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2024 Girls Golf All-Scholastics and All-Stars

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4 months ago

July 12, 2024

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GIRLS GOLF

Victoria Adams (Walpole)

Isabel Brozena (North Reading)

Harper Capilli (Duxbury)

Hanley Correia (Bishop Feehan)

Callie Crean (Hingham)

Sadie Cumming (Medfield)

Lillian Guleserian (Westwood)

Julia Imai (Brookline)

Jillian Johnson (Notre Dame Hingham)

Rebecca Kriegsman (Ashland)

Bianca Ligotti (Bishop Stang)

Mya Murphy (Sturgis West)

Katherine Ng (Wellesley)

Erika Redmond (Concord-Carlisle)

Sophie Richmond (Concord-Carlisle)

Isabella Scioletti (St. John Paul)

Maddie Smith (Westford Academy)

Champa Visetsin (Lincoln-Sudbury)

Sabrina Wu (Lexington)

HONORABLE MENTION

Riva Chatterjee (Newton North)

Gretchen Connelly (Walpole)

Carlie Dias (North Andover)

Alexa Garthee (Barnstable)

Megan Garthee (Barnstable)

Kendra Hayes (Dennis-Yarmouth)

Alika Lavu (Wellesley)

Julie Massey (Walpole)

Ava Packett (Monomoy)

Kayla San Clemente (Falmouth)

Briah Uhlman (Barnstable)

Kathryn Ventura (Andover)

ALL-SCHOLASTICS

VICTORIA ADAMS

WALPOLE

The sophomore captain played a large part in a highly successful season for the Timberwolves’ program. She took a third at the South Sectionals in helping Walpole cart home the team title. A Bay State Conference All-Star, Adams shot a 76 at the Avidia Cup Qualifier. An award-winning student with a 4.2 GPA, Adams is a student ambassador for the MIAA and participates in leadership workshops.

ISABEL BROZENA

NORTH READING

One of the most decorated golfers in state history, Brozena ended her career on a high note, shooting a six-under-par 66, to capture the State Individual title for the second time. Brozena shot a 65 at the North/Central/West sectionals a week earlier, good enough for second place. A member of the National Honor Society, Brozena will continue her golfing career at Xavier University in Ohio.

HARPER CAPILLI

DUXBURY

The Most Valuable Player in the Patriot League, the three-time Boston Herald All-Scholastic ended her career with a stellar 58-7 record and was a state qualifier in each of her four seasons. The honor roll student competed in the New England International Championship last October. She will golf at Catholic University in the fall.

HANLEY CORREIA

BISHOP FEEHAN

The sophomore turned in another solid for the Shamrocks. Correia placed fifth in the South Sectional and 12th in the State Individuals. A honor roll student, Correia’s longterm goal is to golf somewhere warm.

CALLIE CREAN

HINGHAM

The freshman was 11-2 in dual meets competing as the No. 1 player on the team. Crean finished tied for 12th at the State Individuals. The team’s Most Valuable Player, Crean is an excellent student with a 4.4 GPA. A member of the school’s hockey team, Crean earned co-Rookie of the Year honor after registering 19 points.

SADIE CUMMING

MEDFIELD

The Tri-Valley League All-Star shot a 76 at the South Sectionals to finish ninth. A week later, Cumming fired an 80 to tie for 12th at the State Individuals. She competed on the boys varsity team for four seasons and was a captain as a junior and senior. A four-year varsity basketball player and a member of the National Honor Society, Cumming will play golf at St. Lawrence University.

LILLIAN GULESERIAN

WESTWOOD

The team MVP for the third straight season, Guleserian won the South Sectional title by shooting a blistering 64. At the State Individuals, Guleserian was second as she shot a 72. An honor roll student, Guleserian has verbally committed to play golf at Penn State in the fall of 2025.

JULIA IMAI

BROOKLINE

A Bay State Conference All-Star, the senior was 8-1-2 in dual meet sduring the regular season. She went on to tie for fourth at the North/Central/West Sectional and tied for fifth in the State Individuals. A four-time BSC All-Star, Imai ended her career with a 42-1-4 record in individuals matches. A member of the National Honor Society, Imai will be playing golf and majoring in food science at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.

JILLIAN JOHNSON

NOTRE DAME (HINGHAM)

The senior was 11-1-1 in dual meets during the regular season, then went on place second at the South Sectionals and 12th at the State Individuals. A three-year varsity captain, Johnson also competed in Alpine Skiing. Johnson will continue her golfing career at Merrimack College in the fall.

REBECCA KRIEGSMAN

ASHLAND

A Tri-Valley League All-Star, the sophomore earned team MVP honors after averaging a 39.7 during the season. She placed in the top 15 at both the North/Central/West Sectionals as well as the State Individuals. An MIAA Student/Athlete Ambassador, Kriegsman was the recipient of the school’s Director’s Award for Outstanding Musicianship.

BIANCA LIGOTTI

BISHOP STANG

The junior qualified for the sectionals and states for the third straight season. Ligotti tied for third at the South Sectionals and placed in the top 20 at the State Individuals. An excellent student with 4.603 GPA, Ligotti was the recipient of the Rochester Institute of Technology Scholarship Award.

MYA MURPHY

STURGIS WEST

The Cape and Islands girls champion went on to win the South Sectional title and finished tied for second at the State Individuals. A five-time Cape and Islands All-Stars, Murphy is an IB Diploma Candidate. She will be studying political science with an eye on pre-law while playing golf at Merrimack College.

KATHERINE NG

WELLESLEY

The senior was the Bay State Conference champion as she shot a 36. She went on to help her team win a third straight South Sectional title, then placed eighth at the State Individuals. An honor roll student in each of her four years at the school, Ng will be playing her college golf at Bowdoin College.

ERIKA REDMOND

CONCORD-CARLISLE

The junior took a third in the North/Central/West with a round of 71. Redmond went on to plave eighth at the State Individuals as she fired a 78. She was the Co-Medalist MVP at the Dual County League tournament. A member of the National Honor Society, Redmond intends on playing golf in college.

SOPHIE REDMOND

CONCORD-CARLISLE

A Dual County League All-Star, Redmond placed 10th in the North/Central/West Sectionals as she shot a 77. At the State Individuals, she finished in the top 20 with a score of 81. During the regular season, Redmond maintained an average of 41.87. Redmond is a high honors student.

ISABELLA SCIOLETTI

ST. JOHN PAUL

The junior earned all-Cape and Islands League honors after placing sixth in the South Sectionals (85) and cracked the top 20 at the State Individuals (83). In the fall, Scioletti was 18-1 while competing on the boys team. She came in first in six of seven golf tournaments throughout the NEPGA. An excellent student, Scioletti carries a 4.0 GPA.

MADDIE SMITH

WESTFORD ACADEMY

The sophomore was a stalwart for a Westford Academy which went undefeated in the Dual County League, posting an overall record of 9-1-1. Smith placed in the top 10 at the North/Central/West Sectionals, then fired a 76 which was good for fifth at the State Individuals. The 2023 Massachusetts Junior Amateur Champion, Smith is a high honors student.

CHAMPA VISETSIN

LINCOLN-SUDBURY

The runner-up at the Challenge Cup Invitational and a three-time Drive Chip and Putt National Finalist, Visetsin tied for fourth at the North/Central/West Sectionals and placed third at the State Individuals. An honor roll student who takes accelerated courses, Visetsin will compete in Mass. Golf Tournaments as well as Challenge Cup, AJGA and NEPGA.

SABRINA WU

LEXINGTON

The freshman had an impressive campaign for Lexington, placing in the top 15 at the North/Central/West Sectionals, then finishing tied for fifth at the State Individuals. Wu tied for third at the AJGA Qualifier at Bethpage State as well as the Spinal Technology Junior Classic Girls Division and the New York State Invitational. An honors student, Wu was also named to the Middlesex League All-Star team.

LEAGUE ALL-STARS

CATHOLIC CENTRAL LEAGUE

Jillian Johnson, Keara Riley, Anna Schauber, Kaitlin Ryan (Notre Dame); Cailin Kelly, Victoria Wright, Makenna Devine (Ursuline); Dalia Meyers, Cailin Foley (Malden Catholic); Lilian Golden (Notre Dame Tyngsboro); Isabella Fernald (Fontbonne); Emma Ryan (Cardinal Spellman)

PATRIOT LEAGUE

Callie Crean, Lauren, Rebecca Kardoos, Claire Joyce (Hingham); Harper Capilli, Caroline Donovan, Hailey Flynn, Ava Welch (Duxbury); Julia Bianchi, Zoe Willock (Cohasset); Jenna Zarges (Quincy/North Quincy); MaryKate McKenna (Silver Lake); Grace Dunning (Scituate)

MVP: Harper Capilli

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Boston Dynamics’ robot dog Spot can now ‘play fetch’ — thanks to MIT breakthrough

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7 hours ago

October 31, 2024

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Boston Dynamics’ robot dog Spot can now ‘play fetch’ — thanks to MIT breakthrough

Dog-like robots could one day learn to play fetch, thanks to a blend of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision helping them zero in on objects.

In a new study published Oct.10 in the journal IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, researchers developed a method called “Clio” that lets robots rapidly map a scene using on-body cameras and identify the parts that are most relevant to the task they’ve been assigned via voice instructions..

Clio harnesses the theory of “information bottleneck,” whereby information is compressed in a way so that a neural network — a collection of machine learning algorithms layered to mimic the way the human brain processes information — only picks out and stores relevant segments. Any robot equipped with the system will process instructions such as “get first aid kit” and then only interpret the parts of its immediate environment that are relevant to its tasks — ignoring everything else.

“For example, say there is a pile of books in the scene and my task is just to get the green book. In that case we push all this information about the scene through this bottleneck and end up with a cluster of segments that represent the green book,” study co-author Dominic Maggio, a graduate student at MIT, said in a statement. “All the other segments that are not relevant just get grouped in a cluster which we can simply remove. And we’re left with an object at the right granularity that is needed to support my task.”

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To demonstrate Clio in action, the researchers used a Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped robot running Clio to explore an office building and carry out a set of tasks. Working in real time, Clio generated a virtual map showing only objects relevant to its tasks, which then enabled the Spot robot to complete its objectives.

Seeing, understanding, doing

The researchers achieved this level of granularity with Clio by combining large language models (LLMs) — multiple virtual neural networks that underpin artificial intelligence tools, systems and services — that have been trained to identify all manner of objects, with computer vision.

Neural networks have made significant advances in accurately identifying objects within local or virtual environments, but these are often carefully curated scenarios with a limited number of objects that a robot or AI system has been pre-trained to recognize. The breakthrough Clio offers is the ability to be granular with what it sees in real time, relevant to the specific tasks it’s been assigned.

A core part of this was to incorporate a mapping tool into Clio that enables it to split a scene into many small segments. A neural network then picks out segments that are semantically similar — meaning they serve the same intent or form similar objects.

Effectively, the idea is to have AI-powered robots that can make intuitive and discriminative task-centric decisions in real time, rather than try to process an entire scene or environment first.

In the future, the researchers plan to adapt Clio to handle higher-level tasks.

“We’re still giving Clio tasks that are somewhat specific, like ‘find deck of cards,’” Maggio said. “For search and rescue, you need to give it more high-level tasks, like ‘find survivors,’ or ‘get power back on.’” So, we want to get to a more human-level understanding of how to accomplish more complex tasks.”

If nothing else, Clio could be the key to having robot dogs that can actually play fetch — regardless of which park they are running around in.

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New York has legalized jaywalking. Should Boston do the same?

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15 hours ago

October 31, 2024

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New York has legalized jaywalking. Should Boston do the same? – CBS Boston

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These Greater Boston restaurants make Yelp Elite's top-50 best

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22 hours ago

October 30, 2024

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The website’s most active reviewers left positive reviews for restaurants like Sarma, Mountain House, and more.

Hot Udon at Yume Ga Arukara in Cambridge. The restaurant, which also has a second location in the Seaport, made the Yelp Elite top-50 Greater Boston restaurants list. Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe

Deciding on a restaurant to try around Greater Boston can be a challenge. How do diners narrow it down to just one eatery on a given evening? Yelp, the crowd-source review website, made choosing a spot slightly more manageable with their “Yelp Elite” top-50 picks in and around Boston.

There are North End red sauce joints, inventive Mediterranean restaurants, the classics, newcomers, budget eats, and fine dining restaurants that made the cut to show the variety available in Greater Boston’s culinary scene.

Sarma Restaurant in Somerville latke chaat. (Jonathan Wiggs /Globe Staff)

Yelp’s Elite Squad — made up of the website’s most active reviewers — helped decide this top-50 list. Restaurants were ranked “using a number of factors, including the total volume and ratings of reviews given by Yelp Elite Squad members.” While the website and its sometimes hostile reviewers have a complicated relationship with restaurant owners and employees, these restaurants all had hundreds to thousands of reviews averaging four out of five stars.

The “elite” reviews had to be posted between August 2023 and August 2024, and the restaurant needed to both remain open and pass a health inspection by Aug. 30, 2024 to be considered.