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Celebrate 20 years of MAMMA MIA! in London where it all began…
Join the fun as the world's favourite feel-good musical, MAMMA MIA!, celebrates its twentieth anniversary in London's West End. Since premiering there in 1999, the irresistible smash-hit has become a global phenomenon that's captured the hearts of millions around the globe.
The sunny, funny tale of a mother, a daughter and three possible dads on a Greek island idyll, all unfolding to the magic of ABBA's timeless pop masterpieces, has now been seen live on stage by over 65 million people across the world, and turned into two record-breaking movies – MAMMA MIA! The Movie and MAMMA MIA! Here We Go Again.
You can book from 27-Jan-2020 to 19-Sep-2020.
Suitable for ages 5 and over.
Find out more about the venue for your show: Directions, Transport options and facilities.
(5mins) Go right on Long Acre; turn right into Bow Street and after 100 metres turn left (Russell Street) then immediately right onto Catherine Street, where the theatre is located 100 metres down on the corner with Aldwych.

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Want to watch the 25 Hours At Thunderhill but can't find it on television? You can catch a stream of it right here from the 034Motorsport Audi TTRS VLN, courtesy of our good friend Robb Holland. It's sure to be some pretty great racing.
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The 2nd ScreenSingapore event closed Friday (Dec 7), held in conjunction for the first time with the Asian TV Forum & Market (ATF), with attendees saying it was an improvement on last year's event, although the market itself was more focused on television than film.
Held by Singapore's Media Development Authority (MDA), ScreenSingapore was this year pushed back six months to run with the ATF in the Sands Expo and Convention Center, which afforded the event a busy market floor and combined TV and film conferences.
MDA Assistant Chief Executive Officer Yeo Chun Cheng says they took criticisms of last year's event to give local filmmakers more support, which resulted in a "Sneak Peeks" showcase of nine of Singapore's upcoming releases and festival films (local productions have doubled from six in 2002 to an expected 13 for 2013); matchmaking sessions for local and Chinese filmmakers, and the red carpet premiere of local film Wedding Diary which closed the event's galas on Dec 6.
Most of the market floor's sellers were from the broadcast sector, with umbrella stands generally hosted by non-film entities such as the International Drama Festival in Tokyo hosting the Japan Pavilion. (In this case, "Drama" is used in the sense of "TV drama".)
"ATF is a bigger and much more established market. But a lot of the buzz is about film. The red carpet premieres generate a lot of excitement. In the long run, if we can find the right balance, ScreenSingapore can get the benefit of the trade floor and ATF can get the benefit of ScreenSingapore's film. You work hard all day, and go to a premiere at night," says Yeo.
Stars like Isabelle Huppert and Sophie Marceau added to the glamour at night on the red carpet. Holding Rendezvous With French Cinema, a film festival-cum-trade platform, in conjunction with ScreenSingapore, Unifrance also took a large umbrella stand housing nine French sellers on the market floor.
"I think the French sellers were happy to meet the key buyers from the region here. There is still a huge potential in the Southeast Asian region for our films to grow and it is important to be here," said Valerie-Anne Christen, head of UniFrance Films, Tokyo Office and head of Research, Asia.
Conferences included speakers such as Sanford Panitch, President, Fox International Productions, USA, who talked about working with local systems outside the Hollywood bureaucracy and "embracing the principles of disruptive innovation".
Interest in working with China and potentially growing Singapore as a regional hub was reflected in panels and talks such as the one given by Yu Dong, CEO & Founder, Bona Film Group, China, who talked about unique models of coproductions amongst the Chinese-speaking territories of mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and how mainland China's film sector will be looking for major co-productions with the US as well to satisfy market demand.
Attendance figures are still pending but as of Thursday, Yeo estimated 4,000 participants, up from 3,500 last year.
He says MDA looks to position ScreenSingapore as "the event to end the year."
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At Texas A&M, life after Johnny Manziel just as bright
- Texas A%26M coach Kevin Sumlin has had great success with quarterbacks not named Johnny Manziel
- The Aggies are in the midst of a two-year stadium renovation and expansion
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Even now, after the whirlwind has subsided, Jake Spavital does not need much time to do the math. When people talk these days with the Texas A&M offensive coordinator, what percentage of the questions are still about Johnny Manziel?
That includes the current query, of course. But reporters, fans, friends and anyone else, it's the same.
"All questions end up reverting back to Johnny," Spavital says, and he chuckles.
SUMLIN:"A victory for common sense"
In that regard, nothing has changed, even as Manziel has moved on. Spavital and the other A&M coaches watch, bemused, as Johnny Football creates buzz, through no fault of his own, in moving up and down mock draft boards. But they understand he'll remain the fulcrum for almost any discussion of Texas A&M football in the near future, as in:
What will life be without Johnny?
"Everybody makes a big deal about that," Aggies coach Kevin Sumlin says – but he knows why.
Twenty victories in the past two seasons have sparked a sense of momentum surrounding the program that might be unprecedented in the modern era. For evidence, there's another stellar recruiting class signed last month. Even more visible are the three cranes sitting on what used to be the grass surface of Kyle Field, part of the $450 million project underway continuously (really: crews are working around the clock) to renovate and expand the stadium to 102,500 seats.
There were several factors in the surge, including Sumlin's arrival and the excitement over moving to the SEC. It probably did not hurt that at the same time, rival Texas was unraveling.
But no one downplays Manziel's impact. Texas A&M's rebirth coincided with the birth of the legend of Johnny Football. That win in 2012 against Alabama, the Heisman Trophy, even Manziel's epic 2013 offseason contributed to the buzz surrounding the program.
"The one thing that Johnny brought us was being on TV every day," A&M defensive coordinator Mark Snyder says. "Every time I looked up. It was amazing."
Thus, any talk of momentum and expansion has to include Manziel, and perhaps to begin with him. And the question has to be asked: Will it end with his departure?
Sumlin laughs. Ever confident, he recites a partial list of quarterbacks he has coached, whether as a head coach or an assistant. Included: Drew Brees, Jason White, Sam Bradford, Case Keenum. They all had different styles. They all won. Extrapolated, Sumlin's point is that in college football, changing rosters is among the few constants.
"We've been around really, really good quarterbacks everywhere we've been," he says, "whether it's here or Houston or Oklahoma or Purdue. At what point is it not just coincidence? I'll just put it that way."
But perhaps none had the impact on his program that Manziel had on Texas A&M. On that note, none of the three quarterbacks trying to replace him should be expected to be Manziel, or to have his impact.
Manziel's replacement will emerge from a competition currently underway during spring practice among senior Matt Joeckel, sophomore Kenny Hill and freshman Kyle Allen. They're listed by experience, though it wouldn't surprise anyone if Allen, a highly regarded recruit who enrolled in January, won the job, or if Hill is the starter when the season begins August 28 against South Carolina.
They're talented quarterbacks. Allen and Hill, especially, bring the kinds of high school résumés that would normally cause fans to salivate. But never mind Manziel's performances, the competition is to replace a phenomenon, and perhaps as competitive a player as has been seen recently in college football.
Snyder recalls how practices became a never-ending battle between quarterback and defensive coordinator. Manziel would study the defense and check into another play. Snyder would check into another defense. Manziel would respond, and so on, and it became an extracurricular chess match.
And then, of course, Manziel would do something to make Snyder shake his head and just say: "Johnny Football!" – which can be defined, Snyder says, as "the improvisation and the ability to throw the ball on the money with his body in 50 million different positions. Uncanny."
It's possible the combination of Manziel's talent, those mind-bending improv skills and his sheer competitiveness was the dominant factor in Texas A&M's surge from a Big 12 also-ran to a nationally relevant factor in the SEC. It's possible that the building project Sumlin undertook – as opposed to the actual construction at Kyle Field – was pushed far ahead of schedule by Manziel, and that we'll only now begin to learn how far the Aggies have come in two years.
The 49-year-old head coach is sitting in his corner office in the Bright Football Complex just beyond the south end zone. Like the rest of the football facility, the head coach's office is scheduled for renovation. But they'll do it last, he says, because other items – the players' locker room, the athletic training area, the weight room – take higher priority.
"How do you move from a team to a program?" Sumlin asks, and then answers: "That's through recruiting and player development. Those go hand in hand."
Texas A&M's past three recruiting classes ranked among the best nationally. Last month, the Aggies finished ranked No. 6 by Rivals.com – behind three other SEC teams, including SEC West rivals Alabama and LSU.
Sumlin notes that although A&M expects three players – Manziel, left tackle Jake Matthews and receiver Mike Evans – to be first-rounders in the NFL Draft, those were also the only Aggies invited to the NFL Scouting Combine. Alabama had 12 players there, LSU had 11 – and Vanderbilt had five.
"Our talent level and our depth have to continue to increase for us to be who we want to be," Sumlin says. "We've made some strides, but we're not there – and it wasn't gonna happen overnight, based on where we were."
Half of the reconstruction and expansion of Kyle Field is scheduled to be completed before the Aggies' home opener Sept. 6 against Lamar. Next offseason, they'll tackle the rest. By kickoff in 2015, the goal is to have the biggest stadium in Texas, and the best venue in the country.
The schedule might fit the goals of the football program that inhabits the stadium, too. A&M could be good next fall. The defense, which as a young, thin bunch was a liability for most of last season, returns nine starters and should be improved, in part because so many youngsters who played too early gained plenty of experience. Despite losing Manziel, Matthews, Evans and three other offensive starters, Spavital expects a talent rise to make things a little easier for the next quarterback.
"I feel like we have the supporting cast that these kids can lean on for now," Spavital says.
But Texas A&M might be even better in 2015. Projecting that far ahead into the building process, it's reasonable, based on the current roster and assuming continued recruiting momentum, to assume a deep, talented bunch might be led by a talented, experienced quarterback.
By then, he might not even be asked much about Manziel.


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I'm about to start a migration from GroupWise 5.5 to Exchange Server 2003. We have purchased the Quest GroupWise Migration Tool to help. I'm about to change all of my email routing to come in through my Exchange Server environment.
I've created a subdomain for GroupWise (gw.xyz.org). I've also set up DNS, MX records, GroupWise route.cfg, Exchange GroupWise Routing Connector and everything I need for our primary email domain name (xyz.org). In addition, I have two other email domain names that I'm going to have to route during the migration process (approximately four months). How can I do this?
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Like most industries, tourism in New York suffered a hard blow during the Great Recession. In 2008, growth of total traveler spending in the state fell by roughly half; the following year, traveler spending actually declined nearly 15 percent.
Unlike some industries, however, tourism in the Empire State has enjoyed a vigorous rebound. Traveler spending jumped more than 8 percent in both 2010 and 2011, and it rose 6.2 percent in 2012, reaching a record level of $57.3 billion.
Those numbers come from the latest annual report by Tourism Economics, an Oxford Economics company. Tourism-related spending in New York, it estimates, generated $92 billion in total business sales last year.
How important is tourism to the state's economy?
In terms of direct employment, tourism is the fifth-largest industry statewide. All together, tourism supported more than 714,000 jobs last year.
Tourism-related jobs in 2012 generated total income of $29 billion.
The tourism industry put $7.2 billion into state and local tax coffers-$3.1 billion in state taxes and $4.1 billion in local taxes.
In the Finger Lakes region-which as defined in the report spans 14 counties from Rochester to Syracuse and south to Ithaca-traveler spending totaled $2.8 billion, supporting 57,746 jobs. Related income reached nearly $1.4 billion.
More than one-third of the region's tourism jobs are in Monroe County, where traveler spending totaled nearly $1 billion.
According to Tourism Economics, traveler spending rose in every region of the state last year. Yet the rate of increase in the Finger Lakes region-2 percent-was outpaced by many others statewide. And within this region, Monroe County's growth rate was only 0.3 percent. By contrast, last year's report showed growth rates of 6 percent and 5.4 percent, respectively.
The report draws no conclusions about factors behind changes in growth rates, and there's a risk of reading too much into one year's data. But clearly, tourism is a significant factor in the regional economy, and strategic efforts should be made to maximize its potential.
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Internazionali BNL d'Italia II – Singles
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Daniel Páez Blanco successfully defended his title against József Boros 7-5, 3-6, 6-0, 6-2 in a rematch of the Season I final.
Internazionali BNL d'Italia II – Singles
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daniel Páez Blanco successfully defended his title against József Boros 7-5, 3-6, 6-0, 6-2 in a rematch of the Season I final.
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Internazionali BNL d'Italia II – Doubles
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Heath Davis and Jojo Mustard won the in final, defeating Antonio Bachunelli and Jean-Alain Depuis 6-1, 6-1.
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Trusting Drake will go out before the QF. No chance to better the H2H.
Draw Analysis
Blanco is the defending champion here having beaten József Boros last year 6-7(6), 6-3, 6-2. He's still active in Barcelona where he seems to have put his injuries behind him, but faces an awful run to the final here. Potentially Emelio-Micic-Murdoch-Oxenstierna just to have a chance to defend his title. The big money matches there are a possible quarterfinal rematch with Dwayne Murdoch in the quarters and a Roland Garros final rematch against Sven Oxenstierna in the semis (first time on clay since then?).
For the CW contingent, hopefully nothing stands in the way of an Oxenstierna-Jefferson Drake quarter final but this is clearly the stacked half of the draw with some soft seeds and heaps of qualifiers in the top half. The Ox faces difficult second and third round matches - maybe Becker Haas and Miroslav Brdar but should get through unscathed in current form. Drake has it easier with Almen Benaglio and Carlo Amato the only real threats.
Jojo Mustard has been given a dud run and I would be surprised to see him replicate his form from Monte Carlo. He has wildcard compatriot Brett Read first who he should beat (though Read is a quarter finalist here), before Micic and then Blanco. Lights out there, you'd expect. Heath Davis gets a tricky first round clash with Pierre L'Estrange and then maybe eighth seed Radivoj Daneu who, although out of form, isn't likely to lose there.
Jarkko Maxum is the last CWLander in the main draw so far (not including quallies), and he will face eleventh seed Zoltán Varga again. The two are currently set to meet in Barcelona with the match just underway as of posting.
In Qualifying: Rob Bowenburg; Spas Delev; Roy Daniels.
Last year:
Quarter Finals: Read (lost to Carlo Amato, 6-7(4), 6-7(1))
Third Round: Oxenstierna (lost to Davis Kennedy, 3-6, 6-3, 3-6); Smeltz (lost to Brett Read, 3-6, 6-7(5)
Second Round: Drake (lost to Randy Smeltz, 6-4, 3-6, 3-6); Mustard (lost to Becker Haas, 2-6, 4-6)
First Round: Maxum (Qualified: lost to Rasmus Olesen, 4-6, 1-6); Hancianu (lost to Carter, 4-6, 5-7); Davis (lost to Antonio Bachunelli, 4-6, 4-6); Spleen (Qualified: lost to Sergio Joaquín, 7-5, 4-6, 4-6)
Second Qualifying Round: Bowenburg (lost to Jarkko Maxum, 4-6, 7-6(3), 4-6)
First Qualifying Round: Korpinen (lost to Atthaphol Sae-ul, 4-6, 4-6); de Wet (lost to Gregor Gorshkov, 6-7(1), 7-5, 5-7); Delev (lost to Billy Spleen, 6-7(9), 1-6)
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A follower of the schools of Machiavelli, Bentham, Locke, Hobbes, Sutcliffe, Bradman, Lindwall, Miller, Hassett, Benaud and Thunberg
I had a glimpse of Eureka
Chewing me up, chewing me up and spitting me out
-jected, I was rejected
I wasn't good enough to be elected
Lava, it was like lava
Moving through my body like fire
No points to defend. Any progress is a bonus. Bring it on, Froggy.
Fascist Dictator of the Heath Davis Appreciation Society
Supporting Petone's Finest since the very start - Iain O'Brien
Also Supporting the All Time #1 Batsman of All Time Ever - Jacques Kallis and the much maligned Peter Siddle.
Vimes tells it how it is:
Go Readie. Slightly disappointed I drew a fellow CWLander first though.
RIP Craig Walsh (Craig) 1985-2012
RIP Hughesy 1988-2014. 63* for eternity.
I did make the Quarters last time apparently, but that was before the year layoff...
Internazionali BNL d'Italia II
PTA Masters 1000 - Saturday (1st Round Qualifying) - Rome Italy - Clay (Red)
- Top seed Spas Delev has survived a tricky encounter to advance to the qualifying round in three sets over Uzbekistan's Anvar Juraev. The dangerous CWLander struggled with the Uzbek's big and accurate serve, but would not have expected a 3-6 scoreline in the second set as he played poor tennis. He was forced to come from a break down in the third to take it to a tiebreaker, where he found his touch just in time to beat the Asian player 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(1).
- There were no troubles for Rob Bowenburg as he blitzed Cypriot Takis Georgilas 6-1, 6-1. Georgilas isn't a great clay court player and showed exactly that here as the West CWLand fifth seed finished him inside of an hour with aggressive tennis. He faces an uphill battle, though, next against Dênis Rodrígues after the Brazilian was a straight sets winner in his match.
- The up and down year of Roy Daniels continued as he was beaten by Paolo Mandonna of Argentina. Mandonna was fresh off an embarassing defeat to Norway's Tom Vollan in Monte Carlo, but was too good for Daniels as he drew a bundle of unforced errors to win 6-4, 6-4.
Play underway and Maxum hasn't even played his final yet. Going to be tough to beat Varga straight off the plane.
Congrats to the Lob for his victory.
Internazionali BNL d'Italia II
PTA Masters 1000 - Sunday (Final Round Qualifying/1st Round) - Rome Italy - Clay (Red)
- Spas Delev is through to the main draw in Rome after a fifty-four minute thrashing of Belgian veteran Mark Harmel. In an embarassing display, Harmel didn't win a game against the top seed who was on fire with his forehand racking up twelve winners. After a brutal first round clash that would be classified as a near miss, Delev had no such troubles here as he earned his qualifying points with a dominant win 6-0, 6-0.
- His West CWLand rival Rob Bowenburg had more trouble in his qualifying round clash, but was successful in straight sets against Dênis Rodrígues. Both players breezed through their first matches in Rome against Central Asian opponents, but in a tough scrap it was Bowenburg who prevailed against the Buenos Aires semi finalist. Rodrígues is a clay veteran but doesn't have many weapons other than his great athleticism. Bowenburg, meanwhile, has power on both wings and turned it on at the right times to win 6-4, 7-6(5).
- Meanwhile, three low-key first round clashes were completed on Centre Court. In the biggest one, local hope Antonio Bachunelli was forced to save four match points before beating David Champion of Australia 3-6, 7-6(1), 7-6(3). Champion has never enjoyed the red clay but should have won this match - he dropped three of his match points with unforced errors.
Will announce qualifying spots later.
Cbf with uploading the pictures, but the first round draw for the CWLand qualifiers is:
Spas Delev CDR vs. Ivan Genov BUL
Rob Bowenburg FRC vs. Pablo Scalforo ITA
Could be worse tbh
A third round for Mustard not out of the question. Must get past first round to defend ranking points. Anything can happen from there.
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I'm Green
The color of immortality, nature and envy - you are truly a unique person. While clearly the color of nature, you also symbolize rebirth, fertility and hope in the world. On the other side of the spectrum, a natural aptitude to money with green coming to signify money and possibly even *********!
Really should have done one of these for Monte Carlo, but I cbfed. Basically to make up for how few doubles tournaments there'll be, I've increased this draw to 28 teams and allocated 6 Continental Allocations whereby each continent gets one wildcard of sorts for this sized draw. Probably allows me to sneak more CWLanders in if need be!
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You won't find the title of last night's episode of How I Met Your Mother in the dictionary — but the doesn't mean it's not a specific word for a specific thing. The neologism, Platonish, perfectly sums up that not-quite-platonic relationship status…a status that, if you ask Barney, is true of every single male-female pair of friends who are both single (with one exception).
But platonish isn't the sitcom's first foray into the land of the lexicon. The show has a long history of coining words, phrases and concepts. Many of the larger, recurring concepts — the Slap Bet, the Vicky Mendoza Diagonal and the hot/crazy scale, the Bro Code… — have successfully infiltrated pop culture, but the writers also have a knack for turning a smaller phrase and coining new words. Like:
Episode: "The Possimpible," probably the show's best single-episode contribution of new words
Definition: That which is beyond the impossible, at the place where the possible and the impossible meet. The episode's focus on business also produced jargon like connectitude, transformatation and linkativity—and…
Episode: "The Possimpible"
Definition: Insane + ridiculous. (Various spellings accepted.)
Episode: "Sandcastles In The Sand"
Definition: The change that happens to someone's personality when he or she spends time with someone from his or her past.
Episode: "Benefits"
Definition: Awesome + awful; a good way to disguise accidental jubilation.
Desperation Day
Episode: "Desperation Day"
Definition: Feb. 13, the last day to find someone with whom to spend Valentine's Day
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Woo Girls
Episode: "Woooo!"
Definition: Single women who go out in large groups and yell "wooo!" a lot—even when nothing is actually exciting them
Steak sauce
Episode: "Life Among the Gorillas"
Definition: A-1, the tops, the best, awesome.
Episode: "Of Course"
Definition: One date that includes "17 dates-worth of romance"
Episode: "Dowisetrepla"
Definition: A play on the naming of many New York City neighborhoods, this locale is Downwind of the Sewage Treatment Plant.
Episode: several
Definition: What a lawyer says upon winning an argument
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4-10 October 2013, Salamanca, Spain
The WILD10 process is well underway in Europe. The Spanish Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (newly reconstituted) is the national host, having provided some of the start-up funds allowing the WILD10 Executive Committee to continue the collaborative process that started in 2011 to identify practical objectives, create partnerships and design a process to achieve them, and implement a program for the Congress itself.
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Naming teas: All in a day's work
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Here is another simple cupcake recipe. This one was for a 2 year old's birthday party – Naomi's cousin. While it's not super exciting, the resulting cupcake is very tasty, a crowd-pleaser, and relatively easy to put together. I also did a small batch for a small group. The recipes could be easily doubled or quadrupled without any problems. One pint of strawberries is all you will need to both top the cupcakes and to chop for the filling.
UPDATE: Slight adjustment to remove baking soda which should help with this recipe.
Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cupcakes
~8 regular cupcakes / 350 degree oven
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, room temp
1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons sugar
1 large egg, room temp
1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup high quality unsweetened cocoa powder like Valrhona brand
1/4 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1. Beat butter until softened. Add sugar and beat until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
2 Add egg and beat until well combined.
3. Measure the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder into a small sized bowl and whisk to combine.
4. Measure out the milk and vanilla and stir to combine
5. Add about a third of the dry ingredients to the butter/sugar and beat to combine. Add about a half of the milk/vanilla and beat to combine. Continue adding, alternating between dry and wet and finishing with the dry.
6. Scoop batter into cupcake cups about 2/3's full. Bake cupcakes for about 22-25 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.
Strawberry Ganache Filling and Ganache Glaze
4.5 ounces (128 grams) Valrhona 85% cacao (or any bittersweet chocolate)
3/4 cup heavy cream
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
pinch salt
1/3 cup strawberries, diced
1. Chop chocolate and transfer into a heat proof bowl.
2. Heat cream until bubbles form around the edge of the pan, pour cream over the chocolate.
3. Let sit for 1 minute then stir until combined.
4. Add vanilla and salt. Stir until combined.
5. Divide the ganache in two approximate equal portions. In the first portion, mix in the chopped strawberries. Transfer to the refrigerator to chill.
6. Leave the second portion on the counter to cool down. You want the filling to thicken up before the glaze. Once the filling is think, fill the cupcakes with it. Then glaze with the glaze. See assembly instructions below.
Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 tablespoon milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2-3 cups powdered sugar
1. Using an electric mixer, beat the butter at medium speed until creamy.
2. Add the milk, vanilla extract, and 2 cups of powdered sugar and beat at low speed, occasionally stopping to scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl, until light and fluffy. Add more powdered sugar to arrive at the consistency and sweetness you like.
1. Fill the cupcakes with the strawberry ganache filling using the cone method. This post has step by step photos of the method.
2. Spoon a tablespoon of glaze on each filled cupcake and smooth.
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Ranking the top 10 Heisman candidates after eight weeks
- Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota remains No. 1 after a strong performance against Washington State
- Florida State%27s Jameis Winston moves up to No. 2 after leading Florida State past Clemson
- Baylor might have two Heisman contenders in quarterback Bryce Petty and running back Lache Seastrunk
There's clearly room for one Baylor skill player in the Heisman Trophy conversation, seeing that the Bears – now 7-0 and No. 6 in the initial Bowl Championship Series standings – are on pace to set new Football Bowl Subdivision records on the offensive side of the ball.
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But is there room for two? Baylor quarterback Bryce Petty has been pitch-perfect during the team's perfect start. At the same time, running back Lache Seastrunk has been the nation's top big-play threat out of the backfield. Alone, both are extremely deserving of a spot among the Heisman's leading contenders.
The issue is fairly simple: Only three times during the last decade have a pair of teammates finished in the top seven in the Heisman voting. In 2004, for example, it's possible to make the case that voters were torn between Oklahoma teammates Jason White and Adrian Peterson, resulting in Matt Leinart moving above the pair to take home the trophy.
With eight weeks of the 2013 season in the books, here are 10 top contenders for the Heisman:
1. Oregon QB Marcus Mariota (Last week's ranking: No. 1)
Season stats: 123-of-197 for 2,051 yards; 19 touchdowns, zero interceptions; 49 carries for 493 yards, nine touchdowns
There is a chance – if a small chance – that Mariota is a robot, one with a video-game operating system and the pinpoint accuracy of laser-guided heat-seeking missile. That scenario needs to be suggested, at least. What's more likely is that Oregon's near-perfect offense has found a near-perfect fit, resulting in the sort of numbers and team success that should allow Mariota to cruise to the Heisman should he remain on his present course.
2. Florida State QB Jameis Winston (Last week's ranking: No. 4)
Season stats: 112-of-157 for 1,885 yards; 20 touchdowns, three interceptions; 43 carries for 137 yards, three touchdowns
Winston has as good a chance at winning the Heisman as any redshirt freshman since, well, last season. But even if Manziel hadn't opened the door for rookies a year ago, Winston would have deserved a spot among the leading contenders for the way he's piloted FSU to its 6-0 start. I'd call Saturday night's performance Winston's performance his masterpiece, but that'd be wrong: he's just getting warmed up.
3. Texas A&M QB Johnny Manziel (Last week's ranking: No. 2)
Season stats: 159-of-217 for 2,289 yards; 18 touchdowns, seven interceptions; 85 carries for 486 yards, six touchdowns
The uptick in turnovers and the Aggies' second loss hurts Manziel's chances, but it's far too early to eliminate last year's winner from the Heisman mix. He has opportunities left, including two marquee games against LSU and Missouri, and could very easily reclaim the top spot should Mariota and Winston struggle in November.
4. Baylor QB Bryce Petty (Last week's ranking: No. 6)
Season stats: 102-of-144 for 2,023 yards; 15 touchdowns, one interception; 24 carries for 51 yards, five touchdowns
Here's one way to think about Baylor's starter: Petty is averaging more yards per attempt than last season's leading passer, Marshall quarterback Rakeem Cato, averaged per completion. That's a pretty impressive fact. It's going to be hard to keep Petty away from Manhattan should Baylor run the table through the rest of the regular season.
5. Oregon State QB Sean Mannion (Last week's ranking: Unranked)
Season stats: 229-of-334 for 2,992 yards; 29 touchdowns, three interceptions
Mannion leads the FBS in yards and touchdowns by a significant margin. The Beavers are 6-1 heading into Saturday's game against Stanford. Only one question: Why did I wait this long to rank Mannion among the top 10? (Answer: I really don't know.)
6. Alabama QB AJ McCarron (Last week's ranking: No. 5)
Season stats: 126-of-182 for 1,587 yards; 14 touchdowns, three interceptions
I still think a degree of attrition will make McCarron a Heisman finalist, but I'm struggling to see how the senior – as fantastic as he's been during Alabama's reign – will have the numbers to finish ahead of Mariota, Winston and the rest. That's an indictment of how the Heisman has leaned in recent history, not of McCarron's turn as the Tide's leader.
7. Fresno State QB Derek Carr (Last week's ranking: No. 10)
Season stats: 216-of-307 for 2,276 yards; 23 touchdowns, four interceptions
Fresno State needs to run the table to earn an at-large BCS bid. At the same time, the Bulldogs need to run the table to get Carr into the top five of the voting. The numbers are terrific and the team a great surprise, but Carr might also need some help.
8. Northern Illinois QB Jordan Lynch (Last week's ranking: Unranked)
Season stats: 138-of-225 for 1,488 yards; 14 touchdowns, five interceptions; 138 carries for 932 yards, seven touchdowns
What did Lynch achieve Saturday? Oh, just an NCAA record: Lynch ran for an FBS quarterback-record 316 yards, giving him another footnote in a career littered with team, conference and national records.
9. Baylor RB Lache Seastrunk (Last week's ranking: Unranked)
Season stats: 83 carries for 760 yards, 10 touchdowns
As noted, Seastrunk is worth the price of admission. But can he move ahead of his own teammate, let along another slew of qualified contenders? It won't be easy, but Seastrunk deserves some recognition for the way he's played since taking center stage in Baylor's offense last season. For now, he's slightly ahead of other backs like Bishop Sankey, Melvin Gordon, Mike Davis and Duke Johnson.
10. Louisville QB Teddy Bridgewater (Last week's ranking: No. 7)
Season stats: 154-of-214 for 2,213 yards; 20 touchdowns, two interceptions
Bridgewater's chances took a substantial hit in Louisville's 38-35 loss to UCF, one that puts the Cardinals behind the eight ball in the American Athletic Conference race. It's not a matter of production: Bridgewater can't be blamed for Saturday's loss, of course, and has even ramped up his production after a breakthrough sophomore season.


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Hello, first post and first problem here. For an assignment, we were asked to put together this one code from the book that would create an array and fill it up with corresponding amount of correct answers (the array with the answers and the answer key is already built in) and from there, we were supposed to sort them by increasing value. I'm sure you'll notice when the sorting part begins. My problem is that the sorting part of my script takes the correct number of answers from the first part, sorts them, and when I call on them to be printed out, they are -2 than what their value should be. For example, from the pre-set array there are 4 'students' with 7 correct answers, but the end of my entire script displays them as 4 5's instead. Please help me point out where the element reduction is taking place.
public class GradeExam { public static void main(String[] args) { char [][] answers = { {'A', 'B', 'A', 'C', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'E', 'A', 'D'}, {'D', 'B', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'A', 'E', 'E', 'A', 'D'}, {'E', 'D', 'D', 'A', 'C', 'B', 'E', 'E', 'A', 'D'}, {'C', 'B', 'A', 'E', 'D', 'C', 'E', 'E', 'A', 'D'}, {'A', 'B', 'D', 'C', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'E', 'A', 'D'}, {'B', 'B', 'E', 'C', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'E', 'A', 'D'}, {'B', 'B', 'A', 'C', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'E', 'A', 'D'}, {'E', 'B', 'E', 'C', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'E', 'A', 'D'}}; char[] keys = {'D', 'B', 'D', 'C', 'C', 'D', 'A', 'E', 'A', 'D'}; int[] ArrayF = new int[8]; for (int i = 0; i < answers.length; i++) { int correctCount = 0; for (int j = 0; j < answers.length; j++) { if(answers[i][j] == keys[j] ) correctCount++; } ArrayF[i] = correctCount; } for (int a = 0; a < ArrayF.length - 1; a++) { int currentMin = ArrayF[a]; int currentMinIndex = a; for (int b = a + 1; b < ArrayF.length; b++) { if (currentMin > ArrayF[b]) { currentMin = ArrayF[b]; currentMinIndex = b; } } if (currentMinIndex != a) { ArrayF[currentMinIndex] = ArrayF[a]; ArrayF[a] = currentMin; } } for (int k = 0; k < ArrayF.length; k++) { System.out.println("Student " + (k+1) + "'s correct count was " + ArrayF[k]); } } }
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The White House confirmed today that President Obama will meet with congressional leaders to discuss the sequester on Friday, the day the sequester takes effect. That spurred congressional Republicans to criticize the president for scheduling a meeting after the sequester starts. Aides to both Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told CBS News that the sequester officially becomes law at 12 a.m. ET on Friday - that's midnight from Thursday into Friday.
Shortly after that, White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters, "My understanding is it happens at midnight on Friday, 11:59." In other words, the White House meeting would take place just before the sequester takes effect, not after.
In fact, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (H.R.8 and Public Law 112-240) lays out the timing this way, in Section 901(e): "Sequester- On March 1, 2013, the President shall order a sequestration for fiscal year 2013 pursuant to section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985."
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Congressional sources tell CBS that this effectively means the sequestration starts when Mr. Obama wants it to. By law, he must sign an order to start the sequestration some time - anytime - on Friday. At that point, the Office of Management and Budget will release a report on the specifics of agency cuts.
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Getting On with It: Recovery Success Stories
By Donald Muccigrosso and Donna L. Spilis
Learning the Truth Too Late-Jim, California
To almost any outside observer in 1980, I was sitting on top of the world. Maybe not a very big world, but one that a lot of us know. I was 28 years old, a very successful solo practitioner with a practice growing beyond my wildest dreams, and a "hometown boy" to boot. Single, living in a beautiful new home, and driving a 450 SL Mercedes, I had money in the bank, clients knocking on my door, and all the external trappings of a successful young professional. On the inside, however, things were different. I felt lonely in a crowd much of the time. I felt like the roll was being called somewhere I was supposed to be, but I was in the wrong place trying to maintain control of a world I did not create. I wished I could let someone know how I felt, but what would that person think? I concluded that I was just missing something...something I would find and add to my life to be complete.
Now it is more than ten years later; a beautiful day outside threatens to distract me from putting words to my story, my life. But a man who helped to save my life says I might help others by doing so. "Pass it on," he reminds me. The roll is being called again here and now. The problem with "before and after" pictures is that they do not communicate the intense experiences in between, the essence of life. My own "after" photo would show a little less hair and a few more lines and wrinkles. It would not show the pain accompanying the loss of what I had, including my license to practice law. It would not show my struggle for self-respect once I was stripped, in a very public and humiliating way, of those external trappings I mentioned. For that matter, neither would it show the joy and childlike happiness coming with freedom from addiction, nor the soul-deep assurance that I no longer have to drink or use any mood- or mind-altering chemical to feel OK about myself and the world. I am the only one who can tell this story from the inside out.
It has now been more than five years since I got sober, 60-plus months since I hesitantly stepped into a treatment center for drug and alcohol dependence. I was not pleased to be there. By December 1984, my life was a shambles-personally, professionally, financially, emotionally, spiritually, physically, and in any other way one might gauge oneself. I was morally bankrupt. I was financially bankrupt. I had no future. My future was behind me. I was also more frightened than I had ever been in my life because I knew if I was to continue to draw breath, it would have to be sober breath. I was pretty sure that was impossible.
After all, I was a smart guy. I looked around at the people present and immediately perceived that they were not nearly as intelligent as me. If I had not been able to figure out how to stop, how to keep the numberless promises I had made to myself and others, what could these people have to offer me? I would just have to die this way, and the only prayer I knew asked for it to happen soon. Indeed, there were times when the hope of dying used to keep me alive.It sounds unbelievable, but even then I still did not have a clue what was really wrong. I did not regard drugs and alcohol as the problem; my life was the problem, and drugs and alcohol were the solution. The damn thing was that even they had stopped working for me. Still, the only time I felt worse than when drinking or using was when I wasn't. Everything else in my life had become relatively unimportant compared to finding something to shut off the bewildering pain of my existence.
I know now that I was and am an alcoholic. Not only was I addicted to alcohol, I was addicted to cocaine, marijuana, and anything else that would sufficiently alter reality for me. Of all these, alcohol is the most sinister because it is so sneaky and slow. It is also such a mainstay in our culture that its acceptance provides a cover behind which most alcoholics breed a strain of denial immune from almost all known forms of attack. I say "almost" because of my own personal experience.
We have a saying in recovery-"You can't con a con, and an alcoholic can't con another alcoholic." Those other people showed me our sameness. They did it by talking as openly and honestly as their humanness would allow, about themselves and their experiences in life. The ones who had been clean and sober for some time told me what sobriety was like for them. It was better than my life, and I came to want what they had. However, I couldn't buy it; I had to abstain and I had to change almost everything about me. I had to be willing to grow up and out of myself (at over 30 years of age). I had to be willing to face up to my past with honesty and courage, and I had to do it every day for the rest of my life. Happily, our lives only come one day at a time.
I learned that I was not a bad or weak person. I was simply dealing with something I couldn't control. My alcoholism had been accelerated greatly by "cocainism." This alluring powder, which had at first made me everything I wanted to be and wasn't, is one of the most addictive and dangerous substances known to man-the only one, in fact, that laboratory animals will self-ingest until death. I did not know that when I started. We all know it now, yet it continues to be one of the most frequently abused of all drugs. Is it because users are stupid? No. It is because cocaine makes addicts out of users. It lies to them and tells them they are different. "You won't lie, cheat, steal, or die a horrible and premature death." But you will, unless you recover. For the alcoholic/addict there are only those two choices; it's just that simple.
I have now found what I had been looking for so desperately in 1980. It did not come in a baggie, pill bottle, gin bottle, or beer can, but it got me where I am today. It was letting people know how I feel. Understanding that life is to be lived on its own terms-that is reality. Knowing that we are all pretty much alike, and that I can do what others have done, finally fixed some of my internal trappings, and I am grateful to be here.If anyone reading this understands these feelings or relates to this story, or if you or anyone you know is depending on drugs (including alcohol) to cope with life, know that it doesn't have to be that way. If you are suffering, get help. If you know someone who is suffering, insist they get help. You may save more than a career. Lives are at stake.
With the advent of the women's movement, public drinking by women became more popular, as did the development of drinking patterns similar to those of men. It has, however, been proved that the disease of alcoholism progresses faster in women than men due to certain physiological differences. Aside from the speed of progression of the disease, the following story by a female lawyer could just as easily describe a man's drinking and recovery experience.
A Woman's Fight with Alcohol-Kathleen, Chicago
In New England, where I grew up, I seldom saw anybody drink alcohol. We lived in a picture-book town with houses dating back to the 1700s, lush countryside dotted with lovely lakes, and scenic mountains. My father was the minister of the Protestant church and my mother taught in the local grade school. I enjoyed school and had many friends. I mention this because it is a common misconception that one must come from a so-called "dysfunctional family" to develop the disease of alcoholism. This is not true. People from good backgrounds who consider themselves generally satisfied with life can develop this disease. Because alcoholism results from a biological defect in the way an individual processes alcohol, it can develop in anyone with a certain genetic predisposition. I believe I was born with a body that processes alcohol differently from a normal drinker's. I believe this in part because my siblings, who have had vastly different experiences in their adult lives, were diagnosed as alcoholics within one year of my diagnosis.
In the mid-1960s I first tasted alcohol. At a college party I asked a friend if I could have some of his gin. I asked how much would get me drunk, and he marked off a hefty portion on the bottle and showed me how to mix it with a soft drink. The soft drink made it sweet, and I didn't think I could drink enough if I kept mixing it, so I poured the gin into a glass and drank it straight. I liked the flavor and drank rapidly with no difficulty.
The very first night I drank, I experienced many signs of things to come. I could not remember portions of the evening. I now believe that blackouts are an almost certain indication of alcoholism. I apparently had the capacity to consume large quantities of alcohol. I know now that many alcoholics are able to drink greater quantities and to actually hold their liquor better than non-alcoholics. I suffered a tremendous hangover and vowed not to put myself through such misery again. Unfortunately, broken vows of abstinence characterized my 20 years of drinking. I would frequently awaken at night with what I describe as "cottonmouth" and a splitting headache, and I would go through the house and pour all the alcohol down the sink. Somehow, though, I would find myself writing "wine" on the shopping list the next day.
As a criminal defense attorney with a solo practice, I have represented many alcoholics. It was always easy for me to distinguish myself from my poor unfortunate clients. I believed that they were alcoholics because they drank for the wrong reasons. I had heard that alcoholics drank to hide from pain, escape from their emotions, or cover their inadequacies. I considered myself upbeat, and I drank to celebrate life's little victories. I was a respected and accomplished lawyer, so I had victories to celebrate. For many years, I avoided drinking over painful experiences, believing that this would prevent me from developing the disease of alcoholism. In the end, I drank for good reasons, for bad reasons, and mostly, for no particular reason at all. As my disease slowly crept up on me, I found myself drinking when I had no particular desire to do so. The way I thought of it was that it was simply time to have another drink. I now know that this is probably fairly accurate, since I was becoming physiologically addicted to the substance, and it was indeed time for my body to take in its next dose.
I began to develop physical symptoms of alcoholism without recognizing the source of my problems. I suffered from chronic insomnia that I attributed to my stressful career. I would awaken at night in a cold sweat, sheets drenched and mouth parched. I would toss and turn, unable to stop thinking about cases and clients. I would watch TV in the middle of the night, trying to lull myself back to sleep. I would doze again for an hour or so, then drag myself out of bed, exhausted before my day had even begun. Much to my surprise, the insomnia has stopped completely since I no longer drink. I began to develop a bloated and puffy appearance. I was retaining fluids and did not know why. I had chronic digestive upset. I developed the art of applying eye makeup by looking only at the circumference, so that I could avoid seeing the yellowing bloodshot eyes that looked back from the mirror. I never developed the habit of taking drinks in the morning, nor of drinking during the workday, but I suffered tremendous hangovers that lasted until noon. I did not call them "hangovers," or I would have had to acknowledge a possible alcohol problem. I told myself I felt a little rocky. I would tell myself I would not drink that night, but almost always I would begin drinking again at the end of the day. I often drank until I passed out. I renamed it "dozing."
About six months before I went to my first Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting, I found myself calling my doctor and asking her whether she might consider prescribing Antabuse to help curb my drinking. I told her that I used to quit drinking whenever I wanted, but that lately I didn't seem to be able to stop. For some reason I did not recognize this call for help as any clue that I might be an alcoholic. It is impossible for me to understand now how I could have missed the obvious signs, but I believe that denial is so deeply rooted that an addicted person will be the last to see the problem. This ensures that the person will continue to feed the addiction, which is, after all, what a physiologically addicted person needs to keep doing. At the end of my drinking career, I was still able to practice law, but I made a bad career move. I am sure that the decision to join forces with another practicing alcoholic attorney was no coincidence. The combination was totally unworkable. I knew I did not want to become as "bad" as he was. One night I found myself drinking a beer and telling myself that I was already drunk, so why finish it? I had a brief blackout, then found myself at the refrigerator reaching for another. I was drinking compulsively. The next morning I was unable to get out of bed. That day I was unable to read even the Sunday funnies. I made another one of my repeated vows to quit. By chance, that was my last drinking bout.
Two weeks later, my iron-willed decision still with me, I clearly recognized my disastrous career move, and I quit the law office. With no practice, alone in a new city, I was desperate and panicky. I called an old friend who suggested I go to an AA meeting. I told him I'd try anything, but that since I was not an alcoholic, it didn't seem the right place. After all, I had quit drinking on my own (yet again). He said that the only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking and that the people there would help reinforce my decision.
The next morning I called AA and was guided to my first meeting. I was told to ignore all the "soupy God talk" and just take advantage of the parts I found helpful. I have more or less been doing that ever since. My favorite AA meeting begins and ends with no prayers and is attended by the most colorful mixture of malcontents, geniuses, and idiots with whom I have ever had the pleasure to associate. Every one has said something that has helped me to identify myself as an alcoholic and supported me in my decision to stop drinking. I know that I am an alcoholic and that I cannot ever safely drink.
I choose to go only to meetings where cigarette smoking is not permitted. More and more, such meetings exist. At first I attended meetings daily, and now, more than three and a half years later, I attend two to three meetings a week. Some of these are sponsored by our own attorney assistance program. I find it helpful to identify with alcoholic lawyers and judges. I also find it helpful to identify with convicts, the mentally ill, and the homeless, because I am able to see that the AA program can be effective at helping anybody stay sober and gradually make improvements in their lives, no matter what other problems they face. AA is a community of supportive people who talk about their experiences in a way that gives me hope that I may never again have to suffer from this life-threatening disease.
Alcohol has always been the drug of choice for chemically dependent people. In the sixties, marijuana became more popular with young people as a way to rebel against their parents' alcohol consumption. They believed marijuana was a non-addictive drug, but unfortunately it has turned out to be the gateway drug to cocaine. Statistics show that 92 percent of all cocaine users have used marijuana first. Mark's story of cocaine addiction is one familiar to many solo practitioners.
My Story-Mark, Oregon
Two years after I started my solo law practice, I was in trouble with the bar, the target of a law enforcement investigation, divorced, thousands of dollars in debt, and seriously addicted to cocaine. How had this happened?
From a business standpoint, I made all the right moves. I read all the "how to" books on starting up a solo practice, leased office space on a work-for-rent basis, appropriately advertised the fact that there was a new criminal lawyer in town, and, in general, laid a solid foundation for a good solo law practice.
Almost from the beginning, money started pouring into the practice, more money than I had ever made before. A few lucky breaks put me on some high-profile criminal cases, and I quickly went from the new kid in town to a recognized name in the criminal defense community. Within a year, I went from a starving law student to a hotshot with a Porsche. My reputation soared along with my bank account. With these wonderful benefits, though, came more responsibility than I had ever shouldered. I had experienced responsibility before, but this was different. As an army officer, I had plenty of responsibility, but I had sergeants to help me and superior officers to advise and direct me. This time, however, I was alone. Just me and my responsibilities. I felt enormous pressure. These people, my clients, were placing their lives in my hands. I had to perform. I had to get results. I had to win. The workload increased and the pace maddened. Soon, I was working almost every night until 10 or 11, and taking work home on weekends. My wife watched me grow irritable and distant. My God, how could I keep up this pace?
Toward the end of my second year, I discovered methamphetamine. A criminal client had come to my office and, when I bemoaned the fact that I was going to be working on a brief all night, she gave me about half an ounce of meth. She told me that a few lines would keep me going all night. Wow! A new lawyer tool! I could be super-lawyer! My opponents at the DA's office would only work 8 to 5, but I, super-lawyer, could work around the clock! And so it began. Line by line, day by day, I sank into a hell from which I barely escaped.
Over the coming months, I was able to work virtually around the clock, day after day. I began turning in 20- and 30- page briefs in support of even the most mundane motion to suppress. Yes, I was super-lawyer, all right. But I was coming apart at the seams. My wife, whom I would see every two or three days when I went home, began to view me as a monster. She was right: I had become evil, crude, paranoid, and constantly deceitful. It was as though I was possessed. My style in court had gone from that of a "good ol' country lawyer" to one of antagonistic confrontationalist. Finally, I began neglecting my clients as I spent more and more time seeking out and using my drug. By that point I had discovered free-base cocaine, and I was either snorting meth or smoking coke several times a day. I would take breaks in trials to go to the men's room and snort a line or two. I would spend my lunch hour smoking crack cocaine. And every night, as I began my brief writing, I lit the pipe, again and again.
For several months, I lived in a hell that I find difficult to describe to those who have never experienced drug addiction. Every waking moment was tortured, frantic, and insane. I was quickly becoming broke, paranoid, and impotent. All I had dreamed of-money, reputation, family, a home-was being converted to cash, exchanged for cocaine, and then smoked or snorted away. My wife kicked me out of the house, forcing me to live in my office. The bar complaints came next. I became the target of a law-enforcement investigation. I became financially destitute. I knew I had a problem and needed help. I had tried quitting cocaine before, but had failed miserably.
Finally, one night, I sat alone in my office, which by now looked more like a frat house on a Sunday morning than a law office: empty beer bottles scattered about, burnt matches laying on the floor, and dirty clothes piled in corners. I began to cry. Again, I find it difficult to describe the emptiness I felt. I was alone, ruined, and pathetic. I had wanted to be a fine criminal lawyer when I grew up, but instead I was a broke, divorced, hunted cocaine addict. I began to pray. I hadn't prayed in a long time, but I prayed that night. I asked God to help me do what I was quite incapable of doing myself.
I remembered seeing ads in the local lawyer's magazine, something like: "Drug Problem? There is confidential help for lawyers with drug problems. Call....." I rifled through the mess on my desk until I found the magazine and turned the pages until I found the ad. I called the number. On the other end of the line was a man whom all know in this state for his work with alcoholic and addicted lawyers. I told him about my problems with the bar. He told me that cocaine was my problem. I told him about my marital problems. He told me cocaine was my problem. I told him about my problem with the police. He told me cocaine was my problem. I told him how messy my life had become, and he told me cocaine was my problem. What he didn't tell me was that he had already received several referrals about me from other lawyers, judges, and, I suspect, the bar. He was right, my problem was cocaine. I asked for help.
I expected him to come rescue me. Instead, he told me to go to sleep, don't use any cocaine that night, and to come to a certain location the next day for a meeting of the lawyers' group of Cocaine Anonymous. I showed up the next day and met with several lawyers who had walked through and out of the hell in which I found myself. I was amazed at how many lawyers attended these meetings. Not just criminal lawyers, not just young lawyers, and not just solo practitioners. There were older lawyers, civil lawyers, and lawyers from the big firms. I felt like I fit in. I kept coming back, again and again, to these meetings.
With time and sobriety, my life was put back together and all I had lost was recovered. I haven't had to use dope for more than three years and my life is better today than it ever was. I still go to those lawyers' meetings of Cocaine Anonymous, but now I am one of those who walked through and out of the hell that brings the newcomers into our meetings. I try, whenever I can, to give back a little of the support I received in such abundance. I am profoundly grateful that my prayer of desperation was answered, and that I was able to turn to the ad in the local lawyer's magazine. Today, I have two good friends working for me as associates in my successful law office, am happily married, and I am enjoying life more than ever. I believe in salvation.
Many lawyers and judges are overachievers who carry an enormous workload, and the tendency to have a drink at the end of the day to relax or "escape" from daily problems is prevalent in the legal community. If the lawyer or judge has the progressive disease of addiction, this drink can lead to many drinks, and many more reasons to drink, which can then lead to other chemicals-legal and illegal. The following story about one judge's struggle with addiction is a clear indication of the progression of the disease.
Lawyer, Judge, Alcoholic-Jon, Oregon
I couldn't be an alcoholic, I thought. I'm an attorney and judge, for heaven's sake. But surrendering to that bitter truth was necessary for me to live.
The hereditary nature of the disease of alcoholism-the "ism" part of the disease-was in my genes. Being raised in an alcoholic home affected my behavior long before I took my first drink. I still remember that first drink: the smell, the color, the taste, and, yes, that magical feeling, that forbidden fruit of intoxication. I have never been the same since. Through high school, I was the one who could drink more, stay up longer, and never appear to be very drunk. I didn't know that high tolerance and great capacity were early symptoms of the disease. In the armed service, those endless hours of forced piano lessons my mother had put me through finally paid off. I was a piano player in the officers' club for four years. Everyone always buys the piano player a drink, or two, or 20, so I stayed drunk for four years. I got married, had two kids, got out of the service, and went to college.
My wife and I fought such horrible fights that she drove me to drink night after night-or so I kept telling myself and anyone else who would listen. After college there was a move north to attend law school; my wife and I were still fighting and I was drinking more and more, because of her, of course. After three years, by some miracle or mistake on the part of the bar examiners, I found myself with a license to practice law.
I started as a prosecutor in a small county and quickly found lawyers just like me in a bar, who drank the way I liked to drink-hard, fast, and long, with a lot of BS between the drinks. Every night, I'd drive 40 miles home, drunk, with a bottle of ten-high bourbon in my lap to sip so I'd stay awake. I'd get home, have a screaming match with my wife, pass out, come to in the morning, and do it all over again the next day.
Ten years before I got to the attorney support group, the real horror started. I left my first wife one night after a bloody battle. Someone suggested my problems might be the result of drinking too much. "Well," I said, "if you think that, I'll just quit." But I couldn't. I remember the terror, the hole in the very center of my being, that abject loneliness. Six psychiatrists later, and with a new-found addiction to any mood-altering drug I could find (courtesy of my psychiatrist and my disease), I found myself taking 20 tablets of methamphetamine in the morning to wake up, martinis for lunch, 20 ten-milligram Valiums in the afternoon, bourbon after work, and four or five codeine tablets to finally pass out at night. Day after day I'd get up and do it all over again.
I still managed to get my work done, trials tried, and clients appeased, but with increasing difficulty. My second marriage came at about the same time as a local judgeship. By this time I was taking Antabuse (used to discourage the alcoholic from drinking by causing severe nausea when alcohol is consumed after ingesting this drug) periodically, swearing off every other month, and doing anything else I could think of to be a normal drinker. Despite these efforts, I would always drink again, and each time I went back it was worse.
I became known as the easiest-sentencing judge around. I believe I was so soft because I knew I should be standing at the defense table. I was a fraud, weak, and desperately afraid. In desperation, my wife called the bar's Professional Liability Fund Loss Prevention (PLF) office to get help. It took my wife, family, office staff, and the PLF attorney nine months to get me into a treatment center. I remember feeling that first sense of relief; deep down I knew something was finally going to be done about the way I drank.
In the center I learned I had a physiological disease. With the help of others like me, and a 12-step program, I could live a happy, joyous life, free from booze and drugs. Part of the process was to surrender my innermost self to the care of a power greater than myself. For without that total surrender-giving up my self-centered activities-the compulsion to drink would never leave me. I surrendered because I was tired, sick, and desperately wanted out of the suicidal horror of the drunken merry-go-round I was on.
While in the center, I joined the Attorney's Support Group here in Oregon and I now regularly attend many other support meetings. My life is now full and happy. I no longer have that desperate feeling of loneliness I had all my life. I wouldn't trade one day of sobriety shared with my wife and family for anything else in the world.
I truly believe the same can happen to others. Alcoholics are chosen people, given a gift of power, a power so great it can literally stop a disease in its tracks. This power is so strong it can actually heal bodies, minds, and spirits. That power is found in one drunk helping another.
It is important to understand that not all lawyers make it into recovery. The above success stories have something in common. These lawyers reached out for help, recognizing that their lives had become unmanageable. This is a critical step in the recovery process. In the field of addiction, it is referred to as "hitting bottom." Recent studies have indicated that early identification of the problem of addiction to any mind-altering chemical (including alcohol) can "raise the bottom up," so to speak, before the attorney loses family, friends, and business.
Donald Muccigrosso retired as program director for the Oregon Attorney Assistance Program on March 1, 1999, and is currently consulting with other lawyer assistance programs in the continued development of their programs and retreats. Donna L. Spilis is the staff director for the ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs. This article is adapted from "Salvation for Solos: Help for Recovery from Addiction," by Donald Muccigrosso and Donna Spilis, a chapter in Flying Solo: A Survival Guide for the Solo Lawyer, 2d ed. (ABA Section of Law Practice Management, 1994). Reprinted by permission.
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2001 edition of GP Solo Magazine. Reprinted by permission of the American Bar Association.


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Indian Removal in Iowa
When Europeans began to colonize North America, they had to deal with the native inhabitants. In some cases efforts were made to coexist. In fact, the North American English colonies owed their survival to the Native Americans.
In the 17th century, when European fashion provided a demand for furs, the North American continent became a source for animal pelts. French and English traders exchanged European-made goods for furs brought to the posts by Native Americans. As Native Americans became dependent on these goods, they moved away from their old self-sufficient ways.
Following the American Revolution, the United States government tried to bring some control to the trading situation. The government tried to provide a way to prevent further hostilities. A policy was devised by which treaties were made with Indian tribes. The government bought Native American land and moved the Indians away from the European settlers who purchased land from the government.
This did not solve the conflicts between the two cultures, however. Both continued to hold different views about land use and justice. As European settlers began to move into the Iowa land, Native American tribes were affected.
American Indians: The Iowa Experience
At the time of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 the lands bordering the Mississippi River were used by a number of Native Americans tribes and fur traders. By this time the federal government's policy for Native Americans removal and relocation had become a highly organized operation.
The government purchased land from the Native American tribes in return for promises of relocation, protection and payment of tribal debts. After the land was purchased from the Native Americans, it was surveyed and divided. Then the government sold the land.
By 1830 the government had relocated a number of tribes within the future Iowa boundaries. The Sioux were assigned to an area around the Upper Iowa River. The Sauk and Mesquakie were placed south of the Upper Iowa River. The Winnebago were squeezed into a 40-mile zone along the Upper Iowa River.
Land for the European Settlers
European settlers were interested in the lands west of the Mississippi and began to pressure the government to purchase the land for settlement. The removal of the Native American tribes from the Iowa territory was fast. The first purchase of land for sale to settlers was the result of the Black Hawk War, an incident that took place in Illinois and Wisconsin. Black Hawk, a Sauk warrior, resisted removal from his land along the eastern side of the Mississippi River.
The outcome was disastrous for the Native Americans. The government used the incident to obtain lands in Iowa. The peace treaty demanded that the Sauk and the Mesquakie give up land west of the Mississippi. Five years later another land purchase was made, and the Sauk and Mesquakie were moved farther west.
Cheap Land for the Government
In 1841 when the United States government again approached the Sauk and Mesquakie for more land, the tribes recognized the hopelessness of their situation. They tried to sell their land in small parcels, hoping to get more money. The government refused. In the end there was no sale and no money for the already indebted tribes.
Poverty and debt forced the two tribes to make another treaty in 1842. All their lands in central Iowa were ceded. The Native Americans agreed to leave the area within three years. Debts to the traders were paid and yearly payments promised. The whole arrangement cost the federal government 11 cents an acre. The treaty-making continued. By 1862 Native Americans tribes had given up all the land in what is now Iowa.
The Meskwaki Story
The story of the Meskwaki is unique to both American and Iowa Native Americans history. The tribe migrated to Iowa in the late 18th century. For reasons of defense, they were at that time closely allied to the Sauk. In the years prior to their migration to the Iowa region, the Meskwaki had controlled the fur trade routes along the Fox River near the Green Bay Trading Post. Following a series of defeats by the French, remnants of the tribe moved southward into the land that would become Iowa. The Mesquakie settled along the western side of the Mississippi. The Sauk settled on the eastern side of the river.
After the Louisiana Purchase, the two tribes were treated as one by the new owner of the land— the United States government. Because of this policy, the 1832 treaty following the defeat of Black Hawk penalized the Meskwaki even though they had not been involved in the incident.
In 1846 when the Meskwaki and the Sauk were moved to Kansas, a few Meskwaki secretly remained in Iowa. Those who moved to Kansas were unhappy with the poor conditions there and decided to return to Iowa. In 1856 this group requested and received permission from the Iowa General Assembly to purchase and live on land in the state. With continued support from the state legislature for their right to own property in Iowa, they purchased land in Tama County.
When the Meskwaki returned to live in Iowa, the federal government withdrew financial support promised in earlier treaties. Years of hardship followed as the tribe worked to make a living on an area of land too small to support so many people. Finally state officials convinced the government to resume the annual payments. The tribe used the money to purchase more land. Today the Meskwaki own over 3,000 acres along the Iowa River in Tama County. The Meskwaki have worked diligently to support themselves and to recover their way of life.
The Story is the Same Everywhere
Throughout North America the story of the Native Americans is much the same. In most cases the Native Americans peoples were relocated to new lands. European settlers rushed in to purchase the vacated land from the United States government. In Iowa the Sauk, Meskwaki, Sioux and Winnebago were the main tribes affected by the arrival of Europeans. Although they were forced to leave their lands in the Iowa territory, the Mesquakie returned to establish a permanent home in the state of Iowa. They continue to contribute to the story of Iowa and its people.


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