text: Xbox 360 Controller Wireless Receiver Adapter for Windows February 16, '07 Comments [14] Posted in Gaming | Reviews Sponsored By (Note, I'm intentionally being a little dense here to make a point...) BTW: If you want to skip to the point, get the updated 1.1 software here: Xbox 360 Accessories Software 1.1 32-bit for Windows Vista and bypass the excessive clicking. I've got an Xbox 360, and I've got a PC and I've got four (4) Xbox 360 wireless controllers, so it was a natural thing when I saw the "Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver Adapter for Windows" that I'd take a look. Seems like a brilliant idea, right? A small USB dongle that lets you use your Xbox 360 Wireless Accessories on your PC. Brilliant. One stop closer to the "Games for Windows" (i.e. Vista as Game Console) dream, right? Fabulous...on with the review. "Setup cannot install this software because your computer does not meet the system requirements." Um. Yikes. OK. I got this dialog after running Setup.exe. Didn't make it very far, this is the first thing I saw. My Experience Index in Vista Ultimate is 4.2, and my graphics index is 5.6. I guess my Pentium 4 4Ghz with 2gigs of RAM and a 256M video card isn't up to the task. I guess I'll click "Check Online" and get a new version of the software. Click. Um...ok. The Downloads Page of microsoft.com/hardware. I have Vista...what is this page telling me Or is it asking me something? Ok, I'll click on "Game controllers..." Ok...I figure this qualifies as game controller. Hm...as I fill this four-step page out, I'm thinking to myself... I still don't know WHY my high-powered system doesn't "qualify." I'm not sure why the setup program didn't just download the latest version. If it couldn't download the software, why not just take me to the right page? Can't they detect my operating system via my IE User Agent and figure that I'm running Vista? Moral: Don't force your users to click and answer questions when the answer is already available in "context" for the taking. You know I have Vista. My browser said so. You know I speak English. My browser said so. You know I'm trying to install this Gaming thingie. You could have just launched a browser and included this info in the URL/QueryString. Ok, now I click "go." Hm. Another link. I guess I click on that. All righty...now we're getting somewhere. Download...Run...gosh this seems like a lot of work. Make it easy to update your software, and if you ship a setup.exe, teach it to "phone home" if there's a crucial update. Considering that the 1.0 disc I have is totally useless, I can assume that someone realized at the last minute that there's a bunch of Vista machines that were going to get this error message. If the 1.0 setup was built to check for newer ones, this whole thing could have been seamless. You know what the ironic part is? Take a look at the Program Group in Explorer after everything is installed. There's a Check For Updates icon that points to checker.exe. Why isn't this updating process integrated into Windows Update? Alright then. I'll run Microsoft Xbox 360 Accessories Status now. Cool, I just click the button on the Receiver and the button on the Xbox 360 Controller and they are sync'ed. Slick. Looks like the Controller just shows up like it's a joystick in Windows, which is it. I like standard. Well, this is a great dialog, but there's no support for remapping. I tried to get the Xbox 360 Controller to work in Half-Life 2, but unless I choose to learn the obscure HL2 language for this kind of thing, it makes the controller less useful. All the "Games for Windows" games must meet a certain level of compatibility, but that doesn't help me for older games. The newer ones must support this controller (and widescreen monitors!) along with 64-bit Vista. That's certainly something to look forward to. There's just not a lot of Games out yet (and the Games site's "Game Advisor" doesn't support FireFox!). Hacking It There IS, however, a tool called the Pinnacle Game Profiler that says it'll add support for a Joystick to any game through a series of remapping profiles. Unfortunately, not only does it have trouble on Vista, but it caused Vista to display this astonishingly scary pair of dialogs that I'd never seen before: This was of course, far too dangerous to risk on my new Vista machine, as things are humming along nicely so far. Who am I to install some crazy remapping software that's not Vista savvy. Maybe one day soon they'll fix it. I hear good things about this remapper. 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BEIJING (Reuters) - A senior Chinese banking executive has warned against the proliferation of off-book wealth management products, comparing some to a Ponzi scheme in a rare official acknowledgement of the risks they pose to the Chinese banking system.
China must "tackle" shadow banking, particularly the short term investment vehicles known as wealth management products, Xiao Gang, the chairman of the board of Bank of China (601988.SS), one of the top four state-owned banks, wrote in an op-ed in the English-language China Daily on Friday.
"Unsurprisingly, although Chinese banks' non-performing loans are at a low level of 0.9 percent, the potential risks are worse than the official data suggest," Xiao wrote, adding that a problem could come as indebted borrowers face cash flow problems or enter default, straining the banking system.
"The music may stop when investors lose confidence and reduce their buying or withdraw from WMPs," he said, referring to wealth management products.
He warned of a mismatch between short-term products and the longer underlying projects they fund, adding that in some cases the products are not tied to any specific project and that in others new products may be issued to pay off maturing products and avoid a liquidity squeeze.
"To some extent, this is fundamentally a Ponzi scheme."
Xiao's op-ed is in line with similar warnings issued by outsiders, particularly the Fitch Ratings agency whose China banking analyst Charlene Chu has long warned of a maturity mis-match and the threat to the Chinese banking system of products with various terms and interest rates.
But it is rare for a senior Chinese official to acknowledge the extent of the problem.
"It is uncommon to find wealth management products that fail to clearly specify the underlying securitized assets," an official from the China Banking Regulatory Commission, which oversees financial products, told Reuters in August in response to a query on the underlying assets.
Wealth management projects, which are technically off-book, have grown to account for about a fifth of all new financing in China. They fund projects, such as property development or infrastructure, that have trouble tapping normal loan channels.
Their growth has been spurred by credit curbs meant to rein in speculative property investment and by investors' desire for higher yields than traditional bank deposits, which often offer negative real interest rates. More than 20,000 of such products are in circulation, up from just a few hundred five years ago.
Although the products are technically more risky than deposits, most investors believe they are backed by the banks' implicit guarantee and they are marketed aggressively in bank branches nationwide. Xiao acknowledged this perception posed a risk for banks' bottom line.
"The rollover of a large share of WMPs could weigh heavily on formal banks' reputations, because many investors firmly believe that banks won't close down and they can always get their money back," Xiao said.
In June, People's Bank of China vice governor Liu Shiyu said many banks are not transparent enough about the risks wealth management products carry.
"China's shadow banking system is complex, with a close yet opaque relationship to the regular banking system and the real economy," Xiao concluded by saying.
"It must be tackled with care and sufficient flexibility, but it must be tackled nonetheless."
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Milo Riley and Mary Ann "Lilly" Sharp are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter Ethel to John William "Jack" Ross, son of James Thomas and Damey Catherine Graham Ross. They were married at Fort Logan, Arapahoe, Colorado by an Army Chaplain (Julius J Babst) on 11 January 1920.
Jack is currently employed with the US Army as a cook at Fort Logan, Colorado.
The couple will return to make their home in Plain City, Utah as soon as he completes his enlistment with the Army.
Jack Ross was born 2 September 1890 in Pulaski, Pulaski, Virginia. He was the second of four children born to James Thomas Ross and Damey Catherine Graham. Read more about Jack's parents here. We really do not know much of Jack's childhood. His mother joined the LDS church on 27 February 1898 and his father on 17 April 1898 in an unknown location. Jack and his older brother Robert Leonard joined on 30 July 1900. I have been unable to find the Ross family on the 1900 Census. By July 1906, the family was living in or near Welch, McDowell, West Virginia working in the coal mines when Fanny and James were baptized. Jack married Nannie May Day (she went by May) on 6 July 1910 in Squire Jim, McDowell, West Virginia. To this marriage was born Hobart Day Ross (who later went by Hobart Day) on 1 Jun 1911 in McDowell County, West Virginia.
Jack's younger sister, Fanny Elizabeth married Calvin Dickerson Phibbs on 22 December 1906 (listed as a miner) and then moved to Rupert, Minidoka, Idaho in 1912. Initially Calvin and Fanny moved to Rupert and purchased 80 acres to the northeast of Rupert. He dabbled with cattle and real estate while also working as an electrician. (He was eventually elected as Rupert City Clerk and in 1918 as Minidoka County Probate Judge. He was admitted as an attorney to the Idaho bar 15 December 1919.) At any rate, in 1911 the construction of a new sugar factory in Burley, Cassia, Idaho was drawing a number of potential workers. Word reached the remaining Ross clan in West Virginia, probably from Fanny, of the upcoming opening. The remaining Ross family rode a train of coal from McDowell County directly to southern Idaho.
Jack's wife, May, did not come with him for one reason or another. She divorced him shortly afterward and remarried to Andrew Cleveland Parson(s?) on 22 November 1913 in Gary, McDowell, West Virginia. We do not know anything of the Ross family between 1913 and 1917 other than they were working at Amalgamated Sugar in Burley. Jack enlisted in the U.S. Army on 23 April 1917 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah and served in Battery E, 4th FA Rec Ser; Co. C, 21st Bn USG; 5 Rct Co (I do not know what any of that means) at Fort Logan, Arapahoe, Colorado, until 6 June 1919 when he was permitted leave. He had obtained the rank of Sargent and was awarded the WWI Victory Button and Medal. As far as I can tell, he never left U.S. soil.
Jack's parents were working on farms around the area during the summers and then at the factories during the winter. Robert listed his parents as living in Idahome, Cassia, Idaho in September 1918 when registered for the World War I Draft. Jack's parents moved to Paul, Minidoka, Idaho and started working on the first beet campaign in 1918 at the new Paul Amalgamated sugar factory. Jack visited his parents in Paul on leave (starting 6 Jun 1919) and it was there he met Ethel Streeter running a store on Main Street, now Idaho Street, only a block or two from where his parents lived. Jack reported back at Fort Logan on 13 August 1919 to 12 August 1920 when he was discharged from Fort Logan.
Ethel Sharp was born 9 April 1898 in Plain City, Weber, Utah. She was the 11th child (8 siblings living by the time of her birth) of 12 children born to Milo Riley Sharp and Mary Ann Stoker, AKA Lillian "Lilly" Musgrave. I have written about this family at this link: Sharp-Stoker Wedding.
Ethel was confirmed in St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Plain City 15 May 1912. Somewhere during this decade she was involved in a train accident on the Utah-Idaho Central Railway line between Plain City and Ogden, Weber, Utah. I have been unable to locate any newspaper clippings or other information on this accident. Anyhow, she obtained a settlement for her injuries.
She married Mark Lewis Streeter of West Weber, Weber, Utah on 7 May 1917 in Ogden.
She made large deposits at Ogden First National Bank in June 1917, potentially her settlement. We have checks from not long after that through August 1918 written out from Paul State Bank. Interestingly, the checks state, "Paul is the Cream of the Minidoka Project, We Have the Cream of Paul."
I have written about the photos recently found which include two photos of the Streeter Ice Cream & Confection Parlor. Ethel Sharp and Streeter Confection.
Ethelyn June Streeter was born 4 June 1918 in Paul (she died in 2012). Pictures of June are at the link in the preceding paragraph. The divorce of Mark and Ethel was final after Mark had enlisted in the Army 3 March 1919. Mark indicates in his autobiography that after he enlisted and left Ethel fell in love with Jack and that was the reason for their divorce. Jack did not meet Ethel until June 1919, three months after Mark enlisted in the army. Jack returned from his leave in Paul to Fort Logan in August 1919. Ethel ventured to Fort Logan in January to marry Jack. The 1920 Census lists him as a cook just days before Ethel arrived and the two were married. She left little June with the Streeter family in Ogden. We do not know much about the short dating period, but she traveled all the way to Colorado to marry him. Whether she was head over heels for a poor military boy or something else, we do not know. We do not know how long she stayed in Colorado or even if they came back together after his discharge. We assume Ethel sold the store before going to Colorado. After his discharge, Jack and Ethel moved to Plain City and he worked for Amalgamated Sugar Company at the Wilson Lane factory. This was roughly a 7 mile walk to work one direction. Milo James Ross was born 4 February 1921 in Plain City in a little log home just to the west and north of about 2971 N. 4200 W. I have written of Milo James Ross at this link: Ross-Donaldson Wedding. Here is a picture of the little log cabin in about 2005, shortly before it was torn down.
At some point, Jack and Ethel found their way back to Paul where Jack worked in the fields and at the sugar factory. Paul Ross was born 14 February 1922 in Paul. Work took Jack back to the Burley sugar factory and John Harold Ross (who went by Harold) was born 7 November 1923 in Burley and then moved back to Paul. By 1924, Jack and Ethel were living with Jack's parents and trying to make enough to get by. Milo remembers walking to church in Paul before his mother died, he thinks a Presbyterian or Episcopal church.
To ease the load on his parents, the family moved back to Plain City. Ethel gave birth to her last child, Earnest Jackson Ross, on 16 July 1925 in Plain City.
Sadly, Ethel passed away 21 days later on 6 August of puerperal septicemia (Blood poisoning from obstetric delivery). Earnest lived to 20 September and he passed away in Idaho from malnutrition. Jack is listed as the informant on the death certificate for Ethel. Jack could not afford burial plots so Edward Sharp, Ethel's brother, provided the burial plots where Ethel and Ernest are buried in Plain City.
Milo tells the story of the funeral for his mother. He remembered that he was not permitted to look into the casket to see his mother. The casket was up on the table and he could not see a thing and all he wanted to see was his mother. Within days Jack took the four children back to Idaho and dropped them off with his parents. Milo remembers his father riding the train holding baby Earnest in his arms. Earnest passed away in Rupert. James and Damey Ross took care of the remaining children through the winter of 1925-26. June and Milo do not remember their father being there for the winter. June's only real memory of this period was of creamy buttered potatoes that were common and that she acquired a great love for.
By the time spring rolled around, Jack or his family had contacted Ethel's family in Plain City and indicated they could not afford to feed and take care of the children anymore. Os Richardson, Ethel's brother-in-law drove to Idaho to pick up the four children. Milo remembers the drive from Paul along the poplar lined highway from Paul past the sugar factory down into Heyburn, across the old river bridge through to Declo, Malta, Strevell, and back to Plain City. The children were "farmed" out to family. Milo was raised by his Uncle Ed Sharp, Paul by his Aunt Vic Hunt, and Harold by his Uncle Del Sharp.
We have very little information on what occurred in the life of Jack from this point on. He found his way back to West Virginia where he tried to convince May to remarry him. She had remarried and was having none of that. This is the last time Hobart Day Ross ever saw his father. Hobart went on to become a preacher. He awoke blind one morning after being kicked in the head by a horse.
Jack found his way to Rock Springs, Sweetwater, Wyoming where he married a lady named Zana Cogdill on 29 November 1926. She was previously married to Frank Coffey and was going by his name. I have been unable to determine what happened to Frank. She had a son already named Orval A Coffey. The 1930 Census on 2 April 1930 finds the two of them in Crawford, Delta, Colorado where he is working as a foreman in a battery shop and living with the brother of Zana's first husband (?!?).
We do not believe this marriage lasted very long either. Jack made several visits back to Plain City to see his children. He would take a taxi out to Plain City, pick up Betty Booth, and the two would ride over to the fields where Milo was working. We assume the same happened with Harold. Paul died from a concussion in 1932 after falling out of a barn. The car would pull up at the end of the field and would toot its horn and Milo could see the occupants wave. It was not until he visited his father in 1948 that he realized this was his father waving at him across the way and that the lady was Betty Booth. (Interestingly, Milo had given assistance to Betty Booth in the form of coal and helped pay some of her Dr.'s bills before she passed).
Jack reappears for the mandatory draft registration for World War II living in Stockton, San Joaquin, California working for Werl Zuckerman on McDonald Island with a Stockton mailing address. He lists his nearest kin as his sister Ms. C. D. Phibbs (Fanny) living at 529 S. California Street in Stockton.
Milo received a telegram in 1948 telling him that his father was dying in a Veteran's Hospital in Livermore, Alameda, California and that he was requested to come. Milo tried to convince his brother Harold to go with him but Harold wanted nothing to do with his father. Milo took the bus to Livermore and found the hospital. He arrived somewhere around midnight and found his way into the building and climbed up a couple of floors and found a corner he could sleep in until morning. He heard coughs from a room and somebody in the room ask for the time. He poked his head in and asked if anyone knew of Jack Ross. Jack indicated he was in the room and wanted to know if it was Milo or Harold at the door.
They visited until an orderly came in and kicked him out. He slept in a corner for a while and then told an orderly that he had come all the way from Utah to see his father and that his father was dying. The orderly then let him stay with his father until he passed.
Fortunately, Milo and Jack were able to visit. Milo asked why his father never came to visit and his father insisted that he wrote letters, sent gifts, and that the Sharp family kept the children from him. He did not believe him at the time. Vic Hunt, Ethel's sister, had received the letters and told Milo about them after her husband and son were electrocuted in 1960 (thinking it was a form of punishment for her keeping them secret) but still did not give them to him. They passed to her son Harold in 1987, and to her grandson Archie in 2005. Archie turned them over to Milo in 2010.
We know very little of his time in Wyoming, Colorado, or California before his passing. Jack indicated in 1948 that life had been hard and he never had much. So little is known of these years, hopefully some more of the story will come out in the future.


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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Christopher McGurran overnight went from living a modest life to living large.
The 30-year-old and his wife claimed the $50 million Powerball jackpot drawn last month in St. Petersburg.
"It's always somebody, someplace else, and you wonder if somebody won it. It's nice," said neighbor Bud Patten.
McGurran, a heating and cooling technician, bought the winning ticket at a Sweetbay grocery store just minutes from his home. Little did he know at the time that it would be his golden one.
The winning ticket was a Quick Pick.
"One of the mission statements of Sweetbay is to support our community. What better way to do that than to give somebody in our community $50 million," said assistant store manager Owen Henry.
He won't quite get $50 million, lottery officials say. He opted for the lump sum payout of $32.4 million.
Despite the figures, officials say he and his wife were calm while collecting the winnings. They've already reached out to financial advisors for help dealing with all that cash.
"They were prepared for this. They were subdued, but they were excited. I asked them what they did for living and now they said they're both retired," said David Bishop, deputy secretary of the Florida Lotto.
Their stroke of luck is spurring others at the Sweetbay to get their tickets there, hoping for lightning to strike twice.
The Sweetbay store, located at 2139 34th Street North, will receive a bonus incentive of $25,000 for selling the winning ticket.
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Congrats Quick Pick eh
$32.4 Million can buy alot of cheeseburgers
"You have to be in it to win it!"
Nice win. 32.4 million after bloated government got their share. And the store gets a $25k tip.
Yay for quick picks.
That's what I call a "quicker picker-up'er"
That $32.4 Million is before the government gets their share.
There's no way they'd let him keep that much money.
50 million is the annuitized jackpot. The winner opted for the 32.4 million lump sum but they will never see that amount because 25% is taken out for tax withholding and even more taxes will be due April 2014. With a top federal tax rate of 39.6%, they will get to keep roughly 19.5 million. Good thing for the winner Florida has no state tax on lottery prizes unlike New Jersey which tacks on an additional 10.8%.
Congratulations to this last jackpot winner in the year 2012.
Congratulations to the McGurrans.Hopefully they can enjoy their jackpot without the leeches coming out of the woodwork to ruin it for them.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. ~Will Rogers
Sheesh, with that much being taxed, and at only 30 yrs old, you'd be hard pressed to live large on $16m for the rest of your life. Comfortable yes.
Congrats to the winners, and congrats for living in a state with no income tax.
16 mil is nothing to sneeze at but my issue is the 50 million annuitized jackpot is usually what is advertised on billboards and the number that grabs all the headlines. Little do most people know what they'd actually win after taxes isn't even close to the advertised amount. In other parts of the world like Canada and Europe, the advertised amount is exactly what you get since money won from the lottery is 100% tax free.
Spend 1 M on a house and furnishings and put 15 M in a low risk tax free investment. He'd get at least 200K per year right now, even at today's low rates, and that's tax free. If he can't live really well on that amount, with no mortgage payment, there's something wrong. When the return rates go back up to 6% like they were 10 years ago, he'll be getting 900K tax free. And his initial 15 M stays untouched.
Congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. McGurran......
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I love the idea of tax free lottery winnings. The reason behind my belief is that winner will spend that money in this economy and will end up paying sales taxes, property taxes, excise taxes, capital gains taxes and dividend taxes, interest taxes
That money's gone fo ever
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Fans of 'The Last Five Years' need no introduction to Norbert Leo Butz or Sherie Rene Scott, the stars of the off-Broadway hit in 2001.
Since then, many regional theatres have considered mounting this moving production penned by Jason Robert Brown, but reconsidered due to the immense challenge of tackling such a difficult piece. The music is considered in theatre groups among the most rigorous available and few companies, even in larger metropolitan areas have the talent pool to perform it justly.
Thingamajig's incredibly moving and expertly executed production of "The Last Five Years," which opened on Sept. 7 and closes this weekend, provoked a closer look at the performers that local audiences may not know.
I had a chance to interview Rachel Saul Pollack recently about the show and get some of her thoughts on creating this amazing piece.
In 2009, Pollack moved from Tulsa, Okla., to Durango where she has been a student attending Fort Lewis studying vocal performance. From there, she has starred in many Durango productions, most recently in Durango Arts Center's "Beehive" and as the witch in Fort Lewis' "Into the Woods." She made her Thingamajig debut this summer as musical director of the immensely popular "Chicago" and its family-friendly counterpart, "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.".
After appearing in "Beehive" and with The Salt Fire Circus as a soloist, Pollack is now taking on "The Last Five Years." She plays Cathy Hiatt in the show and does not disappoint.
Thingamajig's show show, which also stars Tim Moore, the group's artistic director and founder, and an ensemble of four local musicians — Venita Burch, Heidi Tanner, Jean Broderick and Dan Fitzpatrick — follows the story of a couple's five-year relationship.
The show rounds out an impressive and highly entertaining 2012 summer season and ushers in Thingamajig's upcoming 2012-2013 season opening Oct.12 with "A Steady Rain," featuring New York City actor Craig Dolezel and Moore.
I talked to Pollack when she was in rehearsal for the show. She was energetic and fun and we had a perfect conversation. In the interview, we chatted about "The Last Five Years," how she got her start and her advice to actors.
"You just finished up 'Beehive,' right?"
Pollack: "Yes. Yeah. Yeah, I did. I was in Durango doing that."
"Did you get any down time before you started rehearsals for this?"
Pollack: "No, I didn't. I did my last show on September 2 and started rehearsals the next day. — 9 a.m. rehearsals the next day. Kind of my life. That's what I do. It is a blessing to have back-to-back shows, having the work run into other work. It is a burden that I will happily take on."
"When did you audition for this show?"
Pollack: "I met Tim in April. We were working on finalizing a contract for music direction for their other two summer shows. Shortly after we began rehearsals, he asked if I was interested in the role of Cathy Hiatt in L5Y. I knew of the show, but didn't know it well. I talked about it with some friends in the Durango area who were familiar with Jason Robert Brown's music and they told I Hhad to do it, that these shows don't come around often and that the role is coveted by actors."
"How did you get the part?"
Pollack: "I told Tim of my prior commitments to 'Beehive' and he was great about it. About a week later he called and said, 'what if I moved the dates of the production until you were done with your show?' I couldn't turn it down and really wanted to be a part of L5Y and what Tim and Laura have created in Pagosa."
"How'd you get your start?"
Pollack: "I really love theater and when I was young I loved singing and dancing and I was involved in a little bit of community theatre in my town growing up."
"How did you get to Colorado? What made you choose Fort Lewis College?"
Pollack: "I had some family here and I've always loved the climate. It's very, very different from Tulsa. I ultimately choose Fort Lewis when I learned of special scholarships available. I love it here. I'd love to stay in the area and be a part of what Thingamajig is creating. It's very encouraging for this area."
"What's your advice to actors?"
Pollack: "My advice is … I'm trying to think of something that's not like cheesy and everybody says. I try to embrace everything and be as multi-dimensional and varied as I can be in everything. Try to study. I try to read plays and try to keep up with the new writers and old writers and try to keep all of that in mind as I grow…so I'm not just completely out of my element. I'd also suggest not to be scared of challenging things and not to be afraid to fail. I'm kind of a hard on myself. I've learned to not be quiet and when I have questions to be vocal about them and not scared to ask. I'm not as scared to take risks and do things that are a little intimidating because some of the times when I've taken big risks, I've really been rewarded for them. At least at the end of the day I've been proud that I've taken those steps and grown a little bit."
"Why should people come see 'The Last Five Years'?"
Pollack: "Well, the music. The music is incredible and our four musicians are worthy of every bit the praise they receive. The story is beautiful and heart-breaking, but the music drives everything in this show, which is interesting. Usually in a musical the script and actors have their moment in the playwright's dialogue to offer the audience a different vehicle to drive the performance, but Jason Robert Brown's music is the backbone of the story, changing in tempos and meters to tell the story. That's not to say Tim and I don't have flexibility. As we've become more comfortable with the music, we've added a lot of our own personality into each song. But looking at the vocal score for the first time, yeah, that was intimidating to say the least."
"One last question. How's your time been in Pagosa Springs and at Thingamajig?"
Pollack: "I love it here. Just love it. Pagosa has a feel to it that most small towns don't. It's like the town is on the verge of something bigger, but secretly masquerading as a sleepy little resort town. I can see why folks move here. As for Thingamajig, Tim and Laura are incredible people. From my experience, professional theatre can be a 'job.' You audition; you may or may not get the part. The hours are long and the rehearsal times are incredibly tight and the pay isn't what you dreamed of watching all those big stars. But Tim and Laura have created something really different, a professional theatre 'family.' It's so inviting, even though the rehearsal times are still tight and the hours long, and they make you feel welcome and valuable from the minute you meet them. Often times working as an actor you're a "hired gun" and as soon as the show is over, so is the relationship and warm feelings, and it's back to the next audition. These two are doing things really different, in a way that values people and community over the long term. I know what they are doing isn't easy and sometimes overlooked. I wish them every bit of success and hope to be a part of it in the future."
"The Last Five Years" runs one final weekend, this Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts.
Show tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Tickets can be purchased online at www.pagosacenter.org or by calling 731-SHOW.


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Star Wars fans, rejoice: the Kinect SDK is making the future of your childhood a reality. If you've been following our coverage, you'll know some intrepid coders have already hacked Microsoft's Kinect sensor to capture and stream 3D holographic messages over the Internet and render lightsaber blades in real-time, but now German researcher Michael Zöllner is working on an open-source program that employs the Kinect sensor to capture your body and render it encased in carbonite. Check it out!
Even better, Zöllner seems to be developing a method whereby the program exports the 3D model data captured by the Kinect sensor in a format suitable for printing physical 3D models. If he manages to pull it off, you'll soon be capable of capturing yourself in digital carbonite, uploading that data to a 3D printing service like ShapeWays and printing your own custom carbonite conversation piece.
[Special thanks to the ever-amazing Boing Boing for spreading the word!]
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A new year brings hope of new beginnings and those always inspiring resolutions. Well, I don't actually like making resolutions because I always found that I break them. Instead I prefer to set goals for myself. (I'm sure it all seems like semantics but to me, it's actually easier to set goals that can be checked off throughout the year.)
For How I Met Your State (HIMYS), I am always talking about visiting places or doing things around Boston but have never actually kept a running list. Until now! The following is my resolutions or goals list for HIMYS 2012 edition.
Note: These are in no particular preference or priority order.
- Blue Ribbon
- Firefly
- Erbaluce
- Orinoco
- Regal Begal
- Giacomo's
- South End Buttery
- Bee Hive
- Silvertone
- The Capital Grille
- Harpoon or Sam Adams Brewery Tour
- Bunker Hill
- Visit Maine or Rhode Island
- Boston Public Library
- Marathon Monday
- Fall Foliage/Leaf Peeping
- Corn Maze
- Haunted Boston Bus Tour
- Celtics or Bruins Game
- Institute of Contemporary Art
Here's to another great year! What other places or restaurants would you recommend? Leave your recommendations in the comments section. And may your year be filled with adventure!


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They are the other photos from the night that ended Todd Carney's career.
They are of Carney, again hamming it up for the cameras, blissfully unaware he has literally pissed away the biggest contract ever handed to a Cronulla player.
They were taken by the staff at Shire nightspot Old Joe's and feature, among others, Mick Robinson, the man who took the picture which remains the talk of town.
Of course, they have not been circulated as widely as the one Robinson took at the urinal. The one which Perez Hilton headlined on his website: ''Australian Rugby Player Kicked Off His Team After A Photo Of Him Peeing Into His Own Mouth Is Leaked!''
That it is a joke which backfired badly is beyond question. There had been any number of warnings about Carney's increasingly erratic behaviour, all of which he chose to ignore. Like the fact the Sharks had chased another pivot, Benji Marshall, with much vigour in the belief it was only a matter of time before something like this would happen. There were cautions from well-meaning staff that several board members were ''off'' Carney and that he should be careful not give them an excuse to terminate his contract.
If ever there was a sign he was in denial, Carney – a man with a rap sheet as long as his arm – continued to party hard. Last November, he was advertised in local papers as the ''celebrity guest'' at a Liquorland store opening in Concord.
Whether the photo which undid him was a prank or not is a point of conjecture. Cronulla CEO Steve Noyce, when asked whether Carney had told him it was a set-up which didn't require him to drink his own urine, told Triple M: ''No, that's not what he said.'' When pressed on the matter, Noyce refused to ''get into the specifics''.
However, the man who took the photo was adamant. ''No, if you look closely at the original photo – I don't know what photos are out there now – you can see the wee goes past his mouth and hits the wall,'' said Robinson. ''He didn't actually put the urine in his mouth.''
Which raises the question – was the act was a one-off? Fairfax Media is aware of another vulgar act involving Carney several years ago which was also photographed. But unlike this one, it didn't end up on social media.
It's understood some of Carney's friends advised him to tell officials the latest stunt was an old photo, in the hope the explanation might save his career. The 28-year-old never entertained the thought, although the scar on his left cheek would have been a giveaway had he tried.
The first tweet of ''the bubbler'' was posted by @MarkRaider1, also known as Mark Miler, at 10:19pm last Saturday. He was the same person involved in a Twitter spat with another sacked Raider, Josh Dugan. By mid-morning Sunday, the picture had gone viral. There were reports of Carney's sacking well before the club's official press release at 6:27pm that night.
The Sharks acted swiftly. Too swiftly for the likes of Carney and his manager, who are appealing the process the club went through before terminating his contract.
The stunt has polarised the league community. While some have blasted Carney, others believe Robinson is the villain.
''I've been copping it every day but I don't care what people say about me, Todd's the one who is hurting. He's the one that's lost the career out of it,'' said Robinson, who claims the photo became public when he sent it to his brother, who lost his phone shortly afterwards.
''At the end of the day, we both made a mistake. He shouldn't have done it and I shouldn't have taken the photo. It's all been blown out of proportion. I spoke to him two days after it came out to clear the air. Todd was pretty pissed off, as you would be.''
Those close to Carney say he is engaging and respectful but, when drinking, can morph into a different person. Current and former teammates have been quick to leap to his defence.
''You can have a great conversation with him – he can mix with different groups, adults and children, and is great to be around,'' said suspended Cronulla coach Shane Flanagan. ''That's why all the players are disappointed with what's happened. He's their friend and teammate and they're disappointed because of that.''
After being sacked by three NRL clubs, it appears the premature end to a promising career. The Dally M Medalist is unlikely to be granted a visa to play in the English Super League, while it remains to be seen whether European rugby clubs will punt on a 28 year with a history, but not one in the 15-man game.
"I can't be responsible for everything he's done," Robinson said. "He needs to take some ownership as well."
Adrian Proszenko is the Chief Rugby League Reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald.


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As you can probably tell, the largest change from the previous version is a new design and layout. This is thanks to the awesome work of the design team. In addition to the new UI, there has been a fair amount of work in the architecture of the various UNR components. Apart from the users ( :) ), the largest beneficiaries of this are the launcher and window-picker-applet.
The launcher has been updated to use the latest version of Clutter, and benefits from the performance improvements that the Clutter 1.0 release carries. In addition to that, the launcher now has a framework for plugins, which allow extending the home screen and adding new categories on the left (and example is the Files & Folders category). There's not too much documentation at the moment, but I'll follow this post up in the coming weeks with some examples.
Window Picker Applet has had a major overhaul thanks to Jason Smith of Docky fame. In addition to making the code more sane, he's transformed the look and feel of the applet and fixed a bunch of annoying bugs. Coupled with the new Gtk and icon theme (Dust and Humanity), Jason's work makes the panel look much, much nicer than before:
In addition to these bits, there are a couple of things I'd like to highlight:
UNR Karmic contains both the excellent Messaging and Session Indicators. The message indicator allows you to quickly see how many unread emails/IM messages/Twitter replies you have. The session indicator allows you to easily set your IM presence and also lets you switch users (if you hardware supports it) and log out easily.
We've also got the very latest Notify OSD and the Ubuntu Software Store, for a nice and easy way to expand your netbook's usefulness :).
That's it for now, you can grab the latest UNR image from the daily builds here, and I've posted links to a few more screenshots below.


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Today I'll be spending some time in my Lincoln class talking about the Ann Rutledge controversy. People tend to take biographical information for granted, as if all the facts we think we know about famous historical figures have just always "been there." The Ann Rutledge case is a handy way to show students that historical information is constructed and contested, dependent on the evidence researchers are able to uncover and how they interpret it.
Ann Rutledge died in 1835, when photography was still in its infancy. That means I've got to rely on later, imaginative reconstructions when it comes to my PowerPoint slides. But while I was browsing around the Interwebs yesterday, I stumbled across a picture I'd never seen before, with an interesting typewritten caption attached.
This photo is part of the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana at the Library of Congress; Stern acquired over 11,000 Lincoln items before turning his material over to the LoC in 1953.
In his book on the Ann Rutledge case, John Evangelist Walsh identifies James McGrady Rutledge as Ann's favorite cousin. He was one of the family members who claimed that Ann and Lincoln were formally engaged.
I haven't found any other information on "Miss Minnie Harms," but that photograph might be as close as we can get to knowing what Ann really looked like.


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Arctic Adventurer: We Feel Fine
November 13, 2009
Photos of Iqaluit cemetery taken October 2002; Uploaded to Flickr, Trawled by wefeelfine, Linked to wordpress, wefeelfine.org
American artist, Jonathan Harris describes his work on his website:
"I make (mostly) online projects that reimagine how we relate to our machines and to each other. I use computer science, statistics, storytelling, and visual art as tools. I believe in technology, but I think we need to make it more human. I believe that the Internet is becoming a planetary meta-organism, but that it is up to us to guide its evolution, and to shape it into a space we actually want to inhabit—one that can understand and honor both the individual human and the human collective, just like real life does (Harris)."
"Sep Kamvar is a consulting professor of Computational Mathematics at Stanford University. His research focuses on data mining and information retrieval in large-scale networks. He also is interested in using large amounts of data and accessible media in the study of human nature through art. [Among his other areas of interest he includes] probabilistic models for classification where there is little labeled data (Sep Kamvar's blog profile)."
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Nonlinearity: "At the beginning of Chapter 5 in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Billy Pilgrim finds himself in jail on the planet of Tralfamadore. Billys captors give him some Tralfamadorian books to pass the time, and while Billy can't read Tralfamadorian, he does notice that the books are laid out in brief clumps of text, separated by stars. "Each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent message — discribing a situation, a scene," explained one of his captors. "We Tralfamadorians read them all at once, not one after the other. There isn't any relationship between all the mssages, except that the author has chosen then carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time." Harris and Kamvar aimed to write Almanac of Human Emotions in the telegraphic, schizophrenic manner of tales from Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers are."
Open Platforms: "The power of open platforms in enabling the easy generation of consumable content has been demonstrated repeatedly on the internet, not only with the web itself, but also with sub-platforms like Facebook, Flickr, Google Gadgets, among others. I am interested in platforms that easily enable high-quality content creation for developers and provide a straightforward content consumption and navigation experience for users."
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Woohoo! I am all packed and ready to head into warmer climates. I can not tell you how sick and tired I am of snowshoe running every day. SICK. AND. TIRED. My feet are sore across the tops again from the straps, I am bundled up in multiple layers, I am putting booties on Topaz each day. SICK. AND. TIRED.
I'm looking forward to the Farmers Market, full of fresh veggies and fruit. The fresh shrimp, lobster and crab legs. Laying in the sun on the beach, the surf pounding in my ears, the smell of salt heavy in the air. Laying at the pool while reading my many books, sitting in the hot tub in the hot bright sunshine. RUNNING in shorts and a jog bra without snowshoes each morning and again in the evening because I can not get enough of running in the 90F wonderfully humid air.
Oh, yeah, Padre Island..here I come :)


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by Alicia Cameron
Months have passed since Jere and Wren first came to peace with their new life together in the slave state of Hojer. Jere's clinic has succeeded perhaps too well, leaving both men exhausted and stressed. When Jere goes looking for a new slave to help with the business, Wren objects vehemently. He doesn't want to risk the exposure of their secret relationship, much less the forbidden gift he's only just learning to control. || Worse yet, the new girl, Isis, is nothing but trouble. Battered, broken, and rebellious, she won't even let Jere heal the most basic wounds left from years of abuse by her previous masters. When Isis lands them all in legal trouble, Jere can no longer afford to ignore the realities of being in a slave state. The three of them will have to work together to fight back. Can Jere confront his public role as a master and still be the submissive partner Wren loves so dearly? (M/M)


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The short version is, the 49ers have overcome some early mistakes to take a 17-3 halftime lead over the Patriots, and will get the ball to start the second half.
The long version will be longer than Ed Hochuli's attempt to explain a second quarter Patriots punt that may or may not have been touched by Ted Ginn Jr., but stayed with the 49ers after a lengthy review that managed to make both head coaches incredibly upset.
The illegally touched punt could end up being a frustrating footnote for the locals, because the 49ers are controlling game so far, outgaining the Pats 249-113, with a whopping 142 yards on the ground.
The way the 49ers defense has held Tom Brady in check has been admirable, particularly keeping Wes Welker out of the box score.
If the 49ers can build on this lead, Hochuli may escape further criticism (not likely).


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Be enrolled at least half-time in an accredited institution and recommended by a school official.
Be at least 16 years old. (In some cases the age requirement may differ.)
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The prospective student must meet all 5 of the established requirements listed above in order to be considered for an internship.
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