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Brussels, 12 March 2013
2014 European Parliament Elections: Commission recommends that political parties nominate candidate for Commission President
Political parties should nominate a candidate for European Commission President in the next European elections and they should display their European political party affiliation, under a recommendation adopted by the European Commission today. The proposals aim to better inform voters about the issues at stake in next year's European Parliament elections, encourage a Europe-wide debate and ultimately improve voter turnout. The Commission is also calling on Member States to agree on a common voting date for the elections, traditionally spread out over a period of four days.
"Europe cannot be built without the participation of Europeans. It is essential that citizens have their say as the European Union develops and moves forward," said Vice-President Viviane Reding, the EU's Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship. "Today's practical recommendations will help to strengthen people's voice in European democracy and to make next year's European elections a real debate about the future of Europe."
Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, responsible for Administration and Interinstitutional Relations, said: "I am convinced that this recommendation, coupled with our proposal to strengthen the effectiveness of European political parties, will really help to stimulate voter interest in the European elections. That has to be a good thing, for encouraging genuine pan-European debates and for European democracy in general."
The recommendation adopted today is backed by a new Eurobarometer survey (released today) which found that 84% of people think turnout in European elections would increase with more information about the EU's impact on their daily lives (see Annex), parties' programmes in the Parliament and about the elections themselves. 73% believe more information about candidates' European political affiliations would encourage people to vote, while 62% think having party candidates for Commission President and a single voting day would help bolster turnout.
2013 is the European Year of Citizens and an opportunity for citizens to make their voice heard. Ahead of the European elections in 2014, the Commission is presenting recommendations to strengthen the link between citizens and the EU:
The Eurobarometer survey on EU citizens' electoral rights also found that most people are aware that EU citizens have the right to vote in European elections (72% of respondents, up from 54% in 2007) and local elections (66%) in their country of residence.
The 2014 European elections will be the first to be held under the Lisbon Treaty, which enhances the role of the EU citizen as a political actor in the EU. The Treaty also strengthens the powers of the European Parliament, consolidating its role as co-legislator and giving it additional responsibility: it elects the President of the Commission on the basis of a proposal by the European Council taking into account the results of the European elections (Article 17(7) of the Treaty on European Union).
In his 2012 State of the Union address (see SPEECH/12/596), President Barroso stressed the need for deepening the pan-European debate and called for action to further strengthen the European dimension of the European elections. Today's Communication and Recommendation follow up on President Barroso's address, as well as on the Commission's "Blueprint for a deep and genuine economic and monetary union" (see IP/12/1272) which underlined the importance of a genuine European debate, including in the European Parliament elections of 2014.
The recommendations also reflect the Report "Towards a Genuine Economic and Monetary Union" prepared by the President of the European Council with the Presidents of the Commission, the Eurogroup and the European Central Bank, stating that democratic legitimacy and accountability are essential to a genuine Economic and Monetary Union.
The Commission will put forward its proposals for Treaty changes in time to allow a real debate on the future of Europe before the elections.
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European Commission – EU Citizenship:
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Emergency plans for pets
Have you considered that in case of any emergency such as a fire, flood, earthquake, hurricane, tornado we need emergency procedures that include our animals?
Having so many animal lovers on the board I imagine some of you do. Dog, cats, ferrets, rabbits, birds, fish, etc (farms could have a chapter of their own).
I want to create my emergency plan to include the cats, and they can be difficult to find, not respond to callings because they're scared, hiding.
I'd love if you could discuss about what's best and how to cope with some of the difficulties.
I'm not the kind of person that expects a catastrophe but I do believe in being ready in case of emergency, having myself witnessed earthquakes and hurricanes in the past.
" How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven."
- Robert A. Heinlein
Very good thread for people to think about!
So far, the only thing that we do, is know exactly where the cat carriers are and that that are quickly accessible.
But it would be very smart to have an emergency bag - with food a water bottle (and maybe all the vet records) in one safe and accessible place.
Any other suggestions?
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people could try to find out if their emergency shelters allow them to bring their pets with them if not find out where you can bring your pet(s) if you have a mandatory evacuation . More emergency shelters are allowing people to bring their pets after what happen with Hurricane Katrina , too people refuse to evacuate when they realize they could not bring their pets with them to the emergency shelters . Pets owners could write to their representatives and try and to get them to allow pets to go with them to emergency shelters as in the long run this does save people and pets lives and people will not need to be rescues because they refused to abandon their pets in a storm etc. It would be wise to have all of your pets have a microchip and make sure it's updated if you had moved or have new phone# or a new vet. If you have birds you could have an ID band on it leg.
Those are some good points, Barkingdog. Thankfully, I think a lot of shelters are getting better about allowing pets.
Our biggest threat here is forest fire. In case of fire we pack the following 6 Ps into the cars and bug out to farm country:
1. Pets (or Pack, as is the case here)
2. Provisions (food for the pets, mostly )
3. Prescriptions (yep, mostly for the Pack, too )
4. Pictures (nothing more precious than memories)
5. Papers (legal documents--most importantly, insurance documents)
6. Plastic (as in credit cards)
After that, we're sorta on our own, though, unless someone opens a shelter that allows lots of pets. At least fire season usually means warmer weather and if we have to, we can find a campground till things settle back down...
"We are--each of us--dying; it's how we live in the meantime that makes the difference."
"It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived!"
"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."
So first point:Having the carriers and their health documents always in the same place, at hand and ready.
Second point: Have an emergency reserve of pet food and water
Third: Have them with means of identification preferably chip but depending on the pet owner's geography each person might have to adapt to their possibilities.
Hmm it's beginning to take shape...
Yay more ideas please heh
" How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven."
- Robert A. Heinlein
It might be a good idea to have second person name and phone # on the microchip encase you can not be reach if lose your power or cell phone in a flood or storm. Have some photos of your pets too that you can post them if your pet get lost
One of the things that worries me is if they're hiding at a time of emergency. Well right now my place is small so that's not much of a problem but I'm thinking about designing a plan for my parents as well.
" How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven."
- Robert A. Heinlein
One of the local SPCA's around here sold window stickers a while back that say in case of emergency please save my __cat / __dog so you could indicate that you have however many of either or to alert emergency personnel. I have those up in my windows, fwiw.
One thing that I didn't have to go looking for, but was (awesomely) offered to me a few years ago while I was going through cancer treatment was via my vet. I had brought my dog in for a thorough check up before I started chemo as I needed her as healthy as possible, and they vet said any time I needed help, they would be more than willing to kennel her.
I guess what I'm saying is that it cant hurt to ask your vet if they are willing to offer emergency kenneling in a medical emergency, as most kennels Ive used don't answer the phones after a certain hour. Especially if you live alone and don't have a lot of helpers around. Or don't have proper boarding options in your area.
Someday I hope to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am
talk . If you live alone and get into a horrible accident it could save your pet if the polices knew you had pets at home that need to be taken care of.
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Little Giants Visit Hall of Fame Enroute to Alleghenyby Brent Harris • October 28, 2005 Share:
CANTON, Ohio - What's one way to break up Friday's eight-hour ride from Crawfordsville to Meadville, Pennsylvania? Easy, stop at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
Wabash College coaches, staff and players spent time Friday evening throwing passes to NFL Pro Football Hall of Famer Lynn Swann and future Hall of Famer Jerry Rice (well, not the actual players but cutouts of the players in an interactive passing booth). The stop gave the players more than a chance to stretch their legs. The Little Giants will put their 7-0 record on the line at Allegheny College. (See photo album from Hall of Fame visit.)
For many of the kids, it was a chance to see some of the legends they'd only heard of during Sunday football broadcasts.
Freshman Matt Kraft stepped into the main Hall of Fame area where a bust of each inducted member is presented and asked equipment manager Tom Perkins when Jim Brown played.
"I can't come to the Hall and not see the bust of one of the greatest players of all time," said Kraft, who spent several minutes in front of the lifelike sculpture. Assistant Coach Tom Meeker sought out the Tom Landry bust, his namesake.
The Hall staff held the final showing of the museum's historical film. Several Little Giants wandered through the building, taking photos of the many displays showing the history of the National Football League.
"There's a letter from the American Football League challenging the NFL to a 'Super Game,'" Perkins pointed out to a group of players in a room that paid tribute to Super Bowl memories. The NFL accepted the challenge of course, paving the way for the showdown that's become one of America's biggest sporting days.
The final stop of the afternoon contained the football passing booth, where head coach and former Kenyon quarterback Chris Creighton joined several players in an impromptu passing contest. Other players surrounded trivia screens, video booths, and a John Madden NFL Challenge video game controller.
After several games of interactive trivia (ask junior lineman Jeff Williams which NFL player became the first to score 2,000 points in a career), video football, and souvenir purchases in the gift shop, the players boarded the two buses to depart for dinner and the remaining two-hour drive to Meadville, Pa.
Harris is Wabash College's Sports Information Director. Photos by Web Editor Howard Hewitt
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Above: Kyle Piazza looks at a Hall of Fame display about some of the NFL's greatest players.
On Homepage: Little Giants in front of the Pro Football Hall of Fame at Canton, Ohio.


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The first time I was asked to give my testimony was on a mission trip to Venezuela with my church youth group. It was the summer after my senior year of high school, and I had never been that far away from home.
Everything was different; the people, the language, the food, the weather. The only thing that seemed familiar was the church service. Starting with worship songs, and concluding with the pastor preaching from the Bible, the Spirit was the same.
Who cared that the building didn't have a roof, or that they met in the covered car park at the pastor's house? The unifying element was our love for Jesus.
Throughout the trip, each team member took their turn sharing their testimony at the different services we attended. I dreaded my turn, because I felt like I had nothing to share. I was a good-girl. I had attended church my entire life. I followed the rules.
There was no drama. I wasn't saved from anything. My life wasn't miraculously changed.
Sensing my concern, one of the leaders of our trip talked with me about what a testimony actually is. I had assumed that it was my conversion experience. Instead, I discovered that our testimony is anything God has done, or is doing, in our life.
The things I was learning on that trip were a testimony of His power, provision and protection (and no, I didn't intend for that to be alliterated). He had healed me after I lay sick in a hammock for three days. He had provided the funds for me to travel to a foreign country to work alongside the people there. He had protected our team as we traveled by air and land.
There are still times where I feel like I haven't been saved from much. My life seems pretty dull compared to a lot of other people's. I'm a SAHM, a Bible college graduate, I live over my church and pretty much only interact with my neighbors and friends. I don't have any addictions or vices that I'm fighting off or need God to free me from.
When I look at it that way, I feel like I'm doing pretty good on my own.
But then I look at it through God's eyes.
I was born a sinner. Nothing I can do, on my own, would have changed that. Only through the death and resurrection of Jesus, God's only Son, am I saved from eternal damnation.
My faith in Jesus paints a giant bullseye on my back for the enemy, Satan. He wants to kill, steal and destroy everything in my life in an attempt to thwart the plans of God. I am in battle, I am under attack, I am weak and defenseless on my own. God is my redeemer, He is my strong tower, He is my refuge.
So even though I don't have much of a story to tell about my sinful glory days before Christ, I have a much more gruesome story to paint about what my life would have been like without Him.
And that's a dramatic testimony.
We all have our own story to tell, God is constantly at work in our life.
Today I'm choosing to be thankful that the story that might have been, isn't.
What part of your story, your journey with God, are you thankful for today?


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What is Pinterest?
Currently, you can only gain access to use the site by receiving an invite from a current member or requesting an invite to be placed onto a waiting list by the website itself.
The theory behind the site seems pretty good; you have the option to add images from web pages you visit by "pinning" them to your virtual board to create collages of things you love. E.g. you can create a collage to help plan a wedding or ideas to decorate your home.
So what's the problem?
Well, websites such as Flickr are comprised of users who upload photos they have taken themselves. Users on Pinterest who are browsing through Flickr may see a picture they like and pin it to their board without having the photographers' permission.
After two days my request for an invitation to join Pinterest was accepted and I was sent an email inviting me to join. Once I'd signed up by linking my Facebook account, I was told that I was automatically following other users who were on my Facebook list that were also members. I performed a quick search on the site for "dreadlocks". Even though I combed mine out, I still admire them (I'm even considering getting mine back in the near future but i'm still undecided!).
The search returned quite a large result for images that other users had recently pinned. The image I've circled above is of a regular person whose image gets banded around a lot on the Internet – particularly when dreadlocks are involved. She is from Denmark and goes by the alias of Galapril. She takes her own pictures herself and posts them onto her blog or her Facebook page where they are forwarded on.
Like hers and many of the other images I discovered on that search, they are professionally taken and have more than likely been used without the owner's consent. Although Pinterest should be covered by Copyright Law in the same way that websites such as Facebook & Twitter are protected from being sued if their users share copyrighted material, it may be excluded as none of the sources of the pictures are being informed that the images are being shared unlike it's predecessors.
In the eyes of the law, Pinterest may be similar to illegal peer-to-peer file sharing software such as LimeWire, Kazaa etc. in that the people sharing the music/video files have not asked the original owners permission to distribute the media for free of charge. While images shared on Facebook are not necessarily always direct from the owner, a disclaimer when trying to upload images states that they must be your own and not copyrighted in any way, if anyone wants to share your photo, then you're notified and if you want to limit who can see and share your uploads then you can change your options too – from friends, to public or even customise a list so only preferred contacts will be able to see your activity.
|*image taken from Google images
Pinterest however, does not currently have that option; users are free to roam the Internet to find their own pictures to add to their boards to show other Pinterest users.
It seems like the owners are trying to work on solving this issue though, as they've introduced a "Pin Etiquette" for their site, created a copyright policy where copyrighted images can be reported and removed and they have also introduced an opt-out button for Flickr users should they want to protect their own images.
This quiz from website knowthenet.org.uk shows just how easy it can be to accidentally commit a crime on the Internet without realising.
I hope you've found this information useful and maybe I've even educated you a little (I certainly learnt a few new things myself!). Why don't you take a look for yourself & test your knowledge on this subject?


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I think he's a very good player
Helios wrote:I think he's a very good player
Indeed ! He has the profile of the classic winger. Good dribbler, extremely fast, aggressive, attacking minded, good finisher.
Speed : 85
Acceleration : 86
Aggression : 83 - 84 + The reaction star.
Dribble accuracy : 82 - 83
Dribble speed : 86
Agility : 85
Shot power : 82 - 83
I also think that his main position should be WG in stead of SM. PSV plays in 4-3-3 pretty much all the time.
Fides wrote:updated his FKA and SP, what about his BB?
Yourtjuh_PSV wrote:Fides wrote:updated his FKA and SP, what about his BB?
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Find Matching Images
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There are three image matching service modes:
1. TinEye
2. Google
3. Both (sends image to the above services simultaneously)
There are three modes in which this extension opens the service results page:
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1. Using the UI button in toggled-on state.
2. Like above, but only images that are not functioning as hyperlinks.
2. SHIFT key modifier. (Also removes the UI button)
3. ALT key modifier. (Also removes the UI button)
Unfortunately Opera does not expose context menu API, therefore this (or any other) extension cannot provide context menus either.
1. This extension only works on img elements.
2. In order for the Google service to work (Google blocks Opera from reverse image search !?) you have to, either globally, or on individual sites, identify the Opera as Firefox (or anything else not blocked by googles service). Here's how to do that on individual sites, and in this case Google:
Navigate to http://images.google.com, right click the page and from the context menu pick "Edit Site Preferences...". In the window that pops up, click the "Network" tab. Click the drop-down menu/list that is prepended by the text "Browser identification" and choose "Identify as Firefox" and click "Ok". You should now be able to use the Google service.
Icons are from the Crystal Project: http://www.everaldo.com/crystal/?action=license
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TinEye Search(相似图片搜索)
TinEye是一个查找相似图片的搜索引擎。上传本地图片或者输入图片链接, TinEye可以帮你找到互联网上相似的图片。
Sorry for my English... This worked great until a few days ago. It still can work, but you must do some hacks. Look at this post: http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/2/2014/08/31/google_search_browser_support/#c_2285984. Do as suggested for images.google.com.
still works with my opera 12.16 ! thanks for the development !
nice and useful extension.
It would be great, if author made it for opera 15 and >
Nice Post 10x.
I am using similar
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This tool can find similar images sometimes even better than search engines, but it works for your own photo library. Give it a try
They provide also a Free duplicate file finder.
very nice
I don't understand these comments...It works exactly as it says it does. Perhaps you need to set the preferences. Actually I realized that you have to change the network or user agent you use because google doesn't want to play with opera. If you set it to identify as explorer it works fine!
This addon breaks the ability to click on image links
This addon breaks the ability to click on image links: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1051662&t=1351075470&page=1
Although currently the issue is worse than what was posted in the forum linked above, as this addon causes Opera to do literally *nothing* when clicking on such links. I thought Opera was broken... until I removed this addon.
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Ezzel a járműspecifikus beépítőkészlettel egyszerűen beszerelhetők a CoolAir állóklímák. Meglévő rögzítőpontokat használ.
The simple answer is yes. For overall best results:
The blower runs continuously to circulate air and maintain an even temperature. The compressor will come on as cooling is required to maintain the selected temperature level. Wait at least 2 minutes before restarting the compressor when it has been manually cycled off with either the selector switch or the temperature set lever. Otherwise, the compressor will quick-cycle and could result in compressor or supply circuit overload.
Applicable to models: 457915.70X, 640312.80X, 457915.71X, 640312.83X, B57915.71X, 640312C35X, 459516.70X, 640312C85X, 459516.71X, 640315.80X, B59516.71X, 640315.83X, 540315.70X, 640315.84X, 540315.71X, 640315C35X, 540316.70X, 640315C85X, 540316.71X
First, make sure you set the Control Panel to the Auto Mode. Press this button to turn the AUTO mode ON or OFF: Button In = Auto Mode (Attempts Electric Mode first) Button Out = Auto OFF (Attempts LP Gas Mode only).
Applicable to models: RM3762, RM3962
TEMP. SET button - The thermostat has five settings where "1" indicates the warmest and "5" the coldest temperature setting. Press this button once to display the current setting. Continue to press repeatedly until the desired setting, e.g. "3", is shown in the LED display. This value is shown for about 5 seconds and then the fresh food compartment temperature is displayed once again. The controls for the temperature settings are located behind the freezer door.
That indicates that the Temporary gas lockout function is on (Only in AUTO mode). It delays LP gas operation by 15 minutes when ignition switch is turned OFF. This is for stopping at refueling stations for safety reasons. May only be active on motorized RV units. Normally not activated on towable RVs.


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Someone suggested to lower Mystic Balance average to 4 mana. I liked that idea. But this does buff BURNDARAZ too heavily.
So what if, instead of a flat 2 mana, Mystic Balance adjusted glyphs by 30% of their cost to an average of 4? This would result in all glyphs being adjusted by 1 mana more or less (if I'm right about the way DD's rounding works) except for WEYTWUT which would be reduced by 2, and CYDSTEPP which would be reduced by 3.
The reason I like this idea a lot is that Mystic Balance is currently heavily biased toward fireball-centric strategies. However, following this suggestion would leave BURNDARAZ, ENDISWALL and WEYTWUT exactly the same as if you used Mystic Balance currently. IMAWAL and APHEELSIK end up reduced by 1. LEMMISI, and BYSSEPS and GETINDARE would be increased by 1 mana instead of 2 and CYDSTEPP would be reduced by 3 instead of 2. These all seem like balanced adjustments to me, except for CYDSTEPP.
So the question is: is 7 mana CYDSTEPP too good?


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Hooking up Pixy to a Microcontroller like an Arduino¶
Pixy is meant to talk to a microcontroller, and Pixy comes out of the box ready to talk to an Arduino. Use the supplied Arduino cable to connect Pixy to your Arduino.
Download the Arduino library "Pixy.zip" here. Bring up the Arduino IDE and import the Pixy library by selecting Sketch⇒Import Library... in the Arduino IDE, and then browsing to the Pixy.zip file that you just downloaded.
Next, load the "hello_world" example by selecting it in File⇒Examples⇒Pixy. Upload it and bring up the Serial Monitor. You should see messages printed that look similar to this:
Detected 1: block 0: sig: 1 x: 159 y: 109 width: 61 height: 61 Detected 1: block 0: sig: 1 x: 173 y: 114 width: 60 height: 61 Detected 1: block 0: sig: 1 x: 146 y: 111 width: 70 height: 65 ...
Note, the example will only print messages if Pixy is running the "default program" and an object that matches one of its color signatures is visible.
Arduino API¶
Using Pixy with Arduino is really simple. You simply include the SPI and Pixy headers:
#include <SPI.h> #include <Pixy.h>
And instantiate a global instance:
Pixy pixy;
The API consists of one call:
getblocks(), which returns the number of objects Pixy has detected. You can then look in the
pixy.blocks[] array for information about each detected object (one array member for each detected object.) Each array member contains the following fields:
pixy.blocks[i].signatureThe signature number of the detected object (1-7)
pixy.blocks[i].xThe x location of the center of the detected object (0 to 319)
pixy.blocks[i].yThe y location of the center of the detected object (0 to 199)
pixy.blocks[i].widthThe width of the detected object (1 to 320)
pixy.blocks[i].heightThe height of the detected object (1 to 200)
pixy.blocks[i].print()A member function that prints the detected object information to the serial port
Other Microcontrollers or Devices¶
Pixy will output objects that it detects through one of several interfaces that you choose. It supports SPI, I2C, UART, and analog/digital I/O through its 10-pin I/O connector. Pixy also supports USB 2.0 through its mini-USB connector. You can configure which interface Pixy uses through the configure dialog in PixyMon. The "Data out port" parameter determines the output port.
If you hover the mouse pointer over the "Data out port" text, a help string will be displayed that describes which value corresponds to which type of port.
- SPI - this is the default port that uses 3 wires (pins 1, 3, and 4 of the I/O connector) and is used to communicate with Arduino
- I2C - this is a multi-drop 2-wire port (pins 5 and 9 of the I/O connector) that allows a single master to communicate with up to 127 slaves (up to 127 Pixys).
- analog/digital x - this will output the x value of the largest detected object as an analog value between 0 and 3.3V (pin 3). It also outputs whether an object is detected or not as a digital signal (pin 1 of the I/O connector).
- analog/digital y - this will output the y value of the largest detected object as an analog value between 0 and 3.3V (pin 3). It also outputs whether an object is detected or not as a digital signal (pin 1 of the I/O connector).


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5 things to watch Thursday in the Legislature
Politics often makes strange bedfellows, as will be obvious once again in the state Capitol Thursday. Here are five things to watch:
• A rally urging expansion of the Medicaid low-income insurance program will be held by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a health care workers' union that has opposed most of Gov. Rick Scott's policies. But SEIU members, many of whom are in South Florida, favor Scott's call for a three-year expansion of Medicaid and will show their support in the Capitol. An SEIU news release said the rally would focus on a leading foe of Medicaid expansion, House Speaker Will Weatherford, "who chose partisan politics over serving the hard-working people of Florida."
• Scott and the Cabinet will meet for the first time in weeks, and the first time since all three elected Republican Cabinet members forcefully opposed Scott's support of Medicaid expansion.
• One of several bills that would make texting while driving a non-criminal traffic violation will be considered by the House Transportation & Highway Safety Subcommittee. The bill (HB 13) is sponsored by Rep. Doug Holder, R-Sarasota.
• The annual political fight over how to pay for Everglades restoration will emerge in the House State Affairs Committee, which takes up a bill (SAC 13-01) dealing with the long-term plan for reducing phosphorus flows into the River of Grass. The Everglades Foundation and Audubon of Florida both oppose the bill, saying it does not require sugar cane growers to pay their fair share of the cleanup of 'Glades pollution.
• The Senate Banking & Insurance Committee considers a bill (SB 7018) that allows Citizens Property Insurance Corp. to shrink its risk by loaning some of its surplus money to private insurers who would be encouraged to take over Citizens' policies.


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Sutter County – Caltrans today announced that major construction has been completed on State Route 99 on a $12.9 million project funded primarily by President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). The Recovery Act provided $10.2 million, and the remaining funding came from the State Highway Operation and Protection Program. This project and many others around the state are being completed sooner than expected thanks to Governor Schwarzenegger's efforts to expedite Recovery Act funding.
"My Administration is working hand-in-hand with President Obama's team to ensure Recovery Act dollars are pumped into California quickly and responsibly to help stimulate our economy, save and create jobs and in this instance - invest in the future of California's transportation infrastructure," said Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Caltrans repaved 10 miles of SR-99 between the Sacramento/Sutter county line and SR-70, providing a smoother and safer road for more than 37,000 vehicles that use this highway daily. The prime contractor was George Reed Inc. of Lodi, California.
"With the help of Recovery Act funds, we are now able to repair our highways at a more rapid pace," said Caltrans Director Randy Iwasaki. "Caltrans is targeting federal stimulus dollars where they will provide taxpayers the most benefits for the money spent."
Under Governor Schwarzenegger's leadership, California leads the nation with $2.1 billion in Recovery Act funding obligated to 738 highway and local street transportation projects statewide. Of these, 422 projects worth $2.2 billion have been awarded contracts to begin work, with an additional $440 million in federal stimulus funds expected to be awarded to 121 projects by February 2010. For more information on the Recovery Act visit: http://recovery.ca.gov/.


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Body mods: 7/8ths stretched earlobes, lots of tattoos, even more piercings and bats.
Gets me hot: Nerds, vocabulary, gore, scientific terms, kneecaps and bones rubbing together.
Fantasy: A blue-collar man with a telescope and his & hers matchings reading lamps.
Most humbling moment: Seeing a fan with a tattoo of me on his back.
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My kink factor: I'm saving myself for Jesus!
My politics: Smash the state!
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D-Wave of the future: Quantum computing 'could change the course of human history'
If you drive through Burnaby on your morning commute, you could be passing by the home of the future of computing, a future that could fundamentally change the way we interact with technology.
It's not something you'll see in a store window — a tiny computer chip is housed in a chamber colder than interstellar space and the system, which sells for between $10 and $15 million, is kept in a 10-square metre room.
But the work going on at Burnaby's D-Wave Systems, creator of the world's first quantum computers, is being showcased on the international stage with the company being featured on the cover of TIME magazine.
"It's rare a company gets put on the cover of TIME," said Geordie Rose, a co-founder and chief technology officer of the company. "I think we're in good company, when I was thinking about other companies that got put on the cover, I could only think of Facebook and Google."
Google is one of D-Wave's customers, with a D-Wave Two installed at the new Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab in California, which is a collaboration among NASA, Google and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA).
D-Wave's customer list is small, but illustrious. Along with Google, NASA and the USRA, it includes defence contractor Lockheed Martin and an unnamed American intelligence agency.
If you're looking at your laptop and speculating just how much faster quantum computing could be over today's computers, Rose would probably suggest you give up that comparison.
"I think any number you give misses the point," he said. " … There are problems so vastly complicated that we will never be able to solve them using the computers we build today no matter how big and fast they get.
"There are different ways to build computers … We're trying to unlock an entirely new as yet untapped computational resource to attack problems you can't solve using computers of the sort we use today."
Quantum computing leverages quantum mechanics to create computers that aren't merely upgrades of the today's conventional computers — they work in a completely different way. While today's computers have data in binary digits — known as bits, each a 0 or 1 — quantum computing uses quantum bits — qubits — that can be in more than one state simultaneously.
"The thing we are trying to do here is tap into properties of nature that people know of and have known about for hundreds of years to build an entirely different kind of computer," said Rose. "The objective … is to solve problems you could never otherwise solve in new ways that weren't available before this."
The idea is quantum computers can solve problems that would take conventional computers centuries to solve, if they could solve them at all. And applying that kind of computing power to the vast amounts of data in a number of fields — from medicine, to finance, cryptography and others — could be a game changer.
Rose says the industry is in its infancy.
"It's not yet at the stage of being mature," he said. "Historically we're roughly equivalent to the first Intel microprocessor, the 4004. People were willing to buy it but it wasn't clear what it was useful for.
"There was a sense in the community that they really had a tiger by the tail and if they did this right it could change the nature of humanity's relationship to technology, which it did.
"It's very early, we're at the stage of a first real product but it is the beginning of something that could change the course of human history."
D-Wave, which has created the first and so far only quantum computer systems, is a University of British Columbia spin off, co-founded in 1999 by Rose along with Haig Farris, Bob Wiens and Alexandre Zagoskin.
They launched the company using crowdsourcing, long before the term was coined.
"The concept was to try to build a global network of research scientists to answer questions we posed to them," said Rose. "Back then no one had any clue how to build these machines."
Investors have poured more than $130 million into the company since it was founded, and today it has 100 employees, a number that is fast growing, said Rose.
It has its skeptics, but that doesn't faze Rose, nor apparently the company's customers.
"Ultimately when you are building computers really the only thing that matters is can you use them to solve problems that people care about, because that's the metric by which we judge ourselves."
Did You know?
• While bits of information in today's conventional computers must be 0 or 1, quantum computing uses qubits (quantum bits) that can be in more than one state simultaneously. It can solve problems at such high speeds that it can tackle problems that would otherwise be impossible for traditional computers or would take centuries to solve on a traditional computer.
• The D-Wave Two has a 512-qubit processor chip.
• The temperature of the cryogenics system that holds the processor chip is kept at .01 degrees below -273.15° Celsius (absolute zero).
• So far, there are five D-Wave Two computing systems in existence.
• Potential applications for quantum computing include: Personalized medicine, quantum computers could detect patterns in genetic data that could lead to new treatments for cancer and other diseases; Stock market predictions, analyzing patterns could predict a crash; and weather forecasting, the ability to predict patterns in weather could help prepare for adverse events.
• Internet giant Google, independent research corporation Universities Space Research Association and space agency NASA announced they were acquiring a D-Wave's computing system for their new Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab in Silicon Valley. American global aerospace, defence, security, and advanced technology company Lockheed Martin is also a customer, as is an unnamed U.S. intelligence agency.


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Hi, I saw a bento blog a while ago where onigiri were made by mixing black (thai?) rice and regular white sushi rice. Result was really nice-looking black-purple onigiri! I didn't bookmark the page so can't find it anymore...but I'd really like to try it, too. Has anyone tried mixing black and regular rice? Any opinions what kind/brand of black rice works best?
I don't own rice cooker so I usually boil the rice or microwave it, but I think I'll just have to experiment with cooking times then.
I haven't seen black rice before - so I'll be curious to see what answers you get too. ;)
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The black rice you are thinking of is called kokumai in Japanese. It's also popular in Korea, so you probably can find it the easiest at a Korean market like H-Mart. You just cook a handful of it with regular white rice, and it turns the whole thing a very striking purple color. Plus kokumai is supposed to be quite good for you!
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Oh, and you can just use the regular settings on your rice cooker to cook the kokumai mixed with regular rice. It's sort of treated like zakkokumai - see my zakkokumai post here.
My grandmother has a friend who makes a lovely coconut-flavored dessert with this rice. Her instructions to me (as passed through my grandmother) were "just buy the black rice, cook it, and mix it with coconut milk." The end result was as sticky as sushi rice.
The package of rice is also likely to come with cooking instructions. Please let us know how this turns out! I'd really like to try it too.
I've made that dessert, but you steam the rice rather than boiling it. It's glutinous rice, so very sticky indeed.
I've made both of these:
And this one - I'm sure you could do it with black rice too:
But the one I usually make is like the third one, except I dissolve the sugar in coconut cream instead of water and use a bit more so the pudding is moister. Then I don't pour thickened coconut cream over it. It's delicious.
You don't actually need a Thai steamer, I use the ordinary steamer insert that came with my pots and line it with muslin to stop the rice falling through the holes.
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Thank you for the answers! I couldn't find japanese black rice (kokumai?) but found a packet of thai black rice instead. I'm sure the onigiri will still stick together as the packet says it's sticky rice. And if I only need a handful like Maki said most of it will be normal white rice anyway. I think I'm going to try it tonight!
Bronwyn the desserts look absolutely delicious! I want to try the black rice pudding too! And I'm quite intriqued by the "Golden haired rice" as it says to garnish the pudding with pork hair. Real pork hair? I see there's lots of unfamiliar flavors I haven't yet tasted in this world...
I'll post a photo of my black onigiri here if I manage to make them! Any suggestions what's a good place to upload photos - can I link them here? I don't have blog or website...
Pork hair is pork meat that's been seasoned and shredded and dried so it's like candy floss. It's also called flossy pork. I made that dessert as one of four choices in a dinner party, and you should have seen people's faces when I asked who wanted the non-vegetarian dessert! Four men immediately volunteered.
My husband has gotten quite fond of making candied bacon for parties, people a slightly suspicious at first but somehow it ends up disappearing within minutes (every time).
Candied Bacon:
1/2 lb American bacon
4 tbps brown sugar
kosher salt
Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and separate the bacon slices. Sprinkle 2 tbsp of brown sugar per pan. Bake at 425 for 10-20 minutes or until the bacon is brown and crisp. Immediately sprinkle on some kosher salt once you remove them from the oven.
Never heard of that before, or about candied bacon...Sounds interesting! I bet my boyfriend would volunteer, too ;)
Just to let you know, my black/white rice onigiri turned out perfect! They hold together really well and have very strange yet beautiful purplish hue. Yum! I used about 200 ml normal white rice and about 50 ml black rice. I think black rice would need longer time to cook / steam, now the black grains are just a tad uncooked ... but it actually gives the onigiri nice a bit crunchy texture, but as it's just few grains here and there it doesn't feel like eating half-cooked rice :)
The bag of black rice I recently bought said to soak the rice for 3 or 4 hours before cooking it in a 1:3 ratio with the white rice - I did, and it cooked nicely.
For those of you looking for black rice and other interesting rice types on the mainland US, who perhaps don't have access to an Asian market, you can find several kinds of rice (including the black sticky Thai and golden rice) under the brand Alter-Eco at Whole Foods, which has branches in several major city centers.
My Japanese friend mixes black rice with sushi rice and I have also tried this recently.
For every cup of sushi rice I cook I add 1Tbsp of black rice.
Hello, all,
My name is Carina Storrs, and I am writing a story about black rice for Health.com. It will cover some recent studies of the antioxidant content in black rice. I am hoping to get in touch with someone who has started eating and cooking with black rice. I'm curious how you found out about it, how it tastes, how you've been using it (as a substitute for white/brown rice?).
Please email me if you would be willing to share your story at storrsc [at] gmail [dot] com. My deadline is the end of the day tomorrow, Tuesday Aug 24.
Thanks for your help!
Isn't the black rice a wholegrain rice? Then black and white rice would have different cooking times, which should be considered.
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Figured I could create a thread dedicated to discussion of the bus side of DART (seeing as how we already have several DART threads going under the "Rail" category).
Recently it was announced that there was some shuffling going on among DART members. I believe the short version is that they want to focus more on the city rather than the suburbs (at least that is how I interpreted it):
https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2 ... art-board/
It would be great to see more emphasis placed on the bus system if they truly want to improve service in the city. I have no idea how this can be accomplished, but the general consensus seems to be that it can be done, we just need to put effort into it. Another issue is the negative stigma associated with public transportation (specifically buses), but I think DART could try and emphasize the 'green' aspect of riding the bus to try and sell it. It would still be a hard sell, but making people feel environmentally friendly for riding the bus might be a better way to coerce them onto buses.
Anyway, I didn't have any specific news to discuss, I just thought this could be general bus discussion.


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Six years ago, a small group of jihadis in Birmingham plotted to behead a Muslim soldier. The ringleader, Parviz Khan, spoke in advance about how he would go about it. "I think you cut it off like you cut a pig," he said. "Then you put it on a stick and you say to all Muslim men [who] want to join the Kuffar [non-believers]: this is what happens to you." We know this because the conversation was recorded by MI5, who swooped at just the right time, and five were convicted. But as the IRA said after the Brighton bomb, terrorists just have to be lucky once. The security services need to be lucky all the time.
It emerged on Thursday that both men shot at Woolwich were known to MI5, so the spooks were unlucky. But they track some 2,000 people who slip in and out of various investigations, and if two men decide to murder someone with kitchen knives it would take round-the-clock surveillance to stop them.
The 2007 Birmingham plot was relatively detailed, involving a specific (Muslim) target and a hideaway, whereas the Woolwich attack was as crude as it was brutal. This low-level murder is the nature of today's Islamist terror. Al-Qaeda has lost the ability to hatch any sizeable plot without being caught, so it advises would-be jihadis to do something small and local.
The mutation of Islamic terror is having another effect, which was evident from the video released on the night of the murder: al-Qaeda is steadily being degraded into a loose syndicate of murderous fantasists. The man with the bloodied knife who spoke into a video camera at Woolwich had no discernible agenda. He appeared to call for the overthrow of David Cameron and demanded the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, an order given two years ago. The more he had to say, the more deranged he appeared to be.
There was some debate on Thursday as to whether the video should have been shown at all, but to listen to his ramblings was to understand the nature of this evil. It was a bizarre mixture of Islamist cliché and rap argot, blended in with some loose notion of revolution. "Remove your government, they don't care about you," he said. "You think David Cameron is going to get caught in the street when we start bussin' our guns?" Anyone going online and hoping to find some demonic logic would have been disappointed: none of it made sense.
The authorities need not fear that the tape will be a recruiting sergeant for terror. It has instead hardened the outrage of thousands of British Muslims, who have taken to Twitter to express horror that Islam could be invoked in killing a 25-year-old soldier. "There is nothing 'Allahu Akbar' about killing a British soldier," said the writer Ed Husain. "Allah bless the soldier, prayers for family." "Those who commit acts of terrorism under the name of my beautiful religion are not Muslim," said Samir Haider, a Muslim in Glasgow. The era of social media makes these voices more audible – and, unlike those of the attackers, they make sense.
Logic has never had much to do with it, especially as British forces have tended to be mobilised in defence of Muslims – as the late Christopher Hitchens argued. Without our interventions, Slobodan Milosevic would by now be a new European dictator overseeing an ethnically cleansed Kosovo; Saddam Hussein would be ruling an annexed Kuwait, his terrorised citizens living in a country described as a concentration camp above ground and a mass grave below it; Muslim women would be stoned to death for trumped-up charges in Afghanistan; and hundreds of Muslims would have been massacred by Col Gaddafi in Benghazi.
It is a shame, in a way, that we could not have seen 20 minutes' worth of speeches from the Woolwich suspects. Every word would have hardened the revulsion against them. This time last year, Anders Breivik was standing trial for his massacre of Norwegian schoolchildren in the name of white Europe. It was argued, then, that he ought not to be given the platform and the publicity that he obviously craved in order to propagate his fantasies of ethnic purity. The nature of his atrocity led some to think that a dark creed lay behind it which, if shared, would inspire others.
Quite the reverse. Anyone who followed Breivik's trial saw a fantasist who regarded himself as a Knight Templar, invented military ranks for himself and named his guns after Norse gods. Had he been tried in private, it is possible that some deranged white supremacists might have thought him to possess a mysterious agenda so powerful that the authorities did not dare to release it. But during that trial he stood exposed as a pitiful and deluded character whose political opinions were no more relevant than those of the Soho bomber. He was a murderer, who longed to be categorised as a terrorist.
This month marks the 50th anniversary of Hannah Arendt's book The Banality of Evil. She had travelled to Jerusalem to watch the trial of Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, who had been captured in Argentina by Mossad. She found him to be a near-robotic creation of Nazi bureaucracy, who spoke in jargon. "Despite all the efforts of the prosecution, everybody could see that this man was not a 'monster'. But it was difficult indeed not to suspect that he was a clown," she wrote. But because the world wanted to view him as a monster, "his worst clowneries were hardly noticed and almost never reported".
The theme of her book – the strange relationship between idiocy and evil – can be found in the history of jihadi attacks. There is Richard Reid, a Muslim convert from London, apprehended after failing to light a fuse in a shoe bomb. There was the Nigerian, Umar Abdulmutallab, who set his underpants alight on a flight to Detroit while trying to detonate a bomb. Or Abdullah al-Asiri, who hid a bomb in his anus before meeting a Saudi minister – only to blow himself up while the minister looked on, amazed and unhurt.
Muslims the world over had stopped taking al-Qaeda seriously long before the death of bin Laden. The Pew Research Centre found that, eight years ago, 61 per cent of Jordanians said they trusted bin Laden to "do the right thing", and this had dropped to 13 per cent two years ago. It was the same story across Pakistan, Indonesia and Lebanon.
The Arab Spring, in which the terror group played no part, has exposed its irrelevance. It has lost its potency, or its claim to a broader agenda. The Woolwich attack had no more to do with British government policy than the Boston Marathon had to do with Chechnya.
Not so long ago, there was serious talk about al-Qaeda detonating a dirty bomb, polluting the water supply or thinking of other schemes to kill thousands. Now, increasingly, al-Qaeda is simply a name invoked by Algerian cigarette smugglers who want to attach a grand purpose to their racketeering. Or by isolated, fanatical preachers when they find breakable, impressionable young men.
It is unclear yet whether the two suspects shot at Woolwich will live to explain just what they meant in that video, but we should hope that they do. It would help to expose the hollowness of their actions, so that an act of senseless murder can be called by its name.
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Apart from providing workout information my main purpose will be to help people get over barriers such as, limiting beliefs, lack of motivation, self esteem issues, bad habits, by providing them with the tools and information to become a more confident person, and to help them towards a more active lifestyle.
This design will be used on my website and business cards.
I am targeting men and women between the ages of 20-60
People who are overweight, lacking in confidence, self-esteem and are insecure.
People looking for help to get fit and stay fit.
The colors that I am interested in using for the logo design are red, black, grey and white. My idea is to use a red background with the logo on top.
If you go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors, these some samples of the colors I am interested in using.
Candy Apple Red
The design I am looking for is to have a logo with the words "Back Into Fitness" within or around the design. Something that is motivational or fitness orientated.
I would like to position the logo at the top left of my site and have the red background run across the screen from left to right.
Approximate size;
Logo: 5cm across - 3.5cm down
Red Background: 5cm down - all the way across screen
I would like a neutral design, not too masculine or feminine.
Here is a similar sample structure;
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Aspen is in full swing as of tonight. The Winter X Games 14 Halfpipe was the place to be this evening as Shaun White, Louie Vito, Kazu, Ipod, Greg Bretz, Lago, Aono, Steve Fisher, JJ Thomas and others went at it under the lights. In the end, it was a diverse podium, unlike most of the Grand Prix stops that favored the American riders, which left us wondering if the tide has turned. Could this be a precursor to the emergence of the European/Canadian/Japanese (we're not quite sure why we included the Canadians) presence in Vancouver? We'll know the answer to that in a few short weeks, but tonight, we're betting that Shaun White, Iouri Podlatchikov and Kazuhiro Kokubo are blacked out and face deep in some cougar cleavage right now.
Photos: Ryan Hughes
Winter X Games 14 Men's Halfpipe Results
January 29, 2010 Aspen, CO
- Shaun White
- Iouri Podladchikov
- Kazuhiro Kokubo
- Greg Bretz
- JJ Thomas
- Steve Fisher
- Luke Mitrani
- Louie Vito


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Certificate studies
The twin-campus WBA International Diploma in Brewing Technology program will prepare graduates to advance their careers through practical application of brewing.
This 12-week program is comprised of segments, divided into one-to-three-week modules, with each module specializing in a particular area of brewing technology. The content will address issues in brewing from an international perspective, providing a depth of experience that is unavailable through any other institution.
The WBA International Diploma in Brewing Technology Program begins with 7-weeks of brewing theory and business issues conducted at our Siebel Institute campus in Chicago. Students build a sound understanding of the sciences and technologies that are used throughout breweries of all sizes. After the Chicago modules are completed, students then travel to Doemens Academy in Munich, Germany, where they apply the knowledge gained from their first 7-weeks of study in the practical brewing environment at Doemens. Students also participate in advanced-level brewing theory training while at Doemens, including presentations regarding brewing techniques used in creating authentic German beer styles.
Finally, students travel on the European Study Tour to breweries and brewing-industry suppliers, learning how the information they have gained in the program is utilized in real-world brewing environments. Over the 12-weeks of this program, students will gain a truly international perspective on brewing techniques and technologies.
Check dates, tuition & availability
*Students taking the full, continuous program receive roundtrip airfare (Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, U.S.A., to Munich Franz Joseph Strauss International Airport and back to Chicago) within the cost of tuition. Room and board is the responsibility of the students in both Chicago and Munich.
All students applying for an advanced program, module or course must be of legal drinking age.
This advanced program or module requires students to have a specific knowledge of brewing theory and/or related sciences in order to be successful in the assessment process by having either successfully completed one of the following, with exception of Modules 5 and 7 (see exceptions info below).
(a) Successfully passing the Concise Course in Brewing Technology (campus or online), or
(b) Successfully passing the online assessment
Exceptions: To qualify for Module 5, one must have successfully completed all Modules 1-3. To qualify for Module 7, one must have successfully passed Modules 1-6
Upon completion of this program students will be awarded the WBA International Diploma in Brewing Technology certificate.


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This is CharACTers Entertainment's fifth year, and Executive Artistic Director Cody Carlton said the decision to restage a production of the musical "Annie" was an easy one — the group has been constantly asked to do it again.
This is CharACTers Entertainment's fifth year, and Executive Artistic Director Cody Carlton said the decision to restage a production of the musical "Annie" was an easy one — the group has been constantly asked to do it again.
"It had been five years, and it was what everyone was wanting to do," Carlton said. "We'd heard for the past five years, 'please do 'Annie' again, please do 'Annie' again.' ... With it being our five-year anniversary season, and it being Christmas and the show having a nice Christmas message, we decided to go ahead and bring 'Annie' back to celebrate five years."
He said the Christmas theme also makes it a perfect ending to the troupe's 2012 season.
The show opens Friday night at 7:30 at Wallace Hall Fine Arts Center, with additional performances set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 7 and 8 and 2:30 p.m. Dec. 9.
A performance for schools at 9:30 a.m. Dec. 7 basically is sold out, said Carlton, who is directing the musical.
"Annie" was the first show CharACTers staged on its own, and only the fourth for Carlton as a director.
Carlton now has 30 shows under his belt as a director, and said while the musical's words and music remain the same, his staging is completely different this time. The actors' movements are changed, there's different choreography and completely different sets.
The cast also is almost completely different, with only a few people reprising their roles from five years ago.
Chris Dowdy again is playing Daddy Warbucks, the billionaire tycoon, and Mark Peilen is back as Drake, Warbucks' chauffeur.
Carlton said other cast members who were in the earlier production are playing different roles, and some of the original "orphans" now are in the adult ensemble.
Bailey Broome has the role of Annie. The show also includes an ensemble of about 60 other orphans who will sing and dance in two songs — "It's a Hard Knock Life," about the plight of being an orphan; and "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile," a reprise to a radio show in which Warbucks is trying to help Annie find her parents.
"I think 'Annie' really has a powerful message to it," Carlton said, "it's not just another children's musical, it truly has so much truth for every single adult that will come and see this show, especially in this time when there is so much gloom and doom and so much hardship.
"I think the message is that the sun will come out tomorrow, there is always a better day ahead if we make it a better day," he said.
Carlton called it "truly America's happy ever after," adding, "It's that there is a brighter day ahead, I think that's why it appeals to people, that we as a society are looking for that brighter future and we are looking for that happier existence."
Carlton said Dave Ansel of Planet Doggywood lent them a dog — its real name is Andy Griffith — to play Sandy, the stray that becomes Annie's constant companion.
Asked if it was nerve wracking to put a dog on stage to respond to cues such as coming when called and sitting still while Annie sings "Tomorrow," Carlton laughed.
"I'd say it's just as nervous as putting 60 kids on stage," he said. "You never really know what will happen."Angie Campbell is directing the music, Santana McKinney the choreography.
Advance tickets are $8 for students and $10 for adults. They can be purchased at the Hardin Center, by phone at 256-543-ARTS (2787) or wallacehall.org.
Tickets at the door are $10 for students and $12 for adults. The box office will open an hour prior to showtime.


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SAN DIEGO (AP) Expectations have never been higher for a San Diego State basketball team than the one Steve Fisher will unveil during Friday night's Madness on the Mesa.
After reaching the NCAA tournament for the third straight season, the Aztecs return four of their five starters and welcome a highly touted recruiting class that includes three Division I transfers and three freshmen.
Fisher hasn't been a big fan of Midnight Madness and will save the serious stuff for practice on Saturday, which will be closed to the public.
But the hoops team is now the biggest thing going on Montezuma Mesa.
``My preference is to do it in a closed setting, and when we have our first game, we open ourselves to the public,'' Fisher said. ``But there has been such an outcry from first our players and then the students and everybody to have a Midnight Madness this year. So we're very excited about it. A lot of people have put in a lot of work, and I'm hoping I don't fall asleep before it's over.
``It will be smoke and mirrors and all kinds of stuff that will have no relevance on our team, but it's going to be fun. ...Then we'll start practice on Saturday to get ourselves ready for the season.''
The good news for the 67-year-old Fisher is that it's not a true Midnight Madness, but one that starts at 9 p.m.
The Aztecs have a tough opener, both in opponent and atmosphere. They'll play Syracuse on Nov. 9 in the inaugural Battle on the Midway on the flight deck of the decommissioned USS Midway on San Diego Bay.
After that, the Aztecs can look forward to beginning a home schedule that's already sold out.
``The anticipation and excitement that everybody's talked about, a sellout arena, an atmosphere that most in the country would die to have in their building, we have. We want to continue to have that,'' Fisher said.
The Aztecs had their best season ever two years ago, going 34-3 and earning the first two NCAA tournament victories in school history. They reached the regional semifinals before losing to eventual national champion UConn.
After losing four starters off that team, including Kawhi Leonard to the NBA, last season was supposed to be a transition year to this season's recruiting class. Instead, the Aztecs shared the Mountain West Conference regular-season title with New Mexico and reached the tournament title game before losing to the Lobos. They returned to the NCAAs for the third straight year, this time as a No. 6 seed, before a lack of height and inside bulk cost them in a second-round loss to North Carolina State.
Thus the buildup to this season.
``I would say it's probably the most talked about team that we've had,'' Fisher said. ``To be honest with you, right now it's not the best team we've had. I'll harken back to the first time we ever got ranked two years ago. I knew how good that team was because they had all those guys at a very high level that had done it the year before and were returning. You might say, `Well you had guys returning from last year.' We do, but not to that degree in terms of the numbers that we had then, and they were all going to be seniors, too, with the exception of Kawhi, who played like a senior.
``Yeah, it's the most hyped-up team. We won't match the record we had two years ago. 34-3. There is nobody in the country that's going to do that, but we're going to have a good team.''
Junior guard Jamaal Franklin, the Mountain West Conference Player of the Year, leads four returning starters. The others are senior guard James Rahon, senior guard Chase Tapley and junior guard Xavier Thames.
The Division I transfers who sat out last season but practiced with the team are all sophomore forwards: Dwayne Polee from St. John's, JJ O'Brien from Utah and James Johnson from Virginia. Johnson will be eligible mid-year. He is 6-foot-9 while Polee and O'Brien are 6-7.
The freshmen are forwards Winston Shepard, Matt Shrigley and Skylar Spencer. The 6-9 Shepard was cited for marijuana possession on campus in late June.
The challenge for Fisher will be finding minutes for everybody.
``We have 11 guys that all think they're positively going to start, so it will be competitive,'' he said. ``That will be everybody's challenge to earn your opportunity, and I'm not going to pick the starting lineup. Our players will help me decide who is going to be out there, and our starting lineup in all probability will vary, especially early.''
Fisher said playing time for Franklin, Tapley and Rahon will probably drop some.
``We'll have more players that will play. Last year we had a limited squad to choose from. This year we've got a lot of guys and they can all play. So that will be part of what we try to kind of find out about as we move forward. We've got to say, `How can we play more people?' That is part of my job, too.
``They'll be a fun team to watch, and hopefully a successful team as we move forward,'' Fisher said.


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Demanding Some Hepatitis Action
Viral hepatitis advocates have mixed feelings about the Obama Administration and Congress' treatment of a disease which affects 5.3 million Americans. On the one hand, Obama added $1.8 million to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's hepatitis budget, bumping it up to $17 million. On the other, this funding was given directly to AIDS providers to integrate hepatitis C outreach with HIV outreach among men who have sex with men (MSM).
Martha Saly, director of the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR), said it is problematic to tie hepatitis C funding to HIV. HIV/AIDS prevention is allocated $515.4 million in the CDC budget.
"The amount of funding for viral hepatitis is so minuscule. Any funding that the president be given to the division of viral hepatitis for supporting the state viral hepatitis coordinators," Saly said,who had hepatits C for 35 years, before responding to treatment ten years ago. "They should be able to decide what the priority is in their states." There is a rational for linking the funding. MSM are increasingly at risk for hepatitis C, and 30 percent of all people with hep C also have HIV.
While not as powerful as the vast network of AIDS advocates, now viral hepatitis advocates (many AIDS advocates among them) are calling on Washington to increase funding for hepatitis B and C to $50 million and rallying on Capitol Hill for National Hepatitis Day on May 19. The funding would go directly to state hepatitis directors and not be tied to AIDS services.
In 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that 43,000 Americans were newly infected with hepatitis B and 17,000 with hepatitis C. Hepatitis B has a vaccine, though hepatitis C doesn't. Hepatitis C Is the most common cause of liver cancer, which is one of the most lethal, expensive and fastest rising cancers in America.
The funding for hepatitis is appropriated through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Saly said Frieden hasn't responded to NVHR's request for meetings. However, Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has convened an inter-agency workgroup so that federal agencies can better address viral hepatitis.
Saly applauded Koh, and said, "I think the federal government needs to recognize the importance of addressing viral hepatitis. There's no political will to make a difference. We need to educate people about why it's important so they can do something about it."
What You Can Do to Help
Call your representative
The Viral Hepatitis and Liver Cancer Prevention and Control Act of 2009 was introduced by U.S. Representatives Mike Honda, (D-CA) and Charles Dent (R-PA) with original cosponsors Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Edolphus Towns (D-NY), Anh "Joseph" Cao (R-LA), David Wu (D-OR), Todd Platts (R-PA), Donna M. Christiansen (D-VI), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Bobby Rush (D-IL), George Butterfield (D-NC), and Judy Chu (D-CA). There are now 30 cosponsors of this groundbreaking, bipartisan legislation. The goal is to have at least 100 representatives join as cosponsors and show their support for addressing the viral hepatitis epidemic by May 19, World Hepatitis Day!
Call your senators by April 16
There is no Senate companion legislation, but Senators have a powerful role in appropriations. Tell your senators to expand viral hepatitis funding to $50 million. Whether you speak to a health staff person directly or leave a message, tell him or her:
"My name is ______ and I'm a constituent of Senator ______. I am calling to urge the Senator to ask the Appropriations Committee to support increased funding for hepatitis prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hepatitis prevention has been underfunded and defunded throughout the years. It is currently at $19.3 million and desperately needs $50 million. Hepatitis B and C affect over 5 million Americans and is the leading cause of liver cancer, one of the most deadly, expensive, and fastest growing killers of Americans every year, and the leading cause of liver transplants each year, and a leading cause of death in Americans co-infected with hepatitis and HIV. Money for prevention of hepatitis B and C is critical to providing a public health response like we have for other infectious diseases. This includes public education, counseling, testing, and referral into care. This is important to me personally because________"
You can call your Senator toll-free at 1-866-220-0044. Ask the Capital switchboard to connect you to your Senator's office. Ask to speak to the staff person who handles health issues. If you don't know who your Senator is, you can find out online at www.Senate.gov.
Rally on Capitol Hill
Register to attend "This is hepatitis ...", a rally on Capitol Hill on May 19. If you can't attend, you can still support the event financially, or honor loved ones you've lost to hepatitis. For more information go to nvhr.org


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March 7, 2003
Tonight, for the first time all season, the UCSB men's basketball team can sit back and just enjoy playing the game of basketball. Thursday night the Gauchos held on for a victory over the Titans of Fullerton to clinch a regular season championship in the Big West Conference. The win also guaranteed Santa Barbara a #1 seed in the conference tournament, something that should make the run to the NCAA Tournament a bit easier. UCSB enter's tonight's game with an overall record of 16-12 and a league mark of 13-4. Riverside is 6-17 on the season and is 5-12 in the Big West. The game will be played at UCR's Student Recreation Center and will be broadcast on KEYT 1250.
UC Santa Barbara Probable Starting Lineup:
Starting in the back court for the Gauchos will be Jacoby Atako, who struggled a bit against Cal State Fullerton. Atako went 0-3 from the floor and managed just one point, four less then his season average, and he turned the ball over three times. The other guards will be Branduinn Fullove and Nick Jones. Fullove led all scorers with 19 points in Thursday's game going 5-for-8 eight from the floor and 5-for-6 from behind the three-point line. On the season he is leading the team in scoring at 15 points per game. Jones continued his offensive tear against the Titans scoring 15 points and sinking three of his four three-point attempts. Starting on the blocks for the Gauchos will be Mark Hull and Casey Cook. Hull will be playing in his last regular season game at UC Santa Barbara tonight. He has been the most consistent player in Gaucho history racking up the most minutes of playing time and the second most points as well as becoming the only player in UCSB history to start and play in every single basketball game in his four years here. Against the Titans, Hull went 3-for-5 five from the floor and finished with 10 points. Cook connected on all of his shots against Fullerton knocking down both his shots from the floor and sinking two free throws.
UC Riverside Probable Starting Lineup:
Starting in the back court for the Highlanders will be Jake Wessel and Kevin Butler. Wessel is averaging 5.3 points per game and is pulling down 2.3 rebounds. He is not much of an outside threat having made just nine three-pointers on the season, but when he takes his game inside the arc, he has connected on 45% of his field goals. Butler is the third leading scorer for UC Riverside averaging 8.7 points per game. He is most effective when passing the ball as he leads the team with 70 assists. Butler also gets to the free throw line often where he converts almost 80% of his free throws. The forwards for UCR will be Nate Carter, John Galbreath, and Aaron Hands. Carter is the Highlanders' leading scorer at 16.7 points per game. He is shooting around 50% from the floor and 37% from the three-point line. His three-point percentage is tops amongst the starters for Riverside. Additionally, he is second on the team in rebounding and assists, grabbing 5.5 boards per game and dishing out a total of 35 assists. Galbreath is scoring seven points and pulling down three rebounds per contest. He knocks down about 45% of his shots from the floor. Hands is the man in the middle for UCR, leading the team in rebounding with six boards per game while also chipping in 5.5 points. He leads the team with 12 blocked shots on the season.
Scouting the Gauchos:
It's hard to say how the Gauchos will come out tonight, they could relax a bit and try and conserve their energy, or they could come out like this is game one of the Big West Tournament. Either way, Santa Barbara will play hard as it is against the nature of the program to play soft or unmotivated. Plus, there are plenty of motivating factors coming into tonight's game. The Gauchos want to continue to improve and continue their winning streak. Additionally, the team wants to make sure it stays on top of all aspects of its game going into the Big West Tournament. However, it may be in the best interest of the program to do its best to conserve energy and health before the post season. Regardless, expect to see Fullove, Jones, and Hull doing some scoring. Fullove is hot right now leading the team with six straight double-digit scoring games and 13 in the last 14. Jones has also been hot pacing the team with 16 against Irvine and scoring 15 against Fullerton. Hull continues to score below his capability but everyone knows that during the post season, his game improves dramatically. Defensively, look for the Gauchos to perfect their zones and pressure defenses against the Highlanders. Coach Williams will undoubtedly throw some different looks at Riverside to throw the Highlanders off their game and to give Santa Barbara a chance to run through the motions before the results really count. Regardless of the approach the Gauchos take tonight, expect a hard played game that showcases many different players on the Santa Barbara roster.
Scouting the Highlanders:
Nate Carter is pretty much Mr. Everything for the Highlanders. He is their leading scorer at 16.7 points per game while also leading the team in minutes per game, shooting percentage, free throws, and unfortunately, turnovers. Therefore, Carter is going to be the main focus of the Gaucho defense. A non-starter, Ted Bell, is the team's top three-point shooter, connecting on 49-of-113 attempts from downtown. Likely Atako will be assigned to Bell whenever he is in, making sure he doesn't get any easy shots. As a team, Riverside is statistically lower in just about every category than their opponents. This means that if Santa Barbara can come to play with the regular defensive intensity we have seen throughout Big West play, the Gauchos should be able to come away with a victory.
Key Match-up:
The key match-up in tonight's game will be health versus the Gauchos. Because Santa Barbara has already established their first place finish in Big West play and has locked down the #1 seed in the conference tournament, this game really doesn't mean much in terms of standings. Of course the Gauchos will come out and play this game just like they would any other, it is important they stay sharp and prepared for the post season. But what is most important about this game is that everybody stay healthy and poised for the post season run. Don't be surprised to see many different combinations on the floor for Coach Williams as he tries to get everybody warmed up for the Big West Tournament.
What to Look For:
Look for the Gauchos to finish their season on a high note, with a four game winning streak. Nothing would please the coaching staff more then knowing they will be heading down to Anaheim with a winning streak and a squad full of healthy bodies. Expect to see many different Gauchos get playing time tonight but also look for UCSB to continue to play hard and work on things the team must perfect as a whole in order to be prepared for the post season.


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