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In its recent opinion in State v. Fessenden, 355 Or. 759 (2014), the Oregon Supreme Court upheld the warrantless seizure of a horse in critical condition that led to a successful criminal prosecution of animal abuse and neglect charges. Although hardly a leap forward for animal rights and little more than a nod in that direction, the Court's decision is at least not a step backward. In that sense, it's a favorable decision for animals.
The Court upheld the seizure as valid under the Fourth Amendment, as well as Article I, section 9, of the Oregon Constitution, which makes warrantless entries and searches unreasonable unless one of a few narrow exceptions applies. One is the exigent circumstances exception, which applies in "a situation that requires the police to act swiftly to prevent danger to life or serious damage to property . . . ." Id. at 765. It "requires both probable cause and an exigency." Id. (quoting State v. Snow, 337 Or. 219, 223, 94 P.3d 872 (2004)).
In Fessenden, the Court first observed that Oregon has criminalized both animal neglect and animal abuse. The defendants were charged under ORS 167.330, first degree animal neglect, and ORS 167.320, first degree animal abuse, which prohibit causing serious physical injury to an animal and intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or negligently failing to provide minimum care if the lack of care causes serious physical injury. It also noted that the horse involved showed signs of needing immediate medical attention, including having all of her backbone protruding and all of her ribs visible, swaying, and straining to urinate. Id. at 761-62.
Since animal neglect is a crime, and animals are currently considered property under the law, applying the exigent circumstances exception to the starving horse in Fessenden would seem uncontroversial. But the Court approached application of the exception cautiously. It observed that "Oregon statutes criminalize the abuse or neglect of only certain animals and identify with particularity the care or treatment that is required or permitted. Accordingly, when an officer has probable cause to believe that a person is violating one of those statutes, the officer acts according to statutory standards and legislative policy, rather than the officer's own beliefs, in determining that a specific animal deserves and is in need of aid or protection." Given such assurances of a sufficiently circumscribed warrant exception, the Court found the circumstances sufficiently "exigent" to justify the warrantless seizure.
The Court refused to go further and consider whether an officer could seize a horse without a warrant under the broader emergency aid exception. Under that exception, an officer may enter property without probable cause or a warrant if he or she has "an objectively reasonable belief, based on articulable facts, that a warrantless entry is necessary to either render immediate aid to persons, or to assist persons who have suffered or who are imminently threatened with suffering, serious physical injury or harm." Id. at 765. Fortunately for animals, the Court did not indicate that the emergency aid exception could not apply to a nonhuman person. It merely determined that whether the exception would apply in this case was unnecessary to the holding. The Court thus avoided the question of whether a sentient animal that is unlawfully suffering would qualify as a legal person for purposes of emergency aid, leaving at best only a slight indication that Oregon's highest court would follow the Oregon Court of Appeals, as well as jurisdictions that have so applied the exception.
In Brinkley v. County of Flagler, for example, a Florida court upheld application of the emergency exception to the warrantless seizure of numerous dogs and a bird by officers responding to a citizen complaint. "As they stood by the front gate, [the officers] were overwhelmed by the nauseating smell of animal waste; indeed, the front yard was covered with animal feces. . . . . Approaching the farmhouse they could see that the front porch was also covered with animal feces along with the decaying carcass of a dog on top of a stack of small pet carriers and fluid from the carcass was dripping onto a live poodle inside one of the carriers." 769 So. 2d 468, 469 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2000). Similarly, in State v. Bauer, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals upheld the emergency aid exception as applied to the seizure of distressed horses visible in an open barn. Officers called to the property to remove another horse that had died could see that "[t]here was no feed, all of the animals' feet needed trimming and they were standing in solid horse manure without any bedding in any of the pens . . . [T]wo horses were near death and the condition of all the horses was 'awful.'" 379 N.W. 2d 895, 897 (Wis. Ct. App. 1985).
Unlike Oregon, however, these jurisdictions do not limit the emergency exception to "persons." Rather, they permit officers to enter property without a warrant to preserve "life." The Oregon Court of Appeals has included animals "in the class of 'persons' that officers may aid without a warrant." Fessenden, 355 Or at 763 (citing State v. Nix, 355 Or. 777 (2014)). In Nix, the Court of Appeals also determined that animals can be "victims" for purposes of animal welfare statutes.


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Below is a video clip of Gay Byrne interviewing then EU Commissioner Padraig Flynn. Here you can see Byrne's subtle, conversational style. This interview is pivotal in Irish politics as Padraig Flynn made a number of comments which forced the government to start a tribunal on political corruption. Flynn, like many other senior politicians did not come out of the Mahon Tribunal well. He was found to have "wrongly and corruptly" sought IR£50,000 from a property developer for the Fianna Fail party which he then pocketed for his own use. Flynn rejected the findings of the Tribunal as have all Fianna Fail politicians cited.


"Religion, Job Readiness, and Employment Outcomes: The Case of Latter-D" by John Bartkowski, Vaugh R A Call et al.
Despite increased attention to religious organizations as an ally in America's welfare-to-work revolution, faith- based employment assistance programs have garnered little attention from scholars. This study seeks to fill this gap by examining intake and follow-up survey data collected from clients of Employment Resource Centers sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). The authors begin by examining the sociodemo- graphic composition and human capital of the clientele served by Employment Resource Centers. They then proceed to explore the economic outcomes associated with program participation. LDS job seekers differ from their national counterparts, with the former commanding significantly higher stocks of human capital. Still, net of controls for human capital and other characteristics, positive economic outcomes are observed for client participation in select Employment Resource Center programs. This study sheds new light on the prospects and challenges of faith-based efforts to assist unemployed and underemployed job seekers.
Bartkowski, John; Call, Vaugh R A; Heaton, Tim B.; and Forste, Renata, "Religion, Job Readiness, and Employment Outcomes: The Case of Latter-Day Saint Employment Resource Services" (2007). All Faculty Publications. 2789.


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Adam Morrison: #2 NBA Draft Bust
WHAT'S YOUR GUESS? IS ADAM MORRISON HAPPY OR SAD?
It might help to look at the following picture while noting, "Victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan."
Gonzaga's Adam Morrison hits the floor after UCLA completed an improbable comeback in a 2006 Sweet Sixteen match-up.
Synopsis: After finishing the 2005-06 season as the nation's leading scorer with an average of 28 points per game (ppg), Adam Morrison was named 1st Team All-American and won both the Naismith and Wooden awards as college basketball's most outstanding player. In addition, he had a good showing in the 2006 NCAA Tournament by leading the #3 seed Zags to the Sweet Sixteen before the team fell short in a near-upset over the #2 seed and eventual runner up UCLA Bruins. Selected by the Charlotte Bobcats as the 3rd overall pick in the 2006 Draft, Morrison had a decent rookie season with a scoring average of 12 ppg. However, he never averaged more than four ppg for a season throughout the remainder of his NBA career. Out of the league with only 1,200 points in 161 career games, Morrison earned the spot as the #2 NBA Draft Bust.
ADAM MORRISON – #2 NBA DRAFT BUST
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Gonzaga Zags seemed to be a habitual bracket-buster with at least one upset in the NCAA Tournament every year from 1999-2001. As a #10 seed in 1999, Gonzaga beat three favorites (#7 seed Minnesota, #2 seed Stanford, and #6 seed Florida) before losing 67-62 to #1 seed UConn (the eventual Champion) in the Elite Eight. The following year, the team made the Sweet Sixteen as a #10 seed that upset both #7 seed Louisville and #2 seed St. John's. As a #12 seed in 2001, Gonzaga upset #5 seed Virginia and beat #13 seed Indiana State en route to its third straight Sweet Sixteen. Somehow, the Zags performed well in the post season without having any legitimate star players.
Even though the Zags started to gain support from the selection committee for higher seeds in the mid-2000s, they didn't seem to respond as well. For instance, the team lost to #10 seed Nevada despite being a #2 seed in 2004, and lost to #6 seed Texas Tech despite being a #3 seed in 2005. As the school got more recognition, its players did too. Leading the way was Adam Morrison, who became a prolific scorer during his three years at Gonzaga from 2003-06.
ADAM MORRISON – COLLEGE STATS (GONZAGA)
Shooting Per Game Averages
Season G FG% FT% Points Rebounds Assists Steals Blocks
2003-04 31 53.1% 72.6% 11.4 4.3 1.4 0.4 0.3
Career 95 50.3% 76.1% 19.7 5.1 2.0 0.7 0.4
After a decent freshman season and strong sophomore season, Morrison truly blossomed as a junior when he led the nation in scoring with an average of 28.1 points per game. In addition, he guided the Zags to regular-season and tournament titles in the West Coast Conference, as well as a #3 seed in the 2006 NCAA Tournament. Morrison helped Gonzaga avoid a first-round upset after scoring 35 points in a 79-75 victory over #14 seed Xavier, but needed his teammates to bail him out after a 14-point performance on 5-17 shooting in a 90-80 second-round victory over #6 seed Indiana. Despite scoring 24 points in the Sweet Sixteen against #2 seed UCLA, Morrison missed his last four field goal attempts, which helped the Bruins overcome a 9-point deficit in the final three minutes. Morrison may have shown moments of weakness during the tournament, but not enough to cause concern in the eyes of scouts or analysts.
At the end of the 2005-06 season, Morrison was named 1st Team All-American, and won the Naismith and Wooden awards as college basketball's most outstanding player. Based on his stellar college career, Morrison was selected by the Charlotte Bobcats (now Hornets) as the 3rd overall pick in the 2006 Draft. Interestingly, Michael Jordan was in charge of basketball operations when the Bobcats selected Morrison just like he was when the Wizards selected Kwame Brown with the 1st overall pick in the 2001 Draft.
Kwame Brown ranks as my #6 Worst NBA Draft Pick while Adam Morrison ranks as my #2 NBA Draft Bust.
Unless the Hornets' fortunes change soon, Jordan's legacy as a basketball executive will be tied to the disappointing NBA careers of Brown and Morrison.
Hopefully MJ has the same attitude about selecting players as he did about taking game-winning shots.
Despite ending up a bust, Morrison had an auspicious start to his professional career. As the following table shows, he started out similar to Raef LaFrentz, who had a reasonably productive 10-year NBA career. LaFrentz, who was the third overall pick in 1998, finished with 39 career win shares, which was just below the median for all 2nd-5th overall picks since 1970.
CAREER PROGRESSION – ADAM MORRISON VS. RAEF LaFRENTZ
Per Game Averages
Time Period Minutes Points Rebounds Assists
Morrison LaFrentz Morrison LaFrentz Morrison LaFrentz Morrison LaFrentz
T 36.1 32.3 15.3 13.8 2.9 7.6 2.1 0.7
T+1 29.9 30.1 12.1 12.4 3.3 7.9 2.1 1.2
T+4 25.7 23.3 8.2 9.3 2.6 4.8 1.9 0.8
Generally, Morrison played small forward while LaFrentz played center so the difference in rebounds (i.e. more for LaFrentz) and assists (i.e. more for Morrison) is not too surprising. In contrast, the minutes and points per games for both players tracked closely throughout the beginning of their careers. Including all stats, both players seem to regress similarly as they aged.
If you're wondering how Morrison could be considered a Top 10 Bust after averaging double-digit points for four seasons, you need to realize that the time periods are months for him and years for LaFrentz. Ok, I'll wait while you process that statement and go back to review the table again.
Go ahead, take a look again to see how fast Morrison's career deteriorated.
Seriously, that last table is incredible when you realize that Morrison was a productive player for only four months before becoming a marginal player by the end of his rookie season (i.e. the T+5 period). Morrison missed the entire 2007-08 season after tearing his ACL in the preseason, but picked up where he left off after returning one year later (which was not a good thing). At first, I considered giving Morrison the Greg Oden Exemption for injured players; however, the following table shows that the drop-off in production began before he got hurt and simply continued after coming back.
ADAM MORRISON – NBA STATS (BY MONTH)
Season Games Minutes Rebounds Assists Steals Blocks Points
Nov '06 15 36.1 2.9 2.1 0.5 0.2 15.3
Dec '06 15 29.9 3.3 2.1 0.2 0.0 12.1
Jan '07 15 31.0 3.5 2.9 0.4 0.1 12.7
Feb '07 13 29.8 2.9 1.2 0.5 0.1 11.9
Mar '07 15 25.7 2.6 1.9 0.2 0.1 8.2
Apr '07 5 19.4 1.4 2.6 0.2 0.0 7.4
2006-07 78 29.8 2.9 2.1 0.4 0.1 11.8
2007-08 Out with torn ACL
Nov '08 15 17.2 2.1 1.3 0.3 0.1 6.6
Dec '08 12 14.4 1.5 0.8 0.1 0.1 2.8
Jan '09 14 12.3 1.4 0.5 0.2 0.1 3.6
Feb '09* 4 14.3 1.8 0.8 0.0 0.0 3.5
Mar '09 3 5.0 1.0 0.3 0.0 0.0 1.3
Apr '09 3 4.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
2008-09 52 13.7 1.5 0.8 0.2 0.1 4.0
2009-10 31 7.8 1.0 0.6 0.1 0.1 2.4
Career 161 20.4 2.1 1.4 0.2 0.1 7.5
* Traded from Charlotte Bobcats to Los Angeles (Lakers) on February 7, 2009
From the beginning to the end of his rookie season, Morrison regressed from a respectable player scoring 15 points per game to a marginal player scoring seven points per game. Returning after losing a year to injury, he regressed from a marginal player scoring six points per game to an unproductive player scoring less than two points per game. During that season, Morrison was traded to the playoff-bound Lakers, which contributed to his drop-off because they had less tolerance for his lack of production. As a case in point, he didn't play even one minute of one game during the Lakers run to the 2009 Championship. During the 2009-10 season, Morrison upped his production to a whopping 2.5 points per game and even saw time in the playoffs. Specifically, he got off the bench for a total of 13 minutes in two first-round playoff games against Oklahoma City. Perhaps it's relevant to disclose that he played four minutes in a 21-point blowout loss and nine minutes in a 24-point blowout victory. Regardless, he apparently contributed enough to feel entitled to pose for the following picture:
That's right Adam, you're #1!
Well, maybe #2.
By winning two rings with the Lakers in 2009 and 2010, Morrison became the worst 2x champion drafted with a top 5 overall pick. Despite shooting over 50% from the floor in college, Morrison finished his NBA career with a 37% field goal percentage and never shot over 40% for a month in which he played more than six games. His career total of 1,200 points is almost twice a much as any other Top 10 Bust, but half of that total came during the first three months of his rookie year. Despite that start, he totaled -1.4 (yes, negative 1.4) win shares, which is the second lowest total for players taken with a 2nd-5th pick over the last 45 years. As an aside, #8 Bust Nikoloz Tskitishvili had the lowest total for such players with -1.6 win shares during his pathetic career.
As previously discussed, I developed a ranking of the 10 Worst NBA Draft Picks based on the careers of the players who could have been taken instead. For instance, Kwame Brown (#1 overall pick in 2001) ranked as the 6th all-time worst draft pick because he was selected before Pau Gasol (#3 overall pick), Joe Johnson (#10), Zach Randolph (#19), and Tony Parker (#28). For a while, Morrison (#3 overall pick in 2006) deserved consideration as one of the worst draft picks, but the careers of Brandon Roy (#6) and Rajon Rondo (#21) stalled after promising starts. As shown by the following table, Rudy Gay (#8) and Paul Millsap (#47) are having respectable careers, but it's unlikely that either one will continue to the point of having a better career than Kevin Durant, which would be necessary to knock Greg Oden out of the slot for the 10th all-time worst draft pick.
ADAM MORRISON AND OTHER NOTABLE PLAYERS FROM THE 2006 NBA DRAFT
[Updated after 2015-16 Season]
Draft Totals Per Game Win
Pick Team Player Pos G PTS TRB AST PPG RPG APG Shares
#1 TOR Andrea Bargnani PF/C 550 7,873 2,541 653 14.3 4.6 1.2 18.9
#2 CHI LaMarcus Aldridge PF 722 13,893 6,066 1,371 19.2 8.4 1.9 79.5
#3 CHA Adam Morrison SF 161 1,200 342 222 7.5 2.1 1.4 -1.4
#6 MIN Brandon Roy PG 326 6,136 1,388 1,517 18.8 4.3 4.7 37.4
#7 BOS Randy Foyle PG/SG 683 7,372 1,531 1,977 10.8 2.2 2.9 23.3
#8 HOU Rudy Gay SF 723 13,298 4,262 1,627 18.4 5.9 2.3 45.5
#9 GSW Patrick O'Bryant C 90 186 127 25 2.1 1.4 0.3 0.5
#11 ORL J.J. Redick PG 612 7,041 1,153 1,166 11.5 1.9 1.9 41.7
#21 PHO Rajon Rondo PG 645 7,068 3,128 5,614 11.0 4.8 8.7 51.2
#47 UTA Paul Millsap PF 768 10,644 5,721 1,670 13.9 7.4 2.2 73.1
Two other players from the 2006 Draft who have been associated with the "B-word" include Andrea Bargnani and Patrick O'Bryant. Although considered an all-time bust by some sites, Bargnani has avoided that distinction by this one. On the other hand, O'Bryant wasn't as fortunate having earning a Top 10 Bust Honorable Mention based on his unproductive NBA career.
With 19 career win shares through the 2015-16 season, Bargnani barely escapes the bottom 10% of all #1 overall picks since 1970. While that level of production doesn't make him worthy of such a high pick, his totals of 7,900 points and 2,500 rebounds, as well as his averages of 14 points and five rebounds per game simply are too good to be considered a Top 10 Bust. Bargnani isn't in the clear, however, because if LaMarcus Aldridge and Rudy Gay maintain their production levels for several more years and win a title or two, he might eventually find himself in the running for the countdown of Top 10 Worst Picks instead.
Whereas the case for Bargnani is straight-forward, the case for O'Bryant warrants a more extensive digression. Click here to learn more about the underachieving 7-footer from Bradley who averaged 2.1 points, 1.4 rebounds, and 0.3 assists per game during his 90-game career.
At first glance, O'Bryant might seem to be more bust-worthy than Morrison because the former Gonzaga star averaged approximately three times as many points than the former Bradley player during their respective NBA careers. Missing from that simplified analysis is the fact that Morrison averaged approximately three times as many minutes on the floor. Clearly, neither player was productive but Morrison's lack of production was more egregious as a #3 pick than O'Bryant's as a #9 pick. As such, O'Bryant earned an Honorable Mention while Morrison made the actual countdown of Top 10 Busts. Based on his pathetic numbers, Morrison played like a dawg. Given the speed with which his career deteriorated, he aged like one too.
#2 NBA DRAFT BUST: ADAM MORRISON
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Q: Marking a field as mandatory in the request body for a specific request I intend to use the same bean as request body for creating/updating/deleting profile (depending on request methods). There are two scenarios for an update. First is updating profile where any parameter like firstName, lastName etc. can be updated except the emailAddress and the second is updating only the emailAddress. For the first case newEmailAddress is optional but for the second case, newEmailAddress field is mandatory.
Below is a sample bean:
class ProfileModel {
    @NotEmpty
    @Email
    private String emailAddress;

    @Size(max=30)
    private String firstName;

    @Email
    private String newEmailAddress;

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}

I created different API endpoints for updating profile and updating the email address. I tried to find a way to make newEmailAddress field as optional for the first request and required for the second request but couldn't find anything but to manually check in the controller method for the second request and throw Exception.
Is there any other way through which this can be achieved?

A: The validation groups should solve your problem. See the examples either on beanvalidation.org or at hibernate-validator documentation page.
Basically you will need to add a group attribute value to your annotation constraints. Something like:
class ProfileModel {
    @NotEmpty
    @Email
    private String emailAddress;

    @Size(max=30)
    private String firstName;

    @Email(groups= UpdateEmail.class)
    private String newEmailAddress;

and then on your controllers make use of Springs @Validated annotation which allows you to pass a group for which you want to validate.
One endpoint could use then this UpdateEmail group and the other the Default one.

A: This can be achieved using validation groups. That needs an identifier class or interface.
So you can do something like this:
=> Define a validation group identifier. It can be a class or interface.
public interface MyValidationGroup{}

=> Specify the validation group on request body.
class ProfileModel {
   @NotEmpty
   @Email
   private String emailAddress;

   @Size(max=30)
   private String firstName;

   @Email
   @NotBlank(groups={MyValidationGroup.class})
   private String newEmailAddress;

    .
    .
    .

}

=> Specify validation group on controller method.
public ProfileModel add(@Validated({MyValidationGroup.class})
                              @RequestBody ProfileModel profile){
   ...
}

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Q: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: IBM_JAVA error while running hadoop 2.2.0 in eclipse Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: IBM_JAVA
at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.getOSLoginModuleName(UserGroupInformation.java:303)
at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.<clinit>(UserGroupInformation.java:348)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache$Key.<init>(FileSystem.java:2590)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache$Key.<init>(FileSystem.java:2582)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache.get(FileSystem.java:2448)
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at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(FileSystem.java:166)
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at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FileInputFormat.addInputPath(FileInputFormat.java:408)
at MaxTemperature.main(MaxTemperature.java:25)

I am getting the above error while trying to run a hadoop madp-reduce program in eclipse under Windows-7
JDK Version :
java version "1.7.0_25"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_25-b17)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.25-b01, mixed mode)

same type of question is already asked here :
the IBM_JAVA error for running jobs in Hadoop 2.2.0
but no one has answered.
IBM_JAVA is not a variable used in the code.
I am new to hadoop, i dont know what i am missing. Please help!

A: The cause is that your java dependancies are not complete, you have lost the jar package hadoop-auth-2.2.0.jar or its newer version

A: Like user3762708 said, you are missing the hadoop-auth package, add that to your classpath.
Additionally: If the problem persists, remove hadoop-core from your classpath. It will conflict with hadoop-auth.

A: Add
    Hadoop-auth 2.6
    Hadoop-core 1.2.1
Hadoop-auth 2.6 --> org.apache.hadoop.util.PlatformName.class has IBM_JAVA (So add the Jar)
org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation is present in Hadoop-common and it does not have IBM_JAVA
Then Remove
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Sean Sheehan has been a part of the New Mexico wine industry since 2005. He worked for many years as winemaker at Casa Rondeña and Tierra Encantada and was an integral part of the New Mexico Vine and Wine Society. His vision is to elevate the status of the New Mexico wine. Opening his own winery in 2015 was a dream come true.
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More passenger train service may be arriving in Sarnia
From the Sarnia Observer:
Via Rail CEO Yves Desjardins-Siciliano speaks to reporters on Wednesday June 17, 2015 at a luncheon in Sarnia, Ont. Via announced it is working to expand rail service in Sarnia, beginning in 2016 with additional runs to London. (Paul Morden/Sarnia Observer/Postmedia Network)
The audience at a Sarnia Golf and Curling Club luncheon hosted by the Sarnia Lambton Chamber of Commerce applauded Wednesday when the head of Via Rail announced plans to add more trains between Sarnia and London.
"You've made my day," Sarnia rail advocate Jim Houston told Via CEO Yves Desjardins-Siciliano after the announcement of the changes expected to begin by 2016.
"I want to see the schedules before I make a real firm comment," Huston said later, but added, "If we're going to have four trains a day, for sure, that's a blessing."
Local rail advocates, along with Sarnia-Lambton officials, have been lobbying for years to see passenger rail service improved, even as Via cut it back to one train a day to and from Toronto.
Desjardins-Siciliano said Via plans to increase the service in Sarnia to four trains daily, starting in 2016, but he adding it's not a done deal since it's subject to the availability of track, something Via will have to work out with freight rail companies.
"We're meeting with our freight partners to discuss those plans," Desjardins-Siciliano said.
He said the first run will be from Sarnia to Toronto, with adjustments intended to "shave a bit of time" off the current trip.
The additional trains will be a "commuter run" during the day between Sarnia and London using two-car self-propelled trains.
Via announced earlier it plans to make London a passenger service hub in southwestern Ontario.
During his presentation, Desjardins-Siciliano challenged the community to get behind the changes, spread word about Via's service and help increase the number of train riders in Sarnia-Lambton.
"The reality is that over the last 30 years, ridership has been declining in and out of Sarnia," he said.
That led to a reduction in service in 2012 as Via worked to stay within its budget, he said.
Via Rail still has a more than $300-million deficit that has to be covered by Canada's taxpayers, Desjardins-Siciliano said.
"We have to be very careful how we spend Canadian taxpayers' money."
What has changed more recently is that the federal government has provided Via with funding to improve its equipment, plus there has been growing demand for rail service in the country in recent years, he said.
"The market seems to be looking for rail service, like it wasn't for the last 20 years."
While ridership has continued to drop in Sarnia, Desjardins-Siciliano said, "some of that is self-inflicted" because of actions by Via.
In challenging the community to support the proposed boost in service, he said, "The community has to recognize its role in changing these statistics."
Desjardins-Siciliano said it is "too early" to say if Sarnia will see its passenger train station staffed again, something lost in past cutbacks.
"Manning a station today requires significant traffic, because technology takes away a lot of the needs of manned stations," he said.
"You don't need a paper ticket. You can just have the ticket on your phone."
Desjardins-Siciliano said he visited the Sarnia Via station Wednesday and promised the audience he would an official there in the coming weeks to look into the need for repairs to the building.
Source: http://www.theobserver.ca/2015/06/17/more-passenger-train-service-may-be-arriving-in-sarnia
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Culture, Creative Industry Key To Diversification Of Nigeria's Economy – Inormation Minister
News December 15, 2015 admin
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the creative industry as well as culture have a great role to play in the ongoing diversification of Nigeria's economy, at a time of dwindling earnings from crude oil.
Receiving the Country Director of the British Council, Ms. Connie Price, in his office in Abuja on Monday, the Minister said the Federal Government would not restrict its efforts at diversifying the economy to agriculture and and solid minerals.
"This government, even before knowing that the price of crude oil was going to plummet to about $38 per barrel, had promised Nigerians during its campaign that it is going to diversify the economy. Diversification of our economy is not just limited to agriculture or solid minerals or even the real sector. I think one area where we need capital investment is in the area of culture because this abounds everywhere.
"But our biggest challenge so far is how do we harness this abundant cultural heritage and create an economy out of it? There is virtually no state in Nigeria today that cannot boast of 3, 4 or 5 cultural industries, either pottery, painting, textile making or leather works," he said.
Alhaji Mohammed identified inadequate knowledge and the capacity to translate the nation's abundant cultural heritage into a viable economy as the bane of the sector, and therefore sought the assistance of the British Council to support his ministry to surmount the challenges.
"This is one area I believe you can assist us either in the area of capacity building or in the area of infrastructure. But more importantly in the area of organizing how these things work in a cooperative manner," he said.
The Minister also sought the support of the British Council in assisting the agencies under his ministry to rediscover their capacity and revive the cultural industry as a major source of revenue for the nation.
He expressed the optimism that through the culture and the creative industry, women could be empowered to acquire skills that would enable them to explore the industry and be economically independent.
Responding, the Country Director said the diversification of the economy had been a huge challenge in Britain because of the country's over-reliance on industries.
"People might not realize this but this has been an issue in the UK until very recently, particularly in the North of our country where many cities have been dependent on industries and the industries have now gone and we have empty factories," she said.
Ms. Price said her country had now turned its thinking away from mono-economic dependence by giving vent to its culture and creative industries, which were now bringing billions of pounds into the British economy.
According to Ms. Price, initially Britain witnessed a crisis of management in its cultural institutions because of their orientation as agencies of state that relied solely on state funding, but noted that through the diversification of the economy, the agencies had been re-orientated to think creatively in order to earn revenue instead of depending on government.
She expressed satisfaction with the determination of the Minister to use the culture and creative industry to empower women, saying the British Council was extremely committed to supporting women empowerment.
The Country Director was accompanied on her courtesy visit by the Arts Director, Ms. Ojoma Ocha, and the Partnership Director, Mr. Chikoli Onyemerela.
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In 1910, in what was billed as "The Fight of the Century," Black world heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson defeated white former champ James J. Jeffries in Reno, Nevada.
In 1946, the Philippines became independent of U.S. sovereignty.
In 1959, America's 49-star flag, recognizing Alaskan statehood, was officially unfurled.
In 1960, America's 50-star flag, recognizing Hawaiian statehood, was officially unfurled.
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Kaufman played as a lineman at Cal in the mid-1920s and was a teammate of Benny Lom.
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He reached the one-yard line before Lom could turn him around, but he was then tackled on the spot. Cal chose to punt on the next down, but the punt was blocked out of the end zone for a safety. After Georgia Tech scored a touchdown in the third quarter to take a 8-0 lead, Cal scored in the fourth, but it was too little too late. Georgia Tech won the game, 8-7, and were named national champions while Cal will always remember "Wrong Way" Riegels.
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Q: spring cloud config ssh connection failing Using Spring Boot, Java 1.8, cloud-config-server
I'm trying to access a git repo using this application.yml snippet.  But is failing to find the hostkey.
spring:
cloud:
    config:
      allowOverride: true
      failFast: true
      overrideNone: true
      overrideSystemProperties: false
      server:
        git:
          uri: ssh://git@10.4.31.179:7999/project/name.git

And the address is in my knowHosts file:
10.4.31.179:7999,10.4.31.179 ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEA1UF27s4svxRyc3eQVq67hOhl9szwXy15oaUmo5Ndtk9DP5QEvstSA1MR0JotcKrhEHb4FA8a06oRvkyj55zfvr9t96O/sva+66TegPGjiWZNU75LSEKhA8EZ+/VEKVA2Pk1iUEYbtFZZ+SuTKtikXQt0EjghHpx66mWEJU11911+quCfjOIL74tz96IoXBfTZJmhiUQN+SC4UG3bCnha3mMlCnb1/0BkX+YuAy3GN+UTSxCqeEHuwhN8+DsPhVgTKx/YVbhZUPlGlYEUZjjXk6RnyhQr32Jwzv4WpeVu943e2UzlUFMMorl+usur7bSAZWsQWyz6MfjYUyKZkdZYjQ==

stacktrace:
com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException: UnknownHostKey: 10.4.31.179. RSA key fingerprint is 9e:6a:f1:59:98:59:e4:f8:ac:39:e7:02:07:d8:4f:58
    at com.jcraft.jsch.Session.checkHost(Session.java:786)
    at com.jcraft.jsch.Session.connect(Session.java:342)
    at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.JschConfigSessionFactory.getSession(JschConfigSessionFactory.java:116)
    at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.SshTransport.getSession(SshTransport.java:136)
    at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.TransportGitSsh$SshFetchConnection.<init>(TransportGitSsh.java:262)
    at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.TransportGitSsh.openFetch(TransportGitSsh.java:161)
    at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.FetchProcess.executeImp(FetchProcess.java:136)
    at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.FetchProcess.execute(FetchProcess.java:122)
    at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.Transport.fetch(Transport.java:1115)
    at org.eclipse.jgit.api.FetchCommand.call(FetchCommand.java:130)
    at org.eclipse.jgit.api.CloneCommand.fetch(CloneCommand.java:178)
    at org.eclipse.jgit.api.CloneCommand.call(CloneCommand.java:125)
    at org.springframework.cloud.config.server.JGitEnvironmentRepository.cloneToBasedir(JGitEnvironmentRepository.java:269)
    at org.springframework.cloud.config.server.JGitEnvironmentRepository.copyRepository(JGitEnvironmentRepository.java:241)
    at org.springframework.cloud.config.server.JGitEnvironmentRepository.createGitClient(JGitEnvironmentRepository.java:226)
    at org.springframework.cloud.config.server.JGitEnvironmentRepository.findOne(JGitEnvironmentRepository.java:114)
    at org.springframework.cloud.config.server.MultipleJGitEnvironmentRepository.findOne(MultipleJGitEnvironmentRepository.java:87)
    at org.springframework.cloud.config.server.EnvironmentController.labelled(EnvironmentController.java:109)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.doInvoke(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:222)
    at org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invokeForRequest(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:137)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.invokeAndHandle(ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.java:110)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.invokeHandlerMethod(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:775)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.handleInternal(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:705)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.handle(AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.java:85)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:959)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:893)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:965)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:856)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:622)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:841)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:291)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
    at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:239)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
    at org.springframework.boot.actuate.autoconfigure.EndpointWebMvcAutoConfiguration$ApplicationContextHeaderFilter.doFilterInternal(EndpointWebMvcAutoConfiguration.java:300)
    at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:107)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:239)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
    at org.springframework.boot.actuate.trace.WebRequestTraceFilter.doFilterInternal(WebRequestTraceFilter.java:103)
    at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:107)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:239)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
    at org.springframework.web.filter.HiddenHttpMethodFilter.doFilterInternal(HiddenHttpMethodFilter.java:77)
    at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:107)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:239)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
    at org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilterInternal(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:85)
    at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:107)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:239)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
    at org.springframework.boot.actuate.autoconfigure.MetricsFilter.doFilterInternal(MetricsFilter.java:77)
    at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:107)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:239)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:212)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:106)
    at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:502)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:141)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:88)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:521)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1096)
    at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:674)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1500)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(NioEndpoint.java:1456)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Any idea why this is not working?

A: This is a related GitHub issue and a comment.
TL;DR before you try to connect to a repository server, you need to update ~/.ssh/known_hosts with a non-hash format.
One liner,
ssh-keyscan -t rsa {hostname or IP} >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts

A: This is my solution:

*

*create a ~/.ssh/config like below, don't forget to add StrictHostKeyChecking to false:
Host git
    HostName 10.4.31.179
    StrictHostKeyChecking no
    Port 7999
    User git
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

*In your application.yml change the uri by git:/project/name.git
spring:
  cloud:
    config:
      allowOverride: true
      failFast: true
      overrideNone: true
      overrideSystemProperties: false
    server:
      git:
        uri: git:/project/name.git

A: I think that in your knowHosts file, you should use the [host]:port format like this:
[10.4.31.179]:7999,10.4.31.179 ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEA1UF27s4svxRyc3eQVq67hOhl9szwXy15oaUmo5Ndtk9DP5QEvstSA1MR0JotcKrhEHb4FA8a06oRvkyj55zfvr9t96O/sva+66TegPGjiWZNU75LSEKhA8EZ+/VEKVA2Pk1iUEYbtFZZ+SuTKtikXQt0EjghHpx66mWEJU11911+quCfjOIL74tz96IoXBfTZJmhiUQN+SC4UG3bCnha3mMlCnb1/0BkX+YuAy3GN+UTSxCqeEHuwhN8+DsPhVgTKx/YVbhZUPlGlYEUZjjXk6RnyhQr32Jwzv4WpeVu943e2UzlUFMMorl+usur7bSAZWsQWyz6MfjYUyKZkdZYjQ==

The sshd man page says :

A hostname or address may optionally be enclosed within '[' and ']' brackets then followed by ':' and a non-standard port number.

OR
You can ssh from the command line
ssh 10.4.31.179 -p 7999

and then accept the public key, the knowHosts file will then be correctly set.
If it still doesn't work set explicitly the knownHosts file.
 jsch.setKnownHosts(knowHostsFileName)


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They are a scourge on the land, causing Texans $400 million in damage every year. They also happen to be very tasty. And that's why Tink Pinkard and Jesse Griffiths believe they have found a solution to the age-old problem of feral hogs.
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Hog Hunting With Texas's Next Literary Giant
Tink Pinkard, one of the founders of Hog School, and the author at Madroño Ranch, near Medina; a suckling pig on a spit after being basted with rosemary and olive oil.
Photographs by Jody Horton
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Enter Jesse Griffiths and Tink Pinkard. Jesse grew up in Denton and now runs the Dai Due Supper Club, in Austin, whose all-local meals have won praise in food magazines like Bon Appétit and Food & Wine. An avid hunter and fisherman, Jesse does not look at a feral pig and see a roving machine of destruction. Rather, he imagines several hundred intricately prepared dishes, from braised pork belly to pork chops in spring onion gravy to standing rib roast.
Tink grew up working behind the meat counter of a grocery store in Oberlin, Louisiana, and in his adult years he became interested in big-game hunting. After graduating from Stephen F. Austin State University, he spent ten years as a hunting guide in places ranging from the Rockies to South Texas. He has faced down charging grizzlies and wrestled hundred-pound catfish out of the Brazos (which, thanks to another bill just passed by the Legislature, is also now legal). He trains his own hog dogs, and he has guided people on boar hunts all over the state, including a group of Zimbabweans who wanted to hunt them with spears.
Last year, Tink and Jesse decided to put together a unique class: a field-to-table course that would show students how to hunt and butcher a feral hog, then prepare a dozen dishes. Think Ted Nugent meets Emeril Lagasse. "You've got an invasive and destructive species, which also happens to be delicious and plentiful," Jesse said. It only makes sense to eat them.
Tink's interest in teaching the class was a little less theoretical. His family ranch, near Rocksprings, was overrun with hogs, and he and his father were killing a hundred a year, mostly with AR-15's. And yet, after giving away the meat to everyone they knew, they'd been reduced to burying the rest of the animals. "Finally, I told my dad it had to stop," said Tink. "The killing didn't bother me—it was the waste. A quarter of the people in Rocksprings are living below the poverty level, and we were burying thousands of pounds of meat with a tractor."
Which brings me to Hog School, a weekend course held in March at Madroño Ranch, which sits on more than 1,500 acres in the steep country outside Medina. About four years ago, the owners, Heather and Martin Kohout, began to breed a herd of buffalo, and the ranch today, with its lush grass, distant views, and buffalo wandering around, gives you the feeling of being on the set of Dances With Wolves. Madroño is blessed with large amounts of fresh water and is, as a result, overrun with hogs. Although the Kohouts do not lease their land for hunting, they were happy to host Hog School, which they believed fit into their overall plan for land stewardship.
The eight students, each of whom paid $1,350 to register, began to show up on a Friday afternoon, a broad mix of Texans and Midwesterners that included chefs, oil field service techs, professors, chemists, and lawyers. A few had never hunted before, but most were experienced outdoorsmen who wanted to both take a hog home and get an in-depth lesson on properly preparing it. The truth is that most hunters today know less than they will admit about preparing game for the table. They might be quick about getting their animals field-dressed, maybe cutting out the loins or backstrap, but the rest goes off to the processor, where it is magically turned into a few boxes of sausage, which do tend to accumulate. Last winter, while digging around in my freezer, I tried to remove my wedding cake to make room for a few more pounds of venison sausage. Unfortunately my wife caught me, and the venison was given away.
On Friday morning, before the students arrived, I had gone out to one of the blinds with the photographer, Jody Horton, to take pictures of hogs. After five hours spent shivering, we didn't see a single one. Finally Tink picked us up, and we had a big breakfast of Jesse's wild boar chorizo and eggs. After lunch, which included rabbit dumplings and local salad greens prepared by Dai Due's Morgan Angelone, we all headed back to the blinds. There were a few shots in the surrounding hills around sunset, indicating that the students were connecting on pigs, but Jody and I saw nothing except squirrels, blue jays, and woodpeckers. Plenty of hog sign but, at least during the daylight, no hogs.
This, of course, is a problem that has plagued hog hunters in recent years. "Hogs are a lot different than they were in the seventies and eighties," said Billy Higginbotham, of the Texas AgriLife Extension Service. "They have become a lot more nocturnal."
Clayton Wolf, of Texas Parks and Wildlife, concurs. "Compared with deer, hogs have become harder to pattern, more erratic, and more responsive to hunting pressure," he said. In other words, they figure out quickly that they are being hunted. There are more hogs now than there were back then, but as soon as you start shooting at them, they disappear and return only late at night, when they know humans are not around.
A hog blind at Madroño Ranch; various rifles used during Hog School; loading up kill; hogs in a cooler.
Another problem is that there are fewer hunters, on a percentage basis, than there used to be. Our state population has increased 48 percent since 1990, but the number of hunters in Texas has held steady at about one million. In relative terms, this represents a sharp decline, and it means that our hog problem cannot be solved by hunting alone. Of the dozen or so studies done on sport hunting's effect on southern hog populations, hunters tend to remove, on average, about 25 percent of the pigs in a given area. According to Higginbotham, with the number of pigs in Texas today, "we need to remove about sixty or seventy percent annually just to hold the population stable."
In addition to recreational hunting, there are a number of other effective options, all of which, with apologies to PETA, kill the hogs. In areas that are relatively open, aerial gunning, which involves a shooter with a semiautomatic rifle firing from a helicopter, can kill thirty to forty pigs per hour of flight time. Each hour costs the state or landowner about $800, but when you consider that a single feral hog is capable of doing about $200 in damage each year, that becomes a pretty good investment.
From an aesthetic point of view, however, it is unpleasant. Watching any of the videos available on YouTube, you quickly realize that the combination of a fast-moving hog and a fast-moving helicopter results in a lot of gut-shot animals. Hunters might cringe to see it, but for many landowners, this is a small price to pay for the removal of a noxious species. And whatever one thinks about aerial gunning, it's a much more targeted approach (punning aside) and much better for the environment than using poison, which, like it or not, will be the next big public policy debate in hog control.
The most common method of removing hogs is still trapping, which allows for the meat to be eaten. In fact, if the trap is properly designed so that the animals can be loaded into a trailer, they can be removed alive and sold to one of the 86 buying stations around the state. The buying stations then take the hogs to processors, where they are inspected and slaughtered and sold as "wild boar" to restaurants in Texas and as far away as Europe and Asia. About 80,000 hogs per year are sold to Texas slaughterhouses this way. It is not enough to control the population—hunters likely kill far more—but it is a start, and according to Higginbotham, as more landowners continue to learn about the buying stations (and properly design their traps), we may see more Texas feral hogs ending up as wild boar ribs on restaurant menus.
At the moment, however, the majority of trapped hogs are probably euthanized in their traps and dragged off to rot, which, by my thinking, is a damn shame. We are not talking about nutrias. Wild hog tastes great. And culinary preferences aside, there are plenty of people going hungry in Texas (about 1.4 million households, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture), so why are we euthanizing food animals and leaving them for the buzzards?
Mostly, it turns out, because it is illegal to donate feral pig meat to needy folks, or to anyone else, without following a specific process. Which brings us to the next roadblock to eating our way out of the feral hog problem: government regulators.
Though deer can be shot by a hunter, dropped off at a licensed processor, and donated to the hungry, the law treats feral pigs the same way it treats domestic pigs, meaning they are subject to antemortem and postmortem inspection. A licensed inspector has to see them both before and after they are killed. If the meat from feral pigs was deemed to be safe, according to Lee Pipkin, the food resources director of the Texas Food Bank Network, it would make a huge difference. "We have met with TPWD, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Health on this subject," said Pipkin. "Protein as a whole is the biggest empty spot on our shelves. It's so vital, yet so underresourced."
Most of the students had luck the first night, and despite a few missed shots, there were half a dozen pigs to be skinned. Philip Keil, a 44-year-old architect and first-time hunter from Austin, got two. Philip's grandfather owned a market in Tyler, where they butchered all their own meat, but since his father did not hunt, Philip did not grow up hunting either. "I knew this would be a good place to learn, an accepting environment where I wouldn't worry about being a complete novice," he said. "It only takes one generation for the hunting tradition to disappear."
Darkness came quickly, and while the rest of us cracked beers, Tink and Robert Selement, the ranch manager, were hard at work. Jesse was talking the new hunters through what Tink and Robert were doing; the experienced hunters were happy to sit back and let someone else get his hands dirty.
If you have never skinned a hog, it is just like skinning a deer, except you have to cut all the skin off instead of peeling it off. And the hogs are covered with a beautiful layer of fat, which, if you have a freezer full of lean venison, is something you will appreciate. In March, the hogs at Madroño were still nice and plump, in part because 2010 was a banner year for acorns. One by one, the hogs were bled, skinned, and eviscerated. Nothing most of the students hadn't seen before, until Jesse gave instructions on saving the caul, a thin membrane of fat around the intestines that is universally loved by chefs but nearly impossible to find on the commercial market.
Compared with deer, pigs need closer attention if you want them to taste good. I've found that deer shot with a rifle generally bleed enough, but this is less true with feral pigs. If you do not make an effort to get all the blood out of a hog before you butcher it, your taste buds will pay the price. The blood spoils quickly, and people who don't like feral pork are probably eating animals that have not been properly bled.
As far as the kind of pig you want to eat, the younger ones are more tender, while the older ones have more useful fat. "If you are looking for bacon, you need at least a one-hundred-fifty-pound hog," Jesse said. And while folk wisdom says that animals below two hundred pounds make the best eating hogs, Tink and Jesse disagree. Unless the animal smells offensive from a distance—like a really huge boar can—it is going to taste good. Just make sure you bleed it and cool it down quickly.
A pig after a successful hunt; Jesse Griffiths pointing out the parts of the animal; a fire pit used for cooking; a cut of wild boar bacon.
The next morning, everyone went hunting again, and a few more pigs were shot and put into the meat locker. After a lunch of wild boar pasta, the most important part of the weekend began, which was the detailed butchering of a feral hog. The carcass was first divided into the primal cuts—hindquarters, shoulders, and the trunk—and as Jesse cut, he talked both about the butchering and about what the cuts should be used for.
"Most game is going to be cooked one of two ways: either hot and quick or slow and low," he said. Almost everyone knows how to grill or sear meat. Braising, Jesse explained, is also an important technique in cooking wild game. "You want a very gentle, slow simmer—about three hundred degrees in the oven—versus a hard boil, which will toughen the meat," he said. "And always make sure the meat is completely submerged. You want the meat protected."
He continued to cut up the hog as he talked. The shoulders were boned out for sausage, though they also could have been used for roasts; the hindquarters were boned out for cutlets. All the soft fat was trimmed and put aside to be rendered, while hard fat went in the pile for sausage. Even silver skin, a whitish tissue that is the bane of any home butcher, was put aside to be boiled to make thickeners for stock. "There is a place for everything," said Jesse.
Various dishes were discussed, from tomato-braised wild boar shoulder (see recipe below) to prosciutto. Once the pig was fully disassembled, an hour was spent showing the proper way to make sausage, including chaurice, hot Italian, and knockwurst. Furiously taking notes while Jesse talked, I realized why none of the sausage I had made had ever turned out well. I had omitted about ten steps—and misinterpreted the others. And I was not the only one. As Paul Retzlaff, an experienced hunter from Colorado, later said, "It is easy to shoot things but really tough to make good cuts of meat." After class, Philip added, "It's pretty satisfying to know I've got prosciutto curing in my garage from a hog I shot."
Most of what was cut up that afternoon was used for dinner that night, a five-course feast of suckling pig, various types of wild boar sausage, racks of ribs, grilled spring onions wrapped in prosciutto, and more local salad greens. "People still have a mentality," Jesse said as we ate, "that an animal raised in a feedlot, slopping around in its own waste, then trucked off to be killed in a slaughterhouse, is somehow cleaner and safer than an animal raised on clean grass, killed in the field where it grew up, barely handled at all before it reaches your plate."
On Sunday, loaded down with pork they had killed and butchered, the students began to leave Madroño Ranch. Tink and I drove around the property in his truck, looking for hogs, with Jody standing in the bed, looking to take pictures. Tink has big dreams for Hog School. "If we can reintroduce the idea of hunting for food rather than a trophy, that is a good thing for everyone involved, both the people and the animals. Not to mention you've got all these people now who want to go hunting, who want to eat local and organic meat but don't come from a hunting background and don't know how or where to start. Wild-caught meat is generally going to taste a lot better than what you buy at the supermarket."
Indeed. But will opening more hunting schools address the hog problem? If so, a lot more people need to return to the woods. Texans have always been a self-reliant bunch, but the longer we live in the cities and the longer we think of that rack of ribs as something born in plastic wrap, the further we drift from our native self-reliance.
Most likely, managing our feral hog problem is going to require a multimodal approach. If the hog problem is so extreme that we are shooting hogs from helicopters, it is time to get aggressive in figuring out an approach that is less wasteful and more humane—an approach that could turn this cost into a benefit, feed the hungry people in our state, and create jobs.
Under current regulations, this will be difficult to accomplish. But we are not the first ones to face this problem. Australia, for instance, which has more feral hogs than people, now licenses professional hunters. The hunters are essentially trained to serve as the antemortem inspectors, and when the hogs reach the processing station, they are given a postmortem inspection as well. And the Australians are not alone in this approach. The European Union, not exactly known for its lax regulatory environment, also exempts feral pig meat from antemortem inspection, though Germany, France, and Italy all require a trichinosis test.
Joshua and Krystal White, who specialize in feral hog removal and run L3 Outdoors, in Rockport, are currently pushing this idea in Texas. "We already have the infrastructure in place," said Joshua. "Every small town has a deer processing plant and an inspector. We can train them to inspect hogs as well. We are not talking about reinventing the wheel."
Tomato-Braised
Wild Boar
3 pounds wild boar shoulder
1 stalk celery, chopped
4 tablespoons garlic, chopped
2 tablespoons fresh sage, chopped
1 small sprig rosemary, chopped
2 quarts canned crushed tomatoes
1 1/2 cups white wine
wild boar or chicken stock (or water), as needed
chopped parsley, for garnish
Season the shoulder well with salt and pepper at least 4 hours before cooking and refrigerate. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Heat the olive oil in a large ovenproof pot over medium heat and brown the meat well on all sides. Remove the meat and add the onions, carrots, celery, garlic, sage, and rosemary to the pot. Cook, stirring often, until tender and fragrant, about 10 minutes. Add the tomatoes and cook, stirring often, until thickened and reduced, about 5 minutes. Add the white wine, return the shoulder to the pot, and add enough stock to come halfway up the shoulder. Place in the oven and cook for an hour, then turn the shoulder. Cook another hour and turn again. Repeat until the meat is tender enough to pull apart easily, adding stock as needed (the age of the hog will determine how long it takes to become tender). Once tender, allow to cool slightly, garnish with fresh parsley, and serve.
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Charles I came to the castle at the end of the English Civil War. Over the course of his fourteen-month imprisonment Charles conducted frantic negotiations with a multitude of different factions, most notably the Scots as Charles' father James I was James VI of Scotland as well as being King of England. These secret dialogues were initiated by Charles in an attempt to save his own life, and restore the monarchy to England. In these endeavors Charles was to fail, being beheaded in public on the 30th of January 1649. After his death his two youngest children were imprisoned at Carisbrooke. One of them, Princess Elizabeth, died there.
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My favorite childhood memories involve visiting Walt Disney World with my family, and specifically, MGM Disney Hollywood Studios. Even as a kid, I loved the glitz and glamor of Hollywood, but there was something different about this version of Hollywood that Disney had cooked up on top of swampland in central Florida — namely, the fact that this was fake and perfect. To borrow a line directly from the park: It's the Hollywood that never was, and always will be.
As a kid, this fascinated me. I've always been one who loves to see the "behind-the-scenes" aspect of anything, whether it be a movie production or not, and I could actually see that happening at Hollywood Studios. Once upon a time, the theme park housed actual, real-life Disney animators making upcoming Disney movies (but only three feature-length releases would be made in Orlando: Mulan, Lilo & Stitch, and Brother Bear), and I remember riding around on the Backlot Tram Tour for two hours to see sound stages, costume workshops, and the Golden Girls house. These things are gone now, so just believe me that they were once there.
The park has always housed another shining salute to the movies: The Great Movie Ride. Situated down at the end of the main entrance is a replica of Grauman's Chinese Theatre. The outside is the same architecture, even down to the handprints in cement; inside, there's a ride. Or, there was a ride, as it closed forever on Sunday.
This is why I majored in cinema production in college. WOW, I wish I was kidding about this fact. But that was literally my lifelong goal: Get a movie made, and have it be so successful and beloved, Disney has to put it in the closing montage of The Great Movie Ride. Achievable dream, right?
Before I arrived in Florida, I wrote to Disney and asked to be placed at The Great Movie Ride for my stint in the College Program. Spoiler alert: I wasn't placed there. However, through an odd turn of events, I ended up there nine months later.
It was weird seeing the backside of Great Movie Ride — but also fascinating. By the time I clocked in for my first shift, I imagine I had been on it upwards of 100+ times over 23 years of life, and now here I was controlling it. That first week of training, I think I had to ride it every single day at least five times, which is not something the average guest does while visiting Hollywood Studios. To be a cast member at Great Movie Ride, I needed to know it backwards and forwards, in case the worst should happen — and the worst that ever happened was one time I got stuck in the Casablanca scene for roughly 10 minutes, and in an effort to improvise and kill time, I just recited off facts I had learned in film school. So see, mom, that degree went to good use.
My time at Great Movie Ride was short lived, as no sooner did I arrive there was I transferred elsewhere at Disney World. I still went back to Great Movie Ride, and frequently. If I was having a bad day at Disney World, I'd often times find myself at Studios, eating a soft Mickey pretzel and riding the tram ride around in the air conditioning. Even after I left Disney World, I insisted on riding the ride every time I visited the park, now as a guest.
I rode Great Movie Ride for the last time, ever, last week. In its 28 years of life, it never really changed much, but in the last few years it got a new narration system and a new closing movie montage. TBH, I never cared for them. There was something charming and classically "old school" about the cast members speiling non-stop for 22 minutes; IRL storytelling was replaced with voice-over narration from Turner Classic Movies. This new narration didn't hold the same magical, Disney quality. Thankfully, that's not the Great Movie Ride I'll always remember.
None of that matters now, as the ride is gone. It'll be replaced with a Mickey ride, which I'm sure will be great, but I'll miss Great Movie Ride terribly. Sure, it was long, it seemed to drag on, somedays I couldn't bring myself to wait in the 20+ minute line to ride the 20-minute ride, and the technology inside was severely outdated. But it was my ride. I fell in love with it as a kid, and latched onto it, and I really never let go. It's why I majored in film, it's where I wanted to (and did) work at Disney, and it's eventually why I left Disney so I could get back to my entertainment roots.
Now, The Great Movie Ride is nothing more than a memory, but maybe it was always supposed to be like that. All along, it was always so much more than a ride to me, and — to borrow from the park again — it was a state of mind. It's the Hollywood that never was and forever will be for me.


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require 'spec_helper'

describe Auth do
  before(:each) do
    FactoryGirl.create :provider
    FactoryGirl.create :provider_zendesk
  end

  context 'has to be valid and' do
    before do
      @auth = Auth.new
    end

    # we can't validate the provider because it's overridden
    it 'validates the provider is present', broken: true do
      is_valid(@auth, :provider, Provider.new)
    end
    it 'validates the uid is present' do
      is_valid(@auth, :uid, Faker::Lorem.characters(10))
    end
    it 'validates the user is present' do
      is_valid(@auth, :user, User.new)
    end
    it 'validates the token is present' do
      is_valid(@auth, :token, Faker::Lorem.characters(10))
    end
  end

  context 'can handle additional authorizations' do
    before do
      @desk = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:desk]
      @user = User.create({
        :name => Faker::Name.name,
        :email => @desk.info.email,
        :role => Role.create(:name => 'siteadmin_billing')
      })
    end
  end

  context 'is used in the login/signup process' do
    before do
      @hash = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:desk]
    end

    it 'can handle omniauth and returns an auth record' do
      auth = Auth.from_omniauth @hash
      auth.user.kind_of?(User).should be_true
      auth.site.kind_of?(Site).should be_true
      auth.kind_of?(Auth).should be_true
    end

    it 'can initialize by omniauth' do
      auth = Auth.find_or_initialize_by_omniauth @hash
      auth.should be_new_record
      auth.provider.name.should eq(@hash.provider)
      auth.uid.should eq(@hash.uid)
      auth.token.should eq(@hash.credentials.token)
      auth.secret.should eq(@hash.credentials.secret)
    end

    context 'if it exists' do
      before do
        @hash = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:desk]
        @auth = Auth.login_omniauth OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:desk]
        @auth.token = Faker::Lorem.characters(10)
        @auth.secret = Faker::Lorem.characters(20)
        @auth.save!
      end

      it 'updates the auth record' do
        @auth.token.should_not eq(@hash.credentials.token)
        @auth.secret.should_not eq(@hash.credentials.secret)
        auth = Auth.from_omniauth(@hash)
        auth.id.should eq(@auth.id)
        auth.token.should eq(@hash.credentials.token)
        auth.secret.should eq(@hash.credentials.secret)
      end
    end

    context 'if it does not exist' do
      before do
        @hash = OmniAuth.config.mock_auth[:desk]
      end

      it 'creates a new auth record' do
        auth = Auth.from_omniauth(@hash)
        auth.id.should_not be_nil
      end

      it 'saves the user to the auth' do
        auth = Auth.from_omniauth(@hash)
        auth2 = Auth.find auth.id
        auth2.user.should_not be_nil
      end
    end
  end
end


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