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Watch "Fareed Zakaria GPS," Sundays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN
By Fareed Zakaria
When television host Bill Maher declares on his weekly show that "the Muslim world...has too much in common with ISIS," and the author, Sam Harris (a guest on his show) concurs, arguing that "Islam is the mother lode of bad ideas," I understand why people get upset. Maher and Harris made crude simplifications and exaggerations.
And yet, they were also talking about something real. I know all the arguments against speaking of Islam as violent and reactionary. It is a vast world of 1.6 billion people. Places such as Indonesia and India have hundreds of millions of Muslims who don't fit these caricatures. That's why Maher and Harris are guilty of simplification and exaggeration.
But let's be honest: Islam has a problem today...There is a cancer of extremism within Islam today. A small minority of Muslims celebrate violence and intolerance, and harbor deeply reactionary attitudes towards women and minorities. And while some moderates confront these extremists, not enough do so and the protests are not loud enough. How many mass rallies have been held against ISIS in the Arab world today?
But now the caveat, Islam today, is important.
Watch the video for the full Take or read the WaPo column.
Religion and Intelligence are mutually exclusive.
There are a few Muslims who have commented that they feel disheartened by the many ugly comments here, including those advocating genocide. I ask them not to be dismayed. These Islamophobic extremists are a relatively small proportion of the population, just vocal. I guess that they are seeking the same amount of attention that fringe groups like ISIS get. I ignore most of them because they are not interested in logical debate. In fact, their personal attacks betray their lack of character and judgment. However, it is important to speak out against Islamophibia and in a general way explain the true nature of Islam, so that the majority of decent Americans, who may not know much about Islam, are not misled by these disturbed individuals.
Also, I do feel that there is a small group of influential individuals who are not ordinary xenophobes like those on this thread, but are purposely engaging in demagoguery for political purposes. We need to shine daylight on these individuals so that they cannot continue their shameful work.
So continue to be active doing good works in your communities, both Muslim and non-Muslim, post polite comments at sites like this when you have time, and contribute to civil rights organizations like CAIR and to Muslim and non-Muslim charities. I have always thought that evil cannot last forever, and have been vindicated by events such as the end of apartheid. Islamophobia will also end, as long as we all, Muslim and non-Muslim, remain vigilant.
My wishes for peace, health, and happiness to everyone.
"I do feel that there is a small group of influential individuals who are not ordinary xenophobes like those on this thread, but are purposely engaging in demagoguery for political purposes."
There are also a small group of deniers such as yourself who engage in discussion for political purposes. But then, muslism always have had a hard time separating religion and politics.
"contribute to civil rights organizations like CAIR and to Muslim and non-Muslim charities."
You mean CAIR–the unindicted co-conspirator in funding terrorist groups like Hamas, and other muslim "charities" which are really fronts for creating madrasas or laundering money and supplies to extremists?
"Islamophobia will also end, as long as we all, Muslim and non-Muslim, remain vigilant."
Your perceived Islamaphobia will only end when muslims as a whole embrace peace for ALL religions and stop tacitly supporting the extremists who have hijacked your religion.
"it is important to speak out against Islamophibia"
You'd better serve your religion to speak out against the extremists who have hijacked it for their own political purpose.
Yes I agree with Fareed that Islam has more than a problem.Its a religion that has no room for other religion very violent and intolerant and I mean dangerous than anything human should accept as religion.The people that involved are violent and the preachers of Islam are war mongers,rapist and pig sh1t eaters..That is what ISLAM is..
Fareed is history. He is being replaced by ex afghan spy chief currently at Georgetown u.
I never liked these greasy Indians.
The United Nations has 192 member states. 47 of them are Muslim ruled. In those in 13 of those 47 Muslim ruled countries the penalty for being openly Atheist or openly rejecting Islam is death. In 5 of those 13 countries, according to a Pew Research pole, the majority of population agree it is right and just to put people to death for their religious belief or non-belief.
Yes, Islam has a vicious problem.
I agree with Fareed, good muslims need to raise against violence and protest against this evils for using their religion for justification of killing innocent people.
I've read the Quran. It commands believers to take over the world in plain black and white. The goals of the jihadists and "moderates" are the same; only the means are different. The "moderate" Muslims pursue active policies of imigration and increased participation in government with the specific intent of gaining sufficient critical mass to impose Sharia law.
Islam is inherently more than a religion. It is inherently political, with specific political objectives. It does not command the entire world convert to Islam. It does mandate that all peoples be under the control of Islamic overlords, and that people who do not convert make specific concessions of subservience, such as additional taxes, to said overlords.
Naturally their are plenty of watered-down people who call themselves Muslims but disregard portions of the Quran. But the problem is, whenever Muslims have revival and go back to their scriptures, they find a manifesto of intolerance, oppression, and sanctioned predation toward all non-Muslims.
Well said! Here, here!
The only solution is for muslim hierarchy to amend Koran.
Look you people don't read the quran. You read what you want too read. here what you want too hear. Read chapter one, chapter two and three. This will tell you all you need to know about Islam, However if you go in with a closed mind you will miss the whole thing. Because the Quran don,t address Muslims it addresses Believer.
What did Prophet Mohammad do to Christians and Jews? Open the Koran, and let me know.
Nice try, but the Kool-Aid-Koran has instructed them to lie when it suits the greater purpose.
LOL at your comment – Good Muslim itself are contradictory words these days. I think we should learn from ISIS publication and use the same islamic theory – make enslaving infidels based on your religion – that would make ISIS considering the real interpretation of Islam. Start enslaving and find alternate to oil – ISIS will automatically become SISI...
How many protests have been done in India or Indonesia to protest the ISIS violence or the 911 incident by muslim groups. How many Muslims have come out in support of Salman Rushdie in India .http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/3.0/1px.gif
Islam is a violent religion and it is not possible to turn Islam as a peaceful religion . We have to be more aggressive of dealing with radical Islam .we use Israel methods for bombing radical Islam strong hold. otherwise the cancer will be spreading like Iraq. we have to put economic sanction against Turkey ,Saudi for supporting ISIS
You have already differentiated ISIS from the huge majority of peacful members if Islam by your use of the term "radical Islam". That term fits. As Mr. Zakira said, and you ignored there are millions of peaceful Muslims around the world.
I agree with his primary point, though.
You got it right. for decades the western worlds have inadvertently been supporting these ideology. Furthermore, the US should not be used as police fore these states. The true should be set free.
Criminal terrorists call themselves "Muslim" in order to gain legitimacy. In the western world, uneducated individuals or those with certain agenda, call these criminals "Muslims" or "Muslim extremists", giving them legitimacy also. What needs to be done is to refrain from calling them "Muslim". We should rather use the term "NON Muslim". E.g,, instead of ISIS, the media should refer to them as "NISIS" (non-Islamic state of Iraq and Syria).
Why don't we just call them criminals.
While they scream Allah Akbar? Bahahahahhahah! You crack me up.
Wow, that flew right over your head...intellectually inferior people like you are half the problem. Grow up.
What baffles me is that hundreds of thousands of people have been and continue to be slaughtered in Indian Occupied Kashmir. A lot of them have been buried alive and rayped. Human rights outfits have provided coordinates of these unmarked graves to the Indian Government. How strange their compasses ceased functioning!!!
Furthermore, UN resolutions have also gone unheeded. No one in the western world.... No one hears their screams. Nobody sees their plight. Nobody smells their burning bodies. NOBODY!!!
ISIS are cub scouts compared to above.
looks like your smoking pot.. kashmir always belong to india.. the arabs came and forcefully converted bunch of hindus to muslim and now they are so misguided and wherever they get majority they ask for independence.. good luck trying to get kashmir.... pakistan will disintegrate and fall prey to ISIS very soon ..
Well as a matter of fact CNN announced a few days ago that ISIS has opened up an office in India. Today ISIS flags were flying all over Indian Held Kashmir. Enjoy the lashing. Love to see you running around headless. LMFAO
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The bigger problem for Islam is that it is based on the writings of a man who thought that God spoke to him. It doesn't help that God apparently told him wildly contradictory things that require a priest to interpret the meaning. It's enough to make one an atheist.
Or at least an agnostic like me.
the bigger problem is that some people think that a person is G-d's son!
The biggest problem is that people think there are gods!
Ebola and hindoos are mutually inclusive. Both are deadly viruses.
I embraced Islam a few years ago. It was the best decision I ever made.
There is not Allah so what you are saying is that nothing is great.
So, your saying it's really helped you cope with your deep-seated fear of women rooted in insecurity about having small genitals?
You like big ones, eh hindoo boy. Baghdadi got one big one for ya. Has to be carried in a wheelbarrow.
The Supreme Court of Malaysia, which is unanimously a muslim body, has stated that Allah is not God. Google.
Sure and next you will tell me Jesus was a sad little jew and not the son of God. You are just silly.
Peace to all from a Muslim
Thank you, and same to you. I believe that you exemplify the character of all Muslims I know (roughly 1000), whether here or in the many other countries I have visited. Your wishes make it clear that the illogical rants of the Islamophobes are lies.
Islamophobes don't chop your head off if you aren't like them, islamophobes don't force innocent people to convert or die, islamophobes are not the problem, it is people like you who purport to be islamic but do nothing to counter the islamist. Blaming the islamophobe is safer for you because they will not kill you!
@URwrong. I usually ignore people like you but this is really amusing. It must be a miracle that I am still alive after having visited so many majority Muslim communities and countries! On the other hand, Islamophobes right here in the US have murdered Muslims or others whom they mistook for Muslims. This is why I speak out against Islamophobia, even though I honestly find it very distasteful even to address comments such as this. Your name is most appropriate!
You would better serve your religion if you took a look at what is at the root of what you call "Islamophobia": the very real danger around the world that radical Islamists pose to muslims and non-muslims alike. The problem is people like (and CAIR) keep playing the victim instead of standing up to the radicals who have hijacked and corrupted your religion for their own political purpose.
Peace Lover,
Peace to all Muslims and may God opens their eyes that their Prophet Mohammad is perverted and violent. The Koran is wrong and fulls of violence against Christians, Jews and non- Muslims.
I am sorry, Mr. Zakaria does not represent the true Muslim world. Even in countries like India where Muslims are relatively liberal, will not look kindly upon marriage between a Hindu and a Muslim. The groom or the bride of non-Muslim religion has to change his or her religion to make this marriage occur. Islam has a problem, yes, a big one!
The fact is the west could literally cleanse the world of islam. Just too PC I suppose.
As with all generalizations, those who state things about "Muslims" seek to define a massive group by the actions of a few. What those extremists do, supposedly in the name of their religion, is clearly reprehensible, and a good case can be made that not enough "good Muslims" speak up in opposition. However, especially in the Middle East, given the number and reach of the extremists, it's not surprising people don't want to stand up. Malala is a great example of what happens to those who challenge them.
All that said, the basic problem remains true, just as it has since the beginning of mankind. Religion...any and all religions...have always been about power. Those who lead the religions always seek power by dominating others, demanding offerings, and in return promising some sort of beautiful eternity that they have no ability to deliver. All those religions have always become violent towards non-believers..and human history continues to be filled with wars based entirely upon religious intolerance. Religions that seek peace seek to provide it through war.
Perfectly stated.
I'm sure you have no idea just how ignorant you sound.
Maybe you should read one of the Gospels (pick one) and see of Jesus of Nazareth sounds very power hungry. (Hint, many of the people of the time turned on him when it became clear he did not have political ambitions.) One can rant at length about the way the Catholic church lost its way thereafter, but the plain fact is that the bulk of modern Christians trace no doctrine to the Catholic church.
Can the World group Islam and Communism in one land and let them deal with each other?
I embraced Islam a few years ago. It was the best decision I ever made.
I was not born into Islam but I read up on it while at Harvard U and converted to Islam at the Boston Islamic Center along with my girlfriend. I have been much more happier and at peace with myself since then. I am a Management Consultant at the top Consulting Firm in New York City.
Repeated it all you want. But saying it's so doesn't make it so.
"more happier".... really? Harvard must have drastically lowered their standards.
Please show the World and all non-Muslims step by step how to treat the infidels according to your beloved Prophet Mohaamad.
As a Muslim, you proclaim Mohammad is the prophet, please show how Allah instructed Mohammad to deal with Infidels.
Best regards,
suzie, once again,
Nice try, but the Kool-Aid-Koran has instructed them to lie when it suits the greater purpose. You will never hear what it is that they are thinking.
Harvard's standards must be very much lower than I had assumed, or you are a liar.
It may be a "small percentage" of the Muslim population that are terrorists, but they are terrorizing the entire planet. Combine all if these terrorist groups, are they really only a "small percentage" of the Muslim population, and if so, why doesn't the larger population of non-extremist Muslims stop the "smaller population"? When there are small terrorist secs in the US, they are stopped, they are not allowed to take over the entire US with their terror.
Are you OK, man? I really want to cry.
Do you know what Islam is? Do you read Koran? It is too late.
You give them visas to come. What do you expect?
Do you know British Christian students are not allowed to get into classrooms because they wear crosses?
Do you know French are not allow to drive or walk through some areas on Fridays because the Muslims block the streets for praying?
You give them visas, what do you expect?
Just as you'll find decent-natured members of an abusive household, there are decent-natured folks in Islam.
The danger these people pose is that they whitewash the root causes of the evil in both examples in order to "protect" the ones they love.
In the big picture, what they justify as noble gestures only perpetuates deeply rooted evil, socially corrosive traits. The philosophy is tragically flawed, and hopelessly irreparable.
Non-muslim societies must reject the presence of those whose souls are damned to this creed.
If one replaced "Islam" with "Judaism" in this comment, it would be something straight out of Nazi Germany. I think that this makes it pretty obvious why Islamophobia is the greatest threat to our way of life today, far greater than some fringe group in the desert of Mesopotamia. Most commenters like this are paper tigers, but so were the earliest Nazis.
"Islamophobia is the greatest threat to our way of life today, far greater than some fringe group in the desert of Mesopotamia."
The threat to your way of life stems from the support of terrorists who commit unspeakable crimes against humanity in the name of your religion. I shudder to think what will happen when these same supporters of global terrorism–Iran–acquire nuclear weapons.
How? How the non-Muslims rejected when everyday visas are given out to Muslims to take over the land of Non- Muslims?
How people can open a public debate or classes to talk or to do investigation about the true life of violent Mohammad WITHOUT being harassed?
How people can learn about Koran and the violent truth about Koran, verse by verse, on public TV and media, when IT IS a big taboo if you talk the truth about Islam??????
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is in the forefront of spreading the message of Pace and protesting against the Extremism for over 100 years. The motto of the community is "Love for All Hatred for None",
The Supreme leader of Ahmadiyya Muslim community is traveling around the world and addressing the leaders of the nations to promote peace and harmony.
The problem is that the media is biased and don't give enough coverage to these kinds of messages.
Here are some of the addresses delivered by the Supreme leader of Islam.
USA Capital :
Ahmadiyya Muslim leader Address at USA Capital to Members of Congress on june 27, 2012
European Parliament,
Ahmadiyya Muslim Leader Address at European Union Parliament on Dec 04 2012.
UK Parliament:
Ahmadiyya Muslim Leader address at UK Parliament,
Ahmadiyya Muslum Leader responds to Extremism:
Thank you for the links. These sentiments are very common among Muslims of all backgrounds. There are no religious leaders in the Sunni branch of Islam, but ordinary citizens and community leaders and imams make similar statements. It is apparent that there are political motivations underlying why Muslims cannot be portrayed in a positive light by both news organizations and Hollywood. Of course, the bigots will say that this is all a ruse and some evil conspiracy.
Great. But preaching in non-muslim countries like the US, UK, and countries of the EU doesn't do much to quell the rise of Islamic extremism. Have him go to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, etc. where the extremists live and multiply.
Is it true Koran said" the Christians and Jews are race of pigs and dogs"?
If it was written in Koran and founded by Prophet Mohammad, isn't it hypocritical to say Islam is peaceful??????
Islam needs to be outlawed for the good of mankind. These people are psychopaths.
How? Give me a clear solution. Too bad that so many visas are given out to Muslims to migrate to your lands. What are you going to do when they outnumbered your people?
Don't get mad with me. But be logical with yourself, honestly, DO YOU have a clear solution for yourself and your family when the Muslim outnumbered you and start to overpower you?
The only good Islamist, is a dead Islamist.
It is wrong to say that. You will not win as long as they live and procreate on your land. Don't get mad. But it is true. Go to Britain, France and Australia, I am not surprised to see they will be Islamic countries in the next 50 years.
When Muslims of the Islamic Faith start to speak out in mass protests against Muslim terrorism, I'll consider Islam a tolerant peace loving religion, until then, Islam and it's adherents including the words of the Koran will remain intolerant and hateful of what Islam believes to be unbelievers.
The reason there will be no mass outrage is because believing Islamic Muslims would be criticizing their own religion and the Koran as being intolerant and hateful. Any criticizing of the Koran is considered un Islamic and a blasphemy. Take into and read a Bible in many Islamic countries and you'll find yourself in big trouble (intolerant), have and read a Koran in so called Christian counties no problem (tolerant).
The problem is: the Western media refuse to have open public debate about violent truth of Islam and prophet Mohammad.
Talking about Islam is taboo.
People don't want to know or to learn the dark history of Islam and its founder.
Well, sadly, let them learn a very hard lessons about Islam when the Muslims take over power. This is the price they will pay for giving out visas to Muslims instead of Christians, for being so ignorant about Islam until they get lashed and beheaded.
Google "Three Stages of Jihad" for some insight into what Islam is up to as an entirety. Even so called "Peaceful Muslims" are fighting Jihad and not even aware of it. The best thing for Islam is to keep it contained to areas of the world that are already hopelessly infected. Islam is incompatible with western values or democracy. The only think Muslims understand is rule by sword- violence. Islam needs ruthless dictators like Saddam Hussein, Qadafi and Al-Assad just to keep a relative semblace of peace. Once the rulers are no longer firmly in charge, you get ISIS, Al-Qaeda and the hundreds of other groups out there which consider the world their enemy.
True wes. So true. As I said, a good muslim is a dead Muslim
Adam,, I can understand your outrage but please be tolerant that way we avoid being on there level, we can be disgusted at their religion and its actions but we cannot be hateful.
Wes, on the one hand you have Muslims on this thread espousing peace and understanding, and on the other you have Islamophobes advocating genocide. It is pretty obvious who has the higher moral ground here. I'm afraid you are mistaken that Muslims do not condemn terrorism, whether by Muslims or Nona-Muslims. You can check the websites of prominent Muslim organizations such as ISNA or view Haroon's YouTube links.
I also recall that Sheik Rahman denounced the supporting of terrorism...all the while he plotted to blow up the WTC. In Islam, it's permitted to lie publicly to infidels in order to gain their trust or expose their vulnerabilities. They even have a word for it: Taqiyya.
You are RIGHT! We are not hateful like the Islam BUT it is our responsibility to teach and to educate the World about the violent truth of Islam and Prophet Mohammad.
It is our responsibility to stand up and to protect our lands and rights from the Islam and the Muslims.
It is our responsibility to show the World the plight of Christians under Islam, how they are persecuted per Islam per Koran by Muslims.
It is our commitment to force and to pressure public media, universities, colleges, high schools to hold hometown meetings and public debates about true life of Mohhammad and bloody Koran.
Just because majority of the Muslims are peaceful it is no justification. It's true that most Muslims are peaceful....because like all ordinary people they understand that they have to earn their living and are busy with life's struggles and earning a livelihood, besides most understand that killing anyone, even in the name of God is wrong. However, there is enough in the Quran and Mohammad's life that can motivate others to kill. That's what ISIS is doing and has enough proof to justify. In my opinion, that is the fundamental problem with the religion. If majority of the Muslims are peaceful, then they need to come together and cleanse the religion, purge all the violence related sections from the Quran. What ISIS is doing is using violence to eliminate the infidels, exactly what Mohammad did.
Mr. Fareed Zakaria,
I am not mad with you. But I want to tell you something. A really story.
I have conversation with 3 Muslims (2 out of the States AND one in the States) for 1 week long debate. Topic: Why Islam is not peaceful and why is ISIS the mirror of Islam?
They, the Muslims, COULD NOT, prove, any verse in Koran saying "Blessed the ones who cursed you and persecuted you. Forgive those who persecuted you". ONE WEEK DEBATE and the 3 Muslims COULD NOT find any verse saying forgiving those who persecuted you.
When I showed them from the Koran "The infidels are either converted, or paid high tax or get killed", and asked them to prove if it is peaceful? Their answers were:
1/ No, it is not. Only paid high tax. (Once I open the Toba, they were quiet)
There were a lot of violence against Christians and infidels that are written in Koran and enforced as Shariah. They were done, has been done and will be done upon Christians, Jews and non-Muslims.
If you and the Muslims blame ISIS for the crimes, What did Prophet Mohammad Do? If what he did were Immoral, then Why Muslims protested in Denmark or against anyone who said the truth about what Mohammad did?
If the Muslims said Islam is peaceful, why the Koran and its founder, carry so much blood on their hands?
MY ANSWER IS: Muslims use Islam and explain Islam at their own conveniences anytime and anywhere that benefit them.
Every single Religion is at fault.
We don't need to believe in the easter bunny to be good people.
Common sense and logic is all we need – ( aka Science )


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It's a sad state of affairs when you're not even feeling a game's cinematic trailer, but then, that's about par for the course with me and The Elder Scrolls Online. The game itself just doesn't look, or sound like an Elder Scrolls title. And neither does this trailer.
If you'd told me that was Lord of the Rings, I'd have believed you. If you'd told me it was EverQuest, hell, I'd have believed you.

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A clip I'd come across from the Toledo Blade doing other research. Clip is dated November 5, 1940.
Pair to Observe Golden Wedding
Martin Majchszaks Will Attend Anniversary Mass Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Majchszak, 2341 Kemper Ave., will observe their 50th wedding anniversary with a mass at 9 a.m. Saturday in St. Anthony's Church. Msgr. Francis S. Legowski, pastor, will officiate.
The couple came to this country shortly after they had been married in Witkowo, Poland. Mr. Majchszak retired as a Toledo gardener 10 years ago. He is 74 and his wife, 72.
Mr. and Mrs. Majchszak are parents of Mrs. Mary Golembiewski, Sylvania, O.; Mrs. Lucy Olejniczak, Mrs. Pearl Voorhees, Mrs. Cora Jackson, Mrs. Nora Flanigan, Mrs. Helen Parnett, Mrs. Dorothy Stevens and Sister Mary Stanislaus of the Mercy Order. Sons include Anthony, a city policeman; Charles and Michael Majchszak, Toledo. There are 14 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.


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The international day that is made fun of the most is probably World Toilet Day. Close second is Global Handwashing Day. But why make fun of these days unless it is because they focus our attention on these issues for one day and should be our concern for 365 days, 24/7.
Lack of basic sanitation is a silent serial killer that targets the most vulnerable: every 20 seconds a child is killed by a disease directly related to poor sanitation. This amounts to more deaths than AIDS, malaria and measles combined.


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If you think the small-cap space has had a wild ride recently, try micro caps, and then get your head around the following boast Michael Corbett makes about one of the funds he manages:
"The Ultra MicroCap Fund has the lowest average market cap [for the companies which it invests] of any mutual fund out there," Corbett, chief investment officer and portfolio manager with Chicago-Based Perritt Capital Management, proudly states.
Call him crazy (we certainly did at the beginning of our interview), but there's a method to what at first appears to be madness, one that's serving the firm—and its investors—well.
It's a method that's been around for almost three decades, one founded by Dr. Gerald Perritt and that is deeply rooted in academic research on the merits of small capital or micro-cap investing. It involves the so-called Fama-French Small Firm Effect, which came out of the University of Chicago in the early 1980s. For those who don't know, the effect holds that the smaller the firm's market cap, the better the performance over the long term when compared with larger firms, due to more opportunities for growth. Corbett's method also involves a quality screen the firm uses (again from University of Chicago) developed by Joseph Piotroski in his landmark paper, "Value Investing: The Use of Historical Financial Statement Information to Separate Winners From Losers," in which he employed a nine-factor evaluation of financial statements (we told you it was academic).
Corbett, who's been with the firm since 1990 and took over portfolio management duties in 1996, stresses the importance of these two philosophies when looking for quality micro-cap companies, which is good, because he then doubles down.
"Our flagship fund is the MicroCap Opportunities," he says. "The way we define the term micro-cap is investing in the bottom 20% of micro-cap companies. We link all the companies by market cap and separate the bottom 80% from the bottom 20%."
What's more, he says, with the Ultra MicroCap Fund (PREOX), the firm goes even further and invests in the bottom 10% of market cap companies.
"Both funds have the same process of quality screens," he adds. "The difference between the two is the average market cap of both funds. With MicroCap Opportunities, we've invested in the $125 to $200 million market cap range over its life. The Ultra MicroCap Fund [which recently changed its name from the Emerging Opportunities Fund] has invested in companies between $40 million and $80 million in market cap over its life."
Sounds interesting enough, but what about that aforementioned wild ride?
"The larger the market cap, the better the performance last year, or maybe I should say the less bad," he concedes before shrugging it off. "But so far this year, it's the reverse; the smaller the name, the better the performance. We're off to a decent start. And it doesn't bother us anyway. We're really more about full market cycle performance and interested in how when we make an investment, which has us looking at a three-to-five or even a five-to-10-year time horizon. What happened recently was short-term noise."
The extreme volatility in the micro-cap space was caused by a rush to liquidity by investors of all kinds, according to Corbett. Fearful investors shunned the stocks that were less likely to be able to provide them with short-term cash, and they placed a premium valuation on more liquid, defensive names.
Technology is one area in which Corbett is currently finding alpha. Evaluations are "very attractive," and even though the firm doesn't build its portfolios based on what the indexes might look like, in a sense, he says, it's overweight to technology, having more technology companies than ever before.
"The possibility of shareholder value is significant because of how strong the balance sheets are," he says.
And, of course, he's finding alpha in what he refers to as "the energy stuff." But one area that's not so obvious is what he calls "cash attitudes."
"In 2008 and 2009, we found a lot of companies with an attitude of 'we have enough cash and a strong enough balance sheet to survive in a downturn,'" Corbett explains. "That's changed; they've proven they can survive. The attitude is now moving toward, 'I need to use this cash to find a way to thrive.' What do you do with cash or excess cash? Should they even start to borrow more from banks or other entities? You might not think of it within micro-cap companies, but we're starting to see a lot of them pay out, or at least initiate, dividends."
He claims that 30% of the companies in the Ultra MicroCap Fund portfolio either increased their dividend or initiated a dividend in just the last year. And he's had a fair amount of companies that have bought stock in open markets.
"In some cases, it's pretty excessive," he says. "I mean, where it's 15% or 20% of the shares outstanding that they bought back. And there are also companies that are looking to buy other companies."
When asked about global macro events and news headlines, and how the fund positions itself defensively, Corbett is blunt.
"Generally speaking, we don't [think about global macro events]. We're about building portfolios from the bottom up and much more interested in finding great companies that can do well regardless of the environment."
But as we said, there's a method, and he hedges somewhat.
"With that said, you can certainly have pretty severe macroeconomic storms that can cause continued problems. There continue to be concerns about the issues within Europe and other debt problems that surround even this country. But it's an interesting time, and it makes it exciting because I think a lot of that is already priced in. In a sense, I think everyone's overdoing it in terms of their nervousness. We continue to be cautiously optimistic in terms of what's going on. We're always aware of it, but our general thought is to find great companies that can continue to survive and thrive through any type of environment."
As for the all-important performance track record, "I can tell you that the three-year number is phenomenal," Corbett says. "[March] was the three-year anniversary of the 2009 market low. Any general equity manager should, therefore, have a solid three-year number. We did do much better than the benchmarks (by the way, we use the Russell 2000 and the Russell Microcap). We're up 120% and 130% from the lows."
Because of the 2008 hit, he adds, the five-year return is not strong, but the longer cycles, the 10-, 15-, and 20-year performance numbers "are pretty far ahead of the benchmarks in real world performance. We're pretty proud of that record because that really is our time frame; making sure we're taking long-term investments in the right direction"
"We're off to a really great start this year. Both funds are up double digits for the year. I think that, as I said before, it will continue. We're starting to see signs of improvement, even in the overall economy, which should bode well for the types of stocks we have in our portfolio."


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Reality Check: Pizza Hut's Cheesy Beef Poutine Pie
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I don't know if it's due to flagging sales or if it's just a way to get people talking about their restaurants again, but Pizza Hut Canada seems to be fully committed to the gimmick pizza game. They only recently introduced the Crown Pizza, which featured cheese and meatballs baked into the crust; clearly someone at Pizza Hut HQ realized that this wasn't quite ridiculous enough. They can do better.
It was with that in mind, I'm sure, that Pizza Hut released their latest wave of gimmick pizzas, including Creamy Butter Chicken, Asian BBQ, and most ridiculously, Cheesy Beef Poutine.
Yes, poutine on a pizza. I am inexplicably drawn to terrible novelty items from fast food chains (which almost never ends well for me), so I obviously had to try this.
I should note that I actually don't mind Pizza Hut. It's not good pizza by any definition of the term, but their greasy pan pizzas at least have some personality, which is more than I can say for the horrible discs of awfulness that they dish out to the unsuspecting masses at Pizza Pizza.
I wanted to like the poutine pizza. I really did. And to Pizza Hut's credit, I did not hate it. I would absolutely never order it again, but it could have been so much worse.
I think the most important thing to note about this thing is that it really bears very little resemblance to pizza. Aside from its shape and the presence of that distinctively greasy Pizza Hut crust, it tastes very little like any pizza I've had before.
It basically tastes like someone took a poutine, dumped it on pizza dough, added some extra cheese and then baked it. This isn't a horrible idea, per se. It's bizarre, no doubt about it. But I'm sure that executed well, this could have been reasonably tasty.
Pizza Hut did not execute it well.
First and foremost is the gravy, which replaces the traditional tomato sauce. It's exceptionally salty, with a processed, generically meaty taste. If you've ever had gravy at a hospital cafeteria, then you know what to expect.
There's also "seasoned shaved steak," which essentially melts into the gravy and may as well not even be there. Considering that it could have very easily been chewy and horrible, I'll take that as a win.
The fries might have been okay at one point, but after being deep fried and baked in an oven, they're unpleasantly crunchy and completely overcooked.
As for the cheese curds, they pretty much blend in with the mozzarella and don't make much of an impact.
Let's be honest here: I don't think anyone expected this to be anything but an inedible mess, so the fact that it's even halfway decent is something of an accomplishment for Pizza Hut. A dubious one, but an accomplishment nonetheless.
Ultimately, it is a gimmick item from a fast food joint, and how it tastes is almost beside the point. Pizza Hut knows that it'll get people talking, and that those of us who inexplicably can't resist this sort of thing will be drawn to it like moths to a flame.
And hey, as far as this sort of thing goes, I've had much worse (Burger King pulled pork—a.k.a. one of the worst things I've ever eaten in my entire life—I'm looking squarely at you).
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Kvitova, Bouchard, Halep, Wozniacki highlight Connecticut Open field
Connecticut Open tournament director Anne Worcester watched with delight as Petra Kvitova and Genie Bouchard made their runs to the Wimbledon final last week.
That's because both will be playing in New Haven this summer.
Kvitova, the Wimbledon champion, and Bouchard highlight an exceptionally strong Connecticut Open field, which was announced on Tuesday.
"With all of my recruiting and research and seeking input from experts, you still never know," Worcester said. "There are always surprises. It was just so much fun to see. Not only for me, but for the sponsors, our team and our fans. It's very rewarding and exciting for the newly minted Connecticut Open."
The field features three players in the WTA Top 10 and eight in the Top 20. That includes No. 3 Simona Halep, last year's New Haven winner who also reached the semifinals at Wimbledon, along with No. 4 Kvitova and No. 7 Bouchard.
Kvitova is a two-time Wimbledon winner and also won at New Haven in 2012. Meanwhile, the 20-year-old Bouchard continues her rapid rise up the rankings and has reached the semifinals in three of her six Grand Slam appearances.
"I don't remember it ever being this top heavy," said Worcester. "And we have incredible depth."
Rounding out the other players in the Top 20 are No. 13 Flavia Pennetta, No. 14 Sara Errani, No. 15 Caroline Wozniacki, a four-time New Haven champion, No. 16 Carla Suarez-Navarro and No. 19 Ekaterina Makarova.
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No. 3 Simona Halep: This Romanian is the defending New Haven champ.
No. 4 Petra Kvitova: This Czech is a two-time Wimbledon winner and won the New Haven title in 2012.
No. 7 Genie Bouchard: This Canadian is perhaps the hottest rising star on the WTA Tour right now.
No. 13 Flavia Pennetta: This Italian won at Indian Wells earlier this year.
No. 14 Sara Errani: This Italian reached the French Open final in 2012.
No. 15 Caroline Wozniacki: A fan favorite, this Dane is looking for her record-tying fifth title at New Haven.
No. 16 Carla Suarez-Navarro: This Spaniard will be making her fourth appearance in New Haven.
No. 19 Ekaterina Makarova: This Russian reached the quarterfinals of the Connecticut Open last year.
No. 24 Roberta Vinci: This Italian teamed up with Errani and won the doubles title at Wimbledon.
No. 28 Garbine Muguruza: This Spainard knocked off Serena Williams during her run to the French Open quarterfinals.
No. 30 Shuai Zhang: Zhang, from China, reached the semifinals at Birmingham.
No. 31 Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova: This Czech reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon.
No. 32 Klara Koukalova: This Czech won at Florianopolis.
No. 35 Elina Svitolina: This Ukranian advanced to the semifinals at Nurnberg.
No. 36 Casey Dellacqua: This Australian was a semifinalist at Birmingham.
No. 37 Magdalena Rybarikova: This Slovakian is a four-time WTA winner.
No. 39 Kurumi Nara: Nara, from Japan, won at Rio de Janiero.
No. 40 Camila Giorgi: This Italian reached the final at Natowice.
No. 41 Bojana Jovanovski: This Serbian won in Tashkent last year.
No. 42 Coco Vandeweghe: The lone American in the field, she is a former U.S. Open Junior champion.
The lone American in the field thus far is Coco Vandeweghe, a former U.S. Open Junior champion.
The 30-player field will be completed with four wild cards and six qualifiers. The wild card deadline is Aug. 14 at 4 p.m. Worcester said Russian Maria Kirilenko has requested a wild card and former top-ranked player Victoria Azarenka, who has been limited this season because of a series of injuries, asked for a wild card to be held for her.
The Connecticut Open is scheduled for Aug. 15-23 at the Connecticut Tennis Center.
New to the tournament this year will be the men's Legends Event. Former men's stars Andy Roddick and Jim Courier will square off against Fairfield native and two-time New Haven winner James Blake in exhibition matches. Courier will face Blake on Aug. 20 and Roddick will take on Blake on Aug. 21. Both will follow the 7 p.m. women's matches.
The tournament also announced Tuesday there will be a dinner and "meet and greet" session with the men. For more information, visit CTOpen.org.
For the last few years, the tournament has been on shaky ground. Searching for sponsors, dwindling crowds and avoiding a possible move out of state were annual challenges.
But the tournament has gotten a major makeover and there seems to be more stability. The future looks bright. The state has taken over and the tournament transformed into a charitable organization, which means profits will be reinvested into the community.
The Connecticut Open now has a title sponsor in United Technologies and a remarkable women's field descending on the city next month, and even the men are coming back.
"There has been so much transformation over the last nine months," Worcester said. "It's exciting, fulfilling and a huge relief. The tournament is on more solid ground than ever before."


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To succeed in Algebra II, start practicing now Algebra II builds on your Algebra I skills to prepare you for trigonometry, calculus, and a of myriad STEM topics. Working through practice problems helps students better ingest and retain lesson content, creating a solid foundation to build on for future success. Algebra II Workbook For Dummies, 2nd Edition helps you learn Algebra II by doing Algebra II. Author and math professor Mary Jane Sterling walks you through the entire course, showing you how to approach and solve the problems you encounter in class. You'll begin by refreshing your Algebra I skills, because you'll need a strong foundation to build upon. From there, you'll work through practice problems to clarify concepts and improve understanding and retention. Revisit quadratic equations, inequalities, radicals, and basic graphs Master quadratic, exponential, and logarithmic functions Tackle conic sections, as well as linear and nonlinear systems Grasp the concepts of matrices, sequences, and imaginary numbers Algebra II Workbook For Dummies, 2nd Edition includes sections on graphing and special sequences to familiarize you with the key concepts that will follow you to trigonometry and beyond. Don't waste any time getting started. Algebra II Workbook For Dummies, 2nd Edition is your complete guide to success.
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Living rooms are the common family areas in a house and it is important that you make it as beautiful and cozy as possible. By doing so you will be able to incorporate a positive vibe and relaxing ambiance into your living space. One of the best ways to do so is by adding creative wooden furniture this can easily transform the entire room.
If you are looking for some inspiration for creating these wooden furniture pieces then here are 8 images that can help you.
The design that you should definitely incorporate in your living room is this picture gallery. These galleries can be created on your focal wall and can have open shelves to store all your pictures. You can also use these shelves to store plants to add a natural touch.
If you love watching TV along with your family then creating this wooden entertainment unit can be a great idea. Not only will the wood give your living room a rustic feel but it will also help create a durable piece of furniture.
We all love decorating our houses with little curious and one of the best places to store them is by building a curio cabinet. By using wood for creating these cabinets you will be able to customise it as per your wish and it is also easy to maintain when compared to other materials.
Almost every living room has a center or coffee table. Although you might prefer using glass tops with these tables but by incorporating wood you will be able to create a classic piece of furniture. You can also play around with the design of the table rather than keeping it square or rectangle.
If you have a living and dining space in one room then creating a partition cabinet like this is highly recommended. The designer for this cabinet has not used any back panels so that the view is not distracted between the areas.
One of the best ways to incorporate additional storage in your living room is by installing these open shelves whenever possible. By placing them in corners of your room you will be able to store different decoration items and other essentials.
It is not important that you use wood to create a solid piece of furniture for your living room. You can also use wood to create a focal wall within the space which will enhance the beauty of the room. By using different layout patterns you can customise the design of your focal wall easily.
If you love entertaining guests at your home then creating a wooden corner bar can be an ideal choice. If you have an angular staircase like shown in the picture then using the dead corner for installing a bar cabinet can be a great way to utilize the space well.
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One potential obstacle to "bring your own device" programs is the question of allowing users to easily and securely use the office printers from a mobile device. There are many specialized print-to-cloud printers out there, but the expense of replacing your agency's entire fleet is prohibitive.
Print2Cloud247 (P2C) mitigates this cost by interfacing with existing printers. The company's Universal Cloud Release Station, on display at the FOSE exposition, can talk to any printer with either Postscript 6 or PCL5e (or later) capability. Each printer is set up with geographic coordinates, so a mobile device running the client software will know which printers are nearest. Then, once the document is sent from the mobile device, the user goes to the Station, swipes his identity card, and the document is released to the printer.
It's that last part that will appeal to government agencies. P2C can link a user to a specific magnetic stripe card (it could be any card with a stripe) or to a proximity item such as a Common Access Card, Personal Identity Verification card or key fob. This will ensure that the document won't be sitting in a printer's output queue for all to see, but will only print once the user is in the vicinity and ready to retrieve it.
There is a subscription fee of $30 per month, but it is per Station, not per printer. For secure print-to-cloud that works with nearly any printer, this may be an acceptable expense for agencies.
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WASHINGTON, June 1, 2012—The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), today published two assessments prepared in response to a petition for nonregulated status submitted to the Agency by developers of a variety of sugar beet genetically engineered (GE) to be resistant to the herbicide glyphosate. This variety is commonly referred to as Roundup Ready (RR) sugar beets. In considering the request, and in accordance with a U.S. District Court decision in 2009, APHIS has prepared two analyses, one under the Plant Protection Act and another under the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA). These two analyses will be available for public review for at least 30 days before APHIS makes its final regulatory determination.
Under the Plant Protection Act and APHIS' regulations, the Agency is specifically required to evaluate if the RR sugar beet variety is a plant pest to agricultural crops or other plants or plant products. The Act defines a plant pest as organisms, such as bacteria, fungi, or insects that can cause harm to agricultural crops or other plants or plant products. APHIS' final plant pest risk assessment (PPRA), available here, finds RR sugar beets are not likely to pose a plant pest risk.
While APHIS' PPRA is focused on the plant pest risk associated with RR sugar beets, the Agency's final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS), available here, comprehensively evaluates the potential environmental impacts of the three alternatives before the Agency. While helpful in informing the Agency regarding any potential environmental impacts before making its final regulatory determination under the Plant Protection Act, NEPA does not provide APHIS any authority to address such environmental impacts.
The final PPRA and EIS are not APHIS' final regulatory determination on the petition for the nonregulated status of RR sugar beets. These two documents will be available for public review for at least 30 days before APHIS makes its final regulatory determination on the petition for nonregulated status. APHIS will publish in the Federal Register its record of decision for the FEIS and its final regulatory determination after that 30 day period has concluded.
In examining these alternatives - to maintain the regulated status of RR sugar beets; to determine that nonregulated status was appropriate for RR sugar beets; or to continue regulation of RR sugar beets with regulatory conditions in place - APHIS has evaluated a host of concerns and issues that have been raised regarding RR sugar beets. These include gene flow between RR sugar beets and non-GE sugar beet, table beet, Swiss chard, and wild beet varieties. APHIS also analyzed the implications for herbicide use and tillage, and impacts on weed development and on non-target organisms, such as amphibians. The Agency also studied impacts of its decision on public health and worker safety.
In the FEIS, APHIS has selected alternative 2, determination of nonregulated status for RR sugar beets, as the Agency's preferred alternative. This is consistent with the Agency's authority with regard to determining the plant pest risk of RR sugar beets.
In response to a U.S. District Court decision in 2009, APHIS has worked hard to complete this FEIS and ensure it is sound and comprehensive. While APHIS worked on the EIS for the petition for full nonregulated status for RR sugar beets, the Agency granted an interim regulatory measure to partially deregulate the RR sugar beet root crop production under mandatory conditions and issue regulatory permits for the seed crop production. This allowed both the root and seed crops to go into the ground and be harvested in accordance with strict Agency requirements and monitoring.
In October, 2011, APHIS published a draft PPRA and a draft EIS and made them available for public comment for 60 days. APHIS held three public meetings across the United States during the open comment period for both documents, and approximately 150 people attended. APHIS received approximately 25,000 comments on the drafts, many of which were helpful to the agency.
APHIS has submitted the final EIS to the Environmental Protection Agency for publication in the Federal Register. APHIS anticipates that EPA will publish a notice that the final EIS on RR sugar beets is available for public review in the Federal Register on June 8th, 2012. A copy of the FEIS provided to EPA can be reviewed here and the final PPRA is available here.
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When we reviewed Overkill Studios' Payday: The Heist last October, the very first words in our headline compared the game to Valve's co-operative zombie killfest Left 4 Dead. So it seems more than appropriate that Overkill has officially announced that an "in-depth collaboration" between the two studios, and the two games, is currently in production.
Overkill has apparently been dropping hints about the collaboration into the game itself recently. Company Game Director Ulf Andersson confirmed the cross-company team-up in a message on the company's website today, putting a stop to the rumors.
Aside from the project's existence, though, there are painfully few details offered about what this "very cool blend of Payday and Left 4 Dead" will be like or when we can expect to see it. In fact, the statement doesn't explicitly mention that the collaboration will even be a game at all. Could there be a cross-marketed Payday/Left 4 Dead cartoon series/toy line/breakfast cereal in our future? Our common sense says "no," but our hearts' fondest desires say, "I hope so!"


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The Discovering Science through Inquiry series provides teachers and students of grades 3-8 with direction for hands-on science exploration around particular science topics and focuses. The series follows the 5E model (engage, explore, explain, elaborate, evaluate). The Forces and Motion kit provides a complete inquiry model to explore the laws of motion through supported investigation. Watch as students design a safe-landing parachute to observe how the forces of deceleration work on parachutes.
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Provide teachers with an engaging and interesting way to present science concepts to students that follow the 5E model of instruction. In addition to providing students rich, scientific experiences, teachers are provided with background and additional information about each topic covered within the kit so that they can provide accurate content-related instruction to students. Each kit focuses on a specific scientific concept and provides 16 lessons that support the instruction of that concept.
Following the 5E model of instruction - engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate - the Inquiry Handbook guides students through the exploration of scientific concepts to help them achieve success. This handbook features background information for each topic, hands-on activities and experiments, and science journal pages. Graphic organizers and vocabulary-development activities help students better understand the scientific concepts - important for English language learners and below-level students.
Scientific Inquiry Cards are provided to encourage students to delve into the topic and build on the concepts they have learned, making connections to other related concepts and new situations. These colorful Inquiry Cards provide students with rich extension opportunities, including writing activities, leveled questions, and scientific research activities.
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The lower your cholesterol levels, the better. As your "bad" cholesterol levels drop, so does your risk of developing heart disease and death. To get your cholesterol down low enough, you may need a prescription medication in addition to your healthy lifestyle changes. Here are the families of medications used to control cholesterol:
Medications have different effects and not everyone will respond the same way to medications. Ask your doctor if which medication is most appropriate for you.
StatinsStatins lower LDL-C and total cholesterol (by as much as 60% and 40%, respectively), and raise HDL-C ( by as much as 10%). They may also lower triglycerides (TG) ( by as much as 30%).
Statins work by blocking cholesterol production in the liver. See Table 1 for a summary of the effects of statins on various types of cholesterol.
Table 1: Effects of statins on various types of cholesterol
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Total cholesterol (TC)
decrease by 40%
HDL cholesterol
increase by 10%
Triglycerides (TG)
decrease by 30%
It's important to understand that the numbers listed in Table 1 are just averages. When it comes to lowering cholesterol, not all medications are the same. Some are better at lowering certain types of cholesterol, and others produce a larger cholesterol-lowering effect at lower doses than others.
Most people will be able to reach their cholesterol targets by taking a statin alone. In some cases, your doctor may decide to increase the dose, switch to a different medication, or start combination therapy (i.e., more than one medication). Statins may be combined with other cholesterol-lowering medications in the resin family or cholesterol absorption inhibitor family.
Statins available in Canada include atorvastatin, fluvastatin, lovastatin, pravastatin, rosuvastatin, and simvastatin.
The main side effects* of statins are mild stomach upset, headache, muscle soreness and, rarely, muscle pain. Side effects may be more likely for people taking higher statin doses or people who are already at risk of side effects due to their pre-existing medical conditions or other medications. Muscle pain, tenderness, or weakness may be a sign of muscle damage caused by these medications. Other signs include brownish or discoloured urine. People who notice muscle pain should see their doctor right away. Your doctor may suggest a simple blood test to investigate the muscle pain.
Pregnant or breast-feeding women should not use statins, as these medications may harm the baby. People with liver disease should not take statins, as they make liver damage worse. All people taking a statin need to have regular tests to check their liver function.
Since both statins and fibrates, another group of cholesterol-lowering medications, can cause muscle damage, they should only be used together with caution. Statins may also increase the effects of warfarin, a blood-thinning medication. Atorvastatin, lovastatin, and simvastatin also interact with erythromycin, cyclosporine, diltiazem, medications for people who are HIV-positive, and niacin. Fluvastatin interacts with cimetidine, ranitidine, omeprazole, and rifampin. Rosuvastatin should be taken 2 hours apart from antacids, and should not be taken with cyclosporine.
Consult your pharmacist or doctor if you are concerned that one of your medications may be interacting with your statin, and ask whether there is an alternative that does not interact.
Cholesterol absorption inhibitors
The cholesterol absorption inhibitor ezetimibe works by blocking cholesterol from being absorbed in the intestine. It may be used alone or along with a statin to lower total cholesterol, LDL-C, apoB, and TG and to increase HDL-C. It may also be used with fenofibrate to lower total cholesterol, LDL-C, non-HDL-C, and apoB.
Ezetimibe should not be used by people with severe liver disease. The effects of this medication during pregnancy are unclear, so pregnant women should not use it unless, in the opinion of their doctor, the benefits outweigh the risks. Children under 10 should not use ezetimibe.
The main side effects* are headache, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. Rarely, ezetimibe may also cause muscle pain. Muscle pain may be a sign of muscle damage caused by the medication. People who notice muscle pain should see their doctor right away. Your doctor may suggest a simple blood test to investigate the muscle pain. People with liver disease should be closely monitored by their doctors while taking ezetimibe, as this medication may cause liver damage.
Ezetimibe should not be used with fibrates other than fenofibrate. People taking cyclosporine (a medication taken after receiving an organ transplant) should have their cyclosporine levels checked if they are taking ezetimibe. People taking warfarin (e.g., Coumadin® and generics) should have their International Normalized Ratio (INR) levels checked more frequently at the beginning of taking ezetimibe. People taking a resin (see below) should take it 2 hours before or 4 hours after ezetimibe. Otherwise, the resin will block ezetimibe from being absorbed into the body.
Resins lower LDL-C (by up to 30%) and raise HDL-C (by up to 10%). They work by decreasing the absorption of cholesterol and increasing the breakdown of LDL-C. The 3 resins available in Canada are cholestyramine, colesevelam, and colestipol.
The main side effects are constipation, bloating, gas, heartburn, diarrhea, nausea, headache, and a feeling of fullness. Resins also increase TG. People taking resins should have their liver function checked on a regular basis. Resins, on the advice of a physician, can be used to lower cholesterol for women who are pregnant and for children (over 2 years of age).
Resins can block the absorption of other medications and fat-soluble vitamins (vitamins A, D, E, and K). They should be taken 1 to 2 hours before or 4 hours after other medications.
Fibrates lower TG (by up to 50%) and increase HDL-C (by up to 35%). Some fibrates (such as bezafibrate and fenofibrate) also lower LDL-C (on average, by up to 10%).
There are 3 fibrates available in Canada: bezafibrate, fenofibrate, and gemfibrozil. They work by blocking cholesterol production and increasing cholesterol breakdown.
The main side effects* are nausea, abdominal pain, gas, and muscle aches. People taking a fibrate should have their liver and kidney functions checked on a regular basis. People with poor kidney function may need a lower dose. Fibrates can increase the effects of blood thinners, such as warfarin. Gemfibrozil increases the blood levels of most statins and may greatly increase the risk of muscle damage if taken with a statin. Also, because both statins and fibrates can cause muscle damage, the risk of muscle damage may be higher when these medications are taken together.
Niacin is a type of vitamin B that raises HDL cholesterol levels and lowers triglyceride levels when taken in high doses. Doses of 1,000 mg to 2,000 mg per day can increase HDL cholesterol levels by 25% and lower triglyceride levels by 30% to 40%. Because niacin causes flushing, itching, and tingling in many people, your doctor will likely recommend that you start at a low dose and increase it slowly over time to build up your tolerance to this effect.
Although niacin is available without a prescription, it is always best to talk with a doctor first if you are planning to use it to treat your cholesterol. Be careful not to choose niacinamide to treat cholesterol; it is a relative of niacin but does not have the same effect on cholesterol.
In addition to flushing, itching, and tingling, side effects* of niacin include headache, nausea, gas, heartburn, and rash. With the use of niacin, blood sugar levels should be monitored carefully by people with diabetes when first starting the medication, and liver tests should be performed on a regular basis.
An extended-release form of niacin is available with a prescription. The niacin from this tablet is released over an 8- to 12-hour period. With daily doses between 1,000 mg and 2,000 mg it raises HDL cholesterol levels by 15% to 25% and lowers triglyceride levels by 20% to 30%.
* Please note that this is not a complete list of all possible side effects. Please consult your doctor or pharmacist to learn more about side effects.


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Of Fortune & Fame takes a direct approach to the popular pop punk genre with their latest, "Perspective." When Shane Conzone (bass) and Matt Travers (guitar) decided to travel away from the hardcore they were raised on and let their writing be influenced by the likes of New Found Glory, it paid off. Of Fortune & Fame's fast-paced youthful energy in songs like "Trenches" is only surpassed by the lyrical essence in soon-to-be anthems "Wembridge Drive" and "Without Words," making "Perspective" an EP that will put Of Fortune & Fame on the map and a strong contender in the pop punk genre.
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On a recent episode of Business Innovators Radio with Matthew Loughran, Oscar Garcia, CEO and Founder of Uulala Mobile App, discussed The Path To Financial Inclusion For The Unbanked Latino Demographic.
According to Garcia, There are technological advances to empower the Latino under and unbanked populations for financial inclusion.
Garcia, said "It is expensive to be poor, you are paying fees to access your income, added fees to pay bills, send money transfers, and you lack access to services others take for granted."
When host Matthew Loughran asked What is the underbanked population that Uulala strives to help? Garcia answered, "I can give you an example. I went through a period in my life where I couldn't get a bank account. I would cash my checks at payday loan locations and I had to walk into a facility stand in line to pay an extra fee, just to pay my bills like my water bill and my electrical bill. This cycle of added fees and time spent wasted traveling around to different locations just to pay my bills was frustrating".
During the Interview Garcia shared How is Uulala addressing the needs of the underbanked Latino population?, explaining, "Uulala provides a single ecosystem for our users to deposit checks, pay bills, send cross border remittances, and build a credit profile to qualify for added financial services".
Oscar Garcia the CEO and Founder of Uulala, is considered an authority on financial services for the emerging Latino market across the US, Mexico, and the Americas.
The interview concluded with Garcia saying "Uulala users will build or enhance their credit profile. Our database tracking capabilities across our service line suite will determine which users and what level of creditworthiness they currently qualify for as well as a path to obtain higher credit thresholds. This revolutionary micro credit tracking system with transparent payback reporting will allow users to establish or enhance their creditworthiness".
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District 33 board, teachers hope to avoid strike
Both sides in a contract dispute between West Chicago Elementary District 33 and its teachers union say they hope to reach an agreement to avoid a strike, despite two days of negotiations without progress on the issue of health care.
School will resume Monday as scheduled after winter break. Representatives of the school board and the teachers union said Saturday they would like to see 16 months of bitter contract talks resolved during a bargaining session scheduled for 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Agreeing to a contract then would prevent the union from drawing together its 284 members to take a strike vote, said chief union negotiator Mary Catherine Kosmach.
"What we're hoping for is a settlement on Wednesday," Kosmach said.
School board secretary Dave Barclay said the district also hopes to avoid a strike, but the cost of the final offers made by each side are still $3.5 million apart over the length of the proposed three-year contract. The sides also have yet to agree on key issues including salaries, class sizes and teacher workdays.
In eight hours of negotiations on Thursday and Friday, "we really weren't able to close the gap financially between the two offers," Barclay said.
The most recent negotiations focused on health insurance, but neither side budged from its stance. The district seeks to cap the amount it pays for its share of employee insurance premiums, but teachers oppose such a cap.
The district currently pays 80 percent of premiums for single or family coverage without a cap. Barclay said most employees opt for the district's most expensive plan -- a Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO that costs District 33 $15,000 per employee.
The board has not changed its offer to pay 80 percent of the premium up to $12,500 this year, $12,875 next school year, and $13,261 in 2014-15.
Kosmach said the union estimates the proposed cap would create roughly $300 more in monthly insurance payments for an average teacher.
"We're trying to find a creative way to make concessions in the insurance area," Kosmach said. "At this point, we're trying. We're trying to come up with a fair agreement."
Both the union and the school board released statements following the close of Friday's negotiations, saying they will meet again Wednesday. School board President Chris Scheck said Saturday she is glad the union still is willing to come to the table.
Kosmach said the union has offered compromises on salaries and retirement, but she would not provide details about those offers Saturday.
"We are compromising," she said. "We're not seeing it across the table."
Barclay said the school board is "unable to move" financially from the proposals in its offer.
"Our position has been we've basically reached a point where we can't continue to increase the value of our offer given the economic conditions we're in," Barclay said. "We're willing to make it fit better with the union's expectations, but we can't continue to compromise by adding more money to the deal."
The union has promised to give the board notice if teachers will strike, and the board advises parents to continue checking for automatic phone messages and emails with updates about the situation. But a strike will not happen Monday, the first day it legally could after the union filed an intent to strike notice before the holidays.
"The teachers are going to teach and meet their students' needs like they have been doing since August without a contract," Kosmach said.
District 33 serves about 4,000 students at six elementary schools, one middle school and a preschool that meets at two locations.
In the event of a strike, the district, the West Chicago Park District and the West Chicago Public Library have said they will provide some programming during the school day.


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Latitude line-up continues to swell...
Taking place in 28 days time (Thursday July 12th - Sunday 15th) in Henham Park near Southwold in Suffolk, Latitude Festival 2012 looks set to be one of the events of the summer.
Today the organizers have announced a new batch of news including: Chilly Gonzales, Van Dyke Parks and Britten Sinfonia, Demdike Stare, Revere, Deap Vally, Splashh, Mick Flannery, The Staves, Twin Shadow, Mark Lamarr's God's Jukebox presents: Wanda Jackson and more... they join the likes of Bon Iver, Paul Weller, Elbow, Lana Del Rey, Laura Marling, The Antlers, Yeasayer, Explosions in the Sky, SBTRKT, dEUS, Metronomy, Chairlift, Destroyer, Low, Rufus Wainwright, Wild Beasts, M83, Battles, St. Vincent and Bat For Lashes and a whole host of other acts and performers (they even have MP Tom Watson chatting about Leveson).
For a full list of the 500+ artists, musicians, ballet dancers, speakers and comedians appearing please visit latitudefestival.co.uk.
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A 2/3 whip-smart, 1/3 kinda-out-there video from Nintendo yesterday outlined the company's online strategy for the Wii U. It's a fascinating strategy designed to bring people together to give them hints in games and to engender empathy among the gamer population. And that's just part of it.
If you watched closely, it appeared that Nintendo introduced a new slogan in the video. One word: "together."
That seemed familiar to me.
Back in March, I noticed Nintendo using the same word as an alternative to a much more common word for the kind of gaming that involves a bunch of people. Where most games would use the word "multiplayer," the 3DS' Kid Icarus: Uprising used "together."
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COLUMBUS, OHIO (Feb. 21, 2:20 p.m. ET) — Crane Plastics has formed a subsidiary in Edinburgh, Scotland, that is distributing a mud flap that increases fuel economy and safety.
Spraydown Solutions Ltd. is led by Matt Fenneman, who serves as managing director for the new company as well as vice president of sales and marketing for Columbus, Ohio-based Crane Plastics. The mud flaps are manufactured in Columbus.
The mud flaps employ Spraydown Aeroguard Technology and are intended for use on heavy trucks. As the product name indicates, the mud flaps direct water spray from inclement weather down to the road, out of the driver's view.
The aerodynamic design allows for 1-3 percent fuel savings by reducing drag and smoothing airflow via strips cut into the mud flap. Spraydown is durable in temperatures ranging from -40-122° Fahrenheit.
The product is used primarily in the
Crane Plastics has two extrusion manufacturing facilities, in Columbus and Jacksboro, Tenn. Products manufactured by the company include vinyl siding, cellular manufacturing and processing and tooling design advancements. The custom extrusion business is called Engineered Profiles LLC.
"We are always looking on expanding into new markets and have been doing so in areas like heavy duty trucking, office furniture, lawn and garden, agriculture, as well as many other industries," Erik Tait, marketing coordinator for Crane, said. "We are diversifying. We would love to sell a stick of plastic to anyone who needs a stick of plastic."
In 2009, top managers at Crane Plastics bought a majority share of the company from Crane Group. This expansion is the first of its type for the company since Crane Group became a minority interest.
Other proprietary products by Crane Plastics in conjunction with other companies include Perma Flow and the Waterfall gutter protection systems and Atlas Deck Stringers, which provide deck plank support.


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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU telecoms chief Neelie Kroes has scrapped a draft proposal to cut wholesale roaming fees by as much as 90 percent, a European Commission document seen by Reuters showed, following criticism from major telecom companies.
The plan, which would have affected the wholesale prices that telecoms operators pay to access their rivals' networks, was a key element of her efforts to create a single market for telecom services in the 28-country European Union.
They are also part of the Commission's push to create jobs, boost the region's competitiveness and help Europe catch up with the United States and Asia in mobile and broadband networks.
In an earlier draft of her proposals seen by Reuters, Kroes proposed a cap of 3 cents per minute for voice calls from July, 2014 to June 2022, a 70 percent reduction from the 10 cent cap which came into effect in July this year.
She also wanted to slash the wholesale cap for data to 1.5 cents per megabyte from the current limit of 15 cents.
Kroes' latest draft plan seen by Reuters does not mention the issue at all.
Her spokesman Ryan Heath said: "We've made several technical improvements over the summer that will help us reach our ongoing objective of a real telecoms single market."
People familiar with the matter said the chief executives of Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefonica and a senior official from Deutsche Telekom met Kroes late last month to express their concerns about her plans.
Kroes will unveil her proposals on September 10. She needs approval from the 28 EU members countries and European Parliament before they can be made into law.
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Tough stretch continues as Cardinals run into LA
Wainwright keeps St. Louis in it, but lineup wastes chances vs. Greinke
ST. LOUIS -- Challenged by three teams currently positioned for playoff inclusion on their recent 11-game road trip, the Cardinals returned to Busch Stadium on Monday to find another awaiting. Reminding the Cardinals that they, too, have big plans for October, the Dodgers soured the Cardinals' homecoming with a 3-2 victory to open the four-game series.
The Cardinals, who have won just three of their last nine, have not yet measured up well against the National League's best. Against the three division leaders -- Atlanta, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles -- the Cardinals are a combined 5-12. The club has a 52-25 mark against everyone else in the league.
"I'm tired of tipping the hat," said Adam Wainwright, "but you just have to tip your hat over there."
The Dodgers team he faced Monday is quite different than the one the Cardinals saw when they last met in May. The Cardinals owned the NL's best record at that time and took the series at Dodger Stadium. Whispers of a managerial change in Los Angeles hung over the weekend. Yasiel Puig was still a week away from his debut.
Since then, though, the Dodgers have been an NL-best 42-21, and they sit two wins shy of matching the record of 17 straight road victories held by the 1916 New York Giants and '84 Tigers. On Monday, it was Dodgers righty Zack Greinke who mostly hushed a crowd of 42,464 and wiggled out of more trouble than Adam Wainwright could.
"We're feeling really good as a team when we come together on the road," said Dodgers catcher A.J. Ellis. "It was a great crowd tonight, an electric atmosphere. I think we kind of thrive on that us-against-the-stadium-type mentality."
Coming off a four-game stretch in which they scored 44 runs, the Cardinals mustered two off Greinke. For the fourth straight game, the Cardinals tallied a first-inning run. Matt Carpenter's leadoff double helped spark that early activity.
But opportunities to tack on additional runs went wasted in the middle innings. David Freese, whose groundout stranded Carlos Beltran at third base in the first, left the bases loaded in the third. The Cardinals couldn't score in the fourth, either, despite putting runners on the corners with no outs.
Strikeouts by Daniel Descalso and Carpenter sandwiched Wainwright's sacrifice bunt in that frame.
An inning later, Allen Craig was thrown out at home trying to score from first on Freese's double. Showcasing his strong arm, Puig, throwing from the right-field wall, hit his cutoff man near the infield grass without a hop to help execute the play.
"It was a great relay, a great tag," manager Mike Matheny said. "That definitely took some momentum out."
"It's just an amazing play," added Ellis. "I didn't think there was any chance. It was a great throw by Puig, just picking it up and chucking it, and a great relay by [shortstop] Nick [Punto] getting it in on a very strong, accurate throw."
Greinke was tagged for a run in the seventh, though reliever Ronald Belisario retired Craig and Matt Holliday to prevent the tying run from getting past third. The Cardinals traded an out for a run in the inning, too.
Beltran, with just his second sacrifice bunt since 2008, moved runners to second and third with his successful execution with no outs. Pinch-hitter Adron Chambers eventually scored on a groundout. Matheny would not confirm whether he called for the bunt attempt or if Beltran initiated it on his own. Beltran was unavailable for comment.
A bunt attempt stalled the Cardinals' comeback attempt in the eighth. After Jon Jay popped out on his try at a sacrifice, Tony Cruz grounded into a double play.
"I have to get it done," said Jay, who received the sign to sacrifice. "I get that bunt down and we have a man on second, one out, and we're in good position to score. That's a play I should have made."
The Cardinals finished 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position.
"They've got a good club," said Dodgers manager Don Mattingly. "Some days you're going to be able to keep them from doing it. But obviously, what they're doing is pretty remarkable with men in scoring position. It tells you how good they are."
For the third straight start, Wainwright was unsuccessful in securing his 14th win. Two of the seven hits he allowed went for extra bases, and both stung. Puig followed Adrian Gonzalez's leadoff walk in the fourth with a double to right-center. A single and groundout pushed both runners home to give L.A. a 2-1 lead.
One out away from finishing a scoreless seventh, Wainwright watched the Dodgers add to their lead within a two-pitch span. Punto's double extended the inning, and Greinke went down for a first-pitch curveball and dropped it into center for an RBI single, With the hit, Greinke improved to 15-for-37 this season.
"Greinke's pitch, I can't remember the last time a pitcher hit that for a hit, much less an RBI hit," Wainwright said. "That's not the pitch of the inning that really gets me. You might give up a bloop here, a bloop there, but you give up a double right there to Nick Punto on a bad pitch in the middle of the plate, that's the one that cost us."
Wainwright has pitched at least seven innings in 19 of his 24 starts, but the Cardinals have won just four of his past 10 outings. During that span, he has a 3.44 ERA.
With the loss, the Cardinals dropped two games behind the division-leading Pirates, who were idle Monday.
"A lot of things could have happened differently for us," Matheny said. "A lot of little things could have happened right to change the game, but they didn't. Now we move on."


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For Your Joy
The Almighty wants you to be happy! This evangelistic book addresses several key questions about God and us that everyone needs answers to. Use it to share with unbelievers that Jesus, the greatest being in the universe, is not just calling them to come, but calling them to come for their joy!
"The best news in the world is that there is no conflict between your greatest possible happiness and God's perfect holiness."
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A 28-minute lecture delivered at Biola University.
- Christianity is different from other religions for several reasons
- Christianity is testable using objective evidence
- you can offer objective evidence for and against it
- compare that to Zen Buddhism, for example, which is about subjective experiences
- Buddhism is subjective, you can't test it objectively
- Christianity can be tested using the historical method
- if Jesus did not rise from the dead, Christianity is false
- Christianity is set up for inquiry
- You can know whether the resurrection happened using historical methods
- "faith" in Christianity is not belief without arguments and evidence
- the Bible presents it's claims about God as testable and public
This was very fun to watch.
UPDATE: Here's a related post at the Simpson blog.