Here are some visuals of the West Nile Virus carriers and what the virus looked like on one person’s infected arm.

Read about it in the Boston/Fenway areas here  and read in more detail about the virus here 

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BU goes for the gold – In the post-Silber era, the university pursues its first capital campaign
By Alex Beam – Globe Columnist / September 3, 2010

This summer the Boston University trustees quietly green-lit the university’s first-ever, big-time fund-raising campaign. It sounds like a small thing, but it is a big thing. Unlike almost every other university its size, BU has never clamped a full-court press on all of its alumni for a billion-dollar capital campaign.

Why not? For decades, John Silber or a Silberite ruled BU. Silber hated fund-raising and wasn’t particularly good at it. In 2002 donor David Mugar of July Fourth fireworks fame threatened to sue Silber and the university unless they agreed to return a $3 million gift that Mugar claimed had been misappropriated. BU returned the money.

To BU’s vast alumni networks, Silber was a polarizing figure, beloved by some for his conservative, principled stands, and despised by others for his fulminous rants. For university fund-raising, bland is better. Think former Harvard president Neil Rudenstine, not the more dynamic — and off-putting — Larry Summers.

John Simpson, 85, a legend as athletic director at BU
By Marvin Pave – Globe Correspondent / September 3, 2010

As athletic director at Boston University from 1975 to ’84, John Simpson, a former BU football lineman, hired some of the most successful and colorful coaches in school history.

One was a 26-year-old assistant at Syracuse University named Rick Pitino, later coach of the Boston Celtics and now head coach at the University of Louisville, who recalled his 1978 interview with Mr. Simpson nine years later at a BU basketball tip-off dinner.

“John Simpson said something so honest, I’ll never forget it. He said, ‘This is a bad job. But I love the school, and it has great potential. You should know that I know nothing about basketball, and the media never comes to our games, and our fans don’t come. So no one can second-guess you,’ ’’ said Pitino, who coached at BU for five seasons. “It turned out to be the greatest move I ever made.’’

Think ink – Check out the artists at the tattoo convention and then sample the squid at nearby restaurants
By Luke O’Neil – Globe Correspondent / September 3, 2010

Now in its ninth year, this weekend’s Boston Tattoo Convention marks its first move outside of the Boston Center for the Arts. A new location at the Sheraton Boston Hotel will give the annual celebration of everything inked-up more space, says convention manager Micah R.O. Litant of Witch City Ink in Salem. “Hotel shows are more centralized. It’s much better having everything, and everyone, in one place.’’

That means easier access to parties, artists’ galleries, and performances like collaborative live painting exhibitions, mixed martial arts fighting demonstrations, burlesque performers, and a Ms. Boston Tattoo contest. Throughout the weekend participants can also enter themselves and their tattoos in categories like best of show and best portrait. The main draw will be the hundreds of artists on hand practicing their work on conventiongoers.

Boston Tattoo Convention, Sept. 3-6. $20-$70. Sheraton Boston Hotel, 39 Dalton St., Boston. www.bostontattooconvention.com

1838 – Dressed in a sailor’s uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a Free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from slavery.  More anniversaries.

Fenway’s transformation going strong, more on the way – Hitting home runs
By Brendan Lynch/Boston Herald – September 2, 2010

The Fenway-Kenmore area’s transformation from gritty to upscale has continued unabated through both the economic downturn of the early 2000s and the current recession, even as developments in other parts of Boston have stalled.

Meredith Management President John Rosenthal has been working on Fenway Center, a mixed-use development to be built over the Massachusetts Turnpike, for more than 10 years. He said he likely would’ve proceeded with the project even if he knew the recession was coming, because the neighborhood’s assets – the Longwood Medical Area, Fenway Park [map], more than 100,000 college students within a mile, and proximity to the Pike, commuter rail and the Green Line – are attractive even in a downturn.

Rosenthal, also a noted gun-control activist, bought a garage abutting the Pike 15 years ago and has used it to display a series of gun-control billboards since.

“Kenmore Square is a completely different place than when I bought the Lansdowne Garage and put up the gun billboard in 1995,” he said.

See also:  Fenway, Roxbury projects signaling retail resurgence
By Jenn Abelson – Globe Staff / May 25, 2010

AG urges Beth Israel to rethink CEO’s fitness – Swift action found lacking on Levy
By Liz Kowalczyk – Globe Staff / September 2, 2010

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said yesterday that the board of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center should do “some soul-searching’’ about chief executive Paul Levy’s ability to continue leading the hospital, after her office concluded that his longtime personal relationship with a female employee “clearly endangered the reputation of the institution and its management.’’

Coakley’s remarks, made in an interview with the Globe, came as she released results of her office’s four-month investigation into the board’s handling of Levy’s relationship with the woman, who left the organization last fall.

The board’s chairman, Stephen Kay, said the board continually evaluates its chief execu tive, but he rejected any suggestion that Levy’s actions may make him unfit for the job. “The best thing for the Beth Israel is to have Paul Levy lead the institution,’’ Kay said.

The attorney general’s staff found no evidence the hospital misused charitable funds in paying the employee’s salary, travel expenses, or severance — the primary focus of the investigation.

See also:  NOW, union blast Levy, Beth Israel board
By Christine McConville/Boston Herald – September 2, 2010

On Big Moving Day, Boston Battles a Pest
By KATIE ZEZIMA/New York Times – September 1, 2010

BOSTON — As if all the double-parked moving vans, anxious parents and mountains of discarded furniture and trash are not enough to fray nerves on the day when thousands of college students move into their apartments here, city officials on Wednesday were up against a tiny problem that poses a huge threat.

Bedbugs.

The first of September is traditionally when leases start or expire for off-campus housing here, and students moving in often claim the couches, beds and other material left behind. But city officials would prefer they buy their own furniture.

“The problem that you have, some old furniture that has bedbugs in them and they get passed around to other apartments,” said Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who took a tour of a student building with multiple code violations Wednesday. “We’re discouraging the use of secondhand furniture.”

Iggy and the Stooges bring ‘Raw Power’ to the people
By Scott McLennan – Globe Correspondent / September 2, 2010

Iggy and the Stooges is as good a pairing of frontman and band as you can get, judging from the group’s joyously chaotic yet deeply musical performance Tuesday at the House of Blues.

The Iggy in question is, of course, Iggy Pop, the 63-year-old sinewy and shirtless ball of energy responsible for belting out the tunes. And the Stooges these days consist of guitarist James Williamson, drummer Scott Asheton, bass player Mike Watt and sax player Steve Mackay.

This lineup is notable for bringing Williamson back into the fold roughly 35 years after he and Pop parted ways, though not before collaborating on the landmark 1973 album “Raw Power.’’

The 85-minute concert hit upon all of “Raw Power,’’ plus other songs from that era of Stooges, such as the harrowing “Open Up and Bleed’’ and caterwauling “I Got a Right.’’

See also:  10 ways to spend the night in the Fenway/Kenmore area

A rousing Ninth brings Tanglewood season to a close
By Jeremy Eichler – Globe Staff / August 31, 2010

LENOX — Every year in late August, like ripe local tomatoes, cool New England nights, or spontaneous bouts of anticipatory dread, the ringing sounds of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at Tanglewood signal what everyone knows, but is still hoping might not quite yet be the case: Summer has run its course.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra concluded its Tanglewood season on Sunday with a performance of the Ninth, as it does every year. Some summers, the ritual can feel tired, so much so that I’ve often wondered whether audiences, the orchestra, and the music itself would stand to benefit if the Ninth were given a sabbatical, a vacation from marking the end of vacation. Surely there are other high-impact ways to end a season.

But then other summers, a performance of the kind that took place on Sunday makes you feel like this ritual may be one of the more sensible things that happens at Tanglewood, and maybe the Ninth, in all of its accrued symbolism and actual depths, its teeming surfaces and its wild heart, may be one of those works that can stand up to all of our attempts to tame it through repetition. Certainly, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus on Sunday sang with a directness and commitment that suggested for these singers, there was nothing formulaic about another performance. Beethoven’s ode to universal brotherhood sounded unbowed by the years.

BU welcomes Class of 2014
By Saba Hamedy and Meaghan Beatley/BU Daily Free Press – September 2, 2010

More than 4,000 freshmen marched down Commonwealth Avenue Sunday afternoon as part of Boston University’s annual matriculation ritual.

The march started at Danielsen Hall in East Campus and made its way to Agganis Arena, where the students were cajoled and counseled by a variety of BU personalities, including President Robert Brown and Student Union president Arthur Emma.

Brown touted the diversity of BU’s student population, and encouraged the new freshmen to take pride in their school.

“Diversity runs through the fabric of BU,” he said. “Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream that one day people would be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin is a reality here.”

BU’s North Star goes dark over Kenmore

By Suzanne Schiavone/BU Daily Free Press – September 1, 2010

Paris has the Eiffel Tower, New York City has the Statue of Liberty and Boston – specifically Kenmore Square – has the CITGO Sign.
On July 23, the lights emanating from the beacon of Kenmore Square went dark to make way for renovations that will make the 45-year-old sign more environmentally friendly and better able to stand up to Boston’s notoriously bad weather.
The sign, first put up in 1940, has long been one of the most prominent features of Boston University’s campus as well as Kenmore Square and Fenway Park, and students cherish the sign as one of the most significant landmarks on campus.

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Tropical-storm watch issued for Boston area

31 BC – Final War of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium – off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.

1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul’s Cathedral.  More anniversaries.

Dear friends, Welcome to the District D-4 Web Page. District D-4 is located at 650 Harrison Ave in the South End adjacent to the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. Our District covers four of Boston’s most diverse neighborhoods; South End, Lower Roxbury, Back Bay, and The Fenway. Within the boundaries of the district are the Boston Medical Center, The Boston Herald, The Pine St Inn, Copley Place shopping mall, Boston Public Library Main Branch, Museum of Fine Arts, Fenway Park, Boston University and Northeastern University. The residents and Dailey visitors to our district are made up of several racial, ethnic, and religious groups. The men and woman of District D-4 work in partnership with the community to fight crime reduce fear and improve the quality of life in the neighborhoods. The Officers and Detectives of District D-4 respond to and investigate crimes that range from quality of life issues such as panhandling to serious felonies such as Robbery and Burglary. We have several ongoing programs at the district with our civic and community partners. There are monthly scheduled police / community meetings in the four neighborhoods of the district to discuss issues of crime and quality of life. The district has several educational and prevention programs; R.A.D. (Woman’s Self-Defense Class), senior and Junior Police Academies, G.R.E.A.T. (Gang Resistance Education and Training), the Leave It and Lose It Campaign (to deter larcenies from motor vehicles) and Operation Impact. Operation Impact is a coalition of various law enforcement agencies who collaborate and communicate with the common goal to reduce youth violence. Unfortunately, the issue of larcenies from motor vehicles continues to be a problem on the District, despite increased patrols and educational initiatives that have been taken. Officers have made numerous arrests, but arrests alone will not solve the problem. It is our belief that this is a problem that must be addressed by all our community partners. Please do not leave valuables visible in your motor vehicles. We ask residents to take precautions and remain vigilant for suspicious activity in your neighborhood. Please report any suspicious activity immediately by dialing 911 or (617)343-4911 from a cell phone (otherwise the call will go to the State Police). The Community Service Office at D-4 can provide you with tips and suggestions on safeguarding your property. As the Commanding Officer of this district, I want to assure all of our residents of my commitment to advance the Department’s mission of community policing. On behalf of the men and woman of D-4 I thank you for visiting our web page and invite you to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have. Respectfully, Captain Paul M. Ivens Commanding Officer – District D-4

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2010 Rally

 Free School supplies

Food, Games and Prizes

Activities for

7^th through 12 grade, Friday 9/3 7:00 p.m. SPECIAL NOTE: Due to the weather advisory and uncertainty of tomorrow’s storm we will postpone Friday activities, and move the games and school supply distribution to Saturday (9/4) morning beginning at 10:00 a.m.

Kindergarten thru 6^th grade, Sat 9/4, 10:00 a.m.

Pre register by email or phone with Minister Kinds, at kindsmyra@msn.com or 774 219-9756 and be entered for special drawing.

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COMIDA, JUEGOS Y PREMIOS

ACTIVIDADES PARA EL

GRADOS DEL  7 AL 12 y

Kinder a el Sexto grado sera el Sabado 4 DE Septiembre a las  10:00 a.m.

  Para registrarse por telefono llame a la Reverenda de los jovenes Myra Kinds al 774 219-9756 o al correo electronico a esta direccion kindsmyra@msn.com y su nombre sera para entrar a la rifa o tombola especial.