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Linda Robertson: When it comes to Aaron Hernandez, the 'Patriot Way' is the way of death and tragedy
Aaron Hernandez arrived at New England Patriots training camp in 2012 and told reporters how he had spent his mellow summer vacation "chilling."
A Boston prosecutor gave a different account Thursday, declaring that Hernandez began practicing for the football season a week after killing two men as they idled in their car at a stoplight in the city's theater district.
The following month, as police continued their search for the person who shot Daniel Abreu in the chest and Safiro Furtado in the head, Hernandez signed a $37 million contract extension with New England, promising that the "young and reckless Aaron" was in his past. The tight end went on to catch 51 passes that season with the Patriots, who were unaware they were sharing a locker room with a cold-blooded killer.
Hernandez had to protect his secret, which led to his alleged execution of friend Odin Lloyd in an industrial park a mile from Hernandez's home in North Attleborough, Massachusetts, a year after the double slaying. He got caught, and has been in jail since.
Now Hernandez, 24, stands accused of being a triple murderer.
Many people are shaking their heads, chief among them the owners and coach of a franchise that prides itself on adherence to the upstanding "Patriot Way," NFL commissioner and "Sheriff" Roger Goodell, and Hernandez's coach at the University of Florida, Urban Meyer.
They are wondering — and being asked — how their character judgment could be so flawed. Or was the ascendance of Hernandez from high school to NFL star really a case of willful blindness? Talent, like a mink coat, has a way of hiding whatever ugliness lies underneath.
Signs were there
Hernandez could go down as the worst criminal to wear an NFL jersey, and that includes some awful company.
In hindsight, all the signs were blinking. Hernandez ran with a rough crowd in his hometown of Bristol, Connecticut, especially after his father, a former high school football star, died in 2006. His mother was involved in an illegal gambling ring, even taking bets on Patriots games. She was attacked with a knife by Hernandez's stepfather, an ex-convict.
As a Gator in Gainesville, Hernandez was involved in a bar fight at The Swamp, where he broke a bouncer's eardrum; threatened a teammate; tested positive for marijuana and photographed himself with a handgun. Meyer used to counsel him with Bible readings, and quarterback Tim Tebow tried to set a humble, God-fearing example, but Hernandez was beyond reform.
During his first two years as a pro, a few of his Bristol buddies wound up in jail. After the double homicide in 2012, police traced the shooter's SUV to Hernandez and found it at a home in Bristol owned by Hernandez's uncle where Hernandez and his friends hung out.
When Hernandez signed his new contract, he said being a Patriot had transformed him, and he intended to "live life as a Patriot." Team owner Bob Kraft said Hernandez's tattoos shouldn't be misinterpreted and he had concluded, "this guy's a good guy." Coach Bill Belichick took chances on such players as Randy Moss, Brandon Meriweather, Brandon Spikes and Albert Haynesworth, and was willing to risk trouble with Hernandez if that meant winning games.
The warnings piled up, but not enough for anybody to halt Hernandez's deviation from the "Patriot Way." In January 2013, Hernandez was the passenger when friend and ex-con Alexander Bradley was clocked speeding 105 mph. Two weeks later, Hernandez allegedly shot Bradley in the eye near the Tootsie's Cabaret strip club in Miami Gardens.
In the spring, Hernandez went to California to work out with Tom Brady. There, he got into a fight with his girlfriend and cut his wrist punching a window. Police were called again during another argument.
Rampage goes on
In May 2013, Hernandez was involved in a fight with a Jets fan at the Viva lounge in Providence, Rhode Island. Then came the five bullets pumped into Lloyd, possibly silenced because he had witnessed what Hernandez was indicted for on Thursday: First-degree murder that occurred after what Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley called a "chance encounter" with Abreu and Furtado at the Cure nightclub in Boston. The two childhood friends had no criminal or gang history and were "stalked, ambushed and senselessly murdered on the streets of the city they called home," Conley said.
Hernandez was a ticking time bomb, veering from one violent incident to another since he was 17 years old. He even has been indicted for assaulting another inmate in jail. No one at Florida could turn him around, nor could the "Patriot Way." He played an entire season after allegedly gunning down two innocent men, yet no one had a clue about his accelerating self-destruction. He was a great football player, and touchdowns trump platitudes about morality.
Those closest to Hernandez couldn't stop him. At least the police did.


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Sci-Fi writers needed to prevent space-time meltdown
A top team at Los Alamos recently went public with findings that have shaken the scientific community to its core. Using heretofore-classified wormhole technology, the team has managed to observe an alternate reality, largely the same as our own, but with one difference — three Maryland science fiction fans are about to become prize-winning writers.
While this may seem like a benign variation, the team has also learned that this alternate reality is drifting toward our own and will begin to overlap it in a matter of weeks. If our reality is proceeding in exactly the same fashion as this other reality, life will go on as usual and its intrusion will go undetected by the vast majority of people. But if these sci-fi mavens do not materialize, our reality could be warped, or perhaps even (as some alarmists suggest) destroyed.
The Baltimore Science Fiction Society has quickly assembled a contest for the purpose of finding and awarding these writers. The deadline is June 15, when the alternate reality is set to reach the outer limit of our own.
Winners will be announced October 12 at Capclave, a convention organized by the Washington Science Fiction Association, just as the two realities completely harmonize.
In addition to the satisfaction of having maintained the stability of the space-time continuum, winners will receive prize money (1st place: $250; 2nd: $100; 3rd: $50). First-place winners will be invited to read their work at the sci-fi convention Balticon in 2014 and have their work published in the Baltimore Science Fiction Society's convention guide.
Submissions may range from 1,000 to 5,500 words. Authors must be 18 or older, Maryland residents or students at Maryland colleges and cannot be members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America or have had their work published in a sci-fi/fantasy magazine.
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Is Google Planning '.Google' and '.YouTube'? Probably
Will we see a .google before too long? A .youtube? It looks increasingly likely, as Google confirmed Tuesday that it will apply for a generic top-level domain.
Google confirmed that it had applied for the use of "Google's trademarked TLDs" to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Those applications are due to be closed on April 12, when Google said it would disclose exactly which top-level domains, or TLDs, that it had applied for.
Until then, company representatives declined to comment on Google's specific plans.
"We plan to apply for Google's trademarked TLDs, and we're currently exploring opportunities to apply for new ones as well," a Google spokeswoman said in an emailed statement. "We want to help make this a smooth experience for web usersone that promotes innovation and competition on the Internet."
Fifty-eight trademarks contain the word "Google," according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, with some belonging to third parties. Google's most well-known brands are most likely "Google" itself, followed by "YouTube"; it's not unlikely that Google could apply for TLDs with some derivative of Google Plus (".gplus" or ".plus") or Google Play (".gplay" or ".play"). Alternatively, it could choose "play.google".
Facebook, however, has not taken the same step, choosing not to apply for a generic TLD, Advertising Age noted.
Last year, ICANN began putting timetables in place for the creation of so-called gTLDs, domains with the same status as .com, org, and .net. The generic TLDs can be just about anything, from .pcmag to .hotdog to .starbucks to .zebra, as long as a company or agency is willing to pay the $185,000 fee.
Last year, the first of these, .xxx, began rolling out, causing consternation among the porn industry, which largely felt that they were being forced to pay additional fees to maintain their brand equity. Even universities snapped up .xxx domains as a defensive measure.
The ICANN process allows a business or individual to pre-emptively apply for a related TLD during a "sunrise" period, preventing cybersquatting. But for some businesses, grabbing an available TLD is simply good business. according to Ben Crawford, chief executive of CentralNIC and dotBrand Solutions, which will acquire and manage the TLD for clients.
"The typical trademark owner would love to have their own top level domain," because they become the gatekeeper for all domains with that suffix, Crawford said last year. "Every domain is under your complete control, with no fraud or phishing. It ends with the dot-brand. There's no consumer confusion."
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Hooray, it's Income Tax Day! How will you celebrate?
What, you say you're not in a partying mood? Gee, what a surprise.
Let's see, is there any upbeat news on the tax front? Well, roughly three out of four of us get a refund from the feds. If you're like me, that's not making you feel all tingly and happy inside. It is, after all, our own money we're getting back.
As for the tens of millions of us who have to write a check to Uncle Sam — the average amount was nearly $4,600 in 2008 — it's hard to come up with anything remotely positive to say. "I thought I owed more than that," does not qualify.
The only good thing I can say about April 15 is that it's my dog's birthday. That's pretty pathetic.
If you're getting money back from the government, you don't have to think for a moment about what to do with it. Most of it is already committed, I'm sure. And if you're stuck owing some cash, it may be small comfort, but there are a lot of us in that bad place.
To try to encourage you to celebrate your refund or to ease the misery of having to pay, I went shopping at five of my favorite locally owned small shops for little Tax Day splurges — all less than $100 — to perk you up.
Some of the items shown are by Chicago artists. So, if you're hesitating to treat yourself, think of it as doing your small part to help the ailing local economy. It's patriotic.
Pump, 1659 W. Division St., 773-384-6750,
Habit, 1951 W. Division St., 773-342-0093, habitchicago.com
Hazel, 1902 W. Montrose Ave., 773-769-2227, hazelchicago.com
Erin Gallagher, 1013 W. Webster Ave., 312-492-7548, egjewelry.com
P.O.S.H., 613 N. State St., 312-280-1602, poshchicago.com
income tax facts*
Total returns filed:
Returns with refunds:
Percentage of returns with refunds:
78.16 percent
Average refund per return:
Returns with taxes due:
20.03 percent
Average tax due per return:
*Based on Internal Revenue Service sampling figures for returns filed in 2008
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Lindsey Boland's Habit boutique is filled with clothing and accessories by young designers. Sometimes she stocks works on paper. These note cards are by Art Institute of Chicago grad Emily Woodworth. The wooden pen by Chicagoan Rob Curtis will make writing that IRS check a bit easier.
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Jewelry designer Erin Gallagher's "money" necklace (that's Queen Elizabeth II on the coins) is a fitting tribute to the government gouge. Matching earrings and more can be found at her new location.
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S. Carolina pols move to keep Guantanamo detainees out
WASHINGTON — South Carolina politicians are moving to try to block any transfer of suspected terrorists from the Guantanamo detention center ordered closed by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Navy brig at Charleston, S.C.
On Thursday, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., became a sponsor of a bill that would prohibit the use of federal funds for such a transfer, while in Columbia, S.C., the South Carolina House of Representatives passed a measure asking President Obama and Congress not to move Guantanamo detainees to the state.
"Guantanamo Bay is home to the most hardened and battle-tested terrorists in the world," DeMint said in announcing the legislation, which he's co-sponoring with Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla.
The Naval Consolidated Brig in North Charleston, S.C., has emerged as a leading candidate to house some or all of the 245 alleged terrorists at Guantanamo, along with the Army's Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, and the Marine Corps' Camp Pendleton in California.
"It is dangerous to bring these terrorists onto U.S. soil and make targets out of our own communities," DeMint said. "Guantanamo Bay may cause the Obama administration heartburn, but shutting it down puts American lives in danger."
Republican Rep. Henry Brown of South Carolina, whose district includes the Charleston area, last month introduced similar legislation in the House, prohibiting federal funding of relocating Guantanamo prisoners to the state.
Obama signed an executive order last month requiring the Guantanamo detention facility to be closed within a year, saying he wanted to end the "false choice between our safety and our ideals."
Sen. Lindsey Graham, who helped write the 2006 law establishing procedures for trying the Guantanamo detainees, says conditions there have improved in recent years, but the facility should be closed because it has harmed the United States' image abroad.
Graham, a South Carolina Republican, opposes moving Guantanamo detainees to South Carolina, but is not a cosponsor the DeMint-Inhofe bill. Aides said he was reviewing it.
Fifty percent of Americans oppose Obama's move to close Guantanamo, while 44 percent support it, according to a Gallup poll released Tuesday.
South Carolina Rep. Jim Merrill crafted the resolution that the state House passed unanimously. It now goes to the South Carolina Senate.
The measure urges "both the president of the United States and Congress to refrain from locating or relocating in South Carolina individuals whom the federal government has classified as 'enemy combatants' or other similar term used to describe a foreign national who is suspected of committing, conspiring to commit or attempting to commit an act of terror on United States soil or abroad."
Merrill, a Charleston Republican, said transferring Guantanamo detainees to the Consolidated Naval Brig would endanger his constituents.
"I don't see how in any way, shape or form our country or our community is going to be safer by bringing in known terrorists," Merrill said. "I think it borders on idiocy."
The state House Judiciary Committee is considering a separate Merrill measure that would compel South Carolina utilities to cut off electricity to the Navy prison if alleged terrorists are housed there.
The brig has held an accused al Qaeda sleeper agent , Ali al Marri, since 2003. The Supreme Court agreed last year to hear al Marri's challenge to his detention, and Obama last month asked the high court to delay its proceedings so his administration could review the case.


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By David Postlethwaite
The last two days of SQL Bits provide opportunities to hear short 50 minutes presentations from experts
on a diverse range of SQL related subjects.
Friday I stuck to a DBA theme.
I've heard Simon Sabin talk on performance tuning at the last SQL bits but there's no harm hearing it
again there's always something you missed last time. He certainly hates scalar functions.
David Morrison went through query plan operators which again although you've heard them all before,
you pick up something new.
Both covered similar ground and the overall view is that there are many ways to write a query to
achieve the same output, exactly what code you finally use will depend on many factors like the amount
of data, the cardinality of the data ,the available indexes, new indexes . You've just got to keep looking
at the query plan, understand it and change the query until you get acceptable results.
And finally Klaus Aschenbrenner on SQL 2008 troubleshooting looking at all those DMVs and how they
can help to keep your SQL Server under control.
I would have gone to another talk on Friday but the hotel was so hot and stuffy that I had to get out for a
breather. England had the hottest September 30th in history and the air-con couldn't cope.
Saturday, still hot but slightly more bearable.
This time I went to more development orientated talks
Database Unit Testing using VS2010 with Anthony Brown. I've never tried a database project in Visual
Studio. I'm sure like many people I just create a database in SSMS and then create a web or Windows
project to write the application. Much better to use database project especially when VS can link to
Source Control. The unit testing ability of VS was pretty neat as well.
Moving on from VS to Project Juneau with Gert Drapers. This is the new developer tool in SQL Denali,
a replacement for BIDS I think. Looks rather cool. I've always wanted to be able to step through SQL
scripts like you can in c# and this looks like it'll do it as well as lots more useful features.
Lightning talks can throw up all sorts of interesting things and this one was no exception. I heard about
someone using SQL spatial objects to record the number and type of dead animals seen by the side of
our roads to help understand our biodiversity and another on a new feature in SQL Denali that links a
SQL database to a windows folder and its file contents and allows you run T-SQL queries on the folder
(like list all files with a certain word within).
SQL Tuning from a .NET perspective by Bob Duffy had some interesting points for a .NET developer,
the main points being connection pooling and caching.
Two talks which were very similar T-SQL performance recommendations by Milos Radivojevic and T-
SQL bad habits to Kick by Aaron Bertrand. Both of these covered similar points to some of the tuning
talks from the previous day but still very useful to hear from a different direction.
And finally if you are looking for a free tool to help you understand your execution plans then take a look
at SQL Sentry Plan Explorer (www.sqlsentry.net). It has loads of features and allows you to look at an
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What happens when human development bumps up against unspoiled land? Listen to Rocky Mountain songbirds to find out.
Dr. Kevin Krasnow is an ecologist who's passionate about understanding how to live sustainably with the natural world. His research focuses on understanding how and why ecosystems change and identifying opportunities for increasing ecosystem resilience.
"My work is inspired to better understand forest ecosystems and answer pressing questions about how we should protect, use, and manage our forests," Dr. Krasnow has written. "During the past century, many American western forests have seen dramatic changes in disturbance regimes, species composition, and hydrologic and nutrient cycles due to fire suppression, air pollution, land use change, and climate change. These stressors have resulted in unprecedented conditions that may require new adaptive approaches to management focused on building ecosystem resilience."
As an educator, Dr. Krasnow seeks to involve his students in ecological inquiry and help them build a sense of place. He got his foundation as an instructor for Outward Bound in the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, then continued his journey as an educator in the urban landscape of San Francisco where, as the science department chair of a public charter high school, he developed an inquiry-based science curriculum.
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Oxytocin is a hormone released from the pituitary gland in the brain. During pregnancy, oxytocin causes labor contractions to begin. Oxytocin also is released when a woman's breasts are stimulated by suckling or pumping, causing milk to move from the ducts and out the tiny holes in the nipple (let-down reflex). In the first few days after delivery, oxytocin also causes uterine contractions that help shrink the uterus back to its prepregnancy size.
After breastfeeding is established, your body may release oxytocin when you hear a baby cry, think of your baby, or have sexual intercourse. When this occurs, your breasts may leak milk whether or not you are actively breastfeeding or pumping.
Your body may not release oxytocin when you are anxious, embarrassed, or distracted. You may need to breastfeed in a relaxing, quiet, familiar, private place for let-down to occur.
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On Thursday, the first of November 2012, I learnt how to see. I have done art courses on and off for many years now. I've avoided drawing "hard stuff" like heads and hands, although I'm pretty comfortable with feet. Having a headless drawing is a bit… lost. So, I resolved to learn how to draw heads and hands. The weekend before last, I thought about learning other things. It dawned on me that learning other things had involved a lot of practice, but that I had never really practised drawing. So I figured I would make the effort practising, I have drawn from photos on the computer screen. Last Thursday, something switched in my brain.
"Before" sketches (apologies for the white balance – took a long while to get it right):
|29 October 2012
|30 October, model 1
|30 October Model 2
|30 October Model 3
|31 October
I think you can see from these that I was clearly struggling with how to represent the face, the elements within it, and its relationship to the rest of the skull/head. I probably made a little bit of progress on 31 October. The drawings also show some use of grids for placement of elements, especially in the separate head studies.
But – here is where something flipped in my head. These are before and after drawings of the same model, albeit in different poses:
|30 October
|1 November
It is hard to believe I drew these two days apart. This is where I was at last night:
It is not just a case of practising heads, therefore I'm getting the heads better, nor is it that I have suddenly had an enormous spurt of hand eye coordination. Rather, it's case of seeing differently. It is not obvious from these photos, but the accuracy of all of my proportions throughout the recent drawings has improved markedly (I would guess they are now accurate to maybe 5%, down from, say, 20%). I have also managed to draw hands more or less properly in this drawing – probably the first time I have ever drawn hands passably well. Here are the hands:
Also of surprise to me is that I am now able to draw the models' hair. My rendering of hair improved dramatically in the 1 November sample, and has improved again in the 4 November drawing.
The key thing was loading the photos into Inkscape, drawing them freehand from the monitor, then going back and using the vector drawing elements to overlay grids to show sizing relationships. Comparing these relationships as shown by Inkscape to those measured (with a ruler) on my drawings somehow snapped my brain into a different mode of seeing (presumably R-Mode to use Betty Edward's nomenclature – I own, but have not worked from her book), one where I was simply absorbed in the drawing. I seemed unable to accurately judge variance between reality and the drawings just from sight alone unaided.
Moreover, now I am actually interested in seeing. Looking back now I can tell before that, a lot of my problem was – and this is hard to find the right words to express it – I couldn't be bothered actually looking at what I was supposed to be drawing. Now I've found I've spent the whole weekend looking closely at everyone's faces, seeing how they curve, how they fit with the rest of the skull etc.
Also, having used the overlays for half a dozen or so drawings I now no longer feel I need them. The following weeks will be telling in this regard.
I keep looking at the drawings and can't believe I drew them. So, here's the thing – I think if you want to draw, you probably can do it. It's not about drawing straight lines or anything it really is just a matter of seeing differently.


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Marcum, Thomas exit with knee injuries
Blue Jays starter Shaun Marcum exited Saturday's contest in New York after three innings due to a sore right knee. It wasn't clear when the young pitcher hurt himself, but he appeared to come up lame somewhat after a rundown between third base and home plate in the second inning.
Toronto already pondered pushing Marcum's latest start back because he's been feeling some fatigue lately. So, if the knee injury is in any way a concern, this may have been Marcum's final outing of 2007. If it was, he wrapped up quite the campaign for the Jays, going 11-4 with a 3.91 ERA as a starter.
Hmmmm…Frank Thomas just came out of the game after singling in the fifth inning. No info on what he may or may not have done. Newbie John-Ford Griffin entered as a pinch runner. That's usually saved for later on, so Thomas may have hurt himself running. Jays just announced Thomas also left with a sore right knee.
In the seventh now, and Scott Downs just left a half-inning ago. This is getting redundant and a tad ridiculous. UPDATE: Jays just announced that Downs left with a strained back.
I'll update with more information after the game.
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Well hopefully Thomas came out simply to get a faster runner out there.
That should be it for Hughes, of all his starts this year, he's only went over 100 pitches once.
Hopefully we get another clean inning from Tallet and get into their bullpen
Thank you for the info on Marcum . You're right gs , lets hope Thomas left because he wanted a faster runner but I highly doubt it was that this early in the game
I've been watching the game and Thomas pulled himself out. He came up wincing after his hit and motioned to the bench that he wanted out.
Looks like the Jays are going to field the entire Syracuse Chiefs roster….
He injured his knee also . We are the new triple A team playing pro ball….lol
Hey now! My buddy Joe Kennedy's back in today. Looks like the Jays are serious about giving him a tryout for next year….
It was nice to see ol' Pigpen break out of his slump with that two-out, two-RBI single. Gibbons' has kind of been giving him the shaft….
Man oh man! Kennedy attacked that dribbler by the plate like a beast!
Sounds like Johnny Mac's injury is more than a pulled muscle or general "soreness":
Interesting-theres just been a post to the Jays web site that states he'll be back in tommorrow's game so I wonder which one is right.
Where is Josh Towers? I have seen him in the bullpen but he isn't pitching. It seems like they could use him right now.
Frasor got the rough end of that play at first base. Stairs tossed the ball well behind him and should have gotten an error.
And now it looks like Downs is injured, too. This team is limping to the finish line….
You're right about AAA, 5 guys in the lineup.
gsumner: Yeah, I'm not sure what's going down with Mr. Mac. Conflicting reports, to say the least….
ya never know which is the right story with the jays
I'd almost forgotten about Brendan League. I wonder if he can rebound next year? Everything about his delivery seems different since his off-season injury — his arm angle, his velocity. It's weird….
Last time I watched him, he looked like he had the velocity back-or close to it. Apparently, he's going to spend the winter at the Dunedin paractise facility working out, so I assume he should be good to go next year.
We certainly have missed him though.
Does eveyone have their rally caps on?
But have you noticed that he's more of a side-arm pitcher these days? I can't be sure, but I remember him pitching more over-the-top last year.
It's too bad he decided to bulk up too much over the off-season. It definitely hasn't been beneficial….
I've got my rally knickers on!
I agree with the delivery angle being different.
Come on Stairs-a double would be nice-a home run delicious
Matt Stairs makes me salivate at the mouth.
I talked to Johnny Mac today and did a note item on it on the jays' site today. At first it was described as lower abdominal pain by Gibbons. McDonald said it was a strained left hip flexor, which includes symptoms of lower abdominal pain — that's where Gibby got that. Now, Gibbons has floated the idea that Mac might have a sports hernia, which is a slight tear in lower adominal muscles and creates pain on the abdomen and groin area. McDonald is going to get further tests to try to pinpoint what exactly is ailing him. … He's expected to be back in the lineup on Sunday.
Thanks for the info, Jordan!
Thanks Jordan.
Hem-still salivating? lol
Nah, the saliva dried up pretty quickly after that strike-out.
Stairs is in one kind of a slump
Posada's really helping the Jays out….good thing, too, cause John-Ford Griffin doesn't inspire a lot of confidence….
Yeah, but it seems like Stairs has been hot for the entire season, until now….
We need the help from Posada-maybe another 10-12 passed balls and we win. lol
Nice slide, though, by Mr. Ford-Griffin!
Come on guys-1 more hit
Griffin had a good power year at AAA-I think he hit 28 Hr's, but he's not a high average batter
RUSS ADAMS!!! You are one delicious September call-up!
Russ Adams for premier
This AAA team is going bananas!!!
Adam Lind for prime minister lol
we gotta keep it going though, no lead is safe against the Yanks
hem have you noticed the difference in Lind, since he came back from AAA. Before he went down they were getting him out on the high heater on the outside of the plate. Now he pounds it into left field; where before he went down he'd consistently strike out trying to pull it.
hem that was all due to your rally knickers-so keep them on. lol
That was a kick-donkey inning!
Colour me impressed by this group of fill-ins, call-ups, and utility players!
Now hopefully League can contain the Yanks for a little while longer. Who do you think will come in after him? The bullpen's got to be pretty spent….
My knickers ARE pretty impressive….
I have no stats to back this up, but it's about darn time the Jays got some bloop hits to help out the offense. Seems like they usually can't buy a hit!
…with runners in scoring position….
I just hope League gets through 2 clean innings. Accardo went two yesterday so he's gone, maybe Wolfe and of Jannsen
Lind does seems to be playing better. It'll be interesting to see how he does in this last week or so. Let's hope he hits the cover off the ball — that would definitely help with his confidence for next year.
43 posts and all this time I was still on the other site posting like an idiot wah.
Wolfe's up and warming up. Looks like he's next in this parade of pitchers…
Bobble, bobble….Lind, Lind….
Man this is like a heavy weight boxing match
Let's see a double play here. I will weep with joy if Jeter hits into a double play here….
Looks like I'm saving those tears for another time….
Garry-are you starting to make that posting to the wrong blog entry a consistent thing?
This is a FUGLY pitching performance by both teams….
Are you kidding me with this game? Unbelievable.
that's smart walk abreau and pitch to rodriguez
The Jays are electrocuting my heart right now. That's right — ELECTROCUTING.
oh well, let's score 3 back. lol
They'd better get Towers orBanks ready, I think we're gonna need both of them
Matsui's not looking too hot in the field today either….
ok Zaunie-be the hero
Zaunbie comes up big!
we've always hit Fransworth well.
I'll tell you what, one way or the other The Yanks will now they've been in a dogfight today, and it will be one sorry clubhouse if they lose.
Now come one Hilly-keep it going laddy
Nothing makes me happier than YET ANOTHER pitching change.
Torre has to be kidding-Igawa!!!
Luna does have power-with Igawa pitchin, he could take him deep.
hey it almost worked this game has something for everyone 2 good bullpens turned into cowpens.
well we got 3, but Zaunie didn't look too good with that base running
OK Wolfman-1 clean inning
whats up with hill lately is he tired.
What if we go into extra innings sorry jordan who will pitch????
Garry-have you got your uniform on?
here we go again.
****-another walk
gsumner yup but I had to sew 3 together.
That's 8 BB's we've given up so far
Hill has a sore jaw lol.
Garry-well get warmed up-yore going in, in the 9th. lol
Thats Abners fault the PIG'
I'm coming back next year JP told me so I don't have to win this game.
Well, here we go, ladies and gentlemen, into the 9th round of the heavy weight championship of the Bronx.
When you give up 8 walks in 8 innings, it's hard to win
Come on Ried-lets make Mariana the loser
Well Garry you got your wish here comes Tower Power
It's now TOWER POOPER LOL.
The wrong guy in right field,
I'm outa here.
If there is a worse pitcher than Josh Towers, I would like to know who it is.
I would assume he will not be back next year. The guy is nothing but batting practice.
When I heard he was pitching for Toronto, I knew the Yankees would win. The funny thing about that is the Jays knew that too.
The Spartans rip N.D. today. N.D. goes to 0-4 for the first time ever.
bosox if you want to talk football why not do it on a feetsball blog mor-on, today we had a minor league team against the yanks best and leave towers alone what about all the other pitchers that gave up the ghost.
In fairness, Towers should have never been out there. By the time he arrived we'd already given up 8 walks and 11 runs
I do wonder though if it was August 30th and JP had do re-do the call-ups, would he have been so stingy on how many pitchers came up. Did you see that NY bullpen-16
What did you have to say about papalbonehead when he gave up the GS to adams tar and feather him he's no good anymore WAH WAH WAH.ROFLOL
Can anyone give me the link to that interview with Jordan. I can't find it anywhere. Thanks.
Towers should've been traded after '05 when his value was as high as it will ever be. Hindsights always 20/20 though.
Yes hindsight 05 was a good year for him but a one year contract would have been enough go to the last postings.
Papelbon should have never been in that game. Your down 2-1 with 1 out in the 8th and you bring your closer in the game. A cardinal sin among managers. Francona certainly panicked on that move!!!
You have to admit,considering the majority of our position players in today's game are AAA call-up, they did well.
We now have Glaus, Wells, Overbay and likely Thomas out, with Johnson and Zaun limping.
That doesn't excuse the poor pitching performance, but it sure sent a message to The Yanks
the message is,the Yaanks bullpen ***** big time!!!! Has nothing to do with your pathetic lineup. MY grandmother could rake this bullpen. But the most important thing is, YANKEES WIN!!!!!!!!! THEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE YANKEES WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
one last thing, the Jays bullpen ***** just as bad!!!!LOL!!!!!!
thanks sumner much appreciated
What is this Sentinel, a new week, a new alias. please


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Q&A with Junior Outfielder Kirsten Willmon
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Q-The team started the season ranked #2 in the NFCA Preseason Poll. How accurate a representation is this of your team's potential?
WILLMON-We like to think of those polls purely as compliments of our successes the previous year. We appreciate the recognition, but we really work hard to prove ourselves in the season that is upon us now. We have a totally different team, different chemistry, and I think that is great. We have to go out and play hard and prove ourselves as the 2013 UCSD Tritons Softball team, and I know that we will.
Q-You returned the majority of your roster this season, but graduated two of the greatest Triton softball players of all time whose influence extended off the field as well-Camille Gaito and Kris Lesovsky. What is the personality of this year's team? What is it like to have a roster with so many returners?
WILLMON- Camille and Kris are two of the most entertaining people I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. They have over-the-top personalities and are such fun people to spend time with. I am glad I still get to see them. The freshman class that we brought in this year is such a bundle of energy, the whole team feeds off of it. They are excited about everything and always ready to have a good time on and off the field. Our team is a perfect mesh of veterans and rookies. I think it gives us a lot of leaders, and a lot of young bloods who get to learn the ropes from the older girls.
Q-In 2012, your batting average increased by 143 points from the previous season. What did you do make such an improvement possible?
WILLMON- Well, if you take a look at the number of at-bats I got in my freshman vs. sophomore years, that has a lot to do with it. Getting a lot of opportunities makes it easier to come into yourself and feel comfortable.
However, I would say the biggest contributor to my success would be my work on my mental game. Our team had the pleasure of having sports psychologist Ken Ravizza come and speak to us last year and he really changed my outlook. I had already read a couple of his books, but hearing him speak in person about it really helped it to resonate with me and I found a lot more confidence in my hitting.
I also would give some credit to our volunteer assistant coach/alumni Katrin Gabriel who worked with me a lot before and after practices during season to help me to keep my mechanics strong and to keep my confidence up.
Q-What does it take to be a smart base runner? What is the most difficult aspect of playing in the outfield?
WILLMON- My dad was a big part in my smarts on the bases. As a young player on travel teams, and my freshman year here, I often didn't get a lot of on-field playing time, but I was always a base runner. He told me to always read the defense before each pitch, and to know where the ball is while I'm running.
When it comes to the outfield, the most difficult aspect in my personal experience is reading bloopers in front of me because there has to be a lot of communication between infield and outfield. It's difficult because the infield is running backwards and cannot see us coming. We have worked on it a lot and it simply comes down to the outfield being really loud, and the infield using their hand signals. I think we have gotten pretty good at it now.
Q-What is your favorite thing about playing home games in Triton softball stadium?
WILLMON- I can't pick just one favorite thing. I love having friends and family there to watch us. I love that it is our field because we have some of the greatest facilities in the state, especially now with our awesome new stadium seats which just went in, it looks great.
Q-What is the funniest thing that has happened when your team is traveling for an away series?
WILLMON- Wow, at least a dozen hilarious things happen on every trip. I would say one of the funniest would be how we chose to hide Dyanna Imoto in different small spaces for the coaches to find-closet shelves, boxes, large vases, overhead bins etc.
Second, would be how almost the whole team bought giant stuffed bears from Costco last year and brought them with us on the bus to all post-season trips. Picture the team with about a dozen giant bears everywhere we go. It's just ridiculous!
Q-Your online bio says that you enjoy a lot of outdoor activities, everything from fishing to snowboarding. How did you come to be such a lover of the outdoors?
WILLMON- My family all love different outdoor activities and I have, over the years, immersed myself in all of the activities. We did a lot of camping and ATV riding when I was younger, and all the men in my family fish so I picked that up. My house, in Elk Grove, is on a five-acre horse ranch so I have always spent a lot of time outside with my siblings, swimming, riding ATV's and playing with our animals (dogs, cats, horses, sheep, etc). In the summer we practically live at the lake wake boarding or having backyard BBQ's.
Q-Do you have any favorite spots around San Diego to spend the day enjoying the outdoors?
WILLMON- Down here I don't have access to a lot of my usual outdoor activities of choice, however, I love the beach. It is one of the biggest reasons I chose UCSD, in all honesty. I spent my junior year of high school trying to get recruited by schools near beaches. On a Sunday off from softball I love going down to La Jolla Shores and running on the beach, or laying out and doing some reading for class.
Q-Student-athletes at UCSD have a delicate balancing act between rigorous academics and competitive athletics. How do you manage this? Do you have any favorite study snacks to keep you going?
WILLMON- I try to take light class loads during season. I usually only take the minimum three classes, to make it easier on myself. I always try to stay on top of my reading and never fall behind because that is where you tend to get into trouble.
My favorite study snack right now is Ocean Spray Craisin's Trail Mix, it's craisins, mini-dark chocolate chips, peanuts, almonds and cashews. Yum!
Q-In your experience, what have you found to be the keys to a team's success at the national level?
WILLMON- I think that Coach Gerckens's approach, which she instills in us from the beginning, is to always take it one game at a time. If you just worry about winning the one game you are about to play, then it takes a lot of the pressure off. We set long term team goals for the season at the beginning of January, but we don't worry about them again after that. We don't think much about the post-season until we get there. Once we get to Nationals is when we really turn it on and think, "ok we are here now, so don't change a thing, go and play our game and win one game at a time."
Q-You were a part of 2011 NCAA Champion and 2012 NCAA runner-up teams. How does this history influence the team going into the 2013 season?
WILLMON- I know that in the back of our minds we know there is an expectation amongst ourselves for us to do well this season. We have had upper classmen the last few years who have set the precedent that we settle for nothing but greatness and we won't stop until we reach our goals. However, the reaction we have gotten from the press has been that people think we can't do it without Kris and Camille.
What they tend to forget is we lost a lot of big guns last year too after Sarah Woofter, Katrin Gabriel, and Jen Defazio graduated. Every year you have important people graduate, but you find ways to fill in those holes they leave behind and I think we have done a pretty good job over the past couple years doing that. We have a very strong freshman class that is going to be very productive in the batter's box and on the field, and our pitching staff is a good mix of veteran and rookies which should give us a strong rotation to work with.
Q-What does Coach Gerckens say about the possibility of a third straight trip to the National Championships? What aspects of her coaching style help her to consistently field competitive teams?
WILLMON- Coach Gerckens does a great job of never mentioning the post-season. It is great that we have such an extended season as compared to other sports. We get to play from mid-January through the middle of May. However, this early on we are only thinking about whatever team we play next, keeping it simple and short term focused. This strategy has worked over the last few years. It keeps the team on the same page, relaxed and grounded.
Q-The CCAA has a legacy of very strong softball competition. Is there a team that you have a particularly fierce rivalry with? What is your mindset headed into CCAA play?
WILLMON- Due to how good our whole conference is, and how different each team's line-up is year-to-year, I would say we don't have any tried and true "rivals". We go out trying to win every game no matter who we are playing.
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Tyler McGrath (Men's Basketball) November 15, 2012
Danielle Dahle (Women's Volleyball) October 26, 2012
Jessica Wi (Women's Soccer) October 10, 2012
Elena Inouye (Women's Cross Country) October 1, 2012
Josh Stiling (Men's Water Polo) September 15, 2012
Alec Arsht (Men's Soccer) August 28, 2012
Amber Hawthorne (Women's Volleyball) August 13, 2012
Kristin Jones (Women's Soccer Assistant Coach) June 24, 2012
Nick Howe (Men's Track & Field) May 13, 2012
Kris Lesovsky (Softball) March 16, 2012
Danny Susdorf (Baseball) March 6, 2012
Sarah Lizotte (Women's Water Polo) February 9, 2012
Charity Elliott (Women's Basketball) January 31, 2012
Alex Henley (Women's Swimming & Diving) January 17, 2012
James McCann (Men's Basketball) December 29, 2011
Emily Osga (Women's Basketball) December 19, 2011
John Butler (Men's Water Polo) November 28, 2011
Lauren Demos (Women's Volleyball) November 8, 2011
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Ellen Wilson (Women's Soccer) October 1, 2011
Brian Donohoe (Men's Water Polo) September 4, 2011
Roxanne Brunsting (Women's Volleyball) August 19, 2011
Jon Pascale (Men's Soccer) August 4, 2011
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Patti Gerckens (Softball) May 26, 2011
Blake Tagmyer (Baseball) May 11, 2011
Theresa Richards (Women's Track & Field) April 27, 2011
Austin West (Men's Tennis) April 17, 2011
Drew Lawyer (Men's Crew) April 11, 2011
Keith Okasaki (Men's Golf) March 26, 2011
Matt Herman (Men's Swimming & Diving) March 12, 2011
Hanalei Crowell (Women's Water Polo) March 5, 2011
Camille Gaito (Softball) February 23, 2011
Tim Shibuya (Baseball) February 8, 2011
Carl Eberts (Men's Volleyball) January 31, 2011
Neda Nguyen (Women's Swimming & Diving) January 24, 2011
Amy Bianchini (Fencing) January 14, 2011
Lauren Freidenberg (Women's Basketball) January 3, 2011
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Brandon Yee (Men's Soccer) October 11, 2010
Bryce Madsen (Men's Water Polo) September 23, 2010
Annette Ilg (Women's Soccer) September 9, 2010
Ricci Luyties (Women's Volleyball Head Coach) August 24, 2010
Kevin Messey (Head Athletics Trainer) July 7, 2010
Dan O'Brien (Baseball Head Coach) June 18, 2010
Christine Merrill (Women's Track & Field) June 14, 2010
Vance Albitz (Baseball) May 11, 2010
Erik Elliott (Men's Tennis) May 3, 2010
Kelly Fogarty (Women's Track & Field) April 23, 2010
Liz LaPlante (Women's Tennis Head Coach) April 15, 2010
Kirby St. John (Baseball) March 24, 2010
Dan Perdew (Men's Swimming) February 28, 2010
Calvin Ross (Men's Volleyball) February 20, 2010
Nicole Saari (Softball) February 4, 2010
Brad Kreutzkamp (Women's Water Polo Head Coach) January 18, 2010
Tyler Acevedo (Men's Basketball) January 4, 2010
Dr. Cliff Kubiak (UCSD's Faculty Athletic Rep) December 18, 2009
Chelsea Carlisle (Women's Basketball) December 9, 2009
Carianne Cunningham (Women's Swimming) November 23, 2009
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David Morton (Men's Water Polo) October 28, 2009
Juan Pablo Carillo (Men's Swimming) October 19, 2009
Sara Spaventa (Women's Soccer) October 10, 2009
Karen Reis (Women's Volleyball) October 2, 2009
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Garrett Imeson (Baseball) June 8, 2009
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Kazumi Negishi (Men's Tennis) May 5, 2009
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Rising global temperatures and changing human actions will significantly affect the behavior and distribution of mercury worldwide, according to a recent article by the U.S. Geological Survey and Harvard University.
Mercury, especially in the form of methylmercury, is an extremely toxic chemical to all life forms. It occurs both naturally and as the result of human activities. A majority of mercury releases to the environment presently are atmosphere emissions from human activities, and reemissions of previously deposited mercury from soils and the oceans. The largest sources of man-made mercury emissions are small-scale gold mining and burning coal for electrical generation.
"Studies like this help us better understand the overall effects of multiple impacts on the environment," said USGS Acting Director Suzette Kimball. "We are just beginning to understand many of the consequences of global climate change and how interrelated many environmental issues truly are."
Several seemingly unconnected aspects of climate change are expected to affect mercury at the global scale, according to the article. In the atmosphere, higher temperatures and weaker air circulation patterns from climate change will likely have significant impacts on the atmospheric lifetime and patterns of mercury deposition.
In most climate change scenarios, storms will be less frequent but more intense, resulting in larger amounts of mercury being released from the soil through erosion that may end up in rivers, lakes and oceans, the study said. When mercury reaches these surface waters, it can be processed by naturally occurring bacteria into the neuro-toxic methylmercury.
In addition, the article explained that climate change will likely lead to more frequent and intense forest fires, which release mercury from relatively stable and safe storage in the soil and allow it to be transported downwind and then redeposited and possibly converted into methylmercury.
"The intersection of the complex behavior of mercury in the environment with the myriad of aspects of global change provided a significant challenge to describe in this paper," said USGS scientist David Krabbenhoft, the article's lead author. "Although the science behind mercury research has exponentially increased in the past couple decades, providing reliable information to resource managers and decision makers on such complex topics remains a significant research challenge."
Changes in human behavior will also have substantial impacts on global mercury, according to the article. Current human emissions of mercury total 2,000 metric tons per year. Under the best-case scenario of curbing human emissions and mitigating climate change, that number could fall to 800 metric tons per year by 2050. If no actions are taken and a business-as-usual approach is followed, the number will likely increase to 3,400 metric tons per year by 2050.
Human activity has already had a significant impact on the release of mercury emissions, the article explained. For example, since the Industrial Revolution and widespread development of mercury emitting processes like coal combustion for electric power generation, soil records show a 3 to 5 fold increase in atmospheric deposition since the 1880s, and 7 to10 fold since antiquity. During the 20th century, coal-fired power plants dominated the human emissions of mercury.
However, with the current high cost of gold and relatively inexpensive liquid mercury, small-scale gold mining has taken over as the primary source of human emissions of mercury. Mercury is used to separate gold from rock deposits, and is often done in a manner that results in the miners and the local environment being exposed to toxic levels of mercury, according to the report.
Positive steps at controlling mercury emissions have been taken, though, Krabbenhoft noted. In 2011, the United States enacted the first-ever emissions regulations on coal-fired electricity-generating power plants. However, the United States only accounts for six to ten percent of global emissions.
To tackle global emissions, the United Nations Environmental Program brought together 140 countries to craft the Minamata Convention on Mercury, which is a binding resolution that includes emissions standards for mercury. It is scheduled to be signed in October, 2013.
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The state's highest court has sided with a terminally ill Queens woman waging a legal battle with her parents over her decision to be taken off life support.
A brain-stem tumor has paralyzed 28-year-old Grace Sung Eun Lee from the neck down, and she depends on a tube to eat and one to breathe.
The court's decision Friday clears the way for Lee to chose to end her life, though no changes will be made in her treatment plan until a guardianship hearing next week.
Lee is in critical condition at North Shore in Manhasset. She can only mouth words and shake her head yes or no.
The doctors at Long Island's North Shore University Hospital said they would like to respect Lee's wishes and remove her feeding and breathing tubes. But Lee's devout parents -- religious Korean immigrants -- had argued that would qualify as suicide and would keep her from going to heaven. They filed legal motions to stop the hospital from removing the tube.
"I believe if you set the day and time of your death, you're committing suicide and that is a sin," said Lee's father, the Rev. Manho Lee, through an interpreter on Thursday.
He softened his language Friday, saying in a news conference, "I'm not the one who decides whether Grace should live or die. I leave it up to God."
Lee's family is also arguing that she has recently expressed a change in her wish to die. They initially posted a video online showing her mouthing "yes" when her cousin asks if she's willing to sign over a medical proxy to her father, then mouthing "now" when asked when she wanted to be moved to a nursing home.
The video was purportedly taken on Oct. 3 but has since been pulled from YouTube.
Lee's cousin in the video, Paul Kim, said at the news conference Friday her parents were fighting to assume guardianship because her "most basic requests weren't being fulfilled" at the hospital.
"'I want to see sun, I want to go outside,'" he said. "I just gave her a voice. People had stopped listening."
Kim said he communicates with Lee by reading her lips and going through an alphabet chart.
The minister and his wife, Jin-ah Lee, have claimed their always-obedient daughter, who headed a youth group at their church in Queens, would never willingly end her God-given life and that she had been unduly influenced by doctors.
Two appeals courts have now upheld Grace Lee's right to end her life, but no action will be taken until Tuesday, when the judge will decide whether to grant her father guardianship.
Until then, Lee's attorney said he will meet with her every day to see if her wishes have changed.


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With not quite six weeks left before Newton residents vote on a requested $11.4 million in tax increases for schools, streets, and public safety, supporters and opponents are mobilizing across the city.
Signs backing the three Proposition 2½ override questions have cropped up in front yards, and supporters have held meetings with community groups and parent-teacher organizations. Opponents, meanwhile, have approached residents at coffee shops and appeared on a local television program to warn about higher taxes.
"Things will heat up now," said Suzanne Szescila, cochairwoman of a newly formed antioverride group, Moving Newton Forward.
Yet some predict the debate leading up to the March 12 special election may not be as as fiery as it was in 2008, the last time the city administration proposed an override of Proposition 2½; voters turned it down by a margin of 10 percentage points.
A group supporting the overrides, Building Newton's Future, has spent the past few months organizing, polling, hiring a part-time consultant, and raising money, but it is leagues away from the $122,920 raised for the 2008 campaign. According to the group's last report, it had raised $8,250 for its current effort.
A committee fighting the 2008 proposal raised about $11,983, but opponents of the current proposals had not done much fund-raising.
"It's a very different political climate in Newton," said Marcia Tabenken, a cochairwoman of Building Newton's Future.
The city has a different mayor. And anger residents felt over the new Newton North High, which at $191.5 million was the most expensive public school project in state history, has ebbed, several aldermen said.
This time around, Mayor Setti Warren is proposing three ballot initiatives to help pay for $143.5 million in projects. His plan calls for a permanent tax increase to provide $8.4 million annually for road repairs, four police officers, new teachers to handle the school system's growing student population, expansion and renovation of Zervas Elementary School, replacement of the Newton Centre fire station and Fire Department headquarters, and a new communications building.
The other two overrides seek temporary tax increases, totaling $3 million and to be paid off over 30 years, to cover the costs of rebuilding the Angier and Cabot elementary schools.
If all three increases are approved, Newton officials have said, annual taxes on a house with the city's median assessment of $686,000 would go up by about $343, to $8,006.
The overrides would help pay for about five years of projects, and aldermen and the administration have suggested that more tax increases may be sought in later years to address the city's other capital needs.
"Now, we need collectively, from all of us, to make a sound investment in the future," Warren told a crowd of more than 30 at a meeting last Sunday.
Few residents at the gathering disputed the need for the projects covered by the overrides. But some have fretted about how they would pay for the property tax increase, citing the still-struggling economy with mounting state and federal tax pressures.
An increase in Social Security taxes this year has led paychecks to shrink. Upper-income earners have also been hit by the expiration of some of the Bush-era tax cuts. And Governor Deval Patrick recently presented a budget plan that includes proposals to increase the state income tax, raise or establish new taxes on candy, soda, and cigarettes, and open the door to higher gas taxes.
"It's unfortunate that it's a bad time economically for a lot of people," said Alderwoman Amy Mah Sangiolo.
Sangiolo, who supports the overrides, said she has spoken with families who agree the city needs to invest in infrastructure, but they'll struggle to pay additional taxes. "There is a divide in Newton, there are people with a lot of money, and people who don't have a lot of money," she said.
Warren has said that the city is expanding and establishing some programs to help senior citizens and veterans reduce their tax bills.
Opponents of the override and some aldermen have also raised concerns that the plans and costs for some of the building projects, like Zervas Elementary School and the fire station, are still in the early stages and remain vague.
Richard Slater, a member of Moving Newton Forward, said he worries costs will increase., like they did for Newton North.
Still, supporters of the overrides express optimism. The measures have the backing of most of Newton's aldermen, even in parts of the city, such as Ward 1, that have traditionally opposed overrides. The local League of Women Voters and Newton's PTO Council have also voted to support them.
"We're probably in pretty good shape for winning the three questions," said Matt Hills, the School Committee's vice chairman.
On Wednesday, members of Building Newton's Future held two coffee meetings to introduce friends and neighbors to the issue, and made calls to encourage people to vote in favor of the measures next month.
That night, at the American Legion post in Nonantum, the nascent Moving Newton Forward gathered to build its strategy to defeat the overrides. About 25 residents, many of them graying and veterans of past tax fights, discussed the best way to reach voters before the special election next month.
The organizational questions came in rapid succession: Was it worth doing mailers or fund-raising? Who could organize the phone banks? And how should they hone their message to persuade residents to vote against the override?
The antioverride group was late getting started, Szescila said, but "it's worth participating in the conversation."
Deirdre Fernandes can be reached at deirdre.fernandes@ globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @fernandesglobe.


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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Holiday Shopping: 6 Must Haves for This Genealogist
While Lynn was being very generous with her ideas, I am going to be very selfish. This list of six items contains what I want for Christmas. I don't want you to give it to somebody else, I want somebody to give it to me!
Marian's Genealogy Wish List
1. An 11x17 flatbed scanner that can scan all the old deeds and other documents that come in super-size. Canon makes some very nice ones!
2. Tuition to cover the Boston University Certificate in Genealogical Studies, on-site classroom version.
3. A $500 gift certificate to Jonathan Sheppard Books so that I can buy lots of New York related books and start making an attempt to solve all my New York brick walls.
4. A video camera so I can start making cool videos like Caroline Pointer. I don't know anything about digital video cameras so someone will have to help me out with suggestions.
5. An all expense paid 3-day trip to Washington DC so that I can research at NARA, the Library of Congress and the DAR.
6. Lifetime memberships to all New England state genealogical societies: The Massachusetts Society of Genealogists, Rhode Island Genealogical Society, Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Genealogical Society of Vermont, New Hampshire Society of Genealogists, Maine Genealogical Society. Let's throw in NEHGS and NYG&BS while we're at it!
I'm not asking for too much am I? Santa are you listening?
A girl can dream!
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Ditto for me, Santa!ReplyDelete
I'm familiar with NEHGS, of course, and NYG&BS. But what do the individual state societies offer? I can't really tell from MSOG's site -- even their list of member surnames is fairly short.ReplyDelete
I have that very scanner pictured above at home and I love it. It is easy to use and also has attachments for scanning in slides, something of which I have a lot.ReplyDelete
I hope Santa has deep pockets. Well, a girl has ?got to dream right!ReplyDelete
Revise your list to double your time in DC--you need some times for the sights, too. Hope Santa reads this and treats you well!ReplyDelete
@Ellen - What do individual societies offer? One society I joined for $40/year included 3 hours of research in their archives & library, including photocopies of everything pertaining to the names I was researching. Broke a brickwall with a will they included! Another society gives members access to NewspaperArchives.com with their membership. Check with the society in the areas you're researching to find out what they might offer along with membership!ReplyDelete
Ellen, as Tami mentioned many societies offer different benefits. The one I am after primarily is a publication that will feature research from the state which will help me with my own research. But online databases are good too. Some societies have surname lists so researchers can connect that way. But like I said, primarily I am looking for publications.ReplyDelete
Ed - I'm glad to hear that you like that one. It seems very reasonably priced.ReplyDelete
I'd like one of those scanners, too. Together with my wand scanner and Flip-Pal, that would make my scanner toolbox complete!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 30, 2011 at 6:20 PM
Wonderful ideas, Marian. My family always asks "don't you want any gifts that are NOT genealogy-related??" Personally I was hoping for a 4-in-1 printer/scanner so it would take up less room. My old flatbed scanner won't work on Windows7. Don't know if Santa caught that hint. Well, we can hope!ReplyDelete
Great post, Marian.ReplyDelete
I have a similar list — MUCH greedier than yours. I want memberships in every society that could be of help and ability to purchase all the books I can think of wanting (the books include novels as well as genealogy).
I probably WILL get one membership and one book, but as you say, a girl can dream.(And I have already 3 new society joins this year: MoSGA, SLAPG, and OGS.)
Sue, yes I left off quite a few societies. I need more memberships in Pennsylvania, Ohio and other places. I was trying to not be too greedy :)ReplyDelete
- Christine BardNovember 30, 2011 at 8:26 PM
Marian love you wish list. For the last couple of years I tell my husband I don't want anything for my Birthday (December) or Christmas because I will get my own. That way I can get what I want for genealogy stuff and not feel guilty. Things like subscriptions and memberships, ordering records. There were many years I couldn't afford any of these things so my mother funded me.ReplyDelete
Tami and Marian, thanks. I'm not really working seriously enough in Massachusetts to feel like calling MSOG for more information, but I do wish individual societies clearly listed benefits of membership on their Web sites. :) For now, I'll assume I should put my limited budget toward proven resources like NEHGS and Ancestry, but I'll keep this in mind for later....ReplyDelete
What a great wish list! I'll take all of the above! Add some more $$$ for booksbooksbooks, and a 2-3 courses, minimum of two weeks in Salt Lake City, and I might be okay for a year or more - I think. My family know I'm hoping for at least one genealogy-focused gift this year! Merry Christmas indeed!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 1, 2011 at 9:17 AM
All of them for me Santa!ReplyDelete
Yeh right!


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Hotel Du Col Reviews
this was the 2nd time we stayed at the Hotel du Col, and we had just as good a time. The main draw is the EXCELLENT food, especially the evening buffet meal- proper Italian food, lots of unusual things (to a British palate!), HUGE choice, and the owner always hovering behind the food, anxious to make sure we are fed. The provided red wine was ok, white wine not (you can buy from their extensive selection). Rooms a bit tired, but reasonable size for 2 adults to share, always lots of hot water. BEWARE, the boot room is unheated- there were lots of agonised faces and groans the first morning as people tried to get their boots on! The hotel is almost ski in/ski out: there's a walk of about 150 metres. we did not use the resort much, except for a terrific wine bar next to the hotel- we would go there after skiing, and there would always be substantial nibbles (ham on bread etc) to eat with the excellent wine. the ski area is quite big- enough to keep a good intermediate happy on piste for a week, and, if the snow is good, plenty of off piste near enough to the runs not to need a guide. Sestriere is at the centre of the Milky Way, an ideal spot. Most of the links between resorts are good, with the exception of Mongenevre: it's a challenge to get there in less than 2 hours, and many of the chairs are old and slow; signing is also inadequate. This is a shame as there is a good deal of pleasant skiing there. having now been twice, I'd be happy to return to the Hotel du Col and Sestriere.
Apres Ski: 3/5
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The Lincoln Water System (LWS) is continuing to take water samples in an area of northeast Lincoln where coliform bacteria was detected. Results on the water samples taken Thursday were available this afternoon, and the samples tested negative for coliform bacteria. However, officials encourage residents in the affected area to continue to take precautions until further testing is completed next week. If water samples taken next Monday and Tuesday are also negative, officials will inform the public that no further precautions are needed.
The area affected is a triangle bordered by Adams Street on the south, 70th Street on the east and Cotner Boulevard on the northwest. There are no immediate health concerns, but as a precaution, the City advises those in the area who have infants or health problems, such as severely compromised immune systems, to boil their drinking water or use bottled water until further notice.
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The San Francisco sketch comedy troupe Kasper Hauser is not your average comedy team. They count a lawyer, a writer, a psychiatrist and a Stanford theater professor in their ranks. They get together to write satirical books (like Skymaul and Weddings of the Times), perform the occasional live show, and produce digital content (like their Kasper Hauser podcast and this fake Craigslist page) -- all while working the aforementioned day jobs. Their new collaboration is their own special spin on how to succeed in business, all in a tome you can leave in the bathroom. It's called Earn Your MBA on the Toilet: Unleash Unlimited Power and Wealth from Your Bathroom.
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Indie-music site Pitchfork expanded into film-criticism this month with its new off-shoot site, The Dissolve. We're joined by The Dissolve's founder and editorial director, Keith Phipps, and editor Scott Tobias, who introduce the new site and recommend their top picks for summer movies.
Keith recommends Woody Allen's new comic drama Blue Jasmine starring Cate Blanchett and Alec Baldwin, and featuring Louis CK. As Keith explains, the movie offers a terrific character study of a New York City socialite (Blanchett) who is forced to start over without her money or her husband (Baldwin).
And Scott endorses The Act Of Killing, from two of the most revered names in documentary filmmaking, producers Errol Morris and Werner Herzog. The documentary tests the very boundaries of the medium, following a real-life Indonesian deathsquad as they reenact some of their most infamous murders and confront the atrociousness of their deeds.
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The author David Rakoff died of cancer nearly a year ago, but his writing continues to provide insight on living a creative life in contemporary America. Best known for his autobiographical essays and his contributions to This American Life, Rakoff always made for a delightful interviewee: open, passionate, and amusing even in his darkest times. In honor of the posthumous release of his last book Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish, a novel written entirely in rhyme, we're sharing some highlights from our past conversations with Rakoff.
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Elliott Gould may not seem like the hard-boiled noir type, but in 1973, under the direction of Robert Altman, he had that perfect combination of intellect and self-satisfied cool. With Gould playing Raymond Chandler's most famous character, Philip Marlowe, The Long Goodbye explores the powerful narcissism that governed the streets of 1970s Los Angeles.
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Previous commercial banker brings more than 10 years of experience to new role.
BENTONVILLE, Ark. – Arvest Bank is pleased to announce Katie Crawford has been promoted to Arvest Private Banking advisor.
With more than 10 years of industry experience, Crawford most recently worked as a commercial banker at Arvest. In her new role, Crawford will analyze and develop wealth management strategies for private banking clients to help them reach their financial goals, among other duties. She will work at Arvest's downtown Bentonville branch.
"We are thrilled to add Katie to our private banking team," said Shantell Owen, Arvest Private Banking manager. "Katie has a joy and passion for helping others by making connections that form lasting relationships. Additionally, she is a planner by nature, and will be able to use her financial expertise to help clients plan and execute their lifelong financial goals."
Crawford earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Louisiana Monroe. She and her husband live in Rogers with their two children and attend First Baptist Church of Lowell. She is a member of the board of directors of Main Street Rogers.
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