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Bay Bard Tom Wisner's legacy lives on
Crabs tumble from a wooden basket and, along with colorful musical notes, scuttle off into dark blue water and turquoise sky. The cover of Singing the Chesapeake welcomes nature lovers young and old into the world of the late Tom Wisner, environmental educator and musician. Everything about this collection of children's songs from the Bard of the Chesapeake is bright, sunny and magical.
Wisner made it his mission to celebrate the rivers that feed the Bay and all the plants and animals native to the Chesapeake watershed. All of nature sang to him.
The CD that accompanies the book will have you singing along to songs that will bring back memories of hootenannies and campfires. Wisner's music demands foot tapping, head nodding and hand clapping. True to folk tradition, the music relies on simple instruments and natural background noises: guitar, banjo, recorder, seagull cries, rainstorm and thunder.
Wisner penned the words and music for most of the 26 songs in the collection. Son Mark Wisner, musical collaborators Teresa Whitaker and Frank Schwartz and Bay watermen also contributed to the project.
Wisner used personification to teach children empathy with plants and animals. So he wonders, "How Does It Feel to Be a Fish?" and imagines, "If I were a bird, huddlin' on a wire … If I was a potato snugglin' in the ground." Wisner takes on the role of a crab in "Dance Sideways":
Listen all you Sallys and Sooks.
I got some information that ain't in any books
When they bring a net you'd better dance with all you got
If you don't do some dancin' they gonna put you in a pot.
This book is another chapter in the legacy of "Chesapeake Born" Tom Wisner.


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On a fluke a few of weeks ago, I picked up a dvd about the
Black Panthers and the student and employee strike at SF
State that created the first Black Studies department in the country.
It was in watching this video that realized that both crack and hip hop
politically underdeveloped young people. Much of this statement comes
out of my reading two or three books a week along with five or
six articles last month, while simultaneously watching the fall out
from Sasha Frere Jones's post about the end of hip hop and a post
about rap critics. Blog posts, long blog posts take a lot of work. At least
coherent ones do.
Reading and writing is labor and I am thinking about to which
ends, those of us who are in our twenties and thirties, are reading
and writing.
While watching the responses percolate, I wondered what would happen
if we invested the same time in rap blogs in making politics to address our lives?
What is our investment in a music that has made it clear that it doesn't
give a fuck out us in a time where we live in an unsustainable world?
For the folks who say that hip hop is related to a political project, I would say,
place a link in the comment section. By political I mean a group of
people organizing to serve a communally determined group agenda.
This doesn't mean that it hasn't served as a conscious raising tool,
in the past, but Post Chronic or even Post Blueprint, the music has
ceased being for itself and currently exists for Black respect and White dollars.
Given that this is the case, what does this mean for Black people
and what does it mean for Black music?
To the extent that this applies globally, remains to be seen.
Chuck D has argued extensively that young people globally have
used rap music as tool to make sense of their position is society.
Based a couple of documentaries that I have seen about hip hop
in Cuba and North Africa, to a certain extent this is true.
Given the impact of AID's, mass incarceration and the systemic
undereducation of Black, White and Latino students, what are the
ways in which that the music, at least since The Chronic, has helped
us make sense of our world?
I come from the Leroi Jones school of Black music, which looks at
Black music both as it relates to our history in this country, and as being
representative of a particular point in time in this country.
Three month's ago, Rafi said that rap music use to be the street talking
to the street. In commenting on the ways in which Nike used Cube's
Today is a Good Day for a skateboarding commercial he writes,
It's just another example of hip-hop's transformation to lifestyleRhythm and Blues affirms Black humanity, modern rap music affirms
marketing tool and its astonishing disconnect from the reality it
used to represent....Three years ago I saw a big hip-hop show in
New York City just days after Sean Bell's murder. The city was
buzzing with rage and confusion everywhere except inside the
show where the incident wasn't even mentioned. I said back then
that there was "a time when rap was supposed to speak to and
speak for the streets". But shows like that Rock the Bells performance
and ads like this one from Nike show how far we've come from that.
The acts and songs of that era are being used to market to aging
hip-hop fans like myself but it is all sound and no fury.
our subhumanity.
This doesn't mean that Rhythm and Blues was all warm and fuzzy as
Black humanity encompasses both the aspects that we are proud of
our collective darkside as well.
Birkhold thinks that this is really crude statement, and criticizes me for
saying so. Yes it is crude. But I stand by it, because Black music
has changed from a being for itself to being for others. Rafi's comment
is an illustrations of this.
This isn't a conscious vs. thug dichotomy. My argument is a little more
nuanced than that. Cube, Dre, Too Short, were dudes, street or not,
talking to the street. Peep the VH1 NWA documentary, The Worlds Most
Dangerous Group. Popular gangster rappers wanted to make some money
but they were trying to become corporations themselves. That wasn't an option,
so it wasn't a goal.
I mentioned the content of this piece to Birkhold shortly after I wrote it and
he disagreed with my statement that rap use to exist for itself, and is now being
for others (thuggin' for cash),
His issue was with the fact that rap has always been, for the most part,
about Black men performing Black male, machismo, fantasy. Being for others.
Cold Crush brothers, Funky Four Plus One, Africa Bambaata were either on some
party shit, some machismo steez, or some super Black masculinity. He tried
to say that Cube was from the suburbs, but he's from South Central, according
to Wikipedia. However he did attend Phoenix Institute of Technology in the
fall of 1987, and studied Architectural Drafting. Chuck D, Russel and I believe,
Run DMC were middle class cats from Long Island and Queens respectively.
In rap, Black men have always been performing some other 'ish and I
agree with that.
However, I responded that, while it very well may be true that early rappers
were performing a macho, fantasy, partying, Black masculinity,
the scale, risk and harm in the1970's and 80's isn't analogous to
1990's and 2000's.
The fact that Byron Hurt made a movie, Barack and Curtis, about Black
masculinity comparing 50 to President Obama is indicative of this.
Currently, rap music is conflated with Blackness. As a result some Black
children who are not from the 'hood feel compelled to perform thuggery in
order to be accepted. After all the sacrifices their parents have made,
pursuing higher education, moving to the suburbs, working the corporate
gig, the children want to be exactly what their parents have been sheltering
them from, a thug. The pervasiveness of rap music in 1990's and 2000's
plays a big role in making this possible.
The notion of acceptance and assimilation is an important one. In fact, much
of the homophobia that we observe in both American culture and in Black culture
stems from the resentment that a gay man or lesbian woman
has the audacity and courage to walk around being who they want to be,
not who others expect them to be. We have been socialized to resent the
courage to be queer. We are angry because they refuse to fit into the box that
society has created for them, and we are uncertain of how to get ourselves
out if it.
Back to Huey. Watching the documentary on The Panthers, the irony of fact
that Huey Newton was murdered in a dope deal gone bad on the streets of
West Oakland isn't lost on me.
In listening to Eldridge speak in the documentary, it became to clear that
while I was familiar with his open and aggressive misogyny, as he famously
stated that he practiced raping Black women, as preparation for raping he
white women. He was also charismatic, extremely handsome and in some
ways the clip of his speech reminded me of many of the rappers that I
grew up listening to.
All these cats accomplished a lot in their twenties and their thirties.
What are we doing?
How can our generation build a movement when we can't even be honest
with ourselves about where we are?
There has been very little analysis about the ways in which Black communities
have been impacted by 20 years of the war on drugs. There has also been
very little analysis of the ways in which crack wiped out the last vestiges of
60's and 70's era Black resistance.
What does it mean that 30 years later our young people and many older
people are more concerned with whether the music is dead than with
whether neighborhoods that birthed the music will survive over the next ten
years given the impact of globalized gentrification of 'hoods in the US and
around the world?
Have you been to Biggies old block lately?
How was the FBI able to eliminate the Black Panthers but unable to contain
The Crips and The Bloods?
If Black peoples contribution to this country has been music and free labor,
what does it mean when our music is a lifestyle marketing device, and that
Black men are systemically under and unemployed?
Thank you for reading this. Clearly, I am trying to work some thangs out.
In proofreading this piece it has become clear how Sociology of the Self
is teaching me how to look at the person and society simultaneously.


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Novo Nordisk (NJ) (NVO) Appoints Curtis G. Oltmans as Corporate Vice President and General Counsel, Legal and Quality Affairs
PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 4, 2013 -- Novo Nordisk Inc., a global healthcare company with 90 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care, announced that Curtis G. Oltmans has been promoted to Corporate Vice President and General Counsel, Legal and Quality Affairs and joins the Company's U.S. executive team.
In his new role, Oltmans is responsible for strategy and initiatives in the areas of law, quality, intellectual property, grants and philanthropy for the company's business in North America.
Previously, as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Oltmans lead the Legal Affairs team. He was tapped in 2010 to lead Novo Nordisk's Native American Health Initiative, a project designed to build sustainable diabetes care and education programs with the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in Rosebud, South Dakota.
"Curt has used his extensive knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry to make significant contributions during his tenure so far at Novo Nordisk," said Jerzy Gruhn, President, Novo Nordisk Inc. "He has led our legal team through a number of significant milestones, along with overseeing an important social responsibility effort for the Native American community. We look forward to his continued leadership as a part of the Executive Team."
Oltmans joined Novo Nordisk in June 2005. Prior to joining Novo Nordisk, he held various positions in the legal department of Eli Lilly and Company (1992-2005), including positions based in Europe and the United States. He worked as an associate at Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City, Missouri (1989-1992), as well as a visiting associate at Cameron McKenna (1988-1989) in London, UK. He frequently speaks on topics concerning complex litigation and fraud and abuse.
Oltmans earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Nebraska in 1985 before going on the school's College of Law, where he was graduated with High Distinction in 1988. He's active in the local community, serving on Board of Directors for the Boys & Girls Club of Trenton & Mercer County.
About Novo Nordisk
Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with 89 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. The company also has leading positions within hemophilia care, growth hormone therapy and hormone replacement therapy. For more information, visit novonordisk.com. For more information about our US activities, follow us on Twitter at @NovoNordiskUS.
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Tangierino Restaurant and Koullshi Lounge pay $77,143 to 22 employees following US Labor Department investigation
Charlestown, Mass., business also fined $2,000 for hiding overtime records
BOSTON -- First Atlas Lions LLC, doing business as Tangierino Restaurant, and Tangierino Lounge Inc., doing business as Koullshi Lounge, have paid a total of $77,143 in back wages and liquidated damages to 22 low wage and vulnerable workers after an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division uncovered violations of the overtime and record-keeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The restaurant and lounge located at 83 Main St. in Boston's Charlestown neighborhood also paid $2,000 in civil money penalties due to the willful and repeat nature of the FLSA violations.
The majority of the FLSA violations resulted from the employer paying straight time wages to kitchen employees for all hours worked, rather than the required overtime compensation for hours worked over 40 hours in a workweek. Investigators found that employees, who worked an average of 45 to 60 hours per week, were issued two paychecks, and the employer recorded these work hours on two separate payroll systems in an attempt to conceal and avoid payment of the legally required overtime premium. Management also instructed the workers to mislead Wage and Hour Division investigators about the overtime hours worked and to conceal the second payroll system from the investigators.
"This is not the way to do business. Employers cannot avoid paying legally required overtime with sleight-of-hand tricks, such as paying with two separate checks and hiding overtime hours," said George A. Rioux, the Wage and Hour Division's district director in Boston. "We are sending a strong message to the restaurant industry that this type of behavior must change. Our investigations are thorough and, when violations such as these are disclosed, we pursue not just the back wages due, but additional liquidated damages for workers who have been denied their hard-earned compensation. Employers who commit willful or repeat violations of the FLSA will also be subject to civil money penalties."
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The Aurora Fox announced its 27th season today, and the eclectic lineup includes everything from the guilty-pleasure musical "Xanadu" to "Rashomon," the first non-American story staged at the Fox since 2005; to local playwright Terry Dodd's "Amateur Night at the Big Heart"; to the final chapter in the Fox's quirky, regional deer-hunting comedy trilogy, "Escanaba."
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Where does inspiration come from?
Does it come from a novel or a song, a hero on the silver screen, from within, or from the people we love the most – the people who give us every reason to keep going even when it seems best just to give up?
For many people, Kevin Kirk is their green light at the end of the dock. His life bears the watermarks of strength and courage – its burning embers of hope visible long after he drowned in the swimming pool at his Lafayette Hill home on June 8 of this year, when he was 15 years old.
Kevin, at age 5, was diagnosed with ganglioglioma, a tumor that occurs in the brain or spinal cord. When the tumor was removed from his brain, Kevin had very little control over his left leg and had difficulty moving his toes and foot.
Six months after Kevin was out of the hospital, one of the physical therapists came up to Kevin's father, Bruce Kirk, and suggested stopping physical therapy. When asked why, the therapist said that Kevin was "as good as he's going to be."
"I don't think so," Kirk responded, and Kevin continued to fight for everything he had.
Kirk said despite the physical limitations and warnings that Kevin would never be able to run or play sports, Kevin expressed an intense desire to play football, which he did successfully both at Norwood Fontbonne Academy in fourth and fifth grade and at Ancillae-Assumpta Academy from sixth to eighth grade. Kevin was so successful that he was awarded the John J. "Jack" Plunkett H'92 Scholar-Athlete-Citizen Scholarship at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy.
"Here's a kid who 10 years earlier had come home in a wheelchair and was able to overcome his challenges to the point that he was able to get a football scholarship in high school," Kirk said. "What's even more unusual is that it was because of his perseverance and the work and effort he put into it. Whereas others may have withdrawn, Kevin wasn't afraid to try things. He was the one that wanted to play football – I never pushed him. He came to me and said, 'Hey, Dad – I want to play football.'"
"He was the one to push the envelope," Kirk continued. "Usually a kid like that would shy away from the things that would potentially expose their weakness, but he had no fear of that. And I attribute that to what he went through when he was 5. It certainly changed his perspective on life. He didn't take things for granted. It made him a stronger person."
Rick Knox, Kevin's coach and dean of students at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, said that Kevin "enjoyed life to the fullest and always treated others with respect."
Knox recalled a story about Kevin as a member of his football team:
"During the summer before his freshman year, working out on an ankle that had not properly healed from a previous injury, Kevin would never take off a sprint or complain about his obvious discomfort. This pushed his teammates to work harder themselves. However, it was Kevin's overall zest for living and positive/caring nature that more significantly impacted his teammates."
When Kevin died, his compassion and energy did not. Bruce Kirk, after witnessing the immense support from the community, decided to start an organization – Kevin's Hope Inc. – that will provide support for families with children who have chronic disabilities, physical and cognitive.
"One of the things we're going to do is provide information through our website and elsewhere to help navigate families through the recovery process," Kirk said. "We're going to share stories of children who've overcome adversity with others who are going through the same thing, because I've seen many families lose hope. They get overwhelmed, especially families without extended family or significant resources surrounding them. We want to share those positive stories about children who have overcome adversity and have gone on to lead more fulfilling lives. We want to fight that tendency to give in, roll over, and just give up."
Kirk said that by empowering these families and their communities, it not only helps the families going through these tragedies, but it gives a sense of direction to the community, a pathway to providing support and hope to those who need it most.
"Often," Kirk said, "people want to help, they just don't know how to help."
Through Kevin's Hope Inc., families will be able to get the support they need, whether it's from a specific resource, or from something as simple as a phone call.
"That's what life's all about," Kirk said, "I believe we're here to learn and we're here to grow and we're here to help one another. It's during the difficult times, those are the times that force us to stretch and grow and learn the most. The pleasant times are just that – they're pleasant and they're fleeting – but the real change takes place when we go through difficult times."
Mary McCann, whose son was in Kevin's class last year, has joined with Kirk and others to help jump-start Kevin's Hope Inc.
"We hope to provide a website to deliver a 'menu' of services, from a pool of networks (medical, monetary, spiritual) where parents can choose what type of information they need," McCann said. "Bruce said how lonely it is with a sick child. We want to take that away."
At the beginning of the football season, Kevin's jersey number – 60 – was retired. In addition, SCH's student leadership team developed a year-end award that will be given annually to the student new to SCH who has made the biggest positive impact on the community during the school year.
On Nov. 3, before the SCH football team squared off against Penn Charter, Kevin's legacy was honored with a moment of silence. During that silence, if you put your ear to the sky and listened closely, you could almost hear the love and support reverberating off the crowd in the bleachers and the players on the field, where Kevin's inspirational legacy will live on forever.
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LOWELL, Mass. – Harvard defeated Boston College for the second time this season, this time by a 5-2 score as the Crimson will advance to the championship game of the Beanpot at LeLacheur Park in Lowell, Mass.
Freshman Matt Timoney (1-1) made his second career start and dazzled through 7.1 innings, keeping BC off-balance throughout and limiting the Eagles to one earned run. Harvard put runners on base in all but one inning, consistently keeping the Eagles on their heels in a 14-hit campaign. In the end, relievers Andrew Ferreira and Zack Olson struck out the final two batters of the game with the bases loaded to give Harvard its second victory over B.C.
Jake McGuiggan starred on both sides of the ball as the sophomore went 4-for-5 with two RBI and two runs while producing a timely double play midway through the game. Freshman Nick Saathoff was 3-for-4 with a long double and both Kyle Larrow and Jeff Reynolds had multi-hit games.
Harvard will face the winner of Massachusetts-Northeastern next Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. Harvard is back in action on Wednesday with a 3 p.m. game at Northeastern.
Harvard struck first with a two-out, two-run single from McGuiggan in the first inning as the Crimson claimed an early lead. The Crimson had four hits in the inning but could have had more if not for lining into a double play with the bases loaded.
In the second, Harvard left the bases loaded after a pair of singles and a hit batsman but capitalized on another scoring opportunity in the third when Jon Smart lofted a sacrifice fly to right field to score Reynolds (single).
BC got a run back in the bottom of the third on a pair of singles and a fielding error which allowed a run to score from first.
Harvard left runners in scoring position in the fourth and fifth innings to continue its trend while BC edged closer in the fifth with a one-out double by Tom Bourdon off the wall in short right field.
Harvard got the run back in the top of the sixth as Ethan Ferreira singled through the right side to score Saathoff, who led off the inning with a line drive single to right.
McGuiggan showed his defensive ability in the bottom of the sixth to turn a timely double play. After a leadoff single, Moir batted and was fooled by a 1-2 breaking pitch from Timoney. Still, he hit a soft pop-up headed for grass in short left field with the Crimson infielders playing at double play depth. McGuiggan chased down the ball at the last minute and whirled a strike to first base to double off the BC runner headed for second.
Timoney helped himself in the seventh when he sprang on a perfect bunt from Bourdon, the leadoff hitter, and threw an off-balance strike to first for an inning-ending out.
Harvard threatened but was turned back again in the eighth. Saathoff lined a double off the top of the wall in right-center to start. Carlton Bailey came on as a pinch hitter and took third base on a wild pitch with one out but BC got out of the jam with a strikeout and a fly ball.
With one out in the eighth inning, Timoney finally gave way to Matt Doyle, who inherited a runner on first base but retired BC's four and five batters to move things into the ninth where the Crimson got a needed insurance run.
McGuiggan started the surge again, this time with a hard single to third with one out. McGuiggan moved up to second on a wild pitch and, with two outs, Larrow lined a 2-1 fastball into right field to score the team's fifth run.
Doyle got the first out of the ninth but then issued a walk with BC following that with a pair of seeing-eye singles to load the bases. With Bourdon at the plate and already three hits to his credit, Harvard went to the bullpen again, this time for Ferreira, its sophomore captain, for a lefty-on-lefty matchup. Ferreira went to 2-0 on Bourdon but then gassed him three straight pitches, hitting 89 miles per hour on the radar gun. Harvard went to the bullpen again and Olson struck out Blake Butera on three-straight pitches for his third save.


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America got to see a vaguely threatening parade of gun fetishists, flat worlders, Mars Explorers, Confederate flag lovers and zombie-eyed-Bible-wavers as well as various one issue activists hammering their pet causes. My cheers went to a listless Fred Thompson who easily qualified himself to be president in my book by looking all night like he would cheerfully trade his left arm for an early exit off the stage to a waiting Scotch and good Cuban cigar. The media will probably award a win to Mike Huckabee, the easy listening music candidate at home in any crowd, fluent in simpleton speak and the one man on the stage tonight who led the audience to roaring cheers by boasting that he had a special qualification to be president that none of the second-raters on the stage could match: A degree in Bible Studies from Ouachita Baptist University of Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
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ADDED: By contrast, look at how positive Captain Ed is about CNN's handling of the debate:
For the most part -- with a few glaring exceptions -- the network eliminated the silliness and stuck to substance. The questions hit hot topics and sparked some fierce debate. With a couple of exceptions, Republican fears of crypto-Democratic hit questions failed to materialize, and the candidates responded substantively to the rest.
I expected the debate to descend into silliness and gotcha moments. The only gotchas came from the candidates. Truthfully, this may have been one of the least "gotcha" and most substantive debates we've had this year.


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Luis Alonzo Alfaro was to appear before a state district judge in a Houston courtroom on Friday. He made an initial court appearance a day earlier.
Alfaro has been charged with murder in Wednesday morning's killing of 17-year-old Joshua Devon Broussard. He's jailed on a $150,000 bond.
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Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University men's basketball team upset nationally 12th-ranked Findlay to remain the only Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) team unbeaten in league play as the Bulldogs scored a thrilling 85-81 win over the Oilers on Thursday (Jan. 2) night inside Jim Wink Arena.
FSU opened the New Year by winning its sixth consecutive contest and moved to 6-3 overall and 5-0 in the GLIAC standings by beating the Oilers in a back-and-forth game that featured 16 lead changes and was tied six times.
Ferris State jumped in front early by eight points only two minutes into the game before the Oilers battled back to surge in front and take a commanding lead. The Bulldogs trailed by 12 points with five minutes remaining in the opening half before closing the frame on a 14-2 run to tie the contest up at 39 points apiece at the break.
Findlay moved ahead by six points at 58-52 midway thru the second half. However, Ferris State cut the margin to two points only three minutes later and made it a one-point game with 5:30 to go.
The Oilers eventually pushed the lead back to five points on a pair of free throws with 4:12 to play, but FSU responded with a jumper from senior forward Raymoan McAfee along with two free throws by sophomore forward Josh Fleming to make it a one-point game with three minutes left.
From there, neither team led by more than four points the rest of the way as the two squads battled down the stretch to the finish. The Oilers held a one-point lead in the final minute before Greg Kahlig's three-point shot misfired as the shot clock expired and Bulldog junior forward Matt Poches grabbed a big defensive rebound inside of 30 seconds.
FSU moved quickly and junior guard Drew Lehman converted a key three-point play in the paint with 23 seconds to go to give Ferris State a two-point lead. After a missed shot from Kahlig, FSU's McAfee grabbed the board and hit two free throws with 11 seconds to go to push the Bulldog advantage to four points and Ferris State hit four more free throws in the final eight seconds to hold onto the victory.
Poches paced the Bulldogs with a team-high 19 points and was one of four FSU players to reach double-figure scoring. Lehman chipped in with 16 points while Fleming had 13 and sophomore guard Jibreel Jackson netted 12 points in the win.
Their performances helped offset a 21-point effort from Kahlig on the Findlay side. The Oilers also had three other double-digit scorers as Dylan Kaufman finished with 15 points, Alphonso Baity scored 13 and Jake Heagen added 10 on the night.
Ferris State came up with a 42-36 rebounding edge for the game and FSU tallied 15 offensive boards to 11 for the Oilers, which helped lead to a 19-14 margin in second chance production. McAfee led the Bulldogs with eight rebounds while three others picked up five each in Fleming, junior guard Dietrich Lever and sophomore center Jared Stolicker.
In addition to his five rebounds, Lever added six points, six assists and four steals in directing the Bulldog attack. Lehman had three assists and three boards as FSU finished with 16 helpers on the night.
Besides posting a rebounding advantage, the Bulldogs also established a new school record with 12 blocked shots in the contest, which eclipsed the previous record of 11 set against Grand Valley State in 2001. Fleming led the way with five blocks, which was only three shy of Lou Williams' school single-game mark of eight recorded in 2011. Both McAfee and Stolicker added three swats each.
Ferris State shot 44.1% for the game and hit on six-of-15 (40%) three-point tries in addition to converting 19-of-21 (90.5%) free throws. Meanwhile, Findlay made 44.6% of its field goals, but was only four-of-14 (28.6%) behind the three-point stripe and 19-of-23 (82.6%) at the line.
The game was nearly even in many phases as both teams scored 36 points inside the paint and Findlay owned a slim 18-17 edge in points off turnovers as they forced 16 Bulldog miscues to only 15 of their own. FSU had 12 steals to 10 for the Oilers and owned a 14-6 advantage in fast break production.
The Bulldogs also received 27 points off their bench to only 22 for the Oiler reserves.
With the win, Ferris State beat Findlay for the third time in the last five regular-season matchups. FSU also moved to 4-0 this season inside Wink Arena with the victory.
The Bulldogs will continue their GLIAC homestand by hosting Hillsdale on Saturday (Jan. 4) at 3 p.m. (ET) inside Jim Wink Arena. The Chargers handed Grand Valley State its first league loss on Thursday night in Allendale. The contest will also be carried live by Sunny 97.3 FM and the Bulldog Sports Network online at FerrisStateBulldogs.com.
Following Saturday's home contest, the Bulldogs will begin a four-game road stretch with their two longest league trips of the season in back-to-back weeks.
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Mineral exploration expenditure continues to fall
Mineral exploration expenditure in Australia has fallen for the third consecutive quarter according to figures released today by the ABS.
Recent falls have coincided with falls in average world prices for many of the major mineral commodities.
Between the December quarter 1997 and the March quarter 1998 the trend estimate fell 7.5 per cent ($20.9 million) to $256.2 million. This was 12.4 per cent ($36.3 million) lower than the corresponding March quarter 1997.
The most significant fall in absolute terms occurred in Western Australia where the estimate decreased by 6.2 per cent ($10.3 million), followed by Queensland a decrease of 13.8 per cent ($4.9 million). The trend estimate for Tasmania fell by 45.3 per cent ($2.9 million).
Exploration expenditure for gold in the March quarter 1998 was $136.1million, 17.0 per cent ($27.8 million) lower than the December quarter 1997, and 9.3 per cent ($14.0 million) lower than the March quarter 1997.
Total expenditure on Petroleum exploration was $264.3 million in the March quarter 1998. This was an increase of 10.8 per cent ($25.8 million) from the December quarter 1997, and 49.1 per cent ($87.0 million) higher than the March quarter 1997.
Offshore exploration expenditure rose 22.4 per cent ($39.1 million) from the December quarter 1997 to $214.0 million in the March quarter 1998. This is an increase of $67.5 million (up 46.1 per cent) compared to March quarter 1997.
Onshore expenditure decreased by 20.9 per cent to $13.3 million in the March quarter 1998, but is 63.8 per cent ($19.6 million) higher compared to March quarter 1997.
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|Back in 1966, while still working in my father's shipping business in Germany, I was put in charge of moving the German Air Force School and it's soldiers to Fort Bliss. Business brought me to Fort Bliss and El Paso again in 1968. The unique flavor and the friendly people made such an impression on me, that I decided to make it my home.
That same year, trying to help out a friend who badly needed a job, I bought a string of livery horses at Hueco Tanks, which he rented to the public. Hueco Tanks was then still owned by the county of El Paso and I remember that I paid 10% in rent to the Tigua Indians every month.
In the fall of 1968, the county gave Hueco Tanks to the state of Texas and it became a state park. I needed a new home for the horses and that's how I wound up here at the Indian Cliffs, which gave the ranch it's name.
In the 1800's the entire area along the Rio Grande Valley was home to many Indians who made their living hunting and gathering. The "desert" looked different in those days. The old rancher who sold me a lot of the land once told me, "You know, I remember this well. You could ride on horseback all over this country and the grass would come up to your belt." To this day, Indian campsites, fire pits and piles of pottery chards are found all over the ranch. Indian campsites were especially frequent in the Dakota-style badland bluffs, which the locals call Indian Cliffs.
The San Antonio stagecoach route crosses the ranch just a mile and a half south of the Steakhouse and there was an adobe stagecoach stop at San Felipe Park. Butterfield stagecoaches also used the route for a short while as the Southern Route. The cornerstone for our first building here, now the "Cantina" party facility, was laid in April of 1969. We had no water and no electricity in those days, just open land as far as you can see. The horse rental business grew and it became obvious that we needed a small place for our customers to be able to eat. So I started the restaurant building in 1972 and we opened in May of 1973.
Since I was still in the shipping business, I leased the restaurant for the first year and half. The Ranch Room was our dining area with some 50 seats, the Saddle Room was the bar and the present bar was the ranch office. Differences in regard to food quality and service forced me to take the restaurant operations over myself.
Over the years, the Cattleman's Steakhouse at Indian Cliffs Ranch grew and grew. Waiting lines were just too long and I decided to add on. In the summer of 1978, we built the Garden Room and Greenhouse with some 180 seats in exactly 4 weeks...and we are still growing, thanks to our customers.
My promise to you is:
I still buy every pound of beef every week myself and I personally see to it that our managers and employees never forget who makes the paycheck happen here: YOU, the customer.
When you get here, look around. Many of these young people work their way through college here. A chance they may never have had otherwise. We are here for you and we mean that sincerely.
Thank you for stopping by today and we invite you to be our guest at Indian Cliffs Ranch.
Dieter Gerzymisch, Owner
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- 1. LaVoy Finicum - Part 1, by Senator Sylvia Allen
He was born in the back hills of Northern Arizona, hunting and riding horses with his father and siblings. Born within him was a love for God, family and freedom. "We need to put God first in our lives, strengthen our families, and fight to restore our freedoms." LaVoy Finicum
This is a two-part update on the death of rancher LaVoy Finicum at the hands of the FBI and Oregon State Police. Western ranchers had gone to Oregon in support of the Hammond family. Their peaceful protest was labeled by law enforcement and some elected officials as domestic terrorism. Federal statutes were used to prosecute western ranchers who were trying to bring national attention to the overreach of federal agencies in taking western ranchers' leases.
Part I: LaVoy FinicumClick here to read more
- 2. Why does no one seem to care?
(The following article was sent to me anonymously. It's a timely, accurate, and thoughtful essay that needs to be read by every American.)
Are you aware that we the people are under assault in this country? Maybe not you personally, yet, but when one group of patriots in America is deprived of their freedoms guaranteed to them by the Constitution, it's a hostile invasion of all who stand for liberty. And that is what happened to the ranchers in Harney County, Oregon, in the past weeks, and in Nevada before that. There is a systematic taking of our precious liberties.
Why does no one seem to care?
Where is the media on this? Where are the folks who are focused on restoring our trust lands across the western United States? Are we to sit and watch those among us get incarcerated for ranching? For peacefully protesting the egregious treatment they have received from their own government, for years?
We know that these lands do not belong to the federal government. The federal government manages those lands for we the people under contracts that were supposed to be assigned back to the states years ago. The federal government contracts grazing leases to local ranchers. These grazing leases abut the ranches owned by private citizens of the United States. These ranchers, by and large, are good stewards of the lands they lease to use for grazing. But they are methodically being deprived of the use of the lands owned by we the people, even with legal leases to do so. In Oregon, the Burea of Land Management (BLM) is burning grazing land that is under lease to ranchers for grazing their cattle, and the BLM is burning the cattle, homes, and corrals in the process.Click here to read more
- 3. Shawna Cox: Eyewitness to LaVoy Finicum's Murder
Shawna Cox: "We should never be ashamed to be an American....we have to make a difference...this was a man who was killed in cold blood....we need to pray for the men who did this, and we need to pray for the families....This is God's country. He created the Constitution for us....As a nation, we have to pray."Click here to read more
- 4. Victoria Sharp: Eyewitness to LaVoy Finicum's Murder
01/26/2016. Victoria Sharp: "Ryan Payne put his hands up out the window, and they shot at him but missed...They riddled the car with bullets....He (LaVoy) was just walking with his hands in the air, and they just shot him. I saw him....After he was down on the ground, they shot him 3 more times....They bombarded our vehicle with bullets, they hit Ryan in the shoulder...We were on the floorboard screaming.."Click here to read more
- 5. BLM Agents in Oregon Burned up Cattle, Homes, Buildings, Fences, Grassland
If you haven't been following the Hammond case in Harney County, Oregon, click HERE for the timeline, dating back to the 1970's, of the cruel and corrupt methods used by both the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to drive this family, and many other ranchers, off their land. Click HERE for a Simple Action You Can Take to Help the Hammond Family.
Ask yourself: Why are we hearing about so many more catastrophic fires ever since--thanks to the environmentalists and federal agencies--private cattle ranchers and lumber operations have been driven off the land? Add to this that the federal government controls 3 out of every 10 acres of land in America and is power hungry for more. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, said the government's "massive" control over land has preserved less than 1 percent of endangered species and instead harmed individuals whose livelihoods depend on land ownership.
Oregon ranchers Steven Hammond and his father Dwight were sentenced in June 2012 as "Arsenal Terrorists." The maximum punishment for this federal crime is death. So, what did these ranchers do to warrant their time in prison, and the likelihood that they will be imprisoned again?Click here to read more
- 6. Arizona Senator Sylvia Allen: Say NO to Designating More Arizona land as New Federal Monuments!
Arizona Senator Sylvia Tenney Allen: Lightning Bolt Update, 10/7/15
Keep Sedona Beautiful has been using the Transfer of Public Lands movement as a reason they are proposing and promoting the Sedona Verde Valley Red Rock National Monument. This update is to inform you that the perception that transferring public lands to the state would encourage the sell-off of our open spaces to developers is wrong. Such a perception is not being promoted by those who are involved with this movement.
I have included below a Public Policy Statement ratified by unanimous consent on October 9, 2014, at the American Lands Council multi-state workshop. American Lands Council has been a leader in the Transfer of Public Lands movement. (Click HERE to download the Public Policy Statement.)
The policy statement lays out clearly the motives and desires of those who want to fulfill the contract the Federal Government made with the state of Arizona on Statehood Day, February 14, 1912. Section 4(iv) of the policy statement says: "Retain Public Ownership of Public Lands: Federal public lands shall become state public lands to be managed in accordance with state and local plans;"Click here to read more
- 7. Rep. Bob Thorpe to Speak at May 21 Payson TEA Meeting
The Payson Tea Party will host Rep. Bob Thorpe (LD6) on Thursday May 21. Rep. Thorpe will provide his insights on bills from the last legislative session and his thoughts for next session. Rep. Thorpe is among the legislators who have steadfastly opposed Common Core. He has also stood courageously on behalf of state sovereignty.Click here to read more
- 8. Arizona Education Fact Sheet
Only 17% of Arizona is privately owned. How much do you pay in property taxes? Through PILT (payment in lieu of taxes), the federal government pays Arizona about $1.10 per acre for our public lands. That $1.10 per acre is what some Democrats call "largesse." So, just remember the reason our children have have less money for education than other states. We're sacrificing them for "the public good."
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The teacher-education program at Hope College has again received an "Exemplary" ranking from Michigan's Department of Education.
Hope is one of six institutions tied for second place in the "2011-2012 Educator Preparation Institution Performance Score Report" presented to the State Board of Education earlier this summer, receiving an overall score of 68 out of a possible 70.
The college has consistently ranked as one of the state's top programs, receiving an "Exemplary" rating, in the annual listing since the report's inception in 2005. The college was among two receiving a first-place ranking last year, and was also among those ranking second in 2011, 2010 and 2009.
The college's department of education prepares students to teach in elementary and secondary schools. Each year, the department annually recommends approximately 150 graduates to the State of Michigan for teacher certification. The department currently has 12 full-time faculty.
The teacher-education program at Hope provides prospective teachers with a blend of classroom instruction and field experience. Students participate in field placements beginning with their first course in the program, Educational Psychology, a model that continues through a culminating semester spent student teaching. Student-teaching and field placements are available not only locally but also through off-campus programs including in Chicago, Ill.; Philadelphia, Pa.; the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Watts, Calif.; and Liverpool in the United Kingdom. An on-going relationship with Interaction International has also provided student-teaching opportunities in nations including India, Kenya and Thailand.
Student-led chapters of three national professional organizations--the Student Council for Exceptional Children (SCEC), the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) and the National Organization of the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)--offer professional development and service opportunities for teacher-education students. Students in the program also have the chance to gain additional experience through activities by volunteering with local organizations that work with children, such as the Children's After School Achievement (CASA) and Upward Bound programs based at Hope.
Graduates of Hope's education program teach in public and private K-12 schools around the country, and abroad. Hope education alumni also serve as Peace Corps volunteers, counselors in elementary and secondary schools, curriculum coordinators and supervisors, school administrators and college professors.
The Michigan Department of Education developed criteria for ranking each of the state's teacher-preparation institutions. This was done to meet the new requirements attached to the federal Title II Higher Education Act (HEA) requiring states to monitor the performance of their teacher-education programs. Rankings are based on the following criteria: the percentage of students who enter and complete the program; survey results of exiting student teachers; survey results of college supervisors, classroom teachers, and principals who supervise student teachers; responsiveness to state need in preparing candidates in high-need subjects (mathematics, sciences, world languages and special education), as well as preparing teachers from ethnic minorities-diversity need, teacher candidates' scores on the Michigan Test of Teacher Competency (MTTC), and periodic program review by the Michigan Department of Education.
The 33 programs ranked in the state's report include programs at private and public colleges and universities. The other programs' scores range from 33 to 70.


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2010: Played in all 19 games on defense in her second season at SHU, firing six shots on goal.
2009: Appeared in six games and made four starts along the back line for the Pioneers in her rookie campaign...Tallied two shots for the season.
High School: Played four seasons of soccer, three seasons of basketball, and one year of ice hockey at Lawrence Academy...Served as a captain of the soccer team in both her junior and senior seasons...Twice named to the All-League team for soccer...All-League selection for basketball in 2007-08...Member of the Cum Laude Society.
Personal: Born: 7/25/91. Parents: Ernie and Brenda Palmacci. Sibling: Lauren. Favorite Teams: Boston Bruins, New England Patriots, Boston Celtics, and Boston Red Sox. Favorite Athlete: Milan Lucic. Favorite Movie: The Patriot. Favorite TV Show: Law and Order: SVU.


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Nice one Micah! You're not the only one. Good writing, I think this is spot on.
"Most of us are locked into a society that is so intensely individualistic that our ability to live in community is severely hindered." You might want to define your "us" very carefully. This is not true of many of the communities I have lived in, where people know each other pretty well, families have stayed put for generations, etc. No doubt that what you describe is true for many, many people in industrial societies. Sartre called it "anomie", which has overtones of both anonymity and angst. But it is far from universally true. Defining the "us" could be very helpful in accomplishing what you describe in this post.
I also disagree with your assessment of modern society. I've seen lots of good communities: they form because of jobs, ukuleles, roller derby, mustaches, a coffee shop, a neighborhood agency or books; there's groups for active singles, actors, stay-at-home mothers and so on.
When I interview these people, it always impresses me how these strangers come together, and the level of respect and support. If anything, there are now more opportunities to build and participate in a community. You're right, it's not the same kinds of groups that were formed way back when, but we're a different kind of people. We have airplanes and Internet and indoor plumbing and Tina Fey!
Things are more jointed but that doesn't make these micro-communities any less meaningful. And no one is going to die if they're exiled from the community for not conforming. People and groups are more flexible. Being able to bond with people in the moment can be as important as elbow grease.
Luckily, you have Faith. She has an instinct for hospitality and connecting with people, and those are things that build up to a positive long-term effect, even if the commitment is only short-term. This is especially helpful in an area such as Washington, D.C., where the population is more transient.
Such a good and insightful post, Micah. To a certain extent it is miraculous how we can in the modern world form a degree of community over great distances. I deal with some of the problems you've encountered by being part of both Catholic and Quaker communities. I wish we were all closer. I think the one good thing about today is that we are less "tribal" in our communalism, weak as it is. Bless you for all your efforts.
The thing about our modern "communities" centered around shared interests/lifestyles, is that we choose them. We're not born into them. Yes, there can be an incredible closeness in these groups, but if some great division arises, it's relatively easy (physically, at least) to uproot yourself and find somewhere new to connect.
While living overseas for awhile, I had the experience of being in a "forced" community, as you might call it – a small group of American expats living in the same area for a couple years, and very much dependent on each other for emotional support, professional assistance, and friendship. Many of us would never have found ourselves in the same social circles or communities in America, but in those circumstances, we had no choice but to care for each other. As a result, we formed very close bonds and grew in our understanding of what it means to love people different (sometimes vastly so) from ourselves. Meanwhile, the native culture around us was based on exactly that: unbreakably close connections between families and villages – where, as Micah put, no one had to teach them how to live as a community (unlike us Americans).
I believe this experience was closer to what used to exist in, say, 1st century Rome, than our modern sense of community. Where you're pretty much stuck with the people immediately surrounding you, so you better learn to take care of each other or everyone will be miserable – regardless of whether your interests, beliefs, or life situations match up. It's the kind of necessary interdependency that, for many of us, no longer exists. At least, not naturally. It's also the kind of interdependency that forces you to learn intentional love, of the kind that Jesus (and Micah) speaks of.
Sorry for the essay; the question of community is a deep interest for me so I couldn't help but weigh in!


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This page presents my main scientific production from the beginning of my carreer as a researcher (1999, Department of Mathematics, Montpellier University) till the end of my carreer as an emeritus professor (2019, French Institute of Education, Ecole normale supéreure de Lyon). Before 1999, I was a mathematics teacher in different middle or upper secondary schools (1974-1999).
In previous years, my research has been dedicated to the study of ICT integration in Mathematics Education, from my PhD with Dominique Guin. In particular, I have studied the interplay between instrumentation processes and conceptualization processes. This work inspired me to study the teacher's role, introducing the notion of instrumental orchestration to model the management of available artefacts (for teaching a particular mathematical topic) in the classroom, and developing this concept in a joint work with Paul Drijvers. Now my focus is resource design and teacher professional development in the time of digitalization. This has led me to develop, in a joint work with Ghislaine Gueudet and Birgit Pepin, the documentational approach to didactics. In this frame, I analyse teacher learning through the 'lens of resources'. In this perspective, the notion of teacher resource system appears crucial in order to understand teacher (developing) knowledge and the coherence of teacher activity.
Investigating teachers' work with resources leads to consider teachers' collective work. Indeed, digitalization favours the emergence of more or less formal collectives: networks; teaching groups; and learning communities within or out of schools. Studying the interactions between individual and collective teachers' resource systems gives means for understanding the dynamics of these collectives, and for rethinking the way of supporting teacher development at a time of the 'metamorphosis' of teaching environments.
The Re(s)sources conference, in May 2018, was an occasion for deepening the issues at stake in this trajectory of research. It gave matter to a book, published in 2019 by Springer: The 'Resource' Approach to Mathematics Education.
A conference was organized, in June 2019, at the occasion of my retirement, and for starting my new status (3 years) as emeritus professor.


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September 8, 2003 • Posted By Shaun Lyon
BBC Books has informed us that Paul Cornell's adaptation of his serial The Scream of the Shalka, based on the animated serial starring Richard E. Grant debuting online in November, will be released in February 2004. BBC Books was hoping to do Shalka as an 'extra' book, "but sadly that's not possible at such short notice without upsetting the distribution and making things difficult all round," says range consultant Justin Richards. All of the previously confirmed novels will therefore slip back one month, with David Bishop's "Empire of Death" in March, Mark Michalowski's "Half-Life" in April, David McIntee's "The Eleventh Tiger" in May, Jonathan Morris' "The Tomorrow Windows" in June and Craig Hinton's "Synthespians(TM)" in July. (Thanks to Justin Richards)


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A Love Letter
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We were married August 30, 2003. He has been on deployment
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As you go through life people are always telling you to
dream and to work hard and you can have what ever you want,
to always follow your dreams. Sometimes you work your self
to the edge of death and yet your dreams can still elude
One day I dreamed of an angel that would some day come into
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heaven. She would have a strong frame to hold me in times
that I was weak. She would be wrapped in the finest silk of
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love. Her soul would be designed and hand crafted by God
himself. She would be more beautiful than any sun set or
rose ever see in the records of time. Her eyes would be of
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in the night sky. Her touch would be magical and could cure
wounds, both emotional and physical.
So I walked the world and I began to think that dreams where
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until the day my angel found me.
It must be destiny that brought you to me. For now I realize
what true love is and what it means to be loved.
Amy Lynn you are my angel. You must be from the heaven's
above because people as wonderful as you do not exist on
earth. You are more special to me than any poem or letter
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One of the earliest gifts in the collection, donated by the museum's founder in 1916, is a crazy quilt sewn with velvets and silks and meticulously embroidered. Over the next 50 years Brooks' textile collection quickly grew to include 15th-century Italian linens, church vestments, Victorian beadwork, 19th-century white work embroideries, and American coverlets. In the latter half of the 20th century the collection expanded in scope with the addition of Asian, African, and Pre-Colonial textiles as well as numerous 20th-century American quilts. Some of the more notable acquisitions include an exquisite collection of 16th-18th century European lace, an 18th-century English embroidered waistcoat, an African Hausa robe, and an exceptional pair of point d'Alençon lace bed curtains that were commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte for Empress Josephine. Also included in this collection are Modern and Contemporary fiber art pieces by regional artists.


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Alexa Shields completed her 11th season as the assistant women's basketball coach at the United States Merchant Marine Academy in 2018-19. She was promoted to Associate Head Coach in May 2019. Shields came to Kings Point after coaching as a graduate assistant coach at Rutgers-Newark.
At the Academy, Shields is responsible for recruiting, scouting, film exchange, travel, and Sea Year fitness coordination. In addition to her coaching responsibilities, Shields is also an Assistant Professor at the Academy.
While at Rutgers-Newark some of her responsibilities included recruiting, administrative duties and camp coordinator. She also organized the team's Tip-Off Tournament and served as a Team Academic Advisor.
A three-time All-New Jersey Athletic Conference guard at The College of New Jersey, Shields helped TCNJ to NJAC championships in 2004 and 2006, finishing tied for third in career assists (309) and fifth in steals (196) in school history. She served as team captain as a junior and senior. A four-year letterwinner, she earned first-team All-NJAC honors in 2005 while garnering second unit notice as a sophomore and senior.
She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Communications from TCNJ in 2006 after four years on the Dean's List. Two years later, Shields earned a Master's degree in Liberal Studies from Rutgers-Newark.
Shields and her family moved from Huntington, Indiana, to Wall Township, New Jersey, for her junior and senior years in high school. She captained Wall High School as a junior and senior where she also lettered twice in tennis.