The end of school may mean hundreds of layoffs for Union County teacher assistants

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STALLINGS, N.C.--"We're going to celebrate those things and move past that. It's definitely on their mind, but it's in the back of their mind today,? said Glenna Bianchin, PTO President at Stallings Elementary School.

What's on their minds is the 350 teacher assistants who might not be back next year, victims of budget cuts. The system notified the staff months ago of the pending layoffs, but remain optimistic they'll be back.

"they're nervous they don't have a job, but they want to do what's right for the school and what's right for themselves and what's right for the kids. So those who feel they need to move on, they will, but the majority of them are having faith in the system right now,? said Bianchin.

School board Chairman Dean Arp says they're waiting to hear if they get extra money from the state, and they're also asking the county commission for any fill in money they can get.

"We're very hopeful about that, that something will be done, although we don't know how much, and I don't think it's going to be the full funding, but we're very hopeful,? said Arp.

He says right now, they can only afford 35-percent of these teacher assistants, which fractured the program. So, he says they gave all TAs a notice, and will re-evaluate, re-build and re-hire, once they find out how much additional funding they receive.

"The plan and the recommendation was to reconstitute that program in a more effective way with the available funding,? he said. ?So what we've gone to is a block funding method of providing the remaining money to the schools and providing them flexibility to have their instructional support as much as possible."

The school system will have an answer by the end of the month, once the state budget is finished. The school system also lost 53 unfilled teacher positions.

Friday, Governor Perdue also highlighted the need for funding for these positions in union county, saying these deep and unnecessary cuts come at a time when we should be strengthening the state's education system.

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Markets up broadly on hopes for Spanish banks, stimulus

LONDON (Reuters) - The uncertain worldwide growth outlook flushed more investors out of riskier assets on Monday, sending shares and commodities down, despite signs that a drive by Europe's leaders to tackle the region's debt crisis was gathering momentum.

The euro slid 0.2 percent to $1.2430, though it was trading well above the $1.2288 it hit on Friday, its lowest level since July 2010, while Brent crude oil fell below $97 a barrel to a 16-month low.

But safe-haven German government bond yields also rose from last week's record lows as some investors looked to take profits on the sharp moves of the past week, with low liquidity due to a UK market holiday exacerbating price swings.

"Investors are just fleeing risk assets," said ATI Asset Management chief investment officer Simon Burge.

The latest sell-off followed disappointing U.S. jobs growth figures on Friday and weak Chinese manufacturing data, which stoked fears that deepening problems in the euro zone are causing a global slowdown in business activity.

Those fears caused sharp falls across Asian markets on Monday, dragging Tokyo's Topix index <.TOPX> to a 28-year low, and followed a fall of more than 2 percent in U.S. stocks on Friday. U.S. stock index futures also pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Monday <.N>.

The MSCI world equity index <.MIWD00000PUS> was down 0.5 percent at 290.58 points, and is back at levels last reached in December before a wave of coordinated central bank intervention sparked a recovery.

In thin European markets, the FTSE Eurofirst 300 <.FTEU3> index of top shares was down 0.1 percent at 953.94 points after hitting a six-month low on Friday, while the blue chip EuroSTOXX 50 <.STOXX50E> was down 0.9 percent at 2,086.62 points.

Investors are waiting to see if policy meetings by the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England this week will produce any sign that another wave of easing is likely given the weaker-than-expected economic data.

Figures on Monday showing euro zone factory prices were unexpectedly stable in April from March, the fourth straight month of weakening inflation pressures, offered some hope that ECB could cut rates.

"Everybody is now waiting for what decision the ECB will take on Wednesday and what (U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben) Bernanke will announce on Thursday. There are strong expectations that something will happen, otherwise the market will go much further down," said Francois Duhen, strategist at CM-CIC Securities.

However, the latest Reuters survey of economists' expectations, taken before the latest U.S. jobs data, showed only a third of economists - 27 out of 73 - say the ECB will cut interest rates before the end of the year, and only 11 expect it to move at this week's meeting.

"Without any political or monetary intervention, markets are left in a vacuum," said Stewart Richardson, chief investment officer at RMG Wealth Management.

"The potential for a market capitulation in this period is high, and if we are correct in this view, we fully expect coordinated money printing from the major central banks towards the end of June," he said.

EUROPEAN MASTERPLAN

Europe's leaders are trying to ease market concerns by speaking out about moves to greater fiscal integration before their summit at the end of the month, and before a G20 group of nations meeting on June 18 and 19.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been pressing for a central authority to manage euro area finances, and also wants a coordinated approach to reforming labor markets, social security systems and tax policies.

Spain, which is struggling to shore up its banking system, signaled over the weekend that it was on board with a key element of the plan.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy called for the establishment of a central authority that would oversee and coordinate national budgets in the euro zone.

Spain will provide a big test of investor sentiment this week when it auctions more government debt on Thursday. Its 10-year bond yields have eased to around 6.5 percent, close to the 7 percent level at which other indebted countries have been forced to seek an international bailout.

COMMODITY SELL-OFF

The past week has been another bearish one for commodities as investors fear the slowdown in China coupled with the faltering U.S. recovery will hurt demand.

According to analysis by Standard Chartered Bank, funds that specialize in tracking commodity prices have seen assets under management (AUM) fall $1 billion since the start of the year. However, this was mainly due to price falls. Last week saw outflows of $91 million or 0.6% of AUM.

In price action on Monday Brent crude lost nearly 2 percent to hit a session low of $95.63 a barrel, its lowest since late January 2011.

U.S. crude fell $1.82 to $81.41 a barrel after tumbling as low as $81.32 earlier in the session, its lowest level since last October.

Gold mostly held its ground around $1,615 an ounce after its biggest rally in more than three years on Friday suggested bullion is regaining its safe-haven draw.

(Additional reporting by Anirban Nag and Tricia Wright.; Editing by Will Waterman and Elizabeth Piper)

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Aung San Suu Kyi's 'test run' outside of Myanmar ( video)

On her first international trip since 1988, Aung San Suu Kyi is in Thailand to attend a World Economic Forum summit on Friday. Next month she will travel to Europe, collecting while there the Nobel Peace Prize awarded her in 1991.

By Peter Ford,?Staff writer / May 30, 2012

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves while leaving a community center in Mahachai, Samut Sakhon Province, Thailand on Wednesday, May 30. Kicking off her first trip abroad since 1988, to attend a World Economic Forum summit on Friday.

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Not for nearly 25 years has Aung San Suu Kyi dared step outside her homeland. Not even to see her husband as he lay dying in Britain. If she ever left, she feared, Myanmar?s military government would never let her return home.

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Determined never to give up, the woman who has become an icon not only for her own people but for democracy activists worldwide refused to give the generals an opportunity to sideline her. She put up with 15 years of house arrest rather than risk becoming an exiled irrelevance.

Now she is on her first international trip since 1988, visiting neighboring Thailand to attend a World Economic Forum summit on Friday, in a sign of her confidence in recent reforms in Myanmar (also known as Burma).

Today, though, her first full day abroad, she must have felt right at home.

Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi spent the morning in the town of Mahachai, home to Thailand?s largest community of Burmese migrant workers. Thousands mobbed her before she addressed the crowd from the balcony of a community center.?

Around 2.5 million impoverished Burmese have fled their country in search of jobs in Thailand ? an illustration of how badly Myanmar?s economy suffered under nearly half a century of military rule.

Sorting out that mess is one of the prime tasks facing Myanmar?s nominally civilian government. The political reforms the government has pushed through over the past 12 months ? including partial parliamentary elections in April that Aung San Suu Kyi?s party won by a landslide ? are generally seen as a first step toward economic recovery since they have prompted Western nations to suspend damaging economic sanctions.

On Friday, at the World Economic Forum, Aung San Suu Kyi will be addressing the sorts of Asian movers and shakers whom Myanmar is counting on to invest in the country?s economic revival. Businessmen from around the world have recently been pouring into Yangon, the country?s commercial capital, seeking opportunities as Myanmar opens up to the rest of the world.

Aung San Suu Kyi?s trip to Thailand is a sort of test run, though nobody seriously expects the Myanmar government to turn her back when she flies home to Yangon this weekend.

?Next month she sets off on a more ambitious journey, and one freighted with sentiment as much as with politics, to Europe.

Besides visiting Switzerland and Ireland, Aung San Suu Kyi will go to Britain, where she was living before she returned to Myanmar in 1988 to care for her ailing mother, and where her British husband died in her absence. She will also go to Oslo, to formally accept the Nobel Peace Prize that she could not collect in person in 1991, for fear of getting stuck outside her homeland.?

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Actor Alec Baldwin arrives for the screening of Mud at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

Actor Alec Baldwin arrives for the screening of Mud at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

(AP) ? Alec Baldwin wants to make sure students at a central New York school have the opportunity to get outside and play ball.

Local media outlets report that the actor was in the Syracuse area this past weekend to help a local high school's fundraising campaign to save its modified sports program.

The star of "30 Rock" attended an event held Sunday in the gym at West Genesee High School, where one of his nephews plays sports. Baldwin's mother and two sisters live in the Syracuse area.

Baldwin grew up on Long Island, where his father was a high school football and baseball coach.

He donated $25,000 to save modified sports at West Genesee this school year and is helping raise money for next year's programs.

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Overfed fruit flies develop insulin resistance; Represent new tool to study human diabetes

Overfed fruit flies develop insulin resistance; Represent new tool to study human diabetes

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

With Type 2 human diabetes climbing at alarming rates in the United States, researchers are seeking treatments for the disease, which has been linked to obesity and poor diet.

Now biologists at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, report they have developed a new tool that will help researchers better understand this deadly disease.

By manipulating the diets of healthy adult fruit flies, the researchers developed flies that are insulin-resistant, a hallmark of Type 2 diabetes.

Until now, researchers largely have relied on rats, mice and other animals as model systems for exploring the metabolic and genetic changes that take place in diabetics.

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has been widely deployed in labs to investigate a wide range of human diseases, from Alzheimer's to cancer. But the scientific literature hasn't documented use of the adult fruit fly for studying the metabolic disruptions that are the hallmark of Type 2 diabetes. The fruit fly's advantages include its low cost and a very short lifespan, both of which enable scientists to undertake rapid screenings in their search for new genetic and drug treatments.

The insulin-resistant fruit fly was developed in the lab of SMU biologist Johannes H. Bauer, principal investigator for the study. It was accomplished by feeding fruit flies a diet high in nutrients, said Bauer, an assistant professor in SMU's Department of Biological Sciences. That process mimics one of the ways insulin resistance develops in humans ? overeating to the point of obesity.

The lab's insulin-resistant fruit flies now can serve as a highly relevant and efficient model for studying Type 2 diabetes.

"We learned that by manipulating the nutrients of fruit flies, we can make them insulin resistant," Bauer said. "With this insulin-resistant model we can now go in with pinpoint precision and study the molecular mechanisms of insulin resistance, as well as drug treatments for the condition, as well as how to treat obesity, how to block insulin resistance and how metabolic changes from a specific diet develop. The possibilities are endless."

The researchers reported their findings in the article "Development of diet-induced insulin resistance in adult Drosophila melanogaster," published in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease.

Two overfeeding diets, carb and protein, both result in insulin resistance

Insulin, produced by the pancreas, is the hormone that tells our cells to absorb glucose, a necessary sugar molecule that provides our body, particularly the brain, with the energy to function, make repairs, move and grow.

In Type 2 diabetes, a person is insulin-resistant because his or her cells fail to respond to insulin's signal to absorb glucose. The disregulation of glucose upsets the body's delicate internal equilibrium, causing massive disruptions in normal cellular processes. These interruptions manifest in multiple disease symptoms, making Type 2 diabetes difficult to characterize, treat and cure.

To provide a good base model organism to study aspects of this complex disease, researchers in the Bauer lab wanted to determine whether flies develop diabetes-like metabolic changes when fed different diets. The researchers developed the insulin-resistant flies in two different ways: One group of fruit flies was overfed a carbohydrate-loaded diet; a second group of flies was overfed a protein-loaded diet. In both cases, the disruption had a profoundly detrimental effect on the flies' health and physiology.

SMU biologist Siti Nur Sarah Morris, lead author on the study, said the results the researchers observed were both expected and unexpected. The researchers expected the flies to gain weight, which they did. Carb-loaded flies gained excessive weight and got fat, just like humans who overeat sweets, french fries, pasta and ice cream. Protein-loaded flies also gained weight, but upon extreme overfeeding they lost weight, just like humans who follow the popular Atkins Diet, a weight loss program in which participants eat meat, seafood and eggs.

The researchers expected the carb-loaded fruit flies to develop insulin resistance, which they did.

In a surprising result, however, the fruit flies that overate protein also developed insulin resistance, but at a faster and more severe rate.

"Carb-loaded flies gain weight. Protein-loaded flies gain and then lose weight. So the two diets have exactly opposite effects on metabolism," Bauer said. "But too much of either one of them causes insulin resistance. That surprised us."


Researchers at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, demonstrate that adult fruit flies fed either high-carb or high-protein diets develop metabolic abnormalities, including insulin resistance, which is a hallmark of Type 2 human diabetes. For decades, fruit fly D. melanogaster has been used successfully to investigate multiple human diseases from Alzheimer's to cancer, but not diabetes. This new study demonstrates that diet profoundly influences fruit fly physiology and health and that insulin-resistant flies provide a new research tool for investigating the molecular mechanisms of insulin resistance. Credit: SMUResearch.comOverfed flies had shortened lifespans, differences in fertility

In other findings, carb-loaded flies experienced a profound decline in egg-laying, a measurement of fertility. In contrast, protein-loaded flies first experienced increased egg-laying, but the extreme diet led to decreased egg laying. Both diets led to shortened longevity, the scientists reported.

"The high-protein flies looked frail and unhealthy. They moved less, almost as if sedated," Morris said. "The fatter flies on the high-carb diet had massively decreased fertility; they flew less but still tried to move."

While both diets resulted in insulin resistance, differences were remarkable.

"The carb data imply a linear relationship between carb levels and health. The more carbs, the more weight, the more sugar storage and fat, the more insulin resistance and the less fertility," Bauer said. "But with protein, this relationship becomes parabolic, meaning all readouts go up, then come down again. The decreased storage we liken to a catabolic state that is primarily destructive for the body's optimum metabolic functioning, such as the ketosis typically seen in people eating Atkins-type diets."

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Article: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925443912000993

Southern Methodist University: http://www.smu.edu

Thanks to Southern Methodist University for this article.

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How to buy a property abroad | Moneyhacker

Whether you?re thinking of making a big move or simply shopping for a vacation home, owning a property in another country sounds delightfully adventurous and promising. However, the road to getting there can be full of confusion and legal and financial setbacks. To make sure that your buying experience is as stress-free as possible, here are some tips on purchasing property internationally.

Hire a lawyer. The best way to get started on your search for a home abroad is to hire independent legal counsel in your destination country. This should be a lawyer or a legal firm that specializes in real estate law whom you have chosen independently (that is, without any association to whomever may be your real estate agent overseas). The importance of hiring someone who has explicit knowledge and experience with property law in his or her own country cannot be overstated, as these laws can differ greatly from the ones you may be familiar with in your own country. And though bilingual lawyers usually cost more, you will greatly benefit from receiving legal advice from someone who has the ability to translate to English.

Take time to research. Buying property in your home country would take a lengthy research process -- you?d have to work with your bank to sort out how much property you can afford, scour the listings to see which areas offered the best value, and then contact a mortgage company to create a plan for financing the property. Buying internationally only adds more steps to this process, so it is important to begin with a clear idea of how much time it will take to find a property abroad and to go through all the paperwork -- and stick to that timeline.

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Be generous when creating your budget. Even if you get a good price for your property abroad, you should still be prepared to pay more than an additional 10 percent of that cost in legal fees. You?ll also need to make sure that you have purchased an appropriate amount of insurance for your property. Even still, you?ll need to sort out whether it is financially more expedient for you to finance your property in the UK or abroad. And finally, watch out for potential pitfalls when it comes to currency exchange rates.

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If so, it may help to contact legal advice in the UK, such as Irwin Mitchell, before getting started in your search for a home abroad. The more information you have, the more you?ll feel in control, so don?t hesitate to start gathering information as soon as possible.

References:
1. Fco.gov.uk - Buying a property
2. Bbc.co.uk - Buying property abroad
3. Guardian.co.uk - Buying property abroad

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What is it that keeps us working so hard for the friendships and intimate, love relationship that we so desperately desire?

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Perhaps there a fight of epic proportions for which things are said that can never be taken back.

Or perhaps there is silence. A silence so great that the hole that is left creates emotions that will take years to heal.

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