Nearly 10 years after Denmarks Jyllands-Posten newspaper published inflammatory cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, including one with a bomb in his turban, the country is reeling from twin terror attacks, at a caf and a synagogue, that killed two civilians and injured five police officers. The Saturday attacks, purportedly carried out by a man inspired by militant Islamist propaganda, shed light on the Scandinavian country that has sent the second-highest number of foreign fighters to join the Islamic State group in parts of Syria and Iraq.

Denmarks jihadi fighters

The Muhammad cartoons [published in the daily Jyllands-Posten in 2005] have played into the increasing polarization of the Danish society, and there has also been discrimination against immigrants, Magnus Ranstorp, a leading terrorism expert at Swedens Defense College, told Newsweek in an October interview. In addition, there are radical imams, and the Islamist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir is pretty big. Young people join it or more radical offshoots and its suspected that these offshoots may be playing a role in facilitating trips for them to Syria.

Due to the estimated 100 Danes in combat in Syria and Iraq, the Danish government established a rehabilitation program in September for former fighters. Rather than punitive measures, a national hotline, mentors and an exit center were created to reform former and potential jihadis.

We cannot afford not to include them back in our society and make sure that their path of radicalization is changed, so they can be an active part of our society, Jacob Bundsgard, the Social Democrat mayor of Aarhus, told the New York Times in September after the programs launch. The countrys second-largest city has seen at least 30 Muslim residents travel to Syria since 2012.

What motivates these young people is not that far from the motivation the rest of us have: a decent life, Preben Bertelsen, a professor of psychology at the University or Aarhus, told Newsweek. For them, joining ISIS is fighting for utopia, fighting for a place where theyre wanted. In that sense theyre not that different from other young people.

Domestic threats

While some Danes are choosing to fight abroad, the country has faced numerous domestic threats, not including the deadly shootings carried out Saturday. In September 2005, the countrys Jyllands-Posten newspaper printed 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Protests were held in major cities worldwide, Danish embassies in Damascus, Beirut and Teheran were set on fire.

Kurt Westergaard, 79, the cartoonist who created one of the cartoons that depicted Muhammad with a bomb in his turban, has lived under police protection for the past decade. In 2010 he survived an assassination attempt after a man wielding an ax forced his way into Westergaard's home. He escaped to a panic room and notified police.

That same year, Danish police thwarted a terror plot against the Jyllands-Posten. Four suspects described as militant Islamists were arrested in several raids that also uncovered an armory of automatic weapons, ammunition and wrist ties.

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February 12th, 2015 @ 3:36pm

THE GREAT OUTDOORS Gathering antler sheds is a hobby for many Utahns, and it is growing in popularity across the U.S. The Division of Wildlife Resources is now requiring participants to complete an online course before gathering sheds from Feb. 1 to April 15.

Elk and deer in Utah typically shed their antlers during the winter months, and that is when many people gather the shed antlers, according to a DWR news release. DWR officials said during the winter, the ground is often wet in the deer and elk environments and the habitats can be easily damaged.

Because its wet, it can be easily damaged, DWR law enforcement section chief Tony Wood said in the news release. Once the habitat is damaged, it can take years for it to recover.

The animals are also weaker and more stressed during the winter months because it is hard for them to move and find food, the news release said. In an effort to preserve the habitats and decrease stress to the animals, DWR officials are requiring Utahns to complete an online course before they can hunt shed antlers from Feb. 1 to April 15.

The mandatory online Antler Gathering Ethics course will help educate Utahns to prevent habitat damage. Once participants have completed the course, they can print out a certificate and must carry it with them while gathering shed antlers from Feb. 1 to April 15. If an adult takes young children shed hunting, the certificate will cover them as well, the news release said.

Participants can gather sheds throughout most of Utah with the certificate. However, because wildlife are so vulnerable this time of the year, many of the states wildlife management areas are closed in the winter and the spring to protect the animals, Wood said.

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Microbes, small and ancient life forms, play a key role in maintaining life on Earth. As has often been pointed out, without microbes, we'd die -- without us, most microbes would get along just fine.

Now, a study by scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) sheds significant new light on a surprising and critical role that microbes may play in nutritional disorders such as protein malnutrition.

Using fruit flies -- Drosophila melanogaster -- as a simple and easily studied stand-in for humans, these new findings advance our understanding of the fundamental mechanisms underlying microbial contributions to metabolism and may point to long-term strategies to treat and prevent malnutrition in general.

In the study, published February 12 in the journal Cell Reports, a team led by TSRI biologist William Ja showed that Issatchenkia orientalis, a fungal microbe isolated from field-caught fruit flies, promotes nutritional harvest that rescues the health and longevity of undernourished flies.

Surprising Protein Harvest

Using a range of radioisotope-labeled dietary components such as amino acids (the components of proteins and the basic building blocks of the body) and sucrose (sugar) to measure the transfer of nutrients from food to microbe to fly, the study shows that the microbes first harvest amino acids directly from the fly's food sources and then transfer that protein to the fly -- by being eaten.

"Flies in the wild carry microbes to every surface they touch," said Research Associate Ryuichi Yamada, who spearheaded the study in the Ja lab. "As flies land on low-protein fruit, they deposit microbes, which take up and concentrate the available amino acids. By eating the microbes, flies gain a much needed source of dietary protein."

In flies that are fed nutrient-poor diets, this chain of events restores body mass and protein levels, essentially returning them to the pre-malnutrition profile of well-fed flies.

"Ryuichi and colleagues did a lot of painstaking work to carefully show that the simplest explanation for what was happening was correct," Ja said. "The direct influence of microbes on fly nutrition is often overlooked and may be relevant in numerous studies of host-microbe interactions."

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Marlborough District Council is deciding whether these Waikawa Bay boatsheds should get their coastal permits renewed or if they should be pulled down to increase the recreational value of the area.

A row of 50-year-old boatsheds known for their quirky colour scheme could be pulled down after the Marlborough District Council learnt some were being used as makeshift baches.

Owners of the 22 run down Waikawa Bay boatsheds have been warned by the council that they can't be used as temporary accommodation if their coastal permits are renewed.

The old sheds, which require significant structural work, are famed among photographers and painters for their striking colour palette. The boatsheds are located to the north of the public launching ramp at Waikawa Bay.

Applicants told a resource consent hearing yesterday at the council that they wanted 15-year coastal permits and land use consents for the boatsheds, slipways and jetties.

If the consent is refused by the committee the boatsheds will be pulled down.

Applicants argued the sheds were necessary for storing, launching, retrieval, rigging and washing down small boats.

They agreed they would not be used for accommodation or business purposes.

It follows complaints by members of the public and a probe by the council's compliance department that one of the sheds was listed on Trade Me in 2009 for sale as a lifestyle block.

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MORE unhappy customers of Patios and Sheds Ipswich have come forward following yesterday's front page story detailing the struggles of an elderly couple.

The business, which used to trade out of an address opposite the Ipswich Showgrounds on Warwick Rd, has been uncontactable since the gates were locked by the landlord in early January.

Several customers have since come forward, claiming to have paid deposits to the company for shed, garage door or car port kits, only to be left in the dark as to when they might receive the product.

Barellan Point couple Scott and Chantelle Darrell paid more than $20,000 in deposits for a large shed job totalling more than $35,000, but have been unable to make contact with the company for several months.

The couple handed over the deposit in July last year and, despite having a slab laid down in preparation for the shed, have not received the materials or heard from the company.

Mrs Darrell said she and her husband started to worry when they were not informed on the progress of the job.

"Months passed by and we'd heard nothing," she said.

"My husband got onto them and onto them again.

"They got someone to come out and lay the slab, and then they disappeared."

The Darrells have complained to the Office of Fair Trading.

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