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Michigan Lottery Commissioner Gary Peters says he expects the average jackpot to be about $155,000.
Peters says Roll Down is like many lottery games and lost popularity over time.
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China Data From Home to Investment Show Hope for Growth
China's weakest expansion in three years masked a surge in home sales and a jump in investment that show lower interest rates and banks' reserve requirements may be starting to stabilize growth in the second-largest economy. Read more
U.S. indicts Iranian, Chinese for nuclear export plot
A federal grand jury has indicted two men, one from Iran and the other from China, on charges of conspiring to send materials from the United States to Iran for the purpose of enriching uranium, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday. Read more
Disbelief as Investigation Rules Dissident's Death a Suicide
The disputed death of a Tiananmen Square protestor in a Hunan hospital last month was indeed a suicide, Chinese authorities have announced following a controversial investigation. Read more
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Shifting inmates to local control not a perfect fix
Eleven men, once pegged as lower-level criminal offenders, have been charged with committing violent crimes in San Diego County since a new law shifted responsibility for supervising them from state to local authorities.
Among them is Joseph Todd Hall, who was charged with murder after his older half-brother was shot in the head at their mother's Santee home. Hall, 37, later pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced this month to a 26-year prison term.
Before the sentencing, his mother criticized the county Probation Department, expressing frustration over what she viewed as lack of contact from the officers who were supposed to supervise him.
"Joseph can't function in society," Carol Tesch said in a probation report included in Hall's court file.
"He has been in and out of jail his whole life. … If only I knew he had a Probation Officer I would have called and had him put somewhere," she said. "If Probation would have just called and verified where he was living, I would have known. That is all it would have taken and my son's life would have been saved."
Months before Gov. Jerry Brown's plan — known as public safety realignment — became law in October 2011, officials throughout California warned that without proper funding it could place too much of a burden on local authorities, putting the public at greater risk.
Many said it would take only one case to reveal the plan as a failure.
But San Diego County officials said neither the Hall case, nor those of the other 10 offenders accused of crimes, including attempted murder and assault, give the full picture of whether realignment is working.
Chief Probation Officer Mack Jenkins said Hall and the others represent less than 1 percent of the roughly 2,500 nonviolent and nonserious offenders who since the law took effect have been referred to probation after serving their time in prison.
"That's a minuscule percentage," said Jenkins, who also heads the executive committee that oversees the local plan. "That should not be the measure of how realignment is going."
Public safety realignment has been described as the biggest change to public safety in California in decades. It was intended to help the state cut costs and comply with a court mandate to reduce prison overcrowding.
The law requires some prisoners who complete their prison sentences to be supervised by county probation rather than state parole. It also allows some nonviolent offenders who committed crimes after realignment took effect to be sentenced to years in local jail instead of state prison.
The Governor's Office announced this month that the inmate population in the state's 33 prisons had been reduced by more than 43,000 inmates, bringing crowding down to just under 150 percent of capacity. More than half of the population decline is because of realignment.
On Jan. 8, Brown signed a proclamation ending the prison system's state of emergency.
Counties, meanwhile, have struggled to keep jails from reaching capacity. In San Diego County, the average daily population at the seven jails increased from 4,632 in 2011 to 5,073 in 2012.
To ease crowding, Sheriff Bill Gore set up a special unit to identify inmates who could be released from custody and placed on electronic monitoring or GPS supervision.
Jenkins said the county has expanded substance abuse and mental heath treatment for offenders and opened a residential re-entry center that provides work readiness programs and other services meant to keep offenders from repeating or escalating their criminal behavior.
Probation set up a new division to supervise the offenders coming out of prison. Through the first year, officers made more than 15,600 face-to-face contacts and conducted more than 4,400 drug tests.


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"The time is the 1950s; the place, Barcelona. Daniel Sempere, the son of a widowed bookstore owner, is 10 when he discovers a novel, The Shadow of the Wind, by Julián Carax. The novel is rare, the author obscure, and rumors tell of a horribly disfigured man who has been burning every copy he can find of Carax's novels. The man calls himself Laín Coubert-the name of the devil in one of Carax's novels. As he grows up, Daniel's fascination with the mysterious Carax links him to a blind femme fatale with a "porcelain gaze," Clara Barceló; another fan, a leftist jack-of-all-trades, Fermín Romero de Torres; his best friend's sister, the delectable Beatriz Aguilar; and, as he begins investigating the life and death of Carax, a cast of characters with secrets to hide. Officially, Carax's dead body was dumped in an alley in 1936. But discrepancies in this story surface. Meanwhile, Daniel and Fermín are being harried by a sadistic policeman, Carax's childhood friend. As Daniel's quest continues, frightening parallels between his own life and Carax's begin to emerge." (Publisher's Weekly)
Wikipedia entries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_of_the_Wind & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Ruiz_Zaf%C3%B3n
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N.Y. Times book review http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/books/in-the-cemetery-of-forgotten-books.html
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Only a few years ago generic drug companies were largely regional players that excelled at rapid R&D and agile supply chain management. But rapid globalization, consolidation, and increasing complexity require new management capabilities that many generics companies lack. Now, they must not only find executives with the requisite capabilities for managing a global yet highly local business, but also maintain the entrepreneurial culture on which their competitive advantage depends.
Two decades ago, as branded pharmaceutical companies globalized, grew, and consolidated, they faced a similar talent gap. But the nature of the generics business won't allow generics companies to simply follow big pharma's precedent. While markets for branded drugs operate in largely similar fashion in all markets around the world, generics markets often operate differently.
For example, in the United States, generics companies operate in a substance market, where the drug is named for the chemical compound and success lies in qualifying it for market and launching it quickly. In Europe, however, branded generics have played a far larger role, with many companies developing a sales force and medical marketing teams. To manage these and other diverse markets simultaneously, global generics companies will need new talent and new capabilities, primarily in three critical areas:
- Strategic marketing: Global executives will need to be able to manage marketing in markets that differ in patent cycles, barriers to entry, and successful business models (such as developing a sales force and medical marketing versus distributor-driven business). The ability to develop and manage different models of presence in different markets is highly complex, and few companies have done it on a global scale.
- Operations: With increasing consolidation, economy of scale will be critical. With increasing globalization, agile sourcing will be similarly important. Companies that achieve critical mass in manufacturing and the ability to source raw materials in an environment that is already seeing shortages will be the big winners.
- Human resources: On a level playing field, the ability to attract and manage top talent can be decisive for competitive advantage. Global generics companies will therefore urgently need senior-level HR executives who can oversee world-class talent management, succession planning, international benchmarking of talent, and innovative reward and retention policies. At the same time, they must be able to nurture the kind of entrepreneurial cultures, flat organizations, and fast decision-making that first made regional generics companies successful.
Where global generics companies find sorely needed new competencies will depend upon the precise nature of the job to be filled. For example:
- Strategic marketing talent may be found among big pharma executives who oversee mature products in an international environment.
- Executives from the food or cosmetics industries may possess the requisite capabilities in key account management, distribution, demand management, and category management.
- Talent with the entrepreneurial mentality that the generics business rewards may be found in the fast-moving consumer goods industry.
- Capability in global, strategic HR is widely distributed over many industries and may be found in many kinds of global companies.
However, in order to find the right capabilities, generics companies will have to first break out of their traditional mindset about sources of talent. Traditionally, the industry has resisted importing executives from other industries. They have also been reluctant to bring in executives from branded pharma on the grounds that they are insufficiently entrepreneurial. While such resistance made sense for regional players, success in diverse global markets requires precisely the competencies found in other industries and particularly among many executives in global branded pharma.
The emerging talent gap in generics also has implications for the careers of individual executives in both branded and generics companies. The career opportunities in global generics are unprecedented, and there is still time to seize them. Before doing so, however, executives should consider some basic questions:
- Do I want to be in a sophisticated, biotechnology-rooted niche operation or in a large-growth generics company with highly complex business processes?
- Am I temperamentally suited to the demands of a fast-growing, non-hierarchical organization characterized by ambiguity, speed, and sometimes ill-defined lines of authority?
- As an executive in a generics company, how is global growth likely to affect the market value of my capabilities in the future?
- What can I do to make sure that I am prepared for that future?
With brand name drugs worth more than $43 billion in sales expected to expire through 2009, and the generics industry growing rapidly, branded and generic companies—and individual executives—face a future that will look far different from the present. How the story plays out will depend on the choices and commitments that are made now. For companies, merely plucking the right talent from the right places will not be enough. The top leadership of the organization must also commit to giving these new executives the long-term support they need to adapt to the unique requirements of the generics business. For executives, the challenge is to prepare now for the changes that are coming in both sectors and position themselves to take full advantage of them.


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If Bill Courtright wasn't stone-cold sure he'll be the next mayor of Scranton after winning the Democratic primary election, he had reason to feel more confident this week, but maybe not too much more.
The Republicans just lost their nominee, who didn't exactly light up the vote-counting machines in the primary.
They might pick up a better one.
With Gary Lewis withdrawing as the party's nominee this week, Mr. Courtright is, at least temporarily, the only one on the ballot for mayor.
Lackawanna County Republican Party Chairman Lance Stange Jr. is promising an open, methodical search for a replacement nominee, but it's hard to see how someone who joins a race three months before the election can defeat a popular former councilman in a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2½ to 1.
"The Republican Party will work diligently to put forward an experienced, educated, and well-prepared candidate for mayor of the City of Scranton who the people of our great city can put their faith in to improve Scranton's financial condition, quality of life, and local economy," Mr. Stange said in a statement.
Good, because the city needs a renewed discussion of the issues in the fall campaign.
The Republicans still have to go through the process of finding a replacement, and the interested should email a letter of intent and résumé to firstname.lastname@example.com no later than 5 p.m. Tuesday, according to the party's news release.
Contenders will be interviewed by the party's executive committee Aug. 2 at 7 p.m. at the Ramada Inn, 820 Northern Blvd., South Abington Twp.
If the scuttlebutt is correct, a leading contender for the job and maybe the one guy who really can pull an upset is attorney James Mulligan, who is expected to formally announce soon. He's a Republican, but he's got lots of friends and family ties in Democratic circles and he's a lawyer so he can probably raise enough money to compete.
As for Mr. Lewis, withdrawing is a big setback politically. If he ever decides to run again, rival candidates will label him a quitter. He never seemed eager to follow through after the primary, and voters will have a right to question the sincerity of any future candidacy.
Truth be told, because of his financial background and detailed knowledge of the city's finances, Mr. Lewis seems more suited to helping Scranton solve its financial mess from an administrative post in city government, though it's far from clear he'll ever get that chance.
Finally, a few words about Elizabeth Randol, who lost to Mr. Courtright in the Democratic primary. She ruled out a write-in campaign last weekend. On further reflection, her campaign for mayor seemed rushed and too spur- of-the-moment, considering she said for a year she would not run for mayor, then announced she would, two days before Mr. Courtright announced.
Her campaign had its moments, but never really caught fire. Running and winning for mayor turned out to be quite different from running for Lackawanna County commissioner and winning the city vote. She can now sit back in her new job for Common Cause and wait for another opportunity.
If the Chuck Volpe-led government study commission convinces voters to approve electing a county executive and council, she can take a shot at county executive. She can also watch and see if the next mayor marches through four more years of financial turmoil without fixing the city's finances.
If so, voters might be willing to reconsider re-electing the incumbent mayor in 2017 - assuming he runs again -giving Ms. Randol another shot.
- Stu Rothenberg, the well-known political observer who publishes the Rothenberg Political Report, became the second score-keeping pundit to give Democrats a real shot at winning the governor's office next year.
Mr. Rothenberg switched his rating on the seat from "pure toss-up" to "toss-up/tilt Democrat."
He pointed to Mr. Corbett's poor polling and the likelihood that Democrats will have a "credible nominee."
Last month, political analyst Larry Sabato moved the race from "toss-up" to "leans Democratic."
- U.S. Sen. Bob Casey seems intent on making sure his profile in his second term is higher than in his first. Hardly a day goes by without spokesman John Rizzo issuing a news release or statement on his boss's behalf.
Analysts have criticized Mr. Casey for having a lot of voters who didn't know enough about him to form an opinion during the election last year. The unfamiliarity was partly why it took a while for him to rally to a convincing victory against Republican Tom Smith after polls showed the race tightening.
BORYS KRAWCZENIUK, Times-Tribune politics reporter, writes Random Notes.
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In the 100+ years since its inception, the San Diego Symphony has become one of the leading orchestras in the United States, and was recently designated a Tier 1 Orchestra by the League of American Orchestras. It is committed to providing musical experiences of superior quality for the greater San Diego community and beyond. Through a rich mixture of innovative and educational programming designed to appeal to all ages and cultures, the Symphony makes music an integral part of the cultural and intellectual fabric of the San Diego region, valued by and relevant to all its residents.
The San Diego Symphony offers a wide range of concert experiences and performs over 100 concerts each season, including performances at downtown San Diego's historic Symphony Hall. Various concert series include the Jacobs Masterworks series led by Music Director Jahja Ling, offering traditional classical repertoire; the City Lights series, featuring Principal Pops Conductor Bill Conti and popular guest artists; the Family Festival, featuring family-friendly concerts; International Passport, bringing the best of world dance and music to San Diego; and Classical Edge, a fascinating series of concerts that examines classical music from entertaining and thought-provoking angles. The orchestra also provides a Chamber Music Series at La Jolla's TSRI to highlight individual orchestra members performing with esteemed guest artists. Each year, from July through September, the Symphony presents an outdoor Summer Pops season at Embarcadero Marina Park South, mixing classical favorites and pop music in a festive, outdoor atmosphere on San Diego's picturesque waterfront.
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We are huge fans of Gallery Direct. They have done a wonderful job of taking Randy's creations through the lens of his camera and recreating them into hangable works of art. In the past year we have ordered five prints from them, everything from a huge canvas wrap, to a couple of average size canvas wraps, an aluminum, and now a picture on a mirror.
We have always been pleased with both their user friendly service and their end product. The pictures have arrived with the same density of color and clarity that we had downloaded to them. The newest arrival on mirror is equal to everything else we have received from them.
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The continuous rise in the profile of the environment in politics reflects growing concern that we may be facing a large-scale ecological crisis. The new edition of this highly acclaimed textbook surveys the politics of the environment, providing a comprehensive and comparative introduction to its three components: ideas, activism and policy. Part I explores environmental philosophy and green political thought; Part II considers parties and environmental movements; and Part III analyses policy-making and environmental issues at international, national and local levels. This second edition has been thoroughly updated with new and revised discussions of many topics including the ecological state, ecological citizenship, ecological modernisation and the Greens in government and also includes an additional chapter on 'Globalisation, Trade and the Environment'. As well as considering a wide variety of examples from around the world, this textbook features a glossary, guides to further study, chapter summaries and critical questions throughout.Read more
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Posted 13 July 2012 - 04:07 PM
I have an ebay search that will throw me an rss feed update if anyone posts a sale/auction for anything related to TIS or Pt. Grey, just in case I can see a really good deal on stuff. Yesterday something interesting popped up and I jumped on it.
These guys apparently have a raft of Firefly MV mono cameras (752 x 480) for sale at the whopping price of.....$25. They replied to me yesterday that the shipping to the US would be about $8-9.
Piotr has tested the color and mono versions of the camera and I said "why not?" It looks to be good for some sunspot and lunar imaging and may give it a shot on Jupiter when it starts to get higher in the sky. I think it would good for trying out some more ISS transit captures....especially when I can capture at 60fps.
May give it a shot to see how it works for an autoguider for my deep space imaging. Looks like the shutter is limited to 1/2s max though. Might not have to ditch the DSI I if it doesn't work out.
From the ebay page, it looks like they may have like 400+ of them available. I'll let ya know how it goes when it arrives.
Posted 13 July 2012 - 04:43 PM
But for that price you can start shooting mono luminance images. Orange visual filter for planets, orange/red visual for Moon and green/Solar Continuum/yellow 590 filter for white light Sun.
If you want a best possible, fully operational mono setup - get a different camera
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While searching, I found someone who contacted Point Grey about getting a CS mount, but they wouldn't sell him one (this was in 2008). I have an old holder for a barlow that I may be able to attach to the outside of the case. We'll have to see how it goes when the camera arrives.
Who knows. It is possible that the threads for the microlens are the exact same threads that are on my SPC900NC that I have. In that case, I just can use the camera adapter I have for that on this camera.
Posted 22 July 2012 - 11:25 AM
Easiest mounting solution would be to get a Toucam adapter or SPC900nc adapter. The toucam adapter may be a little better because the extra length is not really needed. Just need to be a slight bit careful because of the narrow support when attached. That is not that much of a problem because the camera is so small and so light (the case is plastic). Was really surprised just how small and light the camera is.
BTW, anyone worried about the camera, it looks like it is "new old stock". The camera came in an unopened package and was most likely a custom batch (has a unique part number) that could not have been returned or resold by Point Grey.
Tried to do some testing, but there really wasn't much to test it on yesterday. The sun is nearly void of sunspots, and the moon is thin and bathed in daylight . Tried to get some shots of the one sunspot but the seeing was not really good, and seeing only settled down during the last video I took with the FireflyMV. I also took a few videos with my SPC900nc to compare to, but it is really tough because to compare because the seeing was so sketchy.
For the videos I used a Celestron UV/IR cutoff filter. I am not that familiar with Flycap and Firecap so I was winging it with the settings. For the comparison image below, I took the video with FlyCap 60fps, lowest gain, and adjusted shutter to get the histogram about 50%. For the SPC900NC image, I took it at 15fps, and tried to get the histogram about the same place (I believe the shutter was 1/1000). Took 1000 frames and then stacked the best 150 frames for each. Applied the same wavelet setting in registax 5.1 (single alignment point on the sunspot). Used my C6-N + 2x barlow (f/10 ~1500mm) + Baader Astrosolar filter).
Question: why are the file sizes for FlyCap about 3x the size of the ones from FireCap?
One thing to note, it seems that the cameras may be selling pretty well that the people selling have now upped the price To $35 from $25, Shipping for me in the US was $8. This is the new URL
Here is the pic. FireflyMV on top, SPC900NC on bottom. No resizing, just rotation to line up the orientation.
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Posted 22 July 2012 - 11:47 AM
For the histogram - if you can use settings that will give 80-90% of histogram fill.
Posted 22 July 2012 - 12:08 PM
Having settings that makes the image look good on the screen aren't necessarily the best settings for a final image.
Posted 22 July 2012 - 12:11 PM
I've bought a couple myself - at that price I couldn't resist.
2 cameras for $50 + $9 for shipping - That could be the deal of the year.
I'm hoping I can use one for guiding - Need to get rid of the old Qcam5, it's not to stable any more.
Posted 22 July 2012 - 12:18 PM
I haven't upgraded the firmware on the camera yet either. Just wanted to get a quick test in before I did anything like updating the firmware.
Posted 22 July 2012 - 12:23 PM
I'm hoping I can use one for guiding - Need to get rid of the old Qcam5, it's not to stable any more.
With additional Flycap1 it should be usable in PHD and alike, but also it would require a bright guide scope as it's limited in exposure time (0,5sec unless software can trigger its own exposure timing). I'm using Orion finder-guide-scope and QHY5 sees a lot of stars at 1 sec, so at 0,5 there should be also something for Firefly.
Posted 22 July 2012 - 12:39 PM
Most of the time when I'm guiding I have no problems finding guide stars at 1/2 sec. with the Q5 - So I keep my fingers crossed.
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I use Astro IIDC and Macs for all my imaging these days (my windows-only cameras I run via VMWare Fusion and Windows 7 on the mac). Milton Aupperle says that Astro IIDC can run the camera up to 0.833 sec/frame, but the website says 8 seconds. That might be a misprint, though. I was planning on using one of these as a finder, and one as an autoguider, depending on how they perform. For autoguiding, Milton suggested binning 4x4 and shooting up to .833 sec exposures could allow guiding on 9th mag stars with an OAG on an 8" SCT.
When my cameras arrive, I'll experiment with imaging Saturn using the MV, compared to the flea2 color camera and Scropion mono cameras.
Posted 23 July 2012 - 12:09 PM
FMVU-03MT can go to only 512 ms according to PGR website.
Posted 23 July 2012 - 03:40 PM
Finally played around last night and was able to get the longer exposures and was able to get it to work in PHD guiding.
The trick to get it to work is to do two things.
1) download and install the FlyStream Driver
2) download and install FlyCapture 1.8 version of the software
It didn't work for me at least in using the 2.2 version of FlyCapture. Just make sure that you install 1.8 in a different directory from the 2.2 version.
With Flystream and Flycapture 1.8 installed, the camera would be recognized in programs like K3CCDTools and PHD guiding. You need to open up FC 1.8 and control the settings there. I was able to get a shutter speed up to the 0.833ms like Tim said...BUT there is a lot of constant background signal. Very noticeable at no gain, and very horrible looking at max gain. I should take an image to show how bad it is. It is making me wonder how well it would work as a guidescope. In PHD guiding I did a dark frame subtraction, but it really left holes all over the place.
Wanted to get out last night and do a comparison and see how it worked as a guidescope, but it took me a while to figure out how to get the long exposures and by the time I did, clouds had rolled in. I might have a chance to do so tonight.
BTW, the camera seems to get quite warm on the back case after running it for a while.
Posted 23 July 2012 - 11:27 PM
bin4 with big pixels may not be an efficient solution.
I'll see.
FMVU-03MT can go to only 512 ms according to PGR website.
Astro IIDC can run the Unibrain Fire-i cameras at about 1 second exposures even though the manufacturer doesn't say this is possible.
Posted 29 July 2012 - 05:26 AM
1) The camera is worth the money just for lunar images. I did a mosaic at prime focus with my C6-N with both my spc900nc and the Firefly MV and the MV just kicked the webcam's butt from here to Tycho. I'll post some pics of everything when I get things processed....may be in a couple of days, my day today is already taken for other stuff.
2) Guiding: Verdict is kinda out. Its not going to replace my DSI. Just not sensitive enough. It may equal or slightly surpass my SPC900NC in terms of picking up stars, but the stars are going to need to be relatively bright. Also I ran into a problem with PHD Guiding. High gain sucks on the camera so there are a lot of static hotish pixels, and the dark subraction in PHD doesn't quite work right. The MV doesnt easily have a way to set a fixed round FPS. The lowest FPS I have been able to obtain is like 1.151FPS. If you set PHD guiding to 1 FPS, then it captures a bunch of single frames, then 2 frames that isn't dark subtracted right, and causes problems.
3) Planetary = Meh Took some images of jupiter and venus and they are just *OK*. Ill go into it later.
need to get some sleep now....catch ya later.
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ASPEN -- Christy Mahon said it was only fitting for an "Aspen girl" to become the first woman to climb and ski all of Colorado's 54 peaks over 14,000 feet in elevation.
The Aspen area, after all, is home to four guys who have accomplished the feat -- Lou Dawson, Chris Davenport, Jordan White and Ted Mahon, Christy's husband. As near as she can tell from mountaineering blogs, she is only the seventh person overall to have skied the big peaks.


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Heyy, just wanted to say nice pictures : ) came across ur profile, and I deff like the photography the best lol. Now I just need to get me a camera haha ; ) well hey msg back when ya can! Facebook? lol ttyl.
Thank you! I appreciate the kind words. If you want to add me on facebook, just go to my profile and look at the very top of my journal. In the box titled add me, there is a link that will take you there ^____^
That's your old camera?! That's really really highend, which kind of new camera do you plan on buying?? Awesome picture BTW I love the shininess in you eyes! XD
Yeah, I had actually purchased two camera's, a d40 and later on a d5000 (which is the one in the pic), and I sold both of them to buy a D90
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Its bad that its not bugging me that we're getting blown out at home right now.
I've been desensitized to it gradually over the last 4 years.
Exaggeration is a BILLION times worse than understating.
I actually still get as ****** as ever. Probably even more so, because the anger just builds up and I never get to rejoice.
However, I'm making a promise right here, right now. If we lose to Colorado at home, I will not watch another ISU basketball game this year. That will be my **** it moment. I'm not going to subject myself to this ******** forever.
Been immune for some time now.
So how many more games do you think we will win this year?
Originally Posted by wartknight
I think Brian H has the correct analogy; something about getting kicked in the Junk.
"We are first and foremost an educational institution that values integrity, honesty and treating others with fairness and respect".
-ISU President Gregory Geoffroy; circa May 2003.
I thought this was going to be a thread about Sips.
I feel bad about it. I really do. 5 years ago I had season tickets and didn't miss barely a pregame layup drill. Then after 4 years of horrible basketball and 2 kids later, your priorities change and I just don't care a whole lot any more. I used to lose sleep after performances like this (assuming we don't have a massive comeback). Tonight, I climb into bed, kiss my wife and fall fast asleep.
Been there for quite some time.
I haven't cared since the Hawaii game. I went all in on wrestling after that game.
I didn't watch the KSU game or today's game. It isn't entertaining at all, just pathetic.
Come on peeps! I get as ****** off as everyone else but I still watch every game throughout! Keep on supporting I know it sucks, I always ask myself why I subject myself to the punishment? But I always think to myself I love this @@@@*** School!!!!!!!!!
On second thought, this might be my **** it moment. I'm not going into meltdown mode, I'm just too frustrated to care. I really want to see McDermott succeed, but I don't know if that is possible. It might be a square peg/round hole situation. I expect better, but I'm getting to the point where I'm just going to stop expecting.
Just please let this be rock bottom.
Jamie Pollard and ISU is in danger of losing a generation of potential fans.
I have the game on and trying to check it out, and my son--who used to show interest--will not come watch at all. Kids are funny, but I always wanted to share Cyclone sports with them.
and then depression set in(Bill Murray, stripes)
I'm pretty sure this is my body's defense mechanism to keep my from having a heart attack by the time I'm 30.
Originally Posted by Go2Guy
I think Brian H has the correct analogy; something about getting kicked in the Junk.
Yep, my man-taco has been kicked so many times I don't even care anymore.
I celebrate a win but no longer expect them.
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Stargirl Journal
by Jerry Spinelli
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This was a horrible book. It had just 1 setting and it was at school.Also, I only liked 1 part of this book.And it was when stargirl came to the nwe school and every one would say did you see her? And the stargirl was very quiet and she didnt talk much. Also she was very tallented she could play a instrument.But this book was not very good I did not enjoy it at all.
This is an amazing book for young readers from fourth grade up. It is the story about a new girl who is very different from the rest of her peers. She has very unique habits and an appearance the children at her new school aren't used to. The story brings together two unlikely people who help to tell the tale of kindness and trust. The new girl marches to the beat of a different drummer and eventually encourages her class mates to find their own rhythm inside themselves. This book would be great in a classroom to:
-read together as a class over a period of time
-start a unit that revolves around on of the themes
-explore the author and other pieces he wrote
-think about the setting of the book
-compare and contrast the book to other books children may have read
This book was great about struggles between teenager are faceing through school and her not caring what anyones thinks. Stargirl is a nice girl trying to get through tuff times. She meets friends on the way. I liked how the author wrote in teenagers talk in real life. I could sence if her protecting her feelings.Stargirl is very open on how she feels.She not afaid to be herself.
This book is about this really weird girl that sings happy birthday to everyone and sends congrats etc, But to the school she goes to everyones the same and they don't like her because shes different, in this book is not her poit of view its leo's her boyfriend.
I really enjoyed reading this touching book about a teenager's struggle to balance his need for conformity with his love of the eccentricity of the new girl at school. Spinelli creates interesting characters who are well developed and who will speak to teen readers. Although teens may not like the adult perspective at the end of the novel, they will like how Spinelli deals with the issue of conformity and peer pressure.
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I would of preferred Milan Maderic myself, he turned portsmouth into a half decent team. Risdale blows money like there's no 2mrow, look what he done with them in yorkshire*cough*.
i agree and im a leeds fan he #$%$ ruined what we had as a team and now look how were doing and were we are hes a prik of a manager and 4 your sakes lets just hope e doesnt do same to you


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Italy, Australia and Romania are the hotbeds of world cinema, with Spain and Mexico not far behind, while Middle Eastern and Asian movies have lost their luster. That is, of course, if you believe the films chosen to screen at next week's Cannes Film Festival can be taken as a sign of cinematic prosperity. Outside of French entries, which often dominate their local showcase, the 59th Cannes Film Festival may very well be remembered for its Romance languages and Aussie twang.
With two films -- Nanni Moretti's "The Cayman," and Paolo Sorrentino's "The Family Friend" -- nabbing highly coveted competition slots and three other features in the official selection, Italy has the pole position at the upcoming Festival de Cannes. Not since 2001, when the festival's competition included Moretti's "The Son's Room" and Ermanno Olmi's "Il Mestiere Delle Armi" ("The Profession of Arms") have the Italians had such a major presence.
The other Italian films are Mimmo Calopresti's out-of-competition Holocaust doc "Volevo Solo Vivere," Cannes veteran Marco Bellocchio's Un Certain Regard entry "The Wedding Director," and actor Kim Rossi Stuart's Directors Fortnight debut "Even Free is Okay," which will also be screening at New York's "Open Roads: New Italian Cinema" series in early June.
Both Bellochio and Moretti's films have already opened in Italy; the former drawing mixed reviews -- Variety's Deborah Young wrote that Bellochio's "surrealism and inconclusiveness will enchant some viewers while disorienting others" -- while the latter, a comedic political attack against recently ousted Prime Minister/media mogul Silvio Berlusconi, swept Italy's film awards, winning prizes for best film, best director and best actor. Again, in Variety, Young called the film, "by turns funny, sublime, frustrating and rousing."
But the big Italian promise is the 36-year-old Neapolitan and Scorsese-devotee, Sorrentino, whose previous film "The Consequences of Love," a stylish thriller cum character study, premiered in Cannes's competition in 2004. "We have a great new talent," says Antonio Monda, an Italian filmmaker, critic, professor and programmer. "I think this is the first time that an Italian director has had two films back to back in competition."
Last year, Italian-made movies increased their market share by 4%, taking in a quarter of all ticket sales in the country, much to Hollywood's dismay, according to a recent article in Variety.
Monda attributes the Italian resurgence to a number of factors: increased activity from Italian institutions, such as FilmItalia and The Ministry of Culture. "For the first time in Italian cinema history, they're really financing and promoting Italian film," says Monda, who also credits the revival to a new generation of directors breaking away from old formulas and generally better-made films.
"With few exceptions," he adds, "our films are less interested in their own bellybuttons and they're talking about major issues, which audiences around the world can relate to."
Even more surprising than this Italian wave is the sudden eruption of Australian films at this year's Cannes. With three features in Un Certain Regard ("2:37," "Ten Canoes," "Surburban Mayhem") one in Directors Fortnight (Ray Lawrence's "Jindabyne"), another in Critics Week ("Look Both Ways") and three shorts ("Sexy Thing," "Snow," and Jane Campion's "The Water Diary"), the 2006 event will see the most number of Australian films since 1986, when new films from Bruce Beresford, Bill Bennett and Paul Cox screened, and a young director named Jane Campion unveiled her first TV feature and three short films.
"It certainly is a good year for us at Cannes after a few lean ones," says Australian critic Paul Byrnes, "both in what we've been making and what the world has been inviting, so that's a good sign. But I note that some of these invites came fairly late."
The films may reflect less of a new wave than a healthy uptick. Byrnes notes that the last few years have been "pretty dire," but now the industry is finally starting to pick up again. Sarah Watt's "Look Both Ways" -- which is struggling to find an audience in the U.S. -- was a big winner at Australia's film and critic awards and the third most popular Aussie film last year (behind "Wolf Creek" and "Little Fish").
While film festivals and distributors have recently showcased a number of solid Aussie films, such as "Ways," "Somersault," "Little Fish," and "The Proposition," Australia's market share last year was only 2.8%, according to the Australian Film Commission, lower than its 13-year average of 5%.
But the industry is turning around, says Victoria Buchan, a spokesperson for the Film Finance Corporation, the primary government agency for funding production. "We have invested in four of the five feature films to be screened during Cannes," she says, via email. "In July 2004 we instituted a number of significant changes to the method of funding feature films" -- Variety reports such alterations as allowing more private investors to recoup investments and choosing films based on consultants' evaluations rather than market concerns. "We believe these changes have been very positive for the industry," she adds, "and that the industry has responded to the changed environment very well."
Indeed, foreign sales agent Arclight Films has a hand in a number of anticipated Australian films in this year's Cannes market, including "Romulus, My Father," starring Eric Bana and Franke Potente, the "Gallipoli"-compared World War II combat film "Kokoda" and "2:37," the high-school set drama from 22-year-old self-taught upstart Murali K. Thalluri.
Spanish-language films and directors will also dominate in Cannes, with a hefty contingent from Mexico. Guillermo Del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu bring their latest internationally financed projects to the competition, respectively, "Pan's Labyrinth," and "Babel," while newbie Francisco Vargas unveils his feature debut "El Violin," and American Film Institute-trained up-and-comer Gerardo Naranjo ("Malachance") shows off his Critics Week entry about aimless young people "Drama/Mex."
Other Latin contenders include films from Spain (Pedro Almodovar's already heralded release "Volver", Manuel Huerga's Un Certain Regard entry "Salvador," starring Daniel Bruhl as a Franco-era anarchist bank-robber); Argentina ("Cronica de una fuga," the latest from "Bolivia's" Adrian Caetano, and Lisandro Alonso's special Directors Fortnight screening "Fantasma"); and for the first time ever, Paraguay (Paz Encina's Un Certain Regard film "Hamaca Paraguaya," about two elderly parents waiting for their veteran son to return from a war).
If multiple pictures hailing from Paraguay and Portugal also signify shifts in world cinema currents, the three Romanian films at this year's Cannes must be some kind of record. Hot on the heels of Cristi Puiu's "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu," which won last year's Un Certain Regard prize, comes Catalin Mitulescu's "The Way I Spent the End of the World," also screening in the section. Directors Fortnight will premiere Corneliu Porumboiu's "Did It Happen or Not?," while Critics Week unveils Cristian Nemescu's featurette "Marilena de la P7."
All graduates of Romania's National University for Theater and Film in Bucharest and between the ages of 28 (Nemescu) and 35 (Mitulescu), these directors belong to a "whole new generation of filmmakers," says Corina Suteu, director of New York's Romanian Culture Institute, who notes that two of the films deal with the anti-Communist Romanian Revolution of 1989 "in a dark and humorous way."
"The tone is very different," she says, in comparison to previous Romanian works. "This is a generation that can be distant, critical and loving. They're much more empowered and they don't need to be symbolic to speak about the complicated reality of what's going on in Romania."
Since 2004, when a new party took over the country, there has also been a loosening of financing rules in Romania. "This government introduced a concept of externalizing the state funds and a more liberal-based principle," says Suteu. "It's no longer so centralized."
And neither, apparently, is Cannes' diverse 2006 selection.
ABOUT THE WRITER: Anthony Kaufman writes a world cinema column for indieWIRE and contributes regularly to Variety, the Wall Street Journal Online, Time Out and Filmmaker Magazine.


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He was born on January 3, 2014 in San Antonio.
Survivors include his parents, Justin S. Benton and Jamika S. Dale; sister, Star Rose Benton; paternal grandparents, Terry and Patricia Benton; uncles, Patrick Benton, Jeremy Benton, Terrance Benton, Eric Benton; aunt, Abigail Benton; and by great-uncle, Joseph Zarebski.
He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, James Glenn and Shannon Dale and by his brother, Jayden Benton.
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GIS in the Pen
The Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) announced in June 2006 that it will begin using a geographic information system (GIS) to track inmates in correctional facilities by the end of the year.
The Southern Nevada Correctional Center, where the new system will be set up, is one of the state's nine major correctional institutions. Nevada operates 21 detention centers of various categories. The NDOC expects the system -- TRaCE -- to pay for itself by letting officials immediately improve allocation of available human resources.
TRaCE provides wireless identification and location of inmates, correctional officers and staff members wearing the transmitters both inside and outside the prison buildings. The system also features officer-duress and man-down alerts that let officials know when correctional officers are in trouble.
This is the sixth TRaCE installation in the United States. The system is already being used in Minnesota, California and Ohio, and in some European facilities. -- Elmo-Tech
Iron Surgeon
In a few years, telesurgery performed by multi-armed robots remotely controlled by real surgeons located hundreds or thousands of miles away will become commonplace. Canadian doctors from the Centre for Minimal Access Surgery are developing the technology for NASA. Their goal is to build a portable robotic unit to be used in space missions, war zones and remote areas within five years. The experiments done so far in Canada and for NASA are extremely encouraging. -- ZDNet
Intelligent Mines
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) is funding research into minefields that intelligently react to enemy actions.
A minefield is usually set up to stop enemy tanks from entering strategic areas. In the old days, enemy foot soldiers breached minefields by using mine-detection systems to clear paths for tanks. As a result, minefields consisted of both antipersonnel mines for the soldiers and regular mines for the tanks.
DARPA's Self-Healing Minefield uses "intelligent," mobile antitank mines connected to each other via a wireless network. The technology allows the minefield to reconfigure itself to prevent enemy attack.
Once scattered across an area, the mobile mines create an ad hoc, wireless network to establish their locations via geographic positioning system information, communicate with each other and monitor enemy attempts to breach the minefield. Once the minefield detects a breach, the mines calculate how to respond, and then individual mines hop to new locations to fill in the lane opened by the enemy. -- DARPA
Super Skeeters
Cramped housing conditions and air pollution in Athens, Greece, have given rise to a "super breed" of mosquito that's larger, faster and more adept at locating human prey.
Athens-based mosquitoes can detect humans at a distance of 25-30 yards unlike their counterparts elsewhere in the country that only smell blood at 15-20 yards. Unlike mundane mosquitoes, the super skeeters can also distinguish colors.
The "super mosquitoes" of the Greek capital also beat their wings up to 500 times a second, compared to 350 beats for other variations. -- Agence France-Presse
Inside Job
A government consultant, using computer programs easily found on the Internet, cracked the FBI's classified computer system, gaining 38,000 employees' passwords, including that of FBI Director Robert Mueller.
The consultant -- who was working on a computer upgrade project for the agency -- broke into the system four times in 2004 and accessed records in the Witness Protection program and details on counter-espionage activity, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. As a direct result, the bureau was forced to temporarily shut down its network and commit thousands of man-hours and millions of dollars to ensure no sensitive information was lost or misused.


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Child Custody in Iowa
When parents of minor children split up, they need to make several crucial decisions about how their children will be raised: Where will the children live? Will both parents be involved in parenting decisions? How will visitation be handled? How much does it cost to raise the child and how will those costs be divided between each parent? Idaho child custody attorneys can help you and your child's other parent reach mutually agreeable decisions on these key issues.
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- How would you describe your approach to handling child support?
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Child custody issues are serious, and the custody agreement you reach now may affect your life and the lives of your children for years to come. To protect your rights and interests, and those of your children, hire an Idaho family law attorney to guide you through the process.
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Part 4 and the last of our continuing series.
The young Native American boy in a red shirt and yellow shorts looks at an approaching Special Agent John Quinlan and smiles. "I remember you," the boy says.
"I remember you, too. You were very brave," Quinlan says and smiles back.
The boy, now about 10 years old, had witnessed a murder on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation a year ago. Today, he just happens to be leaving a relative's home with his mother as Quinlan and his partner, Special Agent Jon Edwards, are arriving. The agents have come to take statements from several Native Americans who witnessed an assault that took place earlier this year on the reservation near Havre, Montana.
It's about 2 p.m., and another day in Indian Country is quickly passing. Quinlan and Edwards had started their day at around 5:30 that morning with their daily work out with agents from the Border Patrol, before heading to their new office on the second floor of a bank in downtown Havre.
They wear the uniform of agents who are in the field all day, often in the hot sun: cargo pants, hiking boots, and short-sleeve shirts, no ties.
That morning, while Edwards typed his interview notes from the day before, Quinlan drove over to the Safe Trails Task Force a couple of blocks away. The task force is made up of local law enforcement agencies that combat drug and alcohol offenses on the reservations. Quinlan discussed budget issues, a possible staged drug buy, and other business with Havre's representative on the task force.
He swung back by the office to get Edwards, then drove east a good 50 miles to the Fort Belknap reservation. Their first stop was the judicial center, where they spoke to a couple of different prisoners through the locked doors of their jail cells.
Later, Quinlan paid a visit to Chief Tribal Judge Richard L. King, asking if he would release a prisoner early from a misdemeanor sentence in exchange for help on our investigations. The judge had to demur: the prisoner was a third cousin on his mother's side, and he wanted to avoid any appearance of favoritism. "We're all related here, one way or another," he said, laughing. King said he would ask another judge about it.
At a local diner off reservation, the agents ran into two federal probation officers and talked about tribal members who were on their way home from prison—or going back to jail for violating parole. Then it was back in the SUV and another 30-minute drive into the heart of Fort Belknap, where they ran into the young boy. After talking with him briefly, they approach the home of the family they've come to interview.
A Native American man is sitting outside. His ironed dress shirt is tucked into his jeans behind a huge buckle. A new cowboy hat sits on his head, and a baby girl sits in his lap.
Quinlan and Edwards introduce themselves and explain why they've come. The man turns to the open window behind him and yells inside, "FBI's here!"
No one is surprised.