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The Feel-Good Flash Mob of Early Summer 2013: Kids Say Good-Bye to Their PrincipalJoslyn Gray
Apparently I'm on a roll with heartwarming, tear-jerking videos this week, but here's one of a bunch of middle school teachers and kids honoring their beloved retiring principal with a flash mob.
Roger Boddie, a 36-year veteran educator in the public schools of Hingham, Mass., was told he was being filmed giving a tour of a new school building.
When he reached the roof, he looked down to see the entire staff and student body outside.
When I saw everybody out there — when I first saw them — I thought the fire alarm must have gone off and I didn't realize it, Boddie told the Boston Globe. "I called them on the radio, 'What's going on?' And they said, 'Oh, nothing,' and I see kids in a circle. … We don't go in a circle for a fire alarm. I knew I had been had."
Hundreds of students and staff then performed, flash mob style, to Journey's iconic "Don't Stop Believin'" while holding up signs thanking Mr. Boddie for believing in them.
According to the Globe, the emotional send-off was a massive coordination effort by students, staff, and parents. A local dance teacher was enlisted to choreograph, and the entire event was filmed by Hingham Community Access Television.
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04 December 2009
(Very late recap, sorry, had some "real life issues". I'm posting it only to keep track of┬Āall games)
Eighth consecutive┬Āloss, 10th in the last 11 games, and this time against a decent - not more than that - team: 117-107 at Oklahoma City. Sixers' record is now 5-14 (.263).
One of those losses that are hard to believe if you look at┬Āour boxscore: 50% shooting, 16/23 (61% !!) from behind the arc, 94% from the line with only one miss in 19 tries.
But then come the negatives. Outrebounded? Check, 43-29. Outassisted (assuming this is a word)? Check, 25-16. Outcoached? Check. Our two best rebounders, Dalembert and Brand,┬Āplayed a combined 48 minutes, while Willie Green got 40 (not┬Āa knock specifically on┬Āhim this time, he played┬Āok).
More. Outhustled? Check. Thunder grabbed 18 offensive rebounds (!! see also "outcoached"...), a key┬Āto shift balance in their favor. Zero defensive stops when needed? Check.
Another loss tough to swallow, after an even enjoyable┬Āgame in which Sixers led for most of the first half, and stayed close until the last 4 minutes.
1) Yes, believe it or not Sixers started the first quarter hitting 6/7 from downtown. They were 8/12 at halftime.
2) No, Iguodala could NEVER stop Durant. Durant even got to the line a lot, I think more than his usual average.
3) Yes, Thunder's jerseys are among the worst ones I've seen in many years. White-orange-blue┬Ā+ some black lines. Simply horrible combination of colours.
1) Why is Green starting, WHY? What's the infatuation with the "small ball" bullshit? I-T- I-S N-O-T W-O-R-K-I-N-G for God's sake !!!! Play the big men more !!!!!!!┬Ā
2) Why do we have this ability to┬Āturn scrubs and/or role players into all stars? Nick Collison looked like Olajuwon last night, same for JJ Hickson vs Cavs, or Blair vs Spurs. To me Collison was their MVP; a factor coming off the bench. Do you┬Āsee a┬Āpattern here? Yes, they are all energy (big) men. Hello, any coach there┬Ā????
3) How┬Āsweet is to meet the Sixers? Westbrook had a career high 15 dimes, while Oklahoma City's 12 made threes were "only" a season high.
Why we lost the game
See above. Perimeter defense sucked once more, they had more energy, intensity, and made the right plays down the stretch, just when we stopped playing team offense and went for┬Āseveral 1-vs-1s or forced shots. But now Iverson will stop this┬Ā(lol).
To be worried
We lost the game shooting unbelievably well, especially from 3 point land. Our coach has no clue on how to use┬Āhis┬Āassets and is a poor "HR manager", destroying players' confidence - or what's left of it - with his rollercoaster┬Ādistribution of minutes (Dalembert, Brand, Smith, Holiday, Carney, Kapono...) and his continue changes of lineup┬Ā(again, Brand,┬ĀSmith, Holiday┬Āetc), that are only partially caused by injuries. All hustle playes were theirs.
To be optimistic
Holiday showed once more he┬Āgot talent. Shooting was unbelievable, but we couldn't take advantage of it.┬ĀYoung regained his touch.
Sixers meet┬ĀCharlotte on Saturday, last road game┬Āof this┬Ālong, awful trip.


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November 24, 2007, 02:30 PM
I have a Baurer that gets the round jammed half way to the chamber, and sometimes working the slide manually the round won't even come out of the clip ! Do I need a new part ?:banghead:
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November 24, 2007, 02:33 PM
Probably needs a new clip. Have a gunsmith look at it, the clip may just need ajustment to the feed lips.
November 24, 2007, 05:38 PM
I had one of those back when they were in production. It never would get through an entire magazine. The local gunsmith mumbled something incoherent about how it couldn't be fixed. That does not mean it couldn't be fixed-it only meant that he didn't want to work on it.
November 24, 2007, 06:16 PM
Try a new magazine. Also, ask on the automatic pistol sub-forum, here on THR. This is the revolver sub-forum, and while many sixgunners can also help with auto questions, you are more likely to find fellow Bauer owners over there.
November 24, 2007, 06:20 PM
Sounds like a magazine feed-lip thing.
Or perhaps a weak magazine spring.
Also, I believe the Baurer was one of the early Stainless Steel guns, and can tend to be kind of "sticky" without the proper lubrication.
I'd check carefully for any galling of the slide or frame rails that might be causing the slide to bind a little.
And get some good grease like Gun-Slick or Action-Magic and use that instead of light gun oil and see if it helps.
November 24, 2007, 08:24 PM
+1 to what mec said. I remember the Bauer from the 1980's and the feeding problems it had. Some guns just should not be made of stainless steel. The blued steel version (the Baby Browning) works famously.
November 24, 2007, 10:04 PM
My Bauer works well. Figuring out why some auto's don't cycle reliably is the spice of life! Many just languish in a drawer good for nothing, or get traded endlessly. The Bauer's sell for about $200 in new condition now, so many gunsmiths probably wouldn't want to work on it. Cheapest troubleshooting is different ammo, then a new magazine, then make friends with a good hearted but poor gunsmith (That's why he's poor, he can't bear to charge what he's worth!). Me, I'd research it as a personally challenging project until I got it to work reliably, if it was mine.
November 24, 2007, 10:12 PM
Figuring out why some auto's don't cycle reliably is the spice of life!
This, my friends, is a positive attitude!
November 24, 2007, 10:21 PM
Mine had some feed problems, and replaced the original silver colored mag with a blued replacement mag for the baby Browning and fixed it. Later I tweeked the old mag until it held the cartridges like the new mag and got it working too. The original Bauer mag is pretty soft!
I think the mag I got was a Mec Gar, but not for sure. The genuine Browning magazines are expensive!
November 24, 2007, 11:56 PM
Parts, Most PSA and FN parts are interchangeable, but may need tweeking.
http://precisionsmallarms.com/parts_list.asp (PSA parts are not stainless)
Then of course there's Numrich, and look in GB under magazines.
Sylvilagus Aquaticus
November 25, 2007, 12:27 AM
The stainless Bauers also had a distinct preference for Winchester pellet nosed hollow points.
What are you feeding yours?
I bought one for my ex years ago. In my experience with it, it performed as desired. Wish I'd have kept the pistol, now.
November 25, 2007, 02:01 AM
The stainless Bauers also had a distinct preference for Winchester pellet nosed hollow points.
Where is that written My Bauer has a 9000 serial number and has only had ball fired thru it since I bought it all those years ago. I still load it and carry every now and then.
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Yesterday was a great day for me because TheFuture.FM released an iPhone app. You see I love DJ mixes and this opened up a whole new world of streaming music. There's some great full-length mixes here all for free. The app has some great features as well including "Discover" – a place where you can find new mixes by DJs you've never heard of before, "Featured" – a place where you can hear new mixes every day, and "Top" – a place to hear the top rated mixes. According to the TheFuture.FM here are some of the reasons you should download this app:
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There's a place to keep history in the app as well. Some of my favorites so far include PHRESH – "Day & Night Mix", Sasha & John Digweed – "Secret Life Mix", and Doc Martin "Essential Mix". Unfortunately I couldn't find my favorite mixes from an organization called "Deep House Cat." They've got a long-running podcast that's absolutely fantastic.
As for bugs with the app I have had an issue when loading more items in a search. Sometimes the app crashes. Otherwise I love this one and hope to be using it for some time to come.
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Applied Epi and Chairman Paul Colombo Give $1 Million Gift to Support Innovative Research
anta Barbara, Calif. -- Applied Epi, Inc. and its founder and chairman, Paul Colombo, have given the College of Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) $1 million to set up two technology funds and an endowment to enhance innovative research endeavors.
One of the funds will be named for Applied Epi, the St. Paul, Minn.-based manufacturer of Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) products, and the other fund for Paul Colombo, who started Applied Epi, formerly EPI MBE Products Group, in 1986.
MBE is one of the key technologies for enabling the manufacture of the compound semiconductors so important for today's wireless and fiber-optic devices. Compound semiconductors deliver the speed, bandwidth, and flexibility these devices require. Applied Epi is the largest North American manufacturer of MBE equipment and one of the largest in the world.
UCSB Chancellor Henry Yang said, "This generous gift from Applied Epi and Paul Colombo represents an excellent match of interests. The compound semiconductor group at the College of Engineering is widely recognized as among the best in the world. Our superb researchers use MBE technology to make new optoelectronic materials and devices. They need MBE technology to do the research, and with this gift Applied Epi has devised a creative strategy to enhance that research."
The Dean of the College of Engineering, Matthew Tirrell, will issue a call to the faculty for proposals for using the research funds.
The authors of the best proposals will then present their ideas for consideration by a board consisting of representatives from the UCSB College of Engineering, Applied Epi and Colombo.
Tirrell said, "We are grateful to Paul Colombo and Applied Epi for this creative stimulus to compound semiconductor research at the College of Engineering. This gift will go far to ensuring that we maintain our world-class excellence."
Colombo said, "We have a long-term and excellent working relationship with UCSB's compound semiconductor researchers. We are impressed both by their vision and the cooperative style they have exhibited in interactions with Applied Epi. Both UCSB and Applied Epi mean to be at the forefront of compound semiconductor developments. The great thing about this gift is that it helps both of us reach that goal."
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Scott Downing, the city manager and municipal judge in Happy, said the two-story building, known as the old Happy Hotel, 100 W. Main St., was fully engulfed about 7:15 p.m. Downing said the fire was reported about 5 p.m., and Happy firefighters called in the Canyon and Tulia fire departments to assist.
The Canyon Fire Department, which was called in at 5:30 p.m., took charge of fighting the blaze, Downing said. The Canyon Fire Department sent five trucks and about 14 firefighters.
Downing said high heat and embers threatened buildings adjacent to the hotel. He said numerous people in Happy were watching the fire and taking photos. He estimated the size of the old hotel at about 15,000 square feet.
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India, a democracy with a vibrant economy, rich history and kaleidoscopic diversity, attracts U.S. students to study and conduct research in many academic disciplines.
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Wrongly accuse NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon and feel his wrath.
Last March, Pepsi did an ad in which a disguised Jeff Gordon took a car salesman on a little spin during a test drive for a new car.
RELATED: Check out Gordon's first prank
According to the video below, Jalopnik writer Travis Okulski questioned the validity of the joy ride.
So as a sequel to the first video, Jeff Gordon and Pepsi decided to prank Okulski.
The plot is simple. Gordon plays an ex-con who drives a Taxi. He picks up his fare (Okulski), then gets nervous when a police car falls in behind him. He gets pulled over, says he can't go back to jail and the high-speed pursuit is on.
The blogger, as you might expect, is horrified.
Okulski claims in a post on Jalopnik that the new commercial is 100 percent real.
"So, just as I was able to say with total certainty that the first Pepsi Test Drive ad was totally fake, I can say with total certainty that this second Pepsi Test Drive ad is unequivocally, one hundred percent, totally, absolutely real."
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To the Editor.—Katz et al1 provide a definitive study of the surgical implications of Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP). I am concerned, however, with their characterization of abdominal or scrotal exploration performed for appendicitis or testicular torsion in patients later found to have HSP. While the results of these operations were normal, I do not agree that they were therefore unnecessary.
Henoch-Schönlein purpura is a condition for which the clinical tetrad of abdominal pain, rash, arthralgia, and hematuria is diagnostic. However, in the study by Katz et al, only 22% of their 110 patients displayed all four of these symptoms and signs, and in fact, another 22% had only one of these manifestations of the disease. The diagnosis of appendicitis and testicular torsion is still primarily a clinical one to be followed up immediately with operative intervention, and I doubt that it is the intent of Katz and colleagues to
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HARRISBURG - Conflicting estimates on the number of people who lack proper identification to vote was the topic of testimony on the ninth day of the trial over Pennsylvania's voter identification law.
A statistician hired by the state disputed estimates produced by a plaintiffs' expert, saying it included dead people and inmates, and counted thousands of people twice.
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awesome bonk is a good game, I might buy it for the VC.
In a statement on their officisal website Hudson Entertainment have announced the release of two TurboGrafx, Bomberman 93 and Bonks Adventure.
Super Star Soldier, Victory Run, and Dungeon Explorer are also set for release on the Wii Shop Channel over the coming weeks.
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awesome bonk is a good game, I might buy it for the VC.
yeah i noticed there was two new ones on there haha
i want them to release Super Mario Bros. i was addicted to that game when i was little!
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proabaly will but maybe they are working on 2player for vc
Btw, you buy these games using points right? How do you attain the points? Do they sell "scratch cards" or something at your local retailer or anything because I can't use a credit card for purchasing.
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You can buy cards at retail stores for ($19.99 for 2000 Wii Points) or you can buy them through the Wii virtual console store on your Wii system with credit cards only VISA/MASTER cards. (with credit cards you can buy points @ $10=1000pts - $20=2000pts - $30=3000pts and a whopping $50 = 5000pts..!Originally Posted by BlightedArt
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England-based artist Tony Plant has transformed the stunning beaches of England into a temporary canvases with his amazing geometric drawings in the sand. To create each drawing, Plant spends hours on the coastline, using a rake to form lines and circles in the sand. The temporary artworks do not last long, very quickly getting washed away by the waves.
"I just think of them as non-precious things. Some people get confused about why I do it, when there's nothing left after the tide has washed everything away, but I just see it as a new blank canvas for me to work with" say the artist.
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New information continues to emerge about the two suspects in the Boston Marathon Bombing. Federal documents breakdown how the Boston Bombing suspects reportedly carried out the attack, and show how close friends attempted to hide evidence from investigators.
ABC News says Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told interrogators the brothers determined on Friday, April 12th they would target the Boston Marathon. Dzhokhar told investigators they learned to build functioning explosives much sooner than expected.
The two accused marathon bombers originally planned to attack Boston's Fourth of July celebration this year.
An eleven page criminal complaint gives a moment-by-moment account of how the government believes Dzhokhar and his brother Tamerlan placed the bombs along Boylston Street.
The first half of the criminal complaint mentions this surveillance video released. The investigator writes, "I have reviewed videotape footage taken from a security camera located on Boylston Street near the corner of Boylston and Gloucester Streets."
The complaint says both men are carrying large knapsacks. "The first man in this affidavit is bomber one, a young male, wearing a dark-colored baseball cap, sunglasses, a white shirt, dark coat and tan pants."
Bomber one is in front and bomber two is a few feet behind him. Additional security camera video taken from a location farther east on Boylston Street.
"The second man, whom I refer to in this affidavit as bomber two, is a young male, wearing a white baseball cap backwards, a grey hooded sweatshirt, a lightweight black jacket and dark pants," the investigator wrote in the federal complaint.
"There is probable cause to believe that bomber 1 is Tamerlan Tsarnaev and bomber 2 is his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev," the investigator writes in the complaint.
After turning onto Boylston Street, bomber one and bomber two can be seen walking eastward along the north side of the sidewalk toward the Marathon finish line.
Photographs taken across the street, show the men continuing to walk together eastward along Boylston Street toward Fairfield Street.
The criminal complaint refers to video footage take from a security camera above the doorway of the Forum Restaurant at 755 Boylston Street, the site of the second explosion. At 2:41pm, bomber one and bomber two can be seen standing together approximately one half block from the restaurant.
At approximately 2:42 pm (approximately seven minutes before the first blast), bomber one can be seen detaching himself from the crowd and walking east on Boylston Street toward the finish line. Approximately 15 seconds later, he can be seen passing directly in front of the Forum Restaurant and continuing in the direction of where the first explosion occurred. His backpack is still on his back.
At approximately 2:45pm. bomber two can be seen detaching himself from the crowd and walking east on Boylston Street toward the marathon finish line. He appears to have the thumb of his right hand hooked under the strap of his knapsack and a cell phone in his left hand.
Approximately 15 seconds later, he can be seen stopping directly in front of the Forum Restaurant and standing near the metal barrier among numerous spectators, with his back to the camera facing the runners.
The suspect can be seen apparently slipping his knapsack onto the ground. A photograph taken from the opposite side of the street shows the knapsack on the ground at bomber two's feet.
The Forum restaurant video shows bomber two remained in the same spot for approximately four minutes. At some point, he appears to look at his phone, which is approximately at waist level, and may be manipulating the phone.
"Approximately 30 seconds before the first explosion, he lifts his phone to his ear as if he is speaking on his cell phone and keeps it there for approximately 18 seconds. A few seconds after he finishes the call, the large crowd of people around him can be seen reacting to the first explosion," the federal complaint says.
Virtually everyone turns east toward the finish line and stares in apparent bewilderment and alarm. Bomber two, virtually alone among the individuals in front of the restaurant appears calm. He glances to the east, and then calmly and rapidly begins moving to the west, away from the direction of the finish line.
"He walks away without his knapsack, having left it on the ground where he had been standing. Approximately 10 seconds later, an explosion occurs in the location where bomber two had placed his knapsack," the federal complaint says.
The criminal complaint says investigators have looked at photos and videos, and say nothing in that location could have caused an explosion of that nature other than bomber 2's knapsack.
Investigators said they compared Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicle photos of Dzhokar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev with the images captured by surveillance video, and investigators believe they are the same person.
Two days before the FBI searched Tsarnaev's dorm room, the U.S. Attorney's office alleges Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov removed items from his dorm room.
April 17, 2013: Dias Kadyrbayev, charged on May 1 with conspiring to obstruct justice, meets with Tsarnaev at his dorm room. Notices the Boston Bombing suspect (who had yet to be identified by the FBI) had given himself a short haircut.
April 18, approximately 3pm: Azamat Tazhayakov, charged on May 1 with conspiring to obstruct justice, attended an afternoon class at UMASS-Dartmouth and was given a ride home by Tsarnaev, who dropped Tazhayakov off at approximately 4pm.
April 18, 5pm: The FBI releases photos of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev to the media. The photos are broadcast and shared on social media.
April 18, 6pm-7pm: Kadyrbayev, Tazhayakov and a third man, Robel Phillipos, met at the UMASS-Dartmouth campus and went into Tsarnaev's room.
Tsarnaev's roommate let them in, saying Tsarnaev had left a couple of hours earlier.
April 18, 2013 8:43 - 8:48pm: Kadyrbayev texted Tsarnaev and told him he looked like the suspect on TV; Tsarnaev replied with a text that said "lol" and other things Kadyrbayev interpreted as jokes such as "you better not text me" and "come to my room and take whatever you want."
April 18, 9pm: While Tazhaykov was out shopping, he received a text message from Kadyrbayev asking him if he had seen the news.
Tazhaykov returned to the Carriage Drive apartment and found Kadyrbayev waiting for him outside.
Kadyrbayev showed Tazhaykov photos of Tsarnaev broadcast by news media. Kadyrbayev sent a text message to Phillipos telling him to go to Tsarnaev's dorm room.
April 18, 10pm: Tazhaykov, Kadyrbayev and Phillipos went to Tsarnaev's UMass-Dartmouth dorm room and were let him by his roommate. Before they went in, Kadyrbayev showed Tazhaykov a text message from Tsarnaev said, "I'm about to leave if you need something in my room take it."
When Tazhaykov learned of this message, he believed he would never see Tsarnaev alive again.
Once inside, Kadyrbayev located a backpack that contained an emptied-out cardboard tube that Tazhaykov described as fireworks. Tazhaykov said he had seen Tsarnaev with fireworks a couple months earlier, which Tazhaykov, Tsarnaev and others had set off along the banks of the Charles River in Boston.The discovery frightened Tazhaykov because the powder had been emptied from the tube. Kadyrbayev also found a jar of Vaseline in the room and Tazhaykov believed he used it "to make bombs."At that point, Tazhaykov believed Tsarnaev was involved in planting the bombs at the Boston Marathon.
Kadyrbayev and Tazhaykov removed the backpack, Vaseline and Tsarnaev's laptop from the dorm and together with Phillipos took them to the Carriage Drive apartment.
At approximately 10:30 pm on April 18, MIT officer Sean Collier was killed and an explosive shootout occurred in Watertown a few hours later.
According to court documents, around midnight on April 18, an individual carjacked a vehicle at gunpoint in Cambridge. When the victim rolled down the window, the man reached in, opened the door, and entered the victim's vehicle.
The man with the gun forced the victim to drive to another location, where they picked up a second man. The two men put something in the truck of the victim's vehicle. The second man entered the victim's vehicle and sat in the rear passenger seat. The man with the gun and second man spoke to each other in a foreign language.
While they were driving, the man with the gun demanded money from the victim, who gave the man 45 dollars. One of the men got the victim to hand over his ATM card and password. They drove to the ATM and attempted to withdraw money from the victim's account.
The two men and the victim then drove to a gas station store in the vicinity of 816 Memorial Drive in Cambridge. The two men got out of the car, and the victim escaped.
The vehicle was located a short time later by police in Watertown. As the men drove down Dexter Street in Watertown, they threw at least two small IEDs out of the car.
One of the men was severely injured and remained at the scene. The other managed to escape in the car.
The vehicle was later found abandoned a short distance away and an intact low-grade explosive device was discovered inside.
In addition, from the scene of the shootout on Laurel Street in Watertown, the FBI recovered two unexploded IEDs as well as the remnants of numerous exploded IEDs.
The complaint says the carjacker who was severely injured in the shootout with police was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital where he was pronounced dead. FBI fingerprint analysis identified him as Tamerlan Tsarnaev. His identity also match RMV records.
A preliminary examination of the explosive devices discovered at the scene in Watertown and in the abandoned vehicle revealed similarities to the explosives used in the Boston Marathon, the criminal complaint indicated.
April 19, 6am: Phillipos saw news reports that identified Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev as the Marathon bombers and stated Tamerlan was dead.
Kadyrbayev decided to throw away Tsarnaev's backpack taken from his dorm room the previous night with the fireworks inside. Tazhaykov agreed. The backpack was thrown into the apartment complex's garbage.
The complaint details the moments before the capture of bombing suspect 2. The investigation revealed the suspect was hiding in a covered boat on Franklin Street in Watertown.
After a stand-off between Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the police involving gunfire, he was taken into custody.
The complaint says a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth identification card, credit cards and other forms of identification were found in his pockets. All of them identified the man as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He had visible injuries to his head, neck, legs and hand.
On April 21, the FBI searched Dzhokhar's dorm room in Pine Dale Hall on the UMass-Dartmouth campus. The FBI seized, among other things, a large pyrotechnic, a black jacket and a white hat of same general appearance as those by bomber two at the Boston Marathon.
April 24: U.S. officials say the Boston Marathon explosions that killed three people and wounded more than 260 were triggered by a remote-controlled detonator.
The officials said the bombs were not very sophisticated. One of the officials described the detonator as "close-controlled" - meaning it had to be triggered within several blocks of the bombs.
April 25: The FBI conducts a search of a New Bedford landfill for clues in the marathon attack
April 26: Agents recovered Tsarnaev's backpack from the landfill.
Inside the backpack, agents recovered fireworks, a jar of Vaseline and a UMASS-Dartmouth homework assignment sheet, among other things.
May 1: Boston Police announce three more suspects were taken into custody in the Boston Marathon Bombings.
Azamat Tazhayakov (left) and Dias Kadyrbayev (center) are charged with conspiring to obstruct justice. A third man, Robel Phillipos (not pictured here), is charged with making false statements to federal investigators.
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A Santa Clarita man was arrested this week on suspicion he concealed the whereabouts of a 17-year-old girl struggling with drug abuse, a local sheriff's deputy said Thursday.
The girl, who was abusing opiates, ran away from a drug rehabilitation program July 31 and disappeared until Aug. 3, when deputies found her inside the Saugus home of 18-year-old Christopher Guthrie, whom the mother identified as the girl's boyfriend, Deputy Josh Dubin said.
The girl was under the influence of narcotics when she was found, Dubin said, and was taken to the Sylmar Juvenile Hall.
With the assistance of the missing girl's mother, deputies discovered the teenager had been staying with Guthrie at his home for a number of days.
"Earlier, when the mother had come to the house looking for her missing daughter, Guthrie allegedly lied by denying having contact with the teenager and saying that she wasn't there," Dubin said in a news release issued Thursday.
An investigation was turned over to the local sheriff's Juvenile Intervention Team, which concluded Guthrie knowingly kept the missing 17-year-old away from her mother and allowed her to stay in his home knowing that she was using narcotics.
J-Team detectives presented the case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, and an arrest warrant was issued for Guthrie for charges relating to child concealment, maintaining a place for the purpose of using a controlled substance, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
On Wednesday, J-Team deputies arrested Guthrie at his home and charged him additionally with possession of a controlled substance recovered at the time of the arrest.
Guthrie remained in custody on $80,000 bail at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station. He is expected to appear in North Valley Superior Court Friday.
"Deputies found and rescued this girl and saved her life," Dubin said. He praised the persistence of the mother in finding her daughter, saying it is clear that involved parents make a difference in the battle against teen drug abuse.
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Caroline was going to a guru group uptown on Broadway once in a while on certain evenings. The famous Indian guru Swami Muktananda was scheduled to visit America in the next year and there was already a coterie of devotees despite only one or two having actually met him over in India. While she would go to the group and meditate and hear about Muktananda, I would go to a chess and pool hall nearby and find somebody for a game of chess. All of that brought me up a notch or two in my ability at the board.
When we first started, Tom would take pieces off the board starting with his queen just to make it more interesting. Little by little he took off fewer or less powerful pieces until we were playing even and finally, an eternity it seemed, I won my first game fair and square. Even Tom was happy about that. He was proud that he had taught me well and glad to have better competition out of me. But then it became hard for him to win against me at all and I started beating most of the guys in our neck of the woods and had to go to Manhattan to get humbled by superior players.
In the beginning of my time on the block it all seemed kind of joyous, a time of youthful optimism; 'we are the champions", riding the roller coaster, Pig Pen and Kenny and all the high jinx. But systems degrade so physics says and emotionally this happened here. Jean Silverstein's marriage was falling apart and he was in therapy- something about being gay which seemed farfetched to me. We used to hear him pumping away at his wife upstairs which seemed quite manly. And those free-lance shrinks around, many of them like Harold, well, how the hell you could trust them? But Jean got depressed and it got worse. One day he came over to Tom's apartment while we were playing chess and looked around and just started crying. I could see the scene through his eyes, a den full of pot smoke and guys in retreat from the world with a mindless TV constantly blinking images against the dark walls. It wasn't the end of the world for me. It was for him though; he just cried and left.
I was struggling too, knowing that I had to get something going in my life. The photography thing was providing some money and some action but I was burnt out too. I got beat up by the police at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago and the assassinations of all my heroes hurt me bad. The war was raging and the whole society seemed to be falling apart. Caroline, although complicated and strange in some ways, was chipper and positive. Her love of plants, for one thing, was healthy, wholesome. My father was a great flower gardener and although I didn't want to do anything he did for a lot of reasons, it still was background for me. Caroline got me connected with her friend who ran the greenhouses for Columbia University at the Delafield estate up in the Bronx in Riverdale, a beautiful ten acres or so on the Hudson River, a real oasis of nature. And the guy who ran it, Dan Mikus, was a really nice person who loved planting things and didn't mind some help. It got me away from the neighborhood and provided a new direction. Caroline and I grew herbs and sold them at street fairs. We read Helen and Scott Nearings' book, Living the Good Life and we started thinking about getting out of the city and going "back to nature" as the sixties decade came to an end.
Back on the block things were moving too. Albert had quit his job at the cleaners and moved out of his house, leaving his mother and sister to carry on alone. I ran into him and was happy to see him, such a great young guy and now growing up and becoming a man. He was so proud to be out of the cleaners and with some money in his pocket and without that boring regular job to tie him down.
"Come on Rick, I want to show you my new apartment."
Sure enough, we walked around the corner to the same old hulk of an apartment building where Tom lived. I wondered how many apartments were in there and how many vacant. His place was even on the ground floor like Tom's. He opened the door and it looked like a Puerto Rican whore house with a mattress on the floor and colored lights strung up above it and a couple of bean bag chairs that were popular at the time.
"Wow, Albert, you must be happy to have your own place now. This is great," I said as sincerely as possible.
"Yeah Rick. What do you think? Don't you think the girls will love this, man?"
"Sure Albert, they flock to this like bees to honey!"
"Really Rick?
"Definitely" I said moving toward the door going out.
I didn't want to ask him how he was paying for it. I was pretty sure he had gotten involved dealing pot and maybe coke too since that was just starting on the scene. We were the first stop for any drugs coming from the boats docked below. There were already more shootings in the bars down at the foot of Atlantic and the neighborhood had more of an edge to it.
I asked Tom about Albert's situation and he said," That fucking Moses got his claws into him. Moses is taking him for a ride, making him sell drugs to his friends and taking all the money." That was bad news; you didn't want Moses in your life.
Tom was getting laid as I found out. He had taken the route of convenience. Sue, who lived upstairs with her little boy, would come down to Tom's place after the kid was asleep and Tom would mount her doggie style as she watched the perpetual TV.
"It relaxes her," Tom said, always considerate. "Hey it's better than jerking off in a handkerchief."
"Sure Tom" I said, slightly confused.
But none of it, none of this life, was doing much for Tom anymore and his need for escape increased. When we would come over to his house he would take a couple of barbiturates of some kind, smoke a joint and within a half hour be passed out in a drug stupor. We would leave. Nobody knew what to do about it. A lot of these drugs were new to us and we were not sure how harmful they were. Heroin was not a part of our world; we knew that was seriously bad but the other stuff was not so well known. In Tom's case it seemed maybe he needed some sleep. He was ok the next day and carried on but more and more he sought the surcease provided by the pills. It became part of his life and people drifted away.
Tom and Harold were close and finally, after a while, I asked Tom about Harold's trip to India. I had never heard the follow up.
"Aw shit Rick. Didn't you hear?"
"No. What happened?"
"Harold didn't even get out of the airport. He took one look around and got back on the plane. He was in shock, Rick. It really scared him. I guess since he had never been anywhere other than Manhattan and Brooklyn it was just too much for him, too dirty or something."
"Wow" I said. "I wonder what that will do to him. He was so in love with the idea of India and finding a guru. What did he expect; that he would find his guru in the airport?"
"Don't ask me, Rick and don't say too much about it to him. He is very ashamed, doesn't want to talk about it."
"We are all sick, Rick."
I couldn't disagree with that. The pot and the booze were taking a toll on me and, sometimes now, some coke from Juanita who was selling it in small quantities. It pepped you up from the doldrums the other shit put on you. And I would take pain pills when I could get them, sometimes going through the medicine cabinets of people where we were invited to have a meal and hang out. I wasn't proud of any of this but I was like an animal just trying to feel good and maintain my energy and, luckily, I had enough natural health to withstand the barrage of substances attacking my system.


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American, 20th century
Made by Chickering and Sons under the direction of Arnold Dolmetsch
Boston, 1906
From 1905 until 1911 Arnold Dolmetsch worked with Chickering and Sons in a special division of the Boston piano maker's factory that was set up to produce harpsichords, spinets, clavichords, viols and lutes. During this period it is remarkable that 72 keyboard instruments were produced. These instruments anticipated the revival of the classical harpsichord and clavichord. Dolmetsch modeled this instrument, "No. 1" after a clavichord made by Christian Gotthelf Hoffman in 1784 (also now in the Yale Collection). This clavichord is the first historically-based clavichord to be built in the USA in the 20th century. The Dolmetsch-Chickering harpsichords and clavichords were without equal when new and were superior in tone and action to the contemporary European instruments, a situation that remained unchanged untial after World War II. This clavichord was fully restored to playing condition in 1992 by the museum's conservators, Frank Rutkowski and Robert Robinette..
Compass: five octaves and one note: FF to f '''. Inscription (painted on name batten): "CHICKERING · & · SONS · BOSTON · USA · MCMVI No. 1". A second insription behind the hitchpins at the left reads: "Made by Chickering & Sons under the direction of Arnold Dolmetch / Boston / MCMVI / No. 1". The outside of the case is and trestle stand are painted dark green; the inside of the lid is painted vermilion. The decoration consists of gilt mouldings on the case and lid and a gold band on the inside of the lid around the motto: "MUSICA MAGNORUM EST SOLAMEN DULCE LABORUM". Length: 172.3 cm; width: 50.7 cm; depth of case: 15.5 cm.
Gift of David and Catherine Way
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Wylie Bulldogs begin 2013 practices with excitement, thinking beyond district
ABILENE, Texas - The Wylie Bulldogs enter 2013 as the preseason favorite to win district 4-3A, according to Dave Campbell's Texas High School Football, but that's not something they really want to talk about just yet.
They return just 4 starters from last season, in which the Bulldogs advanced to the regional finals of the 3-A Div. I playoffs. Wylie comes into this year with expectations of winning district for a second straight year, and just as much excitement for head coach Hugh Sandifer.
"This is the 35th year of 2-a-days I've had at wylie. And I didn't sleep well last night. Just the anticipation, fells good," Sandifer said.
He added, "We went to work in January for this season. January through May and all season. We've worked into summer, and now we're getting closer to those games. That's what makes it exciting, coming out and start practicing football."
When asked about expections for the upcoming season, Sandifer said the pressure on his team is to perform.
"We do have goals every year to win the district championship. But we'd sure like to play a little bit further than that. We try to make sure we put ourselves in a position where we can do that," Sandifer said.
The Bulldogs' first game is against a familiar non-district foe, the Argyle Eagles, which Wylie pulled the upset against to begin 2012. They'll play Bridgeport, Graham, Brownwood and Lub. Estacado to round out their non-district schedule.


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Ed Brown Elite or Kobra carry
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March 31, 2008, 09:55 PM
I am looking at getting an Ed Brown Kobra Karry or Elite carry, anyone have any experience with them? How do they shoot, opinions?
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April 1, 2008, 12:10 AM
I almost got the Kobra Carry, but went for another project. If I get another EB, I believe it will be the Exec. Carry. It is just a matter of taste. I don't like the scales as much as I thought I did.
Function from what I read is flawless. I am sure others will post pictures and high claims. Ed Brown is an aclaimed 1911 high end manufacturer.
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April 1, 2008, 12:16 AM
Just to illustrate the point Dobe made, I like the fishscales on the Kobra Carry and had a full size 1911 made to feel like one. I think Dobe will agree that it's worth holding both Ed Brown versions to see which feels better to you.
The gun itself is a delight. The only problem I've had with it turned out to be a failed slidestop that began causing problems after umpteen thousand rounds. When I replaced the slidestop the problems went away. It's a splendid carry gun and a wonderful shooter.
April 1, 2008, 10:00 PM
I held the Kobra carry at a Cabela's, I did like the scales, but they didn't have any Elite Carrys, I'm sure they feel good as well even though they're $100+ more than the Kobra. Its going to be my present to myself for finishing grad school.
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Worry No More Cat Doll
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Let your worries dissolve away as you sleep soundly and purr like a kitten with our traditional Guatemalan "worry doll," made in the image of a cat. A lovely way to help ease someone's mind in trouble.
According to the Mayan people of Guatemala, cats are thought to protect the souls of people on their journey to the underworld. They also have the tradition to share their worries with the worry people and place them under their pillows at bedtime. During the night the worry people will whisk all your cares away, and you will wake up carefree  all your worries gone!
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This tiny little "worry no more cat doll" I love this I got myself and my sister one. I have yet to put mine under my pillow that area is generally reserved for my dog and I dont want her to think the "worry no more cat doll" is for her!!! It is the cutest lil' kitty! Way worth the price !!!!
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Doña Jerónima's mother taught her to make worry dolls, a traditional craft in Guatemala. She recalls, "I was trying for 2 months to make the worry dolls; I made one but was not good enough then I undid the dolls and tried again and again and again lots of times."
Her perseverance paid off. Eleven years ago, she was able to found a small workshop, "Artesanias Multicolor," in the Colonial City of La Antigua Guatemala. She is able to employ fifteen artisans in the production of traditional and not-so-traditional handicrafts, including the "Worry Cats," a design she developed exclusively for the Greater Good Network.
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Lake Arthur Lady Lakers shine at Cheer and Dance Competition
By MIKE RIZZUTO
Sun Times Editor
The Lake Arthur High School Danceline took home almost the whole hog at last week's First Annual "Roastin' With Rosie Barbecue Festival" Parishwide Cheer and Dance Competition at the Grand Marais Courtyard Pavilion in Jennings.
Lake Arthur High School placed first in the high school division of the Cheerleading Competition, outlasting Jennings High School (second place), Lacassine High School (third place), Elton High School (fourth place), and Bethel Christian High School (fifth place).
In the Jr. High School Division, first place was claimed by Jennings High School, while Welsh-Roanoke took second place honors. The Jr. High Lake Arthur Lady Lakers won third place honors, beating out Our Lady Immaculate (fourth place).
The Lake Arthur High School Lady Lakers also won the Dance Competition, beating out the Jennings High Jazzers (second place), Hathaway High School (third place), the Lacassine High School Red Hots (fourth place), and the Elton High School Star Steppers (fifth place).
In the Jr. High Dance Division, the Lake Arthur Jr. High Lady Lakers won top honors, edging out the Hathaway High Jr. Dancers.
Mid-show entertainment was provided by the LA Showstoppers.
In other news, some of the best cooks in the local area showed up to compete in the International Barbecue Cookers' Association (IBCA) Cookoff. After the results were tabulated, the winners were as follows:
Brisket Division
--First Place, T-Wayne's Cajun Cooking, Head Cook Tee Wayne Abshire;
--Second Place, We B. Smokin', Head Cook Don Canterbury;
--Third Place, Fat Boys, Head Cook David Ramirez.
Chicken Division
--First Place, We B. Smokin', Head Cook Don Canterbury;
--Second Place, We B. Smokin' Too, Head Cook Jan Canterbury;
--Third Place, Coushatta Dream Team, Head Cook Patricia Fugitt.
Pork Spare Ribs
--First Place, T-Wayne's Cajun Cooking, Head Cook, Tee Wayne Abshire;
--Second Place, Slow Burn Cookers, Head Cook, Clarence "Bo" Jackson;
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Spanish counterpart Mariano Rajoy during a press conference after their meeting in Ankara yesterday.
ISTANBUL: Turkey vowed yesterday to press ahead with building what could become one of the world's busiest airports in defiance of a court order halting the project over environmental concerns.
A court last month suspended work on Istanbul's third airport after local residents and environmental groups filed a lawsuit arguing that the project would cause serious damage to the environment, the Hurriyet newspaper reported.
But Transport Minister Lutfi Elvan said the suspension would not interfere with construction of the airport in a heavily forested area near Terkos Lake, 50km north of Istanbul.
"This was a decision only for a temporary suspension pending the environmental impact approval report. In no way will it affect the construction of the airport," Elvan told reporters.
Environment and Urban Development Minister Idris Gulluce said his ministry would appeal the decision, saying "we believe that there is a factual mistake", without elaborating.
"No one should come to the conclusion that the airport (construction) will be prevented and Turkey's world-famous project will be halted," he said.
The court requested an expert report on construction plans and is expected to make a final decision on the fate of the project within a year.
The Cengiz-Kolin-Limak-Mapa-Kalyon Consortium, a Turkish joint venture, won a tender for the project last May after bidding ¤22bn ($30bn) for a 25-year lease to build and operate the planned airport.
The first stage of construction is set for completion in four years, and the facility is projected to handle 150 million passengers a year when fully operational in 2018.
Istanbul's main Ataturk airport is fast reaching capacity, having seen a record 16.7 percent jump in passenger numbers in 2012, indicating that the new airport could turn the city into a major aviation hub.
The increase was the largest in Europe that year, according to the International Air Transport Authority (IATA).
Istanbul's second airport Sabiha Gokcen, which began operations in 2001, has eased some of the pressure on Ataturk.
The third airport in Turkey's largest city aims to rival Dubai's Al Maktoum International airport, which opened in October last year and is expected eventually to accommodate 160 million passengers a year.AFP


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Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Turkey CupsKelsey Banfield
My daughter and I love to bake together. You could say she was born with a spatula in her hand; we've been mixing up special treats since she was just a little baby. Now she is almost four and we are really into fun projects centered around the holidays. We look everywhere for inspiration on how to cleverly decorate cookies, cakes or cupcakes.
The other day my daughter expressed interest in decorating a cookie like a turkey using candy corn as the tail feathers. I thought that was a great idea so I grabbed some tasty Pillsbury Sugar Cookie dough at the store, along with candy for decoration, and got to work.
To give our cookies a special twist, we decided to bake them in muffin cups. When we do this, the cookies depress a little bit in the center, making them like cups. Sometimes we scoop ice cream into them, but this time we added a dollop of frosting and then made up our turkeys with the cute tailfeathers. This was the perfect activity for a preschooler. We placed some peanut butter candies on the frosting in the shape of a turkey neck and body, then arranged the candy corn behind it. The sugar cookie dough held up really well and I let my daughter have one after she ate a full dinner. They were a great way to eat turkey for dessert!
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Lose 10 pounds (15?). Finally quit smoking. Travel to exotic far-off lands. Be less stressed. Yes, these are among the most commonly-broken New Year's Resolutions. Hey, stuff happens. We all know this. At Inquisium we're not here to judge. But may I suggest six resolutions you should embrace for...read more
by November 14, 2014
Just 34 days make up the commerce-laden holiday season bookended by Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. It's a short window of time representing billions of dollars in consumer spending, weeks of time off from work, countless miles on the road and a barrage of holiday functions. And in the midst of all...read more
by July 3, 2014
As our nation commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July, people across the U.S. will show their patriotism by fervently taking part in customary American celebrations like going to baseball games, watching fireworks, throwing backyard barbeques and attending...read more
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Ever since Fortune released its inaugural Best Places to Work list in 1997, the honor has only grown in significance, and not coincidentally, so have terms like "company culture," "work-life balance," and "office perks." There are many reasons for the uptick in popularity experienced by these...read more
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Recently, Amazon made headlines for its unorthodox approach to tackling a challenge every company faces. It's the question haunting senior management and human resources professionals everywhere: How do you find out which employees are bringing your company down and what can you do to stop them?...read more
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We've all been there before: you have an email with a specific call to action (in this case a survey) that you've perfected and polished and are sure that it will have high open and participation rates. You push send and study the email stats over the next few hours. A response to your survey...read more
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According to a recent study by AON Hewitt & Mercer, 50% of employees characterize themselves as passively engaged or actively disengaged. Additionally, one disengaged employee can drain $10,000 from your company's bottom line annually. These statistics are alarming! And because of this, HR...read more
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Not long ago, I learned some startling statistics: The loyalty of employees who work for small businesses has dropped by almost 20% since 2008, and currently stands at a paltry 50%. Although I have never experienced any serious turnover in my own venture, I decided to take preemptive action by...read more
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I had lunch with a very frustrated Republican the other day. The gentleman is a construction bond agent.
Intelligent, articulate, and sharp on economics and finance - it's his business to understand money, finance, risk and return - and all the detail that goes behind that.
We were at a nice sushi place that just opened up in the Valencia Gateway Commerce Center. This super Republican finance whiz is telling me that America is in a complete financial free fall.
That we're falling so far and so fast, not only don't know where the bottom is, we don't even know how to tell when we hit bottom.
He no longer believes numbers from the Fed; he no longer believes anything financial coming out of the Bush administration.
He does believe, however, that we're throwing billions upon billions at every breach and blowout in our financial system that's herniating by the day.
"How big is the deficit," he poses. "$500 billion, $700 billion? Who knows? It depends on who's quoting the numbers and what contortions are imposed on the figures."
"In any other country," he emphasizes, "we'd already have hyper-inflation, and we'd be buying our sushi with wheelbarrows full of hundred dollar bills."
I was nearly speechless. I understand things are bad. In the housing industry, most of my clients have already laid off some 85 percent of their workers.
Banks have faltered and failed. And there's all those neighborhood storefronts and business park offices we see with "For Lease" signs out in front, instead of customers.
But my bond agent represents municipalities and giant general contractors who operate largely insulated from the housing industry meltdown. And even from that angle, he feels we're freefalling. Many of his clients, he says, "are down 50 percent off on revenue this year."
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So I asked, "How do you think America solves the crises it faces?"
My Republican bond agent blows me away: "Obama," he says, "needs to inspire the entire country to look beyond immediate personal needs and gratification. Obama needs to unite us in a cause that transcends day-to-day selfish material motivations.
"Now it's time to show the world again that America can innovate, that we can unite, that we can meet our challenges head on and conquer them with intelligence, will power, and united force."
Republican Bonding Agent Man never mentioned the other electoral choices - not even as an afterthought.
He believes we are far beyond incremental fixes. With some three trillion or more in combined national debt, and some 600 billion to 700 billion more each year - more tax breaks for the rich and belated off-shore drilling combined with this or that extended war - isn't going to stop the fearful free fall. My staunch
Flintridge conservative has concluded that we, in fact, need "change we can believe in."
He says, "I'm a Goldwater Republican. I believe in fiscal prudence, civil liberties, freedom and justice - and minimal foreign adventurism.
"But my party abandoned me at that platform when the Religious Right hijacked the party train with their preemptive wars, completely nuts spending, so-called 'values,' and End-of-Time economics. We need a big change, and I don't see it coming from my party this year."
Reflecting on this conversation, I felt it was awfully nice two weeks ago, when Obama visited Germany and some 200,000 Germans came out waving American flags. Think of it: America again adored by the world.
Perhaps you, like me, can believe in this kind of change.
I understand that politics is rough and tumble. So it was expected that when Obama's "world tour" went well, the opposition camp would spin Obama's positive into a big negative.
But the way that response went down was embarrassing even for many McCain supporters.
First came the cupcake Brittney and Paris ad. They inferred that by drawing out 200,000 American flag-waving Germans fans, Obama is just a pop celebrity, akin to some teen tart.
Later that week, emboldened with Rovian piss and vinegar, the spin-meisters launched the "Chosen One" video - likening Obama to a self-contrived Moses, a mouthpiece of God.
Good grief. With the economic maelstrom consuming us, one would hope for substantive discourse over slur.
I'd hoped that the infantile characterizations would have concluded with these two doozies. But the Wall Street Journal found a way to stoop lower.
Conservative WSJ, as you recall, is owned by Rupert Murdock of Fox News fame. Murdock's global thought gang-bangers had already roughed us up with wagging tongues that Obama is too smart, too well spoken, too educated, too young, too black, too elite, too new, too popular, too international to lead as president.
In some upside down, Alice in Wonderland logic, the evidence of his intelligence and leadership disqualify him from leadership. So, stooping where no one has stupidly stooped before, the Wall Street Journal promotes the notion that Barack Obama might be too "physically fit" for the presidency.
Ripley himself wouldn't believe it, even if he read it with his own eyes:
"... In a nation in which 66 percent of the voting-age population is overweight and 32 percent is obese, could Sen. Obama's skinniness be a liability? Despite his visits to waffle houses, ice-cream parlors and greasy-spoon diners around the country, his slim physique just might have some Americans wondering whether he is truly like them."
The WSJ cites its evidence: "He's too new ... and he needs to put some meat on his bones." "I won't vote for any beanpole guy." "Sometimes it's hard to tell if Barack Obama is running for president of the United States or Mr. Universe." "Only celebrities like Barack Obama go to the gym three times a day."
God save us from ourselves. Operatives from conservative quarters are spinning cartwheel logic to convince America that our choice for president of the United States should come down to whoever doesn't particularly excel.
We should desire the least capable speaker, the least inspiring, the least attractive to our allies, the least educated - and now - even the least physically fit.
Wouldn't it be smart?
But we've had that already for the last eight years, and behold our sorry souls now. Wouldn't it be a smart thing to just once pick the best and the brightest for the most important job in the world, instead of some guy we think would share a beer with us?
So my Republican bond agent is discouraged with today's Republican choices. Can I blame him - or you - for reaching to that bright guy with that funny name and zero excess body fat for a lifeline from our nation's free fall?
Gary Horton lives in Valencia. His column reflects his own views, not necessarily those of The Signal. "Full Speed to Port" appears Wednesdays in The Signal.


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Initiated in 2010, the annual Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities brings together current graduate students from across the U.S. and around the world to present innovative research on any aspect of modern Chinese cultural production in the humanistic disciplines.
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Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, Barnes and McDowell, Fisher Conference Center, Stanford University
Friday, April 26, 2013
Panel 1, 2:00-4:00 pm: Images, Re-territorialized
An Italian Bicycle in the People's Republic: Minor Transnationalism and the Chinese Translation of Ladri di biciclette / Thomas Chen, UC Los Angeles
Learning to Love Again / Calvin Hui, Duke University
Film Discourse and the Cinematicization of Colonial Taiwan: "Eigaka" in the New Taiwan Daily / Laura Wen, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Discussants: Lawrence Zi-qiao Yang, PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Jean Ma, Assistant Professor, Art & Art History, Stanford University
Keynote Address, 4:15 p.m.
Compiling the Industrial Modern, 1930s China
Eugenia Lean, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures,
Columbia University
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Panel II, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.: Overlooked Histories? Revisiting Money, Bandits, and Land
Criminal, Victim and Heroine: the Portrayal of the Woman Bandit Tuolong 驼龙 in Twentieth Century China / Xiaofei Gao, UC Santa Cruz
From Worshiping Promotion to Worshiping Fortune: Monetary Modernity in Nineteenth-century Folk Paintings / En Li, Washington University, St. Louis
Feeding the People, Funding the Nation – Xiao Zheng and the "Land Problem" of the 1930's / Larissa Pitts, UC Berkeley
One Country, Two Capitalisms: Cultural Meanings of Capitalism Amongst Mainlander and Hongkonger Chinese Bankers in Hong Kong / Hantian Zhang, Stanford University
Discussants: Paulina Hartono, PhD Candidate, History, UC Berkeley
Haiyan Lee, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University
Panel III, 1:15-2:45 p.m.: Textual Mediations
Wei Cheng and weisheng: Hygiene, disease and the body in Qian Zhongshu's Fortress Besieged / Benjamin Kindler, University of Oxford
The Curious Case of a Robot Doctor: Artificial Intelligence, Post-Mao Condition of Knowledge and Professional Ethics / Xiao Liu, UC Berkeley
Lu Xun, the Editor: The Paratextual Self-Fashioning of an Author / Myra Sun, Columbia University
Discussants: Yvon Wang, PhD Candidate, History, Stanford University
Andrew Jones, Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Panel IV, 3:00-4:30 p.m.: Performing Culture, Performing Nostalgia
The Performance of "Chinese-ness" in the Work of Four Contemporary Sinophone Theatre Director-Playwrights / Wahguan Lim, Cornell University
The Prehistory of New Chinese Dance: Wu Xiaobang and Modern Dance in the 1930s / Nan Ma, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Reimagining the Soviet Union in Postsocialist Chinese Literature: Critical Nostalgia in Wang Meng's In Remembrance of the Soviet Union and Feng Jicai's Listening to Russia / Zhen Zhang, UC Davis
Discussants: Christine Ho, PhD Candidate, Art & Art History, Stanford University
Weihong Bao, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley