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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.Oscar Wilde
When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.Otto von Bismarck
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but nonviolent man is unjust by accident.Mohandas K. Gandhi
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.Unknown
The way out is the way through.L. Ron Hubbard
Man punishes the action, but God the intention.Unknown
Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.Len Deighton
It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest, active effort, and good results will inevitably follow. The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.Grenville Kleiser
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving. And we all have some power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.Louisa May Alcott
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.Rita Mae Brown
Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.Deepak Chopra
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.Seneca
A truth that's told with bad intention beats all the lies you can invent.William Blake
It is conscious intention which confers potency in the life of each disciple and initiate.Djwhal Khul
What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.Oprah Winfrey
Inspiration is intention obeyed.Emily Carr
Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.James Arthur Ray
Good intentions aren't good enough!George W. Bush
My free will is a paradoxical partner of the power of intention.Wayne Dyer
To understand spiritual intention and insight is the knowledge of the rock people. Within each of us is the story of yesterday.Wolf Moondance
We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.Barbara De Angelis
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Gossip Girl Promos: "Cross Rhodes"by Steve Marsi at . Comments
Below are a couple of promos (U.S. and Canada) for next week's episode of Gossip Girl, "Cross Rhodes." It picks up right where "Crazy, Cupid, Love" left off, and the aftermath of Dair's kiss is quickly felt by all.
According to the episode synopsis, "Blair tries to prove Serena's suspicions wrong in order to save their friendship." Good luck with that. If last night told us anything, it's that she does have feelings for Dan.
Speaking of the Muppet, he's confronted about his feelings as well - by Chuck. Is Dan really winning, as he tells Chuck in the Canadian promo below, or is the Bass Man in another league, as he claims?
Take a look at both teasers for next week and see what you think:
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chuck and blair forever, dan is just a test and everybody knows chuck and blair belong together
@ Katie
Im sorry, but we must be watching a different show because the ONLY reason Blair even stayed with Louis is because Chuck let her go on the season finale last year...just saying
I agree with people on here...how the heck does Blair go from saying "I love you more every day" to Chuck, to kissing Dan Humphrey in such a short time? She's gone mad...NATE AND SERENA need to get the heck together!!! Maybe Eva should come back to remind Blair Chuck won't be around fighting for you forever, so you better wise up and make the right choice!!! And Dan needs to move to a different continent and start a new life, Serena would always be hurt by Dan and Blair. At least after her affair with Nate, she left town and felt awful about it!!! Blair is being so inconsiderate to her friend's feelings...
@ nontu: it is no incest, they are not blood related, married parents means nothing @ Katie: yeah, he supported Blair through everything because most of it were things she didn´t want Chuck to know, she never let Chuck to do that. And Chuck let Blair go.... she came back to him, to be with him. I still don´t get what so great about Dair, I´m sorry but I just don´t see it, I liked them as friends but.... now not so much.
i get why Serena is upset at Blair. but Serena KNOWS that Dan is in love with Blair. Serena has no chance with Dan. if she really loved Dan as much as she claims to, she would've let him be OR tried to help him confront his feelings for Blair. be selfless like Dan was selfless by bringing Chuck/Blair together. it wouldn't even have to be so that Dan/Blair could get together, it could be so that Dan is able to resolve his feelings and move on....maybe to her. instead Serena wants instafeelings...like 'Dan I love you, so you'll love me now. end of story.' that's just not how it works. i also get confused bc i feel like Blake Lively isn't making the right acting choices. i SHOULD feel sympathy for Serena but all i see is that she feels entitled to Dan. not hurt or betrayed.
@ nontu: I have told this story before here, but you are new. More than 10 years ago I saw an Argentinian telenovela where the female and male lead have a situation similar to DS, they shared a half sister (in this case a girl), but they weren't blood related themselves, only with the girl, yet they ended up together at the end. That telenovela was number 1 in Rusia, Israel and several Asian countries and of East Europe.
i don't get people who want Derena to happen again, that id pure incest, they share a brother and are step siblings. that is reason enough for them not to happen plus Dan is so over Serena. Dan and Blair now that is pure love, it's foundation is so great and powerful. they get each other if they would date they would be more than a couple. their love is beautiful. its exciting. chuck are Blair are just a thing of the past. dair
you idiots. chair is endgame and we all know it.
@ Katie: Chuck did let her go, in 4x22. He wasn't pursuing her until 5x10 happened. He also let her go in season 2, in 2x23.


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As far as I can remember, I have never refuse to be bothered with a person because of their ethnicity or gender. However, I am biased as well against those who I consider 'dumb' but I know that is mostly because I know my level of frustration acceptance. If I think I'm going to get frustrated with trying to explain something to you, then chances are great that I will prefer to avoid interacting with you altogether and since that's not always possible, I just make it as unpleasant for you as possible. It's a personal shortcoming, I know.
Outdated Recommendations
Podcast directories can be a good thing. Podcatcher programs can be a good thing. Working together, the combination of a podcatcher that connects to a podcast directory can be a great thing for the serious podcast listeners. You have the ability to find and listen to new podcasts immediately. When the podcatcher has a recommendation engine that takes a look at your current subscription list and finds similar podcasts that you aren't subscribe to in the connected podcast directory, you have reached Podcast Nirvana.
Unfortunately, the weak point in the scenario is the podcast directory. Most directories want to be able to boast having the largest number of listings and therefore don't do regular pruning. The only entity that I can recall going through a regularly scheduled pruning process was the late lamented Amigofish, which was more of a recommendation engine and not really a directory. (The last time I went to Amigofish, the website returned nothing but an error code and what seemed to be a dump of all of the Ruby on Rails settings.)
Recently, I was using my podcatcher of choice on my Kindle Fire to find new potential subscriptions. For some reason, I had never noticed the Recommended tab, but decided to give it a try. Three of the first ten were Book Review Noise (a show I stopped doing last year and doesn't have a working feed), Noise Talk (a show which I haven't updated since August 2010), and Mosai Noise (a show I put on hold in February 2011). Another one was Kryptographik, which I know for a fact had a dead feed and show hosts who have moves on to other realms of creative endeavor.
I can understand keeping old shows that still have working feeds because you never know when the show host will revive things, but keeping dead feeds is just a combination of laziness and padding your numbers. I hope that the recommendation engine will find a way to remove the dead links so that their recommendations actually mean something.
Acronyms aren't always your friends
I am looking for a job again. One set of skills that I keep coming across is for ETL processes. I had no idea what that is, but whenever I see a job like that I would just disregard it and look at the next one in the list.
Today I decided to find out what ETL means. In my mind, I am thinking it is something along the lines of Six-Sigma for databases, but I have no real understanding of Six-Sigma either so that should have been the first clue that I needed to do some research.
According to Webopedia, ETL stands for Extract Transform Load. All it is means is you read a database, change the raw data into something usable, then you write the processed data into another database. "ETL is used to migrate data from one database to another, to form data marts and data warehouses and also to convert databases from one format or type to another."
That's it?
I do that same process every month to get the download numbers for the podcasts in the Deliberate Noise Network. I download text files with the information I need, I manually extract the numbers I need, upload them to an Access database, parse the data for each show into its own query, then export that query to an Excel spreadsheet for mailing to the show hosts. The details are different, but the process is pretty much what they are describing.
Hell, I used to do ETL for fun. My old laptop has a bunch of Access, MySQL, and Oracle databases on the hard drive because I would move the data from one format to another. At a couple of my more data intensive jobs, ETL was pretty much all I did.
Without a doubt, I have missed out on applying for a number of jobs (some I may have even gotten) because I didn't take the time to understand the acronyms they used. Time to re-evaluate my resume and job searching routine.
Lying Unfunny Jackass Day Strikes Again!
Since it is Lying Unfunny Jackass Day, I decided to stay offline for most of the day. Out of habit, I fired up Facebook after lunch and see my oldest daughter saying that she just found out she's going to be an aunt. After the initial shock wore off, I have decided that I need to develop new habits and will stay off the computer altogether next year.
BTW: I'm not saying my daughter is usually an Lying Unfunny Jackass, but today…
Extreme Phone Politeness Pays Off
When I was a teenager, I lived with my grandmother for a few years. One of the many things she stressed was good phone etiquette. To this day, my siblings and I have extraordinary good phone speaking voices. My mother and her siblings also have great phone manners, so this is something that goes back a long way.
When I call Patti at work, her coworkers always know it's me simply because of how I talk when they answer the phone. For example, if they say "Hello, [company where she works], how can I help you?", I will reply with "Hello, may I please speak to Patti?" and they say "Sure, Derek, hold on a second."
On those occasions when they will give their name, I say "Hello [name of coworker], my name is Derek, may I please speak to Patti?"
It's just something that has happened in the ten years she has been working there.
Today, the phone must have been busy because someone answered "Hello [company where she works], can you hold please?" I responded with "Yes, ma'am." After the briefest of pauses, the young lady on the other end of the line said "You probably want to speak to Patti, don't you?" I smiled and said "Yes, please."
It pays to be polite and professional sounding on the phone.
Comment Section Trolling Done Right
Gawker has a story about a homeless man who used to be in a band with Carlos Santana and how the two were reunited.
Nice story, but this exchange in the comments made me laugh out loud.
"He stopped playing with Santana before Woodstock which would of been 1969. So for 44 years he hasn't tried to find his "friend"? Then leaves him on the street after saying hello? I'll chalk this up as another PR play for good ole Santana. "
"Carlos Santana is Mexican and not Puerto Rican. Either way, your "PR play" is racist and revolting."
The second comment was an obvious joke to anyone with a sense of humor. However, this is on the internet so a lot of people didn't get the joke that was obvious to anyone with a sense of humor, which resulted in comments like "PR stands for "Public Relations", not "Puerto Rican", you idiot." and several variations of that comment.
Now THAT's how you troll a comment section.
UPDATE: I had to change my original post because I messed up and attributed something to the wrong commenter.
A Decision Years In The Making!
Years and years ago, I was playing Final Fantasy VII on my Playstation. I got all the way to the run up to the final battle when I saved my game and went to sleep. It was late at night after a long day and I had to go to work in the morning. I went to work and spent most of the day thinking about finishing the game when I got home. Someone "broke into the house" and stole a bunch of stuff, mostly my roommate's fancy clothes and, of course, my Playstation (with the last FFVII disc inside).
Fast forward over a decade later, Steam has Final Fantasy VII on sale for less than $5. Do I buy this game and spend a bunch of hours just to get back to where I was or do I just let it go, especially since I recently got Saints Row 3, all of the BioShock games, Far Cry 3, and a bunch of Skyrim mods?
I have about 12 hours to make up my mind about this sale and even if I pass on it, I can still get the game for about $12, but I am wondering if I really want to spend all of the time to get back to where I was. At this point in my life, how I spend my time is a lot more important than how I spend my money.
I found this video on YouTube that picks up right where I left off. I haven't watched the whole thing yet, just enough to verify that's what I remember seeing before I cut the game off for the night.
My Thoughts on Multiplayer Gaming
Someone obviously doesn't know me at all
I got into a brief internet dustup with someone about something. The original Facebook post was about 47 millions people going hungry in America, but one of my friend's friends responded with a barely coherent comment that can be distilled to "I have a job, quit complaining and go out and get yours. Man up!" Believe me when I say that the original comment wasn't as concise.
I asked me if he was seriously saying that 47 million people should rise up and take what they wanted. Something of that level would seriously overpower the current armed forces and law enforcement agencies, even if the people were weakened by hunger.
Instead of treating what I said either seriously or as a joke, instead he responded with something that I won't distill because it should stand on it's own. "I wrote an eloquent response. I am tired of arguing. Do you think if every rich person gave up all of their money to let's say you, mr. coward…we'd have peace and prosperity? We'd have a bunch of Lexus dealerships hitting the orgy button…and your people would be in the same boat tomorrow as today."
I want to point out that at no time did I advocate rich people (or poor people) giving up ANYTHING. Just like the original post about hunger in America and the guy changed it to a discussion about unemployment and personal responsibility (I think), my comment was asking for a clarification about his comment and instead he changed it to a discussion about class warfare.
1) If every rich person gave all of their money to me, I still would never be caught driving a Lexus. I know a lot of people buy them, but they have never appealed to me. Then again, even though I have lived most of my life in Southeastern Michigan, car culture has never appealed to me. Cars are tools to get from Point A to Point B and I don't fetishize them the way a lot of people do. I also don't understand how my getting all of the rich people money results in car dealers assuming they would have a huge payday coming.
2) I don't want to be obscenely rich and have never wanted to be obscenely rich because I am the type of person who regularly puts the adjective "obscenely" in front of rich. Again, money is a tool. I only want enough money so that I don't have to worry about not having money. Also, I never asked for anyone, rich or otherwise, to give me their money. I'm not a salesman, moneylender, or a con man for a reason.
3) As soon as someone from a different ethnic classification uses the phrase "your people" (or "you people", whichever is apropos for the situation), then I leave the conversation knowing that any ill impressions I had of that person were probably justified. I don't think racism automatically invalidates every point that a person makes, but it definitely makes me much less likely to take their points at anything other than face value.
4) I cannot tell the difference between someone who is unemployed by circumstance and someone who is unemployed by choice just by looking at them. Therefore, I would not say one should not be able to put food on their table because of the actions (or inactions) of the other. I was brought up believing that if someone needs help, you help them. Does this mean that I have gotten "scammed" by a sob story? Yes, it has, but I would rather help someone who didn't need it than turn my back on someone who did.
I could have been really nasty and pointed out how he kept changing the conversation instead of answering what was asked, but then he probably would have changed over to gun control or some other nonsense. Instead, I got a pretty decent sized blog post about of it and he gets to live his life afraid that everyone is out to take what he has.
A Soul-Crushing Experience
I absolutely HATED the job that I had before this one. It was a soul-crushing experience and I felt the ever encroaching presence of death stalking my every step while I was there. I had been laid off twice before going to work there and the long drives home were two of the worst moments of my life, but they felt like a bright sunny day at the park compared to getting in my car and going into that place every day. It was a horrible time.
I liked some of the people there, but I hated the building, the work, the working conditions, the bathroom (which looked like something out of the Saw movies), a lot of my non-direct co-workers, the product we were making, the customers, I even hated the electricity in the place (You have got to really hate a place to hate the electricity) and I am pretty sure I am missing something.
Morrissey once sang "I was looking for a job and then I found a job and heaven knows I'm miserable now." That went through my head every day.


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Children love dumplings and this recipe is a favorite in our family. Keep uncooked dumplings in the freezer on hand for steaming, boiling, or frying. They are also great in soup. You may use ground chicken in place of the pork.
Cut the celery cabbage across into thin strips. Mix with 2 teaspoons salt and set aside for 5 minutes. Squeeze out the excess moisture.
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Echelon Corporation ( NASDAQ: ELON) today announced its 2011 partner award winners at its annual Smart Grid Conference held on October 17-20 in Prague, Czech Republic. The company presented eight Outstanding Achievement awards to its Smart Grid Partners.
Winners announced were:
- Echelon Partner of the Year and Top Performer – Telvent GIT, S.A, a Schneider Electric company, serving Echelon customers worldwide
- Echelon Best Implementation – Eltel Group Corporation in Europe
- Echelon Application Excellence – ELO Sistemas Eletronicos (ELO) in Brazil; EVB Energy Solutions GmbH in Germany; and Zirode Management Services (Pty) Ltd. in South Africa
- Echelon New Market Leader – ENERGOAUDITCONTROL (EAC) in Russia; GÖRLITZ Schweiz AG in Switzerland; and Power Meter Technics (Pty) Ltd. in South Africa
"We are honored to recognize and reward these partners for their continued success and applaud them for going above and beyond to capitalize on the strength and value of Echelon's proven, open standards, multi-application energy control networking solutions," said Michael Anderson, senior vice president, Global Utility Market, Echelon. "Together, we are unleashing a new level of control for our customers."
"Being named the Partner of the Year and Top Performer by Echelon is an honor for our talented team and demonstrates our commitment to helping our customers create a smarter, more energy-efficient world," said Manuel Losada, executive vice president, Telvent Energy.The awards were founded to recognize achievements by Echelon's top Smart Grid Partners in the areas of sales and commitment to customer excellence. The awards also recognize key VARs and application development partners that together offer complete turn-key energy control networking solutions built around Echelon's NES system. About the Echelon Smart Grid Conference 2011 The annual Echelon Smart Grid Conference brings together industry leaders to engage face-to-face with Echelon executives and partners about the growing business value of a comprehensive smart grid infrastructure and to discuss the trends and best practices that impact the utilities industry, cities and businesses worldwide. The annual Echelon Smart Grid Conference featured keynotes from Echelon's Chairman and CEO Ron Sege and Michael Anderson, Frost & Sullivan's Research Manager for Energy & Power Systems, Malavika Tohani, and acclaimed Author and Futurologist, Dr. Adjiedj Bakas. Guest speakers also included representatives from Accenture, CEZ, GreenWave Reality, Oracle, NRGi, Pike Research, and Vattenfall.
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The Big Muslim Problem!
In the extremely short run, a baby bust such as Europe has undergone can enhance living standards, because it reduces the number of dependents per worker. But in the longer run a reckoning awaits, and the longer run has arrived.
The most egregious examples of Caldwell's aliens are Muslims, because, as he sees it, they are less susceptible to European cultural influences than other immigrant groups such as Slavs, Sikhs, Hindus, non-Muslim Africans, and African-Caribbeans. He flatly ignores evidence produced by numerous scholars such as Aziz al-Azmeh, Tariq Modood, Philip Lewis, and Jytte Klausen that Muslim identities are shifting to meet changing circumstances, that a majority of younger British Muslims, for example, "share many aspects of popular youth culture with their non-Muslim peers," and that their problem is not so much with the majority culture as with "traditionally-minded parents who seek, usually unsuccessfully, to limit their access to it."
Caldwell pours scorn on writers who emphasize the diversity of the Islamic traditions in Europe. "For all its pleasing glibness," he says, "this harping on diversity is misguided." His reading of Islam takes an essentialist perspective of a primordial religion impervious to change, as if he were oblivious of the way that essentialist views of religion have long been under sustained intellectual attack. No one remotely familiar with the work of scholars such as Aziz al-Azmeh (who ruminates on the diversities of "Islams" and "modernities") or the political scientist Jytte Klausen, whose brilliant work on European Muslims investigates emerging hermeneutics and epistemologies of faith, would dismiss them, as Caldwell does, as "glib." Al-Azmeh and his colleagues provide plenty of support to refute "the cliché," as al-Azmeh writes, "of a homogenous collectivity innocent of modernity, cantankerously or morosely obsessed with prayer, fasting, veiling, medieval social and penal arrangements,"1 while Klausen has demonstrated convincingly that European Muslims are overwhelmingly hostile to extremism, support democratic processes, accept the duties of citizenship, and are evolving distinctively local styles of Muslim identities.2
Nor does Caldwell exhibit any familiarity with the rich literature describing the spread of Islam in peripheral cultures such as sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia, where a religion originating in Arabia proved every bit as adept as Christianity in adjusting to local conditions. He has similarly failed to familiarize himself, even superficially, with the vast literature charting the encounter between Islam and modern Western society. In his review of Western attitudes toward Islam he prefers to celebrate the prejudices of writers such as Ernest Renan (in 1883) or Hilaire Belloc (in 1938) than to engage with significant Muslim thinkers such as Muhammad Iqbal, Fazlur Rahman, Muhammed Arkoun, or Abdullahi an-Naim who might challenge his essentialist assumptions. Caldwell's "Islam" owes more to tabloid headlines than to responsible research. To borrow a phrase of Philip Lewis, it exemplifies the need for greater religious literacy in the post–September 11 era.
Nevertheless, in arguing that "Europe became a multiethnic society in a fit of absence of mind," Caldwell makes some useful points. European societies have yet to find satisfactory ways of institutionalizing Islam within their national polities. This is partly due to the fragmentary and contested nature of Islamic spiritual authority, in which (with the partial exception of Shiism) no formal priesthood stands between the individual and a god who reveals himself in texts that are subject to a wide variety of interpretations.
Umbrella bodies intended to act as interlocutors with governments, such as the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) and the French Council for the Muslim Faith (CFCM), are rejected by many Muslims for being too political, or not political enough, or simply not representative of people who may be difficult to represent, or may not want to be represented as "Muslims." It is clear that as a religion formulated during an era of political ascendancy, the mainstream traditions of Islam have yet to find comfortable moorings as minorities in the contested public spaces of a secular, pluralist West.
Two thirds of the imams in France live on welfare, as do a similar number in Britain. A majority are foreign-born and trained, and have received little instruction in British culture or its values. A small minority of them have been exposed in the press as "preachers of hate." The funding of European mosques and Islamic institutions from ultraconservative countries should be a real cause for concern: in France, for example, the Union of Islamic Organizations (UIOF) —an umbrella group of doctrinaire Muslim youth organizations linked to the Muslim Brotherhood—gets a quarter of its annual budget from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and other foreign donors.
The British laissez-faire model of leaving immigrant communities to manage themselves has allowed extremism to flourish in all sorts of complex ways. Missionary organizations such as the Tablighi Jamaat, known for its pietism and declared abhorrence of politics, nevertheless encourage a separatist spirit in which extremism can be incubated: most of the men convicted in September for the plot to blow up transatlantic airliners using liquid explosives smuggled in soft-drink bottles had connections with the Tablighi Jamaat, as did two of the suicide bombers who murdered fifty-two people in the London transport system in July 2005.
Paradoxically, even marriage can be an agent of radicalization: whereas the first generation of migrants' children pleased their parents by marrying cousins imported from Pakistan or Bangladesh (thereby swelling immigrant numbers), their children's insistence on marrying Muslim partners of their choice is leading to the creation of a Muslim identity that transcends the older patterns of "encapsulated" settlement based on differences of region, culture, language, and biradiri (extended family networks).
This novel pan-Islamic identity both feeds on and contributes to the perceived hostility of the host society: the Rushdie agitation in 1989, the row over the "insult" to Islam conveyed by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in publishing a cartoon showing Muhammad with a terrorist bomb as his turban, the marches in France protesting the headscarf ban in schools, the riots of youth in Parisian suburbs, and episodes of Islamophobia reported on al-Jazeera television or in the Muslim press all contribute to the sense of an embattled community that is also flexing its collective communitarian muscles.
Despite the legal, institutional, and cultural differences of the European host cultures in which Muslim immigrants find themselves, the narrative that Caldwell extrapolates from a complicated web of data points in an alarming direction. The bottom line is that Islam is a religion of believers. Most Europeans are not only skeptical, but—as heirs to the Enlightenment—they regard religious skepticism as essential to their outlook and identity "as part of the essence of European-ness." He writes:
A fast-shrinking population of several hundred million Europeans lives north of the Mediterranean, while a fast-growing population of several hundred million lives south of it, with a desire to take up residence in Europe that seems unshakable. What is more a certain part of it is dedicated to Europe's destruction by armed violence….
Europe's basic problem with Islam, and with immigration more generally, is that the strongest communities in Europe are, culturally speaking, not European communities at all. This problem exists in all European countries, despite a broad variety of measures taken to solve it—multiculturalism in Holland, laïcité in France, benign neglect in Britain, constitutional punctiliousness in Germany.
Clearly Europe's problem is with Islam and with immigration, and not with specific misapplications of specific means set up to manage them. Islam is a magnificent religion that has also been, at times over the centuries, a glorious and generous culture. But all cant to the contrary, it is in no sense Europe's religion and it is in no sense Europe's culture.
Impressive though he may appear in marshaling a disparate army of sources (ranging from government statistics, social surveys, and think-tank reports to novels and newspaper stories in eight or more languages), the impression he gives is spurious and not supported by real evidence. Caldwell selects a multitude of facts or quotations that support his central premise of a "believing" Islam pitted against a doubting or skeptical Europe. This conclusion, however, is not supported by surveys of actual religious behavior. While the figures—and methodologies used to arrive at them—vary considerably, the conclusion to which they point is that Muslims do not greatly differ in religious behavior from other Europeans. For example, a French study in 2001 found that only 10 percent of Muslims were religiously observant. A study by the demographer Michèle Tribalat the same year found that 60 percent of French Muslim men and 70 percent of women were "not observant," though the great majority respected "cultural attachments" by abstaining from eating pork or drinking alcohol and by fasting during Ramadan. Caldwell mentions none of this work.
The failures in this book are not limited to its flawed and biased research. A troubling example of Caldwell's method involves the misuse of translation in order to further his argument that unlike other religious traditions, Islam cannot be assimilated into European culture. In an extended critique of the work of Tariq Ramadan, the charismatic and articulate advocate of a distinctive European Islam, Caldwell argues that Ramadan's project for Muslim integration into European societies is basically asymmetrical:
The integration of Muslims into Europe will happen on Muslim terms. Or, as Ramadan puts it, "It will succeed when Muslims find in their tradition elements of agreement with the laws of the countries in which they are citizens, because that will resolve any questions of double allegiance." This is an extraordinary statement: Only when Europe's ways are understood as Islam's will Muslims obey them.
The word Ramadan uses in the original French text of this quotation is not "tradition," but "références." "References" in this context sounds slightly odd in English, but "tradition" is too comprehensive, tipping the semantic scale toward inassimilable Muslims. A better translation might be "sources." This is not splitting hairs. As Ramadan explains in What I Believe, in which he defends himself against charges of "doublespeak," the idea of "reference" is fundamental to his approach:
Adapting one's level of speech to one's audience, or adapting the nature of one's references, is not doublespeak…. To avoid doublespeak, what matters is that the substance of the discourse does not change.
Ramadan writes that his most distinguished defender, the philosopher Charles Taylor, exonerates him from the charge of "doublespeak," arguing, as Ramadan puts it, that his "discourse is clear between two highly ambiguous universes of reference." Ramadan's aim is to "build bridges" between these two universes. As a Muslim scholar and intellectual he applies the discipline of ijtihad (interpretative reasoning); the Arabic term has the same root as jihad, "moral striving"—a word that is often translated, too restrictively, as "holy war."
Ramadan presents his new book, What I Believe, as "a work of clarification, a deliberately accessible presentation of the basic ideas I have been defending for more than twenty years." The ground is broadly the same as that which was covered in two books of his previously reviewed in these pages.3 There I argued that Ramadan's belief that Islam can avoid the processes of secularization that afflicted Christendom after the Reformation was flawed by his failure to accommodate the tragic narrative of Shiism and also his failure to recognize that the institutionalization of religious differences—a prerequisite for religious peace among Muslims—would ipso facto initiate a process of secularization.
In a chapter on "Interacting Crises," Ramadan addresses some of the issues that Caldwell raises in his book: the Muslim presence in the West, he says, should not just be seen and engaged as a problem of religions, values, and cultures, but as a psychological one as well. It is not just Muslims who face challenging issues of self-identification. "Western societies in general and Europeans in particular are experiencing a very deep, multidimensional identity crisis" flowing from the double effects of globalization and supranationalism. Everywhere landmarks of national identity and cultural memory are being eroded. The presence of immigrants adds to feelings of confusion.
While aging populations need immigrants to sustain their economies, the incomers threaten ideas of cultural homogeneity that are already endangered by globalization and the revolution in communications. Europeans are trapped in an irreversible logic. Economic necessities are in conflict with the cultural forces around which European identities accrue. Muslims living in the West face similar predicaments. Their identity crisis generates anxiety leading them toward attitudes of "withdrawal and self-isolation."
A "Manifesto for a New 'We,'" with which Ramadan concludes his book, urges European Muslims to have more confidence "in themselves, in their values, in their ability to live and to communicate with full serenity in Western societies." There needs to be "a revolution in trust" built on the confidence that Muslims must have in their own convictions. Their task must be "to reappropriate their heritage and to develop toward it a positive yet critical intellectual attitude." Contra Caldwell, he demands—without qualifications—that Muslims "respect the laws of the countries in which they reside and to which they must be loyal."
The tone is lofty, the language high-minded. It is the preacher, rather than the intellectual, who speaks. Ramadan does not stoop to engage directly with his critics. As he grandly writes in his introduction, "I will not waste my time here trying to defend myself." This is a pity. The charges of doublespeak against Ramadan are not just based on what he describes as "double-hearings," malicious, deliberate, or otherwise. The claims of his most trenchant critic, the French journalist Caroline Fourest,4 are specific and detailed and documented, based on the tapes of Ramadan's lectures to youthful Muslim audiences as well as his published writings.
Fourest presents Ramadan as a fundamentalist wolf in reformist clothing, a position at variance with his declared advocacy of a "critical intellectual attitude" toward Islamic tradition. Most of her charges depend on family links he refuses to abjure—his maternal grandfather Hasan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, his Islamist father Said Ramadan, and especially his brother Hani, a more strident critic than Tariq of "Europe's atheistic materialism" who has publicly justified the stoning of adulteresses "as a punishment" that is also "a purification." Tariq, by contrast, notoriously argued in a 2003 television debate with Nicolas Sarkozy that the penalty of stoning should merely be subject to a "moratorium" while scholars debated the issue.
Other troubling details that emerge from Fourest's vigilant, even obsessive, trawl through the Ramadan canon include explicit condemnations of Kant and Pascal and fence-sitting, not to say "double-talk," on Darwinism. A work published by the Islamist publishing house with which he is closely associated explicitly denies evolution, while his audiotapes advocate creationism as a "complementary instruction" to the teaching of evolution in schools. Yet when asked in a television interview whether he accepted evolutionary theory, he "preferred to agree," rather than express his true convictions in front of the general public.
In one sense Fourest's critique can be seen as reassuring: Ramadan's teachings —on sexuality, evolution, and moral behavior generally—fall into grooves already furrowed by the Christian right. Secularists may abhor any alliance between anti-Enlightenment God-fearers from among Abraham's quarrelsome children, but any such alliance may have an important advantage: it may mask or defuse religious conflicts surrounding the contested symbolic languages that afflict the contemporary world, where ancient certainties clash with what Anthony Giddens usefully calls "the institutionalisation of doubt."
Paradoxically, as the sociologist Steve Bruce has pointed out, alliances between clashing fundamentalisms can serve to bridge sectarian divisions. For example, in the early 1970s when Mormons, conservative Jews, and Catholics collaborated over issues such as opposition to the proposed Equal Rights Amendment for women or abortion, they had to suppress their theological distaste for allies whose religions they regarded as false. While such alliances may have seemed threatening to liberals and especially to women, they marked a significant step away from fundamentalist certainties, since the different parties were forced to compartmentalize their beliefs, to separate their distinctive religious outlooks and practices from "the moral crusades which the religion has produced." Social problems such as the "binge drinking" and drug abuse that afflict European cities are obvious candidates for collaboration across religious boundaries. In Britain at least one Orthodox rabbi is working alongside a local imam on such problems.
One of the strongest statements deploring the Danish cartoons came from the Vatican, along with the World Council of Churches, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and the Danish Evangelical Church. While such expressions of "faith solidarity" may have disturbing implications for the rights of free expression cherished by Europeans, they carry the seeds of longer-term accommodations that are likely to bring the more conservative and isolated strands of Islam into the cultural mainstream. Interdenominational collaboration on any issue is a stage in the process of secularization, pushing believers toward a recognition of religious pluralism and dethroning particular dogmas as the unique and nonnegotiable sources of truth. Ramadan can afford to be more upfront about his fundamentalist views. When defensive religiosity turns into moralizing, there is space for social engagement and constructive debate.
Islam in Europe: Diversity, Identity and Influence, edited by Aziz al-Azmeh and Effie Fokas (Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 209.↩
Jytte Klausen, The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe (Oxford University Press, 2005).↩
To Be a European Muslim (Leicester: The Islamic Foundation, 1999) and Western Muslims and the Fate of Islam (Oxford University Press, 2003); see my "The Islamic Optimist," The New York Review, August 16, 2007.↩
Brother Tariq: The Doublespeak of Tariq Ramadan, translated by Ioana Wilder and John Atherton (Encounter, 2008).↩
Islam in Europe: Diversity, Identity and Influence, edited by Aziz al-Azmeh and Effie Fokas (Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 209.↩
Jytte Klausen, The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe (Oxford University Press, 2005).↩
To Be a European Muslim (Leicester: The Islamic Foundation, 1999) and Western Muslims and the Fate of Islam (Oxford University Press, 2003); see my "The Islamic Optimist," The New York Review, August 16, 2007.↩
Brother Tariq: The Doublespeak of Tariq Ramadan, translated by Ioana Wilder and John Atherton (Encounter, 2008).↩


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Petroleum/mineral oil can be found in many hair and skin care products. Especially those marketed towards black/afro textured hair and skin. What is this ingredient and what are it's effects on our hair and skin?
Also known as petrolatum, petroleum jelly (Vaseline), soft paraffin, white paraffin, or even mineral oil.
Petroleum is not a "moisturizer," but rather a "barrier" which means that having no moisturizing properties of its own, it reinforces and seals the moisture into skin provided by other sources. For instance, if after applying water to your skin, you coat it with a layer of petroleum, you will have effectively sealed in some of the moisture from the water into your skin, along with whatever was already residing on your skin, oil, sweat, etc.
Petrolatum is listed as a probable human carcinogen in the European Union's Dangerous Substances Directive and is linked to cancers such as breast cancer. It is toxic to the nervous system and depending on manufacturing processes can contain many harmful contaminants such as PAHs.
PAHs, or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, are common contaminants in petrolatum, also called petroleum jelly and sold under well-known brand names like Vaseline. Petrolatum is found in one of every 14 products on the market (7.1 percent of the products assessed by EWG), including 15 percent of all lipstick and 40 percent of al baby lotions and oils. FDA restricts petrolatum in food to no more than 10 parts per million, and requires petrolatum used in food packaging or drugs to meet impurity restrictions for PAHs.
But the agency allows any amount of petrolatum of any purity in personal care products, many of which are applied directly to the lips and swallowed.
Among the studies linking the petrolatum impurity PAHs to breast cancer is a Columbia University study in which researchers found that the breast tissue of women with breast cancer was 2.6 times more likely to contain elevated levels of PAHs bound to DNA (called DNA adducts) than the breast tissue of women without breast cancer (Rundle et al. 2000). The National Toxicology Programs finds that some PAHs are reasonable anticipated to be human carcinogens, and the State of California lists a number of PAHs as carcinogens in its Proposition 65 program.
You will find petroleum (crude) in pharmaceutical drug products, hair and skin care products, female vaginal sanitary products, baby care products, auto industry supplies, and even foodstuffs.
Mineral Oil
A derivative of crude oil (petroleum) that is used industrially as a cutting fluid and lubricating oil. Mineral oil forms an oily film over the skin to lock in moisture, toxins and wastes, but hinders normal skin respiration by keeping oxygen out. It blocks the pores and the skin's natural respiration.
Mineral oil is known for not absorbing water. It has been used as a brake fluid for cars, bicycles and airplanes. As a very cheap material, the cost benefit is great because mineral oil is very plentiful. Mineral oil is also used to clean kitchen, utility and ceremonial knives and swords.
John Hopkins University named mineral oil in cosmetics and moisturizers as the number two cause of aging. The first being direct exposure to the sun.The result is premature aging and increased health risks.
Mineral oil may also cause allergic reactions and dryness. It traps dirt and bacteria and blocks the absorption of vitamins/minerals/botanicals that may be in a product.
Mineral oil is popular with manufacturers because it is inexpensive and makes skin smoother and softer to the touch and more attractive to the eye. Unfortunately, the damage that is being caused behind the scene makes it an undesirable ingredient in any skin care product.
Thanks to companies like Johnson's (Johnson & Johnson), unconscious parents are putting petroleum on their precious new baby's skin, causing the skin to become hard and dry.
Replace Mineral Oil with natural oils that are derived from foods, i.e. olive oil, almond oil, wheat germ oil, grape seed oil, sunflower seed oil, rose hip seed oil, apricot kernel oil, jojoba, and/or coconut oil to name a few.
Replace Petroleum Jelly based products with natural butters such as Shea butter and Cocoa Butter.
Wax based products are also good such as beeswax or vegetable waxes including olive wax and almond wax.
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Based on their findings, T.I. immediately began a project to manufacture these diodes and announced the first commercial product, the SNX-100, in October, 1962. Infrared LEDs continue to be used today as transmitters in fiber optic data communication systems.
The work of Pittman and Biard followed intense interest in the properties of semi-conductor alloys at numerous other American industrial research labs in the 1950s. In 1955, for example, Rubin Braunstein, a physicist at RCA Laboratories in Princeton, NJ (now the David Sarnoff Research Center), was the first to report on experiments in which he observed light emission from GaAs and other semiconductor alloys.


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Hands-on with ASUS' Zenbook UX301, an Ultrabook with a Gorilla Glass lid and 2,560 x 1,440 touchscreen (update: video)
Well, ASUS already spilled the beans on this one. Just a few hours ago, the company posted a YouTube video of its new Zenbook UX301 Ultrabook -- i.e., the same Zenbook Infinity we saw back at Computex, just with a new (less catchy) name. Well, if a teaser video didn't make it official enough for y


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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) - Graeme McDowell has done a lot right this year, except for win. He now has one last chance to fix that.
McDowell, back at the course that has provided two big moments for his career, opened with three straight birdies Friday and finished strong for a 6-under 66 to take a three-shot lead in the World Challenge going into the weekend.
Bo Van Pelt had to save bogey on the last hole for a 68, leaving him tied for second with Keegan Bradley and Jim Furyk, who each had a 69. Tournament host and defending champion Tiger Woods was tied for the lead at one point on the back nine but had to settle for a 69. He was four shots behind.
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The star of B.ella's luxury line, designed to adorn you in lush exotics blends. These are a whopping 81% cashmere! Cashmere pointelle rib knee socks - super-soft and stay up well. Made in the USA.
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The tops stretch to about 17" around, with about 18" in the calf.
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Gently hand wash in cool. Reshape, dry flat.
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The biennial conference on "EU Science: Global Challenges, Global Collaboration" (ES:GC2) brings together scientists, high-level government officials, policy-makers and industry representatives from six continents, to explore the role of science and research collaboration in addressing global challenges. The event has several key elements including plenary sessions, scientific and technical seminars, consortium building meetings, and accompanying social events.
The first edition of the ES:GC2 conference took place on 4-8 March 2013, at the European Parliament in Brussels and was convened by ISC - Intelligence in Science, in association with the Irish Council Presidency and in conjunction with Mr Sean Kelly MEP as well as other Members of the European Parliament. The conference engaged over 1,000 delegates from 82 nations, including 27 science Ministers, and placed EU research at the centre of the international response to global challenges.
ISC is now advancing preparations for the next ES:GC2 conference, scheduled to take place on 2-6 March 2015 in Brussels. Building on its predecessor, ES:GC2 2015 will advance policy options for science to address global societal challenges as well as support the global research networks needed to facilitate collaborative science. The registrations for the conference are now open, and the draft programme is available. For more information on ES:GC2 2015, please click here. diseño web valencia
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Moore had emergency surgery Monday morning to repair lateral compartment syndrome, a bleeding of the muscle in his left shin/calf area.
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-- The winning bid in an annual auction for an Idaho Special Bighorn Sheep permit set a record this year.
Frank Miles of Cecil Lake, British Columbia, bid $65,000 for the tag in the auction Friday, Feb. 8, at the annual convention of the Foundation for North American Wild Sheep in Salt Lake City.
That's the most paid for an Idaho bighorn sheep permit that did not allow hunting in Hells Canyon.
The highly-valued Hells Canyon hunt is rotated each year between the auction tag sold at the national convention and the lottery tag sold by the sheep foundation's Idaho chapter.
The record for an auction tag is $180,000 in 2005 when a Hells Canyon permit was up for bid. Idaho's auction tag is sold along with others from western states and Canadian provinces at the annual Foundation for North American Wild Sheep convention.
Two Idaho tags are approved each year by the Idaho Fish and Game Commission to raise money for bighorn programs.
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One enchantingly simple decor idea that's been floating around for a while are paper pom poms. These dainty puff balls add an amazing texture and dimension to any environment and are surprisingly easy to make yourself! Since ombre and dip-dyed colours are so trendy now as well, I'll be showing you how to make your own ombre coloured paper pom poms below!
Photo on left from RuffledBlog
What you'll need:
- a few packs of tissue paper. Each pom pom needs about 12-15 sheets and I used about 4 sheets of each colour.
- scissors
- twist ties
- some fishing line
Cut all your sheets to size. You can use full sized tissue paper sheets but that will make huge pom poms. I usually cut the sheets in half. Then stack all of your sheets neatly from lightest to darkest colours.
Accordian fold the stacked sheets. Just fold up about a half inch on the bottom edge, flip the entire stack over and fold up another half inch. At the end, you should have the entire stacked folded like a "fan".
Use a twist tie & secure the middle on your accordian folded papers. Then use your scissors to trim the ends. You can trim them into a rounded tip or a pointed one for different looks. There's a lot of layers there, so you can cut a couple of layers at a time.
Then spread out the fan folds! Starting at the corner, carefully grab a single sheet of the tissue paper and lift it away from the rest of the stack. Be very carefuly not to rip the individual sheets and don't worry about wrinkling it. Do this with every single sheet until they're all separated.
When all the sheets are separated on one side, move onto the other side & separate all those layers! And voila! Just attach some fishing line to the centre and you can hang that pom pom from anywhere.
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You can create a massive cluster of paper decor over top of a candy buffet or over your spread at a bridal shower. Or you can go all out and make a massive backdrop for your ceremony or photobooth!
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As I've already gone over, I'm happy with the Kevin Youkilis trade. The Sox get a player that might help over the final 90 games of the season and they didn't have to give up anything of value to get him.
Unfortunately, for one five-year old White Sox fan, this trade is not good news.
Jason DeWitt (@beg2differ) sent me this video of his son's reaction to the news that his favorite player, Brent Lillibridge, had been traded.
Poor kid, I know exactly how he feels. When the White Sox traded Harold Baines to the Rangers in 1989 I was one sad little eight-year old. He was my favorite player and I hadn't known life as a White Sox fan without Harold's leg kick.
And I know you're too young to understand this now, little man, but after Harold left along came Frank Thomas and Robin Ventura. So just know that no matter how you feel about Brent Lillibridge, you're going to find another favorite player soon enough and odds are that he'll leave you at some point as well.
All that really matters, though, more so than the players we love, is the team that they play for.
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The struggling Anaheim GardenWalk mall, which went through bankruptcy, is now up for sale near Disneyland.
Offers are due Jan. 27 on the bank-owned mall, which is about half occupied.
While restaurants have thrived, shops and other venues have struggled since the mall opened in 2008 when the economy was taking a dive, despite its proximity to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure. Read the rest of the story.
For example, Hollister, which is owned by Abercrombie & Fitch, is slated to close its GardenWalk store later this month.
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A very important goal for chemical imaging is to understand and control complex chemical processes. This ultimately requires the ability to perform multimodal or multitechnique imaging across all length and time scales. Complete characterization of a complex material requires information not only on the surface or in bulk chemical components, but also on stereometric features such as size, distance, and homogeneity in three-dimensional space. In chemical imaging, it is frequently difficult to uniquely distinguish between alternative surface morphologies using a single analytical method and routine data acquisition and analysis. Multitechnique image correlation allows for extending lateral and vertical spatial characterization of chemical phases. This approach improves spatial resolution by utilizing techniques with nanometer resolution to enhance data from techniques with micrometer resolution—such as atomic force microscopy (AFM) or scanning electron microscopy (SEM) combined with X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) or Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Multi-modal imaging also facilitates correlation of different physical properties such as phase information in AFM with chemical information in XPS. By combining techniques that use different physical principles and record different properties of the object space, complementary and better-quality information becomes available.
As in most cases of systems integration, multimodal imaging requires more than simply networking different imaging techniques. Advances in computational capabilities, for example, are fundamental to effective integration of imaging techniques. Data fusion is the name for the techniques used to combine data from multiple techniques to perform inferences that may not be possible from a single technique by itself. The goal is to combine image data to form a new image that contains more interpretable information than could be gained using the original information. Combining images to form a multimodal image requires—beyond the usual image processing for a single image—a compensation for changes in image alignment from one instrument to another due to slight movements of the specimens, slight differences in magnification, or imperfect centering of the sample.
There is a need to develop multitechnique correlations for various combinations of imaging techniques.
Two examples for techniques that may be combined are listed below, but they are by no means meant to be comprehensive.
Combining Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Nanoscale Scanning Probe Techniques
Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) experiments on silver and gold nanoclusters have demonstrated large enhancement levels and field confinement of 5 nm or less for various samples such as single-walled carbon nanotubes.1 However, the locations of these conditions cannot be controlled but are instead determined by the specific nanostructures used. That is, the target molecules have


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Ubuntu 8 LTS Server ISPCONFIG
Today i upgraded Ubuntu Server 6 LTS to Ubuntu Server 8 LTS. The network upgrade worked perfect! Afterward i reinstalled ISPConfig because it's wasn't functioning properly. When reinstalling ISPConfig it stopped after a while with the announcement ISPConfig will not work with the installed version.
To bad, have to wait for an ISPConfig release that works with the new Ubuntu LTS 8 server.
Just wanted to warn the rest before you have to restore from backup :)
Which ISPConfig version did you use? As far as I know, Falko installed the current ISPConfig stable version on Ubuntu 8.04 (see rhe tutorial on the howtoforge frontpage).
Could this have to do with the change of the default shell, maybe ?
Set up your server as shown here: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu8.04-lts
and you won't have any issues.
The more convenient way for an existing sys is of course using the new "update-manager-core" package. Have you maybe tested this Falko?
I think that AppArmor could cause problems. It's enabled by default, and in my tutorial, I disable it.
Yeeep, AppArmor and the "sh is now dash" are the two things, why I'd warn anyone running ISPConfig to do an upgrade to 8.04 at this stage. At least not on any production server that is. Would you agree, Falko?
(I just read your HowTo, and I saw the changes regarding the Shell and the deactivation of AppArmor)
ProFTP is causing issues for me as well during the upgrade from 6.06 to 8.04
Disclaimer: I have done the Perfect Server set-up on a test system without actually installing ISPConfig
So one of my servers might actually work with a few tweaks, the other on unfurtunately is a 6.10 server which I have to take to 7.04 and 7.10 before upgrading to 8.04, which sounds way to risky to me.
After the upgrade, you should go to every step of the 8.04 perfect setup and compare the config files as apt might has replaced some files or configuration directives have changed their name.
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