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Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has checked into a treatment facility for substance abuse a day after trashing equipment and hurling abuse at promoters during what appeared to be a public meltdown at a show in Las Vegas.
The rocker and his bandmates were performing at the iHeart Radio Music Festival on Saturday when Armstrong took offense to a time warning towards the end of his set, storming offstage after accusing concert organizers of disrespecting him.
He raged, "I'm not f– Justin Bieber, you motherf–! You've gotta be f– joking. This is a f– joke."
The video footage of his meltdown has since been posted online. (Watch clips of the incident in the video below.)
In a statement released to The Associated Press, the band has apologized for the incident, insisting the set was not cut short by promoters, as has been suggested.
A representative has also confirmed Armstrong is seeking treatment, adding, "The band regretfully must postpone some of their upcoming promotional appearances."
The group's new album, Uno, is released on Tuesday.
Armstrong's treatment news comes just weeks after the trio was forced to scrap a show in Italy after the singer was hospitalized with an undisclosed medical issue on September 2.


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Students' Clam Jam ends without major problems at Fairfield Beach
A large deployment of town police and private security officers, starting around 8 a.m. Saturday -- along with rain and cloudy skies -- kept a damper on Clam Jam, the annual pre-graduation bash thrown at Lantern Point by Fairfield University students.
In fact, at one point in the afternoon, decks at Lantern Point, a private condominium association off Fairfield Beach Road, were virtually empty instead of packed with revelers as in years past. Students without wristbands, required for entry to Lantern Point for Clam Jam, went to several other large parties along the beach, including one at houses on Lund Court.
Shortly after 3:30 p.m., police began closing down all the shoreline neighborhood parties, channeling students onto Reef Road.
During the course of the day, police issued 21 infractions for offenses that included open containers of alcohol, possession of alcohol by a minor, creating a public disturbance and criminal trespass. One of those open container stops happened as a student was walking past Police Chief Gary MacNamara carrying a cup of beer.
Another student was taken into custody after he allegedly punched one of the Bridgeport police horses in the head -- on hand to assist with crowd control -- while partyers were being dispersed. According to police Capt. Josh Zabin, the mounted patrol had given a female student several orders to move on, but she refused and "squared off" against the horse. The horse stepped on her foot, but her injuries were minor and she even continued to berate officers after she left the party, demanding their names. When she fell, police said, a man then punched the horse and was taken into custody, charged with interfering with an officer and breach of peace.
"I'd say the biggest impact to the neighborhood has been the foot traffic," Zabin said, "which we've made an effort to keep to the public walkways." He said despite a soaking rain earlier in the morning, about 300 students were outside Lantern Point around 8:30 a.m. "with no party to go to." He said 15 uniformed police officers were in place by 8 a.m., which "sent a strong message for the party guests."
Fairfield Beach Road resident Paige Herman praised the efforts of police and the private security firm hired by the Lantern Point Association for controlling the partyers, but repeated that she feels the party should be moved to the Fairfield University campus.
Representative Town Meeting member Bill Perugini, R-10, who lives in and represents the beach area, said he believes a lot of planning went into limiting the impact of this year's Clam Jam on the year-round residents, but noted it is a drain on town resources.
"A strong police presence has minimized the impact at Lantern Point, " Zabin said.
In addition to officers and private security firm, G-Force, hired by the condominium association, Fairfield police were assisted by officers from Westport, Bridgeport, Monroe and Trumbull though mutual-aid agreements.
Firefighters and EMTs were also on duty at Lantern Point throughout the afternoon, and among the calls they answered, were four medical cases caused by intoxication.

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NEW MARKET, VA – The York College baseball squad split their Saturday double-header with Frostburg State University in New Market, VA. The Bobcats won the opener 7-3 before the Spartans battled back to earn the split in the nightcap, 4-1.
The Spartans are now 5-13 overall and 4-8 in the CAC while the Bobcats stand at 11-8 overall and 6-5 in the conference.
The twin bill was originally scheduled to be played at FSU but their field was unplayable so the games were moved to Rebel Field.
In the opener, Frostburg jumped on Spartan ace Andy Rosenzweig for four runs in the bottom of the first frame. York got one of those runs back in the top of the third when Steve Tretter walked, moved to third on a Kyle Cook double and then scored on a Justin Cohen RBI ground out.
The Spartans cut the lead to 4-3 with a pair of runs in the top of the fourth as Adam Hegedus had an RBI single while Tretter also had an RBI in the frame. The Spartans had the chance to plate a few more runs but left the bases loaded as they headed to the bottom of the fourth down a run.
Frostburg responded to the Spartan outburst with three runs of their own in the bottom of the fourth to put the game away.
Greg Ross earned the win as he went six innings, allowing three runs, two earned, on seven hits with 10 strikeouts and three walks as he improves to 4-1. Zach O'Dell tossed the seventh and final inning, allowing one hit for the Bobcats.
Rosenzweig suffered the loss as he allowed seven runs, six earned, on nine hits with five strikeouts and a walk in his six innings of work. He falls to 3-3 overall.
Matt Donaldson led the Bobcats, as he was 2-for-4 with two RBI and two runs scored. Tyler Hawthorne added two hits, one RBI and one run scored. Matt Greene and Doug Anuszewski each added two hits to the nine-hit Frostburg attack.
Senior Devin Harbold led the Spartans, as he was 2-for-2 with a run scored while Cook also had a pair of knocks for York. Tretter, Cohen and Hegedus each had an RBI for York.
In game two, the Bobcats got a first inning run off Spartan starter Joey Couch but after that, Couch settled in and had he best start of the year as he went the distance, allowing one run on six hits with six strikeouts and two walks. He improves to 2-4 for the campaign.
The Spartans got Couch all the runs he needed in the second. Harbold led off the inning reaching on a fielding error. He moved to second when Tretter singled to left. Senior CT Stanley walked to load the bases for York with one out. Freshman Colbe Herr stroked a two-run single down the right field line, scoring Harbold and Tretter. York would not be able to get any more as they eventually left the bases loaded while they did have a 2-1 lead.
York got a single run in the fifth on a Harbold RBI single and then pushed their advantage to 4-1 on a Sean McCann RBI fielder's choice in the sixth.
The Spartan defense did a nice job behind Couch as they turned three double plays in the win.
Josh Davis suffered the loss as he allowed four runs, two earned, on five hits with five walks and two strikeouts in 6.1 innings of work. Davis is now 2-1 for the year.
Herr had the big knock for the Spartans as he finished the game 1-for-2 with a pair of RBI. Harbold was 1-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored while senior Joe Doyle was 1-for-4 with a run scored.
Donaldson had another big offensive game for Frostburg, as he was 3-for-3 with a run scored. Greene was 1-for-2 with an RBI for the Bobcats.
The Spartans return to action on Sunday afternoon as they host Stevenson University in a Capital Athletic Conference contest. First pitch at Jaquet Field is set for 2:00 pm.
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My article titled "The Green Peril" was published on 9th December 200.
Deepak Lal sees the ecological movement as a new form of imperialism.
While the green movement claims to have the future of the planet in mind, economist Deepak Lal warned of the new imperialist threat posed by the ecological movement, particularly for the developing countries. Prof.. Lal, who is the James Coleman Professor of International Development Studies at the University of California, at Los Angeles, USA, was delivering the inaugural Julian L. Simon Memorial Lecture organised by Liberty Institute, in New Delhi, on Saturday.
The lecture attracted a wide audience, and was chaired by Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Member, Planning Commission. Dr. Ahluwalia introduced Prof. Lal as some one who never minces words. Prof. Lal lived up to that reputation.
Prof. Lal noted the parallels between utopian ideas of Marxism, Christianity and the present day environmental movements. He said, "The ecological movement is the latest manifestation of the various secular religions in the West once the Christian God died for so many with the Scientific and Darwinian revolution… … The spiritual and moral void created by the Death of God is, thus, increasingly being filled in the secular Western world by the worship of Nature." What was ironic is that "those haunted natural spirits which the medieval Church sought to exorcise so that the West could conquer its forests (see Southern), are now be-ing glorified and being placed above Man."
Prof. Lal warned that the Green movement is a modern secular religious movement engaged in a world-wide crusade to impose its "habits of the heart" on the world. He pointed out that their primary target was to prevent the economic development which alone offers the world's poor any chance of escaping their age-old poverty. This modern day secular Christian crusade has exchanged the saving of souls for saving Spaceship Earth. It needs to be fiercely resisted.
Having failed to promote their agenda through the normal political process even in developed countries, the greens are now seeking to push their agenda through various unelected and bureaucratic international agencies such as the UNEP. Their chief prize is the capture of the WTO to impose their anti-development, anti-trade platform on the rest of the world.
For instance, Prof. Lal wondered how could the developed world that consumes twenty times more energy per capita than India, expect India to slow down or even retard their energy needs in order to implement the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. He harshly criticised western environmental groups such as Greenpeace for advocating a ban on DDT in developing countries, where malarial mosquitoes continue to affect an estimated 500 million annually, when the western world itself had used it much more widely to fight the disease some decades earlier. Likewise Prof. Lal ridiculed the fear mongering over biotechnology, and argued that India should take a leaf out of the Chinese position which has made that country adopt the newer agricultural technology in a very big way.
Prof. Lal called on India and other developing countries to stand up to this insidious threat coming from the global greens. He called for India to consider withdrawing from a range of international environmental agreements and conventions, including the Basel Convention on Hazardous Waste, the Persistent Organic Pollutants Convention, the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, the Biosafety Convention. He felt that many of the implications of these agreements are not clearly understood, and would impose a very heavy burden, particularly on the poor.
For India, which had been a leader against the colonial era, must once again take the lead and stand up against the latest attempt to resurrect a new form of western colonialism - ecological imperialism, concluded Prof. Lal. And in this fight, there would be allies in the west like the late Julian Simon.
Prof. Lal's lecture, "The New Cultural Imperialism: The greens and economic development", has been published by the Liberty Institute, and was released on this occasion.
Prof. Lal began by recounting his association with Prof. Julian Simon in the 1980s. Prof. Julian Simon, in whose memory this lecture series was inaugurated, was an economist and demographer at the University of Maryland in the US, and was singularly responsible for exposing the fallacy behind the Malthusian fear that growing human population would degrade the environment and the quality of life. Simon held, " The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is no convincing economic reason why these trends toward a better life should not continue indefinitely… … … Minds matter economically, as much or more than, hands or mouths."
Prof. Simon was instrumental in helping to establish the Liberty Institute as an independent, economic policy research and educational organisation, in 1995. Prof. Lal has been on the board of advisors of the Institute since its inception. Since his untimely death in 1998, the Institute has rededicated its research centre in the name of Julian L. Simon to keep alive in the Institute his never-ending spirit of inquiry.
The Instituted hosted a lunch following the lecture and discussion. The participants had an opportunity to interact with each other informally. Deepak Lal signed copies of his lecture for some members of the audience.
Saturday, December 9, 2000
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On This Date in History: John Luther Jones was born on March 14, 1863 in Missouri while the Civil War was in full swing. In 1876, the family moved to Cayce, Kentucky. John Luther was over 6'4″ tall and had gray eyes and dark hair. He loved trains since he was a young boy and his fascination with the iron horse only increased as he watched them come and go from the Cayce depot. He was born during the Civil War and in 1878, at the age of 15, he took a job with the Mobile and Ohio Railroad as a telegrapher and six years later moved to Jackson, TN where he continued with the Mobile and Ohio as a flagman.
When he moved to Jackson, the men with whom he worked asked where he was from. Locally, Cayce was pronounced with two syllables so the men started calling him "Casey" Jones. In 1884, he married Miss Mary Joanna "Janie" Brady who was the daughter of the woman who ran the boarding house in which he resided in Jackson. The couple settled down in Jackson and had three children together. Casey was not a drinking man and was thought to have been devoted to his family. He certainly was devoted to railroading because in fairly short order, he was promoted first to brakeman by the Mobile and Ohio and then to firemen. His big break came through the misfortune of others. A yellow fever epidemic struck and the illness took its toll on the crews of the Illinois Central Railroad. With a shortage of experienced people, the Illinois Central provided a unique opportunity for rapid advancement of firemen to engineers. So, Jones left the only company for which he had ever worked and went to the greener pastures of the Illinois Central.
In March 1888 he started work for his new employer and on February 23, 1891 Casey Jones became an engineer for the Illinois Central Railroad. He developed a reputation for his fierce desire to always be on time. His reputation for punctuality was so well known it is said that people could set their watch by the passage of his train. He also developed a distinct style of operating the steam whistle. Janie Jones said, "he established a sort of trade mark for himself by his inimitable method of blowing a whistle. It was a kind of long-drawn-out note that he created, beginning softly, then rising, then dying away almost to a whisper. People living along the Illinois Central right of way between Jackson and Water Valley would turn over in their beds late at night and say: 'There goes Casey Jones,' as he roared by."
Now, the Illinois Central had a passenger run from Chicago to New Orleans which involved 4 different trains. Jones was given engine number 638 for the Memphis to Canton, MS link. This service came to be known as a "Cannonball Run," which was a generic term for fast or express passenger and freight trains. Keep in mind that Jones did not like to be behind schedule and he had already been deemed a hero for his 1895 rescue of a little girl. Jones had been doing maintenance work on the engine when he saw some kids dart in front of the locomotive. All crossed the track except the one girl who froze on the tracks as the train approached. Jones supposedly perched himself atop the cowcatcher and snatched the child from the tracks as the train approached.
At 10 PM on April 29, 1900, Casey Jones' pulled his train behind engine 638 into the Canton station and, when he was ready to go home, he heard someone say that engineer Joe Lewis was ill and could not take out the engine 382 for the return trip to Memphis. Jones volunteered to take on the duty. By the time they left at 12:50 AM, he was already more than an hour and a half behind schedule so he had his fireman, Sim Webb, "open it up." Casey had a reputation for going too fast and I suppose that's how he made sure that he kept his schedule. This night was no different. At times that night, John D'Angelo of virtual railroader says it's entirely possible that the "Cannonball" reached speeds close to 100 mph. Jones came upon a freight train on a side track and so Jones reduced his speed to a still rapid 50 mph as he intended to pass. This particular freight train was long. So long, in fact, that the rear cars were on the main track. Casey figured that they would do as normal and that is "sawing." As Jones train passed, the freight train would move forward so as to clear the rear cars from the main line prior to Jones' engine 382 arriving. The trouble was that the engineer of the freight train did not realize just how fast Casey Jones was moving and they did not move their freight train forward fast enough.
As they came around a curve, Jones saw the freight cars on the track ahead and he shouted for Webb to jump. As Webb lept to safety, Jones tooted his whistle and applied the brakes in vain. Engine 382 of the Illinois Central Railroad plowed into the caboose of the freight train. It is said that he had managed to slow his train down to 35 mph, thus saving all of the passengers but he was killed. Sim Webb had landed in some bushes and was not injured. Later ,he told Janie Jones, "that as I jumped Casey held down the whistle in a long, piercing scream. I think he must have had in mind to warn the freight conductor in the caboose so he could jump." The legend is that he was found with one hand clutching the whistle and the other the brake. Casey Jones' watch stopped at 3:52 AM on this date in 1900 and his action is credited with saving the lives of all of the passengers. In spite of the heroic lore that has followed his name, an investigation concluded that he was largely to blame for driving too fast.
Weather Bottom Line: The Lentucky Oaks weather forecast and Kentucky Derby weather forecast could not be more different. A frontal boundary is slowly plodding its way across the nation. It will not arrive in Louisville in time to really affect that 136th Kentucky Oaks. There is a very slight chance for a late afternoon isolated t'storm Friday afternoon but for the most part, it will be warm and breezy. I think that it will be dry with partly cloudy skies and highs in the low to perhaps the mid 80's. The data also suggests that conditions will still be favorable for all of the Kentucky Derby events for Friday night including the Brownstable-Brown Gala. Previously, the data suggested rain chances increasing around midnight but the last few runs, all models have been holding off the rain until the 5AM to 7AM timeframe. So, aside from late departures from the parties, it should be a fine night. An unofficial Derby tradiition is cruising and the police have had issues over the years trying to control that activity. This year should the cops should get some help from mother nature.
For Derby Day, rain will begin in the morning. There is some disagreement on how much. The 6Z NAM only throws out a half inch of rain into Saturday evening with most of that coming in the first half of the day. The 6Z GFS though has about 2 inches of rain for the daylight hours of Saturday. The Hydrometeorlogical Prediction Center seems to split the difference and comes up with rain totals of 1.25 to 1.5 inches of rain for Saturday. There is also a slight risk of severe thunderstorms for Saturday. My biggest concern with this is that I think the best chance for tornadic activity will be in the same region of Arkansas and Mississippi that got hit with those brutal tornadoes last weekend. What is going on is that there will be a shortwave moving up along the front through the Ohio Valley on Saturday morning. Sensible weather wise, that should mean that after it passes, then rain chances diminish Saturday afternoon in Louisville. While the jet streak moves to the northeast with the shortwave, there may still be sufficient jet stream venting to work with some afternoon heating to the mid to upper 70's Saturday afternoon to trigger scattered rain and t'storms. Obviously, the GFS is more bullish on this scenario. I would not be surprised to see a wet track on Saturday but times of actual rain falling will be sporadic.
Late Saturday, there will be another shortwave with the associated jet stream energy developing in the lower Mississippi Valley. It should develop in such a manner that a surface low will probably emerge. It is in this developing area that the risk of tornadic activity will be its greatest. As that low moves up along the front Saturday evening toward the Ohio Valley, a tremendous amount of moisture will be drawn up from the Gulf. This entire system, in fact, is what is also drawing the oil in the Gulf of Mexico onto the Louisiana coast. Rain chances will increase markedly on Saturday night with the risk of severe weather back in the picture. My guess is that we would be talking about strong winds as the most likely threat for Sunday morning. But, it's the rain that has the attention of officials. A Flood Watch is in effect for Saturday and Sunday in Louisville and I would not be surprised to see it extended through Monday morning as the NAM takes rain totals to nearly 5 inches by 7AM Monday and the GFS is closer to 4.5 inches. The HPC is in line with these numbers as it adds another 3 to 3.5 inches for the Sunday AM to Monday AM timeframe.


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I've been thinking a lot about this whole burning the Koran business. So much that I woke up less than an hour ago thinking about it to the point where I think I should get it all out on 'paper'. I've had some Atheist friends talk about this on facebook and I have to admit, I've been less then honest when they've brought it up about my real standpoint. Some of these friends also being friends of mine on here so I might be exposing myself, meh.
So here's the thing. I really trully don't understand why so many of my fellow nonbelievers are not only okay with burning the Koran, but seem to support it to the point of continuing to burn other religious books and the like. It's not about the not offending people so much either, I could care less if people are offended. It's how hypocritical it is to me.
One of the things we, in general, are against when it come to most religions, is how archaic it can get. How people follow books and rules established hundreds of years ago without question. How books like the bible are cool with stoning women and gays, sacrificing animals, genital mutilation, so on. But you know what else is archaic? Burning books. This is something these same people we're against for the most part have done over and over again in our history. Whole library's of stories and histories gone because some guy said god doesn't like it.
I understand the symbolism of what's being done here. I understand it's legal and isn't much different from burning the flag for example. I also agree with what George Carlin once said, "Symbols are for the simple-minded." And I also know that burning a book isn't necesarily going to hurt anyone itself, it's not burning a person. But I can't justify burning something simply because I disagree.
Burning the Koran isn't going to make Islam go away, niether would burning the bible, or any other book. Two negatives don't make a positive, this isn't math.
I love books. Books pretty much saved my life when I was young and had no friends. Honestly I daydream about a superpower that would allow me to read every book ever written in the world. No matter what it's about, what language, even if it's horrible. So maybe this makes me biased. It confuses me a bit esspecially since I also have a thing about being too attatched to inanimate objects. But again on the otherside I'm also OCD and there are certain things that are VERY hard for me to do or not do that have no logical basis in my brain whatsoever.
I knwo some of you disagree but maybe some of you agree. And I know no matter what's said on either side probably isn't going to change anything but I just needed to get it out there. I think we're better than these people, we don't need to do what they would do to piss people off. Thanks for reading?
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As Sassan said, it boils down to a free speech issue.
Offensive language and expressions are incredibly important parts of free speech because it draws attention onto itself when used. It is vital that we keep these options open because it occationally needs to be used. It has remarkable ability to tear off emperors clothes.
Being called a bigot is never nice, but if someone is in the need of being called one, it is needed. If we need to burn bigoted books to draw attention to how bigoted they are, it is worth sacrificing a mass produced book. Society then look at the credibility of the person who utter their expression, and judge whether it'll listen of ignore.
That is the resolution of this case, deem WBC to be incompetent to hold an opinion about anything. Their words have no defamatory value because those who utter them are incompetent. Excercise your right to ignore stupid and wrong use of free speech, otherwise you are the one falling into the trap. Then we judge the other side for their crimes.
Or do you prefer an "Offensive Speech" police?
Yes, I agree.. There's no reason to stoop to these peoples level. We don't need to burn the beatles or elvis's records just because we don't like something that they said or did. On the other side of the coin we don't need to burn things down because a magazine printed some cartoons making political commentary about our religion and religious figures or what's being done in their name.
Just because the Bible and Koran contain hateful things doesn't mean we should burn them just to incite the brainwashed masses or worse in retaliation for their burning science and freethinker books.
Rise above the 'burning' 'destruction' responce and actually deal with the issues head on. Burning and destruction are the choice of those who've run out of rational arguments.
Thank you for all the responses so far. I just want to say that I understand it's a freedom of speech issue and as I said I dont care about the offending people part. No I don't want to make it illegal, and no I don't want "offensive police" as Arcus put it. I just trully don't understand how smart, logical people would be all for this destruction. I think Wesley gets what I mean and I agree with the line "Burning and destruction are the choice of those who've run out of rational arguments."
and to Sasson. I wouldn't kill someone over burning something like that, you wouldn't. I'm sure most if not all the people on this site wouldn't. But their are people who will and have. There is a certain degree of responsibility to think about here. Though as I said I'm not pushing to control people it's just something I've been thinking about.
Thanks again.
"We've had about 400 death threats," he said, adding that Hezbolla, the Shia Muslim militant group, had put out a "reward out on my head for $2.4 million."
I guess offense is a type of "mental violence". I think we can agree that violence is always a bad thing, but it's not always the wrong thing. Violence is the end solution to any problem which cannot be resolved by dialogue due to opinions becoming stuck. In a reasoned debate, there is no need for violence as everyone would concede intellectual defeat once presented with superior arguments. which is why anyone who is ready to concede position to superior arguments never really see its use.
However, even a non-violent person as myself would resort to violence to defend certain arguments which I hold as irrefutable, such as free speech, against arguments that are weaker than those supporting that right. But I do not purport myself to be a judge over "acceptable" and "unacceptable" use of free speech, so I therefore label anything that can be uttered as "acceptable" to not be forced to make such distinctions. As all free speech is acceptable, whether or not I pay attention is dependant on arguments of the speaker. If they are weak, I ignore them. If they persist in uttering them I call them fools.
I guess I neither condone nor condem the WBC: I ignore it and I do something much worse than burning a book - I burn their inferior arguments and ideas in my mind. It is the very thing symbolized by a burning of a book - it's not the book itself we object to being burned, it is the knowledge it contains. If we all burn their ideas, they go extinct in their original sense, and all we are left with are their husks to study for historical purposes of how wrong humanity once was.
And the only way we can do this, to progress society by rejecting inferior ideas and disprove the arguments underlying them, is through excercising free speech.
i think you should differentiate any burning to koran burnings, because the motive here is different.
Muslim extremists are ridiculous. think back to the Mohammed cartoons a few years back, which depicted the prophet with a bomb on his head, as a way of saying "muslims are violent".
muslims didn't actually see any cartoon, they heard about it months later - were outraged, and what did they do to prove the cartoon wrong? the acted violently.
of the dozens of people who died in the erupting riots back then, almost all were muslims.... they're killing each other to prove they're not violent, over a cartoon which was months old, which they didn't even see....
in this case, a pastor in the US burns a koran, no one in Afghanistan see's it, only hears a condemnation on TV, and in the erupting violence, Afghans kill each other, and smash the streets of Kabul. it's like watching a baby on a tantrum.
there's nothing more satisfying than watching an imam speak about islam as the "religion of peace", and then seeing this ridiculous rage erupt over some trivial issue.
it's become a hobby for some, to see if they can taunt the muslim masses.
also, in a world where criticism of all religions in the media is ok, islam has managed to get a free pass- because TV executives are afraid of being murdered. this has to stop.
islam needs to mature.
muslims need to realize that intimidation and violence are not valid tools for adults.
i hope people keep pissing them off over trivial matters until their leaders learn to calm the fuck down, and join the 21st century, where freedom of expression is a fundamental liberty for all.
From New York Times, on the start of the Arab spring:
SIDI BOUZID, Tunisia — Mohamed Bouazizi spent his whole life on a dusty, narrow street here, in a tiny, three-room house with a concrete patio where his mother hung the laundry and the red chilis to dry. By the time Mr. Bouazizi was 26, his work as a fruit vendor had earned him just enough money to feed his mother, uncle and five brothers and sisters at home. He dreamed about owning a van.
On the morning of Dec. 17, when other vendors say Ms. Hamdy tried to confiscate Mr. Bouazizi's fruit, and then slapped him in the face for trying to yank back his apples, he became the hero — now the martyred hero — and she became the villain in a remarkable swirl of events in which Tunisians have risen up to topple a 23-year dictatorship and march on, demanding radical change in their government.
In a series of interviews, the other fruit vendors, officials and family members described the seemingly routine confrontation that had set off a revolution. They said that Mr. Bouazizi, embarrassed and angry, had wrestled with Ms. Hamdy and was beaten by two of her colleagues, who also took his electronic scale. He walked a few blocks to the municipal building, demanded his property, and was beaten again, they said. Then he walked to the governor's office, demanded an audience and was refused.
"She humiliated him," said his sister, Samia Bouazizi. "Everyone was watching."
Sometime around noon, in the two-lane street in front of the governor's high gate, the vendor drenched himself in paint thinner then lit himself on fire.
When everything else failed, one corageous man gave his life in sacrifice to liberty, which in turn ignited a powderkeg. If he had not had a strong enough point, it would have been a tragic suicide only, and nothing would have followed.
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Acetyl, antibody, bisulfite sequencing, cancer, chemical modification, chromatin, chromatin immunoprecipitation, chromosome, cloning, defect, development, DNA, epigenetics, expression, gene, growth,
gene, histone,
gene, immunohistochemistry, immunoprecipitation, methyl, PCR, polymerase chain reaction, Western blotting.
Human cells contain 46 chromosomes (22 pairs of autosomes, and one pair of sex chromosomes). Each individual has two copies of the 22 pairs of autosomal chromosomes, one pair inherited from the mother and one from the father. The pair of sex chromosomes includes an X chromosome from the mother and an X or a Y from the father. Females have two X chromosomes, whereas males have one X and one Y.
Individuals have two copies of most genes, which are sequences of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that contain instructions for making proteins, one inherited from each parent. Researchers have found that the DNA of some genes (for example,
) inherited from the mother has different modifications from the same genes inherited from the father, a phenomenon called imprinting. Imprinting is a normal process that occurs in all individuals, and it is needed for normal development. Modifications due to imprinting may cause the gene from one parent to be made at higher levels in a cell than the gene from the other parent.
DNA is located in a compartment of the cell called the nucleus and is contained in chromosomes. In addition to DNA, chromosomes also contain proteins, such as histones, which help to package the DNA and regulate gene expression. Unlike histones, most proteins are not involved in packaging DNA.
Chromosomes contain hundreds of genes, which provide the instructions for making proteins. Chromosomes also contain many other regulatory sequences that control how much of a gene will be made, when it will be made, and where in the body it will be made.
Epigenetics is a field of biological research that studies the effect of changes to DNA or chromosomes on the activity of genes. The field of genetics commonly focuses on how the changes in the order, or sequence, of chemical bases in DNA affect gene activity, whereas epigenetics focuses on changes in DNA other than sequence changes.
Typically, epigenetics focuses on changes to the DNA or the chromosomal proteins that affect the amount of a particular gene that is produced. The amount of a gene that is produced by a cell is referred to as the expression level.
The level of gene expression can be regulated by cells through chemically modifying DNA or the histone proteins. Through the addition or removal of specific chemical groups to or from the DNA or histone proteins, more or less of a gene can be produced. Several chemical groups, such as acetyl groups or methyl groups, that affect gene expression levels have been identified. Either the amount of a specific chemical modification or the location on the DNA or chromosome where the modification is made can influence the level of gene expression. Imprinted genes typically are differentially modified, meaning that one copy of the gene has a specific modification, but the other copy does not.
Imprinting is relevant to many biological processes, such as development. Also, defects in epigenetic modifications may lead to certain diseases. Because imprinting typically affects the level of gene expression, defects in imprinting are thought to lead to developmental defects or disease through deregulation of gene levels. For example, the
gene is thought to play a role in the progression of some human cancers, such as colorectal cancer. Some individuals with colorectal cancer have a loss of imprinting of the
gene, which causes the
genes from both the father and the mother to be made in an individual's cells. Researchers have found that individuals who have a loss of imprinting of the
gene have a greater risk of developing colorectal cancer.
Research on imprinting typically focuses on measuring the amount of a specific chemical modification on DNA or on histone proteins. To measure chemical modifications, there are a variety of techniques that researchers may use.
Antibody detecting
: Antibodies are commonly used in techniques that measure chemical modifications. Antibodies are a type of protein normally made in the body by immune system cells to fight off foreign invaders, such as viruses or bacteria. Because they have the ability to bind to specific proteins, however, antibodies may be used to detect specific chemical epigenetic modifications (for example, a modification on a histone protein, such as methylation).
Western blotting
: In Western blotting, researchers extract proteins from cells or tissues and separate the proteins using a gel that is subjected to electrical charges. Researchers then transfer the proteins from the gel onto a membrane, usually a thin strip of nylon. Researchers may then look for a certain protein on the membrane using an antibody that is able to specifically detect that type of protein. For example, if a researcher is interested in whether a histone protein has been modified with an acetyl group, an antibody that detects acetylated histone could be used to probe the membrane and to detect the protein.
: Immunohistochemistry is an antibody detection method in which researchers may use antibodies to study the level of a specific protein without extracting the proteins from cells. In immunohistochemistry, researchers apply an antibody directly to cells by pouring liquid containing the antibody onto the cells and observe whether the antibody is able to detect the protein of interest. Researchers commonly use a fluorescent detection system when performing immunohistochemistry, so that antibody binding can be detected by the emission of colored light. This detection system allows a researcher to determine whether an antibody has become bound to a target.
Chromatin immunoprecipitation
: Chromatin refers to DNA and the proteins associated with DNA. Chromatin immunoprecipitation is a method that can be used to determine whether specific regions of DNA have undergone an epigenetic modification. To perform chromatin immunoprecipitation, researchers first extract DNA from cells and then cut it into small pieces using high-energy sound waves. Then an antibody that can detect a specific epigenetic modification is used to isolate all the pieces of DNA that contain that modification by binding to it specifically. Finally, a technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which can amplify DNA containing a specific sequence, is used to check for a DNA region of interest.
For example, if researchers are interested in whether a specific gene is highly acetylated, which is a type of chemical modification, they would first use antibodies that can detect acetylated histones to isolate the DNA for all genes that are acetylated. Then they would perform PCR to specifically check whether the sequence of the gene they are interested in was isolated by the antibody.
Bisulfite sequencing
: Bisulfite sequencing is commonly used in research labs to study imprinting. In some cases, epigenetic modifications may occur directly on the DNA and not on histone proteins. A method called bisulfite sequencing is commonly used to detect methylation, a type of chemical modification, directly on DNA. In bisulfite sequencing, DNA is treated with a chemical called bisulfite, which causes areas of DNA that have not undergone DNA methylation to mutate, or change in sequence. However, areas of DNA that have undergone DNA methylation are not affected by the bisulfite. Therefore, by comparing the sequences of bisulfite-treated DNA and DNA that has not been treated with bisulfite, researchers may be able to infer which regions are epigenetically modified.
Individuals have two copies of most genes, one inherited from the father and one from the mother. Researchers have found that some genes an individual inherits from the mother have different epigenetic modifications from the same genes inherited from the father, a phenomenon called imprinting. Commonly, the DNA of imprinted genes has higher levels of methylation, a type of chemical modification that causes them to be expressed at lower levels. Because imprinting typically affects the level of gene expression, defects in imprinting are thought to lead to developmental defects or disease through deregulation of gene levels. Imprinting is thought to affect the level of gene expression by interfering with the ability of a cell to produce RNA for a specific gene.
Gene expression
: Researchers who study imprinting attempt to better understand how different chemical modifications on DNA or histone proteins can influence the expression of genes. Some types of chemical modifications (such as acetylation) appear to cause genes to be expressed at higher levels, whereas other types of chemical modifications (such as methylation) cause genes to be expressed at lower levels.
For example, DNA that is methylated at a specific position appears to cause nearby genes to be expressed at lower levels. Commonly, imprinted genes are methylated, causing them to be expressed at lower levels. For example, researchers have found that the
gene, which is thought to be involved in growth and development, is imprinted. The
gene that an individual inherits from the father has higher levels of methylation and is not expressed, whereas the
gene that an individual inherits from the mother is not methylated and is expressed. Individuals who inherit an imprinted
gene from the father and one from the mother have normal growth and development, even though the gene from the mother is expressed.
Researchers have also identified specific enzymes responsible for attaching chemical modifications to DNA or to histones. For example, researchers have found that proteins called DNA methyltransferases are responsible for adding methyl groups to DNA. Methyl groups are chemical modifications that may affect the level of gene expression.
DNA contains four different chemical compounds called bases: cytosine, thymine, guanine, and adenine. In any given person, these bases are found in a particular order along the chromosomes, and it is the order of these bases that stores information for making genes. Researchers have found that the base cytosine becomes methylated near genes that undergo imprinting.
Development and disease
: Using model organisms, such as mice or flies, researchers have found that the imprinting of genes is important for normal development. For example, researchers have found that if a gene called
, which is normally expressed only from the copy inherited from the father, is not properly imprinted in mice, higher levels of
will be expressed. The increased amount of
causes problems with development, and the mice develop a condition similar to Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, in which developing organs in the fetus become abnormally large.
Additionally, the gene
is thought to play a role in the progression of some human cancers, such as colorectal cancer. Some individuals with colorectal cancer have a loss of imprinting of the
gene such that the gene does not become chemically modified, which causes the
genes from both the father and the mother to be made in the individual's cells. Researchers have found that individuals who have a loss of imprinting of the
gene have a greater risk of developing colorectal cancer.
: Imprinting has important consequences for the field of cloning. Cloning is a technique in which a researcher removes the DNA from the egg of an organism and replaces it with new DNA. The egg with the new DNA can then be used to produce an organism that contains the new DNA in all the cells of its body or to produce embryonic stem cells. An embryonic stem cell is a type of cell that has the potential to develop into any type of tissue or organ, such as blood, skin, or liver. Embryonic stem cells could potentially be used therapeutically to help replace damaged tissues.
Attempts at reproductive cloning often fail, and the success rate of generating a healthy, living organism through cloning is very low. The low success rate of cloning may occur because some genes are not imprinted in cloned organisms. The aberrant expression of these genes may lead to developmental defects and death.
Fighting diseases
: Imprinting may be used to better understand some diseases. This is because defects in epigenetic modifications may cause specific genes to become expressed at higher or lower levels, and this aberrant expression may play a role in causing the disease. By identifying genes that are not properly regulated, scientists can better understand how a disease is caused. This information could potentially be used develop drugs to fight diseases caused by defects in imprinting, such as cancer.
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Future research
Researchers are working to extend their knowledge of where different epigenetic modifications are located in the human genome, which is the entire DNA sequence of every chromosome contained in an organism. Current large-scale efforts are underway in which researchers are studying the entire human genome to better understand which regions have epigenetic modifications, such as methylation. This future research should give researchers a better global understanding of how many genes in humans are imprinted and what those genes are.
Author information
This information has been edited and peer-reviewed by contributors to the Natural Standard Research Collaboration (www.naturalstandard.com).
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Co-founded by Liz Myers and Tim Durden, PE Scholar is a new UK brand with a vision to provide a free community for teachers to share and discuss physical education resources.
Liz is a full time university student, currently specialising in the theoretical delivery of physical education, and completing her final year at University. Liz writes, edits, and moderates all content within the site, responding to comments and questions as necessary.
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