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by Karen Rile
In last week's Local, one reader writes of her pleasurable experiences at the "magnificent" Fresh Market store in Williamsburg, Va., and of her excitement at the prospect of a similar store being built in Chestnut HIll. She writes that "whenever possible" she drives 20 minutes to the Williamsburg store from her second home in Yorktown, Va.
The good news is that during her period of anticipation, she can drive 7.8 miles, just 20 minutes from 8200 Germantown Avenue, according to Google Maps, and enjoy the same "delights" (minus, of course, the "fantastic and affordable display of wines and beers!").
I made a similar trip recently and visited the Horsham Fresh Market, which is situated behind an expansive paved parking lot and nestled among big box chain stores. Inside, the store was as tidy as Bloomingdales at the start of a business day. Designer lighting and piped-in, baroque-style string music added to the effect of the seasonal display created by visual merchandising artists. Carefully arranged pyramids of waxy fruits and perfect-looking vegetables glistened in the produce aisle.
Other perishables were tucked inside plastic wrappers or behind glass display cases, so there were no disturbing odors of actual food. The centerpiece of the story was large display of faux-antiqued cracker barrels filled with bulk candies. The other customers were well-dressed and affluent-looking. It was like being inside a Ralph Lauren ad set inside a supermarket.
If you want to shop in an antiseptic environment that satisfies your projection of what it means to be an upper class American, and if you want attractive "organic" foods trucked in from a central distributor, Fresh Market is the place for you.
As for me, I've always felt lucky to have the option of walking to the excellent local farm markets, bakeries, and, more recently, to Weaver's Way. I also buy produce from nearby farmers through a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) plan. My produce may look less than food-stylist perfect, but it tastes pretty good and the price is reasonable.
If I feel I need more of a designer shopping experience, I can drive 12 minutes up the road to the Plymouth Meeting Whole Foods, 20 minutes to the Jenkintown Whole Foods and Trader Joe's, or to the aforementioned Horsham Fresh Market.
In the second part of her letter, this same reader writes that "a large new building in the center of the Hill would balance the equally large building at the bottom and top of the Avenue." Her point speaks to the anxiety that many community members share concerning the eventual fate of the massive structure that would house Fresh Market (which is larger, not equally large as the buildings top and bottom.) Observant readers realize that the building at the top, which housed the former Borders, is empty. The strip mall at the bottom of the hill has struggled with occupancy issues for years.
Both of these troubled properties would be dwarfed in scale by the proposed 8200 building. Given the history of difficulties suffered by local landlords trying sustain commercial occupancy through out-of-town chains and franchises, many of us have little confidence that Fresh Market, if it comes, will remain at 8200 for the duration. It does not take much imagination to look into the future and imagine a massive, empty, deteriorating property, zoned C2 (unlike any property in our zip code), situated in the center of Chestnut Hill.
Any then what? The developer of the 8200 Germantown project has chosen to circumvent the Chestnut Hill Community Association and the usual zoning variance process and has gone directly to City Council, seeking a political solution that will rezone the entire property and remove virtually all restrictions on that site. Interestingly, the developer seeks exemption from the Germantown Avenue District controls that he helped to create.
In the words of a neighbor of mine, who is a city planner: "Zoning is a community's gift to a developer." The developer, who has historically positioned himself as both pro- and anti-development, according to where his interests lie, likes to be known as the "gatekeeper to Chestnut Hill."
Let us remember that, regardless of what happens with the market, he will be vastly enriched because the value of the land it sits in will multiply the moment the zoning changes. And that's a worth a lot of heirloom tomatoes.
Karen Rile is a Chestnut Hill resident who lives near the Magarity site.


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Accept as special guests with The Scorpions
Helsinki tonight witnessed a special event for the two German mega bands: for the first time in history the two performed on the same bill. About time too to cross it from Accept's "bucket list" as Wolf put it! With over 400 years of Teutonic Craftsmanship on stage, the night is something to remember for all present.
Accept hit the stage with Hung Drawn & Quartered, and perform with their famed frenzy and enthusiasm of bands half their age thirsty for first success. On this fourth visit to Finland of Accept's current re-incarnation and renewed success, the crowd is ready and welcomes the special guests as warmly as the headliner later in the evening. But this hour belongs to Accept and they parade through a magnificent showcase of old and new material. Old classics like Metal Heart and a shorter arrangement of Princess of the Dawn are joined by modern day classics like Pandemic and Stalingrad, and the band again connects fully with the fans in their trademark easy-going, entertaining and engaging way.
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The 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London "refused to let the women delegates speak," inspiring delegates Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to start a movement for women's rights...The incident is recalled in journalist Gail Collins' wonderful social history,America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines. Getting the vote allows for a different form of speaking up; unfortunately, women in many professions still have trouble getting speaking opportunities at professional conferences.
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At the winter solstice the interaction between the sun and the temple creates the appearance of the sun climbing up the terraces until it rests momentarily directly above the pyramid on the pinnacle of the temple room that sits on top of the pyramid, before beginning its descent down the other side. It's as if the sun rising from the lowest point of the structure ascends the terraces, until crowning the tower and returning down again.
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WORCESTER — In what was the most spirited of the listening sessions held so far on the city manager search process, a clear division surfaced among those who testified Wednesday night about what the City Council should be looking for in the city's chief executive.
Some praised the work of City Manager Edward M. Augustus Jr. and said he should receive strong consideration for the long-term appointment.
Others, meanwhile, said there is a perception in the community of an "old boy network" in which those hired for key municipal positions are based on who they know.
That, in turn, has led to a perception among many residents that process doesn't matter when it comes to things like hiring a city manager.
"It appears to be a foregone conclusion that (Mr. Augustus) is going to get the job," said Stephen Gordon, a lifelong city resident. "That sends all the wrong messages to people who may want to apply for the job. To outsiders, (Mr. Augustus) appears to have the inside track and that is part of the problem with this city."
About 25 people attended the listening session held by the City Council Municipal Operations Committee in Eager Auditorium at Worcester State University.
It was without a doubt the feistiest crowd to attend any of the four listening sessions so far, with one person going so far as to criticize District 2 Councilor Philip P. Palmieri, committee chairman, for commenting on testimony offered by people and asking follow-up questions.
"Your job is to listen, not to interject yourself after everyone's comments," said Bill Bernhard, a 40-year resident of the city. "You're supposed to listen; your job is to listen."
Mr. Palmieri countered that as chairman of the committee he has every right to ask questions and seek clarification of statements made by the public.
Of the 10 people who testified, Mauro DePasquale, executive director of WCCA-TV, former School Committee member Dorothy Hargrove, and John Reed were among those who spoke most favorably of Mr. Augustus.
Mr. DePasquale said Mr. Augustus is "well tested" for the city manager's job based on work he did as a state senator, as chief of staff for U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern, D-Worcester, and as director of government and community relations at the College of the Holy Cross.
"I think he would be fine for the post," he said.
Ms. Hargrove, meanwhile, said the City Council need not look any further to hire someone for the long-term appointment than the person already in the city manager's office.
"We have the person; that person is Ed Augustus," she said. "I think he can do the job. He is very bright and has the interests of Worcester at heart. We want the best for the city."
But some people said there is a perception, especially among people who are new to Worcester, that political power is based among a tight-knit group of people in which who you know is more important than one's qualifications.
As a result, they said, many people feel they do not have much of a stake in the city because their voice won't be heard.
"There is a perception of an old boy network," said Amy West of Carlisle Street. "The perception here is that process doesn't matter."
Ms. West said her sentiment was underscored by the City Council's nine-month appointment of Mr. Augustus to succeed former City Manager Michael V. O'Brien. She said his hiring was anything but a transparent process.
The Rev. Steven Barrett of Christ The Rock Fellowship said there is a need to broaden the stake people feel they have in the community, starting with what goes on at City Hall.
Rev. Barrett said his remarks were not meant as a criticism, but pointed out that with the make-up of the city government as a whole there are segments of the community that are unrepresented.
"The network is closed; people can't enter if they are from outside," he said. "And people are not invited in easily because of the walls that are up there."
Mr. Gordon, meanwhile, went so far to say that Mr. Augustus "absolutely is not the right person" for the job.
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The Wedding Pink bride plans 'soft-romantic' May nuptials
Six empty glasses sat in front of Erin Price as she swirled a lightly-oaked chardonnay at The Wine Country Inn on Thursday.
"Many of our younger guests will appreciate the wine selection," she told her mother, Linda Price, as she dutifully sipped the possibilities that could be served at her upcoming wedding.
Erin and Linda, both from Virginia, were in Palisade for a three-day whirlwind wedding planning trip.
"I think I'll just take them all," Erin said with a light-hearted laugh.
Erin, 30, is the recipient of 2013 The Wedding Pink, an annual wedding giveaway created by 21-year breast cancer survivor and professional photographer Cheryl Ungar of Denver.
Each year, Ungar's nonprofit organization chooses a young breast cancer survivor to receive a destination wedding in Colorado.
Erin was 27 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She lost her hair while receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy, and she battled depression. Her cancer treatment was followed by a mastectomy with implant reconstruction.
"My two-year 'cancer-versary' is on St. Patrick's Day this year, and it's also the day of my wedding shower," Erin said as she and an entourage of wedding coordinators moved from the Tapestry Lounge to the Vineyard Ballroom to discuss décor.
"I like soft-romantic, vintage and rustic," she told Sheryl and Rachel Fisher, the mother and daughter-in-law owners of Shimmer, a Grand Junction event design and coordination company.
Using her iPad, Erin showed the Fishers pictures of her favorite shabby chic wedding ideas that she had saved on Pinterest.
April Nichols, director of sales at Wine Country Inn, spread an ivory lace overlay on the table. "Like this?" she asked.
"I love that," said Linda, as she watched her daughter plan her dream wedding.
"That phone call — that she had cancer — just came out of left field," Linda said. "We were so worried that she wouldn't make it. This (wedding) means so much."
She added that having a celebration to this scale would not have been possible without Ungar's help.
Between 75 and 100 guests, most from the East Coast, will attend the wedding in Palisade in May.
"Getting married in a place like this is always going to have significance for them," Linda said of the bride and groom, noting that she finds the beauty of Colorado, especially Glenwood Canyon, startling.
Erin and her fiancé, Ben Schabert, will be married by officiant TJ Dickerson in the outdoor gazebo area at the inn.
The wedding party will wear pale gray, but hints of pink will be found throughout the décor.
Dinner will be a choice of steak, salmon or butternut squash gnocchi prepared by the inn's Le Cordon Bleu trained chefs.
At the cake testing, Erin and Linda selected devil's food chocolate and lemon cakes donated by Sweet Treats by Danielle. There also will be a cookie and candy bar.
Most of the wedding, estimated at $30,000, has been donated to the couple by local businesses such as the CandyTime Shoppe, DJ Ryan Griz Entertainment, JR's Carriage Service, and 3 Leaf Floral Design.
"I'm all for simple and pretty. I just want it to look good," Erin said.
"We'll make all that happen," Nichols assured her.


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Ting Mobile. Pay for what you use. Your rate is based on your usage each month. My mobile has only been over $30 a couple times. Sometimes it barely breaks $20.
Why is no one singing Snowden praises for this? It's pretty exclusively his sacrifice that brought this about. And Hillary can shove it up her as that the dialog was starting without him.
Because cops in this country believe that everyone they come across just might be armed and planning to shoot them
Except that's complete and utter bullshit. Shooting deaths of police officers last year were the lowest since 1887. Yes, that isn't a typo, 125 years ago when the population of the entire US was only a little over 50 million. Overall deaths were the lowest since 1957 and most of those were traffic accidents. So tell me again why the police agencies are arming themselves with military equipment and weapons?
have passed laws greatly limiting doctor's liability for pain and suffering.
The key question is why the NSA with all their absolutely critical data collection wasn't able to prevent this.
Register your post with the Copyright office and then sue them for Copyright infringement.
To be a journalist during an election takes a good relation with at least one of the candidates to get close enough to get the "good stories".
If you are critical, you will end up with having to create your own stories.
Last time I call Verizon customer service I told them I couldn't ping the DNS server IP. She told me try pinging www.google.com. I heard her say to the mid level tech on the other line "Now he's laughing at me. Why is he laughing at me?".
How long before EA gets the modder arrested for violating the DMCA anti-circumvention provision?
The point is technology has moved on to the point that a 'citizen' has no ability to stand against an army on his own, not with his own resources.
And as I've said before, once in full control of such resources
Are you kidding? Apple probable has 500 patents on various aspects of the iPhone 5.
This is especially scary given that those same disruptive technologies usually also challenge the government's ability to control the people.
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Ummm...you do realize that patents and copyright are the antithesis of capitalism and free markets?
Ummm...wikileaks doesn't target anyone. People give them stuff and wikileaks makes it makes it public. That's how it works. No targeting involved.
The latest craze in tracking: fingerprinting.
Where this could cross over to a net neutrality issue is if Comcast is threatening to disallow exclusively Netflix traffic in it's negotiations on a commercial peering agreement. If that's the case it's headed down that slippery slope of charging for specific traffic. If Comcast can establish that principal it makes it much easier to charge backbone providers for specific traffic that may compete with Comcast's other business offerings. The backbone operators would be forced to pass those additional costs on to the traffic originators. Without a lot more details of the negotiations and agreements it's difficult to say one way or the other if this is a step onto that slippery slope but it definitely has that potential.
Make all the politicians sign non-competes as a condition of serving in the government. They cannot work in any industry or job directly or indirectly related to government operations or any job or industry related to any work they were involved in while in government service (including legislation) for a minimum of 5 years after they leave government service.
Hate to reply to my own post but it appears they're also finding hoards of other articles that were stolen by Cook's Source from a number of other sources.


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Since writing a bestselling book on her fascinating and complex extra-dimensional theory of the universe, Harvard physicist Lisa Randall has been busy re-imagining it as an appropriately cerebral art form—opera. After three years of development, Hypermusic Prologue: A Projective Opera in Seven Planes premiered at Paris's prestigious Centre Pompidou in June and, like Randall's book Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions [Buy], it manages to translate the impenetrable world of theoretical physics into something that not only appeals to scientists, but to anyone willing to look beyond the obvious for clues about the nature of reality.
Spanish composer Hèctor Parra, 33, first saw artistic potential in Randall's ideas after reading Warped Passages, which uses plain language to describe how hidden dimensions may explain some of physics' greatest quandaries—such as why the gravitational force is so weak. When the book was released in Europe in 2006, Parra met up with Randall in Berlin to ask her to write a libretto based on her work. Randall admits she was "a little uncomfortable focusing so much on the physics," she says, because she didn't want to alienate the audience. "But I did see that the exploration of an extra dimension could be very nice as a metaphor. It seemed exciting."
As its title suggests, Hypermusic Prologue doesn't simply make art out of hard-to-grasp scientific theory, it inverts and renovates the genre of opera with an experimental score, a two-person cast, and minimalist and abstract stage design. Randall asked artist Matthew Ritchie [Video], whose sculptures often reference inflationary universe theory, to design the sets. Ritchie also developed a series of video projections for the performance: The industrial imagery projected behind baritone James Bobby represents the lower four-dimensional universe while the soprano, Charlotte Ellett, is often surrounded by projections of wildly colored celestial shapes, suggesting the expanded reality of a fifth dimension.
Parra, who composed the score, is the son of a physicist and his prior works have been influenced by particle physics. For Hypermusic Prologue, he uses an array of intricately thought-out sounds and instrumentations to communicate warped spacetime, as well as to signal changes in energy, mass, time, and gravity. As the soprano approaches a gravitationally strong part of the of the universe, for example, her voice is electronically treated to make her phrases shorter in mathematically precise increments and the orchestra matches this shorter phrasing. As she enters a hidden fifth dimension, her voice gets louder and the music gets sonically richer, while Bobby's voice—stuck in the lower-dimensional universe—remains digitally untreated and becomes softer and thinner.
As for Randall's libretto, it does not shy away from referencing how spacetime or gravity is altered in these hidden dimensions, but her ideas always manage to operate metaphorically. When the soprano sings, "The scale of my experience is altered," this is partly a literal reference to the way physical scaling changes in Randall's hidden dimensions. But Ellet is singing to her close-minded partner, baritone James Bobby, who keeps arguing the value of Newtonian physics until he finally has his own brief encounter with her unseen world. In this way, he becomes more open-minded and his perspective is altered.
Over the course of an hour, the soprano and baritone both experience a paradigm shift, and talk excitedly of "another view" that's "hidden yet true." In the final scenes, they are imbued with the sense of fearless exploration that drives both scientists and artists, amidst swirling hexagons of colors, digitally altered sounds, and ascending jittery strings. "It has a little bit to do with why I do science and about why I think there's more out there," Randall says of Hypermusic Prologue. "I've met a lot of other people in creative fields, and it is interesting to see how the same things drive them: The sense that there's something missing, that there's more to be done, that there's more to be known."
Hypermusic Prologue will move to Barcelona in November and from there will move to Luxembourg and Brussels. In January, New York's Guggenheim museum will host a special adaptation of of the opera as the finale of their "Universe Resounds: Art & Synesthesia" symposium.
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You Might Be A Wreckerator If...
Bakers, do you worry that you, too, might be a wreckerator?
Well, have no fear, pastry pros! There are plenty of warning signs to look for:
You Might Be A Wreckerator If....
- ...you consider "happy" a four-letter word.
- ...your cakes have more plastic on them than frosting.
- ...when you say, "I could just eat you up!" to a baby, you really mean it.
"It's...looking at me."
"Ugly little spud, isn't it?"
"I think it can hear you, Ray."
- ...cupcake cakes are your "specialty."
- ...your family crest says, "Spell check is for loosers."
- ...you like to watch CSI for the design inspiration.
- ...you not only know what this is, you think it's well done:
- ...you're frequently asked what time the earthquake hit.
- ...you pride yourself on following customer requests to the letter:
And finally, you might be a wreckerator if...
...you have to ban photography in your bakery to stop your cakes from showing up on Cake Wrecks.
(I get the e-mails, folks; I know you're out there!)
Thanks to Kimber, Amy S., Lori M., Carrie M., Whitney, Mary Rose, Liz, Joshua S., Stephanie B., Lisa R., & JR, who think it'd make more sense to just hire better bakers, but that's why they're not "good" management material.
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A few weeks ago, legendary short seller David Einhorn revealed that he was short Chipotle.
People freaked out and Chipotle shares plummeted.
Is there anything wrong with that?
Former Chipotle chairman Mats Lederhausen thinks so. He's the man who helped shape the company leading up to its big IPO in 2006.
We spoke with Lederhausen, who's now growing a new concept called Roti Mediterranean Grill, about what the thought about the happenings between Einhorn and Chipotle.
He didn't have anything good to say about short sellers like Einhorn. In fact, he was pretty disturbed by how it all went down.
" I have very little respect for short sellers. I think it should be illegal," Lederhausen tells us. " When people take short positions and go out and bad mouth companies, I think that's poor behavior that's borderline — it's unethical."
Lederhausen is irked by the "very notion" of short selling.
"I'm inherently skeptical about someone taking a short position and saying why [a company] is a bad idea ... I don't see the social value of that kind of speculation," he says. "Chipotle can't say anything about their performance. There's SEC rules that guide what they say and what they can't say."
"I'm a proud shareholder of Chipotle and all this noise will not affect my desire to remain a proud shareholder of Chipotle," concludes Lederhausen.
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This was a little snack bento I made for my girl on an errand-running day.
From left to right: blueberries, strawberry granola bar, mini sandwiches (cut and pressed with this onigiri shaper), cheddar cheese stars, a turkey roll (secured with cute kitty fork) and a tiny silicone cup of peanuts.
One of these days I might actually use the onigiri shapers for rice instead of little sandwiches and shaped eggs. Maybe I'll get really crazy and even put some rice in a bento box. ;-)
Friday, June 4, 2010
bento snack for my 'lil star
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- Alie said... [Reply to comment]
Ha ha! Rice in a bento box? Really? My kids disagree as rice needs to be hot to them. They don't even like ricepudding - crazy boys!
- June 4, 2010 at 8:46 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
I know, Alie! I'm really thinking "outside the box" with that crazy idea! I don't know where I come up with this stuff. LOL
Paige loves rice and will eat it cold. But I'm terrible at cooking it. So, so, soooooo very bad at cooking rice. And, she's such a very messy eater that I wouldn't dream of sending rice to school, her teacher would hate me! :)
- June 4, 2010 at 11:12 PM
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The Vietnam Moving Wall will be in Natick, Massachusetts from June 9 - 12, 2011.
Visit our website www.movingwallnatick.org
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Vietnam Moving Wall Schedule of events
The schedule of events is now listed on the Moving Wall website:http://www.movingwallnatick.or
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Town searching for family of Natick's fallen
The Moving Wall, which came to Waltham in 2005, will be arriving in Natick in June.
By Ian B. Murphy/Daily News staff
The MetroWest Daily News
May 27, 2011
NATICK - Organizers for the Moving Wall's visit to town next month are still searching for relatives of three Natick residents killed in action in Vietnam to take part in the ceremony honoring 11 fallen men.
The town wants to invite relatives of Army Staff Sgt. Dennis Poteat, Air Force Lt. Roger Brown and Navy Chief Eldon Tozer to be a part of a ceremony Thursday, June 9, with loved ones of other residents killed in the war.
"It's a wonderful opportunity for family members of these sons of Natick to be acknowledged and to hear the gratitude of the community for the sacrifice for these soldiers, sailors and airmen," said Josh Ostroff, a selectman helping with the search.
Marty Grady, the Moving Wall committee member leading the search, said none of the three soldiers was originally from Natick. They either lived in town during their enlistment or called the town home at the time of their death.
Grady said the town does have a few leads.
Originally from Marion, N.C., Poteat was working at Natick Labs when he agreed to go back to Vietnam for another tour of duty. He may have been married to a woman named Brenda.
Brown was originally from Wayland, graduated from Wayland High School in 1963 and lived at 21 Davelin Road in Wayland. His father's name was Warren.
Tozer came from Cullen's Brook, Quebec, and had four children: Janet, Donna, David and Gwendyl.
Grady and Ostroff said the town has had contact with a few relatives, but none could come to the wreath ceremony or put the town in touch with other family.
"We want to present a wreath to each one of these families," Grady said. "We'd like to have someone there from the family, but if we can't find anyone, we'll find a friend or someone else. But we need to know. We don't want anyone to feel as if they've been left out because we didn't notify them.
"We need any contacts at all, no matter how far-fetched it is.
Anyone with leads for the searchers should go to movingwallnatick.org for contact information for Moving Wall committee members.
During the opening ceremony, the town hopes to pair a service member from the same branch with the family member or friend of each soldier, sailor or airman killed in Vietnam.
The family of Lt. Allen Loane of the Marine Corps can't come to the event, so friends of Loane's from the Natick High Class of 1959 will receive the wreath.
The other seven Natick residents killed in Vietnam were Lt. Arthur Wright III, Marine Corps; Seaman Thomas Donovan, Navy; Lance Cpl. Dennis Higgins, Marine Corps; Cpl. Keith Flumere, Marine Corps; Pvt. John Madden Jr., Army; Spc. Kevin Lynch, Army; and Cpl. Richard Rinehart, Army.
The Moving Wall was built in 1984, two years after the original memorial opened in Washington, D.C. The half-sized replica has all the names that are inscribed on the original wall, and it is set up to mimic the east-west orientation of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Natick's Veterans Service Council has worked toward bringing the Moving Wall to town since September 2009. It will be placed on the high school soccer fields on West Street.
The opening ceremony is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, June 9, and the wall will be open to the public 24 hours a day until the afternoon of June 12. Dozens of volunteers have created an audio recording of the names of each person on the wall, which will be played on a loop.
This will be the last time the Moving Wall will be in Massachusetts this year.
Volunteers have been raising money and coordinating the effort since the dates were confirmed.
"It's really great that the whole town of Natick is behind this," Grady said. "I just can't say enough about the committee, and a lot of them non-veterans. Without them, we couldn't do it."
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Americans Justin Gatlin and Tyson Gay could have the best chance of chasing down Usain Bolt at the London Games after showing they're rounding into top form in the 100-meter final of the U.S. Olympic trials.
Gatlin won in 9.80 seconds Sunday and Gay was second — 0.06 seconds behind.
"These two can really encourage each other and motivate each other to take on that other little island out there who's been dominating America," said former hurdler Renaldo Nehemiah, who represents Gatlin.
Their comebacks far from complete, Justin Gatlin and Tyson Gay are on the right path. For Gatlin, it's a journey back from a doping past, while for Gay, it's a march toward full recovery after hip surgery nearly a year ago.
With their performances, Gatlin and Gay might have put Bolt and his Jamaican teammates on notice — or so they hope.
"I think he (Bolt) is a great talent and a great runner. I'm just glad to be back and in my top form," Gatlin said.
Gay, the American record holder, showed no ill effects of his surgically repaired right hip as he flew down the track, not a trace of a limp in his step.
He was headed to London when a year ago that very notion looked improbable.
"Bittersweet. I always like to win. I came in second," Gay said. "But at the end of the day, it was about making the team. I got to make sure I turn this little bit of a frown into a happy face. For me to start training in March and make the team is a beautiful accomplishment."
Also joining Gatlin and Gay in London will be 23-year-old Ryan Bailey, who edged Mike Rodgers, Doc Patton and Walter Dix, the Olympic bronze medalist in Beijing.
Dix pulled up in the semifinals with a left hamstring injury and wasn't the same in the final. He's hoping to be ready for the 200 this week.
"Things like this happen. I really can't say much about it," Dix said.
The last time Gatlin was at the Olympics trials — eight years ago — he was a youngster about ready to become the next big thing in sprinting. He won gold at the 2004 Athens Games and a world title the following year, before his fall from grace.
He tested positive for excessive testosterone in 2006, leading to a four-year ban that prevented him from defending his title in Beijing.
Now 30, he's attempting to repair his tarnished image.
"Usually, I have a lot of words. I'm almost speechless," Gatlin said. "Everything just feels so surreal. I just let the heart really go out and do what it had to do.
"I wasn't too hyped, wasn't too calm. It felt just right and went out there and gave it my all. I have a lot more left in the tank."
As expected, LaShawn Merritt won the 400, while Sanya Richards-Ross claimed the women's race.
Noticeably missing from the 400 team was Jeremy Wariner, the silver medalist in Beijing and 2004 Olympic gold medal winner. He finished a distant sixth and won't be going to London, unless it's as a member of the relay team.
Wariner trudged off the track with his hands on his hips, refusing to stop and talk.
In other finals, Olympic silver medalist and American record holder Jenn Suhr won the pole vault.
Following the men's 100, USA Track and Field announced how the third-place tie between training partners Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh in the women's 100 will be decided.
The scenarios involve either a coin toss or a runoff to determine the third and final spot on the team for the London Games.
If both athletes choose the same option, it will determine the tiebreaker. If the athletes disagree, the tiebreaker will be a runoff. If both athletes decline a preference, the tiebreaker will be a coin toss.
The coach for both sprinters told The Associated Press they won't make any kind of decision until after they complete the 200 later this week. The final is Saturday.
Felix and Tarmoh finished in a dead heat for the last U.S. spot in the 100 to London, each leaning across the finish line in 11.068 seconds Saturday. One of them will join Carmelita Jeter and Tianna Madison, who are already on the team.


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Apple's new, revised version of the third-generation Apple TV may look the same on the outside, but on the inside we already know that it uses a new, smaller version of the A5 system-on-a-chip. We talked a bit about the implications of this processor on Monday, but we refrained from saying anything concrete about its manufacturer. Chipworks is currently in the middle of tearing down one of these new Apple TVs, though, and they can tell us more. We don't know about the manufacturing process or architecture, but we now know that Samsung is still responsible for making the chip.
Persistent rumors have suggested that Apple is looking to move away from Samsung's chip production facilities in light of the two companies' ongoing legal troubles—Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) and even Intel have both been floated in recent weeks and months as potential partners. A move to another chip manufacturer still isn't out of the question, but it doesn't appear to be in work just yet.
We're still waiting on an actual die shot, but Chipworks has made a few other observations during its teardown: first, this A5's RAM is separate from the processor itself, while past A5s have used a package-on-package (PoP) design that stacked the RAM and the SoC on top of one another. This takes up a bit more space on a given device's system board, but it could be useful as a cost-saving measure. We also now know that the chip measures 6.1mm by 6.2mm, a more precise measurement than the 6mm by 6mm previously suggested.
We'll continue to monitor Chipworks' teardown as it happens, and we'll update this article as we find out more.
Update: Based on the space between the chip's transistors, Chipworks is now reporting that the new A5 is still made on Samsung's 32nm process. It seems likely, then, that despite being labeled as an A5, this chip won't have the same design (and may not have the same performance) as past chips with the same name.
Update 2: And we have our die shot. The new A5 includes just one CPU core, along with a dual-core Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX 543MP2 GPU. This doesn't account for the entirety of the die size reduction, but we're not yet sure what else is changed.
The third-generation Apple TV's A5 has always had one of its CPU cores disabled, so performance of these revised Apple TVs should still be the same as the older models. Engineering the chip to be this much smaller will save Apple money in the long run—it can get many more of these single-core A5s out of the same silicon wafer. Designing this new chip would also take a fair amount of time, money, and effort, though.
It may be that the Apple TV is now selling in high enough numbers (and that margins on it are low enough) that the redesign was justifiable for that reason alone. It could also be the case that Apple has another product in its pipeline that needed a small, relatively inexpensive chip—of the rumors making the rounds currently, the fabled iWatch and a new, cheaper iPhone could both fit this description. We suspect this isn't the last we'll hear about this new, smaller A5.


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For those of you here in the forum who are from Europe, you probably like or watch the Eurovision Song Contest.
This year due to the fact that Portugal didn't participate I was into the theme as normal yet... I saw the final votings and we have to congratulate our editor in chief Tommy because his country just WON the Eurovision Song Contest!


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It's National Handwriting Day! That's right, it's time again to take a moment to appreciate the handcrafted artistry that is personal penmanship.
Everything looks neater upside down.
- Hide it.
- Keep 'em guessing.
Is that thing a butterfly, a flower, a shamrock, or something else entirely? Who knows? The important thing is your clients will be too preoccupied guessing to notice your wrecked up writing.
- Move to an earthquake-prone region.
- Quit while you're ahead.
Thanks to Andrea B., Raymond P., Megan R., Tanya R., Jessica, Westly W., Kelley B., Zachary S., and Julie B., who know that quitting is the better part of valor. Or something.


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During the last decade the technology that's been made available to homes has grown at such a staggering rate that it has allowed companies like Comcast to expand into providing other services. Personal computers, for instance, never would have offered a market to Comcast cable when they first began entering homes. Then came the advent of the internet. Faster computers and larger amounts of data called for speedier internet connections that dial up providers couldn't possibly provide. Taking advantage of this new market, cable companies were able to offer their own brand of internet service which can currently offer speeds a hundred times faster than its dial up predecessor.
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Comcast Cable has grown to become the largest cable service provider in in Adger, AL. It was founded back in the 1960s as a local single system cable television provider and is now available almost anywhere that cable TV is offered. With an ever growing array of competition it is interesting to note how Comcast Cable is able to lead nearly all its markets.
Available in over thirty states, it's a safe bet that if one of those state's residence subscribes to cable that they are using Comcast. Born as a television company, home entertainment is still its primary concern. Overall they service over twenty million homes with cable television. Furthermore they provide digital cable service to almost another ten million homes.
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Comcast cable internet came to exist and it now provides high speed cyberspace access to almost eight million customers. That number represents over one third of their television subscribers which is quite staggering given how fresh the technology really is. Just think how slowly cable grew when introduced as a television service; no one wanted to pay for something that they were already getting for free. Initially cable internet had the same reaction with people not wanting to pay double the price for faster data transfer. But those numbers clearly show that the idea has definitely caught on.


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As investors continue to have another strong week on Wall Street, ETF issuers ALPS and USAA both filed paperwork to get in on the strong bull run the U.S. has been enjoying for the last month. ALPS is choosing to focus on the ever popular international dividend stock category, while the USAA is looking to be more proactive with its management of funds. Hopefully both will debut before this bull run ends [see ETF Database Launch Center].
Denver based ALPS has filed for a follow up to its popular SDOG fund, but this time with a global focus:
- The ALPS International Sector Dividend Dogs ETF: This ETF will closely follow its domestic predecessor, skimming the top dividend paying stocks in each sector of the Global Industry Classification Standard to arrive at the five highest paying stocks before investing. With a focus on Europe, Australia and the Far East, look out for IDOG later this year [also check out the Visual History Of The Dow Jones Industrial Average].
The USAA filed paperwork with the SEC earlier this week announcing that this government branch is looking to get into ETF industry. Already managing a number of mutual funds, insurance and annuities, USAA will be easing into the market through actively managed ETFs. The list of proposed funds include focuses on dividend equities, global managed volatility, flexible income and precious metals.
[For more ETF analysis, make sure to sign up for our free ETF newsletter or try a free seven-day trial to ETFdb Pro.]
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What About Spongebob?
I have to preface this post with a little caveat: I've never watched Spongebob SquarePants. Well, unless you count those times at CiCi's Pizza, since the TVs there are hard-wired to Cartoon Network for the resident herds of screaming little leaguers. (John and I like to visit sometimes to remind ourselves why we're not having children. And for the barbecue pizza.)
So anyway, let me apologize in advance for the lack of Spongebobian references. I like to think that most of you wouldn't get them anyway.
Spongebob is essentially a big rectangle, right? So naturally, if you want to recreate him in cake you should always go with a bunch of round cupcakes:
It does kind of look like we're peeking into Spo's (Can I call him Spo? Anyone care? No? Good.) casket, though, doesn't it? Plus some prankster has ripped his nose off and turned his tie upside down. [tsking] So disrespectful.
Speaking of which...
I know you can still see part of Spo's eye here, but don't worry: The baker will cover that up when s/he writes a misspelled, abbreviated version of your name there.
This next one is like the Fiji Mermaid of Cupcake Cakes (patooey!*):
Only instead of half mammal, half fish, it's half Spongebob, half...pedestal? Robot? TV on wheels? I dunno - what the heck is that thing? You tell me. Best answer may or may not get posted here, so gimme your best shot, punks.
Oh, and we're just getting started with the Spongebob Wreckage, so prepare to have gads more sprung at you sometime later this week.**
*I think we should all spit every time the horrific term "cupcake cake" [patooey!] or its abbreviation "CCC" [patooey!] is mentioned. Y'all down with that? Just watch your aim: people and keyboards don't much appreciate being spat upon.
**I just used "gads" and "sprung" in the same sentence. Dude, someone get me a sweater; I am sooo cool.


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Aligning your club with other professionals
Between work and running errands, most club members barely have time for a workout. So why not make their lives easier by turning your club into a one-stop shop?
By renting space to other professionals, your club provides more services to your members. As a result, you build goodwill while generating extra revenue.
Here is a list of professionals who present partnering opportunities:
Physical therapist. Edward Health and Fitness Center (Naperville and Woodridge, Ill.) rents out space to a local hospital to provide physical therapy. This means Edward members can get physical therapy, while physical therapy patients can continue their rehab at the fitness center. Specifically, Edward Health offers patients a program that helps them make the transition from therapy to a regular fitness routine.
Many of the patients end up becoming full-time center members because of the care and attention that they received in the center, explains Cindy Eggemeyer, executive director. Plus the former patients feel confident working out in a place that has a physical therapist on board.
Orthopedic surgeon. Edward's Woodridge facility rents 3,000 square feet of space to an orthopedic surgeon. Even though his office is only open three days a week, he rents it for seven days, and all his patients are required to come in through the facility for their office visit.
"Not only does it increase our exposure, but having an orthopedic surgeon is an added value to our facility," notes Eggemeyer.
Members benefit because the surgeon does some orthopedic screenings free of charge. Edward benefits because the surgeon works with many high school and college athletes, whom he often refers into Edward's sports enhancement programs.
Chiropractor. Gold's Gym in Conshohocken, Pa., rents space to a chiropractor, who performs free medical evaluations for all new members.
"You get to know him right away and he becomes part of the family, so if anything happens, the members know he is here for them," notes Kevin Burke, the president of the club. "Ninety-five percent of his patients are members. It works out very nice because he feeds us and we feed him."
Massage therapist. Gold's Gym of Conshohocken also rents out space to a massage therapist. It's just another value-added service that the club provides for its members, notes Burke.
To drum up member interest, and to give members a little bonus, the therapist often gives free five-minute neck massages out on the club floor.
Endermologist. While WOW! Work Out World in New Jersey also rents space to chiropractors and physical therapists, the club chain is delving a little further into the overall wellness/spa realm.
For example, an endermologist provides cellulite reduction treatments. After all, notes WOW!'s Stephen P. Roma, "people come here to look good."
Food service vendors. WOW! leases out its juice bar, a popular profit center in many clubs.
"It all started because [we were] originally running the juice bar ourselves, which is a whole other business," notes Roma. "We couldn't do the job that we wanted to, so we hired someone to do it."
Ad hoc service providers. Every month or so, Roma invites a different vendor to come in and sell products — such as exercise clothing, jewelry and cosmetics — on an ad hoc basis. He then takes a percentage of what the vendor sells.
The arrangement works out well for all involved, according to Roma. The vendor gets a high concentration of people in a very targeted market, WOW! gets additional revenue, and members get extra services without going anywhere else.
"Fifty percent of our membership is female, so the cosmetics and jewelry are a natural avenue for them," adds Roma.
Beauticians. Burke notes that his Gold's Gym is considering renting out space to a small beauty salon so people could get a haircut or style, a facial and a manicure.
Medical professionals for women. Burke claims that he has been approached by a doctor who is interested in opening a women's wellness center in the club. Burke says that he is definitely contemplating the offer.
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The Silencing of the Hacks – Ganley Threatens Journalist With Arrest Over Tweets and Blog
December 15, 2012 - 2 Responses By C Flower
A journalist and member of Politicalworld.org, Kevin Barrington, has been threatened with arrest and is being sued by Declan Ganley for remarks made in recent tweets and also for a blog post on the right wing groupings gathered under the Libertas eu umbrella. The blog post was made last May on Barrington's personal blog. There is nothing unusual in this, as Ganley has a history of threatening legal action against critics. Anyone raising his history in Iraq, his extensive involvement with the US military, his Eastern European business interests and the very toxic collection of far right traditionalists, near-nazis, anti-semites and Hitler-saluting nationalists who he attempted to weld together into a pan European party may expect some kind of hostile attention.
Ganley likes to threaten to sue -
In Barrington's case, some satirical and unfriendly tweets directed to an Irish comedian, others to the world in general, on pro-life supporters, were retweeted by Ganley and I guess it is those tweets that are subject to action, given that Ganley was mentioned in one.
Barrington, as well as a journalist, is also a poet. Anyone interested in reading his work will find a couple of examples on our writing blog"itsapoeticalworld." Recommended
The blog post complained of by Ganley appears to have contained material about Ganley that is historical and widely published elsewhere, including this quote from the Wiesenthal Centre.
Libertas is running some 600 candidates in over 20 of the elections in the 27 member-states. Some of those standing are known antisemites, homophobes and anti-migrant racists. These include:
- Ryszard Bender and Anna Sobecka of the Polish League of Families. Both are supporters of the widely criticized antisemitic Radio Maryja, where Bender was recorded as stating that Auschwitz was 'not a death camp but a labour camp where Jews and Gypsies were killed by hard labour – not so hard, not always killed.Georgios Georgiou, of the Greek LAOS party which was described by the United States State Department as antisemitic, racist and xenophobic. Uschi Winkelsett, head of the German extreme right Republikaner party, claimed to have received congratulations from Libertas upon her election. There are also press reports of Libertas' outreach to the Austrian BZO party of the late Hitler admirer, Jörg Haider.
Since Ganley first appeared on the political scene, he has managed to espouse the US military, "disaster capitalism," successive business failures, spectacular electoral failure across Europe, Swiss "refuge" banking, and the European far right, abroad, while at home maintaining, by hook or by crook, an image of an "open and transparent" successful entrepreneur on the side of the people. Going so far as to attach himself to the coat tails of the fine people of Ballyhea, who in my opinion deserve much better company.
In the past, Ganley has threatened critical journalists with being sued. This time, he additionally threatened to have the journalist arrested, under the "Non-fatal Offences Against the Person Act" which carries the threat of a large fine and a jail term of up to 6 years. This is a new and disturbing legal approach when used in the arena of political commentary.
I'm making no comments on Barrington's tweets or the content of the blog article, (other than items quoted in it from published sources), as these matters may come up in Court and should not be prejudiced.
Everyone has a right to their good name. Factual reportage of, and freedom to oppose political viewpoints is also a right of great social importance.
In the last week, another member of the Irish Right – John McGuirk – produced a "list of pro-choice journalists" in a blatant attempt to marginalise and silence pro-choice opinion in the media. Freedom of the press and of individual journalists to speak their political minds is one of the cornerstones of democratic society. In the present economic and political turmoil, it needs to be defended firmly.
The far right, when Ganley first came on the political scene, was a dim and microscopic entity. Now we have seen what has happened in Greece, when social fabric is strained by poverty and struggle over diminishing resources, it is more important than ever that it is reported on. If Ganley wants to disassociate himself from his past connections with far right groups, it is open for him to do that through his own political actions and statements, rather than by silencing critics.
C. Flower 15.12.2012


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It seemed David Beckham had personally met and mesmerized just about every resident of Miami by Wednesday afternoon (and I include my 14-year-old daughter in that statement, as she had a photo taken with the British soccer icon at a function last month, a photo that was immediately broadcast to the entire teenage world on Instagram).
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