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Class diagram plugin
compile "org.grails.plugins:class-diagram:0.5.2"
Install graphviz dot utilityThis plugin uses the graphviz dot utility to layout graphs. Download and make sure its on your path (or, set the path to the graphviz dot utility in Config.groovy: graphviz.dot.executable property=/full/path/to/dot-executable).
You should check to see that your graphviz is not too old. There is a known issue using a pre-Snow Leopard-graphviz version on Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6.x).
Install the plugin
Use the -global flag if you want the class diagram to be available globally, ie. for all your grails projects.
grails install-plugin class-diagram [-global]
This plugin does not work with grails 2.0 yet!
The ClassDiagram pluginThe ClassDiagram plugin provides an UML-like diagram of your grails domain classes.
UsageAfter installation (see the installation tab), a class diagram of our domain classes should be available under http://localhost:8080/yourApp/classDiagram:
Changing diagram preferencesYou can change your diagram preferences in the preferences dialog. Most items provide a tooltip for details.New for version 0.5 is the class filtering edit box. Check the tooltip for samples!
LegendThe following relations are recognized:
Configuration fileBelow follows a copy of the plugins configuration. It is easy to override: just pick one or more of the properties you want to change and add it to your Config.groovy.Yo can change diagram appearance (such as colors and node/edge shapes), and you may create your own skins. You also can change most graphviz attributes.If you don't want to clutter your Config.groovy file, you can also change the plugin configuration. If, for instance, the plugin is installed globally you will find the config file under something like ~/.grails/1.2.0/global-plugins/grails-class-diagram-0.5.1/conf/ClassDiagramConfig.groovy.
/** * Default properties. May be overridden in Config.groovy for each project */ graphviz { dot.executable = "dot" // include full file path if not on path }classDiagram { preferences { defaults { // Defaults used in preferences form. skin = "regular" outputFormat = "png" // Should be an image format from http://www.graphviz.org/doc/info/output.html showProperties = true showMethods = true showAssociationNames = true showMethodReturnType = true showMethodSignature = false showPropertyType = true showEmbeddedAsProperty = false showPackages = false autoUpdate = true classSelection = "<all>" classSelectionIsRegexp = false graphOrientation = "TB" // See http://www.graphviz.org/doc/info/attrs.html#k:rankdir for valid values fontsize = 9 } } associations { arrows { // See http://www.graphviz.org/doc/info/arrows.html for available arrowheads and their visual appearance references = "open" belongsTo = "odiamond" embedded = "diamond" inherits = "onormal" none = "none" } decorators { // plain text to be shown on edge ends hasOne = "1" hasMany = "*" none = "" } } skins { // See http://graphviz.org/doc/info/attrs.html for available properties on graph, node and edge. // You may use any property except the 'shape' property (it is set internally to [shape:'record']). // Also, if you use the fontsize property, the gui size slider will not be able to override it. classic { name = "Classic" graphStyle = [bgcolor:"white"] nodeStyle = [style:"rounded,filled", color:"blue", fillcolor:"azure2", fontname:"Verdana"] edgeStyle = [color:"gray40", fontname:"Verdana"] packageStyle = [style:"rounded,filled", color:"gray95", fontname:"Verdana"] } classicSpaced { name = "Classic Spaced" graphStyle = [bgcolor:"white", mclimit:100, nodesep:'0.75 equally', ranksep:'0.75 equally'] nodeStyle = [style:"rounded,filled", color:"blue", fillcolor:"azure2", fontname:"Verdana", fontsize:18] edgeStyle = [color:"gray40", fontname:"Verdana", fontsize:18, labelfontsize:20, labeldistance:3.5] packageStyle = [style:"rounded,filled", color:"gray95"] } regular { name = "Regular" graphStyle = [bgcolor:"white"] nodeStyle = [style:"filled", color:"lightyellow3", fillcolor:"lightyellow", fontname:"Verdana"] edgeStyle = [color:"gray40", fontname:"Verdana"] packageStyle = [style:"filled", color:"gray95", fontname:"Verdana"] } white { name = "White on Gray" graphStyle = [bgcolor:"gray90"] nodeStyle = [style:"filled", color:"gray40", fillcolor:"white", fontname:"Verdana"] edgeStyle = [color:"gray40", fontname:"Verdana"] packageStyle = [style:"", color:"gray40", fontname:"Verdana"] } gray { name = "Gray" graphStyle = [bgcolor:"white"] nodeStyle = [style:"filled", color:"gray40", fillcolor:"gray90", fontname:"Verdana"] edgeStyle = [color:"gray40", fontname:"Verdana"] packageStyle = [style:"filled", color:"gray95", fontname:"Verdana"] } } legend { style { graphStyle = [bgcolor:"gray94", margin:"0,0", size:"7,7"] nodeStyle = [style:"filled", color:"gray50", fillcolor:"white", margin:"0,0", fontsize:15, fontname:"Verdana"] edgeStyle = [color:"gray50", fontsize:15, fontname:"Verdana"] packageStyle = [style:"filled", color:"gray94", fontname:"Verdana"] } } }
CreditsThanks to Merlyn Albery-Speyer's blogs on the subject. The DotBuilder was based on his idea. Also thanks to Frank Schoep for his blog on UML diagrams using graphviz. And of course thanks to the people behind the fantastic graphviz utility.
Release notes0.5.2 Fixes
- GRAILSPLUGINS-2431 - java.lang.StackOverflowError
- GRAILSPLUGINS-2501 - Decorations on arrow tails, such as belongsTo, inherits etc. has disappeared
- GRAILSPLUGINS-2504 - Installation should not fail if graphviz is not installed/not on path.
- GRAILSPLUGINS-1931 - Associations now shows up as properties
- GRAILSPLUGINS-1587 - Enum classes appears outside all package (when using package view)
- GRAILSPLUGINS-1618 - In One-to-Many relationships the belongsTo diamond is not always shown by class-diagram.
- GRAILSPLUGINS-1926 - css files in show.gsp are not correctly referenced
- GRAILSPLUGINS-1740 - Too many inheritance associations
- GRAILSPLUGINS-1589 - User should be able to select domain class subset
- GRAILSPLUGINS-1607: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException for 1-char-long property names.
- GRAILSPLUGINS-1583: Show association name from both directions
- GRAILSPLUGINS-1559: WAR-packaged application fails to start if deployed with Class diagram plugin
- Default preferences configurable.
- Classes can now be shown grouped in packages
- Graphviz 2.24 fix: translates bgcolor:none to black, while prior versions translate to white! Fixed
- Default outputFormat is now png
- Properties page now initially invisible
- Non-image outputFormats like svg and pdf now works, even from form
- New skin, classicSpaced, that use graphviz options to get more 'space' around nodes. Contributed by Gavin Kromhout.
- Preferences defaults can now be configured
- Legend: not loaded before required, and brushed up
- GUI form state fixes: Hiding menu now conservers preferences; enter-key now synonymous with pushing 'Update'.
- DotBuilder now supports subgraphs
- Added property for graph orientation: top to bottom or left to right
- (cleaned up CSS a bit)
- (reformatted code to 4 spaces indentation, not tabs)


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The survey, State and Local Mobility Map: Road to Mobile Readiness, found that the 58 percent of the survey's respondents said their agency does not provide plans, tools and support necessary to manage a mobile workforce. Still, 40 percent of state and local employees use a mobile device for work-related tasks, with that number expected to increase in the next five years.
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A reader has asked this question: "Alice, I read your post about Horites. Fascinating and very helpful. In my reading, I understand that Abraham is a descendant of Shem (Genesis 11). Can you explain how he is a descendant of Ham? Thanks!
Francien asks a question which is often posed to me, usually through email contacts. He has read Genesis 11 and concluded that Abraham is a descendant of Shem only. This is a common error. All the genealogical data in Genesis is related so we must look at all of it, not simply one section.
Abraham's ancestors and descendants were related by both blood and marriage. The clans intermarried (endogamy) and the rulers of the clans married according to a structure which is made evident in analysis of the Genesis King Lists found in chapters 4, 5, 11 and 36 with additional information in Genesis 10 and 22:20-24. Analysis of all the data makes it clear that Abraham was a descendant of both Shem and Ham.
Before Ham and Shem, the lines of Cain and Seth intermarried also. These were ruler-priest lines, so the Genesis King lists speak of the marriage and ascendency structure of the Horites.
The marriage structure of the Horite rulers involved two wives living in separate households. One wife was a half-sister (as was Sarah to Abraham) and the other wife was a patrilineal cousin or niece (as was Keturah to Abraham).
The brides were the daughters of ruler-priests. They contributed the mtDNA and their ruler husbands contributed the Y chromosome since males who share a common patrilineal ancestor also share a Y chromosome, diverging only with respect to accumulated mutations. The distinctive Kohan DNA or "priest marker" is identifiable because Horite priests married daughters of priests exclusively.
In 1995, Canadian nephrologist Karl Skorecki designed an experiment to find out whether the descendants of the ancient Jewish ruler-priest - kohamim - could be verified by genetics. Skorecki reasoned that Jewish males who claim to be kohanim should have an identical set of marker mutations that trace back to biblical times. So the researchers gathered saliva from 200 Jewish males, a third of whom identified themselves as kohanim, at the Western Wall during the High Holidays. No matter whether they were Sephardic, Ashkenazic, or Oriental Jews, 98.5% of those who said they were kohanim shared a genetic marker for a common male ancestor.
Were the same sort of study done of Arabs who descend from Abraham's Horite line by his firstborn son Joktan, it is likely that this same genetic signature would be found in at least 3% of the Joktanite population of Arabia.
In 1996, a more extensive study found a set of marker mutations common to approximately 60% of self-proclaimed kohanim. Using complex mathematical calculations the research team identified the Cohan Modal Haplotype (CMH), a series of six genetic markers common to the kohanim which originated more than 3,000 years ago.
It is evident from Genesis that the ruler-priests (Horim/Horites) originated well before 3000 years ago. Aaron and his half-brother Korah were not the first ruler priests. Their father Amram was a ruler-priest and the descendant of a long line of ruler-priests who can be traced to at least 6000 years ago (4000 B.C.).
DNA studies confirm that the Horite ancestors of the priests of ancient Israel did marry exclusively within the priestly divisions/lines, which is what analysis of the Genesis genealogical material shows. This is the ancestry of Jesus Christ who was born to Mary, the wife of Joseph, both in the ruler-priest lines.
Related reading: The Daughters of Horite Priests; Moses' Wives and Brothers


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I have yet to accept that again.
Our Klaire is already five months old. We now have Aiza to look after her in case Ane and I both need to be out of the house. I can say we (or at least I am) are already settling. I've been planning to go back playing (and to go back to the gym and work-out).
But I received some news that there might be nothing to return to anymore. When I thought of playing again, my fear was that I already lost the little badminton skills that I have. Now there is a bigger fear, that I might have to build new relationships again in another court. I have issues with myself when it comes to being friendly with new people and I am so comfortable with the E's already (read: 6 years of togetherness!!) that I can't imagine spending Saturdays with people I barely know.
Well. Maybe I will not play ever again?!? Besides, Ane will have to buy me new playing clothes, a new pair of shoes and a racket should I decide to play again, haha.
Change is good. I shall keep that in mind.
p.s. E's!!!! We should get together soon! Mae has a surprise for you all! ;p


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i don't tend to reblog stories from super well-known blogs like design sponge etc, as i know that 99% of you are readers too. but i'm going to do it today, specifically about jamie of from me to you – because her daily outfits whilst covering new york fashion week are simply too great.
It's New York Fashion Week, you can't just wear any old thing! I'm taking inspiration for my daily outfits to the tents from the women who have done it so well before us. We all have a right to look like a fashion icon, right?
go to her blog and check them out – she has loads of photos that are far too beautiful to miss.
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Dear Sir/MadamWithout prejudiceAccount number: You have contacted me regarding the amount you claim is owed as a shortfall on the mortgage following the sale of my property.I understand you are a member of UK Finance. As you will be aware, UK Finance has the following policy on obtaining repayment of mortgage shortfall debts. This applies to all UK Finance members."Lenders are committed to fair and sympathetic treatment of people who have suffered repossession, and accept that individuals should not face long delays before lenders contact them to discuss repayment of the shortfall.""From 11 February 2000, lenders who are members...have agreed voluntarily that they will begin all recovery action for the shortfall within the first six years following the sale of a property in repossession. Anyone whose property was taken into possession and sold more than six years ago, and who has not been contacted by their lender about recovering any outstanding debt will not now be asked to pay the shortfall."The property in question was sold on . Also the first contact I had from yourselves was on . As my property was sold more than six years ago and you have not contacted me within that time, I should not be asked to pay any outstanding shortfall debt.I draw your attention to the Financial Conduct Authority's 'Mortgages and Home Finance: Conduct of Business sourcebook' which says that if a lender decides to recover a mortgage shortfall debt they must make sure the borrower is informed of this within six years of the date of sale.Please confirm in writing that you will not pursue me for any outstanding shortfall debt.I look forward to hearing from you.Yours faithfully


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Hello my lovelies,
So a little while ago I did my A/W Evening Skincare Routine, see here and I realised I didn't post my morning skincare routine. There isn't much too my morning routine, I like to keep it simple and use as few products as possible as 9 times out of 10 I will be applying makeup and I don't want my skin to feel heavy.
I like to stick to what I know and love so I don't change my skincare up too often. If my skin is in good condition then I stick to the same products. I am always worried about trying new things and then I explode with a load of spots – what a lovely thought!
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This is my first step in the morning to remove any dirt from over night and the sleep from my eyes. I like to feel fresh and clean especially when I know I am going to be applying make up. I literally love this product so much I go through so many bottles and it does the job without my skin feeling dry and it leaves me feeling more awake and ready to face the day.
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This is the next step in my routine to put some eye lotion over my eyes. Now I know most people would incorporate this in their evening routine but I feel as though this reduces my puffy eyes. I used to be a morning person, but now every second of extra sleep counts in the morning so I like to feel refreshed. This is perfect for that, one of the main ingredients in this product is aloe vera which acts as a moisturizer and aids with reducing redness. It reduces my puffy eyes in the morning which is most definitely needed. It smells gorgeous too which is a major plus!
Liz Earle – Skin Repair Moisturizer See Here
This is last step in my simple morning routine which I think is the most important step. I really notice the difference if I forget to moisturize in the morning. My skin feels so soft after using this and is a great base for make up. I always use a primer for my make up and I think without using this my primers would not be as effective. When I'm having a no make up day (best kind of day) my skin lasts all day feeling smooth and hydrated. I am on my second tub of this and I simply don't think anything else will compete. My love of Liz Earle will never leave.
That is my nice and easy morning skincare routine for the colder months. It literally takes me less than 5 minutes which is a god send when I want a little more sleep in the cold dark mornings that the UK have.
Let me know what products are in your skincare routine & whether you have tried any of the products I have mentioned
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SANDY, Utah – The Real Salt Lake Reserves (2-0-0, 6 points) moved to 2-0-0 in the Reserve League season on Saturday night, when they downed the Colorado Rapids Reserves (0-1-0, 0 points) 2-1 at Rio Tinto Stadium.
Saturday's Reserve League match kicked off minutes after the conclusion of RSL's 1-1 MLS regular season draw against Colorado and drew a crowd of roughly 1,000 Claret-and-Cobalt faithful.
Real Salt Lake FW Devon Sandoval – who played 10 minutes in the first-team match on Saturday afternoon – scored RSL's first goal, nabbing the ball from the feet of Colorado GK Steward Ceus at the top of the box and calmly slotting home into an empty net. Sandoval now has two goals on the Reserve League season after scoring the lone goal in the RSL Reserves 1-0 win at San Jose on March 4.
The Claret-and-Cobalt went down a man in the 59th minute, when MF John Stertzer – who entered the match in the 45th minute for injured DF Carlos Salcedo – was shown a suspect straight red card for a tackle on Colorado DF Davy Armstrong.
RSL regular DF Nat Borchers subbed off in the 69th minute. Saturday's Reserve League match was Borchers' first game action of 2013 – the veteran center back is still recovering from offseason surgery on his right quad. Borchers was replaced by RSL GK Lalo Fernandez, who played forward with the Claret-and-Cobalt bench very thin due to injuries.
RSL-Arizona Academy MF Coco Navarro put the Claret-and-Cobalt up 2-0 in the 84th minute. FW Olmes Garcia started the play, picking up a ball at midfield and streaking down the center of the pitch before playing Navarro through on the right side. The 18-year-old Marquette University commit did the rest, dribbling into the right side of the area before firing his shot inside the far post.
Colorado MF Dillon Serna scored a screamer of a consolation goal in the 89th minute, picking up a loose corner kick 25 yards out and rifling a shot into the top-right corner.
The RSL Reserves next play on Sunday, March 31, when they'll take on the Seattle Sounders FC Reserves at 11:00 a.m. MT at America First Field in Sandy, Utah.
Goals by Period 1 2 F
Real Salt Lake 1 1 2
Colorado Rapids 0 1 1
Scoring Summary:
RSL – Devon Sandoval – 35'
RSL – Coco Navarro – 84'
COL – Dillon Serna – 89'
Misconduct Summary:
COL – Nathan Sturgis (Foul) – 40'
RSL – Enzo Martinez (Foul) – 41'
RSL – John Stertzer (Straight Red Card; Foul) – 59'
RSL – Olmes Garcia (Foul) – 87'
Real Salt Lake (4-1-2-1-2) – Josh Saunders (Jeff Attinella, 46'); Carlos Salcedo (John Stertzer, 45'), Aaron Maund, Nat Borchers (Lalo Fernandez, 69'), Abdoulie Mansally; Yordany Alvarez; Enzo Martinez, Cole Grossman; Ned Grabavoy (Coco Navarro*, 46'); Devon Sandoval, Joao Plata (Olmes Garcia, 46')
Colorado Rapids (4-4-2) – Steward Ceus; Davy Armstrong (Brenton Griffiths**, 86'), Shane O'Neill, Chris Klute, Kory Kindle; Kamani Hill, Nick LaBrocca (Andre Akpan, 63'), Nathan Sturgis, Jamie Smith (Danny Mwanga, 55'); Marcos Pirchio**, Edson Buddle (Dillon Serna, 69')
Substitutes not used: Bryan Windsor*
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The latest report by IMARC Group titled, "Global Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Market Report 2017-2021", finds that the global biopharmaceutical manufacturing capacity has grown at a CAGR of more than 4% during 2009-2016, reaching a volume of around 4.5 Million Litres in 2016. Biopharmaceuticals currently represent the fastest growing segment in the global pharmaceuticals market on account of their various health benefits. The high returns associated with their production has also prompted a number of companies to develop and manufacture biopharmaceutical drugs. Moreover, the emergence of biosimilars coupled with capacity expansions are further expected to bolster the market growth. According to the report, the global biopharmaceutical manufacturing market is projected to reach a volume of 6.6 Million Litres by 2021.
Highlights of the Global Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Market:
- Continuous improvements in technology and growth in outsourcing activities remain the major drivers.
- Mammalian cell culture represents the largest category, accounting for the majority of production volume.
- North America dominates the market, accounting for nearly half of the market share.
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One of the major trends in the market is the continuous improvement in technology aimed at increasing productivity. Manufacturers are focusing on processes such as continuous bioprocessing and the use of single-use or disposable devices so as to increase the yield. Moreover, owing to the significant cost savings and effectiveness as well as innovation and specific capabilities offered by the contract manufacturers, a number of companies are outsourcing various production activities to them. The contract manufacturers carry out activities ranging from the analytical testing of bioassays to testing the cell line stability and product characterisation. A large number of contract manufacturers are based in emerging regions such China and India which are progressively becoming a major destination for outsourcing.
On the basis of the cell culture, the market has been divided into mammalian and microbial cell cultures. Mammalian cell culture currently represents the largest category, accounting for the majority of the production volume. This can be attributed to the large number of drugs which are made using mammalian cell cultivation. On the basis of class, the market has been segmented into recombinant proteins, monoclonal antibodies, interferons, erythropoietin, granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), recombinant human insulin, vaccines and human growth hormones (HGH). On the basis of region, North America currently represents the largest market, accounting for nearly half of the total market share. Some of the key players operating in the market include Biogen Idec, Roche, Eli Lilly, Amgen, Merck & Co., Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, AbbVie, Sanofi S.A and Johnson & Johnson.
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Cell Culture:
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By: John Eggerton, Multichannel News
WASHINGTON — The bright lines between industries -- and some intersecting ones -- continued to be drawn Wednesday as Congress held its second (and third) hearings on changes to the law circumscribing cable and satellite's licenses to carry TV-station signals.
During a House Judiciary Committee hearing, "Copyright Licensing in a Digital Age: Competition, Compensation and the Need to Update the Cable and Satellite TV Licenses," National Cable & Telecommunications Association president Kyle McSlarrow and National Association of Broadcasters president David Rehr weighed in, joined by representatives from the direct-broadcast satellite, programmer and consumer sides.
In a report to Congress last year, the U.S. Copyright Office suggested it was time to make changes to the regime that licenses cable and satellite multichannel video-programming distributors to carry broadcast-TV signals.
For one thing, the office suggested it might be time for a single, unitary license covering all MVPDs. Currently, cable's license is based on gross receipts, while satellite providers pay a flat fee.
The most pressing issue is reauthorization of the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act, which deals with the DBS industry's compulsory license to import distant over-the-air signals to unserved customers and expires at year-end. But, per the Copyright Office's suggestions for reforming and/or harmonizing related permanent compulsory licenses for cable and satellite distant and local signals, Congress is looking to deal with those issues as well.
For his part, McSlarrow argued that the different compulsory licenses for cable and satellite make sense, with some small modifications. Copyright holders are fairly compensated, distributors are helped and consumers are well-served, he argued.
McSlarrow conceded that the compulsory copyright license is "horrifyingly complex" and understood the natural reaction to want to "harmonize" it. And if major reform is on the table, McSlarrow said, than retransmission consent reform must be factored into the equation,
Rehr concurred with McSlarrow that the compulsory license has generally worked, saying he disagreed with the Copyright Office's recommendation to harmonize the licenses.
"They have different business models, different technologies and different evolutions," said Rehr, adding, "we are unsure of all the unintended consequences particularly in this difficult economic climate."
But Rehr also agreed with the Copyright Office that the distant-signal license should be phased out for satellite carriers. He suggested replacing it with an affirmative obligation to carry local signals in all 210 markets.
DirecTV Group senior vice president Bob Gabrielli argued that his company already was able to serve every local market with a device that integrated the satellite channels with an over-the-air tuner. If viewers still couldn't get signals, he argued, it was because broadcasters weren't delivering their signal to all the viewers in their markets.
Arguing for doing away with the compulsory distant-signal licenses altogether was register of copyrights Marybeth Peters, who said that cable and satellite operators no longer needed its protection and could negotiate independently, as is the case with Internet-delivered video content.
Motion Picture Association of America executive vice president Fritz Attaway said the current regime undercompensated content creators, whose interests the committee should focus on. It isn't the fiber or the headend that consumers want, he said, but the high-value content.
McSlarrow begged to differ with the suggestion the compulsory license undercompensated programmers, saying that a collective yearly payment of a quarter of a billion dollars didn't sound like undercompensation.
Also sticking up for the compulsory license was a representative from Consumers Union, who said pay TV prices would skyrocket if content producers were allowed to have greater leverage over negotiations.
Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the Judiciary Committee chairman, called the hearing a first salvo and said he expected the debate to continue into the spring.
At a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the same subject -- and at exactly the same time -- Comcast executive vice president David Cohen and Jim Yager, head of the NAB TV board, were making similar cases.
The witness list was almost identical to Tuesday's meeting of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Technology and the Internet.
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HUNTSVILLE, TX (4/23/14) -- Researchers have found evidence of an interaction between prenatal smoking and genetic risk factors that increase aggressive behavior in children, especially in girls.
"The interesting issue is that not all children exposed to prenatal smoking will have behavioral problems. Some might, but others will not," said Brian Boutwell, Assistant Professor at Sam Houston State University, College of Criminal Justice and senior author on the study. "One possible explanation for this is that the effect of prenatal smoke exposure depends on the presence of 'triggering influence;' in this case, we investigated whether genetic risk factors might act as just such a trigger."
The study, "Prenatal Smoking and Genetic Risk: Examining the Childhood Origins of Externalizing Behavioral Problems," was led by Melissa Petkovsek, a doctoral student at Sam Houston State, and was based on a nationally representative sample of 1,600 twins, including identical and fraternal pairs, collected during early childhood. The study found that children exposed to prenatal smoking, and who also had an increased genetic propensity for antisocial behavior, exhibited the most pronounced conduct problems during childhood. Interestingly, this gene-environment interaction was most pronounced in females.
The study demonstrates that prenatal environmental experiences may influence future behavioral problems in children, especially in combination with the presence of genetic risk factors. Ultimately, the study presented four key findings:
- Genetic risk factors increase behavioral problems in children
- Prenatal maternal smoking, when taken in isolation, did not appear to directly result in behavioral problems
- The influence of genetic risk factors on behavior problems were most pronounced for children exposed to prenatal smoking
- The interaction between genetic factors and prenatal smoking was isolated to females
The current research underscores the link between genetic factors and antisocial behaviors. Boutwell said that while most research focuses on environmental factors, such as the family and neighborhoods, it is important to explore alternative environments, such as prenatal experiences, to gain a better understanding of the origins of problem behaviors.
"Social scientists have spent decades looking at what happens with parents and the family to try and determine why some children develop behavioral problems and others don't," said Boutwell. "While we are not saying that family environments are completely unimportant, environmental experiences encompass far more than just parenting. It is possible, in fact, than other environmental experiences may matter just as much, and perhaps more in some cases, for development than simply what happens inside the home between parents and children."
The study was coauthored by Kevin M. Beaver of Florida State University and J.C. Barnes from the University of Texas at Dallas. The study was published in Social Science and Medicine and is available at http://www.


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Q:I have eaten at Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery several times and LOVE their Tuscan Chicken. Is there a recipe that you could get for this delicious dish?
—Patricia Korns, Westmont
A: Yes! Here's the recipe for Rock Bottom's Tuscan Chicken Pasta from CraftWorks Restaurants & Breweries Inc., Rock Bottom's parent company in Chattanooga, Tenn.
As with many restaurant dishes, this Tuscan Chicken Pasta recipe includes sub-recipes, for bruschetta tomatoes and garlic butter, that you can make ahead and use any extra for other dishes. The recipe from the company was also for 1 serving; I've taken the liberty of quadrupling it to serve four.
Hopefully, this adapted recipe will get you close to the dining experience you had at Rock Bottom.
I'm very grateful the folks at CraftWorks Restaurants & Breweries agreed to share this Rock Bottom recipe. Not all companies or restaurants are as generous.
That leads me to this piece of advice for you and other readers: Remember you can always come up with your own version of almost any restaurant dish. A Google search turned up many recipes of "Tuscan Chicken," for example. All you would have to do is find one you like and tinker with it to match Rock Bottom's menu description for the dish: "Grilled chicken breast sliced and sauteed with diced tomatoes, fresh basil, balsamic vinegar and olive oil, then tossed with tender linguine and topped with fresh-grated Asiago cheese."
Tuscan chicken pasta
This recipe calls for grilled chicken. Use it if you have it, otherwise leftover roasted chicken — yours or from the supermarket rotisserie — would work just fine.
1 pound linguine pasta
1/2 cup oil
1 pound grilled chicken, sliced
2 cups bruschetta tomatoes (see accompanying recipe)
1/2 teaspoon salt and pepper
1/2 cup garlic butter (see accompanying recipe)
1/2 cup grated Asiago cheese
8 fresh basil leaves
1.Cook pasta according to manufacturer's directions. Drain. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Saute chicken for 30 seconds to 1 minute. Add tomatoes, salt and pepper. Cook 1 minute. Stir cooked pasta into the chicken mixture. Swirl in garlic butter.
2.Serve pasta and chicken mixture; sprinkle grated Asiago cheese on top. Garnish each plate with basil leaves.
Bruschetta tomatoes
2 cups tomatoes, diced
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
3/4 teaspoons each: salt and pepper
2 garlic cloves, chopped
2 tablespoons olive oil
4 fresh basil leaves, thinly sliced
Mix all ingredients together in a bowl. Cover, refrigerate until ready to use.
Roasted garlic butter
This recipe calls for a head of roasted garlic. To make it, slice the top off a head of garlic to expose the top of all the cloves, rub on some olive oil, wrap the head in aluminum foil, bake in a 350-degree oven for 40 to 60 minutes until the cloves are soft and golden brown. Let cool, squeeze cloves into a bowl and set aside. Unused roasted garlic butter may be refrigerated or frozen for future use.
1/2 pound each: butter, margarine
1 head roasted garlic cloves, pureed
8 cloves garlic, minced
4 sprigs parsley, chopped
2 teaspoons salt
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1.Place butter and margarine in the bowl of a stand mixer. Using the paddle attachment on medium speed, mix until completely soft and smooth.
2.Add the remaining ingredients and mix until blended. Stop as necessary to scrape down the sides of the bowl with a spatula to ensure even blending.
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Several days ago, FOTM's lowtechgrannie posted a video of a media rarity — a reporter who doesn't toe the party line and isn't afraid to speak the truth. He's Fox19 Cincinnati news anchor and investigative reporter Ben Swann.
At the end of the video, Swann noted that in the space of less than one month after the 7-hour Islamic terrorist attack of September 22, 2012, on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, four high-level U.S. military flag officers had been removed, for one ostensible reason or another. The four are Generals Petraeus, Allen, and Ham, and Admiral Gaouette. (In the U.S. military, flag officers are general officers in the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard of such senior rank that they are entitled to fly their own flags to mark where the officer exercises command.)
Swann withheld speculating on what this quite unprecedented attrition of senior U.S. military officers means. But this attrition cries out for some effort at explanation, no matter how speculative.
We'll begin with the facts that we've been told.
1. General David Petraeus
A highly-decorated four-star general who had served over 37 years in the U.S. Army, 60-year-old David Petraeus had been Commander of the International Security Assistance Force; Commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan; 10th Commander, U.S. Central Command; and Commanding General of Multi-National Force – Iraq who oversaw all coalition forces in Iraq.
On September 6, 2011, Obama recruited Petraeus to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. A week before, in anticipation of that appointment, Petraeus had retired from the U.S. Army.
Petraeus lasted 14 months as CIA director. On November 9, 2012, he resigned from the CIA, citing his extramarital affair with Paula Broadwell, a married woman who is the principal author of Petraeus' biography, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus. Petraeus claims that the affair had begun in late 2011 when he was no longer an active duty military officer, and ended in the summer of 2012. The affair reportedly was discovered in the course of an FBI investigation into harassing emails that Broadwell had been sending to Jill Kelley, a Tampa socialite and a longstanding family friend of the Petraeuses whom Broadwell perceived to be a romantic rival.
2. General John R. Allen
A four-star general of the U.S. Marine Corps, 58-year-old General John Allen had succeeded Petraeus as Commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan on July 18, 2011. He was nominated to be NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, pending confirmation by the United States Senate.
As part of the fallout of the Petraeus-Broadwell affair, correspondence between Allen and Jill Kelley also came to light. The FBI reportedly uncovered 20,000 to 30,000 pages of correspondence — mostly email — between Allen and Kelley from 2010 to 2012. Reportedly, their correspondence was "flirtatious" and "inappropriate" as Allen and Kelley are both married, but not to each other. (Good grief. How could a 4-star general even have so much free time as to write 20,000 to 30,000 emails in the space of two years to ANYONE?)
On November 13, 2012, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta suspended Allen's confirmation hearing, pending investigations into the general's "inappropriate communication" with Kelley. Panetta also requested Congress to speed the confirmation of General Joseph Dunford to take over as commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. In effect, not only will Allen not be promoted, he has lost his present command post in Afghanistan.
3. General Carter F. Ham
A well-decorated U.S. Army general, 60-year-old Ham became Commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) on March 8, 2011.
U.S. AFRICOM is one of nine Unified Combatant Commands of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). As one of six that are regionally focused, AFRICOM is devoted solely to Africa. James S. Robbins of The Washington Times writes that Gen. Ham "is a very well regarded officer who made AFRICOM into a true Combatant Command after the ineffective leadership of his predecessor, General William E. 'Kip' Ward."
On October 18, 2012, in a DoD news briefing, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that Gen. Ham was
relieved fired: "Today I am very pleased to announce that President Obama will nominate Army Gen. David Rodriguez to succeed Gen. Carter Ham as commander of U.S. Africa Command."
According to Joint doctrine, "the tour length for combatant commanders and Defense agency directors is three years." But Gen. Ham had only been in the commander position at AFRICOM for a year and a half and the informal word was that he wasn't scheduled to rotate out until March 2013.
Pat Dollard of BareNakedIslam claims that the scuttlebutt is that, on September 11, 2012, Gen. Ham had received the same e-mails the White House received — from our people in Benghazi, requesting help/support as the terrorist attack was taking place. Ham immediately had a rapid response unit ready and communicated to the Pentagon that he had the unit ready. Dollard writes:
"General Ham then received the order to stand down. His response was to screw it, he was going to help anyhow. Within 30 seconds to a minute after making the move to respond, his second in command apprehended General Ham and told him that he was now relieved of his command."
Gen. Ham's "second in command" is not named. The Pentagon's official line is that Ham had retired.
4. Rear Admiral Charles M. Gaouette
The recipient of various personal decorations and unit awards, including the Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale Award for inspirational leadership in 2003, Rear Admiral Charles Gaouette was promoted to Commander of Carrier Strike Group 3 (aka John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group) in April 2012.
Carrier Strike Group 3 is one of five U.S. Navy carrier strike groups currently assigned to the U.S. Pacific Fleet. U.S. Navy carrier strike groups are employed in a variety of roles that involve gaining and maintaining sea control and projecting power ashore, as well as projecting naval airpower ashore.
The aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis is the strike group's current flagship, and as of 2012, other units assigned to Carrier Strike Group 3 include Carrier Air Wing Nine; the guided-missile cruisers USS Mobile Bay and USS Antietam; and the ships of Destroyer Squadron 21, the guided-missile destroyers USS Wayne E. Meyer, USS Dewey, USS Kidd, and USS Milius.
Carrier Group Three formed the core of the naval power during the initial phase of Operation Enduring Freedom in 2001. "Operation Enduring Freedom" is the official name used by the U.S. government for the War in Afghanistan, together with a number of smaller military actions, under the umbrella of the Global "War on Terror". On 16 July 2012, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that the scheduled deployment of Carrier Strike Group Ten was advanced by four months, with its anticipated area of operation shifting from the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific to the U.S. Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf and North Arabian Sea. On 27 August 2012, four months ahead of schedule, Carrier Strike Group Three departed for an eight-month deployment to the U.S. Fifth Fleet under the command of Rear Admiral Charles M. Gaouette.
On October 27, 2012, the commander of the U.S. Fifth Fleet, Vice Admiral John W. Miller, ordered the temporary re-assignment of Rear Admiral Charles M. Gaouette pending the results of an investigation by the Naval Inspector General. Gaouette's chief of staff, Captain William C. Minter, will lead the strike group until the arrival of Rear Admiral Troy M. ("Mike") Shoemaker, who will assume command of the strike group.
Tom Lombardo writes for the Navy Times, Oct. 27, 2012, that Adm. Gaouette was relieved, mid-deployment, and is accused of "inappropriate leadership judgment," according to a Navy official familiar with the case. Gaouette was told to go home — to return to the Carrier Strike Group's homeport in Bremerton, Washington, until the investigation is complete.
There you have it. Within two months after the Benghazi attack, four senior U.S. military officers were purged:
- Gen. Ham, on October 18.
- Adm. Gaouette, on October 27.
- Gen. Petraeus, on November 9.
- Gen. Allen, on November 13.
Ostensibly, Petraeus' "retirement" and Allen's suspended promotion are due to both men's moral conduct. But surely we are not so naive as to think that Petraeus and Allen are the only U.S. military officers who've ever committed adultery or written flirtatious email. As for Ham's "retirement" and Gaouette's "temporary re-assignment" (reassignment to what?), there is not even a whisper that either man's morals or personal conduct is at issue.
So what should we make of all this? Is it all just coincidence or something more sinister?
Ann Barnhardt, in her blog of Nov. 13, 2012, calls it Obama's "night of the long knives."
The last step in Hitler's quest for total, dictatorial power was the purging of the German military of any factions that were in any way autonomous and not 100% loyal to him, specifically the SA (Sturmabteilung or Storm Detachment). The SA was run by Ernst Rohm. On June 30, 1934, the "Night of the Long Knives" was executed when Hitler had Rohm and the rest of the SA leaders killed. Hitler publicly explained that the purge was executed because of sexual perversion in the ranks of the SA who were "plotting" against him.
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And now, the Obama putsch regime is purging them and anyone else they deem to be a threat. It won't surprise me if Petraeus is indeed court martialed and stripped of his pension, because that is what the rest of the flag officer corps fears more than death. Make an example of Petraeus, and maybe Allen, and that will whip the rest of them into line.
This process of a totalitarian oligarchy constantly purging its own ranks in fits of paranoia and demands for total personal loyalty is as old as the hills. Lenin and Stalin eventually murdered almost every person that entered their inner-circles. Same with Mao. Same with Saddam Hussein. Same with the three Kims in North Korea. Beyond the Night of the Long Knives, Hitler was also having his own people killed continuously.
Just as the Night of the Long Knives in '34 was just the beginning, so too is this situation in the former American republic just the beginning.
Writing for Veterans Today, Gordon Duff has an even more provocative take on the four military officers:
The decision [to fire Admiral Gaouette] was made based on a conversation with the Secretary of Defense who, at the end of the talk, believed Gaouette was part of a group of military officers who have been under suspicion for planning a "Seven Days in May" type overthrow of the US government if President Obama is re-elected.
This is not conjecture, dozens of key officers face firing, hundreds are under investigation, all with direct ties to extremist elements in the Republican Party and the Israeli lobby.
Reports received are sourced at the highest levels of the Pentagon and indicate that the administration has been aware of these plans for months.
Whatever the truth, one thing of which we can be sure is that the firings of three generals and an admiral have something (or everything) to do with the Benghazi attack. It'll be interesting if the newly-elected 113th U.S. Congress will conduct serious investigations and hearings on Benghazi, although Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) is already on record as being opposed to an independent investigation.
I wouldn't hold my breath….
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Invitation for public comments on a requested administrative waiver of the Coastwise Trade Laws for the vessel MYSTIC WIND.
As authorized by Pub. L. 105-383 and Pub. L. 107-295, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for such a waiver has been received by MARAD. The vessel, and a brief description of the proposed service, is listed below. The complete application is given in DOT docket 2004-19424 at http://dms.dot.gov. Interested parties may comment on the effect this action may have on U.S. vessel builders or businesses in the U.S. that use U.S.-flag vessels. If MARAD determines, in accordance with Pub. L. 105-383 and MARAD's regulations at 46 CFR part 388 (68 FR 23084; April 30, 2003), that the issuance of the waiver will have an unduly adverse effect on a U.S.-vessel builder or a business that uses U.S.-flag vessels in that business, a waiver will not be granted. Comments should refer to the docket number of this notice and the vessel name in order for MARAD to properly consider the comments. Comments should also state the commenter's interest in the waiver application, and address the waiver criteria given in § 388.4 of MARAD's regulations at 46 CFR part 388.
Submit comments on or before November 29, 2004.
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As described by the applicant the intended service of the vessel MYSTIC WIND is:
Intended Use: "Overnight dinner sails, crewed charter, multi-day corporate team building."
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On April 24, USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed the nation's 4th case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in an animal that was sampled for the disease at a rendering facility in central California. This animal was never presented for slaughter for human consumption, so at no time presented a risk to the food supply, or to human health in the United States.
Through its continuing epidemiological investigation, APHIS--in collaboration with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA)--has identified that one progeny born to the positive cow in the last 2 years was stillborn, and another has been located on a site in another state. That animal has been appraised, humanely euthanized, and sampled for BSE at the National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, Iowa. Test results for that animal are negative for BSE. No birth cohort cattle have been located through the investigation.
A hold order has been placed on all cattle at a second dairy (dairy 2) that is associated with the dairy of the initial positive cow (also called the index dairy). Both dairies remain under quarantine. Inventories of both the index dairy and dairy 2 have been completed by CDFA. Records are still being matched and validated to determine if any at-risk cattle may be present.
In addition, a calf ranch where the initial positive cow was raised 10 years ago is being investigated.
The Food and Drug Administration and CDFA continue the investigation of feed records at the index dairy, rendering facility and calf ranch. To date, 10 feed firms have been identified as suppliers for the index dairy during the time period of interest. At the rendering facility, feed investigators confirmed that all domestic distribution of meat and bone meal meets federal labeling requirements.
USDA will continue to work closely with CDFA and FDA to provide additional information as it is available.
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Tailgating at the University of Minnesota
Minneapolis Ordinance 319.310(c) defines the area that allows tailgating with alcohol and the U of MN area is not included.
However, the Minnesota Legislature gave the U of M the authority to choose to allow tailgating with alcohol. Only the lots on U of M property that they have selected may tailgate with alcohol.
See the University of Minnesota Tailgating Policy for rules and locations.
Tailgating with alcohol is not allowed in parking lots surrounding the U of M.
People can tailgate in a licensed parking lot without alcohol if it is allowed by the parking lot owner.
Alcohol is a highly controlled substance and can only be consumed in designated areas. Minneapolis police will enforce these ordinances to ensure the safety of residents as well as visitors.
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Gigabyte Force K7 Review
How much of a keyboard can 33 quid buy you?
Published: 26th November 2013 | Source: RushKit |
Making a decision about what keyboard to buy is always tricky. We all have our favourite types of keys; some people refuse to type on anything that isn't mechanical, whilst others can't stand the sound of mechanical keys and so will only use a membrane, or scissor keyboards (the keyboards commonly found in laptops).
The Gigabyte Force K7 keyboard is a scissor type membrane keyboard, which employs an ultra short key travel design. A lot of the choice when it comes to keyboards is down to personal preference which often makes it difficult to recommend a product to the gaming market as a whole. However, at £33, the Gigabyte K7 isn't intending to compete with the highest end mechanical keyboards and for a membrane keyboard, we think this is great value for money.
|Switch Type
|Switch Life
|5 million times
|Key Profile
|Travel Distance
|Activation Distance
|Peak Force
|55g ±10%
|480(L)* 195(W)*26.5(H) mm
|Cable Length
|1.8m nylon braided cord
|OS Support
|Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7/8
Are you going to choose the Gigabyte K7 over a mechanical keyboard if the latter is in budget? Probably not. However, this isn't intending to take customers away from their £100 keyboards. The K7 is for the users who want to enjoy the games that they play, without having to spend the ends of the earth on a keyboard. Of course, some users feel the necessity for every keystroke they make to be faster than their opponent's. If this is the case for you, not much is going to lure you away from the latest mechanical keyboard. For the average user on the other hand who wants a great gaming keyboard at an incredible price, the Gigabyte K7 flourishes.
The K7 still does have anti-ghosting around the QWASD, shift and space keys, meaning in games, all of these seven keys can be pressed simultaneously without interfering with each other. We wouldn't usually expect to see features such as this in membrane keyboards at all, let alone keyboards as cheap as this!
Another great feature of the K7 is the backlighting ability. It offers blue, green and cyan, and also allows you to cycle through intensity of each of these with one of two cleverly implemented scroll wheels. Usually, we wouldn't expect to see backlighting at all on a keyboard as cheap as this, let alone a choice of three different colours! We would have liked the option of red backlighting too, however at only £33 we can't complain too much about that. The second scroll wheel is for controlling the volume. Features like this are common among keyboards of this price, however, it's a great addition to have a smooth scrolling wheel rather than a cumbersome button that we see on most other keyboards at this price.
As you'd expect, the K7 also offers media keys on the function keys. It would have been nice to have seen dedicated media buttons, but we do think that additional buttons would have spoiled the overall sleek look of the keyboard, and for buttons that you rarely use anyway, this isn't much of an issue for us. It's also nice to see social media keys on the function lines, with dedicated buttons to open Facebook and Google straight from a key press.
Overall, the K7 looks great. The matte black finish, backlighting and 1.8 metre braided cable are great touches to a keyboard of this price. As I personally spend my days typing on a mechanical keyboard, and for a membrane keyboard, this actually does feel really nice. The keys are easy to press down, and the scissor style keys give a good amount of feedback which adds even more of a luxurious feel to the Gigabyte K7.
We think this is amazing value at only £33, and so we've awarded it the OC3D Value for Money award.
Thanks to Gigabyte for sending the K7 in for review, you can discuss your thoughts in the OC3D Forums.
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- There is no slash key next to left shift
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but then at £30 it's still a great product. if they do a revision of it with the above...... I'd jump at getting one.Quote
I bet think the blue will match her caselighting pretty well to!


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I'm looking for any information on Henrietta Philip, born 15 February 1841. Married Henry McPherson, on 13 February 1863, Scoon, Perthshire, Scotland and immigrated to NZ 1865. Died 3 March, 1919,in Clive, Hawkes Bay, NZ. Her parents were John and Margaret Philip (nee Keith).
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Henry married Henrietta Philip in Scoon, Perthshire, Scotland on 13 February 1863. He was born 11 January 1839, in Scoon. He died 4 February 1921, Clive, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. His parents were John and Isabella McPherson (nee Gregg). Any information on this would be appreciated. Not having middle names doesn't help.
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Celebrating club football and shining the light on incompetent and biased journos indulging in stereotyping and negativity.
So the European national football championship is finally off to a great start, and I am not talking about the ceremony, which is scrupulously avoided by monitoring the Djokovic-Federer game that was on at the same time. No, the appraisal refers to the opening game opposing 1/2 hosts Poland to Europe's boo boys, Greece. Although it ended 1-1 after Greek captain Karagounis failed to take the advantage for his side from a penalty kick, it was a most entertaining and fairly dramatic affair, with Borussia Dortmund's in form hot commodity striker Lewandowski confirming his potential by grabbing his first of the tournament. The two red cards, one for each side, also raised the intensity. Though Greece will rue the missed penalty that could have brought them precious 3 points, they can probably be quite satisfied to grab one point from this first and always delicate fixture against the hosts where they were clearly not the favorites.
What follows is less match commentary than a team review, the format of which I will try to build on during the following games – enjoy, comments welcome.
Poland-Greece, Friday June 8, 2012 – 18h kick-off
Greece Team Profile
Hollywood factor: This one has to go to Giorgos Samaras as young Evan Almighy, although defender's Holebas haircut and vociferous complaining to the ref (after claims for a penalty for a handball by Polish defender Perquis fell on deaf ears) could easily have him landing a minor role in Mel Gibson's Apocalypto.
Old/mean man kudos: Either captain Karagounis, for sheer experience, or Dimitris Salpingidis the goalscorer, for his greater "300" hard man coefficient (respectable beard helping).
French connection (1): A lonely Giorgos Tzavellas (on the bench, unsubstituted) featured in this year's resurgent Monaco side. Otherwise it is difficult challenge to make the connection, as Greek players resolutely prefer the German Bundesliga as their main export destination. Who says Greeks and Germans can't get along? Or that the Greeks don't fancy the Euro?
New hype kid most touted to join the English Premier League: I could see Roberto Martinez fancying the deft footwork of young Ninis to rejuvenate his Wigan side. Otherwise, Sam Allardyce may already be on the phone for hard man Salpingidis.
Poland Team Profile
Hollywood factor: In the tradition of the inimitable Ralph Macchio, we could easily see the hosts' goalkeeper, Szczesny, adopt the funky "Z-man" moniker (on the strength of the two Z's in his name) and develop a great career playing nerdy kids up until the age of 40.
Old/mean man kudos: none whatsoever – this is clearly a bunch of young boys with plenty of acne to boot, à la Gunners quoi. The only alternative may be coach Smuda, but only if eligibility guidelines are relaxed.
French connection (1): Ludovic Obraniak, the "outsider" to this team who has shown his talent at Bordeaux this season after leaving Lille following their title win in 2011. Too bad he couldn't demonstrate more of that on the few opportunities he had to make the difference this evening.
New hype kid most touted to join the English Premier League: Though his complex name may considerably reduce journo enthusiasm, Błaszczykowski's carefully crafted metro-sexual (Beckham-approved) hairstyle, as well as regular forays into the final 3rd of the opposition's half, and the superb cross for the first goal, will surely suffice to make him a UK tabloid darling for a reasonably priced move to the EPL – at the very least at QPR, maybe even for Liverpool (if Benitez was still there). Alternatively, Newcastle United might be tempted to increase their francophone credentials with Obraniak. Failing all that, Lewandowski might also find his way there, perhaps at Arsenal with his buddy Szczesny (especially if RVP moves on).
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Historic moment of the match: in a heavily symbolic moment that will have the rest of Europe cheering in approval, the unfortunately (Tintin baddie-like) named Greek defender Papastathopoulos sees the first red of the tournament, as Greece is reduced to 10 men. Cue riots in Athens.
Hero of the game: it's a close call between super subs Dimitris Salpingidis (goal + won penalty for the Greeks) and Przemyslaw Tyton, the sub goalie whose first intervention consisted in saving the penalty shot from Karagounis.
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In America, almost nobody has read the Constitution.
But …
Everybody is a Supreme Court justice.
Americans tend to regard the Constitution in much the same way they do God: As a true and absolute reflection of themselves. Americans think that God is made in their image, and they also think that their Constitutional rights are exactly what they want them to be. They include in this, oddly enough, the fact that those Constitutional rights do not belong to other Americans, but to them, or at most, their group, alone.
This willingness to abrogate the rights of other people on the basis of self-serving and entirely bogus Constitutionality is not only false, it is of fairly recent origin. It is also concentrated in the arguments of a few groups of people that I call (paraphrasing Mary Ann Glendon) "rights talkers."
I don't remember reading anything Martin Luther King, Jr ever said that implied that the Constitution did not apply to white people, native Americans, or anyone, for that matter. His arguments were based on the idea that the Gospels of Christ, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution applied to everyone.
His method of arguing his case elevated the debate of this whole nation. He made us better people by what he said and what he did.
But Martin Luther King was a great man and a Christian man who found his primary and basic claim to the humanity of all people first and foremost in the Gospels of Christ.
That is a transcendent difference between him and the rights talkers of today.
I think the change began with abortion.
There is no possible way that anyone can argue for the "right" to commit wholesale slaughter against a whole class of people without totally nullifying the basis of Martin Luther King's arguments. His call for equality was based on a deep understanding of the essential equality of all humanity, created as it is in the image and likeness of God, and endowed, as our founding documents say, by that Creator with certain unalienable rights. Abortion on demand does away with that premise as an arguable point.
There can be no equality of human beings if some human beings are not even considered worthy of having a basic right to life.
The debate about legalized abortion opened the doorway for the bastardization of the basic principles on which this country stands. It was but a short step after that to begin redefining the freedoms we have always regarded as belonging universally to all Americans in new, selective and narrowed ways.
People who try to argue for human rights without access to the foundation of all human rights, which is our profound equality before God, end up discriminating. They very quickly begin to advocate for practices which are not only discriminatory, but are flat-out tyrannical.
Since the types of things and the manner of debate that is employed by these people almost by definition puts them at odds with the Christian ethos of the equality of humanity, they also put them at odds with Christians, themselves. Abortion, the killing of unborn infants, is anathema to Christians who have from the beginning of the faith stood against human sacrifice of all types, including the practices of abandoning and exposing unwanted infants.
The split in our civil society began when that civil society departed from its roots to enter into the violent discrimination against an entire class of human beings by defining them as non-humans who may be killed with impunity. Those who adhered to this logic sheared themselves loose from the moorings of American society.
As their various "rights movements" took shape, they were always rooted in other soil than the great American enterprise of freedom and equality for all humanity.
For two hundred years this idea of freedom and equality had marched forward, expanding as it went. The founding fathers made tortured accommodations to slavery which could not stand. We fought a great civil war over slavery in particular, and the principles in the ideas on which this country was founded in general. Women, half the people, used the freedoms in the Constitution and the arguments in the Gospels to gain voting rights for themselves. Martin Luther King based an ultimately successful case with the American people for an end to segregation on them.
But these new "rights" movements of the last quarter of the 20th century and now into the 21st century cut themselves loose from the essential American logic at abortion. All people were no longer created equal in their way of measuring such things. And they certainly were not endowed by their Creator with certain rights such as the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Clearly, in the logic of those who follow abortion, not everyone is entitled to the same rights. More to the point, this iron wall of the God of Gospels on Whom such ideas of the universal equality of all humanity are based, must be taken down, by force if necessary.
It was, and it is, either Jesus Christ or their right to kill with impunity. The two cannot coexist.
What has grown out of this ethos is a deadly rhetorical stew of bad ideas and bastardized Constitutionalism that seeks to apply the bill of rights to those who hold certain ideas and to withdraw those rights from those who disagree with them.
Traditional Christianity as it has been taught and practiced for 2,000 years can not and will not bend on questions that strike to the heart of what we are. The question of who is human is simple in Christianity. We are all human. The question of who matters is equally simple. We all matter.
No group that agitates for their "rights" need look further than that for their arguments.
However, if the definition of those "rights" begins to tamper with the essential question of who a human is in ways that deny the basic moral structure of functioning humanity, then they no longer have access to the Gospels as their support. That is what has happened in contemporary America.
The result has been that we find claims to "rights" that do not exist, either in the Gospels, or the Constitution. These so-called "rights" are not "rights" at all, but rather a limitation of the Constitutional guarantees found in the First Amendment.
Suddenly, we are faced with people who use rhetorical film-flam phrases which align in sound but not meaning to American values and freedoms to claim that Christians do not have the same rights that other Americans enjoy. Christians who engage the larger culture by use of free speech, freedom of assembly and the right to petition their government are accused of attempting to "force their religion on others."
Christians who work together in groups, which is a clearly guaranteed Constitutional right used by every "rights talker" who is attacking them for doing it, are suddenly accused of violating "separation of church and state" and threatened with the tax man bogeyman.
At the same time, any "rights talker" group whose 501c3 status was challenged would yell about their "rights" and "freedoms."
The question becomes do Christians have the same rights as other citizens?
Do Christians have the right to free assembly? Do Christians have the right to free speech? Do Christians have the right to petition their government?
The right to free assembly goes deeper, since people who attack the Constitutional rights of Christians are also actively seeking to limit the First Amendment right to free exercise of religion. They do this based on a hypothetical construct we like to call separation of church and state. Separation of church and state does not appear in the Constitution.
What does appear is a prohibition against the government passing laws to form a state religion and a prohibition of the government passing laws to interfere with the free exercise of religion. This is found in the same amendment that gives us our rights to freedom of speech, assembly and to petition the government. It reads like this:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people to peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for redress of grievances.
The courts have looked deep into their own navels in the past half century and created a "wall of separation between church and state." They have increasingly determined that is "wall" that they created means that the government has a duty to censor religious free speech of all types, and religious freedom of assembly in public places ranging from schools, to athletic events to parks.
At the same time, our president has pushed the government into the business of coercing religious people to violate their beliefs, including beliefs based on 2,000 years of constant Christian teaching, under the guise of the HHS Mandate. There is also a combative and often hectoring subset of our population who try to break up Christian discussions on on-line web-sites and/or in public debate.
These people always seem to toss around phrases such as "freedom of worship" and "privacy of your own homes." They seek to apply these limits to Christian activity. Christians, they tell us, have "freedom to worship" in their "own houses of worship" and to believe what they want "in their own homes." But that they do not have the freedom to engage in public debate based on their beliefs the same as other citizens.
Christians who use their freedom of speech of speak out about their beliefs in the public square, or who organize to effect changes in policy by means of petitioning their government or exercising their right to vote are told that they are out of line. They are trying to "force their religion" on other people.
These exact same people are engaged in using their freedom of speech when they say these things. They are usually actively organizing into groups to seek redress in the courts and to petition their government.
But they do not want Christians to have the same freedoms. They want Constitutional rights for themselves, but not for those who disagree with them.
This rhetoric is rooted in the fact that these rights talkers are the intellectual heirs and political allies of the abortion movement. They are, at their core, convinced that some people are more equal than others. In fact, one of their founding principles is that whole classes of human beings are not human enough to have an inherent right to be alive.
No good thing can come from a philosophy that is built on this murderous idea.
It is not an accident that rights talk has morphed so seamlessly into demands for limitations of the basic rights of those who disagree with the rights talkers.
It is a natural and inevitable outgrowth of a philosophy that is based on the darkest sort of discrimination. I am talking about a form of discrimination so dark that it says that the murder of a whole class of human begins is a "human right" of the murderer.
So long as "rights talkers" deny the human rights of whole classes of people, they are incapable of creating a consistent philosophy of human rights for themselves or the world they are trying to create.


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NEWTOWN, Conn. — The votes of target shooters, hunters and gun owners can make a huge impact in the 2012 election. To assist eligible voters with registering and with evaluating candidates' positions on Second Amendment issues, the National Shooting Sports Foundation has launched GunVote, a voter education website at nssf.org/gunvote.
To reach the most voters possible with this educational effort, NSSF is encouraging Twitter users to tag their election-related tweets with#gunvote and to keep track of related issues on NSSF's Facebook page.
The GunVote website provides links to voter registration information for all 50 states, a guide to political races in voter districts, the latest polls and a selection of news articles so voters can read the coverage of journalists and others who are following the campaigns and providing insights.
With so many Americans having become first-time gun owners in recent years, NSSF says voter education efforts are particularly important in the 2012 election. Having exercised their Second Amendment right for the first time, new gun owners are acutely aware that the freedom to own and use firearms must be protected, giving them a powerful and perhaps new reason to go to the polls.
"It's great to see that so many individuals have become firearm owners and are enjoying the shooting sports, but these freedoms require constant support from elected officials at the state and federal levels," said NSSF President and CEO Steve Sanetti. "Votes on legislation and appointments to the courts have profound effects on our firearms freedoms."
Sanetti noted that two landmark Supreme Court decisions reaffirming the individual right to own firearms — the Heller and McDonald cases — were decided by 5-to-4 votes.
In the 2010 congressional election, some 46.2 percent of women and 45 percent of men 18 and over reported voting, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Gun owners tend to be more active at the polls than this average, but the point is there is a lot of room for improvement. "More gun owners need to vote," said Sanetti. "It's critical that they do, and that they consider closely what candidates are saying, or not saying, about our firearms freedoms."
Voting in the 2012 election is a process that begins by making sure to register, then becoming educated about the candidates running for office and discussing choices with family and friends so that they understand the importance of voting to protect America's firearms freedoms. The final step, of course, is going to the polls and, when necessary, helping others to get to the polls, too.
Learn more at nssf.org/gunvote.


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Full-featured, best-performing super-zoom
One-size-fits-all bridge cameras are often touted as DSLR alternatives, but they've always lacked great performance and image quality – until Sony's Cyber-shot RX10 showed up, that is.
High quality electronic viewfinder, Classic camera styling
Fast performance, very good picture quality for its class
Full 1080p movie recording with stereo sound
Good viewfinder, Pleasing handling, Impressive focus performance
Decent image quality, raw capture option
Excellent picture quality for its class
Sharp results shooting handheld even at the far reaches of the zoom
Excellent image quality, Exemplary handgrip
Sharp results handheld at maximum optical reach, Manual zoom
Lot of shooting options
Video is surprisingly smooth and sharp in the top 1080/30p mode
Flexible LCD screen
Excellent VR optical stabilisation, Built-in GPS with POI database
30x zoom lens, a high-res 3-inch LCD
Ease of use, simplicity
8fps burst and lots of other continuous modes, 180 and 360 degree panoramas
Good value, Big zoom option, Sharp results usually
Excellent high-resolution LCD screen
Feels great in the hand, Awe-inspiring zoom
Feature packed, Good zoom range, Decent image quality
Lots of optical zoom, Built-in Wi-Fi, Good value for money
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North Queens resident Rachel Morgenstern has always been a giver. After earning her bachelor's degree at CUNY Hunter College, she entered the graduate school of education and began working at the Welfare Rights Initiative. The program promotes student activism, leadership-training organizations, and navigates students to stay in school.
"We work to promote access to education for all, but especially men and women who receive some form of public assistance and who are told they cannot go to school due to mandatory work requirements," said Morgenstern.
The non-profit organization is located in Hunter College with many clients in Queens and throughout NYC. For their clients that do receive public assistance, such as welfare, food stamps, etc., 90 percent of them tend to be women with children. Over 50 percent of them do not have a high school diploma, so WRI works with them to make sure that the 35-hour of mandatory work per week to receive the benefits can be exchanged for education, internships and externships credit.
"A lot of our clients are told that they can't go to school due to the mandatory work hours they need to fulfill from their public assistance funds," said Morgenstern. "We're here to change that."
To further help their clients receive education while on public assistance, WRI wrote up the Work and Study Internship bill which was passed in 2000 and renewed every two years since, but this year it will be written as a permanent law.
With that in place, they have allowed their client's education, internship and externship hours count as credit for their mandatory work hours.
"The goal is to not assign work during school hours like the program has done before, rather count the school hours as credits toward the work requirements so to receive quality education," said Morgenstern.
Statistics prove that 80 percent of women with a bachelor's degree move away from the poverty line and become active in their communities versus the ones who don't receive quality education.
You can learn more on their website.