The hit parenting series AMERICA’S SUPERNANNY is currently casting families for the next season of the show. The casting team is sending producers to Boston
and greater New England to find families interested in receiving personalized advice for their unique circumstances.
This season producers are searching for families with unique circumstances and challenges. Deborah Tillman has an extraordinary ability to identify and tackle the toughest issues facing America’s families today.
Interested parents can call (877) NANNY TIME (1-877-626-6984) or e-mail supernanny@ShedMediaUS.com for more information.
E-mail the Boston Casting Team directly at: mbarry@shedmediaus.com Anonymous submissions accepted
“Free Friday Night Fun!” is part of the Museums’ Open Door Connections program to expand museum access.
Free admission every Friday night from June 22nd – August 31st
The Museums will collect donations for the Acton Food Pantry
The Discovery Museums are pleased to announce their Free Friday Night Fun! program for summer 2012, offering free admission to both museums on Fridays during extended evening hours.
Each Friday night between June 22 and August 31, both the Children’s Discovery Museum and the Science Discovery Museum will be open until 8:30pm, with free admission beginning at 4:30 pm. Families are invited to picnic under the stars and enjoy the Museums at night. Visitors may bring a picnic dinner or purchase food from the Chef on Wheels grill.
Free Friday Night Fun! is an important component of the Museums’ Open Door Connections program, which provides opportunities for those who face a variety of barriers—financial, geographic, developmental, or cultural—to experience the Museums.
Free Friday Night Fun! is made possible by the generous support of MathWorks andMiddlesex Savings Bank. Additional support is provided by Emerson Hospital.
This is the “before” house that my husband is developing. This house is slated for completion in early Fall. With a view of Brae Burn’s 3rd hole, this house in Auburndale will have spectacular views, and is walkable to:
Peirce Elementary School
Warren Field with off leash dog park and tennis courts
Newton Wellesley Hospital
Woodland T Stop (Green Line on D Line)
Express Bus to Copley Square and Downtown Boston
If you are curious about his work, here’s his last house down the street.
Tutu Pour Mon Deux is an inspirational apparel company dedicated to making a difference and giving back – in hopes of spreading awareness about congenital heart defects in newborns.
One-third of our proceeds is donated to Children’s Hospital Boston, where our daughter underwent corrective heart surgery at just four days old. 1 in 100 newborns are born with a CHD, and our hope is to help change that statistic through Tutu Pour Mon Deux. Our mission is positive and our medium is our custom tutus.
The best part…together, Mom & Daughter can virtually design, and customize a special outfit that will rock any girls wardrobe. Our web-site is fun, interactive and easy to navigate. With more than a dozen original patches and ribbons to choose from, the tutu t-shirt can be as unique as the little girl wearing it. The colors are as happy and vibrant, and come in sizes ranging from 18 months to 6T.
A custom tutu is a great way to embrace your little girls individuality, imagination and spirit, while making a difference in the lives of other children so they, too, can dance around like a princess with their imagination.
At Newton Community Ed we would like to expand our Kids & Teens program.
To do that we need some help. We are looking for an elementary school parent available to work part-time (maybe as few as five hours a week or so) to help plan our Fall program.
You would be involved in brainstorming ideas for new programs and recruiting teachers to work for NCE.
The ideal candidate for this position is an elementary school parent who has been involved in the PTO and has some awareness of other Kids program offerings around Newton.
If you’re interested, please email a cover letter and resume to:
Boston Center for Adult Education Continues Popular Celebrity Chef Kids Classes as Part of Its Bean City Kids Program!
WHAT: The same place that brought you classes like, “Mind Your Manners” with a noted tea sommelier and etiquette expert, the Boston Center for Adult Education’s (BCAE) Bean City Kids program is continuing the popular monthly series of interactive kids’ celebrity chef classes! Previous SOLD OUT celebrity chef classes have included reality TV show stars Andy Husbands of Tremont 647, Jason Santos of Blue Inc., Jose Duarte of Taranta and Joanne Chang of Flour Bakery and Myers & Chang. On Monday, May 21st, 2012 from 3:30PM to 5:30PM, kids will have the opportunity to tap into their creative side, working spoon to spoon with celebrity chef Erwin Ramos of Ole Restaurant Group inthe BCAEstate-of-the-art-kitchen facilities.
The interactive cooking classes are hands-on, allowing kids to explore a whole new world of food appreciation while learning the tricks of the trade. They will take part in the cooking process from start to finish, building confidence and pride in the dishes they’ve created. At the end of the session the group will sit down with Chef Ramos and enjoy the fruits of their labor.
Conveniently scheduled after school, the classes are perfect for children six to nine years of age! The themes & items prepared vary from month to month. This class will involve creating authentic Mexican dishes such aschicken quesadillas, ground beef soft tacos, strawberry nachos and guacamole with fruits that are both prepared by Chef Ramos and students. All classes are nut-free. There MUST be a parent/caregiver present during class who is responsible for each child (no more than 3 kids per adult). Child’s registration fee covers caregiver.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to sift and mix with Chef Erwin Ramos!
WHEN: Monday, May 21st, 2012; 3:30PM-5:30PM; 1 session
COST: $45 Members/Non-Members, $15 Materials
WHERE: Boston Center for Adult Education122 Arlington Street Boston, MA 02116.
RSVP: Registration is necessary. Please visit www.bcae.org or call the Boston Center for Adult Education at 617-267-4430 to sign up. There must be a parent/ caregiver present during class time. No more than 3 students per adult.
ADDITIONAL: Suitable for children 6-9 years of age
Completely nut-free
Children must be supervised by a parent or a caregiver.
What are your kids doing this summer? Come learn about our Math Power! summer program.
OPEN HOUSE this Sunday afternoon, May 20th @ 4:00 pm
Please call us @ (617) 332-7841 to save a space for your family.
Come play games, solve puzzles, explore logic and HAVE FUN!
(If you can’t make it to the open house, stop by and pick up a brochure and registration form.)
About Math Power!
This fun and engaging program is led by Christine Moynihan, Ph.D., former principal of the Williams School in Newton!
You don’t have to be good at math to enjoy this program. It’s all about having fun with numbers, learning to think creatively, and making connections in order to solve problems.
The program will be offered at Green Planet Kids during the weeks of June 25th to 29th, and July 16th to 20th.
Math Power is for students entering Grades 2 – 8.
Morning session for Grades 2- 5, and Afternoon session for Grades 4-8.
Green Planet Kids is located at 22 Lincoln Street in Newton Highlands. You can reach us at (617) 332-7841.
My Mom Friend Melissa told me her Dad Friend Brian told her about a book written NY Times best selling author from Newton and set in Cold Spring Park. I go to the dog park a lot with my dog so I was intrigued. It turns out that Brian was William’s old neighbor from West Newton.
Then my Dad Friend Andrew, the founder of Ten Marks, an online math tutoring company sent me an email and offered to introduce me to William Landay. Hurrah!
Let’s interview him together. Please leave a comment with any questions you want to ask him and I will ask for a Q and A interview.
Defending Jacob: A Novel by William Landay
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.
Every parental instinct Andy has rallies to protect his boy. Jacob insists that he is innocent, and Andy believes him. Andy must. He’s his father. But as damning facts and shocking revelations surface, as a marriage threatens to crumble and the trial intensifies, as the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own—between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past he’s tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive.
Award-winning author William Landay has written the consummate novel of an embattled family in crisis—a suspenseful, character-driven mystery that is also a spellbinding tale of guilt, betrayal, and the terrifying speed at which our lives can spin out of control.
Andy Barber, a respected First Assistant DA who lives in Newton, Mass., with his gentle wife, Laurie, and their 14-year-old son, Jacob, must face the unthinkable in Dagger Award–winner Landay’s harrowing third suspense novel. When Ben Rifkin, Jacob’s classmate, is found stabbed to death in the woods, Internet accusations and incontrovertible evidence point to big, handsome Jacob. Andy’s prosecutorial gut insists a child molester is the real killer, but as Jacob’s trial proceeds and Andy’s marriage crumbles under the forced revelation of old secrets, horror builds on horror toward a breathtakingly brutal outcome. Landay (The Strangler), a former DA, mixes gritty court reporting with Andy’s painful confrontation with himself, forcing readers willy-nilly to realize the end is never the end when, as Landay claims, the line between truth and justice has become so indistinct as to appear imaginary. This searing narrative proves the ancient Greek tragedians were right: the worst punishment is not death but living with what you—knowingly or unknowingly—have done.
William Landay is the author of The Strangler, a Los Angeles Times Favorite Crime Book of the Year, and Mission Flats, winner of the Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for Best First Crime Novel and a Barry Award nominee. A former district attorney who holds degrees from Yale and Boston College Law School, Landay lives in Boston, where he is at work on his next novel of suspense.
“Troubled cops, revenge-hungry mob bosses, dead women–these are the things that make life interesting…. [The Strangler has] plenty of violence, suspense and family intrigue.”—Esquire.com“Landay movingly explores the bonds of family and basic questions of honesty and loyalty…. The emphasis remains on such themes as crime and punishment, love and honor, truth and justice.”—Publishers Weekly“Complex…. This character-driven novel …[unfolds] against the backdrop of the oppressive atmosphere of 1963 Boston. People are reeling from the assassination of JFK and the still-on-the-loose Boston Strangler.”—USA Today
“Landay has a marvelous ear for dialogue and for relationship complexities, smartly emphasizing the impact of crime instead of on the crimes in particular.”—Baltimore Sun
“Mr. Landay combines a fictional investigation of the Strangler’s killings with a chronicle of three brothers…. The result is a gripping, atmospheric saga in which the official version of many matters (both criminal and civil) bears little resemblance to the truth.”–Wall Street Journal
From the New York Times bestselling author of Defending Jacob
Former D.A. William Landay explodes onto the suspense scene with an electrifying novel about the true price of crime and the hidden corners of the criminal justice system. Only an insider could so vividly capture Boston’s gritty underworld of cops and criminals. And only a natural storyteller could weave this mesmerizing tale of murder and memory, a story about the hold of time past over time present–and the story of one unforgettable young policeman who ventures into the most dangerous place of all.
By a gleaming lake in the forests of western Maine, outside a sleepy town called Versailles, the body of a man lies sprawled in a deserted cabin. The dead man was an elite D.A. from Boston, and his beat was that city’s toughest neighborhood: Mission Flats.
Now, for small-town police chief Ben Truman, investigating the murder will mean leaving his quiet, haunted home and journeying to an alien world of hard streets and hard bargains, where the fierce struggle between police and criminals is fought for the ultimate stakes.
Ben joins a manhunt through Mission Flats, where cops are scrambling to find their number-one suspect: Harold Braxton, a ruthless predator targeted for prosecution by the murdered D.A. To the Boston police, Braxton is a marked man. But as Ben watches the shadow dance of cops and suspects, he begins to voice doubts about Braxton’s guilt…especially when he uncovers a secret history of murder and retribution stretching back twenty years…back to a brutal killing now nearly forgotten. As past and present collide and a bloody mystery unfolds, only one thing remains certain: the most powerful revelations are yet to come.
Mission Flats is at once a relentless page-turning mystery and a vivid portrait of a cop’ s life. Here are the street corners, courtrooms, and stationhouses; the deal makers, thugs, and quiet heroes. An unforgettable world–and the luminous, boundary-breaking debut of a new voice in suspense fiction–Mission Flats will haunt you long after the final pages.
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Please welcome Dr. David Oliver from Move Well Chiropractic, formerly known as Newton Wellness Center on what the name change means to him. And don’t forget to LIKE his Facebook page to win a thirty minute massage!
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I decide to change the name of my office for several reasons. There are a couple other offices in Newton with very similar names and I thought it would be good to help distinguish my practice from theirs. I also wanted something that better represented what my type of practice is all about. The experience someone has when they go to one chiropractor vs another can be completely different. There are many different philosophies and methods of practice today, and I want people to be as informed as possible when choosing who to go see.
My style of practice is focused on providing more than just chiropractic adjustments alone. Chiropractic adjustments are excellent at restoring mobility and alleviating someone’s discomfort. And that is where treatment typically begins. But I have found that unless we take it further the persons problems usually will reoccur. We need to discover why they are in pain to begin with – what truly is causing the pain?
Many times it comes down to the things we do day in and day out. Whether it’s sitting at a computer for 8 hours a day or running around, driving kids to and from different activities. The positions we put ourselves in on a daily basis play a huge roll in how healthy and functional our bodies are. Sitting at a computer for instance (which many of us do for several hours a day) is detrimental to our bodies. The seated position places our spines under a lot of stress, which over time creates injuries. By teaching people proper ways to sit and work at their computers (ergonomics) many of these issues can be avoided.
Other things we do on a daily basis that we think of as harmless, could actually be causing some problems for us. For example, bending over to tie our shoes, driving in you car, bending to pick up your children, gardening, or even sleeping can be problematic for our spine. Doing these simple things may not bother us at the moment but over time they can actually lead to injury. Learning to do such things with better efficiency will lead to a more pain free and enjoyable life.
Another huge part of the reason so many people have recurring pain is due to the way they are treating their bodies. Either they aren’t doing any physical activity at all, causing their bodies to not be prepared for what it needs to do. Or they are doing exercise and trying to take care of themselves. Unfortunately many times the exercises and routines people choose are actually contributing to their problems (ie. situps). Situps for instance have long been looked at at improving spinal strength and being good for us. The research unfortunately does not support this. Each situp done places 700 lbs of pressure in the lower spine! Doing this repeatedly is only asking for trouble. There are plenty of other exercises which we can do to strengthen our abs and core without sacrificing our spine. By teaching people better/safer exercises and how to perform them properly in my office they are better prepared to engage in physical activity at home.
My goal is not to have my patients become dependent on me. I hope everyone learns from what I can teach them and it helps to eliminate the major episodes of pain which greatly interfere with their lives. By teaching and incorporating therapeutic exercise into my treatment I can prepare my patients to be able to take care of themselves once treatment is over. They shouldn’t have to rely on getting adjusted to feel better, we all posses the ability to take care of our own bodies!
I encourage everyone (whether you are new to chiropractic and curious or you have tried it with another doctor but didn’t get the results you were looking for) to give my office a call. I would love to sit down for a free consultation so you can better understand what it is I may be able to offer you and decide for yourself if it is something you would like to try.
As a way to celebrate the office change and our new Facebook page we will be giving away three – 30 minute massages. Anyone who Likes our new Facebook page before the end of May will be entered.
Peter Sachs’ Newton Historical Society Award Winning Renovation
If you look around Newton, there seems to be orange building permits on a house on every street, sometimes even more! With this renovation and building boom, it’s more important than ever to find the right architect for your project. I asked Newton architect Peter Sachs to come up with 10 critical questions to ask when interviewing a prospective architect.
What questions do you think are critical? What have your experiences been, good or bad, when renovating or building a house? Thanks for sharing!
1. Are you licensed in Massachusetts?
Although many people call themselves Architects, it is the law that you must have passed an exam and have a stamp.
2. How many years of experience in residential design?
Many offices an really commercial and fill in with residential to stay busy.
3. Are you insured for professional liability?
An important part of having a real office. A follow up question would also be how many people are in the office?
4. Design philosophy?
Are you eclectic or modern only. What experience do you have with historic homes or traditional?
5. What is your knowledge of Zoning laws?
There are many suburbs. Does your architect have experience with your building department of zoning ordinance?
6. Tell me about a time you needed to get a special permit for a variance for a client.
If you require special permits or variances what is their experience? This can be a critical question. Special permits can take a long time to obtain and can mean costly delays.
7. Very important! What is the architects experience with designing within a budget?
You want to get a sense of if this is important to them and what is the emphasis when they design? Roof line, for example, may be important to the architect but not to you.
8. Do your use the same builders?
This is particularly important questions during a building boom when an architect is taking on more work than usual. What is their history with their builder? Ask for contact information and get references on the builder too. You also want the builder to sign off on the budget; after all, they are the ones who have to deliver!
9. How do you communicate the proposed project so that I, a layman who can’t read blueprints, can understand?
Find out if your architect can provide 3D or hand sketches that will give you a sense of the final results.
10. May I get a complete lists of clients with phone numbers?
You will want to see a hefty list of clients with examples of projects that might match. I am often asked to take clients on a mini tour and to edit my references to similar projects.
