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Graeme Smith hit his first century for Surrey as they beat Gloucestershire by four wickets in LV= County Championship Division Two at the Kia Oval.
The hosts were set 267 to win, Smith's excellent 103 setting them on their way before three quick wickets temporarily gave Gloucestershire hope.
Steven Davies then added some much-needed composure at the crease and all but wrapped up the win with a valuable 61 as Surrey claimed their first win in the championship this season.
Gloucestershire had been bowled out for 230 on day two of the contest but persistent rain meant Surrey were only able to knock 47 off their chase going into today.
Smith resumed on 39 alongside fellow opener Rory Burns, who had made seven, and the pair survived the early overs to make an encouraging start.
It was not long before Smith made it to 50 and the South African veteran continued to dominate the run-scoring while Burns served as a patient partner.
Gloucestershire's James Fuller and Matt Taylor continued to battle hard yet it was Smith's day, the 33-year-old sealing his century with a single through gully.
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Smith added just three more to his total, however, as Taylor drew a nick and Cameron Herring held on to give the visitors a breakthrough just before lunch.
Needing 122 more runs to win, Dominic Sibley joined Burns at the crease but the teenager was out for just four, caught by Alex Gidman off Taylor.
Gloucestershire had their tails up and, just four overs later, grabbed another as this time Burns was dismissed as he was caught by Benny Howell off Graeme McCarter.
Davies, who had dropped wicket-keeping duties to focus on his batting, made a positive start but Gloucestershire's hopes were growing, particularly when Gary Wilson was out lbw for 16 to leave the hosts 204 for four.
It was then, however, that Surrey took the game away from their opponents as Davies moved past his half-century alongside Jason Roy to make sure the target was within touching distance.
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What:The 34th District Democrats 19th Annual Dinner & Garden Party/Auction
"Luau at the Lake"
When:Friday, August 15, 2014
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Where: TAF Bethaday Community Learning Center @ Lakewood Park/Hicks Lake
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Help the 34th District Democrats raise money to increase citizen participation within its boundaries and to implement the ideals and principles of the Democratic Party thru promoting Democratic Candidates and initiatives in our community. read more »
The Mediterranean Fantasy Fest is on at the Hiawatha Community Center 2700 California Ave. SW.
The event will feature Belly Dancers (and classes), sword balancing, fire dancers, music and food.
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Local musician Tai Shan will play new songs from "Living Fiction" with her band from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, July 17 at The Seattle Public Library, West Seattle Branch, 2306 42nd Ave. S.W, on the front lawn.
Library programs are free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Free parking is available near the West Seattle Branch.
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he Alki Art Fair, now in its 17th year will fill the Promenade on Alki Beach July 19-20 offering visual arts, crafts, food and music. Artist booths are open from 10 am - 6 pm with music all day until 9 pm. On July 20, artist booths are open 10 am - 6 pm with music until 8 pm. This event is free to the public.
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Welcome and Introductions Deb Barker
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1st Bout 5pm
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Ringside $25 (includes $5 dinner coupon)
Adults $10
Children under 10 $5
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I have always had a requirement for a minimum dividend yield, whenever I have analyzed and purchased dividend stocks. The reason for this requirement was to provide with at least some dividend income in case the stocks stopped increasing distributions for some reason. If a stock stopped raising distributions I would put it on my hold list and would stop contributing new funds to the position, while reinvesting dividends in other more promising candidates. I do require at least a decade of consistent annual dividend increases, before even looking at a stock. This decreases the size of my watch list to less than 300 stocks.
My entry yield requirement has ranged from a low of 2% in 2008 to a high of 3% since 2009. After analyzing some of the most successful dividend stocks such as Wal-Mart (WMT), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), McDonald's (MCD) and Becton Dickinson (BDX) I have come to realize that a minimum yield requirement could have been a detriment to acquiring those stocks when they first became dividend achievers.
Stocks such as Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) never really yielded more than 3% until 2008 for example. As a result I would have missed on strong double digit dividend growth for several decades, which would have surely turned the yield on cost on original investments into the triple digits. A company that yields 2% currently but manages to raise distributions by 12% due to strong earnings growth would double the yield on cost in 6 years.
It seems that a more flexible approach would be to analyze the average yields investors could have received over the past decade and then decide whether it makes sense to purchase the stock based on valuation and earnings power. In this sense making sure not to pay over twenty times earnings or accepting an unreasonably high dividend payout is very important.
Another thing to do is to simply ignore current yield altogether and instead focus on the fundamentals, while evaluating whether the company could reasonably expect to boost distributions for the next decade. A company with a yield lower than 3% would definitely have to have an average dividend growth of at least ten percent.
While I would ignore current yield, I could still create a dividend portfolio where I try to obtain an average current dividend yield of 3% or 4%. This could be achieved by grouping high yielding stocks with low yielding dividend growth stocks. The high yielding stocks typically are slow growing and would provide current income. The low yielding stocks would have a growth component, which would ensure purchasing power protection from inflation. If an investor decides to create a diversified dividend portfolio with 40 individual stocks in it, they could purchase 20 dividend growth stocks yielding 2% or 3% on average and 20 stocks which yield 5% - 6% on average in order to obtain a portfolio yield of 4% for example. Examples of high yielding stocks that could used in this strategy include Realty Income (O), master limited partnerships such as Kinder Morgan Energy (KMP) ,utilities companies such as Con Edison (ED) or telecom firms such as AT&T (T).
To summarize, investors do not need to choose between yield and dividend growth. Instead, they could create portfolios where they take advantage of both.
Full Disclosure: Long JNJ, MCD, WMT, O, KMP, ED, T,
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Austin expats make good on the festival circuit with their debut indie comedy
By Michael Agresta, Fri., May 16, 2014
These days Molly Green and James Leffler are writing and directing movies together, but when they first met, standing in line for a South by Southwest film screening in 2007, they were just a couple of University of Texas undergraduates with a similar Hollywood dream. They struck up a conversation, and Green told Leffler about a short film she was making. Leffler suggested an alternate title. Green considered his idea, then shot it down.
By all accounts, it was the beginning of a beautiful writing partnership.
On May 15, they celebrate the official release of their first collaborative film, Forev. It stars fellow UT alums Matt Mider and Noël Wells – the latter now a cast member on Saturday Night Live – as neighbors who, in the course of a desert road trip, half-sarcastically agree to get married.
The two leads had been performing together for years, going back to Esther's Follies in Austin. "We wanted to build something that would be a good fit for Matt and Noël's dynamic," Green says. "We thought, what a good way to put that on display – two people who barely know each other who've decided to get married."
The film's deeper themes mirror the challenges that Green and Leffler were facing at the time they wrote the script, as struggling would-be filmmakers with none of the trappings of a successful adult life. The idea of marriage was particularly daunting. "We were in our early 20s, working these not-so-legit jobs, feeling like we're not grownups," Leffler says, "and we're getting these wedding invitations coming in from friends from college and high school wearing summer dresses and sweater vests and standing under trees with sunlight streaming through."
"It throws you for a loop, or it did for us, because you realize that these people are adults," Green adds. "You start to see marriage as a real thing in the world that could happen to you."
Not that Green or Leffler would ever be so square as to don sweater vests, except maybe as a joke. Thinking seriously about marriage, however, meant questioning their inclination toward hipster sarcasm. "Sincerity is getting harder and harder to come by," Green admits. "It's easier to jokingly say to somebody, 'Hey, let's get married,' than it is to sincerely tell someone, 'I like you.' That difficulty of sincerity was a big source material for the movie."
So far, audiences seem sincere in their appreciation of Forev. After a premiere at the 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival, it won audience awards at the Portland Film Festival and the Tallgrass Film Festival. Reviews have been positive – the Examiner calls it a "delightfully funny crowd pleaser" – with more on the way as distributors roll out the release on VOD, iTunes, and other formats available at www.forevmovie.com.
Despite its strong Austin roots, Forev was made entirely in and around Los Angeles. Building on Austin's reputation as an anti-Hollywood for off-the-beaten-track filmmakers, Green and Leffler represent a new scene of Austin expats in L.A. who carry the banner for weird, smart, quirky fare into the belly of the beast.
Leffler, a native Austinite, is a true child of the Linklater era. "One of the key moments early on that made me want to make movies was Dazed and Confused shooting on my block when I was 8," he says. "Then the movie came out, and I saw there was a scene on my pony league baseball field, and my across-the-street neighbor was in it. It felt like something that was available to me."
Forev shares that homemade aesthetic. Much of it was shot on weekends at a rented vacation home in the Joshua Tree desert. "The producers cooked all the meals and drove us in minivans and jeeps," Green says. "People camped by set in tents. There was an outdoor shower, which was really fun because it was 114 degrees out one day. Everyone would put on a bathing suit and hop in. Also, a horse trough full of water that people sat in like an outdoor bathtub."
The fingerprints of the Austin expat community are all over Forev – not just through Wells and Mider, but also several crew members, day players, and all-around favor-givers. "We didn't tell people we were going to make the movie until we were for sure gonna do it, the same way as, in the movie, once they tell people they're getting married it starts to feel real," Leffler says. "But once we started to tell people, all our Texas buddies were like, 'When and where? How can I help? I'm there.'"
Forev debuts on DVD, Blu-ray, and VOD on May 15.


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Mutations from a family-shuffling-library reveal amino acid residues responsible for the thermostability of endoglucanase CelA from Clostridium thermocellum
- Zhuo-Lin YiAffiliated withChengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of SciencesGraduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
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We constructed a library of chimeras from the major endoglucanase, CelA, of Clostridium thermocellum and a less stable endoglucanase CelB from Clostridium josui with multiple point mutations using low-fidelity family-shuffling method. Mutations that inactivated the enzyme were rapidly eliminated with high-throughput screening. The activities and thermostabilities of selected variants were evaluated, and four amino acid substitutions, K249R, P258S, S329N and E355G, were identified as having significant impact on the thermostability of CelA without affecting enzymatic activity. In the crystal structure of CelA, most of them are away from the activity cleft and are responsible for the stabilization of secondary structures.
KeywordsCelA Clostridium thermocellum Endoglucanase Family shuffling Thermostability
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- Mutations from a family-shuffling-library reveal amino acid residues responsible for the thermostability of endoglucanase CelA from Clostridium thermocellum
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Volume 32, Issue 12 , pp 1869-1875
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- 10.1007/s10529-010-0363-0
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- CelA
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- Zhong-Liu Wu (1)
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Now he's here in New Zealand talking himself up, but apparently his ego has been insufficiently stroked by local luminaries so he's throwing hissy fits and threatening law suits--or so he just ranted to Linda Clark. The first suit would be against the Christchurch Press because they had the acumen to call him a hoaxster. That made poor Jonathan unhappy (cue violins) and also made him call his lawyers.
In a bid to show how locally 'connected' he is, he's also been quietly hinting that he's been "consulted" by a "major local party," but his bluff on that one has also been called. Every "major local party" has issued a "Nyet" to his claim, making him look even sillier than he already does, and the National Party went even further and also called him a hoaxster. To restore his fragile and damaged ego he has to sue them too.
What a sad little wanker. Perhaps he and Judith Tizard could contrive to get stuck in a lift together sometime.
[UPDATE 1: Russell Brown has some background on the whole ruckus in a PS at the foot of this post.]
[UPDATE 2: The Grauniad has the story of Pontell's similarly duplicitous shenanigans with Britain's Tory Party. [Hat tip IP at DPF's]
A Tory spokesman said: "CommunicateResearch came in to pitch for business, but they are not employed by us in any way. He came in with them for a chat and is certainly not giving us any advice."... Mr Pontell told the Guardian: "Yes, I have advised a political party here about targeting Generation Jones. I can't say which party it was." He had met officials and provided follow-up information on request.]


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You wish; you give yourselves FAR too much credit.
And YOU don't get it. I didn't give us any credit. Boardman, apparently did.
Plus, I think it was a tough field that year.
I miss Sandeep Kaushik.
This is SO high school.
so high school, just like the stranger staff.
Eli, still burned about not getting that full-time gig at the Times?
@6 -- You are clearly speaking out your ass. Eli did not post this. Josh did. Or are you a new type of dick-weed that thinks all Jewish people look alike?
Go away.
Aha. IDR it is. Or, rather, was...
I know, I know, I should know better, but still, I just can't sort out why all of these people who hate the Stranger and its staff so much spend so much time reading and commenting here. Really, much of the best, most informative stuff I've read in the last two years has been written by Josh, Eli, Erica, Jonah and the others. Whatever it may say about my friends and me, a huge portion of the local, state and national topics we discuss often wind up involving material that was written on Slog or in the actual Stanger. I know this is pointless to observe, but I just had to toss it in here. Mainly because I'd be interested in seeing the comments actually be an interesting place to go, and not just a series of attacks on the writers.
All I know is my peeps at the WaPo laugh when they hear of the Seattle Times.
Everyone in the news biz knows that it's the PI and the Stranger that rule in Seattle. Well, except for David Postman ...
Of course it was a horse of a different color for Monsuueeooor Boardman... as the edrioterers always no the best corrections.
Yeah... and we saw the Monkeys overtake the Beatles in tour revinue last year for retro act of the big leauge comeback award show.... sheeesh!
I've got to hand it to The Stranger, cause I like them. For no other good reason than I told you so.
So here goes another attempt at interview for free writing workshop 101 for The Stranger as I try to win a spot for entertainment article of 'investigative denial of the year "towards ceremony".'
Could it have been Tom Lycas talking about kids and fame on the Radio today as I passed by a portable am/fm in the park?
I don't know and I don't care... even if it did sound like his voice.
Every once in a so often something comes along and changes an unmentionable.
An unmentionable is a word, or thought or experiance previously encountered that was abandoned or neglected, or just left to shine in the view of all to see until rediscovered again by something.
Thank the educational system for the people who pay attention to advertising!!!
I mean, in all seriousness Trillions and trillions of dollars have been spent on a war on drugs, and I do remember one slogan that appears at the moment to have retained some merit.... " a mind is a terrible thing to waste ".
It's unfortunate, and an understatement that in today's business climate the sheer force of greed can drive people to make less than stellar appointments to staffing solutions while they spend trillions on failed policy programs.
Far be it from me to waste time and effort on words without adding to the jargon of lexiconisms the world over.
Here is my addition for the day... possibly for longer if it takes off like a buzz word.
Pro-nounced Squirm-i-nim-ee-acks.
It's kind of like attention deficit disorder only with the 'Homerlike DOH!' thrown in for comic relief when the boss does his usual no-brainer escapder with the nymphomanic brassierre trader in the chum-waiter.
And all the employees who didn't want to leave and were forced out screamed "YEAH"!
or... "WTF"?
You can most likely give some credit for where the word 'squirminimiacs' originates from in developmental terms to my two daughters Emily and Melody who gave me Radioheads Amnesiacs for a Christmas present a few years ago and what other processes( except legitimate and illegitemate fine generating retro-active lawsuits) that bring together the make up of jumbled mumbles in a tumble of immediate crumble cake and fancy taste tests.
The unmentionable of course is inspiration.
Inspiration comes in many guises and forms.
Some inspiration comes around like a revolving door of political appointments rotating through every couple of 50 or 100 year cycles just to insure that the old blocks of stone and mortar don't become unteathered from the pedestals of wealth or ornithology.
These types of cyclic unmentionables float and hover around our subconcious levels of choice, almost as if the mere lack of discernable observation locks in the cusp of the previous event on the horizon line of a probable future.
This is of course non-sense.... unless one is VERY VERY wealthy and has powerful friends in law enforcement.....or law development....or law incarcerativeness... or....
well..... perhaps the inspired law freak would say nothing by saying "self determined inspiration is an affront to all natural and spontaneous 'inspirationus majoris'."
Case in point.
The Gavel.
There is nothing spontaneously inspiring about the prospect of a job as a court stenographer taking testimony in a traffic court for parking violations.
That pretty much means I can read your past, present and future as an art trader without admitting to your dealer that I have the thing going on with your uncles next door neighbors grandmas younger niece twice removed by marraige from her fathers mechanic.
What was the age on that space ship that just passed through the solar system catman?
On the other hand... the inspiration of a goodly night nurse with an educated precursor to thwarting crime by spying where one souldn't spy...
That my good friends is the Karmic Wheel of Fire and Ice.
....and speaking of Fire and Ice... you can see it right there in Reykavik Iceland....
Hydrogen Cars and fuel cells... and they said we all came from an accidental tourist!!!? HA!
A students mind and heart..... now that's worth it's weight in pop songs!
And that's why I keep my eye on Chris Ballew and his mis-shapen crew of POTUS.....
cause one day he'll realize my offer extended in friendship was the one thing that would keep my TITANS from coming back from the Sea to "cracken open his noggin" with a spar.... the Rooster Cogburn kind of spar.... where I will kick his puny little 20 finger 4 bass string theory guitar pop shtick all over the planet.
Good day to you Chris Ballew... you silly american bald guy!
Danny Vengance reporting forJosh Feit and Jen Graves as "inspiration vivacious".
I agree with @3. Sandeep you are truly missed.
@10 HAHAHAHA! Good one.
Josh, don't worry. The Times still has your resume on file.
All nine of them.
Hey Josh - PROVE that this happened. You're story is so full of holes, just like some of the slop you turn in (which apparently no one edits). What's the name of this "former Stranger news internnow a star reporter at a mid-size daily somewhere else on the planet"? Star reporter my ass; I'd be more inclined to be blurb-o-mat churner at Star magazine.
How many big-boy job interviews have you actually been on in your life? This isn't the sort of thing a manager would say to someone who was interviewing; it's clear you've never sat in the big chair before.
C'mon, reveal the deets: this didn't happen. Prove it.
Boardman here. Just curious: Did it ever occur to you to pick up a phone and actually ask me whether the conversation cited here actually occurred as you reported it?
Listen, as I've said before publicly, I have a lot of regard for The Stranger, and especially for Dan. I appreciate what you guys do; the community's better for having both you AND us. I'm a fan of Eli's and Jen's, in particular. A couple of years ago, when one of your reporters admitted to me that an anecdote you printed about me was actually a fabricated "composite," I let it go.
I know taking shots at the big daily is part of the formula; every alt weekly in America does it. But it's becoming, well ... unbecoming.
That's a good point Boardman, re: calling.
I'm putting out tomorrow's paper right now, but I'll give you a call.
This didn't strike me as particularly serious or important Slog post, so I didn't feel compelled to call, but sure, will do.
Yeah, he likes Eli and Jen!!! :-)
boardman should've been pissy: that piece by sandeep was a hatchet job pure and simple (and yeah i like sandeep), right up there with the one the merc tried to pull on willamette week in 2005 when it won a pulitzer. now why don't you go do something groovy josh?
"That's a good point Boardman, re: calling."
"This didn't strike me as particularly serious or important."
You lack professionalism. And character. You owe Boardman a public apology.
oh yes he does at #21. but then as i know the story the stranger folks never called any of the reporters involved in the sea times piece back when either. so this is just typical.
If The Times went after the Stranger on such a regular basis with the same vitriol, then you guys would likely fold like a blanket.
You are pussies, taking swings from behind a guys head then get pissed when they don't return your calls.
Someone call the waaaaabulance.
Coward. You're conveniently too "busy putting out tomorrow's paper" to back up your smack, Josh. But not too busy to check back on your own posts three minutes after someone calls bullshit on you. Boy.
Lady C.,
I called Boardman yesterday afternoon. I left a message on his machine. He called back and left a message on my machine saying we probably didn't really need to talk. I called him back, and left a message with his secretary saying I'd love to hear what he had to say about the anecdote I posted.
It must be fucking hell to work with you. A lot of people are going to breathe a sigh of relief real soon.
@26: To all the posting Times staffers: Shouldn't you be doing more important things than insulting Josh--like maybe updating your resumes?
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Texas clinched a wild-card spot and moved to the cusp of the division title, with Adrian Beltre's three-run double backing Derek Holland in a 5-3 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Thursday night.
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Suppose $R$ is a ring with no zero divisors and with identity $1_R$ not equal to $0_R$. Suppose that $a,b$ are in $R$ and that $ab$ is a unit. Prove that $b$ is a unit.
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Time to get tough
It felt good to read Dan Simpson's column about President Barack Obama's tough talk to African leaders ("Obama's Unique Role in Africa: The First African-American President Can Tell African Leaders Hard Truths," July 15). But back home, during Wednesday's press conference, the president seemed to be sugar-coating his prescription for health-care reform ("Obama Pitches Health Plan to the Public," July 23).
Maybe it's time for the president to tell some hard truths to the American people about health care.
He'll have to ask some folks to stop beating their breasts about our great health care to hear that the World Health Organization ranks us 37th in the world -- lodged between Costa Rica and Slovenia. He'll have to point out that the same tired threats we're hearing now about socialized medicine and restricted choice were used by the American Medical Association and politicians like Ronald Reagan to oppose Medicare -- now a widely accepted part of our health-care system. And to all the people who want to see the poor pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, he'll have to say that the vast majority -- about 80 percent -- of uninsured Americans are actually working Americans.
President Obama, it's time for some tough talk at home.


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Testing the new version of Video Player for wordpress, I tested Safari, Webkit on iPhone and iPad, and finally most of the problems were solved (on iPad the Posterframe no longer forbid the iPad to load the mp4 video, Yay)
But then I tested FireFox to see how the Flash player did look (I don't bother reencoding 19 videos [~10hours] in ogg just for FireFox) and to my surprise the poster frame was set to the demo version.
After some tinkering (~2hours) I finally solved the thing (I'm not a coder so It's kind of an exploit for me, Lol)
Edit the folowing file :
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$flow_player_poster = '"http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.png", ';
replace It with this line :
$flow_player_poster = '"'.$poster.'", ';
the default poster frame should finally be set to the one specified in the shortcode :
[video mp4="http://www.YourSite.com/wordpress/wp-content/YourVideoFolder/VideoFile.mp4" poster="http://www.YourSite.com/wordpress/wp-content/YourVideoFolder/PosterFrameOfYourVideoFile.jpg" width="480" height="344" autostart="false" preload="false"]
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Romney Gets Bronx Cheer In Boston Neighborhood
"We know you."
ROXBURY, Mass. — Mitt Romney used a small auto garage here as the setting to criticize President Obama for not meeting with his jobs council over the past six months, and hail the entrepreneurial spirit that brought small businesses to this community.
"Over the last six months, he has done 106 fundraisers," Romney said of Obama. "I think you learn something about his priorities. The job he's interested in protecting is his own."
But outside the auto shop — with protesters chanting "Shame on Romney, Shame on Bain!" — two local city officials went after the Republican candidate for comments he once made about their town. In 1994, Romney, then an executive at Bain Capital, said they didn't invest in businesses in Roxbury or nearby Dorchester because of "crime."
"You know what? If he didn't have the vision to turn around Roxbury then… how is going to have that vision when he's president?" said Tito Jackson, a city councilor representing Roxbury.
Jackson went on to criticize Romney's time as Massachusetts governor, accusing him of abandoning a campaign pledge to rebuild the long-vacant Ferdinand building, once he took office.
"He didn't create jobs when he was governor… he didn't find himself in this community very often, and you know what Mitt Romney? We know you," said Jackson.
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Civic Duty
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- Release Date: May 4, 2007
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While the film doesn't fully succeed in its striving for a Hitchcock-style ambiguity in its storytelling, it is consistently engrossing in its exploration of the fine line between civic duty and vigilantism.
Unfolding largely within the confines of a single apartment complex, the well-structured scenario is arresting but ill-served by an overly fussy visual treatment from helmer Jeff Renfroe, while Peter Krause's increasingly psychotic performance as an amateur snoop frequently threatens to cross the line between forceful and off-putting.
Expected ironies about homeland security, racial profiling, and fears of the Other land like a rain of anvils, and director Renfroe matches Krause's worked-up performance with a jiggly, flashy approximation of off-brand Tony Scott.


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FDA has put a clinical hold on Geron's human embryonic stem cell (hESC) therapy for spinal cord injury, because it is reviewing nonclinical animal data submitted after the IND filing. The IND covers the study of GRNOPC1 in neurologically complete, subacute spinal cord injury.
The new data submitted to the FDA was derived from studies to enable dose escalation and application of the product to other neurodegenerative diseases. The firm adds that it has also been performing additional product characterization and conducting further animal studies.
In January Geron was given the go-ahead to initiate a Phase I trial in patients with spinal cord injury. GRNOPC1 contains hESC-derived oligodendrocyte progenitor cells that have demonstrated remyelinating and nerve growth stimulating properties leading to restoration of function in animal models of acute spinal cord injury, the firm explains.
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Days of Fire
Bush and Cheney in the White House
By Peter Baker
816 pages, $35
By Lee Coppola
Histories of presidencies usually pay some sort of homage to the second in command, but generally only to explain how minimal his role was. Not so in "Days of Fire," perhaps the first presidential history that gives equal billing to the vice president.
And rightly so, for Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney was often regarded as the puppeteer pulling the strings of President George Walker Bush. Peter Baker, White House correspondent for the New York Times, doesn't go quite that far in explaining the Bush/Cheney team, but he does give an enlightening and detailed account of their relationship.
Both men have since written memoirs of their years in the White House, and Baker relies on them occasionally to illustrate a point. For instance, to emphasize Cheney's constant attention to detail, he notes, as Cheney did, that the vice president had a letter of resignation prepared in case his always-present health concerns rendered him incapacitated. But Baker points out it was because Cheney had White House succession researched and learned there was none for a vice president unable to fulfill his duties.
Baker, in his own attention to detail, then notes the letter, never needed, remained in the possession of Cheney's assistant, David Addington, and was one of only two documents salvaged when Addington's home was destroyed in a fire.
That was one of many tidbits Baker found in the five years he spent researching "Days." He interviewed more than 200 people familiar with the Bush-Cheney years and drew from books and articles written then and since.
Contrary to what pundits surmised as Bush dipped his toes into presidential waters, Cheney was not the lifeguard telling him where to go nor was Bush the inexperienced swimmer unaware of the potential dangers of a misstep. The two, according to Baker, had a well-oiled professional relationship during the president's first term.
They were not friends, and they did not socialize except for official necessities. But, as Bush's second term wore on and he sought what Baker called "validation" for his presidency, the president relied less and less on his vice president's counsel. And even their professional relationship soured when the president, in the waning hours of his second term, refused Cheney's repeated requests to pardon his assistant, Scooter Libby, who had been convicted of lying about disclosing the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
Still, Baker writes, "Cheney was unquestionably the most influential vice president in American history. He assembled a power base through a mastery of how Washington worked and a trust with Bush, who viewed him as a consigliere guiding him through a hostile and bewildering capital."
Baker traces their paths through the early years of their political lives, Bush's in Texas, where it led him to lead the state, and Cheney's in Washington, where he was taken under the wing of Donald Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld, in fact, was on the list of vice presidential candidates, but Bush scratched him.
Instead, he chose Cheney, who had been in charge of finding him a vice president.
"He had gotten to know Cheney and appreciated his quiet command," Baker writes, and "he found it amusing when Cheney told him a personality test had determined his ideal job would be a funeral director."
But funeral directors don't take Washington by storm. Cheney was to be the deciding vote in an evenly split Senate, and he wasted no time in telling GOP Senate leaders at lunch that there was a new sheriff in town. Another tidbit: he ordered fried chicken against his heart doctor's advice, and dropped a piece that stained the white carpet in Arlen Specter's office.
The new-sheriff-in-town mantra played consistently through Bush's first term. Cheney's take-no-prisoners influence was evident as Bush confronted the aftershocks of the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001. The Iraq invasion, a Cheney-Rumsfeld-influenced decision that turned into a quagmire and presidential headache, loomed large in the second term when intelligence indicated Syria was capable of building nuclear arms.
Cheney wanted to take unilateral military action to support the Bush-Cheney resolve after 9/11 to fight terrorism at all costs. "Does anybody agree with the vice president?" Bush asked during a meeting with advisers. Nobody did, and Bush, now leery of the veracity of intelligence information, chose to forgo an invasion in favor of a methodical review of the Syrian situation.
That decision, perhaps, best illustrates Baker's assessment of the Bush-Cheney years. The two did much good for the nation, Baker writes, lifting spirits after the sneak attack on the nation, bettering education and the economy at home and supporting democratic efforts in foreign lands. "They confronted crisis after crisis, not just a single 'day of fire" on that bright morning of September 11," writes Baker.
But, Baker adds, "their misjudgments and misadventures left them … the most unpopular president and vice president in generations," an attitude fueled by an endless and seemingly unneeded war, a failure to adequately support recovery from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and a fiscal morass left for a successor to confront.
"Days of Fire" provides a rarely seen account of the inner workings of a rare two-man team that guided a nation, for good or bad, through two presidential terms of office.
Lee Coppola is a former print and TV reporter, a former prosecutor and the retired dean of St. Bonaventure University's Jandoli Journalism School.


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For her first three years of high school, senior Kaylah Romine toiled in the shadow of PHS stellar distance runner Cheyenne Becker. In this her senior campaign, Romine is poised to garner some well-deserved recognition of her own.
In the rescheduled Chaparral Invitational Monday, Romine again bested the field to pocket her second gold medal on the season.
Romine completed the course around Anthony Lake in 16:30.
"That was the highlight of the meet for us," Pratt High crosscountry coach Kathy Hitz said. "Overall, we were a little flat. Having a meet rescheduled gets us out of our training routine. We didn't have any great times or anything because the course is a slow one with soft footing. But the kids competed well."
Other medalists for Pratt included Zach Claussen, 2nd in freshmen boys race (4K) with a 17:43.
Ruth Anthony (9, 17:44), Nichole Moreland (12, 18:26) and Cassidy Cronister (18, 19:26) joined Romine on the varsity girls medal stand.
Brendan Pribil (13, 19:37) and Joseph Loomis (15, 19:43) medaled on boys varsity.
The Greenback harriers have a fast turnaround this week, challenging the Lake Afton dam in the Goddard Invite on Thursday.
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Caring Waiter Feeds Worn Out Woman's Sick Baby
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This goes way beyond service with a smile.
Social Media helps police nab two suspected of petty theft
Tucker Beathard let us see what happens behind the stage at one of Dierks Bentley's shows when he took over our Instagram account on Saturday (July 23).
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Well we have heard about the heat dome and how hot some areas are in America, but what are the hottest cities in America?
Fire danger in Missoula County was bumped up to 'High' on Monday, but no new restrictions have yet been put into place.
The trip was amazing, but the time went by so fast. Some of the big highlights for me were of course, seeing family and friends, eating some delicious fish and chips from Ivar's, and the concert...
The Missoula County Sheriff's Office is warning floaters to lock up their belongings while floating the river this summer.
Sewer main construction tearing up Linda Vista and Miller Creek streets.
Missoula Mavericks Host State American Legion Baseball Tournament
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BioShock: Infinite's politics have real world equivalents
BioShock Infinite's politics-heavy plot in firmly rooted in real world cycles, Irrational boss Ken Levine has explained.
While neither faction is even slightly inspired by or similar in behaviour to real world organisations, they do manifest political thought that exists and has existed in the real world, Levine told Complex at New York Comic Con.
"We started the game thinking about the city and the nationalistic, patriotic, religious components of the city. A lot of people said 'oh, you're copying the Tea Party,'" he said.
"And in a way we were copying the Tea Party, in that the Tea Party is another expression of a movement that's happened over and over again in American and European and every kind of history.
"The opposing group, the Vox Populi – the much more leftist, populist group – shortly after we introduced that to the world you see the Occupy Wall Street movement.
"The reason that happens is because these movements happen over and over again. Quite often they happen as reactions to each other."
BioShock: Infinite is due on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2012. Catch the full interview below.
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