Thursday, 1 August 2013

Four-way race for mayor of Newton

A preliminary election will include four candidates for mayor this September, with three challengers seeking to unseat Mayor Setti Warren.

Warren, Alderman Ted Hess-Mahan, whistleblower Jacqueline Gauvreau Sequeira and Second-Life Computers vice president Tom Sheff all got the requisite 400 signatures in by Tuesday?s 5 p.m. deadline, and each candidate?s signatures have been certified, according to City Clerk David Olson. Sequeira was the last to get her papers in, having dropped them off at City Hall at the close of the business on Monday.

The preliminary election will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 17. Voters will be allowed to select one candidate.

Voters in Ward 1 will also have a preliminary election for the ward seat on the Board of Aldermen, with Allan Ciccone Sr., Alison Leary and Roger Morrocco Jr. all getting in their papers. Those candidates are seeking to fill the seat held by Alderman Scott Lennon until June, when he won the special election to fill the at-large seat vacated by the death of Carleton Merrill.

The top two vote getters in each race will move on to the general municipal election on Nov. 5. Candidates have until Aug. 15 to withdraw from their races and have their names taken off the ballot.

The following is a list of candidates to have their nomination papers returned and certified.

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Mayor

Setti Warren

Ted Hess-Mahan

Jacqueline Gauvreau Sequeira

Tom Sheff

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Ward 1

Allan Ciccone Jr., Alderman-at-Large

Scott Lennon, Alderman-at-Large

Allan Ciccone Sr., Ward Alderman

Alison Leary, Ward Alderman

Roger Morrocco, Jr. Ward Alderman

Ellen Gibson, School Committee

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Ward 2

Susan Albright, Alderman-at-Large

Marcia Johnson, Alderman-at-Large

Emily Norton, Ward Alderman

Eve Tapper, Ward Alderman

Margaret Albright, School Committee

Andrea Steenstrup, School Committee

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Ward 3

Ted Hess-Mahan, Alderman-at-Large

James Cote, Alderman-at-Large

Anthony Salvucci, Ward Alderman

Angela Pitter-Wright, School Committee

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Ward 4

Leonard Gentile, Alderman-at-Large

Amy Mah Sangiolo, Alderman-at-Large

Jay Harney, Ward Alderman

Diana Fisher, Gomberg School Committee

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Ward 5

Deborah Crossley, Alderman-at-Large

Brian Yates, Alderman-at-Large

Christopher Steele, Alderman-at-Large

John Rice, Ward Alderman

Steven Siegel, School Committee

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Ward 6

Victoria Danberg, Alderman-at-Large

Greg Schwartz, Alderman-at-Large

Richard Blazar, Ward Alderman

Ruth Goldman, School Committee

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Ward 7

Ruthanne Fuller, Alderman-at-Large

Marc Laredo, Alderman-at-Large

R. Lisle Baker, Ward Alderman

Matthew Hills, School Committee

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Ward 8

David Kalis, Alderman-at-Large

Richard Lipof, Alderman-at-Large

Cheryl Lappin, Ward Alderman

Margie Ross Decter, School Committee

Source: http://www.wickedlocal.com/newton/x853697395/Four-way-race-for-mayor-of-Newton?rssfeed=true

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Park, seeking 4th straight major, opens with 69

South Korea's Inbee Park reacts after her tee shot on the first hole during the first round of the Women's British Open golf championship on the Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland, Thursday Aug. 1, 2013. The 25-year-old from South Korea already has won three majors this year. She is trying to become the first golfer, male or female, to win four in one season. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)

South Korea's Inbee Park reacts after her tee shot on the first hole during the first round of the Women's British Open golf championship on the Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland, Thursday Aug. 1, 2013. The 25-year-old from South Korea already has won three majors this year. She is trying to become the first golfer, male or female, to win four in one season. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)

South Korea's Inbee Park gestures on the first green during the first round of the Women's British Open golf championship on the Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland, Thursday Aug. 1, 2013. The 25-year-old from South Korea already has won three majors this year. She is trying to become the first golfer, male or female, to win four in one season. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)

Korea's Inbee Park tees off on the second hole during the first round of the Women's British Open golf championship on the Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland, Thursday Aug. 1, 2013. The 25-year-old from South Korea already has won three majors this year. She is trying to become the first golfer, male or female, to win four in one season. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)

South Korea's Inbee Park watches her shot on the first fairway during the first round of the Women's British Open golf championship on the Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland, Thursday Aug. 1, 2013. The 25-year-old from South Korea already has won three majors this year. She is trying to become the first golfer, male or female, to win four in one season. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)

South Korea's Inbee Park tees off on the first hole during the first round of the Women's British Open golf championship on the Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland, Thursday Aug. 1, 2013. The 25-year-old from South Korea already has won three majors this year. She is trying to become the first golfer, male or female, to win four in one season. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)

(AP) ? Wearing a black rain suit and a soft smile, Inbee Park looked calm as ever standing before the imposing Royal & Ancient clubhouse just moments before she teed off Thursday in the Women's British Open.

Only after her unsteady round of 3-under 69 did Park reveal perhaps the biggest surprise at St. Andrews.

She was nervous.

"But then once the round started, and especially playing so good in the first few holes, that really gave me a lot of confidence," Park said. "I didn't feel much pressure when I was playing during the round. I'm just glad that it's already started and I got the first round under my belt."

Park wound up three shots behind Morgan Pressel and Camilla Lennarth of Sweden, a solid start to what should be a fascinating week at the home of golf.

Her pursuit of history looked more like a high-speed chase when the 25-year-old South Korean made six birdies in 10 holes. Three poor tee shots, two three-putt bogeys and one double bogey from a pot bunker on the back nine made her realize there's a reason no golfer has ever won four majors in a single year.

"Felt like a roller coaster today," Park said.

She was only too happy it finally stopped with a 6-foot birdie on the 18th hole, ending a slide during which she dropped four shots in a five-hole span.

Pressel, one spot out of making the Solheim Cup team this week, caught a break when the rain and wind never materialized in the afternoon. She made seven birdies in a round of 66 that gave her a share of the lead with Lennarth, who birdied the 18th.

Stacy Lewis, the former No. 1 player in women's golf, shot 31 on the tougher back nine for a 67 to be part of a large group that included former U.S. Women's Open champion Na Yeon Choi and Nicole Castrale. Another shot behind were Paula Creamer, Catriona Matthew and Lizette Salas.

Those who played early had reason to worry.

Lewis was on the 10th tee when she looked over at Park knocking in an 18-foot birdie putt, her fifth of the round. Castrale had not yet teed off when her husband saw a leaderboard with Park's name in a familiar position.

"It's amazing, the fact we all possibly can play with history," Castrale said. "It's amazing what she's done to this point, the composure she has. I don't know what she shot today, but I'm going to guess she'll be in the mix come Sunday."

If there were nerves on the first tee for Park, she didn't show it.

She opened with a wedge into about 7 feet for birdie, and then she really poured it on with an astounding display of her putting stroke. She rolled in a 30-foot birdie putt on No. 3 with perfect pace. She made an 18-foot birdie on No. 4 and a 35-footer on No. 6. It didn't look as if she would ever miss. Her sixth birdie came at the 10th, when her sand wedge checked up to 5 feet right of the hole. Another birdie.

Just like that, there was a feeling of inevitability about this Women's British Open, much as there was for Tiger Woods when he won the British Open for the first time at St. Andrews by eight shots to complete the career Grand Slam in 2000.

But not for long.

It started with a tee shot into thick grass to the right of the 12th fairway. She saved par with another great putt, this one from 15 feet, but she couldn't save herself much longer. After another poor tee shot on the 13th, she came dangerously close to a large gorse bush. She chipped to 15 feet and made bogey, her first of the day. A delicate pitch-and-run helped her avoid another bogey on the 15th after a third tee shot to the right.

Park appeared to be in big trouble when her approach rolled toward the high face of the vetted wall in a pot bunker short of the 16th hole. She considered a shot over the wall toward the flag, but then wisely turned sideways and blasted out to some 90 feet away, her ball about halfway between the flags of No. 2 and No. 16 on the double green. Her first putt wasn't hit nearly hard enough, and her par putt from 15 feet caught the lip.

"A little disappointing, but I'm glad that I've done that in the first round instead of the final round," she said.

It was only her second double bogey in a major this year.

She also three-putted the 17th from 40 feet when her first attempt came up 10 feet short, leading to another three-putt bogey.

"I thought that I fixed my problems coming into this week. I was hitting it so good on the practice round and I didn't really miss any balls," Park said. "I thought I was really prepared, but those couple of bad shots really shocked me. I couldn't really concentrate on the greens when I hit those shots. I've learned my lesson. Good thing I've got my time to fix that today and tomorrow."

Only four months ago, Park and Lewis were battling for No. 1 in the world until the South Korean left everyone in her wake by adding to her collection of majors. The Kraft Nabisco Championship put her in position to take No. 1 away from Lewis, and the playoff win at the LPGA Championship and four-shot win at the U.S. Women's Open brought her to the brink of something grand.

Lewis and Karrie Webb were on the 11th tee when they saw Park make another birdie.

"We both looked at each other and shook our heads," Lewis said. "We knew she was going to be there, but it's like she keeps doing it over and over and over again."

Lewis made up ground on the back nine. And when rough weather didn't arrive, plenty of others took aim on the Old Course. Park was tied for 18th on a day in which 73 players broke par. Her biggest test might come if the strong wind arrives before Sunday. She's not ready to think that far ahead.

"If I could walk out of this tournament with no regrets, that's what I'm looking to do," she said. "That's all I could ask for."

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/347875155d53465d95cec892aeb06419/Article_2013-08-01-GLF-Women's-British-Open/id-612e314b1e194d0c9a7a4923e7191fc3

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Using gold and light to study molecules in water

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Thanks to a new device that is the size of a human hair, it is now possible to detect molecules in a liquid solution and observe their interactions. This is of major interest for the scientific community, as there is currently no reliable way of examining both the behavior and the chemical structure of molecules in a liquid in real time.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/F6ACbujCdXk/130731122930.htm

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Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Poll shows support for "Preschool for All" (Washington Bureau)

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US national debt is actually $70 trillion

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A new study by an American economist concludes that the U.S. federal debt is mind-bogglingly larger than it is officially said to be. The study by James D. Hamilton of the University of California, San Diego, says the U.S. government?s off-balance-sheet liabilities are six times the size of the official debt or $70.1 trillion.

?U.S. federal debt has exploded in recent years, growing from $5 trillion (or 36% of GDP) in 2007 to an estimated $12 trillion (72% of GDP) by the end of 2013,? Hamilton said in a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research.

But the $12 trillion federal debt is only the tip of the iceberg because the figure is not inclusive of a number of off-balance-sheet commitments and liabilities.

?But the officially reported debt is only one respect in which current policy has left a burden for future taxpayers. In addition the government has made a number of implicit and explicit commitments that are not included in the net debt figures just reported, but which could potentially require much larger adjustments in future spending or taxes than those associated with paying interest on the official debt itself. The biggest items in this category come from Social Security and Medicare which, if current policy is maintained, will require enormous sacrifices from future taxpayers.?

The study identifies five key off-balance-sheet commitments which are ?support for housing, other loan guarantees (including federal loan guarantee programs in addition to those involving housing such as loans for post-high-school education, small business loans and loans from the Export-Import Bank of the United States), deposit insurance, actions taken by the Federal Reserve, and government trust funds.?

The biggest category of off-balance-sheet liabilities comes from the additional funds that the trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds believe would need to be found in order to fulfill commitments to current program participants (i.e., those currently aged 15 and older). These are reported to be $26.5 trillion for Social Security and $27.6 trillion for Medicare.

?These numbers are so huge it is hard even to discuss them in a coherent way ? But although one can quarrel with the specific numbers, there is an undeniable important reality that they reflect? the U.S. population is aging, and an aging population means fewer people paying in and more people expecting benefits. This reality is unambiguously going to be a key constraint on the sustainability of fiscal policy for the United States. One would think we should be saving as a nation today as preparation for retirement, and if in fact we are not, the current enormous on-balance-sheet federal debt is all the more of a concern,? the paper says.

?Adding all these items together, I calculate total off-balance-sheet federal liabilities of around $70 T, or 6 times the size of reported on-balance-sheet liabilities,?

The paper working concludes that ?Some may argue that the current off-balance-sheet liabilities of the U.S. federal government are smaller than those tabulated here; others could arrive at larger numbers. These off-balance-sheet concerns may or may not translate into significant on-balance-sheet problems. But one thing seems undeniable? they are huge. And implicit or explicit commitments of such a huge size have the potential to have huge economic consequences, perhaps for the better, perhaps for the worse. Acknowledging their size is a necessary first step for making wise policy decisions.?

Source: http://www.ingeniouspress.com/2013/07/31/us-national-debt-is-actually-70-trillion/

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MacBook Air gets gaming credentials through home-built external ...

MacBook Air gets some gaming credentials through homebuilt external GPU video

The MacBook Air's integrated graphics all but rule it out as a serious gaming machine. However, Larry Gadea at the Tech Inferno forums has found a way to make the Air a powerhouse through an ad hoc external GPU. His design mates a PCI Express video card to the Mac's Thunderbolt port through a combination of two adapters, a Boot Camp installation of Windows 7 and third-party software. The performance improvement is appropriately dramatic, leading to frame rates up to seven times faster than what Intel's HD 5000 can manage. Just don't expect to buy a pre-assembled version anytime soon -- the peripheral needs a desktop-class power supply just to run, and Intel won't issue the licenses needed to commercialize Thunderbolt GPUs. If you're absolutely determined to get a Crysis-worthy ultraportable, though, you'll find Gadea's instructions at the source link.

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/31/macbook-air-home-built-external-gpu/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget

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Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Thirty six people killed in Italy coach crash

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Rescue workers said they had pulled 33 bodies from the wreckage after Sunday evening's crash near the town of Avellino in the Campania region ...

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