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AFPM applauds bill to reverse EPA's 'illegal' approval of E15
(February 16, 2012) WASHINGTON — The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) applauds Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and David Vitter (R-La.) for taking steps to reverse the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) "illegal decision" to allow E15 into the fuel supply even though this fuel damages existing vehicles.
The proposed legislation, if passed by Congress, will set a cap of 10 percent ethanol (E10) that is approved for use in the nation's gasoline supply.
"The fact that EPA would allow a fuel in the marketplace that it knows will threaten existing engines and refueling infrastructure is inconceivable and is a glaring example of EPA's willingness to place politics ahead of science," said AFPM President Charles T. Drevna.
E15 is a blend of fuel containing 15 percent volume ethanol and 85 percent volume gasoline. While E10 has been proven to be a safe and reliable gasoline for more than 20 years, the same cannot be said about E15. Despite this reality, EPA approved E15 for sale into the general gasoline pool for vehicles made in and after 2001.
Numerous studies show that gasoline blends containing more than 10 percent ethanol can cause engine damage in millions of vehicles on the road today and in smaller engines including chainsaws, lawnmowers, boats and snowmobiles. As a result, vehicle manufacturers have warned that the use of E15 will void warranties, leaving consumers vulnerable to expensive repair bills.
"EPA chose to prematurely issue a series of fuel waivers to allow E15 to be used in vehicles manufactured after 2001, despite compelling evidence that the fuel will be costly and potentially dangerous for consumers," said Drevna.
A court dismissed several industry challenges to EPA's E15 waiver decision on procedural grounds. AFPM is considering appealing the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision did not reach the merits of the case; however, the dissenting opinion indicated that EPA overstepped its legal authority.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia acknowledged the inherent problem with E15 noting, "Just a few weeks ago, the American Automobile Association warned of the damage E15 will cause to car engines and took the extraordinary step of publicly asking EPA to block the sale of E15."
The introduction of mid-level ethanol blends is just one of many insurmountable problems caused by the RFS and is a prime example of why Congress should repeal the unworkable program.
About AFPM
AFPM, the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers is a trade association representing high-tech American manufacturers of virtually the entire U.S. supply of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, other fuels and home heating oil, as well as the petrochemicals used as building blocks for thousands of vital products in daily life.


Transitions and fills can be defined as passages, riffs, rhythmic sections or sounds that connect contiguous musical sections together. You will have heard many of them - indeed, there was probably at least one in the last song you listened to, whether it was a smooth segue between verse and chorus, or an attention-grabbing fill before a drop.
Placing a crash cymbal on beat 1, muting track elements and inserting crazy drum fills are just three ways to join disparate sections of a song, but arrangement-bridging methods come in a vast array of forms, depending on the context in which they're used - especially as new plugins emerge and techniques evolve.
Having said that, there are many tried-and-true methods that, when employed correctly, never fail to connect with the listener - and we're going to show you ten of them here.
Our examples are by no means exhaustive, and we're certainly not trying to suggest that there's any 'one-size-fits-all' approach, as every track and situation is different. Rather, we're demonstrating a variety of ways in which you can bridge the gaps between separate sections in your tracks.
What's more, these techniques aren't at all genre-specific, so you can follow along and brush up on your arrangements no matter what style you're producing.
You'll find tutorial videos for all of our tips with issue 208 of Computer Music magazine, which is on sale now.
The simple cymbal on beat 1 is a staple of all musical genres. It can be likened to a musical 'capital letter' of sorts, signifying the start of a fresh musical sentence, generally placed at the start of an eight- or 16-bar section.
While it might seem like an easy addition to an arrangement, the crash cymbal can actually be quite a tricky one to get right, so it's often worth auditioning several samples in the context of the track to find the right one. Careful EQ, filtering, delay and reverb will help blend a crash into a mix.
Dance genres will also often make use of a reverse cymbal swell at the end of eight- or 16-bar sections. You can either use a reversed copy of your main crash or a different sample for contrast. For a more floaty effect, try muting the forward cymbal, then carrying over the reverse cymbal with reverb or delay.
A drum fill is a short rhythmic variation used to 'fill' a gap before a new musical phrase is introduced. It's a tried-and-tested way to provide a burst of excitement, letting the listener know that "something" is coming.
In electronic music, you can repeat drum hits as you see fit, but it can be a challenge to program realistic live drum fills in software. Drum ROMplers such as EZdrummer 2 and Addictive Drums 2 include preset MIDI drum fills to spark transitional inspiration.
First, program a 16th-note snare pattern over the final two bars of an intro section that leads into a bass drop. By using a snare hit in a drum sampler, we can automate the sampler's parameters for control over the roll's progression, giving it more life and dynamic movement.
Set the sampler's amplitude envelope decay to around halfway and its sustain to minimum. Automating the sustain to rise over the two-bar duration opens out the rolling snares gradually. Some volume automation also introduces the roll, but this doesn't always need to be a radical shift - often an increase of just a couple of decibels is enough.
To spice up your roll, try automating the sampler's pitch/transpose control for a distinctive pitching up or down effect. Introducing saturation over time can also give snare fills a bit of extra beef; and subtle flanging, phasing or chorus can be mixed in as well, for a touch of weirdness.
One of the easiest and most effective ways to transition between two sections of a track is to create rests and pauses by muting certain elements of the arrangement.
The ear becomes accustomed to repetition over time, so by removing a repetitive element for a split second using simple editing, you can create dynamics and interest.
This selective muting technique can be used in many different ways: you can mute a single drum element - such as a kick or snare - to lead into another track section; or entire track groups, such as drums or bass, can be taken out of the arrangement then dropped back in.
One particularly great trick (with origins in hip-hop) is muting drums or whole tracks for the very first beat or bar of a new track section instead of the last. You can also mute everything for just a few beats, and drop a new track element such as a vocal snippet, cool sample or bass stab into the created 'empty' space.
Most of our transition techniques are based on rhythmic ideas or production techniques, but, of course, a change in the notes of your bassline, melody or chords can be enough to pique the listener's interest between sections.
If you're really stuck for a way to transition between track sections, take a look at what's already present in the arrangement. Chances are, you can render one or more elements to a new channel and apply some kind of crazy plugin or audio process for some interesting glitch-style edits.
One particularly useful tool in this scenario is Inear Display's Eurydice CM, free as part of the CM Plugins included with every issue of Computer Music magazine.
Its four modules - Buffer, Bitcrusher, Filter and Tape Delay - can be used individually or combined for eccentric edits and transitional effects. It can be a wild beast to tame, though, so it's a good idea to tweak its controls live and record the results onto a new audio track to chop up later.
Send/return busses offer a speedy way to create variations between track sections, especially when used with delay or reverb plugins - and it's simple to render these tracks out for finer editing.
Say you have a tune that moves between two very different sections and needs a transitional effect to smooth the two. Rather than create entirely new FX sounds to bridge the gap, put a delay plugin on a return bus instead, and automate the send level to it from the 'headline' sound in the mix (the vocal, for example).
Select a delay preset that provides rhythmic floatiness and interest, set 100% wet. Basic delay plugins aren't always your best bet here - reach for wackier ones with distinctive saturation, filtering or pitch modulation to add a dose of crazy character.
The delay signal carries the track through to the second section, and should fit perfectly because it's been created from the main element of the track. Record the return as audio before muting that channel. The audio signal can now be chopped, processed and manipulated.
We couldn't discuss transition effects without covering the technique heard in a thousand dance tracks: good old filtered white noise.
Simply take a section of white noise (either as audio or from a synth), apply resonant low-pass or band-pass filtering, then add spatial effects to taste.
The trick with this kind of effect is either to keep it very subtle, or to customise the rising whoosh effect with plenty of saturation and metallic-style effects, such as extreme flanging, phasers or chorus.
An anacrusis is a series of notes that leads into the first downbeat of a bar, so the melody effectively starts a beat or two early. Robert Miles' Children and Tina Turner's I Don't Wanna Lose You are two examples.
In the screenshot, we have a verse section that goes into a main chorus drop, at which point a lead riff enters. To emphasise the anacrusis, we mute all the track elements for two beats just before the first downbeat of the chorus, to allow the extra notes to be heard on their own.
This can be combined with a drum fill, simple beat roll, reverse cymbal or any other transitional trick - whatever's best for the track you're working on!
Often, the skill in making a track flow is knowing when not to add any extra embellishments, effects or fills.
More laid-back, chilled or progressive styles, especially, benefit from understated drifts between sections, letting the addition or removal of key elements do the talking.
If your track is particularly smooth and/or melodic, extra drum fills, muted parts, crazy effects or other such tricks may well actually detract from the relaxed feel. The occasional low-key reverse cymbal or white noise swell may be the best transitional element to use when absolutely necessary, but even then, there's still a fine line between subtle swooshes and effects that just distract for the sake of it.


It's Not Continuous Delivery If You Can't Deploy Right Now Ken Mugrage. Great description of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery and all the needed practices (trunk base development, dark launches, feature toggles, etc). A very good description.
How Your Systems Keep Running Day After Day John Allspaw. Good reflections and a new (for me) mental model to use failure as a "good" input for product and system design/architecture.
Failure and Change: Principles of Reliable Systems #YOW!Perth Mark Hibberd Interesting talk to understand failure and how to architect to be resilience.
Breaking Bad Leadership: The Anti Heroes of DevOps John Rzeszotarski. An interesting Journey using DevOps explaining the kind of leadership needed on each step and context.
Digital Transformation: Thriving Through the Transition Jeffrey Snover. The first part of the talk is not very interesting for me, but the second part is very interesting to improve our mental models and surf in this fast pace changing environment. It gives some ideas for understanding current trends and learning to adapt.
Operations: The Last Mile Damon Edwards. This talk is not only very funny, it is also a great description of the problems generated by a "classic" operations mindset and how to change to a modern approach / devops.


Don't confuse the observance of holidays with salvation. Salvation is by personal faith alone in Messiah's redeeming sacrifice and resurrection. Believers are washed in His blood and have received the Holy Spirit as the earnest of God's eternal promises. (Romans 8:9) All issues of tradition and practice are dwarfed by the importance this necessary re-birth for biblically defined salvation.
The Feasts of Israel are revealed as prophetic - foreshadowing what is to come.
The Jewish traditions of religious observance provide saving grace.
The various pagan traditions of enlightenment and behavioral humility provide spiritual substance from living by the elementary principles and/or laws of the natural world or derived from angelic communion.
Biblically based choices regarding food, drink and festivals are not condemned as long as one does not depend on them for the essential means of salvation.
Please note that I Corinthians 10:1-4 states that the Rock of Israel (God) was inclusive of the Messiah Yeshua. Thus, the Torah and Old Testament spiritual sustenance of the ancient Israelites' experiences is the same kind and quality of spiritual food and drink as the Gospels and New Testament. In other words, New Testament believers worship the same God of Israel, as did the ancient patriarchs and prophets of the Bible.
So it is with the festivals of Israel: they teach us what is possible to know about God and His plan for mankind – both in history and in prophecy. When Yeshua/Jesus returns, He will restore all things on earth as promised to Abraham and his descendants by the prophets. (Acts 3:21) Not only will Israel dwell safely in her land, but also His Spirit will dwell within them. (Jeremiah 31:23-40) The Temple will be rebuilt, and the annual observance of the Feasts will be mandatory. In fact scripture states that all nations will observe the biblical feasts during the millennium.
Just as the Sabbath was made for man (Mark 2:27), so the other biblical feasts were given to help people to remember what God has done as well as what he will yet do. The most important lesson of these days is that God is real. He has intervened, he does intervene, and he will intervene in the affairs of people and nations.
Christian traditions from Lent to Pentecost were derived from the spring festivals of Passover-Unleavened Bread to Weeks or Pentecost, but the fall festivals are ignored. In other words, Christianity recognizes the First Coming of Christ, but mostly ignores the Second Coming when the King of the Jews shall literally reign over the nations of mortals from Jerusalem.
There seems to be a direct correlation between the Christian ignorance of the fall festivals to most churches' blindness to the plain biblical prophecies about Jesus'/Yeshua's Second Coming. Without the annual reminders of festival recognition to remind us, it is no surprise that the majority of Christians reject a theology that includes the restoration of Israel as part of the immanent coming of Christ/Messiah to establish His millennial reign over the nations from Jerusalem.
While Sunday does come once in seven days, western culture commonly sets aside time for services and then moves on to football and personal use of the rest of the day. On May 31, 1998 Pope John Paul II noted this fact in his Pastoral Letter Dies Domini, which calls for Sunday Legislation and for a Roman Catholic observance of Sunday rooted in the traditions of the twenty-four hour observance of the Jewish Sabbath.
Salvation comes by grace alone through repentance to God in faith, so accepting the sacrifice of Yeshua for our sins and not by works - anything we can do.
God worked six days in creating the heavens and the earth in six days and rested as a shadow that looked forward to the promised restoration of the natural world.
About six thousand years of sinning human government of the earth will be followed by one thousand years of Messiah's rule before the last judgment.
Does it make any difference whether one observes one day in seven or the seventh day? The theological answer lies beyond the scope of this short paper. As stated above, I don't believe that matters like festival observance determine one's salvation, but they do impact the level of one's biblical understanding – especially about God's plans for Israel and the rest of humanity.
Without question, choosing to honor "one in seven" automatically rejects the ordinal significance of observing "the seventh day" following God's six days of Creation or man's six days of labor. In other words, the rehearsal lessons that were meant to follow from the biblical cycles of hallowed time (the Sabbath and other feasts) are lost. If one doesn't recognize the days in their season, he or she loses the opportunity to be reminded of what follows what in God's calendar as reflected in history and prophecy.
Most cultural Christians believe in some form of evolution in place of the biblical account of Creation.
Most (in their heart of hearts) rely on their good moral behavior and works of worship or charity rather than on an intentionally humble and will-submitted dependence on Yeshua's sacrifice when it comes to their relationship with God.
Most cultural, reform, and orthodox Christians do not believe that Yeshua/Jesus is coming after a Great Tribulation to reign, beginning with Israel, as a conquering King of Kings over all of the nations for 1000 years.
The New Testament did not forbid Jewish believers from generally conforming to traditional forms of Jewish worship as practiced in the first century. Paul did not act hypocritically in Acts 21:15-26. The contemporary, non-believing religious leaders of the Jewish community noted James/Jacob the brother of Jesus/Yeshua for his piety and traditional observance of the Law. There was no spiritual conflict within James/Jacob because he had his priorities straight. Just read the book of James!
Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths.
My primary purpose for this article is one of encouragement. I encourage you to learn more about the God of Israel through His appointed feasts. It will help you to better understand and more deeply appreciate the Gospel of the Kingdom of God and our coming King. They are shadows that teach us about God's plan for humanity – pointing to both the fulfilled history of Israel and to the yet to be fulfilled biblical prophecies.
The biblical Feasts of Israel are shadows cast by the true Light that enlightens every man in whom Life dwells.


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Departures and Coffee
Travelling around and living in Andalucia in the south of Spain
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Venice In November
I love Italy. Of all the countries that Mrs Departures and I have visited, it is one of our most favourite places. We have travelled across most of the country and have countless favourite places and as we all started to emerge from Covid restrictions late last year, we decided that our first trip abroad would be to Venice.
Many moons ago early on in our relationship, I lived near Lake Garda and Mrs Departures lived in London so we used to meet in Venice or Verona every few weeks and as a result, years later it still has a special place in our hearts.
After spending a few days in Valencia first which you can read about here, we flew to Treviso and got the shuttle bus to the island. Even at night in the dark, arriving in Venice is something special. We were really looking forward to spending time here seeing the many beautiful sights on offer and especially getting the 'bus' on the Grand Canal with better views than bus rides normally offer.
We don't generally carry much with us luggage-wise on short trips, so we walked from the bus station, crossing various bridges to eventually get to our hotel using Google Maps. I'd usually recommend getting lost in Venice as part of the experience, but for now we just wanted to get to a hotel and find a local bar for a glass of something.
We had chosen the San Lio Tourist House for its central location just around the corner from the Rialto bridge and after checking in, we went straight out and found the wonderful Bacarando bar and cicchetteria which I had read about while doing research for the trip.
With a dizzying array of cicchetti available (kind of Venetian tapas), we ordered three or four and found a small table in the bar area where a band were already playing jazzy, blues and rock & roll covers.
Our drinks arrived – Negroni and Aperol Spritz – and we had a toast to celebrate the fact that we were back in Venice again. The band even did a cover of 'Stray Cat Strut', a song by one of my favourite bands, the Stray Cats. Surely, that's a sign of some kind!
After a while there, we then strolled through the stunning colonnades surrounding Piazza San Marco because you kind of have to. It may be one of the most touristy places in the world but it is also one of the most unique and beautiful, especially late at night in November with very few people around.
As the early riser of the two of us, I tend to go for a wander in the morning to find coffee places and somewhere nice for breakfast. It was a Wednesday morning, so it was interesting to see people going about their daily business, going to work and taking the kids to school.
The school run here is inevitably different as there are no cars, but it still involves rushed parents and kids with backpacks bigger than they are trying to keep up with them.
I ended up in Farini which was a bakery about 30 seconds away from the hotel. Turns out it's a chain, but the baked goods on offer were exceptional, as was the coffee. The smells were still so reminiscent of favourite bakeries in places where I have lived in Italy.
Though very modern, like all coffee shops, Farini also has that role as a social equalizer where people from every part of the community would pop in on the way to work for a coffee and a baked good of some description. My favourite was the croissant with pistachio cream. I love how Italians make pastries and coffee an essential part of their day. My kind of thinking.
On this trip I noticed that many of the more traditional coffee shops/bars had been replaced by these more contemporary ones. Progress, I suppose. Or maybe even, a consequence of the pandemic.
We later bought a couple of 24-hour boat tickets near Piazza San Marco and travelled down the Grand Canal trying not to take hundreds of pictures of absolutely everything we saw. Despite us being away for a long time and Covid happening, it's strangely reassuring to see Venice hasn't really changed all that much.
We got off at the Dorsoduro stop to have a wander around there as it was an area we didn't know that well and also to find a bar called Cantine del Vino già Schiavi which we had seen on a TV show called Somebody Feed Phil that we like – Venice is featured in Season 2 Episode 1.
What a fantastic place! A glass of wine and a couple of delicious cicchetti each there and we were on our way again, this time to see what things were like over in the Cannaregio neighbourhood. Another wonderful thing about Venice is how walkable it is. Admittedly, it kind of has to be as there are no roads to drive on, but it's a lovely feeling walking around a city without cars and being surrounded by water and history at every turn.
Cichetti from Cantine del Vino Gia Schiavi
We stopped off in a local bar and I was astonished by the cost for just a coffee – €5.50 for a double espresso! In the past, the area around Piazza San Marco inevitably was and still is expensive as it's the tourist centre, but years later, it looks like that area has now spread across the rest of the city. I guess things had changed after all.
We then went back to the hotel for a snooze and in the evening we came across a basic, tiny and charming bar called Al Merca on the other side of the Rialto bridge where there was only room to stand outside. You know the drill by now, a glass or two of wine and a cicchetti or two there, this time followed by a stroll over the Rialto bridge at night which led to another trip back to Bacarando as we had liked it so much the night before, and we returned to the hotel tired and happy.
As we knew Venice quite well and had seen the usual sights such as the Doge's Palace and St Mark's Basilica in Piazza San Marco in the past, there was no need to do that on this trip, so we continued to enjoy meandering, loosely following a list of things to do and places to see that I had put together and bumping into things that piqued our interest on the way.
Mrs Departures is a big fan of Murano glass and on one of our morning wanders, she remembered seeing a glass shop in the Arsenale and Ospedale neighbourhoods, which were both new areas for me, so we went looking for it. And this is where we got lost.
Google Maps can help but a combination of very wet weather that day together with all the tiny nooks and crannies of the city that make internet access unreliable conspired to make finding the shop more challenging than we had anticipated.
But getting lost is an essential part of the Venetian tourist experience and I highly recommend it as you never know what you may come across on the way.
We took refuge in Cafe Libano and then braved the weather where we then came across Ae Forcoe, which became our new favourite bar. Finding an interesting bar you like is just one of the benefits of getting lost in this city. The dilemma that faced us though – was 11.30am too early for a glass of wine?
I think you know the answer to that.
Ae Forcoe
Ae Forcoe is very much a local bar with a good range of food and charming ambience and it isn't too far from the centre. Spending time there was also nice just to get in from the rain for a few minutes.
Later that day, we visited the incredible opera house Teatro La Fenice. It was originally built in the 18th century, has survived three fires (its most recent reopening was in 2004) and is unquestionably the most beautiful opera house interior I have ever seen. You can almost touch its history which has included premieres of works by Verdi and Rossini, as well as performances by Maria Callas.
Rialto bridge at night from the boat on the Grand Canal
Bigoli
A late lunch today was at the delightfully traditional Ostaria Campana for local speciality, bigoli in salsa (thick buckwheat pasta in an anchovy and onion sauce, a local speciality) and then back to the hotel for a post-lunch siesta. We have lived in Andalucia for a few years after all and have picked up a few habits there.
As we had only popped into Ae Forcoe earlier in the day, we went back there in the evening for some quality time and it didn't disappoint.
The following morning, I found the delightful Pasticceria Ponte delle Paste just around the corner from our hotel. It was raining so much that morning and I fortunately didn't need to go too far for good coffee and pastries. They even had another of my favourites (I have a few), bombolini con crema.
A bigger picture because it was so good…
We got the boat to the island of Murano later to have a look around there. Mrs Departures went to spend time browsing in the many glass shops and I had a walk around getting a feel for the place and met her later.
It's an unusual place and definitely worth a visit, but one of my favourite things about Murano and I realised about Venice in general was travelling by boat. You get to see Venice from all kinds of angles and you also get to see people who live there living their lives, going to and from work. Even the emergency services use boats which you are naturally aware of but it still strikes you as strange when you see a boat ambulance with a siren wailing or parked in the hospital jetty.
I had read about Il Mercante during my research for the trip and so we headed there in the evening and though a bit of a trek from the centre, it was well worth it. With its 1920's music and decor, interesting cocktails and fabulous cicchetti (faves included the nduja and mascarpone), we loved the place. The sort of place that would be perfect for a big birthday at some point in the future perhaps!
It was so wonderful being in Italy again after all this time. My Italian may now be practically non-existent (I got a degree in it 25 years ago and my professor would be ashamed of my level now), but it was enough to get by. It was also such a lovely feeling knowing that Venice still has a special place in our hearts.
Like much of Italy, with the language, food, coffee, pastries, wine, history, culture and architecture, especially in a place like Venice, you are just so spoiled for beauty everywhere.
We caught the first boat to the train station at 5.30am the next day to get our flight back to Valencia, so we had a relatively early last night.
You may have gathered from this post that Mrs Departures and I really enjoyed this trip. We'll be back. And we're not going to wait ten years this time!
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Bills Reportedly Offered Coaching Job To Active NFL QB In 2022
NFL franchises do weird things.
In a report that came out of nowhere, ESPN's Adam Schefter tweeted Tuesday that Buffalo offered New York Giants backup quarterback Davis Webb its QB coach job last offseason.
That's right, the Bills tried to go straight to the source.
"Giants' backup QB Davis Webb, who was offered Buffalo's QB coach job last offseason, has expressed interest in starting the transition from player to coach," Schefter tweeted. "After securing his first NFL start this season, Webb will consider making the jump to coaching for the right opportunity."
The Bills, who had employed Webb as a backup to Josh Allen from 2019-2021, reportedly wanted Webb to make the switch last offseason. Still in search for his first career start, Webb decided to hang on and signed with the Giants before eventually being called up from the practice squad to make that start in Week 18 against the Philadelphia Eagles.
After six seasons in the NFL, mostly consisting of stints on the practice squads of New York, Buffalo and the New York Jets, Webb's next role could come on any number of NFL coaching staffs.
The Texas Tech product would have been an ideal candidate to join Kliff Kingsbury's new staff had the former Arizona Cardinals coach taken an offensive coordinator job, but it looks more likely that Webb's best shot at securing an NFL job comes with the same Bills that tried to hire him last offseason.
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Words of inspiration and songs of faith
In addition to celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with Convent of the Sacred Heart today, civil rights activist Ms. Lulu Westbrooks-Griffin shared the story of her unfair arrest in the segregated Southern society of 1963. Gabby Giacomo '15
In addition to celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with Convent of the Sacred Heart today, civil rights activist Ms. Lulu Westbrooks-Griffin shared the story of her unfair arrest in the segregated Southern society of 1963.
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Civil rights activist Ms. Lulu Westbrooks-Griffin spoke to the Convent of the Sacred Heart community today to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the school's annual prayer service. The celebration also commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Ms. Westbrooks-Griffin was a member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a student-run organization founded in 1960 that participated in sit-in protests during the Civil Rights movement. In 1963, police arrested Ms. Westbrooks-Griffin at age 12 for protesting against segregation alongside the SNCC in her town of Americus, Georgia.
Following her arrest, Ms. Westbrooks-Griffin was one of 32 people held in a rudimentary stockade in Leesburg, Georgia. Her cell had no mattress or blankets and the only source of water came from a dripping shower head. After University of Chicago history teacher Mr. Danny Lyon exposed the girls' maltreatment through a series of photographs, Congress ordered the girls' release after 42 days of imprisonment.
Ms. Westbrooks-Griffin's older brother James, who was a college student at the time of her arrest, influenced her to fight for change. The injustices Ms. Westbrooks-Griffin and her brother encountered compelled them to make a difference.
"We didn't have the proper books, educational tools, we were separated by segregation, our school was old and we were receiving books from the white kid's schools from years before. We felt that it was very unfair," Ms. Westbrooks-Griffin said. "So we did what we had to do in order to make a change and we fought for what we be believed in."
Over 30 years after her imprisonment, Ms. Westbrooks-Griffin began to share her story. She started talking at schools, churches and other events and eventually teamed up with filmmaker Mr. Travis Lewis to tell her story via film. They traveled throughout Georgia to reconnect with other girls who also experienced the brutalities.
During the celebration, Ms. Westbrooks-Griffin spoke about her story as featured in the documentary Lulu and the Girls of Americus. The film recounts Ms. Westbrooks-Griffin's experience with a group of other young girls her age in the stockade building. Ms. Westbrooks-Griffin hoped to inspire Sacred Heart students through her speech and encouraged them to enact change in their local communities and beyond.
"Knowing that the young ladies will leave my speech knowing that, as long as [they] live in this world, [they] have a calling," Ms. Westbrooks-Griffin said. "[They] have to carry the torch."
In addition to Ms. Westbrooks-Griffin, the Sacred Heart community welcomed Congressman Jim Himes and his wife, Mrs. Mary Himes to the service. Annual guests, the GospelKnights and Vision Steppers, also excited the crowd with their energetic singing and dancing performances. At the end of the ceremony, members of the Class of 2015 joined the Steppers onstage and learned some of their dance moves.
"I loved the prayer service. There were some deep and inspirational moments, but the GospelKnights and the Vision Steppers made it really light and fun also," senior ZsaZsa Morel said.
Due to the construction in the Dubois gymnasium Sacred Heart held two prayer services in the theater. One prayer service for preschool through seventh grade, commenced at 9:20 am, and another prayer service for eighth through twelfth grade began at 10:40 am.
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Review: Men, Woman & Children (2014)
Men, Woman & Children (2014)
Directed by: Jason Reitman
Premise: An ensemble piece following several families and the way communication through digital media has altered their relationships.
What Works: Men, Women & Children is one of those strange movies that isn't very good and yet its performances are consistently impressive. The movie has multiple storylines and features many characters but by far the strongest narrative involves a high school football player (Ansel Elgort) who decides to quit the team after his mother abandons the family. He devotes his time to an online video game and develops and unlikely romance with a non-athlete (Kaitlyn Dever) whose mother maintains dictatorial control over her daughter's digital interactions. In rebellion, the daughter maintains a secret online identity. The performances in this subplot are the strongest, in part because this portion of the film gives the actors the most to work with but also because it is one of the few narratives that is actually seen through to a conclusion. Ansel Elgort, who was also seen as a troubled teenager earlier this year in The Fault in Our Stars, does a very good job and he is able to be troubled and brooding but his pain comes across authentic without becoming self-absorbed and obnoxious in the way emo characters tend to become. Jennifer Garner is cast as the mother of his love interest and Garner plays the role of this misguided parent with conviction. She is the kind of parent who realizes the potential danger of the outside world but has overcompensated, confining her daughter to a digital bubble and ultimately precipitating the kind of behavior she was trying to avoid.
What Doesn't: There is a lot wrong with Men, Women & Children. The dialogue by the younger characters is often fraudulent; the teenagers don't speak like authentic adolescents but like a middle aged writer's best guess as to how a contemporary teenager would sound. As an ensemble piece, the filmmakers of Men, Women & Children have a lot of narrative plates but they don't keep all of them spinning. The movie has more stories than its two hour running time can manage. The subplots lack the proper build up and most of them are never brought to any kind of meaningful conclusion. But aside from the problems with the architecture of the story, the flaw that really sinks Men, Women & Children is how convoluted it is about its own subject. The movie is ostensibly about the ways in which digital communication has distorted human interaction but nothing in the film really dramatizes that issue in a convincing or a compelling way. The filmmakers' shortsightedness is most apparent in the regard for Jennifer Garner's character. She plays a mother who is concerned for her daughter's wellbeing and siphons all of her digital interactions. Garner's character is made to be an antagonist, almost a villain in places, and in several scenes the filmmakers clearly hold her in contempt. But the filmmakers' simplistic and Luddite attitude toward technology isn't that far off from the hysterical fear mongering of their antagonist. In their attempt to make a self-consciously important statement about a supposedly pressing issue, the filmmakers of Men, Women & Children manage to not only be simultaneously heavy handed and superficial with the topic of social media but also trivialize much more serious issues such as eating disorders, marital infidelity, and depression. The movie juxtaposes images of computers and cellphones with the characters struggling with these issues but there is no implicit or explicit connection between the technology and their personal foibles and so the movie is extraordinarily sanctimonious while being intellectually and morally vacuous.
Bottom Line: The only thing worse than a pretentious movie is a pretentious movie that has nothing to say. Men, Woman & Children is a movie whose makers think they are making a big important statement about big important issues but this movie contributes nothing to anyone's understanding about life in the digital age while managing to trivialize much more immediate human struggles.
Episode: #516 (November 2, 2014)


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The Don Antonio Maxino House, also known as Casa Unisan, is a heritage house museum originally located at town of Kalilayan in Tayabas province (Unisan, Quezon at present). It was built in 1839 by Don Antonio Maxino. The house was claimed to be the first bahay-na-bato of the municipality. In 2007, the half-ruined house was sold to Jose L. Acuzar by a remaining family member. Unfortunately, the rest of the Maxinos were massacred by bandits, or tulisan.

Architectural features

The ground floor of the Don Antonio Maxino house were lined with stone flooring while the flooring of the second floor was made of wooden planks. Each plank measures   long and   wide. The second floor of the house was surrounded with rectangular capiz windows. Unlike majority of the bahay-na-bato houses, there were no minor window openings, or ventanillas, below the capiz windows. This feature would improve the security of the house. The two paneled door into the living room, or sala, and the bedroom wing was decorated with a sunburst design.

The house was surmounted with four-sided, quatro aguas, tile roofing. An intricate system of rafters, or quilo, and king posts support the ridge, or palupo. The ridge bears the dead load of the tile roofing - laid out in Chinese style. In addition to that, there were two types of roof slopes present. These two pairs of roof slopes were built at different angles - providing two air vents at the apex of each sides.

The second floor of the house consists of two wings; the principal and the secondary wings. The principal wing consists of a living room, or sala, and bedrooms while the secondary wing consists of dining room, kitchen, and terrace, or azotea. A stone staircase (originally made of wood) was located in between these two wings - leading into the foyer, or caida. This layout of the stairs was  in reference to Southern Luzon houses wherein the bamboo stairs were located at the rear portion of the houses.

The main facade of the house faces the street while the living room, or sala, was located behind. Its secondary facade is located on the perpendicular side of the street. It consists of the shorter side of the principal wing, the outside stairs, and the terrace, or azotea.

Its ground floor is now converted into a Filipino restaurant called the Marivent Café.

References

External links
 Cafe Marivent page at Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar site

Historic house museums in the Philippines
Buildings and structures in Quezon
Buildings and structures in Bataan

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07/11/2013 06:19 pm ET Updated Sep 10, 2013
Washington State Marijuana Regulators Want More Federal Clarity On Rules
By Jonathan Kaminsky
OLYMPIA, Wash., July 11 (Reuters) - Two Washington state regulators who are drafting rules for the state's newly legal recreational marijuana industry said they would benefit from clearer directives by the federal government on how to build a system that would avoid being shut down.
Chris Marr, one of three appointed members of the state Liquor Control Board charged with drafting state pot rules, said the U.S. Department of Justice had so far provided scant guidance on how to develop an industry that federal authorities, who view pot as an illegal drug, won't feel compelled to shutter.
"Policy is being established that will be a precursor for a large number of states," Marr said. "It's irresponsible. They should at least engage even if just for the purposes of information gathering."
Washington and Colorado last November became the first U.S. states to legalize recreational pot use, even as the drug remains illegal under federal law, and both expect to have recreational-use marijuana stores open starting next year.
Despite the federal pot prohibition, the states are proceeding with efforts to create rules for their nascent markets with provisions including pot advertising restrictions and security requirements for growing operations.
Engagement in those efforts could give federal authorities a voice in a process that could also serve as a model for other states that may pursue legalization in the future, Marr said.
But apart from a handful of opaque or piecemeal statements, the Obama administration has been tight-lipped in how it plans to respond to state legalization of the recreational marijuana.
In December, President Barack Obama told ABC news that he "has bigger fish to fry" than going after recreational pot users. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder later told a U.S. House subcommittee he was committed to upholding federal drug laws.
"People on the outside may think that 'Surely they're monitoring it, getting information quietly,'" Marr said. "My understanding is as far as the federal government is concerned they've been totally unengaged."
Ruthann Kurose, Marr's colleague on the Liquor Control Board, agreed that more feedback from the Obama administration would be helpful, but was reluctant to level criticism.
"They have to think not only about one or two states but about the national implications," Kurose said. "I do think it would be easier if we had some clarity."
Board Chairwoman Sharon Foster was not immediately available for comment. The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment.
FEDS MET WITH GOVERNOR
But a spokesman for Washington state Governor Jay Inslee, a Democrat, said Inslee and state Attorney General Bob Ferguson had met with Holder in January to discuss the state's plans.
In that meeting, Holder posed questions on issues from labeling requirements to keeping pot from leaving the state, and Inslee responded in a letter the following month, the spokesman said. Inslee has not been in direct contact with Holder since.
"But our Washington D.C. staff stays in touch with the Department of Justice, and we made sure they saw the draft rules and the final rules when they came out. They're aware of what's happening," Inslee spokesman David Postman said.
Postman said that "it would be nice to have an affirmative statement from the federal government that they would allow things to happen." He said the Justice Department had offered no timeline for clarifying its position.
One clue to how the federal government will handle recreational pot may lie in its approach to the medical marijuana industry, which now legally operates in 18 states and the District of Columbia.
The Justice Department has given individual U.S. Attorneys some discretion in taking state laws into account in addressing medical pot, marijuana business lawyer Hilary Bricken said.
In Washington state, Bricken said, there is "a vast difference" in approach between the Seattle-based Western District and the more rural Eastern District, with the latter taking a harder line in shutting dispensaries and growing operations.
In Marr's view, such decentralization raises the prospect of a recreational-use system that "is allowed to flourish" in one part of the state but "not allowed to function" in another.
Emily Langlie, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington, referred questions to the Justice Department. A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney for the state's Eastern District did not return a call for comment. (Editing by Cynthia Johnston, Bernard Orr)
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A JDBC connection allows you to use a relational DBMS (or, in general, whatever databases are accessible through a JDBC driver) as a data source. To set a new JDBC connection, click the New button in the Connections/Datasources dialog box (shown earlier in "DataAdapter Wizard") to open the interface for creation of a new connection (or data source). From the list, select Database JDBC connection to bring up the window shown in "Configuring a JDBC Connection".
First, name the connection (using a significant name, such as Mysql – Test). Jaspersoft Studio always uses the specified name to refer to this connection.
In the JDBC Driver field, you specify the name of the JDBC driver to use for the connection to the database. The combo box proposes the names of the most common JDBC drivers (see "JDBC Drivers List").
If a driver is displayed in red, the JDBC driver class for that driver is not present in the classpath and you must obtain and install the driver before using it. See Working with Your JDBC Connection.
Thanks to the JDBC URL Wizard, it is possible to automatically construct the JDBC URL to use the connection to the database by inserting the server name and the database name in the correct text fields. Click the Wizard button to create the URL.
Enter a username and password to access the database. By means of a check box option, you can save the password for the connection.
Jaspersoft Studio saves passwords in Eclipse secure storage. In some cases, this can cause problems when trying to test and save data adapters. For more information, refer to our Eclipse Secure Storage in Jaspersoft Studio Community wiki page.
If the password is empty, it is better if you specify that it be saved.
After you have inserted all the data, it is possible to verify the connection by clicking the Test button. If everything is okay, the dialog box shown in "Test Confirmation Dialog" appears.
• A ClassNotFoundError was thrown.
• The URL is not correct.
• Parameters are not correct for the connection (database is not found, the username or password is wrong, etc.).
The ClassNotFoundError exception occurs when the required JDBC driver is not present in the classpath. For example, suppose you want to create a connection to an Oracle database. Jaspersoft Studio has no driver for this database, but you could be deceived by the presence of the oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver driver in the JDBC drivers list shown in the window for creating new connections. If you were to select this driver, when you test the connection, the studio throws the ClassNotFoundException, as shown in "ClassNotFoundError exception".
What you have to do is to add the JDBC driver for Oracle, which is a file named ojdbc14.jar (or classes12.zip or classes11.zip for older versions) to the classpath (which is where the JVM searches for classes). As Jaspersoft Studio uses its own class loader, it's enough add the ojdbc14.jar file to the Jaspersoft Studio classpath, which is defined in your Eclipse project; the same can be done for directories containing classes and other resources. To edit the classpath, click Project > Properties > Java Build Path>Libraries, and click Add JARs. If you only need to use the driver for this specific data adapter, you can instead add the driver on the data adapter's Driver Classpath tab.
If a wrong URL is specified (for example, due to a typing error), you'll get an arbitrary exception when you click the Test button. The exact cause of the error can be deduced by the stack trace available in the exception dialog box.
In this case, if possible, it is better to use the JDBC URL Wizard to build the JDBC URL and try again.
A less-problematic error scenario occurs when you try to establish a connection to a database with the wrong parameters (for example invalid credentials (username or password) or nonexistent/inaccessible database). In this case, the same database returns a message is fairly explicit about the reason behind the failure of the connection.


Buying property for summer fun? Here are a few tips when looking for your perfect summer home.
The Internal Revenue Service considers a vacation home or a second home one that is permanently in place (even though it could be moved, like an RV) and offers sleeping, cooking and toilet facilities.
For tax purposes, you can deduct "qualified residence interest" on a mortgage secured by a second home – that's in addition to interest that you pay on a mortgage that is your primary residence.
Read the rest of the tips in the full article here.


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Carolina Hurricanes New York Rangers Brendan Smith Antti Raanta
The Carolina Hurricanes, thanks to a goal from Brendan Smith and shutout from Antti Raanta, took a 2-0 lead over the Rangers Friday night in PNC.
In another tightly contested game with another unlikely goal-scoring hero, the Carolina Hurricanes took hold of a 2-0 series lead Friday night with a 2-0 win over the Rangers in PNC Arena.
Defenseman Brendan Smith broke the stalemate in the second period, while Sebastian Aho added an empty netter to ice things. Antti Raanta picked up the first postseason shutout of his NHL career, stopping all 21 shots he faced Friday night.
About last night:
Getting it from everybody
If you had Ian Cole and Brendan Smith as the providers of the first two game-winning goals in this series, please stop lying.
After Cole, who scored just two goals in the regular season and had just one playoff goal in his illustrious playoff career, scored the overtime winner in game one, it was his third-pairing partner in crime Smith who scored the goal the Canes needed to win game two on Friday night.
It was the most unlikely of players in the most unlikely of scenarios, as Aho got out on a shorthanded rush as the Canes killed off a four-minute penalty on Brady Skjei. It was Smith who crashed the net and received a brilliant pass from Aho, putting it past Igor Shesterkin for the game's first goal.
When asked if he was surprised to see it was Cole on the other side of the 2-on-1, Aho provided some honesty.
"A little bit to be honest," Aho said. "But it was a great read by him and a huge goal."
Rod Brind'Amour has talked all season, but particularly in the playoffs, about needing everyone on the ice to contribute, and there's nothing more apparent of that in these first two games than huge goals from Cole and Smith.
"That's kind of what we talked about last series," Brind'Amour said. "You're always happy for the guys to get these moments. Moment the other night for [Ian Cole]. Moment tonight with [Brendan Smith] getting a big goal. That's why you play the game and you love to see the guys enjoy the game."
A defensive clinic, another standout performance from Raanta
The Hurricanes and the Rangers certainly didn't play the most exciting hockey game in the world Friday night, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a strong one for the Hurricanes.
While they didn't generate too much in the terms of offense, the Canes were brilliant defensively as they completely stifled the Rangers throughout the night.
Carolina held New York to just 21 shots on goal and just 24 scoring chances over the course of 60 minutes, as the Rangers mustered just eight high-danger chances against Raanta and finished the night with a pretty low 1.84 xGF.
The Rangers didn't do a great job of getting into dangerous areas, and when they did Raanta was as phenomenal as he's been all series long.
He stopped everything that came his way and gave up just three rebound shots against, doing a great job of controlling the puck while being an impenetrable wall between the pipes for the Hurricanes.
Raanta has been so good for the Canes all playoffs, a pretty remarkable feat for a veteran goalie with no real playoff experience who also probably didn't expect to be playing in many of these games.
"It's great to see," Aho said. "The team gets a lot of momentum, a lot of confidence in their own play when you see your goalie playing at that level. He's been unbelievable. I'm happy for the guy and it's a good situation with him."
The NHL's blood rule is stupid
It didn't end up making a difference in the game — in fact it was the Canes who ended up scoring during the four minutes — but the NHL's high-sticking blood rule is stupid and dumb and needs to go away.
Brady Skjei got whistled for a high sticking against Alexis Lafreniere during the second period, and the Rangers got four minutes on the power play because of the tiniest of cuts on Lafreniere's nose.
The Canes have benefited from it during the postseason — Tony DeAngelo got cut badly earlier — but it's still a dumb rule. Smack someone full speed with the full brunt of your blade and it doesn't draw blood: two minutes. Barely clip someone with the end of the blade and it draws blood: four minutes.
I hate the rule and have always hated the rule, and this seems like a good time to bring it on the road.
Now do it on the road
The Canes have a 2-0 series lead over the New York Rangers after two games at home.
The Canes also had a 2-0 series lead over the Boston Bruins after two games at home.
It's been a very different looking first two games, and it's a completely different matchup, but the Canes now have to prove they can go do it on the road in Madison Square Garden.
They can, but they need to play better than they did in Boston, that much is for sure.
source: Canes Country
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Paulo Roberto Gonzaga, dit Paulinho, est un footballeur brésilien né le  à Blumenau. Il évolue au poste de milieu défensif.

Biographie

Avec les clubs du Kawasaki Frontale et du Shonan Bellmare, il dispute 24 matchs en première division japonaise, inscrivant deux buts. Il joue également quatre rencontres en Ligue des champions d'Asie.

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Footballeur brésilien
Naissance à Blumenau
Naissance en janvier 1989
Joueur du Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama
Joueur du Tochigi SC
Joueur du Kawasaki Frontale
Joueur du JEF United Ichihara Chiba
Joueur de Shonan Bellmare
Joueur du Matsumoto Yamaga FC
Joueur du Fagiano Okayama


Fraticelli's Italian Grill & Lounge » The Behar Group Realty Inc.
Fraticelli's Italian Grill & Lounge is driven by one simple principle…create a great Italian impression. Or as the Italians often say…"fare una bella figura".
Developed in partnership with Chef Massimo Capra, the Fraticelli's team is obsessed with Italian Food. Like the 13 provinces and territories in Canada, Italy has 20 wonderful regions, each one more adamant than the other that they have the best food in the country. The menu at Fraticelli's is designed to serve the best of the best from these wonderful regions.
The first location opened in 2010 at 16th Avenue and Vogell Road in Richmond Hill. We are sourcing more locations, with a focus on downtown Toronto, Oakville/Burlington and Waterloo. Sites are approximately 7,000 square feet in high traffic, high visibility areas with heavy daytime population.


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Q: amcharts: reverse time (category) axis? Is it possible to reverse the category axis of a time-based chart in amcharts? I know that the value axis can be easily flipped but I've not seen a solution for the category axis. I need to have the most relevant and therefore recent data on the left.
I'm using a time-based area chart. Here's a demo: http://jsfiddle.net/N5rpu/1/
In the example I've reversed the value axis and done the same to the category axis just to show that nothing happens.
var chart = AmCharts.makeChart("chartdiv", {
    "type": "serial",
    "theme": "none",
    "pathToImages": "http://www.amcharts.com/lib/3/images/",
    "dataProvider": chartData,
    "valueAxes": [{
        "position": "left",
        "title": "Unique visitors",
        "reversed": true
    }],
    "graphs": [{
        "fillAlphas": 0.4,
        "valueField": "visits"
    }],
    "chartScrollbar": {},
    "chartCursor": {
        "categoryBalloonDateFormat": "JJ:NN, DD MMMM",
        "cursorPosition": "mouse"
    },
    "categoryField": "date",
    "categoryAxis": {
        "minPeriod": "mm",
        "parseDates": true,
        "reversed": true
    }
});

A: In fact I had the opposite problem - dates in the AmCharts categoryAxis where being displayed in reverse from chronological order!
This was achieved by ordering the dates from most recent to less recent in the dataProvider array, i.e.
  "dataProvider": [{
      "value": 74,
      "date": "2014-11-16"
    },
    {
      "value": 73,
      "date": "2014-11-15"
    },
    {
      "value": 70,
      "date": "2014-11-14"
    }];

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Finding a livestock vet can be grueling especially if you have small animals, and only a few. Right now we have five milking nannies, one buck, 1 yearling doe, 8 kids, four ewes and 6 lambs, four pigs, and about 130 chickens of various ages and breeds. This list could be why so many vets have said, I can't help you. Is it too diverse? Should we need to have 100 head of cattle to make your trip worth while? How about if we just raised chickens, or pigs, or goats or sheep? Maybe I can find an egg laying dog and just make the whole thing much easier!
Dr. Michelle Anderson is a diamond in the ruff, and a Godsend to us. We have a standing yearly appointment with her to make sure that all of our animals are happy and healthy. We are also coached by her along the way to make sure that we are doing all of the right things to keep it that way. Dr. Anderson has taught me so much about livestock health. She has instructed me on giving tetnus shots, the life cycle of a parasite, nutritional requirements and infection prevention. She also has shown me how to castrate and dehorn in the safest, mildest way, train my goats how to not kick me while I'm milking them, and handle my sheep so they respond to guidance.
Dr. Anderson is also working with us on our raw milk certification for the goats and sheep. A vet that does all of this for their clients is PRICELESS!!!! And even though her value is far beyond what I could ever afford, she still only charges a very minimal fee for her work. Infact, she will tell us if there are state programs to cover the costs of testing for milk permits, just to save us a little money.
My animals are very healthy, but I know that if I had any other vet, that wouldn't be the case. Dr. Anderson is in every way a teacher of good things for the farmer and the animals. When looking for a vet, consider this post. Remember to ask your vet if there are things that you can improve on. It is horrible to have an emergency with pets and animals. If you are armed with a good animal first aid kit, and the right knowledge, you may only need an annual well check too!


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Why are the Irish looked down upon so much by other West Europeans?
Thread: Why are the Irish looked down upon so much by other West Europeans?
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English, French, Irish, Scottish, German, Distant American Indian
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Throughout history, it seems the Irish were considered almost sub human. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. They had their own Aristocracy. They were rather resilient people who got through adversity and poverty . The Irish that came to America were also hated. "Irish and dogs need not apply". Many people say an Irishman is a Nig turned inside out. The English have a great disdain for them, even though some Irish have Anglo heritage. Is it because the Irish have a lower general IQ and were more prone to dependence on the state than other countries? I know my mother talked about her Irish ancestors who were "lace curtain" rather than "Shanty" Irish. I guess there is a great class divide in Ireland as well. I was just curious why this this hatred of the Irish people continues even today.
farke1
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Irish, British, Norwegian, a little French
I thought that historically, the discrimination was largely down to the fact that many Irish were staunch Catholics, whilst many Northwestern European nations were predominantly Protestant. I'd suspect this is probably the case with discrimination against the Irish who came to America as well. Personally, the Irish aren't hated and don't suffer discrimination in England today, if anything I'd suspect it's probably the other way around.
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in my view it's because they 'were' very Catholic, much less so today
I have both Catholic and Protestant Irish ancestors. The Catholic ones were not poor, but they were more middling farmer types. The Protestant ones were part of the Aristocracy.
KMack
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Originally Posted by Richmondbread
Virtually every immigrant group was looked down on by native born citizens during that time.
Originally Posted by KMack
True, but the Irish were hated by the English . The Germans in America didn't have as hard a time as the Irish did.
Benyzero
Central-East European
The English and the Irish have a long history of hostility. Then there is the church/religion as mentioned before, the irish stereotypes I assume. Also usually every newcomer minority is disliked first by the major society imo.
That was more of a Catholic thing, and it started long before over there.
Exclusion of Catholics from most public offices (since 1607), Presbyterians were also barred from public office from 1707.
Ban on intermarriage with Protestants; repealed 1778
Presbyterian marriages were not legally recognised by the state
Catholics barred from holding firearms or serving in the armed forces (rescinded by Militia Act of 1793)
Bar from membership in either the Parliament of Ireland or the Parliament of England from 1652; rescinded 1662–1691; renewed 1691–1829, applying to the successive parliaments of England (to 1707), Great Britain (1707 to 1800), and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1800 to 1829).
Disenfranchising Act 1728, exclusion from voting until 1793;
Exclusion from the legal professions and the judiciary; repealed (respectively) 1793 and 1829.
Education Act 1695 – ban on foreign education; repealed 1782.
Bar to Catholics and Protestant Dissenters entering Trinity College Dublin; repealed 1793.
On a death by a Catholic, his legatee could benefit by conversion to the Church of Ireland;
Popery Act – Catholic inheritances of land were to be equally subdivided between all an owner's sons with the exception that if the eldest son and heir converted to Protestantism that he would become the one and only tenant of estate and portions for other children not to exceed one third of the estate. This "Gavelkind" system had previously been abolished by 1600.
Ban on converting from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism on pain of Praemunire: forfeiting all property estates and legacy to the monarch of the time and remaining in prison at the monarch's pleasure. In addition, forfeiting the monarch's protection. No injury however atrocious could have any action brought against it or any reparation for such.
Ban on Catholics buying land under a lease of more than 31 years; repealed 1778.
Ban on custody of orphans being granted to Catholics on pain of 500 pounds that was to be donated to the Blue Coat hospital in Dublin.
Ban on Catholics inheriting Protestant land
Prohibition on Catholics owning a horse valued at over £5 (to keep horses suitable for military activity out of the majority's hands)
Roman Catholic lay priests had to register to preach under the Registration Act 1704, but seminary priests and Bishops were not able to do so until 1778. At least they could register; the English Popery Act 1698 awarded a bounty for arresting a priest.
When allowed, new Catholic churches were to be built from wood, not stone, and away from main roads.
'No person of the popish religion shall publicly or in private houses teach school, or instruct youth in learning within this realm' upon pain of twenty pounds fine and three months in prison for every such offence. Repealed in 1782.[8]
Any and all rewards not paid by the crown for alerting authorities of offences to be levied upon the Catholic populace within parish and county.
So, it's mainly the Irish Catholics, but not so much Protestant Irish? The Protestants did seem to be the ones in power.
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Family and friends of the victim were grief stricken.
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Junior Doctor
Cocoa Beach, Florida, United States | SELF
Band Rock Pop
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"Junior Doctor will play for you now"
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Junior Doctor will play for you now
Mike Nunez
Mike Nunez Shake, Rattle & Know For Florida Today
The Doctor is in.
Well, almost, that is. On Saturday, Cocoa Beach's own Junior Doctor will rock out at the second annual Ben Rocks Benefit at Space Coast Harley-Davidson in Palm Bay. The benefit will also feature the sounds of The John Quinlivan Band, The Starlight Getaway, Atilla and the Huns and Fall Term.
The event will pay tribute to Benjamin Fullem, whose life was cut short April 11, 2007, by cancer.
"Last year was quite a success, and we are hoping to see the event grow each year, " said event organizer Doug St. Clair. "This year Nancy Fullem, Ben's mom, is donating the proceeds to The Candlelighters of Brevard. It is a charity that provides financial and emotional support to families of children with cancer. She is currently in the process of setting up her own charity in Ben's name to continue helping others in need."
Comprised of Mark Hartman on vocals and guitar, Thomas DeSiena on lead guitar, Richard Pedro on bass and Jarrod Kearney on drums, Junior Doctor is a high-energy, high-impact band with a live show that won't soon be forgotten.
I spoke with Hartman and DeSiena about the band name, its music and headlining spot at the Florida Music Festival. So let's Shake, Rattle & Know: Junior Doctor.
SRK: When did the band come together?
Hartman: Junior Doctor first started playing shows in October 2007. I have always loved playing music, and my dream is to make playing music my full-time job. It's a creative outlet for me. We have no real set mission other than to have fun and write music people can relate to in some way.
SRK: What's the story behind the name Junior Doctor?
Hartman: All of us were in bands before. I was in an Orlando-based band named Denver Mile. We all decided to go off to med school. Jarrod's dad is a doctor, in fact.
We all met at school and none of us were real happy with the whole school thing, so we went around campus playing music every chance we got. We eventually dropped out of med school, used the tuition money our parents had given us and bought instruments and equipment to start the band.
That didn't go over with our parents too well at first, but after awhile when they saw our shows and saw what kind of reaction we were getting from fans, they seemed alright with things.
SRK: How were you able to secure such a prime spot for this year's Florida Music Festival?
DeSiena: Our management team is great. They really know how to reach out to people.
As a band, our plate is full, so it's great to have guys like them working behind the scenes. They have incredible connections and our high-powered show helped make it happen.
Hartman: Honestly, we applied like everyone else did. The first slot they gave us was at the AKA Lounge, but we were in Orlando last week headlining a gig at The Social and it went really well.
The promoter put in a good word in for us and the next day Ashley from FMF (Florida Music Festival) sent our stuff to BMI and they bumped us up to the main stage (for May 15).
SRK: Not many local bands sign management deals so quickly. What can you tell us about Blackwell Management?
DeSiena: The band has gotten a lot of attention recently, and we need to treat it like a business entity. We communicate constantly with our fans and work on the music, but we needed the business side handled by the right people. We basically need a boss to take control, so we don't become complacent. We hired two people we really trust.
Hartman: It is a relatively new management company started by my brother, John Hartman, and his partner, Paul Rogers. John is our head manager and Paul is our tour manager.
John had been in bands for so many years, and he knew the business from both the performer side as well as from the business side. John wanted to start a management company and really liked what we were doing. He has been approached by a lot of bands to manage them, but right now we are his only priority band.
SRK: What has been your proudest achievement to date?
Hartman: I would have to say it is going to be playing the Wall Street Stage at FMF. BMI is a leader in the music business, and it is quite an honor they asked us to headline their stage. I was almost in tears when I got that news. To play such a big stage in front of so many people is going to be such a thrill for me.
DeSiena: You know, with every performance we try and take away something special with us. There is always something weird that happens on stage that is memorable.
Last week, my wireless unit went out, so I threw my guitar off to the side and jumped into the crowd.
I believe the stage performance is as important as the music. We always try and give a high-energy show.
SRK: How does your music differ from current mainstream rock 'n' roll?
Hartman: We have a lot - Florida Today
"Junior Doctor sounds off at Paradise Skate Park"
With a new CD in the works and a fresh lineup, local power pop quartet Junior Doctor makes a triumphant return to the main stage with a show Saturday at Paradise Skate Park on Merritt Island.
Consisting of Mark Hartman (vocals/guitar), Jarrod Kearney (drums,) Richard Peidro (bass) and Yazmani Velazquez (lead guitar/vocals), Junior Doctor is paving new ground for power pop acts on the Space Coast.
I spoke with lead singer/songwriter Hartman about the band, its future and its up-and-down travels along the road to success. So let's Shake, Rattle & Know: Junior Doctor.
SRK: It has been two years since I last interviewed the band. How much has your music changed.
Hartman: A lot, actually. Before, we were just developing our sound, trying to figure out who we were as a band. Our new stuff is lyrically and musically more mature. Previously, my wife and I were seperated, and a lof of my stuff was negative.
Now that we are together again, I'm reflecting more on good times and showing remorse for bad choices I had made in my life. Overall, everything about the music is more positive. It's a more pleasing sound and more in the pop direction.
We also have Mark Trojanowski (Sister Hazel) on our management team, so we are seeing some exciting things starting to happen.
SRK: You had a couple band members change since 2008. Did having band turn-over delay your progress as a band?
Hartman: Oh yes, 100 percent. Yaz replaced Thomas (DeSeina) and brought a lot of musical knowledge to the band that helped our progress and our live show.
We made some big changes, and that caused a huge delay. We had to find the right niche, and while searching for someone new who fit the mold, we lost a lot of time.
SRK: What experiences do you typically draw on for your songwriting?
Hartman: I write a lot about relationships, whether it be friends or romantic relationships. My wife is the subject of about 95 percent of my music, and it all becomes very personal for me. I think the music, lyrics and emotions of the songs are easy to relate to in some way.
SRK: With thousands of bands trying to get signed, what do you think will set you apart from other bands?
Hartman: As a songwriter, I feel that a lot of pop music today is formulaic; the melodies and such are almost borrowed. I try to be accessible in the music and very clear with ideas.
A lot of what you hear today is popular because it sounds familiar to everyone. I think we offer something fresh and away from and one formula.
I also think we have a strong connection to our fans and are accessible to everyone. I think fans will see how important they are to us and will help us stand out.
SRK: Your music seems to be more about life than about angst as some of your earlier stuff. Was that intentional or more of a reflection of where you are in your life?
Hartman: I think it is a reflection of where I was then and where I am now.
We intentionally took the music in more a pop direction. The producers we are working with now have been crucial to structuring our new sound. They... bring the music and lyrics together, so I guess, to answer your question, it was a good mix of intentional and unintentional. - Mike Nunez "Shake, Rattle & Know"
Take The Pain EP: Released June 2008
Hit Track "What I Do" on 101.1 WJRR's Native Noise.
Attending a prestigious, yet undisclosed, med-school in 2007, Junior Doctor began at a slow burn. With a few member changes, lead singer and rhythm guitarist, Mark Hartman, enlisted the creative energy of classmates Jarrod Kearney (drums) and Richard Peidro (bass). When the time came to prepare their next move, they were ready. The three boys left med-school and used their tuition money to purchase musical equipment and released the Take The Pain EP with notable producer Matt Goldman (Cartel, Underoath, Anberlin). Now that the slow burn has transformed into a healthy blaze, and with the help of incredibly dedicated fans, it's spreading toward your hometown faster and faster every day.
Junior Doctor has become the Space Coast's flagship power-pop quartet with the members making Cocoa Beach their home base. With their roaring guitar lines, pounding rhythmic sequences and energetic live shows it's no wonder the band is gathering state wide momentum. The "What I Do" music video has had over 30,000 views on YouTube and 101.1 WJRR in Orlando has played the single in rotation on its native noise program. The word is spreading far past Florida as the band has had over a million plays on their MySpace page
The band has been anxious to get back into the studio after writing 25 new songs this past year. To ring in the New Year, Junior Doctor has recently re-entered the studio with Matt Goldman again at the helm and are finishing up a CD to be released in the fall of 2010. The band narrowed down the songs and they feel like they are growing as writers and musicians. At the end of the recording process the band had the opportunity to write and record with the all star production team of Zack Odom and Kenneth Mount (All Time Low, Mayday Parade, Go Radio). It went so well that they decided to pushed back the release date and they had Zack and Kenneth mix the whole record.
During the recording process in January the band brought in a new lead guitarist Yazmani Velazquez. He has added another dimension to the band with his musical training and his harmony singing compliments Mark's lead vocal styles.
How it is that Junior Doctor strikes an almost perfect balance between hook-laden pop and rock is unclear. How Mark's songs seem to resonate with so many people is a grand mystery as well. There is however, one thing that is certain.
The Doctor is in, and heart surgery never sounded so good.


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1. Open the TruLink app and tap the information icon in the top right-hand corner and to the left of the question mark icon.
2. Select "Find My Hearing Aids" under the Features section and walk slowly in the area you misplaced your hearing devices.
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