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Sometimes the fans will wrestle in the streets, but for us, we are very diligent in making this happen. I would say in the very near future, we'll have a game after the hiatus, and we'll have a series in place. —BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe
SALT LAKE CITY — University of Utah athletics director Chris Hill caused quite a stir last summer when he announced that his school's rivalry game against BYU would not be played in 2014 and 2015, interrupting a football series that has been staged every year since 1946.
While the Utes and Cougars are scheduled to play on Sept. 21 in Provo and on Sept. 10, 2016 in Salt Lake City, the future of the series has been in question for a while.
Hill created another stir Tuesday when he announced, via YouTube, that Utah is in the process of scheduling a new series with BYU, starting in 2017, that includes a November game in 2018 — pending Pac-12 approval.
"It seems that wherever I go during the summer, our fans and the BYU fans are interested in when we're going to play BYU in the future and where it's going to unfold," Hill said on YouTube. "I can assure you that (BYU athletic director) Tom Holmoe and I have had many discussions and we're very close to signing a contract. It looks like in 2017 we'll be playing in the early part of September, and in an unusual situation in 2018, we'll be playing the last game of the year. This is an opportunity for us to help the league by making sure that nobody has to play 12 games in a row. ... That gives us an opportunity to play BYU at the end of the year. We'll get a final approval from the league in early August, and then we'll make a formal announcement, if not sooner."
Hill later told the Deseret News that "we haven't signed (a contract with BYU) yet, but we will sign it, hopefully soon. It still has to be approved by the Pac-12, but that's not going to be an issue.''
Holmoe was not available to comment on Hill's announcement Tuesday. However, during BYU's media day June 26, Holmoe hinted that news about the rivalry game could be imminent.
"The break (in the series) will be two years. Then I feel very secure that we'll have a game," Holmoe said. "This relationship with Utah behind the scenes is really good. Sometimes the fans will wrestle in the streets, but for us, we are very diligent in making this happen. I would say in the very near future, we'll have a game after the hiatus, and we'll have a series in place."
Holmoe also said that day that the Pac-12's policy prohibiting the scheduling of nonconference games in November is changing.
"There are some things that are unfolding with conferences and traditional games," Holmoe said. "We've been fortunate enough, working with ESPN and the Pac-12 Conference, to try to make this kind of a symbiotic relationship, where it works for us, and it works for them. We're working with the Pac-12 right now on some other possible games that hopefully we can announce down the road."
During BYU's media day, Holmoe announced that the Cougars will play a three-game series with USC — also a member of the Pac-12 — in 2019, 2021 and 2023, which features two contests in November.
Hill told the Deseret News that BYU also has an upcoming series with another Pac-12 foe, Stanford, beginning in 2020, though that's not something that BYU has announced or confirmed.
When asked about the Pac-12's policy change, Hill said that the league has a "Notre Dame exception" for USC and Stanford to play later in the year.
In 13-week college football seasons, some teams would be forced to play 12 straight weeks without a bye, so the Pac-12 will allow other teams to play a late nonconference game so they could get a bye earlier in the season.
In normal 14-week seasons, it isn't an issue, Hill explained, because there are two possible bye weeks. Playing BYU later "assures us of not having to play 12 straight weeks," Hill added.
As for the 2017 game in Provo, Hill said there are two possible weekends to play, but he's "waiting for BYU to tell me which day would work best.''
Hill added that playing BYU in the future has "always been our full intention. All of us understand the importance of the Utah-BYU game for many, many reasons. We're moving forward. We want people to understand we're moving in the right direction for everybody.''
Why did Hill decide to make Tuesday's big announcement on YouTube?
"People have asked and we thought we'd get the word out," Hill said. "We thought this would be a different way to get something out. That's all. We like to do it in a lot of different ways.''


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GROK2 gets new cameras.
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GROK2 gets new cameras.
A brief guide to using the Minoru stereo webcam.
It seems to me that this device might be quite useful for robot projects. It wasn't very long ago that such as device would cost a couple of thousand dollars or more.
In addition to the feature based stereo I may also try implementing a dense stereo algorithm. My thoughts on using this as a replacement for the cameras on GROK2 are that the baseline is probably a little on the short side, but that it probably would work.
This weekend I've been experimenting with the Minoru stereo webcam, which I think could turn out to be very useful for robotics purposes.
You can find my review here:
At the moment I'm still undecided as to whether I'll use the Minoru to replace the existing cameras on GROK2. I've ordered some wide angle lenses which I'll try using. If the new lenses fit then this device might be ideal.
Have done more testing this weekend and fixed some important bugs. It transpired that there was still a "glitch" issue with the direction of one of the encoders reversing seemingly at random, but I've managed to work around that. Also the motion control and joystick servers are now talking together as they should.
I need to write a new utility program which will allow me to visualise the occupancy grids after doing an initial joystick guided training run. This should allow me to check that things look as I expect them to.
I've also ordered one of the Minoru 3D webcams. Apparently these are UVC compliant and will work on Linux. If I can get a pair of images out of the device this would make an excellent replacement for the existing stereo cameras, whilst also solving my V4L1 issues. However, even if the Minoru does look like a usable stereo camera I'll need to assess image quality and field of view compared to the existing cameras which I'm using.
Wheel odometry is now calibrated, and repeatability looks good over short distances, such that the rate of increase in pose uncertainty should be unmanageably small.
I'm getting closer to having a working robot, although there has been a recent setback in that the new version of Ubuntu (9.04) doesn't seem to support the webcams which I'm using. This is odd, because they worked without a hitch in previous versions. A simple solution would be to downgrade the OS, although I'm reluctant to do that. I suspect that there has been some change in the kernel, perhaps related to gspca and V4L1 devices.
As a workaround I've continued development on Windows. This is ok, because the Windows version has not received too much attention and so was lagging behind in some features. My current strategy is to ensure that the robot's software works both on Windows and on Linux in order to maximise the possible range of use cases.
There's some extra work to be done on path integration, and no doubt there will be additional bugs to fix once I start testing on the robot in earnest (as opposed to simulation/unit testing). Both stereo cameras are working and calibrated, and are returning reasonable stereo features. The camera images seem to suffer from occasional glitches, and this might be something to do with their age (most of them were bought 4 years ago) or more likely it could be electrical interference with the USB cables from nearby pan and tilt servos. Either way, the glitches are not sufficiently serious to cause major concern at this point.
I now have both of the stereo cameras calibrated, and am fairly confident that I'm getting good quality disparities, which should at least suffice for navigation purposes. I wrote an extra program which allows me to visualise the stereo disparity and manually alter calibration parameters to observe the effects. Hence, if there are problems I can check the camera calibration more thoroughly than was possible previously.
The next step is to do integration testing with all of the systems running - stereo vision server, motion control server, servo control server, steersman and ultrasonics server. With luck I should be able to create some real maps soon.
One of the problems with 3D occupancy grids, is that they can occupy a lot of storage space in terms of memory or disk storage. Imagine a space the size of an average house turned into small 1cm cubes, and that's quite a lot of cubes to keep track of.
Much of the space inside homes is actually empty, or rather filled with air, but from the robot's point of view knowing about probably empty space is just as important (maybe even more important!) than knowing about what is occupied, and thereby a potential obstacle. Some savings can be made by not storing information about terra incognita - areas of the map which have so far not been explored, but assuming that we want the robot to have a good understanding of an entire house this still leaves us with quite a heap of data.
At this point the unimaginative can simply appeal to Gordon Moore and his famous "law". The capacity of storage devices, such as hard disk drives, is always increasing and it does look as if even the smallest storage devices around today would be able to handle the number of cubes that we would like to deal with. Even though this is the case loading from and saving to the storage device is still going to be relatively slow, and the robot needs to be able to access the data more or less in real time if it's going to be useful. We could also be lazy and just load the whole lot into a large amount of RAM, but ideally it would be good if low cost devices could be used, such as netbooks, which only have modest memory and local storage capacity. This would help robotics to continue becoming more economical and therefore marketable.
So what to do? Since the occupancy data in this case is being produced from stereo vision a way to get better storage economy might be to only store a random sample of the stereo disparities observed from a dense disparity image. If we know the location and pose from which the observation was originally made, based upon the results of SLAM, then a local 3D occupancy grid can be regenerated dynamically from a fairly small amount of data as the robot moves around the house. This means that storage access times are going to be much shorter, and potentially a lot of stereo disparity data could be buffered in memory.
Some back an envelope calculations go as follows:
If we randomly sample 300 stereo disparities from a dense disparity image, and represent the image coordinates and disparity as floating point values (sub-pixel accuracy), this translates into
300 stereo features x 3 values (x,y,disparity) x 4 bytes per value
= 3600 bytes per observation, or 3.5K
If we also want to store colour information, so that coloured 3D occupancy grids can be produced this increases to 4500 bytes or 4.4K. There is also the robot's pose information to store, but this is only a small number of bytes, so doesn't make a big overall difference. This seems quite tractable. Potentially the robot could make several thousand observations as it maps the house, and this only translates into a few tens of megabytes which is well within the limitations of what a netbook could handle. Even if the number of observations rises into the tens of thousands this still looks feasible.
Just spotted a couple of major bugs in the occupancy grid mapping ray throwing routine. They were real howlers!
Still, they've only been there for the last five years.
Ah, the importance of having users...
First successful following of a pre-recorded path. This is just open loop at the moment, since there is no integration with the visual odometry.
I added some user friendly audio messages, such as "The journey begins", "I am pausing" and "I am resuming my journey".
Squashed another odometry bug. It turns out that there appears to be an occasional momentary glitch in the values coming from the phidgets high speed encoders, whereby the sign of the encoder count flips from positive to negative or vice versa. This isn't a rollover of the accumulated count, and I think it's most likely due to EM interference from the motors, since it's not at all repeatable.
Fortunately there is a simple fix for this by having the software look for isolated sign inversions.
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Ozone Strike Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
Our friends at Ozone are back again, this time with a new mechanical keyboard. For those of you who know a little bit about keyboards, this one comes with your Cherry Black switches. For those of you who are a little less familiar with this terminology, cherry black switches are linear (non-tactile) switches and are considered one of the best types for gaming. The idea is to give you a smooth feel and provide the exact same release position in every key. Games with a lot of double tapping become easier and if you tend to hit the wrong key often, these are beneficial to you since they require a little more force to get that same key press. A lot of people don't like the linear nature of Cherry Blacks, but mechanical keyboards already come down to a personal choice. If you are fan of Cherry Blacks, the Ozone Strike might just be for you.
If you didn't know and you haven't looked at any products from Ozone before, I feel it's important for you to know that all their products are designed by actual gamers. They only produce gaming accessories and all of them are designed and tested by actual champions. They also sell internationally to several different countries, so if you aren't of the ole USA and Canada region, Ozone has you covered. Today we take a look at their newest mechanical keyboard, the Ozone Stirke. Let's take a peak and see how performs.
Closer Look:
Right out of the shipping box the keyboard seems HUGE. The box is quite a bit larger than the keyboard itself and starts to make you panic whether or not it will even fit on your desk. Don't fear, they had to pack that palm-rest in there somehow without it getting beat up, everything is going to be okay. The front of the box shows an actual picture of the keyboard and brags up a few of its key features, such as 1000 Hz polling rate, 2 USB hubs, audio mic ports, and a 50,000,000 keystroke lifecycle. A sticker on the box also confirms you've got the right layout since they have multiple options for different areas of the world. The back of the box goes with the usual multi-lingual brief specs and a few pictures to get you interested.
Opening up the box you'll find a keyboard inside, WOW! Who would have guessed? But seriously, the keyboard is in there nice and snug with a separate compartment for the armrest and another to wind up the cable. A quick start manual is included, but with the PS/2 option there is no need for drivers. This is already shaping up to be a good find. Throwing all the cardboard aside, the cable is revealed. For me this is a bit of a shocker as it's the biggest keyboard cable I have ever seen. The braiding keeps all the cables for the mic, headset, and two USB ports all together in one neat little bundle rather than a bunch of separate cables. However, it is rather stiff and doesn't really want to unbend itself, which will be interesting to try and rout behind my monitor. Despite the audio and USB ports, I'm not quite sure of the need for such a large cable, as I know the Razer Lycosa has a similar set up without a cable of this size.
Moving on, it's out of the box and I've found some additional key caps. They've included red WASD keys and an easy remove tool. I like the subtle red of the letters rather than the full red keys, which is different than most I've seen and it gives me replacement options if I'm gaming a bit too hard. You can see the palm-rest is shipped separately, but it is held on with a couple of clips.
The palm-rest pops on alright and almost feels as if you are about to break it when putting it on the first time. But it is quite a bit stronger than it looks, give it a little push and it'll be on there just fine. At this point you'll also notice that it somewhat rotates with the curvature of the keyboard edge, so if your desk isn't perfectly flat it will accommodate for you. Back to the additional WASD keys, popping them off isn't too hard at all with the nifty little tool they sent along, my only fear is when I lose it. Either way, you can get a nice look at the top half of the switch under there. You can also see it's not very difficult to figure out how to put the keys back on, by using some common sense. I think you can handle it.
After completely swapping out the WASD keys, I thought it looked pretty nice. If you were introducing someone to gaming you could just tell them to use the red keys, but beyond that I think they just look awesome. They remind everyone you are a bit of a gamer at heart and also go well with the accented media keys above. The red theme is brought about in the spilled blood kind of look and can be found up above the numerical keys as well as the palm-rest. "Strike" is written out so you can always tell people what keys you are using and the indicator lights light up red too!
A close up of the media keys reveals that the most important ones for music are located on F5-F8 and the volume keys are on F1-F3. I wish these would have been swapped since I like to change songs more than I like to change volume. The reach from the Ozone key to the F5 range is a bit of a stretch for me. But it's not a major downfall, I'm just happy to have media keys. Speaking of that Ozone key down there on the left, it's not just a shift key that toggles on and off, it actually completely replaces your left windows key. So make sure you realize this or when you hit it and the Windows start menu doesn't pop up, it's okay, you've still got the right Windows key.
Flipping it over you can catch a glimpse of how the palm-rest attaches to the keyboard. It really is as simple as clicking it in. It also won't be falling out as it's kinda locked in there until you pinch to two clips together to get it back out. The keyboard itself has four long rubber strips that keep you from sliding about during a really intense battle, even the palm-rest has some rubber pads. The upper portion has height adjustments for those of you who like using them, but for me, I keep it low.
I've mentioned to you the USB ports and audio jacks a few times now but that doesn't really tell you a whole lot other than that they exist. So I shot a picture to show you instead of just rambling on and on. It looks pretty nice, they are well labeled so you can get things plugged in correctly and being just at the top edge of the board above your number pad, they aren't too hard to access. Another shot of the cable as it splits back up for you to plug in and you realize again just how thick this cable really is.
Overall it looks like one pretty sexy keyboard. I'm ready to test it out and see how it competes. It will be my first cherry black so we'll see if I'm ready for it or not. We are at least half way to gold with a nice looking set of keys.


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The November 2009 Daring Bakers Challenge was chosen and hosted by Lisa Michele of Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drives. She chose the Italian Pastry, Cannolo (Cannoli is plural), using the cookbooks Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and The Sopranos Family Cookbook by Allen Rucker; recipes by Michelle Scicolone, as ingredient/direction guides. She added her own modifications/changes, so the recipe is not 100% verbatim from either book.
I was really excited about this challenge because I've heard about cannolis in the comedy sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, showcasing an Italian family and the relationship between its members!! I knew it had to be something amazing from Raymond's extreme excitement over the cannolis made by his mom!!! I managed to attempt this challenge earlier on than usual since I was alone here in the US since my family is still on a trip to India.
The dough was a breeze to prepare and it came together very well for me with the given recipe. I used Marsala cooking wine to make the dough. I made the dough with the food processor and then proceeded to knead it for a couple of minutes. I was thinking of leaving the dough overnight in the fridge but my curiosity got the better of me, and I decided to fry a couple of pieces of rolled dough just to see how it will turn out (after chilling the dough for an hour in the fridge).
My first trial was an utter failure, well maybe not that big of a failure (it was not that bad, and it was just a bit of trial dough!).... The dough puffed up completely even after docking. The fried pieces kind of felt oily to me. So I knew from the forum discussions that it could be because the oil temperature was not up to the required level.
So the next day I rolled the dough quite thin (I mean very very thin- this is key!!!!) and cut out rectangles and then rolled them even thinner, until it was almost transparent ( thanks to whoever mentioned the strudel thinness in the forum)!! The oil was also heated to a higher temperature. As soon as I dropped the pieces in, I could see them starting to show great texture on the surface with lots of bubbling. The dough pieces didnt have to be in the oil for too long, I guess they had to be flipped over and taken out of the oil in around a minute or so. This, on cooling yielded light-golden colored, beautiful looking cannolipoleons. From my experience, the temperature and the thickness of the pieces are the things to pay attention to.
I decided to do a filling of mascarpone cheese as I had some which I hadnt used for some time. I just whipped the mascarpone cheese with honey and sugar and a bit of milk until soft enough to be piped. The filling was piped only on the edges with a plain round tip so as to give a beautiful stacked finish. The top most piece was decorated with melted chocolate and chopped pistachios and allowed to set. The presentation was finished off with a few raspberries.
I loved the fried dough pieces on their own when they were fried at the proper temperature. The Marsala wine gives the dough an unexplainable taste which is amazing!! I should say that the taste for mascarpone cheese is an acquired one and I realised once again that I am not a big fan of mascarpone. But the cannolipoleons were amazing and I can see why people rave about them. I am sure with a filling of cream cheese or butter cream or even whipped cream I would go crazy about these.. But to tell you the truth, I polished off the pictured cannolipoleons in one go!!! Since my family was away, I took the pictures with my cell phone, so the pictures might not be of great quality.... Next time I would like to try the cannolis with the cannoli-forms to experience it fully!!!
I sure had fun with this challenge and am satisfied with my attempt. Thank you so much Lisa, for this wonderful challenge...
2 cups (250 grams/8.82 ounces) all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons(28 grams/1 ounce) sugar
1 teaspoon (5 grams/0.06 ounces) unsweetened baking cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon (1.15 grams/0.04 ounces) ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon (approx. 3 grams/0.11 ounces) salt
3 tablespoons (42 grams/1.5 ounces) vegetable or olive oil
1 teaspoon (5 grams/0.18 ounces) white wine vinegar
Approximately 1/2 cup (approx. 59 grams/approx. 4 fluid ounces/approx. 125 ml) sweet Marsala or any white or red wine you have on hand
1 large egg, separated (you will need the egg white but not the yolk)
Vegetable or any neutral oil for frying – about 2 quarts (8 cups/approx. 2 litres)
1/2 cup (approx. 62 grams/2 ounces) toasted, chopped pistachio nuts, mini chocolate chips/grated chocolate and/or candied or plain zests, fruits etc.. for garnish
Confectioners' sugar
Note - If you want a chocolate cannoli dough, substitute a few tablespoons of the flour (about 25%) with a few tablespoons of dark, unsweetened cocoa powder (Dutch process) and a little more wine until you have a workable dough (Thanks to Audax).
2 lbs (approx. 3.5 cups/approx. 1 kg/32 ounces) ricotta cheese, drained
1 2/3 cups cup (160 grams/6 ounces) confectioner's sugar, (more or less, depending on how sweet you want it), sifted
1/2 teaspoon (1.15 grams/0.04 ounces) ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon (4 grams/0.15 ounces) pure vanilla extract or the beans from one vanilla bean
3 tablespoons (approx. 28 grams/approx. 1 ounce) finely chopped good quality chocolate of your choice
2 tablespoons (12 grams/0.42 ounces) of finely chopped, candied orange peel, or the grated zest of one small to medium orange
3 tablespoons (23 grams/0.81 ounce) toasted, finely chopped pistachios
Note - If you want chocolate ricotta filling, add a few tablespoons of dark, unsweetened cocoa powder to the above recipe, and thin it out with a few drops of warm water if too thick to pipe.
1. In the bowl of an electric stand mixer or food processor, combine the flour, sugar, cocoa, cinnamon, and salt. Stir in the oil, vinegar, and enough of the wine to make a soft dough. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and well blended, about 2 minutes. Shape the dough into a ball. Cover with plastic wrap and let rest in the fridge from 2 hours to overnight.
2 Cut the dough into two pieces. Keep the remaining dough covered while you work. Lightly flour a large cutting or pastry board and roll the dough until super thin, about 1/16 to 1/8" thick (An area of about 13 inches by 18 inches should give you that). Cut out 3 to 5-inch circles (3-inch – small/medium; 4-inch – medium/large; 5-inch;- large. Your choice). Roll the cut out circle into an oval, rolling it larger and thinner if it's shrunk a little.
3 Oil the outside of the cannoli tubes (You only have to do this once, as the oil from the deep fry will keep them well, uhh, oiled..lol). Roll a dough oval from the long side (If square, position like a diamond, and place tube/form on the corner closest to you, then roll) around each tube/form and dab a little egg white on the dough where the edges overlap. (Avoid getting egg white on the tube, or the pastry will stick to it.) Press well to seal. Set aside to let the egg white seal dry a little.
4. In a deep heavy saucepan, pour enough oil to reach a depth of 3 inches, or if using an electric deep-fryer, follow the manufacturer's directions. Heat the oil to 375°F (190 °C) on a deep fry thermometer, or until a small piece of the dough or bread cube placed in the oil sizzles and browns in 1 minute. Have ready a tray or sheet pan lined with paper towels or paper bags.
5. Carefully lower a few of the cannoli tubes into the hot oil. Do not crowd the pan. Fry the shells until golden, about 2 minutes, turning them so that they brown evenly.
8. Lift a cannoli tube with a wire skimmer or large slotted spoon, out of the oil. Using tongs, grasp the cannoli tube at one end. Very carefully remove the cannoli tube with the open sides straight up and down so that the oil flows back into the pan. Place the tube on paper towels or bags to drain. Repeat with the remaining tubes. While they are still hot, grasp the tubes with a potholder and pull the cannoli shells off the tubes with a pair of tongs, or with your hand protected by an oven mitt or towel. Let the shells cool completely on the paper towels. Place shells on cooling rack until ready to fill.
9. Repeat making and frying the shells with the remaining dough. If you are reusing the cannoli tubes, let them cool before wrapping them in the dough.
Pasta Machine method:
1. Divide the dough into 4 equal pieces. Starting at the middle setting, run one of the pieces of dough through the rollers of a pasta machine. Lightly dust the dough with flour as needed to keep it from sticking. Pass the dough through the machine repeatedly, until you reach the highest or second highest setting. The dough should be about 4 inches wide and thin enough to see your hand through
2. Continue rolling out the remaining dough. If you do not have enough cannoli tubes for all of the dough, lay the pieces of dough on sheets of plastic wrap and keep them covered until you are ready to use them.
3, Roll, cut out and fry the cannoli shells as according to the directions above.
For stacked cannoli:
1. Heat 2-inches of oil in a saucepan or deep sauté pan, to 350-375°F (176 - 190 °C).
2. Cut out desired shapes with cutters or a sharp knife. Deep fry until golden brown and blistered on each side, about 1 – 2 minutes. Remove from oil with wire skimmer or large slotted spoon, then place on paper towels or bags until dry and grease free. If they balloon up in the hot oil, dock them lightly prior to frying. Place on cooling rack until ready to stack with filling.
1. Line a strainer with cheesecloth. Place the ricotta in the strainer over a bowl, and cover with plastic wrap and a towel. Weight it down with a heavy can, and let the ricotta drain in the refrigerator for several hours to overnight.
2. In a bowl with electric mixer, beat ricotta until smooth and creamy. Beat in confectioner's sugar, cinnamon, vanilla and blend until smooth. Transfer to another bowl and stir in chocolate, zest and nuts. Chill until firm.(The filling can be made up to 24 hours prior to filling the shells. Just cover and keep refrigerated).
1. When ready to serve..fill a pastry bag fitted with a 1/2-inch plain or star tip, or a ziplock bag, with the ricotta cream. If using a ziplock bag, cut about 1/2 inch off one corner. Insert the tip in the cannoli shell and squeeze gently until the shell is half filled. Turn the shell and fill the other side. You can also use a teaspoon to do this, although it's messier and will take longer.
2. Press or dip cannoli in chopped pistachios, grated chocolate/mini chocolate chips, candied fruit or zest into the cream at each end. Dust with confectioner's sugar and/or drizzles of melted chocolate if desired.
1/2 cup (123 grams/4.34 ounces) ricotta cheese, drained
1/2 cup (113 grams/4.04 ounces) mascarpone cheese
1/2 cup (122.5 grams/4.32 ounces) canned pumpkin, drained like ricotta
3/4 cup (75 grams/2.65 ounces) confectioner's sugar, sifted
1/2 to 1 teaspoon (approx. 1.7 grams/approx. 0.06 ounces) pumpkin pie spice (taste)
1/2 teaspoon (approx. 2 grams/approx. 0.08 ounces) pure vanilla extract
6-8 cannoli shells
1. In a bowl with electric mixer, beat ricotta and mascarpone until smooth and creamy. Beat in confectioner's sugar, pumpkin, pumpkin pie spice, vanilla and blend until smooth. Transfer to another bowl, cover and chill until it firms up a bit. (The filling can be made up to 24 hours prior to filling the shells. Just cover and keep refrigerated).
2. Fill the shells as directed above. I dipped the ends of the shells in caramelized sugar and rolled them in toasted, chopped pecans.
- Dough must be stiff and well kneaded
- Rolling the dough to paper thinness, using either a rolling pin or pasta machine, is very important. If the dough is not rolled thin enough, it will not blister, and good cannoli should have a blistered surface.
- Initially, this dough is VERY stubborn, but keep rolling, it eventually gives in. Before cutting the shapes, let the dough rest a bit, covered, as it tends to spring back into a smaller shapes once cut. Then again, you can also roll circles larger after they're cut, and/or into ovals, which gives you more space for filling.
- Your basic set of round cutters usually doesn't contain a 5-inch cutter. Try a plastic container top, bowl etc, or just roll each circle to 5 inches. There will always be something in your kitchen that's round and 5-inches if you want large cannoli.
- Oil should be at least 3 inches deep and hot – 360°F-375°F, or you'll end up with greasy shells. I prefer 350°F - 360°F because I felt the shells darkened too quickly at 375°F.
- If using the cannoli forms, when you drop the dough on the form into the oil, they tend to sink to the bottom, resulting in one side darkening more. Use a slotted spoon or skimmer to gently lift and roll them while frying.
- DO NOT crowd the pan. Cannoli should be fried 2-4 at a time, depending on the width of your saucepan or deep fryer. Turn them once, and lift them out gently with a slotted spoon/wire skimmer and tongs. Just use a wire strainer or slotted spoon for flat cannoli shapes.
- When the cannoli turns light brown - uniform in color, watch it closely or remove it. If it's already a deep brown when you remove it, you might end up with a really dark or slightly burnt shell.
- Depending on how much scrap you have left after cutting out all of your cannoli shapes, you can either fry them up and sprinkle with confectioner's sugar for a crispy treat, or let the scraps rest under plastic wrap and a towel, then re-roll and cut more cannoli shapes.
- Push forms out of cannoli very gently, being careful not to break the shells as they are very delicate. DO NOT let the cannoli cool on the form, or you may never get it off without it breaking. Try to take it off while still hot. Hold it with a cloth in the center, and push the form out with a butter knife or the back of a spoon.
- When adding the confectioner's sugar to the filling..TASTE. You may like it sweeter than what the recipe calls for, or less sweet, so add in increments.
- Fill cannoli right before serving! If you fill them an hour or so prior, you'll end up with soggy cannoli shells.
- If you want to prepare the shells ahead of time, store them in an airtight container, then re-crisp in a 350°F (176 °C) oven for a few minutes, before filling.
- Practice makes perfect. My first batch of shells came out less than spectacular, and that's an understatement. As you go along, you'll see what will make them more aesthetically pleasing, and adjust accordingly when rolling. My next several batches turned out great. Don't give up!!
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Barcelona sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta has insisted that the club respect Victor Valdes' decision not to renew his contract.
The goalkeeper, whose current deal runs until 2014, revealed on Thursday that he will not entertain talks over a new agreement.
And Zubizarreta explained that Barca officials did not have a chance to offer their shot-stopper improved terms, and has urged fans to support the 31-year-old's decision to leave Camp Nou.
"We were holding the first meeting to initiate the process for renewing Victor's contract. The meeting began with us expressing the club's desire to extend his contract, because we consider him to be a top class goalkeeper," he told Barca TV.
"But before we could make any proposal or discuss anything, his agent said the decision was already made and meditated, and that he will not be staying any later than June 30, 2014. It is an irrevocable decision.
"We must respect the professional decision of a player who has spent 12 years in this home.
"With that in mind, we are asking you to continue supporting him and to encourage him as much as you have done throughout his career. He is committed to this jersey until June 30, 2014 and will defend the goal with everything he has and knows.
"Meanwhile, we shall work together to see what the next steps should be, along with him and his agent, to work together to deal with this situation that arose yesterday [Thursday]."
Earlier in January, Valdes claimed that he wanted to end his career at Barcelona, but also hinted that he might be tempted by pastures new.
"Since I signed the last contract I have not spoken about it. I signed the last one in June 2009 and have not been concerned since," he said at the time.
"It is not the time for me to be worrying about it, there is still time. I'm focused on winning games. My dream is to retire here… Time will tell.
"I have spent 11 years here and as goalkeeper it is difficult in many ways. I do not rule out other cultures, other football, other countries, we will see."
Reports in Spain suggest that Valdes is holding out for wages similar to Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas, and have linked the Spain goalkeeper with a move to Liverpool.
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Make a guess of the proportion of your waking life you are spending to make, expend, and take care of money. Add to that the years you invested in getting ready to earn it. Finally, count the time you spend worrying about not having enough of it, or in fear of losing what you have...
Nor are you an exception. For the first time in recorded history, the entire world seems to be doing the same thing, now that the ex-Communist countries - and even today's "communist" China - have irrevocably switched to money as the social motivator of choice.
Now ask yourself some simple questions:
While money almost universally fascinates, it has in common with sex and death that it mostly seems to operate at an unconscious level. Even professionals in the field, money managers, bankers--even Central Bankers--rarely fully understand all the implications of the kind of money we use. When the Acting Treasurer of the US, M.E. Slindee was asked to define the "lawful money" which was referred to on the US$10 bill, he merely stated that "The term 'lawful money' has not been defined in federal legislation..." (1)
John Maynard Keynes must have fully understood money. After all, he was the key architect of the monetary system known as the Bretton Woods agreement, instituted at the conclusion of World War Two and under which we still live today. His opinion was: "I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England." A prudent man, he didn't name any of them.
What Keynes tells us is that you can go right to the top and not find the answer.
The last beings to know about water are the fish. When so many aspects of our world are immersed in money, it takes quite an effort, or lucky coincidence, to become aware of what it is all about...
This was not part of any conscious plan on my behalf; it just happened as I moved from one career step to the next. I now realize that my successive professional activities have given me five very different perspectives on money, and that each has changed what I thought about it before. It is this combination of experiences which has made an unusual observer of the money system.
So, here are the five different perspectives in chronological sequence--not in the order of relative importance.
My very first book, the thesis of my postgraduate work at MIT, was about applying non-linear programming to global currency management for multinational corporations. Written in 1968-69, it got published in 1970 because it was one of the very first applications of systems theory to international finance. It described how to optimize currency management for corporations working in a large number of countries and currencies. It included the description of how to deal with "floating exchanges" (2), at that time a rare occurrence limited to some exotic currencies in Latin America.
When President Nixon decided unilaterally to change the global monetary system in August 1971, by unhinging the US dollar value from its gold standard, he inaugurated a new era of universal floating exchanges, which is still prevailing to this day. The techniques I had developed for some marginal currencies suddenly became overnight the only systematic research relating to how to deal with all the major currencies in the world. At that time, I was a fledgling management consultant. A major US bank negociated exclusive rights to my approach. Our agreement required me to train a group of people at the bank first , and precluded me from remaining active in this particular field for a period of five years. So I was obliged to start a career in another field.
I proceeded, specializing in whole systems analysis, but applied to areas other than floating exchanges. One of my major new clients turned out to be the largest mining company in Peru, and after the nationalization of the entire mining sector, the Peruvian government itself.. The assignment was to developed computer models that would maximize hard currency earnings from allocating mining productions and concentrates on a global level. This turned out a very successful project at the technical level (3). At its fullest development over two-thirds of all foreign exchange earnings of the country were optimized by my models. However, when I found out that all the proceeds of my project were used just to buy some squadrons of the French Mirage Dassault planes for the Peruvian military, I felt that my work had become meaningless. If I wanted to work for the benefit of a Dassault, there had to be better places to do it than the Central Sierra in Peru. Furthermore, my research in the mines had made me aware of the human effort and pain this kind of work exacts in the higher regions of the Andes , and that military toys just didn't make sense in the light of the real problems facing the country.
Therefore, toward the end of 1975, I decided to change professional direction, to take a "reverse sabbatical", i.e. become a Professor of International Finance at the University of Louvain, the oldest university in my native Belgium. I taught in order to gain a broader perspective on Latin American development, and specifically to discover the systemic reason of what I had observed in Latin America: the sudden and troubling accumulation of foreign debt by all countries in the region. Out of this sabbatical appeared several books including the first book (written in 1975-78 and published in 1979), to announce the Latin American debt crisis. This debt crisis exploded on schedule in the early 1980's (4).
As I was finishing this research, out of the blue came a job offer to head the organization and computer department at the Central Bank in Belgium (the institution in charge of managing the national currency, akin to the Federal Reserve for the U.S.). As I had just found out that the Latin American debt crisis was due to an underlying structural flaw of the monetary system itself, I thought that this position could be ideal to verify whether it might be possible to improve the system from within. My very first project--the design and implementation of the brand new European Currency Unit (then called Ecu, now the Euro) --looked like a promising first step in such a direction. Another relevant learning environment was my role as President of the electronic payment system of the country, considered the most inclusive and cost effective payment system in the world.5 However, it took me several years, and a most revealing conversation with the then President of the BIS (the Bank of International Settlements in Basle, or the Central bank of the Central banks, which coordinates the monetary activities of the eleven key monetary countries of the world), to understand that "Central Banks exist to keep the system going as is, not to improve on it" and that therefore any initiatives of reform would have to come from the private sector.
This insight sealed my decision to leave the Central Bank after five years. Having been game warden, I became poacher, as one of the co-founders for one of the first large-scale off-shore currency trading funds. During the three and a half years I was its General Manager and Currency Trader (i.e. from its inception in 1987 to May 1991), the largest of these funds (Gaia Hedge II) was the top performing managed currency fund as well as number one among all off-shore funds. We almost tripled the money in three years, which put us at the top of the Micropal survey of 1800 offshore funds. The speculation systems used provided a continuously feel for the pulse of the twenty-two major currencies in the world, and enabled us to take simultaneous positions among them all. While I learned a lot when the speculative systems were working well, I learned even more when they were not.
In summary then, I happen to have been intimately involved in looking at the global monetary system from five different perspectives: successively from a multinational corporation to a developing country viewpoint, from an academic to a hands-on central banking and currency speculation viewpoint. Several of these experiences are typically mutually exclusive. Therefore, while many people have had one or several of these experiences, the combination of all five is a lot less usual. Every one of these experiences forced me to thoroughly reconsider what I thought I knew about money.
This book is my attempt to simply synthesize what I have learned so far about this mysterious thing called money.
It feels a bit like a flying fish who tries to report back to its fellow fish what it learned about water "from out there"; what it may really be all about.
In short, it is about bringing conscious awareness to the money system, and use that awareness to shape our present and future. We'll also see how different societal objectives can be supported - or impeded - by specific kinds of currencies.
I have come to the conclusion that one of the most promising approaches to shape our future--probably the most powerful tool we have available on a collective level--is to bring conscious choice into the arena of our money system. The reason is that money could be described as the universal social incentive, the reward towards which most individual and corporate efforts converge.
Textbooks claim that corporations and individuals compete for resources and markets; in reality they simply compete for money, using resources and markets in this process. Therefore, by redesigning the money target, we could re-orient the vast energy of market competition in another--hopefully better--way, while requiring less regulation and taxation to achieve our socially desirable aims.
The main obstacle to our aim of harnessing such conscious choice is the widespread belief that in the modern world an alternative money system is not even thinkable. We will discover that--below the radar beams of many official monetary experts--fundamental change in our money systems is in fact already well under way, irresistably driven by the social and technological forces of the Information Age. The real issue is not whether widespread changes will happen or not, but how much awareness there will be about where these changes are leading us. The real question is whether we are even conscious that we have a choice in the matter.
This issue of conscious choice about money systems is further made difficult because of money's tradition of secrecy and mystery. This mystery has an extraordinarily long history: for thousands of years it was of a religious nature, now money remains enchanted just as effectively by a spell of academic jargon and esoteric equations.
Our challenge will therefore be to bring the ideas down from the academic ivory towers while remaining conceptually sound. We aim to achieve this by streamlining the main text, and relegating to footnotes and technical Appendices the complexities which are not essential to follow the core arguments. This is therefore not a general treatise on money, because we do not claim to cover all aspects of the topic, only bring to sunlight those few that are essential to understand the choices at our disposal.
|I. Money: a Conscious Choice
This book is organized in two main parts.
The first part, Money: a Conscious Choice, starts by demystifying what money really is (chapter 1). In its four chapters we will play a game: tell me what your objectives are, and we can design a currency that will support them.
For example, if you want to build up the power of the nation-state and concentrate resources for heavy industry development, we will show why today's money system performs that task rather well (chapter 2). However, if you want to rebuild the communities that are breaking down all over the world and reduce joblessness without inflation, we can examine several very successful models: well over a thousand communities (particularly in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Brazil, Britain and several Continental European countries) have already started using their own local non-competitive community currency with significant results (chapters 3 to 5).
If you want to reconcile the apparent conflict between ecological sustainability and economic growth, a new kind of global currency can muster the massive resources of the multinational corporations to get us there. (chapter 5).
Money is rapidly becoming a cheaper and more effective tool: existing national currencies grow more and more streamlined with the help of computers, and new electronic currencies are taking flight on the Internet. These technological choices can and will transform the fabric of society--to a greater extent than even those introducing the changes may realize (chapter 6).
In conclusion, we will see how several of these different money strategies are not mutually exclusive, but can be employed in tandem so they complement each other (chapter 7).
In part II, Why Now?, we will explore the social psychology of money: why and how our collective unconscious has generated the kind of money we use predominantly today. Where is the desire for this kind of money coming from? Are greed and scarcity, as is explicitly assumed in all our economic theory and almost universally accepted, an indelible part of human nature and behavior? Or are those core emotions of greed and fear of scarcity both constantly being created and reinforced by the current money system itself?
These questions are directly relevant here because they illuminate under what circumstances change in the money system can be expected. Right now, we are swiftly propelled by an array of historically unusual technological, social, economic and psychological factors toward major changes in the money system. These engines of change are the topics covered in the following four chapters.
First we will familiarize ourselves with the concepts necessary to explore the collective psychology of money. All professional operators, brokers, fund managers, financial experts will confirm that markets are mostly driven by collective emotions. Carl Gustav Jung's work provides us with a theoretical foundation on which we may examine such collective emotions: the concept of Archetypes. Archetypes may be defined as individual or collective emotional frameworks--models of tendencies toward certain interpretations, thoughts and actions. If, for example, a person or a group is under the influence of the Warrior archetype, the interpretations of a threat, the emotion of anger, and the action of punching the opponent's nose, are more likely than if they are under the influence of the Lover archetype. One most important finding of Jung's work is that whenever a particular Archetype is repressed, its Shadow automatically appears. For instance, if a person or a group has repressed the King/Queen Archetype--the representation of the majestic Higher Self--they will automatically behave as a Tyrant or a Weakling, the antithesis or shadow of the noble King/Queen. (chapter 8).
One particular archetype, the Great Mother/Provider, happens to have been systematically repressed over the past five thousand years, especially in Western societies. Therefore, if Jung is correct, we should also find its shadows prevailing in society. What are the shadows of the Provider Archetype? They turn out to be none other that the Greed and Fear of Scarcity syndromes we see haunting our money system. Empirical historical evidence further points out that whenever the Provider archetype was honored in a society, specific money systems came into being which in turn created generalized economic well-being (Chapter 9).
Fitting all the pieces of the puzzle together--the technological changes, economic and ecological pressures, as well as the less tangible collective socio-psychological foundations--it appears that the time may indeed have come when we will have the opportunity, even the obligation, to consciously re-invent our approach to money. (Chapter 10).
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Time to go spar with Kitty World lady again.
Anyone know when New Force usually ships?
From the NewForceComics.com front page:SW wave 5 August 30, 2007 | 4:39 PM | newforce1We have received a very small quantity of wave 5 cases that will all ship out Friday.
Thats good to know I ordered one from D&S and one from New Force. wave 4 has not been seen in my neck of the woods yet. this years UGH is going to be a bitch......Wave 3 has not been that abundant.
I've seen hide nor hair of Wave 4, so Wave 5's not really appreciated at the moment...And, as much as I'm an army builder, even I can't afford to help "clear the pegs" of what's hanging around these days. It's been a rough year because there's a LOT of good figures in general, there's a TON of good army builders (better than any year previous), and there's been **** you gotta chase down left and right on top of it all (McQuarrie, UGH, etc.). Wave 5 surfacing is really a moment I just groaned... And I love every figure in the wave too! That's the sick part.
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So far, I've broken down 7 games of Barkley in a row, including Syracuse, Hawaii and Stanford from this year. I can tell you right now that Smith and maybe Wilson (with a strong rest of the season) will be taken ahead of him if Barkley continues at his current rate.
Barkley's tape from last year looks much better last year as opposed to this year. USC is running a lot more WR screens which doesn't help him, but he looks significantly worse so far. He tends to lock on to receivers more this year than last, go to his checkdowns more, throws off his back foot more (product in part from not getting a quality drop and having to rush throws), and his accuracy down the field isn't as good as last year. His accuracy issues are in part to him mainly not driving off his back foot (which causes his passes downfield to sail a bit and his closer passes to be behind) and are also do to him not finishing his follow-through on his release (mainly due to pressure or his thought that it exists). His O-Line is not as good as last year and he is not adjusting as well as he should be. It isn't horrible (Bears) but it is having an outcome in his accuracy and quickness to check the ball down.
I'll have a complete breakdown by next week of every game from 2011 and through 2012, probably via Word Doc. if people are interested. I was mainly doing it for Billay since he asked but I figured you all would enjoy getting to analyze my own analysis and provide your thoughts. Plus, most of you are actually competent and will be able to provide feedback (positive/negative) that will help formulate a better opinion of Barkley for this upcoming draft.
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It's a new day around the Harris household. Ever since I got sick of seeing that chubby girl who stalks me, staring back at me in the mirror, our dinner table has looked much different. Yes siree, I've got to get rid of her because she's really starting to bum me out.
Little did I realize how many carbs we consumed each day until I started this new diet. For the first 2 weeks we (when mama's on a diet, everyone's on a diet) were on full carb lockdown and I'm proud to say, doing pretty well until that Irish pub Guinness and cottage pie tasting a couple of nights ago. I've since forgiven myself and I got right back up on that horse and picked up where I left off.
It really hasn't been all that bad with maybe one or two exceptions. I've been eating lots and lots of veggies and lean meats, low fat cheese and for a treat (this is where the trouble comes in), low-fat cottage cheese sprinkled with Splenda (weird and yuck!). You may think me picky, but there is nothing about that that says "treat" to me.
With all this healthy eating going on it was really a great time to be asked by Saucy Mama if I would like to participate in their Saucy Mama's " Skinny Mama – Cooking with Mustard" Contest. The competition is for bloggers to write a diet friendly recipe that incorporates some of their mustard, and since I'm in the thick of South Beach, this is a welcomed diversion to get my mind off of sugar and flour.
To get me started, Saucy Mama supplied me with a blogger kit containing 6 different mustards that includes their Dijon, Champagne Honey, Tarragon Lemon, Smoky Garlic, Chipotle, and Suzie's Plain Yellow to play with and craft my recipe.
Now, I'm not an expert on this diet but I know that eggs are allowed and so is mustard, reduced fat cheese, herbs and a little turkey bacon every now and then. I mulled these ingredients over in my mind for a few days and came up with a recipe that I'd actually be quite proud of even if I wasn't on a diet which is my favorite type of recipe.
My French Hens are a cross between a souffle, an omelette and a quiche. The mustard, herbs and cheeses really kick up the flavor to make this a super satisfying South Beach Diet friendly dish. The bonus here is, you'll love these even if you're not on a diet.
Saucy Mama's South Beach Diet Friendly French Hens
6 slices turkey bacon, cut in half
6 slices reduced fat Swiss cheese (approximately 4" x 4")
6 eggs, separated
1 – 1/2 tablespoons Saucy Mama Dijon mustard
1/2 teaspoon herbs de Provence
1/2 teaspoon granulated garlic
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 pinch white pepper
3 tablespoons shredded Parmesan cheese, divided
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Spray a six section extra-large muffin pan with non-stick cooking spray. Place two halves of the turkey bacon in the bottom of each section in an "x" pattern. Top the turkey bacon with one slice of the cheese, pressing it into the bottom of each section; set aside.
Place the egg yolks in a medium size bowl. To the egg yolks add the mustard, herbs, garlic, salt, pepper and 2 tablespoons of the parmesan cheese; stir well and set aside.
In a large bowl, beat the egg whites to stiff peaks. Gently fold in the yolk mixture, mixing until it is completely combined. Spoon equal amounts over the top of the bacon and cheese in the muffin pan. Sprinkle the tops with the remaining Parmesan cheese.
Remove from the oven and serve immediately as they will start to deflate right from the oven. This will not affect the flavor.
Serves 6
If you'd like to sample Saucy Mama's mustards, they have made a sampler package like the one above available for me to give to one of my followers. If you'd like to be entered into this giveaway, please comment on this blog below. Random.org will choose my winner on February 28, 2012 around noon.


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Indian kurtis for women can easily be termed as the daughter of good old fashioned long kurtas. In the early days kurtas were used in northern India mainly but with time it has spread to the other parts of the country and also to various parts of the world. The kurti gained its popularity very quickly after its invention mainly because it was really simple yet beautiful. Within a very short period of time kurti has become a fashion statement. Another reason why kurtis are so popular is its usage. A kurti can be used for many occasions including professional purpose. However, kurtis have many variations in terms of its cut and style. Fashion is something which is always changing. It is hard to find a fashion trend that has not changed over the years but Kurtis are an exception here. Kurtis have remained eternal in terms of fashion and it has not changed like other fashion trends. However, buying a kurti which will fulfill all your purpose is not an easy task.


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I predict that big Jackie O style sunglasses will still be huge this summer, so I picked these amazing Ray Bans, which I have been wearing everywhere, and will probably be wearing everywhere for the rest of the summer.
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Surnames of Interest- Miramontes, Tapia, Ramos,Cardenas,Ortega, Castaneda,Nunez and Missing -link -looking-for grandfather \"PABLO RAMOS\" My mother Died 14 years ago from Pancreatic Cancer.
she only mentioned my grandfathers First and last name and that he had re-married, He had left or they split up Divorced I do not know...
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High-Speed Transportation
By John Robin Witt
The State of California will use a $2.25 billion boost from the federal government to move ahead on planning and eventually constructing the most extensive high-speed train system in the country. Moreover, the system could create an engine for job growth and serve as a technological and business model for other states hoping to build similar high-speed systems.
The 800-mile system, with trains running at up to 220 mph, would serve Californians from San Diego and Orange County in the south, to San Francisco and Sacramento in the north. As a bonus, the High-Speed Rail Authority (Authority) estimates that every billion dollars spent on the high-speed rail system would generate some 20,000 jobs and up to 600,000 paychecks during the duration of construction.
"I can't overstate how important this is to a state with 12.4 percent unemployment and more than 2.25 million people out of work," said U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California.
"State leaders fought hard for this investment because it means jobs, jobs, jobs for Californians," said Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He said that with the federal investment, California "will be able to create jobs, stimulate our economy and be home to the first true high-speed rail system to break ground in the nation."
The cash infusion came in January when the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) distributed $8 billion to projects across the county – with the largest chunk going to California. The Golden State went to the head of the line because it had the most advanced planning for such a project, and its voters in 2008 had approved nearly $10 billion in bonds. That bond total includes $950 million for improvements to commuter and intercity rail, and local transit lines to support and connect to the high-speed rail system.
"As is typical of California, they have been way ahead of the curve," said USDOT Secretary Ray LaHood. "People (in California) have been working on and dreaming about high-speed rail for more than a decade, and they were willing to put some of their own tax dollars up to help fund it."
The massive project is reminiscent of California's vision during the 1950s and 1960s when it made far-reaching investments in a number of projects: its highway/freeway system, large aqueducts to move water from north to south, and support for the University of California and other higher public education systems.
The Authority's 2009 business plan, delivered to the California Legislature, estimated that environmental reviews for some high-speed rail sections could be completed in 2011, with construction beginning a year later. The electrically powered trains would be fully separated from automobile traffic and would be a serious transportation option for 90 percent of the state's residents. It is being designed to be able to carry more than 100 million passengers a year.
The Authority says that Phase I of the public works project would extend more than 500 miles from San Francisco to Anaheim, and be completed by 2020 at an estimated cost of $42.6 billion (in years-of-expenditure dollars). It would allow passengers to travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco in about two and one-half hours.
Phase II would extend south to San Diego and north to Sacramento. A trip between Anaheim and Sacramento would take about two and a half hours, and about an hour between Fresno and San Jose.
Some critics of the high-speed rail system contend that the Authority's cost estimates are too low, and that fewer passengers than have been projected will actually ride the system. State planners believe, however, that California's population will rise to some 50 million by 2030, increasing interregional travel to a billion trips a year.
In Issue 3 of the 2009 California Transportation Journal, Mehdi Morshed, the Authority's outgoing Executive Director, suggested that the high-speed rail route would actually save money for California.
"According to the Authority's updated business plan…high-speed trains will alleviate the need to spend nearly $100 billion to build about 3,000 miles of new freeway, five airport runways and 90 departure gates during the next two decades," Morshed wrote. "A statewide high-speed train system will meet that same need for about half the cost."
In addition, he said the system would use one-third of the energy of airplanes, one-fifth of the energy of passenger automobiles, cut California's dependence on foreign oil by 12.7 million barrels a year, and reduce greenhouse gases that cause global warming, by 12 billion pounds each year.
For more information about the progress of California's High-Speed Rail System please go to: http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov


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You have my prayers and it is in my heart that you will get better. You have the perfect attitude for a complete and positive life. I wrote a book when I too was going through a similar situation as you. I wrote, "In Search Of Paradise" and never looked back. That was over thirty years ago and I am still writing and living regardless of what the doctors predicted.I'm a mom to a toddler, a college student, and I'm battling breast cancer. I have a very full life and we have a lot of fun.


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Tile and Grout Cleaning Canada Bay – We Clean All Kinds of Tiles & Grouts including tile regrouting, tile recoloring & rechaulking services. Shower & bathroom tile mould removal services also available.
Get the best service Tile grout cleaning Canada Bay
Are your tiles discolored and yellowish? And are you thinking of cleaning them on your own? Think again. The discoloration is not just dirt on the tiles but the dirt that has entered the pores of your tiles. You need professional cleaning services and we at Magic Cleaning services are here for all your cleaning needs. Give us a call today and get rid of the dirt that has lodged itself in the tiles as well as the grouts.
Contrary to the belief, your indoors house more bacteria and germs from the dirt and grime that get deposited on various surfaces that require regular and thorough cleaning by the professional services. Homes are a safe heaven that has to be dust free, healthy and that has a happy environment. We at the Magic Cleaning Services work to do just that.
Most of you use tiles, at least in one or two rooms of your house due to their cost-effectiveness, low maintenance and durability which is more than other flooring. After installation, leaving the tiles and grout unsealed will pave way for permanent stains due to food or beverages spill. Despite of sealing the tiles, they are likely to discolor due to age.
The tiles are most likely found in moist areas of the house like the kitchen or the bathrooms and due to the moisture in the air, the pores and grouts get clogged and nothing make the place look worse than the grouts and tiles that are discolored. Your search for the best tiles and grouts cleaning services in Canada Bay ends right here.
Services provided by the Magic Cleaning Services for your tiles
Tiles cleaning
Investing time and money for the best tile for your lining spaces and losing the shine over a period of time can be disheartening and most people dislike getting down on the knees and cleaning the tiles. Here, we provide the best tiles cleaning services in Canada Bay that leave the tiles looking as good as brand new.
Tiles sealing
In order to protect your tiles and grout from discoloration and day-to-day wear, we apply a liquid coat over the pores of the tiles and prevent oxidation and stains due to spillage.
Grouts re-coloration
You have gone around for days looking for the perfect tiles and spent quite a lot of money on buying them and the discolored grout takes away all the shine and also the effort and time and money you have invested in installing the tiles. We provide you with an option of re-coloring the grout with the same or a different color that gives your tiles a new life and makes the room look new as it was on day one.
Other similar services include
Clear sealing
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With hundreds of companies offering similar services, why would you choose us? Simply because we at Magic Cleaning Services, are an open company where you directly get in touch with the owners rather than the executives. And also because
- Our technicians perform a pretest to determine the quality of tiles used in your kitchen or the bathroom and the extent of damage to the tiles and to also decide on the best course of action.
- The services and the quality of the products used in the cleaning process is top notch and we guarantee customer satisfaction at every level.
- Our efficient technicians and workers are well-trained in the process of tiles and grouts cleaning and are instilled with a sense of responsibility to serve the customers to the best of their abilities.
- The products used are organic and harmless for every cleaning services offered by us, including shower/tub cleaning, tile protection cleaning, color sealing, etc. apart from our tiles and grout cleaning services.
- Along the way, quality check process runs side by side with the cleaning and restoration process.
Moreover, Cleaning such tiles needs special equipment and chemicals that might be harmful if not used with utmost care and training. So, leave this tedious job to our trained professionals and sit back and relax.
Professional tiles and grouts cleaning services, Canada Bay
We, at the Magic Cleaning Services, are committed to provide the best and most cost-effective to our esteemed clients. We strive to make your old tiles look new after every repair and cleaning service.
Steam cleaning the tiles to clear the dust and the grime
The best and most effective way to clean the tiles, however old, is steam cleaning, that cleans the tiles from deep within and we are equipped with the best to do this kind of cleaning. We also offer various other options for tiles and grout cleaning, mildew and stain removal and also cracked and broken tile replacement.
To protect your tiles from future discoloration, we apply a fresh coat of grout to give your tiles a new and fresh look and also a healthy long life, so that you don't have to opt for tiles replacement at regular intervals.
Our dedicated staff has the hands on experience and the expertise required providing the best tiles and grouting cleaning services and following through the process with the best and organic equipment and products until the process is over and you are fully satisfied.
Investing a little more to keep your tiles and grouts looking new and clean is just as necessary as cleaning your house, in order to keep it free from disease causing germs and bacteria. Fix an appointment today with us today and let us help you and guide you through your tiles cleaning needs today. We guarantee 100% satisfaction and treating your tiles as good as it was on day one.
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Fruit Ninja Gets Plushies, and Sequel Details Leak
Posted by Carter Dotson on December 6th, 2011
Fruit Ninja is just winding up everywhere, which seems appropriate for a game where fruits are routinely destroyed. As comedy legend Gallagher taught us, destroying fruit is messy and it just gets everywhere. Like Fruit Ninja's reach, which is now popular enough to inspire plush toys based on the game. There's not only a toy for the Sensei, but there's also a half-sliced watermelon with eyes. They're happy, cute eyes, not the eyes of sadness and regret that should be directed at one who would so callously attempt to slice them in half. Created in cooperation with ToyFoundry, the Sensei and watermelon are now available from the Fruit Ninja online store.
But still, Fruit Ninja is a game first and foremost, and besides a brief interlude with Puss in Boots, there has yet to be a true sequel to the game. The operative word there is yet, as according to noted gaming publication, the Illawarra Mercury, Halfbrick is now opening up a studio in Sydney, Australia. This studio is going to make the next version of the Fruit Ninja series. It sounds like it's going to be a departure from the other games in the series, as now the fruit will be on the attack against those reckless fruit-slicing ninjas. According to Australian Deputy Premier Andrew Stoner, "The new game will involve players launching a series of fruit to knock ninjas off their towers in a 3D world, with each fruit having special powers." While Australian politicians leaking details about unannounced games is new, the mobile gaming industry is all about new frontiers!
The game is due out sometime in 2012, and will launch first on iOS before spreading out to other platforms. This will be a title to keep an eye on, considering the franchise's already massive popularity. This new gameplay style will be interesting to see how it works compared to the current game. But from the sounds of it, that cute sliced watermelon might just be able to get his revenge just yet.


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Overcoming tough times
An area businessman and radio personality recently visited a local school this week to talk about a book the students were reading.
But the man didn't just talk about the book, he related it to his own life in an effort to let the students know they always need to stay positive and have the strength to get through tough times in life.
Wapakoneta Middle School seventh-grade language arts teacher, Karen Quatman, invited Tim DeHaven to speak to the students. DeHaven is the owner of DeHaven Home and Garden Showplace in Lima and Findlay and is a seventh- and eighth-grade football coach, and cross country coach.
DeHaven visited to talk about the book "Zebra" by Chaim Potok, which the students recently read. The book deals inner and outer healing, and overcoming obstacles.
"We all have things in our life we have to deal with," DeHaven said to the students in the Wapakoneta Middle School auditorium, as he displayed two prosthetic legs to the side of the podium.
DeHaven considers himself an active person, and at this time last year, he went into the hospital to have a heart procedure and what was thought to be a three-day stay there. It turned out to be a three-month stay.
"I ran three miles on Sept. 6 and went to hospital on Sept. 7," DeHaven explained to the seventh-graders. "It wasn't until Dec. 13 until I got out. I lost my leg and two fingers."
He also lost all the toes on his right foot and some of his fingertips, along with dealing with a hole in his heart.
DeHaven's physicians told him he had a 20 percent chance of living. He shared that he had been unconscious for approximately 17 days during those three months in the hospital.
"I've always been so active," DeHaven said, "but now, I was so weak, like Zebra."
Zebra also was dealing with injury in the book, along with other hard times. Zebra became unhappy, and so was DeHaven.
"I loved the wind sweeping across my face, and now I could not even bend my fingers," DeHaven said.
DeHaven said he just laid there in the hospital bed, and people had to do things for him. It was a weird feeling for him.
But one thing that helped him get through this was to make little goals for himself.
When DeHaven got out of the hospital, he went through a series of prosthetic legs, and during his healing process, he could not do all the things he use to do before.
"You just got to kick things out of the way (that you can't do), and focus on what you can do," DeHaven said. "You can't control everything, just certain things."
One thing that had helped Zebra in the book was that he found a friend to help him through his difficult time.
"Zebra found a friend, and maybe that's what you could do — be a good friend to someone," DeHaven told the seventh-graders.
Lots of people go through tough times, but you just have to get through them, DeHaven noted.
"You have to be positive," DeHaven said. "Bad things happen, and it takes a lot of inner strength and support of family and friends."
But most importantly, DeHaven told the students to stay positive.
Seventh-grader Lauren Snider said that she enjoyed DeHaven's speech.
"I thought he was a really good person," Snider said.
Claire Peterman also learned a lot through the speaker.
"It was cool," Peterman said. "I learned that if something ever happens, don't give up."
"If I would lose a leg, it would be hard to keep going," Peterman said. "But he still wanted to."
Chloe Pyles agreed and said he was a cool person.
"If something happens, you just have to keep on going."


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Worst Hathaway Imitation: Mandy Moore
Written by Duana
The first reaction everyone had to Mandy Moore tonight was that she looked severe and kind of angry. This is factual, and though the part in her hair and the weird eyebrow (that a lot of people had going) didn't help, there was something else at hand, and it took me a minute to realize what.
You guys, she thinks she should be Anne Hathaway. Think about it. They're the same; they're good girls who do what they're told and play with their sexualities in a nice easy, not over-the-top way; they're not terribly controversial but they've read enough to be able to have a conversation about most topics. They were both in the Princess Diaries, even! And then comes the clinche: even their big mid-20s heartbreaks were similar. Zach Braff and Raffaelo Whatshisname? Those guys even LOOKED alike.
So as Mandy gets ready to sing, knowing damn well that that damn Hathaway isn't just hosting and isn't just having her choice of film roles but also is going to SING AND DANCE tonight – well, I'm betting someone had a little tantrum while getting dressed this afternoon and had to be picked up off the floor .
Mandy. I LOVE you. But you have to do something new. You already cut your hair short once, so - maybe the answer is "Saved: Return of Hilary Faye"?
I'm pulling for you but it's getting harder and harder. Please, hon, be fun again. Take yourself less seriously. Get out from under Anne's shadow. Or hey, embrace it. If you want to get over your issues with her in a fun and hilarious sisters-in-a-roadtrip story, I'm not going to complain.
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Bontrager's SpeedTrap Digital Speed Sensor conveniently plugs into any Bontrager fork with SpeedTrap technology for the ultimate in convenience. And, it wirelessly transmits speed data to your ANT+ cycling computer.
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I've had the SpeedTrap in the fork of my Trek Madone 2.3 for well over a year. In the beginning, I had some trouble. The first one I got wouldn't come on and I had to exchange it. There is no indicator if it's "on" or not, so I struggled with trying to detect the sensor with IpBike and the Node device for quite a few hours before I determined it was not user error. I also had to order the adapter to make it compatible with my specific fork, and that part was not in stock so I had to wait a few days for it to be ordered. It does make it stick out a little, but barely - it's really no big deal. I also replaced the magnet that comes with it, because I didn't like the plastic clip one. The clip seemed flimsy like it would break really easy. I prefer the little metal round one that screws down and clamps onto a spoke. Once the SpeedTrap was in and working, I didn't have to think about it again. It worked reliably with every ride. It's been well over a year, and the battery is just now getting low. I love that it's wireless and sits in the recess of my fork rather than wrapping around it. It communicates easily with the Node bike computers, and my Android "IpBike" app. It also allows each cyclist the option to spend a lot on a bike computer, or not a lot, so it's very flexible.
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This product claims to fit any trek speed trap fork. The small cavity in my 2014 Madone is flat inside, while this sensor has a large battery bulging off the back. You apparently can buy yet another accessory to adapt to this issue but bontrager does not make this well known. The point of the speed trap is to be aerodynamic but adding the adapter is a clunky solution- I am returning this product. Disappointed that trek/bontrager didn't communicate on this fork solution and that my trek bike shop wasn't aware of it either.
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I'm frankly shocked at Trek/Bontrager - they promote the integrated Speedtrap sensor when selling their bikes and then sell you a sensor (Part No 403683) that doesn't include a magnet which according to the Trek website costs the same as the sensor with a magnet (Part No 426619). There is no hint on the box that you are buying a sensor without a magnet, the only way to find this out is extensive research on their website. What you won't find on their website or in the box or anywhere else is an owners manual or any other hint as to how to install the Speedtrap sensor.
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Christopher's Stacked Stone Terrace Garden
Name: Christopher Reynolds
Location: San Francisco, California
We've already peeked inside his home, and now Christopher is back to show us an equally fab outdoor space.
To capitalize on a huge lot and overcome a serious slope (there's a two-story elevation change), Reynolds-Sebastiani Designs used terraces of stacked stone. Inspired by Machu Pichhu, where ancient inhabitants resolved the perils of living on a steep mountain top in the same manner, the stones here are multi-purpose and provide not only safe footing, but also serve as seating, tables and prevent erosion.
Thanks, Christopher!
(Images: Molly DeCourdreaux)
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Minimize Cost With eBrochures for Your Medical, Dental or Healthcare Practice
Take your marketing to the next level with this cutting-edge marketing tool.
You can email it, post it as a link on your website and distribute it to virtually anyone without special software or a special reader.
The new e-brochure is a standalone product that can be linked via a custom web button to your web site (it opens in a new browser window). It incorporates fast loading, secure, rich-media combinations of imagery, text, links and graphics, all in a user friendly, printable, easily-modifiable multi-page format.
E-brochures are fast and easy to look at — they load and are viewable within 6 to 10 seconds. E-mail your brochure instantly in an attractive format. Provide it as a giveaway on CD or DVD-ROM. Or download it off your practice website.
Dramatically reduce your expenses. You'll save on printing costs and shipping expenses by sending digital brochures via e-mail or posting on website. Your existing brochure or web collateral can be converted into an electronic presentation without the need for expensive design or set-up costs.
Carry your brochure, or website, in your pocket! Think GREEN — no paper; also space- and shipping-efficient!
You can easily make changes or add pages. Allows for continuous updates as your practice grows — keeping information up-to-date without any downtime. Changes in images, links and content can be made quickly and cost-effectively.
Your brochure is secure without the need for special software. No special application needed; simply double-click the icon to launch the document. Plus, e-brochures can include multimedia, video, interactive forms and more.
Practice Builders is one of the very few healthcare marketing companies to offer the e-brochure. To learn more about this leading-edge new product, see some of our actual clients' e-brochures in action:
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Woman finds elderly parents dead in couple's home
A woman checking on her elderly parents found them dead Monday night inside their west Houston home.
The woman made the discovery about 7:30 p.m. at the home in the 12200 block of Briar Forest. She immediately called police, authorities said.
Houston police patrol officers taped off the home as HPD detectives and crime scene technicians began their investigation into the deaths.
Detectives said the couple was found in the same room but would not elaborate. There were no signs of forced entry into the home.
There were no obvious signs of foul play. But, detectives said they would have to wait for an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
Police said the couple, who have not been identified, had been living in the home for several years.
Although there were no obvious signs of foul play, detectives said finding two people dead together inside a home warrants an investigation.


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Encourage your child to save money by making this cute Monkey Bank together. A colorful, fun and easy art project.
Items needed:
- Plastic container with snap-on lid (yogurt container, Nestles chocolate mik container or coffee container)
- Sticky-back foam sheets
- Wiggly eyes or buttons
- Scissors
- Craft glue
- Non-toxic acrylic paints
- Print pattern and directions.
- Cut out patterns and trace onto paper backing of sticky-back foam. You may use regular foam sheets but will have to glue these in place. Make adjustments for the size and shape of your container.
- Cut out all pieces. Make sure you cut two of pieces indicated.
- Paint container and lid desired color and let dry thoroughly. If it isn't completely dry before handling, the paint may scrape off. * For a more permanent coat of paint you can paint the container with gesso first.
- Peel backing from ear pieces and carefully stick the tops and middle portions together. Hold back the last inch of the ear from sticking together and then apply the ear to the side of the container. (part of the ear will attach towards the front and the other part towards the back). Repeat for second ear.
- Attach cheeky area to the face of the monkey and then apply the nose and mouth lines to this section.
- Stick the larger eye parts onto the monkey's face and then apply the smaller eye parts.
- The hat will be made in the same way as the ears, but it will be positioned on top of the lid.
- Glue a pompom or paper ball onto the top of the beanie and then glue the eyes in place.
- Money can be put into the Monkey Bank by removing lid or PARENT can cut a slot into the lid top.


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Lovely apartment in Ermioni
If you are looking for landscaped gardens to enjoy the sun and sea, then holiday apartment GPE 109 in Ermioni Peloponnese is the ideal place for you. The minimal design of the apartment will guide you to the relaxing vacations you were waiting. The 65sqm 1st floor holiday apartment GPE109 sleeps 5 guests in his two bedrooms and one sofa bed of the living room. All amenities are there to make your stay effortless and relish the outdoor facilities of the apartment. Have your dinner at the balcony table and enjoy the sea and mountain view. Along with the stunning gardens you will also find a nicely situated patio where you can have your refreshments or wine with the sea exactly at your feet. Enjoy the direct access to the beach from the holiday apartment GPE 109 in Ermioni and the overwhelming sea view from the sun loungers. Pets are not allowed at the premises. At a distance of 3 Km you will find the graphical sea village of Ermioni with fish taverns and restaurants at your disposal. Moreover holiday apartment GPE109 in Ermioni is a good starting point for one day trips to nearby islands of Hydra and Spetses.


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The Registrar's Office hours are 8:30 am to 6:00 pm (Monday-Thursday) and 8:30am to 5:00 pm on Friday. If you have any questions regarding your academic records, the Registrar's office staff will be happy to assist you. You can call us at (312) 906-5080 or stop by Suite 220.
Pass/Fail Election Deadline. Pass/fail elections for the Spring must be made no later than Friday, February 12. This deadline is firm. Please review § 2.4 "Pass/Fail Election" of the Student Handbook if you have any questions regarding your pass/fail elections. In order to make your election you should log in to your Webmail account; click on the Web for Students icon; select the "Take Class Pass/Fail option" under the "On Line Forms" heading; select the course you would like to take on a pass/fail basis; and submit your selection. If there is any problem with your request, the Registrar's Office will notify you.
Making Up an Incomplete Grade
If you plan on making up an Incomplete grade in a course from a previous semester, you should complete the appropiate form on the Web for Students. DO NOT REGISTER FOR THE COURSE. Registering for the course will cause the calculation of tuition charges on your account. Instead, please notify the Registrar's Office by;
1. Log in to your webmail account
2. Click on the Web for Students" icon in lower left portion of the left frame
3. Select the "Enroll to retake Incomplete class" under the "Online Forms" heading
4. Select the course
5. Submit your selection
The Registrar's Office will add you to the exam and course rosters and notify your professor. You will NOT appear on any "official" roster
Graduation Application Deadline
An application for Graduation must be filed by every student no later than 2 weeks in to the semester in which they intend to graduate. The deadline for the Spring semester is February 2, 2010. You may complete the form online by:
1. Log in to your webmail account
2. Click on the "Web for Students" icon in lower left portion of the left frame
3. Select "Application for Graduation" under the "Online Forms" heading
4. Complete the full form (Please complete every field)
5. Submit your selection
You will receive a confirmation email once a graduation audit has been performed. Please note that any changes you make to your schedule after the audit may affect your graduation requirements. You should check with the Registrar's Office prior to making any changes.
Spring 2010 Schedule and Registration.
•Final Spring 2010 Schedule and Registration Bulletin. The final Spring 2010 schedule, the Registration Bulletin, and the course and exam grids are available by clicking here for the Spring 2010 Term page or by going to the main Students Portal page (click on the Spring '10 link). Print copies are available outside the third floor cafeteria.
•Registration Instructions. To register, go to the Spring 2010 Term page and click on the "Online Registration" link beginning Tuesday. Registration will run from Tuesday, November 24 through Tuesday, December 1. You may register at any time during that period. After the end of the registration period, the registration requests will be processed according to each student's registration priority. In other words, registration will not be conducted on a first-come, first served basis; as long as you register during the designated period, you will have an equal chance of being admitted to a class as other students within your registration priority group. To learn what classes you have been admitted into, you must check the online registration site on or after Friday, December 4. Registering for a class during the initial registration period is no guarantee that you will be admitted into the class – you must check the web site on or after Friday, December 4 to learn what classes you have been admitted into.
•Registration for First-Year Students. Although first-year students have set schedules, you still must register for your Spring courses using the Online Registration system. Please be careful to register for the doctrinal classes listed for your current section, and for the Legal Writing section taught by your current professor.
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Matt Bomer: Andrew Rannells' Ex Boyfriend on 'New Normal'!
Matt Bomer is set to guest star on The New Normal as the ex-boyfriend of Andrew Rannells' character Bryan!
"Guess who's coming on The New Normal as Bryan's sexy ex-boyfriend? The one and only Matt Bomer!!!" series creator Ryan Murphy tweeted.
Both the guys have something in common – they have both played strippers! Matt famously stripped it off in Magic Mike while Andrew played a private party stripper in Bachelorette. Check out photos of Matt's "Ken Doll" striptease below!
Matt and Ryan previously worked together when the White Collar actor guest starred on Glee as Cooper Anderson, the older brother of Darren Criss' character.
WHAT DO YOU THINK of Matt Bomer playing Andrew Rannells' ex-boyfriend?