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IBM has released its first certified package of open-source software for supercomputers based on Linux. The IBM HPC Open Software Stack is designed to make "clusters" easier to manage. The IBM HPC Stack is available through a software repository hosted by the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), home to some of the largest cluster systems in the world. The repository is available at ftp://linuxpatch.ncsa.uiuc.edu/.
The IBM HPC Open Source Software Stack can help develop and execute applications as well as manage and monitor a system. Included in the new open stack is IBM's Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit (xCAT). This toolkit, originally developed for large x86-based clusters, has been enhanced for Power-based clusters and is used to manage the world's most powerful computer -- a hybrid cluster built for the National Nuclear Security Administration's roadrunner project at Los Alamos National Lab.
The stack is planned to be initially available for systems built on IBM Power6 processors. IBM plans to support IBM Power 575 supercomputing servers and IBM x86 platforms including IBM System x 3450 servers, IBM BladeCenter servers and IBM System x iDataPlex servers. The IBM HPC Open Software Stack complements IBM's existing fee-based offerings for HPC software.
"Managing thousands of processor cores and multiple types of processors is a challenge we see every day, and it will only grow in the future," said Rob Pennington, NCSA's deputy director. "The IBM HPC Stack and other items in the repository help open-source supercomputer users and systems managers keep pace with the rapid advances in cluster computing. They are in constant need of improved software components since the hardware advances so quickly."
Selected highlights of IBM's HPC Open Software Stack, V1, which is supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, include: Advance Toolchain for POWER Systems 1.1; IBM HPC Open Source Software Stack install scripts; Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM) version 1.3.1 and Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit (xCAT) version 2.0

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Execution in the Islamic Republic (Very Graphic)
Breaking News: Student Activist to be Executed as Gang-Member
I did not upload this to Youtube because I know they'll delete it very soon. It is very graphic. This is taken recently in Iran. Do pay attention to people who shout "Allaho-Akbar", Allah is great. Great is obviously the last word I'll use for any religion which supports this.


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Avid tanner Patricia Krentcil was in court yesterday, pleading not guilty to child endangerment charges after school officials suspected that she took her 5-year-old child into a tanning booth. As part of a segment on ABC's Good Morning America, Krentcil said, "I've been tanning my whole life."
ABC took a photo of Krentcil to dermatologist Dr. Doris Day — yes that is her real name — who, without meeting Krentcil, diagnosed the Tan Mom with Tanorexia. "Wow… This is a problem," Dr. Day proclaimed. Translation: Blah blah blah OMFG HER FACE.
Tanning Mom Denies Charges in N.J. Court [ABC/GMA]
Disturbingly Tan Mom Arrested After 5-Year-Old Daughter Gets Sunburn


text: Ferro is a Google Chrome extension that functions similarly to application launchers like Quicksilver, Launchy, and GNOME Do, but it can do much more than just open apps. Using only your keyboard, you can quickly open pages in your history or bookmarks, open extension options pages, and save your current tabs for opening later (see sessions section below). You can also perform many other commands, such as deleting a bookmark, disabling an extension, and pinning a tab.


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Charleston, WV - September 5, 2013 - West Virginia State Senate Majority Leader, John Unger, (D-Berkeley), presented a Community Participation Grant totaling $10,000 to the Jefferson County Commission at the Commission's meeting this morning.
The funds will be used to assist the Good Shepherd Caregivers with capital improvements and program expansion.
"The Good Shepherd Caregivers do a great job in meeting needs of seniors and individuals with disabilities in our community. This grant will allow for them to increase the good services they provide to more people who are in need," said Senator Unger.


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MONTREAL (AP) — The man killed in a videotaped attack that was discovered after body parts were mailed to Canada's top political parties was a Chinese student, police said Friday, as authorities in France searched for the suspect, a Canadian porn actor.
Montreal Police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere identified the victim as Jun Lin, 33. Police have said he dated Luka Rocco Magnotta, who is now on Interpol's equivalent of its most-wanted list.
A senior French police official said he is sure Magnotta is in France and that Magnotta has been there in the past. Another French police official said Magnotta apparently flew to Paris from Montreal last weekend, before the case emerged.
Lafreniere said Jun Lin doesn't have family in Montreal, but a family member reported him missing on Tuesday. He had last been seen May 24. Lafreniere said the murder occurred the night of May 24-25, and the suspect left for Europe on May 26.
According to a missing person's notice on the website of the Chinese consulate in Montreal, the victim was from the city of Wuhan and arrived in Montreal in July 2011.
"He is a Chinese citizen who studied at a university here in Montreal and was here for a certain time," Lafreniere said. "Thanks to the Chinese embassy, we have been able to reach the family with the sad news of what happened."
A spokesman for Concordia University said Lin was registered as an undergraduate in the faculty of engineering and computer science.
The case began Tuesday, when a package containing a severed foot was opened at the ruling Conservative Party headquarters. A hand was discovered at a postal facility, addressed to the Liberal party of Canada. A torso was found in a suitcase on a garbage dump in Montreal, outside Magnotta's apartment building.
Montreal police have said they believe Magnotta, 29, fled for France based on evidence they found at his apartment and a blog he once wrote about how to disappear.
"What will hinder him the most is what he used to glorify himself, the web, with all the photos we have of him," Lafreniere said. But he warned that Magnotta is "someone who can disguise himself, he can change into a woman, wear a wig."
France's fugitive search unit has been ordered to hunt for Magnotta, the French officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about such searches publicly. They gave no details about his suspected whereabouts.
Lafreniere said Magnotta could be anywhere in Europe, and "there's even been talk he might have returned to Canada under another identity."
Police suspect Magnotta filmed the murder. The video, posted online, shows a man stabbing another man with an ice pick while the victim lies naked and tied up. The first man later reveals he has slashed the other man's throat. He also dismembers the corpse and performs sexual acts with it.
"We have quite convincing proof of the crime he committed," Lafreniere said Friday, referring to the video.
Other body parts remain missing.
Police said Magnotta is also known by the names Eric Clinton Newman and Vladimir Romanov, and they described him as white and 5 feet 8 inches tall (1.78 meters) with blue eyes and black hair. A police official said he was a porn actor.
Derek MacKinnon, a former resident of the building where Magnotta lived, said he was the only person Magnotta would speak to in the building. MacKinnon identified himself as an actor who played a serial killer in the 1980 horror film "Terror Train."
"I was a killer who killed 11 people in this film, so he was rather interested in my career versus his," MacKinnon said. "It was like a quick conversation, not like anything big. And knowing that we were both gay, I think that's probably where he had the connection with me because he was extremely cold, standoffish, wouldn't talk to anybody, but he would stop for a sec to say something to me, and I think that he felt there was a kindred spirit or something between the two of us."
He said Magnotta "was always well groomed" until the last time MacKinnon saw him, on May 25. He said Magnotta was having "a bad hair day."
"It was red, and he normally is dark," MacKinnon said. "It looked like a really bad wig."
Angela Charlton in Paris and Phil Couvrette in Ottawa, Ontario contributed to this report. Gillies reported from Toronto.


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The White House announced Monday that Barack Obama has instructed his national security advisors to begin a comprehensive 60-day review of federal cybersecurity initiatives as a prelude to developing an integrated strategy that will coordinate security efforts across government agencies, and between the public and private sectors. The effort will be led by Melissa Hathaway, previously a senior advisor to the Bush administration's Director of National Intelligence, Michael McConnell. Upon completion of the review, Hathaway is reportedly in line for the new post of cybersecurity "czar" in the Obama White House.
Hathaway, a former consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton, played a lead role in developing the Bush administration's Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative as chair of the interagency National Cyber Study Group. In previous published writing, she praised Bush-era cybersecurity efforts, but stressed the need to do far more to combat burgeoning threats to US data infrastructure. Her formal title during the current review will be Acting Senior Director for Cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils.
One key question likely to be at the center of the review, which will be carried out jointly by the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council, is whether leadership responsibility for cybersecurity should be more centralized in the White House. At present, this is primarily the province of the Department of Homeland Security, where former tech entrepreneur Rod Beckstrom heads the National Cyber Security Center. Former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has urged that changes to the fledgling cybersecurity initiative—especially changes that would impose new layers of hierarchy—be undertaken cautiously.
An overview of Obama's cybersecurity agenda was posted on the White House website last month as part of the new administration's broader homeland security strategy outline.


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BISC209/F13: Lab6
- 1 Lab 6: Structural Diversity Among Cultured Isolates
- 2 Gram Reaction Confirmation by use of Selective/Differential Media
- 3 Assessing Bacterial Morphology and Characteristic Arrangement and Cell Wall Composition by Gram Stain
- 4 The Gram Stain
- 5 Use of the Compound Light Microscope
- 6 Assessing Isolates for Physical Characteristics by Special Stains
- 8 Assignment
- 9 Links to Labs
Lab 6: Structural Diversity Among Cultured Isolates
Gram Reaction Confirmation by use of Selective/Differential Media
Background on Selective and Differential Media
Selective media helps select for growth of certain organisms in a mixed population by using a ingredient that inhibits the growth of other microorganisms, but not the desired species or group. Differential media does not select for any particular group by inhibiting or enhancing the growth of one group over competitors, but this type of medium is able to show a visible difference between or among groups of microorganisms. A medium for microbial growth can be a combination of selective and differential, depending on its ingredients and its use.
Activity: Performing a Spot Inoculation Technique on Selective/Differential Media to Assess Cell Wall Composition (Confirm Gram stain)
You will inoculate each of your isolates onto both eosin methylene blue (EMB) and phenylethyl alcohol (PEA) solid media. Consult Culture Media: Use of Selective & Differential media to confirm Gram stain to learn how these media are able to select for either Gram positive or Gram negative bacteria and, in the case of EMB, to differentiate lactose fermenting bacteria from non-lactose fermenters. You should test all your isolates on both media to confirm your Gram stain results. You will be expected to know how these media select and differentiate for cell wall characteristics and/or metabolic differences.
- Use a marker to divide the bottom of 2 plates of each medium into 4 sections and organize a labeling system in your lab notebook and on the plate so you can easily identify where you placed each of your soil isolates: 2 isolates and a positive and negative control on one plate of each medium and another plate of each medium can be used for the rest of your isolates with or without controls. (Use E. coli and Staph as controls.)
- You will spot inoculate the middle of each quadrant by taking a tiny amount of growth and inoculating a single thin zig-zag line in the center of a section.
- Incubate your plates at room temp for several days until you are sure that any inhibition of growth is from selection and not from slow growing bacteria. Put the plates in the refrigerator before they get overgrown.
- You can analyze them in Lab 7.
- See the illustration below of how to inoculate a plate with 4 different cultures.
Fig: 6-1. Testing of multiple isolates in one plate can be accomplished by dividing a plate into 4 (OR MORE) sections. Be sure the inoculum is placed in the center of each section and that you check the plate for growth regularly.
Assessing Bacterial Morphology and Characteristic Arrangement and Cell Wall Composition by Gram Stain
Today you will once again make smear slides (explained here, in lab 4, and in Protocols as Smear Slide Preparation) and perform Gram stains (found here and in protocols as Stains: Gram Stain).
Activity: Preparing a bacterial smear slide
1. Use a graphite pencil to label on the far left side of a clean, glass slide the code ID or name of three of your isolates. If you have more than 3 isolates, make two slides with no more than 3 organisms/slide.On an additional clean, glass slide, label a control slide as SE (Staphylococcus epidermidis), EC (Escherichia coli), and EC/SE mix.
2. Prepare the "control" slide first by using your loop to apply three tiny drops of deionized water to different parts of this pre-labeled slide. Flame sterilize the loop, allow it to cool for a few seconds and touch the cooled loop to a single colony of the control culture plate of S. epidermidis. Pick up a VERY, VERY TINY bit of growth from a single bacterial colony. An invisible amount of growth obtained from just touching the cooled loop to the colony will give you plenty of bacteria. If you take a glob, the bacteria will be so thick, you will not get good stain results.
3. Place the loop with the bacterial growth into the drop of water. Use a circular motion with the loop to make a smooth suspension of the bacteria in the water. Stop when you have spread out the circle of emulsified bacteria as much as possible, while making sure to leave room to make two other smears on the slide. Reflame your loop and repeat the process of inoculating theE. coli control into both the middle drop of water and the drop on the far right. Mix the middle drop of E. coli emulsion as you did for the Staph smear. Flame your loop and cool it for a few seconds. Touch your loop again to a Staphylococcus colony (just a TINY bit) and inoculate the drop of water on the far right, to mix the Staph with the E. coli in the last smear. Spread the bacteria in the mixed smear evenly.
4.Now you are ready to make smears of your isolates. Using your best aseptic technique, flame sterilize your loop. Apply a very small loopful of deionized water (bottle on your bench) to the slide and then add a tiny amount of bacteria from a fresh culture growing on solid medium of one your isolates. Create the smear as you did for the controls moving from left to right and spacing the smears so that 3 isolates can fit on one slide. Repeat for the other isolates. Broths can also be used to make a smear. In this case, be sure to mix the broth, carefully vortex or tap the bottom of the tube. Remove the culture tube top (NOT placing it on the bench) and pass the lip of the culture tube rapidly through the flame. Dip your loop into the broth culture and place a small drop of broth culture of that isolate on the appropriate place on the labeled slide. (The labeling from top to bottom should refer to isolates placed left to right.) Mix the drop with your loop to disperse the broth over an area that will not touch the next culture but is large enough to allow your slide to dry quickly.
5. Allow the smears to air dry completely! Be sure all the water on the slide has evaporated before proceeding to heat fixation!!! This drying step is crucially important. If you are impatient, you will "explode" the cells in the next step .
6. Heat fix (to kill and attach organisms to the slide) by passing the slide (smear side up) quickly through a flame 3 times. Use a clothes pin or slide holder to avoid contact with hot glass.
An example of a multiple smear labeled slide:
The Gram Stain
The Gram staining procedure as it is done today, involves: a) primary staining of all cells with crystal violet, b) precipitating the primary stain dye within the cells with iodine (a mordant), c) removing the dye-iodine precipitate from some cells (the Gram-negative) with a decolorizer such as 95% ethanol, acetone, or n-propyl alcohol, and d) counter-staining of the decolorized cells with safranin. Organisms that retain the crystal violet primary dye are termed Gram-positive, while those which lose the primary stain and show the red safranin counter-stain are termed Gram-negative. This differentiation is not absolute, because it is based on the differences in the rate at which the primary dye is lost from the cells. If you over decolorize for too long or with too harsh a decolorizer, Gram-positive organisms will appear Gram-negative. Truly Gram-positive cells, such as Bacillus subtilis or Staphylococcus aureus, will not retain the primary dye if the iodine step is omitted. Criteria for a true Gram-positive state include the requirement of iodine following the crystal violet.
Since the term Gram positive or Gram negative actually refers to a type of cell wall, not all organisms that retain the primary dye of the Gram procedure are really Gram-positive, because they lack that particular cell wall composition. For example, Mycobacterium species have a different type of cell wall but they will take up and retain crystal violet if you use heat. In this case, the crystal violet will be resistant to harsh decolorization and be retained. However, a Mycobacterium type cell wall does not require the use of a mordant, like iodine, to precipitate the stain. True Gram-positive organisms do not retain the primary crystal violet without precipitation by a mordant. Using crystal violet with heat, harsh decolorization, and no mordant describes an acid-fast stain rather than a Gram stain. Mycobacteria have an acid-fast type cell wall; they are neither Gram-positive or Gram-negative, despite the fact that they will appear purple if you do a Gram-stain on them.
Activity: Preparing a Gram Stain
The Gram stain is a standard DIFFERENTIAL staining technique useful for the identification of culturable bacterial organisms and you will perform it now. Remember that a differential stain is one in which different bacteria are subjected to the same stain procedure but they respond differently and show a visible differentiation. In this case, that visible difference is pink vs purple color and it is based on cell wall composition differences.
Use the smear slides you have prepared of your isolates and the controls and follow the Gram Stain Protocol found below. This protocol can also be found in BISC209/F13: Stains in the protocol section of this wiki.
Gram Stain Procedure:
Here is a link to a good video on Gram staining | http://media.pearsoncmg.com/bc/bc_0mastering/samples/microlab.html
To Gram stain the previously prepared heat fixed, bacterial smear slides, perform the staining protocol from start to finish on one slide at a time. You must be careful to apply the staining reagents liberally so all the smears are evenly and completely covered and you must be sure to expose each smear to each reagent for the same amount of time.
1. Place a heat-fixed bacterial smear slide on the staining tray. It is important that the slide is level during staining; therefore, you should use paper towels under the tray to level the slide. If you do this, it is much easier to ensure that your smears will be covered evenly with each reagent with as little waste of the dye as possible (a crucial aspect of proper staining results).
2. Dispense just enough Crystal Violet solution (0.5% crystal violet, 12% ethanol, 0.1% phenol) to completely cover each smear and stain for 1 minute. (Crystal violet is the primary stain.)
3. Rinse the slide by lifting the slide at a 45 degree angle (using gloves or a clothes pin or slide holder) and use a squirt bottle to direct a very gentle stream of water slightly above the top smear. Rinse until the waste water coming off at the bottom is relatively clear. Drain off excess water by touching the edge of the slide to a paper towel.
4. Dispense just enough Gram's Iodine (mordant) to completely cover each smear. Let stand for 1 minute. Rinse thoroughly with a gentle stream of water as in Step 1.
5. Place the slide flat on the staining tray and dispense just enough decolorizing Reagent (80% isopropyl alcohol, 20% acetone) to completely cover each smear. Let stand for exactly 10 seconds and IMMEDIATELY rinse in a very gentle stream of water that is directed above the top smear as in step 3. This step is tricky as it is easy to over- or under-decolorize. .
6. Place the slide flat on the staining tray and dispense just enough Counterstain (0.6% safranin in 20% ethanol) to cover each smear. Let stand for 1 minute; rinse with water as in step 3.
7. Blot dry using the bibulous paper package found in your orange drawer. Do not tear out the pages, just insert your slide and pat it dry.
8. Clean up your area; rinse your staining tray in the sink and leave it to drain upside down on paper towels.
9. The Gram stain works best on young log phase organisms. You may need to repeat some of your Gram stains in lab 7 if you got ambiguous results or if your EMB and PEA growth patterns conflict with an earlier staining result.
Use of the Compound Light Microscope
Activity: View your stained bacteria.
Refer to the directions for using your compound brightfield microscope BISC209/F13:_Microscopy found in the Protocols section. Today you will use only the 10x and 100x objectives. Remember also to read and follow the directions for care of this precision instrument (particularly on how to avoid getting immersion oil on any objective other than the 100x oil immersion lens). Be aware that there would be no field of microbiology if there weren't good, functioning microscopes to view this unseen world.
Assessing Isolates for Physical Characteristics by Special Stains
Today you will make smear slides (Protocol found at Smear Slide Preparation) and then perform a few special stains to look for endospores and capsules.
Special Stains:
Directions for the Schaeffer-Fulton Endospore stain and Capsule negative stain are found in the Protocols section of the wiki at Stains.
Detecting Endospores
All Gram positive bacteria should be stained for endospores. There is no need to stain Gram negative isolates for endospores. Most of the spore forming bacteria are common soil organisms. Why would the capacity to form a highly protective, heat tolerant, dessication resistant, non-metabolic spore be useful to soil community microorganisms? Would this capacity give those members a competitive advantage to survive weather extremes? Would you expect a tropical greenhouse habitat to contain relatively fewer or more spore forming members than other habitats?
Detecting Capsules by Negative Stain
Highly mucoid (sticky and wet) colonies could be tested for the presence of a capsule using the capsule stain protocol if you have time. A capsule is a secreted, protective, adhesive, polysacchride envelope layer outside the other parts of the cell envelope. Some, but not all bacteria produce a capsule. It tends to be a virulence factor in bacteria that are human pathogens because it makes it more difficult for the immune system to recognize the bacterium with a capsule as a foreign invader.
1. All culture plates that you are finished with should be discarded in the big orange autoclave bag near the sink next to the instructor table. Ask your instructor whether or not to save stock cultures and plates with organisms that are provided.
2. Culture plates, stocks, etc. that you are not finished with should be labeled on a piece of your your team color tape. Place the labeled cultures in your lab section's designated area in the incubator, the walk-in cold room, or at room temp. in a labeled rack. If you have a stack of plates, wrap a piece of your team color tape around the whole stack.
3. Remove tape from all liquid cultures in glass tubes. Then place the glass tubes with caps in racks by the sink near the instructor's table. Do not discard the contents of the tubes.
4. Glass slides or disposable glass tubes can be discarded in the glass disposal box.
5. Make sure all contaminated, plastic, disposable, serologic pipets and used contaminated micropipet tips are in the small orange autoclave bag sitting in the plastic container on your bench.
6. If you used the microscope, clean the lenses of the microscope with lens paper, being very careful NOT to get oil residue on any of the objectives other than the oil immersion 100x objective. Move the lowest power objective into the locked viewing position, turn off the light source, wind the power cord, and cover the microscope with its dust cover before replacing the microscope in the cabinet.
7. If you used it, rinse your staining tray and leave it upside down on paper towels next to your sink.
8. Turn off the gas and remove the tube from the nozzle. Place your bunsen burner and tube in your large drawer.
9. Place all your equipment (loop, striker, sharpie, etc) including your microfuge rack, your micropipets and your micropipet tips in your small or large drawer.
10. Move your notebook and lab manual so that you can disinfect your bench thoroughly.
11. Take off your lab coat and store it in the blue cabinet with your microscope.
12. Wash your hands.
Graded Assignment:
Assignment (20 points): Molecular Techniques Theory and Use. Instructions: Assignment: Understanding Molecular Techniques
To Do Before the Next Lab:
On the day before your next lab (or earlier, depending on how fast your organisms grow), please subculture by isolation streaking EACH of your isolates onto a new nutrient agar plate. In Lab 7 these cultures will be used by your team for the interaction assay and to set up an antibiotic producer test. Note: NO broth culture is needed.


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Mujib Mashal
By Mujib Mashal and Dharisha Bastians
March 6, 2018
Sri Lanka's government imposed a nationwide state of emergency on Tuesday after mob attacks against the minority Muslim population in a central district, violence that has highlighted the country's fragility as it tries to recover from decades of civil war.
The unrest in the district of Kandy began on Sunday as angry mobs made up of the majority Sinhalese ethnic group attacked dozens of Muslim businesses and houses and at least one mosque. At least one person was killed. Hundreds of security personnel, including Special Forces, were deployed to Kandy on Monday and a curfew was declared there.
Officials feared that the death of a 27-year-old man — who was trapped inside a burning house and who described the attack on the building in an audio recording — could provoke violence across the country.
"We have decided to declare a state of emergency to ensure these clashes and tensions don't spread elsewhere in the country," said Dayasiri Jayasekera, a government spokesman.
Mr. Jayasekera said the state of emergency would last 10 days and that law enforcement would also act against "all communal hate speech posts on social media."
"There were mistakes on the part of the local police in implementing the law. Some of the attacks happened in front of them," Mr. Jayasekera said.
The victim was identified as Abdul Basith, who had just gotten a job as a local reporter for a radio station. He lived with his parents, who ran a small shop selling slippers on the first floor of their two-story house. The house was burned to the ground, witnesses said.
Fayaz Samsudeen, Mr. Basith's father, said they had escaped the first floor when the fire started. But his son was on the second floor.
"When the fire started, he screamed for help and asked people to help us get out of the house. There is no way to get outside from upstairs, but we thought he would have escaped," Mr. Samsudeen said. "In the morning when we came back to see our house, we found his body."
Mr. Basith's uncle, Mohammed Maleek, said he was in communication with Mr. Basith in his final minutes and that his nephew had assured him he would be safe because the police were everywhere.
In an audio message sent to his uncle, Mr. Basith described the scene as the mob could be heard outside. The audio was circulating in Kandy after his death and as a sign of its authenticity, a cabinet minister who had visited the scene referred to the message in Parliament on Tuesday.
"They have broken all the doors in our house, large stones are falling inside," Mr. Basith said in the message. "Hello, yes I am inside our house and they are burning something. There are flames coming inside."
Later, his voice grew tense.
"They have burned the house," he said. "The house is burning."
The latest tensions, coming a week after similar mob attacks against Muslims in an eastern region, erupted after a Sinhalese truck driver was injured by a group of Muslim men in what has been described as a road rage incident. The man died from his injuries on Saturday.
After his death, officials and Kandy residents said, extremist Buddhist monks who have incited communal violence in the past descended on the area, offering their condolences. But many believed that their presence amid the tensions fuelled the violent backlash against the Muslims.
"Two controversial Buddhist monks who have been at the centre of similar anti-minority clashes before had been in the area on Sunday night," said Rishad Bathiudeen, Sri Lanka's minister of industry and commerce who was in Kandy to survey the damage. "We demand their arrest for inciting communal violence."
Mr. Bathiudeen said that after the truck driver died, the police in Kandy were warned about the rising tensions and urged to send reinforcements.
"The deputy inspector general told us to tell the Muslims to stay at home and close up their shops in the Digana town," Mr. Bathiudeen said. "The Muslims stayed at home and the mobs came and burned the deserted shops."
"How are minority communities supposed to feel when the police stand by and watch while their houses and their businesses are destroyed by violent mobs?" said Mr. Bathiudeen, who is Muslim. "We are urging our people to remain calm. But when their houses and livelihoods go up in flames, how long will they bear it?"
Four mosques, 37 houses, 46 shops and 35 vehicles have been damaged in the attacks, according to Hidayath Saththar, a member of the provincial council in Central Province, where Kandy is located.
Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lanka's prime minister, told the Parliament on Tuesday that local community elders, both Buddhists and Muslims, had tried to ease tensions after the driver's death through dialogue. "Extremists" from outside had come in to the area to stir violence in what he called "organized acts of sabotage."
"All of us who have experienced a 30-year war know the value of peace, harmony and unity," Mr. Wickremesinghe said.
Anti-Muslim violence has been on the rise in Sri Lanka in recent years as the country's leaders have struggled to rein in the nationalist fervour of the majority Sinhalese Buddhists. President Maithripala Sirisena's fragile coalition government has been accused of emboldening extremists by failing to hold groups that incite hatred to account.
Sri Lanka's long civil war ended in 2009 with the bloody crushing of an insurgency by the Tamil ethnic minority. But observers say many of the underlying causes of the war still remain and the country's relative stability could further deteriorate if the government does not win trust of the minority groups by providing protection and justice. Thousands of families, mostly Tamil, are still looking for loved ones who were forcibly disappeared or trying to take back land taken over by the military.
One recent example of how tense relations remain was an episode involving the country's military attaché to the United Kingdom. From the steps of the Sri Lankan high commission in London, video cameras captured Brig. Priyanka Fernando, who was in uniform, making a throat-slitting gesture to Tamil protesters gathered there, which many saw as a threat.
The foreign ministry suspended him from his job but the president stepped in to reinstate him.
Eventually, Brigadier Fernando was recalled from London — not to be disciplined but for his own security, the army said.
Source: nytimes.com/2018/03/06/world/asia/sri-lanka-anti-muslim-violence.html
URL: http://www.newageislam.com/current-affairs/mujib-mashal-and-dharisha-bastians/sri-lanka-declares-state-of-emergency-after-mob-attacks-on-muslims/d/114507


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The Premier League star's heart stopped beating naturally for 78 minutes after he collapsed in an unconscious heap during Bolton's FA Cup quarter-final at Tottenham on March 17. But the devout Christian, 24, stunned doctors after coming back to life and was fit enough to walk out of hospital just a month after the ordeal.
In an interview with The Sun, Muamba said: "Someone up there was watching over me. What happened to me was really more than a miracle. On the morning of the game I prayed with my father and asked God to protect me - and he didn't let me down. I am walking proof of the power of prayer."
He added: "For 78 minutes I was dead and even if I lived was expected to have suffered brain damage. But I'm very much alive and sitting here talking now. Someone up there was watching over me."
Muamba revealed he was feeling "focused", "sharp" and "particularly fit" in the lead up to the game, but 41 minutes into the first half the player said he started to feel dizzy and began seeing double before collapsing to the turf.
"It wasn't normal dizziness - it was a kind of surreal feeling like I was running along inside someone else's body," he said. "I had no pain whatsoever. No clutching at my chest or tightness like you see when people have heart attacks in movies. Just an odd feeling that's impossible to explain. Then I started to see double. It was almost like a dream."
The emotional footballer, who posed shirtless to reveal a 3ins scar on his chest where doctors inserted a zapper to restart his heart if it ever stops again, broke down in tears during the interview.
Reliving the shocking moment his heart stopped in front of thousands of stunned fans, he added: "I just felt myself falling through the air and then felt two big thumps as my head hit the ground in front of me then that was it. Blackness, nothing. I was dead."
Among those who battled to keep him alive were Dr Andrew Deaner, a cardiologist and Tottenham fan who leapt from his seat in the crowd and rushed on to the pitch.
Muamba paid treatment to the doctor, saying: "It was pure chance that Dr Deaner was in the crowd that day. I owe him everything. He is the reason I have been able to hold my baby son again and continue my life."
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Strikeforce's next show – also reportedly its final card – is official for Jan. 12, and tickets for the event go on sale next week.
"Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Healy," as first reported on Thursday by MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com), takes place at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City.
The main card features three title fights, plus Strikeforce heavyweight tournament winner Daniel Cormier.
Tickets for the event go on sale to the general public on Nov. 16 at noon CT (1 p.m. ET, 10 a.m. PT) and will be priced from $50 to $150, plus fees. Tickets are available at the venue box office, as well as Ticketmaster locations. Members of the UFC Fight Club and Strikeforce newsletter subscribers are expected to have early opportunities to purchase tickets.
The main card for the show will air on Showtime at 10 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast). Prelims will air on Showtime Extreme at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
In the main event, lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez (21-2 MMA, 11-1 SF) defends his title against Pat Healy (28-16 MMA, 6-1 SF). Middleweight champ Luke Rockhold (10-1 MMA, 9-0 SF) puts his belt on the line against Lorenz Larkin (13-0 MMA, 4-0 SF). And welterweight titleholder Nate Marquardt (32-10-2 MMA, 1-0 SF) defends for the first time when he faces Tarec Saffiedine (13-3 MMA, 3-1 SF).
In addition, Cormier (10-0 MMA, 7-0 SF), who wrestled collegiately at nearby Oklahoma State, will fight fellow heavyweight Dion Staring (28-7 MMA, 0-0 SF).
Cormier had been scheduled to meet Frank Mir at a Nov. 3 event planned for the same city and venue. But Mir pulled out with an injury, and a new opponent for Cormier never was secured. Additionally, Rockhold pulled out of his co-main event title fight against Larkin on the same card with a wrist injury. Ultimately, Strikeforce and Showtime elected to cancel the card – the second straight cancellation for the promotion.
But a blockbuster card for January was promised, and with three title fights on one event, it will indeed be an MMA rarity. On Thursday, however, reports surfaced that the show would be the final one for Strikeforce before being folded. If that proves to be the case, these title fights will serve to crown the promotion's final champions, who then presumably would be merged into the UFC.
UFC, Strikeforce and Showtime officials all have declined comment on the reports thus far.
"We've built an absolutely stacked card for Oklahoma City and the Showtime viewers," Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker said in a statement. "We have three awesome title fights featuring some of the best fighters to ever grace the Strikeforce cage. Plus, we have Daniel Cormier, one of the fastest-rising heavyweight stars today, returning to his roots in Oklahoma to fight Dion Staring. Jan. 12 is going to be a really special night."
Whether it's special merely for three title fights and a heavyweight standout in his homecoming, or it's special because it's Strikeforce's final event remain to be seen.
The latest card for "Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Healy" includes:
- Champ Gilbert Melendez vs. Pat Healy – for lightweight title
- Champ Luke Rockhold vs. Lorenz Larkin – for middleweight title
- Champ Nate Marquardt vs. Tarec Saffiedine – for welterweight title
- Daniel Cormier vs. Dion Staring
- Ryan Couture vs. K.J. Noons*
* – Not officially announced
For more on "Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Healy," stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site.
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It is still dark when the Colque family makes its way up the volcano, climbing steadily in the early morning hours. The air is cool and arid here in the Atacama, the world's highest and driest desert in the far northern reaches of Chile, along the Andes mountain range at the borders of Bolivia and Argentina.
The small group of indigenous Atacameños reaches the peak just before sunrise on this winter solstice, June 21—the New Year for the Atacameño people. The eldest male, the grandfather, leads the animal they have brought along to the edge of the volcanic crest. Perhaps it is a llama, perhaps a sheep or a goat. All have been used in previous years.
As the sun begins its climb over the horizon the elder pulls out a knife and, with great respect and reverence, cuts open the animal's chest. He reaches inside and pulls out the still-beating heart.
He holds the heart up toward the rising sun, an offering to the gods and to the power of nature in this harsh, forbidding land where very little grows and some places have never seen a drop of rain in recorded history. The entire family watches intently, in silence, for however many times the heart continues to beat will reveal how much prosperity and good fortune the family will have in the coming year.
After the ceremony, which has been a part of many Atacameño for thousands of years, the Colque family returns to the valley and goes to church—a Spanish Catholic church in the village of Machuca, where they live.
"It is very, very important to do this," says Joel Colque, one of the younger adult members of the family at 24 years old. "With it we receive blessings, and a good year."
This blending of cultures and beliefs may seem incongruous, until you realize that in this desert region at the northern tip of Chile is home to an incredibly hardy people with a long lineage in human history. Some mummified remains in Father Le Paige's Museum at San Pedro de Atacama are the oldest in the world, pre-dating Egyptian relics by thousands of years.
The Atacameño people were invaded by the Inca, colonized and relentlessly persecuted by the Spanish, and at times under the control of Bolivia and Peru. Their religion, culture and language have been under attack for centuries, yet somehow they have preserved a way of life that is little changed, and very welcoming to visitors.
"My people have made rituals at the top of volcanoes for 600 years before the Spanish," Joel tells me. "We make animal sacrifices, though when the Incas came to this area they were known to make human sacrifices. Many of their constructions are still up there, in the Andes."
The Atacama Desert presents a geography that is almost like another planet. Its otherworldly appearance and terrain have been likened to Mars; so much so that it has been the location for many movies filming Mars scenes, and NASA tests instruments for future Mars missions here. The lack of rain — an average of only .04 inches per year in the entire region—has created riverbeds that scientists believe have been dry for 120,000 years.
The immensity of the landscape is breathtaking, as you pass copper and lithium mines made famous by Che Guevara and the 2010 incident that trapped 33 miners for two months, with smoking 35 million-year-old Andes volcanoes of up to 22,000 feet looming over it all. And at six to nine thousand feet of elevation, altitude sickness is common; visitors are cautioned for the possibility of some initial lethargy, headaches or insomnia.
Into the Salt Flats
For a real look at the history of the Atacameño people, hike up the Pukara de Quitor, a fort just outside San Pedro de Atacama that was built around 900 B.C., until the Spanish overtook it centuries later. As I approach the entrance I hear guitar music; the ticket seller is sitting languidly in the corner playing music. As I pay my $2 entry fee, I attempt a conversation in very broken Spanish.
The man's name is Luis Salva, I learn; he has worked at Pukara de Quitor for two years. He plays five instruments, and performs another song before I start my climb into the fort. "Atacama es muy bonita," Luis says.
I must agree. The fort is dotted with signs explaining its history of invasion upon the peaceful people, in both English and Spanish, and my arrival at the top yields a magnificent view of the desert gorge below. After my exploration, I hop on a loaner bike from the Alto Atacama Desert Lodge to explore the surrounding valleys and villages.
After a traditional asado (barbeque) lunch, Joel Colque arrives to take me to the Salar de Atacama, the largest salt flat in Chile and third-largest in the world. Joel is a guide working for Alto Atacama, and he represents the straddling of two worlds that many of the region's younger generation undertake. Until you hear the story of his family's annual animal sacrifice, you would think he was any adrenaline-junkie adventurer in his twenties. He's big into sandboarding, but also attempts to ride his board down the snowcapped volcanoes. Joel guides not only for the hotel but also his aunt's adventure tour company. He's young, cocky and brash; if he threw in a few "dudes," he could be a California surfer.
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The Study Evaluating Efficacy And Tolerability Of Veliparib in Combination With Temozolomide or In Combination With Carboplatin and Paclitaxel Versus Placebo in Subjects With BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation and Metastatic Breast Cancer
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Isakoff SJ, Puhalla S, Domchek SM, Friedlander M, Kaufman B, Robson M, Telli ML, Diéras V, Han HS, Garber JE, Johnson EF, Maag D, Qin Q, Giranda VL, Shepherd SP. A randomized Phase II study of veliparib with temozolomide or carboplatin/paclitaxel versus placebo with carboplatin/paclitaxel in BRCA1/2 metastatic breast cancer: design and rationale. Future Oncol. 2017 Feb;13(4):307-320. doi: 10.2217/fon-2016-0412. Epub 2016 Oct 14.


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The Grand Cayman Blue Iguana (Cyclura lewisi) has taken a formal step back from extinction this year. The announcement comes with the latest update to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, which was released in India this week by The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
In 2002, there were only about 10 to 25 Grand Cayman Blue Iguanas in the wild and as a result it was listed as Critically Endangered on The IUCN Red List. Today, due to the conservation efforts of the Blue Iguana Recovery Programme, the wild population of the Grand Cayman Blue Iguana has risen to an estimated 750 individuals and has been downlisted to Endangered.
"In IUCN Red List terms, Endangered is the best we can ever hope for as far as the Grand Cayman Blue Iguana is concerned," says Fred Burton, member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Iguana Specialist Group and Programme Director of the Blue Iguana Recovery Programme. "Human impacts on Grand Cayman are now so extensive that there just isn't scope for these iguanas to regain numbers in the tens of thousands. However, we are confident that we will achieve our long term goal of restoring at least 1,000 Grand Cayman Blue Iguanas to the wild."
The newly published IUCN Red List assessment shows conservation of the Grand Cayman Blue Iguana is taking a step in the right direction. The Blue Iguana Recovery Programme involves habitat protection; captive breeding and release; research and monitoring; as well as education and outreach, and is an example of how conservation can work successfully. However, the Grand Cayman Blue Iguana is still threatened by free-roaming dogs and cats as well as by habitat loss so conservation must continue.
"The Blue Iguana Recovery Programme deserves congratulations as the downlisting of the Grand Cayman Blue Iguana is a fantastic achievement," says Jean-Christophe Vié, Deputy Directory, IUCN Global Species Programme. "When people with dedication and good knowledge are supported, success can be expected and this news will boost the morale of people around the world who are working hard to improve the status of other species."
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Lincoln schools will be closed Friday, Feb. 1 and Monday Feb. 4 due to widespread illness at the school. The high school, middle school and elementary are all closing.
The schools posted information about the closing on their Facebook page.
School officials with Lincoln said classes would resume Tuesday, Feb. 5.
Charles Thomas, the superintendent with Jay Public Schools said their schools would be closing Friday because of the flu and classes will resume Monday. Thomas said the absentee rate was at 15% Thursday at all of the schools in the district. The plan is to disinfect schools over the weekend, Thomas said.
After the first closing in Lincoln, Clay Hendrix, the superintendent, said, "thankfully we have had very low confirmed flu cases, and we just had a wide-spread, fast spread stomach virus. Lot of students were vomiting, stomach cramps, just not feeling well at all."
Lincoln schools closed on Jan. 28, earlier this week, after almost 250 students were absent from the flu.
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We distribute user-friendly "plain language" Center publications (in both English and Spanish) entitled, Divorce Q&A (Preguntas Frecuentes Del Divorcio) and Elder Law Q&A (Derecho para la tercera edad: Preguntas y respuestas). Call 914-287-0739 to request a copy.
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My understanding is that Christians believe that Jesus died in order that his death might effect atonement for their sins.
Over the years, there's been a lot of assigning blame for his death. Why has there been such focus on the bad[1] intent of the killers, considering that the end result was completely good[1]?
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The Division 1 title race in the Critchleys UTV League was blown wide open as league leaders Freeland Yeoman fell to their first defeat of the season at home to second-placed Iffley Harriers, writes DARYL RIDGLEY.
Harriers won 3-1 thanks to a brace from Dan Bond and a Dan Pear strike, while Danny Taylor pulled one back for Freeland.
Northway were impressive 4-1 winners at home to Railway Wheatley, leap-frogging the visitors into third place with goals from Michael Yearwood, Dennis Moore, Liam Hatt and Martino Ventriglez.
White Horse Abingdon completed a league and cup double over local rivals Abingdon Exiles in Division 2, with goals from Michael Allen Bloomfield and Carl Archer giving the home side a comfortable 2-0 win. Forest Hill picked up their fifth win in six games in style, beating high-flying Black Swan 5-2.
Josh Gonzalez, Steve West, Craig Watts, Matt Wigley and Jamie Hitchcock were all on target for the home side, while Craig Davis and Jefferson Harriott netted Black Swan's consolation efforts.
Village Inn went down 4-3 at home to Checkendon Exiles in a close encounter, despite a brace from Colin Royal and a goal from Michael Hinkin.
The visitors won it thanks to a double effort from Dave Woodley and a goal apiece from Charlie Lee and Matthew Phillips.
Andrew Potter scored a treble to help North Oxford Conservative Club to a 6-3 win over Woodstock Wanderers.
Dave Villiers, Lewis Charlott and Carl Heaven each scored for the hosts but it wasn't enough as Mark James, Ricky Wells and Joey Beauchamp also netted for Conservative Club.
Goalkeeper Stuart Barlow put in a heroic performance as Abba Athletic comprehensively beat struggling Great Western Park 5-0 in Division 3.
At 1-0 Barlow saved a penalty to preserve the home side's lead, and after switching to centre-forward in the last 30 minutes, was able to find the net himself.
Other scorers for Abba were Ricky Falloon-Reid, Nigel Taylor, Mark Nicholl and Rob Appleton.
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WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Tommy Thompson told a Jewish group Monday that earning money is "part of the Jewish tradition," a remark for which he later apologized.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
"I'm in the private sector and for the first time in my life I'm earning money," Thompson told the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. "You know that's sort of part of the Jewish tradition and I do not find anything wrong with that."
Later, he added: "I just want to clarify something because I didn't (by) any means want to infer or imply anything about Jews and finances and things. What I was referring to, ladies and gentlemen, is the accomplishments of the Jewish religion. You've been outstanding business people and I compliment you for that."
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz first reported the comments.
Asked about the comments, Thompson spokesman Tony Jewell said the former Wisconsin governor, who is Catholic, was sorry.
"Governor Thompson recognizes he misspoke in his remarks to the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, and is very apologetic, especially given his strong relationship with the Jewish community in the United States and Israel," Jewell said in a telephone interview.
"He didn't mean it as such," Jewell said. "He is sorry he misspoke in complimenting the success that Jewish people have had in the United States. It is something that he admires - financially and otherwise."
Jewell said that one of Thompson's first trade missions as governor was to Israel in 1988.
Thompson, who served as secretary of Health and Human Services in the Bush administration, has launched a long-shot bid for president. Thompson is a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, independent chairman at Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, and president of Logistics Health.
Thompson is using some of his new private sector money to help fund his campaign. His latest campaign finance report shows that he loaned his campaign $75,000 in the first quarter of the year, accounting for nearly 20 percent of the $391,000 he raised in the reporting period. Jewell said that Thompson has loaned the campaign an additional $50,000 since that report was filed.
The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism confirmed Thompson's remarks were accurate, but declined to comment beyond saying that it was pleased he addressed the group.
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Today I am posting a powerful and poignant poem written by Mimi, a thoughtful young woman from Qatar. She lived in the UK for four years while pursuing her undergraduate studies. Her future looks very bright, although it would probably be much brighter if only she were afforded the opportunities and encouragement that young men in her country are offered. Despite the challenges women face in many countries in the Middle East, she has a very positive outlook and says, "This is my life, and society is not going to live it for me." I believe that she is an important voice that needs to be heard, and I'm sure she speaks for many modern young women in the Middle East. Mimi strives to be the best she can be and it is her mission in life to help others achieve their goals as well. She releases her stress and frustrations in her writings and is very perceptive about her surroundings and her situation. So now, without further delay, is a poem by Mimi called "If I Were a Man."
If I Were a Man
If I were a man, I can fall in love and society would think it's adorable.
If I were a man, I can marry any girl from any race or religion.
If I were a man, society won't question me if I controlled my wife's life, thoughts and dreams.
If I were a man and divorced my wife, society would pity me and rush to find me a new one to make me happy.
If I were a man, I can wear whatever I want, whenever I want.
If I were a man, I don't need to have permission to travel, to go out, to study to work or to breathe.
If I were a man, I can go out with as many women as I want, before and after marriage.
If I were a man and I sinned, society would find excuses for my sins, and so I can sin even more.
If I were a man with a bad reputation, my society would say "young and foolish, he will grow up and get married tomorrow, let him have fun."
If I were a man, I will have a bigger salary, just for being a man.
If I were a man who studied abroad, in my society I will be a genius.
If I were a man and made a mistake at work, society will blame it on the circumstances.
If I were a man, I am perfect in the eye of my society.
Nothing would be wrong with me
Except the size of my wallet.
But I am a woman.
I am a woman, and I must hide behind covers or I will be …
I am a woman, and my society believes I am a heartless creature that is forbidden to love.
I am a woman, and my honor is not related to my morals but to my membrane.
I am a woman, and I am an object of property, to my father, to my brother then to my husband.
I am a woman, and I must sacrifice my history, my dreams, because they are not my rights, but they are the rights of who ever owns my body.
I am a woman, and if I or my rights are raped, it is because of my seductive beauty and stupidity.
I am a woman, and I must work twice as hard to prove myself.
I am a woman, and if I erred at work it is because I am simply a woman.
I am a woman, and if I studied abroad I will be too exposed and not suitable for marriage.
I am a woman, and on my society I am a burden.
I am a woman, and for my society I am a mistake that should be corrected.
I am a woman, and I should be watched in case I commit a bigger scandal, a bigger mistake than my own existence.
Please visit Mimiz Blog - you won't be disappointed, and you will gain insight into a typical Middle Eastern young woman's thoughts, hopes, and fears. And thank you, Mimi, for allowing me to share your poem.


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Harpoon was started in 1986 by Dan Kenary, Rich Doyle, and George Ligeti. They were three friends who loved beer and loved drinking beer together but found the beer choices at the time to be limited. Traveling through Europe and experiencing the rich traditions of European brewing and beer drinking enhanced their love of beer and opened their eyes to the rich beer culture they wanted back home. They decided to build a brewery so that they could brew the beers that they wanted to drink, and invite their friends to the brewery to drink it with them.
In June of 1987 a warehouse space on the Boston waterfront was transformed into a brewery and the first Harpoon Ale was brewed. Fresh, local craft beer began making its way out to Boston beer drinkers. Â It was hard to imagine that craft brewing would become what it has today.
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Bull markets are born in fear and die in euphoria, so the latest milestones -- the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 15,000, the Standard & Poor's 500 zooming past 1600 -- have prompted a vigil for excessive exuberance. That's not the only thing to watch for.
Are central banks still supportive? Our bull market has been midwived by exceptional central-bank support, and the latest interest-rate cuts by South Korea, Australia, and Poland have swelled the tally of easings to more than 510 globally since mid-2007. Today, our economy is expanding at a 2.5% annual pace, and jobless claims have shrunk to a five-year low. Yet few can fathom a world without that safety net.
Just how sustainable is this expansion? Investment, for one, makes up just 14% of our economy today, down from 18% in 2006. Mike O'Rourke, Jones Trading's chief market strategist, thinks artificially low rates encourage companies to borrow cheaply to buy back shares or boost dividends, rather than invest to expand their businesses. "A buyback or a dividend can be canceled; it's harder to mothball a factory," O'Rourke says. This focus on short-term financial engineering, rather than long-term investment and growth, is why investors can't imagine a future independent of central-bank coddling, and there are throngs poised to sell once the Fed backs off.
Bulls might say we have a win-win situation: Strong data show the economy is mending, while weak data keep the monetary medicine coming! But getting too used to lukewarm produces a market increasingly likely to flinch should things get cold or hot. If the unstoppable S&P 500 reaches 1700 -- now just 4% away -- or 1800 or 1900, will Ben Bernanke still croon the same tune of undying love? And will we believe him?
Is there "dry powder" to extend the rally? Borrowing costs are low and stocks are rallying, and investors are borrowing against their portfolios more. Margin debt now exceeds $379 billion, pushing levels seen in mid-2007. "Never before, not in 2000 or 2007, was there less cash in money-market funds relative to stocks and bonds," Ned Davis of Ned Davis Research writes. Clearly, "the Fed's determination to make cash trash" is working.
But the warning from dwindling cash is mitigated by some factors, Davis adds. Within U.S. stock funds, the level of cash holdings has ticked up even as stocks rallied recently. A lot of cash also has gone into bond funds, and continues to do so. "If there is a rotation to stocks, it's still at an early phase," Davis notes. After all, investors had pulled $900 billion from stock funds since 2006 and plowed $1.4 trillion into bond funds, according to EPFR Global.
Where's the euphoria? It helps that Dow 15,000 elicited little of the giddy fanfare that greeted Dow 10,000. Somehow, stocks' recent records feel like hollow victories handed us by government manipulation, as deserving of showy celebration as winning by default.
This isn't to say money managers haven't become more gung-ho. Barron's semiannual Big Money poll recently showed 74% of professionals who identified as bullish or very bullish, the most in the poll's two-decade history. But that zeal hasn't yet infected Main Street. Gallup's latest poll showed just 52% of Americans who said they owned stocks outright, or in mutual funds and retirement accounts -- the lowest since at least 1998, and well off 65% in 2007. We all have our cues for gauging euphoria: One reader says he might stick with this rally until his barber starts yakking about stocks again. A broker says he'll lean bullish until his personal trainer starts pumping him for stock tips.
Are credit markets cooperating? The latest senior loan officers' survey showed banks easing lending standards for small businesses, a sign liquidity is starting to trickle to Americans. But like nude beaches, where the prunes prancing around naked are never the ones you'd like to see without clothes, credit is still extended largely to those who don't really need loans. Still, it helps that high-yield spreads are tight, and credit markets are behaving.
Last November, when the consensus was fretting about political uncertainty and the S&P 500 was near 1400, Michael Darda, MKM Partners' chief market strategist, noticed that stocks were holding up well in the face of bad news. So he suggested buying stocks and adding to positions in a selloff.
Today, Darda is still optimistic, but is watching for any sustained deterioration in the credit markets, or a spike in core inflation that might hamper central-bank resolve. If the S&P 500 tops 1700 this year -- roughly 15 times projected operating profits of $115 -- the market also will become more fully valued, he says. Until then, "strong job growth with a slow drop in the unemployment rate and low core inflation remain the best mix for equities."
ALAN ABELSON WROTE Up & Down Wall Street for longer than I've been alive. His longevity -- and wisdom and crotchety wit -- is why he's a legend the likes of which we'll never see again. My world view is far less informed (and slightly less bearish) than his, yet he was never anything but generous and supportive. I shall miss him. And what I wouldn't give to read his critique of wherever he is right now.
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Tommy Thompson: "Not the way I planned it"
Republican Tommy Thompson conceded the U.S. Senate race to Democrat Tammy Baldwin at about 11:40 p.m. on Tuesday.
When Thompson walked to the podium, he told the crowd, "Not the way I planned it."
He thanked those who supported him, including Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen.
"I never campaigned harder," Thompson said.
With the win, Baldwin will become Wisconsin's first woman senator and the first openly gay member of the U.S. Senate.


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Bacteriophage HK620 recognizes and cleaves the O-antigen polysaccharide of Escherichia coli serogroup O18A1 with its tailspike protein (TSP). HK620TSP binds hexasaccharide fragments with low affinity, but single amino acid exchanges generated a set of high-affinity mutants with submicromolar dissociation constants. Isothermal titration calorimetry showed that only small amounts of heat were released upon complex formation via a large number of direct and solvent-mediated hydrogen bonds between carbohydrate and protein. At room temperature, association was both enthalpy- and entropy-driven emphasizing major solvent rearrangements upon complex formation. Crystal structure analysis showed identical protein and sugar conformers in the TSP complexes regardless of their hexasaccharide affinity. Only in one case, a TSP mutant bound a different hexasaccharide conformer. The extended sugar binding site could be dissected in two regions: first, a hydrophobic pocket at the reducing end with minor affinity contributions. Access to this site could be blocked by a single aspartate to asparagine exchange without major loss in hexasaccharide affinity. Second, a region where the specific exchange of glutamate for glutamine created a site for an additional water molecule. Side-chain rearrangements upon sugar binding led to desolvation and additional hydrogen bonding which define this region of the binding site as the high-affinity scaffold.
An essential serotype recognition pocket on phage P22 tailspike protein forces Salmonella enterica serovar Paratyphi A O-antigen fragments to bind as nonsolution conformers (2013)
Bacteriophage P22 recognizes O-antigen polysaccharides of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica (S.) with its tailspike protein (TSP). In the serovars S. Typhimurium, S. Enteritidis, and S. Paratyphi A, the tetrasaccharide repeat units of the respective O-antigens consist of an identical main chain trisaccharide but different 3,6-dideoxyhexose substituents. Here, the epimers abequose, tyvelose and paratose determine the specific serotype. P22 TSP recognizes O-antigen octasaccharides in an extended binding site with a single 3,6-dideoxyhexose binding pocket. We have isolated S. Paratyphi A octasaccharides which were not available previously and determined the crystal structure of their complex with P22 TSP. We discuss our data together with crystal structures of complexes with S. Typhimurium and S. Enteritidis octasaccharides determined earlier. Isothermal titration calorimetry showed that S. Paratyphi A octasaccharide binds P22 TSP less tightly, with a difference in binding free energy of similar to 7 kJ mol(-1) at 20 degrees C compared with S. Typhimurium and S. Enteritidis octasaccharides. Individual protein-carbohydrate contacts were probed by amino acid replacements showing that the dideoxyhexose pocket contributes to binding of all three serotypes. However, S. Paratyphi A octasaccharides bind in a conformation with an energetically unfavorable phi/epsilon glycosidic bond angle combination. In contrast, octasaccharides from the other serotypes bind as solution-like conformers. Two water molecules are conserved in all P22 TSP complexes with octasaccharides of different serotypes. They line the dideoxyhexose binding pocket and force the S. Paratyphi A octasaccharides to bind as nonsolution conformers. This emphasizes the role of solvent as part of carbohydrate binding sites.


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Earlier today, Facebook announced a new feature to their site which involved video-calling and group chat in collaboration with Skype. This new feature involved giving current Facebook chat users the ability to video call their friends.
If you are someone who are not sure how to use this feature, here is a simple step-through on getting that done.
Step 1: Head over to http://www.facebook.com/videocalling
Step 2: Click on the "Get Started" button on this page.
Step 3: Now click on the name of contact you want to chat with and then click on the Video calling icon in the chat window.
Step 4: You will be prompted to download a plugin for your browser. This is only a one-time process, so you will be able to video chat in the future without having to install this plugin again. According to reports this does not work yet on Opera and on Linux based operating systems. I tested this with Google Chrome and it worked perfectly fine.
That's it, you will now be able to video call and group chat with your friends using Facebook. Video calling however is only limited to one person at this time.
Right now the Facebook video calling is very buggy and you might see messages as seen in the screenshot above. However, the quality of the call is excellent if you are able to call someone that is.