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Daniel Koretz
Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education
(On Leave 2014-2015)
Daniel Koretz is an expert on educational assessment and testing policy. A primary focus of his work has been the impact of high-stakes testing. His research has included studies of score inflation, the effects of testing programs on educational practice, the assessment of students with disabilities, international differences in the variability of student achievement, the application of value-added models to educational achievement, and the development of methods for validating scores under high-stakes conditions. His current work focuses on the equity implications of high-stakes testing, the effects of high-stakes testing on postsecondary outcomes, the characteristics of traditional tests that encourage inappropriate test preparation, and the design and evaluation of new testing designs tailored for accountability. Professor Koretz is a member of the National Academy of Education and a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. His doctorate is in developmental psychology from Cornell University. Before obtaining his degree, Koretz taught emotionally disturbed students in public elementary and junior high schools.
- Ph.D., Cornell University
- Guo, Q, & Koretz, D. (2013). Estimating the impact of the English immersion law on limited English proficient students reading achievement. Education Policy 27(1), 121-149. (2013)
- Holcombe, R., Jennings, J., & Koretz, D. (2013). The roots of score inflation: An examination of opportunities in two states tests. In G. Sunderman (Ed.), Charting reform, achieving equity in a diverse nation. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing. (2013)
- Koretz, D. (2011). Lessons from test-based education reform in the U.S. Zeitschrift für Erzhiehungswisshenschaft (Journal of Educational Science), Special Issue 13, 9-24. (2011)
- National Research Council. (2011) (incl. D. Koretz). Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Public Education. Committee on Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Public Education, M. Hout and S. W. Elliott (Eds.) Board on Testing and Assessment, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. (2011)
- Koretz, D. (2010). The validity of score gains on high-stakes tests. In B. McGaw, P. L. Peterson, and E. Baker (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier. Vol. 4, pp. 186-192. (2010)
- Koretz, D., and Beguin, A. (2010). Self-monitoring assessments for educational accountability systems. Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 8(2-3: special issue), 92-109. (2010)
- Koretz, D. (2009). How do American students measure up? Making sense of international comparisons. Future of Children, 19(1), 37-51. (2009)
- Koretz, D. (2009). Moving past No Child Left Behind. Science, 326, 803-804 (November 6). (2009)
- Koretz, D. (2008). Further steps toward the development of an accountability-oriented science of measurement . In K. E. Ryan & L. A. Shepard (Eds.), The Future of Test-Based Educational Accountability. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 71-91. (2008)
- Koretz, D. (2008). Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/KORMAK.html?show=reviews (2008)
- Koretz, D. (2008). A measured approach: Maximizing the promise, and minimizing the pitfalls, of value-added models. American Educator, Fall, 18-27, 39. (2008)
- Koretz, D. (2008). The pending reauthorization of NCLB: An opportunity to rethink the basic strategy. In G. L. Sunderman (Ed.), Holding NCLB Accountable: Achieving Accountability, Equity, and School Reform. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 9-26. (2008)
- Koretz, D. (2008, in press). Further steps toward the development of an accountability-oriented science of measurement . In K. E. Ryan & L. A. Shepard (Eds.), The Future of Test-Based Educational Accountability. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (2008)
- Koretz. D. (2008). Test-based educational accountability: Research evidence and implications. Zeitschrift für Pädagogik (Journal of Pedagogy), 54(6), 777-790. (2008)
- Koretz, D. (2007). Using aggregate-level linkages for estimation and validation: Comments on Thissen and Braun & Qian. In Dorans, N. J., Pommerich, M., & Holland, P. W. (Eds.), Linking and Aligning Scores and Scales. New York: Springer-Verlag, 339-353. (2007)
- Koretz, D., and Kim, Y-K. (2007). Changes in the Black-White Performance Gap in the Elementary School Grades. CSE Technical Report 715. Los Angeles: Center for the Study of Evaluation, University of California. (2007)
- Hamilton, L. S., McCaffrey, D. F., and Koretz, D. (2006). Validating Achievement Gains in Cohort-to-Cohort and Individual Growth-Based Modeling Contexts. In R. Lissitz (Ed.), Longitudinal and Value Added Modeling of Student Performance, 407 - 434. Maple Grove, MN: JAM Press. (2006)
- Koretz, D. (2006). Steps toward more effective implementation of the Standards. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 25(3), 46-50. (2006)
- Koretz, D., and Hamilton, L. S. (2006). Testing for accountability in K-12. In R. L. Brennan (Ed.), Educational measurement (4th ed.), 531-578. Westport, CT: American Council on Education/Praeger. (2006)
- Koretz, D. (2005). Alignment, high stakes, and the inflation of test scores. In J. Herman and E. Haertel (Eds.), Uses and misuses of data in accountability testing. Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, vol. 104, Part 2, 99-118. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. (2005)
- Koretz, D., and McCaffrey, D. (2005). Using IRT DIF Methods to Evaluate the Validity of Score Gains. CSE Technical Report 660. Los Angeles: Center for the Study of Evaluation, University of California. (2005)
- Price, J., and Koretz, D. (2005). Building assessment literacy. In K. P. Boudett, E. A. City, and R. M. Murnane (Eds.), Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press. (2005)
- Koretz, D., and Barton, K. (2003-2004). Assessing students with disabilities: Issues and evidence. Educational Assessment, 9(1&2), 29-60. (2004)
- McCaffrey, D. F., Lockwood, J. R., Koretz, D., Louis, T. A., and Hamilton, L. (2004). Models for value-added modeling of teacher effects. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 29(1), 67-101. (2004)
- McCaffrey, D. F., Lockwood, J. R., Koretz, D., Louis, T. A., and Hamilton, L. S. (2004). Let's see more empirical studies of value-added models of teacher effects: A reply to Raudenbush, Rubin, Stuart and Zanuto. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 29(1), 139-144. (2004)
- Koretz, D. (2003). Using multiple measures to address perverse incentives and score inflation. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice 22(2), 18-26. (2003)
- Koretz, D., and Hamilton, L. S. (2003). Teachers responses to high-stakes testing and the validity of gains: A pilot study. CSE Technical Report 610. Los Angeles: Center for the Study of Evaluation, University of California. (2003)
- McCaffrey, D. F., Lockwood, J. R., Koretz, D. M., and Hamilton, L. S. (2003). Evaluating value-added models for teacher accountability. Santa Monica: RAND, MG-158-EDU. (2003)
- Wainer, H., and Koretz, D. (2003). A political statistic. Chance, 16(4), 45-47. (2003)
- Baker, E.L., Linn, R.L, Herman, J.L., Koretz, D. (2002). Standards for educational accountability systems (CRESST Policy Brief 5). Los Angeles: University of California, Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing. (http://www.cse.ucla.edu/CRESST/Newsletters/polbrf54.pdf) (2002)
- Koretz, D. (2002). Exit tests and accountability at the high-school level. In The New Challenge for Public Education: Secondary School ReformDesigns, Standards, and Accountability. The Aspen Institute Congressional Program, vol. 17, no. 2. Washington, author, 39-48. (2002)
- Koretz, D. (2002). Limitations in the use of achievement tests as measures of educators' productivity. In E. Hanushek, J. Heckman, and D. Neal (Eds.), Designing Incentives to Promote Human Capital. Special issue of The Journal of Human Resources, 37(4, Fall), 752-777. (2002)
- Koretz, D. Russell, M., Shin, D. Horn, C., and Shasby, K. (2002). Testing and Diversity in Postsecondary Education: The Case of California. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 10 (1) (January). http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v10n1/ (2002)
- Blue Ribbon Panel on the New York Performance Standards Consortium (Everson, H.T., Koretz, D.M., Linn, R.L., Phillips, S.E., Qualls, A.L., and Stake, R.), (2001). New York Performance Standards Consortium Schools Alternative Assessment Systems: An Evaluation Report. New York City: Author. (2001)
- Koretz, D., and Berends, M. (2001). Changes in High School Grading Standards in Mathematics, 1982-1992. Santa Monica: RAND (MR-1445-CB). (2001)
- Koretz, D., McCaffrey, D., and Hamilton, L. (2001). Toward a Framework for Validating Gains Under High-Stakes Conditions. CSE Technical Report 551. Los Angeles: Center for the Study of Evaluation, University of California. (2001)
- Koretz, D., McCaffrey, D., and Sullivan, T. (2001). Predicting variations in mathematics performance in four countries using TIMSS. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 9 (34) (September). http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v9n34/ (2001)
- Koretz, D., McCaffrey, D., and Sullivan, T. (2001). Using TIMSS to Analyze Correlates of Performance Variation in Mathematics. Working Paper No. 2001-095. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. (2001)
- Koretz, D. (2000). The Impact of Score Differences on the Admission of Minority Students: An Illustration. Chestnut Hill, MA: National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy. NBETPP Statements, 1(5), June. (2000)
- Koretz, D., and Hamilton, L. (2000). Assessment of Students with Disabilities In Kentucky: Inclusion, Student Performance, and Validity. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 22(3), 255-272. (2000)
- Koretz, D. and Hamilton, L. (1999). Assessing Students with Disabilities in Kentucky: The Effects of Accommodations, Format, and Subject. CSE Technical Report 498. Los Angeles: Center for the Study of Evaluation, University of California. (1999)
- Koretz, D. M., Bertenthal, M. W., and Green, B., Eds. (1999). Embedding Common Test Items in State and District Assessments. (National Research Council, Committee on Embedding Common Test Items in State and District Assessments.) Washington: National Academy Press. (1999)
- National Research Council, Committee on Equivalency and linkage of Educational Tests (1999) (incl. D. Koretz). Uncommon Measures: Equivalence and Linkage Among Educational Tests. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. (1999)
- Koretz, D. (1998). Large-scale portfolio assessments in the US: Evidence pertaining to the quality of measurement. In D. Koretz, A. Wolf, and P. Broadfoot (Eds.), Records of Achievement. Special issue of Assessment In Education, 5(3), 309-334. Reprinted in W. Harlen, Ed. (2008), Student Assessment and Learning. London: Sage. (1998)
- Koretz, D., and Barron, S. I. (1998). The Validity of Gains on the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System (KIRIS). MR-1014-EDU, Santa Monica: RAND. (1998)
- Kentucky National Technical Advisory Panel on Assessment and Accountability (2011-present)
- National Academy of Education (2008-present)
- Faculty Associate and Member of the Steering Committee, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University (2006-present)
- Assessment Technical Advisory Group, New York State Education Department (1996-present)
- National Council on Measurement in Education (1988-present)
- American Educational Research Association (1986-present)
- Founder and Chair, International Project for the Study of Educational Accountability (2008-2012)
- Program Chair, American Educational Research Association (2006-2007)
- Board on Testing and Assessment, National Research Council (1999-2006)
- Blue Ribbon Panel, NY Performance Assessment Consortium (2000-2001)
- Advisory Panel on Research and Development, The College Entrance Examination Board (1996-1999)
- National Research Council, Committee on Goals 2000 and the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities (1995-1997)
- National Research Council, Committee on Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education (2006-)
- Chair, National Research Council, Committee on Embedding Common Test Items in State and District Assessments (1999-)
- National Research Council, Committee on Equivalency and Linkage of Educational Tests (1998-)
- Professor Koretzs current research focuses on large-scale educational assessments, particularly as they are used for monitoring and accountability.
A major strand of his research examines the effects of high-stakes testing, including score inflation and the instructional responses to testing that generate it. His current research (Educational Accountability Project), examines the equity effects of test-based accountability, the effects of testing on postsecondary performance and other later outcomes, the characteristics of traditional tests that encourage inappropriate test preparation, and the design and evaluation of new testing designs tailored for accountability. Professor Koretz has also conducted research on the assessment of students with disabilities, international differences in student achievement, the application of value-added models to educational achievement, and the development of methods for validating scores under high-stakes conditions.
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- Education Accountability Project: Creating Self-Monitoring Assessments, Spencer Foundation, (2011-2012)
Research extending back two decades has shown consistent evidence of negative side-effects of test-based accountability: undesirable changes in instruction (including diverse types of inappropriate test preparation) and inflation of test scores (e.g., Klein et al.,, 2002); Koretz & Barron, 1998; Stecher, 2002). These problems are a predictable instantiation of a general problem with performance-based accountability, known as Campbells Law: The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor. (Campbell, 1979, p. 87). With support from the Spencer Foundation, the Education Accountability Project (EAP) has undertaken research intended to help lessen these side-effects and contribute to the design of more effective accountability systems. One component of this work has been the design of self-monitoring assessments (SMAs; see Koretz & Beguin, 2010). Inappropriate test preparation and score inflation are facilitated by predictable recurrences and omissions in tests, including patterns in both content and representation. Test prep activities capitalize on these, producing score gains that shrink or vanish when different content or representations are sampled. Until recently, the extent of this problem has been evaluated by comparing score trends on a high-stakes test with trends on a comparable low-stakes audit test, such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). However, there are numerous disadvantages to relying on separate audit tests for this purpose. In contrast, SMAs incorporate audit componentsnovel items assessing appropriate contentinto ongoing, operational high stakes tests. During the 2010-2011 academic year, the EAP produced SMA components for use in New York. We produced 11 short test forms in mathematics for grades 4, 7, and 8 that were administered in a statewide field test in May, 2011. Because item writing requires both specialized knowledge and pretesting, we relied primarily on items in the public domain, modifying them as little as necessary and writing new items only in the few instances in which there was no alternative. This approach seriously limits our development of SMAs because we are constrained to grades and subjects in which there is an ample supply of items in the public domain, and even in those cases, testing some important content is difficult. Accordingly, we have decided to have items written for us by Cito, a testing firm in the Netherlands. Citos director of research, Anton Beguin, has been involved in the design of SMAs for several years. Moreover, Cito has a very limited presence in the US market and therefore will not be in the position of bidding against US testing firms operating the high-stakes tests into which our audit items must be embedded.
- Developing more effective test-based accountability by improving validity under high-stakes conditions, U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, (2011-2015)
Since the 1970s, policymakers have relied on test-based accountability (TBA) as a primary tool for improving student achievement and for reducing racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps. Despite the accumulating evidence of threats to validity caused by educators responses to TBA, which in some cases have produced severe inflation of scores, research has not provided guidance for the development of tests better suited for use in accountability systems. This proposal requests funding for a research program that includes:1. Evaluating the limitations of current assessment systems, including the features of tests that are most vulnerable to inflation and the types of schools and students most affected by inflation, so that these problems can be lessened in new designs.2. Developing and evaluating new approaches for validating inferences based on scores on tests used for accountability.3. Designing new, research-based approaches to assessment to lessen the unwanted side-effects of TBA and increase the desired effects, evaluating their validity, and using the results of this ongoing research to develop needed modifications. Although this work addresses issues of national importance, it uses student-by-test-item data from three statesNew York, Massachusetts, and Texasbecause assessments are currently state-specific. The core is an agreement with the New York State Education Department (NYSED) that calls for us to conduct this work as an independent research group that commits NYSED to providing us with data and the opportunity to field new assessment designs. Our work extends traditional validation methods by examining variations in generalizability within tests rather than only the generalizability of total scores. First, we examine test forms to identify predictable patterns that could create inflation. Second, we examine differential gains on parts of the assessments, since preparation focused on predictable patterns within the test should be accompanied by differentially large performance gains on items reflecting these opportunities. Third, we develop and evaluate self-monitoring assessments (SMAs)assessments that incorporate audit components directly into operational assessments and thus can localize inflation at the level of schoolsand compare performance on parts of the operational assessment and these audit components. Fourth, we compare performance on parts of the operational assessment and parts of NAEP. Finally, we evaluate the extent to which trends in performance on accountability tests generalize to later outcomes, such as high school and college performance.We use several methods to analyze differential trends in performance. One approach is an adaptation of differential item functioning methods commonly used to flag items for potential bias. This approach allows us to match groups, such as high-gain and lower-gain schools, on performance on novel or inflation-resistant items and examine differential gains on items hypothesized to be most vulnerable to inappropriate test preparation (e.g., item clones). To make the work more accessible, we are also applying more widely used models, such as multi-level mixed models, to evaluate these contrasts. This is the first effort to systematically identify opportunities for score inflation, to explore variations in validity across parts of tests and across types of students and schools, and to implement and evaluate SMAs. Perhaps most important, this is the first investigation of variations in validity that is directly tied to efforts to lessen the problem of score inflation.
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ME 489 Mechanical Engineering Cooperative Internship III (2). Full-time technical work experience related to the student's engineering program.
ME 288, Mechanical Engineering Cooperative Internship Seminar
ME 289, Mechanical Engineering Cooperative Education I
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Communication, teamwork, and management skills. A knowledge and understanding of business constraints and tools.
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Police in Columbus want to remind you to make sure that if you have valuable items in your garage, to lock it up.
Columbus Public Safety spokesman Lt. Matt Myers says the city has seen an increase over the past two months where thefts have been reported from detached garages and sheds mostly in the downtown area. Some are left unlocked or the locks have been cut. Myers says most of the items taken are power tools, lawn mowers and weed eaters.
Police also want to remind homeowners to keep detailed records of their property. Photos of property with brand, make model and serial numbers are very useful for police when trying to located stolen property. Police also want to remind you to call police anytime you suspect suspicious activity is occurring in your neighborhood.
Last week, a home owner in the 1600 block of Franklin Street walked into his detached garage during an attempted theft. The home owner said the suspect he encountered was a white man standing 5' 7" tall and had a scruffy face. He had dark hair and was wearing a dark blue windbreaker jacket with blue jeans. The suspect also had a tattoo written in script style across his chest. The suspect fled the area before police arrived.
Police are not sure if this man is responsible for all the thefts, but do think some of the thefts could be related.
Myers says the investigation continues. Police have stepped up patrols and are working with local pawn shops in hopes of getting leads.
Anyone with information regarding these thefts or any other should call Columbus Police at 376-2600.
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A possible drug debt was apparently behind a bizarre episode on Wawona Circle Friday, when 47-year-old Brian Hope fired several rounds into an empty pickup truck, police say.
Residents on nearby Sentinel Drive flooded 9-1-1 with calls about shots fired around 12:40 p.m. Police responded to a home on the 100 block of Wawona Court, where a resident told them he had fired several rounds from his rifle into someone else's pickup truck.
Police said that the owner of the truck came to the Wawona Circle home to collect a drug debt. As he approached the house, Hope fired several rounds at the unoccupied truck. The truck owner ran back to his vehicle and drove away. No one was shot at, and no one was harmed, police say.
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by the rate of systemic uptake and the rate of drug clearance. The systemic absorption of a local anesthetic is determined
by the dose administered (volume and concentration), the drug's protein binding and lipid solubility, the injection site's
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New Castle police arrested a Detroit man in a sting operation after suspected heroin was allegedly found under a mattress.
Police arranged surveillance and an undercover drug exchange between a woman and the suspect, 37-year-old Kenneth Jordan, at a shopping center.
According to police, a man contacted the Lawrence County District Attorney's Drug Task Force last week about suspected heroin he said he had found in his ex-girlfriend's apartment at Crestview Gardens. He told police he had found the substance — in 27 stamp bags, valued around $20 each — and a digital scale under a corner of the mattress. He turned it over to the police, they reported.
The woman told her ex-boyfriend she wanted it back because she was fearful of its alleged owner, Jordan, who goes by the nickname of "Cuzzo." He allegedly asked her to keep it for him after a recent drug raid at Crestview.
The woman told police "Cuzzo" had told her he would return for the drugs, but she hadn't heard from him in several days. She said she doesn't know his real name.
The next day, officers instructed the woman to go to the police station, where she called Jordan on his cell phone and told him to "come and get his stuff."
She arranged to meet him at a grocery store, while police set up surveillance in the parking lot. When Jordan arrived, she went into the store with him and when they came out, Jordan had the bag of suspected heroin in his hand, police said. He was seen trying to hand it back to her, then he threw it at her, they added.
Police then took them both into custody and confiscated the bag.
Jordan is charged with possession with intent to deliver heroin, criminal use of a communication facility, possession and possession of drug paraphernalia.
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September 2011 Critical Windows, Office & Adobe patches
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On September 13, 2011, Microsoft released patches for critical vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft Office, and Office for Macintosh. In addition, Adobe released critical patches for Adobe Reader and Acrobat.
* All Windows PCs must be patched. *
To patch your PC:
Click on the update icon on the taskbar. It is a globe or yellow shield with an exclamation point, depending on which version of Windows you're running.
If you do not have such an icon, run Windows Update by going to the site:
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Other Windows patches:
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To patch Microsoft Office for Macintoshes:
If you are using Microsoft Office on a Macintosh, use Microsoft AutoUpdate for Mac, which comes with Office, to check for updates or visit the Macintosh Office download page to get the latest updates:
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Our speaker trainings offer youth and adults an intensive two-day preparation for conducting speaking engagements. SpeakOUT educates our own volunteer speakers at this training and invites other organizations with speakers bureaus to send its members to be trained. In the past, SpeakOUT has trained members of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), the Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth (BAGLY), Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, and many other area organizations.
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Braden River student wins scholarship
Date: May 14, 2009
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Danielle Strutt, senior at Braden River High School, received a full Army nursing scholarship worth $110,000 from the ROTC program at the University of Tampa.
Strutt received the scholarship during Braden River's Awards Ceremony May 12.
For more information on the JROTC program and other awards received, contact Col. Braden at 751-8230.
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Northeastern State softball swept its Saturday series against Lindenwood University at Lou Brock Complex.
NSU (24-20, 14-8 MIAA) took game one in a 10-2 run-rule victory over LU (19-25, 10-14 MIAA) and won game two 8-6 in extra innings.
This is the sixth series the RiverHawks have swept and the fourth MIAA series won this season.
NSU 10, Lindenwood 2 (first game)
Northeastern State took an early lead in the opening half of the first frame 2-0. Freshman Saharra Henson scored on a double to left field from junior Amanda Harjo to put NSU ahead 1-0. Henson reached base on a walk. Junior Allyson Pogue claimed the second run of the inning after senior Lindsea Ross reached on a fielder's choice. Pogue also reached base on a walk.
The RiverHawks blasted in two more runs in the top of the second inning to lead the Lions 4-0. Henson scored after junior Madison Reed reached on a Lion's error, advancing Reed to second. Henson reached base on a fielder's choice. Notching the second run was Reed on a single from senior Kelsi Hilderbrandt.
NSU would improve its lead by three in the top of the fourth frame to lead LU 7-0. Harjo scored on a triple to right center by senior Lisa Ripperger. Harjo reached base on a double. Ripperger scored on a single from Ross. Pogue scored the last run of the inning for NSU on a single from junior Megan Robison. Pogue reached base on a walk.
The Lions posted a pair of runs in the bottom of the fourth frame but could not thrive, as NSU's offense prevailed, posting another three runs to end game one in a run-rule 10-2 decision in six innings.
NSU was led by Ripperger who went 2-for-3 at bat and had two RBI. Also driving in runs were Hilderbrandt and Pogue, each with two.
Freshman Kayce Wooldridge (9-10) tabbed the win in the circle after throwing a complete game. She allowed five hits and two earned runs.
NSU 8 , LU 6 (second game)
The RiverHawks were the first to plate runners in game two when Robison struck a homerun to bring in Ross to lead the Lions 2-0. Ross reached base on a double to left field. NSU nabbed its third run of the game when Reed scored after Ripperger reached base after getting hit by the pitcher with the bases loaded. Reed made it to base on a single. Northeastern State led Lindenwood 3-0.
The RiverHawks would maintain the 3-0 lead until pounding in another three runs in the top of the fifth inning. Senior Laquieta Drew scored on a single from Robison. Drew entered the game to pinch run for Ross, who reached base on a double. Hilderbrandt doubled to score in Reed and Robison. Reed reached base on a single.
The Lions finally woke up in the bottom of the sixth inning to tie the game up 6-6 after erupting on five hits to send the contest into extra innings.
Northeastern State regained the lead after Henson and Pogue scored in the top of the eighth frame to defeat Lindenwood 8-6.
Senior Cayce Coleman (7-6) claimed the win in the circle after throwing a complete eight inning game. She allowed eight hits and six runs.
The RiverHawks will remain on the road for their next series against Southeastern Oklahoma State at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Durant.
RiverHawks, Lopers split pair of baseball games
The Northeastern State baseball team split the first two games of the series with Nebraska Kearney Saturday afternoon at Thomas C. Rousey Field.
The Lopers (20-21, 17-18 MIAA) won the opening game 8-5, while the RiverHawks (24-19, 22-18 MIAA) secured the second game 12-11.
The day began with the honoring of NSU's 10 seniors, who are playing their final games Rousey Field.
The two squads will meet for the rubber match at noon today. This will also be the last home game of the season for Northeastern State.
UNK 8, NSU 5 (first game)
Nebraska Kearney scored all eight of its runs before the RiverHawks responded. UNK plated three in the first and added runs in four of the next five frames. Northeastern State scored five in the home half of the sixth, but the comeback would inevitably fall short.
Senior Jordan Dallalio was 2-for-4 with a home run. He drove in three runs and scored once. Senior Kegan Knight and junior Cody Robinson also had two hits, while sophomore Preston Cash hit a solo home run back-to-back with Dallalio.
Sophomore Kyle Shambaugh (3-2) was tagged with the loss on the mound after allowing seven runs on 10 hits in 5 innings. Senior Trevor Walch and freshman Wilson Klutts also pitched an inning apiece.
NSU was outhit 13-11.
NSU 12, UNK 11 (second game)
Northeastern State was again outhit 13-11, but the home side was able to take advantage of five UNK errors to record the victory.
The Lopers led 7-2 after four and a half innings, but NSU outscored the visitors 10-1 over the course of the next three frames to lead 12-8 heading into the eighth. UNK tacked on three in the top of the eighth, but the team would not be able to add the 12th run.
Knight finished the game 4-for-5 at the plate. He drove home three and scored once. Robinson recorded his nation's leading 16th home run of the season, and sophomore David Weber posted two hits, two runs and two RBI. Junior Ryan Staggs did not register a hit, but he did score three times.
Senior Craig George (6-3) earned the win on the mound after allowing eight runs (four earned) on 10 hits in 7.0 innings. Fellow senior Trevor Walch tossed the final two frames and picked up his seventh save of the year. The duo combined for nine strikeouts.


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Great Mall of the Bay Area
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|Milpitas, California, USA
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The Great Mall of the Bay Area (often simply called The Great Mall), is a large indoor outlet shopping mall in Milpitas, California built by Ford Motor Land Development and Petrie Dierman Kughn in 1994, then acquired by Mills Corporation in 2003, and is now owned by the Simon Property Group since April 2007. It contains approximately 1.4 million square feet of gross leaseable area.[1]
The Mall was formerly a Ford Motor Company San Jose Assembly Plant that was founded in the 1950s. Ford Mustangs were produced at this plant and Mustangs bearing the name San Jose as the assembly location were in fact built in Milpitas. Fairlanes, Torinos, Pintos, F-Series pickup trucks and Escorts; Edsel Rangers and Pacers; and Mercury Cougars, Montegos, Comets, Bobcats, Lynxes, & Capris (US version) were also assembled here. The plant closed down in 1983 in part due to increasing competition with Japanese auto manufacturers aptly narrated in David Halberstam's book The Reckoning. In the early 1990s, developers resized the former plant and converted it into a mall. Today, an oak tree with a plaque commemorating Great Mall's history stands in the southwest section of its parking lot.
The Great Mall of the Bay Area, which opened on September 22, 1994, was developed as a joint venture between Ford Motor Land Development Corporation of Dearborn, Michigan and Petrie Dierman Kughn of McLean, Virginia.
On December 14, 2012, Kohl's and 20 other adjacent stores were evacuated due to a bomb threat written on a men's restroom wall.[2]
The Great Mall of the Bay Area sits at the intersection of Great Mall Parkway (which becomes Capitol Avenue when it crosses Montague Expressway) and Montague Expressway. The Parc Metropolitan apartments lie to the north of the mall. A few inns are also located at the south entrance of the mall.
Great Mall, unlike many other malls (but like most Mills malls), is a "flat" mall and the 2nd largest mall in northern California — it has only one story but takes up a large amount of land. The mall is currently laid out in this fashion because the existing main structure used to be a Ford automobile assembly plant and was not designed to serve as a shopping center.
Various major retailers are represented in the mall, including Home Depot, Off 5th - Saks Fifth Avenue Outlet, Marshalls, Dave & Buster's, Sears Appliance Outlet and a new Last Call Neiman Marcus clearance center. The mall used to house a Vans Skatepark which closed in 2004 and was replaced by Kohl's. In addition, it houses a Century Theatres multiplex with 20 screens.
Based on gross leaseable area, the Great Mall of the Bay Area was once the largest mall in Northern California, but has now been surpassed by others. It still remains the largest outlet mall in Northern California, but not all of its stores are outlets. Great Mall also has a food court, which can be accessed through Entrance 4.
Transit Center[edit]
The Great Mall of the Bay Area is close to the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority's Great Mall/Main transit center. Many VTA bus routes and also one by AC Transit stop at this transit center. The light rail station is elevated in the median of Great Mall Parkway.
Anchors & Majors[edit]
- Banana Republic (10,000 sq ft (1,000 m2))
- Bed Bath & Beyond
- Beverages & More (10,566 sq ft (982 m2))
- Burlington Coat Factory (90,096 sq ft (8,370 m2))
- Century Theatres (71,734 sq ft (6,664 m2))[3]
- Dave & Buster's (65,079 sq ft (6,046 m2))
- Forever 21 (20,920 sq ft (1,944 m2))
- The Gap Outlet (16,050 sq ft (1,491 m2))
- Group USA (20,754 sq ft (1,928 m2))
- Kohl's (91,843 sq ft (8,532 m2))
- Last Call Neiman Marcus (33,120 sq ft (3,077 m2))
- Marshalls Superstore (52,526 sq ft (4,880 m2))
- Nike (17,352 sq ft (1,612 m2))
- Off 5th Saks Fifth Avenue (27,423 sq ft (2,548 m2))
- Old Navy (20,138 sq ft (1,871 m2))
- Sears Outlet (29,491 sq ft (2,740 m2))
- Sports Authority (55,871 sq ft (5,191 m2))[4]
- ^ "Simon Property Group". Simon.com. Retrieved 2012-09-15.
- ^ Favro, Marianne. "Bomb Threat Shuts Down Part of Great Mall". MSNBC. Retrieved 2012-12-15.
- ^ "Theatre Detail". Cinemark Theatres. Retrieved 2012-09-15.
- ^ "Sports Authority Sporting Goods Milpitas sporting good stores and hours". Ca.milpitas.sportsauthority.com. Retrieved 2012-09-15.
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"The archives were in rather sad shape," says Delaware Genealogical Society president Jo Thompson. "There was water leaking in and part [of the archives] was under the parking lot and it wasn't holding up."
Skinner had spent years going back and forth from her home near Wilmington to the state archives some 50 miles south in Dover, the state capital, researching her three lines of Delawarean descent. Finally, she had enough of the "deplorable" state of the archives. So she did what she says people would have done in the old days — she launched a petition drive.


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Janice Solinsky and Linda Britt are sisters, who together with their families run a fun and entertaining farm stand. We invite you to stop by our farm stand to see the antique tractors, the farm animals, or take a stroll on the hiking trail.
Willoughby Gap Farmstand proudly sells their own farm frown vegtiables, maple syrup, famous maple popcorn, home made pickled goods and jams. We also sell hand made crafts.
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The Willoughby Gap Farmstand will be open for the season the last Saturday in June.
The Willoughby Gap Farmstand will be open for the season the last Saturday in June.
Our Farmstand is located on 3 Lake Road, commonly known as Rout 5A, in Newark Vermont. We are just minutes from Lake Willoughby which has beautiful views, hiking, and swimming.


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Teamwork needed
The leaders of the Wake County Republican Party have shown their complete disdain for public education by opposing the badly needed bond issue ("GOP rejects school bond" Aug. 22). This is a sad commentary on the state of the GOP's local leaders.
It has not always been this way. In 1995, when I was chair of the Wake County Democratic Party, my GOP counterpart and I together recorded a series of radio commercials in support of a school bond referendum. We enjoyed working on the commercials, and set aside partisan differences to work cooperatively in the best interests of our county's children. That bond issue was approved by the voters.
Many Republicans still believe in public education. Hopefully they will make their voices heard this fall, as they often have done in the past, and join with Democrats and Independents to support our children.
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Jackson police say surveillance cameras catch a couple of guys in the act of a crime. This crime went down May 16th. A man entered a gas station on North State street. He was hungry, maybe thirsty. But he didn't make purchases with his own hard earned cash, he allegedly used someone's stolen credit card.
In the latest developments, this suspects latest mug shot was taken in jail. Busted for fraudulent use of a credit card according to Jackson police.
And guess what? Police say he has a partner in crime. This guy is passing the credit card around according to detectives. A larger man with a sleeveless T-shirt comes in on a different day. Buying up whatever he wanted at someone else's expense, police say.
Jackson detectives want to put a stop to these rip off's. If you have any idea who the second person is in our report, call the cops ASAP. The Jackson police department is asking for assistance in bringing this individual to justice.
If there is anyone who recognizes this individual or knows of his whereabouts, please contact the Jackson police department @ 601-960-1234.
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Marco Polo makes her debut - from designer Ron Holland
After less than two years in construction, the latest Ron Holland design Marco Polo – the first of the Marco Polo Series – has been delivered to Maritime Concept and Construction Hong Kong Ltd (MCC) at the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club in front of Hong Kong's spectacular city skyline. Designers, Kasia Milewska and Chiara Tombolini were in attendance with me representing the Ron Holland Design Studio.
This was a pioneering project in many respects, but two points deserve particular attention. First, the finished product has more than fulfilled MCC's goal of creating a European-quality yacht in China: Marco Polo is a serious market contender on the basis of build standards as well as price and delivery. Second, sea trials have proven the value of the serious design and engineering effort invested in producing a truly efficient, long range transoceanic Explorer yacht.
Extending range, reducing fuel costs
Fulfilling both Lloyds Certification and MCA requirements for unrestricted peration, Marco Polo achieved target fuel consumption of 315 litres per hour at 14.5 knots during her extensive trials period. This translates to a range of over 6000 miles at 10.5 knots. Furthermore it suggests a saving of some 34 litres per hour compared with more conventional twin-screw installations.
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London based KCA International collaborated with Ron Holland interior design assistant Chiara Tombolini to create interior decoration that reflects the marriage of East and West design elements. This fulfilled the client's aesthetic and practical requirements and presents a fitting result for a vessel that shows what is possible when an experienced team is brought together with a shipyard of Cheoy Lee's calibre.
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NORMAN — Editor, The Transcript:
The Transcript ("Chamber Hosts Legislative Breakfast," 1/30/2013) reports that the Norman Chamber of Commerce has endorsed various goals including the following: "Economic development incentives that create and maintain jobs and investment in Oklahoma," and "funding for the Oklahoma Quick Action Closing Fund to attract new jobs."
In theory, the idea of making public investments on behalf of the community seems sensible.
Programs like the Oklahoma Quick Action Closing Fund do "incentivize" businesses.
Unfortunately, such strategies give businesses an incentive to play communities off against each other to maximize the size of subsidy they receive (i.e., create a bidding war). The "winner" benefits only if it does not pay more than the additional jobs or investments are worth to the community.
There is excellent reason to think that communities overpay for businesses – that is what the empirical evidence about economic development incentives indicates.
Firms have the upper hand in negotiating deals (e.g., political clout, more information about their business models, costs, etc.).
Communities, on the other hand, are not well equipped to accurately assess the costs and benefits of development. Norman, for instance, does not do fiscal impact analysis of the potential costs/benefits of new development. (The Norman Economic Development Coalition tries to estimate the job impacts of new businesses, but it uses a simple, static model that always outputs an increase in jobs for any positive input.)
Offering development incentives is akin to shopping for a car armed with minimal research on the value of a given make/model, and instead basing the purchase decision primarily on the dealer's input.
Businesses typically employ professional advocates to "sell" projects to communities. It must be politically difficult for elected officials to say "no" to promises of jobs, even if such promises are unsubstantiated or the jobs cost more than they are worth.
One does not need to look very far to find an example where well-intentioned business leaders lead a community to an unwise investment.
The City of Tulsa and State of Oklahoma both invested millions in public funds on the now defunct Great Plains Airlines, which failed to deliver on its promise of air travel routes to the coasts. Even if companies don't go bankrupt, it is unclear if the payoffs to the community are sufficient to justify public investments in economic development incentives.
I urge the Transcript to look at the evidence that economic development incentives are not effective in creating net job growth and then ask hard questions when even an influential group makes arguments and advocates policies that fly in the face of that evidence.
Cynthia Rogers
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The Sixty-Five Years
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Juan José Saer
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Angel Leto and an acquaintance named The Mathematician—who, deeply tanned and always dressed in all white, seems less like a flesh and bone person than one of those archetypes you see on billboards, those for whom every contingency inherent to humanity has disappeared—walk twenty-one blocks together through the city, discussing a party celebrating politician Jorge Washington Noriegas sixty-fifth birthday despite the fact that neither of them were in attendance. In long, clause-on-clause sentences, this ambling conversation forms the basic plot of Argentinian Juan José Saers novel The Sixty-Five Years of Washington.
The peripatetic plot is merely a device for Saer to try out unconventional methods of narration and storytelling, all while relating the form to the content. The novel asks the reader to learn to read in a new way, as the details of the story itself are unfolded very slowly, with many pages going by between lines of dialogue. Everything is related in a very fragmentary way, seemingly to echo a thought the Mathematician had during a dream, in which there exists an elemental mechanical paradox that demonstrates that motionlessness is what creates motion, that motion is simply a reference to motionlessness. Some of the novel is narrated in a straightforward manner, as when the Mathematician tells a story in which he attempted to discuss his treatise called The Fourteen Points Toward All Future Meter with a celebrated poet (strangely, perhaps, one of the novels most gripping sections). At times, however, the narrator just slams everything to halt, and seems to focus on these moments of motionlessness and possibility, as in this early bit:
It is, as we know, morning: though it doesnt make sense to say so, since it is always the same time—once again the sun, since the earth revolves, apparently, has given the illusion of rising, from the direction they call the east, in the blue expanse we call sky, and, little by little, after the dawn, after daybreak, it has reached a spot high enough, halfway in its ascent lets say, so that, through the intensity of what we call light, we refer, to the state that results, as the morning—a spring morning when, again, though, as we were saying, it is always the same time, the temperature has been rising, the clouds have been dissipating, and the trees which, for some reason, had been losing their leaves bit by bit, have begun to bloom again, to blossom once more, although, as we were saying, it is always the same, the only Time and, so to speak, from equinox to solstice, its the same, no?
Its a kind of writing that certainly wont appeal to everyone, but Saer often pulls back, offering slightly more succinct descriptions, such as when Leto and the Mathematician evade obstacles on their walk: simultaneously [they] bent their left leg, lifting it over the cable with the intention, more unconscious than calculated, of planting the bottom of their foot on the sidewalk, no? Alright then: they plant their feet. (Those no?s that appear here are sprinkled all over the novel, as a reminder that there is a listener who is not a part of the story.)
The narrator jumps far into the future at times, explaining the ends of lives before weve even seen the end of the twenty-one blocks, and then back to the present, to slow the narrative back to barely moving. Saer plays a lot with this, all while peppering the novel with many quote-worthy sections, such as the Mathematicians hatred of the bloodlust bourgeoisie, or this aside regarding another acquaintance, Tomatis, for whom every example of the female sex whose measurements in the chest, waist, and thighs did not correspond to those of Miss Universe [was] an indistinct and transparent creature, and the general nonstop flow of wisdom from the Mathematician, who insists that whosoever looks to swim unaided in the colorless river of postulates, syllogistic modes, categories, and definitions should accompany his studies with a strict dietary regimen: fed on yogurts and blanched vegetables, the abstract order of everything, in its utmost simplicity, will be revealed, ecstatic and radiant, to the relentless, recently bathed ascetic.
Saer makes use of that utmost simplicity with his easy plot, while ecstatically and radiantly writing of the abstract order of everything as well. Its not a perfect novel—even at a slim 203 pages, its a bit overlong and the middle passage gets tiresome—but the opening and closing thirds are phenomenal, demonstrating a dazzling unification of form and function.
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Work is well under way on a new building at the corner of South Lewis and Cheatham streets that will be home to the Housing Authority of Glasgow's new Family Self-Sufficiency Center.
Construction of the center, which consists of 20,700 square feet and includes two gymnasiums, began March 1 and is expected to be completed by October.
A wide range of programs promoting self-sufficiency will be offered at the center for families living in properties maintained by the housing authority.
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Baltimore County is rolling out the white tablecloth for this year's summer restaurant week.
County officials and business leaders marked the start of the week-plus affair with an opening event at Towson.
The event at featured samples from that restaurant and five other participating eateries: in Hunt Valley, in Timonium, in Essex, The Milton Inn in Sparks and .
Catonsville only has one restaurant participating: . Many Catonsville restaurants instead particpate in the sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce.
This year's summer restaurant week runs from this Friday, Aug. 10 to Aug. 19 and includes specials ranging from $10.12 to $35.12 at 38 Baltimore County eateries. The restaurant weeks began in 2010 as the brainchild of Milton Inn chef Brian Boston and are modeled off successful programs in Baltimore city and elsewhere.
"Really, it's a great opportunity to visit restaurants that you don't normally get to go to," said County Executive Kevin Kamenetz. "It's a really wide range of restaurants all around the county."
According to county officials, Baltimore County boasts the state's second most productive food service industry, with $1.2 billion in restaurant sales in the 2011 fiscal year (Montgomery County's restaurants booked $1.4 billion). Kamenetz said county restaurants supported 25,000 jobs at 1,240 establishments.
Keith Scott, president of the Baltimore County Chamber of Commerce, said restaurants "build the fabric of the community. They really provide that tie that binds our community together."
For restaurants, it provides a unique opportunity to get noticed.
"It hits a lot of new people as well as our pre-existing customers," said Danielle Rabnick, marketing and sales manager for Basta Pasta, as she passed out plates of a tomato and mozarella crostini, crab balls and a vegetable penne.
George Batlas, executive chef at Cafe Troia, opted to use the restaurant week to create dishes using locally-sourced products like peaches, arugula and beef.
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Progressive Push For Common-Sense, Reality-Based Approach to Immigration Gains Momentum
Suman Raghunathan on January 6, 2011 - 5:25pm
With the failure of the DREAM Act in the US Senate in December 2010, it is likely that any and all developments in immigration policy will occur at the state level. State legislators have already played key roles in framing the debate on immigration at the state level, and their influence is slated to grow in 2011. Unfortunately, this includes anti-immigrant forces, who just this week launched a multi-state legislative attack on the 14th Amendment of the Constitution that aims to take away the guarantee of citizenship to all children born in the United States.
As such anti-immigrant efforts become more and more extremist, an increasing number of members of state legislatures are focusing on common-sense, practical approaches to immigration policy at the state level - many working through State Legislators for Progressive Immigration Policy (SLPIP). These progressive state legislators, whose numbers have doubled since the passage of Arizona's SB 1070 in early 2010, are already introducing and advancing pro-immigrant legislation at the state level for the 2011 legislative session. If you are a state legislator, click here to join SLPIP.
PSN's progressive legislative agenda on immigration at the state level upholds workplace standards and anti-racial profiling protections for all residents, including immigrants; highlights the importance of educational access for immigrant students; and underscores the important role immigrant small business entrepreneurs often play to sustain and grow local economies.
Our legislative agenda on immigration makes sense because it is revenue-neutral or even revenue-positive (wage enforcement and tuition equity) and provides a common-sense, solutions-based approach to immigration policy at the state level that will in turn expand opportunity for all residents and respond to the reality of immigration.
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Progressive States Network - Immigration-Related Bills to Move in 2011 State Legislative Sessions
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sept. 16, 2011
Neighborhood Advisory Council seeks candidates for 2011 election
The City of Kansas City, Mo., Neighborhood Advisory Council is seeking candidates for its 15-member council. The council discusses proposed City policies and programs and makes recommendations to the director of the City's Neighborhood and Community Services Department.
The council consists of two members from each of the City's six council districts and three at-large members. Advisory Council members are expected to attend monthly meetings, meet with groups in their regions and participate in other related events, including public hearings and forums to discuss key issues and receive input on a variety of community matters.
Interested residents must apply by Thursday, Oct. 13, and registered neighborhood organizations will then elect candidates to represent their areas.
Applications are available at www.kcmo.org/kcnac, or at the Neighborhood and Community Services Department, located on the fourth floor of City Hall, 414 E. 12th St.
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Would you like to participate in the world's finest and oldest hobby: coin collecting? Or, are you already a coin collector-or a numismatist? What's the difference? A collector may save coins, but a numismatist also studies his/her coins, learning the history behind their production; identifies and catalogs them; and shares knowledge and experiences by writing articles, exhibiting or speaking.
How does one grow from being a coin collector to a numismatist? One way is to join the ANA's David R. Cervin Ancient Coin Project. Named in honor of the project's founder and 25-year coordinator, it provides a way for young collectors to earn a series of quality ancient coins by writing articles or school reports, doing a presentation for school or Scouts, exhibiting, or doing other interesting (and fun!) projects. The Ancient Coin Project Form outlines the method for earning coins. You do not have to know anything about ancient history or do your projects on ancient coins.
So take the first step, join the David R. Cervin Ancient Coin Project and start earning ancient coins. You'll have lots of fun doing it, and you'll be on your way to becoming a numismatist! Along the way, if you would like more information about any of the coins you earned, please contact Harlan Berk [Bio], project sponsor.
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