People were interested in the campus as a campus and, as we saw, were not entirely well informed as to the community into which they would be moving," he said. "A dialogue would be useful."


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Cryans endorsed by Burton family members in Executive Council race
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CONCORD — In a political coup of sorts, Democratic District 1 Executive Council candidate Michael Cryans has won the joint endorsement of the three siblings of the late Republican councilor Raymond Burton, the New Hampshire Union Leader has learned.
An official announcement is expected later today.
Burton's two sisters, Joan Day of Concord and Mary Grimes of Columbia, and his brother, Steve Burton of Hanover, said this weekend that Democrat Cryans is the most qualified candidate to follow in their brother's footsteps in representing the northern third of the state on the five-member council.
According to the New Hampshire Democratic Party, Day and Grimes are Republicans, while Steve Burton is a Democrat.
Cryans, a Grafton County commissioner, faces Republican former state Sen. Joe Kenney in the March 11 special election. Burton, who served the district from 1977-79 and 1981-2013, died in November following a battle with cancer.
"The residents of district one lost an important advocate when my brother passed away last November," said Burton's sister, Joan Day. "However, I cannot think of a more qualified individual to fill his seat than Mike Cryans. I have no doubt that he will put the needs of his constituents first and come to Concord to provide full services as a public servant. Mike knows there is a lot work to do and he will get it done."
"New Hampshire was blessed with a one of a kind public servant during Ray's 35 years in Concord," said Steve Burton. "Now we must 'look north' and elect someone who will continue to advocate for northern New Hampshire residents. That person is Mike Cryans. Intelligent, compassionate, and dedicated to serving the needs of others, Mike will never forget the residents of district one."
"There is little doubt that my brother Ray left big shoes to fill," said Mary Grimes. "But I am confident that Mike Cryans is the man to succeed him. He has a deep understanding of district one and the issues facing its residents. Mike is someone who listens to the concerns of his constituents and will follow through on their issues. I know he will make an excellent executive councilor."
She said her mother was a resident of the Grafton County Nursing Home, and she "'saw first hand (Cryans') concerns for the residents while attending many of their functions, talking and listening to them."
"Ray Burton's death was a major blow to all of New Hampshire, myself included," said Cryans. "I'm extremely honored that Ray's brother and sisters have stepped forward to endorse me. Ray and I worked together for 16 years as Grafton County Commissioners. He was a dear friend and I will try my best to carry on his legacy."According to the state Democratic Party, Burton and Cryans "worked effectively together across party lines as county commissioners to deliver real accomplishments for their constituents, including constructing a new county jail, expanding the county nursing home, and building a biomass plant to heat the county facilities. Burton endorsed Cryans for County Commissioner in the most recent election and supported Cryans as Chair of the Commissioners in 2010 even though Republicans held a majority on the County Commission."


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A new way to fight online fraud
Multiple analytical techniques provide essential multilayered, enterprisewide defense for online fraud detection
By Ellen Joyner, Global Marketing Principal, SAS Security Intelligence Solutions
By May 2015, 69 million Americans were banking online. More than half of them paid a bill online in the last month. Forty-eighty percent of us who have mobile phones have downloaded our bank's mobile banking app; 90 percent of us have used a mobile device to check an account balance or transaction.* That makes millions of us potential targets for online fraud.
Financial institutions are fighting back, but for many, the response has looked like a game of whack-a-mole. A fraud attack pops up here. The bank reacts. The online fraud pops up on a different channel or takes a different shape. The bank whacks it there. And so on. If you settle for finding fraud and improper payments after the fact, the damage has already been done.
A hybrid approach captures customer behavior patterns from multiple sources and evaluates that information every time a transaction is scored, to accurately detect what is normal and what signals a potentially fraudulent event.
Some financial institutions are dramatically changing the odds. For example:
- A tier-1 bank now identifies abnormal online behavior in real time, a capability that is predicted to detect 35 percent more online fraud cases and lead to recovery of 25 percent more fraud losses.
- A large commercial SAS customer achieved a 70 percent case detection rate and 60 percent value detection rate – preventing 60 percent of potential fraud losses while actually reducing investigator time and effort.
- One of the largest global banks can see fraud risk and suspicious activity across commercial entities worldwide in minutes (compared to eight hours before), adding an essential layer of controls above local activities.
These institutions did not get there by relying on fragmented and reactive systems. They didn't get there on after-the-fact analysis of questionable transactions. They didn't get there with silo case management systems that offer only a partial picture of a customer/entity and the issues. No, they went beyond the norm.
Most financial services institutions have controls at the bottom-most layers of defense, such as access authorization and behavioral analysis of website and mobile app navigation by channel. But few have taken advantage of higher-level controls to understand behavioral norms and aberrations across channels and products and to understand connections among related entities.
Find online fraud fast by scoring 100 percent of transactions in real time
Since fraud schemes change quickly, an effective fraud management system connects with your institution's transaction processing and authorization systems to profile 100 percent of transactions in real time. Every transaction goes into a scoring engine that runs the appropriate fraud models to produce a score – and applies the associated decision logic or rules (e.g., under what conditions to approve, deny or escalate a transaction for review). All transactions and the actions taken are recorded to support downstream reporting, governance and auditing – as well as for optimizing the rules to perform even better on subsequent transactions.
The benefits of a holistic, customer-centric view of online fraud
With a greater breadth and depth of data – plus the high-performance computing capabilities to crunch it – you can fully understand the behavior of an individual or entity across all products and channels. What's normal for that entity? What looks unusual? Transactions that might look innocuous at face value can look quite different when seen in full context.
You can monitor the behavior of multiple entities across the enterprise, including customer, account (DDA, wire, ACH, card), and Internet and phone banking. Profile entities simultaneously at different levels (such as by relationship, account or customer). And combine behavioral data with third-party event data for a more complete view.
Using multiple analytical techniques for powerful online fraud detection
The goal is to detect and prevent more online fraud with fewer false positives – protecting the bank while preserving the quality of the customer experience. Some game-changing analytic approaches make that happen:
Hybrid models. Start with your bank's data as the core, then integrate pooled data to create a new, more predictive model that has the power of consortium data while retaining the value and flavor of your own customer data.
Signatures. SAS takes a unique "signatures" approach that captures customer behavior patterns from multiple sources and evaluates it every time a transaction is scored. This is more than noticing when a customer who never leaves Dubuque suddenly goes on a shopping spree in Dubai. This is about nuances and idiosyncrasies, such as your customary pattern of sign-on keystrokes and menu navigation.
Neural network models. These analytical models learn interactively from the data without human intervention. With every iteration, the algorithms get smarter and deliver more accurate results. It's easy to see the value of machine learning to keep pace with evolving online fraud tactics.
Combined self-learning techniques. Sometimes account behavior is too intricate to be captured by an individual neural network. A proprietary SAS modeling technique uses an ensemble of optimized neural networks to adapt, evolve and constantly improve online fraud detection over time.
Coordinated tools for investigators
The results of analytic scoring and profiling rules are automatically triaged and fed into a centralized case management system that makes the work of tracking down the serious cases far more efficient.
An enterprisewide system can automatically assemble alerts from multiple monitoring systems, associate them with common accounts or customers, and give investigators a more complete perspective on the risk of a particular account or individual. The risk score on each alert can be used to prioritize higher-risk activities and auto-assign alerts to investigators based on predefined rules and requirements.
The end result – 100 percent real-time scoring and decision capabilities by looking at all transactions (including purchases, payments, fund transfers and digital session information), significantly increasing the odds of finding online fraud before it can do its harm. The fraudsters deserve nothing less.
*Online / Mobile Banking Statistics, Statistics Brain Research Institute, March 17, 2015.
Ellen Joyner-Roberson serves as the Security Intelligence Global Marketing Manager for Products, Marketing, and Enablement for SAS. She is a veteran of 29 years and provides expertise with technology and marketing strategies based on industry objectives and market trends. Ellen leverages her knowledge and extensive experience in order to develop highly effective and targeted marketing strategies to promote SAS as the leader in Fraud and Security Intelligence analytics.
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Life on the hardwood continues to be good for the surging Worcester Tech boys, who improved to 10-0 overall Tuesday night with a 63-35 win over Nashoba Tech. The Eagles are 9-0 in the Colonial Athletic League.
"I think the reason we've been so successful is because we have seven seniors on our team," coach Sean Lynch said. "It's a very unselfish team. If you look at the box scores, we've had games where kids have gone off, like Mike Fernandez going for 27 against Main South. But that's not the norm. Our offense is very spread out with several kids getting 10, 12 or 15 points."
Lynch added that in addition to a spread-the-wealth offense, Tech benefits from good chemistry. Translation: The kids like each other, a key component of a winning team. The chemistry can be traced to the offseason, when the team committed itself to simply getting better. This included involvement with CrossFit Worcester, a program that helped with conditioning, and playing summer league basketball at Crompton Park against players from such schools as St. John's and Wachusett.
Tech has a balanced team, led by senior captains Fernandez, Khalil Barry, Anthony Rovezzi and Aaron Burke.
"Once we're on the court, we just have to do the best we can to get the win," Fernandez said. "Show the other teams that we have good chemistry and play hard. We also have to share the ball, which we do. I don't have to score — I like seeing my teammates score. It's good to see teammates get a lot of points or assists."
Lynch said that defense is a key, beginning with the nightly challenge to hold an opponent to 40 or fewer points. It's a tough task, Lynch added. During a recent 47-44 win over Sutton, Tech allowed more than 40 points, but held the Sammies to seven shots in the third quarter.
"We communicate well on defense and that has been important," Barry said. "We're good in transition and running down floor. Our guards rebound well and so do our big men, who also can shoot. The goal is to keep it up in the second half."
"I think our success has come from chemistry and our focus to win," Rovezzi said. "We rely on our coaches to lead and our seniors to take charge. But the focus is always to win. Against Sutton, we knew they'd have a run because they were comfortable on their court. We knew we'd have to work hard to win, and we did. Playing and beating teams like Sutton gives us confidence and respect."
Limiting turnovers, improving defensively and being more disciplined should make the Eagles a tough matchup down the stretch, Rovezzi added.
Other contributors include seniors Ricardo Pereira, Josue Gaspar and Daniel Ortiz, sophomores Scott Leveillee, Styven Colon and Adrell Enlow and freshman Jose Laporte.
"This has been a great season, but there's a long way to go," Fernandez said. "I really want to play at WPI."
Congratulations to Nipmuc Regional boys' coach Jim Grant on posting his 500th victory Saturday. The Warriors defeated West Boylston, 56-51, at home.
"I've been lucky and blessed, and have had more than my share of good players," Grant said. "I've had good athletes, good kids. They keep me going."
Grant is a Nipmuc graduate and a former athlete and athletic director. He kicked off his varsity coaching career at his alma mater, taking over as boys' basketball coach in 1975.
Grant was always a big baseball guy and he coached that sport at Nipmuc from 1975-1995. Grant excelled in baseball and basketball at Nipmuc and was coached by Allan Byrne in both sports. After high school, Grant attended Assumption College and played baseball for Joe O'Brien, the Hounds' legendary basketball coach.
Grant has been married to his wife, Diane, a former Nipmuc cheerleader, for almost 42 years. They have three children, Shelley, Kevin and Michael. Each child was a standout athlete in high school and all three went on to be successful athletes in college. Not surprisingly, basketball was a big deal for the Grant kids, each excelling at point guard. Meanwhile, Dad had to take solace in the fact that he was the only small forward in the family.
The Clark Tournament has always been special to Grant. He was a small forward on a Nipmuc team that won the Clark in 1964. Grant also coached his sons on Nipmuc teams that won the Clark in 1993 and 1997.
"Making the Clark Tournament has always been a goal," Grant said. "My first Clark game was in 1975 against Shepherd Hill, coached by Jim Ferdella. I watched his team play man-to-man defense, and I also watched Hopedale, coached by Don Klocek, and they had good movement on offense. In a way, I've tried to model myself after them."
Nipmuc, which won a district championship under Grant in 1997, is unlikely to make the Clark Tournament this year, but the Warriors have played hard through a strong schedule.
"Every year, you have a different team with different kids," Grant said. It's like a puzzle with pieces — you have to put them together."