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One of the year's most anticipated fights is just around the corner, as Chris Weidman and Lyoto Machida get set to throw down in Las Vegas next Saturday night, July 5, 2014.
Capping the UFC 175 pay-per-view event, Weidman will lay his middleweight championship belt on the line against the No. 2 ranked Machida, in a war that many would see as a conflict between a two styles – stand-up and ground.
Certainly, that's how Lyoto Machida is looking at it.
In conversation with Inside MMA's Bas Rutten, Machida stated that Weidman's "background is wrestling, and (his) background is stand-up." As such, and given Machida's formidable takedown skills, "The Dragon" is of the mindset that he will be able to force the 185 pound champion to defend his belt on the feet, and in Machida's world.
However, "The Dragon's" logic is a double-edged sword. As Machida's grappling skills have improved, so too have Weidman's stand-up skills. Indeed, in preparation for his fight with Machida, Weidman has brought in welterweight karate wizard Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson as a training partner.
Thompson is 4 – 1 in the UFC, 9 – 1 professionally, and a former undefeated Kickboxing world champion; 20 – 0. His one loss, a unanimous decision defeat, came at the hands of Matt Brown at UFC 146 in April of 2012, and stands as "The Immortal's" lone decision victory in his current 7 fight – 6 T/KO driven – winning streak.
As to whether or not he's worried about Weidman training with Thompson, Machida appears unconcerned. By the Brazilian's account, Thompson is an Orthodoxed fighter, where "The Dragon" is a southpaw, and the distance from which they emanate an attack is also askew. As such, Machida seems unworried as to what Weidman may have learned from Thompson.
According to Machida he can find "holes" in Weidman's stand-up game, and he can beat him "100%."


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How to Use this Handbook
This handbook is an organizational theme handbook plus my viewpoint on the general effectiveness of themes. The idea is to direct players to themes that serve specific goals. I looked at each theme and placed them into the following five categories:
Defender: Either provide immediate action attacks that resemble marks in behavior or they have adjacent range attacks that apply status effects that complicate the monster's next turn.
Striker: Do extra damage or do consistently more damage
Leader: Enable, buff, or heal without using up your immediate actions
Controller: Apply control effects from a distance
Non-standard: Doesn't really fit any of the above categories
I used the standard Gold/Sky Blue/Dark Blue/Black/Purple/Red color scheme.
Powers that were available as either alternate Utility or Encounter powers I only took into consideration if there was some fantastic element about them. Usually, any given class is going to have some better choices unless they're at a minimum Sky Blue or Gold(see Iron Wolf Warrior encounter attack powers or Sidhe Lord's Utility 2)
How should you pick themes on this basis? There are three basic ways:
If you want to enhance your general overall power, look at the themes rated Gold, Sky Blue, or possibly Dark Blue. Anything I've rated Gold or Sky Blue is likely going to be very useful, even if that's not your role.
If you want to enhance a particular role that your character does, look at the themes in that role. If you're a Defender who feels that they need to be a better Defender, pick a Defender theme. I'd recommend looking at anything Black or better. Be careful - if you're already really good at your role, you might want to consider something outside your role. If no one ever attacks a nearby ally, picking up a theme that relies on a nearby ally getting attacked isn't going to be Sky Blue even if I rated it such.
If you want to enhance your utility, look at the non-Standard themes - they often don't directly enhance a specific role, but rather give options, either in or out of combat.
Also, each theme lists whether or not weapon attacks are melee, close burst, or ranged, and whether or not the theme uses an implement.
I want to emphasize here - I think Color is generally more important than Role. A Sky Blue theme outside your role in many cases might make you more important to your party than a Dark Blue theme in your role.
It owes a lot to Who am I Really: A Theme Handbook by ls612.


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Video: Fozzy & Century Media to donate $.50 from every album sold to keep-a-breast
Oct 3, 2012 - by Steve Gerweck
Pro Wrestling Since 1997
Oct 3, 2012 - by Steve Gerweck
Does the band Fozzy wrestle?
Doesn't Barbarian or Warlord sell cars? I don't see a an article every time they slash prices.


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Who takes care of our various sysadmin duties? What are those duties, anyway? Who ya gonna call when things go wrong? This page attempts to keep track of that.
If the server just plain isn't answering, DNS goes bad, the disk fills up, etc. These people have login access. Other jobs that require admin access: editing the mailing list archives, adding or viewing mail aliases, upgrading software, changing Drupal CSS (?).
The site-wide password for mailman. Add people as admins for specific lists, add new lists or remove/rename existing ones or change Mailman configuration.
(Clytie is also a mailman developer but isn't a LinuxChix mailman admin.)
Ban people from the server, restart the server, or change server parameters.
Lots of people have ops on specific channels, like #linuxchix.
Change Drupal parameters, edit users' permissions, or create special content beyond what normal content editors can create.
(And by the way, what categories of content require this level of access?)
Fix problems in the website's CSS (this may take sysadmin login permission).
Fix Moodle problems.
Lots of people can add content in Drupal: anyone with "Content Admin" privs in Drupal.
To get the list of all Content Admin users, go to Administer->User Management->Users and limit it to Role of Content Admin.
The current list is: gayathri, Carla, Noirin, Terri, RobynManning, kjh, akkana, katie, Lili, valoriez, lilandra, joh, pearlbear, webchick.
I think people with Drupal admin access can do this -- anyone else?
Only people with server access can read or change these. We need to know what they are and who's on them. So far, we know about:
We have several contact form categories, which go to different addresses. To see the latest list, Administer->Site Building->Contact Form. The current list is:
Admins for specific mailing lists -- take care of spam, approve postings, etc.
##Carla is curious how many of these are still active- I see a number of unfamiliar names
linda at meridian-ds.com, terri at zone12.com, valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com
listpig at earthlink.net, terri at zone12.com, linda at meridian-ds.com, michelle at murrain.net
sujita at anandamarga.net, terri at zone12.com, valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com, betjohns at gmail.com
Courses (anyone on this list can also add new course topics)
suzo at spin.net.au, lists at tuxtina.de, terri at zone12.com, laylaa+linuxchix at gmail.com, amk.sorsa at gmail.com, michelle at murrain.net
terri at zone12.com, valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com, linda at meridian-ds.com, chris.madrone at gmail.com
lists at tuxtina.de, terri at zone12.com, valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com, linda at meridian-ds.com, wynke at stack.nl, michelle at murrain.net
buffarama at gmail.com, rmanning at adam.com.au, scumparty at gmail.com, terri at zone12.com
terri at zone12.com, svaksha at gmail.com, shuying at gmail.com, clytie at riverland.net.au, valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com, michelle at murrain.net
jenn at linuxchix.org, dancer at linuxchix.org, karen at linuxchix.org, terri at zone12.com, sujita at mimos.my
terri at zone12.com, hb1921 at hotpop.com, svaksha at gmail.com, valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com, tanja.pislar at gmail.com, johnston at biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk, juliesloan at mindspring.com, suzo at spin.net.au, plunkett at gmail.com
meredydd.luff at googlemail.com, terri at zone12.com, joulie at gmail.com, juliesloan at mindspring.com, lists at tuxtina.de
rmanning at adam.com.au, listpig at earthlink.net, terri at zone12.com, rudy at grumpydevil.homelinux.org, linda at meridian-ds.com, wynke at stack.nl
terri at zone12.com, wynke at stack.nl, megan at columbia.edu, valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com, betjohns at gmail.com


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Early-reporting European companies struggled to improve sales and earnings in the fourth quarter of 2013. Adverse currency effects and continued economic uncertainty in Europe hindered sales, although companies report signs of an upturn in several regional markets. The effects of restructuring boosted earnings at certain companies, but restructuring costs weighed on others.
AkzoNobel reports increases in profits in fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 on lower sales due to adverse currency effects and divestments. Fourth-quarter net income reached €51 million ($70 million) compared with a €27-million loss in the year-earlier period. Fourth-quarter revenues declined 5%, to €3.48 billion. Ebitda was flat, at €208 million, and return on sales (ROS) was 3.3% compared with 1.0% in the fourth quarter of 2012. Full-year net income rose 88%, to €724 million, on 5% lower revenue, of €14.6 billion. Full-year ROS was 6.6% compared with 5.9% in 2012. Ebitda was 5% lower, at €1.5 billion.
"We indicated at the start of 2013 that trading conditions would continue to be challenging, and that has proven to be the case. In response, we accelerated our company-wide improvement actions and have brought our performance-improvement program to a successful conclusion a year ahead of schedule and above target. While the first half of 2013 was impacted by weaker trading conditions and specific one-off events in specialty chemicals, the second half has shown early signs of stabilization in several end markets. In combination with our restructuring actions, this positive effect has been evident in our improving return on sales in the third and fourth quarters despite foreign currency headwinds. In 2014, we will continue to improve our ability to leverage our strong brands and leading market positions," says Ton Büchner, AkzoNobel CEO. "I am confident that we are on track to deliver on our 2015 strategic goals."
AkzoNobel says that it will continue to restructure its operations during 2014 to reduce costs further and that it anticipates restructuring charges of at least €250 million. The company's performance improvement program, announced in 2011, exceeded the cumulative amount of €500 million in Ebitda for the period through 2013, delivering a total of €545 million in benefits one year earlier than originally planned, the company says.
AkzoNobel's decorative paints business achieved an operating income of €146 million in the fourth quarter compared with a €91-million operating loss in the year-earlier period. Sales were 6% lower, at €934 million. Performance coatings' fourth-quarter operating income was down 36%, at €73 million, on 2% lower sales, of €1.37 billion. Specialty chemicals' operating loss is €30 million in the fourth quarter compared with an operating profit of €73 million in the fourth quarter of 2012. Revenues were 9% lower, at €1.2 billion.
Kemira, meanwhile, reports a fourth-quarter net loss of €48.7 million compared with a net loss of €40.4 million in the year-earlier period. Revenues were down 2%, to €545.2 million, because of unfavorable exchange rates. The full-year net loss was €25.9 million compared with a net profit of €22.4 million in 2012. Full-year revenue was flat, at €2.23 billion.
"Kemira's organic revenue and operative Ebit increased slightly in the fourth quarter. Of the two growth-focused segments, paper, with more than 10% organic revenue growth, was able to improve its operative Ebit by more than 20%," says Kemira president and CEO Wolfgang Büchele. "By showing only modest, 3% organic growth at a disappointing profitability, oil and mining has not met our expectations. Thus, we have taken steps to bring the oil and mining business back to its strategic path. In addition, we closed the acquisition of 3F, which will significantly strengthen our position in the polymer market. The profitability contribution of 3F in the fourth quarter was lower than expected due to a temporary shutdown in one of the production sites and higher costs mainly related to integration. The acquisition is expected to result in substantial synergies through raw material, logistics, and fixed-cost savings," he says.
Kemira expects to close the divestment of its ChemSolutions formic acid business during the first quarter. "Divestments, combined with [restructuring] measures, have significantly reduced complexity and strengthened our balance sheet in 2013. These measures were required to be able to compete effectively in our core businesses as well as to support our long-term profitability. Once the divestments [are] completed, Kemira [will be] transformed into a pure-play company focusing on water quality and quantity management," Büchele says.
Kemira says it will continue to focus on improving profitability, reinforcing cash flow, and investing to secure growth.
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Since Shawn and I had already traveled extensively in China, while everyone else flew away to see the Great Wall et al, we hung around the port city of Tsing Tao (yes, the place they make the Chinese beer you drank with your last Peking Duck). The city will host the sailing events at the next olympics, so they were demolishing most of the coastal buildings to rebuild in time for the arrival of foreign visitors and related media.
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Wow . . . that is a lot of questions wrapped into one. I don't think that accounting is boring, but I also think that because I like what I do and never leave work thinking I had a boring day. The great thing about accounting - which only gets better when you get your CPA license because more career options are available - is that there are so many different industries and positions that you can go into. You can be an accountant/ CPA in an industry that you finding interesting and find a position which you enjoy while getting paid well and adding value to that industry.
Most colleges have an accounting major that has required classes to graduate in that major which will give you the necessary classes to become a CPA. Depending on your state, you might have to take a few additional classes to be able to sit for the CPA Exam. I defiantly recommend you research your state so you can graduate college with all the required accounting and general education classes to be able to sit for the CPA Exam so you don't have to go back to school or pay the extra money for a master in accountancy. Once you sit for the CPA Exam and pass, you must meet an experience requirement which varies by state to then obtain your CPA license.
Hope that answers your questions. Good luck! It is well worth the effort!


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|"Red Mars"
|Part of the Mars trilogy
|A novel by Kim Stanley Robinson
Cover of the 1992 Bantam edition
|First published
|572 (Bantam 1992 paperback)
Red Mars is the first novel of the Mars trilogy, published in 1992. It follows the beginnings of the colonization of Mars, from the arrival of the First Hundred to the First Martian Revolution.
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Festival Night[edit]
Point of view: Frank
The Voyage Out[edit]
Point of view: Maya
The Crucible[edit]
Point of view: Nadia
Point of view: Michel
Falling Into History[edit]
Point of view: John
Guns Under The Table[edit]
Point of view: Frank
Senzeni Na[edit]
Point of view: Nadia
Shikata Ga Nai[edit]
Point of view: Ann
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- [Frank's thoughts] But lies were what people wanted; that was politics. (p.7, Festival Night)
- [Arkady:] "History is not evolution! It is a false analogy! Evolution is a matter of environment and chance, acting over millions of years. But history is a matter of environment and choice, acting within lifetimes, and sometimes within years, or months, or days! History is Lamarckian!" (p.88, The Voyage Out)
- [Arkady:] "Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often," he grinned and pushed at her belly, "expressed in curves." (p.187, The Crucible)
- [John's thoughts] History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything. (p.283, Falling Into History)
- [Arkady:] "When we first arrived, and for twenty years after that, Mars was like Antarctica but even purer. We were outside the world, we didn't even own things -- some clothes, a lectern, and that was it! Now you know what I think, John. This arrangement resembles the prehistoric way to live, and it therefore feels right to us, because our brains recognize it from 3 millions of years practicing it. In essence our brains grew to their current configuration in response to the realities of that life. So as a result people grow powerfully attached to that kind of life, when they get the chance to live it. It allows you to concentrate your attention on the real work, which means everything that is done to stay alive, to make things, or satisfy one's curiosity, or play. That is utopia." (p.342, Falling Into History)
- Reviews at KimStanleyRobinson.info
- Red Mars at The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Red Mars at Google Books
- The Science of Red Mars at Science in my Fiction
|The Mars trilogy
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Watch the development of the case against Julian Assange very carefully. It's pretty bizzare: sexual assault? espionage? Some are coming to his defense. As my friend Barbara says, one likely result of this drama will be greater restrictions on the way we are able to access, use and create various media archives. CBS News predicts a future of never-ending cyberwar. Never forget: sorting through these sorts of archives or databases is the political practice of our time, made even more so by sheer ubiquity. And the creation of digital archives themselves? What sort of politics is that? One New Republic editorial questions Julian Assange's/Wikileaks' status as beacons of serious journalism, governmental transparency and democracy due to their commitment to collect data, without organization and…
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No two-for-one-job deals: Longtime observers of York County government might recall that there was a time when we didn't have an administrator who essentially acted as a CEO/COO/CFO.
The elected commissioners were basically responsible for those duties.
In 1997, the commissioners decided to hire a person to act as administrator and chief clerk.
It was a bit controversial because the conservative majority commissioners, who talked often about controlling costs, were hiring a new, highly paid administrator to essentially do their jobs for them - freeing them to attend ribbon-cuttings, groundbreakings, gigantic check presentations and generally pursue politics.
But it has actually worked out well.
The commissioners chose a highly capable man for the job: Chuck Noll. And he's been running the county since.
Now Mr. Noll is looking to retire at the end of this year, and the commissioners are faced with the daunting challenge of replacing him. Will they be able to find someone to fill his large shoes - who can do a number of things very well?
President Commissioner Steve Chronister seems a little concerned about that. Last week, he was toying with the idea of hiring two people to do the job - one to handle finances, the other to handle management.
Forget that idea.
At a time when local senior centers and other county services are being squeezed by tight budgets (in part, granted, because state funding is very tight), the county must squeeze every drop of value out of whoever they choose to replace Mr. Noll.
Or - here's a thought - the commissioners could get more involved in management or finances themselves. They are paid pretty decent full-time salaries. That's not to say they're not working hard now, but in these tight times maybe they could pick up some of the slack.
Thank goodness, Commissioners Chris Reilly and Doug Hoke don't seem interested in the two-for-one-job plan.
Place an ad that says something like: "Wanted, Chuck Noll's clone."
Door-to-door school sales: When Chief Recovery Officer David Meckley chose an internal reform plan that depended in part upon drawing students back to the district who had fled to charter schools, it looked like the district had its work cut out for it.
It might not be easy to lure students back to schools where salaries of teachers and administrators will be cut among other austerity measures.
But it's good to see teachers and other school officials are working hard on that effort.
They are literally going door-to-door, talking to parents, answering questions, addressing concerns.
In the summer, no less!
That's when many teachers typically take time off, work other jobs or pursue advanced degrees.
Good for them - and we wish them well.
Truth is, the city school district provides at least an equal education to that offered by some local charters. City schools' test scores are equal to or better than some area charters' scores.
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This one might get you misty: Nine-year-old Alayna Adams threw out the first pitch beforeThursday's Tampa Bay Rays-Boston Red Sox game. She was told she'd been selected by the U.S.O. for the honor, partially because her father, Lt. Col. Will Adams, had been deployed overseas in Afghanistan for most of the past two years.
Before Alayna threw her pitch, a message from Dad played on the video board, saying he'd see her soon. Indeed he would.
Because it turned out the whole thing was a ruse orchestrated by the U.S.O and the Rays. Lt. Col. Will Adams was, in fact, dressed in catcher's gear, crouching behind home plate, awaiting the throw from his daughter.
Dana Adams, Will's wife and Alayna's mom, didn't know about the surprise either. Soon, she joined them in tears.
"I thought it was a dream," Alayna said a few innings later, when the family was interviewed on TV.
"I had no idea," Dana added.
According to a report from the Tampa Bay Times, Lt. Col. Adams arrived on Wednesday and stayed in a hotel that night to keep up the surprise. He told the Times:
"That was the hardest part. Being back home and not being able to see them."
Dad's return would have been memorable anyway it happened, but this sure had style points. And it made a lot more people tear up.


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Thomas P. Burghardt, Ph.D., uses whiz-bang microscopy techniques to compare single protein molecules from damaged hearts to healthy specimens in hopes of finding ways to stop this leading killer of young athletes.
Thomas Burghardt, Ph.D., calls himself a builder — his workbench is the molecular structure of the heart.
Maybe you've heard of sudden cardiac death — the unexpected death of an apparently healthy person, usually a teenager or young adult, without any warning. Many of these sudden deaths are caused by an inability of the heart to beat properly because of faulty genes.
One in 500 babies is born with one of these genes, causing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle resulting in its enlargement. People affected by hypertrophic cardiomyopathy may seem perfectly healthy — even athletic — but out of the blue, when they're kicking a ball or making a jump shot, they collapse. That's because their heart muscle cells increase in size (hypertrophy), causing the heart wall to thicken, which makes it harder to pump blood efficiently. Also, enlarged cells become misaligned, disrupting the heart's electrical impulses. Some people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy experience shortness of breath, chest pain or fainting. But when children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy get sick, they often develop severe forms of the disease.
Investigators such as Mayo Clinic biochemist Thomas P. Burghardt, Ph.D., are looking for ways to stop these symptoms before they start. With its team research approach, Mayo Clinic is ideally suited to both treat patients and piece together the complex genetics underlying hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
"People walk into Mayo when they're sick," Dr. Burghardt says. "When we suspect hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, we test their genes. We want to get clear on exactly what's going wrong."
Heart muscle is composed of protein filaments. The heart's thick filaments are made up of a protein called myosin, and its thin filaments are made up of another protein called actin. When the heart beats, the myosin filaments grab onto the actin filaments and pull them along, sort of like hauling in a rope.
The heart makes a variety of myosin and actin proteins, each encoded by its own gene. In people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, one of these genes is mutated and therefore makes a myosin or actin protein that doesn't work quite right. These genes can be passed from parent to child.
One of the remarkable things about hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the number of faulty genes out there — more than 900 mutations have been found in 20 different genes. Unrelated families with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy usually have different mutations. And even within families, the disease manifests in different people in different ways and at different times. This seems to be the case regardless of which gene is faulty.
This means that specific mutations can't necessarily be used to predict how sick carriers might become, only that they're more liable to become sick. On the other hand, understanding why a mutant protein doesn't work as it should could lead to preventive treatments, such as medications or gene therapy.
Pediatric cardiologist Michael J. Ackerman, M.D., Ph.D., a colleague of Dr. Burghardt's at Mayo Clinic's campus in Rochester, Minn., treats children who have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. For almost half of these children, the genetic problem was not inherited at all but occurred as a spontaneous mutation, so their parents and siblings are not at risk of this condition. However, the new mutation is heritable, so a patient's future children could be at risk.
Dr. Ackerman evaluates the myosin and actin genes in these youngsters to find their mutations. He shares the sequences of these mutant genes with Dr. Burghardt, who generally chooses to investigate the ones from patients with serious illness. Even though much progress has been made elucidating the genetic basis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the molecular events that lead to the disease's symptoms are still unclear.
"We've got to know why a child's heart muscle behaves this way to predict the outcome, and treat him as he grows up," Dr. Burghardt says. So he looks at the heart closely, zooming in to observe the action of one muscle filament at a time.
Every heartbeat begins with the binding of a molecule called adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to myosin's globular head. ATP transports energy in cells — it makes things happen. It's kind of like a rechargeable battery: Clipping one of its three phosphate groups off powers a reaction; sticking a new phosphate group back on prepares it to fuel the next.
When ATP binds to myosin, the myosin releases the actin. Myosin clips off one of ATP's phosphate groups and the little zap of energy released powers the flexion of the myosin head. As the phosphorous group is released, myosin's globular head changes shape and becomes powerfully attracted to the adjacent actin unit. The myosin head extends, making its power stroke and tugging the actin along.
"It's a little motor," Dr. Burghardt explains. "The mechanism is that the myosin strongly binds actin then rotates its lever-arm to impel actin."
Myosin's lever-arm walks along actin filaments a lot like a caterpillar scoots along a twig. The swinging steps of multitudes of myosin lever-arms ultimately generate a heartbeat.
Researchers use infrared light to generate second harmonics (a visible light range) in order to see the myosin in a cardiac muscle fiber and evaluate if the fiber is damaged. Second harmonic generation also enables them to detect and differentiate connective tissue.
Cardiac myosin filaments consist of one heavy protein chain and two light protein chains. One of the light chains is hypothesized to stabilize the lever-arm of Dr. Burghardt's little motor. If the lever-arm were too flexible, it would not move actin effectively. It may be that the mutant light chains from Dr. Ackerman's patients don't stabilize the lever-arm properly.
To see if this is true, Dr. Burghardt is using super-resolution, high-precision microscopy to determine lever-arm orientation at various points during muscle contraction. He isolates a single muscle fiber from the heart and mounts it in a specially designed study chamber. He then painstakingly studies its contractility by measuring the tension that develops when he stimulates it with calcium and ATP under the high-powered microscopes.
Dr. Burghardt can use this system to study mutant proteins. He does this by synthesizing a large amount of the protein in bacteria and introducing it into a mounted muscle fiber — usually from a pig heart that has been pre-treated to flush out its own version of the protein being studied. Amazingly — even though a component of its molecular machinery is replaced by an entirely synthetic protein — the muscle fiber can still contract, allowing Dr. Burghardt to determine how the mutation discovered in the patient impacts heart contractions.
In the past, researchers couldn't observe native myosin behavior in heart muscle because the filaments are so densely packed. Dr. Burghardt gets around this problem by using something called a photoactivatable probe. These molecules can be attached specifically to different regions of myosin. They are especially handy because they have an on switch: They shine bright green when they're exposed to blue light.
"Single molecule studies on proteins like myosin were really not possible until photoactivatable probes came along," Dr. Burghardt says. "Now it's possible to excite a sparse population of probes in the very concentrated myosin."
When Dr. Burghardt looks at heart muscle under the microscope, the probe only shines for a little while. It lasts longer when it's placed in a stable position on the myosin. It burns out more quickly when it's in a spot that's flexible.
"The little motor has stresses and strains," Dr. Burghardt explains. "We can pick those up depending on where the probe is placed on the myosin."
He can measure these differences in space and time and then crunch the numbers, calculating the force of the normal versus the mutant lever-arms.
The microfluidic device developed in Dr. Burghardt's lab. It holds a small bundle of papillary fibers (roughly 50 um or 0.05 mm in diameter) while researchers perform single-molecule experiments on the myosin light chain in the fibers. The two flanking pipettes — the inlet and outlet for solution exchange — allow researchers to take the fibers through physical states of relaxation, rigor or contraction. All of this is visible only under the microscope.
Dr. Burghardt began his career as a physicist, pursuing research simply to advance knowledge. His work was exploratory and often motivated by his curiosity and intuition without any practical end in mind. But at Mayo Clinic, "research is funneled into themes," Dr. Burghardt says. "This focuses my attention. I have to think about a clear goal — heart disease — and use all my basic research tricks to address that. It's gotten me interested in new techniques, new tools that suit the problem, and I've found it very stimulating."
Beyond microscopy, one of Dr. Burghardt's goals involves creating microfluidic chips that will eventually allow health care providers in less well-equipped clinics to perform diagnostic tests for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. "I'm basically a toolmaker — I build things," he says.
These labs-on-a-chip would provide a cheap way to assay for mutant proteins. Health care providers could take tiny samples from their patients' leg postural muscles, which express the same genes that cardiac muscles do. Just like heart muscle, postural muscle doesn't get tired. Dr. Burghardt explains that "it doesn't pump iron, it just holds your body steady. Nature manages to put the right kind of myosin in the right spots."
Dr. Burghardt is also interested in using some type of natural mechanism to make stronger muscles. "It seems like a long way off," Dr. Burghardt says, "but protein engineering is here now. I just need to know what to change."
Drug therapies used to treat hypertrophic cardiomyopathy relieve some of its symptoms but do not target hypertrophic cardiomyopathy-specific pathways or alter the natural history of the disease. One goal is to find medications that target the pathways, the mechanisms of the disease. Another goal is using a type of gene therapy in which a mutated gene is turned off by preventing the production of the dangerous protein it encodes.
Whether it's drawing a connection between illness and a specific mutation, engineering a new myosin protein to solve a problem, or determining how a faulty myosin needs to be fixed, it's crucial that investigators understand the molecular pathways that translate a mutation in a muscle protein into the observable properties of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Research is a slow process completed one molecule at a time. "We need to get busy now learning how the disease starts," Dr. Burghardt says, "so we stand a better chance of figuring out a way to fix it."
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The Teamsters union's lead thug Jimmy Hoffa had some profane and incendiary rhetoric in store for a crowd at a campaign event for President Barack Obama in Detroit on Monday.
"We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They've got a war, they got a war with us and there's only going to be one winner. It's going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We're going to win that war," Jimmy Hoffa said to a heavily union crowd, according to an article on ABCNews.com.
"President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let's take these son of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong," Hoffa added.
In light of Obama's call last January for "civility" in public discourse, and his recent calls for a bipartisan coming-together to tackle the economy, even The Telegraph of London is wondering whether Obama is ready to demonstrate "moral courage" and repudiate Hoffa and Vice President Joe Biden, who told an AFL-CIO rally they were keeping "barbarians from the gates."
The White House has thus far chosen to answer questions about Hoffa's choice of words with stony silence, and Democrat National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Shultz has taken every opportunity to avoid the question altogether. But if a Tea Party member, or a Republican, had uttered such a thing, the progressives and media would have gone apoplectic.
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Looks like you might have a Cross Spider, Araneus diadematus. See it at http://bugguide.net/node/view/28117/bgimage, or at http://www.whatsthatbug.com/spiders5.html
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Did you ever find out what kind of spider this is?? I just found one in my back yard here in Finely Washington that looks very simular.


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In his introduction to the 2002 National Security Strategy, President Bush said: "America is now threatened less by conquering states than we are by failing ones." Failing states with weak state institutions struggle to deliver services to their population or to control corruption and are at risk of ongoing conflict. When these countries descend into civil war, massive flows of refugees and large-scale human displacement lead to further regional and global instability.
Nowhere is this more of a challenge than in Africa. There is broad agreement that combating today's global threats requires a balanced, integrated approach with coordinated defense, diplomacy and development efforts. In practice, the Pentagon is largely dictating America's approach to foreign policy. The nation's foreign aid budget is too low; its civilian capacity to construct and carry out effective, long-term policies to rebuild states is too weak; interventions abroad are often unilateral when multilateral solutions could be more effective; and the military, which is well trained to invade countries, not to build them up, is playing an increasingly active and well-funded role in promoting development and democracy. Even Defense Secretary Robert Gates noted that U.S. soldiers conducting development and assistance activities in countries where they frequently don't speak the language is "no replacement for the real thing – civilian involvement and expertise."
The rising military role in shaping U.S. global engagement is a challenge to the next president. Foreign assistance represents less than one percent of the federal budget, while defense spending is 20%. The U.S. military has over 1.5 million uniformed active duty employees and over 10,100 civilian employees, while the Department of State has some 6,500 permanent employees. Although several high-level task forces and commissions have emphasized the urgent need to modernize our aid infrastructure and increase sustainable development activities, such assistance is increasingly being overseen by military institutions whose policies are driven by the Global War on Terror, not by the war against poverty. Between 1998 and 2005, the percentage of Official Development Assistance the Pentagon controlled exploded from 3.5% to nearly 22%, while the percentage controlled by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) shrunk from 65% to 40%.
This civil-military imbalance has particular ramifications for Africa, where Global War on Terror imperatives do not address the continent's biggest needs for security assistance. The U.S. is only helping four African countries transform their armies and security agencies into professional organizations that protect citizens rather than abuse them. Resources are allocated in a manner that does not reflect the continent's most pressing priorities. For example, the U.S. has allocated $49.65 million for reforming a 2,000-strong Liberian army to defend the four million people of that country. In contrast, it only plans to spend $5.5 million in 2009 to help reform a 164,000-strong army in the DR Congo, a country with 65 million people where Africa's "first world war" claimed the lives of over five million people.
Two case studies emphasize the problems inherent in the U.S. approach. Military dominance over reform programs in Liberia has resulted in a policy focused solely on restructuring Liberia's army by expensive private contractors, DynCorp and Pacific Architects and Engineers. Meanwhile, intelligence, judiciary, and prison agencies are sadly neglected. In the DR Congo, the State Department has played a very active role in facilitating dialogue among belligerents and is concerned about the humanitarian situation in the east, but the Defense Department is virtually ignoring the nation's desperate need of military reform. As a result, an inadequately resourced security sector reform program has contributed to the Congolese army becoming a major source of insecurity for civilian communities.
The U.S. military's new Africa Command (AFRICOM) is poised to become the dominant influence over U.S. policy on the continent. Originally, AFRICOM was promoted as integrating military and civilian agencies for "humanitarian assistance, civic action… and response to natural disasters." After much criticism from African nations and the international humanitarian community, the new AFRICOM Commander is now emphasizing the value the Command can add to the many U.S. military programs already operating in Africa.
AFRICOM should focus on two unashamedly military/political roles that will strengthen peace and security in Africa: a) assisting African countries with defense sector reform; and b) supporting Africa's regional organizations in building conflict management and standby force capacity. The Command's legitimacy will ultimately be determined by its ability to work with the African Union and UN operations to address Africa's principal security challenge – mobilizing sufficient resources to provide a secure, stable and well-governed environment in which human rights are protected and promoted and where business can thrive. Assisting with the coordination of security sector and peacekeeping assistance should be strongly emphasized in its mandate to help national governments absorb the plethora of uncoordinated initiatives from various coalitions of donor countries.
Another priority for AFRICOM should be to enhance peacekeeping capacity-building programs. As a matter of urgency, AFRICOM should establish a core of civil-military expertise specifically related to UN peace operations in Africa. With the demand for African peacekeepers far outstripping the supply of adequately trained and equipped forces, AFRICOM has the potential to increase the number of trained soldiers for UN or AU peace operations.
AFRICOM could also enhance international cooperation for delivering more sustainable support to African efforts to establish peace and security. Instead of having three commanders that deal with Africa as a third or fourth priority, an informed, consistent and coherent engagement with Africa could be established. However, AFRICOM's current meager budget for bilateral security cooperation falls far short of what is needed to have true credibility and
impact. Currently, no funds are allocated for security sector and governance capacity-building for African nations. Instead, funding is being requested for Global War on Terror priorities.
While AFRICOM can improve engagement with African nations, more effective non-military support is needed to provide the basic foundations of stability that would encourage refugees to return home and would meet Africa's enormous development challenges. Although the current administration is promoting a range of initiatives to redress the imbalance in U.S. instruments for global engagement, these are aimed at a "quick fix" for long-broken machinery.
The next president must strengthen civilian professional capacity to carry out diplomatic and development operations. More funding is needed to address the current 17 to 1 spending imbalance in staffing and resources between defense and diplomatic/development operations, and to reduce the use of contractors in foreign assistance programs. A thorough assessment of both civilian and military capacities to achieve developmental goals must also be conducted.
Doing a few things well in Africa, and doing the right thing in Africa, can have a positive impact on 53 UN member states, help uplift 80% of the world's poorest people, and win friends and influence in the most under-governed continent in the world. If the establishment of AFRICOM, the strengthening of the State Department's Africa Bureau and USAID programs in Africa can be seen to produce positive results, the effort could serve as a model for U.S. global engagement.


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We had a successful trip to Europe, both personally and professionally! We had a great time being tourist in the beautiful country of Belgium and we did some great buying at the fabulous flea markets of England. We are so excited for our container to arrive to unpack all of our treasures, hopefully sometime at the end of September.
I will blog a few times about this trip, but I thought I would start with gardens and delicacies!
In England, the fields appeared to be purple due to the growing patches of wild heather.
In Belgium, we found gorgeous flowers everywhere! I know understand why so many of the cut flowers sold in stores around us, are imported from Belgium.
One of the best things about being on vacation in Europe is eating all of the wonderful seasonal foods found in the markets and off of the street.
The picture above was taken at the morning fish market in Bruges.
I just loved this country man selling his house cured meats at a small market in the Belgium town of Han-sur-Lesse.
Boucheries were on every corner in the French region of Belgium. Many of our meals consisted of these cured meats paired with local cheese and fresh bread from the patisseries.
I took this picture at an olive oil market in the cutest little town of Durbuy, Belgium. I was inspired by their concept of picking out your own bottle and then filling it yourself with their house-made oils and vinegars.
Another one of my favorite food markets was this old mustard shop in Ghent. Tierenteyn Mustard is made from a confidential 1790 recipe of ground mustard seeds, vinegar, and salt. It has a unique flavor, powerful with a slightly spicy bite. Unfortunately, you can only purchase this mustard at the shop, where it is hand poured fresh into a crock.
It was interesting to see the unique produce in the local food markets.
These were tiny wild strawberries! We ate them whole, green stem and all. They were juicy and sweet and a perfect afternoon snack.
This picture quality is not great, but it is still very clear at the amazing colors of these heirloom tomatoes! We found these as they were being dropped off by the farmer to be used in the kitchen at this little restaurant in Durbuy.
We couldn't miss the famous Belgium Waffles!
I really enjoyed the plain Belgium waffles. Served warm, they were sweet and crispy and didn't need all of the fancy toppings, they were perfect.
All around Belgium, we found "biscuit" shops full of cookies and butter biscuits like this one in Brussels called Dandoy. The have been making their treats since 1829!
These next two photos were taken at a local honey shop. Every product in the store was made using their local honey. There were food items as well as bath products. I took some fabulous soap home . . .
And, of course, there was Belgium chocolate . . . a store on every corner! It seemed as if we tried them all, and I am now convinced that they are correct, and Belgium does make the best chocolate!!
and . . . the best beer! So many Belgium beers!!
Some of our favorite Belgium beers that we tried were crafted in the small towns that we visited.


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World building congress 2013
Type: Meeting or Conference
Organizer(s): International Council for Research and Innovation in Building
Date: 05-09 May 2013
Location: Brisbane (Australia)
Venue: Brisbane Convention Centre
This triennial congress will focus on the relationship between construction and society. How can research help to maximise the contribution of constructed assets to social goals? How will the research community meet emerging social needs?
A special conference session will be provided on the topic of 'Making Cities More Resilient'.
Academics, researchers, students, professionals, government officials, policy makers, practitioners, community groups, and NGOs are invited to report on their research related to multi-disciplinary perspectives of how cities can be made more resilient to a range of hazards and threats.
The topics covered during the session will include:
- To what extent is climate change being considered in the design, planning and construction of buildings/cities?
- Examples of design, planning, construction or process adaptations that have been undertaken to address hazards/threats that are well established but escalating and/or threats that are emergent and unpredictable.
- Case studies of trans-disciplinary partnerships that are helping to make cities more resilient.
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VELUX, manufacturers of roof windows and champions of natural lighting, are welcoming entries to their Lovers of Light photography competition for the second year running. The daylight experts launched the competition to highlight the power of sunlight and celebrate the benefits of natural light.
Following the immense success of last year's competition - which received a staggering 9,000 entries - VELUX has issued the contest for a second time, challenging entrants to submit photographs that creatively interpret daylight in any form. This can be through a window, from a balcony, through a forest, across the sea… The possibilities are endless.
In return, one lucky winner will receive a 5 night stay for two people at the Isfjord Hotel on the Nordenskiold Coast in Svalbard, Norway. During the summer months this region experiences sunlight 24 hours a day so the winner will be able to enjoy daylight around the clock. This year's competition also includes a mobile phone category with a Lytro camera up for grabs.
One of the esteemed judges, Tom Dyckhoff said: "The role of daylight in design, art, science and architecture is absolutely crucial. But rarely do we stop and think about how it impacts our daily lives - everything from our health and well-being to our mood and sleep patterns.
"The VELUX Lovers of Light photography competition aims to celebrate daylight and hopefully inspire people to stop and appreciate one of our most precious natural resources. I am looking forward to being part of the judging panel and along with the other judges seeing this year's entrants' creative interpretations of daylight."
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Saturday, November 13, 2010
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Everybody has their favorite TV shows and characters. It might have been "Ralph Kramden" on the "Honeymooners" during the 1950s or "Deputy Barney Fife" and "Sheriff Andy Taylor" from the Andy Griffith Show during the 1960s or "Archie Bunker" of "All in the Family" and "Fred Sanford" of "Sanford & Son" during the 1970s.
If law and the courtoom are your favorite type of shows, the character could be from the original "Dragnet," "Defenders," "Perry Mason," "Kojak," "Hill Street Blues," "Cagney & Lacey," "L.A. Law," "NYPD Blue" or "Law & Order."
Family shows? Your character may be from "The Waltons," "Family Ties," "Growing Pains," "Alice"or the "Cosby Show."
Medical shows? Try "Medic," "Dr. Kildare," "Ben Casey," "Marcus Welby, M.D.," "St. Elsewhere" or "E.R."
So many shows, so many characters.
Virtually everyone spends time watching TV. People started watching TV from the time they were toddlers and continued throughout their lifetime. They might prefer soap operas or cartoons or dramas or comedies, but everybody has their favorite characters and for widely diverse reasons.
Here's are some selections for favorite characters.
Selena Jones, 29, a Jill-of-all-trades at Golden Corral for the past 2 1/2 years, has a special reason for liking the "Lucy" characters played by Lucille Ball.
"Lucy reminds me of my mother and grandmother because we always used to watch her on TV and, in fact, my grandmother looked a little like her. ... It really brings back a lot of memories," said the perky Jones, a lifetime Albany resident.
Nancy Roberson, 51, of Leesburg has been waitressing in metro Albany for approximately 15 years, the last 3 1/2 at the Golden Corral in Albany, and her favorite performer was the late Michael Landon who starred in "Bonanza," "Little House on the Prairie" and "Highway to Heaven."
The outgoing waitress preferred Landon in his role as Charles Ingalls in "Little House," which originally aired from 1974 to 1983 and is now in syndication.
"He had great character roles, but his best was as Charles Ingalls as a real strong, honest man. ... He was just good at what he did," Roberson said.
Lucy Bunn, 63, of Dawson likes the quirky Abby Sciuto, played by Pauley Perrette, on NCIS. A member of the cast since the show first aired in 2003, Sciuto serves as a forensics specialist who loves the gothic style.
"Abby is a strong woman who is true to herself. She has an innocence about her and believes in the best of everyone. ... She is a strong judge of character and is incredibly intelligent and loyal," said Bunn, a member of the staff of Dr. Robert Johnson, a Dawson dentist, since 1998.
Leon Chambers of Albany, a 32-year-old waiter at Johnny Carino's Italian Restaurant in Albany, likes Hank on "King of the Hill," an animated show which has aired since 1997. The show depicts the life and times of Hank Hill, his family and neighbors in Arlen, Texas.
"He just epitomizes what everybody is going through these days," Chambers explained.
Sylvia Hatcher, 51, of Albany has worked as an assistant manager at Winn Dixie in Albany for the past 17 years and likes "Gil Grissom" of "CSI." He is portrayed by William Petersen.
Grissom served as the night supervisor at the Las Vegas crime lab from the show's inception in 2000 until 2009.
"It's his personality on the show. ... It's just something about him," Hatcher explained.
Kristin Johnson, 27, who has worked at Kay Jewelers in the Albany Mall for two years, selected Ray Romano's portrayal of "Ray Barone" in "Everybody Loves Raymond," which aired from 1996 to 2005.
"He definittely was funny, and you really could relate to him. He was just very real," she explained.
Marianne Humphrey, 58, who has served as manager of Hallmark Gold Crown in the Albany Mall for the past three years, picked "Jed Clampett," played by Buddy Ebsen, on the "Beverly Hillbillies."
"I just liked his character. He was an easy-going guy who handled so many difficult situations with ease," she said.
The show aired from 1962 to 1971 before going into syndication.
"Bear"Atteberry, 58, who has worked for the past 11 years for the Dougherty County School System in the facilities department, simply loves the "Three Stooges."
The "Three Stooges" started in the movies with "Soup to Nuts" in 1930 starring Moe, Larry and Shemp. They did more than 15 movies before a handful of "Three Stoogies" shorts appeared on TV in 1949. In 1958, they went into national syndication with 76 episodes.
"They just make me laugh, they really do," said Atteberry. "If I had a bad day, I'd turn on the 'Three Stooges' and they'd make me laugh, and my whole mood would change," the Sylvester resident explained.
Jodie Brogdon, 36, of Leesburg has been working as a medical technician for the past 14 years and currently is employed by Dr. Thomas A. Hilsman of Albany.
Brogdon's favorite character is Rose Nylund, portrayed by Betty White on the "Golden Girls." White received 20 Emmy nominations for her TV work and received seven Emmys."Golden Girls" aired on NBC from 1985 to 1992.
"She's just funny, very believeable and down to Earth. ... I've watched her since I was a kid and still enjoy her," Brogdon said.
Heather Rogers, 20, of Sylvester has worked in sales at Victoria's Secret for the past year and likes "Stewie" from "Family Guy," an animated show that first aired in 1999.
"Stewie" is the youngest of three children in the Griffin family.
"He's just funny," Rogers said succinctly.
A lifetime Albany resident, Ruth Hayes, 82, revealed her favorite character was "Matt Dillion" portrayed by James Arness on "Gunsmoke," a Western drama which aired from 1955 to 1975.
"He was a very strong character and a good, honest person. He was tough, but he showed his soft side when dealing with 'Miss Kitty,' " said Hayes who is making a great recovery from her cracked hip and pelvis.
Even Otis, my 125-pound black Labrador, had a selection. His favorite character was "Lassie" from the show by the same name which aired for nearly two decades beginning in 1954.
"Woof ... Woof ... Woof," Otis said. Translation: She was cute, cute, cute.
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Continental Drift
Pondering how a culture unmoored from its past copes with an influx of newcomers
Europe hasintractable problems with many immigrants, especially Muslim immigrants, and, of course, many immigrants have intractable problems with Europe. In "Reflections on the Revolution in Europe," Christopher Caldwell ponders the current state of a continent where the aging indigenous population is gradually being supplanted by young newcomers. Today's immigrants might be considered hostile to European values, except that Europe itself increasingly has only a foggy sense of what those values might be.
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Reflections on the Revolution in Europe
By Christopher Caldwell
(Doubleday, 422 pages, $30)
"When an insecure, malleable, relativistic culture meets a culture that is anchored, confident, and strengthened by common doctrines," Mr. Caldwell writes, "it is generally the former that changes to suit the latter." The book is not a polemic; it is at once nuanced and blunt, serious and witty, while also avoiding what Mr. Caldwell calls "the preemptive groveling that characterizes most writing about matters touching on ethnicity." He does not advocate positions but instead offers reflections on a mix of trends, misunderstandings and self-delusions.
He also ruminates on far more than the increasing radicalization of generations of Muslim immigrants. Just as Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France" (1790) predicted a dire fate for the mass insurrection then aborning, Mr. Caldwell looks with alarm at Europe's continuing rejection of itself. Without a rejection of the religion and culture that sustained Europe for centuries, he says, the immigration troubles might never have occurred, or at least would not have been so severe: His verdict is suicide rather than murder.
The author notes that even the prominent German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, who is an atheist, has acknowledged that "Christianity, and nothing else, is the ultimate foundation of liberty, conscience, human rights, and democracy, the benchmarks of Western civilization. To this we have no other options. We continue to nourish ourselves from this source. Everything else is postmodern chatter."
Yet much of Europe has discarded its historic religious underpinnings as irrelevant at best, harmful at worst. Even the memory of what a religiously ordered society was like has seemed to disappear, Mr. Caldwell observes. "A good definition of religion" for most modern Europeans, he says, might be "an irrational opinion, strongly held."
'Western Europe became a multiethnic society in a fit of absence of mind. Mass immigration began--with little public debate, it would later be stressed--in the decade after the Second World War.'
Most European elites, though, have not debated seriously the potential effects of introducing into this land of postmodern chatter millions of devout believers in another religion, one previously seen as antagonistic to European culture. As Mr. Caldwell says, Europe's elites seem hardly to have considered that the ethical views they pride themselves on have little meaning when divorced from Christian origins.
Many Europeans are determined to defend their values— witness France's ban on headscarves in schools—but it is hard to defend what you cannot define. "There is no consensus, not even the beginning of a consensus," Mr. Caldwell writes, "about what European values are." When the Netherlands decided not long ago to try to define its values and inculcate them in prospective new residents, it ended up producing a ghastly naturalization packet that included a video that featured "gays expressing affection in public, and bare-breasted women on the beach." Welkom, immigrants!
In his reflections on Europe's slide into a sort of secular suicide, Mr. Caldwell notes the key role played by that most religious impulse: guilt. He argues that the dominant moral mood of postwar Europe was "repentance for two historical misdeeds, colonialism and Nazism." Over the decades, guilt has festered into "a sense of moral illegitimacy" and a "self-directed xenophobia" that now shapes the continent's response to immigration.
Originally, the reasons given for encouraging mass immigration to Europe were economic—a means of remedying Europe's purported labor shortage and, eventually, of bolstering economies obliged to fund generous pension plans. Immigrants "would emerge from the desiccated and starving hamlets of the Third World and ride to the rescue of the retirement checks and second homes, the wine tastings and snorkeling vacations, of the most pampered workforce in the history of the planet," Mr. Caldwell writes. Such economic rationales proved to be chimeras, though. Nowadays, with majorities in many countries consistently opposed to immigration, a new justification has had to be found: the flat assertion that immigration and asylum policies are "nonnegotiable moral duties that you don't vote on," or perhaps even discuss.
If much about immigration is nonnegotiable, then problems that appear to be caused by immigration must instead be understood as the result of "some quirk or accident," Mr. Caldwell says, "never immigration itself." But there is nothing quirky about it. The problems are not local but everywhere evident, across national boundaries, because they challenge Europe's very idea of itself. "If you understand how immigration, Islam, and native European culture interact in any western European country," Mr. Caldwell notes, "you can roughly predict how they will react in any other—no matter what its national character, no matter whether it conquered an empire, no matter what its role in World War II, and no matter what the provenance of its Muslim immigrants." As for how governments respond to immigration pressures within their own countries, officials tend to look to the French model of assimilation or the British model of multiculturalism, depending "on which country had suffered rioting less recently."
All this may seem to cry out for a loud and long, soul-searching debate, but don't count on it. Discussion about immigration is decidedly circumscribed in countries where postcolonial guilt has led to taboos against criticism of anything putatively Muslim. The riots and slayings over a Danish newspaper's publication of a few cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad put an entire continent on notice to watch its words. Mr. Caldwell gives little advice and few predictions about what lies ahead. But he does address the question of "whether you can have the same Europe with different people. The answer is no."
—Mr. Marshall is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom and the editor of "Blind Spot: When Journalists Don't Get Religion."


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GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- There is no disagreement within Hamas about Mahmoud Abbas heading a unity government to be formed later this month, deputy head of Hamas politburo Mousa Abu Marzouq said Tuesday.
"We have agreed to the next government, headed by President Abbas, but the process of its formation and the selection of its members will be discussed further, because we all want a government that supports and strengthens reconciliation," Abu Marzouq said during an interview with Palestine TV.
"We want the incoming government to work on re-constructing the Gaza Strip, and to carry out all issues agreed between Fatah and Hamas," he added.
Internal Hamas elections have been delayed for technical reasons, Abu Marzouq said, adding that there are no internal disputes. Elections were expected at the end of last year, a Hamas official said in December, with Hamas' chief-in-exile Khaled Mashaal stating that he would not run for re-election as leader of the Islamist movement.
Last week, President Mahmoud Abbas and Mashaal agreed to set a timetable to implement their parties' reconciliation deal during a Cairo meeting, Fatah official Yahya Rabah said, adding that they set a Jan. 30 deadline for forming the unity government, which will be headed by Abbas.
The new government will be comprised of technocrats and dignitaries not affiliated to any political party. It will serve for an interim period to supervise parliamentary and presidential elections and oversee administrative procedures.
Factional infighting split Palestine into separate governments in Gaza and the West Bank in 2007. National elections and parliamentary approval of legislation have been on hold ever since.
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Feisy girl group StooShe perform an exclusive acoustic version of their chart hit single Love Me which stars Gym Class Heroes front man Travie McCoy live at MUZU.TV studios. Love Me is the lead single from their debut album 'Sticks and Roundabouts' set for release in June 2012 on Warner Music UK. Here the song is stripped down to its bare bones relying solely on acoustic guitar accompaniment and their own brand of London-bred charisma. The original version of the song has roots steeped in urban pop, R&B and hip hop whereas here their performance is raw and intimate, emphasising the vocals of members Alexandra Buggs, Courtney Rumbold and Karis Anderson. Originally recorded under a different more 'evocative' name, StooShe's re-recorded their first single as 'Love Me' which was released on 14 March 2011 and features the US rapper Travie McCoy. StooShe are set to release their debut EP 'Swings & Roundabouts' in June 2012 on Warner Music UK. Check out this unique performance and stay tuned for more music news, interviews and video features exclusive to MUZU.tv fans.
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Williamston residents may soon be able to keep chickens
WILLIAMSTON - An ordinance to allow residents to keep chickens was approved by the town council on first reading Monday night.
Under the ordinance a resident could have up to 10 hens, but no roosters, as long as the hens are kept in coops and not running loose.
"I think they need to be regulated. I think they need to be kept in coops," said Mayor Carthel Crout.
Crout said he had received several e-mails supporting the ordinance.
Coops would have to be kept clean and could be no closer than 25 feet from a property line and no closer than 40 feet from a residence.
The council also approved the first reading a measure to purchase land in the Gatewood Subdivision for the wastewater treatment plant.
Crout said the two lots used to belong to the town and had a road and gate on the property to allow large trucks to get in and out of the wastewater plant.
He said the town sold the property in 2006. He said the owner had agreed to sell the lots back to the town for the price he paid plus the taxes he paid on the lots over the years.
The total price for the lots will be $3,400 and can be paid from the grant the town is using for the wastewater plant upgrades.
The council also approved the second and final reading of an ordinance to rezone four houses on Broad Street from commercial to residential.
"The reason we're rezoning these from commercial is so these people can sell their homes if they want to," said Crout.
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Philippe Courtot, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Qualys
The hyperconnected world of intelligent devices is now today's reality. We live in a new era where everyone and everything is powered by devices that collect and process information with context from multiple areas to make decisions. This keynote examines the disruptions intelligent devices are having on the current security model based on identity and trust, and outlines the fundamental changes required to secure this new era.
Demonstrating a unique mix of technical vision, marketing and business acumen, Philippe Courtot has repeatedly built innovative companies into industry leaders. As CEO of Qualys, Courtot has worked with thousands of companies to improve their IT security and compliance postures. He received the SC Magazine Editor's Award in 2004 for bringing on demand technology to the network security industry and for co-founding the CSO Interchange to provide a forum for sharing information in the security industry. He was also named the 2011 CEO of the Year by SC Magazine Awards Europe. Courtot is a member of the board of directors for StopBadware.org, and in 2012, he launched the Trustworthy Internet Movement, a nonprofit, vendor-neutral organization committed to resolving the problems of Internet security, privacy and reliability.
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Philippe Courtot, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Qualys


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Erie County Bar Foundation
The Problem
The Erie County Bar Foundation is a local non-profit working to assist attorneys suffering from emotional, financial and alcohol/drug difficulties. Through our work with area attorneys, we were aware the Foundation was in need of a new website that featured more detailed information about their mission and services as well as a donation feature.
The Solution
The legal community has been a large part of our business, we felt it was important to repay the debt by donating a new website. The new site was designed with mobile access in mind. Every section of the website is mobile ready and includes a sortable directory, downloadable documents and the ability to accept donations online through either a desktop or mobile device.


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