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Busy Times, and the end of the Trip

I can’t believe it has been over a month since my last post. Much has happened since then, and I have been largely non-stop since my return from America. September was a busy month, with a lot going on. I should probably recap the end of my holiday first, before I forget everything.

America, continued

Originally, we had planned to drive down to California and stay for a few days, but as the trip went on, it began to become increasingly unrealistic. The drive itself would take up a day, and recovering from it would take time too. Instead, we spent a few days camping at the coast which was really enjoyable, exploring Honeyman state park, Florence, Newport, Tillamook, and everywhere in between. The sand dunes at Honeyman state park are unbelievable. If you ignored the trees at the edges, it would be easily mistaken for a desert. I also had my first real experience with oysters, which will be my last for some time. They are truly an acquired taste. I did find a pearl though, albeit a tiny tiny pearl of about 2mm in diameter. Tillamook Cheese Factory is also a favourite place of mine, as they produce some good ice cream. Not the best though. The best of this trip was in an ice cream parlour in Florence, where I had salted caramel ice cream. They also sold expensive fudge which I would be less inclined to buy – some of it may have been flavoured by windex. Not terribly traditional. Keith and Joanna spotted the (rather rude) guy behind the counter cleaning an upper shelf in the fudge counter with no regard for where the spray was going. So while the ice cream was good, it may not pass the next health inspection…

Dunes in Honeyman State Park

Dunes in Honeyman State Park

One of our last days was spent exploring Seattle, including the locks and Salmon ladder, the Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibition, Pike’s Place market, and the rather surprisingly excellent Von’s. It also happened to be an incredibly horrible day as predicted, and we spent most of the morning sheltered inside the Salmon ladder viewing room, and a small diner, eating clam chowder. Like most big cities, Seattle isn’t a cheap place to be a tourist, and going to some of the more popular attractions like the Space Needle and Experience Music Project (EMP) will set you back about $20 a ticket. The Space Needle is one of those things many people have to do, but actually falls below par when it comes to actual ratings and reviews. Is it worth $20 to wait in line for a long time, go to the top of a tower (which is not the tallest building any longer) and look around at the world below? Considering the Columbia Centre is taller, cheaper, and in a better location with a seemingly better view, that would be my choice.

The Troll under the bridge, in Seattle. I almost forgot about this!

The Troll under the bridge, in Seattle. I almost forgot about this!

But we were only there for the day, and wanted to do something a bit more memorable than simply gawking at the tiny ant people below. Having sprung up just before my trip last year, Dale Chihuly’s Garden and Glass exhibition is now the highest rated attraction on Trip Advisor. Chihuly is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur (he certainly knows how to sell things, from the looks of his gift shop) originally from Tacoma in Washington, but studied both in the states and Venice. I had never seen glass work like it. Quite spectacular. Entire rooms filled with some rather wonderfully coloured and shaped creations ranging from the sea, to forests of what appeared to be flamingos, to shells and boats filled to the brim with every shape imaginable. It’s hard to describe, but most definitely worth the visit. One his projects, the glasshouse, failed to inspire me though, and some of his work was rather repetitive, including his chandeliers. His other pieces were the ones that interested me.

One of my favourite small pieces. Photograph: Brian Douglas

One of my favourite small pieces. Photograph by Brian Douglas

By the time we left Garden and Glass, which had a rather nice garden surrounding the main hall, it was almost 3 pm, and our time was running out. The next priority was Pike’s Place market, and food. Hang on, something is missing from this post. I almost forgot about Kerry Park! How could I forget about the most memorable view of the city, and one of my favourite places. It wasn’t quite as stunning this time, as the weather had been nasty earlier, and though it was starting to clear, the view had not. It was a shame that Mount Rainier was not visible, but it was still worth seeing for the classic Seattle skyline. Now back to the market.

Like every normal person, he is preparing to throw a fish

Like every normal person, he is preparing to throw a fish

This is what Pike’s Place is famous for – throwing fish. Normally throwing fish is frowned upon, particularly in public, but the United States is a strange place. I was aware that people went to see the fish being thrown about for a laugh, but I didn’t quite realise how big it is. These guys have been doing this for years now, and are world famous. The owner, John Yokohama, decided they needed to become world famous, and turned the business from an unassuming fish stand into the place to see in Seattle. They even do motivational “Flying Fish” seminars! The novelty does wear off after seeing a couple being thrown about, but it is impressive considering the size of some of the salmon they are throwing. It’s all a bit mad, but good fun. The market is interesting but there are so many people milling about that it becomes hard to walk around and enjoy it.

Imagine there wasn't a shadow there (shame), this was some incredibly photogenic food

Imagine there wasn’t a shadow there (shame), this was some incredibly photogenic food

Our last stop, after desperately searching for good reasonably priced places to eat, was Von’s Gustobistro. Mum picked out the place which had some very good happy hour prices, and I have to admit that I wasn’t inspired initially. It sounded like pub or bar food, which isn’t the best traditionally, but we went in anyway. I’m glad we did. The food was fantastic! It turned out that they were famous for sourdough pizzas, or frics as they call them, and hamburgers which they make themselves. I got a bacon lardon and apple pizza, with french roquefort and cranberries, which was delicious. And only $7.50, which was entirely unexpected for Seattle. They are also into craft beers and carry a massive selection of spirits. It’s the first place I’ve seen who gave dad a sample glass of the beer he was planning on getting, just to make sure he actually liked it. If you are looking somewhere to eat in Seattle, and can hit them between 4 and 6 pm for happy hour, then definitely go for Von’s. They even have a book explaining their heritage and all about sourdough. It was what got me interested in sourdough, which I am now learning about the hard way.

That’s about it for now. I just needed to write something, and wrap up the trip. After Seattle, we had a few days of doing last minute things, and Keith slaughtered some ducks, but that was pretty much the end of the trip. And somehow, unbeknownst to me, I lost my space pen. Damn, I did like that pen.

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  1. You lost your space pen? Did you lose it here or Ireland? Let me know and I will keep my eyes peeled for it. You also left your totally awesome canning jar mug. I am saving it in the cupboard for your next trip.

    • I lost it over there, but I think it must have slipped out of my pocket in a store because I couldn’t find it anywhere in the house. Thanks for the thought. I know! I was bummed out too, but it can be something to look forward to next time 🙂

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35th Annual Orient Express Run
 Benefits Tuolumne County Special Athletes
February 6-28, 2021

The 35th Annual Orient Express is going Virtual!

To provide the safest Orient Express Run, while continuing our 35-year tradition, the Sonora Sunrise Rotary Foundation invites you to have some fun!

Run, walk, bike, ski, skip…. from anywhere in the world while you support special athletes in Tuolumne County. You can join the one-mile race, four-mile race or both. After you race just email in your results to: info@SonoraSunriseRotary.org. The results will be posted on It’s Your Race.

Virtual runners will receive a Race Shirt with the special edition picture below. This year's shirt is long sleeved, Sport Tek in Royal Blue. People who register by January 17, 2021 will receive their shirts by mail the first week in February or they can be picked up at Good Stuff Thrift Store, 10 Pesce Way, Sonora. (Near the ARCO on HWY 49). Register later and your shirt will arrive around March 15, 2021.

Your virtual run can take place on any day between February 6 and 28, 2021, any time of day on a route of your choosing. Encourage your friends near and far to join with you and have some fun.

Post your race photos and selfies to www.Facebook.com/OrientExpressRun

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Forgotten Masters Online Tour

Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company

Forgotten Masters Online Tour

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Forgotten Masters

Director Dr Xavier Bray and Curator William Dalrymple introduce the exhibition

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The Wallace Collection presented Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company, guest curated by renowned writer and historian William Dalrymple, from 3 December 2019 until 13 September 2020.

Although the exhibition is now closed, you can still digitally explore, room-by-room, works by Indian master painters commissioned by East India Company officials in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. See these vivid and highly original paintings up close in high resolution and observe the greatest masterpieces of Indian painting from the comfort of your device.

Discover historically overlooked artists including Shaikh Zain ud-Din, Bhawani Das, Shaikh Mohammad Amir of Karriah, Sita Ram and Ghulam Ali Khan and shed light on a forgotten moment in Anglo-Indian history. Reflecting both the beauty of the natural world and the social reality of the time, these dazzling and often surprising artworks offer a rare glimpse of the cultural fusion between British and Indian artistic styles during this period. Journey through our online trail of Forgotten Masters today.

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Unknown Artist, Asian Openbill Stork in a Landscape, Lucknow, c. 1780. Private Collection.

Room One: The Artists of Lucknow

In the late eighteenth century, the magnificent Indian city of Lucknow was at the height of its Golden Age. Flamboyant, glamorous and newly rich, it attracted artists who flocked to the cosmopolitan city in search of commissions from of a dynasty of wealthy Nawabs, or Mughal governors, who had the means to patronise artists with an extravagant generosity.

One of Lucknow’s foreign residents was Claude Martin, an enigmatic, self-made French buccaneer- businessman from Lyon, who worked for both the English East India Company and the Nawabs of Lucknow.

In the 1770s, Martin imported 17,000 sheets of European watercolour paper and commissioned a series of natural history illustrations from the master artists of Lucknow. They gave birth to a unique new hybrid style, one that was unquestionably Lucknavi- Mughal, but with a strong European influence. The result was over 1,800 exquisite drawings of birds, plants and reptiles, many of which have never before been exhibited in public.

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Vishnupersaud, A Cobra Lily, c. 1821. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Room Two: Illustrating the Natural World

By the end of the eighteenth century, the sheer volume of artworks commissioned from Indian artists through the patronage of East India Company officials was growing as more and more commissioned albums of painting. A large proportion of these, reflecting the new European enthusiasm for botany and zoology, were illustrations of the wonders of the natural world.

The names of many of the artists remain unknown, although their skills are evident from their exquisite paintings of flora and fauna. Among those whose names are preserved are Vishnupersaud, who painted masterly botanical studies, and Bengali artist Haludar, whose animal portraits show extraordinary flair and personality.

Most of the artists, such as the talented Manu Lall, whose botanical studies are remarkable for their microscopic detailing, appear to have been trained in Mughal techniques of portraiture. In the South, where such skills were not available, some artists appear to have been kalamkari textile painters before being recruited to work on paper by East India Company botanists.

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Shaikh Zain ud-Din, Brahminy Starling with Two Anteraea Moths, Caterpillar and Cocoon on an Indian Jujube Tree, Impey Album, Calcutta, 1777. Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Room Three: Master of the Impey Album

Between 1777 and 1783, Muslim painter Shaikh Zain ud-Din of Patna, later supported by Hindu painters Bhawani Das and Ram Das, created more than 300 beautifully detailed natural history studies. Commissioned by Sir Elijah Impey – Chief Justice at Calcutta’s Supreme Court – and Lady Mary Impey, the project was a major artistic undertaking, remarkable both for its scientific ambition and inspired artistic vision.

Trained in the late provincial Mughal style that prevailed under the Nawabs of Bengal at Murshidabad, these Indian artists adapted their skills to suit the tastes of wealthy British patrons.

The project took seven years, with the brilliant Shaikh Zain ud-Din creating the majority of the works. Working with English watercolours on English Whatman paper and using English botanical still lives as their models, an extraordinary fusion of English and Mughal artistic impulses took place. The artworks from the Impey Album are now recognised as among the very greatest glories of Indian painting.

Shaikh Mohammad Amir of Karraya, Flea-Bitten Horse, c. 1845. The British Library Board.

Room Four: Everyday Life

East India Company’s officers also commissioned scenes of everyday life. Drawn to this patronage, several talented Indian artists set up business as freelances, producing scenes and personalities to order.

Foremost of these was an artist named Shaikh Mohammad Amir of Karraya. He was equally at home painting Palladian architecture as he was painting people, animals or street scenes. His single figures are sometimes shown in the Mughal tradition, in profile, but he was also capable of painting in a more Europeanised style.

At the same time, another artist, Yellapah, was working with East India Company patrons in Vellore, inland from Madras in the South of India. The result was a great masterpiece, the Vellore Album, still completely intact in its own binding. Most unusually, it contains a brilliantly knowing self-portrait of the artist himself, seen at the beginning of this exhibition. His features are rendered with such clarity and precision that even the tiniest details- including his smallpox scars- are revealed.

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Family of Ghulum Ali Khan, Six Recruits, Fraser Album (watermarked 1814). Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)

Room Five: Mughal Delhi and Agra

In 1815, the Scottish artist James Baillie Fraser headed to the Mughal capital of Delhi, to join his brother, the East India Company scholar and diplomat, William Fraser. The magnificent but half ruined Mughal capital soon worked its spell and during his stay, he commissioned an unmatched artistic record of the social, cultural and everyday life of Delhi’s rural and urban residents.

The Fraser Album was most likely painted by members of the circle of the talented Delhi artist Ghulam Ali Khan. Descended from a long line of imperial Delhi artists, he was a master of landscape and architectural drawing, as well as portraiture. The often anonymous members of his family circle who painted the Fraser Album stand out as the most skilled artists of late Mughal Delhi.

Ghulam Ali Khan’s rise to fame was made possible by Delhi’s resurgence as an artistic centre from the last quarter of the eighteenth century, during which he worked for both the East India Company and the Mughal Court.

Sita Ram, The Great Gun of Agra beneath the Shah Burj, 1815. The British Library Board.

Room Six: Sita Ram

By the early nineteenth century, we see early signs of the growing influence of colonial artistic models that eventually led Indian artists to abandon their traditional styles. One of the last great commissions by an East India Company patron was the Hastings Album, commissioned from the great Bengali artist Sita Ram, by the Marquess of Hastings.

In 1814, Governor General Hastings travelled to inspect British possessions in India, a journey that led to him meeting many Indian rulers and visiting the principle cities of northern India. The paintings by Sita Ram are a vibrant record of his travels and act as illustrations to Hasting’s own private journal.

Sita Ram was probably a Mughal artist from Murshidabad who found employment as an artist creating botanical illustrations in the East India Company’s gardens at Sibpur. His adoption of an impressionistic ‘picturesque’ style for his landscapes speaks of increasing English influence and prestige. It is a style that is almost unique in Indian painting during this period , and brings to a close an unbroken Indian painting tradition going back to the early centuries BC.

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10+ Times Photos Proved That BTS’s Suga Is An Actual Cat

He’s a real cat and no one can convince ARMYs otherwise.

BTS‘s Suga has always been given the cat nickname by ARMYs. The nickname suits him well because there are moments when he resembles a cat, and sometimes, even looks like one! Furthermore, his personality is deemed really “cat-like” by most fans!

Here are 10+ photos that prove that Suga is an actual cat!

1. When he looked so small as he measured Jungkook’s arm length

2. When he wore the sunflower headdress at the airport

3. When he smiles

4. When his pure skin also reminds fans of cats

5. When he looked really similar to a cat meme

6. When he wore a fake mustache

7. When he winks

8. When his natural cat ears were revealed

9. When he’s taking a break

10. When he took a leap of faith, literally

11. Whenever he’s shocked

12. When he’s enjoying nature’s beauty

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Drawing your Dream

We held a seminar this month that almost didn’t happen, and that until the day before I didn’t even care to do.

In this seminar, I didn’t teach for more than 5-10 minutes of the 8 hour day, but it was probably the most transformative seminar we have ever offered the community.

Its genesis was from two different sources that God brought to me at one time. FIrst, one of our participants in one of our weekly Master Classes over Tea suggested not only the idea of a day-long seminar, but offered to organize it. That’s the kind of initiative I look for around here, so it was hard to argue. Second was from an improbable direction. We have been looking for resources to help Lydia’s unique learning style and struggles, and someone started her on what are called Mind Maps. I got a book on it to help her and became intrigued.

The idea of a Mind Map is simply to express visually on paper what is going on inside of your brain in the way most like how your brain organizes itself. So, as opposed to traditional note-taking or brainstorming, or outline formats, etc., the Mind Map is much more creative, holistic, multidimensional, visual, and right-brain – left-brain integrative. It has application from how best to study for tests (where we started with Lydia – and it has really helped, by the way), to any learning or writing or creative process.

With this request for a seminar in my mind, I immediately started seeing applications for use with the subject – Incarnating your Dream. What took some thought was how to make it a spiritual process, not just a creative humanistic process that affirms anything as good. The result was simple: we used the basic mind mapping process to practice on a couple of concepts, then started working on their Dream. What seemed to super-charge the process was two additional elements. First, after a couple of iterations I would have them pause and pray out loud over what they had to that point. This had the amazing effect of integrating understanding, increasing specificity in prayer, and sparking new insights to add to the map. Secondly, I had them start to work together to integrate their maps so that it was not representative of their thoughts singularly, but now collectively. The result was a greater appreciation for the values and gifts of other members of the Body of Christ quicker than I have seen before.

The group, most of whom had never taken a class with us, decided by the end to commit to meeting twice a month from now on to support each other in the process. I was amazed. Now I’ve decided to start integrating this process into every ministry we do. I see it as a great tool for group planning and prayer, as well as creating unity and momentum.

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Cake Be Happening

I am way into watching Craftsy classes right now, and my learnings are starting to make their way into reality. I picked a cake decorating class to watch, thinking “This will be nice entertainment that won’t tempt me to get into a new hobby.” Yeah, wrong.

Truth is, I love learning how things are made, and I love making things. When it comes to crafting, I’ve reached a sort of critical mass that means I have enough tools and know-how to jump to new crafts easily, and I adore learning new skills. So I’m a complete sucker.

Three little girls ready for cake decorating – meaning eating the scraps Mama cuts off the cake!

We watched the “Startup Library: Cake Decorating” class, and it was excellent. The teacher did a great job explaining why she made all the choices she made, which I find so helpful. The buttercream stuff she was doing was particularly interesting to me (fondant not being worth the trouble of getting it up here). So with the excuse of four half birthdays in our household in October, I splurged on two pounds of butter, and got baking.

Swiss merengue buttercream helper!

I understand now the conflict between frosting that tastes good and that is easy to pipe. I’ve always decorated our cakes with the basic icing sugar + milk, and this recipe that involved a double boiler and egg whites was quite beyond my experience. But it was SOOOO nice to work with.

Stringbean and I spent a quiet afternoon piping roses today. It was so much fun. I was particularly proud of her for being as creative with her mistakes as her successes, and not being too hard on herself.

Stringbean with her corner of the cake, embellished with trailing vines and several of the roses and “sculptures” she made.
My favorite rose that I made was from when the colours were changing in the piping bag. I was particularly proud of the “flower nail” I made out of a milk cap, some aging play-doh, and a camelbak straw.

I started with a plain buttercream coat, then did rustic horizontal stripes around the sides and around the top. (I have a little lazy Susan that works as a good enough turntable.) then I divided it in four, and put vertical stripes in two of the quarters so they looked different. Voila, four quarters for four half-birthdays!

I loaded each quarter with as many roses as I thought could be tolerated in the bounds of taste, and then we piped leaves all over.

Half-birthday girl approves.

Now I’m being asked to make a jack-o-lantern cake for Halloween.

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In a on-premise Active Directory a normal user can read the directory by default using a LDAP browser. We put firewall and other security measure in place so that it is impossible to reach from the outside.

When we sync all our users to Azure Active Directory – I often see that no security measure are in place. In my work I see a lot of installations where ADFS is the only security measure – ADFS is used to login in to Azure AD without having the users password in the cloud – but the ADFS is setup to allow all authenticated users.

Last week I was at a customer where I showed them that a standard user can get access to browse there AzureAD users, groups and enterprise apps in the AzureAD. This was not acceptable by there security department, and I totally agree. So we used Azure AD conditional access to control the access both for on-premise users and cloud only users.

What is the problem:

When a user log in to the old Azure AD portal the user gets this message:

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No access – no problem!

When the user log in to the new Azure AD portal the use gets this:

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Yes there is settings and data a standard users cannot see, like “Users Sign-ins” and the user cannot change anything in AzureAD.

It is the same if the standard user logs in to but then the user can see under “My permissions” that there is no access to any subscriptions and there is no access to other resources in Azure.

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Standard user can create a support ticket on:

  • Billing
  • Subscription management

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What is the solutions:

The quick fix for this is Conditional Access on the cloud App Microsoft Azure Management.

How to setup Conditional Access for Microsoft Azure Management:

Login with a admin to

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Go to Security – Conditional access

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Click New policy

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Give the CA policy a name

Click on Users and groups

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Select All users

Remember to select a Exclude user or you have removed your access to change this policy

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Select Exclude

Click Select excluded users

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Select a group with least one global admin !!!

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Select Cloud apps

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Click Select apps

Search for Microsoft Azure Management and select the app

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Select Conditions

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Select Client apps

Click Yes – the both Browser and Mobile apps and desktop clients will be blocked

Info: Use Locations if you only whats this to apply outside your trusted network

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Select Grant

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Click Block access

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Click On to enable the Conditional Access policy

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Now you have blocked the access for standard users from accessing your AzureAD.

When the policies is in effect the user will get this message when accessing the Azure portal from a browser or from the mobile Azure app

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There is also another way to do this:

Conditional Access requires Azure AD Premium license – if you don’t have that there is also another way.

This will only apply to standard users – and not a user with privileged access (User administrator, password administrator, etc.) and you cannot do inside/outside rule like in the Conditional Access.

Inside the Azure AD you can set:

Go to User settings – Administration portal

Restrict Access to Azure AD administration portal to Yes.

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This will not block your users from accessing

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This will only create a Access denied when accessing the AzureAD.

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Gatineau police appeal for help to find girl, 15, missing since March

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Gatineau police are seeking the public’s help to locate Daphnée Couturier, 15, who has been missing since early March.

Daphnée was last seen the morning of Mar. 10 near rue Du Barry in the Gatineau area, police said in a release Friday.

Police also said they have reason to be concerned for her health and safety.

The teenager speaks French and is described as being five feet three inches tall, weighing about 110 pounds. She has blue eyes and blonde hair that has recently been dyed purple and black. She may also have a stud nose piercing.

Gatineau police ask that anyone with information on the girl’s whereabouts call Det. Luc Morissette at 819-243-2345. If you see Daphnée, call 819-246-0222.

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What to Bring to a Potluck Breakfast

potluck breakfasts are a tasty way to start the day with family and friends. Although everyone wants to bring the tastiest breakfast dish, it’s important not to go overboard. Exotic ingredients or gourmet combinations are not well-suited for such a basic meal or for young guests. Your best bet is to stick with traditional breakfast recipes that ensure that every guest, young or old, will enjoy the food.

Muffins are a snap to bring to a potluck breakfast, as you can simply buy them at the grocery store. However, it doesn’t take much work to provide guests with a homemade treat. Simply add a few extra ingredients to dry muffin mix and call the recipe your own. Crumble crispy bacon into a cheddar muffin mix for a full breakfast wrapped in a muffin. Stir fresh strawberries into blueberry muffin mix for sweet berry muffins. Bake the muffins the day before the potluck and you won’t have to get up early to prepare anything.

Fruit Salad

The salad slot is always one of the easiest dishes for a potluck, be it breakfast or dinner. Almost any combination of fresh fruit can become the most popular dish at the breakfast, especially for kids craving something sweet. Combine sliced strawberries, blueberries and low-fat cherry yogurt for a creamy breakfast salad. Sprinkle a pineapple, mango, banana and orange salad with lime juice for a tropical fruit dish. Prepare the salad right before the potluck for the best taste, as the fruit can dry or soften if you prepare the salad the night before.

Breakfast Casserole

Creating a breakfast casserole takes a little effort, but the filling dish can be the cornerstone of an enjoyable potluck. The basic casserole consists of cubed bread covered with an egg and milk mixture. Prepare the dish the night before the potluck, giving the liquid time to soak into the bread, and cook it in the morning. Keep the dish kid-friendly with diced ham and cheddar or boost the nutrients with whole wheat bread and turkey sausage. Use cinnamon-raisin bread and Canadian bacon for a sweet twist or tomatoes and baby spinach for a meat-free option.

Granola Parfait

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PolitiFact writes the following information that Scott cannot escape in his desperate last-minute attempt to pretend that he cares about the environment, solely so he can get elected to US Congress and continue his environmental destruction across the nation.

Today, Aug. 19, 2018, the Lake City Reporter has an editorial touting the efforts of Scott to help the springs and rivers, claiming he spent the most on water in recent times.

What counts is not how much money was spent — what counts is how much the springs and rivers were helped.  It is a fact that Florida’s water situation is much worse today than when Scott took office as governor.

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Says Rick Scott “cut $700 million from water management.”

Florida Democratic Party on Sunday, August 5th, 2018 in a tweet

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Yes, Rick Scott did cut $700 million from Florida’s water management districts

By Lucia Geng on Tuesday, August 14th, 2018 at 10:11 a.m.

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A protest sign greets Gov. Rick Scott and state Sen. Joe Negron before they tour part of the St. Lucie River near Stuart,Fla, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, to access the environmental impact of water being released from Lake Okeechobee. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

Did Florida Gov. Rick Scott slash funding for the state’s water management oversight?

That’s what a recent tweet by the Florida Democratic Party claimed.

“Rolled back safeguards and septic-tank inspections. Cut $700 million from water management. Appointed cronies who act on behalf of polluters. Banned the term ‘climate change.’”

“This water crisis has a name, and it’s Rick Scott,” it concludes. Scott, who is term-limited as governor, is challenging Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson.

We’ve taken a look at some claims regarding Scott’s record on the environment before. With fears about algae blooms and red tide recently hitting the headlines, we were especially curious if Scott had actually “cut $700 million from water management.”

Scott did cut $700 million in funding from water management in 2011. He also implemented changes to how water management districts are funded that affect their finances in the long-term.

Counting up the cuts

We began by reaching out to the Florida Democratic Party about its evidence for the claim. A party spokesperson sent us a 2018 Miami Herald column by Fabiola Santiago blaming Scott for dirty beaches, as well as a Palm Beach Post news article from 2011, near the end of Scott’s first year in office.

That Palm Beach Post story begins with the line, “The state’s five water management districts have slashed their budgets by more than $700 million — about 40 percent — but Gov. Rick Scott, who initiated the cuts, wants a little more.”

The state’s five districts have a variety of responsibilities, from water supply and quality management to flood and natural systems management. All five districts release their budgets on their websites annually.

The districts release data for each financial year, which runs from Oct. 1 of the previous year to Sept. 30 of the named year.

The first budgets that Scott had a say in came in the 2012 fiscal year, from Oct. 1, 2011, to Sept. 30, 2012.

From the 2011 to 2012 fiscal years, the budgets of all five districts were cut across the board.

The South Florida district suffered the most in cuts. Its FY 2011 budget was $1.07 billion while its FY 2012 budget was $576.1 million. That’s a reduction of $493.9 million, or 49 percent.

Meanwhile, the Southwest Florida district’s budget was slashed by $124.3 million in FY 2012. Combined with the $13.9 million, $35 million, and $14 million cuts to the budgets of the Suwannee River district, St. Johns River district, and Northwest Florida district, respectively, those numbers add up to just over the $700 million.

However, since 2012, the overall budget of the five districts has risen by almost $300 million. So the difference between pre-Scott cut budgets and the current budgets is now not $700 million, but rather closer to $400 million.

Whose responsibility is it, anyway?

We reached out to Scott’s press secretary for comment. Lauren Schenone told PolitiFact, “Water management districts independently create their own budgets. Their budgetary decisions, including tax and revenue collection, are ultimately made by the board of each water management district — not the governor, so they are completely wrong on this.”

Districts do begin the budget process themselves by creating a preliminary budget independently of the governor. But their budgets pass through a complex adoption process. They need to eventually be approved by many groups, including the Florida Senate president, the Florida House speaker, and each water management district’s governing board, whose members are appointed by the governor.

According to section 373.536(5)(a) of the Florida Statutes, the governor has the final say “to approve or disapprove water management district budgets in whole or in part.” So if the governor doesn’t like a specific item in a district’s budget, he or she can veto it.

Scott has claimed responsibility for the water management district budget cuts in the past, such as in this radio address from August 2011.

“I took action on the proposed budgets of Florida’s five water management districts,” Scott said. “All together, these budgets reflect a reduction of more than $700 million over last year.”

Scott also restricted how much revenue districts could collect.

A large part of district budgets comes from revenue collected through property taxes. In 2011, Scott signed a bill into law that placed a limit on the maximum amount of property tax the districts could levy.

That bill lowered district property tax revenues by 30 percent, or $210 million.

“Those (property tax) revenues have not been restored to their pre-Gov. Scott levels,” said Aliki Moncrief, executive director of Florida Conservation Voters. “Assuming the taxable value of Florida property stayed the same from 2011-2019, we are talking about at least $1.7 billion in lost revenue for water management districts (over the course of eight years).”

Scott took responsibility for those revenue cuts, too. In a June 2011 press release, he said, “This property tax cut allows families and businesses to use more of their hard-earned money in the way they see best, rather than having to send it to a government agency.”

Our ruling

The Florida Democratic Party tweeted that Scott “cut $700 million from water management.”

The budgets of Florida’s five water management districts were collectively cut by over $700 million about a year into Scott’s first term. Since the governor has the final say over the water management districts’ budgets, the tweet is largely accurate.

However, in the years since 2012, the districts’ budgets have started to rise again. The overall budget of the five districts is no longer $700 million less than the pre-Scott budget.

We rate this statement Mostly True.

  1. I have to agree with Michael and Mary–“water management” in the current
    political vernacular means political “slight-of-hand””–the age-old shell game!

  2. No one can look at the waters of Florida eight years ago and look at the waters of Florida today and seriously “tout the efforts of Scott to help the springs and rivers.” You can spend all the money you want (he’s not) but the proof is in the results. Where is the management?

  3. I am thankful that the following will not be MY legacy: “I served as governor of Florida and purposefully cut over $700 MILLION dollars from the state’s water management budget, and was involved in the over $1.7 BILLION dollars in lost revenue the state’s water management budget suffered from.”

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Follow the rules in dealing with mining application

The following opinion piece is by Kate Ellison and appeared in the  Bradford County Telegraph on Thursday, July 19, 2018.  Kate has been a consistent and faithful hard worker in opposing the Bradford and Union mine proposal and we commend her for her continued efforts.

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Follow the rules in dealing with mining application

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Kate Ellison

Dear Editor, It is a great idea to take a close look at the regulations we already have for mining in our Comprehensive Plan. It makes you realize HPS II is pushing a non-existent Preliminary category for its application to mine phosphate.

We do not have a two-step process for approving a mine permit. Instead, we consider permits after they have been scrutinized and approved by the relevant state and regional boards such as Fish and Wildlife, DEP, and our water district. Everyone expects these agencies to eventually rubber stamp the project.

Still, we MUST follow our own rules, and not let these would-be miners bully us. Their permit application is premature, and that is why it has been so challenging to develop a response. The terminology used in the mining process is revealing, namely “removing the overburden” in order to reach the ore they seek.

Everything life-sustaining gets labeled “overburden” and tossed aside. That is, the rich soil that water percolates through, the wildlife habitats, the wildlife itself, the unique vegetation. Calling topsoil, trees, and turtles by the sanitized term “overburden” allows greedy men all over the world to disregard the value there. And it provides decision makers cover from part of the destruction they are really causing when approving a mine.

The study done by Dennis Price for the non-profit, Our Santa Fe River, shows that behind the offensive terminology is clear evidence that the substance HPS II plans to return to the stripped-out land will be nothing like what was there before, especially in terms of water movement.

The existing land varies in how much water flows through it, about 1-40 feet of water per day. The processed sand and clay HPS II plans to produce will uniformly seep water at only one foot per day, according to the permit application. It is not comparable to the existing soil they will be replacing.

It is only natural that County Commissioners would not know enough to evaluate this complex permit application. The county Comp Plan expects them to allow the state’s scientists and technocrats to evaluate it first, and then decide what is best for us, based on the analysis they will have developed.

The proper course of action is to reject the current permit, and let all the state agencies complete their reviews of this proposed mine. Then, if approved, a permit application could be filed, already vetted and containing the scientific part of the information Commissioners need to evaluate it for Bradford County.

Don’t let the bullies push us into a corner!

Kate  Ellison

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  1. “Overburden” is what we have to go through to convince our protector commissioners that you can’t completely disassemble nature and then recreate it exactly as, or as HPS promises, “better” than before. Others have promised the same, and not only failed to successfully restore but took a toll in human health to boot,

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Guide to Corsenside, Northumberland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Corsenside, Northumberland
Type Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred Tindale
County Northumberland, England Genealogy
Poor Law Union Bellingham
Registration District Bellingham
Records begin
Parish registers: 1715
Bishop's Transcripts: 1762
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Rural Deanery Bellingham
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CORSENSIDE, a parish, in the union of Bellingham, N. E. division of Tindale ward, S. division of Northumberland, 17 miles (N. by W.) from Hexham; The parish contains the beautifulhamlet of West Woodburn, and that of East Woodburn.[1]

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Corsenside parish was created in 1728 from Alwinton with Holystone Ancient Parish and includes: Chesterhope, East Woodburn, Linhead, Lisleburn, and West Woodburn.

Resources[edit | edit source]

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church Records[edit | edit source]

Corsenside, Northumberland Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections DDR/EA/PBT/2/61 1762-1877Parish Register transcripts are available to search free online at FamilySearch Historical Records.

The dates of the post-1760 transcripts have been noted in detail and sometimes only cover years. For most parishes in the collection there are gaps in the sequence of transcripts. It is advisable to consult the original parish registers for these years and events. Corsenside, St Cuthbert: Records of baptisms 1715-1959, marriages 1738-1978 and burials 1726-1993 are available at Northumberland Collections Service. The International Genealogical Index (I.G.I.) includes baptisms 1713-1875 and marriages 1719-1876 for this parish, but it is not included in Boyd's Marriage Index. Transcripts of baptisms, burials and marriages 1715-1843 are available at Newcastle Central Library, Local Studies Dept. A transcript of monumental inscriptions at Corsenside (microfiche TN81) is published by Northumberland and Durham Family History Society and these records are also available in book form at Newcastle Central Library, Local Studies Department.

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Bellingham Poor Law Union, Northumberland Genealogy

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Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Northumberland Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

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  1. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848). Date accessed: 06 August 2013.
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“The last few months have seen several Roboslit installations across the length and breadth of the country. As always, it is a rewarding experience to see projections and estimates being substantiated on the floor, one after the other at the plants of leading flexible packaging companies. With confidence replacing the initial scepticism, more and more customers are investing in dual turret technology as a means of achieving sustained growth without a corresponding increase in outlay in terms of manpower, space and utilities,” said Biku Kohli, director of SP Ultraflex.

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Sportsbook in Vegas is feeling bullish on Packers' chances in 2018

The latest odds released by a popular sportsbook in Las Vegas have the Green Bay Packers holding the second-best odds to win the NFC in 2018.

According to the oddsmakers at Bovada, the Packers are 6/1 to win the conference next season, trailing only the defending champion Philadelphia Eagles at 5/1.

The Los Angeles Rams (7/1), Minnesota Vikings (7/1) and New Orleans Saints (10-1) round out the rest of the top five.

The Patriots (9/4) are the heavy favorites to win the AFC.

Interestingly enough, the Packers only have the sixth-best odds to win the Super Bowl. The Patriots, Eagles, Rams, Pittsburgh Steelers and Vikings all have better odds to taste victory in Super Bowl 53.

Odds posted this time of year mean nothing (to non-gamblers) and are simply a reflection of the sportsbook’s take on the quality of the teams at this point in the offseason. If there’s any kind of takeaway, it’s that Vegas must have liked the work first-year general manager Brian Gutekunst did during the draft.

Also, the odds often fluctuate wildly and unpredictably during the offseason. In February, the Packers had the second-best odds (9/1) to win the Super Bowl. They dropped back down to 14/1 in March.

Regardless, Bovada believes the return of Aaron Rodgers will make the Packers a legitimate contender in 2018.

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Rodgers was the selection over Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson, the two honorable mentions.

During a historic season, Rodgers completed an NFL-best 70.7 percent of his passes, tossed a career-high 48 touchdown passes and finished with the second-best passer rating of all-time (121.5).

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Quarterback Philip Rivers is retiring from the NFL after 17 seasons. The long-time Chargers quarterback faced the Green Bay Packers only five times over his career, but the handful of matchups provided some wild moments and outcomes.

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Packers GM explains decision to limit reporting at training camp practices

The Green Bay Packers added new restrictions to what reporters can and cannot report during training camp practices this week, with an emphasis on limiting information about where players line up on the field and other specific depth chart projections.

GM Brian Gutekunst confirmed it was his decision to limit reporting in an effort to “equal the playing field” during a unique training camp without preseason games or fans due to the coronavirus.

“The changing landscape of the preseason, with no preseason games and no fans at our practices, as we got into it, it changed things,” Gutekunst said Thursday. “From a competitive advantage viewpoint, I thought this was the right thing to do, in the short term.”

The team’s restrictions, put in place before Wednesday’s practice, specifically mentioned limiting “projections on the depth chart and personnel packages.”

After digging into how the rest of the NFL was operating to start camp, the Packers thought they were dealing with a competitive disadvantage at the information level. Without fans at practices or preseason games, the only information of any value coming out of camp comes from what the local media provides.

“As we got into the first three days, and seen the landscape of what other teams were doing, and just the information we were gathering. Again, without 8,000 people at practice and four preseason games, I thought we were at a disadvantage, and I wanted to equal the playing field,” Gutekunst said.

The idea, according to Gutekunst, is with available information so limited on other teams, the Packers needed to follow suit and keep as much information away from other teams as possible.

The Green Bay chapter of the Pro Football Writers Association publicly denounced the decision, and many local beat writers mocked the new restrictions through sarcastic tweets on both Wednesday and Thursday.

Gutekunst said his pro scouts do use information from local beat writers to help sort through rosters and identify potentially available players during this time of year.

Gutekunst confirmed the restrictions were “temporary” and “nothing permanent.”

“We always try to make the best decisions for our football team, and that’s why this decision was made,” Gutekunst said.

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Rodgers was the selection over Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson, the two honorable mentions.

During a historic season, Rodgers completed an NFL-best 70.7 percent of his passes, tossed a career-high 48 touchdown passes and finished with the second-best passer rating of all-time (121.5).

Rodgers was the highest-graded overall player at PFF and also the leader in PFF's new wins above replacement statistic.

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Remembering the 5 crazy games between Philip Rivers and Packers

Quarterback Philip Rivers is retiring from the NFL after 17 seasons. The long-time Chargers quarterback faced the Green Bay Packers only five times over his career, but the handful of matchups provided some wild moments and outcomes.

Overall, the Packers were 3-2 against Rivers in the five games. He threw 12 touchdown passes, five interceptions and had a passer rating of 101.9.

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