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Cast: Chandler (I), Paris (IV), Jack Hammer, Jaye Dogg, Steve Hatcher, LT Dee, Dave Hardman, Weed, Notorious D, Byron Long, Christian Steele, Tony Eveready
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Head out to your basic trashy desert location. Bring along a bunch of guys and two ladies capable of plumbing the depths of slutdom. Whadaya get? The story of a White Trash Whore, that's what. Paris manages to entice Dave Hardman and Jack Hammer into a d.p. under the hot sun. Chandler is hard up for some weed, so she blows Steve Hatcher for money to buy what she needs. Her hubby joins in, bringing viewers along, again, to d.p. land. Paris then pays a visit to all six black members of the cast for an outdoor gangbang. There are only three scenes here, but they're all good one. A stockable series.

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You may recall that in January, Metalocalypse and Venture Bros. director Jon Schepp launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a documentary about Superman Lives, the abandoned Tim Burton film that would've starred Nicolas Cage as the Man of Steel, Chris Rock as Jimmy Olsen, Tim Allen as Brainiac. Well, that drive surpassed its $98,000 goal, and now The Death of 'Superman Lives': What Happened? has a teaser trailer.
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|Brad Stevens, Sisyphus and a Celtics season in flux
|02.12.15 at 1:51 am ET
It's been exactly one month since the Celtics finalized the Jeff Green trade — completing a series of deals that also sent Rajon Rondo packing — and yet they're playing their best basketball of the season. After losing three straight immediately following their leading scorer's departure, the C's have won seven of their last 12 games to enter the All-Star break trailing the Hornets and Heat by only one loss for the Eastern Conference's final two postseason spots.
Despite a 20-31 record, the Celtics are in the playoff conversation. Seriously.
"It's always been a conversation, since Day 1," said Marcus Thornton, whose 14 points helped ground the Hawks on Wednesday night. "I believe we can make it, and I believe we can make noise, too, so it's on us to make that happen."
Except, some of the current C's weren't here when the season began — namely rotation players Jae Crowder and Tayshaun Prince — and not all of them are expected to be around when the team reconvenes for the second half in Sacramento some 24 hours after the league's Feb. 19 trade deadline.
So, Jared Sullinger can decry all he wants, "It's the All-Star break; that's the last thing on our mind," but the harsh reality is this team that appears to be just hitting its stride could look completely different in a week.
"I'm going to use that time to take off and kind of forget about basketball a little bit," Thornton said when asked about an eight-day vacation leading up to the trade deadline, "but wherever I'm at, I'm ready to go."
|5 things we learned in Celtics' amazing Hawks upset
|02.11.15 at 10:05 pm ET
Brandon Bass called it.
As the Celtics exited a timeout trailing the first-place Atlanta Hawks by one with 6.3 seconds remaining, the veteran forward turned to his teammates and said, "E.T.'s going to win it with a floater." Sure enough, Evan Turner's runner swished through the net for an 89-88 win, capping an 18-point comeback against a team with just 10 previous losses.
"I think it says a lot for us as a team," said Turner. "We were able to come back against the best team in the league, down [18]. We shot like 30 percent, but once we try to put together a whole game — put together the defensive and offensive game — we'll be all right. It's a great win, and it's always better to go in on a break on a win and not a loss."
Indeed, the Celtics (20-31) pulled within one loss of the Charlotte Hornets (22-30) and Miami Heat (22-30) for the final two playoff spots in the Eastern Conference with a 7-5 record in their final 12 games before the All-Star break.
Having won three of their last four games, the Celtics looked to stay hot in their final game before entering the All-Star break. Unfortunately for Brad Stevens & Co., the first-place Hawks stood in their way.
Turner's game-winner gave him 12 points, nine assists and seven rebounds in the victory against Atlanta. Jared Sullinger added 17 points and 15 rebounds. And Marcus Thornton contributed 14 points off the bench. Al Horford led the Hawks (43-11) with 22 points and 12 rebounds.
For a full box score, click here.
|Kelly Olynyk discusses returning from ankle injury
|at 7:37 pm ET
Kelly Olynyk will be missing his 11th consecutive game due to a right ankle sprain when the Celtics take on the Hawks at TD Garden on Wednesday — the C's final game before the extended All-Star break.
"Yeah, it was a pretty good one," Olynyk said of the injury while half-smiling to reporters. "I saw a little bit of it [on replay], it was pretty bad."
"We have another week off, it just makes more sense to hold off," offered the Gonzaga product on why he would be sitting out Wednesday's game.
So when will Olynyk be cleared to play?
"I'm not sure," he replied. "[I've] just got to see how everything progresses. It's kind of ambiguous but that's how it is."
The Celtics will be out West following the All-Star break, their first game is Feb 20 when they take on the Kings in Sacramento.
|Trades worth the Celtics' while: Part 6
|at 1:27 pm ET
A major theme of the rebuilding Celtics has been that no player is safe from being traded for the betterment of the team ' something Danny Ainge has shown the willingness to do throughout his career (and now once again by trading Rajon Rondo). Here are some trades that make sense for the mess that is the Boston Celtics. Again, these specific trades are not rumors, simply ideas. This is part six.
After a flurry of trades, Danny Ainge's phone has finally cooled off. At least for the last couple of weeks. But now the trade deadline is a mere eight days away, so expect things to begin to heat back up.
If you take a look around the league (which to me means skim through the ESPN trade machine for an hour), it makes sense that the Celtics haven't been able to piece together any more moves that accomplish the goal of selling unneeded parts for future draft picks. Most teams that are considered buyers have either already made their moves to add help, or simply don't have the contracts or assets that would match what Boston is trying to do.
However, there are still buyers out there.
The Hawks are back in Boston on Wednesday, and despite continuing to run away with the Eastern Conference, Atlanta still has many doubters. The Hawks just traded rookie Adreian Payne to the Timberwolves in order to add a 2017 first-round pick — a pick that figures to be used to add more firepower for this season. Furthermore, Atlanta has also been rumored as a potential landing spot for free-agent guard Ray Allen.
But with the Hawks still under the cap, here's a move that could help them build their bench:
HAWKS GET: Brandon Bass
CELTICS GET: Elton Brand and a future second-round draft pick
*Brand would have to waive his trade clause
This deal makes perfect sense for both sides, but would probably need to wait until Atlanta knows if they will be making a bigger move first. Coming off a month where the Hawks entire starting lineup won Conference Player of the Month (which is absolutely remarkable), it's now time to build their bench. The addition of Allen — or any other guard around the league that they can lure with their newly acquired first-rounder — would sure-up Atlanta's backcourt, but they still need help off the bench in the form of a big. Bass is that guy.
Because the Hawks are under the cap, they are able to swap Brand's $2 million expiring contract for Bass' $6.9 million expiring deal without any problems. Boston would most likely buy Brand's contract out, saving them money for the rest of the season, while Bass provides the perfect spark for the Hawks. In addition, Ainge tosses another second-rounder in his pile … you never know when all of them may come in handy.
|Marcus Thornton on Boston: 'I'd like to stay here'
|02.07.15 at 12:24 am ET
After the Celtics secured a third straight victory and sixth win in their past 10 games, everyone's wondering what's gotten into them since the departure of Rajon Rondo and Jeff Green.
"Guys in here are trying to win," said Jae Crowder, the only one left from the Dec. 19 Rondo deal. "A lot of people counted us out, so we have a lot of pride in this locker room, and the city has a lot of pride, so we want to keep playing for those guys, playing for ourselves and playing basketball the right way to give ourselves a chance."
The Celtics own a similar record after the Rondo trade (10-16) to before it (9-14), but since the Green deal was finalized on Jan. 12, the C's are 7-7, including the first three road wins against Western Conference teams of the Brad Stevens era. For better or worse, this hodgepodge of young talent and expiring contracts is playing to win.
But some within the Celtics locker room are waiting for the other shoe to drop, or at least it sounds that way.
"It's been great," said Marcus Thornton, who netted 16 points off the bench in Friday's win over the 76ers, of the team chemistry since a series of trades also saw Brandan Wright come and go. "It's still not over yet. Feb. 19 is still a long time from now, so we'll see how that goes, too. For the time being, everybody's just here playing."
Feb. 19, of course, is the NBA trade deadline, and Thornton seemed awful familiar with that date. "No, I'm not thinking about that," he countered. "Whatever happens, happens. I would like to stay here. Who wouldn't? We've got a good thing going, but like I said, it's not controllable. I can't control it, so whatever happens, happens."
Thornton owns an $8.6 million price tag this season, joining fellow veterans Tayshaun Prince ($7.7 million) and Brandon Bass ($6.9 million) as attractive expiring contracts. The Celtics are winning games because of that trio, and Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge might prefer they help another team in that regard.
So goes the battle for Brad Stevens and this band of merry Celtics, who staved off a 76ers comeback for another victory and pulled within two games of the Nets for the Eastern Conference's eighth and final playoff seed.
"We've been good in those moments in really the most part of the month," said Stevens. "And we had a little bit of an adjustment, obviously, after Rondo was traded and Jeff was traded, but in close games — or, you know, we've had to come back in a couple of these games — I feel like for the most part it's been a positive in the last eight minutes of games. So, that's encouraging from where we started the year."
Growing, morphing, evolving, it's all part of the process of these Stevens Celtics, whatever that may be.
|5 things we learned as C's extend winning streak to 3
|02.06.15 at 9:52 pm ET
It hasn't been pretty, but the Celtics are riding a three-game winning streak.
They nearly blew a 26-point lead to a listless Sixers squad, but pulled out a 107-96 win on the strength of another 3-point barrage from Marcus Thornton. The veteran reserve connected on back-to-back triples to maintain a cushion after Philadelphia cut it to a one-possession game midway through the fourth quarter. The C's (19-30) remain within striking distance of the eighth-place Heat (21-28), who visit the Spurs late Friday night.
Thornton (16 points) joined five other Celtics in double figures. Jared Sullinger led the effort with 22 points, eight rebounds and a career-high seven assists. Avery Bradley (18 points), Tyler Zeller (16 points, 9 rebounds), Brandon Bass (13 points) and Jae Crowder (11 points) rounded out the C's double-digit sextet. Luc Mbah a Moute's 18 points led a 76ers (11-40) squad that was without Michael Carter-Williams.
For a complete box score, click here.
With Michael Carter-Williams out with a right toe injury and Tony Wroten (partially torn right ACL) sidelined for the remainder of the season, the Sixers started undrafted rookie forward JaKarr Sampson alongside 2014 second-round pick K.J. McDaniels in the backcourt, and the Celtics took advantage early. In a span of 77 seconds, Bradley made his first three shots ' including a 3-pointer ' on passes from Smart, Turner and Sullinger, giving the C's an early 7-0 lead. Bass' layup on their next possession pushed the lead to nine and forced a Philadelphia timeout.
|Marcus Smart earning trust as starting point guard
|02.05.15 at 5:40 pm ET
When Marcus Smart was selected No. 6 overall in this past June's NBA Draft, many believed it would be to replace Rajon Rondo. The rookie had a slow start to the season that included an ankle injury and even limited minutes at times when he was available.
Rondo was shipped to Dallas on Nov 18, and since then Smart has continued trying to earn the trust of his coaches and teammates. On Feb 3 all of his hard work paid off when Brad Stevens named him the starting point guard for the Celtics. Smart's playing time has gone up in each of his last five games, but he has set a career-highs in minutes in each of his two starts at the point.
In 37 minutes on Tuesday in New York, the Oklahoma State product poured in 13 points while also grabbing four rebounds, three assists and two steals. The next night, in 41 minutes of action while hosting the Nuggets, Smart only managed four points, but had maybe one of his most impactful games. Despite his lack of scoring, the 20-year old racked up 10 boards, dished out eight assists, and plucked three steals in the process.
"I just try to come out there and play hard," Smart said of his new starting role. "Not worry about all the other things and just let my game come to me and let the rest fall into place."
"I'm trying to push the ball and keep the pace up. I'm trying to attack the defense before they get set," he said of his job as a facilitator.
Development with the ball in his hands is great, but may take some time. For now, defense is Smart's calling card.
"I think you feel so good and comfortable with him defensively in the game," Stevens said of Smart following Wednesday's game. "I thought he did fine offensively. He had eight assists to two turnovers. He didn't shoot a high volume of shots. I can't think of many times where he made many mistakes defensively.
"He's playing pretty well — without impacting the stat sheet too much, which is a good thing," Smart's coach concluded regarding his impact.
Even Smart's peers around the league are taking notice of his abilities.
"I think he's pretty good," Denver point guard Ty Lawson confirmed following the game. "He's tough. He's pretty strong. He's going to be a good defender in this league."
But what's the biggest impact of the C's lineup change so far? Marcus Smart is a winner. The Celtics are 2-0 so far when he starts at point guard.
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Finally, after discussion, debating and a fair share of whining, my husband agreed to get rid of a pair of atrocious carpets. The carpets were decades old and have been the recipients of many assaults of the human and pet kind. No amount of vacuuming and steam cleaning had lightened the dingy color, eliminated the odor, or dispelled the carpet ghosts. One fine morning the carpet guys showed up and removed the bane of my existence. That afternoon I was free of dingy, smelly, haunted carpets!
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released its final guidance on menu labeling in late April, it was the last step in a process to require restaurants, convenience stores, take-out, retail establishments and supermarkets to publish the calorie content of their food on their menus.
Some chain restaurants were already publishing this information on some items in anticipation of this announcement. Others have until May 2017 to implement the change.
Spending summers on our grandparents' farms was a rite of passage for some of us. The rapidly changing face of the American Culture of the 60's and 70's left many of our parents (children of the Great Depression of the 30's) wanting their progeny to experience and understand what their childhoods were like.
That is how I found myself, the summer of my 10th birthday, at my grandparents' farm. Granddaddy had built a roughhewn bunkhouse to house my cousins and me for the farm labor we would provide for the summer.
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This year's Trimble County Fair promises to be bigger and better than ever before. Running from June 17-21, the fair's theme is Celebration '86. The theme was chosen by fair board members from entries submitted by local students. Celebration '86 was the idea of Sabina McCoy, daughter of Charles and Corliss McCoy, Milton.
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Court Appointed Advocates of the River Region (includes Jefferson, Henry, Oldham, Trimble, Shelby, and Spencer Counties) supports and promotes court-appointed volunteer advocacy for abused and neglected children. Begun in 1977 in Seattle, CASA programs today exist in every state and served almost 250,000 children the past year.
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Trimble County Senior Citizens Center arthritis exercise at 11:00 a.m.
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Trimble County High School Class of 2016 Commencement ceremonies will be held at 10:00 a.m., in the high school gymnasium.
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Every time Bell Helicopter is awarded a contract for additional work, it expects the Amarillo Economic Development Corporation to fund the expansion for it.
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According to the annual report on its Web site, Bell made a $2.6 billion profit last year. Surely it can roll 1 percent of that profit back into the company for this most recent project.
How many times has BWXT asked for help? Or BSA? They, and many others, seem to be expanding just fine without repeatedly asking for taxpayer subsidies.
Funding Bell's initial move to Amarillo with AEDC funds was an excellent idea. It has been a good neighbor; I wish Bell many years of continued success here. But I don't think it should use the AEDC as a perpetual revenue stream.
The AEDC, Bell Helicopter and the city commission always tout the "rolling over" phenomenon from these investments. That may be true, but we should be looking to diversify our economy instead of giving most of our AEDC tax dollars to one entity that doesn't need it. Funding the many Bell expansion projects leaves less money for other deserving companies.
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If I was standing on carpet working on a laptop on a wood table, what would be the best method to protect the laptop from ESD damage?
Should I get an ESD mat and lay the laptop out on the mat? Is that enough?
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St. Joseph Academy head coach Jim Herbert believes there's no such thing as a moral victory. The effort he got from the Flashes Friday night at home, however, was not a disappointment.
Even though the powerful North Florida Christian Eagles (6-2) won 42-20 with the outcome never in doubt, the Flashes (2-7) took positive steps from last week's disappointing loss on the road at Bell.
"I'm happy with the effort," said Herbert. "The kids were excited tonight and we kept the mistakes to a minimum. Coaches did a great job getting them up for the game even though we fell short against a very good football team."
The Eagles jumped out in front 28-0 on three first half touchdown passes by Eagle quarterback Clint Trickett, who was 15-of-23 passing for 215 yards in the first half -- two of those to receiver Tray Norris.
St. Joseph made it 28-7 late in the second quarter when Scott Jones scored his 15th touchdown of the year, and third receiving, on an 12-yard screen pass from Kevin Engmann.
Cairo Santos added the extra point to make it 28-7.
Another Flashes drive stalled late in the first when Engmann's pass was deflected at the line of scrimmage and intercepted downfield by Austin Trainor and returned 35 yards for a touchdown. It was the only turnover of the night for the Flashes, who also only committed three penalties for 15 yards.
North Florida Christian came out rolling on offense when running back Ford Kirkland took the first play 27 yards around the right end.
On the very next play, Trickett found Tray Norris on a 15-yard touchdown pass to make it 7-0. He later found Norris again on a 10-yard pass midway through the first quarter.
Trickett's third TD pass came on a 7-yard pass to Wesley Bell, just prior to the Flashes first score before halftime.
The Eagles ground game got going immediately in the third quarter, with the insertion of 6-0, 255-pound senior Keith Carte on offense. The defensive standout came in for one play and took it 47 yards straight up the middle on the first drive of the second half to make it 35-7.
The Flashes came back on an impressive drive capped off by a 12-yard TD run by Engmann, who finished as the leading rusher for St. Joseph on the night with 4 carries for 53 yards.
Scott Jones, the county's leading rusher who needed 87 yards coming into the game to reach 1,000, was held to 36 yards on 13 carries.
Late in the third, Trickett threw his fourth TD pass, a 44-yarder to Nick Graganella, who broke away from a tackle to turn a medium gain into a score and make it 42-14 with the extra point from Aaron Powell, who was perfect on the night.
St. Joseph was not done, however, and dug into its bag of tricks for their next score. Wide receiver and backup quarterback James Lyons, a junior, took a pitch from Engmann and found a wide open Shane D'Errico for a 29-yard scoring strike in the final quarter to make it 42-20.
"We decided early in the week, we'd try to pull out all stops," Herbert said, "because we knew what we were dealing with."
On the night, Eagle quarterback Trickett finished 19-of-27 passing for 261 yards with four TDs and no interceptions.
The Flashes close out the season next Thursday night at home in a 7 p.m. game against Florida School for Deaf and Blind.
"He'll have them ready," said Herbert. "FSDB always comes in against us and battles. We're not going to take them lightly."
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School buses vandalized in Gainesville
Updated: 07/24/2008 - GAINESVILLE, TX -- Gainesville ISD officials are left literally picking up the pieces after someone broke several school bus windows. Now they want to let everyone know that while it will not affect the school transportation next month, it is an extra expense in an already tight budget. Daniel Gotera has more.


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Ever feel insecure (when it comes to the safety of your devices that is)? This week's prize, a software suite from Symantec, brings Norton's protective powers to a bunch of gadgets at once.
For home and student use, we think Norton 360 represents the best value for ease of use, tools offered, and overall system performance. We recommend it over McAfee Total Protection and Microsoft Windows Live OneCare.
A near-perfect all-in-one solution for brand new PCs, Norton 360 v2 may be hard to install and run on legacy machines. However, don't count on Symantec's time-consuming and expensive technical support for help.
That's after a mail-in rebate, of course, but it's still an unbeatable deal on a top-rated security suite. Plus: a totally free PC game.
Well, free after rebate. But don't let that stop you from grabbing this top-rated security and system-optimization utility.
Symantec has launched the latest version of its Norton 360 security suite with the expected promises of faster performance and system optimisation tools, but the new feature that stands out most, Norton Safe Web, does so by harnessing the community powers of the internet.
Norton 360 is mercifully light on system resources; it's intuitive, covers most of the bases that a comprehensive security-and-performance tool should, and includes free online storage.
Last year Jamie Whincup not only won the Bathurst 1000, but he was also crowned V8 Supercar champion for the first time. We sat down with him after yesterday's launch of the Norton 360 v3 and Symantec's announcement of its sponsorship deal for the Sandown V8 Supercar race.
While it remains to be seen whether or not customers will embrace the higher than average cost for extra features, for users after a total security package, Norton 360 certainly offers something new in a market full of old dogs.
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This April, witness the beautifully violent return of one of the Marvel Universeâs deadliest assassins in ELEKTRA #1 â from critically acclaimed creators Haden Blackman and Mike Del Mundo!
A life spent in silent pain has led Elektra Natchios to the brink of despair. But as the crimson-clad assassin prepares to shed her blood-soaked past and take the next step, everything you know about her will change in an instant! Death is no escape, but she will find her way as a new option opens up that will take Elektra to places no other hero will go!


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The city's annual Christmas Tree Recycling Program will start Monday and run through February.
Residents can cart metal stands, lights and ornaments and transport trees to one of four brush collection sites:
Broadway Drive, south of Hastings Avenue, in north Amarillo;
Eastern Street, south of Southeast 34th Avenue, in southeast Amarillo;
Soncy Road, one mile north of Southwest Ninth Avenue, in northwest Amarillo; and
At 7500 S. Soncy Road in southwest Amarillo.
The city regularly visits each chipping site with a piece of heavy equipment that's "like a giant garbage disposal," Public Works Director Michael Rice said.
Trees and branches are loaded into the circular top of the machine and are ground into small pieces. The machine can be fitted with interchangeable screens to adjust the size of the mulch that results, Rice said.
The city uses the mulch that is produced, but also makes it available to the public, free for the taking.
For more information about Christmas tree recycling, call 806-378-6813.
The city Solid Waste Department will provide twice-a-week residential collection for the next two weeks. The department will make commercial pickups on Christmas Eve and Dec. 30.
Other city holiday schedule adjustments:
Amarillo City Transit will operate normal bus routes until 6 p.m. Thursday and Christmas Eve.
There will be no transit service on Christmas Day.
The Amarillo Civic Center will close at 3 p.m. Thursday.
City of Amarillo emergency services will run throughout the holiday weekend without interruption. But city offices will close at noon on Thursday and will remain closed on Christmas Eve in observance of the Christmas holiday.
Closings will include Amarillo City Hall; all Amarillo Public Library locations; the Women, Infants and Children program offices; and other city administrative facilities.
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After spiking early last week to a level associated with the start of a bearish stock market, the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, or VIX, is once more telegraphing a sanguine message for investors.
If right now it seems that too many crosscurrents exist in the world for you to be anything but hedged and on edge, well, you're in good company. Truth be told, you might not be paranoid enough. Recent trading by one major investor implies that he sees the VIX, now around 16.8, more than doubling by August.
Should that prediction prove prescient, the stock market will plummet before summer's end in a decline so violent that the recent market gyrations that frazzled so many bulls will seem like a pleasant day at the beach.
This ultra-bearish investor, whose identity is unknown, bought 108,000 VIX August $28 calls and sold 108,000 VIX August $37.50 calls when the fear gauge was just under 18. The call spread—that's the strategy of buying a call and selling another with a higher strike price and identical expiration—cost 60 cents, or $6.5 million total, when executed Wednesday.
Few investors ever trade more than 100,000 options contracts in a single transaction, so the trade casts a menacingly large shadow across the stock and option market. When VIX rises, VIX call options increase in value.
VIX above 20 is typically associated with a stock bear market. A reading above 30, some strategists contend, says VIX is pricing an economic recession. So far this year, VIX has rarely been above 20. On Monday, VIX set an intraday high is 21.91, and then promptly declined, generating a short-term bullish signal. (See The Striking Price Daily, "The Market Sends a Buy Signal (Really)," June 26.)
It is hard to imagine, based on the known unknowns hovering around the market, that the VIX call-spread trade proves profitable. VIX would have to rise by an extraordinary amount, and stocks would have to experience an extraordinary decline that seems highly unlikely, even when considering worries the Federal Reserve may taper its massive bond-buying programs sooner than expected. The VIX trade seems extreme even if you think second-quarter earnings season will challenge Wall Street's consensus view that the economy is improving. But who knows, maybe the mysterious investor is on to something.
IT'S TIME TO UPDATE some trades we discussed a few weeks ago. We advised readers to refrain from caterwauling about a possible end to the quantitative-easing program and instead to buy shares of CME Group CME 0.2942907592701589% CME Group Inc. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq USD102.24 0.3 0.2942907592701589% /Date(1469826000389-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1539937 AFTER HOURS USD102.24 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 118804 P/E Ratio 25.818181818181817 Market Cap 34521269740.0269 Dividend Yield 2.347417840375587% Rev. per Employee 1384230 More quote details and news » (ticker: CME) and CBOE Holdings CBOE 0.6731050629206906% CBOE Holdings Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD68.8 0.46 0.6731050629206906% /Date(1469826000000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 545597 AFTER HOURS USD68.7862 -0.0138 -0.02005813953488372% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 14433 P/E Ratio 26.875 Market Cap 5562602596.35863 Dividend Yield 1.3372093023255813% Rev. per Employee 1159640 More quote details and news » (CBOE). At the same time, we recommended selling puts in anticipation that the exchanges would benefit from uncertainty about interest rates and any fallout on equity markets. CME lists interest-rate futures; CBOE lists VIX options and futures. (See "Betting on the House," June 10.)
In less than three weeks, CME's stock is up about 6%, and CBOE's stock is up 14%. CME's July $70 put, sold for $1.60, is now at 36 cents. CBOE's September $40 put, sold at $1.25, is now at 40 cents.
At this point, we'd suggest maintaining the long stock and roll the short puts. The prudent trade is buying to close the short puts and selling CME's December $42.50 put for $4.20 and CBOE's December $43 put at $2.20, or even the December $42 put for $1.85.
It is difficult to imagine that CME and CBOE stocks will remain anything but well-bid, as more investors discover that the exchanges are well-positioned to profit from tapering, and fear of tapering, and all the other hobgoblins that lurk in the shadows.
STEVEN SEARS is the author of The Indomitable Investor: Why a Few Succeed in the Stock Market When Everyone Else Fails.
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Type of Physician: Pediatric Rheumatologist
What is a Pediatric Rheumatologist? A subspecialty certification by the Board of Pediatrics; practitioners treat the infant, child, or adolescent with rheumatic disease (causing painful disability in the muscles, tendons, bones, joints or nerves). He or she also participates in the prevention, understanding, and treatment of the various rheumatic disorders and also promotes understanding of the basic mechanisms of the disease in the interrelated areas of immunology, genetics, inflammation, and infectious diseases.
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Hickory, North Carolina 28601
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433 McAlister Rd
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A little over a year after the release of Inkist for Mac, here comes, at long last, Inkist for iPad.
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Gridditor Provides A Fresh New Take On Photo Editing On Your iDevice
Gridditor's grid is a new way to see how combinations of filters affect your photos at-a-glance.
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Filterstorm received another update yesterday, adding a number of new features (plus bug fixes, of course) to the universal photo editing app.
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Siam: Or, The Woman Who Shot a Manby Lily Tuck
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"A Joan Didionesque heroine . . . in Graham Greene's Far East . . . a telling portrait of a woman, a marriage, and a culture."Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Claire, the young bride of a government contractor, arrives in Bangkok with her husband on March 9, 1967, the day U.S. planes begin bombing runs on North Vietnam. At a dinner
"A Joan Didionesque heroine . . . in Graham Greene's Far East . . . a telling portrait of a woman, a marriage, and a culture."Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Claire, the young bride of a government contractor, arrives in Bangkok with her husband on March 9, 1967, the day U.S. planes begin bombing runs on North Vietnam. At a dinner party, she meets and befriends Jim Thompson, the real-life American entrepreneur and founder of the Thai Silk Company. Weeks later, on Easter Sunday, Thompson vanishes without a trace in the Thai highlands. As the political implications of Thompson's disappearance surface, Claire becomes increasingly obsessed with his fate. Her quest into what happened, fueled by the longing and loneliness she feels in an exotic land marked by growing unrest, leads to a tragic truth that becomes a metaphor for two cultures in collision. Written in powerful, arresting prose, this taut suspense novel further establishes Lily Tuck as a major voice in literary fiction.
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Chapter One
"Do you know Prajnaparamita?" Jim Thompson held up a small bronze statue with a dozen arms. He spoke as if he were introducing Claire to one of his close friends. "She's the goddess of wisdom. And this is Chanda-li." Jim Thompson picked up another bronze statue from his desk and handed it to Claire. "She's a goddess, too, a yogini. She's the destroyer of ignorance."
The statues were solid bronze and heavier than they looked. Claire held a statue in each hand, weighing them. "Of the two, Chanda-li has the harder job," she said.
"You're quite right," Jim Thompson answered, taking Claire's arm to guide her back to rejoin his guests.
In the drawing room, the sofas, the chairs, the cushions, the low carved Thai teak bedwhich served as both table and seatwere covered in silk: yellow, green, orange, red, violet, blue silks. On the side tables, delicate lacquer bowls held macadamia nuts, pistachios, sunflower seeds. Bencharong vases were brimming with jasmine, roses, and tuberoses. Their sweet scent filled the air.
Dressed in a bright sarong, a barefoot servant walked quickly past on the polished wood floor; he was balancing a tray of drinksiced water, whiskey, champagne.
"The house is open to the public twice a week, like a museum," Claire overheard a woman say.
"I've heard that Jim's collection of Southeast Asian art is one of" someone else started to answer as Claire moved away.
The drawing room opened onto the terrace. Pastthe garden of long-leaf mangoes, arching rain trees, fragrant frangipani bushes, on the other side of the canal, like a lit-up scene set in a playa play performed expressly for themClaire could see the silk weavers spinning and dyeing their bright skeins of threads. Intent on their work, the weavers did not look up.
"Beautiful, isn't it?" Claire said when James came up and put his arm around her. "Jim Thompson told me that when he first arrived in Thailand there were only about a dozen silk weaversjust a cottage industry, he said."
"Yeah, and it's been profitable for him, too." James squeezed Claire more tightly to him. James was broad shouldered and strong. He had curly red hair. Every morning, he combed it down with water, but by afternoon his hair had sprung back into bunches of tight curlsworse, in Bangkok, James said, because of the humidity. "What do they call him? The Thai silk king."
Claire was seated next to a Thai prince and a brigadier general. The brigadier general was the first to speak. "Tell me, how long have you two been married, Claire?" He hesitated slightly when he said her name.
"Two weeks." Claire blushed.
"This must be quite a change for a pretty young woman like you. Have you known Jim Thompson long?"
"Just tonight."
"Jim and I date back to the warthe Second World War. We were in the OSS togetherthe Office of Strategic Services. You weren't even born probably."
Claire looked over at Jim Thompson who was sitting at the head of the dining-room table. In his late fifties or early sixties, blue-eyed, his light hair receding, Jim Thompson looked like a lot of menbankers, lawyers, her father's friends, her mother's relatives, neighbors. Sensing perhaps that Claire was looking at him, Jim Thompson glanced up, smiled at her. But his good manners, his politeness, had struck Claire right away. She smiled back. More than politeness, there was an innate courtesy, a gentleness about himthe way Jim Thompson had taken Claire's arm and guided her through the rooms of his house.
The Thai prince told Claire that he had studied at Harvard.
"My father teaches at Harvard," she said.
The Thai prince smiled. He had even white teeth. He spoke with a British accent. "What does your father teach?"
The Thai prince shook his neat dark head. "I'm afraid I did not have the pleasure of studying with your father. I went to the Harvard Business School. But I did study Latin as a boy. I can still recite a great deal of the Aeneid by heart: Arma virumque cano"
Claire nodded. "Troiae qui primus ab orisAnd what do you do?"
"Cement. I'm in the cement business."
"And how do you know Mr. Thompson?"
"I've known Jim since the war actually, when he first arrived in Thailand, during the reign of King Ananda."
"King who?"
"Our present king, King Bhumibol's, older brother. King Ananda was killed in a most unfortunate accident."
"I'm sorry. I didn't know."
"Very few foreigners do. I'm afraid foreigners don't take much interest in our history."
"I was planning to" Claire started to say, but the Thai prince had turned away to talk to the woman on his other side.
Claire helped herself a second time to a dish of tiny shrimp cooked in a sauce flavored with lemongrass that was neither too hot nor too spicy. She admired the blue and white china off which she ate, the grace of the servants who handled the plates. Bouquets of purple orchids decorated the table; the silk napkins, the silver, the glasses all gleamed in the candlelight. The night air was fragrant with frangipani blossoms and the women's perfume.
The woman on Jim Thompson's right was dressed in silver; the star sapphires at her throat reflected the light. She held one of Jim Thompson's hands in both of hers, and whatever she was telling him made him laugh. The woman on Jim Thompson's left had bright red lips and fingernails painted to match; her thick dark hair was coiled elaborately around her head like snakes. She was leaning lightly against him. The coils brushed Jim Thompson's shoulder, and she, too, was laughing.
"Jim has many good friends in Thailand." The Thai prince had followed Claire's gaze. "My wife is especially fond of him."
Nodding, Claire wondered which of the two women was the Thai prince's wifethe silver one or the one with the snakes? And which wife?
Across the table, James sat next to the French cultural attaché's wife. Like Claire, the French cultural attach's wife was blond, but she was plumper. James, too, was making her laugh. When the French cultural attaché's wife leaned over, James could look down her low-cut dress.
"I hope you will have a chance to visit other parts of Thailand," the Thai prince was saying. "There are so many beautiful placesthe ancient capitals of Ayuthaya, of Sukhothai." Before Claire could answerher mouth was filled with a delicate mixture of mangoes and coconut milkthe Thai prince said, "Your husband, I imagine, has to travel a great deal."
The brigadier general turned to Claire and asked nearly the same thing: "How often does James have to go up north? Where does he go? Korat? Udorn?"
"Nakhon Phanom. James goes once a week."
"James may have to go up more often now. Between the communist insurgents and the North Vietnamese, life is not getting any easier for us."
"I read in the paper about the peace talks" Claire started to say.
"If only it were so simplebut you shouldn't be worrying your head over such things." The brigadier general patted Claire's arm. "Anyway, it's not our problem. It's Bob McNamara's problem."
Jim Thompson's cockatoo was perched on the terrace railing. As Claire walked back to the drawing room, the big white bird raised the bright orange crest on top of his head and whistled. Without thinking about it, Claire put out her arm to him. Right away the cockatoo clambered onto it. His sharp claws dug into her flesh as, balancing himself with his strong black beak, he climbed up her arm. Once the cockatoo had reached Claire's shoulder, he lowered his head next to hers. She could feel the soft brush of his feathers against her cheek.
"He wants you to scratch him." Jim Thompson was standing next to Claire. "Right there under his crest."
Cautiously, Claire reached up and did.
"He's a smart bird. He likes you," Jim Thompson said. "Most people are afraid of him. My houseboy, Yee, won't go near him."
During coffee, Jim Thompson, James, and the brigadier general sat out on the terrace; they smoked cigars. "In the past," Claire heard Jim Thompson say, "Thailand was able to keep its independence because it was able to maneuver, to take sides without making a commitmentas in the case of the Japanese. But this is no longer true. The American presence in Thailand has eliminated any hope that the Thais can negotiate and reach any kind of agreement with their neighborsBurma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, even North Vietnam. In other words, to put it crudely the way we do down in Delaware, the Americans have Thailand hogtied."
On the way home in the Land Rover, James said, "You made a big hit with Jim Thompson and that parrot. I was afraid it was going to take your arm off."
"I liked himI mean Jim Thompsonand I liked the cockatoo. Maybe we could get one."
"Cockatoo? Over my dead bodythose birds give me the creeps." James pulled Claire over closer to him on the car seat. "What did you and Prince Chamlong talk about? He's supposed to be one of the richest men in Thailand. His wife is related to Prime Minister Thanom."
"The Aeneid."
"The what?"
"I don't know. King Bhumibol's brother, King Ananda." Claire yawned, still unaccustomed to the different hour, to the different day. "Tell me again how you know Jim Thompson?"
"Bangkok's a small" James suddenly braked the Land Rover. "Did you see that? Doesn't the idiot know how to signal!Jim Thompson? Everyone knows Jim Thompson."
"Jim Thompson said he would show me the rest of his house when he got back from his trip to the Cameron Highlands. I liked Jim Thompson," Claire said again, putting her head on James's shoulder. "I liked him."
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Lily Tuck was born in Paris and lived in Thailand in the early '60s. She is the author of two previous novels: Interviewing Matisse, Or the Woman Died Standing Up and The Woman Who Walked on Water. She has written numerous short stories, the most recent of which have been published in The New Yorker, Fiction, and The Antioch Review.
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Beth McDonough, "young, single" KSTP producer, sues 40 entities for data snooping
Coming on the heels of Brooke Bass and Anne Marie Rasmusson, KSTP producer Beth McDonough is the latest woman to sue Minnesota government entities for alleged driver's license data snooping.
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Information in the Driver and Vehicle Services (DVS) database, which contains photos, addresses, and vehicle information, is protected by state and federal law. But in a number of cases (more than a dozen lawsuits like McDonough's have now been filed), the law apparently didn't stop law enforcement agencies from looking up a woman's data for no good reason again... and again... and again.
In 2008, McDonough, then about 40 years old and working as a crime reporter, was fired by FOX 9 after her second drunk-driving arrest. She was hired last year by KSTP as an investigative producer.
The Star Tribune details McDonough's snooping case, which is connected to her career in the media:
McDonough alleges in the complaint that in 2007 or 2008, then-Maple Grove police chief Mona Dohman told her "people are fascinated by you. Be a little careful." Dohman, now the state's public safety commissioner, is among the defendants. A spokesman for her department did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
In 2011, McDonough was covering a shooting in Minneapolis when she overheard an unnamed Minneapolis police officer she did not know say to a colleague, "Oh yeah, she lives in Minnetonka. She's an out-of-stater," according to the complaint.
A year later, an unnamed officer allegedly told McDonough "I like your new car" as she was walking through Minneapolis City Hall. A Minneapolis police spokesman, Sgt. William Palmer, referred an inquiry to the city attorney's office.
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Betting on a Biofuel
Biobutanol has several advantages over ethanol. And one big disadvantage.
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With ethanol looking less and less like the ideal alternative to fossil fuels, companies are rushing to come up with better options.
Chemicals maker DuPont Co. DD -0.10 % and oil giant BP PLC have placed a big bet on a biofuel they think will work much better than ethanol. It's called biobutanol. It's less corrosive for car engines than ethanol. It's easier to mix with gasoline and, unlike ethanol, can be transported via pipeline. Its energy content is higher than ethanol's.
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Still, there's one big problem: It costs more to produce than ethanol.
DuPont and BP, as well as a handful of start-up companies and research labs, are in a tight race to find a cheaper way to make biobutanol and bring it to market. The DuPont-BP team says it's confident that it has the technology to do it. "The challenge is how can we make this move faster," says John Ranieri, vice president of biofuels at DuPont, who's heading the company's biofuel efforts.
Butanol already has potential clients eagerly waiting for it to go commercial. Refiners and blenders are under pressure to meet federal biofuel mandates and aren't too keen on ethanol because it needs to be hauled by truck or train, which creates more logistical headaches than a fuel that can be piped. Butanol, which can be blended into gasoline at higher percentages than ethanol, would also help car companies under pressure from federal regulators, politicians and the public to cut the amount of fossil fuels their vehicles consume.
Compressed Development
To get butanol out as quickly as possible, DuPont and BP are cramming all the development phases together. As DuPont scientists work in the lab to develop a more economic way to make butanol, BP is testing the more expensive form of butanol available today.
Meanwhile, plans are under way for a project that will include both a pilot plant and a $400 million commercial plant in Hull, near the east coast of England. The pilot plant will be capable of producing 5,000 gallons of butanol a year, and the commercial plant's capacity will be 110 million gallons a year. The two plants will be built at the same time so that the commercial plant is ready the moment the pilot plant establishes the viability of large-scale biobutanol production. In the meantime, the commercial plant will be put to full use making ethanol. The companies expect commercial production of butanol to hit the market in 2012.
Other companies are anxious to start selling butanol as well. Gevo Inc., a start-up based in Englewood, Colo., recently opened a pilot plant, while Green Biologics Ltd., an English company, said earlier this year it had started up its pilot plant.
The science to produce butanol from plants has been around for decades. Although today butanol is mostly produced from fossil fuels to be used as a solvent, it was first made in the early part of last century by fermenting feedstock such as molasses.
The Next Big Thing?
- The Opening: Ethanol's shortcomings have triggered a search for other alternatives to fossil fuels.
- The Candidate: Biobutanol has several advantages over ethanol but one big disadvantage: It's much more expensive to produce.
- The Race: Several companies are scrambling to find a cheaper way to make biobutanol and bring it to market.
But the traditional fermentation process is too inefficient to make butanol in the large amounts that would be needed for it to be used as a biofuel. That's because aside from butanol, the fermentation also yields two other products: acetone and ethanol. The yeast that's used to transform plant material into ethanol doesn't create any byproducts. That means it takes more feedstock to create a gallon of butanol than it does to create a gallon of ethanol, says Andy Aden, a senior researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a Department of Energy facility in Golden, Colo.
Additionally, butanol in high concentrations is toxic for the bacteria that make it, so at a certain point, they shut down production. The yeast that produces ethanol is more resistant.
Mr. Aden is conducting a study on the economics of butanol. Although the conclusions won't be ready for a couple of months, he says it's clear that making butanol with existing techniques is considerably more expensive than the $1.75 to $2 it costs to make a gallon of ethanol -- probably about 50% more expensive.
Making Progress
The key to changing those economics is bioengineering a more tolerant bug that transforms plant matter more purely into butanol.
DuPont has been working on the butanol bug since 2004. The company isn't disclosing many details about the new organism, but says that it already yields more butanol than the traditional process.
Meanwhile, BP is testing how gasoline blended with butanol flows through its pipelines, tanks and pumps. Its trials show that the mix behaves more like regular gasoline than the ethanol-laced version, the company says. That's because ethanol, unlike gasoline and other oil-based fuels, mixes easily with water. So if ethanol finds any water residues in transit it can separate from the gasoline it's blended with.
Butanol's Boosters
Butanol currently is more expensive to produce than ethanol but energy companies say it has some major advantages.
- Energy content: Butanol packs 26% more energy per gallon than ethanol.
- Engine compatibility: Butanol can be blended into gasoline at higher concentrations than ethanol without the need for modifying the cars it fuels.
- Water and oil: Ethanol is more likely to mix with water than butanol, making it more difficult to transport and blend.
- Pipes and pumps: Unlike ethanol, gasoline blended with butanol is 100% compatible with existing infrastructure.
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BP is also running different types of vehicles with its gasoline-butanol mix. It says it has been able to add up to 16% butanol to gasoline without the need to modify their engines. Researchers generally believe higher concentrations than that may be possible. Ethanol content is limited to 10% of a gallon of gasoline because at higher levels it corrodes engine parts.
So far, says Phil New, president of BP's biofuel unit, butanol is "living up to its promise."
Help From Evolution
One major challenge ahead is figuring out how to make butanol out of nonfood feedstocks. Ethanol has recently come under fire because it absorbs large amounts of grain that would otherwise be available as food. Its critics blame increased production of the fuel for contributing to skyrocketing food prices.
At least initially, DuPont and BP will be making butanol out of wheat. Mr. New says there's a surplus of wheat in the U.K. and that at the moment the grain is what's readily available to test their new technology.
"One of the great strengths of butanol is you can make it from any form of sugar," he adds, and sugar comes in many forms.
For example, Green Biologics is testing feedstocks such as paper pulp derivatives and food waste. Lars Angenent, a scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, is experimenting with using corn waste from ethanol plants to make butanol.
The materials Mr. Angenent and Green Biologics are using are forms of cellulose, which is tougher to turn into fuels than grains are, because the sugar content is trapped between fibers. To break those fibers down, Mr. Angenent is relying on bacteria that are already doing the job inside sheep's bellies. "Evolution has done its work already," he says.
Mr. Angenent is using ethanol waste because that's the kind of cellulose that's available to him right now, but his process, if successful, theoretically could be applied to other sources. Like many of the butanol projects, his work is still experimental and it's unclear when, if ever, it will be applied to make large quantities of butanol.
—Ms. Campoy is a staff reporter in The Wall Street Journal's Dallas bureau.
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The highest ethanol content in the gasoline used by most cars is 10%. The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, a trade group in the U.S., says higher concentrations of ethanol can corrode engine parts, except in flex-fuel vehicles, which are designed to tolerate higher ethanol content. About 2% of the cars on the road in the U.S. are flex-fuel vehicles, according to the trade group. This June 30 article in The Journal Report section stated more definitively that ethanol at higher concentrations causes corrosion, and didn't mention flex-fuel vehicles.


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Rated 4 / 5 stars
I quite liked it, I enjoyed the piano personally. =P Though it should slowly lower in volume as the song goes on up until its solo (or whenever it has variation).
However, 1:00 felt too jarring/off to me. You had these complicated layers of rhythm right before it, and suddenly all the instruments were sort of banging the same thing. Having one of the melodies counter with the main tune or having a background instrument play something that was off-beat would've made it transition better, I think. :]
Aside from that, the improv sections were all nice. The odd chords worked fine and really gave depth to the piece. The performances were pretty spot on. SO...4/5 for me. This must have taken a lot of time, and it shows.
Thank you for your review! And thanks for taking the time to give some good suggestions. I do like the idea you actually suggested about an off beat counter melody. It would be very cool, might actually put it in.
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A groovy take on such a great song. Well done guys, its nice to know Jazz is...still alive
I like your pun! And thank you for the comment!
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Grab your companion cube and swing,baby, cause this joint is happening.
Cake, anyone? And thank you =)
Rated 4 / 5 stars
Well composed, not a bad listen, just not my taste. When I think of Portal I look at the future and technology. This creates a bond between the way "Still Alive" was created and the idea of Portal. In my mind such a soothing and up beat style such as Jazz doesn't fit the song. The idea of a giant robot that controls your movements through a lab doesn't say Jazz to me.
Again, great piece... just an unexpected style and not as filled with synergy to the real game.
Fair enough. Good review so thank you for your input. I do appreciate it! =)


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By Kenneth Blair Hogue, USAMITC Public AffairsJanuary 5, 2012
FORT SAM HOUSTON, TEXAS -- In keeping with the Holiday spirit of giving, the U.S. Army Medical Information Technology Center (USAMITC) Sustainment Division recently completed a Toys for Tots drive.
Toys for Tots is a program founded and run by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves that donates toys to children whose parents can't afford to buy Christmas gifts for them. And although Toys for Tots is a Marine Reserve initiative, anyone, anywhere, can participate in the program. Marvin Baker, USAMITC's Sustainment Division Chief and a retired Army First Sergeant, has donated to Toys for Tots for more than 20 years, both while on active duty and as a civilian. "I'm a humble guy from humble beginnings, and to me, the bottom-line is about giving back," said Baker. When he became Sustainment Division Chief in 2009, he extended his spirit of giving to the entire division by placing a donation box for toys in a common area so that everyone wanting to contribute toys could conveniently do so.
Marine Reservist Maj. William L. Hendricks started Toys for Tots as a Los Angeles charity effort in 1947 when his wife, Diane, crafted a homemade doll and asked to deliver it to an organization which would give it to a needy child at Christmas. When Maj. Hendricks determined that no such agency existed, his wife suggested that he start one, which he did. Inspired by his wife, Hendricks gathered a group of other local Marine reservists who, along with himself, coordinated and collected about 5000 toys that year for local children by placing collection bins outside of Warner Brothers movie theaters.
Their efforts were so successful that, in 1948, Toys for Tots was introduced as a national campaign. Hendricks, who was the Director of Public Relations for Warner Brothers Studio, used his position to enlist celebrity support and to have Walt Disney Studios design the red toy train logo.
In 1991, the Secretary of Defense authorized the creation and affiliation of Toys for Tots with the non-profit charity foundation. Then, in 1995, the Secretary of Defense approved Toys for Tots as an official mission of the Marine Corps Reserve.
During the 2011 Sustainment Division Toys for Tots Drive, an overwhelming number of employees from other USAMITC divisions asked if they could contribute also. So an announcement was made at that point to the command as a whole inviting anyone who wanted to contribute toys to the drive to participate. "The response was phenomenal," said Charon Guy, Sustainment Division's Management Assistant. "Contributions have been made from every division and office. We had to get a second oversized box to accommodate the donations," she added.
The USAMITC Sustainment Division Toys for Tots drive begins a week before Thanksgiving and ends right before Christmas every year. Toys donated on the drives are taken to the nearest Marine Toys for Tots drop off point, which in USAMITC's case is the Navy Operational Support Center located by Brooke Army Medical Center. Toys gathered are "distributed as Christmas gifts to needy children in the community in which the campaign is conducted," according to the Toys for Tots national mission. Therefore, toys gathered at USAMITC's Toys for Tots Drive are likewise distributed to needy children in the local San Antonio area.
The Toys for Tots goal is to "deliver, through a new toy at Christmas, a message of hope to less fortunate youngsters that will assist them in becoming responsible, productive and patriotic citizens."