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Bachman found that an aspect of the society archives and the folksong recordings ties into the 21st century, he said.

In addition to the teachers who were part of it, it was a community effort. People wrote to A.K. Davis from lots of places about the airs [another word for ballads] they knew about or sang, he said, adding that hed like to build that same kind of community again. He has shared many of the recordings with descendants of the singers, even organizing a reunion of the descendants of Texas Gladden and playing recordings of her singing.

The recordings are not remastered for pristine listening, however. The UVA Library has digitized the audio as is, per the preservation grant, so the recordings are not reproduced for high fidelity.

The preservation grant expressly forbids mastering costs. Aluminum discs were a limited format in terms of sound quality to begin with, Villereal said. Lacquer discs sounded better and caught on when introduced after about 1934.

One short-term goal might be to reproduce some of the songs in high fidelity. Bachman and Dye said they would love to work further with Villereal and plan to curate some raw tracks for a box set of CDs with extensive liner notes on the society and the performers. Such a document, they said, would be a valuable resource for those interested in Virginia music.

There are even more recordings and documents that could be digitized from the Virginia Folklore Society records and the Kevin Barry and Kelly Scott Perdue Archive of Traditional Culture, plus the rest of the Perdue papers, which the library is in the process of acquiring. Chuck Perdue died in 2010 and Nancy Martin-Perdue in 2017.

(To access the recordings, click here. To search the Virginia Folklore Society records, go to this site.)

After three generations of UVA professors, with the contributions of many students and other enthusiasts, kept the Virginia Folklore Society going, Dye and Bachman are interested in reviving it again. They request anyone interested in participating to contact them at aad9ga@virginia.edu or danilbachman@gmail.com.

Its like a big crossroads Town House by Grafton Architects. Photograph: Ed Reeve

A raucous urban dance extravaganza might not be every librarians idea of a welcome backdrop to their bookshelves. But then not every library is conceived like Town House. From the open-plan study floors of this 50m addition to Kingston University, you can look down into a dramatic triple-height performance space and straight across into the dance studios, where students flex their limbs on wall barres opposite pharmacologists deep in textbooks.

We were attracted by the universitys radical ambition to mix things that are usually incompatible, says Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects, the Irish practice responsible for this majestic multilevelled theatre of higher education that has just opened in south-west London. The building takes pleasure in these abrasions, combining the two extremes of silence and noise.

Standing on the former site of some unprepossessing temporary buildings that had outstayed their welcome, the Town House has the bold civic presence of a public facility which, it turns out, it is. In a brave departure from most security-conscious university buildings, there are no turnstiles or swipe-card access gates to be found here. Instead, an airy atrium welcomes people in through a street-front colonnade, where a ground floor cafe sits beneath a wide open stairway that zig-zags up through the five-storey lobby. The summit is crowned with another public cafe, complete with a roof terrace that commands panoramic views across to Hampton Court Palace and the Thames, twinkling in the distance between the trees.

This is the first building in the UK for Grafton, and the timing is fitting. Farrell and her co-founder Shelley McNamara will be awarded the 2020 RIBA gold medal next month, in recognition of their powerful body of work around the world. Since the Dublin duo founded their firm in 1978, they have built a reputation for crafting muscular structures that revel in their sheer heft, enjoying the play of light and people across massive volumes of concrete and stone. Their buildings often have an archaic, timeless air, standing as robust armatures that could be occupied in any number of ways.

Their heroic facility for the Universidad de Ingeniera y Tecnologa in Lima, Peru crowned the best building in the world in 2017 stands as a modern day Machu Picchu, a world of terraces and walkways woven into a concrete cliff face. Kingtons Town House takes many of the same ideas of processional circulation, views between levels and interconnected terraces, but filters them through an urbane English lens, dressing the principles in a polite costume for the royal borough. The calibre of the design is an important symbol for the university, too.

World-class architecture isnt just the preserve of the Russell Group, says Kingstons vice-chancellor, Steven Spier, himself a trained architect. Fifty-five per cent of our students are from BAME backgrounds, and many are the first generation in their families to go to university, so we wanted to provide something aspirational.

With its chunky white concrete frame rising proudly from the pavement, holding a series of cascading terraces on the facade, the Town House is certainly a grand step up from the existing motley collection of faculty buildings nearby. Inside, it embodies the universitys desire for a learning landscape, with landings flowing into the library, which in turn flows into project rooms and dance spaces, with little of the compartmentalised sense that many academic buildings suffer from. Above all, it feels social, designed to encourage encounters.

Its like a big crossroads, Farrell enthuses, visibly thrilled at the level of buzz in the building, as a gaggle of hijab-wearing girls comes down the staircase mid-gossip, while a group of boys saunters past, eyeing up whos here. Why do you come to university, when you can study online? she adds. Its about meeting people and falling in love.

In use for just a few weeks, the building is already thronging; indeed, it feels like theres a slight danger it might prove too popular for its own good. The library saw a leap in visitor numbers from 350 people on the first day of term last year, in its former dingy incarnation, to 6,000 on the same day this year. On a January afternoon, most study tables are occupied and all seats taken in the lounge areas. It will be interesting to see how it copes come exam time; 7,000 students study at this campus and the building has a capacity of 2,500.

This is an enticing place to walk around as a nosy visitor, catching continual glimpses between the different spaces, but one wonders if the level of transparency and views might sometimes feel a bit much, as if youre in a goldfish bowl, always on display. Even the black box studio space has a big window looking in from the main lobby (although Im told it can be blacked out). Theres something to be said for a study space where you can squirrel yourself away without the distraction of gyrating Lycra-clad bodies, or the street life outside passing by through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

It has a talking floor, a whispering floor and a silent floor. It seems to be working so far

A world without walls also raises the question of noise. Norman Fosters equally open-plan law library for the University of Cambridge famously suffered from disastrous acoustics, with nothing to stop sound from the ground floor public spaces echoing up into the study areas. Grafton assure that large panels of Weetabixy wood wool and soft acoustic linings are sufficient to dampen the sound, while the library has graduated levels of noise as you rise through the building, with a talking floor, a whispering floor and a totally silent floor, which seems to be working so far.

Grafton are particularly fond of celebrating the movement of people through their buildings, but theres a slight sense here that the desire to choreograph a vertical spectacle of activity across the buildings facade has led to circuitous, confusing circulation. There are innumerable outdoor terraces scattered across the different levels (which will be a boon come summertime), some of which are connected by stairs, others of which arent.

It turns out that the route down the northern side of the building is now only to be used as a fire escape, because of the proximity of residential neighbours who dont want to be overlooked. Trying to leave via the suggested outdoor route, Im stumped by locked doors, dead ends and walkways to nowhere, and have to retrace my steps. Still, perhaps its all part of the convivial, match-making aspect of the buildings role. You might just bump into someone special lingering on a balcony while youre trying to find the exit.

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The 50m lovenest: Kingston's new library is a place to find books and romance - The Guardian

Public technology is one of a librarys most important services, according to Peterborough Town Library director Corinne Chronopoulos.

If I had to pick five things that we offered, that would be number one, she said.

The regions libraries serve a vital role in an area that has inconsistent access to internet at home.

Library directors Laura Abrahamsen of FrancestownsGeorge Holmes Bixby Memorial Library, Donna Straitliff of RindgesIngalls Memorial Library, and Cindy Jewett of Antrims James A. Tuttle Library also spoke on the significance of the digital services that libraries provide their communities.

You see people parked outside on Main Street using the WiFi, Abrahamsen said, a pattern that Straitliffalso observes when she comes in an hour before the library opens.

It's a 24-hour service, Chronopoulos said. My own husband has driven down because it's a better upload speed than at home.

When people are new into town and have a wait period before their homes hooked up, we're their sole access, Straitliff said.

Chronopoulos knows that the library is the sole source of internet for many of her patrons. She said that the seven computer terminals are in use at the library from the moment we open til we close. And many patrons who work remotely go to the library when they want to work near other people, she said.

Not everybody has to own everything themselves, Abrahamsen said, saying the librarys role in providingtechnologies for public use besides internet, such as access to a printer and scanner.

Patrons often come to the Peterborough library to send a PDF, or to complete a legal document that requires printing and scanning, Chronopoulos said.

Peterborough library staff routinely provide necessary instruction for patrons computer needs, including help with setting up email accounts and electronic resumes, or doing taxes.

The Antrim library expanded their services to include notary access for that reason, Jewett said.

[Patrons] rely on us for entertainment, absolutely, Jewett said.

Patrons in their 30s request library cards andexclusively use them to access digital content.

Technology is moving so fast, we try to keep up with what people want, she said. We have access to e-books, audiobooks, downloaded films, comic books, and databases to read the latest People magazine if you want to.

Digital materials are slowly growing in their proportion of the librarys overall collection, Jewett said, but this poses a difficulty in rural areas where infrastructure isnt keeping pace with national trends towards streaming services. Even while she expands access to downloadable materials, shes also catering to patrons withno ability to stream video at home, or audio on their phones a consideration shared by the librarians in Francestown, Peterborough and Rindge.

It impacts how I build the collection, Abrahamsen said.

In Rindge, Straitliffsaid the DVD collection is probably the highest circulating collection in the library.

The Antrim library maintains a collection of 2,600 DVDs and receives frequent requests for audio books on CD,Jewett said, but shes beginning to have difficulty finding some materials on anything other than MP3s nowadays.

The government is really pushing people to do their census work online, Straitliff said.

Currently, the four public access computers at the Rindge library all run Windows 7, she said, and they recently received aLibrary Census Equity Grantto update some hardware and purchase additional Chromebooks in advance of the 2020 Census rollout.

In Antrim, Jewett is currently applying for a grant to get mobile hotspots patrons can check out in order to have internet access at home, and would also like Chromebooksfor patrons to use while at the library. She envisions people being able to sit at a chair or a table and spreading out their papers by taking advantage of the librarys coffee area instead of being limited to the computer bank.

We have pretty reliable access right now, at the Rindge library, Straitliff said, but believes speed could improve if the town adopts a municipal fiber optic network in March.

Were talking 1G upload and download speeds, which will make everyone's productivity better, both patrons and staff. she said, adding the agreement, if approved by voters, would serve town buildings at no charge.

Currently, she said the library boasts a download speed of 50 mbpsand an upload speed of 22 mbps through Consolidated Communications.

We're probably one of the fastest served in town, she said, and seesfaster speeds as potentially attracting new patrons.

Abrahamsen initially received some complaints about the internet speed when she started at the Francestown library in July, but said that Comcast agreed to boost their speed at no extra charge and its been working well since then, with a download speed of 59 mbps and an upload of 11 mbps.

The basement and second floor of the library have inconsistent connectivity, she said, and shed like to make it a little more consistent.

We could relocate or add a router and probably make coverage in the building better, she said.

The Peterborough Town Library has internet thats a workable speed for most of what people use the library internet for, Chronopoulos said.

She acknowledges, however, that uploading speeds can be slow.

Tim Brezovec, the Peterborough librarys IT specialist, said Comcast guaranteesa download speed of 25 mbps for free, although he said hes tested and observed higher speeds.

The public library will always be an affordable access point for internet, Chronopoulos said.

As well as technological hardware and instruction, she added.

Today, you have to have the internet to participate in modern society, she said, for medical appointments, job applications or receiving electronic receipts. Its vital that every town supports their public library and supports that source of internet.

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Upol Ehsan once took a test ride in an Uber self-driving car. Instead of fretting about the empty drivers seat, anxious passengers were encouraged to watch a pacifier screen that showed a cars-eye view of the road: hazards picked out in orange and red, safe zones in cool blue.

For Ehsan, who studies the way humans interact with AI at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, the intended message was clear: Dont get freaked outthis is why the car is doing what its doing. But something about the alien-looking street scene highlighted the strangeness of the experience rather than reassuring. It got Ehsan thinking: what if the self-driving car could really explain itself?

The success of deep learning is due to tinkering: the best neural networks are tweaked and adapted to make better ones, and practical results have outpaced theoretical understanding. As a result, the details of how a trained model works are typically unknown. We have come to think of them as black boxes.

A lot of the time were okay with that when it comes to things like playing Go or translating text or picking the next Netflix show to binge on. But if AI is to be used to help make decisions in law enforcement, medical diagnosis, and driverless cars, then we need to understand how it reaches those decisionsand know when they are wrong.

People need the power to disagree with or reject an automated decision, says Iris Howley, a computer scientist at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Without this, people will push back against the technology. You can see this playing out right now with the public response to facial recognition systems, she says.

Ehsan is part of a small but growing group of researchers trying to make AIs better at explaining themselves, to help us look inside the black box. The aim of so-called interpretable or explainable AI (XAI) is to help people understand what features in the data a neural network is actually learningand thus whether the resulting model is accurate and unbiased.

One solution is to build machine-learning systems that show their workings: so-called glassboxas opposed to black-boxAI. Glassbox models are typically much-simplified versions of a neural network in which it is easier to track how different pieces of data affect the model.

There are people in the community who advocate for the use of glassbox models in any high-stakes setting, says Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, a computer scientist at Microsoft Research. I largely agree. Simple glassbox models can perform as well as more complicated neural networks on certain types of structured data, such as tables of statistics. For some applications that's all you need.

But it depends on the domain. If we want to learn from messy data like images or text, were stuck with deepand thus opaqueneural networks. The ability of these networks to draw meaningful connections between very large numbers of disparate features is bound up with their complexity.

Even here, glassbox machine learning could help. One solution is to take two passes at the data, training an imperfect glassbox model as a debugging step to uncover potential errors that you might want to correct. Once the data has been cleaned up, a more accurate black-box model can be trained.

It's a tricky balance, however. Too much transparency can lead to information overload. In a 2018 study looking at how professional users interact with machine-learning tools, Vaughan found that transparent models can actually make it harder to detect and correct the models mistakes.

Another approach is to include visualizations that show a few key properties of the model and its underlying data. The idea is that you can see serious problems at a glance. For example, the model could be relying too much on certain features, which could signal bias.

These visualization tools have proved incredibly popular in the short time theyve been around. But do they really help? In the first study of its kind, Vaughan and her team have tried to find outand exposed some serious issues.

The team took two popular interpretability tools that give an overview of a model via charts and data plots, highlighting things that the neural network picked up on most in training. Six machine-learning professionals were recruited from within Microsoft, all different in education, job roles, and experience. They took part in a mock interaction with a deep neural network trained on a national income data set taken from the 1994 US census. The experiment was designed specifically to mimic the way data scientists use interpretability tools in the kinds of tasks they face routinely.

What the team found was striking. Sure, the tools sometimes helped people spot missing values in the data. But this usefulness was overshadowed by a tendency to over-trust and misread the visualizations. In some cases, users couldnt even describe what the visualizations were showing. This led to incorrect assumptions about the data set, the models, and the interpretability tools themselves. And it instilled a false confidence about the tools that made participants more gung-ho about deploying the models, even when they felt something wasnt quite right. Worryingly, this was true even when the output had been manipulated to show explanations that made no sense.

To back up the findings from their small user study, the researchers then conducted an online survey of around 200 machine-learning professionals recruited via mailing lists and social media. They found similar confusion and misplaced confidence.

Worse, many participants were happy to use the visualizations to make decisions about deploying the model despite admitting that they did not understand the math behind them. It was particularly surprising to see people justify oddities in the data by creating narratives that explained them, says Harmanpreet Kaur at the University of Michigan, a coauthor on the study. The automation bias was a very important factor that we had not considered.

Ah, the automation bias. In other words, people are primed to trust computers. Its not a new phenomenon. When it comes to automated systems from aircraft autopilots to spell checkers, studies have shown that humans often accept the choices they make even when they are obviously wrong. But when this happens with tools designed to help us avoid this very phenomenon, we have an even bigger problem.

What can we do about it? For some, part of the trouble with the first wave of XAI is that it is dominated by machine-learning researchers, most of whom are expert users of AI systems. Says Tim Miller of the University of Melbourne, who studies how humans use AI systems: The inmates are running the asylum.

This is what Ehsan realized sitting in the back of the driverless Uber. It is easier to understand what an automated system is doingand see when it is making a mistakeif it gives reasons for its actions the way a human would. Ehsan and his colleague Mark Riedl are developing a machine-learning system that automatically generates such rationales in natural language. In an early prototype, the pair took a neural network that had learned how to play the classic 1980s video game Frogger and trained it to provide a reason every time it made a move.

Upol Ehsan

To do this, they showed the system many examples of humans playing the game while talking out loud about what they were doing. They then took a neural network for translating between two natural languages and adapted it to translate instead between actions in the game and natural-language rationales for those actions. Now, when the neural network sees an action in the game, it translates it into an explanation. The result is a Frogger-playing AI that says things like Im moving left to stay behind the blue truck every time it moves.

Ehsan and Riedls work is just a start. For one thing, it is not clear whether a machine-learning system will always be able to provide a natural-language rationale for its actions. Take DeepMinds board-game-playing AI AlphaZero. One of the most striking features of the software is its ability to make winning moves that most human players would not think to try at that point in a game. If AlphaZero were able to explain its moves, would they always make sense?

Reasons help whether we understand them or not, says Ehsan: The goal of human-centered XAI is not just to make the user agree to what the AI is sayingit is also to provoke reflection. Riedl recalls watching the livestream of the tournament match between DeepMind's AI and Korean Go champion Lee Sedol. The commentators were talking about what AlphaGo was seeing and thinking. "That wasnt how AlphaGo worked," says Riedl. "But I felt that the commentary was essential to understanding what was happening."

What this new wave of XAI researchers agree on is that if AI systems are to be used by more people, those people must be part of the design from the startand different people need different kinds of explanations. (This is backed up by a new study from Howley and her colleagues, in which they show that peoples ability to understand an interactive or static visualization depends on their education levels.) Think of a cancer-diagnosing AI, says Ehsan. Youd want the explanation it gives to an oncologist to be very different from the explanation it gives to the patient.

Ultimately, we want AIs to explain themselves not only to data scientists and doctors but to police officers using face recognition technology, teachers using analytics software in their classrooms, students trying to make sense of their social-media feedsand anyone sitting in the backseat of a self-driving car. Weve always known that people over-trust technology, and thats especially true with AI systems, says Riedl. The more you say its smart, the more people are convinced that its smarter than they are.

Explanations that anyone can understand should help pop that bubble.

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Hightower's new brand image and tagline - 'well-th. rebalanced.' - showcases the firm's commitment to holistic financial wellness for clients and to the community of advisors that serves them.

CHICAGO, Jan. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Hightower, a national wealth management firm with advisory businesses in 34 states, today unveiled a fresh brand image and tagline for the company, including a multicolored logo and message "well-th. rebalanced." that represents the firm's collective energy and focus on holistic wellness for both clients and Hightower's close-knit advisor community.

The new branding will be reflected on the firm's website, http://www.hightoweradvisors.com, in promotional materials and in client communications.

"We believe that the definition of 'wealth' must expand to include more than just a measure of a person's financial success," said Abby Salameh, Chief Marketing Officer of Hightower. "Our new brand message 'well-th. rebalanced.' is directly aligned with our mission to help clients achieve wellness in all aspects of their lives. There are so many ways to be 'well-thy:' in our relationships, in our physical health, in our emotional lives, and yes, in our finances. All of these things are interconnected, and our new look and feel is designed to reflect that complex synergy."

The new brand image was a truly collaborative effort: Over six months, more than 40 Hightower employees, advisors and stakeholders attended intensive brainstorming sessions that solidified what the firm has been in the past, and what it wants to be in the future. The new branding evolves Hightower's original logo, showing continuity and alignment with the principle on which the firm was founded: To provide a client-centric and dedicated approach to wealth management. The new messaging echoes the firm's dedication to building the next generation of the advisory industry: A community that is laser-focused on unleashing potential for everyone, regardless of their distinctive passions and goals, but built on listening and empathy, and which offers holistic life coaching through access to a curated suite of seminal resources and tools.

While the road to "well-th" is different for everyone, Hightower believes that personal connection is at the heart of all human success. As a firm founded on the principles of community and collaboration, Hightower has a deep understanding of the necessity of building meaningful relationships. The new logo's colorful line design represents the firm's diverse and vibrant community, conveying the message that everyone Hightower advisors, employees and clients are stronger, better and more fulfilled when they work as a team.

"We are passionate about helping investors achieve their personal definition of 'well-th' by giving advisors the resources and space to care for their clients in their own distinctive ways," said Bob Oros, Hightower CEO. "This new branding reflects our efforts to create a community in which advisors of all stripes can feel supported in business, operations and more to grow their practices and devote more time and energy into nurturing client relationships."

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The new branding comes after a year of significant growth and change for the firm. Hightower CEO Bob Oros came aboard in January 2019 and spent the next 12 months building out the firm's management team and overseeing four large M&A transactions, including Green Square Wealth Management ($2.6 billion in assets under administration, or AUA), LourdMurray ($4.8 billion AUA), Lexington Wealth Management ($1 billion AUA) and Schultz Collins ($1 billion AUA). As of Dec. 31, 2019, Hightower's assets under administration (AUA) were approximately $87.4 billion* and its assets under management (AUM) were $57.4 billion. The company grew 9.6% organically in 2019, up from 8% in 2018.

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NILES Rebuilding the Niles boys basketball program wont be easy, and first-year coach Patrick Touhey knows it.

But the former coach of the Vikings girls team also believes there are more things than a basketball game, which his team lost Tuesday night 72-47 to Kalamazoo Central.

Our won-loss record (2-8) isnt showing up right now, said Touhey, a life coach when he isnt coaching. A lot of times were right there with most teams and we had a few get away at the end. But were learning how to compete and get after it. Were earning some respect.

Niles' Demarien Nichols, front and Leon Williams fight with Kalamazoo Central's Dayvion Smith for a loose ball during the Kalamazoo Central at Niles High School boys basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 at Niles High School.

Niles' Zach Stokes and Kalamazoo Central's Justin Davis fight for a loose ball during the Kalamazoo Central at Niles High School boys basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 at Niles High School.

Kalamazoo Central's Trevon Gunter knocks the ball away from Niles' Michael Gilcrese during the Kalamazoo Central at Niles High School boys basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 at Niles High School.

Niles' Cerious Wilson tries to keep the ball away from Kalamazoo Central's Justin Davis and Danny Primer during the Kalamazoo Central at Niles High School boys basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 at Niles High School.

Niles' Adrian Thomas tries to get past Kalamazoo Central's Justin Davis during the Kalamazoo Central at Niles High School boys basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 at Niles High School.

Niles' Leon Williams gets fouled by Kalamazoo Cenral's Jayvion Henry during the Kalamazoo Central at Niles High School boys basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 at Niles High School.

Niles' Brayden Lake drives past Kalamazoo Central's Dayton Smith during the Kalamazoo Central at Niles High School boys basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 at Niles High School.

Niles' Joe Bartkowiak shoots over Kalamazoo Central's Justin Davis during the Kalamazoo Central at Niles High School boys basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 at Niles High School.

Niles' Michael Gilcrese drives past Kalamazoo Central's Thomas Dillard IV during the Kalamazoo Central at Niles High School boys basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 at Niles High School.

Niles' Adrian Thomas shoots during the Kalamazoo Central at Niles High School boys basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 at Niles High School.

Niles head coach Patrick Touhey reacts during the Kalamazoo Central at Niles High School boys basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 at Niles High School.

Niles' Zach Stokes defends Kalamazoo Central's Gerald Crawford during the Kalamazoo Central at Niles High School boys basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 at Niles High School.

Niles' Cerious Wilson shoots during the Kalamazoo Central at Niles High School boys basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 at Niles High School.

Niles' Adrian Thomas shoots during the Kalamazoo Central at Niles High School boys basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 at Niles High School.

Niles' Damarion Nichols drives past Kalamazoo Central's Gerald Crawford during the Kalamazoo Central at Niles High School boys basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 at Niles High School.

Niles' Michael Gilcrese shoots over Kalamazoo Central's Trevon Gunter during the Kalamazoo Central at Niles High School boys basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 at Niles High School.