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ESPN aired Russell Wilson's QB Camp episode with Jon Gruden last night. As usual with these things Gruden did most of the talking. Wilson owns the sleepiest pair of eyes this side of Droopy Dog, but was quick with the right answer and seemed to be listening intently. The former Bucs' coach spent 30 minutes praising Wilson for his ability to read defenses, pick up a new offense on the fly and be a leader in the huddle. He offered very little in the way of criticism, except an emphatic mock regurgitation of every draft scouting report in existence: "He's too short, he's too short, he's too damn short."
Something similar played out on NFL Live over the weekend. Trey Wingo and Mark Schlereth praised Wilson for all of the same reasons Gruden did. Then they addressed his height. Wingo had Schlereth get down in a mock lineman stance to point out that Wilson should have plenty of room to see over 6'6 behemoths assuming they are doing their job right and staying low. The camera then panned over to Todd McShay who with zero mirth said that Wilson was a 5th rounder on his board because height matters and that's that.
It's true that starting quarterbacks tend to be on the taller end of things. McShay pointed out that only three quarterbacks are listed at 6'0 or shorter in the NFL.* Two of them are Michael Vick and Drew Brees, however, two players who are among the league's elite. Besides, "short QBs don't exist" is flawed reasoning. Yes, more tall quarterbacks demonstrate next-level ability. Wilson has demonstrated that same ability despite being smaller, however, and shouldn't be discounted because he happens to be a rare specimen.
After the show, Gruden gave his final assessment:
"I think Russell Wilson will be one of the steals of this draft," Gruden said. "He's going to be overlooked, I think, by some (teams) because of his height. But I do think at end of the day, when you check back on this draft 10 years later, he's going to have had a very good career."
"The only issue is his height, and we use Drew Brees (6-0) as the classic example," Gruden said. "If you just look at one inch or an inch and a half, that's the height difference in Russell Wilson and Drew Brees. But he's got a lot of questions and answers. There are not a lot of quarterbacks under six feet that are playing in the NFL today or who have played the game, period. He's going to have to answer those questions. Hopefully the right guy gives him an opportunity and he takes advantage of it, because when you watch the tape, every film you watch at N.C. State or Wisconsin, the results are very similar. It's successful, solid, game-day competitive. It's exciting. I wish him the best. He's a special kid. I just hope he gets with the right guy."


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ACT4D: Appropriate Computing Technologies for Development
The ACT4D research group at IIT Delhi designs and builds information and communication technologies focused towards emerging/developing/bottom-of-the-pyramid regions of the world.
Why are we doing this? Many reasons. First, these regions are poor and hence often remain untouched with technology, even though technology could prove extremely useful to them. Second, working in these regions present technical challenges very different from those encountered in typical CS research problems. A careful understanding of the capabilities of people, social dynamics, and infrastructure problems imply that solutions have to be designed keeping many unconventional constraints in mind. Third, it presents an avenue of working on very hands-on problems that involve field work and significant people interaction. This is much to the taste of outdoorsy people like us who love to see their hard work put to use in front of their eyes. Fourth, we feel good to bring smiles on the faces of people :)
Browse through our projects to know more about what we do, and also take a look at fantastic work in this area being done by other research groups in the world.
In case you are wondering what the word appropriate means, it goes back to Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, a book by E. F. Schumacher. Schumacher says that technologies should be designed keeping the social context in mind -- what material is available locally, how are tools to be repaired, who is going to use them and how -- hence, the need for an appropriate design suited to the context. This is the underlying philosophy behind all our work -- we do not hesitate to unlearn what we know, cross disciplinary boundaries from computer science into sociology and economics, go back to the drawing board, and redesign from scratch, if that is what is necessary to solve the problems.
We would like to give a special thanks to Milenne Tanganelli from UK, whom we've never met, for designing our wonderful logo. She did it without even us asking for it, originally for a discussion forum on social entrepreneurism! According to her, "The use of colour signifies that such work brings hope and future. They represent the land (brown), the environment (green), the sky and vision (blue with the eye), and the fertility (purple). At the same time the figure with their arms open inside the globe represent the human aspect, that we are part of this world, we care about and are are open to good ideas. It is the idea of growth". This is also what we believe in. Thanks also to Amit Nanavati from IBM Research for helping us connect ICTD with Schumacher.

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text: Instead of having both sin and sind (arguments in radians and degrees) respectively, how aobut defining sin as (defun sin (x &optional (y radians)) ...) Where the second optional argument specifies the units in "cycles". You'd use 2*pi for radians (the default), and 2*pi/360 for degrees. To get the simplicity of sind, you'd define the variable degrees to be 2*pi/360 and write (sin x degrees).


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Biggest-ever turnover and best-ever profit in the machinery division
Despite a challenging 2020 the Danish Agro group's machinery division succeeded in achieving great financial results.
Despite a challenging 2020 with Covid-19, hacker attack and heavy competitive pressure, the Danish Agro group's machinery division succeeded in achieving its biggest turnover and best operating profit to date.
"We have had a very satisfactory year with our machinery activities. Turnover increased to EUR 642 million, which is 23% higher than in 2019. Our operating profit (EBITDA) of EUR 18 million followed this development, and was EUR 8 million higher than in 2019. This excellent development is due partly to the integration of our acquired machinery activities in the Baltic and partly to organic growth across the 9 countries where we have machinery activities," says Henning Haahr, Group CEO of the Danish Agro group.
The structure is in place
According to Henning Haahr, the positive development in the machinery division's financial results is also an expression of the fact that the organisational structure in the machinery division is falling into place.
"Today we have machinery activities in 9 countries and are CLAAS's biggest collaborative partner with exclusive representation of their products in 7 countries. In only a few years, we have built a strong, competitive market position in machinery, one we're very satisfied with. In other words, the structure is in place, and in the upcoming years the focus will be on strengthening operations and synergies," says Henning Haahr, and continues:
"We are very pleased that we chose to enter the machinery business eight years ago. There are many synergies between machinery activities and agribusiness activities, and our goal has been to help ensure that farmers have a professional, competitive setup for trading in and servicing machines - both now and in the future," he says.
In 2021, turnover for the Danish Agro group's machinery division is expected to increase to over EUR 675 million.
Currently, Danish Agro represents CLAAS in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, New Holland in Poland, and Fendt in the Czech Republic.


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I believe there are a few great points of clarity in a man's life. Awakenings that make all of the days' variables fall neatly into clicking patterns, creating a feeling less like drowning in bullshit and more like living in a neatly organized solar system of bullshit. Everything in its place, even the floating turd spheres. I clearly must be on the verge of one of these moments because right now I feel like a hyperactive kid running a weasel farm and the furry little bastards have just decided to revolt. I'm all fucking scattered.
Rather than the usual curing/brewing/gardening projects going on, I've got a series of squeaking nubs, half-assed half-starts and artifacts of well-intentioned beginnings that have ended inevitably in neglect. And under all this layer of clutter are the tried and true acts of daily living and relaxation that get an at-best glazed over wave of the hand. My winter garden limps along as a testament to the hardiness of arugula and chard. I can't remember the last time I made pasta. A thoughtful, well-timed dinner on a weeknight? Forget about it. And I've been bemoaning the lack of good pancetta in my larder—all because I can't seem to get around to salting a piece of meat and then letting it hang there unattended for a month.
This last point is not for lack of trying. I recently bought two pretty nice pieces of pork belly for just that purpose. A week of workdays, day-to-day house maintenance evenings, attempts at functional parenting and "Aw, fuck it I'm tired" nights later, and my piggy was on the verge of chemistry set territory. To be clear, it hadn't turned, but an extra week in the fridge during curing didn't sound like a good idea.
So I brined and smoked it, not being entirely sure what do with the finished product. In the process I ambled around over to the garden for my weekly "Oh yeah, I planted some stuff and should probably check in on it" version of gardening. I noticed some arugula that had grown pretty big—clearly too hot for a salad. The stuff has a great flavor, deep nuttiness, but it finishes basically like pure horseradish. Just spicy as a bastard. Like something that would be muted nicely by smokey pork fat.
The wheels turned, universe oriented ever so slightly and I had a decent vision of what to do, if only for dinner. Pasta was made, pork belly was pureed and mixed with a little ricotta and arugula was made into a rather nice pesto with some toasted pecans and good quality olive oil.
The smoked pork belly ravioli are pretty damn great—oozy fatty and intense little bites that sort of melt when you get into them. I liked them so much I stayed up late making quite a few of them for the freezer. They taste even better at 1am. I cooked them up with a little emulsified butter and Sriracha and it's a perfectly viable option. You know, if you're into the coating pork fat with butter sort of thing. And at 1am, eating straight out of a sauté pan and feeling pretty good over a neatly stacked row of fresh pasta, I am. Take that, weasels.
Smoked Pork Belly Ravioli
1lb fresh pork belly
Brine (water, salt, brown sugar, juniper, garlic, coriander, black pepper)
Fresh pasta
Black pepper
Brine the pork belly over night. Get your smoker going at about 200. Season the belly with extra pepper and smoke it for about 4 hours. Let it cool and puree it in a food processor until it's a smooth consistency. Mix in the ricotta at about a 2:1 pork to cheese ratio. Roll out your pasta and make ravioli. I kept these pretty small because of the richness of the pork fat and fullness of the smoke, they make really nice intense singular bites.
Arugula Pesto
Several leaves arugula
Toasted pecans
1 garlic clove
Good olive oil
Parmigiano Reggiano
Mix all in a food processor and blend, add the olive oil as needed. Dress pasta quickly in the pan, off heat, without cooking the pesto, just warming it.
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Glad to hear you finally got off your dead ass and did something worth while. I'll drop by the next time me and Muffin are in Texas and taste your smoked pork belly ravioli 😉
Neglect never looked so damn good.


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Alaskans will soon receive our annual dividend checks. This year's $1,022 check for every qualified resident will help Alaska families with things like winter fuel, food and clothes, holiday gifts and saving for college. These checks will boost local businesses and increase local tax revenues.
[Gov. Walker's veto shaves Alaska Permanent Fund dividends to $1,022]
At the same time, I am keenly aware many Alaskans are disappointed – and some are angry – about the size of this year's dividend. While the average dividend since the inception of the program has been $1,150, many were counting on a larger amount this year. Indeed, this year's checks would have been $2,052 without my vetoes.
How did we get here? Why did I veto roughly half the dividend? The answer requires some context.
When I filed for office, state unrestricted general fund revenues were $7.5 billion. This year, they're $1.2 billion. That's an 83 percent drop.
Please consider that for a moment. Imagine your family's income fell more than 80 percent. Or your business lost 80 percent of its revenue.
You would probably start spending less. We have done that. Over the past four years, unrestricted general fund spending has dropped 44 percent – nearly in half. That's according to the Legislature's nonpartisan budget analyst David Teal.
The budget is now down to $4.4 billion. That's below the spending level called for by the Alaska State Chamber of Commerce and others calling for big spending cuts. And we still have a massive deficit. We could close every school and every prison, and we still wouldn't have enough money to pay for state services.
We simply can't cut our way down to a $1.2 billion budget.
I come from a family of home builders. I've never built anything without a plan. And we can't build Alaska back to prosperity without a plan.
In December, I proposed a plan to balance the budget in a sustainable way. The plan called for a combination of budget cuts – including cuts to oil-tax credits – along with modest tax increases and sustainable use of Permanent Fund earnings.
The idea was balance. We can't do it with cuts alone. We can't do it with taxes alone. For example, it would take a statewide sales tax of 19 percent to raise enough revenue to balance the budget. That's a nonstarter. And I am not willing to balance the budget using fund earnings alone. That would jeopardize our dividends and the fund itself.
Unfortunately, lawmakers failed to pass my plan or any other, leaving a nearly $4 billion budget gap. In the past four years we've drawn down our savings from $16.3 billion to an expected $3.6 billion at the end of this fiscal year. We're burning through our savings at an alarming rate.
I therefore took action to extend the life of our fast-shrinking savings. In June, I vetoed $1.3 billion, including $430 million in oil-tax credits. My vetoes also included roughly half of the money for this year's PFDs. The vetoed dividend money is not being spent. It remains in the Permanent Fund earnings reserve, prolonging the state's ability to pay dividends in the future.
[Dividend is the strongest protection for the Alaska Permanent Fund]
I labored long and hard over the decision. It was by far the most difficult decision I have made to date as governor. However, it is clear we can't continue to use the current dividend formula.
In the past few years, revenues have plummeted while Permanent Fund investment earnings have grown. The current dividend formula would have us spending more on dividends than any other state service – including education. It's not a sustainable path.
If we do nothing, the fund's earnings reserve will likely be depleted within four years. Then dividends will be zero. I don't want that to happen.
My commitment to Alaska and Alaskans has never wavered. I believe we must find a balance between the wants of today and the needs of tomorrow. If we don't make changes, we're on a course to economic disaster. It's a 100 percent preventable disaster, and I will do everything I can to prevent it.
Bill Walker has served as governor of Alaska since 2014.
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text: International Relations,Politics | November 18, 2012 by Don Keyser. The Wall Street Journal reported in a November 6 article under Jeremy Page's byline that Neil Heywood, the British expat businessman allegedly murdered by Chongqing Party Secretary/Politburo member Bo Xilai's wife Gu Kailai, had been in touch for more than a year with an officer of Britain's MI6. Page related that Bo Xilai's former police chief in Chongqing, Wang Lijun, had shared with his American temporary hosts at the Chengdu consulate Gu Kailai's "confession" to him that she had "killed a British spy." Page's story ricocheted quickly around the blogosphere and spawned new or expanded reporting by other media. The common – perhaps editorially irresistible – suggestion was that Heywood had not only betrayed a boyish fascination with the glamorous world of James Bond, as suggested by his automobile number plate "007," but had been patriotically "freelancing" – or more – for MI6. All this prompts the questions: Was Neil Heywood in fact an MI6 officer – and hence a "spy" — as Gu Kailai allegedly "confessed" to Wang Lijun? Had Heywood been wittingly sharing information – "freelancing" – with MI6 about the Bo family's activities? Could such an allegedly long-standing relationship plausibly have taken place under the noses of China's ubiquitous security organs and for that matter Bo's rivals within the ranks of senior party members? If the alleged Heywood/MI6 relationship had been monitored yet not acted upon, what might this suggest about the nature of power and politics in China? Might knowledge of the Heywood/Gu/Bo ties have prompted a high-level investigation by the relevant Chinese agencies and spurred by Bo's intraparty adversaries? Too many unknowns remain in the picture to permit a confident weaving of a fully satisfactory explanatory tapestry. Some tentative judgments are possible. First, Heywood appears not to have been a "spy" in any formal sense. There is no indication that he was a trained professional or even a vetted asset periodically given taskings. His reported activities seem more consistent with volunteerism: a man who, out of patriotism, perceived duty, and perhaps a frisson from clandestinity, shared his knowledge with the British embassy. Such relationships are neither rare nor surprising. Embassies in general – not only intelligence officers – are in the business of collecting, assessing and reporting information. Exhibit A: the Wikileaks cables. Given Heywood's background and unusual access to Bo's rarefied world, any embassy officer who did not seek to elicit information would have been guilty of uncommon lassitude. Secondly, the Chinese security services deploy vast human and technical resources in order to understand with high confidence the activities and motivations of foreigners in touch with Chinese citizens in sensitive positions. A New York Times story published after Page's story reported as much. According to the paper's unidentified Chinese sources, security organs had long been monitoring the Heywood-Bo/Gu connections. Left unsaid was whether these organs had been aware of Heywood's chats with the alleged MI6 officer, but it defies credulity to imagine otherwise. The Chinese are famously patient in investigation of "state secrets" cases and famously gingerly in investigation of sensitive political cases. The Heywood situation potentially involved both. The relatively few Chinese privy to details of the developing case probably did not consider bringing a classic espionage case (why jeopardize Chinese equities with the British government over essentially commonplace embassy contacts?) but had much incentive to develop what the Russians call kompromat – politically compromising information to blackmail adversaries in murky internecine battles. One must wonder whether Wang Lijun's specific knowledge of such an investigation — perhaps launched by He Guoqiang's CDIC, Zhou Yongkang's MSS, or both – triggered his approach to Bo Xilai in early February to warn him of the threat to his position and ambitions. Don Keyser is a non-resident Senior Fellow of the CPI, who had previously served as a career diplomat in the US State Department. Opinions expressed in the CPI blog do not represent the views of the China Policy Institute or the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham. They are the personal views of the bloggers/authors. Question Marks and Shoes to Fall for China's Leadership Transition Book Review: Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine


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Are you ready to test your knowledge of the Hoosier state? You might even learn some new interesting facts along the way with this fun collection of puzzles and trivia from the Midwestern mecca of corn and basketball. Indiana Crosswords, 3rd Edition is filled with puzzles that include such topics as famous Hoosiers, Indiana wildlife, Hoosier sports, Indiana crime, Indiana festivals and Indy racing.
Indiana Crosswords, 3rd Edition also includes word searches for younger readers on topics comprised of Indianapolis attractions, state parks, and sports teams. This book is filled with fun facts which make it an essential addition to any Indiana trivia lover's library or for those who want to learn more about this beautiful Midwestern state.
About the Author
H.W. Kondras has authored or co-authored several other volumes of crossword puzzles including Vampire Fun & Games, Detroit Red Wings Trivia, Fun and Games, Seek & Find Indiana, Florida Crosswords among others. She resides in Terre Haute, Indiana.


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Make the school run fun – use the morning commute to clear the cobwebs of sleep and get the kids to school with an extra spring in their step.
Whether you walk, cycle or scoot together, we've got the secret to getting the kids excited about their journey to and back from school.👇
Play "I Spy" 👀
This classic game not only makes the journey to school fun, it helps kids take in their surroundings and gets their brain exercising, ready for a day of learning.
Set some challenges 🤓
They could be physical or mental challenges! Think running, skipping and jumping races or simple trivia – the first one to name something red, the first person to name something in the street starting with A.
These activities are a great way to get the kids energised for the day ahead.
Start number spotting 1⃣ 2⃣ 3⃣
Say a number and the first person to find that number (on a door, a bin or a car number plate etc) gets to choose the next number. You can also try this with letters or colours! Not only is this a great way to have fun with the kids, it can also help them to learn too!
Play spot the road signs 🛑
Teach the kids about road safety. Point out the different signs, explain why they are there, what they mean and how to follow them. Encourage them to learn the route and give them the opportunity to lead the way one day a week.
This is a great way to build up their confidence when it comes to road safety. It'll also give you a little peace of mind if they do the school run without you when they're older. 🚴
Mix it up 🤹
Keep the sense of adventure alive, whether you walk one day, cycle the next (you could even try a cargo bike), and scoot another – try to take the kids on a different route every so often through the local green spaces.
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We know many kids may be nervous about their new journey to school. To help them prepare, use our walking and cycling Journey Planner. It's full of handy travel tips, practical advice about walking and cycling, fun videos, and useful ways to plan journeys from home to school.
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Chelsea P90x Workout Reviews: Day 19
Day 19: Legs & Back, Ab Ripper X
Thank god for this day. Because I'm a girl, my legs, hips, and abs have always been my "problem area". This day covers all three! I can pretty much keep up with the ab workout now, minus maybe 5-7 reps total throughout the whole 15 minute video. I swear my abs are going to explode out of my abdomen though by the end. It hurts! They're on fire. It brings a whole new meaning to feeling the burn.


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The straw-man fallacy is when a person misrepresents his opponent's position and then proceeds to refute that misrepresentation rather than what his opponent actually claims.
It's a fallacy that just shouldn't happen—but it does all the time. The straw-man fallacy is when a person misrepresents his opponent's position and then proceeds to refute that misrepresentation (i.e., the "straw man") rather than what his opponent actually claims.1 Here's an example:
"Creationists do not believe that animals change. But clearly, animals do change. So, creationists are mistaken."
Since creationists do indeed believe that animals change (just not from one basic created kind to another), the argument is a straw-man fallacy. The argument does not refute what creationists actually claim.
Such a misrepresentation could be unintentional; it could be that a particular evolutionist simply misunderstands what a creationist is teaching. Or the fallacy could be quite deliberate. That, of course, is a dishonest approach, yet it is quite common in origins debates.
Even in cases where the misrepresentation is unintentional, there is still a degree of liability. After all, the arguer should have done sufficient research and studied what it is the opponent actually teaches. We would certainly be willing to overlook minor misunderstandings, particularly where a position is complex or nuanced (though the critic should still be corrected on the issue). However, there are a number of cases where the creationist position is so clear that misrepresentations by evolutionists are simply inexcusable. The following are a few examples.
If an evolutionist were to claim, "Creationists don't believe in science," this would be a straw-man fallacy.2 Creationists do believe in science. There are several full-time Ph.D. scientists on the Answers in Genesis staff. I've argued on this website, as in my book (The Ultimate Proof of Creation) that biblical creation is what makes science possible.
Someone may claim, "Creationists believe in the fixity of species." However, this is certainly not the mainstream biblical creationist position. There may be a few individuals that hold to such a concept, but it is not the position advocated by most creationists. Thus, the generalization "creationists believe . . ." is false.
Likewise, the claim, "Creationists say there are no good mutations" is not representative of what biblical creationists teach. Generally, we say that mutations do not add brand-new, creative information to the genome and are thus in the "wrong direction" to make evolution happen. But we do believe that mutations can result in traits that increase survival value under certain conditions.
"Answers in Genesis is pushing to get creation to be taught in public schools alongside evolution."
This is definitely false. Answers in Genesis as a ministry is not about political or legal change. Rather, we are about defending the Bible from the very first verse and teaching other Christians to do the same. Although this may eventually result in a changed political and legal situation, we do not (as a ministry) attempt to change laws or get involved in politics.
"The Bible teaches that the earth has literal pillars and corners and cannot be moved. It is clearly wrong."
This is a misrepresentation of Scripture and therefore constitutes a straw-man fallacy. The Bible uses figures of speech (just as we do when we say, "Tim is a pillar of the community") and poetic language at times. Referring to the cardinal directions as "corners"3 or the stability of the earth as not able to "be moved"4 is not an error. It is entirely inappropriate for a critic to take the poetic sections of the Bible as literal—or the literal historical sections as poetic. Many objections against Scripture turn out to be straw-man fallacies.
Ignorance of biblical creation among those who oppose it is a serious problem.
The claims that creationists believe in a flat earth, that we deny laws of nature, or that we take every verse of the Bible in a wooden literal sense are all baseless assertions. Nonetheless, claiming that creationists believe in such things makes the creation position easier to discredit—but it is not a rationally cogent way to debate. Granted, not all evolutionists do this; some do accurately represent their opponents. But ignorance of biblical creation among those who oppose it is a serious problem: one that Christian apologists must be prepared to face.
We must gently encourage our opponents to find out what it is that creationists actually teach. This is not a difficult task. Our positions on the most-asked questions are well-summarized in the New Answers Book series and to a great extent on this very website.
Creationists must also stay educated on both sides of the issue so that we do not commit the very same fallacy.5 Watch for misrepresentations of creation or other Christian teachings and be ready to point out that such straw-man arguments are fallacious; yet always do so with gentleness and respect.
Answers in Genesis is an apologetics ministry, dedicated to helping Christians defend their faith and proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ.


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About Our Land
Hiawatha First Nation is located on the north shore of Rice Lake, east of the Otonabee River. The First Nation consists of approximately 2145 acres of land, of which 1523 are held under Certificates of Possession. Hiawatha First Nation is made up of three tenure areas consisting of – primary reserve land, Serpent Mounds Park, and Islands in the Trent. Hiawatha boasts a population of 235 citizens, approximately 163 homes and 75 leased properties.
Lands Department Services
Hiawatha First Nation lands are currently administered under the Reserve Lands Environmental Management Program (RLEMP) at the 53/60 delegated authority, which allows Hiawatha to manage and administer land related affairs on behalf of the Minister of Department of Indigenous Services Canada.
First Nation Land Management Program (FNLM)
Hiawatha has recently become a signatory to the Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management. FNLM is a sectoral self-government initiative. Part of this process will involve the development of a Land Code that, once ratified by the community, would replace roughly 25% of the land-related provisions of the Indian Act. Hiawatha will be looking for input from our citizens by putting together a Land Code Development Committee. Watch for community meeting announcements about the First Nation Management project in the newsletter, on the "Lands" page on the Hiawatha website and on social media.
Regaining Control of Our Reserve Lands & Resources
Matrimonial Real Property
Matrimonial Real Property is a federal law that came into effect on December 16, 2014. The legislation affects all aspects of First Nation Land Management (e.g. land transfers, leasing, house sales and mortgages). As a direct result of this law, there are forms required for all Hiawatha land transactions. For further information regarding Matrimonial Real Property, contact Wanda McGonigle.
- Law Number 11 – Building Construction, Additions, Repairs (1978-12-07)
- Law Number 12 – Disorderly Conduct and Nuisances (1980-05-20)
- Law Number 6-A – Swimming Pools (1999-06-30)
Contact Information
Wanda McGonigle
Lands Officer
Phone: (705) 295-4421 Ext 219
Georgette Howard
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It won't be long until 50,000 Tucsonans head down to the 4th Avenue Winter Street Fair this weekend. Food vendors have already started setting up the on North Fourth Avenue and East Seventh Street. The infamous PIGGLY'S BBQ and Grill didn't waste anytime setting up shop, and the only thing missing is the auroma from the turkey legs on the grill and the deep fried piggly fries.
If you build it, they will come ... #Tucson #streetfair pic.twitter.com/WqmnfwEY65
— Tucson Weekly (@tucsonweekly) December 12, 2013
It's been too long since we have enjoyed a 4th Ave Street Fair funnel cake. #Tucson #food #cake pic.twitter.com/r6elrzY7rp
— Tucson Weekly (@tucsonweekly) December 12, 2013
Conveniently located across PIGGLY'S! #Tucson #FourthAveStFair pic.twitter.com/N1cz0ikb1L
— Tucson Weekly (@tucsonweekly) December 12, 2013
Weegie, member of the Fourth Avenue Merchant Association, said that the newly installed trolley tracks or islands won't affect the the number of artist and merchants at this year's event. "There will be artist setting up on the islands. We haven't experienced any issues with trolley tracks yet," Weegie said. The artist and merchants will be able to start setting up when 4th Avenue is blocked off around 1 p.m.
The street fair dates are Dec. 13, 14 and 15 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. There's also a live cam so you can watch the festivities in real time.


text: Manifestation of inflammatory diseases is discussed as being the result of genetic and non-genetic factors. While genetics focus are static effects, valid for a lifetime, functional genomics deals with the products of the genome. In contrast to genetics, these products of the genome show dynamic changes during a lifetime, disease course or therapy. The IKMB combines the transcriptome, epigenome, microbiome and others into a dynamic picture, aiming to close the gap between disease susceptibility, manifestation and disease progression in inflammatory disorders.


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Implementation flaw in Windows Hello biometrics
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Passcape Wireless Password Recovery: using the program's intelligence to automate the password recovery process for wireless networks
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DPAPI security flaw in Windows 10
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Farewell to Syskey!
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Vulnerability of DPAPI data protection in Win2K, Win2K3, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2012
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Windows 8 stores logon passwords in plain-text
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DPAPI Secrets. Security analysis and data recovery in DPAPI (Part 2)
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Recovering lost Internet Explorer passwords: Theory and Practice
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Second Ebola-infected US nurse beats virus, leaves hospital
Amber Vinson, the second of two Dallas nurses who contracted the Ebola virus while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, was released Tuesday from Atlanta's Emory University Hospital, officials said. Vinson was cleared of the virus last week.
Vinson, 29, thanked God and her grandparents at a hospital press conference, noting it was "God's love that has truly carried my family and me through this difficult time."
Dr. Bruce Ribner, who treated the nurse, said that Vinson "has recovered from her infection with Ebola virus, and she can return to ... her community and to her life" without any concerns of transmitting the virus.
It was her first public appearance since she was flown to Atlanta and admitted to Emory University Hospital's Serious Communicable Disease Unit on Oct. 15 after testing positive for Ebola the day prior.
"Amber is steadily regaining her strength and her spirits are high," Vinson's family said in a statement last week. "We appreciate everyone for keeping Amber in your thoughts and prayers."
2nd infected nurse Amber Vinson now Ebola-free http://t.co/UjL3w9Ye14 | AP Photo pic.twitter.com/0RwJNMFAn8
— POLITICO (@politico) October 28, 2014
Vinson was part of the team of as many as 70 health workers who treated Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian in Dallas from Sept. 28 to Oct. 8, when Duncan succumbed to the virus.
Duncan had traveled to Dallas from his native Liberia, which, among other West African countries, is in the throes of an unprecedented Ebola outbreak which has killed around 5,000 people in the region.
Nurse Nina Pham, also on the team that treated Duncan, was diagnosed with Ebola and taken into isolation two days before Vinson. Pham, 26, was cleared of the virus and released on Oct. 24.
After news of Pham's diagnosis, Vinson's case sent shock waves through the medical community, especially among her fellow workers at Texas Health Presbyterian in Dallas.
Vinson was in contact with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the federal agency charged with managing Ebola response in the US, to report a fever of 99.5 degree Fahrenheit before she boarded an Oct. 13 flight from Cleveland to Dallas.
Reporting no other symptoms while falling short of the 100.4 degree threshold for the virus, Vinson was allowed to board the 132-passenger plane, to some controversy after the fact.
The next day, she was taken into isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian with a heightened fever.
On Oct. 23, her family reported that she was free of the disease while the CDC and the hospital remained cautious.
According to officials in Dallas, less than 100 people - mostly hospital staff members who treated Duncan, Pham, or Vinson - continue to be monitored for Ebola symptoms, Yahoo News reported.
Since, according to the World Health Organization, the Ebola incubation period - the interval between infection and materialized symptoms - is 2 to 21 days, the Dallas monitoring term should end on Nov. 7 barring any new cases of the virus.


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My entire autograph collection...posted one day at a time.
I met him at a Minor League game at Jack Russell Memorial Stadium in Clearwater, Florida in 1995, when the Sarasota Red Sox, whom he was the pitching coach for, came to play the Clearwater Phillies.
Jeff signed a 1991 Upper Deck card #685.


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The opportunities in the field of Information Technology are phenomenal. It is an error to assume that these opportunities lie only in Computer Engineering or similar courses. It is not desirable that we produce all students with similar qualification. (Nor is it reasonable to assume that all students will have the same capabilities and can cope with the rigours of the engineering courses.)
It is desirable to offer a variety of courses but the issue before us is that how do we create a cafetaria of options. Once we agree that a variety is desirable, we can look into the constraints and see how we can overcome them.
The first constraint is that the student population of Goa is too small to support an elaborate and varied educational system. However, the strength of Goa is that it is a very hospitable state and tourism is a major industry of Goa. Can we use that somehow?
For various reasons, the education system in India is not meeting the needs of our people. This is providing major opportunities to foreign Universities to offer attractive educational opportunities for Indians. We should encourage the exchange of students but it should be for reasons other than the absence of opportunities for capable students.
It has been my belief for a long time that the environment of Goa is ideal for higher education. If we aim to create a great University, we can attract many good faculty members and students from across the country (and the world). We can create a interdisciplinary courses which have a very promising future. An example is game programming. In fact, it could be several examples. A very technical course in this area would require the study of Physics, Mathaematics and Computer Science; while an art oriented course may even be similar to a course in film production.
The direct benefits of a large visiting student community are very similar to those from tourism. We can even expect an increase in tourism because the parents and relations of the students will use the excuse of their ward being in Goa to take a trip.
Indirect benefits are even more attractive. The IT Vision of Goa is to make this state into a preferred destination for R&D centres. An important factor in creation of R&D centres is the excellence of the local Universities. Hence, the expansion of the higher educational system and the encouragement of R&D centres are mutually supportive of each other. Success in one will encourage success in the other.
A second indirect benefit is that our students get a chance to study the fields which best fit their capabilities and inclination simply because more options will become available.
A third benefit is that a strong India needs a highly qualified work force. Goa being a small state can take quick decisions and implement innovative educational schemes. If Indian faculty members abroad can create and support excellent educational institutions, there is every reason to believe that we can have many more of educational organisations like the IISc, IIT's, IIM's, The major reason for the success of these institutions has been a well defined goal, freedom and autonomy. There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that Goa can do it provided the same three ingredients are made available to Goa University (and the examination system radically changed.)


text: Dr. Alfano is a licensed clinical psychologist and Director of the Sleep and Anxiety Center for Kids (SACK) at UH. She received her M.S. in Developmental Psychology from Florida International University in 2000 and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Maryland at College Park in 2005. Dr. Alfano's research program integrates two overlapping fields of study; the development and treatment of sleep and anxiety disorders, and the role of early sleep-wake processes in emotion dysregulation and the pathogenesis of affective illness. Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Department of Defense (DoD). Dr. Alfano serves on the scientific council of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA), the board of directors for the Society for Behavioral Sleep Medicine (SBSM), and as Associate Editor for the Journal of Anxiety Disorders. She is co-author of the book, Child Anxiety Disorders: A Guide to Research and Treatment (2nd ed.),and co-editor of the book, Social Anxiety Disorder in Adolescents and Young Adults: Translating Developmental Science into Practice.


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Newstrike's Up Cannabis Inc. receives Health Canada approval for amendment to its producer's license for sales
TORONTO - Newstrike Resources Ltd. Is securing its spot in the cannabis arena.
January 5, 2018 By Justin Bellmore
Newstrike announced in a press release that Health Canada has approved the application by Newstrike's wholly-owned subsidiary, Up Cannabis Inc. to amend its license, allowing the company to sell cannabis in dried marijuana form, in accordance with Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations.
This is a major milestone on the path to supplying adult-use cannabis market.
"We are delighted to have achieved this major strategic milestone in our growth strategy," said Jay Wilgar, CEO of Newstrike and Up Cannabis.
"We already have a significant inventory in place, a supply agreement with CanniMed, and a unique marketing strategy being developed with our creative partners, The Tragically Hip. Up Cannabis is extremely well-positioned to succeed and very excited to launch when the adult-use market opens in the coming months."
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Most users are already using AI 2 and are unaffected by this change. But if you are still using AI Classic (version 1), then this message is very important – please click through the link to read the full story!
May 24, 2015 — MIT App Inventor Classic will shut down on July 15, 2015. After July 15, 2015, you will not be able to access or edit your existing AI Classic projects. It will be impossible to create new AI Classic projects.This shutdown applies only to AI Classic (AI1). App Inventor 2 (AI2) will not be affected.
MIT will not automatically convert your AI1 projects to AI2 projects. But MIT will provide a conversion tool that will help you convert the AI projects that are important to you into AI2 projects. We expect to release this converter in about 2 weeks (i.e., around June 8).
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Sumera returns in style with new single 'Animal'
Followers of this blog might remember me writing about Berlin based upcoming electronic pop star Sumera. After a two years long break from releasing, she is finally back with new material! At the start of 2015 she took us by surprise with the stunning single 'I See You', which was launched as the follow up to 'Wolf' from 2014. With darker electronic pop it seemed she found her own sound, but then she suddenly disappeared from the radar for quite a while. Today marks the release of her comeback with the brand new track 'Animal'.
I am glad to report that Sumera is still very much on the right track in terms of sound. In comparison to the two previously mentioned singles, 'Animal' is even more dominated by electronic elements. The beats are harder, the synths are deeper and the production is darker. With her gloriously sultry vocals, Sumera describes a wild, all consuming love affair. The repetition of 'my animal, insane' and 'covered in dirt with you' are extremely catchy. Sumera still operates in similar soundscape to pop stars like BANKS and FKA twigs and quite effortlessly I must add. Fingers crossed we won't have to wait another two years to hear more!
Update: Sumera's 'Animal' is released on Don Diablo's Hexagon label, part of Spinnin' Records. The mysterious and slightly creepy video already has over 200.000 views on YouTube. Way to go Sumera!


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When we're talking to travel companies about Tineri, the most common question we get asked is "How do I get my content on there?" We know that tour operating is pretty labour-intensive, and that your staff can't afford to spend any more time on a booking than necessary – so that's why we've developed numerous ways for you to get your content into our CMS and onto your travellers' phones!
A few weeks ago we released the Tineri API which enables your existing systems to talk to Tineri and export your booking data straight into our CMS, without any manual input. Built on JSON, our API makes it easy for your tech team to push your existing content into Tineri, by either running your own API scripts or by using an API tool such as Postman or cURL.
If you're an existing user of Travel Studio, then we have already completed phase 1 of the integration with Tineri, which allows you to push your Travel Studio bookings into the Tineri CMS. Phase 2 will see Tineri built into Travel Studio v2.0 itself.
If you already have your tour content nicely laid out in a PDF, Tineri's upcoming PDF upload feature allows you to display these within the app. Itineraries, hotel descriptions, maps, guide bios and much more can be uploaded into Tineri's CMS to be displayed in the app.
We have built Excel templates that allow you to import bookings, clients, guides, hotels and more into Tineri. Or you can tailor your existing Excel files – if you have them – to our existing format so that our CMS can read them.
Tineri's iframes feature allows you to display HTML/website content in the app, so that it looks as if it is a part of the app itself. All you need to do is put the content URL in the relevant field and bingo, your content appears in the app!
You can also directly type, or copy/paste, your content into our user-friendly CMS. Once all your basic data (hotels, guides, users etc) is uploaded, adding a new booking is a fairly simple process. And, if you're doing off-the-shelf tours or set departures, adding new bookings couldn't be simpler – just click the 'Copy' button!
Our BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) team in are ready to help you if you want to outsource your Tineri processes. We can upload your basic content, and even maintain your bookings for you, so all you have to do is tell your travellers about the app.
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You have to add to cart at least 5 bottles or any program to make checkout.
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Zativo and Zamnesia have established a partnership for each other's advantage and for yours! Upon selecting a product in the Zativo web shop, Zativo will send readers to Zamnesia's website to carry out the purchase. Zamnesia has established a firm reputation for excellent customer service and for sourcing the best cannabis seeds, therapeutic herbs, and paraphernalia on offer.
The reasonable prices for such great products are about to get even better. Zamnesia will soon be accepting a new payment method known as BitCanna. This cryptocurrency is more than just another token on the market; it's a way to revolutionise the entire cannabis industry.
Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are a phenomenon that rose to the surface after the housing market collapsed in 2008. People are looking for alternatives to current financial systems and institutions, as the trust in banks has declined. Cryptocurrencies and tokens are based on blockchain technology, which allows for a decentralised network to conduct financial trades, without banks or various institutions participating and taking their piece of the pie. Many different types of cryptocurrencies with unique services and applications are coming to the surface, especially after the rise in popularity and high market demand 2017.
The cannabis industry sees blockchain technology as a great tool to make more discreet payments and to drive the cannabis legalization movement forward. Often, bank accounts block a transaction in cannabis web-stores, just because of the association with cannabis, even though the products may be legal to purchase. There are many areas of the cannabis industry where the governing bodies need full control and vigilance, and BitCanna shows a great initiative in resolving many issues posed by the prohibitionist forces.
If one wishes to buy cannabis and cannabis-related products legally, it's hard to do with PayPal or a Visa card while being discreet. According to the BitCanna white paper, here are policy statements made by PayPal and Visa:
PayPal policy statement: "You may not use the PayPal service for activities that: relate to transactions involving drug paraphernalia/ items that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity".
VISA policy statement: "Transactions in the U.S. involving the purchase or trade of marijuana are not permitted on the Visa network, until such time as federal law allows".
This leads to many problems for both the customer and merchant, independent of whether the cannabis products are legal or not. BitCanna wants to resolve this issue, not by encouraging underground trade, but by creating a platform where legal cannabis activities can take place without the entity in question suffering from the potential consequences of trading with standard payment methods.
Because the cannabis industry, especially in Europe, has to navigate through the grey area filled with many loopholes, the knowledge we have of cannabis and cannabis-related products is very limited. Let's say that you create cannabis paraphernalia that's in accordance with the local laws. The manufacturer will often not want to be tied by name with the product, hence, all the details surrounding its production are often missing. This allows low-quality cannabis products to flood the market. BitCanna aims to resolve this issue by creating a network from manufacturing to sales, so that consumers know what they're paying for.
The developers of BitCanna see the bigger picture. This decentralised payment network is not merely about changing the payment method, but to improve virtually every aspect of the cannabis industry. Manufacturers, transport companies, merchants, customers, consumers, will reap specific benefits from joining the BitCanna movement. The BitCanna platform is made for mass adoption, with Europe being the main focus point at the moment. The idea is to keep everything above board and to comply with local legislation, whilst remaining discreet where and when it counts.
To protect the ID of the individual working in the cannabis industry and those making purchases, whilst establishing an identification system, the aim is to sign up individuals and entities with the BitCanna platform using one's driving license or ID. This will provide the individual or entity with a unique BitCanna ID, which could then be used in retail and wholesale situations. The plan is for businesses to receive a special BitCanna ID number verifying that they're a legitimate and existing entity, without needing to hand out the name and personal details of the employees to everyone. As consumer anonymity in this industry is relevant, this will also help with adoption of the platform, thus directly creating value.
Here are some useful applications stated by BitCanna in their white paper. The BitCanna platform will provide cannabis consumers with an enormous database of cannabis strains, and the exact location they can be purchased. If you want some Somango nearest to you, you can check which dispensary has it. A mobile wallet for BitCanna allows users to securely carry around their crypto, without carrying hundreds of euros in their pocket. BitCanna will develop special business plug-ins, allowing businesses to easily integrate and join the BitCanna network.
During the first three months from the day we start accepting BCNA, we'll offer a 10% discount on this payment method, as well as future incentives for individuals who use this form of payment. Also, there are no fees attached to paying with BCNA, which can be considered an additional discount. This will help the customers, our business operations, and the cannabis industry in general—everybody wins.


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The network remains the single point of entry into your "cloud", and will play a key role in coordinating the management activities of the various components that businesses choose to include in their "cloud" design. Undoubtedly, enterprises will build private storage clouds within their own firewall for archival or streaming media as well as using public clouds from service providers. A business in the near future may move many of its servers to the cloud, and may even move a considerable amount of storage to the cloud. As more applications and different data types will be making up the flow of data into the cloud, the requirement of data classification will again present itself as cloud storage evolves. The criticality of the IT function to the survival of most businesses in the modern world and a heightened regulatory environment is making data classification a necessity for businesses of all sizes. This will present challenges for cloud storage providers to overcome, and considerations for businesses to accept, particularly if business critical applications should one day become cloud candidates.
There are six main considerations regarding cloud adoption, including:
- Security remains a major challenge for cloud providers as concerns that the internet can possibly be as reliable as data in enterprise class repositories haven't diminished. The security level of the cloud will have to be demonstrated to overcome these legitimate risks before critical data can start filling the cloud.
- Where is my cloud data located? Certain compliance regulations require that the exact physical location of data be known. Currently cloud storage solutions are location independent thus eliminating a variety of tier 3 archival and compliance applications for consideration.
- Standards have yet to arrive for cloud storage which historically leads to a period of proprietary solutions before de-facto or real standards arrive.
- Scalability should not be a concern for cloud-qualified applications as cloud storage is theoretically unlimited. Will the cloud provider offer software tools that can classify data and identify candidates for the cloud and determine the optimal level the data should reside in the storage hierarchy?
- Unstructured data and email archives are obvious cloud candidates and represent large amounts of unclassified data. In addition to reallocating files to cloud storage based on their age, moving files based on their types to their optimal and most economical location in the cloud will become important. As this point, no data classification tools that can do this are evident.
- A new and powerful IT and CIO-level storage mandate of the near future will require that "data that isn't accessed shouldn't consume power." This will encourage moving data to the greener tier 3 storage solutions which is mainly the domain of tape, the greenest of all data center storage. Do any of the cloud storage providers address tape in their cloud storage plans? Why not? If OPEX is of any concern, tape should be included in any cost-effective cloud storage strategies.
Data classification tools are becoming available from multiple companies. This means multiple GUIs, multiple software licenses, with potentially more touch points and interoperability challenges. Some tools are focused on information classification and management, while others are positioned to minimize data loss and privacy violations. Nonetheless, software can facilitate a solution for customers to begin the classification process as there is an element of storage optimization and operational efficiency to be gained with this process. As we have witnessed in the past few years in the data center, data classification enables a business to get the right data in its optimal place in the tiered storage hierarchy. Beginning in 2009 and beyond, data classification and the tiered storage hierarchy will expand to the cloud. Using data classification and storage tiers has always required careful planning to ensure that data can be optimally stored, secured and retrieved as the business requires.
Action Item: Can the cloud deliver the necessary level of storage sophistication and be more than an enormous web-based bit bucket? Though some applications are easy choices for cloud storage, entering into successful cloud storage and data classification projects should be undertaken seriously as brown clouds won't survive.


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The Latest on developments in Egypt after former President Mohammed Morsi's dramatic collapse and death inside a Cairo courtroom.
Iran is extending condolences to the Egyptian nation over the death of Egypt's ousted former president, Mohammed Morsi.
The Foreign Ministry's spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, says in a statement that, "while respecting the viewpoints of the great and brave Egyptian nation, the Islamic Republic of Iran offers its condolences to the Egyptian people, as well as Morsi's family and supporters."
Mousavi's statement added "wishes for divine blessing and mercy" for Morsi.
Morsi collapsed and died in a Cairo courtroom on Monday during a session in his trial on espionage charges.
Iran is an ally of Hamas, the Islamic militant group that rules the Gaza Strip. Hamas is also part of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement but has taken measures in recent years to reconcile with the current Egyptian authorities.


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There are nine stops on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, each of which involve an informative tour full of fun facts and delicious drink samples. Since we can't virtually send you a bourbon tasting, we'll share the coolest bourbon trivia we learned at each distillery along the trail instead.
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Although bourbon is supposed to get its brown color from the barrels it's aged in, unscrupulous distillers used to add things like chewing tobacco juice to give unaged liquor a more expensive look. Not surprisingly, people got sick from these bad batches, and the name "rotgut whiskey" was born. The government ended up stepping in to regulate the spirit a whole nine years before the Food and Drug Administration was created—so America had safe bourbon before we had safe food.
RELATED: 10 Foods You Should Never Eat Overseas
(Photo: Dominic Lockyer via flickr/CC Attribution)
Evan Williams
Although bourbon is supposed to get its brown color from the barrels it's aged in, unscrupulous distillers used to add things like chewing tobacco juice to give unaged liquor a more expensive look. Not surprisingly, people got sick from these bad batches, and the name "rotgut whiskey" was born. The government ended up stepping in to regulate the spirit a whole nine years before the Food and Drug Administration was created—so America had safe bourbon before we had safe food.
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Bourbon is one of the most regulated spirits in the world. In order to be categorized as such, the liquor must: be made in the U.S., aged in brand-new charred American white oak barrels, and have a mash bill of at least 51 percent corn. It does not, however, have to be made in Kentucky, although that is where over 90 percent of the world's bourbon is made. Which leads us to our next fun fact: A "Kentucky Hug," is a term for the feeling you get when you drink bourbon and get a warm sensation in your chest—just like a hug from a friend.
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Jim Beam
If you've had bourbon before, there's a good chance it was made at Jim Beam's distillery in Clermont, Kentucky. More than 50 percent of the state's bourbon is made by Jim Beam—it produces over 90 million bottles of the stuff every year. Just as impressive: After Prohibition ended, 70-year-old Jim Beam got his distillery up and running in just 120 days.
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Maker's Mark
The iconic red-wax sealed Maker's Mark bottle was designed by the distillery owner's wife, Margie Samuels. Samuels wanted something that would stand out in the liquor store and reassure drinkers that this bourbon was quality made. She also came up with the name, which comes from the "mark of the maker," a signature that indicates a product is handmade.
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Woodford Reserve
Although barrels must be brand-new in order to age bourbon, these vessels (with delicious bourbon soaked into the wood) often go on to have a very long life. Many used barrels are sent to Scotland or Ireland to age whisky and Scotch, while others are used to age everything from Tabasco sauce to Tequila.
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Wild Turkey
Wild Turkey relies on the same strain of live yeast for a consistent quality across its bourbons. So it makes sense that there's an emergency plan in case anything happens to its Kentucky distillery—the company has secret stashes of its proprietary yeast hidden all across the country.
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Four Roses
Four Roses is the only Kentucky distillery that uses single-story warehouses to store its bourbon while it ages. Other places keep them in buildings with multiple stories, which cause the barrels on higher floors to age differently than the ones on lower floors, due to temperature variations. The warehouses sprawl throughout Four Roses' beautiful grounds, which feature picturesque Spanish Mission-style architecture you won't find anywhere else in the state.
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Heaven Hill
In 1996, Heaven Hill suffered a catastrophic fire that even briefly set a two-mile section of the nearby creek on fire. Bourbon lovers, you might not want to read this next part—90,000 barrels of the liquor were lost. To this day, the cause of the fire is still unknown. Luckily, the distillery managed to survive thanks to help from other bourbon labels like Brown-Forman and Jim Beam, and is now thriving.
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Town Branch
During Prohibition, alcohol was legal if prescribed by a doctor for a wide variety of aliments (much like medical marijuana today). Patients could get a pint of bourbon every 10 days. Not surprisingly, there were a lot of very "sick" people in Kentucky during that time.
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Caroline Morse traveled to Kentucky courtesy of Kentucky Tourism. Follow her adventures (bourbon-fueled and otherwise) @TravelWithCaroline and on Twitter @CarolineMorse1.
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"Orchestra Musicians" by Edgar Degas
"Orchestra Musicians" depicts in the foreground part of the opera orchestra. Only the back of three musicians is visible in the bottom half of the composition, dominated by the black and white of their clothing.
The top half of the piece is the opera stage with ballet dances in full light, color, and movement. There is a distinct contrast between the youthful dances and the older aged male musicians who are squeezed together, as their black coats merge into one dark mass.
Degas initially painted a different version of the "Orchestra Musicians" in 1872 but revised it a few years later, enlarging it and converting the horizontal format into a vertical. He also overpainted parts of the original composition.
Degas added a piece of fabric to the upper edge of the canvas to make it a vertical format. He glued two canvas pieces onto another textile for support.
At the seam, a shallow horizontal groove is visible on the surface of the paint layer at the level of the dancers' waists. The two different types of fabric are discernible in the X-ray image.
The original composition had the musicians in the orchestra pit at the center, and, on the stage in the background, only the lower half of the ballet dancers were visible.
In the revised composition, the focus on the musicians has widened to include the stage and its dancers. This painting launched a series of ballet depictions for which Degas is famous.
With his depictions of the ballet, Degas captured a world that excited his taste for classical beauty and his eye for modern realism.
He became a regular visitor to the Paris Opéra and its Ballet, and he invented new techniques for drawing and painting the world of pink and white.
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas (1834–1917) was prolific in paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He was fond of the subject of dance, and more than half of his works depict dancers.
He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, although Degas rejected the term, preferring to be called a Realist.
He was masterly in depicting movement, as can be seen in his many masterpieces of dancers, racecourse subjects, and female nudes.
Orchestra Musicians
- Title: Orchestra Musicians
- Artist: Edgar Degas
- Dates: 1872/1876
- Materials: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: W 49 x H 69 cm
- Museum: Städel Museum
Edgar Degas
- Name: Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas
- Born: 1834 – Paris, France
- Died: 1917 (aged 83) – Paris, France
- Nationality: French
- Movement: Impressionism
- Notable works:
Degas at the Opéra
Edgar Degas
- Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas was born in Paris, France, in 1834.
- He was the eldest son of a wealthy banker, and a Creole woman from New Orléans, who died when Degas was 13.
- His father appreciated his son's artistic talent, but he wanted his son to become a lawyer, so Degas duly enrolled in law school, but soon dropped out.
- His teachers encouraged Degas to copy the Old Masters at the Louvre. This advice became early practice, and he made many copies of works by Michelangelo, Raphael, and other Renaissance artists.
- Degas was also a sculptor but did not make his sculptures for the public.
- The only sculpture Degas ever exhibited publicly was The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer, in 1881.
- Dancers were frequent subjects in his art, particularly the dancers of the Paris Opera.
- He is famous for his paintings of ballerinas, at work, in rehearsal, or at rest.
- A significant theme of Degas' work was paintings of women in the bath or at their toilette.
- Degas' interest in the female nude, persisted throughout his career.
- Horses and horse racing were also key subjects of Degas's work.
- Degas produced some 45 oil paintings of horse races.
- Degas lived into the 20th century, and promoted his work tirelessly and became an art collector.
- He did have close relationships with several women, including the American painter Mary Cassatt.
- Edgar Degas sided with the "anti-Dreyfusards" the Dreyfus Affair. His antisemitism alienated him from many of his friends.
- Degas was troubled with eye problems. He had to wear dark glasses outdoors and stop his work in 1912.
- Edgar Degas died in Paris in 1917. He was 83 years old.
- Degas never married.
- Today Degas is considered a pioneer of the Impressionism movement.
Degas at the Opera
Berlin Museums
- The Pergamon Museum
- Neues Museum
- Altes Museum
- Alte Nationalgalerie – National Gallery (Berlin)
- Bode Museum
- Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
- Spy Museum Berlin
- Jewish Museum, Berlin
- Deutsches Historisches Museum – German Historical Museum
- DDR Museum
- German Resistance Memorial Center
Edgar Degas Quotes
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
"We were created to look at one another, weren't we?"
"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."
"The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime."
"Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty."
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
"I should like to be famous and unknown."
"Muses work all day long and then at night, get together and dance…"
"I would rather do nothing than do a rough sketch without having looked at anything. My memories will do better."
"Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?"
"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
"Degas at the Opera"
Munich Museums
"We were created to look at one another, weren't we?"
– Edgar Degas
Photo Credit: Edgar Degas [Public domain]


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Political VCDs sell like hotcakes at Pakatan Rakyat stalls (All pics by Wong Chin Huat)
SHUKRI, a hawker in his forties, set up his stall at about 7am, assisted by his sons. By 11am, he had sold nearly 900 cups of drinks, cashing in RM900 in revenue. On any other day in Permatang Pauh, he has to run the stall from 11am to 3pm to sell 200 to 300 cups.
There were at least 20 stalls like Shukri's selling food and beverage, VCDs and political merchandise near the Institute Perguruan Tuanku Bainon on 16 Aug 2008. Assuming the 20,000-strong crowd that turned up on nomination day of the Permatang Pauh by-election spent an average of RM5 per person, this worked out to some RM100,000 for the local economy.
If you think there is nothing abnormal about party workers and activists needing to eat and drink, here's the catch: all 20 stalls were on the Pakatan Rakyat's side. There was not even one to cater for Barisan Nasional (BN) supporters, even though they numbered about 1,000.
How did the ruling coalition's supporters ease their hunger and thirst? Simple: BN machinery. About 100 boxes of mineral water were stacked for party workers and supporters. I was told that a packed lunch could be obtained from the nearby primary school.
Nomination day at Permatang Pauh tripled the profits for stall owners like ShukriTo market, to market
The 20:1 ratio between the Pakatan Rakyat and BN supporters was, to many, an early sign of a paralysed BN campaign. To me, that even hawkers favoured the Pakatan Rakyat was more telling of what different animals the BN and the Pakatan Rakyat are.
It still does not mean that one political coalition was necessarily better behaved than the other. I was not surprised by news reports the next day that two photographers were attacked by alleged Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) supporters.
For supporters of the Pakatan Rakyat, politics is consumption. They are willing to take leave and drive long-distance to attend rallies. Most of them don't get paid. There, they frequent the stalls set up by fellow party members or supporters.
Go to any big PAS rally and you will find the mobile pasar malam that follows. In fact, Tok Guru Nik Aziz is a popular brand name that sells coffee. Whether or not the top spiritual leader receives any royalties for his brand name, there is no doubt that he stimulates a "PAS economy", or "Malay opposition economy". (For some reason, few, if any, non-Malays sell their wares at these travelling bazaars.)
This is a vibrant free-market economy that encourages opposition supporters to buy and sell among themselves and enrich one another. More importantly, these buyers and sellers trade in a competitive and voluntary manner. You don't expect these "petty" businessmen and businesswomen to stoop to sycophancy or bribes to obtain a stall lot.
In contrast, Umno's is a centrally planned economy. Think about the 100 boxes of bottled water — surely there would only be one supplier, not 20. Who might that lucky supplier be? Do we expect open tendering?
A volunteer sits on the single mineral water source for BN party workers and supportersYou can safely presume the same for the whole election machinery: job assignments with payment. You get into politics to make money, not to spend — which is why the BN men and women at the nomination centre were not prepared to buy their own food and drink.
Hence, in the BN way of doing things, there is no competition to please ordinary people, even in the supply of provisions. The only competition is to please the right persons who dish out big contracts or outsource them to sub-contractors. In other words, there is a material root to Umno's ethnic politics.
Finding that balance
Are the Pakatan Rakyat's self-funded passionate supporters then the hope of Malaysian politics?
Not if you had seen how they booed the outnumbered BN supporters or anyone perceived to support the BN who walked through the Pakatan Rakyat crowd.
"Rasuah!" "Bodoh!" they yelled. Some even took to displaying RM100 and RM50 notes in bottles to humiliate their opponents. And you might have found your own mineral water bottle being wrestled from your hand and thrown onto the ground, simply because it bore the BN brand.
I complained to a friend from a non-governmental organisation (NGO) who is now a Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) leader, and she explained that Umno had been rougher towards opposition supporters in Ijok and Machap. Fair enough, but shouldn't PKR be different from Umno?
Cue my lack of surprise when the two photographers were attacked by alleged PKR supporters.
BN candidate Datuk Arif Shah Omar Shah's humiliating defeat to PKR's Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has been blamed by many on infighting in Umno. However, can a political party maintain its electoral hegemony in the long run — without resorting to electoral fraud and bribery — when its own members are lacking enthusiasm?
Politics will always need a bit of esprit de corps driven by some common goals, whether real or imagined. You can't win a battle if all your soldiers care for is their own spoils regardless of the troop's victory.
PAS spiritual advisor Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat's likeness graces a brand of caffeinated beverageSo, how does Umno stir up passions to motivate its members and supporters to campaign beyond thinking of monetary gain? What else, but playing on the same old ethnic fears? What else, but invoking the hatred of the dreaded babi?
The differences between the BN and the Pakatan Rakyat are as stark in their modus operandi as in their ideological position. For the Pakatan Rakyat, not only do the leaders advocate the abolition of the New Economic Policy (NEP), the grassroots members buy and sell in a free market economy. In contrast, the BN, which defends the perpetuation of the NEP, runs its election machinery fuelled by patronage and bureaucracy.
And yet, both sides exhibit unsettling behaviour among their supporters.
Like sports, politics needs a healthy dose of passion. Without that, genuine political participation and democracy are not possible.
Like sports, your passion, however, must not make you too extreme and view your opponents as evil incarnate, not even when you think the game has been greatly unfair.
In Permatang Pauh, the BN had too little passion and the Pakatan Rakyat too much. We're still a long way from a healthy bipartisanism, where both sides just have the right amount.
A political scientist by training and a journalism lecturer by trade, Wong Chin Huat uses the Federal Constitution as his "bible" to fend off the increasingly intolerable evil called "state".


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SOS spinach soup
This was my first time making soup (!) and it was incredibly easy I don't know why I haven't started doing this earlier. I call it an SOS soup (save our stomachs, of course) because that's exactly why I started making it as my nutritionist recommended it to me for my food-allergy-stomach problems. Whenever my stomach isn't 100% I blend up a batch of this soup and it lasts me for a couple meals. It's so easy to make and the colour makes it that much more appetizing 'cause I know I'm giving my body some TLC with all that green goodness. I love it with a generous drizzle of olive oil and a sprinkling of hemp hearts.
Spinach Soup (adapted from Julie Daniluk)
Makes 3 cups
8 cups fresh spinach, loosely packed
1/8 - 1/4 lemon juice (depending on how acidic you like it - I find 1/4 cup too acidic for me)
1 cup roasted sweet potato, squash, yam or canned organic pumpkin (I always use sweet potato)
1 tbsp coconut oil (Julie lists coconut butter and I've tried that too but I much prefer the oil)
2-3 whole green onions (I used 2 and it's plenty onion-y)
1/2 cup vegetable broth
2 1/4 cups boiling water
1/4 cup hemp hearts
unrefined sea salt to taste
drizzle of organic olive oil
sprinkling of hemp hearts
1. Place all ingredients (except olive oil) into a blender and puree on high until smooth
2. If not heated through enough, heat in a pot on the stove.
3. Pour into bowls, drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with hemp hearts.
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text: Fried rice in Asian food is such a rustic food that is basically a combination of leftover rice with leftover anything to form a one-dish meal. And it actually brings out the beauty of fried rice – unlimited range of ingredients that can be used to create your own version of fried rice. This dish of baked pork chops with fried rice is one of them.


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Our Dog of the Month for May is here! This month's pup is from Instagram user @hank_helga_bulldogs. We adore this little guy perched on our Haute Dog Beach Towel!
And, well, we just had to share these pups too – you wouldn't be able to resist, either!
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Electric door [ประตู รั้ว ไฟฟ้า, which is the term in Thai], or to use their electrically operated automated garage doors, first started to show up in America in the 1930s, yet it had not been up until just after the world war II that electric doors were getting commercially available. On 1970's garage, door automation systems were looking something like the items we would recognize today.
So, what is an electric garage door?
Ok, for a garage door to be electrical, it requires to begin with a garage door. The door requires to deal with its very own as a manual product regardless of whether an automation system is used, simply in situation the driver or power itself stops working, or if you simply determine you do not wish to make use of the automation.
Many garage door systems are readily available as a manual only product, and the electric part can be included at a later day or acquired and set up at the same time as the door. An automation system is typically comprised of an electrical motor, a control system, and a device that connects the electric motor to the door.
So, to respond to the inquiry, an electrical garage door is a garage door with an electric motor and a control system attached to it.
How secure are electric garage doors?
The quick response to this inquiry is it depends. Not all garage doors as well as automation systems are constructed from the same stuff, as well as however, there can be big differences in the quality as well as security elements of the various designs and makes of electrical garage door systems presently readily available.
While some automation systems can decrease the protection of a hand-operated door, some items are safer as well as secure with an electrical automation system fitted.
One trouble is that the mechanical locking device of a garage door commonly needs to be disengaged to enable the door to open up instantly; this suggests that the safety and security of the door are counting only on the securing device of the electric operator, which in some spending plan versions can be quite minimal.
Automation systems that supply physical-mechanical locking, even in case of a power failure and systems that automate doors possess mechanical locks, supply a lot higher levels of safety.


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Last week, Paul and I enjoyed a fantastically difficult five days of single and double track mountain biking around the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. (That's our second trip with Escape Adventures. Paul and I highly recommend them.) We biked over 100 miles, with almost 8000 feet of ascent total. Happily, we were in fine physical shape for the trip. We never wimped out on rides, nor suffered from sore muscles — although with altitude of 7,000 to 9,000 feet, we were often short of breath on the bigger hills. We didn't suffer any serious injuries, but I took a rather hard spill on the first day due to too-tight clips. After that, I abandoned my clips entirely, as they were simply too difficult to manage on single track for a beginner rider like me.
I do really enjoy these painfully strenuous vacations. Particularly with mountain biking, it's all-too-easy to serious injure yourself if you lose focus for just a few seconds. So these trips really force me to leave all my work behind: whatever I'm not doing doesn't prey on me, as it would if I were trying to do nothing on the beach. (I can't even pack thoughts of work in my brain! No room!) However, I did read the book How to Complete and Survive Your Doctoral Dissertation by David Sternberg while lounging about camp. That was very helpful, since I came back from vacation ready to start my dissertation prospectus. (It's already underway!)
Unfortunately, our otherwise excellent trip was marred by the death of our dog Abby. On Tuesday, she suffered a massive trauma that shattered her femur. We're not sure how it happened, but she might have been trampled by my mare Tara or hit by a car coming up the driveway. She was taken to the Douglas County Animal Hospital by our housesitter Melissa right away, put on IV morphine and other drugs, and evaluated by three vets. (One of those vets was Dr. McVicker, the vet that Abby and I have been seeing every ten days or so for acupuncture for the last seven months. She's grown very attached to Abby.) The vets determined that surgery and recovery would be very difficult even if Abby were fully healthy. However, she was sure not to recover with her degenerative myelopathy. Given her rate of decline from that neurological disease, Abby probably would have been unable to walk in six months, if not sooner. So recovery from such a massive hind-end trauma was just not a realistic option, nor remotely fair to ask of her.
Paul and I got the message about Abby on Wednesday morning. After a painful series of phone calls to determine the facts and make arrangements, I told Dr. McVicker that she should put Abby down that day. Sadly, it would have taken us at least 24 hours to return home. As much as I wanted to see Abby one last time, that was just not humanely possible. She was well-loved by friends at her end though. Dr. McVicker brought her outside on a stretcher for a few last good moments in the sun. Melissa, our long-time housesitter, was able to be with her, and she even brought our other dog Kate.
It has been strange to be home again without her. Paul and I were so far away when she was injured and put down, but we now feel her absence from home constantly. Kate seems to be doing reasonably well, although she's a bit more stuck to me than usual. (Abby was always far more dependent on Kate than vice versa.)
Despite her various doggie flaws, Abby was an excellent dog. She was attentive, loyal, and protective. She was a very happy farm dog. She was a dog of rare quality for trailing riding: even in face of alluring distractions like wiggly wildlife and barking dogs, she remained 100% devoted to quietly following Tara and me on the trail. Most of all though, she was my dog. And I miss her.


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