UTEP Miners fall in overtime
UTEP forward Victor Ramalho (50) blocks out Tulsa forward Calvin Walls (4) in the lane in the first half of the Conference USA men’s basketball tournament semifinal at the FedEx Forum, in Memphis, Tenn., Friday, March 14, 2008. Tulsa won 64-62 in overtime. (AP photo)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — UTEP had two problems. One, the Miners were playing uphill all evening. Two, no matter which way they went, there was a lid on their bucket.
Not really, of course. But it seemed so.
UTEP led 2-0 and then began looking uphill as Tulsa tore away to a 14-2 lead. The Miners played catchup the rest of the way, trailing 33-21 at the intermission, trailing 41-30 with 15 minutes to play, trailing 44-37 with 10 minutes to go.
But the Miners continued to chase, always chasing and climbing and despite never getting another lead, despite shooting percentages from the Arctic, they got into overtime.
In the end, though, it was too much … simply too much.
Tulsa played hard, played well, fought off last-minute nerves and survived in this month of survival, edging UTEP 64-62 in overtime Friday night in the semifinals of the Conference USA tournament at the FedExForum. Tulsa now will play Memphis this morning on CBS for the tournament championship, for the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
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Sigh. I don’t know why I keep having to do this…The dollar will rebound. Currencies move over long periods of time… so the EURUSD may be at 1.55 now, but 10 years from now, some type of financial trouble will hit the Euro Zone, some type of innovation will hit the US, and it will be parity again. And then 10 years from then, some sort of financial trouble will hit the US, so on and so forth ad infinium.If you want to invest in Euros or commodities, go ahead (even though the US Dollar is way, WAY oversold by now), but those are bets, and if you really want to protect your wealth, there is nothing wrong with keeping your dollars.
Nice explanation. To add, photographers have been using various techniques to accomplish this goal from the beginning by using filters and dodging and burning areas of a print.For example a photographer wants to capture a landscape with a dramatic cloud-filled sky. When he goes to make his print, the correct exposure for the land will leave the sky looking boring and underexposed; not at all like he remembers. So he shields the land portion from the light and just increases the exposure time for the sky portion, which darkens the clouds and reveals the detail that was hidden there in the dense emulsion on the negative.
Yes that was my thought exactly, I can’t stand those HDR nightmares we usually see here. They all just look like a chimp was playing in PShop. This is a decent image though, nicely done.
Slow shutter speed. It’s true that it doesn’t look quite like that to the naked eye, but human perception of moving objects is probably impossible to capture in a static image.
Every time they reduce the interest repayment rates in the Central Bank or Federal Reserve, they just encourage more “borrowing” from the private banks. When you “borrow” money from a bank, that money is created new and so causes the money-supply to be inflated, and the amount of fiat money in existence to increase. Because there is more fiat money in existence, it loses its worth and is devalued against other fiat currencies and against sound money like gold that cannot be artificially increased ad infinitum like fiat monies.All new money is introduced by the private banks as debt, that are supplied new money as a single fiat currency by the Central Bank that is backed by the IMF that creates new debt-money “out of thin air”.This situation continues to centralize wealth in the hands that receive and profit from newly created money first - the large private banks and their big corporations that have very low cost loans.
That’s close to the goal of an HDR image — to capture things as you actually perceive them. Our eyes (and brain) are really good at handling a huge range of light intensity. For example, if you have a light with more than one light bulb, try deactivating one or more of them. You’ll see almost as well with one as you will with four. But with a camera, you’d have to work four times as hard to get a good photo (by changing aperture, exposure, sensitivity, etc.) It can easily be the difference of a reasonable indoor shot and hopelessly noisy shadow.Now consider that the difference between high noon and dusk (or, in the photo, between the sun, its reflections, and shadows in the rocks) and can be well over a factor of a hundred or a thousand, and still seem pretty reasonable to human eyes, and you can imagine why conventional single-exposure photography has trouble capturing the scene as you would perceive it in person.
Yes, this is the problem with Central Banking using a fiat monetary-system based on issuing and supplying all new money as debt.It is very constrained and always eventually leads to the same problem.
Gold (GLD). I’ve been making money while the rest of the US loses. I’ve got friends in cash and I’ve been watching their purchasing power go down the tubes.
It’s time to cut housing prices and by proxy mortgage notes back to proportions to wages.I’m not really excited about $10 per gallon milk so the bank can hold my neighbor’s property at $750,000, with fewer and fewer prospects of ever buying.The banks need to strap some on and take their lumps.
It probably means a lot less to those who have or earn few dollars, or owe lots of dollars. Who cares anyway –The Fed is a private bank! The US could start using Euros anytime. What do you really have at stake in dollars?
I was thinking the same thing, and wondering how they would get the same image at different exposure levels.
Finally, an HDR photo that doesn’t look absolutely ridiculous with those zany hyper-realistic colors. This is the first HDR photo that I have ever upvoted on Reddit.According to the picture's write up it won a Flickr contest.