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What is the fastest growing segment of American education?
You will probably be surprised to hear that it is homeschooling, which is growing by some estimates at seven percent a year. While religion is still the biggest factor in why parents home educate, there are many other reasons including anything from a focus on science to just spending more time together as a family.
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The omission from Indie Sex, the IFC's new four-part history of sexuality in the movies, of an episode called "Wanks" is a surprising one: surely no survey of this field can call itself complete that fails to catalogue at least a few of cinema's most venerably encrusted jerk-off sequences. On four consecutive midnights (August 1–4) we get "Censored," "Taboos," "Teens," and "Extremes," all very thorough and interesting, but no "Wanks." Of the assembled talking heads, only recording artist Ari Gold (not to be confused with Jeremy Piven's character on Entourage) seems to have the right idea: as a throbbing teen (he confides) he abused himself so ardently to the sex scene from The Terminator that the videotape was almost destroyed. In this spirit, would it be giving you too much information to tell you that a tape of Volker Schlondorff's Swann In Love became, for a humid moment in 1985, the very text of my young libido? Quite possibly, because nobody mentions this film on Indie Sex. They do however mention Porky's, another (perhaps more typical) event in my private sexual revolution. What a crappy film it was, and yet how imperishable is that scene where the gurgling high school boys leer through a tiny hole at a group of showering girls. Voyeurism in excelsis: the peephole is roughly at knee-level, and the strong-legged laughing girls, shaking water from their hair in the pride of their nudity, seem magnified and worshipped by this stolen gaze. Memories, steaming memories.
The four hour-long episodes of Indie Sex come at their subject from a variety of angles. "Censored" describes the complex dance performed by filmmakers around the various strictures and standards of officialized morality, including the Golden Age of triple-X porn and Deep Throat. But limits, as everybody knows, are a wonderful thing: with the enforcement of the Hays Code beginning in the '30s, and with the ever-present threat of a boycott by the Catholic Legion of Decency, directors funneled the erotic yearnings of a mass audience into a highly refined symbolism. A woman accepting a cigarette from a man was at least thinking about giving him a blowjob; a woman slapping a man was flinging wide the doors to sexual Xanadu. Alfred Hitchcock, mindful of the Hays Code stipulation that no onscreen kiss should last for more than three seconds, created those fantastically intimate and prolonged sequences where Ingrid Bergman nuzzles Cary Grant (Notorious, 1946), or Grace Kelly nuzzles James Stewart (Rear Window, 1954), and the dialogue is breaths and murmurs and chaste little pecks to the mouth: hand in hand with the censor, in other words, Hitchcock more or less invented for the movies the smothering eroticism of physical proximity. Plenty was also lost, of course, beneath the cloak of censorship: Indie Sex gives us a beautiful submarine minute from 1934's Tarzan and His Mate, excised from the original version, in which Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) and Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan) wheel in slow, blissful circles beneath the water of a jungle pool. Their movements are liquid sculpture: it took the lewd mind of a Hays Code enforcer to find indecency in the fact that O' Sullivan happened to be naked.
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Shares of enterprise networking security technology vendor Fortinet (FTNT) are down $3.15, or over 14%, at $18.70 in late trading after the company this afternoon warned its Q1 revenue and net earnings per share will miss its prior projection, owing to weakness in orders from service providers.
Revenue in the three months ended in March is expected in a range of $134 million to $136 million, below a prior $138 million to $141 million range, while EPS will be 10 cents per share, below a prior 11 cents to 12 cents range.
Said CEO Ken Xie,
Our financial results were negatively impacted by a few deals in the U.S. service provider segment which did not close as expected, macro factors in Latin America and EMEA, and, to a lesser extent, the timing of new appliance product releases and inventory shortages. We were pleased with the strong performance of the Asia Pacific region as well as traction in the U.S. Enterprise sector during the first quarter. We remain optimistic about Fortinet's long-term opportunities as our products and innovation are strong and security demand drivers remain high.
Fortinet's warning follows a warning last Thursday by enterprise networking vendor F5 Networks (FFIV), which cut its fiscal Q2 outlook owing to weakness in buying by North American customers, especially in the telecom field.
Shares of fellow networking and security firms are under pressure in late trading, with Palo Alto Networks (PANW) off 45 cents, or 0.8%, at $54.26, Sourefire (FIRE) is down $1.64, or 3%, at $52.80, and Check Point Software Technology (CHKP) off 63 cents, or 1.3%, at $46.93.


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The IDF Africa Region currently represents 35 diabetes organisations in 32 countries. The Region has a very cosmopolitan population consisting of mostly Bantus and Arabs, with significant Indian, European and Chinese migrant communities located in Eastern and Southern Africa and on the islands of Madagascar and Seychelles.
The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is low in both rural and urban Bantu communities, but is ten times more prevalent in Muslim and Hindu communities in Tanzania and South Africa, and in the Chinese community in Mauritius. Type 1 diabetes, while still rare, is becoming increasingly prevalent. Diabetes is already a major public health problem in Africa and its impact is bound to increase significantly if nothing is done to curb the rising rate of impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), which now exceeds 16% in some countries.
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The Hope College Great Performance Series (GPS) will present the Tony Award Honoree, The Acting Company, in a production of "Jane Eyre" on Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 21-22, at 7:30 p.m. at the DeWitt Center main theatre.
A literary classic finds new life on the stage when The Acting Company presents an acclaimed adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre." Considered by many as the best touring company in the United States, The Acting Company received the 2003 Tony Honoree for Excellence in Theatre.
"The Acting Company endures as the major touring classical theater in the United States," "The New York Times" has said.
Actors such as Kevin Kline, David Schramm, and Frances Conroy started with the company, which has also won awards from the L.A. Drama Critics Circle, the Obies, Audelco, and more. The Acting Company performed with GPS in 1991, and this time returns with Polly Teale's adaptation of Bronte's novel, which had a very successful run in London's West End.
The coming-of-age story showcases one of literature's most independent and strong-willed women. Recognized as a masterpiece when it was published in 1847, "Jane Eyre" remains a modern blend of passion, romance and suspense. Jane Eyre is obscure and plain, but locked up in the attic of her imagination lives a woman so passionate, so wild, so full of longing, she must be guarded night and day for fear of the havoc she would wreak.
Tickets for the performances are on sale at the ticket office in the DeVos Fieldhouse, and cost $16 for regular admission, $12 for senior citizens, and $5 for children 18 and under. The ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and can be called at (616) 395-7890.
The ticket office is in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse, which is located at 222 Fairbanks Ave., between Ninth and 11th streets. The DeWitt Center is located on Columbia Avenue at 12th Street.
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MIT's announcement last month of a new online certification program made national news. The initiative, called MITx, will offer anyone with Internet access the opportunity to take MIT courses for free. For the past decade, MIT has offered free online classes through its OpenCourseWare platform, but MITx will go beyond that: according to the New York Times, it will enable students to use online laboratories, discuss course materials with one another, and, for a small fee, obtain a certificate of mastery.
Bootstrappers rejoiced. "For Wall Street Occupiers or other decriers of the 'social injustice' of college tuition, here's a curveball bound to scramble your worldview: a totally free college education regardless of your academic performance or background," crowed Forbes blogger James Marshall Crotty. Not only will MITx level the educational playing field, but MIT's foray into online education will radically change that market, Crotty wrote, its negligible price tag forcing down the tuition rates of for-profit universities while creating a new cottage industry of social media geared toward educational support. "MITx is nothing short of revolutionary," Crotty added. "This is especially true if you aren't a credential freak."
Before the social-justice set packs up and goes home, they should note that MITx currently has only one course launching this spring. They should also take into account the research of Justin Reich, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. In a lunchtime talk at the Berkman Center on Tuesday titled "Will Free Benefit the Rich? How Free and Open Education Might Widen Digital Divides," Reich made the case that, in the "profoundly inequitable" United States educational system, free technological resources favor those students who are already at a socioeconomic advantage.
"Education technology innovation does not harm students," said Reich. "[But] inequalities are only interesting with things that have value."
For his soon-to-be-published dissertation, Reich studied nearly 180,000 classroom wikis worldwide, data that stretches across all geographic regions and income brackets. He found that wikis created in low-income classrooms tended to offer fewer learning opportunities than their high-income counterparts, and that they also tended to be shorter-lived.
Reich said that his results fell in line with 25 years of research showing that technological advancements — even those that are free — more often benefit the privileged.
This will likely be true for MITx. "There's clear evidence that those who consume open courseware are predominantly affluent people," Reich told me after his lecture. That's not a bad thing— if education technology doesn't benefit the middle class, he says, it won't gain traction.
"When great universities put their course materials online, it expands the opportunities for students to get access to that kind of education — I think there are very few readily apparent drawbacks," he said. "Here's an educational opportunity that's a gateway of opportunity to a very small number of undergraduates for a long time. That instruction [is] no longer going to be protected as an elite experience— we're going to find ways to make that experience broadly accessible. I think that's great. But it's worth checking who's taking advantage of this kind of opportunity."
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Confirmed: Conservatives understand liberal positions better than liberals understand conservative positions
posted at 1:21 pm on April 13, 2012 by Tina Korbe
At The American, AEI resident scholar Andrew Biggs highlights an interesting study that confirms what most conservatives probably already know to be true of themselves: We understand why our liberal friends think what they think more than they understand why we think what we think.
[University of Virginia professor Jonathan] Haidt's research asks individuals to answer questionnaires regarding their core moral beliefs—what sorts of values they consider sacred, which they would compromise on, and how much it would take to get them to make those compromises. By themselves, these exercises are interesting. (Try them online and see where you come out.)
But Haidt's research went one step further, asking self-indentified conservatives to answer those questionnaires as if they were liberals and for liberals to do the opposite. What Haidt found is that conservatives understand liberals' moral values better than liberals understand where conservatives are coming from. Worse yet, liberals don't know what they don't know; they don't understand how limited their knowledge of conservative values is. If anyone is close-minded here it's not conservatives.
Haidt has one theory to explain his results, while Biggs has another. Haidt says conservatives speak a broader and more encompassing language of six moral values, while liberals focus on a narrow subset of those values. Biggs says conservatives understand liberal positions because they're inundated with them — by the media, by academia, even to a certain extent by the culture.
Haidt and Biggs both have a point. It takes just about a year of actively debating politics or witnessing the debate of politics to realize that (a) the two parties to the debate don't speak the same language and (b) the liberal party will have few opportunities to learn the conservative's language. It's not only that we don't use the same words, it's that we also assign completely different meanings to the same words.
The president's prattling about the Buffett Rule is a perfect example. He repeatedly uses the word "fair" when he discusses this rule that would require anyone who earns more than $1 million a year to pay at least 30 percent in taxes. The Buffett Rule is actually officially named "The Paying a Fair Share Act."
Conservatives have been quick to cede the word "fair" to the president. Instead of debating whether The Buffett Rule actually is fair, we've focused on the idea that economic growth and entitlement reform are the keys to deficit reduction. We know that our definition of "fair" is different than liberals' definition of "fair," so we're never going to be able to convince liberals that the Buffett Rule actually is unfair. In a world dominated by liberal influences in the media, academy and culture, we have no choice but focus on the fact that The Buffett Rule would do very little to reduce the deficit.
If liberals understood the conservative definition of "fair," they might better understand how it's possible to oppose the Buffett Rule. As the debate stands at this moment, it's conceivable that the average liberal thinks conservatives actually oppose a rule we think is fair just because we don't think it will adequately reduce the deficit. But why would anybody oppose a fair rule? In fact, we oppose the Buffett Rule because, by our definition, it is unfair — not to mention that it does very little to reduce the deficit. (As an aside, I've been searching for an article in which a conservative argues explicitly that the Buffett Rule is unfair and am finding it surprisingly hard to find. Has anybody read a good one?)
The word "just" is defined as "based on right." Our concept of what is fair starts with our concept of what is a right. Whereas progressives think that rights are given by the government, conservatives think that "we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights." Among our God-given rights is the right to keep the fruits of our labor. So far, I have never heard a good argument that we have a right or a claim to the fruits of others' labor unless they have promised them to us for some reason. We certainly never have an intrinsic a priori claim on the fruits of someone else's labor.
As long as he is allowed to keep what he has earned, the conservative thinks he has been treated fairly — even if others have more than he has. The liberal has a completely different definition of fairness. Liberals seem to think we have a right to the same fruits no matter what our labor.
It is true that different kinds and quantities of work yield different kinds and quantities of fruits. That is sometimes hard to take — but if, in the end, we receive the fruits we agreed to when we selected our labor, then the fruits we receive are fair. (For example, if we agree to a particular day's wages and we receive that day's wages, then we have been treated fairly. Nobody changed the deal to which we agreed.) In making the choice to be a secretary and not a hedge fund manager, for example, the secretary forgoes some of the fruits of the hedge fund manager — but obtains some fruits the hedge fund manager never tastes, say the fruit of more time to spend with family or the fruit of less stress. If we are not content with the fruits of our labor, perhaps we ought first to consider changing our labor, rather than demand we be given different fruits.
One last thought: Conservatives clearly have a more expansive view of what constitutes "fruits." We do not measure success and fairness solely by money. In the example above, I recognize the worth of time off and less pressure — two intangibles. For all that liberals like to talk about conservative greed, it's interesting that conservatives can content themselves with less money in exchange for other benefits whereas liberals seem blind to those benefits and just want the money.
Update: Here is the link to Andrew Biggs' post. My apologies for forgetting to include it before!
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Many of my relatives are confirmed liberals, and a trait they all share is constant complaining about everything and everyone in the world, except the weak and the failed… and themselves.
They hate success in any form, and are in love with failure. The successful make it difficult to attribute their own lack of it to bad luck, or the conspiracies of "the greedy".
Failure one the other hand, confirms by its abundance that their own bad choices in life are widely shared, and thus excusable.
Actually they "love" the poor like an alcoholic "loves" booze – they need the poor and they enjoy them – there is no true love involved.
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Senate mining bill on life support, call Senators to save!
Sixteen Democrats and one Republican in Wisconsin's State Senate put a stake in the heart of the mining industry in our state on Tuesday, when the Senate version compromise bill was narrowly defeated by 1 vote. If Republican Dale Shultz or even just one Democrat would have voted in favor of this bill, Gogebic Taconite, G-Tac, wouldn't be leaving for more mining friendly, and also iron rich, Minnesota and Michigan.
It seemed any hope of streamlining the mining approval process with a mining reform bill was dead, because the Senate session ends on March 15th. But yesterday and today it seems there just might be a glimmer of hope to revive this job-rich bill.
DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp spoke on both the Mark Belling Show yesterday and Vicki McKenna's radio program today. She emphasized how the Senate Mining Bill did not circumvent DNR rules as opponents said; it just set a timeline, a shorter deadline, for a mine's approval process. Each specific mine proposal would still have to meet DNR, Army Corps of Engineers, etc. requirements.
So what wasn't to like? The failed Senate mining bill added improved wet land creation in its language over present legislation, it was backed by 9 private sector unions, and G-Tac assured 95% of the jobs created would be union jobs.
Vicki also emphasized today that iron mining is NOT strip mining, but pit mining. We are familiar with pit mining in almost every area of Wisconsin because it is the same type of mining that rock quarries use. The G-Tac mine pit would be 15 acres in size, about the size of the square block I live on. Once all the iron ore was extracted, it would be restored. In fact, beautiful Lake Wazee, the deepest inland lake in Wisconsin, is a good example of the aftermath of a former taconite quarry or pit mine.
If Democrat Senators like Tim Carpenter (608) 266-8535 or Chris Larson (608) 266-7505 will rethink their votes, since their districts could benefit from the increase in jobs at mine equipment builders Caterpillar or Joy Global in Milwaukee, the mining bill and the mining industry in Wisconsin could be saved. If not, we have just secured our place in the race to the bottom for the most unfriendly mine locations in the world.
So it is up to the residents of this state to make one last plea to their Senator to change their mind on voting for mining in Wisconsin. Hopefully, they will reconsider. If just one Senator does, the mining bill could make a miraculous recovery and all of Wisconsin will benefit.
Find your State Senator here. Be polite; you are making an appeal.
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In Early December Paul Kato, Technical Director for Nigeria Rush, brought seven 70 pound boxes of gear from the United States to his club in Nigeria. Soccer balls, Jerseys and shorts were donated by members from within the Rush to the R.E.A.C.H. (Rush Equipment Assisting Children) Program. Below is a message from Paul Kato about the experience of bringing gear to players who have never had any:
"Excuse me sir, can I please have a word with you" I turned around to face an elderly gentleman who was dressed in a typical traditional Nigerian garment, "I just want to express my extreme gratitude at what you have brought to our community and children. Please tell the people in the United States that we understand now that there are people who care about us and our children". I wasn't quite sure how to respond but wished all those people in the states that helped make this dream possible were here. All of a sudden I was the best foreign diplomat! As I walked among the players proudly wearing their donated uniforms, shoes, and guards...I still felt so inadequate, "I must do more!" I kept thinking to myself. So this is what it is all about!
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Ben Bernanke Addresses Members of The National Association of Home Builders
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Participants in the 2012 National Association of Home Builders International Builders Show had a rare opportunity today to hear from Ben Bernanke, Chairman of The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Bernanke spoke to a full house and tickets to the event were one of the hottest items at the convention. Bernanke stated that "The Federal Reserve has a keen interest in the state of housing and has been actively engaged in analyzing the housing and mortgage markets. Issues related to the housing market and housing finance are important factors in the Federal Reserve's various roles in formulating monetary policy, regulating banks, and protecting consumers of financial services."
With an estimated 1 ¾ million homes unoccupied and for sale, something needs to be done. In the last few years roughly 2 million homes have entered the foreclosure, and many of these have come on the market keeping down the need for new building. These homes are often neglected and need repairs hurting the value of the surrounding homes and community. The Federal Reserve estimates that ¼ of these vacant homes were owned by creditors in the second quarter of 2011. They also estimated that bank owned properties(real estate owned or REO) sold as short sales, and non-auction sales are accounting for 30 percent of home sales.
Bernanke stated that one of the reasons the recovery in housing has been so slow is due to the restraints on mortgage credit. In past recoveries mortgage credit had begun to grow four years after the business cycle peak, but that hasn't happened this time. One group that has been affected even more than others is first-time homebuyers.
In contrast to this rental markets seem to be strengthening and are at some of the lowest vacancy rentals of the last 8 years. With home prices falling and rents rising he stated that property owners renting these homes This could might make more sense. The REO-to-rental program was shared as a way to maintain property values and minimize the amount of time a house sits vacant.
"As of early November 2011, about 60 metropolitan areas each had at least 250 REO properties for sale by government- sponsored enterprises (GSEs) and the FHA – a scale that could be large enough to realize efficiency gains. Atlanta has the largest number of REO properties for sale by these institutions, with about 5,000 units. The next largest inventories are in the metropolitan areas of Chicago; Detroit; Phoenix; Riverside, California and Las Vegas, each which have between 2,000 and 3,000 units."
Land banks were also discussed as an option to help with these foreclosed homes. These are typically governmental agencies that have the ability to buy and sell real estate.
What does this mean for the factory built housing community? To me it points to the fact that our land lease communities can be a viable option to people looking for affordable housing and a great place to raise their families. With the issues that site builders are facing for the next few years I think consumers will be looking for other places to call home.
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Men who care for a wife with breast cancer have weaker immune systems, and more physical symptoms, such as headaches and abdominal pain, than did men whose wives had remained disease-free. And the higher the stress levels, the worse the effect on men, according to a new study done at Ohio State University.
Just to be clear: this is not to suggest that men shouldn't care for their wives. The point is that it's important to recognize that caregivers spend so much time focusing on the people they're caring for that they don't pay any attention to themselves. And the results—whether the caregiver is a man or a woman—can be devastating.
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Here are some things going on this morning in your world of tech:
Shares of Facebook (FB) are down $1.64, or 2.4%, at $66.42, continuing last night's weakness, after Facebook yesterday evening said it would pay $19 billion in stock and cash to buy real-time messaging service WhatsApp.
Reactions today to the eye-popping price tag are mixed. Many are justifying the price based on a simple comparison of price per user. John Blackledge of Cowen & Co., who thinks the "transaction makes sense," because it gives Facebook "another massive user base" and prevents an acquirer from having taken the service, compares price-per-MAU, the acronym for "average monthly users. This deal is about $26 per MAU, compared to $45 per MAU for Instagram when that deal was done in 2012. He thinks the deal dilutes Facebook earnings by 14 cents per share in 2015.
However, others were not so charitable. Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, while reiterating an Overweight rating, writes that "the price attached to WhatsApp may be beyond what we would view as a typical overpayment to acquire an in-demand asset."
And Evercore Partners's Ken Sena actually cut his rating on the shares to Equal Weight from Overweight, and cut his price target to $60 from $70, writing that data from comScore show Facebook usage is rising among 18 to 24-year-olds, but more slowly than with other demographics, hence having to pay up for WhatsApp. He concludes "FB agreed to pay ~$42 per WhatsApp user even though WhatsApp generates $0.99 per year per user (after the first year), suggesting a decades-long payback under WhatsApp's current business model, should new user growth slow. Moreover, Viber, a competitive alternative to WhatsApp with roughly two-thirds the scale and comparable growth sold to Rakuten recently for $900mm."
Kara Swisher of Re/Code was on CNBC this morning being asked about the enormous windfall for Sequoia Capital, the lone investor in WhatsApp. As I wrote last night, Sequoia may have put in just $9 million in the company, leading to an outsized rate of return. Said Swisher, " I think there's a lot of gnashing of teeth in Silicon Valley" from other jealous VCs.
On that topic, Nicholas Carlson with Business Insider has a write-up of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's dust-up with Sequoia in Facebook's early days, while Forbes's Parmy Olson offers a nice history of WhatsApp.
Also today, Jesse Hempel writes in Fortune that two unnamed sources have told him Google (GOOG) had been in the market for WhatsApp for $10 billion, though Google declined to comment on the allegation.
BlackBerry (BBRY) continues to rise, as it did last night following the WhatsApp news, perhaps because of its own messaging platform, BBM. The stock is up 44 cents, or almost 5%, at $9.45.
But some this morning warned against drawing a strict parallel between BBM and WhatsApp. Writes Wells Fargo's Maynard Um, reiterating a Market Perform rating on BlackBerry, "Applying these valuations to BBM, which had more than 80 million MAUs as reported by the company on October 29, 2013, would yield a range of $686MM-$3.4B."
"However, we estimate roughly 60MM of those users were on BlackBerries (where churn has been high) and 20 million had been on BBM for less than a month at the time of the announcement, making it difficult to determine true MAUs."
Shares of Apple (AAPL) are down $3.99, or 0.7%, at $533.33, after Barclays Capital's Ben Reitzes cut his rating on the stock to Equal Weight from Overweight after being positive on the shares for about a decade, while maintaining a $570 price target, writing that "Frankly, we just couldn't quite bring ourselves to use smart watches or TVs as reasons to raise numbers – nor were we fully convinced that these products could move the needle like new categories did in the old days," and that as a consequence, "hares may stick close to a trading range for the next year or so."
Shares of Juniper Networks (JNPR) are up 88 cents, or 3.3%, at $28.08, following widely quoted article from German publication Magazin Online (the article was picked up by, for example, Reuters's Maria Sheahan, Ritsuko Ando, and Harro ten Wolde) stating Nokia (NOK) is thinking of buying the company, citing a report by the . Apparently, the head of Nokia's network equipment business, Rajeev Suri, was in the U.S. last year talking with Juniper management about a possible merger, the authors write.
Cantor FItzgerald's Brian White, who has a Buy rating on Juniper shares, and a $35 price target, writes that "In our view, a combination of the two companies would make sense as the networking and wireless worlds converge." He notes the companies will both be at Mobile World Congress next week in Barcelona.
Nokia stock is down 2 cents at $7.25.
Nomura Equity Research's Rick Sherlund this morning reiterates a Buy rating on Microsoft (MSFT) shares, and a $45 price target, writing that his conversations with various tech CEOs, venture capitalists, and former Microsoft staffers has yielded perspectives on new CEO Satya Nadella. Most think he has to have "the freedom to reshape the company," and that Microsoft "Microsoft needs to run across Apple and Android platforms, support open standards and be a trusted cloud-services provider for enterprises, and leverage the Platform as a Service (PaaS) emerging opportunity."


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So i have deiced to do a tanginikan setup. i will use as 50 gal. my idea is to have a colony of lamprologus speciosus and a breeding pair of julidochromis transcriptus. i will have rocks and caves closer to the back for the julis and shells infront for the lamprologus. my question is what shells are readily available and that the lamprologus will enjoy. How many lamprologus and julis can i stock.


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Assalam alaikum,
In the noble words of the Noble Messenger of Allah, Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu alaihi Wasallam, "There are 3 signs of a hypocrite: whenever he speaks, he lies; whenever he makes a promise, he breaks it; and whenever he is trusted, he betrays his trust". (Bukhari, Belief 24)
So, when you find someone with one or all of these signs, advise him to drop it/them immediately. May we never be identified with any of these 3 signs, ever...ameen.
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By Ben Levisohn
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is set to meet with protestors who have taken to the streets in that nation. The Bovespa stock index fell 2.3% today.
Mexico's inflation rate fell 0.05% during the first half of June, below forecasts for an increase of 0.08%. Mexico's IPC stock index dropped 1.4%.
The International Monetary Fund approved a $5.8 billion credit line for Colombia, to be used as a buffer against global volatility. The Colombia COLCAP Index fell 1.8%. The Bolsa de Valores de Lima General Sector Index dropped 2.5%
The Russian economy is now under the control of the Kremlin–and President Vladimir Putin, Reuters says. Russia's Micex stock index gained 0.2%
South Africa's ruling African National Congress party said it's not made up of "corrupt hooligans," Bloomberg reports. The FTSE/JSE Africa Top40 Tradeable Index fell 2.5%.
Germany proposed postponing the start of European Union ascension talks with Turkey by four months in response to its crackdown on protestors. Turkey is not pleased. The Istanbul Stock Exchange National 100 Index dropped 3.4%.
Emerging Market Stocks on the Move
Investors kept on beating down beaten-down Chinese ADRs on growth and credit concerns in the world's second-largest economy. E-Commerce China Dangdang (DANG) fell 12% to $6.21, while Xinyaun Real Estate (XIN) fell 9.5% to $3.81.
While most emerging-market ADRs fell today, there were some exceptions. Among them: Qihoo 360 Technology (QIHU), which gained 1.4% to $43.46, and troubled Oi SA (OIBR), which surged 8% to $1.75.
The New York Times looks at the rise and fall of Eike Batista's empire. OGX Petroleo e Gas (OGXPY) fell 2.4% to 36 cents.


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Overview of Current Research Programs:
The focus of our research program derives from unique opportunities many of us have had by training formally in two traditionally divergent investigative areas in the cardiovascular sciences - classical experimental physiology/pharmacology and molecular genetics. Our research efforts are concentrated at the intersection of these disciplines, in the realm of functional genomic analysis of the cardiovascular system. Our studies examine the physiological and pathophysiological effects of targeted genetic alterations in animals (both germline and somatic) in order to ultimately unravel the complex molecular mechanisms determining normal cardiovascular function and the pathogenesis of certain cardiovascular diseases. Within this framework, we focus on three major areas:
- Central neural control of blood pressure and autonomic function, with an emphasis on dissection of gene function in cardiovascular regulatory circuits of the brain in normal animals and in clinically relevant models of hypertension.
- Molecular determinants of cardiac disease, particularly cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure.
- Molecular pathophysiology of preeclampsia using a novel genetic mouse model that spontaneously develops the cardinal features of this pregnancy-induced hypertensive disorder.
Common themes linking all of our projects are the renin-angiotensin system and the role of oxidative stress.
Major Projects: (click on each title for more information)
- Regional and cellular significance of the brain renin-angiotensin system (RAS) in hypertension.
- Oxidant mechanisms in central neural control of blood pressure.
- Hypertension and prostanoid signaling in the subfornical organ of the brain.
- Role of redox-mediated activation of NFkB and AP-1 in neurogenic hypertension.
- Oxidative stress-induced neuro-cardiovascular dysfunction in myocardial infarction-induced heart failure.
- Molecular pathogenesis of preeclampsia.
- Role of reactive oxygen species in the regenerative capacity of c-Kit+ cardiac precursor cells.
Unique Molecular, Physiologic and Imaging Tools Used in Our Research: (click on each title for more information)
- Targeted viral delivery of genes to specific cardiovascular circuits in mouse brain.
- Conditional gene deletion in specific neural axes using the Cre-loxP system.
- RNA interference strategies for localized gene silencing in cardiovascular tissues in vivo.
- Gene and miRNA arrays.
- Multiple genetic and experimental murine models of cardiovascular disease.
- Longitudinal non-invasive measurements of blood pressure, autonomic function and baroreflex in mice using radiotelemetry.
- High-frequency ultrasound measurement of heart function and fetoplacental status using Vevo 770.
- In vivo bioluminescence imaging.


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Welcome to Paradise Island
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A cute little village with nice shops and restaurants and a lot of beautyful beaches, with almost Caribean touch... and no cars!
So Friday afternoon I took the fast boat from Salvador to the island, where I ran into Helen (from the trekking tour) almost instantly, which was really nice since we went out for dinner together and went to stay in the same hostel.
Then Saturday I toured the beaches with a couple of people from our hostel, which was just so nice, especially because the weather was fantastic. We went from beach to beach, stopped for sunbathing and swimming in the natural pools and for fresh fruit juices
For sunset we went to the fort, where we enjoyed the sun going down over the bay and watched some dolphins coming close to the shore.
In the evening there was a beachparty with livemusic and a lot of Caipirinha. It was actually quite cool, but I have to say the brazilian men were really giving us a hard time... no way to dance alone or just stand there with a drink... they were just all over the place, so in the end I gave up and went home because I could not be bothered any more, haha.
Sunday then I went with two friends to discover the inner parts of the island, looking for a waterfall, which we never found anyway. Instead we found ourselves on yet another beautiful beach, far from the tourists and therefore really calm. Next to the rocks, there were some mud pools we heared about earlier, so we gave our skin a treat an covered ourselves in mud. What a fun! Looking like little pigs we dried on the beach and then washed the dry clay off before we went to the next town to catch a boat back. Lucky as we were there was a streetparty going on there! It`s so cool how people here enjoy dancing so much, everybody, no matter what age, was up on their feet dancing.
Sadly Monday we were not so lucky with the weather..
Today me and Karin went off to Salvador again, but instead of taking the fast boat, we decided that we had enough time to go on the long and cheap route, wich combined quite some boat and bus trips, and was really a bit adventurous, but very funny.
So now back in Salvador but just to take the plane back to Rio in the middle of the night, so somehow I`ll have to manage to stay awake, but since there is another streetparty going on, I guess that won`t be a problem.


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Yesterday on NBC's Today, Bristol Palin, the daughter of former VP candidate and Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) said something that I've been saying for a long time: "Abstinence is the only 100% foolproof way to prevent teen pregnancy." This comes after her comments on FOX News's On the Record earlier this year when she said, "I think abstinence is, like — like, the — I don't know how to put it — like, the main — everyone should be abstinent or whatever, but it's not realistic at all. … Because it's [sex is] more and more accepted now."
Go ahead and watch the full interview from the Today show, courtesy of MSNBC and NBC:
I agree with Bristol here. Abstinence is the ONLY way to ensure that you don't get pregnant. It's just that simple. There is no other guaranteed way to avoid getting pregnant. It's just that simple. But Bristol is right in what she said on FOX earlier this year – teens being sexually active is becoming more common and more accepted. That doesn't mean that this is an excuse for teens having sex. In my opinion, it's not that hard not to have sex. Others may disagree, but there are plenty of people out there who will back me up in saying that saying, "No" isn't as hard as some people would make you think it is.
Personally, I think that we need to emphasize abstinence as the only way to guarantee against pregnancy, but for teens who are sexually active, they need to use some sort of method of birth control. Whether or not that will help, I don't know. I wouldn't think that 16- and 17-year-olds would need to be taught about condoms and other forms of birth control – I think there's enough mention of that in the media already, but apparently I'm wrong (either that or people just figure that they won't get pregnant because "it won't happen to me").
I think Bristol's story is a great testimony to other teens. While some may view her as a hypocrite, I think many will view her as someone who went through a lot of hard times and doesn't want to see other people go through what she went through.
As always, I wish Bristol and Tripp the very best, and to Bristol: good luck on sharing your story with other teens. I hope people listen – God bless both of you and your family.
Done Ranting,
Ranting Republican
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Freaking out because the weekend's almost over? Have no fear! We've got five simple words that will help: Keep Calm and Carry On. Originally created as a poster slogan by the British government during the Second World War, the saying was intended to raise the morale of the British public in the event of invasion. Luckily, it never had to be used, and after the war, it fell into obscurity. In 2000, though, the poster resurfaced in a second-hand bookstore in Northumberland– and thus, a meme was born! Since then, the phrase has shown up on everything from tea towels to coffee mugs (Fact: I have a vinyl decal of the words adorning my wall). Naturally, since its rediscovery, the creative masses on the interwebs have taken the poster's design and come up with endless variations, often with hilarious pop culture themes. So, as the weekend draws to a close, I offer you this advice: Keep calm, carry on, and take a look at these other versions so you'll know exactly what to do if a Dementor attacks you or if a vampire falls in love with you. More


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Dr. Edwin Jiménez from Costa Rica is the Chair of the South and Central America (SACA) Region of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) for 2013-2015. A surgeon since 1982, he graduated from the University of Costa Rica and completed his postgraduate diploma in Family Medicine and Community at the same University. He has worked in the Costa Rican Social Security (CCSS) for twenty-three years occupying managerial positions from Primary Care Coordinator to Director of the Technical Department of the CCSS. His experience in the public sector has been supplemented with private practice as a physician specialised in family medicine, with emphasis on people with diabetes.
His interest in diabetes is born of personal experience, his mother and father having died from cardiac and cerebral events resulting from complications of diabetes.
Motivated by his mentor in diabetes Dr. Eric Mora, Dr Jiménez became actively involved with the IDF SACA Region, serving on the Regional Council and organising training courses for health professionals in diabetes.
Dr Jiménez has participated as a delegate in activities of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) and worked with diabetes associations from all over the SACA Region.


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Look around for a used Spearco or Process West.... Can't go wrong with em. Never heard of MRT
MRT is an Aussie company. In the older days it was a brand that everyone here wanted to have parts from but due to higher costs and increasing availability of parts from other brands they started disappearing in the US. It's a good brand, just not as common anymore.
A used TXS TMIC will run ~$300.
What would you say the mrt tmic is worth?
d.werks 750cc injectors on the way. NOw im lookn around for a used tmic in the northern ca/reno area. Lmk if you guys see any available worth buying
Once my new 16g, turbo inlet pipe, 750cc injectors, warlboro 255 fuel pump, new spark plugs and tmic are installed.....do i need a tune before i can drive it? Or can i take it to a tuner as long as i dont hammer it? Or would my v1 cobb ap work w/ my mods?
No, you cannot drive the car at all after installing injectors without a retune. And as I stated twice earlier, no tuner can use your Cobb V1 (only whatever maps are currently on it already can be used). It's gonna have to be replaced.
As a rule of thumb, anything by Godspeed is garbage. No exceptions come to mind. Also, most tuners won't push a 16G hard enough to warrant a FMIC over a TMIC.
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Main institution:
The EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research (The Netherlands)
Other institution:
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (The Netherlands)
Principal investigator:
Giel Nijpels
Other investigators:
Amber van der Heijden; Jacqueline Dekker; Hendriek Boshuizen; Talitha Feenstra; Caroline Baan
Location of the project:
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Amount allocated:
June 1, 2012 - July 1, 2015
Medical and lifestyle interventions can reduce diabetes complications. A key component for targeting these interventions is the assessment of an individual's risk of developing a complication within a defined time period, using prediction models. Current models are flawed, however, implying both undertreatment and overtreatment by targeting the wrong persons for prevention of complications.
This project will result in an improved and practically applicable prediction model for cardiovascular complications in type 2 diabetes patients. Using this model, patients can be better informed about their prognosis and treatment plans can be better tailored leading to a reduction in complications and treatment costs.
Results to date
EASD 2014, Vienna (Austria), September 2014 (3 posters also published in Diabetologia 57 suppl 1.2014)
"Distinct HbA1c trajectories in a type 2 diabetes cohort", Acta Diabetologica, 2015, April 2015, Volume 52, Issue 2, pp 267-275
"Real-world evidence of suboptimal blood pressure control in patients with type 2 diabetes", Journal of Hypertension, 2015, 33 (in press)
BRIDGES (Bringing Research in Diabetes to Global Environments and Systems) is a programme initiated by the International Diabetes Federation, and supported by an educational grant from Lilly Diabetes.


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Hope College social psychologist David Myers, PhD is among the outstanding individuals with hearing loss honored by the 2013 Oticon Focus on People Awards, a national competition that recognizes individuals who are helping to eliminate negative stereotypes of what it means to have a hearing loss.
As the first place winner in the Advocacy Category, Dr. Myers will be honored in May at a special awards ceremony at Oticon, Inc.'s US headquarters that will be attended by hearing care professionals from across the US. As part of his award, Dr. Myers has designated the Hearing Loss Association of America as his choice for a $1,000 donation from Oticon, Inc. The donation is designated for Grants for Hearing Loop Advocates.
This is the second year that Oticon, Inc., sponsor of the national awards program, has invited the public to cast their votes to help determine who among the 12 finalists would be first, second and third place winners in the Adult, Student, Practitioner and Advocacy categories. More than 10,000 votes were cast by people from across the country and around the world.
A social psychologist and author of A Quiet World: Living with Hearing Loss, Dr. Myer is the creator of www.hearingloop.org, an invaluable resource on induction-loop systems that broadcast sound directly to hearing aids and cochlear implants. He sees looping systems as a way to make a wide range of public venues optimally accessible to people with hearing loss. His advocacy and public education efforts have occurred through his three dozen hearing loop articles, his thousands of e-mails, and coverage in national media.
The movement to make assistive listening directly hearing aid compatible is now rapidly accelerating. Dr. Myers is quick to share the credit for this national hearing loop movement with the whole community of hearing advocates. The Secretary of Health & Human Services has recently invited him to serve on the National Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Advisory Council.
"Individuals like Dr. Myers are inspiring role models for people living with hearing loss," states Oticon President Peer Lauritsen. "The remarkable people who are honored in this year's Oticon Focus on People Awards program have taken their unique circumstances and transformed their lives with a positive outlook that has enabled them to overcome challenges and accomplish goals well beyond what many thought possible."


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About the Biotech & Pharma Industries & Human Biotechnology
The fast-growing biotech industry is playing a dominant role in shaping the development, marketing and use of human biotechnologies. Like the pharmaceutical industry, it profits by developing products aimed at treating disease and restoring health. Although some biotech products and activities are socially and ethically controversial, the industry as a whole tends to oppose public oversight and regulation.
This situation is complicated by increasingly blurred lines between private biotechnology companies and university researchers, between perceptions of serving the public interest and the profit imperatives of private enterprise, and between research and commercialization.
In recent decades, the US Congress has enacted policies that allow controversial patents (such as those on gene sequences and human tissues), and that encourage closer university-corporate relations. These policies have led to a rapid commercialization of biology and medicine, and to a significant number of university-based researchers with financial ties to private companies. Such arrangements allow them to maintain the appearance of serving the public interest while pursuing careers in the private sector.
Private industry is an important player in the development of human biotechnologies. But the lack of a financially independent counterweight like the one that public universities used to provide makes effective oversight and responsible regulation imperative. Given the impact of the biotech industry on public debate, public policy, and all of our lives, its interests must be transparent.


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More than a decade after Kansas City opened its first charter schools, they have now become a sought after choice. Today, one in three children in the Kansas City, Missouri school district is enrolled in a charter school. Kansas City ranks 4th in the nation for the percentage of students enrolled in charter schools, but how are they working? Are they any better than traditional public schools? As Efforts are underway in Jefferson City to expand charters statewide, you're about to hear a whole lot more about them. The Local Show presents an hour-long conversation on the subject as we deliver a charter school status report, break down the myths and facts and bring together those on the frontlines of the debate.
In this this special edition of The Local Show, we're joined by a cast of thousands. With us are state lawmakers, including the representative from St. Louis who wants to expand charter schools statewide, the head of the Senate Education Committee, two Kansas City School Board members, including the school board chair, the head of the teachers union, the head of UMKC's Charter school program, the executive director of the Missouri Charter Public School Association, an education leader at the Kauffman Foundation and a longtime journalist and author who has been closely following the charter school debate.


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This claim is made with the premise that we will go sign one of the big 3:Jennings Wallace or Bowe.
I just want to make this clear,if we pay one of the big 3, and if you want us to draft a first round receiver, we will not be paying Hartline.
We will not be spending a first round pick to split snaps with Hartline for 4+ years.
If you want to pay up Hartline then it will guaranteed be second rounder or lower in the draft for a wideout because you won't be paying Hartline 4-5 million in years 2-4 to be the third/fourth option receiver.
Which is why I want Hartline to walk. I want to get Jennings or Wallace, draft Cordarrelle Patterson, and then also sign a cheap FA wr that can be serviceable and split snaps with Patterson for the first couple years.
Go get Ramses Barden who is tall, fast and huge hands to split with Patterson on the far side.


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These are all good points. The other thing you can to is set up calendar reminders to sign up for bonus rewards programs if you have Chase Freedom or Discover or any other card that makes you opt-in for the extra bonus. A few minutes of set up could yield a much higher reward.
Perform a Credit Card Rewards Annual Review
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In my mail this week I received a "Rewards Guide" from two of my credit card companies. These guides are brightly colored, well-laid out catalogs explaining all of the rewards available to me. I've never received such a fancy-looking piece of mail from a credit card company before. Maybe it's the fact that more people are turning to debit cards, or credit card companies are fighting over the limited amount of money people are spending these days, but whatever the reason, it was a pleasant surprise to get these catalogs with such helpful information.
In looking through the catalogs, I realized that there was a lot I didn't know about my cards. I use three — an American Express card for travel and product purchases because of their various warranties and protections, a Capital One for travel abroad (no conversion fees) and extended warranties at stores that don't take American Express, and a Chase for everyday purchases like groceries and gas. (If you're wondering what types of rewards your card might offer check out the Ultimate Guide to Credit Card Rewards.)
As part of annual financial planning, it seems that a good plan is to conduct an annual credit card rewards review:
1. Look at Reward-Program Information to Find New or Unnoticed Rewards
Here are some things I learned in browsing the catalogs I received and the actions I will take from learning them:
- One of my cards gives an "annual bonus" in November, which essentially puts the rewards at 1.25%. My action: Check to see if I got this bonus and how much it is for.
- There are bonus offers up to 15% at various stores I frequently shop at for one of my cards. My action: See if these bonus cash-back purchases are only for online or for in-store too. Then make a mental note to use that card when shopping at that store.
- One card only gives additional travel bonuses for the first $5,000 spent on travel. My Action: Check to see if I went over this limit last year and start using a different card if that is the case.
- One card gives me extra bonuses for dining at restaurants for an additional $25/year. My Action: Check to see if last year I would have earned enough in extra bonuses to make this worthwhile. (To check this see #2 below.)
2. Review Annual Statements to See If You Are Using the Right Cards
Each year my credit card companies send annual statements of how much I spent in various categories. Look through yours to see if you are really spending money on the cards that will give the best benefits in those categories.
3. Consider What, If Anything, You Will Do Differently This Year
If you find that there is a reward with one card that you aren't taking advantage of, or that you are always using a certain card that isn't giving you many rewards, make a conscious mental note and do something differently this year. Maybe that means leaving a useless card at home, or changing your Amazon account to charge to a different card.
I don't advocate that you spend an entire day conducting an annual review of your credit card rewards, but the amount of both money and hassle you can save by using the right card and the right time can add up. So take an hour from your day, see how many rewards you are earning, and figure out if you can do anything differently this year.
we no longer use credit cards. However, right before we canceled one of our cards I noticed rewards points at the top. I looked it up online and found that I could request $50 gift card. Not much, but I'm glad I saw that before we canceled it.


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By Bobby Harrison/NEMS Daily Journal
JACKSON – Legislation to ease the height restrictions for buildings near the Natchez Trace Parkway was revived Tuesday, but a key committee chair says he wants to ensure that if changes are made they do not negatively impact the rustic nature of the federal parkway.
House Transportation Chair Robert Johnson, D-Natchez, was able to revive the bill, which was defeated last week by the House, by putting language in the bill that essentially would repeal it before it takes effect.
The "reverse repealer" will ensure that the Senate, which passed the bill earlier this session without a dissenting vote, will have to invite negotiations with the House on the issue.
In the negotiations, Johnson said he wants to know more about the planned assisted living community near the Trace in the Jackson area, which is the reason given for the legislation to ease the height restrictions. Plus, he said he wants Natchez Trace officials to be involved in any negotiations regarding the easing of the height restrictions.
"Either that or we will kill the bill," Johnson said.
The federal Parkway, which is headquartered in Tupelo, runs from Natchez, through northwest Alabama and ends west of Nashville. It covers 444 miles and 55,000 acres.
The legislation would allow along the Mississippi section for buildings to be constructed within 1,000 feet of the Parkway as long as they are hidden by topography or vegetation. Johnson changed the bill to take out vegetation, meaning the building would have to be hidden by a hill or cliff.
Under current law, structures within a 1,000 feet of the Parkway's boundaries in Mississippi cannot be more than 35 feet tall with the exception of some agriculture structures such as silos, school buildings and church structures.
The law has been amended in the past for the Harrisburg Baptist Church steeple and for the fine arts center at Tupelo High School.