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"My ultimate goal at Old Dominion is to aim high and be the best defensive line coach I can be, not only in the CAA, but in the entire country. The d-line is and will be the foundation of our defense and our team. Hopefully hard work and dedication to the program will help our team attain that goal."
- Coach Cotton
Dealton Cotton finished his fifth season as a member of the Monarch Football coaching staff. Cotton oversees the Monarchs' defensive line and also added the title of Assistant Head Coach to his name in the Fall of 2011.
Cotton coached senior defensive lineman Chris Burnette to the finest season of all CAA defensive tackles, as Burnette led all league d-linemen with 73 tackles. Burnette earned first-team All-CAA accolades and All-America honors from several publications. Sophomore defensive tackles Dominique Guinn-Bailey stood out as well, earning third-team All-CAA. Cotton's group helped the Monarchs finish 16th in the country with 38 sacks.
During his time at Old Dominion, Cotton has helped the Monarchs to a 27-8 mark in three seasons as the winningest start-up FCS program. In 2011, the Monarchs not only achieved its first-ever national ranking, but finished the season 10th in the country in both the Sports Network/Fathead.com and FCS Coaches Polls.
Playing in their first season in the nationally renowed Colonial Athletic Association (CAA), Old Dominion finished second with a 6-2 record. Under Cotton's tutledge, defensive tackle Ronnie Cameron has become the most decorated Monarch in the school's brief history. Cameron earned not only All-America honors from seven different publications in 2011, but was named the CAA's Defensive Player of the Year and the CAA Student-Athlete of the Year for his contributions on the field, in the classroom, and around the community. Additionally, Chris Burnette earned Third Team All-CAA honors in the Monarchs' inaugural season in the league.
A native of Norfolk, Cotton spent 13 years coaching high school football, including the last five as a head coach.Before joining the Monarch coaching staff, Cotton was at the helm of the Maury High School program, coaching the Commodores to a four-year mark of 30-15. He earned District Coach of the Year and NFL State Coach of the Year honors in 2005 after posting a mark of 10-2.
Cotton's first head coaching stint came at Hertford County High School in North Carolina where he earned another District Coach of the Year distinction in 2003 after taking the Bears from 5-5 the previous season to a mark of 10-2.
Cotton holds three degrees from East Carolina University including a bachelor's in criminal justice and a bachelor's and master's degree in social work.
A four-year letterman at nose guard for the Pirates' football team, Cotton helped guide ECU to appearances in the 1992 Peach Bowl and the 1994 Liberty Bowl.
The Cotton File:
Hometown: Norfolk, Va.
High School: Granby High School
College: East Carolina '95
Family: Wife - Tephanie
Recruiting Areas:
Primary: Virginia - Virginia (Northern Virginia, Fredericksburg, Stafford, 29 to 81 Corridor)
Auxiliary: Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin
Coaching History:
2011 - Present: Old Dominion University - Assistant Head Coach - Defensive Line
2008 - 2010: Old Dominion University - Defensive Line
2003 - 2007: Maury High School - Head Coach
2001 - 2003 : Hertford County High School - Head Coach
All-American Monarchs Under Coach Cotton:
2011: Ronnie Cameron
2012: Chris Burnette
All-Conference Monarchs Under Coach Cotton:
2011: Ronnie Cameron - CAA Defensive Player of the Year, First Team All-CAA; Chris Burnette - Third Team All-CAA
2012: Chris Burnette - First Team All-CAA
2012: Dominique Guinn-Bailey - Third Team All-CAA
"Coach Cotton helped to develop three outstanding defensive linemen this past season in Ronnie Cameron, Chad King, and Edmon McClam. Cameron was a First Team All-American and the CAA Defensive Player of the Year. i am confident he will develop our young d-line into a solid group in 2012."
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Gymnastics star Olga Korbut today greeted her fans at The Olympic Journey: The Story of the Games.
A multiple gold medallist, Olga captured the hearts of thousands at the 1972 Olympic Games with her daring and gutsy routines. Watch some of her famed routines on our previous feature.
Her visit to the exhibition marks her 40th anniversary of winning three gold medals in the 1972 Munich Olympics. Her performance, when she was just 17, thrust gymnastics into the spotlight and inspired thousands of young girls to take up gymnastics. She is also credited with influencing the style of contemporary gymnastics.
Olga Korbut and former Royal Ballet Principal Deborah Bull at The Olympic Journey The Story of the Games ©ROH/2012
A cake to celebrate Olga Korbut's 40th anniversary of winning gold in the 1972 Olympic Games ©ROH/2012
The personal stories of 16 other iconic Olympians are featured in the exhibition, including that of the iconic Jesse Owens and five-time gold medallist Sir Steve Redgrave. A selection of sporting stars recently visited the exhibition.
Other exhibits include a display of all of the Summer Olympic medals since 1896 and all of the Summer Olympic torches since 1936. Visitors can also have their photo taken with the London 2012 torch.
The exhibition, open from 10am to 7pm, will run at the Royal Opera House until the 12 August. Entry is free and tickets are not required. For the duration of the exhibition, the Royal Opera House shop will be open as an official LOCOG retailer, stocking official Olympic merchandise.
You can find out more about the exhibition here.

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CHICAGO -- Northern Trust Corp. has responded to harsh criticism of its lavish sponsorship of a professional golf tournament by announcing that it'll pay back $1.6 billion in federal bailout money "as quickly as prudently possible."
In a letter to U.S. House members Friday, President and CEO Frederick H. Waddell said Northern Trust has acted within government guidelines but will "redouble" its efforts to spend appropriately.
Waddell said the Chicago-based company will also make sure future entertainment activities are "appropriate given the current environment."
"We understand this is a time of great anxiety and financial distress, and your question regarding our support of an event such as the Northern Trust Open is legitimate," Waddell wrote in a statement released Friday. "We deeply regret that some of the events associated with the Northern Trust Open have distracted from the positive nature of an event that has raised more than $50 million for charity since its inception."
Northern Trust hosted dinners and concerts for hundreds of clients and employees earlier this month at the PGA Tour's Northern Trust Open in California. Lawmakers said in a letter to the company this week that the spending was irresponsible and arrogant.
Senior VP Douglas Holt explained that the "Northern Trust Open is an integral part of Northern Trust's global marketing activities, focusing on retaining and growing business with existing clients, and attracting new clients."
Northern Trust said the Open was in the second year of a 5-year sponsorship contract that started a year before the bailout was enacted.
One big shareholder was supportive, saying the bank is right to exit the federal program if it means no more second-guessing of actions meant to generate business, Crain's Chicago Business reported.
"As a long-term shareholder, we were very supportive of Northern following through on its plan to sponsor the tournament," said Jason Tyler, portfolio manager with Ariel Investments in Chicago. "We think this is a fantastic opportunity for the company to continue to gain market share, and the capital levels at the company are without a debt best in class. … It's the smart decision."
Despite the terrible economic backdrop last year, Northern posted net income of $795 million, up 9% from 2007, Waddell pointed out in his letter.


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When Abraham was told to leave his country, his people, and his father's household (Genesis 12:1), he obeyed, even though he had no idea where he was going (Hebrews 11:6). Though Abraham's
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Through this study, you will watch the budding father of a nation question God's plans, take matters into his own hands, and, at times, compromise truth. Like us, Abraham and his wife, Sarah, made mistakes along their journey with God, but Abraham learned to trust God more fully from each misstep. Abraham became a great man of faith. Through his story, you too, will develop unwavering faith as you gain a greater understanding of the covenant God made with Abraham and his descendants. You will find a greater sense of peace and security. For as a believer in Christ, you are Abraham's spiritual descendant and an heir according to the promise (Galatians 3:29).
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Surveying the Mind-Boggling Diversity of American English
Richard Bailey's Speaking American is one of those books I wish I could make every prescriptivist grouch in the world read. You know the type: the kind of misinformed peever who kvetches about "kids these days" and the language going to hell while yearning to preserve English, as if it were a precious vase a teenage texter might knock over while planking, shattering it forever and leaving us all mute.
Speaking American is a rich look at the mind-blowingly diverse forces that have twisted and tweaked English on these shores. Besides providing an obscene wealth of details that will delight word-lovers (and historians) the book as a whole is proof of the truth that, as Bailey puts it, "As soon as words begin to be used, they begin to change... Dictionaries and printing may capture a moment in the life of a word, and purists hope to keep it in the same state as it was recorded in documents..." However, "All the king's men could not bring language to perfection and keep it that way."
Telling the full story of American English is an impossible task. Bailey wisely narrowed his focus in two ways: each chapter features a different city and a period of fifty years, making stops in Chesapeake Bay, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, New Orleans, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. The book travels through time and across this massive country, zeroing in on the people and events that shaped (and left traces on) English and attitudes about English. For example, the final chapter on L.A. examines gay culture, computer geekery, the Valley Girls, the British-American movie accent known as Transatlantic English, and gangs such as the Crips and Bloods, among many other Hollywood-adjacent influences. Every chapter weaves similarly diverse and diverting threads.
One of the striking aspects of the book is how today's linguistic issues have deep roots or parallels. For example, in the mid-1700's, Quakers who used the familiar thee when the formal ye was expected could be killed for their transgression. That makes today's squabbles over irregardless or "No problem" vs. "You're welcome" seem so innocent. In mid-1800's New York City, terms such as doctoress, professoress, and teacheress were coined to recognize the advancements of women. As Erin McKean has pointed out in the Boston Globe, words of this sort are similar to our current fashion for brocabulary (like bromance). Sadly, linguistic xenophobia is also old as dirt. Bailey provides many examples of foreigner fear, including this stunning quotation from Woodrow Wilson that attacks hyphenated Americans: "Any man who carries a hyphen about with him carries a dagger that he is ready to plunge into the vitals of this Republic whenever he gets ready."
Style-wise, Speaking American has some problems. There is such a massive amount of detail on minute aspects of language and history that the overall context sometimes gets buried. I felt lost a few times. Then again, maybe this just revealed the limitations of my own attention span and interests. Self-centeredly, my thinkbone was more engaged in the chapters on the recent past and my home (Chicago). Other readers might be engrossed by different chapters. As the kids say, your mileage may vary.
Two things I can't quibble about are the inspiring scope of Bailey's project and the power of his prose. His demonstrations and summations of the democratic nature of language make me want to stand up and salute: "Language does not speak with one voice; it is not created by brilliant individual innovators. It comes from people speaking to other people, old and young, and some of the speakers arrive in the community (as infants or immigrants) and others depart (by death or departure)." You'd be hard-pressed to find a more powerful description of the ecosystem of language.
Sadly, Bailey died before the publication of this book, but it's part of a wonderful legacy of writing and scholarship. Speaking American not only reminds us of our forgotten past but our ephemeral present. As Bailey writes, "...all the ways we now think of as ways of speaking will change beyond recognition." That may be a depressing thought for curmudgeons, but it's a stone-cold fact that, once embraced, leads to a beautiful thought that Bailey, as usual, states so well: "Those who seek stability in English seldom find it; those who wish for uniformity become laughingstocks; those who create variety find a ready market for the language of their imagination."


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2014 Dakar CoveragePosted in Events on January 21, 2014
Stage 13- Final:
It is a wrap. The longest off-road race in the world is now over with just under 6,000 miles covered. Nani Roma and Team Mini Win The 2014 Dakar. Did Stephane Peterhansel obey team orders? get the full scoop here: http://www.dirtsportsnation.com/features/news/stage-13-la-serena-to-valparaiso/
Stage 12 Update:
What team orders? Stephane Peterhansel takes first in the stage along with the overall lead! What will happen tomorrow is anyone's guess. Only 97 miles of racing are left in the longest off-road race in the world. See the whole story here: http://www.dirtsportsnation.com/features/news/stage-12-el-salvador-to-la-serena/
Stage 11 Update:
Robby Gordon and the Gordini go missing. Stephane Peterhansel is told to stop pursuing Nani Roma. With the MINI's now locked in position, Roma will be the winner of the 2014 Dakar. However, there are still two more stages to go. See the full story here: http://www.dirtsportsnation.com/features/news/stage-11-antofagasta-to-el-salvador/
Stage 10 Update:
Brutal dunes and some of the most barren desert terrain we have ever seen are all part of today's stage. BJ Baldwin and Carlos Sainz both have their Dakar dreams dashed. Stephane Peterhansel is now within two minutes and fifteen seconds of Nani! Three more stages to go! Get all the info here: http://www.dirtsportsnation.com/features/news/stage-10-iquique-to-antofagasta/
Stage 9 Update:
Mr. Dakar goes on the attack and cuts even more time out of Nani Roma's overall lead. Robby Gordon breaks the Gordini's nose. BJ Baldwin goes wide and into a ditch. Four more stages remain in the longest off-road race in the world. Get the complete update here: http://www.dirtsportsnation.com/features/news/stage-9-calama-to-iquique/
Stage 8 Update:
Finally the competitors have reached Chile as they are now a bit over halfway done with the longest off-road race in the world. Stephane Peterhansel cut into Nani Roma's overall lead, while BJ Baldwin pushed himself into a solid 14th position. Robby Gordon continues to have a bad Dakar with more bad luck striking him. Get the full story here: http://www.dirtsportsnation.com/features/news/stage-8-salta-argentina-to-calama-chile/
Stage 7 Update:
The adventure of the longest off-road race in the world continues as Carlos Sainz grabs another win. Robby Gordon's bad luck continues as a wheel flies off the Gordini causing damage. BJ Baldwin dukes it out with another racer (literally) and the race enters Chile for the first time. With seven stages down, there are still six more to go! See the full story here: http://www.dirtsportsnation.com/features/news/stage-7-salta-to-salta-argentina/
Stage 6 Update:
The route was easier today and more like a WRC rally with both very fast and tight turns. It definitely favored the more nimble and better handling cars as the MINI team continues to dominate. Team America fell back in the rankings, but tomorrow is rest day giving them the time to hopefully fix any problems. Almost half of the rally is over, but the treacherous dunes of Chile still wait for the drivers. See the full story here http://www.dirtsportsnation.com/features/news/stage-6-tucuman-to-salta-argentina/
Stage 5 Update:
Robby Gordon flies into a third place stage finish on one of the roughest stages in South American Dakar history. Carlos Sainz has over an hour of downtime and his dreams of a Dakar win are dashed. Dust, sand and brutality are all part of todays epic stage along with brutal heat and humidity. Click over to Dirt Sports to get the full story: http://www.dirtsportsnation.com/features/news/stage-5-chilecito-to-tucuman-argentina/
Stage 4 Update:
El Matador Carlos Sainz returns to the top of the order in the world's longest off-road race. Robby Gordon slides back a bit, but has a mostly trouble free run. BJ Baldwin has a solid run and improves his starting order for Stage Five. After running just under 2,500 miles, there are still 9 more stages to go! Click below to follow along as our friends at Dirt Sports brings you the action direct from Dakar. http://www.dirtsportsnation.com/features/news/stage-4-san-juan-to-chilecito-argentina/
Stage 3 Update:
The Gordini lives! Robby Gordon stormed back to the front of the pack with a 6th place finish for Stage 3. BJ Baldwin also had a better day. He reportedly passed 40 or so cars before being slowed down by radiator issues. Sadly, Peter Hajas was forced to retire after not making today's start. Today's stage win went to Nani Roma in another MINI. Overall, things are beginning to look up for Team America at the longest off-road race in the world.
Check out the full Stage 3 Coverage here: http://www.dirtsportsnation.com/features/news/stage-3-san-rafael-to-san-juan/
Robby's recap of Stage 3 from Planet Robby:
Stage 2 Update:
Stage 2 of Dakar heads from San Luis To San Rafael. The fuel problems for Team America continue with Robby Gordon and BJ Baldwin all encountering problems on the second day of the Dakar Rally. Both vow to fight on and do their best to battle the Europeans. With 11 stages left and thousands of miles still to go, the Dakar Rally is still anyone's game. Our friends at Dirt Sports report on Stage 2 from deep inside Argentina. Check out the full coverage and update video Here: http://www.dirtsportsnation.com/features/news/stage-2-san-luis-to-san-rafael/
Check out the latest update from Planet Robby:
Staging and Day One Racing Update
Only one day in to Dakar 2014 and it's looking like every one of the american entries are out of the running for an overall Victory. For this first leg of 502 miles, Robby got off the start line 17 minutes late, had some mechanical problems, and had the rear section of the body fly off! BJ Baldwin reportedly had problems with fuel (or lack thereof), and Peter Hajas rolled into the pits a full five hours after the stage winner and early favorite, Carlos Sousa. Click below to get the full story and check back right here for daily updates!
The Dakar rally is not exactly a household name here in the United States, and was once almost exclusively the domain of European racers. If we were lucky, the beauty and challenge of racing deep in the heart of Africa might be glimpsed late at night on some odd channel here in the States. Only a few very select Americans attempted it, and for good reason. Just getting a race vehicle, equipment and a crew to Africa from the U.S. was a challenge involving lots of costs and logistics. For European teams, it was a much easier task and many even tested in Africa to prepare for the race. It was little wonder that Europeans absolutely dominated the Dakar.
After the Dakar moved to South America in 2009, the playing field became more level. Nobody was intimately familiar with the terrain, and everyone had to ship vehicles. No longer was there a "home court" advantage and Americans increasingly began to take interest in the epic marathon rally. Not only were more Americans showing up to Dakar, they were increasingly making their mark on it. After becoming the first American to win a Dakar stage in 2005, Robby Gordon showed up with his own team and ran with the top competitors. RG is back for 2014 with a brand new vehicle based on his Super Stadium Trucks, and along with the BJ Baldwin and Brenthel Industries entries, is sure to create a fierce American presence and give the X-Raid Mini team, with eleven entries and a roster that reads like the who's who of Dakar, a run for their money.
The 2014 Dakar rally spreads itself out over 13 days of competition (with an additional rest day mercifully thrown in the middle) and usually runs over 5,000 miles over some of the toughest terrain in the world. Its huge distances grind both men and machine down, breaking even the toughest of competitors both physically and mentally. Unlike desert racing in the USA, luxuries such as GPS, radio communication, chase trucks and air support are banned, only adding to the difficulty of an already extremely difficult race. Just finishing it is a feat, with winning it an entirely different matter.
As if this wasn't enough, this year's running of the Dakar will be the longest ever attempted since the rally was moved to South America. Starting on January 5th in Rosario, Argentina, the course will wind its way north through the extreme mountain passes of Bolivia and then back down along the length of the coast of Chile. Finally, 13 days after it all started, the Dakar finishes in Valparaiso, Chile. The total distance of the rally is almost 6,000 miles, with over 3,000 of those being special stages. That route will also cross over the Andes and into Bolivia, setting a high-altitude record for the competitors as well. The specials are also rumored to be some of the most difficult ever, making for a Dakar that is longer, harder and even higher than before.
With all of this, it goes without saying that the 2014 running of the Dakar will indeed be an epic one and something you should take part in. If you can't physically be at the race, the best way to watch it is the daily coverage that will start on the NBC Sports Network starting on January 5th. Make sure to check your local listings for the right time. Our sister publication, Dirt Sports, will also be live at the Dakar to bring us daily updates with videos and photos right here on the Fourwheeler Network as well as www.dirtsportsnation.com so make sure to check it out for the latest on Dakar 2014.


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Population sodium reduction strategies
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death in the world. High blood pressure is the leading risk for mortality globally. Importantly, at any given age, the risk of dying from high blood pressure in low and middle-income countries is more than double that in high-income countries.
The WHO Member States in WHA 66.10 have agreed on a voluntary global NCD target for a 30% relative reduction in mean population intake of salt, with the aim of achieving a target of less than 5 grams per day (approximately 2g sodium) by 2025. They have also agreed on a voluntary global NCD target for a 25% relative reduction in the prevalence of raised blood pressure (defined as systolic blood pressure ≥140 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mmHg) by 2025.
WHO is developing tools to assist Member States in the identification of population salt consumption and major sources of sodium in the diet; in reformulation of a set number of products available on the market; in developing health communication material to assist consumers increase awareness on salt/sodium and to inform consumers on how to read and interpret food labels.
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With U.S. military action against Syria possibly coming within days, oil investors must ask themselves "Who wants to go home short crude into a three-day holiday weekend?" Since few will answer "me," I think it's a good bet that we drift higher into Friday's session.
Crude oil has traded more than $3 down from its $112.24 high, reaching a low of $108.60 in early Thursday trading. The market has undoubtedly softened, but the fact that the market closed above $109.01 was encouraging to the bull camp.
(Read more: Whew! Futures indicate that the oil spike won't last)
But the biggest factor is that we are heading into the long Labor Day weekend with Syria looming on every trader's mind. The reality is that no one wants to go home this weekend short crude, so traders are either long or flat, and we expect this attitude to help boost this market over the next 24 hours.


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Benefits of an All-Inclusive Wedding SiteAugust 31st, 2015
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Watch the Video ON BDN.COM! By Abigail Curtis, BDN Staff Posted April 28, 2013, at 3:30 p.m.
BELFAST, Maine — When the smiling young woman with a banjo and the man with a guitar started to play some tunes on Saturday night during the Free Range Music Festival in Belfast, the audience started tapping their toes.
Then they started to sing along to the call-and-response songs that workers on boats in the Caribbean, on the railroad in West Virginia and in Zulu villages also sing — much to the delight of Edith Gawler, 25, and her husband and musical partner Bennett Konesni, 30. The couple dream of spreading their love of work songs to people everywhere, and were thrilled that the Belfast audience filled up the room at Waterfall Arts with their own voices.
"We grew up singing as we stacked wood. We sang while we worked," Gawler, who grew up in Belgrade, said Sunday. "We weren't consciously practicing work songs. Bennett recognizes how special and unique and rare they are. He's very actively bringing them to our family now … It's a really incredible way to connect with people."
According to Konesni, who grew up in Appleton and on Islesboro, where his mom ran the health center for many years, work songs are the music that people have long created to turn hard labor into something else. He first got into the idea of singing on the job when he toiled summers as a deckhand on Schooner J&E Riggin out of Rockland.
"We would sing while raising the sails and raising the anchor," he said. "It's a way to transform that drudgery somewhere between work and play. I love that idea — of productive fun. You can find that middle ground, of doing useful, productive work and having a great time doing it."
When Konesni went to Middlebury College in Vermont, his love of work songs grew as he learned about different cultures. One of his roommates was from Tanzania, and taught the young Maine man and others how to sing while running, a tradition in that country. Then, in 2005, Konesni won a $25,000 Watson Fellowship, which allowed him to travel around the world for a year to learn work songs. He went to Africa, Europe and Asia, diving in to the traditions of the people he met in those places.
"I'm not native Zulu, I'm not native Swiss, I'm not native Mongolian," Konesni said. "I went to those countries because I wanted to learn how work songs work. What is a good work songs leader like? What's a good follower? Which songs work well in big, open spaces?"
His continued interest in the work songs tradition has led him to start teaching it to students at the non-profit educational farm he founded five years ago on land his family has long owned on Shelter Island in New York.
"I just started trying it out at the farm, and it worked!" he said of getting others to sing. "It's really great. People just react well to it. It's a very universal thing. We all have to work … it's less about creating a perfect sound, and more about creating a joyful noise. That, to me, really captures what I try to inspire people to do out in the fields — to get away from perfection and start embracing fun and joy, and realize you can just turn the switch in your own brain to have a good time again."
Since then, he and Gawler have traveled far afield teaching work songs, from leading workshops at the Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival in Mystic, Conn., to giving a TEDx talk in Fruitvale, Calif., to a tour of upstate New York next week with workshops and concerts.
Gawler said that she first spotted Konesni several years ago while he was leading a group of kids at Maine Fiddle Camp in a singing-while-jogging outing, during which they were "grinning like fools and having so much fun."
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The following year, they began dating.
"We've been jogging and singing together and playing and singing together ever since," Gawler said.
They've been busy with the farm they're starting this summer in Belfast, Allemande Farm, located on 17 acres of overgrown cow pasture on Jesse Robbins Road. They'll be planting specialty crops, including garlic, and making a homestead, she said. Music and art will be central to their new enterprise.
"Work songs — it takes the whole idea of passive entertainment and flips it on its head," Gawler said. "We all make music together. That's my favorite part — people who think they can't sing coming and having a really good time. It's transformative in a really exciting way. It's an old art. We're bringing it back to a new way of doing things. It's fun to think that we're going backwards and forwards at the same time."
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OUHSC is built upon a rich tradition of innovative curricula and cutting edge research. In addition, OUHSC represents a unique opportunity to attend school surrounded by your future health care colleagues represented in seven different colleges: Allied Health, Dentistry, Graduate, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Public Health.
Welcome to the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, approximately 25 miles north of Norman, Oklahoma, and within blocks of the State Capitol.
An internationally prominent faculty, state-of-the-art facilities and new technology combine to make the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center a leader in education, research and patient care. One of only four comprehensive academic health centers in the nation with seven professional colleges – Allied Health, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Graduate Studies – the OU Health Sciences Center serves approximately 4,000 students in more than 70 undergraduate and graduate degree programs on campuses in Oklahoma City and Tulsa.
Students and residents receive clinical training at on-site institutions, including the OU Medical Center, The Children's Hospital and Veterans Affairs Medical Center. In addition, affiliate training programs are maintained at hospitals and clinics throughout the state.
The OUHSC strategic plan for research targets and builds upon existing research and clinical strengths to achieve a healthier future and vigorous economy for Oklahoma. The key areas of research targeted are cancer, diabetes, neuroscience/vision and infectious diseases/immunology. The OUHSC already had a solid core of basic and clinical researchers in these four areas, plus the largest biomedical infrastructure in the state. Through recruitment, the OUHSC continues to grow its ranks of top researchers.
The Stephenson Cancer Center is the largest public-private biosciences initiative in state history, and is Oklahoma's only comprehensive academic cancer center. The Cancer Center has become a nationally recognized leader in research and patient care, and Oklahomans no longer need to travel out of state to receive all-inclusive state-of-the-art care. The new 210,000-square-foot building is designed to meet the medical, emotional and practical needs of patients and their families.
Harold Hamm Diabetes Center is one of the top diabetes centers in the world for adults and children with type 1 and type 2 diabetes and home to one of the largest group of diabetes researchers in the world. With operations at the center's facilities on OU's Oklahoma City and Tulsa campuses, as well as affiliated sites across the region, the center engages in novel research aimed at progress toward a cure for diabetes and its complications, providing improved patient care, and preventing the spread of diabetes through education and early detection.
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Governor Cuomo Announces First in the Nation Reforms to Protect People with Special Needs and Disabilities
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today unveiled new legislation to establish the strongest standards and practices in the nation for protecting people with special needs and disabilities. Governor Cuomo's legislation will create a new Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs, an initiative that will transform how the state protects over one million New Yorkers in State operated, certified or licensed facilities and programs.
The Justice Center will have a Special Prosecutor and Inspector General for the Protection of People with Special Needs who will investigate reports of abuse and neglect and prosecute allegations that rise to the level of criminal offenses. It will also include a 24/7 hotline run by trained professionals, a comprehensive statewide database that will track all reports of abuse and neglect and a statewide register of workers who have committed serious acts of abuse who will be prohibited from ever working with people with disabilities or special needs.
"This is about safeguarding the civil rights of the more than one million New Yorkers with disabilities and special needs who for too long have not had the protections and justice they deserve," Governor Cuomo said. "The creation of a Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs will give New York State the strongest standards and practices in the country for protecting those who are often the most vulnerable to abuse and mistreatment. I urge the Legislature to speedily pass this bill and give people with special needs and disabilities a new level of protection and service in our state."
Senate Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos said: "The allegations of abuse and neglect of individuals in State-run care are very serious. In light of this, the Governor has put forward a package of thoughtful reforms that recognize the importance of protecting New York's most vulnerable citizens and providing peace of mind for the family, friends and loved ones of those affected. Under the leadership of Senator McDonald, the Chairman of the Senate's Committee on Mental Health, we are committed to working with the Governor and the Assembly to address this issue as soon as possible."
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said: "The greatest measure of the character of a society is how well it cares for and protects its most vulnerable citizens. That is why the Assembly last year conducted a series of statewide hearings to examine the abuse of individuals with developmental disabilities that occurred at group homes and institutions throughout New York. The Governor has outlined a plan to inject much-needed accountability into the system for the care of individuals with developmental disabilities and to eliminate abuses and we support the overarching goals of the proposed legislation."
Clarence Sundram, the Governor's Special Advisor on Vulnerable Persons, said, "Today, Governor Cuomo announced a proposal for New York State to establish the most comprehensive standard in the nation in regard to protecting our special needs population. This landmark legislation proves that the Governor is a leading advocate for one of New York's most vulnerable communities. If passed, this initiative has the capability of transforming the way we protect over one million New Yorkers with special needs who partake in State supported programs."
Deputy Secretary for Health Jim Introne said: "Thirty-five years ago, Clarence Sundram was a central part of reforming New York's system of care for people with special needs that followed Governor Carey's signing of the Willowbrook Consent. The reforms being proposed by Governor Cuomo today are no less significant and will again put New York in a position of leadership in assuring the highest possible quality of care for its vulnerable populations. Governor Cuomo is a proven advocate of civil rights and this transformative initiative provides a safeguard for our most vulnerable populations."
Nancy Thaler, Executive Director of The National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services, said, "The historic reforms Governor Cuomo is proposing will make the State of New York a national leader for protecting people with special needs and disabilities. As the Executive Director of an association that works to improve public services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, I am very pleased that Governor Cuomo has taken such a leadership role on this issue."
Last year, there were more than 10,000 allegations of abuse against New Yorkers with special needs and disabilities in state operated, certified or licensed facilities and programs. However, the State has never had a consistent and comprehensive standard for tracking and investigating complaints or punishing guilty workers.
Governor Cuomo's proposed Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs will have primary responsibility for tracking, investigating and pursuing serious abuse and neglect complaints for facilities and provider agencies that are operated, certified, or licensed by the following six agencies: The Department of Health (DOH), the Office of Mental Health (OMH), the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD), the Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS), the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS), and the State Education Department (SED). The Justice Center will also absorb all functions and responsibilities of the Commission on Quality of Care and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities, with the exception of the Federal Protection and Advocacy and Client Assistance Programs which will be designated to a qualified non-profit.
Other components and responsibilities of the proposed Justice Center include the following:
- An Executive Director, Special Prosecutor and Inspector General, and a substantial staff of trained investigators, lawyers and administrators. The Justice Center's law enforcement branch will have concurrent authority with district attorneys to prosecute abuse and neglect crimes committed against such persons.
- Creation of a statewide 24/7 hotline staffed by trained professionals to ensure that allegations of abuse are promptly reported to law enforcement and fully and effectively investigated.
- Development of a register of workers who have committed serious acts of abuse who will be prohibited from ever being hired again in any position where they would work with people with disabilities or special needs.
- Representing the State at all disciplinary proceedings relating to substantiated allegations of abuse and neglect.
- Development of common standards for investigations and requirements to be used to train investigators.
- Development of a Code of Conduct containing the basic ethical standards to which all individuals working with people with special needs and disabilities would be required to subscribe and would be held accountable.
- Consolidation of background check procedures, including reviewing and evaluating the criminal history for any person applying to be an employee, volunteer or consultant requiring a background check at any facility or provider agencies operated, licensed or certified by OMH, OPWDD, OASAS and OCFS.
- Providing an annual report to the Governor and the Legislature concerning its work during the preceding year which will include data on central register reports, results of investigations, types of corrective actions taken, results of its review of patterns and trends relating to abuse and reporting of abuse, suggested corrective actions and training efforts.
Governor Cuomo's proposed legislation will also replace confusing and inconsistent definitions of abuse and neglect in various laws and regulations with a single consistent standard applicable to human services systems.
Under the legislation, a new level of transparency will be created for non-state operated facilities and programs licensed or certified by the State to serve people with disabilities and special needs. These entities will need to follow transparency guidelines based on FOIL for information requests regarding abuse or neglect of the people they serve.
The Governor's proposed legislation will also increase criminal penalties for endangering the welfare of people with disabilities and special needs and strengthen a prosecutor's ability to prove that any of these individuals in a facility operated, licensed or certified by the State were the victims of sexual abuse. Under current law, crimes involving endangering the welfare of people with disabilities and special needs are classified as an A misdemeanor, an E felony and a D felony bearing a top penalty of 2 -7 years in prison. The Governor's proposal would create a new misdemeanor that will be easier to prove and elevate the three other crimes, to an E, a D and a C felony raising the top penalty to 5-15 years in prison. In addition, the proposal provides that an individual in a residential facility cannot consent to sex with an employee, thereby removing the prosecutor's obligation to prove that any sexual activity was nonconsensual.
New Yorkers can learn more about the Justice Center at www.Justice4SpecialNeeds.com
The Governor's legislation was developed, in part, from recommendations outlined in The Measure of a Society: Protection of Vulnerable Persons in Residential Facilities Against Abuse and Neglect, a special report prepared by Mr. Clarence Sundram, the Governor's Special Advisor on Vulnerable Persons. A copy of this report is available at: http://www.governor.ny.gov/assets/documents/justice4specialneeds.pdf
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Keys to Woody Plants
Comstock Publishing Company, 1950 - Plants - 108 pages
This major expansion and revision of W. C. Muenscher's popular reference work brings a wealth of botanical knowledge up to date in an easy-to-access format. Muenscher's Keys to Woody Plants enables its users to identify trees and shrubs in all seasons by means of diagnostic field characteristics including leaves, fruits, buds, twigs, and bark.
Keys to Woody Plants was first published privately in 1922; Cornell University Press published the sixth edition in 1950. The new and expanded version of this classic identification tool for horticulturists, botanists, foresters, and ecologists treats 335 genera and 1,156 species of woody plants found in the northeastern United States. This is more than double the number covered by Muenscher's sixth edition and includes 570 cultivated species. Edward A. Cope's revision:
* teaches concepts and terms necessary to all botanical identification * retains the simple structure of Muenscher's original keys * brings the nomenclature into line with current use * provides both a comprehensive key--including native, introduced, and cultivated species--and, for ease of use in the field, a separate key devoted to native and naturalized introduced species. *meets the needs of both novices and seasoned professionals * includes a bibliography of resources that allow the reader to move beyond identification and learn more about the woody plants
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Youree Dell Cleomili Harris
Youree Dell Cleomili Harris (born August 12, 1962 in Los Angeles, California), better known as Miss Cleo, is a self-proclaimed psychic. Harris became well-known through television ads in the 1990s, where she introduced herself as "Miss Cleo" hawking a psychic pay-per-call service. She provided the voice of Haitians leader Auntie Poulet in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
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Lafayette Park
Detroit Local Historic District (02/17/2003), National Register of Historic Places (08/01/1996)
Post World War II urban renewal redevelopment project
A successful urban residential development in Detroit, Michigan, Lafayette Park holds the largest collection of Mies van der Rohe designed buildings in the world. The Park's skyline is defined by three tower apartment buildings; on the west side sits of the development is the 21-story Pavilion Apartments high-rise, and to the east the twin apartment high-rises Lafayette Towers West & East. Additionally, the Park contains one and two-story townhouses: 24 single story courthouses with private gardens and 162 two-story townhouses. The development, located in the lower east side of Detroit, was sited on a former African American slum known as "Black Bottom" (named after the color of the area's soil), was intended to rejuvenate the area as a middle-class mixed-race community. As a community, the Park was planned so that there were many walkways and recreational green spaces with no through-traffic roadways, making the automobile abide by the landscape.
The structures are classic examples of the Miesian International Style. The apartment high-rises' facades are emphasized through the repeated rhythm of their aluminum framed glass cladding panels, which are uninterrupted by interior structural columns. The townhouses share the same aesthetic, with a typical two-story rectangular block consisting of 10 repeating 10-foot wide units. Each unit, also rectangular in plan, is characterized by floor-to-ceiling aluminum framed glazing set within the black steel structural skeleton. The end units in the 10-unit block have terminating walls made with beige colored brick. The townhouses are also sited 4 feet above the parking grade, allowing for unrestricted views and deemphasizing the automobile's presence. Recreational facilities, greenways, an elementary school and a shopping plaza exist in the Park as well.
c.1956 - c.1963
The apartment high-rises of Lafayette Park can be thought of within the design timeline of Mies' evolution of the curtain wall, specifically how the curtain wall relates to the building's structural columns. Both Lafayette Towers and the Pavilion Apartments have uninterrupted glass and aluminum curtain walls, separated from the structural concrete columns recessed inside the building. Structural differences between these high-rises are the delineation of the structural bays and the framing units to which they are bound by. Differing from typical I-beams, the Pavilion Apartments use back-to-back "[" channels between bays, allowing a strong vertical line to be read through this specific use of construction materials. Additionally, the structural bays of the Pavilion Apartments are 11.5 x 10 feet, half the typical 21 x 10 foot cladding the Lafayette Towers employ. Conversely, the steel skeletal structure of the townhouses is explicitly expressed, running flush with the aluminum framed glazing and brick terminating walls. The profiles of the I-beams protrude outward and visibly define the perimeter of each 10-foot unit. Lafayette Park catalogs multiple examples of how Mies considered his treatment of exterior cladding.
Lafayette Park stands out as one of the few successful urban renewal redevelopments in the United States. It replaced a former slum with an attractive apartment and townhouse complexes that accommodated new modern tastes, a suburban sense of landscape, and an urban proximity to neighbors, shops, schools and downtown Detroit. It has historically appealed to middle-class residents of varying ethnicities and has maintained this character from its completion to today. Property values have increased appreciably and have remained stable, an impressive fact given the steady decline of population and real estate in its surrounding Detroit context. As a continuously prosperous urban renewal redevelopment, Lafayette Park represents the ideal combination of a Modern aesthetic and socioeconomic balance.
Lafayette Towers and the Pavilion apartments are Modernist examples of high-rise structures in the International Style. The two and single story townhouses (or rowhouses) are regular and modular in appearance. Each unit is 10 feet wide and is expressed as such through the exterior steel frames, each with aluminum framed glass infill. The 10-foot wide glazing bay is divided by steel at the floor slab and is further divided by regular stretches of sliding sash windows below larger pieces of glass. The interior design does not follow the regularity of the exterior; party walls are irregularly placed from the first to second floors and actually divide particular bays against what the exterior regularization would suggest. This is expressed through neighboring entrance doors set within the same bay. The aesthetic language of the rowhouses articulated the language of prefabrication, although they are not strictly so. Both the Pavilion Apartments and the Lafayette Towers have uninterrupted glass and aluminum curtain walls which clad the building from the 2nd to 20th floors. The first floors reveal the concrete and steel columns, painted white, to give the high-rises a weightless visual balance of structure holding the above mass. The Pavilion Apartments' bays are half the typical 21 x 10-foot panels, at 11.5 x 10-feet, while the Lafayette Towers uses the typical size. This discrepancy changes the rhythm of elements between the two projects.
Lafayette Park is the largest collection of Mies van der Rohe architecture in the world and represents a successful urban renewal development. Its combination of Caldwell's landscape design and Hilberseimer's planning make it a rare and progressive example of total community planning.
Detroit's Lafayette Park is a beautiful example of a successful architectural, urban and community development. While the surrounding areas of the park and Detroit have fallen on hard times, Lafayette Park has maintained its integrity both aesthetically and as a stable multiethnic community. As the largest collection of Mies van der Rohe architecture in the world, the Park represents Modern ideals of structure and form as the backbone of a prosperous urban renewal development and should be recognized for its planning, landscape design and continuously thriving neighborhood.


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The Unspoken Truth: Coup d'etat in America
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research
July 14, 2013
The American people have suffered a coup d'etat, but they are hesitant to acknowledge it. The regime ruling in Washington today lacks constitutional and legal legitimacy. Americans are ruled by usurpers who claim that the executive branch is above the law and that the US Constitution is a mere "scrap of paper."
An unconstitutional government is an illegitimate government. The oath of allegiance requires defense of the Constitution "against all enemies, foreign and domestic." As the Founding Fathers made clear, the main enemy of the Constitution is the government itself. Power does not like to be bound and tied down and constantly works to free itself from constraints.
The basis of the regime in Washington is nothing but usurped power. The Obama Regime, like the Bush/Cheney Regime, has no legitimacy. Americans are oppressed by an illegitimate government ruling, not by law and the Constitution, but by lies and naked force. Those in government see the US Constitution as a "chain that binds our hands."
The South African apartheid regime was more legitimate than the regime in Washington. The apartheid Israeli regime in Palestine is more legitimate. The Taliban are more legitimate. Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein were more legitimate.
The only constitutional protection that the Bush/Obama regime has left standing is the Second Amendment, a meaningless amendment considering the disparity in arms between Washington and what is permitted to the citizenry. No citizen standing with a rifle can protect himself and his family from one of the Department of Homeland Security's 2,700 tanks, or from a drone, or from a heavily armed SWAT force in body armor.
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Gay Marriage Brought $259 Million to New York City In a Single Year
Gay marriage became legal a year ago in New York today, and to commemorate the event, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced that New York City alone made $259 million from all festivities that the 8,200+ gay-marriage licenses spawned. That's over three times what Brokeback Mountain grossed at the domestic box office. Gay pays.
A Bloomberg report says $55 million came in from hotel stays alone:
More than 200,000 guests have since traveled from outside of the city to attend same-sex wedding receptions, and more than 235,000 hotel room nights were booked at an average daily room rate of $275, according to the mayor's statement.
(The MTA is still operating on a $68 million deficit, FYI.)
Since money is our country's official religion, this is one more step in the direction of it being impossible to deny that letting gay people get married is a good thing. Even a megachurch owner could see the value in an assload of money like this.
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The objective of the fund is to provide a combination of growth and income and to keep the fund within a pre-determined risk profile. The fund is part of a range of risk profiled funds. The risk profile ranges from 1-10 with 1 being the least risky, and 10 being the most. This fund is a 7. The level of risk in the fund is managed by restricting the types and proportions of the assets it holds.The fund's potential gains and losses are likely to be limited by the objective to stay within its particular risk profile. The target risk profile for the fund is set by an independent company, and is based on the historic return and volatility of different asset types. We use our experience and research, together with research and allocation guidelines from this independent company to restrict the types of assets held and the allocation of each asset type to stay within the target risk profile.The fund will have exposure to company shares, company and government bonds (a type of loan that pays interest), cash and UK commercial property. The fund will have a strong bias towards company shares.The bonds the fund is exposed to may be investment grade or sub-investment grade. Investment grade means that the bond is rated as lower risk by a rating agency, while sub-investment grade bonds will be classed as higher risk, but with a potentially higher return.In order to achieve this exposure, at least 75% of the fund will be invested in other authorised investment funds. At least 50% of the fund will be invested in index-tracker funds which are operated by Legal & General.The fund may also invest in money market instruments (a form of loan that pays interest and is designed to have a stable value) and bank deposits.The fund may use derivatives (contracts which have a value linked to the price of another asset) to:• reduce risk or cost; or• generate additional capital or income with no, or an acceptably low, level of risk
Fund Managers
Justin Onuekwusi
Justin is a fund manager in Multi-Asset Funds team, focusing on the management of the team's retail and risk-profiled multi-asset funds. Justin joined LGIM in 2013 from Aviva Investors' multi-asset team.
Andrzej Pioch
Andrzej is a Fund Manager in the Multi-Asset Funds team with responsibilities covering the portfolio management and ongoing development of both institutional and retail multi-asset funds. Prior to joining LGIM in July 2014, he was a Fund Manager at Aviva Investors.
Francis Chua
Francis is a fund manager in the Multi-Asset Funds team and assists in the management of the multi-index funds. Francis joined LGIM in October 2016 from Aviva where he was a senior investment analyst.
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Our office is located in the Harry S Truman State Office Building at 301 West High Street in Jefferson City, Missouri. The Truman Building is on the corner of High and Broadway Streets just one block north of Highway 50 and is catty-corner from the Capitol Building. Our office is on the fourth floor, Room 470. Our office hours are 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Click here for Driving Directions to the Harry S Truman State Office Building.
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Chłodnik – Cold Polish Beetroot Soup
Chłodnik is a typical Polish soup eaten in summer. I can't remember if we've ever had it at home when I grew up, but I definately ate it when visiting relatives in Poland. The soup is served cold on hot summer days and today was a perfect day to make this soup. This recipe is my own, inspired by several other ones that I've seen on the internet. The result is a delicous and refreshing pink soup. But be careful and don't spill, beetroot stains are not fun…
- Chłodnik
300 gr peeled beetroots
500 ml water
1 vegetable stock cube
5 radishes
2 red spring onions
2 tbsp chives
1 tbsp parsley
juice from 0.5 lemon
350 ml Kefir (or natural yoghurt)
50 ml sourcream
Grate the beetroots and cook them in 5 deciliters of water, a stock cube and pepper. Cook until the beets are soft. Put aside the beets and the water, let cool, then transfer to the fridge to cool completely.
Chop the radishes, chives, onions and parsley. When the beetroots together with the beetroot water are cold, add the vegetables, lemon juice, sourcream and kefir. Salt and pepper the soup. Put it in the fridge for about 30 minutes. Serve the cold soup with boiled eggs.
The main ingredients for Chłodnik.
Let the beetroots cool before mixing all ingredients together.


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It only took 29 games and 111 at bats, but Albert Pujols has finally hit his first home run since signing his $240 million contract with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim near Disneyland.
And how did his teammates react to the slugger's first bomb? By hiding in the hallway to the team's clubhouse.
That's one way to break the ice. Now maybe Pujols can get back to being Pujols.
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Cherry-Fudge Brownie Torte
For the brownie layer
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon (or up to 2 teaspoons, to taste) coarsely ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup dried tart cherries
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup kirsch
3 tablespoon cherry preserves
1 1/2 sticks (12 tablespoons) unsalted butter, cut into chunks
11 ounces bittersweet or semi-sweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
1 1/2 cups sugar
4 large eggs, at room temperature
1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
For the mousse
3 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
1/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
pinch of salt
1 1/2 cups (12 ounces) mascarpone cheese
3/4 cup cold heavy cream
unsweetened cocoa powder, for dusting
Put the cherries and water in a small saucepan over medium heat and bring to a boil. Boil for 1 minute, then stand back and carefully ignite the kirsch. When the flames die, stir in the preserves and boil until the mixture thickens, about 3 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and set aside to cool.
Put the butter and 7 ounces of the chopped chocolate in a heatproof bowl and set the bowl over a pan of gently simmering water. Heat, stirring occasionally, until the butter and chocolate are just melted. Stir in 1/2 cup of the sugar, and remove the bowl from the heat.
Working with a stand mixer, preferably fitted with a paddle attachment, or with a hand mixer in a large bowl, beat the eggs, the remaining 1 cup of sugar and the vanilla extract until pale and thick, about 5 minutes. Switch to a large sturdy spatula and gently mix in the melted chocolate. Still using the spatula, fold in the dry ingredients, followed by the cherries and the remaining 4 ounces of chopped chocolate. Turn the batter into the springform pan and smooth the top with a rubber spatula.
Bake the brownie cake for about 55 minutes, or until the top is dry - it may be slightly cracked, but that's okay - and the cake is just starting to pull away from the sides of the pan. If you stick a thin knife into the center, it should come out streaked with some moist (not wet) batter attached. Transfer the pan to a cooling rack and let the cake cool for 15 minutes, then loosen the brownie by running a blunt knife between the cake and the pan and remove the sides of the pan. Cool the cake completely on the base of the pan.
When the cake is cool, invert it onto a rack and remove the base of the pan and the parchment paper. Wash and dry the pan and return the cake to it. Refasten the sides around the cake. (The cake can be made ahead; wrap it well and store it in the refrigerator for up to 1 day. Or wrap it airtight and keep it in the freezer for up to 2 months; defrost it in the wrapper.)
To make the mousse: Working with the stand mixer preferably fitted with a paddle attachment, or with a hand mixer in a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, sugar, vanilla extract and salt together on medium-high speed, scraping the bowl as needed, until very smooth. Reduce the mixer speed to low, add the mascarpone and mix it until it is smooth. Add the cream and beat only until it is blended - don't overbeat it; you want a light, smooth mousse. Pour the mousse over the brownies and tilt and jiggle the pan to even the mousse.
Slip the cake into the refrigerator and refrigerate for at least 4 hours (or overnight) to set the mousse.
Remove the sides of the springform and let the cake set at room temperature for about 20 minutes before serving. Dust the top of the cake with cocoa powder just before serving.


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Time Beyond Imagining (link is here), and that it was a series that introduced the history of the Colorado Plateau over the course of around 70 posts. I always felt that all that writing should be rounded up into a single narrative some day, and that day kind of arrived when I decided to lead a trip through the plateau country with some geologists and their families from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. I started on the project 18 months ago and made a lot of progress, but the first trip in 2012 was cancelled, and I so let the project simmer for awhile.
new Science Community Center. So I disappeared more or less for the last few weeks furiously writing and rewriting a narrative and field guide for the trip. It felt a lot like finishing my thesis way back when, but back then I was taking care of an infant. This time I had a son who is an expert anthropologist who wrote an extensive section for the book on the cultural history of the region. The book and guide went to the printer this evening, and we leave for Las Vegas on Friday.
And there are some truly fascinating places in between! Our trip includes a journey to the bottom of the Grand Canyon on the Diamond Creek Road out of Peach Springs on the Hualapai Reservation. It will also include a visit at Antelope Canyon, a surreal labyrinth on the Navajo Reservation near Page, Arizona (picture below).
I would hope that there would be some interest in the book and road guide, but I know I'll need to do some serious fact-checking and mileage confirmations (the numbers never quite add up right, which has been true for every guide I've written) while on the trip next week. And I also need to find a cheap way to print it, because the 160 page guide ran $30 apiece at Kinkos (I know they call it something else now, but I can't remember what!). I would love any ideas you might have!
Despite the long nights and all, I've been having a lot of fun revisiting one of my favorite corners of the planet, and I'm thrilled to be hitting the road in a couple of days (one week with AAPG, and then two weeks with my students). I'll try to post some pics from the road, and not be quite as invisible as I have been the last few weeks.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Time Beyond Imagining Becomes a "Book" (or: "Where I've Been Hiding These Last Few Weeks)!
Posted by Garry Hayes at 12:58 AM
Labels: AAPG, Bryce Canyon, Grand Canyon, Grand Staircase-Escalante, Guidebook, Kodachrome Basin State Park, Las Vegas, Time Beyond Imagining, writing, Zion National Park
4 comments:
- Evelyn Mervine said...
This guide sounds great. I'd buy a copy!
- May 29, 2013 at 1:22 AM
- Gaelyn said...
Congrats! That's a lot of work to put together. I think it should be a good seller. How about an ebook copy? See you in a few weeks.
- May 29, 2013 at 9:34 AM
- carrie said...
i want a copy! also, you are such a great photographer. (your subject matter lends itself to that, but still)
- May 29, 2013 at 11:19 AM
I'd buy a copy. I second the e-book version. I'd download into my Google book reader to take on trips with me, so cool!
- May 30, 2013 at 12:14 PM
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A command object allows you to separate your SQL statement into the structure and the values (thus protecting against errors and injection attacks), allows you to run a Stored Procedure with output parameters, and if run multiple times (even with different values) is faster than using a string based equivalent.
For other reasons why using a Command object is good (and using just a String is bad), see the article Why should I use Parameters in my program instead of putting values directly into my SQL string?
The following does not cover all possibilities for the command object, but just the most common uses. If you want further information, see the help (online version here).
Changes to your SQL statement
No matter what kind of SQL statement you have (eg: Select/Insert/Update/...), you just need to remove any values (and delimiters around them) from your SQL statement, and replace them with either the ? character, or the @ character followed by a name (eg: "@Name"). This is a placeholder that the Command object will use to determine where to place the parameters.
For example, if your existing SQL statement is like this:
you should change it either to this:Code:strSQL = "SELECT field1 FROM table1 WHERE field2 = 1 AND field3 = '" & txtVal3.Text & "'"
or to this:Code:strSQL = "SELECT field1 FROM table1 WHERE field2 = @Field2 AND field3 = @Field3"
Note that which of these two styles of placeholder you can use depends on the database system you are working with.Code:strSQL = "SELECT field1 FROM table1 WHERE field2 = ? AND field3 = ?"
Setting up the Command object
You initiate the Command object like you would other objects (such as a Recordset), and then set up the properties as needed, eg:
Note that the With is used to save typing - anything from there up to the End With (which will be added later) that has . in front of it refers to the object on the With line, so .CommandType = adCmdText is the same as objCommand.CommandType = adCmdTextCode:Dim objCommand as ADODB.Command Set objCommand = New ADODB.Command With objCommand .ActiveConnection = objConn 'replace this with your Connection object .CommandType = adCmdText .CommandText = strSQL 'replace this with your SQL statement .Prepared = True
If you are running a Stored Procedure, change adCmdText to adCmdStoredProc, and set .CommandText to the name of the Stored Procedure.
Adding the parameters/values
So far you have got the SQL statement set up, but no values in it. To put the values into it you append a Parameter and set the value, which you can do like this:
The arguments for .CreateParameter are as follows:Code:.Parameters.Append .CreateParameter("Field2", adSmallInt, adParamInput, , 1) .Parameters.Append .CreateParameter("Field3", adVarChar, adParamInput, 50, txtVal3.Text)
For more information about any of these arguments (including full lists of options), see the help for .CreateParameter (online version here).
- Name - this is optional, but does make it easier to read your code. Unfortunately it does not mean that this parameter will be used for the item with the same name in the SQL statement - the first parameter you add (no matter what name you give it) will be used at the first placeholder in the SQL statement.
- Type - the data type of the field in the database, which will usually be one of the following:
- adBoolean (for Boolean, Bit, Yes/No fields)
- adVarChar (for a variable length text field)
- adChar (for fixed length text field)
- adDate (for Date/Time based fields)
- adInteger (for whole numbers up to +/-2.1 billion)
- adSmallInt (for whole numbers up to +/-32767)
- adSingle (for single-precision floating-point numbers)
- adCurrency (for fields with a data type of Currency or Money)
- Direction - this specifies whether the value should be placed into the SQL statement (adParamInput), or should act in a different way (such as adParamOutput to return an output parameter of a Stored Procedure; if doing this you do not need to set the value).
- Size - this is additional info for the data type, and only needs to be specified if the data type is not a fixed size - for the data types I listed above, only adVarChar and adChar need it, and it should be the maximum number of characters/bytes you specified for the field in the table design.
- Value - the value (text/number/..) that you want to use. This should ideally be the same data type as you specified, for example if you used adDate, the value should not be a String (either directly or via the Format function etc), but instead should be a Date variable/property, or a date value (eg: #06/01/2009#).
If your statement uses Like, your wildcards should be included in this value (eg: , "%" & txtField3.Text & "%") )
Append a parameter for each of the placeholders in your SQL statement.
Running it
How you should execute the command depends on whether it returns records or not - a normal Select statement returns records, but Delete and Insert statements do not.
For statements that do return records, execute the command assigning the results to a Recordset object:
For statements that don't return records, execute the command specifying that it should not return any records (this reduces the internal work, so makes it faster):Code:
Set objRS = objCommand.Execute 'replace this with your Recordset object End With
Note that if you are running a Stored Procedure with output parameters, you can refer to them after executing the command using the Name you specified in CreateParameter, eg:Code:.Execute , , adExecuteNoRecords End With
Code:MsgBox objCommand.Parameters("OutputParam1").Value
Running it multiple times
If you want to run the command multiple times, you do not need to repeatedly set everything up inside the loop - instead you should set things up before the loop, tidy up after the loop, and inside the loop just need to alter the parameter Values and execute it again.
Note however that inside the loop you should not append parameters as shown above (because the original ones will be used each time), but just set the value. To do this, change the arguments to .CreateParameter so that there is a Name but not a Value, and then inside your loop just set the Value like this:
Code:.Parameters("Field2").Value = intValue
Tidying up
Just like with other object variables, when you are finished with it you should tidy up (such as free up the memory used). Unlike other ADO objects, you do not actually need to close it, but simply release the memory, eg:
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H.R.2694 - Buy Smarter and Save Act of 2013113th Congress (2013-2014)
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|Rep. Griffin, Tim [R-AR-2] (Introduced 07/16/2013)
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|House - 07/16/2013 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. (All Actions)
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Buy Smarter and Save Act of 2013 - Directs the President to establish: (1) an annual government-wide goal to procure goods and services using strategic sourcing, and (2) an annual government-wide goal for savings from the use of strategic sourcing. Defines "strategic sourcing" as a structured and collaborative process of critically analyzing an organization's spending patterns to better leverage its purchasing power, reduce costs, and improve overall value and performance.
Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to: (1) issue guidance to executive agencies for implementing the strategic sourcing goals established by this Act, and (2) report on spending for goods and services that was strategically sourced and the extent of the savings realized.
Directs the Departments of Defense (DOD), Homeland Security (DHS), Energy (DOE), Veterans Affairs (VA), and Health and Human Services (HHS), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the General Services Administration (GSA), and the Small Business Administration (SBA) to take certain actions to support strategic sourcing, including establishing department wide-goals and savings targets for strategic sourcing efforts and a strategic sourcing accountability official.
Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to: (1) conduct studies on contract utilization fees and on establishing strategic sourcing initiative contract vehicles, and (2) assess and report on the performance of executive agencies in implementing the strategic sourcing goals required by this Act and the amounts saved through the use of strategic sourcing.


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