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Verizon tries again for Little League cell tower
Original post made on Oct 4, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Saturday, October 5, 2013, 11:48 AM
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on Oct 4, 2013 at 1:17 pm
Everyone complains about Palo Alto being a "black hole" of cell phone reception, but no one wants a cell phone tower anywhere near their neighborhood.
Either stop complaining about lousy cell phone reception and drive to Mtn View to make calls, or accept the fact that more towers are needed.
on Oct 4, 2013 at 2:01 pm
The article says the NSA is installing these antennas? Really?
on Oct 4, 2013 at 3:58 pm
> Several readings across the street from the Sprint pole about 50 meters from the base of the tower and 52 meters from the antennas showed a peak strength of about 30 to 34 dBm
Either the SRI engineer needs to re-calibrate his measuring device or Ms Dremann needs a new editor. 30dBm is 1 watt! If the Sprint pole is putting this amount of power at 52 meters, there is no amount of time that anyone is safe in that RF field. Our poor firefighters at Station 4 directly under that antenna must be grave danger!
Surely, the numbers are -30dBm to -34 dBm? Doesn't anyone proof read Ms Dremann's stories?
on Oct 5, 2013 at 10:52 am
Join us in opposing this cell tower. Email email@example.com and we'll send you an email template with contacts to easily voice your opposition to the right individuals at Verizon, the Little League Ball Park Board, and the city of Palo Alto.
on Oct 5, 2013 at 11:05 am
Sounds to me that the NIMBYs are opposed to lights for the baseball field, not radiation from the cell phone towers. Maybe they need to be negotiating directly with the little league, not the city.
on Oct 5, 2013 at 11:55 am
Could we please have a link to the report supposedly commissioned by Ken Allen and conducted by an SRI employee? I wonder whether Ken just asked one of his neighbors who shared his personal opinion and who used to work at SRI to do the study to support his conclusion. Do we know if the study is peer-reviewed and published in a scientific journal?
There are plenty of scientific publications about the potential or documented health effects associated with being within 500 meters of cell tower. Here are a couple of the publications:
The Influence of Being Physically Near to a Cell Phone Transmission Mast on the Incidence of Cancer (Web Link);
Survey Study of People Living in the Vicinity of Cellular Phone Base Stations. Santini 2003, Electromagnetic Biology & Medicine, Vol 22: 41-9.
on Oct 5, 2013 at 12:15 pm
JerryL is a registered user.
The measurements indeed WERE -30 dBm. This is about a micro watt.
The article was off by a factor of 1 million. My note to Mr. Allen
and email to the author clearly had the minus sign (which got dropped
somewhere in the editing process, I guess).
Also, these were measurements taken informally for a neighbor and not
official product of my employer and the caveats were omitted from the article.
on Oct 5, 2013 at 12:21 pm
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on Oct 5, 2013 at 2:57 pm
I agree with Member that Mr. Allen's statistics should be backed up with source citations, and not just offered as pro-tower propaganda. One important thing I would like to point out regarding the amount of RF a cell phone gives off versus a cell tower (and I am in no way validating Mr. Allen's comments) is that people use cell phones BY CHOICE and they are generally used in relatively short periods of time. Cell towers emit RF radiation to everyone in the area, 24x7, including our kids, whether or not they want cell coverage. It is outrageous that the Little League is forcing this exposure on the neighborhood, schools, park, and brand new library rather than raising the funds they want (and only they will benefit from). The income they will get from these cell towers is $2100/month. Per the Little League website they field 83 spring teams, plus fall and summer teams. If you do the math it comes to less than $20 per kid per year! Given the entire property was GIFTED to Little League (back in the early 50s, so their property taxes are practically nothing), it is just selfish that they want to impose this tower on the neighborhood that is so strongly against it.
Seems Palo Alto Little League feels quite entitled to be supported by everyone else's sacrifice. Come on PALL - be responsible!
There are more suitable locations and solutions for reasonable cell coverage.
on Oct 5, 2013 at 3:06 pm
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on Oct 5, 2013 at 3:35 pm
Lai and Yotopoulos seem to have the common sense others are lacking. It doesn't take a rocket scientist (or RF engineer for that matter) to know that putting a cell tower in the middle of a bunch of kids is a bad idea.
on Oct 5, 2013 at 4:13 pm
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on Oct 5, 2013 at 4:17 pm
Kate-- so the little league can count on you for the $2k a month-- given that it is such a measly amount. If you refuse , it would be despicable.
on Oct 5, 2013 at 4:21 pm
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on Oct 5, 2013 at 4:35 pm
Yes, let's close down this little league park. How dare the lights disturb the neighbors. And god forbid they put a cell phone tower in-- the deadly radiation will be toxic for all. Of course none of the ani- tower people use cellphones.
So, Kate, can the little league count on that $2k a month from you? You clearly have no clue as to what a little league budget is, but please provide us with a link to the overall annual budget you have found.
on Oct 5, 2013 at 4:49 pm
Maybe the anti- tower people should demand thatbthe city give the little league as much money as they give to the PACT. Then the LL would not need to get funding from Verizon. Of course the PACT is a city institution, while little league is not important to our city leaders.
on Oct 5, 2013 at 5:21 pm
The little league has almost $500k in assets and over $300k in revenue each year according to their 2011 financials. This puts them in a category where their budget isn't just larger than most California non-profits, but larger than most Palo Alto non-profits as well. This is about greed, plain and simple. You can click the "Web Link" or go to non-profit-organizations.findthebest.com/m/l/1716371/Little-League-Baseball-Inc/
on Oct 5, 2013 at 5:56 pm
Palo Alto Little League is rare, among little leagues across the country, in that it owns its land and facilities. This means it needs to pay the maintenance bills at the Middlefield facility. It gets no financial support from the city coffers, not even irrigation water. Just basic things like keeping the parking lot paved, is a huge cost. Its budget is hardly out of order, and it does, indeed, need that extra $2k per month.
To call PALL greedy is absurd.
on Oct 5, 2013 at 6:19 pm
>Given the entire property was GIFTED to Little League (back in the early 50s...
The Palo Club bought the empty land then transferred the land to Palo Alto Little League, once it paid off the loan. It was not "gifted" to PALL...not even one penny.
>Cell towers emit RF radiation to everyone in the area, 24x7, including our kids
Does this mean that the cell tower (flagpole) at the corner fire station should be dismantled?
on Oct 5, 2013 at 6:21 pm
So Kate, the assets are the ball park. John is correct about its financial state.
Can the LL count on you for a measly $2k a month so to will not need Verizon? Why do you consider the PALL greedy and it's attempts at funding despicable? Are you against what they stand for?
on Oct 5, 2013 at 6:32 pm
vYes John, please dismantle the cell tower flag pole at the fire station too. That's not too far from the park and neighboring schools as well. You'd be doing the community a service. If your neighbors don't mind, you can plant it in your own backyard. THANKS!
on Oct 5, 2013 at 6:39 pm
The anti- tower people are going about this the wrong way.if these cell towers are these deadly, dangerous structures that these people claim they are, they should demand thatbthe city council, immediately ban all cell phone towers from the city. In addition the possession and use of cell phones and microwaves should be outlawed as well. We might as well ban WiFi as well-- you cannot be too careful. After that we need to go after those electrical lines.
on Oct 5, 2013 at 7:01 pm
> Do they should demand thatbthe city council, immediately ban all cell phone towers from the city. In addition the possession and use of cell phones and microwaves should be outlawed as well. We might as well ban WiFi as well-- you cannot be too careful. After that we need to go after those electrical lines.
Don't forget fluoridated water.
on Oct 5, 2013 at 7:05 pm
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on Oct 5, 2013 at 7:18 pm
Marie-- I think that there is a complete misunderstanding as to the dangers of cell phone towers. These anti- tower people emerge anytime a cell tower is proposed for ANYWHERE in the city. Anyway, how far is far enough? And you do understand how cell phone tower coverage works?
There is no evidence of any danger from cell towers ( I mean real scientific evidence) . Yet, the anti-tower people roll out the same false arguments evry time. I also wonder how many of these people use cell phones.
Sorry, John, that I forgot the fluoridated water
on Oct 5, 2013 at 7:23 pm
>they just wnat them placed in approrpriate places in our community, far from the children playing baseball or the children at the neighboring schools. Having 2 school aged children that are active in sports and attend PA's public schools, I think that's a sensible request
Maria, do you have cell phone reception in Crescent Park? I assume you do. So, where are the cell towers to service your needs? Are any of them near schools or sports fields?
Do you allow your children to drink or even bathe in Palo Alto's fluoridated water? Assuming that you do, have you considered the mysterious possibility that RF from cell towers might negate the toxic effects of our local water? Don't ask me to explain it, because I can't. I can't explain ghosts and UFOs either...it's just one of the many possibilities that is out there.
on Oct 5, 2013 at 9:23 pm
Saturday 9:20 pm. The Little League Ball Park lights are beaming, with no one in sight. Couldn't they save the electrical bill for use in maintenance?
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on Oct 5, 2013 at 10:10 pm
Yes-- not sure what your point is,but....
The heated debate s coming from the anti- tower side , labeling the PALL as greedy
People are. Voicing their opinions, so what is your point?
I was being sarcastic about closing the park, given the reactions of the anti- tower crowd.
There is a question of whether the concerns are legitimate.
I am not labeling anyone.
So what is your point???
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on Oct 6, 2013 at 1:48 am
Cell Towers are bad for ones health. $2,000 is not worth the medical bills and pain and suffering.
on Oct 6, 2013 at 9:03 am
>Cell Towers are bad for ones health
The proper study, which has not been done, is to install two cell towers in a town, with similar neighborhood characteristics. Make sure that a political fight occurs over both of them. Once installed, only one of the towers will be activated, but no will know this, except for the designers of the study. After 2-3 years, determine if there are more health complaints for the active tower vs. the inactive tower. My bet is that the complaints will be about equal, due to the psychosomatic effects, such as have been demonstrated by some in this thread.
on Oct 6, 2013 at 12:07 pm
"Cell Towers are bad for ones health. $2,000 is not worth the medical bills and pain and suffering."
Just wear a tinfoil hat and all will be well.
Seriously folks, it beggars belief that supposedly educated and intelligent people would believe such nonsense. Cell phone towers are all around us. If they posed any sort of a health risk, people would be dropping like flies. Paranoia and superstition are poor substitutes for logic and critical thinking.
on Oct 6, 2013 at 12:18 pm
>This is all very distasteful... I'm dropping Verizon and taking my son to play ball elsewhere!
Elaine, I don't know the age of your son, but he might have something to say about your dictate that he is not allowed to play in little league, with his friends. Exactly where will you take him to play ball? Have you checked out the RF ambient levels at any of those parks? Momma grizzlies need to take a step back, before they charge.
BTW, I already responded to the issue of PALL budget issues (above). Please check it out.
on Oct 6, 2013 at 12:39 pm
"About the safety of cell phones, I'll just remind everyone about what they said about the health and safety of smoking 30 years ago.
Who would have thought about whether or not even SECOND-HAND SMOKE was dangerous!?!????"
Then don't smoke. What do cigarettes have to do with cell phones or cellular towers? What does covering up the dangers of smoking 50 years ago have to do mobile phone safety today? There is no logical connection. You might as well claim that because an asteroid strike wiped out the dinosaurs, cell towers will wipe out humanity. Again, no logical connection.
on Oct 6, 2013 at 1:14 pm
I tend to believe that "they" were afraid of radio waves, tv waves and even electric light in the home, when they all first came about.
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on Oct 6, 2013 at 1:58 pm
>The worst off are the children around there that wouldn't know any better until they develop leukemia 20 years later
There is, of course, no evidence for your alarmist claim. However, since the existing cell tower, at the fire station, is only about 130 meters away (in the 'danger zone', according to other alarmists), then make sure that your own kids don't bother playing little league baseball. Best to check out other youth activities around town, too...many of them are within the danger zones from cell towers.
Above all, make sure your kids are not vaccinated...why take a chance with possible autism? Let's not forget riding bicycles...very dangerous for kids on our public streets.
This thread has degenerated into the paranoid abyss, as most discussions of radiation do. I suggest that all those with such fears shut off their computer screens, and make sure their kids don't ever get in front of one. Otherwise, just let the kids play ball and use their cell phones.
on Oct 6, 2013 at 5:10 pm
In the absence of extensive epidemiological data or a proven mechanism, there is no way to formulate a strategy of "prudent avoidance". A former head of Stanford EH&S pointed out that there may be windows of field level that are dangerous, with fields higher and lower being harmless (and there are hypothetical mechanisms that could behave this way). In that case, lowering your exposure could drop you from a harmless level to a harmful level. Most studies are retrospective and attempt to estimate what the actual exposure was, with very little accuracy and many uncontrolled variables. Even if you believe them they provide no guidance for creating a strategy of avoidance.
on Oct 6, 2013 at 5:25 pm
If you're worried that kids will develop leukemia in 20 years, how do you explain the kids who have already grown up being exposed to cell phone signals for 20+ years don't have higher rates of leukemia or anything like it?
on Oct 6, 2013 at 5:27 pm
John: "Palo Alto Little League is rare,... in that it owns its land and facilities. This means it needs to pay the maintenance bills .... It gets no financial support from the city coffers, not even irrigation water. Just basic things like keeping the parking lot paved, is a huge cost...."
Ha ha!! You do realize that no other sport in Palo Alto owns it's own land (which was a GIFT) and that other sports are also not subsidized by the city, right? All of the other sports have to live within their budget, raise fees or have fund raisers as needed. All other sports have to RENT space to play, and guess what, THERE ISN'T ENOUGH SPACE so there is over-crowding and limited field time! Not a problem PALL has.
As a property owner I also have to pay to irrigate my own yard and pave my own driveway - It goes with property ownership! I can't put in a cell tower though, or 60' light poles, or a loudspeaker to play music that is heard for blocks around. I also can't put buildings with generators right on my property line, as their plan proposes.
Palo Alto Little League is indeed unique - they are more fortunate than any other sports league around! Do you know why they want more lights? So they can build a lighted T-Ball field - that is their justification for needing more lights at the back corner. Really - T-ballers need lights now? And, won't that increase their electric and water bills even more? If the PALL board was RESPONSIBLE and appreciated what they have and have been given, and maintained it instead of demanding more, more, more, they would be just fine.
If the parents of Little Leaguers want all of those wonderful amenities, they can vote on fee increases or volunteer for fundraisers. But if the argument is that PALL can't afford to maintain that beautiful piece of property then they should do what the rest of us property owners would be forced to do: sell it and find something they can afford or rent something, just like all the other sports leagues.
Throwing up an industrial cell tower that negatively impacts the neighborhood is, indeed, just selfish and callous.
And by the way, that piece of property is worth MILLIONS, so the $500K in assets is either something else or only the "taxed" value is being used in their financials. No other sports league has that kind of operating budget, or OPTIONS!
Only in Palo Alto could such a fortunate organization feel so entitled, even at the expense of the community.
on Oct 6, 2013 at 5:45 pm
I am really shocked at the negative attitude towards PALL.
My family has been involved with PALL over the years and although we don't have anyone involved now, I still tend to think that the Ballpark is a Palo Alto asset that we should be helping rather than hindering.
Do you realize that we have lost a bowling alley and other children friendly activities in this area and yet more and more families are moving here? What will the kids do when there are so many kids and not enough field space to give them an opportunity to do sport in their own neighborhoods.
And, if in the unlikely event (but suggested by some in the above comments) that PALL should go somewhere else and sell the land because it is worth so much, what would we get? I will tell you. We would get condos and townhomes with lots more people with children and nothing for them to do.
I strongly suggest that we support PALL for all the good they do for our children. We need more kid friendly groups in Palo Alto and we need more facilities for our kids to get exercise in the open air.
With all the protests for cell towers around town, we now have mini towers on many utility poles around town. If Verizon don't get this, what will they do instead? I expect they will put mini towers on even more utility poles, perhaps outside the homes of those neighbors who are protesting about PALL.
on Oct 6, 2013 at 6:21 pm
Ashamed, you need to get your facts straight. PALL was not a gift, its loan was paid off over 50 years ago. The moms did fundraising and materials donations, and the dads did the tractor work and physical work. It was a real Norman Rockwell type of story. Something to be proud of as a city.
PALL does a good job maintaining its site, and it is a real resource for kids and parents. Not to mention the general benefit for the police and parents who park there, while doing their various duties. If the PALL parking lot was not available, the Mitchell Park library would be even more behind than it is now.
PALL is not in it for profit, so no way it will sell that property.
This is becoming the theatre of the absurd.
You should be ashamed.
on Oct 7, 2013 at 1:03 pm
PALL Should Be Ashamed! is a registered user.
@Resident: The negative attitude toward PALL is based on their attitude toward the parents and neighbors that are opposed to this intrusion - they couldn't care less about what anyone else thinks and have said so repeatedly. That's not very neighborly, and is why the neighbors and parents have gotten so upset at them.
Sorry if my point was lost - I am not advocating that PALL sell the ball field or be shut down - I am objecting to John "crying poor" on behalf of PALL. They are a very wealthy sports league that has more than enough resources to support their own program without intruding on the neighbors and parents who do not want a cell tower in their residential neighborhood. PALL wants the money to add more amenities, not water the lawn.
Anyone can donate to PALL If they so choose, but putting up a cell tower that is ugly, potentially dangerous (see studies below) and will lower property values in the area is not fair. That FORCES others to pay for the sole benefit of Little League families. I bet you would have the same issue if you were going to be negatively impacted for someone else's sole benefit - PALL is no charity case.
How about we get a bond on the ballot - every homeowner in Palo Alto can be taxed to support PALL since it is a city-wide kids resource. Most people would be in an uproar, yet that would be much more fair that what is being proposed here.
PALL can support their own program without a cell tower. This is a step from which there will be no turning back. There will be nothing to stop them from adding more once there is a "status quo" in the eyes of the city and Architecture Review Board. Once Verizon has their foot in the door and an easement on the property they will be able to add more. AT&T is already being cc'd on communications by the NSA Wireless, the company that is managing this project.
This is not even good for PALL in the longterm but they are not thinking strategically - only a short-sighted view of what they think will get them a new T-Ball field and covered bleachers now. When technology changes and cell towers are no longer the technology of the day, who will pay to remove them?
Example of property value impact: Web Link
Health studies:
Other countries have more stringent RF safety levels:
Researchers in Germany monitored 1,000 inhabitants living close to a cell tower. The results show that the proportion of newly developing cancer was significantly higher from among those patients who had lived during the past ten years at a distance of up to 400 meters from the cellular transmission site. After five years of exposure, the relative risk of getting cancer had trebled for the residents of the area in proximity of the installation compared to the inhabitants outside the area. The study, The Influence of Being Physically Near to a Cell Phone Transmission Mast on the Incidence of Cancer, is available as a PDF. There are additional studies that have been published, all by scientists in other countries showing a relationship between health and exposure to RF. Recent studies show health issues with exposure to to RF (radio frequency) cell towers. These are published studies:
Epidemiological Evidence for a Health Risk from Mobile Phone Base Stations International Journal of Occupational & Evironmental Health: 2010 16:263-267
Eight of the 10 studies reported increased prevalence of adverse neurobehavioral symptoms or cancer in populations living at distances < 500 meters from base stations. None of the studies reported expo- sure above accepted international guidelines, suggesting that current guidelines may be inadequate in protecting the health of human populations.
(France 2003) People living within 300 meters of cell antennas reported the following disorders: "fatigue, sleep disturbances, headaches, feeling of discomfort, difficulty concentrating, depression, memory loss, visual disruptions, irritability, hearing disruptions, skin problems, cardiovascular disorders, and dizziness." (Survey Study of People Living in the Vicinity of Cellular Phone Base Stations. Santini 2003, Electromagnetic Biology & Medicine, Vol. 22 (1): 41-49.)
Spain (2003): "Exposed individuals lived within 50 and 150 meters of the base station experienced more headaches, sleep disturbances, irritability, difficulty concentrating, discomfort, dizziness, appetite loss and nausea."
(Ibid., citing: The Microwave Syndrome: A Preliminary Study in Spain. [Navarro, E.A., J. Segura, M. Portoles, C. G-P de Mateo. 2003. Electromagnetic Biology & Medicine, Vol. 22 (2): 161-169.])
on Oct 7, 2013 at 1:48 pm
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This really is getting absurd. PALL & Verizon have bent over backwards to respond to the earlier complaints/recommendations of neighbors. The cell antennas have been moved farther away from Middlefield Road and, by combining them with the light tower, the appearance complaints and criticism of the color of the "fake tree" have been pretty well addressed. Now, it seems to me, about a half dozen members of our neighborhood, are showing that they won't be satisfied by any mitigation measures. Those against the PALL are a tiny fraction of the neighbors (based on the meeting I was at) and even a fraction of neighbors living across from the park (based on conversations with one such neighbor).
on Oct 7, 2013 at 2:24 pm
WallyS is a registered user.
"Not an issue:" Since turn-about is fair play, can we count on you cover the 20-25% loss in our property values when this tower goes in? Apparently, you think your property values will not suffer, so it's only fair you shoulder the financial burden for this tower that you are arguing so hard for.
John, Kazu: Can you please point to one study that definitively rules out any health risks associated with cell towers? I've seen many studies that do show increased health problems, including the multiplication of cancer incidence, but from you folks I've seen only sarcasm and hearsay. THAT is what is causing the degeneration of the argument. Just as Ken Allen does repeatedly by labeling people who disagree with him as "not rational" and our concerns as "unfounded."
Will you personally guarantee that cell phone towers are safe and no buyer will walk away because of the ugly thing out the window? Because the government won't make that guarantee, the city won't, Verizon won't, and I'm betting PALL won't either. The government's last official stance on the safety of cell towers was in the Telecommunications Act of 1996. 1996!
Talk is cheap let's see these pro-tower people put some skin in the game, like those of us who are against it have.
on Oct 7, 2013 at 5:42 pm
muttiallen is a registered user.
The neighbors are objecting to the tower as a health hazard, not to the light pole. It won't be any uglier than the other light poles. It won't make their property values go down. The big flag pole on East Meadow (Sprint) and the fake 'tree' behind Achieve School (T-Mobile) are already here and most of the neighbors are glad. There are about 3 or 4 people making all the fuss. Let's just build the thing! It's a win-win. Money and more lights for Little League. Better cell service for the rest of us.
on Oct 7, 2013 at 6:36 pm
PALL Should Be Ashamed! is a registered user.
[Portion removed.] I'm going to recommend a DAS system and that the antennas be placed next to the home of all the people complaining about coverage - all they have to do is sign up. Easy solution. Win-win!
[Portion removed.]
on Oct 7, 2013 at 10:08 pm
neighboramn is a registered user.
@muttiallen, Yes the neighbors are objecting the cell tower for many reasons, including health concern, lowering property value, and esthetics, among others. Yes, we are also objecting to the installation of two additional light poles.
There is no demonstrated need for installing two additional light poles with lighting fixtures surrounding the Little League Park. Even with their existing lighting fixtures, the Little League has not managed them well. They wasted a lot of energy, caused light pollution and hurted the good will of its neighbors, because these lights remain on sometimes over long nights, outside of baseball seasons, under pouring rains in winters, and with no players in sight. If the Palo Alto Little League Inc. wants to have new light poles, they should submit their own application and subject to separate reviewing process, instead of having them bundled together with the COMMERCIAL Cell Tower proposal.
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Game #2 -- Springfield 4, WPI 2
In game #2 of the twinbill, Williams, a sophomore right-hander from E. Hartford, Conn., was credited with the victory, his first decision of the year. In six innings, he allowed four hits and two runs, both earned. He walked three and struck out one.
Three pitchers followed Williams to the mound for SC. They were freshman right-hander Mike DeMille (East Milton, Mass.) for two innings, sophomore left-hander Jon Medici (South Portland, Me.) for 1/3 of an inning., and freshman right-hander Tyler Benoit (North Adams, Mass.) for two-thirds of an inning. Benoit threw two pitches inducing a double play to end the game, halting a WPI threat in the ninth.
WPI scored both of its runs in the first inning on only one hit. Runs were scored on a sacrifice fly by senior John Flynn (Albion, Me.), and on a ground out by Walsh.
In the bottom of the fifth, SC scored three runs, all on a two-out double by Quist.
In the SC sixth, sophomore right-fielder Jared Hopkins (Cranston, R.I.) knocked in the fourth run on a single to center.
The Pride unloaded for 14 hits in the contest.
Springfield next plays on Wednesday, March 28 when it hosts neighborhood-rival Western New England University at 3:30 pm.


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I take a "half caf" which helps me get my day started and does not have me walking along the ceiling due to the caf-jolt.
I observe more and more people working on their laptops, doing Sudoku, not there to socialize with another person (this still goes on, but has less "market share")
A sign of the times. I would be interested in what others' impressions are, but my take is that these are people who largely are capable and out of work, and just get the hell out of the house as they did when they had a job to go to, instead of staying put in their homes.
But for the grace of a higher power, there go many more of us.
on Mar 27, 2010 at 5:46 pm
I noticed the same thing. I draw different conclusions with equally limited evidence and certainty; I think these people are working in the lowest cost office they can find.
on Mar 28, 2010 at 1:04 am
Perhaps these people are trying to meet people to date, and they cannot meet people by working in their home offices and they don't want to hit the bars/singles scenes because that just seems too low class.
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Was not an English coffee shop named Lloyd's an early center of the insurance business? There might be a business model here where coffee shops added scanners and printers, teleconferencing booths and an in-house tech.
If, 35 years ago when I went into private practice I had proposed setting up a saloon where coffee was sold for twice the price of booze they would have laughed me out of town.


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A CLUBBER accused of raping a man with learning difficulties at Oxford Railway Station has been cleared of all the charges against him.
Daniel Allen, of Fleetham Gardens, Reading, was found not guilty yesterday following a week-long trial at Oxford Crown Court.
The 20-year-old was charged with committing two counts of rape and two counts of causing someone to engage in sexual activity without their consent on February 10 last year.
But a jury yesterday returned not guilty verdicts on all four counts.
Ahmed Hossain, prosecuting, said the 24-year-old man has the mental age of "a very young child".
Mr Hossain said that Allen did not deny having sex with the complainant, but said it was consensual.
The defendant had been drinking in the nearby Plush Lounge and was very drunk when the incident took place.


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By GORDIE LITTLE
---- — It's time to fess up; I'm writing this on Palm Sunday.
Although the 40 days of Lent aren't quite up, the time to assess the situation is. The deadline for submitting the write-up is here. The jig is up. This will be a multi-pronged piece of miscellany about the word "up," also, my promised efforts to lose weight and a follow-up on ketchup.
First, the battle of the bulge. With just one week to go, I'm clinging to most of what earned me the heavyweight status in the first place. It has definitely not been a case of easy come, easy go. The first 10 pounds melted away quickly, aided by daily walking with Kaye at the mall and the lack of sweets of all kinds. I ate lots of fruits and vegetables and nothing else between meals. I got stuck at that 10-pound plateau, and there I remained. I'll be extra good for the next seven days and hope that when you read this on Easter morning, I will have lost a bit more. I really tried.
As for ketchup, the response was wonderful. I can't mention by name all those who wrote or called, but your comments were terrific. Rose Moore of Champlain sent me two "tomato ketchup" recipes from her canning books.
Melissa wrote, "How I love ketchup. Many nights, all I know is that I want ketchup for dinner, so I have to decide what I want to make that I can logically eat it on."
Steffan Beauharnois of Rouses Point sent a photo of his father-in-law in Massena who "eats ketchup on everything." It shows Al Layo with a special ketchup T-shirt. Steffan's teenage daughter sent me a link to a YouTube rap ditty about ketchup.
Gary Snow said starving actors in New York City back in the '60s would go into a place and order a cup of tea. They would drink the tea and then fill the empty cup with hot water and ketchup.
Martha Bachman spoke of living near Pittsburgh and having "pickle pins" from the pickle factory that sent pickles to the Heinz plant. She said there is a legend that when Heinz first made ketchup, people didn't like it. Apparently, homemade ketchup has to be stirred constantly; otherwise, it will burn, and people were used to that taste. The story goes that he altered his cooking method slightly, and it worked.
Les Bradford said he joins me in enjoying a "bread-and-butter-and-ketchup sammy" every now and then.
Ron Dame wrote, "When I was young, I would have cocoa and toast with ketchup and dunk the toast in the cocoa for breakfast."
Lyn Premo sent two pages of marvelous ketchup memories, including one about a younger brother who, while circling the table with a stubborn bottle for his dad to "smack" with his palm, dropped it, and "the problem was immediately resolved. Ketchup flew out of the bottle and straight up the wall."
An email of unknown origin has been circulating about "up." I followed it up by doing a great deal of research. It has more meanings in my dictionaries than any other word with just two letters. My personal list indicates it can be used as a noun, verb, adverb, adjective or preposition.
Some of its uses border on the vernacular or obscene; others are much more benign, and many are hilarious. Did you enjoy the popular movie "Up"? Can you remember the lyrics to the song, "Up, Up and Away"?
Think of how many times each day you utter the word. I challenge you to come up with uses different from my own. I filled several pages in my not-so-idle moments. Here are a few: giddyup, upchuck, sup (as a contraction for what's up), uptake, hook up, slip up, make up, follow up, up and down, uptown, seize up, up the ante and about a thousand more. I had to sharpen up my pencil several times during the exercise. Try it if you're up to it.
I fear if we took the word out of our language, we'd have to think up some kind of substitute. I wonder how many times it appears in the Bible. Now, there a real project for you.
Have a blessed Easter and please, drive up carefully.
Gordie Little was for many years a well-known radio personality in the North Country and now hosts the "Our Little Corner" television program for Home Town Cable. Anyone with comments for him may send them to the newspaper or email him at email@example.com.


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I receive a lot of e-mails about heaven where, I suppose, we all want to go. But, like Vosloosburg, nobody is really sure where it is.
And as I am away at present frolicking on the beach in my Speedo on the North Coast, I thought I'd share some of the stories about heaven sent to me by readers over the years.
Long ago, says Des Adam in Bedfordview, a woman, Ethel, went to a séance and managed to contact her husband.
She called out in a tremulous voice, "Hello, Bert, is that you?"
"Yes, dear."
"Are you happy, Bert?"
"Are you happier than when you were with me, Bert?"
"Oh (somewhat hurt). Well, heaven must be a nice place then, hey?"
"I'm not in heaven, Ethel."
I mentioned in this column in January an e-mail from Linda M Smith telling me about a couple – Myrtle and Joe – who had been married for more than 50 years. Then Myrtle died. A couple of months later Joe died.
As Joe went through the Pearly Gates he saw Myrtle running towards him.
Joe shouted: "Hold your horses, my dear! The deal was very clear: 'Until death do us part!'"
This prompted readers to send more jokes about heaven. Several told me of a couple who made a deal that whoever died first would come back and inform the other if there was indeed life after death – if reincarnation was true.
The husband was the first to die and true to his word, made contact:
"Marion… Marion?"
"Is that you, Bob?"
"Yes, I've come back like we agreed."
"That's wonderful! What's it like?"
"Well, I get up in the morning, I have sex. I then have breakfast and then off to the golf course.
"I have sex again, bask in the warm sun and then make love a couple of more times.
"Then I have lunch (you'd be proud – lots of greens).
"Another romp around the golf course, then pretty much making love for the rest of the afternoon.
"After supper, it's back to the golf course again.
"Then it's more sex until late at night.
"I catch some much-needed sleep and then, next day, back on the golf course."
"Oh, Bob, so you're in Heaven?"
"No, I'm a rabbit on Springs Golf Course."
A teacher, a dustbin man and a lawyer reach heaven.
St Peter was in a bad mood and said they must pass a test to get through the gates.
He asks the teacher: "What was the name of the ship that hit the iceberg and sunk?"
The teacher says: "The Titanic."
St Peter lets him through.
He turns to the dustbin man, and thinking his smell might offend the angels, he asks a difficult one: "How many died on the Titanic?"
The dustbin man guesses: "1 228" and St Peter lets him in.
St Peter then turns to the lawyer: "Name them."
Joburg city centre. A hot gospeller is preaching above the sound of traffic: "Repent, ye sinners! Give up that vile stuff you are drinking. Come and be saved. All those who want to go to heaven stand over here.
"You sir! Come and join us."
"Not intereshted!" says the tipsy hobo.
"You don't want to go to heaven?"
"So when you die you want to rot in hell?"
"Oh, when I die? Thatsh different. I thought you were making up a load right now."
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It began as an experiment in 1997 when Darren Oliver of the Rangers threw the first Interleague pitch against the San Francisco Giants.Sunday night at Yankee Stadium, a ninth year of Interleague Play came to a dramatic close when Jason Giambi smashed a walk-off single off Braden Looper to the gap in right to beat the crosstown Mets. "We needed that one, big-time," Giambi said as the roller-coaster Yankees avoided the indignity of a Subway Series sweep. When Interleague Play celebrates its 10th anniversary next season, "big-time" will be used by many to describe that part of the schedule. A generation has now grown up with this format as a fact of life, and this latest round was the third of three stretches as Major League Baseball concluded an experiment within the "experiment." Interleague Play 2005 began with a weekend of regional rivalries, came back later for a second stretch loaded with unprecedented pairings and wild World Series rematches and finished with those same regional rivalries on opposite turf. The final three-day weekend drew 1,686,363 fans, an average of 37,475 for 45 shouts of "Play Ball." That includes a huge three-day turnout in St. Louis for the lone intraleague series, which drew the Pittsburgh Pirates to Busch Stadium. A total of 8,312,211 fans attended this season's Interleague games, which covered 252 dates. Overall, Major League Baseball has drawn 33,751,922 fans this season, a 1.9 percent increase over the same date in the record-setting 2004 season, when a total of 73,022,969 fans attended games.
Since its inception in 1997, Interleague Play has averaged 32,693 fans per game, a 13.3 percent increase over intraleague games. In intraleague contests, the average has been 28,858 fans per game.
Although it was a 7-7 split between the leagues on the final Sunday, it should be noted that the American League took a collective 136-116 series victory over the National League in this year's action. Chalk up much of that to the Cleveland Indians, who went 15-3 (matching Tampa Bay's 2004 record) and closed it out with their 17th comeback victory of the season on Sunday in completing a series victory over Cincinnati in the "Showdown for Ohio" at Jacobs Field.The Indians are 39-34 and still 10 1/2 games behind the first-place White Sox in the AL Central, but C.C. Sabathia, who started and had a no-decision Sunday, said, "That's all we talk about, is catching the White Sox." The Mets and Yankees had just set the Shea Stadium record for a three-day crowd total when the clubs met there in the first round of Interleague Play, and a third straight packed house in the Bronx was mostly hoping to see the Yankees avoid the sweep. The Bombers did that, leaving the Mets 5-10 in this Interleague season and still at the bottom of the NL East. The Yankees finished a respectable 11-7 in Interleague competition. The finale helped the Yankees keep pace with a Boston club that suddenly is screaming the way it did last last October. The Red Sox just finished their first unbeaten road trip of six games or more for the first time since 1977, and they finished Interleague Play with a 12-6 record after dusting Philadelphia. Boston has won seven in a row and is 2 1/2 games up in the AL East on Baltimore, which now plays the Yankees. In Los Angeles, the Angels' sweep of the Dodgers this past weekend was a symbolic end to both teams' Interleague fortunes. The Angels, now riding a season-high six-game winning streak with a season-best 6 1/2-game lead on Texas in the AL West, went 12-6 against the NL. The Dodgers went 5-13 against the AL and are now in third place in the NL West, 6 1/2 behind San Diego. 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Cubs fans have to be excited with the way Interleague Play ended. Mark Prior pitched for the first time since May 27 and held the White Sox to one hit over six scoreless innings to outduel Jon Garland and help the North Siders win that Crosstown Series with a 2-0 finale at U.S. Cellular Field. It is now becoming tradition for Prior to come off the DL and deal against a guaranteed victim; he has not allowed an earned run in that first-game-back situation. The Cubs improved to 6-9 against the AL and are 8 1/2 behind St. Louis in the NL Central. With Prior apparently fully recovered from that shot he took off the elbow in May, and with Kerry Wood coming back to the roster Wednesday, Cubs fans have to feel better about the prospects for the rest of this summer. "Our guys are capable," Cubs outfielder Jeromy Burnitz said. "We know Prior is capable; we know Wood is capable. We need them to participate. We've been saying that since the beginning." Despite the series loss, the White Sox finished Interleague Play with a 12-6 record and still have a whopping 9 1/2-game lead on Minnesota in the AL Central. The crowd of 39,143 -- the fifth sellout there this season -- also pushed the White Sox attendance to 1,003,900, their fifth-fastest move past 1 million in franchise history. In Houston, a third consecutive sellout crowd saw the Astros win the weekend series against the Rangers. Probably the best thing about the 10-inning, 4-3 victory from Houston's perspective was the sight of Andy Pettitte pitching nine innings and hurling 120 pitches -- the most of his Astros career. Pettitte missed most of last season with the arm injury and seems to be fully rounding into his former Yankee form. "Andy has, over the last couple outings, really turned a corner," Houston catcher Brad Ausmus said. 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The Museum for African Art aims to instill a lifelong passion for the arts and cultures of Africa. Through specially designed educational programs, the Museum strives to meet a wide range of learning styles and interests for range of audiences. To learn more about any of these programs, please contact the education department by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com or calling (212) 444-9795.
Programs geared toward adult audiences include lectures, panel presentations, and workshops with leading writers, artists, scholars, critics, and other creative thinkers. These programs explore the themes in current Museum exhibitions as well as cultural, political, and social issues related to Africa and the African Diaspora. Please check the Museum's upcoming events page for currently scheduled lectures, workshops, performances and more.
The Museum for African Art's Active Body, Active Mind program provides activities and benefits designed specifically for New York City senior citizens, with the goal of encouraging healthful mental and physical living habits and improving the quality of life of its participants. Active Body, Active Mind offers free art-making and dance workshops, guided tours of art exhibitions, and other events specially organized for seniors. Members also receive free admission to exhibitions and programs at partnering arts and cultural organizations. To enroll in this program, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com or call (212) 444-9795 ext. 119.
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The Museum provides resource materials for teachers including teacher guides based on Museum exhibitions that include artwork, primary sources, sample lesson plans, bibliographies, and background materials about African art and current issues in Africa. Teacher guides may be downloaded for free and can be printed and photocopied for use in the classroom.
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Museum for African Art offers programs to provide informal learning opportunities for visitors to explore the exhibitions and current African issues in deeper ways. Programs geared toward adult audiences will include lectures, panel presentations, and workshops, with writers, artists, scholars, critics, and other creative thinkers. These programs will explore themes in the special exhibitions and current art, political, and social issues related to Africa and the African Diaspora. Please check the Museum's event page for currently scheduled lectures, workshops, performances and more.
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This paid internship offers New York City high school students the opportunity to engage in learning about African art and culture while developing hands-on work experience. Each summer, twenty-five teens selected to the program become community social journalists, documenting their learning experiences through primary social media as bloggers, educators and digital artists. Participants explore cultural topics central to African and Diasporic communities. Ideal candidates will have an interest in art, African history, culture, working with social and digital media, and working in the company of their peers. Watch a video about the program and see student work from the past year.
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Passport to Africa is an after-school program designed as an in-depth, multi-session exploration of one or more African or African Diaspora countries through the study of history, culture and artistic traditions. This program draws on the Museum's exhibitions, art collection, teaching artists, and online resources. Personalized 6- to 12-week programs can be structured to meet the needs of most school-based, after-school programs.
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While the new Museum building is under construction, the Museum for African Art can bring an experience of Africa and the African Diaspora to your classroom. Students will learn about African arts and culture and gain basic skills in the visual and performing arts, consistent with the NYC Department of Education's Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts and the New York Learning Standards in Social Studies and English Language Arts. Professional museum educators, trained in curriculum development and pedagogy for teaching African art and working with New York City students, develop the Museum's in-school programs. Central to the success of the Museum's school-based programs are its talented roster of teaching artists, who are experienced arts educators as well as practicing artists. Contact the Museum's Education Department for further information and to receive a menu of program descriptions and fees. The Museum offers the following types of school programs:
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The Museum's school programs are supported, in part, by ConEdison, Inc.
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The Museum for African Art presents free family programming at El Museo del Barrio's monthly Super Sábado open house. Through free concerts, exhibitions, gallery tours, art-making workshops, walking tours, and film screenings, Super Sábado showcases the vibrancy and diversity of Latino culture. As many Latino communities and traditions are rooted in African cultural heritage and practices, the Museum for African Art is pleased to collaborate and contribute programs as part of Super Sábado.
The Museum's Super Sábado programs are supported, in part, by the National Recreation Foundation.
Summer Family Programs
During the summer, the Museum presents regular programming for families and children.
In collaboration with the Central Park Conservancy, the Museum presents Sandbox Dance Programs. Throughout the summer, children between the ages of 3 and 8 and their caregivers are invited to join professional musicians, dancers, and storytellers at playgrounds around Central Park for lively music and movement activities inspired by Africa and the African Diaspora.
Sandbox Dance Programs are supported, in part, by the Mitsui USA Foundation and the Manhattan Borough President Discretionary FY12 Award.
In collaboration with the Bronx Zoo, the Museum presents family-friendly art-making workshops based on the African animals in the zoo.
Museum for African Art educational programming is supported, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the May and Samuel Rudin Foundation, and Jack Rudin.


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7:30 PM - 10:30 PM EPHS: Trajectories Performance
Homecoming Kickoff Pep Fest - see bulletin for schedule and details
7:00 AM - 1:00 PM EPHS: Picture Make-up
7:30 PM - 10:30 PM EPHS: Trajectories Performance
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EPHS Boosters
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM Prairie Colors Marching Band Festival
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Parents looking to set up their students' Apple ID can find helpful tutorials online.
Girls in grades 5 through 9 are invited to learn basic golf skills from varsity and junior varsity coaches.
Join the 5K Run/Walk or one mile Fun Run on Saturday, Sept. 20.
Fourteen bands will perform field shows in competition at EPHS Aerie Stadium. Get a coupon for free student admission.
Educational benefits, such as the free and and reduced-price meals and affordable health care, are available to families who meet income requirements.
Schools have posted their supply lists for the 2014-15 school year on their website and we have links here. Watch your school websites for more back-to-school information in the coming weeks.
Summer is a good time to check your students' immunization records to be sure they are compliant with all state required immunizations, especially for kindergarteners and 7th graders.
Answers to some frequently asked referendum questions submitted online are now posted on the Referendum 2014 page of the website. We'll be posting more soon so be sure to check back.
Many EPS students in grades 7 through 12 have some specific summer reading assignments, depending on their course selections for the 2014-15 school year.
More Eden Prairie High School graduates attend college and achieve a degree within six years than graduates from neighboring southwest metro high schools says National Student Clearinghouse.
Decreased debt service levy and changes in alternative facilities projects funding will offset any increase in operating levy.
We will be working to checkout as many laptops as we can the week before school starts. We will run check out sessions on August 26-29. Use this link to get all the details associated with this process.
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Barack Obama is bringing Westerners to Washington, including Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano to run Homeland Security, and Cabinet picks Ken Salazar, Hilda Solis and Steven Chu.
When Obama plucked Janet Napolitano out of the governor's seat to run Homeland Security, he surrendered Arizona to the ultra-conservatives.
The Indian vote could decide tight races in this
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Big business tries to challenge Arizona's pioneering
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Tvedten Fine Arts is housed in a restored 1920 building, lovingly cared for by the owner, Margaret Tvedten. Margaret has created and sold art her entire life. She brings a full and competent understanding to the multiple mediums of art that the Tvedten Gallery represents. The welcoming atmosphere and ever changing environment of the art represented always makes TFA a pleasure to visit whenever in town.
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The Floodplain Management Association Conference has been held annually for over 50 years and is the most respected floodplain industry event held in Australia. This will be the 54th Floodplain Management Association Conference (formerly known as the Floodplain Management Authorities Conference) and it is being held at Deniliquin RSL Club, Deniliquin from 20 - 23rd May 2014.
The theme for this year's conference: Of Utes and Flooding Rains
This conference will attract over 200 practitioners - who are interested in or working within floodplain management. Attendees will include Commonwealth, State and Local Government representatives, research and education organisations as well as consultants, engineers, land-use planners, and community volunteer organisations.
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The Flood Mitigation Authorities as the Flood Mitigation Authorities as the organisation was originally known held its first conference in 1961, and was established to promote sound and responsible floodplain management, and to make representations on behalf of local government at State and Federal levels. The FMA has continued these important roles for more than 50 years now and has more than 90 members.
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Our chairman, Geraint Talfan Davies, gives an insight into our recent performances in Wales, London and Finland.
Ahead of our Liberty or Death! autumn season, Dr Francesco Izzo guides us through Rossini's William Tell and Moses in Egypt.
WNO Artistic Director and Chief Executive will receive the accolade at the Bregenz Festival.
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Terry Jones has become the first author to gain funds for a book through a new crowdsourcing platform called Unbound »
DIY nuclear reactors, facial recognition technology for chimps and interviews with Monty Python actors, all in half an hour »
The British Library has made 45,000 of its 19th Century titles available on for iPad owners from today »
Tone, level of tension, perspective, type of action, description and type of dialogue mapped to inform recommendations »
A parent who tries to smooth his or her children's paths through life by solving problems for them before they encounter them themselves »
Easy to follow books, films and TV may suite a young audience, but miss the value of more complex stories »
Although electronic literature is more sustainable, efficient and scalable, it doesn't feel the same »
Decision by the end of August as to whether Amazon can swallow The Book Depository »
After a week of frenzied speculation, JK Rowling has revealed that she will release the long-awaited ebooks of her mind-bogglingly popular fantasy series through her own ecommerce store and interactive online experience, Pottermore »
While self-publishing in itself is not new, JK Rowling is without a doubt the single most significant author to have turned their back on established publishing houses »
Following the announcement of the details about JK Rowling's Pottermore, Wired.co.uk looks at what it means for all of the stakeholders involved, including her publishers, Warner Bros, Sony and her fans »
Following the announcement that JK Rowling is to self-publish the e-books to her successful Harry Potter series, Wired.co.uk has gathered together some of the new techniques that authors and publishers are using to bring their tomes to market »
Tomorrow, JK Rowling will end a week of speculation by revealing details about her mysterious new Harry Potter-themed site, Pottermore.com »
Google and the British Library are to digitise 250,000 tomes and make them freely available on the web »
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My perennial garden looks great right now. Yes, I do mean right now, the first week of January.
It's not as colorful as it is in mid-July when the plants are in flower, but it's still pleasing to the eye. I can see this garden from the window over our kitchen sink, a place I seem to spend a lot of time, so I like to make sure I've got something interesting to look out at.
My garden's good looks are thanks to that beautiful layer of snow that fell last week.
I leave many perennials standing through the winter, and I also have some shrubs and ornamental grasses in my garden. They look OK with no snow, but a several-inch layer of the white stuff really sets off the plants that stand above it. The snow is fresh and clean and seems to glow long after the sun has set, especially if the moon is out.
Regular readers have heard me extol the virtues of sedum "Autumn Joy" (every perennial garden should have a clump or two). This variety of sedum flowers late in the summer, and its tall, flat-topped flower heads persist throughout the winter. Because the heads are flat, they hold the fresh snow very nicely. The stems are quite stiff and can stay vertical through most, if not all, of the winter.
Sometimes a particularly heavy, wet snowstorm will topple their stems, but it's amazing just how much they can take before that happens. I love seeing the snow pile up on those flower heads.
I have three different types of ornamental grasses in my garden, and they usually stand up beautifully all winter. The miscanthus, or fountain grass, is almost 5 feet tall with large, fluffy seed heads that are especially showy as the sun sets behind them. I also have a clump of panicum switchgrass that stands about 4 feet tall and has a finer texture.


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Texas A&M Forest Service Predictive Services Department Head Tom Spencer,
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Add Veterans Way to the list of sites being investigated in connection with illegal dumping in Islip, N.Y. The 6-home cul-de-sac in the Islandia was built and sold to returning veterans and their families at deeply discounted prices this past December.
"We are absolutely frustrated and just totally upset about what has happened," said Mitchell Pally, the CEO of Long Island Builders Group, whose subsidiary built the homes on a site. "It's our responsibility and if [the homes'] existence there is threatened in any way we will take remedial action."
DFF Farm Corp. and the Datre family were associated with the Veterans Way project. Last week, evidence was seized from the Datre headquarters in connection to the criminal sweep at Roberto Clemente Park. DFF Farm Corp.'s attorney said work on both projects was lawful.
The soil at Veterans Way is now being tested for contaminants. Residents that I talked to said they are not going to worry until all of the facts are in.
Pally said his company has asked the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office for permission to do its own testing on the soil. If the tests are positive, Pally says the company will find a way to decontaminate the area. He said relocating the homes is not an option.
District Attorney Thomas Spota criticized the town of Islip for not knowing about the illegal dumping even after complaints were made.
"Shock, devastation, we're incredibly upset that this is unraveling before us in our town," said Inez Birbiglia from the town of Islip. She said the calls were answered, and the owner of the Route 111 site, Tommy Lau, is due in court at the end of June.
"We are supporting the district attorney to find those deemed criminally responsible," she said.
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Legendary movie star Robert Redford is directing and starring in a new movie, "The Company You Keep" with Susan Sarandon, Shia La Beouf, Nick Nolte.
The premise: Crimes committed by members of the Weather Underground, in protest of U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, come back to haunt the perpetrators decades later. They are still wanted by the feds. Some have changed their names, married and raised children, but are tired of living in hiding.
Also in the movie, Jackie Evancho (pictured with Redford), and Robert told Jerry, he discovered her on NBC's talent show "America's Got Talent" -- He never watches television, but was surfing around the channels one night and stumbled upon AGT. He saw Jackie sing, and knew right away she would be able to embody the role of his daughter in this movie.
Redford reveals a lot about his early acting career. He began his career playing villains and bad guys, and then after "Barefoot in the Park" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" he was forever typecast as the handsome leading man.
He's coming full circle now, telling Penacoli, that he is thrilled to be playing the villain in the upcoming "Captain America."
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Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid was asked the money question on a conference call this afternoon.
Does Tyler Bray have a chance to move up the Chiefs depth chart -- specifically, ahead of Chase Daniel -- as the season moves along?
Reid chuckled a little bit as he made his answer.
"We'll see how all that works out," Reid said. "That's not where we're at right now. We'll just see how things work out for him. We've got a couple of good players there. I don't want to take anything away from his performance last night."
If I can read into the tone of Reid's voice a little bit ... it's too early for that. As we suspected. But it doesn't mean people will stop talking about. And that doesn't mean it's not a compelling poll question for a Chiefs blog (yes, a double negative).
"We felt really good about Tyler," Reid said. "The way he performed, he did some nice things. Does he have room to grow? Absolutely. That's what's exciting about the whole thing. We'll se how he does as time goes on here. He handled what we threw at him last night, he executed well and he's got a knack for throwing the football."
A knack indeed. Bray threw three touchdowns last night and while he still needs to work on his accuracy it was enough to make Chiefs fans excited.
Also, this came up: "I love Ricky Stanzi. I thought he was a heck of a player and I think Jacksonville got a good one there."
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Paul McGuinness' team dominated the play for large periods and scored through Luke Hendrie, Tyler Blackett and James Wilson. The Reds were ultimately undone by two direct free-kicks - both despatched by Huddersfield midfielder Jordan Sinnott - and an own goal when Italian goalkeeper Pierluigi Gollini miscontrolled an injury-time backpass.
A more positive outcome looked likely when Hendrie poked home from a goalmouth scramble in the 23rd minute. But although the Huddersfield keeper was kept busy, the score somehow remained 1-0 at the interval and beyond. Only when the game entered its final quarter did the goals came thick and fast. Sinnott's first free-kick goal levelled the scores on 71 minutes, only for Blackett to immediately put the Reds back in front with a set-piece rocket of his own, fired low into the bottom corner.
A short corner kick led to United's third strike with substitute Mats Daehli driving into the area and setting up Wilson for a close-range finish. Leading 3-1 with seven minutes to go, the Reds were deservedly on course for a first league away win since November. But then Huddersfield hit back through Sinnott again from a deadball situation and Gollini's error. It was a cruel ending for McGuinness' boys, who had otherwise responded well to last week's semi-final exit from the FA Youth Cup at Chelsea.
United: Gollini; Grimshaw, Blackett, McCullough, Ekangamene; Pearson (Daehli, 44), Rudge (Van Velzen, 73), Hendrie; Rothwell (Gorre, 58), Byrne, Wilson. Subs not used: Jacob, Wilkinson.


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The team scores were as follows: Temple 332.200, Springfield 331.600, William & Mary 323.700, Navy 317.000, Capital 289.500, and Brockport 274.350.
Among individuals, both co-captain Matt Tocchio and Jimmy Pezzino produced victories on a pair of apparatus. Tocchio, a senior from Braintree, Mass., captured the pommel horse with a score of 14.000. Pezzino, a freshman from Buffalo, N.Y., picked up a win on floor exercise with a tally of 14.500.
Pezzino also placed second on vault with a score of 15.550, while Tocchio also placed sixth in the floor exercise (13.950).
Other members of the Pride also placed in the top eight in further events. Senior co-captain Kyle Bartgis (Nottingham, Md.) had a homecoming of sorts by placing second on parallel bars with a score of 14.000. Sophomore Ty Evans (San Jose, Calif.) had a great day, placing third in the parallel bars (13.800), tying for third in the high bar (14.200), tying for fourth in the vault (15.40), placing sixth in the still rings (14.050), and placing seventh in the pommel horse (13.000).
Junior Josh Fox (Ellicott City, Md.) also had a homecoming of sorts, placing in a tie for third in the floor exercise (14.100), and tying for sixth in the high bar (14.100). And junior Michael Licari (Haverhill, Mass.) tied for fourth in the pommel horse at 13.350.
Overall, in the all-around, Evans placed second at 84.150, while Fox placed fourth at 81.500.
Up next, the men's gymnastics team will host its first meet of the year -- with Army and Navy -- in Blake Arena on Sunday, Jan. 31 at 1:00 pm.