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Every now and then, Halloween and Election Day fall side by side. It's an interesting dynamic, since one features people canvassing the neighborhood, pretending to be something they're not, and the other is called "Halloween."
You see what I did there? You thought I was going one way, and I went the other. Classic misdirection. Like the news organizations and candidates have already been doing for months. (Oh, snap!)
As frightened as I am about the possible results of this election, the thing I am most looking forward to is not having to hear about it anymore. In the last three days, I've gotten more than 10 emails from the Kerry campaign explaining why it's important for me to vote for him. I understand and appreciate what they're trying to do, but that's more than the emails I get about how to decrease my mortgage and increase my manhood combined.
The emails are for naught, however, since I already voted (and am perfectly happy with the size of my, um, mortgage). I sent in my absentee ballot earlier this week, paying $13.65 so that express mail would get it there on time. It never cost me anything to vote before, unless you count the time I was stuck in line behind a really chatty woman. But that's how important voting was to me this year – even more important than a firm I never contacted accepting my mortgage application for a house I don't own.
I have always supported the idea of everyone going out and voting, but seeing the ballot made me change my mind. There's a lot on there that the vast majority of voters know nothing about. And even if you vote along party lines, I bet you don't know which judges to vote for. I decided to research them before I voted. Thankfully, they all had websites. I know that because a number of them e-mailed me.
One of the judge's websites particularly caught my eye. In Los Angeles County, while most of the judges are running on platforms of supporting legislation for inner city education programs, she posted a picture of herself skiing. I don't know if you've ever been to Los Angeles, but those who ski and those who actually live within Los Angeles County aren't often the same people. I voted for the other judge (who sent me fewer emails).
The thing that concerns me most, however, is not how well we know a judge or a congressman or even a senator. It's how many people will be voting for our president without knowing much about either candidate. Okay, there are several presidential candidates on the ballot, most of whom we've never heard of. But let's concentrate on the two that could win.
Earlier this week, I was in the Dallas area, where "New York liberals" (being from New York, I was automatically labeled a liberal) are not always agreed with. When I ordered the vegetarian meal at the hotel, the waitress tried to give me chicken. The logic there must be that it's not quite as meaty as a cow.
One girl was explaining to me that she supported Bush because he knows more about war than Kerry. When I asked her about Kerry's experience in the military vs. Bush's, she was shocked to find out that Kerry had served and Bush hadn't. That's right – she somehow mistakenly thought Bush had been a soldier and Kerry had been a deserter. It's okay though – turned out she's allergic to TV, newspaper, and conversation, so she had no real way of knowing the truth before we talked. After our chat, she broke out into hives.
I'm not using her as an example of the political knowledge of the Dallas area, as I came across a number of very well read and educated voters while there (who all very much enjoyed their steak). But she is an example of the political knowledge of a lot of voters in this country.
With Election Day so close, it will be hard to learn enough about the issues in time to vote the way you truly believe (especially if you don't have access to email). But I want to through a caveat into the whole "Rock the Vote" concept. Please go vote – but know something about who you're voting for.
When you have 10 minutes to spare, check out presidentmatch.com. It's a non-partisan site that matches your views with the candidate closest to you. Regardless of if you ski or not, it's worth the time.
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Opening acts included comedians Anthony Moore and Darryl Charles. The absolutely amazing and adorable Moore had the audience roaring with his introductory line, "I am graduating this semester, so if y'all don't laugh at this shit, I got a back-up plan."
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|Deep sea vents in the Atlantic Ocean's Mid-Atlantic Ridge support tubeworms, eelpout fish, and crabs. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an underwater mountain chain that extends about 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) from the Arctic Ocean to the southern tip of Africa. Photograph by Emory Kristof
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With a mile and a half (two and a half kilometers) of Pacific Ocean sitting on their shoulders, ghost-pale crabs and fish forage among blood-red tube worms. Such communities flourish where super-heated water gushes from seafloor springs. Advances in the tools that scientists use to investigate deep-sea ecosystems are expanding knowledge of these creatures and their hostile environment.
Strange Life Clearly Seen
Water heated as high as 760°F (404°C) by magma from Earth's interior billows from a seafloor chimney. The surrounding ocean is just a few degrees above freezing. When the two fluids meet, iron sulfide precipitates, giving the "black smoker" its color. In these dark depths, chemosynthesis—based on thermal and chemical energy from the vents—is the primary mechanism sustaining life.
A living cloud flecks the water around a clump of limpet-encrusted tube worms and mustard-yellow mussels in the high-definition image at far right. With a magnifying lens on another camera the cloud resolves into a crowd of flea like crustaceans called amphipods. Amphipod swarms like this one—observed at 9° N on the East Pacific Rise—may be the densest concentrations of invertebrate life on Earth.
High-intensity lighting and high-resolution imaging technologies provide researchers with the equivalent of a microscope to examine life in the deep sea. These tools can reveal organisms that have always been part of vent communities but have been hidden until now.
Timothy Shank, a marine ecologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, calls the array of previously unknown species found at vents "mind-boggling." He has calculated that, on average, a new species has been described every week and a half since biologists first visited the Galápagos Rift vents in 1979. "More than 20 years later," he says, "we're still on the tip of the iceberg. We're trying to understand relationships among vent animals—and we're still discovering new species!"
Evaluating an Arctic Oasis
Launch and recovery of submersibles can become a daily drama in Arctic waters, where storms packing 45-mile-an-hour (74-kilometers-an-hour) winds and 20-foot (6-meters) waves blow up rapidly. Undaunted by grueling conditions, scientists from Russia, Germany, Norway, and the U.S. Naval Research Lab (NRL) used Russia's twin Mir submersibles to investigate the Haakon-Mosby mud volcano 4,100 feet (1,250 meters) below the surface.
The team discovered "a chemosynthetic oasis," says NRL geophysicist Peter Vogt. It is populated by small worms, numerous eelpout fish, and nearly 20 previously unknown species of bottom-dwelling organisms. The team also found white bacterial mats growing on frozen methane hydrate that coated much of the seafloor around the volcano. If the Arctic Ocean warms by just a few degrees, as some climate-change models predict, massive amounts of methane could be released into the water column and then into the atmosphere, says City University of New York geologist Kathy Crane. "Methane is ten times more effective than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas," she notes. "The effect on climate would be powerful."
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We've studied a handful of sites on the East Pacific Rise and Mid-Atlantic Ridge in detail, but most of the 46,600-mile (75,000-kilometer) globe-circling mid-ocean ridge system still beckons—unexplored. Off the ridges, researches examining deep-sea mud volcanoes have discovered communities of animals as exotic as those found at hydrothermal vents.
Hydrothermal Vent
The Earth's crustal plates pull apart along the mid-ocean ridges, and lava surges up between them, cracking as it cools into new crust. Seawater penetrates fissures that can be miles deep; then, heated as it nears the magma layer, the water expands and rises rapidly. Heavy with minerals leached from surrounding rocks, it gushes from the bottom in fuming geysers or in lower temperature springs with a gentler flow.
Mud Volcano
Gassy mud, rather than molten rock, erupts from mud volcanoes. Heat from deep in the mantle liquefies miles of overlying sediments, driving them upward and releasing fluids and gases into the water column. High pressure and low temperature transform released methane gas into a stable solid—methane hydrate—that covers much of the seafloor surrounding the volcano, like frozen icing on a warm cake.
Survival Strategies
Armored bodies and leathery tubes help shield some vent creatures from attack. Soft-bellied spaghetti worms are defenseless—but prodigiously fertile. Each worm's body is lined with pill-shaped structures, primed to spawn a new generation.
The concentration of life at vents attracts deep-sea carnivores. A finned octopod uses its powerful beak to devour prey, including bottom-dwelling crustaceans and worms.
Temperatures in a vent field can shift drastically and swiftly, especially near big smokers. Creatures that can't adapt equally quickly don't survive here.
Some of my colleagues have nominated the worm Alvinella pompejana as the most thermally tolerant animal on Earth. Whole galleries of alvinellids live in tubes on the sides of black smokers, at the very seething heart of the vent. University of Delaware marine biologist Craig Cary has gathered data that show alvinellids living in water that's 149°F (65°C) and surviving frequent temperature spikes well above 175°F (75°C). The standard wisdom used to be that no multicellular organisms lived above 130°F (54°C), but Cary thinks that these worms do so routinely.
Alvinellids—on average a half inch (1.25 centimeters) in diameter and about 3 inches (7.6 centimeters) long—also tolerate the steepest temperature gradient on the planet. Specimens have been found in water 140°F (60°C) hotter at one end of the animal than at the other. Superheated fluids from black smokers do not mix well with ambient cold seawater, so transitions between them are abrupt.
"Textbook biology tells us that animals can be psychrophilic [cold loving] or thermophilic [heat loving] but not both," says Cary. "I guess the alvinellids just didn't read the textbook."
We don't yet know how Alvinella worms survive these extremes. The answer may lie in their behavior or in some specialized cellular biochemistry, or both.
Capturing Deep-Sea Detail
Visiting a vent is a dangerous and costly undertaking. Since the earliest dives scientists and image makers have worked with submersible pilots—who act as our eyes and hands on the seafloor—to create a photographic record of these rare experiences. The Woods Hole workhorse Alvin took us to 9°N in fall 1999. Woods Hole research specialist William Lange helped equip the submersible to allow photographer Emory Kristof, documentary filmmaker Mike DeGruy, and IMAX producer Stephen Low to shoot conventional video, high-definition video, and IMAX footage. Each tool has pluses and minuses; all produce pictures that look good on the printed page. But for scientists the critical comparison is resolution. As the comparisons illustrate, the technologies differ in how much detail can be recorded and in how far into an image we can look before clarity breaks down.
IMAX: With ten times the image area of 35-mm motion film, IMAX yields more detail than other media. All images have been adjusted to better illustrate the decrease in resolution.
35-mm Still Film: Less flexible than motion-imaging tools, it offers relatively high resolution.
35-mm Motion Film: Despite its limits, it's the familiar standard for evaluating image quality.
HDTV: Its resolution is equivalent to 35-mm motion film. Don't see it? Try squinting.
Conventional Video: Its resolution is one-sixth that of 35-mm motion film or HDTV.
Vent creatures called dandelions typically disintegrate when they're brought to the surface. Early video images helped scientists identify the species as a colonial siphonophore—a tiny relative of the Portuguese man-of-war.
Conventional video can't match the resolution of its digital descendants, but the technology—compact, relatively simple cameras using inexpensive, easily duplicated tapes—remains important for recording deep-sea observations.
Shooting from about a foot away, a standard video camera with a macro lens fills its screen with a subject less than half an inch square. The bright orange spheres are tiny eyes on the head of a shrimp.
Fan worms use frilled limb like structures to capture minute food particles suspended in the water. High-definition resolution and macro-lens magnification can now be combined to reveal each delicate anatomical detail.
A frame of IMAX film can fill a screen eight stories tall with astonishing detail. The unwieldy camera and thousand-dollar-a-minute film limit deep-ocean IMAX use, but images likes this one come closer than anything seen before to capturing the experience of observing a thriving sea vent community firsthand.
Dynamics of Life and Death
Stripped to the bone by scavengers off California, what was once a 35-ton gray whale still teems with life. "Whale falls" create microhabitats rich in the sulfide compounds vent organisms need to survive. University of Hawaii marine biologist Craig Smith has counted nearly 400 species colonizing such remains, including clams, limpets, and mussels also found at vents 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away. He suggests that larvae drifting over ventless areas may settle on whale fall "stepping stones," mature, and release their own offspring, eventually dispersing populations among distant ridge systems.
Giant Clams—typically among the last animals to colonize an active vent—have arrived in force at 9°N. Nearly a decade of observations suggests that hydrothermal activity is likely to diminish here soon.
Vents are ephemeral. The volcanic fire that gives birth to them eventually cools. Animals perish as the flow of hot, sulfide-bearing water slows, then stops, and only fantastical lava formations remain.
Cataloging the rich life at the vents has taken 20 years. In the next 20 we hope to understand the life histories of the creatures we've discovered. Exploring the origins of chemosynthetic organisms may also point us toward the source of the earliest lift on Earth


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MOSCOW – Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has questioned some of the judging at the London Olympics, specifically in boxing and weightlifting.
Mutko pointed to Irish lightweight Katie Taylor's 10-8 win over Russia's Sofya Ochigava in the women's boxing final on Thursday.
"How can you give such scores? You'd have to be blind," Mutko was quoted by RIA Novosti news agency as saying.
The head of Russia's Olympic Committee, Alexander Zhukov, said the judges may have been swayed by the enthusiastic cheering from the Irish fans. Mutko, however, was less forgiving and suggested that the judges have favored the host nation's athletes.
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About Fiscal Policy
Fiscal policy reflects the set of measures by which the Government collects revenues and performs expenses in order to fulfill three main functions: macroeconomic stabilization, income redistribution and resource allocation. The stabilization function consists of promoting sustained economic growth, low unemployment rate and price stability. The redistribution function aims to ensure equitable distribution of income. Finally, the allocation function consists of providing efficient public goods and services delivery, offsetting market failures.
Fiscal policy results can be evaluated from different perspectives, which can focus on measuring quality of public spending as well as ide ntifying impact of fiscal policy on populations' welfare. Several indicators can be used for fiscal analysis, especially the ones analyzing flows (primary and nominal results) and stocks (net and gross debt). These indicators relate to each other, considering that stocks are made by flows. So, as an example, nominal result affects gross debt stock.
Primary fiscal result is the difference between primary revenue and primary expenditure during a given period. Nominal fiscal result is primary result plus net interest payment. Thus, Government obtains fiscal surplus when revenues exceed expenses in a given period; on the other hand, deficit happens when revenues are lower than expenses.
In Brazil, fiscal policy is managed with a high degree of fiscal responsibility. Responsible use of public resources aims at gradually reducing net debt as a percentage of GDP, in order to contribute to stability, economic growth and development of the country. Specifically, fiscal policy aims at job creation, public investment increase and social security expansion, with emphasis on reducing poverty and inequality.


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Michael Burgess on Crime
Republican Representative (TX-26)
Proponents support voting YES because:
Rep. CONYERS: Some 650,000 men and women are leaving the Federal and State prisons each year. While the vast majority of the prisoners are committed to abiding by the law and becoming productive members of society, they often encounter the same pressures & temptations that they faced before prison. More than two-thirds of them are arrested for new crimes within 3 years of their release. This exacts a terrible cost in financial terms as well as in human terms. The Second Chance Act will help provide these men and women with the training, counseling and other support needed to help them obtain & hold steady jobs; to kick their drug and alcohol habits; rebuild their families; and deal with the many other challenges that they face in their efforts to successfully rejoin society.
Opponents recommend voting NO because:
Rep. GOHMERT: The programs that are sought to be renewed are ones we don't have information on how successful they were. I can tell you from my days as a judge, there was some anecdotal evidence that it looked like faith-based programs did a better job of dramatically reducing recidivism. In addition:
Ratings by the National Association of Police Organizations indicate support or opposition to issues of importance to police and crime. The organization's self-description: "The National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) is a coalition of police units and associations from across the United States. NAPO was organized for the purpose of advancing the interests of America's law enforcement officers through legislative advocacy, political action, and education.
"Increasingly, the rights and interests of law enforcement officers have been the subject of legislative, executive, and judicial action in the nation's capital. NAPO works to influence the course of national affairs where law enforcement interests are concerned. The following list includes examples of NAPO's accomplishments:
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Asia's 2022 World Cup qualifiers drawn despite FIFA not knowing how many teams will play
The draw for the first phase of Asia's qualifying round for the 2022 World Cup finals featuring the continent's lowest-ranked nations was made on Wednesday, even though FIFA has yet to decide how many teams will participate in the tournament.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino continues to promote his plan to expand the tournament from 32 to 48 teams and potentially share the hosting duties originally awarded to Qatar with other nations in the Middle East.
Oman and Kuwait have been approached as potential...


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Billy Crystal has agreed to star in a new television series in which he's paired with Josh Gad in a story about two comics in a generational clash.
The series is called "The Comedians." It's set to air on the FX network next year.
FX said Wednesday it has ordered 13 episodes.
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"The Comedians" is based on a format popular in Sweden and will look at a late-night television show on which egos and generations collide. The pilot episode was directed by Larry Charles, who worked on "Seinfeld" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
Crystal has been well known for movie roles, a "Saturday Night Live" stint and repeated turns as Academy Awards host. But his last role in a regular TV series was on the 1970s ABC sitcom "Soap."
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I was extremely saddened to learn this morning that Barry Lind, founder of futures brokerage firm Lind-Waldock, was killed in a car accident yesterday in California. I had the great fortune to work at the company that bore his name for 11 years, and the number of lives he touched is inconceivable to me. My deepest sympathies go out to his family as well as his closest friends and associates.
Thank you, Barry Lind, for believing that individual investors—even those with just small amounts of money—deserved access to trading the futures markets. You built your company around providing retail investors with high-quality service, tools and knowledge at an affordable price. You did for others what you would have wanted for yourself in the same situation and changed the futures brokerage industry for the better.
Thank you, Barry Lind, for instilling the attitude of "the client comes first" in everyone who ever worked for you. Long after you had sold the company, those who were "Lind Lifers" kept that spirit alive and passed it on to newcomers who never knew you.
Thank you, Barry Lind, for supporting the people around you. To work at Lind-Waldock was like working with family. We cared about each other as people, not just colleagues. I remember hearing that you had never laid anyone off—no matter the business environment—because of the responsibility you felt you had as an employer to so many who counted on you for their livelihood. Today's employers would be wise to take that page from your book.
Thank you, Barry Lind, for believing in advertising and marketing. Your ads in the upper left corner of The Wall Street Journal commodity price page are legendary. Your commitment to reaching a broad audience with television ads set the bar high—and Lind-Waldock apart. Thanks for one of the most memorable days in my career, when we shot TV spots to promote mobile trading (on the PalmPilot!) at your home-base golf course. It was great to see you doing the two things you loved most at the same time. As for your approach to marketing, I was the envy of many marketing professionals I met at conferences who could only dream of the reality that I lived--where management believed that marketing was the essential first step to developing a successful business.
Thank you, Barry Lind, for devoting resources to an in-house marketing team. When I joined Lind-Waldock, I inherited a team that handled everything from advertising to website to printed collateral and public relations. We had the opportunity to grow that team into a marketing phenom in the futures brokerage industry, and I cherish everything I was able to learn about all facets of marketing and team management because of it. Because we were a relatively small team and completely in-house (including our own advertising agency), we were always holistic in our approach and nimble in our efforts. What the Lind Marketing team could and did accomplish was always amazing--and always trendsetting. Leading that team is the highlight of my career in this industry. Thank you.
Thank you, Barry Lind, for making your headquarters in the Rose-Lind building at 1030 W. Van Buren. Because it was in downtown Chicago's own "Timbuktu," you built out an executive dining room that I had the privilege of enjoying—likely for the only time in my career. Not only was it a luxury to just walk down the hall for lunch, but it also was a brilliant strategy on your part to keep your senior staff on site and accessible. What you might not have realized is that it was a great way for us to get to know each other better, and we solved many a problem over Kathy's Ceasar salads and Chicken Marbella. Thanks to you, transportation wasn't an issue as we hopped on the "Lind" bus to get to/from the train stations. Fun times were had by all on those five-minute rides twice a day. And, on 9/11/01, I was really glad we weren't in the Loop, close to the exchanges or the Sears Tower.
Thank you, Barry Lind, for understanding that your job was to keep the company in business. You made business and financial decisions with that in mind, and it permeated our every action. We worked with lean staffs of people who were paid well, but not too well. We were hands-on managers. We negotiated the price of everything. We didn't spend more than we could afford. And, we dreaded having to balance our budgets to the penny (literally!) under Shelly's watchful eye. But, we always knew that funds would be available if we needed them for something important. And, of course, we enjoyed not being forced onto the unemployment rolls.
Thank you, Barry Lind, for having a name that didn't want to die. I was there for both times that parent companies tried to replace the Lind-Waldock name with their own. In each instance, they were bankrupt within three months.
To paraphrase the British: "Lind is dead. Long live Lind!"
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Now the name of the blog is Intensity, Integrity and Intelligance. Why? It is just three traits i like to see in my pigeons, as well as three promises i like to offer up to my hobbie....however maybe not so much on the intelligance side.
Now, the race programme for my federation has been set, and giving the date of the first race being the 8th April from Peterborough, being roughly 74 miles to the loft. Alot of work has been going on around the garden roughly since October as we demolished our old racing lofts, and Ecco Lofts installed a new 30ft x 8 loft for us. This is the complete set up, and houses our stock, young birds, race hens and race cocks. With the new loft being errected it put the whole system out of place really and we are slightly behind on our usual schedule by roughly 2-3 weeks. It will be also interesting to see with a new loft, how the performance is affected, but thats something that will make this blog of interest i hope!
Now the last week or so, has seen us building sets of brick steps infront on the lofts to make access better. Consequently with the construction going on, you may have guessed the temperatures have risen also this week with an average of about 11 degrees and rainfall has been at a minimum, compared to last weeks -4 and snow showers. With this change in weather we've also been setting in some routine as we are roughly 8 weeks out from the first race.
The 16 pair of widowhood cocks and hens, still have young birds in the nest, and are starting to just give each other the eye, so i will start to think about seperating the young birds over with the hens, and when i am confident they are eating will be reasy for dispatch to there new owners. The reason why i will seperate the hens and young birds is because we do not allow our hens to go down again, and although some of the young wont be of the required 21 days, the team of hens will do an excellant job in mothering them.
As i said earlier we are 2-3 weeka really behind schedule, and over the last 4 days we have started to let the race birds out routinely. Currently we are on day 4 of regular exercise, i must add that they are never forced to fly. The first day of letting out they produced a respectful 30 mins, Day 2 35 mins, Day 3 50 mins and today again 50 minutes. So far so good. Both sexes go out together, as the young birds have reached an age that the parents feel they dont need to sit so regular. Hopefully we will be where i want the team to be come 8th March.
Obviously feeding wise the birds are not measured at the moment they take as they require of 3 different mixes at different times during the day. They also get a good selection of grits, clay blocks and matrix daily, as well as a good helping of lettuce ever two days. Lewis McCalley put me onto pink minerals, something ive never gave my birds, but its something ive been doing while rearing this year, and ive been dampening the corn with a garlic, onion and elderberry tonic every two days, an drying the feed with the pink minerals. I am unsure if i will do the same process in my stock loft regarding the pink minerals and tonic. But with the stock sitting i still have time to weigh up my decision.
One thing i have noticed, and is something i have been considering for sometime now is that Canker treatments are not needed as much as once thought. Previously treating for canker was always done here for peace of mind, wed treat for it because we read every where that they have to be but my opinion has changed, much like it had many years ago regarding cocci and worms.
Go against the grain, do your own thing, it will either surprise you, or bite you on the ar$e, time will tell!! But at least you can say you done it your way!!
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Aspire Ethos is Acer's premium entertainment line of notebooks, and the 5951G is the latest member of the family. Built around the combination of a Sandy Bridge Intel Core i5 processor and NVIDIA graphics, with Dolby Sound, this aims to be a multimedia powerhouse for the wired living room.
If a laptop is going to be a home media hub it needs to look the part. There are a lot of subtle design cues to the Ethos that simply say 'quality' Things like the metal grille over the speakers, or the steel grey covering over the subwoofer on the base. The metal lid wraps neatly around a thin and light screen with glass that covers the whole face; no cheap-looking plastic bezel here. Other touches include dropped hinges on the screen, and a metal tray for the keyboard and media buttons. The rest of the Ethos is a tough black plastic that should cope with fingerprints and general wear and tear. It's certainly not a lightweight machine though, weighing in at a hefty 3.3kg.
Keyboard and unusual trackpad
The Ethos has the same isolated keyboard as the Aspire 5755, but with a white backlight. There's a switch for the backlighting just by the left screen hinge; tap the button to turn on the lights. Oddly there's also a function key option too, which seems like overkill. The keyboard itself is comfortable to use with the metal keyboard tray dropping down to form the wrist rest and trackpad, though we still had problems with the split Shift-/ and Enter-# keys. Again there's a numeric keypad, something that seems unnecessary on a media laptop that's good for casual gaming and giving more space to the keyboard might have been more useful. If you're worried about security, a fingerprint scanner adds biometric password management and log-ins.
Along with the keyboard backlight control, the buttons near the left screen hinge include a programmable key. As a nice touch, the default setting is to start the launch manager, the tool for programming the key. There's another button that launches Windows Media Center too, if that's your poison. You get the usual arrangement of control and media keys as options on the function and editing keys, including one that lets you turn off the touch pad - handy when using the keyboard for gaming.
The touch pad is one of the most unusual we've seen. While you're admiring its glossy glass finish and smooth surface, slide the switch on the front of the laptop and watch the pad lift up and hover, gently vibrating in place as an invitation to pick it up. Strangely, it's also a removable media remote that allows you to pop it out, and take it away to control movies and music. Click the button in the top left of the pad and it cycles through different modes, lighting up different functions as icons in each. There are limitations with the pad - for one thing there's no multitouch, and no gesture support, and in fact, no tap support at all. So if you want to do more than click to select, you really do need to have the pad plugged into the Ethos, which rather gets in the way of using it as it was meant to be used. The glossy surface is also a little awkward, as it's very prone to fingerprints. But being able to control your laptop from across the room while you sit comfortably on the sofa is a really good idea.
Screen and AV quality
The 15.6-inch LED backlit screen is clear and responsive, with even brightness. Although its 1366 x 768 resolution is a little low for a screen this big. Picture quality is good, and contrast is good too, something that's important if you're going to be watching movies. Whites are clear and don't bleed, and blacks, well, they're really black. The NVIDIA GT540M provides good GPU acceleration, and you can use the Optimus tools to work manage which applications use the discrete GPU and which use the integrated Intel HD Graphics to save power. Streamed internet video played well, downloading and rescaling 1080p content and retaining the detail in the images. Performance with local 720p content was similar, with plenty of detail in the video at a good frame rate.
Another place the Ethos excels is with audio. A thin metal strip above the keyboard conceals a pair of what Acer calls 'Virtual Surround Sound' speakers, with a large Tuba branded sub-woofer under the case. The sub-woofer is a distinctive feature visually, with a metallic grille that contrasts with the black plastic underside. Out test machine's default install didn't have the RealTek drivers needed to get the most out of the Ethos' sound system, so make sure that you've downloaded the latest from the Acer support site. These include Dolby's sound processing tools with presets for video, music and games, and you'll appreciate the sound quality
Ports and specifications
There's a comprehensive set of ports. On the left of the case are USB 2.0 and 3.0, with another USB 2.0 port on the right, plus an HDMI connector, eSATA and a Firewire port. Other connectors include VGA and gigabit Ethernet, along with a set of headphone, microphone ,and audio-in sockets. The headphone socket doubles as an SP/DIF optical port to connect the Ethos to 5.1 surround sound systems too. There's an SD card slot on the front for your photos and videos, and a built-in DVD writer on the side.
The specifications make the Ethos a good all-rounder. There's plenty of performance, as you'd expect from a Sandy Bridge Core i5 machine with 8GB of RAM and running Windows 7 Home Premium. To get the most out of the combination of integrated Intel HD graphics and a discrete NVIDIA GeForce GT540M you may need to tune the Optimus drivers, to ensure applications that need more power get access to the NVIDIA GPU - even when running on battery. Dedicated GPU acceleration can make a lot of difference to performance (especially if you're using IE9) though you will see a reduction in battery life as a result. Using the Aspire on Wi-Fi for basic browsing, online document editing and media streaming, we were able to get 4 hours 30 minutes of power from the standard 8-cell Li-ion battery, which isn't bad for a machine this size.
There's a lot of bundled software on the Aspire, much of which is probably best uninstalled as soon as you start up for the first time. Acer includes the always familiar McAfee security suite, as well as Microsoft Office 2010 Starter and Windows Live Essentials 2011. Other software includes the NewsEspresso news feed reader, NTI's Media Maker for DVD authoring, and the underappreciated Clear.fi DLNA media sharing software. Acer also includes its own backup and webcam tools (for the Skype-certified HD camera), as well as the GameZone console with a selection of casual games.
Acer has delivered a delightful home media hub with the Aspire Ethos 5951G. It looks good, and performs well. Video was crisp and clear and the sound quality, once we'd installed the correct drivers, was excellent.
While we initially thought it rather gimmicky, the removable touchpad/remote control turned out to be a surprisingly useful feature. If you're after a multimedia PC for the lounge that's ready to be part of an existing entertainment system, Aspire Ethos fits the bill nicely.


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The post-game interview that CSN's Jim Barnett conducted with Jarrett Jack was dragging on a little. The Warriors had just won a close one on Miami's home floor on a game-winner by Draymond Green, assisted by Jack himself, and he probably wanted to get into the locker room. Nevertheless, he stood there, dutifully doing the Q&A for more than three minutes and answering a whole bunch of "talk about this" questions. Then Barnett said, "The basket must have looked huge to you tonight," to which the only answer is "yes, it did" or "I just want to thank God and my teammates." Instead, Jack replied:
"Floyd Mayweather put a little bug in my ear, told me he put a little bet on us. Floyd is no stranger to the casino, said he put $100,000 on us."
Noted. Floyd Mayweather is indeed a prodigious and frequent sports bettor, so we don't doubt he had 100K riding on the game, but Barnett probably had the right idea when he shut it down immediately with an uncomfortable laugh and said, "Don't talk about that." When Floyd put the bug in Jack's ear isn't clear—nor is it clear what that means—but one has to assume it was before the game, and not in the time between the game-winner and the on-court interview—though, Mayweather was definitely present, so it's possible that he celebrated by immediately telling the Warriors how much money they'd just won him. Either way, we know a couple things for sure: Floyd Mayweather has way too much money, and Jarrett Jack will soon be the reciepient of a sternly-worded note from the NBA.
Video of the exchange below (and of the whole interview over here):
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No announcement yet.
John Carmack Pushes Wine For Linux Gaming
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Two words for you Carmack: Steam Box
If Valve wants to bring their distribution center to consoles (and other devices) they're going to need a solid OS with lots of support, and they're going to need to run their games natively. With Valve and Unity (and others) starting to push for Linux support, more games will be ported, and GPU driver vendors will have more incentive to support the platform more in-turn. Using Wine is perfectly fine. If it runs good, it runs good, but that's never going to be the case in all situations with Wine unless more support is given to the whole systems, so at that point it's better to just support thing more directly (natively).
Besides, porting to Linux isn't even hard to do. Even if you're engine is directly using Direct3D calls (which is big mistake in today's multi-platform environment), it's easy enough to wrap OpenGL calls up a neat little DirectX box as a drop-in replacement (same for the other APIs). With Steam on Linux and more major Game Engines gaining Linux support developers will starting see Linux as another real source of revenue.
Originally posted by staalmannen View PostRunning under wine _is_ basically running native. No CPU emulation or anything else. NT syscalls are caught by a userspace library, which probably is a bit slower. If you want the performance of running those syscalls in kernel space you should hope for the LUK* project to succeed (not heard much about them lately)
* http://www.longene.org/en/index.php
It is kind of interesting to see the almost completely divergent philosophies between Carmack and Gabe Newell.
Valve seems to be entirely resistant to Wine and even put out the effort to port over their older games like CS and HL. And Valve doesn't seem to view Linux as Just Another Platform but rather an important alternative to bring into the fold.
My thoughts on it as well: http://www.gamingonlinux.com/article...ne-gaming.1705 which comes from experience of actually using Wine to try to game.
What a completely fail-tastic comment - from someone who should know what they are talking about!
I challenge Mr Carmack!! How to do you measure the popularity of your Linux ports - when you can't buy a Linux-only version of the games!! It's a circular argument...
Wine will never replace native gaming...
1) It runs in user space - low FPS and frequent stuttering (read "pause") is unacceptable to any gamer
2) Instability - simply put games can crash Wine (my current experience with BMS, look at Crysis - needs a patch just to run)
2) To many modern games have sophisticated DRM/online checks that will never be fixed (e.g. Punkbuster, etc.)
3) Wine updates maybe a problem - but even more problematical can be updates to the games themselves!
Don't get me wrong I do my bit to support the Wine project... It's lovely to see games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. running on top of ARCH, etc. - but you need an order of magnitude faster system (i.e. at least 2 Nvidia GPU generations), than Windows 7 would need, just to run the games at the same FPS.
Has Mr Carmack actually spent any time using any FPS games on Wine?? Me thinks not...
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This Carmack fellow seems to have his head up his ass.
When it comes to technology, you can never accurately speculate how well something might do today based on the past. Technology advances quite quickly, just look at Linux and the video drivers. Around 3 years ago, I was unable to get Linux and my dual display ATI card to work properly. 1 year later everything worked and since then performance has continued to improve to where I don't use Windows anymore.
With regards to Wine, the only game that has ever worked for me with out much FPS loss is Sid Meiers Railroads. WoW has always been around 7fps and other games like L4D are completely unplayable. Lets also not forget how some companies, namely Blizzard, have banned players because they misinterrepted their playing through Wine as cheating.
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Clearly developers are going about this the wrong way. They should be writing for Linux and making Windows users use andLinux to run the games. Nobody would complain about that solution.
Improving Wine for Linux gaming seems like a better plan than lobbying individual game developers for native ports. Why the hate?
What? There's no lead developer of OS/2 operating system? Then maybe the lead for software compatibility with the Windows platform? He's not available too? Huh? There's no OS/2 development team at all?
Guess we won't be able to get a first hand reason why it's a Bad Idea.
There's hardly any compatibility between different Java virtual machines! Where the spec is open!


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Such a dilemma. You have a dog that loves to walk, but he's so powerful that a standard leash and collar won't work. Relax, don't worry. Just grab a supercollar.
The $40 supercollar has a three foot retractable leash made of wound steel. The steel cable attaches to the collar in two places for added strength. It supposedly can withstand "100s of pounds of tugging pressure."
One supercollar for one super dog means you can finally enjoy a tugfest, oops I mean a walk, with your wonderful canine friend. Of course, you could ditch the idea of a supercollar and spend that money on obedience classes. The first thing he will learn is heel. [Supercollar via 7Gadget and Oh Gizmo!]
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March 2012
Monday Special
10 piece all dark,
2 large sides,
1 whole pie, 6 rolls
May 2012
Strawberry pie season begins. Enjoy our fresh strawberry pie.
August 2012
Time for our sweet Utah corn on the cob.
September 2012
Peach Pie season begins.
"Their mashed potatoes and gravy make me so happy! Not even my mom's gravy is as yummy. Sorry, Mom."
Katie Mifsud
"C&B Maddox Famous Chicken is the #1 place to eat in Layton. My only regret is it's not closer."
Peggy Sue Stewart
"The banana cream pie is simply the best I've ever had."
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Much of the U.S. has been warmer in recent years, affecting not only which trees are right for planting, but also threatening the survival of older forests.
A Yale Environmental 360 article by Bruce Dorminey reported the giant sequoias native to California's Sierra Nevada are facing the looming effects of declining snowpack and rising temperatures.
Giant sequoias are the world's largest living species, reaching heights of 300 feet and girths as large as 150 feet. Dorminey wrote, "some sequoias can live in excess of 3,000 years before being naturally toppled by a combination of weather and gravity."
Giant sequoias have evolved and thrived for multiple millenniums. The species may have survived previous eras of climate change but Dorminey says U.S. government and university researchers claim the long-term existence of these trees might now be endangered as a result of the changing Sierra Nevada mountain snowpack and current changes to the climate.
Less moisture and longer, warmer summers make it difficult for giant sequoias, especially the seedlings and young trees with smaller root systems, to survive.
The complex interaction of rising temperatures and shifts in snowmelt and precipitation is slowly altering and threatening environments where certain tree species have evolved and thrived.
Warmer temperatures also pose the threat of insect infestations which have already killed spruce and pine trees across more than 70,000 square miles of western North America.
Dorminey presented research showing how older forests and trees have proven to be at greater risk to the effects of climate change.
A recent study published in the journal Science found that trees ranging from 100 to 300 years old, located across a wide range of global landscapes, were experiencing rising death rates. This study and other research found that higher temperatures and drier conditions have played an important role in tree mortality and forest drought stress across the continents.
You can see how regional climates have changed over the past few years by visiting the Arbor Day Foundation's U.S. Hardiness Zone map which was developed based upon data from 5,000 National Climatic Data Center cooperative stations across the continental U.S.


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Stranger by the Lake
Talking about sex on film and why he felt it didn't work Orson Welles once said, "Ecstasy isn't really part of the scene we can do on celluloid." I wonder what he would have made of Stranger by the Lake, a film that is about almost nothing but sex. Okay, you might say it's about the search for connection, and the complicated nature of human relationships, and it's kind of a murder mystery as well but everyone is naked almost the entire time. I don't think I've ever seen so many uncircumcised penises (it's French..) in a movie before. As a thriller, it works well enough. The nudity is distracting to a point but it works in tandem with the languid pacing and serenity of the visuals. This is, in some sense, a nature film.
The film takes place at a cruising spot near a lake in France. Men come to sunbathe nude, and to go into the woods nearby to have anonymous sex. It's a world unto itself with its own peculiar rules and set of codes. Real life doesn't seem to intrude but that's an illusion because the dangers of the real world are ominously close. Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps) is a regular who is more drawn to this spot than he wants to admit. He likes disappearing into the woods. He strips, he swims, he sunbathes, he cruises, and the scenes have an unobtrusive medium-shot matter-of-fact-ness about them. They look like anthropologists doing fieldwork on gay subcultures could have shot them.Continue Reading


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Leave it to the brains of MIT alumni to figure out a new way to give. Volunteering and sharing knowledge and skills are vital in a world with so much economic inequality. Nevertheless, sometimes your personal skills do not match the cause, charity, or nonprofit that interests you the most. That could make giving a time-consuming effort and deter you from donating anything at all.
Five MIT grads have launched a web application called ProBueno, which connects interested donors with those who immediately seek their special talents or skills. The donor chooses a donation amount, and the solicitor gives it to a charity chosen by the donor.
Giving your time is easy. You simply create an account using Facebook, LinkedIn, or email and then say what you want to offer, to whom, and for how much. More than 1.2 million local, national, and international organizations are already participating. A dropdown menu lists services like reviewing resumes, coding apps, and even baking cookies. It also allows you to "help in other ways," like giving lessons about a specific software title.
Khan Academy, a nonprofit educational service provider, is conducting research on giving and the collaborative nature of humans. It is promoting ProBueno by trying it out in a pilot program.
Organizations can raise up to $1,000 on ProBueno for free. For every $100 raised beyond that, ProBueno charges $4.25 in transaction fees and donation processing and $3 for funding its services. FirstGiving is handling the processing work.
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This past weekend the team was split between a meet at North Carolina State (N.C. State) and another meet at Southern Illinois University (SIU). I was on the bus that traveled four hours to Carbondale, Ill.
Friday was the first day of competition. For our team, we had entries in the men and women's long jump and the women's discus throw. SIU had a 10-K race that night, but our team had sent the 10-K runners to N.C. State. We cheered on our teammates as they threw well and jumped far on Friday night. We had a good showing.
We continued the meet on Saturday featuring a whole day's worth of competition. Your Bisons took on an array of competition ranging from the OVC to the Big 10. We had distance runners, middle distance runners, sprinters, jumpers, vaulters, and throwers all giving everything that they could to take just a little off of their times or get even a few more inches on their personal bests.
The two squads kept tabs on each other through flurries of tweets, status updates, and text messages. Our group at SIU knew all about the sub-16-minute 5-K runners that we had competing at N.C. State. And they knew all about our impressive finishes and top performers. Even when spread out across the country we keep tabs on our own and do our best to cheer for the team we call ourselves members of.
There was a damper that came down on our SIU crowd as it started pouring rain just before the beginning of our 5-K runners' heats. Now, these were the last members of our team to compete, so we needed to stay and cheer.
However, we did want to find cover from the monsoon as best we could. Our team had brought a canopy to use as shelter from the rain should it come. As the rain started, the track squad full of distance runners and sprinters quickly sought out the canopy's inviting protection from the rain. They picked up all of our team bags and equipment and hid them from the downpour. I'm glad my bags and all of the throwing implements were safely tucked away; unfortunately the "& Field" part of our squad couldn't fit under the canopy as well…what were we to do?
At every track meet, we bring our own food. We have a cooler of organic chocolate milk, deli meat, bread, and some other snacks for munching throughout the track meet. When the rain started coming down, the team quickly broke out a tarp and covered the food. Well, the "& Field" guys and girls (throwers and jumpers) lifted the tarp and got underneath it. We repositioned the food so that we could sit down on what ground was still dry. We had a makeshift fort, and we had a blast under it. We were telling stories and making jokes.
The "& Field" squad was having so much fun that some of the runners even started to abandon their more stable and functional shelter to take refuge with us. In the end we may have had 10 people crammed under the tarp that was maybe big enough to actually shelter half that number. But we didn't even care that we were getting a little wet from the rain because the inner-child in all of us had come out and we were having the absolute best time. We probably waited for 30 minutes under that tarp before we had anyone competing again. That's when the gun sounded.
The starter pistol sounded, and our 5-K runners took off completely unshielded from the rain. They raced extremely well, and we all cheered ourselves hoarse for them. Then came the girls' 5-K. We did the exact same thing all over again for the duration of the almost 20-minute long race. We cheered from start to finish as our girls ran and ran and ran through the most atrocious weather conditions imaginable. But they raced to victory! Go Bisons!
After the women's 5-K, we were ready to load up and ship out with one of our favorite bus drivers, Larry.
We were heading home to Nashville. On the bus one of our jumpers, Caleb Love, came up with a fantastic idea for a funny but safe and appropriate prank.
The most important thing about our pranks is that they are never malicious or done to cause emotional or physical duress, stress, or harm. An entire group collaborated to make sure that the people being duped would laugh about it almost as soon as it happened. We were not hazing or attempting to upset or embarrass anyone.
Caleb is a smaller guy. He's not short, but he's pretty skinny. He emptied out the overhead compartments above the seats of our bus and climbed up and hid inside. He had clued a couple of us into his prank so that we could help him out.
The basic idea was to get someone to come all the way to the back of the bus under the pretense that one of our senior girls, Sara Stephens, wanted to ask them about how they competed. While they were talking I was supposed to calmly ask them to get me something out of my bag in the overhead compartment where Caleb was actually hiding. The unsuspecting Bison opened the compartment to find only Caleb's head screaming, "Boo" and startling them.
The rest of the bus was rolling with laughter and was quickly joined by our punk'd teammates as they recognized the humor in the situation. We all had a great time and in all I think we managed to get three team members and one of our assistant coaches before the entire bus was aware of the prank.
Everyone seemed to have fun and I think we had a great rest of the ride back to Nashville. The bus was once again full of personal bests, great results from our meet, and a camaraderie that only comes from being on a tight-knit team with some of your best friends in the world.
This past weekend the team was split between a meet at North Carolina State (N.C. State) and another meet at Southern Illinois University (SIU). I was on the bus that traveled four hours to Carbondale, Ill.


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Pioneer researcher in minority STEM0
INDIANAPOLIS (Oct. 14, 2013) — A pioneer researcher in the study of the success of minority students who earn degrees in STEM fields will speak at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis as part of a national conference this month.
The Louis Stokes Midwest Center of Excellence, a regional center headquartered at IUPUI as a partnership between Chicago State University, IUPUI and Argonne National Laboratory, will host its inaugural national convention Oct. 20 to 22 in Indianapolis.
More than 160 presidents, provosts, STEM faculty and students from 85 organizations including 70 college and universities in 33 states have registered for the conference titled "A Call to Action: LSAMP (Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation) Model for Broadening Participation in STEM." Their aim is to share best practices for promoting recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority students receiving degrees in science, technology, engineering and math fields, and participating in the STEM workforce.
University of Pennsylvania professor Shaun R. Harper will deliver a keynote speech from 2:45 to 3:50 p.m. Monday, Oct. 21, at IUPUI in the Hine Hall Auditorium, formerly University Place Conference Center. Harper, a professor of education, Africana studies and gender studies in the graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, is also director of the university's Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education.
Harper will present "Beyond Deficit Perspectives on Minoritized Students in STEM Fields."
Most published research on African Americans and Latinos in STEM fields is based on repetitive examinations of questions such as why so few pursue STEM majors and why their indicators of academic achievement are disproportionately lower than their white and Asian American counterparts, Harper writes in the abstract of his lecture.
"While answering those questions is essential to narrowing racial achievement gaps and attainment disparities in STEM, most studies continually amplify failure and deficits among minoritized students," Harper said. "As such, little is understood about those who, despite all that is known to complicate and undermine their achievement, manage to successfully navigate their ways to college and through the STEM postsecondary pipeline. Thus an anti-deficit achievement framework for research on students of color … will be presented in (my) session."
"We chose Harper (as a keynote speaker) because he looks at the glass as half full rather than half empty," said Kim Nguyen, co-principal investigator of the Louis Stokes Midwest Center of Excellence, created in 2012 to communicate best practices, tools and information garnered from the Louis Stokes Alliances of Minority Participation consortium to a broader audience.
"The focus of his research and publications are exactly what the LSAMP STEM focus is about," said Nguyen, also founding director of operations of the Urban Center for the Advancement of STEM Education in the School of Education at IUPUI.
Harper advocates for classroom interactions such as just-in-time teaching, peer-led team learning, hands-on-research and faculty mentoring — models that are promoted by the National Science Foundation and integral components of IUPUI's curriculum plan.
Harper's lecture follows a panel discussion, "Voices of Change: Impact of LSAMP," that will take place from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Oct. 21 in the Hine Hall Auditorium.
Both the panel discussion and the lecture are open to IUPUI faculty, staff and students, along with community guests, free of charge. All other conference activities will take place at the Indianapolis Marriott East Hotel, 7202 E. 21st St., and require conference registration.


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In an early version of what would become the Muppet Meeting Films, two shorts were produced for the sales staff of Wilson's Meats.
Film #1
In the short, produced circa 1965 (as evidenced by references to upcoming projects such as the Cinderella pilot), Scoop and Skip bring viewers behind the scenes at Muppets Inc. (Skip worries: "You're not gonna tell them the truth, are you?") In their prologue, offering some background on Henson's work, Rowlf appears, as do two of Jim Henson's daughters as "children all over the world." The "behind the scenes" footage follows Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Juhl and Don Sahlin as they work on a batch of Wilson's commercials. Cameraman Del Ankers, sound man Gene Ankers (in an undershirt), and the Wilson's executives are also featured. Henson talks about how much they love the product; they even eat it while they're working. Henson holds a sandwich while he's performing. Soon everyone has sandwiches. Even the puppets have sandwiches in their mouths. They start drinking beer. Then the Muppets Inc. secretaries come in -- young women in short skirts, who start dancing and partying. "Every effort is made to turn out fine commercials for a fine product like Wilson's." A puppet is seen discarded on the floor with the rest of the trash.
Scoop: "You say that you edited that film?"
Skip: "Yeah."
Scoop: "What do you have against Jim Henson?"
Skip: "Nothing."
Scoop: "What do you have against me?"
Skip: "Nothing."
Scoop: "What do you have against Wilson's Meats?"
Skip: "Well, actually, I'm a vegetarian."
BANG! Scoop shoots Skip in the head.
Film #2
Following up on the first film, Scoop and Skip begin by apologizing for the last meeting film, which suggested that the Henson staff does nothing but party and drink beer. The film is a pseudo-documentary revealing the "process" behind the latest series of Wilson's Meat commercials. Introduced by Scoop and Skip, it features a sober narration by Jim Henson, along with live-action cut-aways featuring Henson, Oz, Jerry Nelson, Jerry Juhl, Don Sahlin, and actual advertising executives from Wilson's Meats and their advertising agency. Jane Henson appears in one of the commercial inserts.
This film showcased Jim Henson's fascination with animation, live-action, puppetry, and experimental filmmaking.


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Yankees support Hurricane Sandy relief efforts
The Yankees will sponsor a New York Blood Center donor drive to help replenish supplies after Hurricane Sandy from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday at Gotham Hall, located at 1356 Broadway at 36th Street in Manhattan.
The first 300 donors will receive vouchers for a pair of tickets to a 2013 Yankees game.
"We thank the New York Yankees and Gotham Hall for helping us replenish our community blood supply after Hurricane Sandy," New York Blood Center vice president Rob Purvis said. "We're opening up new locations and drives all the time – including Friday's drive at Gotham Hall – and the latest information is at nybloodcenter.org and 1-800-933-BLOOD."
Blood donors will receive free mini-medical exams on site including information about their temperature, blood pressure and hematocrit level. Eligible donors include those people at least age 16 (with parental permission), who weigh a minimum of 110 pounds, are in good health and meet all Food & Drug Administration and NY State Department of Health donor criteria. People over age 75 may donate with a doctor's note.
The Yankees have also donated $500,000 to the American Red Cross to support the relief efforts in the Tri-State area associated with Hurricane Sandy.
"The damage and destruction to the Tri-State area caused by Hurricane Sandy is daunting, but we have seen the great resiliency of this region before," Yankees managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner said. "As a neighbor and community member, the Yankees embrace our role of stepping forward and assisting the American Red Cross, which comes to the aid of so many people through their tireless efforts."


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Well I'm back. Two weeks of sun…hot sun…very hot sun…really f*****g hot sun!!! Next year I'm off to Iceland! The Red Sea was superb, plenty of snorkeling and diving. Saw an amazing amount of fish and managed to see plenty of dolphins also. I liked Egypt from the water…on land was a different matter!
Anyway now I'm back and I have to catch up on all my stuff at work. Got exams at Uni next week and I need to see a physio about my arm which is giving me jip from nearly four weeks ago. At least my cracked rib has sorted itself out, I can now sleep on my left side.
And just to get me back into the swing of things…I'm on nights tonight! Marvellous! Cant wait to see what crops up during the wee small, dark hours and what mysterious ailments or complaints I'm going to come across! I think I'm in need of another holiday already!
Will let you know how I got on soon.