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Harman International Industries Inc. (HAR - Snapshot Report) is scheduled to release its fiscal fourth quarter 2012 results before the opening bell on August 10, 2012. In the run up to the earnings release we do not notice any significant estimates revision by the analysts covering the stock.
Harman has outperformed the Zacks Consensus Estimate in the preceding four quarters by 10.07%. We expect this trend to continue in the current quarter.
Previous Quarter Highlights
Harman reported third quarter 2012 earnings of 74 cents per share, ahead of the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 66 cents.
Revenues increased 15.6% year over year to $1.09 billion in the third quarter of 2012. Revenue also surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.06 billion. The year-over-year growth was driven by growth in all business segments, particularly the Infotainment division.
For further details please read: Harman Surpasses Estimates
Estimate Revision Trend
In the last 30 days, one upward and one downward revision was noticed from the four analysts covering the stock. However, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for the fourth quarter increased by a penny to 65 cents over the same period.
Analysts expect strong order backlog of $14 billion to act as a positive catalyst for the company. Expansions in the high-growth Brazil, Russia, India, China (BRIC) countries coupled with incremental demand in the luxury car segment are the other positive factors.
However, Apple Inc.'s (AAPL - Analyst Report) recent unveiling of its Siri integrated voice car navigational, mapping and information system could act as the headwind for the company. The Infotainment segment, which includes in-car dashboard entertainment and information systems, accounts for the majority of revenue share.
Harman boasts a solid product pipeline that is supported by more than 4000 patents, and the company intends to roll out new infotainment products in order to further drive sales. The Infotainment segment has done particularly well in garnering new orders from automakers. The company's expansion in the BRIC countries is expected to pave the way for achieving the projected revenue of $1.5 billion over the next three years from the region.
However, Harman continues to face tough competition from Panasonic Corp. and Sony Corp. (SNE - Snapshot Report), which may hurt its profitability going forward.
We maintain our Neutral recommendation on a long-term basis (6-12 months). Currently, Harman has a Zacks #3 Rank, which implies a Hold rating on a short-term basis (1-3 months).
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ANNAPOLIS — In-state college tuition for children of illegal immigrants appears safely headed for passage on the November ballot, according to a new statewide poll. Opinion on the same-sex marriage question is closer yet trending toward approval, but expansion of gambling may have difficulty passing in a tight vote.
The Gonzales research poll taken this past week also found Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin with a comfortable 50 percent lead in his re-election bid against Republican Dan Bongino and independent Rob Sobhani, who are splitting the opposition. President Barack Obama, as expected, is far ahead of Gov. Mitt Romney in Maryland, with the support of 55 percent of those polled and 8 percent undecided.
Those are some of the findings in a new Maryland poll taken Sept. 17-23 by Gonzales Research and Marketing Strategies that surveyed 813 likely voters with a margin of error of 3.5 percent. Here are the full results of the poll.
On the so-called Dream Act granting in-state tuition to illegal immigrants who have graduated from Maryland high schools, 58 percent of Marylanders say they will vote for Question 4, 34 percent say they will vote against and 8 percent are undecided. Pollster Patrick Gonzales said, "Support for Question 4 is very high among Democrats and African- Americans, which is a winning combination in Maryland."
The poll found three out of four Democrats (75 percent) support the tuition question, along with 70 percent of African-Americans and 67 percent of women. Republicans are the only group strongly opposed to the idea, with 62 percent against.
Numbers are far closer on the issue of same-sex marriage, with opposition among African-Americans helping to drag down strong support by two-thirds of Democrats and independents.
Statewide, 51 percent of voters say they will vote for Question 6, while 43 percent say they are opposed and 6 percent are undecided. Among African-Americans, 44 percent are for it, while 52 percent are against. But Gonzales said black support is up from the January survey when only 33 percent favored same-sex marriage, suggesting that support for the issue by President Obama and other influential black leaders has helped shift opinion.
Again, only Republicans are strongly opposed (75 percent), and a slight plurality of men (48 percent).
These numbers on same-sex marriage are not as positive as polls released by groups supporting the issue, but they are trending in the same direction.
The contest to allow a sixth casino in Maryland and table games in all of them is close, with 45 percent of Maryland voters supporting the expansion, 46 percent opposed and 9 percent undecided. African-Americans again are the swing vote, with only 31 percent favoring the idea, and 64 percent opposed, compared to 51 percent of Democrats as a whole in favor of the proposition.
This divergence on the issue between white and black Democrats, Gonzales said, "could present an obstacle on Election Day for supporters of expanded gaming in Maryland."
The poll also sought to gauge intensity of support for these ballot questions among people who said they were likely to get out to vote. Gonzales found that there was greater intensity among supporters of same-sex marriage and in-state tuition, but opponents of expanded gambling were more intense in their opposition than supporters.
The economy continues to be the top issue in the state, as it has been for the last three years, with 46 percent listing it as their top concern, a number only slightly down from 49 percent in January and its peak of 62 percent in September 2011.
As "one of the most reliably 'blue' states over the past 20 years," Gonzales found 54 percent of voters had a favorable opinion of the president, and 50 percent had an unfavorable opinion of Romney.
Support for Obama is strongest among Democrats (81 percent), women (62 percent) and independents (59 percent), a group where he has a two-to-one advantage. "Gov. Romney labors under a huge deficit among female voters in Maryland," Gonzales said.
Independent Rob Sobhani was not even a factor in the U.S. Senate race until he got 77,000 signatures to put him on the ballot in August, then began spending millions of his own money on TV ads. The advertising has placed him neck-and-neck with Republican Dan Bongino, the ex-Secret Service agent who has been campaigning for 16 months. Bongino has 21.6 percent support and Sobhani has 20.9 percent, with Cardin far in the lead with 49.8 percent.
Cardin enjoys 74 percent support among Democrats, but he and Sobhani are almost even among independents with 39 percent and 38 percent, and Bongino far behind at 10 percent. Bongino only has a real edge among Republicans, but even there, Sobhani, who made a fortune in the international oil trade and has run for the Senate as a Republican, enjoys 22 percent support.
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The above graph displays service status activity for Walmartmoneycard.com over the last 10 automatic checks. The blue bar displays the response time, which is better when smaller. If no bar is displayed for a specific time it means that the service was down and the site was offline.
Service Status History :
Date | Time | Ping Time | Date | Time | Ping Time | ||
05.Dec.2013 | 10:27 | 532.73 ms. | 05.Dec.2013 | 12:46 | 341.49 ms. | ||
05.Dec.2013 | 14:52 | 412.22 ms. | 05.Dec.2013 | 17:13 | 324.93 ms. | ||
05.Dec.2013 | 19:21 | 442.93 ms. | 05.Dec.2013 | 21:51 | 372.07 ms. | ||
06.Dec.2013 | 00:21 | 330.69 ms. | 06.Dec.2013 | 02:43 | 412.34 ms. | ||
06.Dec.2013 | 04:49 | 342.88 ms. | 06.Dec.2013 | 06:49 | 431.54 ms. |
* Times displayed are PT, Pacific Time (UTC/GMT -8) | Current server time is 07:27
We have tried pinging Walmart MoneyCard website using our server and the website returned the above results. If walmartmoneycard.com is down for us too there is nothing you can do except waiting. Probably the server is overloaded, down or unreachable because of a network problem, outage or a website maintenance is in progress...
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Rob Moore · 10 hours 55 mins ago | |
This was my last month using this card too many problems, I can't even check my balance, tired of the stupid charges also. Wal Mart money card is a BIG mistake. Don't go there!!!!!!! |
Johnny Lee Lewis · 20 hours 37 mins ago | |
I have been trying to get onto the site for 3 days and no luck. I get the site with a list of options at the top and when you click.. Nothing... Down and out of Luck..!! |
Sheena Ward · 1 day 2 hours 43 mins ago | |
Got a new job and all I need is the Direct deposit sheet!!! Been trying for two days and now, still nothing! Im so over it!!.. Site is not allowing me to update my information or add money on the card... This is Bull |
Kimberly Roberts · 1 day 14 hours 17 mins ago | |
it keeps saying up top server is up.. bull crap.. apparently not.. read all of these comments stupid walmart money people.. obviously its not up and running so fix it!!! |
Shellye Painter Robinson · 1 day 18 hours 48 mins ago | |
I cannot get on the site either and have not been able to since last Thursday. Is the system down because all I am getting is a blank screen at the bottom no place to log in. |
Kimberly Roberts · 2 days 10 hours 23 mins ago | |
the website is down and it wont let me check my balance unless I call.. I don't want to call I want the website fixed so I can check my balance. fix the issue walmart money card!!! |
Angela Graves Skeie · 2 days 14 hours 23 mins ago | |
What is going on with the Walmart money card site? I've been trying to add money to my account and it won't let me. |
Louann Yeoward Cox · 3 days 20 hours 22 mins ago | |
I am unable to get access to my account. When I log onto WMMC I get as far as the main screen w/o the login boxes. This has been going on for some Time. I have been informed that the website is also not safe as you have NOT operated according to written contract agreements. What have you to say? |
Steve Davis · 4 days 23 hours 30 mins ago | |
It's still not working for me. I have the menu at the top of the screen, but that's all. |
Toni Cathcart · 30 November 2013 - 20:49 | |
I cannot do anything |
Daniel Poppi Rogers · 30 November 2013 - 17:26 | |
could not log in using IE but was able to using firefox. |
Crystal Neal · 30 November 2013 - 07:25 | |
Nothing happens when I click on Log Into Account... |
Roy Horton · 28 November 2013 - 16:01 | |
I been trying to get on the Walmart money card for over three days I can use my cell phone and can get on ther site with out ant trobble hope that they get this fixed |
Donna Monday-Thomas · 28 November 2013 - 15:09 | |
I cannot log into my walmart money card on the website. What is the problem? |
Anita Carpenter Vaughn · 28 November 2013 - 14:31 | |
Not only is the Money Card wetsite down, so is the phone number on the back of the card! |
Bob Thomas · 28 November 2013 - 07:36 | |
haven't been able to login for days now... login page is blank... cannot see anything but banner up top |
Richard Smith · 27 November 2013 - 16:47 | |
the site don't work on ie but if you use crome it works why is that ? I cleared chash and cookies and still don't work on ie why? |
Stephanie Plute Harris · 27 November 2013 - 12:38 | |
Still down. Blank page except for header. No links work. |
Dannie Christansen · 25 November 2013 - 19:13 | |
The website is always down. I'm moving on to another Green Dot company. |
Stephanie Plute Harris · 24 November 2013 - 10:02 | |
Down. Blank page. 11-23-13 100 PST. Cleared cache; rebooted - still the same. |
Gordon Brede · 22 November 2013 - 19:26 | |
trying to log I all I get is blank screen |
Julie Kincheloe Kelle · 20 November 2013 - 10:37 | |
I just get a blank page, can't get to login |
Monty Van Valkenburgh · 19 November 2013 - 09:20 | |
just call the number on the back of your card |
Tricia Melanson · 19 November 2013 - 08:12 | |
I have been trying to sign in for a week now and all I get is a blank screen when I go to the website!!! Fix it please!!! |
Terri Ferrario · 19 November 2013 - 06:15 | |
I'm trying to sign into Walmartmoneycard.com and all I get is a blank screen |
Russ Carew · 17 November 2013 - 11:29 | |
Walmart money card site sucks! won't let me log in. It won't connect. Nothing new on my behalf. Same card number for 3 years. |
Meghan Briana Stewart · 17 November 2013 - 01:23 | |
Site is down right now... I can't see transactions and balance says zero! |
Candace Etters · 16 November 2013 - 11:11 | |
Hasn't worked for weeks!!! I cant check shit about my account! Get is fixed!!! |
Roy Horton · 14 November 2013 - 03:04 | |
is Walmart money card site down just for me. I cannot get on the site to check my money card |
Dale Henderson · 23 October 2013 - 07:37 | |
I am unable to check balance on card or pay a bill as of 10:37 AM |
Pamela Elliott · 21 October 2013 - 14:51 | |
I have called the automated system and it tells me that my card has been closed and I cannot open another card with Meta Bank ever!!! I received a text message with my balance on the phone like I do daily but it has the wrong balance for today! I can log into the website and it does show my correct balance. Also, I tried to use it at a fast food restaurant and it came back "transaction denied". Last but not least, I have a direct deposit going in tomorrow!!!! #nothappy |
Lisa Neyland DeLaurentiis Fitzpatrick · 13 October 2013 - 14:49 | |
This card has 400 of my money and won't authorize my address sp that I can use it and the phone number tells me there is difficulty. I want my money!!! |
Jen Burns · 4 October 2013 - 11:12 | |
I'm not a big fan of Walmart in general, but I've never had a problem with the card in over 2 years. Right now, I'm having a site security issue...maybe the website has been hacked. My advice is to skip the money packs and just hand the money to the cashier at Walmart or have it direct deposited from your paycheck. |
Sherry Bogue Baker · 4 October 2013 - 11:11 | |
have tried 2 differnet cards keeps telling invalid card number WTF |
Anthony Jackson · 2 October 2013 - 15:01 | |
"The number that follows the "WWW" indicates that the data being retrieved by the Web browser is gathering the information from a different Web server than the one that serves the typical "WWW" address." Sounds like their website has been hacked. |
Roger Burcroff · 2 October 2013 - 14:57 | |
Site down and reporting bad certificate. |
Pam McCusker · 2 October 2013 - 14:04 | |
Their website is down, I tried using 3 different browsers. I kept getting the message that the site's certificate was not good. Like the other poster it was showing www1.walmartmoneycard.com After trying to explain it to the India speaking rep 3 or 4 times; she came back and said that there was an issue with their website. |
John Roach · 2 October 2013 - 07:03 | |
redirects to a ww1 site that is not secure. WTF |
Timothy Hunsingr · 22 June 2013 - 22:51 | |
walmart you are horriable the way you treat your customers I have over 1000$ on card and its telling me balance is 71 71 so wene I called your customer service they are useless this is my money your playing with WTF im suppose to be booking a flight right now n thanks to you ill be late!! Thanks a lot walmart!!! |
Marlyce J. Crist · 12 March 2013 - 08:19 | |
This has been the worst experience of trying to get something activated and understanding what they are telling me in my entire life. For anyone thinking of getting someone a gift, PLEASE do NOT get them a Walmart money card. This has been ongoing since Christmas and every time I called I got a different answer, I really can't say that either, because every time I called, I had an extremely difficult time understanding. Waste of money and waste of time. Finally got the card that came out of the pkg activated, spending it and it sure isn't at Walmart..Never shop there, never will.. Customer service is horrific online, on the phone and at their stores. :( |
B J Ricks Miller · 24 December 2012 - 11:46 | |
I just want to say- this may sound ideal for those without credit or people transferring money between each other- but it is a money trap. Terrible customer service and constant problems loading money packs- I personally have lost 230 dollars because of system glitches or other loading problems. After you factor in the monthly charge, reload charge, money pack cost... It is not worth it at all. Just my personal experience. |
Mary Czaplewski · 1 December 2012 - 21:39 | |
Cant even activate my walmart money card! What boatload of crap |
Jazzmine Hall-Oldham · 29 November 2012 - 10:17 | |
telling me URL is rejected? |
Jessica Hanna · 21 October 2012 - 02:08 | |
The site is up but it shows zero balance and says an internal error prevents showing transactions |
Catherine Calderoni-Smith · 24 September 2012 - 13:36 | |
We tried to get money off the card and its getting denied, reapeatedly. The website shows our balance, but cant get my money. |
B J Ricks Miller · 24 September 2012 - 12:47 | |
I tried to load a moneypack from my mom a state over and after having trouble getting through the phone line, it is saying my moneypack is for 0 dollars. We do this often as I am away from my parents and in school. They put me through to a "specialist" and I have been on hold for one hour and fifteen minutes with it giving me a holding time of "20 minutes" remaining. A few times it has changed to "17 minutes" but then jumped back up to 20. So basically, they are robbing the money from the moneypack and ignoring my issue by putting me in line but never answering the call. What can be done about this? |
Lucy Vera · 24 September 2012 - 11:49 | |
I am in a panic!! i cannot log in and cannot call over phone to check balance! i have had card for months and this is my very first problem! I don't have much but I use this to pay bills online and now cant check balance! |
Alisa Bergman · 24 September 2012 - 11:25 | |
the phone and site are working from me.. but I just found a fraudelent charge for over 65 dollars on my account |
Stacey Maurer Pruett · 24 September 2012 - 10:32 | |
I was finally able to log into the site but still can't get a balance inquiry on my phone. Just glad the site is up again |
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I have to say I agree Joe Kent can be an ass, we go to Graceland atleast three times a year and we happen to run across the Joe Kent show which on all other occasions has been a great show. We even turn down going to Beale Street just to see his show and after in the middle of a conversation he starts cursing and gets up and runs out, it is not only rude and obnoxious it has ruined it for us and all our friends that go with us to see him. If you need to go get drunk and fight at the VFW then you don't need to be performing.
This is one of the very best bands to have ever come out of Memphis TN.
As one of the gingerbread house builders in this display, I was extremely disappointed to see that the photograph shown here is a stock photo of a sweet but standard, teensy house. I would not be interested in visiting Gingerbread Dream based on this picture. The real gingerbread village at the Botanic Gardens is amazing; the buildings are huge and intricately decorated by professionals. Please- if you can't represent this event with a photo of the actual display, don't use a photo at all!
I am sorry to see the negative comments about Joe's behavior after the show. It might give people the idea they should avoid the show and that would be a disservice to Joe the performer. The show was top notch and was the perfect finale for our trip to Graceland. Highly recommend it to anyone.
I was lucky enough to spend my 15th wedding anniversary listening to the beauty that is James Govan and the Boogie Blues Band-look out! We are coming in June 2011 to spend our 20th listening to James again!! Can't get enough :D
Much Love to James and the Band
From Martha (pronounced Mawthur) and Jeff
I participated in this workshop in Pensacola last month. Awesome event. Finally, a great "Eastern" philosophy discussed by an American Buddhist monk in a way a "Westerner" can easily understand and practice with positive results.
The quality of art just keeps getting better and better, and this year is definitely the best. With 50 artists showing work, there is SO much to choose from. Fortunately, there is the opportunity to preview the art the week before the show during school hours - good for those of us who have a hard time making up our minds! It's a great way to support your local artists and find some very impressive art for your home.
Mirimichi's patio parties are awesome - and this one is going to be the best! I love the Def Tonz, and it will be so much fun to dress up, enjoy dinner and have a good time!!
This is one of my favorite Memphis art events! 50+ artists. Live jazz. Wine (available) and delicious hors d'oeuvres! All for $5 admission on Saturday night= a great evening of art and entertainment! (The Sunday afternoon opportunity to see the art is new this year. A nice outing in daylight, too!)
Just an observation...this is a press photo from the DC production, not the Memphis production!
Rock & Roll Heaven! I recently had the pleasure of seeing a part of my teenage years come back to life right before my eyes! I was a big fan of "The Gants" from Greenwood Ms. I remember being tucked in bed late at night listing to WLS Chicago and the thrill I got when The Gants came on with their regional hit Road Runner! I had seen them perform in Greenwood and to hear them being played along with the Beatles and all the others bands was a great thrill!
They say you can't go back but I got that same old feeling at Ground Zero when The Gants took the stage. Sid Herring has one of the best rock & roll voices any where and he was cooking! Sid has gotten his hands on some young, very talented, guys and Presto! GANT MAGIC! Keep it coming Sid!
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Ease up on SlowHand... you're comparing apples and oranges. RT answers to a different calling and blends development with desire. We're all here to do our best and comparing critically only detracts from what we're focusing on here and now.
Marketed by guitar nerds? Please. Did you see him perform live the other night ? Some people are just not willing to accept the fact that some of the non-mainstream guitarist like Thompson, Hillage, Zappa, etc are more talented then the ones played constantly on the radio. At 61 years old I could not believe what this man was still capable of doing during a nearly 3 hour performance. And try to get a ticket to see him when he plays in NYC. Already sold out.
Wow, they're still around? They used to be great, as I remember them. I'm trying to remember where it was they used to have a regular gig. Wasn't it that place on Poplar where the Taco Bell is now (near the theater that was turned into a bookstore)?
While I'm at it, what was the name of the group that used to have a regular gig at Gonzales and Gertrude's in Overton Square? They had a Hispanic guy (as I recall) who was a hearthrob for the ladies as their lead singer.
If you don't know anything about a preformer, just admit it. Who knows about every brilliant performer? Or at least listen to their work but just to make stuff up?? Richard Thompson has never been "folk". Early Fairport Convention pioneered British folk/rock but man that rock element was a cornerstone. Heck, when Richard Thompson plays the acoustic he plays with more passion and originality than kids half his age.
You did get the brilliant songwriter part right though. And that you can't buy for love or money.
These days Eric Clapton is a one-dimensional mediocrity whose best days are over three decades behind him. Richard Thompson is an order of magnitude better as a guitarist, both in his versatile virtuosity and sheer musical breadth/depth -- and that's not even considering the stunning quality and quantity of his songwriting and the powerful emotional impact of his vocals. Thompson has some peers as a "triple threat" player/writer/singer -- Buddy Miller and Darrell Scott, both now touring with long-time Thompson admirer Robert Plant, come to mind -- but Eric Clapton isn't one of them.
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Have you ever actually heard Richard Thompson play? Try "Hard On Me" - folk!?!?!
I could not shake your Clapton comparison last night. It reinforced my enthusiasm for Bruce/Baker and Whitlock/Duane. I love Cream and Derek, but given Clapton's lazy subsequent output, I have only contempt for the guy. Clapton never played like that.
Thompson's song craft and lyrical soloing are of a much higher order. Last night was a demonstration of showmanship, composition and technical brilliance WAY beyond Clapton's abilities or ambition.
The show was so good. But your comparison made me sad!
Major respect to the sound guy, who kept it from being too loud.
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A few thoughts on this - First, WOW! - that could be supremely convenient for users. Two, what a powerful opportunity for Facebook to make huge amounts of money. Three, how impersonal. I want my friend to at least "think" I put some efforts into their gift. Four, out of my hundreds and hundreds of "friends" I only buy gifts for a few so frankly it's no big deal. Whatever your thoughts - this has potential to be huge and change the e-commerce landscape!
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A young Kansas City Chiefs fan watches during the NFL preseason game against the Seattle Seahawks at Arrowhead Stadium on August 24, 2012 in Kansas City, Missouri.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Special events will be going on across the metro to celebrate Red Friday ahead of Sunday's Chiefs home opener against the Dallas Cowboys.
On your drive to work this morning, you'll see volunteers out selling Red Friday newspapers. Every year the Chiefs pick a different charity, and this year proceeds go to the Ronald McDonald House.
At 7 a.m. airplanes painted the downtown sky red with smoke.
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You'll also see some local destinations showing their spirit.
The Liberty Memorial, Kansas City International Airport, Ward Parkway and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will all be sporting their team spirit.
Union Station and the Kauffman Performing Arts Center have lit up their buildings in red. Various fountains will also have red flowing water.
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus will put on a Red Friday Spectacular in front of the Sprint Center at 11 a.m. The celebration on Grand Boulevard will feature various performers and animals, including star elephant, Kelly Ann, performing special tricks such as punting and catching Chiefs footballs.
The Chiefs Cheerleaders and KC Wolf will be there passing out special giveaways.
Friday night, you can get ready for the game at the Red Friday Pep Rally. It starts at 6:30 p.m. on the KC Live! Stage at the Power & Light District.
Select Chiefs players will make appearances at the event, as well as Chiefs Cheerleaders, KC Wolf and the Chiefs Rumble. There will also be Red Friday happy hour specials going on at Power & Light District.
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This year is the 25th Anniversary of NYC's legendary Soulful house/garage/disco label 'Easy Street Records' and this is celebrated by an all-rights, exclusive European deal with Demon Music Group. This newly compiled 'Digital Only' album is the first installment to introduce a selection of dancefloorclub hits along with a fine range of deeper underground cuts. This is the first time these tracks have been available digitally.
Not long after the label's launch in 1983, Easy Street started to make its presence known around the world. "Go DehYaka"by Monyaka& Hot Streak's "Body Work"became international pop hits in the summer of '83 & later that year, "Body Work" (produced by "Jellybean" Benitez) appeared on the soundtrack to the movie "Breakin'"which sold over 2 million copies.
These initial successes were followed in 1984 by Serious Intention'sclub classic, "You Don't Know", produced by Paul Simpson, & Jocelyn Brown's "Pickin' Up Promises", (which has just been remixed by the trio of BenjiCandelario, Danny "Buddha" Morales & Eddie Flashin' Fowlkes). The Easy Streetsound began to take shape with releases from Shot/"Main Thing" (recently recorded by Sweden's pop star Robyn), Paul Simpson's "Treat Her Sweeter"& culminating with "Ma FoomBey" by Cultural Vibe(Tony Humphries & Winston Jones)which arguably launched the era of "House" music. Collaborating with talented producers and artists, the Easy Street sound became synonymous with great songs & powerful vocals, a framework that the label still follows today.
Adeva's"In & Out of My Life" became an instant club hits, and achieved platinum sales on Adeva's Chrysalis album!
In the 90's House jams by Extortion, Cassio, Alexander Hope, Keisha Jenkins, Kathy Brown all left their imprint on the dance floor & at radio.
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October 29, 2013
Watch a Tick Burrowing Into Skin in Microscopic Detail
One of the freakiest parts of getting bitten by a tick is the insect arachnid's incredible tenacity: If one successfully pierces your skin and you don't pull it off, it can hang on for days at a time, all the while sucking your blood and swelling in size.
Despite plenty of research into ticks and the diseases they carry, though, scientists have never fully understood the mechanics by which the insects they use their mouths to penetrate skin and attach themselves so thoroughly. To address that, a group of German researchers recently used specialized microscopes and high-speed video cameras to capture a castor bean tick burrowing into a mouse's bare skin in real time.
Their work, published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, produced all sorts of new revelations about the structure and function of the tick's mouthparts. Perhaps the most harrowing part of the research, though, is the microscopic video they captured, shown at an accelerated speed above.
The team of scientists, led by Dania Richter of Charité Medical School in Berlin, conducted the work by placing five ticks on the ears of lab mice and letting them have their fill of blood. Unbeknownst to the ticks, though, they'd been caught on camera—and by analyzing the footage, along with detailed scanning electron microscope images of the ticks' mouth appendages, the researchers found that the insects' bites are really a highly specialized two-step process.
To begin, after the tick has climbed aboard a host animal, a pair of sharp structures called chelicerae, which are located at the end of its feeding appendage, alternate in poking downward. As they gradually dig, their barbed ends prevent them from slipping out, and the tick slowly and shallowly lodges itself in the skin, as seen in the first few seconds of the video.
After about 30 or so of these small digging movements, the tick switches to phase two (shown just after the video above zooms in). At this point, the insect simultaneously flexes both of the telescoping chelicerae, causing them to lengthen, and pushes them apart in what the researchers call "a breaststroke-like motion," forming a V-shape.
With the tips of the chelicerae anchored in the skin, flexing them outward causes them to penetrate even deeper. When this occurs, the tick's hypostome—a razor-sharp, even-more-heavily-barbed spear—plunges into the host's skin and attaches firmly.
The tick's not done, however: It repeats this same breaststroke five or six times in a row, pushing the hypostome deeper and deeper until it's fully implanted. With the hypostome firmly in place, the tick begins drawing blood—sucking the fluid up to its mouth through a grooved channel that lies in between the chelicerae and hypostome—and if left interrupted, will continue until it's sated days later.
This new understanding of how ticks accomplish this feat, the researchers say, could help us someday figure out how to prevent transmission of the most feared risk of a tick bite: Lyme disease. Scientists know that the disease is caused by several different species of bacteria that adhere to the inner lining of the tick's gut and typically make the jump into a human's bloodstream only after a full day of feeding. Knowing how ticks are able to attach themselves so stubbornly could eventually allow us to determine a means of thwarting their advances, before the Lyme-bearing bacteria have a chance to cross the species barrier.
October 24, 2013
This Mouse Has Evolved An Immunity to Toxic Scorpion Venom
If you were stung by a bark scorpion, the most venomous scorpion in North America, you'd feel something like the intense, painful jolt of being electrocuted. Moments after the creature flips its tail and injects venom into your skin, the intense pain would be joined by a numbness or tingling in the body part that was stung, and you might experience a shortness of breath. The effect of this venom on some people—small children, the elderly or adults with compromised immune systems—can even trigger frothing at the mouth, seizure-like symptoms, paralysis and potentially death.
Based solely on its body size, the four-inch-long furry grasshopper mouse should die within minutes of being stung—thanks to the scorpion's venom, which causes temporary paralysis, the muscles that allow the mouse to breathe should shut down, leading to asphyxiation—so you'd think the rodent would avoid the scorpions at all costs. But if you put a mouse and a scorpion in the same place, the rodent's reaction is strikingly brazen.
If stung, the four-inch-long rodent might jump back for a moment in surprise. Then, after a brief pause, it'll go in for the kill and devour the scorpion piece by piece:
This predatory behavior isn't the result of remarkable toughness. As scientists recently discovered, the mouse has evolved a particularly useful adaptation: It's immune to both the pain and paralytic effects that make the scorpion's venom so toxic.
Although scientists long knew that the mouse, native to the deserts of the American Southwest, preys upon a range of non-toxic scorpions, "no one had ever really asked whether they attack and kill really toxic scorpions," says Ashlee Rowe of Michigan State University, who led the new study published today in Science.
To investigate, Rowe visited the desert nearby Arizona's Santa Rita Mountains and collected a number of mice and scorpions. Back at her lab, when she and colleagues put the two animals together in the same tank, they saw that the mice devoured the scorpions with gusto and were seemingly impervious to their toxic strings, showing no signs of inflammation or paralysis afterward. They even directly injected the venom into other mouse specimens to further confirm that it didn't affect them physiologically.
The question remained, though, whether the mice were merely immune to the venom's paralyzing effects, or were also unable to feel pain as a result of a sting. "I'd see the mice get stung, and they'd just groom a little bit and blow it off," Rowe says. After she talked to people who'd been stung and heard how badly it hurt, she hypothesized that the mild reaction in the mice indicated that they were resistant to the pain itself.
Working with Yucheng Xiao and Theodore Cummins of Indiana University, she closely examined the physical structures that connect the sensory neurons (which convey external stimuli, such as pain) to the central nervous system (where pain is experienced). "There are big, long neurons that extend from the hands and feet all the way to the spinal cord, and they're responsible for taking information from the environment and sending it to the brain," she says.
Incredibly, the nerve cells associated with the interface between these two systems can continue functioning normally when they've been removed from the mice, if they've been properly preserved and cultured in a medium. As a result, her team was able to look at the mechanisms that control the flow of signals between the sensory neurons and the spinal cord—structures known as ion channels—and see if those present in grasshopper mice functioned differently than those in house mice when exposed to scorpion venom.
They found, in house mice, the venom caused a channel known as Nav1.7 to pass along a signal, causing the perception of pain. In grasshopper mice, though, something unexpected happened: The arrival of venom caused no change in the activity of Nav1.7, because proteins produced by a different ion channel, known as Nav1.8, bound to venom molecules and rendered them futile. In fact, this reaction produced an overall numbing effect on the entire mouse pain transmission system, leaving the animals temporary incapable of feeling all sorts of pain, including those unrelated to scorpion venom.
The researchers also looked at the underlying genetics, sequencing the genes that correspond to these alternatively-structured ion channels, which will allow them to investigate the specific evolutionary background of this remarkable adaptation. In theory, the incentives for the mouse species evolving an immunity to scorpion toxins seem obvious: The nocturnal rodent feeds on all sorts of scorpions, so unless it can visually distinguish between those that are benign and toxic, it will face severe consequences if it's sensitive to the venom. "Death, after all, is a pretty strong selection pressure," Rowe notes.
But on the other hand, pain serves a crucial evolutionary role, informing an organism when it's in danger. Some other species have been know to evolve resistance to particular toxins (garter snakes, for instance, are resistant to the toxin produced by rough-skinned newts), but these examples all involve resistance to toxins that can kill, but don't actually cause pain.
So the fact that grasshopper mice have evolved resistance to pain itself is novel—and likely a result of a very specific set of evolutionary circumstances. One important aspect is that bark scorpions are a significant proportion of the mouse diet, leading to frequent interactions between the two organisms. Additionally, says Rowe, "the mechanism is specific to the venom itself, so it doesn't compromise the mouse's overall pain pathways." As a result, the mouse is still able to detect other sources of pain (just not right after it's been bitten by by the scorpion), and thus will know when its faced with unrelated painful perils.
October 23, 2013
Your Ethnicity Determines the Species of Bacteria That Live in Your Mouth
In recent years, scientists have found out all sorts of remarkable things about a group of creatures that are entirely invisible to the naked eye: the trillions of bacteria that colonize every surface of our bodies.
These organisms—collectively known as the microbiome—deeply affect our health, governing our intake of fat, our likelihood of developing allergies and even how often we get bitten by mosquitoes.
New science, though, is indicating that the relationship goes both ways. These microorganisms affect us, but our underlying genetics also control which species of bacteria are able to thrive in and on our bodies.
One of the most striking examples of this was published today in the journal PLOS ONE. In the study, a group of researchers from Ohio State University analyzed the species of bacteria that lived in the mouths—either in saliva, on tooth surfaces or under gums—of 192 volunteers.
By sequencing all of the bacterial DNA present in a sample swabbed from each person's mouth, the researchers detected 398 different bacteria species in total. Each volunteer, on average, harbored 149 different species of oral bacteria.
But perhaps the most interesting finding was that there was a tremendous amount of diversity between individuals—only 8 species were present in every single participant's mouth. "No two people were exactly alike. That's truly a fingerprint," Purnima Kumar, the study's lead author, said in a press statement.
This bacterial diversity, though, wasn't entirely random: It correlated with the ethnic group of the volunteer. In other words, people from each of the four different ethnic groups represented in the study (all participants self-identified as either Caucasian, African-American, Chinese or Latino) generally had similar species of bacteria, especially underneath the gums.
As a result, simply by counting which varieties of bacteria appeared in this area, the researchers developed a model that was able to guess a person's ethnicity with an accuracy significantly better than chance—it got it right 62 percent of the time. Some groups were even easier to identify via the bacteria than others: It could correctly identify Latinos 67 percent of the time and African-Americans with 100 accuracy.
The variation along ethnic lines, they believe, is a reflection of genetics, not environment. That's because, if you assumed that the mouth microbiome is totally dependent on environmental factors, you'd expect that members of the same ethnic group would have different mixes of bacteria depending on whether they were first-generation immigrants to the U.S. or had family histories that stretched back generations in the country. Instead, people's background—in terms of foods they ate and other lifestyle trends—didn't seem to have any correlation with the bacterial communities in their mouths. But their ethnicity and thus their similar genetics matched their microbiome more often than chance.
Interestingly, the original goal of this research wasn't to find new differences between people from different ethnic groups, but to examine the bacterial traits shared between people with good oral health (the researchers are mostly from OSU's School of Dentistry). But when the researchers analyzed the data, they were struck by the ethnic similarities. Although they sampled bacteria from all regions of the mouth, those found under the gumline had the strongest correlation to ethnicity (and thereby genetics), likely because they're the least disrupted by environmental factors such as diet or smoking.
The surprising ethnic finding could yield benefits for oral health. The fact that people of different ethnicities harbor different sorts of oral bacteria could lead to medical treatments that are tailored to a patient's genetic background. If research eventually reveals that someone with certain oral bacteria species in high quantities is predisposed to certain ailments, for example, he or she could be proactively screened for these diseases.
October 22, 2013
Gold Particles in Eucalyptus Trees Can Reveal Deposits Deep Underground
If you traveled to the town of Kalgoorlie, in Western Australia, then headed about 25 miles north, you'd eventually reach a grove of large eucalyptus trees, some more than 30 feet tall, scattered across a dusty, arid landscape. Examining the dirt at your feet would reveal no trace of the gold deposits that lie roughly 100 feet underground, due to the thick layers of clay and rock that sit atop the precious metal.
But, scientists recently learned, if you peered closely enough at the eucalyptus trees—specifically, using X-rays to detect nanoparticles—you'd find that there's gold in them thar leaves. As detailed in a study published today in Nature Communications, a group of researchers from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation has shown that plants can absorb gold particles deep underground and bring it upward through their tissues—a finding that could help mineral exploration companies mine for gold.
"In Australia, we're faced with this problem of trying to explore through thick layers of sediments and weathered rock to reach valued minerals," says Melvyn Lintern, an Earth scientist and lead author of the study. "At the same time, we'd previously heard from mining engineers that, in some places, they'd found eucalyptus roots going down to 30 meters [98 feet] or deeper in the mines." With this observation in mind, and the knowledge that plants can absorb and transport minerals from the surrounding soil and bedrock all the way up to their leaves, Lintern and his colleagues were struck with an idea: Why not test eucalyptus leaves to see if they could indicate underground gold deposits?
To do so, they visited two Australian sites with known gold deposits deep underground (as revealed by exploratory drilling) that were covered by thick layers of rock and on top of which grew tall eucalyptus trees. When they tested leaves that grew on or had fallen from the large trees in both areas, they indeed found minute traces of gold—up to 80 parts per billion, compared with the 2 parts per billion they found in leaves that had grown 650 feet away from the underground deposit.
Other researchers had detected gold particles in plants and leaf litter before, but it was unclear whether they'd been transported all the way from underground deposits. "We were concerned that the gold might have been occurring as dust particles on the outside of these leaves, so it was important for us to locate the gold within the plant," says Lintern.
His team did so by analyzing the leaves in even further detail (using a specialized X-ray microprobe located at the Australian Synchrotron research facility) and confirmed that the gold particles were located within the plant's vascular tissue, indicating that they were moving naturally within the leaves. They also conduced greenhouse experiments and found that eucalyptus saplings, grown in soil laced with similar levels of gold, absorbed it and transported detectable levels into their leaves. These separate streams of evidence, they say, shows that the wild eucalyptus trees were indeed sucking up gold from deep underground.
"The eucalyptus acts like a hydraulic pump," using its roots to suck ground water upward, crucial in an arid environment, Lintern says. "The plants, of course, are searching for water, not gold, but it just so happens that there's gold dissolved in it."
The fact that the gold has been found in the leaves, in fact, might be evidence that the eucalyptus is actively trying to get rid of it—after all, it's a toxic heavy metal—by transporting it to its extremities. Additionally, the gold particles in the leaves were often found located near calcium oxalate crystals, theorized to be part of the removal pathway for toxic chemicals.
Lintern's group plans to conduct further research into which plants are capable of transporting gold particles in this way and what environmental factors affect the rate of uptake. Mining companies in Canada, he mentions, have already toyed with the idea of using plants as mineral indicators, so this first scientific evidence for the process is likely to accelerate adoption of the method.
"Essentially, we're tapping into a natural process," Lintern says. In an age when most of the readily accessible gold near the planet's surface has been mined, it makes sense to harness the natural mineral exploration plants are already engaging in when they drive their roots deep into the ground. Doing so might even reduce the number of exploratory mines we're forced to drill—and consequently, lead to less environmental destruction of these plants' habitats as a result of mining.
October 21, 2013
Discovered: A Natural Protein in Breast Milk That Fights HIV
For decades, public health officials have puzzled over a surprising fact about HIV: Only about 10-20 percent of infants who are breastfed by infected mothers catch the virus. Tests show, though, that HIV is indeed present in breast milk, so these children are exposed to the virus multiple times daily for the first several months (or even years) of their lives.
Now, a group of scientists and doctors from Duke University has figured out why these babies don't get infected. Human breast milk naturally contains a protein called Tenascin C that neutralizes HIV and, in most cases, prevents it from being passed from mother to child. Eventually, they say, the protein could potentially be valuable as an HIV-fighting tool for both infants and adults that are either HIV-positive or at risk of contracting the infection.
The research, published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was inspired by previous work by other researchers showing that, both in tissue cultures and live mice, breast milk from HIV-negative mothers was naturally endowed with HIV-fighting properties. Scientists suggested that a few different proteins in the milk could potentially be responsible, but no one knew which one.
As part of the study, the researchers divided breast milk into smaller fractions made up of specific proteins via a number of filters—separating the proteins by size, electrical charge and other characteristics—and tested which of these fractions, when added to a tissue culture, prevented the cells from being infected by HIV. Eventually, using mass spectrometry, they found that one particular protein was present in all the HIV-resistant fractions but in none of the others: Tenascin C.
"The protein works by binding to the HIV envelope, and one of the interesting things is that we were even able to narrow down exactly where on the envelope it binds," says Sallie Permar, the study's lead author. Her team found that the protein binds to a crucial region on the virus' envelope that normally locks onto a receptor called CCR5 on the outside of human T cells,allowing it to fuse its membrane with the cell's. With the region covered up by Tenascin C, HIV's normal route of attack is blocked, and the virus' effectiveness is greatly diminished.
Still, the researchers say that other natural elements in milk might play a role in fighting HIV as well. "It's clearly not the whole story, because we do have samples that have low amounts of this protein but still have HIV-neutralizing activity," Permar says. "So it may be acting in concert with other antiviral and antimicrobial factors in the milk."
Whatever those other factors are, though, the finding vindicates recent changes to UN guidelines that recommend even HIV-positive mothers in resource-poor countries should breastfeed, if they're taking anti-retroviral drugs to combat their own infection. That's because—as statistics bear out—the immense nutritional and immune system-boosting benefits of breast milk outweigh the relatively small chance of transmitting HIV through breastfeeding. Tenascin C, it seems, is a big part of why that transmission rate is surprisingly low, and sufficient access to anti-retroviral drugs can help drive it even lower—as low as 2 percent.
The next steps, Permar says, are determining which area of Tenascin C is active in binding to HIV and whether it can effectively prevent transmission in a live animal, as opposed to a tissue culture. If it works, it could potentially be incorporated into an HIV drug with broader applications. Possible uses include giving it in a concentrated form to infants who can't breastfeed or even administering it to those who do to increase their level or resistance. It's even conceivable that it could someday be adapted to reduce the risk of HIV transmission in adults as well.
One immediate advantage, says Permar, is that "it's like to be inherently safe, because it's already a component for breast milk. It's something babies eat everyday." Other potential treatments, on the other hand, must be screened for toxicity.
Tenascin C's presence in breast milk, though, prompts a deeper question: Why would milk naturally include a protein that battles HIV, a virus that evolved extremely recently in our evolutionary history, sometime in the early 20th century?
"I don't think it's in breast milk to combat HIV specifically, but there have been other, related infections that have passed through breastfeeding," Permar says. "Our work has shown that Tenascin C's activity isn't specific to HIV, so we think it's more of a broad-spectrum anti-microbial protein."
In other words, Tenascin C is effective at combating a large variety of infections (perhaps related to its role in adults, where it holds various types of tissue together, necessitating receptors that can bind to a wide array of different cells). The fact that it happens to bind at just the right spot on HIV's outer envelope so that it combats the virus' transmission, as Permar puts it, is "a gift from evolution."


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I'm going to do overlap extension PCR. The final PCR product is composed of three PCR products. The length of each PCR product is 55bp, 850bp and 600bp. The length of each overlap primer is 35bp. Those ends of primer are G or C. The independent PCR products can be amplified well using those primers. Then, PCR products can be amlifed well using the first PCR product (55bp) and the second PCR product (850bp). However, when I did PCR using the combined one and the third PCR product (600bp) or using the second one(850bp) and the third one(600bp), PCR was not amplified. The same phenomenon happened when I did it with other plasmids. Therefore, I don't think those primers are wrong. Does somebody have amy ideas to solve this problem?
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Why do the people i seek approval from judge me so much?
3 Answers to "Why do the people i seek approval from judge me so much?"
Maybe they see you as too needy ... and don't respect that.
Not sure why you need to get approval from a lot of people. It's much more important to feel good about yourself on your own .. have self-confidence. That will be much healthier and useful in your life.Heart (2)
Because you are putting them in a position of judgement. Seek no one's approval, except your own.
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You did state approval, and not love, sure, we all want love, but we can't make people love us, I suggest that you just be yourself, thosr that value you will give their love freely, those that don't...won't, please don't lose sleep over it.
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