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Sports
High School Football
Hoosac Valley beats Drury in Saturday action. More photos on Monday |
 | Thursday, Nov. 06
Boys' Soccer: State Vocational Championship Game
McCann Tech 3, Keefe Tech 2
Girls' Soccer: State Vocational Championship Game
Blackstone Valley 8, McCann Tech 0 |
Election
Trying to remember who won what and why? All the information is right here. |
Daily Digest
This is Jake
He's been lost in Pittsfield for weeks but frequently sited. He was last seen heading toward the fire station on Peck's Road. He's tired, dirty and needs seizure medication. He's chipped. If you see him, call Julie at 413-537-5616, the vet 24/7 at 413-499-2820 or animal control at 413-448-9700. |
What's Playing
Milla Jovavich vs. alien abduction in "The Fourth Kind." What more do you need to know?
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ObituariesSales FliersBazaarsNov. 14
Berkshire Community Church, Richmond
10-4; Crafters, bake sale. Contact Evelyn Goggia at 413-445-5747
Lanesborough Elementary School annual Fall Craft Fair from 10 to 4. Free admission, huge variety of arts and crafts, raffles, food and more. Proceeds go to sixth-grade trip to Cape Cod.
Vendors can contact Deb at 413-738-5349 or debhutton@aol.com or Lori at 413-499-0065 or lorittod@yahoo.com to secure a spot.
Dec. 12-13
North Adams Country Club, crafts 9-4; food from That's a Wrap from 11-2. Contact Sheryl Morehouse at 413-822-3329.
Planning a bazaar this season? Submit information to info@iberkshires.com to have it listed here. |
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Open Williams Faculty Lectures, Saturday, on Sports and on Forecasting04:04PM / Thursday, April 23, 2009
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - The public is invited to attend two open lectures featuring Williams College faculty on Saturday, April 25.
William Dudley, professor of philosophy, will discuss "Big Games: The Significance of Sports" at 11 a.m. in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall. Dudley regularly teaches a course with the same title as this talk. He says, "Sports matter beyond all apparent reason. They are children's games yet grip adults.
They serve as entertainment yet are taken most seriously. They demand physical excellence yet drive athletes to injury and spectators to obesity. The significance of contemporary sports is unquestionable, but unexplained." In this talk, he will help his audience begin to understand why sports matter.
Dudley graduated from Williams in 1989 and earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Northwestern University in 1998. He is the author of "Hegel, Nietzsche, and Philosophy" and "Understanding German Idealism."
Richard D. De Veaux, professor of statistics, will deliver a lecture "What's that in the road - a head? Why we can't seem to forecast anything" at 2 p.m. in the Bronfman Science Center auditorium.
"Last summer oil hit $147 a barrel. Forecasts for this winter put the price of oil at anywhere from $200 to $250 a barrel. What happened?" De Veaux asks. "The year 2008 had to be the poster child for exposing our inability to predict - from oil prices to the stock market to the global economy. Why aren't we able to do better than that?" In this talk, he will address the difference between situations where models do work and where they are hopeless with lots of historical (and hysterical) examples.
De Veaux's research interests focus on data mining methodology and its application. He is the author of several widely used statistics textbooks, lauded for their accessible writing style including "Intro Stats," "Stats: Data and Models," "Stats: Modeling the World," and "Business Statistics." He received his A.B. from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University. |
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