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3 Things My Cat Ariel Does That Brightens My DayDevan McGuinness
It's been a few months since we adopted our 2-and-a-half year old cat Ariel. She has melded into our family very well and getting to know her over these past few months has been so fun.
I lived with my cats Puff and Ming-Ming for 16 years. They both passed away at the start of the year and they were the best cats in the whole world (I stand by that). When you love someone that long and are used to their mannerisms and what they like and don't like, I worried about getting to know a new cat and if I would or could bond with her as I had with my older cats.
I knew from the moment we saw her, she was destined to be a part of our family and she's been making my day brighter ever since we brought her home.
1) She purrs like nothing else: This cat, I swear you just have to look at her and she will start purring for you. It's a therapeutic sound for me and having a cat show you so much love — it's near impossible not to just radiate happy.
2) She plays: It has been so long since I have had a cat who is interested enough in playing. Puff and Ming-Ming lost interest in that long before they passed away and watching Ariel play is so fun. We have toys for her in the house and randomly she will just attack a toy on the floor or jump at a light shining on the wall.
3) She scratches when she drinks: I don't know why she does this, but when she drinks, she scratches the floor like she's digging with her paws. I wonder if it has to do with nursing as a kitten or if it's more with how she found water when she was living outside before she was taken to the animal shelter. The first time we saw her do this, it was so hard not to laugh!
:: In what ways does your cat brighten your day? ::
Photo credit: Devan McGuinness
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Rebalancing Putnam
Weeks earlier, on October 28, 2003, Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin and the Securities and Exchange Commission each had filed civil complaints against the Boston-based fund company. They alleged that Putnam had allowed portfolio managers to skirt corporate policies by rapidly trading its funds and allowing certain clients to do the same.
In the days that followed, the company's CEO of 18 years, Lawrence Lasser, was forced out along with several portfolio managers. Even though the new CEO, Charles "Ed" Haldeman, was working on a settlement with regulators, states and large companies with pensions that Putnam managed were pulling money out hand over fist.
By November 10, 11 states, including Massachusetts, which Putnam called home, had yanked $6 billion from the firm.
To get his mind off things, Divney, managing director and chief investment officer for the midcap growth equity team, decided to duck out during lunch and go to the gym. On his way out, he ran into Haldeman.
"Here I am sneaking out with my gym bag during lunch and I run smack into the new CEO," Divney recalls. "And he says to me, 'Kevin, going to the gym? Wish I could go with you.' "
Haldeman's laid-back attitude might have seemed counterintuitive for the new CEO of a company in crisis. But it's his focus on creating more balance between work and life that is crucial to getting the company back on track, he says.
"It seemed to me that we should make it less difficult for our employees because this industry is already stressful enough," says Haldeman, 57. Before joining Putnam as co-head of investments in 2002, Haldeman was CEO of Delaware Investments, a Philadelphia-based money management firm.
The goal of that balance, Haldeman says, is to attract and retain the best people in the industry. Traditionally companies rely on compensation to do that, but Haldeman believes that's just part of it.
"It's more important to have a culture that people want to devote their lives to," he says.
Many firms respond to breakdowns in ethics by adding more rules and regulations. But under Haldeman, Putnam has dismantled much of the rigid culture that had dominated the company.
From removing layers of management to adjusting compensation to focus on long-term performance, Putnam has established a work environment that encourages its 3,000 employees, rather than dictating to them.
In an industry where there's constant pressure to generate returns, this is no small feat, says Jeff Keil of Keil Fiduciary Strategies, a mutual fund consultant in Littleton, Colorado. "Often in financial services there is a mentality of 'How big is the fine?' But Putnam is focusing more on long-term results," he says.
Three years have passed since the scandal. Total assets at Putnam, a subsidiary of New York-based professional services company Marsh & McLennan, are at $191 billion, $64 billion of which is with institutional clients. On the institutional side, that's up from $53.7 billion at the end of 2004—a good sign, because institutional clients are often the most cautious investors.
In October 2004, the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board, one of the first state funds to drop Putnam after the scandal, rehired the company's small-cap team to manage $800 million.
"We are convinced that they are much more focused on investment performance," says Michael Travaglini, executive director of the Massachusetts fund.
After seeing 30 portfolio managers leave from 2003 to 2005, half of whom were forced out, the company's annual turnover rate has come down to 11 percent, compared with the three-year average of 21 percent.
And the tainted image of Putnam's former self has started to fade, says Dan Kreuter, president of DAK Associates, a Conshohocken, Pennsylvania-based financial services recruiter. "There are a lot of good people now that would look at Putnam that would not have considered them a few years ago," he says.
Responding to scandal
At 7:30 a.m. on Haldeman's first day as CEO, he began holding 45-minute meetings with groups of employees to discuss what had happened and to answer questions. Later that week, he visited employees at Putnam's Andover and Franklin, Massachusetts, offices to do the same.
"The communication was the best I had ever seen in the six years I had been at the company," Divney says. "Rumors didn't have time to manufacture themselves because you had the information before a rumor even started."
Communication has become a trademark of Putnam's new culture under Haldeman. While Lasser held quarterly meetings for the company's 800 officers, Haldeman opted for all-employee meetings, where he and other executives talk for 15 minutes and then open the session up for questions from employees for 30 minutes.
Haldeman also began sending out weekly e-mail updates to employees. He continues those e-mails on a biweekly basis.
"Employees had said that they didn't feel like there was enough openness and transparency at the company," Haldeman says.
"One Putnam"
In April 2004, Putnam agreed to pay $110 million to settle accusations leveled by the SEC and Massachusetts regulators. Rapid trading of mutual funds, also known as market timing, refers to the practice of traders jumping in and out of funds in an attempt to take advantage of inefficiency of fund pricing. While not illegal, it causes an increase in fund expenses, which hurts long-term investors, and thus is banned by many fund companies, including Putnam.
Creating more balance between work and life is crucial to getting back on track, CEO Charles "Ed" Halderman says. "... We should make it less difficult for our employees because this industry is already stressful enough."
As part of its settlement, the fund company agreed to a number of corporate governance measures, including mandating that portfolio managers who buy Putnam funds hold them for at least 12 months, a promise no other major fund company has agreed to make.
But stepping up compliance was only part of Putnam's response. Haldeman recognized that there was something in the company's culture that allowed the trading practice to happen. Because of the firm's intense focus on short-term gains, the portfolio managers broke Putnam's market timing rules, and executives allowed it. "It was an extreme type-A culture," Haldeman says.
Putnam, like most financial services companies, wanted the best and most ambitious and thus ended up with a fiercely competitive environment.
"When you have an intense environment like that where it's all about winning and getting the most you can, a small number of people can cross the line," Haldeman says.
There also was a strong hierarchy to support this culture. In the old Putnam, Lasser and three other top executives ran the company from the 12th floor, where no other employees worked.
"It was literally cocooned off by doors. The only reason you would go up there is if you were summoned," Haldeman says, "and usually being summoned was a bad thing."
Lasser had asked Haldeman to join him on the 12th floor when he came on board, but Haldeman refused. And a year later when he became CEO, he stayed in his office, which is in the middle of the investments area.
Within days of taking over, Haldeman drafted guiding principals for the company. These values, dubbed "One Putnam," include personal integrity, mutual respect and the highest professional standards. Haldeman had managers review the values with their groups, and in January 2005, Putnam introduced an orientation program for new hires that discusses the values.
Creating "One Putnam" required a flattening of the organization, which meant eliminating several management positions. Under Lasser, there were many people whose jobs were to manage other employees, and Haldeman wanted to change that.
"To retain and attract the best people, it's necessary to provide them with autonomy and independence to make decisions," he says. "When people are spending all of their time writing up reports on their activity, we lose a lot of their productivity."
Within 12 months, Putnam reduced its staff by 11 percent, including 25 of the top 50 highest-paid executives. "We replaced all but two members of our management team," Haldeman says.
Divney, who used to spend two to six hours a week in meetings, says he and the other team leaders now meet only once a month, and will cancel meetings if there is nothing to talk about.
"Our stress now is focused on beating the markets," he says.
Reshaping a culture
The flatter organization has allowed for more collaboration among departments, which was unheard of in earlier years. Putnam, like many fund companies, has three divisions: one dedicated to retail or individual investors; another dedicated to institutional investors; and a third focused on international partnerships.
"In the past these businesses worked in silos, with their own products and strategies," says Sandra Whiston, head of institutional sales.
By working together, there now are not only more opportunities to cross-sell products, but employees are increasingly moving into other divisions within the company, she says. In fact, Whiston currently is hiring for a few positions and is in talks with some candidates in the retail division. "That wouldn't have happened 10 years ago," she says.
By opening up the organization so that employees can move between departments, Putnam is also able to position itself uniquely when recruiting at colleges and universities, she says. And by stressing the ability to grow within the organization, Putnam is better able to retain talent.
"There are a lot of good people
now that would look at Putnam
that would not have considered
them a few years ago."
--Dan Kreuter, president,
DAK Associates
To create a more collegial environment, Haldeman got rid of the firm's formal dress code in favor of business casual.
"The dress code seemed to create its own hierarchy, in that the highest-level people wore the very good suits with the cuff links," he says. "By implementing business casual, we wanted to send the message that the organization didn't focus on hierarchy and titles, but rather substance over form." Also, he says, many of the younger employees view business casual as a perk.
Haldeman also replaced the executive-only dining room with an employee cafeteria. The dining hall, which looks over a park, is reminiscent of a high school cafeteria, with employees joking with one another in one corner and poring over papers and debating investment theories in another.
Haldeman, who is based in the Boston headquarters, tries to grab a bite there whenever he's not traveling. He chats with employees and their kids, who often visit. That's a stark difference from his predecessor, observers say.
"I have spoken to portfolio managers who said that Lasser didn't even know their names," says Laura Lutton, an analyst with Chicago-based fund researcher Morningstar.
A new approach to compensation
One concern that many employees voiced to Haldeman was the lack of transparency in compensation decisions. People said decisions were made by a small group of executives behind closed doors. "Since they didn't know what formulas were being used, they assumed it was based on politics," Haldeman says.
Tensions about bonuses were particularly high in the months after the scandal broke. This was understandable, given that for many employees, bonuses make up 90 percent to 95 percent of their compensation.
To ease stress, Putnam gave out 2003 bonuses two months early, in January of 2004. And the company committed to keeping bonuses at 2003 levels for the next two years.
Putnam also removed the three-year vesting requirement from the bonus program so that employees could receive their bonuses immediately. "We didn't want people to feel trapped into staying with the company," Haldeman says.
Instead of having the top executives decide the bonuses for every employee, Putnam gave its managers ownership of the process.
By doing this, not only do employees feel more comfortable that their bosses, who know them, are making decisions about their compensation, but it also saves a lot of time, says Richard Tibbetts, head of human resources. The decision-making process for compensation was cut by more than half from 90 days to 30 to 45 days.
Haldeman also eliminated the huge differentiation between how much senior management makes and what everyone else gets paid. "Today upper management, including myself, gets paid less than half of what the senior management team was paid in 2000," he says. For example, in 2004 Haldeman's total compensation was $13.6 million, compared with the $35.2 million Lasser made in 2000.
To prevent portfolio managers from making overly aggressive trades to get their funds' performance among the top 1 percent for the year, Haldeman established a compensation program that rewarded long-term consistent performance, as opposed to "a home run in a short time," he says.
Previously there was no set formula—at least not one that was shared with the portfolio managers—about how their compensation was determined. But it was understood that getting their funds' performance to the top percentage of their peer group was a goal. That meant, for example, that small-cap managers fought to make their funds' performance among the top 1 percent of all small-cap funds. Under the new program, implemented in 2004, one-year fund performance accounts for 20 percent of a portfolio manager's total compensation, while three- and five-year performance each account for 40 percent.
Furthermore, portfolio managers have incentives to get in the top half of their peer group's performance. "They get nothing more if they are in the top 2 percent," Haldeman says.
In an industry where making money is paramount, such a long-term approach is almost unheard of, Keil says.
For Divney, the long-term focus on performance eases the stress. "Now I feel like when we are talking about improving performance, it's much more consultative and less 'gotcha,' " he says.
Performance pressure
While employees agree that Putnam is a nicer place to work today than it was five years ago, time will tell whether a better culture means better performance.
So far, the numbers are promising. In 2005, 47 percent of the firm's funds were in the top half of their peer group, compared with 39 percent in 2003, according to Lipper, a provider of mutual fund research. Twelve percent were in the bottom quarter of their peer group, compared with 25 percent in 2003.
It's going to take time, however, before institutional clients will feel comfortable putting money with Putnam, observers say. When looking at five-year annualized returns of Putnam funds, only 36 percent rank in the top half of their peer group, while 32 percent are ranked in the bottom 25th percentile.
But at least the company's employees feel like they have their sights set on the right goals.
"Now the energy we spent competing internally is redirected to compete externally," Divney says. "Like I tell my team: The problem is not inside the building, it's outside the window."
|A recent survey of 1,121 managers and human resources experts from around the world found that pressure to meet unrealistic business objectives is the top reason employees break the rules.
|What are the top three factors that are most likely to cause
people to compromise an organization's ethical standards?
|Pressure to meet unrealistic business objectives/deadlines
|Desire to further one's career
|Desire to protect one's livelihood
|Working in environment with cynicism or diminished morale
|Improper training/ignorance that the act was unethical
|Lack of consequence if caught
|Need to follow boss's orders
|Peer pressure/desire to be a team player
|Desire to steal from or harm the organization
|Wanting to help the organization survive
|Desire to save job
|A sense of loyalty
|Source: "The Ethical Enterprise," a survey commissioned by the American Management Association andconducted by the Human Resource Institute
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Serves 4Stuffing: 4 ounces Gorgonzola cheese, crumbled 1 teaspoon minced fresh thyme leaves 1 small clove garlic, minced or pressed through...
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¼ cup walnuts, toasted and finely chopped
3 medium dried figs, stemmed and chopped
1 tablespoon dry sherry
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
Chicken and breading:
4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
¼ teaspoon kosher salt, divided
¼ teaspoon fresh ground black pepper, divided
½ cup all-purpose flour
2 to 3 cups panko bread crumbs
3 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1. To prepare stuffing: Crumble cheese into a small bowl. Add thyme, garlic, walnuts, figs, sherry, salt and pepper. Mix with a fork until well blended and set aside.
2. To prepare chicken: Set a chicken breast on a cutting surface. Holding a sharp paring knife parallel to the cutting surface, begin slicing from the center into the thicker side of the chicken to open. Stop slicing when within about ¾ inch of the edge. Repeat on the thinner side of the breast if necessary for an even surface. Place the chicken between sheets of plastic wrap and pound with a meat mallet to an even ¼-inch thickness. Pound the edges just a little thinner for easier rolling. Season with salt and pepper.
3. Place a spoonful of the Gorgonzola stuffing in the center of each piece of chicken and flatten slightly with your fingers. Beginning with a narrower edge, roll chicken around filling, tucking in the edges. Chill 30 minutes.
4. To bread stuffed chicken: Measure and spread flour on a dinner plate; season with salt and pepper. Spread panko crumbs on a second plate. Whisk together eggs and mustard in a bowl and set aside. Dredge one of the chicken pieces in flour, then dip in egg, coating all surfaces. Finally, dredge in panko crumbs. Repeat with remaining chicken. Refrigerate 30 to 60 minutes.
5. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place a wire rack over a foil-lined baking sheet and set chicken on the rack. Bake about 40 minutes or until an instant-read thermometer reads 165 degrees when inserted into the center of the chicken. Let rest 5 minutes before serving.
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The US Government is trying a new approach to battle the emerald ash borer, and it needs volunteers' help.
The plan is to collect ash seeds.
The seeds will be cleaned and preserved. If the ash trees are wiped out, the seeds can then be planted up to 50 years from now.
Identify ash trees in your area during the spring and summer. In the fall, collect the seeds. Store them in a cloth or paper bag and mail them within 24 hours to:
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Texas Tech hasn't had much to be upbeat about during the final weeks of the past two seasons.
The Red Raiders are hoping to change that this year. But after dropping the last three games after a 7-0 start some players might be concerned about the past repeating itself.
Beginning in 2011, the Red Raiders are 2-12 from game eight onward, including the current three-game skid.
The challenge appears tougher Saturday against No. 4 Baylor (8-0, 5-0), the Big 12's rushing leader with the conference's top two running backs. Texas Tech (7-3, 4-3) has given up 277, 281 and 291 yards on the ground in its three straight losses.
Texas Tech's defensive coordinator Matt Wallerstedt said players' memories of the past seasons' finishes could be a mental block.
Texas Tech aims to end skid against No. 4 Baylor
Texas Tech hasn't had much to be upbeat about during the final weeks of the past two seasons.
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I just read in Velo News and I've read it, in some training books, that just going out for a ride doe's nothing for you. If you don't go out and do intervals or sprints, or hill climbs, etc. your basically wasting your time. If you go out for a 4 hour ride, at a slow pace, the only thing you've done is get yourself tired.
I'm not talking about just going out to smell the roses, like some people do. I'm talking about exercise. I cant believe your not doing anything for yourself, just riding. Are they just talking about racing or getting ready to race?
I would call Z2 pretty easy riding, Recovery or just plan riding. Your getting your heart rate up, rather than just sitting here, like I am now. I just find it hard to believe that your not gaining anything, just riding. I've gone for 4 and 5 hour rides and when I get back I'm 4 pounds lighter and they say, I'm not gaining anything. Anyhow would some of you shed some light on this. I know I must be missing something.


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Chest pains after sex?
I'm am 20. Once my bf and I had sex for about an 1.5 hours. My chest got really tight and hurt so I made him stop. Then me right side, particularly my arm got numb and tingly like it had fallen asleep or something. What was all that about? Could it possible just be from the long duration of sex?
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It depends on how far along you are and what position you were in. If you were in the missionary position for any extended period of time, the baby probably put too much weight on your abdomen and it cut part of the circulation off. If I lay on my back for even a short while, my limbs go numb and I get chest pains. Whatever you do, make sure you are comfortable and that both you and the baby are getting enough oxygen flow at all times.posted 01/24/2008 by AbbysMama0509
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Kantar: iPhone, Windows Phone sales growing faster than Android
Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android continues to dominate U.S. smartphone sales but the platform is experiencing slower growth than both Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS and Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone, research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech reports.
At the close of the three-month period ending in April 2013, Android represented 51.7 percent of all smartphones nationwide, up from 50.3 percent in the year-ago period--a change of 1.4 percentage points. iOS remained in second place at 41.4 percent, increasing from 39.1 percent at the end of April 2012--a jump of 2.3 percentage points. Windows Phone followed at 5.6 percent, compared to 3.8 percent a year ago, an increase of 1.8 percentage points. BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY) plummeted from 5.3 percent to just 0.7 percent.
Among all U.S. consumers who purchased a Windows Phone device during the past 12 months, 42 percent upgraded from a feature phone, 25 percent transitioned from another Windows device and 23 percent switched from Android, Kantar notes. The firm adds that iOS is similarly effective at capturing Android users and existing Apple device owners, but only 31 percent of new iPhone adopters upgraded from feature phones, underlining Windows Phone's attractiveness to first-time smartphone buyers.
"But it's not just about capturing the market that is yet to upgrade," said Kantar analyst Mary-Ann Parlato. "Windows is also seeing success in the younger group. When looking at those who changed device, between 2011 and 2012 Windows was more successful at capturing older consumers aged 50-64. But when looking at those changing now and in the last year, we're seeing Windows now gaining share among those aged 25-34."
Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) remains in the overall U.S. smartphone sales lead at 36.3 percent, up from 34.5 percent in the year-earlier period, trailed by AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) at 26.3 percent, up slightly from 26 percent. Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) accounted for 13.1 percent of nationwide smartphone sales between February 1 and April 30, up from 11.7 percent a year ago, and T-Mobile US (NYSE:TMUS) fell from 14.8 percent to 11.3 percent. T-Mobile now offers Apple's iPhone, which should improve its fortunes in the months ahead.
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I have a couple of young kids who are old enough to start road biking. I also have a spare 650c wheelset and enough components to contemplate putting together a small bike for them. However, I have been unable to locate frames specifically for 650c wheels. I'm not looking at anything terribly expensive since it's just for the kids. But I'm curious if there are complete frames or even lug sets that are available for a bike of this size.
Related thought: From what I can tell there is only about a 6mm difference between the radius of a 650c wheel and a 26" mountain bike wheel. Would it be reasonable to use a mountain bike frame for such a project?
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Bed Buddies!
Hailey loves to share her crib with Casey!
Hailey loves to share her crib with Casey!
Cooper the Sheltie says: "Whatcha lookin' at Dylan?"
Ellie and General…regard each other.LOL, give it time, Julie. ;)
Mariah, always the quiet one, loves to go for rides with Charlie and Liam. ;)
A friend dropped by with his children and his youngest, Mary took a shine to my sisters Sheltie, Jasmine!
I think Jasmine felt the same…they were great buddies by the end of the day!


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An exhausted Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic embrace after last year's 353-minute Australian Open men's singles final; Maria Sharapova congratulates Victoria Azarenka after her 88-minute women's singles victory.
Let me throw a few figures at you: 16 sets and 126 games; 25 sets and 243 games; $1.15 million.
The first set of numbers is the workload Maria Sharapova endured at last year's Australian Open, in which she was thrashed in straight sets (and 88 minutes) by Victoria Azarenka in the final.
The second set of numbers encapsulates the 2012 Australian Open experience of Rafael Nadal, who eventually lost the men's final to Novak Djokovic over five sets in a Grand Slam record 353 minutes.
The dollar figure? Well that's what Sharapova and Nadal both took home for their apparently "equal efforts".
I'm aware that I write this in an embarrassing economic climate where starting salaries for female university graduates can be as much as $14,000 less than their male counterparts.
I'm also acutely empathetic to the fact the majority of elite sportswomen make a mere pittance of what their male equivalents can pull in.
I've written stories about this salary gap in the past. My own sister is an All-Australian footballer, who has had to fundraise and dip into her own savings every time she has travelled out of WA to represent her state.
But the reality is that the majority of male-female sporting pay discrepancies are a direct commercial result of how much someone is prepared to pay to broadcast an event or code (there's a chicken-egg debate to be had there - another day) and the situation that exists in Grand Slam singles tennis is something else entirely.
Put simply, it's an inequitable case of one group of players, who play best of three sets, being paid the same as another, who are required to work harder by playing best of five.
Male singles players accounted for 460 sets played (or at least started - factoring in retirements) at last year's Australian Open, female singles players accounted for a total of 285 - yet the pool of prize money available to each was exactly the same.
How can that compute?
There is, of course, the possibility that female tennis players are just more marketable than the men.
But the counter to that argument is that the top rating programs on Australian TV for three consecutive weeks last January were all marquee men's matches, including the epic Djokovic-Nadal final, after which a bloke from Kia gave an equally epic speech that certainly ensured his company got its money's worth.
And then there's ticket pricing. The maximum price for a ticket for this year's women's final is $50 LESS than the minimum price for a seat at the men's final a day later.
At this point, let me me acknowledge that I'm definitely not:
- the first person to raise this issue
- certain what the solution is (although I can't see any reason why women shouldn't also play five sets)
- completely sure why it gets me so worked up every summer (I wonder if being "unfairly" paid an equal amount to do one thing is bad karma for the case for women to legitimately be paid equally in other fields?)
- crying poor for the likes of Roger Federer, whose career prizemoney has reached a lazy $76 million.
But I know next week, when the Australian Open gets underway, there will be a Peter Gojowczyk and a Gisela Dulko and that it's going to get on my nerves.
At last year's Open, Gojowczyk slugged it out against Donald Young for five sets and 158 minutes in losing in the first round. Dulko was dispatched in the opening round by Sharapova in two (straight) sets in less than an hour.
Both losers were sent home with $20,000.
There's nothing equal in that equation.
Quirky fact 1: Frenchman Gilles Simon, one of the few male players to speak out against equal Grand Slam pay, played 10 sets in total in losing in the second round at last year's Australian Open - the same amount of total sets played by Caroline Wozniacki in a campaign that ended against Kim Clijsters in the quarter-finals.
Simon's earn: $33,300. Wozniacki's cheque: $218,500.
Quirky fact 2: If absolute equality of pay is such a big focus in Grand Slam events, how come the winners of the men's and women's doubles at the 2012 Australian Open received only $454, 500 (about $1.8 million less than singles winners) - to be shared between two players?!


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The recent Special Commissioners' case of Corbally-Stourton v HMRC, has added clarity to the law on HMRC's ability to raise a discovery assessment.
HMRC may open a routine enquiry into a taxpayer's return if notice is given to the taxpayer within a period of 12 months from the filing date of a return. In this case the filing date was 31 January 2000. HMRC attempted to issue such a notice but because of administrative errors the notice was never issued and so HMRC were no longer able to open an enquiry.
A discovery assessment can be issued where there has been a loss of tax to the Crown. HMRC can make an assessment in the amount which they consider is needed in order to make good to the Crown the loss of tax. This effectively allows HMRC a second bite at the cherry as HMRC have 6 years within which to make a discovery assessment (to be reduced to 4 years following Finance Bill 2008).
However, there are safeguards: circumstances in which HMRC will be 'shut out' for making a discovery assessment. The relevant restriction for the purposes of this case is that HMRC are shut out where at the end of the normal enquiry period (in this case 31 January 2001) "the officer could not have been reasonably expected, on the basis of the information made available to him before that time, to be aware of the [circumstances giving rise to the loss of tax]".
While there were many issues for determination in this case, of key importance was the level of disclosure that needed to be made on the taxpayer's return in order for HMRC to be shut out from making a discovery assessment on these grounds.
The law in this area has been very uncertain since the 2004 case of Veltema v Langham. The main area of concern, until the case, has been that it has not been known what level of awareness an officer of HMRC must have before he is shut out from making a discovery assessment. The Special Commissioner accepted that the test should be whether a reasonable officer would conclude that it was more probable than not that there had been a loss of tax. In a key passage the Special Commissioner stated:-
"Thus in my view it is not required that the officer be aware that there was in truth an insufficiency or that he be aware that it was beyond all reasonable doubt that there was an insufficiency, but merely that the information should enable him to conclude on balance that there was an insufficiency. Again a mere suspicion would not be enough, but, a conclusion in relation to which he had some residual doubt may well be sufficient. If he could reasonably have been expected to have come to such a conclusion before the later of the times mentioned he is precluded from making a discovery assessment".
On the particular facts of the case, although the taxpayer had given fairly full disclosure on her tax return, it was not enough to satisfy the Special Commissioner that it was "probably wrong".
Burges Salmon acted for the taxpayer in this case. While it is disappointing that the decision went against her on the facts, the judgement is none the less welcome. It should bring some degree of certainty to this area of tax law and provide comfort to taxpayers going forward. It is likely to be cited and relied upon in future cases.
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High functional complexity is leading us towards new architectures for sensing systems. Multi-tiered design is one among the many emerging alternatives. Such architectures bring new opportunities for effective system-level power management. For instance, varying one/more tier-level parameters can provide substantial end-to-end energy scaling. In this paper, we review an existing approach that shows how one such parameter, namely data compression, can help us scale energy at the cost of algorithmic accuracy. The methodology is driven by a case study of inferring the onset of seizure events directly from compressively-sensed electroencephalograms. Results from an
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Lady Gaga showed up on the red carpet at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards as her male alter-ego Jo Calderone, a cigarette-smoking, beer -swigging mechanic from Sicily. Gaga stayed in character the whole night even delivering a lengthy opening monologue where Calderone laments Gaga's particular peculiarities before performing a version of "You and I" with Queen's Brian May on guitar.
Lady Gaga napped for an hour inside a giant, windowed perfume bottle at New York's Guggenheim during a masquerade ball for the launch of her new perfume FAME where people milled about and occasionally reached through the window to touch her prone figure. When she woke she peed in a champagne bucket and got a tattoo of a winged cherub on the back of her head.
Prior to the release of ARTPOP, Lady Gaga surfaced in a two minute and nineteen second video where she roamed through the woods butt naked and hugged a crystal as part of a series of exercises designed to help her experience the present moment and kick her 15 joints-a-day ganja habit. The short film doubled as a promo video for long duration performance artist Marina Abramović's Kickstarter campaign which included "hugs" for $1 backers.
Lady Gaga rocked a grill of giant, scary teeth at the first ever YouTube Music Awards. She seemed to be channeling the Reverend Henry Kane from the Poltergeist film series, but for no apparent reason. Gaga followed her toothy entrance by debuting a new song, "Dope." Dressed in the decidedly anti-Gaga attire of a trucker hat and buttoned flannel, she played the piano and wailed "I need you more than dope" over and over again while crying, strangely. The LA Times reported that over 4,000 online viewers fled the YouTube Video Awards following her weird performance.
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Stating that those who criticise technology, make maximum use of it, the Advisor to the Prime Minister Sam Pitroda on Thursday urged parents and teachers to act only as mentors and allow students to explore the world on their own.
Delivering a lecture on The Need for Information Infrastructure and Innovation in 21st century at the jam-packed law auditorium in Panjab University (PU), Pitroda said both parents and teachers have old ideas and added that while lectures have remained the same for years, the time for change had arisen and young minds should make use of technology to be at its vanguard.
Now education does not mean duster, chalk, blackboard and A B C...Students by using technology can learn about Paris in morning, Einstein in afternoon and about Gandhi in evening, the man credited with being behind Indias IT revolution said.
Born in a tribal society in Orissa having seven siblings Pitroda is constantly working to digitise entire working of the government offices. While motivating the students, he said that for inventing new things you need not to have time in fact your mind has to work constantly.
Interestingly, he said that world is not about Cricket, Bollywood and gossip. We are living in best times and India is having huge young talents and by establishing National Knowledge Commission (NKC) to connect higher education institutes, innovation councils in the state, we are building platform for students for their better future.
Universities do not create entrepreneurs. They making use of traditional methods of teaching the old courses. It is difficult to create over 5 million jobs every year, added Pitroda.
When asked by one of the students that present system does not allow us to think new things as to get degrees we have to attended class and appear for exams, Pitroda said, You can drop a year to work on something new. If system is not changing, change yourself. India has to shun the systems it has adopted since the British Raj.


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This recipe is a real winner. Not only does my family like it, but it's popular at potlucks. It's also great to make ahead for a company dinner. Just remove it from the refrigerator 30 minutes before baking.—Mary Louise Ireland, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania
- 3 slices bread, crusts removed and cubed
- 1/2 cup milk
- 10 medium potatoes, peeled, cubed and cooked
- 2 medium green peppers, chopped
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1/2 cup minced fresh parsley
- 1-1/2 pounds process cheese (Velveeta), cubed
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 1. In a small bowl, soak bread in milk; set aside. In a large bowl, combine the potatoes, green peppers, onion, parsley and reserved bread mixture. Stir in cheese.
- 2. Transfer to a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Drizzle with butter. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until bubbly. Yield: 16-20 servings.
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"I Feel Used" quips Volition Designer Jameson Durall in a post on #AltDevBlogADay. In a lengthy post Durall rails against the used games market and how it is "significantly impacting the revenue" developers receive. He talks about how great it is that developers are coming up with new ways to recoup money from the used games market such as online pass codes:
"Some consumers complain about this method because the precedent has always been that it's included in the price and should come with it. It did for the person who actually bought it first…so was saving that $5 at Gamestop worth it for you?"
Don't worry, the tone gets even worse as he goes on. Besides liking the idea of the (rumored) price point being lower for digital games compared to retail games on the PS Vita, Durall is delighted to hear a rumor that Microsoft might even disable the use of used games on its next Xbox system:
"There's another big rumor about the next Xbox console that could really start to shake things up…it won't play used games at all! Personally I think this would be a fantastic change for our business and even though the consumers would be up in arms about it at first…they will grow to understand why and that it won't kill them."
He also seems to look down his nose at game lending to a friend and thinks the Amazon method would work pretty good for games:
"Another issue would be with simply lending the game to a friend, but maybe they could implement something similar to what Amazon is doing with their Kindle Books lending policy. The license of the game could be transferred for a set time to another Gamer Tag and the original owner won't be able to play during that time. Seems like it could work."
Finally he concludes that players just don't realize how much it costs to put a game on the market:
"In the end, I fully believe that we have to do something about these issues or our industry is going to fall apart. People often don't understand the cost that goes into creating these huge experiences that we put on the shelves for only $60. They also don't seem to realize how much they are hurting us when they buy a used game and how pirating a copy is just plain stealing. Maybe something as simple as educating them could help solve the problem…"
My goodness, there's so much to take in in that post that is wrong. This is the part where I rant (the opinions below are mine, and not necessarily those of GamePolitics or the ECA).
It's interesting that before 2007 or 2008 you didn't hear anyone even talking about the used games market. It's almost like it didn't exist… except that it had existed for as long as console systems have existed. So why does it suddenly have such an impact on new game sales? But forget about that for a minute – the real question is, do developers really deserve a cut of game sales AFTER they have already sold a new copy of the game to the consumer? Shouldn't this fall under the First Sale Doctrine? Why are games any different than any other product you can physically touch like a car, a shirt, or a music CD? Used music sales have been around for decades but the music industry never went out of business. Why do games, facing the same challenges that the music and the movie industry faced (and still face), deserve special attention?
And if used game sales are so dangerous to the video game industry (and the oft cited menace of piracy) why don't we ever see any cause and effect in publicly traded companies' financial results? After all, if used games sales and piracy do so much damage to the game industry and cause job losses, shouldn't they be able to put the amount of financial damage being caused on paper for everyone to see? The reason they don't "put those numbers on paper" is because they have no idea. Sure, they can "claim" that piracy and used games (which some developers consider equally damaging) steal revenue and cause job losses, but they just can't seem to prove it beyond using estimates not based in reality (for example, a pirated copy of a game equals one lost sale, or one used game sale equals one new game sale being lost).
The real truth is that the damage caused by used game sales is like the threat of communism infiltrating Hollywood the 1950s: an apparition conjured up by parties seeking to create a cause for a danger that is not real. But instead of blacklisting actors and directors, the industry is using its messaging to convince consumers and the games media that their actions to further monetize what used to be free is fair. It is fair because games costs so much to make, and because they don't have a fair deal with GameStop, and because used game sales aren't shared with game developers, they reason.
Yes there are inequities with the deals that publishers and developers have with GameStop, but this is hardly the fault of the consumer. When publishers and developers use punitive measures to recoup unverifiable losses (online pass codes, DRM), they do more damage to their future than any used game sales ever could.
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Polls put approval rating for Nigerian leader at 44% for June
Nigeria's leading opinion research and knowledge management organization, NOI Polls Ltd, has said that only four in 10 Nigerians (about 44%) approve the performance of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in its governance poll for the month of June 2013.
According to the poll results released by the organization on Tuesday in Abuja, the rating has remained constant when compared to last month's ratings on the Nigerian leader.
"The results also indicate that 47% of Nigerians rate the performance of the current administration as average," it said.
It noted that the poll was the sixth in the monthly series of governance polls conducted by NOI Polls to gauge the opinions and perceptions of Nigerians regarding three crucial elements – the approval rating of the president, the performance of the current administration, and the situation of power supply in Nigeria.
The results noted that the averages over a six month period showed that an average of 47% of Nigerians approved of the president's job performance over the six month period and that the approval ratings declined by 6 points between January and June this year.
According to the poll results, President Jonathan's approval ratings have been most affected in the months where power supply have been perceived as bad, showing a correlation between how Nigerians perceive his performance and their power supply.
"His ratings peaked in February at 54% when Nigeria won the African Cup of Nations and dipped at an all-time low to 42% in April, a month where 51% of Nigerians reported their power situation as bad," the polls added.


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I have been a roadie for 15 years now, before that I had a mountain bike, back in the time of cantilever brakes and front suspension was only for the rich and professional.
Well, just yesterday I purchased a 2005 Specialized Hardbody with disc brakes, rode the thing for the first time today and wow those disc brakes sure do stop the thing fast and I love front suspension.
I do most of my maintenance myself but I do not know anything about disc brakes. The bike has Shimano Acera mechanical discs. For example, is there a way to centre the pads so they will not rub the rotor? I have been looking for some sort of centring screw, like on my road bike dual pivots, but I don't see anything. Whenever I take the wheel off and reinstall, the brakes will rub the rotor. CAN one centre the pads?
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Greensboro, NC -- It's a huge relief for residents at Cascades Grandview Apartments but it's not the end of their problems.
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House condemns Israel boycott movement : Politics. This has been a while coming; but, it is a good thing it finally did. Thank you Representative Bill Fine and the State of Indiana.
House condemns Israel boycott movement : Politics. This has been a while coming; but, it is a good thing it finally did. Thank you Representative Bill Fine and the State of Indiana.
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Now, if this years primaries, both Republican and Democratic, are not a good example of comical politics, then nothing is.
It seems that now is the time to start blogging again on the frivolity, fun, and divisiveness of today's comical politics.
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Last year, I wrote a blog piece about a University colleague criticizing that colleague's actions and ideas (here). I am not generally known for subltely; I call it like I see it. This colleague - Professor Yahya Kamalipour - promotes himself in the public domain, speaks and writes prolifically for public consumption. In response to my criticism, Professor Kamalipour, along with Professor Fewer, have decided that my speech is "hate" speech and that I am a "bully". (See here).
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The new update is that the people, i.e. the taxpayers, of North Carolina are now paying for this activity. This example of un-American philosophical ideals is Head of the Communication and Journalism Department and North Carolina State University A & M campus. Good luck to all who reside and pay taxes in North Carolina.
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Last year, I wrote a blog piece about a University colleague criticizing that colleague's actions and ideas (here). I am not generally known for subltely; I call it like I see it. This colleague - Professor Yahya Kamalipour - promotes himself in the public domain, speaks and writes prolifically for public consumption. In response to my criticism, Professor Kamalipour, along with Professor Fewer, have decided that my speech is "hate" speech and that I am a "bully". (See here).
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Some things never change.
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In this blog, I have posted public criticism of a public scholar, Dr. Kamalipour. This is well known, at least within the Purdue University Calumet community. Of course, anything I say or do is immediately attacked by other members of the University community. Thus, did the University community swing into action to protect the emminent scholar, Dr. Kamalipour.
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There is hypocrisy all over academia when it comes to free speech and academic freedom. One only needs to see the "dis-invitations" this season to speakers. Kamalipour is the new standard; I am sad to say the President Mitch Daniels is going along with the silencing of conservative criticism.
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Professor Yahya Kamalipour is apoplectic. He has been busy, along with Professor Colin Fewer, getting the Faculty Senate at Purdue University Calumet, as well as the Purdue Calumet Student Senate to issue resolutions against me.
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Kamalipour has now become, after Mitch Daniels, the arbiter of what is proper to say, i.e. civil, and what is not, bullying. This from a man, Kamalipour, who has stated over and over his hatred for Jews.
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These are the events of freedom in American universities -- run by Republicans or Democrats. Have none read the Bill of Rights?
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Today the Faculty Senate at Purdue University Calumet will vote to show its continued support and legitimization of a racist faculty member, Prof. Yahya Kamalipour. Why is he racist? The simple answer is that Prof. Yahya Kamlipour supports the vilification of the Jews (historically, such vilification has led to Jewish death campus – but hey, never mind). How has he done this? By inviting the most racist and anti-Jewish speaker to our campus that one can possibly imagine. And his inability to comprehend the vile and heinous anti-Semitism represented by the speaker he invited to campus is simply breath-taking.
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Now you need to worry about how academics treat issues of substance to Americans
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On 9/24/13, I posted a blog about a planned presentation at Purdue University Calumet by a speaker who promotes and disseminates rank Jew hatred. While I made the University community aware of the anti-Semitic writings and caricatures promoted by said speaker (see a copy of email: Download University Email), there has been no response from anyone. Not a word. Not a single individual on the campus of Purdue University Calumet has come forth to condemn rank anti-Semitism.
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How Jewish ideas and arguments are rejected by Purdue University's administration. Any Jewish students should really question if attending a university such as Purdue that acts openly against Jews should be one of their real choices.
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On September 27, 2013, Mr. Mark Bruzonsky will give a presentation at Purdue University Calumet. The title of his presentation is: "America and the Middle East—So Many Wars, So Little Peace, WHY?" According to Purdue University Calumet's own advertising, Dr. Kamalipour was "instrumental in bringing Bruzonsky to Purdue Calumet" (here).
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Go to the original blog to see the Antisemitic cartoons of the speaker that the administration of Purdue University is bringing to your local campus. The same people who we are told promote "peace" and "tolerance" and "understanding" just happen to argue that all of America's problems are caused by Jews and the Jewish conspiracy against America.
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There have recently been a number of articles looking at Mike Pence as the dark-horse of GOP presidential politics. There seems to be little discussion that this is unlikely. An example of such a perception, of Pence as the "dark-horse" of GOP presidential politics, is the following article:
5 reasons Mike Pence might be the 2016 dark horse to watch | The Daily Caller.
I know the aricle has a number of qualifiers. They always do. But why consider him at all? There is even talk of former Governor Mitch Daniels being the GOP candidate. Both Pence and Daniels are political and personal friends and supporters. What is true of one slides right along with the other. He, Daniels, is President of Purdue University, establishing his credentials and biding his time for 2016. The idea for Daniels' run is his reputation as a cost cutter and, by 2016, his problems with his wife and marriage will be old history. Daniels, so the argument goes reestablish his credentials with his "new" developments in higher education, which would help Republicans in that arena.
Governor Pence is doing the same; but, in the Governor's seat rather than higher education. Both can in fact sit out the 2016 race and run in 2020, well employed and probably improving their positions. Although, I would argue that by 2020 they would not be in any better position. The problems they have today, as GOP candidates, will remain.
The question though is this all fantasy thinking on the part of the GOP or is there any real substance behind it. Mike Pence in his role as Governor of Indiana and Mitch Daniels in his role as a Big-10 university president, both entered their new positions espousing conservative and traditional values. One for the state level and the other for traditional and real higher education. Governor Mike Pence came in with, what he himself claimed, an uncompromising position of having a voter mandate to provide the taxpayers a 10% rebate on the total funds collected by the State. It did not happen. The conservative principle here is that the State was in too much of people's lives and there was a need to reign in the State of Indiana Government, somewhat on the Texas model. It did not happen. Although Pence's party had complete control of the Indiana House and Senate, he could not or would not make it happen. Partial principles are not principles.
Daniels did the same thing. He came in with a memorandum to the Purdue family full of desire to really bring higher education and its lack of constitutional rights into the principled life of the American Constitution. When he got some push back, he retreated or gave up. He even argued, in a column, that the Foundation of Individual Rights in Education, FIRE, would give Purdue a green light on his new policies to constitutional protections. He said the measure of his success, just as Pence said the 10% rebate would be, is FIRE upgrade of Purdue's policy in regards to the First Amendment. So far, FIRE and the AAUP have only criticized his primary rejection of his own memo and his lack of defense of any rights. Why would any conservative vote for these individuals in a primary?
That is the problem with both of them. It is the usual talking a good game; but no substantive actions. There has been plenty of that seen with the current president. Pence and Daniels are showing that there is not a substantive difference in their actions. It is probably true that they both can show that they are better administrators and managers in government than the current president. That will not get an election won.
They also electorally do not bring anything to the table. Indiana will go to the GOP candidate in the presidential race. Neither Pence or Daniels can help with other states in improving the GOP electoral map. The GOP needs to do itself a favor and to stop looking for the "dark horses." The GOP needs to concentrate on its conservative principles and values to win -- which it can. They need to ensure that everyone understands that it is the conservative position that make most people Americans and it is why immigrants come to America in the first place.
Posted on September 23, 2013 at 02:29 PM in 2016 Presidential Politics, Academia, Current Affairs, First Amendment, Higher Education, presidential politics, Public Policy, Purdue University | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Professor Kamalipour is a Muslim who has an ongoing relationship, paid for by Indiana Tax Payers with Tehran University. Not only was he born and spend most of his upbringing in Iran; he has continued to enjoy the support of the Iranian Mullahs and most anti-American Iranians, if not other Muslims with the equivalant agenda. Otherwise, how would it be possible for him to go back and forth between America and Iran without some one questioning his intention -- on either side of the equation.
The following is a direct quote from him, in a Muslim journal of the problems of the world.
"My realisation, as a person who has travelled to more than 50 countries, is that different societies are more alike than different. The more I travel the more I realise this fact. The need of the hour is to get along with one another and,make friendship, and networks based on mutual respect and under- standing. The cause of majority of existing global problems is mere ignorance."
He completely ignores the acts of Muslims in killing Jews and Christians. He is the justifier of Islamic hatred and death squads against women, Jews, Gays, Christians, and other infidels. He defends by his statements and actions the beheading and hanging in Iran of all Gays and Lesbians. He would seem to be a great supporter of the misogynistic beliefs of Islam. He never says otherwise. He never criticizes the actions of his fellow Iranians.
According to Prof. Yahya Kamalipour all the problems with Islam are just a matter of misunderstanding and have a moral equivalency to Christians and Jews. A stand which is at its core anti-American and yet still funded by American taxpayers. What he says in America is not what he can or does say in Iran. How will Iran deal with him if they knew that most of his American supporters were homosexuals. How will the middle-east Muslims interact with him because he has lied about his association with homosexuals, women, Jews, etc.
I do not fault these various groups. They are all good courageous people. It is Professor Kamalipour who continuous his fraud of advancing himself on the backs of the oppressed.
It is time that Hoosier tax payers informed Purdue University that there is a limit to anti-American behavior, even from academics.
Posted on June 05, 2013 at 01:32 PM in Academia, Christians, Gays, Higher Education, Islamacism, Islamic Terrorism, Jews, Middle East, Purdue University | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Agents went to the home in McLean on Tuesday night, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Brandon Montgomery said Thursday. Fairfax County police were called in to help.
Montgomery said the investigation is in the early stages. The two women who were removed from the home are from the Philippines, Montgomery said, but there has been no formal determination that they needed to be rescued.
Officials received a tip that alleged two workers were being held in circumstances that amounted to human trafficking, said John Torres, ICE's special agent in charge for Homeland Security Investigations in the Washington field office. But he declined in an interview Thursday to discuss the case in more detail.
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Next blog: Biggest racists in Indiana, i.e. anti-black and Hispanic, are the Mayor of Gary and its representatives. Un-believable but true.
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To either support his own guilt feelings or to accommodate the gay marriage lobby or because of pressure from his son and/or his wife Republican Congressman Rob Portman has turned the meaning of marriage and libertarianism on its head. See the following confused explanation of his new stance:
Proud' Dad Portman Flips to Support Gay Son on Same-Sex Marriage.
I cannot claim to know what is going on in Portman's head; but, I can evaluate what he says publicly and the policy stand he takes. The libertarian position can only be defined as one where the state has nothing to do with marriage. It would be fine and justifiable if he had taken that position and said that he had "re-thought" the question now that his son is at Yale and gay that state policy should say nothing about marriage. Here he would be saying that government should get out of any recognition of, or any involvement with, marriage. That would not be a stand for "gay marriage" or any definition of marriage. It would be saying that people should be allowed to live as they want and with whom they want to and it is not the state's business.
But, Portman does make it the state's business.
If the state is going to recognize marriage, from a conservative point of view (and a libertarian one), it can only be because the state recognizes some overwhelming state, or societal interest. These interests must at least be in the area of survival and/or national, i.e. state, security. Nothing here would lead someone, under any circumstance, to support "gay marriage." And neither can Representative Portman.
The state has for a long time recognized marriage as exclusively between one man and one women because of long standing historical and religious reasons. Today under this theory it would be legitimate to exclude "gay marriage" under conservative concepts; but not under libertarian ones. Libertarian concepts would at best say that there is no place for the state to be in the marriage definition business. There are many, many definitions of marriage. Why would one or two take precedence over all the rest?
This is Portman's betrayal and the lie presented by his son. It is also the lie which most gay activist present.
The only, and I mean only, reason that the state can justify in having an interest in marriage is national suicide as it relates to national security. There is nothing in being a conservative or a libertarian that requires an individual or a society to commit suicide. Therefore the one and sole state interest in marriage is the consequence of that coupling, which is more children. Only the increase in fertility, i.e. new babies, justifies and explains the state's interest in marriage. Under these principles, there would be greater justification for polygamy than there is from gay marriage. (All states have a greater justification for polygamy than gay marriage; although, there are other social problems with polygamy.)
All these couplings have minimal advantage or no advantage to fertility: gay marriage, bestiality, general fetishes, co-habitation, marriage to inanimate objects, etc. As a consequence, the state cannot and should not have anything to say, as far as policy, about these.
Portman, understandably as a bereaved father, has turned state policy on its head when it comes to gay marriage. He not only betrayed his principles; he also stood the conservative and libertarian cause on its head. There is no reason for him to continue in politics representing conservative/libertarian ideas.
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 02:21 PM in Anti-Religion, Christians, Cultural Divide, Current Affairs, End of America, Gays, Public Policy | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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The Hoosier State Legislature is being asked to provide hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to the State's universities. We, Hoosier taxpayers, and voters, are further asked to provide hundreds of millions of dollars through our tuition payments for our children at these very same universities.
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Where is the so called representation by the Hoosier Legislature? I willing to be any amount of money that they do not have any idea of where the billions of dollars they give to higher education goes.
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on the team's web site it steates clearly: ' PECTEL ECU by Cosworth Electronics ' which means it's a Cosworth proprietary unit which means, in my most humbelist opinion that HRC only 'tuned' the electronics ie, programmed settings/parameters. No where in that description does it even imply HONDA proprietary MotoGP electronics, unless they are using Cosworth units too.
This is exactly why MotoGP and wSBK need to ditch electronics, because they do not add to the spectacle, limit smaller teams that dont have the investment to poor in to R/D, talent, etc... and they can be used to slow down pilots as well as help them save their tires and add a little traction. Most pro racers do not need TC, and if they do they should not be pro-racers imho.
Someone tell the FIM to completely ditch TC, it's not even a useful technology for consumers, as who the hell wants their bike deciding what to do in a crazy situation, especially if they are experienced and know what to do and the bike does someth