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Zack Shafran was a born shareholder. At birth, His godparents gave him 25 shares of Cole National, a key maker, which also owned the optical department in the local Montgomery Ward. Now 47, Shafran, manager of the Ivy Science & Technology Fund (ticker: WSTAX), still recalls the time 40 years earlier that he received an envelope bearing his name and address, with a dividend check enclosed. He soon took a proprietor's interest in the activity at the Cole kiosk in a nearby mall: "I thought it was really cool to think I owned a piece of that."
With $1.8 billion in assets, Shafran's fund now owns pieces of more than 54 companies, including Aspen Technology azpn -0.8218451749734889% Aspen Technology Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD37.41 -0.31 -0.8218451749734889% /Date(1412176965983-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 95526 P/E Ratio 39.89247311827957 Market Cap 3487426488.17139 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 291260 More quote details and news » (AZPN), Alliance Data Systems ads -0.6666129616949289% Alliance Data Systems Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD246.615 -1.655 -0.6666129616949289% /Date(1412176882527-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 48319 P/E Ratio 23.991715399610136 Market Cap 13935307222.1729 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 394633 More quote details and news » (ADS), Apple aapl -0.8535980148883374% Apple Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD99.89 -0.86 -0.8535980148883374% /Date(1412176981020-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 8817957 P/E Ratio 15.986776647302372 Market Cap 599445387795.329 Dividend Yield 1.8871712507528609% Rev. per Employee 2214380 More quote details and news » (AAPL), and Samsung Electronics (005930.Korea), which together make up nearly 24% of the portfolio. "We like to know our companies really well," Shafran says. Indeed, 48% of fund is in its top 10 names.
Shafran runs a concentrated portfolio, with nearly half of its assets in the fund's top 10 names. Jason Dailey for Barron's
Shafran's go-anywhere fund owns large-, mid-, and small-cap companies. It can also hold up to 100% of assets in cash, which proved useful in the panic of 2008, when the Nasdaq fell by 41%. That year, the fund's cash position exceeded 20%, helping it toward a more gentle loss of only 27.7%—besting 99% of its peers. Over one, five, and 10 years, it has ranked in the top decile of all science and technology funds. Tech's disappointing days are nearing an end, Shafran says, adding, "Excluding Apple, technology has been just an average performer, but we think there are some incredible opportunities, and the sector could take the lead in 2013."
A KANSAS CITY, MO., native, Shafran spent boyhood summers working at his dad's plant, which manufactured customized conveyors. "I would have gone into the business, but I was far more interested in becoming an analyst and portfolio manager." By the time he was a teenager, he says he was reading such tomes as Investments: Analysis and Management, by Jack Clark Francis, and investing in both growth- and value-oriented mutual funds.
He went on to study business administration at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, where he also earned an M.B.A. in 1992, while working as a health-care and conglomerates analyst at Waddell & Reed Investment Management, which owns Ivy. Since 2010, he has been global director of equity and fixed-income research for Waddell & Reed Financial wdr -1.044689495066744% Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD51.15 -0.54 -1.044689495066744% /Date(1412176972188-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 82004 P/E Ratio 14.252793296089385 Market Cap 4365788898.2927 Dividend Yield 2.665360117589417% Rev. per Employee 1001500 More quote details and news » (WDR), which manages $96.4 billion, supervising the investment-research and economics departments. He also runs the $2.5 billion Waddell & Reed Advisors Science and Technology Fund (UNSCX), which has the same portfolio as the Ivy fund.
Morningstar's Flynn Murphy calls Shafran's approach unique because he goes anywhere and invests not only in companies that create technology, like Apple, but also companies that use science and technology as an agent for change, such as Aspen, which designs supply-chain management systems; Alliance Data, a provider of customer-loyalty programs and private-label credit cards; and health insurer UnitedHealth Group unh -1.5536231884057972% UnitedHealth Group Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD84.91 -1.34 -1.5536231884057972% /Date(1412176980442-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 530643 P/E Ratio 15.27027027027027 Market Cap 83802656250 Dividend Yield 1.7699115044247788% Rev. per Employee 807910 More quote details and news » (UNH). Murphy thinks this has helped protect the fund during abrupt tech downdrafts.
Matthew Stout, of Stout Bowman & Associates, is among the loyalists. "We have been investing in this fund for 15 years because of its diversity and its ability to hold cash, which minimizes the risk on the downside," says the Camp Hill, Pa., money manager, who oversees $36 million in assets with his partner, Marc Bowman.
Shafran's approach to tech can also hold the fund back in rallies. "If you look at our performance in 2003 and 2009, we still made money, but we dramatically underperformed our peers because we were so conservative," says Shafran. Given the fund's record, that seems like a fair trade-off. Ivy Science & Technology has a maximum sales load of 5.75%; expenses are 1.39%, which is below the average for specialty funds.
Shafran and his analysts meet with hundreds of firms a year, both in their offices and on the road at trade shows and company visits. They look for innovative firms with solid management and sustainable growth of 20% a year in both revenue and profits, with products and services that have high barriers to entry. The managers like to establish a position when an industry is in the midst of change and hold it for three to five years. (The fund's annual turnover is 39%, about a quarter of its rivals'.)
Ivy Science & Technology
|Total Returns*
|MSCI World NR USD
|% of
|Top 10 Holdings
|Aspen Technology
|Alliance Data Systems
|Samsung Electronics
|ACI Worldwide
|Micron Technology
|Tenet Healthcare
|UnitedHealth Group
|*All returns are as of 3/13/13; three- and five-year returns are annualized.
**As of 12/31/12.
Sources: Ivy Funds; Morningstar
For instance, Shafran likes Micron Technology mu -1.769994162288383% Micron Technology Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD33.6536 -0.6064 -1.769994162288383% /Date(1412176978963-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 6681483 P/E Ratio 11.665505226480835 Market Cap 36686394115.7451 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 529385 More quote details and news » (MU) because it is transforming itself from a maker of commodity DRAM chips into a producer of solid-state flash memory, which is used in smartphones, tablets, and, increasingly, laptops. The industry is consolidating, he notes, which means Micron, SanDisk SNDK -2.0877998979070953% SanDisk Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD95.905 -2.045 -2.0877998979070953% /Date(1412176972819-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 701452 P/E Ratio 18.723529411764705 Market Cap 21963230248.3246 Dividend Yield 1.2566760917373547% Rev. per Employee 1190500 More quote details and news » (SNDK), and Samsung will remain the dominant players in the business.
"People want portability," he says, adding that Micron should be less volatile and more profitable over the business cycle, since the cost to get into a business is so high that there are unlikely to be new competitors. Samsung and SanDisk lead the flash market, but Micron has been expanding its solid-state business with acquisitions, and a joint venture with Intel INTC -1.1344055140723721% Intel Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD34.425 -0.395 -1.1344055140723721% /Date(1412176976170-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 6864456 P/E Ratio 16.63768115942029 Market Cap 172393818489.075 Dividend Yield 2.6132404181184667% Rev. per Employee 501041 More quote details and news » (INTC) last year to produce NAND memory. He thinks Micron's stock, recently at $9.51, could reach $12 in a year.
He also likes the new management at Acxiom acxm -1.2688821752265862% Acxiom Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD16.34 -0.21 -1.2688821752265862% /Date(1412176961505-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 67712 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 1311952706.85875 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 193261 More quote details and news » (ACXM), which provides giant databases of transactions and personal information that companies can use to help target their advertising. "Acxiom has been around a long time, but was not managed well," he says. Its new CEO upgraded research-and-development staff, shed expenses and noncore businesses, and is buying back stock," he says. All of that will contribute to fatter gross operating margins, which Shafran says could boost the stock, recently at $19.01, to $25 in a year.
He also likes Kansas-based Euronet Worldwide eeft -1.0671688637790333% Euronet Worldwide Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD47.28 -0.51 -1.0671688637790333% /Date(1412176950266-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 28091 P/E Ratio 25.085106382978722 Market Cap 2515411786.46393 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 362136 More quote details and news » (EEFT), a global electronic- payments provider, as a bet on the growing middle class in emerging countries. Banking and retailing in Africa, India, and Brazil are being transformed by cellphones and credit cards. "The company provides ATMs, electronic payments, and prepaid mobile airtime, and is expanding to India," he observes. Euronet may be situated in the Midwest, but 80% of what it does happens outside of the country, and its growth is sustainable, he says. The stock could go from about $24 to $35 in 18 months, he says.
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LOS ANGELES — Call it space grave robbery for a cause: Imagine scavenging defunct communication satellites for their valuable parts and recycling them to build brand new ones for cheap.
It's the latest pet project from the Pentagon's research wing known for its quirky and sometimes out-there ideas. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is spending $180 million to test technologies that could make this possible.
When satellites retire, certain parts — such as antennas and solar panels — often still work. There's currently no routine effort to salvage and reuse satellite parts once they're launched into space.
DARPA thinks it can save money by repurposing in orbit.
"We're attempting to essentially increase the return on investment ... and try to find a way to really change the economics so that we can lower the cost" of military space missions, said DARPA program manager David Barnhart.
Work on DARPA's Phoenix program — named after the mythical bird that rose from its own ashes — is already under way. The agency awarded contracts to several companies to develop new technologies, and it is seeking fresh proposals from interested parties next month.
A key test will come in 2016 when it launches a demonstration mission that seeks to breathe new life to an antenna from a yet-to-be-determined decommissioned satellite. DARPA has identified about 140 retired satellites that it can choose from for its first test.
Here's the vision: Launch a robotic mechanic outfitted with a toolkit that can rendezvous with defunct satellites and mine them for parts. The plan also calls for the separate launch of mini-satellites. The robotic mechanic would then string together the mini-satellites and old satellite parts to create a new communication system.
It's like doing robotic surgery in zero gravity.
DARPA officials said one way to keep costs down is for the mini-satellites to hitch a ride aboard available space on commercial rockets.
Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, who tracks the world's space launches and satellites, called it "an interesting idea" that may reduce costs in the long-term.
"The first few times you do this, it'll definitely be more expensive than just building the new antenna on your satellite from scratch. But in the long run, it might work out," he said in an email.
McDowell said the biggest challenge in the upcoming demo test is separating the antenna from the retired satellite without breaking it and then successfully integrating it with the mini-satellites.
DARPA is used to funding blue-sky research and a few projects are slowly becoming reality.
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But I remained steady
Withstanding time's flow
As a bridge should do.
She was invisible,
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Riding inextinguishable fire
In unalterable focus;
She found her bridge at last,
Bridge was there indeed,
But old, weakened, in ruins,
But alive to her as ever.
It was desolation for both
In blinding darkness;
No glimmer to trace each other,
No streak of hope to hold –
Both swam against time's tide;
Honest pursuit never let down –
While night was imminent,
She busted from nowhere
Like rain on parched land.
It was two lives,
I was a bridge in-between;
Ravages of fierce time
Touched us not within,
And we blossomed like spring bloom;
Himalayan obstacles did spring
And crippled our sail together,
But we remain what we're,
Across unbridled time and space.
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Dan Cleary had surgery to remove wires from his jaw this morning and remarkably was at practice and made it through every drill. He'll be in the lineup tomorrow night.
Cleary revealed the the front of his jaw is numb and could remain that way for a long, long time. Had he chosen the other procedure—where his jaw would have been wired shut for six weeks instead of two and he would have missed the rest of the season—he wouldn't have that numbness. That's a pretty big sacrifice to return to the ice.
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Fong Pong, Michel Dubois, "A New Approach for the Verification of Cache Coherence Protocols," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 773-787, August, 1995.
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The verification procedure is first applied to the verification of five existing protocols under the assumption of atomic protocol transitions. A simple snooping protocol on a split-transaction shared bus is also verified to illustrate the extension of our approach to protocols with nonatomic transitions.
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A few things I have noticed along the way: the stop lights in Nebraska are sideways, and the roads in Missouri are named by letters, not numbers. The drivers ...
Packing My Life Into a Suitcase
I am currently sitting in a Starbucks near Cincinnati, and the countdown is on. I have just over a week before I leave the USA and fly to Paris, France for an entire semester. This first blog will provide a test run for me and also provide some background information. So welcome!
First, I'd like to explain the rationale for my blog name. Everyone knows Paris as "The City of Love," but another nickname it holds is ...
Cincinnatti Art Museum
Set in park on top of Mount Adams the Cincinnati Art Museum
is one of the oldest art museums in country and one of the premier collections
in the Midwest. It struck me as being especially strong on Old Masters in
contrast to so many American art museums whose collections tend to be stronger
on paintings from impressionism onwards contemporary to when the barons of
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Alain Bellino was born in Nice in 1955. In the 80′s, he discovered the world of metal and ornamentation. The ornament that is torn from its original support then becomes the very structure of his sculptures. Bronze ornamentations assembled by extremely precise welding are the base material. Weighted with the nobility of the material joined to their own history, they support a fragmented memory and they bring to the sculptor a precious help as well as a constraint. Alain Bellino gets special inspiration from the Renaissance period. Vanitas are one of his favorite themes, typical of classical sceneries. In his work of re-directing and re-assembling, which is both iconoclast and highly rigorous from a formal point of view, at the crossroads between past and future, Alain Bellino sublimates and rehabilitates the ornamentation.
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Rosie Hardy is a worldwide photographer based in Manchester, UK, and you are really lucky if you live near her, because she is offering workshops to those interested in learning her photography techniques, and believe me, from what we've seen, there are lots of things to learn.
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The reason? They finally had to slash their cherished urban and rural development funds. Critics have referred to these pools of money over the years as "slush funds" used by the governor to wrestle votes from lawmakers. And it's not as if lawmakers minded being handled in such a way; if they curried favor with the governor, they could return to their districts with money in hand.
This time legislators didn't have a choice ' a $1 billion budget hole brought about by hurricanes Katrina and Rita had forced some severe cuts. Lawmakers wailed publicly over a life without the funds.
"I remember when they were first created," said Sen. Diana E. Bajoie, D-New Orleans.
"It pains me to see it go," added Sen. Ben Nevers, D-Bogalusa.
"We ought not be afraid ..." counseled Sen. Jay Dardenne, R-Baton Rouge.
A Democrat from Monroe, Sen. C.D. Jones held out hope for the return of the funds. "The sun will shine again," he said.
Then came a completely different speech.
Choking back tears, Sen. Nick Gautreaux, an Abbeville Democrat, interrupted the slush-fund chatter to share a story about entering St. Bernard Parish on an airboat shortly after Katrina made landfall.
His search-and-rescue team found an elderly woman stranded on a rooftop with her family. But instead of taking the help offered, Gautreaux says, the elderly woman asked the workers if they needed water or food. Then she refused to get into the boat until assistance could be provided to a group of medical workers stranded right outside the parish.
"That's the human spirit of Louisiana," Gautreaux says. "That's why I love Louisiana."
When a rescue team was able to return the following morning to bring the elderly woman to dry ground, she had passed away in the night.
It was a sobering moment in the upper chamber ' but it was brief. The clock was ticking, and one of the budget bills was under consideration, so it didn't take lawmakers long to return to soapbox tirades and posturing.
In many ways, the speeches from the Senate floor during the final hours of session were a microcosm of the 17-day lawmaking assembly itself. Important matters were discussed with passion at times, but politics were inescapable.
The Machiavellian maneuvers, however, were less transparent and aggressive than usual, overshadowed by an overly ambitious agenda with 77 subject areas crafted by Gov. Kathleen Blanco.
And no sooner than the session ended, Blanco was already talking about another special session in January.
"This is a start," she says, "but it's only a start."
Educational funding still needs to be addressed for hurricane-ravaged schools. Financially crippled businesses are in desperate need of temporary loans. New housing policies are required for evacuees. Voting rights for displaced citizens will be a burning issue. And to top it all off, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has sent the state a $3.7 billion bill for its portion of recovery efforts.
Barry Erwin, president of a Council for a Better Louisiana, says there are so many items left dangling after the session that it's almost too difficult to look at accomplishments in total until the next session is held.
"We began to address some very important issues, but by no means are they totally addressed," Erwin says.
Still, those 17 days in November did yield both positive and negative results. Here are some of the memorable and forgettable moments from the hurricane-recovery session ' many of which slipped between the cracks.
Delayed oversight
Even before Blanco released her official agenda for the hurricane-recovery session, it was amongst the most contentious issues to be debated. After all, anything dealing with both the Legislature and Louisiana's levee boards has traditionally been a dangerous amalgam ' backroom deals are cut to decide the appointment process, salary increases for board members somehow sneak into unrelated bills, and lawmakers jockey for control of their respective districts.
Before any legislation was filed, some levee boards rounded their wagons and slipped into defense mode. Their collective mantra was simple: local input and no consolidation. Based on what came out of the special session, they got their wish ' for now.
The governor introduced her highly anticipated levee package with little controversy. It sailed through almost the entire legislative process with no opposing votes. It essentially places levee board management at the same table with coastal restoration and hurricane protection. But it does cut a bit deeper than that.
The legislation also creates an oversight authority that will craft certain criteria for levee boards to meet on a regular basis. If a levee board is found to be in noncompliance, the authority could seize funds, take civil action and implement other relief methods as they see fit.
Another bill by Sen. Walter Boasso, a Chalmette Republican, would have created a superboard of sorts for levee districts in the southeastern corner of the state through consolidation. In theory, each geographic section would operate under its own jurisdiction. No one person ' or politician ' would be in control.
The legislation failed, but never fear, reformists ' by all accounts it appears the Boasso consolidation bill will be back up for debate in January or in the spring.
"As for the levee boards, we should have reformed that system years ago," Erwin says. "We are wasting time in the sense that if we had done this years ago we could be moving on to other things."
Quentin Dastugue, a former Republican legislator from New Orleans, filed bills to reform the system during the '80s, when former Gov. Edwin Edwards was at the zenith of his power and not yet behind bars. Dastugue recalls being ridiculed for such a notion ' the same type of oversight that is being embraced today. He's also saddened that even a natural disaster couldn't stop "political paybacks" from outweighing human needs.
"What bothered me the most was seeing intelligent people turn their backs on such an important public service," Dastugue says.
Sen. Ed Murray, a Democrat from New Orleans who has also served in the House, has likewise filed bills in previous years to bring oversight to levee boards.
"There was just never a will to do that, and local politics would run the hearings," Murray says.
A second chance to pay attention
Lawmakers tried to make up for lost time in another critical area. They approved a statewide building code for residential and commercial structures in an effort to lure more insurers to the state, secure federal dollars and offer uniformity for economic development.
The new law will form a 19-member Uniform Construction Code Council in January to adopt the International Building Code and the International Residential Code, as well as other guidelines. It also calls for local governments to license code inspectors and update all standards every three years.
For parishes that are susceptible to 130-mile-per-hour hurricane winds, they would have to follow a special set of hurricane protection guidelines including elaborate building techniques and expensive material.
Dr. Mark Levitan, director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, testified during session that the building code could increase construction costs on average anywhere from 2.3 percent to 9.7 percent. That contributed to a ferocious debate that lasted until the final hours of session.
But here's the rub: Technically, Louisiana adopted a statewide commercial code in the mid-90s, but the Legislature failed to include any form of oversight in the bill. It was left up to local governments to adopt the code and strengthen it if they so chose.
The lack of oversight meant the state knew very little about what each parish or municipality had on the books, says Jerry Jones, director of the Office of Facility Planning and Control, which oversees state design and construction. In theory, it also means there could be "vast square miles" of Louisiana with substandard building codes.
If lawmakers had included some type of oversight into the original building codes, it's likely the concept would have traveled a less bumpy road during this special session. Maybe an enterprising politician would have even called for reforms before two hurricanes slammed into coastal Louisiana.
North vs. South
Aspects of the old north-south rivalry between lawmakers crept into the hurricane-recovery session. The cultural roots of Baptists and Protestants near the Arkansas line, and the Cajun Catholics near the Gulf of Mexico, are the genesis for Louisiana's modern political makeup, and there's very little anyone can do about it.
"The differing values displayed by each are about as old as you can get," says Elliott Stonecipher, a political analyst and Louisiana demographer. "These cultural differences really did shape the opposing political views at both ends of Louisiana, and we are still seeing it in places like the Legislature."
For instance, funding for the New Orleans Saints football team is one issue that often riles up north Louisiana lawmakers in a bitter and sometimes comical way ' a sentiment that is sometimes shared by their constituents.
"In Shreveport, where I'm from, they root for the [Dallas] Cowboys, not the Saints," says Marsanne Golsby, a Baton Rouge lobbyist who previously served as press secretary for former Republican Gov. Mike Foster.
The animosity also surfaces in issues involving Mardi Gras, commercial fishing, educational funding and statewide construction projects. Blanco contends the rift is getting better. She says lawmakers are communicating more and trying to understand their colleagues' geographic challenges.
"What we have here is a great spirit of generosity," Blanco says. "It goes from north to south, and in reverse. Once we get people to understand the real goals here, these difficult issues can be resolved."
Easier said than done. Sen. C.D. Jones of Monroe felt his district was overlooked during the session's budget cuts. He represents the economically deprived Louisiana Delta Region, where 24 percent of the population lives in poverty.
"For years I've been trying to explain to members of the Legislature what is going on in northeast Louisiana, and how we need to eradicate this poverty," Jones says.
Meanwhile, lawmakers from south Louisiana made outward attempts to convince their northern colleagues that coastal restoration and flood protection should be top priorities for the state.
"We're begging you," says Rep. Ernest Wooten, a Belle Chasse Democrat.
The session birthed a new version of the old geographic debate, as lawmakers from places like Baton Rouge, Lafayette and Shreveport jockeyed for money and projects to help their overburdened cities deal with evacuees and new citizens, while simultaneously balancing the dire needs of coastal Louisiana. The two natural disasters toned down the usual acidic north vs. south rhetoric, but Stonecipher believes the old way of doing things will rear its ugly head again.
"This is a honeymoon period, but it's not real," he says. "It's a honeymoon period on the surface."
Blanco's battlefront
It was difficult for Gov. Blanco to tell the difference between her friends and foes during the special session.
For starters, one of her traditional bases ' minorities ' revolted when the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus filed a lawsuit against her.
The membership wanted to know whether Blanco, a Democrat, had the authority to cut $431 million from state agencies by executive order ' an action she took on her own one day before the session convened.
Even her own legislative leadership questioned the move: "It doesn't matter what [power] she thinks she has," says Sen. Francis C. Heitmeier, a New Orleans Democrat and chairman of the Finance Committee.
Meanwhile, Blanco got on the good side of her conservative counterparts in the GOP by including several of their priorities in her session agenda and implementing the deeper cuts they favored.
"I jokingly said we should bring her a switch card," says Sen. John Schedler of Mandeville, chairman of the Senate Republican Delegation.
Dr. Pearson Cross, a professor of political science at UL Lafayette, says it's a trend worth noting. "The governor's agenda spoke to the mindset of Republicans and speaks to the realities of Louisiana being a purple state, where conservatives vote Democrat," Cross says. "I think these hurricanes will have a major and lasting effect on Louisiana politics, and this might be one of those areas."
Blanco, once a media darling for being the first female governor of Louisiana, also saw the national press turn on her as Time magazine named her one of the worse governors in the United States due to her slow response to Hurricane Katrina.
Congress as Big Brother
A wave of paranoia overtook the special session, from the first day to the last. A committee meeting barely went by without at least one lawmaker asking aloud if Congress would approve of its decision.
In short, Congress became Big Brother for the Louisiana Legislature.
Gil Pinac, a Crowley Democrat who authored the House of Representatives' version of the statewide building code, proclaimed the proposal came directly from the White House with a warning of, "Pass it or don't come begging for more money." Blanco also pushed legislation to create a master plan for coastal restoration, flood control and hurricane protection all at the request of members of Congress. She told lawmakers that the measure must be approved to convince Congress "Louisiana is serious."
Blanco says she understands some of these concerns, but was "offended" that the federal government has questioned every step of Louisiana's rebuilding process. "Undoubtedly, it's been a challenge working with Congress," Blanco says. "They just really don't want to give us money."
To chip away at Louisiana's perceived political reputation, lawmakers also rushed through an ethics bill to require all public officials and their families to report any income received from federal relief contracts. Why? Because bill sponsor Eric LaFleur, a Ville Platte Democrat, said it's a move the feds want to see.
UL's Cross says the paranoia displayed by lawmakers was probably overkill, but slightly warranted.
"Members of Congress themselves aren't paying much attention to every little move, basically because they're just too busy," Cross says. "But there is an awareness. What Louisiana has is not an accountability problem. It's a credibility problem. Corruption and the misuse of government funds has predisposed legislators on the federal level to look at money being allocated for relief skeptically. And you're seeing that reflected in the attitudes of lawmakers on the state level, who feel they have to be extremely careful not to send the wrong message to Washington."
Cautious calculations
While lawmakers were busy passing tax breaks for businesses and hammering out a tax-free holiday for consumers to purchase goods without paying a 4 percent state sales tax, one Acadiana legislator contends a major area was overlooked.
Rep. Joel Robideaux, an Independent from Lafayette and full-time CPA, says by not addressing federal deductions for casualty losses, homeowners impacted by the two hurricanes will actually end up paying more in state income taxes.
"These are ill-gotten gains," Robideaux says. "Of all the people to get more taxes from, this is the segment of the citizenry we shouldn't be getting them from."
Robideaux filed a bill to correct the problem, but it failed to gain traction among the Legislature's power brokers.
The problem is somewhat complex, but Robideaux says those with a little patience can easily understand it.
To calculate your state income taxes, take your income and subtract from it your federal income tax. Then take the difference and apply it to the appropriate tax bracket. The resulting figure is what you owe the state.
But for those people who suffered personal damages due to the hurricanes, their casualty losses will result in a federal deduction, meaning their federal income tax will take away substantially less from their state income tax.
The end result: Higher taxes due the state.
Here's a working example: If your income is $50,000 and your federal income tax is $6,000, then your taxable income for the state would be $44,000. But if you lost everything, your federal income tax will be lower because a deduction is offered for the losses after the insurance pay off.
So if you lose $20,000 due to Hurricane Rita, and the insurance company pays you $15,000, then your federal deduction will be $5,000.
As applied to the example above, your federal income tax would then be $1,000, and your taxable income for the state would be $49,000.
Robideaux says he is unsure how and when the state might address this, adding it may be too sticky to take up next year.
"Anything retroactive is taboo," he says, referring to a law that would allow taxpayers to go back a year and make changes.
What's in a bill?
It's no secret that lawmakers rarely read the bills they're voting on. But what about the legislators who actually sponsor a particular measure? Do they write the bills, or do their names just magically appear atop them?
In the case of the statewide building code debated this fall, the answer was crystal clear.
When Joe Gendron, an attorney for the House Commerce Committee, was questioned on specific details of the legislation, he deferred. "You'll have to ask him," Gendron said, pointing out into the crowd. "He wrote the legislation."
Gendron was identifying Baton Rouge lobbyist extraordinaire Kevin Hayes, who admitted he had crafted the bill based on existing law from South Carolina.
While lawmakers don't always read or write legislation, they are the only ones who can vote on the measures. And sometimes, they even need a little extra help to do that.
When a highly controversial retirement bill was introduced on the Senate floor during the final days of session, some lawmakers attempted to send it back to a committee rather than give it an immediate hearing. Senate President Don Hines, a Bunkie Democrat, was opposed to the move and gave lawmakers ample time to vote on the motion. In fact, he kept the voting machines open longer than usual in an effort to corral his votes.
Some lawmakers didn't see the humor in it.
"You got what you need now?" shouted Sen. Craig Romero of New Iberia from the Senate floor. "Close the machine!"
Despite the tactic, Hines failed to get his way, and the bill was sent to the Retirement Committee.
There's no debating that the legislative process can be confusing ' even for lawmakers.
Take Sen. Butch Gautreaux, for instance. The Morgan City Democrat agreed to co-sponsor a bill consolidating levee boards in the southeastern part of the state. But when it came time to move the measure during session, a brutal reality struck Gautreaux, and he offered a mantra that is often whispered around the Capitol, but never proclaimed loudly.
"I did not understand this bill completely," he said.
Thursday's Blogs from the Bog!
Women sue over sperm mix-up; Romney on campaign trail; Ebola patient was released from hospital and more national and international news for Thursday, October 02, 2014.
State Rep. Joel Robideaux, R-Lafayette, surprised few in the Hub City Wednesday afternoon when he made (semi) official what most of us have known for months: He is running to replace Joey Durel as city-parish president.
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Louisiana's first black Republican state senator since Reconstruction — who was a Republican before he was a Democrat before he was a Republican again — is accusing Democratic U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu of using the black community for votes and providing nothing in return.
LSU's governing board has backed new hospital privatization contracts that give hospital managers greater ease to leave the deal and fewer restrictions about must-have services.
Rachel Hector returns home to cultivate a generation of yoga instructors.
Acadiana's nightlife guide.
U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu is courting young voters in several appearances across Louisiana this week, talking about her support for legislation that could lower students' college costs.
It is distinctly possible control of the U.S. Senate will hinge on Louisiana, which is why, during the last several months, outside groups have made this the most expensive election in Louisiana history.
A constellation of South Louisiana musical stars descends on Parc Sans Souci to honor an ailing David Egan.
INDStyle Awards 2014 was one for the books; the American Cancer Society took over The Victorian's big tent; and the battle of the sexes was alive and well for Walk a Runway's Christmas fundraiser.
The Acadiana Symphony Orchestra teams up with choreographer Clare Cook for a modern take on a Stravinsky classic.
Local food pantries begin seasonal drives
A girl's best fashion friend
Stage 4 vet takes on cancer and reminds us all what it really means to get involved.
Creative living flourishes at Downtown's artist hub
Four bedroom cottage or four bedroom traditional
Bold looks for fall define INDStyle Awards 2014
Statement pieces for the season
The gents venture out
Project Front Yard has been launched to help us change our image and our habits.
Alleged victim is a Navy vet with brain trauma resulting from a car accident three decades ago.
Is Mary fading as Vitter solidifies his lock on the fourth floor?
Richard Buswell was sentenced Tuesday to more than 10 years in prison for his role in an investment scheme that defrauded his clients of more than $6 million.
The Latin Music Festival returns to Parc International this Saturday, Oct. 4, from noon to 10 p.m.
Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration has renegotiated contracts for six LSU hospital privatization deals, hoping to reach a compromise with federal health officials that will keep Medicaid dollars flowing to the privatized patient services.
Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu is defending her record on gun rights, seeking to rebut sharp criticism from the NRA in a state where the right to bear arms is given special constitutional protection.
OCT 2 Here's an interesting post from Jay Ducote on the Huff Post site about the culinary (and cultural) terms Cajun and Creole, and the difference between them.
OCT 2 This story from Rolling Stone is one of the best published so far about the Koch Brothers. That's because author Tim Dickinson doesn't get (too) distracted by the political maneuvering the billionaires seem to relish; he's focused on their business empire, its many components and its unsavoury history. It's a fascinating read.
OCT 2 Bobby Jindal - or one of his (apparently) politically inept handlers - has launched a twit war against Stephen Colbert, this post on CNN says. Points to Jindal for attempting some (unfortunately) stilted self-effacing humor, and if you watch the Colbert clip here (you should, it is hilarious), pay close attention to the skin tone of the candidates' mugshots.
OCT 2 This is another excellent coastal loss piece, but this one on New Republic has a little different flavor. It's a close look at coal terminals, refineries, coastal loss, environmental damage --- and Billy Nungesser. It's engrossing and very well written.
OCT 2 Blogger Stephen Sabludowsky records another poll indicating Bobby Jindal is very unpopular with the people here in Louisiana. This one, from a Democratic poller, shows voters would rather have Edwin Edwards back than keep Jindal. The numbers don't lie, Sabludowsky says, and surely it is only a matter of time before the national media catches on.
OCT 2 Blogger Tom Aswell gives us more coverage of the recent OGB hearing, featuring one of his favorite politicians, Commissioner of Administration Kristy Nichols. Nichols apparently wasn't all that forthcoming with legislators who dared to question the Jindal Administration's handling of the privatization of the state employee health plan.
OCT 2 Here's a post on the new NOLA Defender column, Drinking Culture. In it, author Joseph Toman describes the day he wandered into the R Bar at 3 p.m. and what he experienced there.
OCT 2 Crazy Crawfish is taking a look at one of Louisiana's most historically smarmy processes: textbook selection. (Yes, seriously.) It's a complicated post, but worth reading. He's looking at the people and the process here.
OCT 1 Look out! Some enterprising individual, who knows how to register a domain, has pulled off a stunning bit of hilarity here. Not long ago, blogger Lamar White Jr. gave us a post on Louisiana Family Forum, and how it is not a charity but is instead a tax shelter for a lobby. If you go to the interwebs and type in "louisianafamilyforum.com" you will find Lamar's story. Heh.
OCT 1 Bobby Jindal is sure doing his best to court the far right; this post on TIME magazine says he'll be over in Oklahoma today to stand beside the billionaires who own Hobby Lobby while they announce a Bible "museum." In Washington D.C. (Wonder if there will be an exhibit on Matthew 19:24?)
OCT 1 Blogger Ian McGibboney is taking a look at the penalty call that is causing a stir. During a Monday NFL game, a player for the Chiefs executed a Muslim prayer gesture following a touchdown. The NFL has announced that the call was wrong, but Ian's not so sure.


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FireEye Expands Global Leadership Team With Six New Executives
MILPITAS, CA, Jan 10, 2013 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- FireEye(R), Inc., the leader in stopping today's new breed of cyber attacks, announced the expansion of its global leadership team with the appointment of six key executives, including Ken Gonzalez as vice president of corporate development; Manish Gupta as senior vice president of products; Tony Kolish as senior vice president of customer services; Sridhar Jayanthi as vice president, managing director, and head of India operations; Barbara Massa as vice president of human resources; and Dawn Song, as engineering fellow.
These appointments come as the company closes a record 2012 and announces a $50 million expansion funding round.
"FireEye has a great leadership team in place today. The addition of this group of industry veterans expands the wealth of experience to lead FireEye through the next stage of its growth," said Dave DeWalt, FireEye chairman and CEO. "I am confident that we have the right team in place as FireEye continues to expand its product portfolio, unearth groundbreaking research from the lab and continue its international expansion. We welcome these new executives aboard with great excitement." Gonzalez, formerly chief strategy officer at AVAST Software, has 15 years of experience in business development, corporate development, and strategy, having held similar roles at McAfee and Siebel Systems/Oracle. A former infantry captain in the U.S. Army, Gonzalez received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in Civil Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Gupta, formerly vice president of product management and marketing in Cisco's Security Technology Business Unit, brings 14 years of experience in product management and product marketing, having held similar positions at McAfee/Intel, Redback Networks, and iPolicy Networks. Gupta has an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, an M.S. in Engineering from the University of Maryland, and a B.S. in Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering.
Kolish, formerly senior vice president of customer service at EMC, brings over 20 years of experience in services and support from roles at Documentum, Idiom, Segue Software, and Softbridge. Tony graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Jayanthi was formerly the head of McAfee's largest research and development team as the managing director for McAfee India operations. He holds an M.S. in Engineering from State University of New York and Northwestern University and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Madras.
Massa brings over 22 years of human resources expertise gained from roles at McAfee, EMC, Documentum, and Cadence Design Systems.
Song, a professor on leave from UC Berkeley and founder of Ensighta Security, Inc., has been a leading researcher and professor in computer security for over ten years. She is the recipient of numerous awards and holds a Ph.D from University of California, Berkeley, and a Masters from Carnegie Mellon University.
To learn more about the FireEye executive team, please visit the leadership page on the FireEye website.
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FireEye is the leader in stopping next-generation threats, such as zero-day and APT attacks, that bypass traditional defenses and compromise over 95% of networks. The FireEye solution supplements signature-based firewalls, IPS, anti-virus, and gateways, and provide the world's only cross-enterprise, signature-less protection against Web and email threat vectors as well as malware resident on file shares. It is the industry's only integrated solution that stops attacks across every stage of an attack life cycle, from exploit to exfiltration. Using its patented Virtual Execution technology platform across its portfolio, FireEye is uniquely able to protect against next-generation threats. FireEye solutions are deployed in over 40 countries and in more than 25% of the Fortune 100.
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Intel Collaborates with Tsinghua Unigroup; Invests $1.5 Billion in Semiconductor Business
TDS Telecom Intros younited Personal Cloud Service
University of Wisconsin Secures Big-Data Research Network with Gigamon
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Meet Your Big Data Storage Needs: Coraid
As businesses collect more and more data, they will require storage capabilities that are easily and secure, accessible, and quickly scalable for pure storage as well as data analytics.
What are the Security and Compliance Requirements of Cloud Computing: Coalfire
As the adopotion of cloud computing continues to increase, businesses are finding, while they understand the potential benefits, they need help understanding the security and compliance ramifications of moving data into cloud data centers.
Managing Your Data and Apps in Multi-Cloud Environments: Right Scale
Businesses have reached beyond education and are starting to make signifcant cloud computing deployments, which means they need an awareness of public and private resources, which to deploy in what instances, and how to manage and maintain applications across both domains.
How Cloud Providers Can Drive Revenues for Tenants and Themselves: Interxion
In order to enable customers to create new revenue streams from their content and applications, cloud providers can provide test environments to allow businesses to more efficiently develop and test new applications.
Enabling Cross-border Data Center Connectivity: Interxion
One of the challenges for multinational enterprises is establishing connectivity between infrastructure located on different continents. The Transatlantic Data Center Alliance helps overcome many of these challenges, including regulatory and compliance needs.
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