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I quite like my HP tm2 laptop - I had problems for ages with it getting hot, but after finally working out how to get the vgaswitcheroo to work in debian (mainly it was a case of putting the kernel modesetting variables in different places for both sets of drivers and then actually *loading* the damned drivers!) it runs rather cool now - cooler than windows 7, in fact.
Now I can almost abandon windows for regular use, except when using it as a touchscreen laptop.
Yes, the touchscreen works fine, but it lacks the finesse that the windows setup has. Touching it immediately classes as a tap, so there's no drag-scrolling. It's also not possible to right click by pressing and holding or pressing and right tapping.
I'm assuming there must be a set of variables somewhere in a config file for the X side of the wacom drivers, and possibly some add-on software the make the experience a little more polished?
Oh, and don't suggest going to Ubuntu - I've tried numerous recent versions and just prefer Debian.


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In 2012, about 245 foreign LL.M. and S.J.D. students came to study at Georgetown from 70 different countries. Georgetown's Graduate Writing Program offers a wide range of classes and workshops to help our foreign LL.M. and S.J.D students refine their abilities to communicate in English about the law.
The Two-Year LL.M. with a Certificate in Legal English offers a full two-semester curriculum for students who want to focus on improving their Legal English language skills before entering the regular LL.M. Program.

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rtoz writes with a quick bite from rtoz.org about Google's latest news about Project Glass: "Google has released video preview of its forthcoming Google Glass wearable headset, providing a fresh, and more realistic look at the device's user interface. Based on the demo, Google Glass will allow users to receive and execute onscreen directions, send voice-controlled messages, and search the web through speech. The UI also includes voice-controlled photos, and suggests that the device will offer onscreen translation support. And, it looks like the Google Glass will be water-resistant. Google has previously said it is aiming to launch Glass by early 2014, though it is already pushing out developer editions priced at $1,500." They're looking for developers, but only if you're hip enough.


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The Warriors not bought themselves into what proved to be a crazy draft, they got in and added a little crazy.
After a roller coaster start to the draft, Golden State concluded the first round by obstaining the No. 26 overall pick and trading down twice to the No. 30 pick. With it, they selected Serbian Nemanja Nedovic — a 6-foot-4, combo guard.
The Warriors' selection of Nedovic was a bit of a surprise considering they need big men. Starting center Andrew Bogut is always a question mark. His back-up, Festus Ezeli, will miss at least the first three months of the season after knee surgery. And power forward Carl Landry, who played some center, opted out of his contract to be come a free agent.
Kansas center Jeff Withey and Bucknell's Mike Muscala, two big men projected to be late first-round picks. But the Warriors instead went with the little-known guard who was picked by many to go middle-to-late second round.
Golden State really liked Nedovic, an athletic point guard who is one of the best in Europe. The Warriors could stash him overseas or, if he impresses during the offseason, could serve as a third point guard.


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After word of new Call of Duty: Black Ops downloadable content leaked out earlier this week, publisher Activision today formally announced it as the 'Annihilation' pack.
Annihilation will add five new maps, with 'Hangar 18,' 'Drive-In,' 'Silo,' and 'Hazard' for the regular multiplayer modes. Zombies mode takes a trip to 'Shangri-La,' which is described by Treyarch head Mark Lamia as "an exotic and mysterious map filled with deadly traps, dark secrets and innovative gameplay that will challenge even the most daring Zombie hunters."
As per Microsoft and Activision's exclusivity arrangement, it'll be released first for Xbox 360, on June 28. There's no word on when PC and PlayStation 3 editions will launch, but the last two Cod Blops DLC packs hit other platforms roughly a month later. Annihilation's price hasn't been confirmed yet either, but we can most probably expect it to be the regulation $15 (1200 Microsoft Points).
With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 expected on November 8, this may be the last new content for Cod Blops.


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* Overview
* glxtest
This site was created to document our progress in understanding R300 3d acceleration engine. (R300 is a family of cards made by ATI, in particular it includes Radeon 9700 cards and Mobility M10 cards used in notebooks). We are also interested in earlier and later Radeon hardware.
Development has moved to Mesa/DRM and X.org CVS trees, this site is out of date.More information can be found here. This website is out of date and is not likely to be updated.
It has been several months since I had time to work on the project - partly because of being busy and partly because all the features I care about work on my notebooks videocard (Mobility M10). This does not mean that the developement has stopped: this project has always been a collaboration and the development goes on, especially for newer cards.
In fact, it is my sincere hope that as the driver matures most of my contributed code wold be rewritten to be faster and more correct. However, not being an active developer prevents me from accurately updating project status summary.
What is more the driver code is now firmly part of Xorg and Mesa projects as well as included in Linux kernel (with DRM drivers), so no special installation instructions are needed. If someone wants to work on the project try it out and ask on dri-devel@ mailing list for directions.
In terms of feature support as of July 2006 most of OpenGL 1.0 has been implemented with the exception of some extensions.
This note was placed on 2006-Jul-15 by Vladimir Dergachev, feel free to update this website - or, better yet, create a DRI Wiki entry.
The source code on this website may damage your hardware.
Everyone is welcome to join ! Despite the name, this site is not only about R300 cards, but earlier ones as well. If you are trying to puzzle out some aspect of programming Radeons you might find some of our tools useful.
The development is conducted via e-mail, dri-devel mailing list and CVS. No packages (beyound those already produced) are planned for the moment.
Help needed
While the driver for R300 and later cards is still being written, the code is good enough that it is possible to play Quake and run many GL programs. The output will not be accurate as many features lack support (in particular non-flat lighting).
The following are general areas where help would be very welcome:
TestingTake a look at "Current status" below and then read subproject webpages:
Mailing lists
Our main list for developer communication is dri-devel.
Also, there is a r300-commit list that receives notifications of changes to CVS - it is very handy to subscribe to it.
Current status
Previous webpageThe webpage that started this project is located here. You can take a look there in case we screw up code in CVS and need a reference to something that used to work.
Current source code
Outdated source codeThis code still has some relevance, but has since been committed to respective CVS repository or superseded by new software.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Rising senior Lucas Spielfogel, a history major from Boca Rato, Fla., will serve as the captain for Yale's heavyweight crew team for the 2009-10 season. Spielfogel, who stroked the five spot on the varsity eight for most of the spring season, will succeed Andrew Collard as captain.
Prior to coming to Yale, Spielfogel attended Pine Crest high school. At Pine Crest, Spielfogel was a member of his crew team for two years. At Junior World Championships, his coxed four boat finished fourth, and his school's eight finished in fifth. Spielfogel has also twice been selected to the USA Junior National Team.
Spielfogel will be joined by Rebecca Burgoyne-Allen, Henry Cole, Dominique Fenton, Nolan Maher, Antonio Sirianni, and James Tormey as the seniors that will lead the Bulldogs next season.
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Very well said, I think I even understand it a bit better now.Attachment 321041
In looking at the above figure, the following may explain why you were seeing bubbles in the sight glass.
As the system head pressure falls below the set point of the headmaster, the valve starts to modulate - closing off port C and opening port R by the same ratio. This results in refrigerant backing up in the condenser as discharge gas begins diverting directly into the receiver.
Conversely, as the head pressure hits the set point of the headmaster, the valve starts to modulate once again - opening port C and closing port R by the same ratio....resulting in increased flow of refrigerant through the condenser into the receiver and restricting discharge gas from dumping directly into the receiver.
More than likely while you were adding refrigerant to the system, the discharge pressure temporarily exceeded the headmaster set point and therefore refrigerant was not allowed to stack in the condenser - so your system was sufficiently charged.....briefly.
Once you stopped adding refrigerant and the system was allowed to stabilize, the head pressure most likely dropped below the headmaster set point and refrigerant started stacking up in the condenser - and where you barely had enough refrigerant in the system before, now there simply isn't enough of a charge to both stack in the condenser and maintain a liquid level in the receiver.
Start adding refrigerant again and the cycle repeats.....until such time there is enough of a charge to allow the headmaster to do its job and form a liquid seal at the outlet of the receiver.
If you spend some time studying the figure and reflecting on how subcooling is derived, it should also become readily apparent as to why charging by subcooling simply is not an effective way to determine an acceptable system refrigerant charge.
I haven't clicked on JPSmith's link, but I would imagine he is directing you to Sporlan's step-by-step procedure for properly charging a system such as the one you are working on.


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May 3, 2013
*EDITOR'S NOTE: The memorial tree planting will be held today as planned, rain or shine.
MACOMB, IL -- Western Illinois University-Macomb employees who passed away between March 2012 and March 2013 will be remembered at 11 a.m. Friday, May 3 during a brief ceremony at the Memorial Tree Grove, located on the southeast section of campus by University Village, near the Pierce Street entrance.
The ceremony is open to the public. Employees may be granted release time to attend during their regularly scheduled work hours, subject to supervisory approval and the operational needs of the department.
Christina Noble of Administrative Information Systems (AIMS), Michael Ogle of Transportation Services, and Joyce McCormick of the Union Service Center, will be remembered.
The May 3 ceremony marks the 10th annual planting in the Memorial Tree Grove, which was established in Fall 2003 following a recommendation by members of Western's American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 417 with support from the Civil Service Employees Council, the Council of Administrative Personnel, Faculty Senate and University administration.
The annual ceremony includes one tree planted in memory of all employees who passed away during the preceding year. Honorees include employees who die while either actively working, on disability, on workers compensation or on an approved leave from the University.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee in Utah will be holding a hearing at 2pm, Tuesday, January 27, at the State Capitol Building, in Room 250.
On the committees agenda will be SB 32 the Wrongful Death Amendments sponsored by Sen. McCoy.
This bill would allow people to designate another adult to have standing in court if they die due to negligence or malpractice. Grandparents, siblings, and partners should not be locked out of the courts when a loved one is killed in these circumstances.
Equality Utah is asking us to contact members of the Senate Judiciary committee to support SB 32 today!
Sen. Jon J. Greiner
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Sen. Lyle W. Hillyard
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Sen. Mark B. Madsen
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Utah Senate Bill 32 (SB 32) Wrongful Death Amendments
The Senate Judiciary Committee in Utah will be holding a hearing at 2pm, Tuesday, January 27, at the State Capitol Building, in Room 250.
4 comments:
- Scot said...
I've done the calling, but I'm upset I have a meeting at 2 that I can't change. Nevertheless, it will be interesting to see how this first bill does.
- January 27, 2009 at 12:07 PM
- Queers United said...
thanks scot
- January 27, 2009 at 12:12 PM
- January 27, 2009 at 6:52 PM
- imnottrent said...
this makes me so sad. lose a bit of faith in humanity. soon, it may all be gone.
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MacDonald powers to ACT win at NHMSBy TOM HERZIG
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LOUDON - Eddie "The Outlaw" MacDonald of Rowley, Mass. took the lead from Brian Hoar on lap 35 and held off defending ACT champion Wayne Helliwell Jr. of Dover to win the 50-lap Bond Auto Parts ACT Invitational Saturday at NHMS.
MacDonald started 26th in a 43-car field in the Hancock Electric/Grimm Construction No.17. Earlier in the day, MacDonald had been leading the K&N Pro Series event when he cut a tire and crashed, destroying his Pro Series car.
"I was worried for a while about getting by Helliwell and Hoar, but my crew had the car going good," MacDonald said. "The restarts were a good place to gain some positions."
The race was red-flagged on lap four for a fiery front stretch crash that saw 16-year-old Joey Laquerre slide down the front chute on top of Matt White's car.
Hoar grabbed the lead from Quinny Welch, who had led from lap 9, on a lap-25 restart after the second and final caution. "I had a great first four laps and came from 15th to 4th quickly, but when MacDonald and Helliwell came on, they were really stout," Hoar said. "My car just got too tight at the end. I probably chased Welch too hard."
MacDonald and Helliwell were running third and fourth, paired in row two on the lap 25 restart.
MacDonald's margin of victory was four car-lengths. It was his third victory in five ACT Invitationals. Helliwell's second-place finish was his third runner-up effort in ACT events on the Magic Mile.
Aaron Fellows of Croydon finished fourth, two car lengths ahead of Hudson's Joey Polewarczyk Jr.
Positions 6-10 went to Tom Carey, Welch, Jean-Francois-Dery, Nick Sweet and Glenn Luce.
MacDonald earned $7,500 with his win. The ACT Tour travels to Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh for the Fall Foliage 200 next Saturday.


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The Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks and Almena Irrigation District have agreed to a contract that will help maintain recreational use of Keith Sebelius Reservoir. The ten-year contract allows use of water for agricultural irrigation when the lake level is above a prescribed minimum level, but prohibits irrigation withdrawals once the lake's surface falls below that level.
The minimum mean sea level elevation of the lake's surface (msl) prescribed in the contract is 2,288.5 feet. Once the lake is reduced to that level, no water releases will be allowed. The lake, located in Norton County, is currently at about 2289 feet msl, 15 feet below the 'conservation pool' level for which it was designed.
"Basically, it protects about 8 to 10 vertical feet of water from withdrawal, so that the fisheries and access to the lake continue to be viable and serve the lake's recreational users," said Steve Price, KDWP's Region 1 fisheries supervisor.
Sebelius' water levels have experienced substantial fluctuation since the lake was built in 1964. Recreational opportunities there have fluctuated as well, declining in dry years when inflows to the lake were insufficient to maintain adequate water to accommodate both recreation and irrigation. In addition to the fishing and boating recreation it provides, the lake is home to Prairie Dog State Park and Norton Wildlife Area, which are operated by KDWP under licenses from the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation.
The ability to maintain some water in the lake will help ensure that its fish populations survive, and that boat ramps and other access to the lake remain useable.
"This agreement illustrates that irrigation interests and public recreation interests can work together to maintain a healthy lake," said Doug Sebelius, a Kansas Wildlife and Parks Commission member from Norton. The ten-year agreement follows a series of short-term agreements between the department and irrigation district during the past three years. The agreement will not affect the City of Norton's ability to release water for their public water supply because those releases have little effect on reservoir water levels.


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"Asus has a trio of Windows 8 tablets on deck for the holidays, but the pricing is so high - $599 to $1299 for a hybrid - that it's going to be nearly impossible to compete in the marketplace. We were leaked Asus' holiday roadmap and the slide below tells the tale." If this is for real, Windows 8 is screwed in the tablet space. Nobody is going to buy a Windows tablet at prices higher than the iPad.
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Agreed, it not that I don't want to buy a tablet/note-book like Microsoft has shown. It is I can't justify spending so much money to get less than what I can get out of a regular note-book/laptop for almost half the price.
Bring the price down and let me install any OS I choose and I will be there with the cash in hand.
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Also, yaaahooo, my first first-post!!!
Ah, if someone paid me a dollar for every time I got a first post... I'd be an executive!
Ah, if someone paid me a dollar for every time I got a first post... I'd be an executive!
No, if you took 95 cents of my dollar every time I got a first post, you'd be an executive.
if the cpa was smart
CPA's [wikipedia.org] aren't very smart, that's what CA's [wikipedia.org] are for.
But in all seriousness, CPA is a really easy designation to get. I've got friends who have done both (due to working in firms who were CPA, and CA only), and the CPA is a piece of cake compared to the CA. So, the CPA is far less a symbol of being good at accounting than the CA is. Though I hear it's a little different in the US.
Anyone care to shed some light? Particularly if you're originally from a commonwealth country.
CPA's [wikipedia.org] aren't very smart, that's what CA's [wikipedia.org] are for.
But in all seriousness, CPA is a really easy designation to get. I've got friends who have done both (due to working in firms who were CPA, and CA only), and the CPA is a piece of cake compared to the CA. So, the CPA is far less a symbol of being good at accounting than the CA is. Though I hear it's a little different in the US.
Anyone care to shed some light? Particularly if you're originally from a commonwealth country.
Ummm, since this is a US tax case, the following applies: In the United States, CPAs are five year programs, then passing the unified CPA exam, then a minimum of 2 years experience. That's the equivalent of a Master Degree in Accounting, so unless a CA is the equivalent of a CPA, then I doubt that CPAs aren't very smart and CAs are more technical.
A CA is a CPA, we have both institutions over here. They both operate and certify a level of competency, but the CA is really hard, and the CPA is quite easy in comparison.
Both of them have "similar" requirements, it just seems as if the CPA is less stringent testing them. What you've said above is about the same here.
Though they require experience before hand, you need to be working in accounting at a certified firm, then it's a 4 year program (or longer, depending on you), then you need to maintain your c
Look at paragraph 4 of your second citation
"In the United States the approximate equivalent [of the Chartered Accountant] is the certified public accountant."
In other words, a CA is someone who qualified as an accountant in Scotland and is likely familiar with British tax laws. A CPA is someone who qualified in the US and is likely to be more familiar with American tax laws.
Yes, the British tax code is the most complex in the world, so maybe you do need to be smarter to understand it, but that doesn't mean
As an ACCA [wikipedia.org] student from Pakistan, I will try to shed some light. (Please correct me if I am wrong)
The major difference between American style CPA and English style CA is their approach to qualification. CPA starts with an "academic"(keyword here) four year Bachelors, plus some extra "accountancy" credit hours, though I can't find any description whether these course have a pre-defined subject and syllabus or not.
The you take a one-day, four-subject "professional" mammoth state exam, and combined with some mandatory "professional" experience you become a CPA. Incidentally, you are *not* bound to actually be a member of AICPA to practice as a CPA.
CA is different. You start early on, often after high school level, and you start your "professional" education, doing a strange combination of professional internship at an audit firm
and taking multiple level course (these can go to 20 paper, and focus in depth management, finance, tax and law).
Passing these subjects is hard, since these are one-go end of term exams, not college type where midterms and assignments count.
On top of that, often bodies have weird rules (you must pass all the subject in one module at a go, or else you fail all even if you gained an individual pass in some of them, or else you have only a few number of attempt, or limited amount of time, or some other catch.)
Examinations are very strict, partly due to high professional requirements, but mostly to keep supply low to avoid devaluing the market.
But even after that, you must continue to be member of the body, and pay their annual subscription (and are bound to their laws) or else you can't practice.
To wind up, I would say that CPA is indeed "easier" than CA. Firstly, you start with a proper Bachelor's degree, so you are qualified for the market in one way, academically if not professionally. In CA, you often start early, and unless you complete it all, you are really stuck (part qualified also manage get jobs, but still it's not the real deal you spent all that money and time for)
Secondly, the CPA system is easy. Oh sure, the exam themselves are tough, but there is only four of them, and there is no crazy pass-all-four-in-one-go scheme. For people who have to endure 20 of them, four would be a blessing.
Thirdly, CPA is not standardised as such. Except for the four professional papers at the end by the Uniform CPA board, the rest is based on various academic courses taken on your bachelors examination, with varied syllabuses and requirements. You might enrol in a college with a slant towards one finance rather than management, or maybe stress on one theory over another. In CA, you pass through a standardized syllabus through and through, so all candidates have a uniform base.
CA is a very prestigious "professional" qualification, and with strong traditions and strict control on ethics. However, you do get rather single-tracked. CPA feels like a clumsy "professional" topping on an "academic" cake, but going to college does give you a very good overall base.
As I read it, he had an S-Corp, not an LLC, but paid himself a salary just as you suggest. The problem is that the IRS claims he paid himself too little (which he could have also done with an LLC). The reason he did this was to reduce his payroll tax contributions. This can also reduce your eventual social security benefits, but as a CPA he probably figured he could do better investing the money. As an independent consultant this is the same situation I am in. I take a fixed, modest salary and take any additional income as just profits from the corporation. In year where I book a lot of hours, my income from profit can be more than my salary... which it looks like according to this article could put me in the cross-hairs of the IRS. I guess its time to give myself a raise.
This can also reduce your eventual social security benefits
Social security benefits are capped at relatively low levels, he wouldn't get but a small part of those $379k/year after he retired.
According to this link [calcxml.com] he would get about $11k if he paid taxes on $24k/year and about $26k if he paid taxes on $379k.
The obvious difference between this guy and the $1 club is the $1 club don't take the profits from the company. That was his mistake.
The $1 club gets paid in stock options, which have their own tax structure, and the occasional comped service. While it is a good way to avoid taxes, they are usually still taking a big hit in the pocket book for doing so. It can actually be pretty good for the company, too. In the case of Steve Jobs and Google's top three, their net worth is directly tied to how well the company performs, so if they are at all concerned about money they are going to try to make the company as profitable as possible to boost their stock values.
The Google CEOs are in the realm that a few million a year in salary is quite literally chump change. Taking the hit in salary to boost morale and their public image can mean an extra few million in stock values every year anyway. It's probably well worth it.
I'm really not sure how a non-public S-corp could pull off a similar feat. The best option is probably to have the S-corp comp everything you can think of, and once you've run out of things to comp figure out your salary from that. Taking leftover profits well in excess of your salary is asking for trouble.
This is not legal advice, and I'm not your lawyer.
Generally, the tax laws are such that you have to pay yourself a "fair salary" if you're the sole shareholder of an S-corp that is basically just a shell for yourself.
Now, what is a "fair salary"? The answer is "who the hell knows," but a good rule of thumb is "a typical, reasonable salary in the industry." I was once at a meeting with a financial planner, and he said a 50-50 split seems to be fair, but I'm not so sure about that.
My guess is that since you have a fixed salary every year, you're probably not screwed, unless your "fixed salary" is $25K/yr in an industry where the average consultant at your level pulls $90K/yr.
Because the government created a legal framework and will protect your right to get a fair wage for your work, it will also take some of your wage as a compensation for its work.
Feel free to abolish all government and then try make a decent living from being employed!
Setting up an LLC wouldn't have changed things (and might have made them worse). By default, distributions from an LLC to members who play an active role in the LLC's operations are also subject to FICA/FUTA withholdings (limited members who don't play any role in operations can avoid this outcome). An LLC can elect to be treated like an S corp for tax purposes but why would you want to go through that trouble when you can just be an S corp in the first place?
And as for Steve Jobs, has anyone seen his per
Just what the hell did you smoke that created this fairy land?
Tunesia recently revolted after DECADES of abuse by the superrich where they did no longer bother with tax evasion but just stole gold and killed those that protested. Oh and don't forget decades of poverty and a hopeless future for the majority.
If it takes that much negative karma, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and the likes have NOTHING to worry about. The average voter ain't even smart enough to realize that their tax avoidance schemes ultimately cause the non-super rich to pay higher taxes. They just blame Obama and vote in the tea-party. Extended tax-cuts for everyone who has more then a billion folks!
Bread and circusses. The only risk the super-rich face is if the American Dream dies, and that dream is not about actually being able to afford a car, a house and a huge tv, but about being able to work very very hard to get a loan that always puts you one pay check away from loosing it all. Keeps the folks on their toes, unwilling to do anything to risk upsetting the status quo lest they miss a credit card payment and loose it all.
Why do you think ALL the elite were HORRIFIED over the housing crisis? Because poor people lost their home? Yeah right. No, because poor people found out that they aren't all that tied down to their debt. Default and walk away and start over new, maybe somewhere different with a different kind of politician. Don't let the poor money to get themselves in debt and they just might not be in debt anymore and then how do you control them?
But that is not the worry of the super-rich. They are a few hours away from leaving the country anyway. It is the layer below that should be worried but the situation in the west is still far to tempting for the ones to get screwed to ask themselves, is it worth getting it up the ass so hard for the tiniest impossible change to one day strike it rich and screw every one else? 99% of voters in the US? Yes, yes it is.
No, the true skill was in convincing people that the expiry of the tax cuts would have a substantial impact on their finances. Most (Read 95% of) Americans would have paid little, if any, extra taxes if the cuts had expired; all the $1800/year figures that were floating around were mean averages that were massively distorted by including the top 5% of earners in the calculations and then pretending that said "averages" were representative for everyone in the country.
What I don't understand is the outrage over NOT paying into two government schemes (medicare and social security) that this person is also NOT going to depend upon payments from, even though he was continuing to pay the OTHER taxes.
Corporate income tax rate is 15% across the board, with a lot fewer deductions than personal taxes. And, if the business is considered a "personal services" corporation, even more rules apply. When I still had my own companies, we took what we could in salaries and bonuses, rath
You might actually want to check and see who is actually sending in more money to the government. I am betting you think it is the poor or middle class. You would be wrong according to the reported government numbers. The bottom 50% earners are only paying 2.7% of the total income tax received. This is actual money sent in to the government. Where is the myth that the poor are paying more than others coming from?
If the bottom 50% of the earners are only paying 2.7% of the income tax that ends up to be even
I don't pay much attention to the "middle class is disappearing" bs because I'm middle class as are most of my friends and we're not really disappearing
That said, I saw an analysis of one of the sources of these claims, and guess what? The dividing line between poor and middle class had been inflation-adjusted every year, while the dividing line between middle class and rich had been left at the same dollars/year amount for decades. Further, the same people were moaning about the persistence of poverty,
the dividing line between middle class and rich had been left at the same dollars/year amount for decades [. .
.] Same percentage of poor, lower percentage of middle class? [. . .] this is a huge problem that must be corrected?
Haven't you just explained it yourself? People, on average, WILL make more money in the future than they make now in absolute terms. The question is whether that remains true in relative terms. Making a million dollars a week matters very little if a loaf of bread costs two million
Your numerical analysis fails to consider the total tax burden. By focusing solely on income tax, it creates a distorted picture of how much tax is really being paid, and by whom.
The federal government treats the revenue from social security precisely the same as revenue from income tax. It goes into a general fund, and is used for general spending. There's a nebulous IOU out there, for paying future benefits, but social security money is just spent in the general fund.
If you were going to introduce a new t
So if you added corporate taxes to the top 5% then you are talking 71.7% of revenues in 2009. It would 67.7% of revenues in 2010. So it would appear to me that the "rich" in this country are paying significantly more than half of the cash needed/used for the government to run.
Okay, but the rich happen to control far more than half of the country's wealth and earn more than half of the income in the country. Specifically, in 2006, the top 20% of earners made 61.4% of the income, and in 2007 the top 20% controlled 85.1% of the wealth. Source [ucsc.edu]. So, the tax burden placed on the rich is completely fair. If anything they should be taxed more at the high end.
Restricting this kind of discussion to income tax is misleading to the point of being deceptive. Most people pay more in payroll taxes than they pay in income taxes. That 47% of households who paid no income tax paid plenty in payroll taxes.
Top 1% Pay 38% of all income tax
Top 5% Pay 59% of all income tax
Top 10% Pay 70% of all income tax
Bottom 50% Pay 2.7% of all income tax
47% of American Households didn't pay any income tax for 2009.
The way you bundle the stats is the common story, but results in misunderstanding the case. The bottom 50% earns less than $30,000. Those are the floor-sweepers and part-timers. Including their tax stats with people earning, for example, $50k - $100k makes the middle class look like shirkers (on average).
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The top 20% also controls almost all the wealth in the country. The are only taxed on a small portion of that. They also may pay the most in dollar amounts, but that 38% number doesn't mean they are paying 38% of their income (they aren't). Through various loopholes, tricks, and shelters, the effective tax rate on the upper 1% is more like 15-20%.
Percentages also don't show the effects of tax burden on the various classes. A 1% tax increase hits the middle class harder than it hits the rich. Plus, given our
The problems I have are:
You didn't provide the data on wealth distribution to compare and contrast. The tax contribution ratio is meaningless without knowing how the overall wealth got distributed. If hypothetically top 10% control 90% of the wealth, then 70% wouldn't be rationally a fair share.
The other issue is this is measuring the 'fairness' of being wealthy solely on tax contribution. The major problem is the people on top get to carve the pie and hand it out, opting to hand themselves a disproportionately large share. This is the *key* issue of those disgruntled with the situation. Mumblings about sketchy accounting and tax loopholes are there, but the real outrage comes when you see execs giving themselves huge bonuses, *especially* when that happens directly because they laid off people. Sometimes this manifests as people wanting to balance this by 'unfairly' taxing the wealthy, which is their only practical strategy to correct the natural unfair tendency for wealth to gather at the top in purely capitalist systems. One could say in theory consumers could control this through their purchasing decisions, but in practice people are either unaware or unwilling to enact meaningful boycotts, the former because its nearly impossible to know what products fuel the imbalance more than others and the latter because even when armed with this knowledge, they know their small contribution is nothing by itself and larger short-term needs drive their purchasing decisions instead. I personally know executives making 7 figures. They are more lucky than skilled, and simply aren't worth their pay. I also know some presidents that keep their *total compensation* capped in the 200-300k range and make sure the rest goes into their employees. 200k-300k is still pretty damn wealthy, and you have a much healthier company if you direct resources it earns into enriching the company instead of leeching.
Your confusion is that you are mistaking percentages by the person and percentages by the income. Let me simplify it down for you.
Take 10 people. One of them makes 10 billion dollars a year. The other 9 each make $20,000. The top 10% guy complains that he pays a full 70% of all taxes paid and life is just so very unfair (note that he also makes well over 99% of the income). Of course the only thing that keeps the other 9 guys from leveling the playing field (and income levels) is the law enforcement and court systems the tax money puts in place.
If any of those top 1% are that upset about their taxes, I'll trade places with them. Any takers? <crickets chirping>
don't forget, you ARE rich to somebody, while somebody else is rich to you.
As an atheist, I am not about to go on a killing spree, I don't care that there are people who are richer, I WANT there to be rich people rather than poor people.
I want people to compete, to create better products/services and if they become rich in the process, I am all for it, as long as I get the spoils of that competition through lower prices/higher quality/more new interesting stuff - that's economic growth.
I don't even need a lot of money, I just need real competition in the market. Real competition, without government intervention. Why is that? Because I want to see companies compete in cut throat environment, where things are deflating in price.
I want prices to fall, I want deflation. I want deflation. Deflation. Deflation of money supply - that's what I want. I want money to become more and more expensive and more and more scarce.
Why is that? Because prices for everything go down as money become more expensive. I don't want inflation. Will the labor prices go down as well? Of-course! But in real competitive market the number of competing entities is so high, that whatever money I have will buy more and more every day.
Those were the actual realities of the USA in 19 century, even though even in those times the US gov't was doing something terrible - helping some people with their monopolies. The robber barons, the tycoons, whatever, those were gov't created. But the prices were falling. New products were created. New industries were created. Entire new job segments were created. Nobody had to work in the field farming 15 hours a day just to feed themselves. More leisure time was created.
Do you know what is good? It's when you do not have to work at all or work very very little to feed yourself, so you'd have much more leisure time.
Do you know how that can be achieved?
Through massive automation of production, through new efficiencies and competition.
We see examples of this: computers, TVs, cars, any technologies, some forms of medical attention, and many more things tend towards that because there is real competition there. Who could afford THEIR OWN COMPUTER 50 years ago? Who does not have a computer in their phone or PDA or TV today?
Was this done by poor people? Was this done by governments and monopolies? Or was this done by people who became also insanely rich in the process?
So why would we want to punish success? What we need is to punish FAILURE. And government is not punishing failure, it's punishing success with taxes and it's rewarding failure with money and positions of power.
All of those banks that were gov't created monopolies, that enjoyed gov't FDIC insurance, that had all that cheap money from gov't, that had all those regulations destroying their competition by gov't, all those banks failed. They are failures, yet they are rewarded. The GE CEO now has a high power position in the US government. WHY? Under his watch the valuation of GE fell by over 50%, maybe more, that's insane to reward that!
But that's the way it is - the gov't creates inequality by destroying competitive environment, it promotes FAILURE it denounces success and it's causing the society to be poorer and poorer all the time, but hey, at least we can blame the rich for this.
It's because this guy paid himself the same amount, he just funneled a lot of it through his corporation, of which he owned the dominant share (if he was going through an S-Corp, he only needs at least one other shareholder, I believe). S-Corps don't pay corporate taxes either. Google, Apple, et al are public corporations which pay corporate taxes (though not much, usually, by taking advantage of various loopholes). Most of them don't even pay a dividend, so even if Steve Jobs does have a significant number of Apple shares, he's not getting any direct payment of the company profits.
You can have an S-Corp with only one shareholder (at least here in WI and most other states I know of). That's how I do my consulting. It involves more paperwork that being a sole proprietor, but their are liability and tax advantages to having a real corp over going sole proprietor. An LLC is also a good option; it lacks some of the advantages of an S-Corp but involves less paperwork.
and managing a multi-billion tech company is only worth being paid $1? While the salaries of your examples may be set by a board their official pay is not accurately describing the value of what they bring to the company. Sorry, can't agree w you there.
Right... but that is precisely the same sort thing this CPA tried to do from the look of things... except he didn't get away with it...
This is a ridiculous line of reasoning. The $1 salaries taken by high-tech execs isn't about avoiding taxes - it's about leadership and morale.
It's actually a voluntary decrease in their compensation from previous years, they aren't shifting their salary into bonuses or other forms of pay. You can't accuse them of trying to get around paying taxes because they're not coming out ahead financially.
Now if you want to blame them for not contributing as much tax as they could, you may have a technically correct point, but good luck trying to frame a valid argument in your effort to make them look bad. And if you do, try not to keep confusing value with compensation- the value a company gets from an employee is not taxable.
No, the difference is that the guy in this case took a low salary, and took the rest as a profit distribution. In the case of Jobs et al., they take a salary of $1 and take the rest as Stock. Its a whole different accounting ball game.
will tell you that the company in question falls under different tax law than Google or Apple. Apparently, companies with more than 100 shareholders are subject to an additional level of taxation on profits. I don't know any details, but I think that it would be worth looking into before crying foul. At the very least, one would expect the submitter to have read the article, which doesn't seem to be the case.
All the more reason it's time to simplify the 8000+ page tax code.
When you volunteer to double your personal share of the tax burden you can make it as simple as you like. Until then keep dreaming but do try to stay on topic.
At the very least, one would expect the submitter to have read the article, which doesn't seem to be the case.
The submitter is theodp, and it's easy to spot his submissions because they are screechy rants filled with ton of links.
I wish a judge would rule that I don't make enough commensurate with the market. Maybe this tax season the IRS will see that I don't make enough.
Half the world lives on less than $2.50 a day. [globalissues.org]
80% lives on less than $10 a day.
We are the super wealthy.
A simple consumption tax system would rid us of these problems, but Congress would lose their power to grant favors and impose penalties on entities of their choosing.
An income based tax system with this many different requirements and exceptions is designed to be abused. A consumption system is not because what good is their wealth if they don't spend it. If you want to soak the rich you simply implement a consumption tax and void all taxes paid up to a specified amount. As in, you determine the amount of spending required to keep people happy and whole and refund it, all beyond that goes into the coffers. This includes taxing services as consumption as well so that getting around the system becomes less likely.
On the whole, however the taxes are fair. Individually they seem like a scam, but it works out pretty well.
The people who own 40% of the wealth in this country (the top 1% earners) pay roughly 40% of the taxes. That's with all their tricks and loopholes to get out of them, they still pay 40%. The people who own 3% of the wealth (the bottom 50% earners) pay about 3% of the taxes.
On the whole, it's fair. Individually it doesn't seem so, because a lot of those top 1% will be paying almost 50% of their income in taxes, while a huge portion of the bottom 50% pay 0% in taxes, but overall it works well.
Consumption based taxes would even things out individually, but would flip the scale on its head by class. Someone making $100 million a year isn't likely to spend more than $20-30 million, a frugal multi-millionaire may only spend $10 million. A 20% consumption tax would mean he is only paying 2% of his income in taxes.
Contrast that with someone living pay check to pay check, making $15,000 a year. They have to spend all of their money every year, so a 20% consumption tax would mean he pays 20% of his income.
You end up with the people who need every dime they can get their hands on to survive paying the highest percentage of their income in taxes. That can only be considered fair by the cruelest definitions of fair.
There's a difference between owning/doing business as an S Corp like he does (and I do, as do a lot of independent professionals) and being the CEO of a conventional C Corp. As CEO of a C Corp, you're not the owner, you work for the company. Steve Jobs and other people who get $1 in compensation get paid primarily in stock grants. If the stock rises, they cash it in and get money out when they want to. If the company doesn't do well, worst case is they get nothing - for practical purposes most boards will re-price or reissue options so they get some pay out of it. Lower level execs are usually paid with a combination of more cash pay and fewer options, but current thinking seems to be that a CEO is most directly tied to stock value.
Also, in many cases with "rock star" CEOs like the ones in tech, they have som much stock from taking the company public in the first place that they don't need much cash compensation, and it doesn't look as cool if they take it.
In the S Corp world, I think most of us do it for the liability protection. At least at mine, I pay myself a pretty good salary. I take out occasional payments that I pay taxes on - it's usually easier to do it as a bonus in my payroll and have taxes dealt with, especially because I pay bonuses to my employees. The flip side is that owning an S Corp does let you expense things that ordinarily might not be deductible as a regular company employee, like cars and at least part of your housing (as a previous poster mentioned). I keep things very above board - pretty much the only things that the company expenses in my life are my car and its related costs, my cell phone, and any tech I buy that isn't specifically for the house. I could push more stuff on the company if I wanted to be really aggressive, but it's not worth the potential hassle to me.
The one place where I get hit in return as an S Corp owner is in health insurance - I don't get as much of a tax benefit for my own insurance as I do for that of my employees.
What this CPA did was pay himself a token paycheck and then push a lot more off as profits. Had he paid himself a higher base - say, $50-$60k he likely wouldn't have had a problem with it and still would have had a nice profit distribution.
The "S" Conundrum: Can Dividends be Wages or Vice Versa? [unclefed.com]: Any knowledgeable practitioner reading this newsletter will quickly realize that the potential IRS argument that wages are too low is the flip side of the question, when is compensation too high in order to eliminate income for a regular "C" corporation? In both "S" and "C" situations the issue is what is reasonable compensation.
Jobs et al do not get in trouble with the IRS because they do not, after having paid themselves $1 salaries, turn around and distribute their companies' entire profits to themselves at the end of the year. Profits are retained by the corp and taxed at a pretty high rate, or distributed to shareholders and taxed. Whereas with an S corp, all profits flow through to the shareholders, and the corp itself pays no taxes.
And yes, they pay taxes on their stock options. In fact, gains from stock options at the moment they're exercised are treated as ordinary income and subject to normal income tax rates + FICA + Medicare. I don't know about the treatment of stock grants...
He didn't get in trouble for the distributions; he paid all the income tax he was require to. He got in trouble for the obvious payroll tax evasion.
The stock options you are thinking of are incentive stock options (ISOs), and are taxed as capital gains when sold, not as income (though they do force you to take the Alternative Minimum Tax when exercised). Stock grants are non-statutory stock options, and are taxed as income.
You only pay Medicare and FICA taxes on payroll - i.e. wages and tips. Stock optio
The reason $1 execs don't have to deal with this is simple. Their salary is $1 and they don't make money off of company 'profits.'
But, you might say, they own stock! In fact, the only reason these folks might agree to such a compensation scheme is the stock!
And you'd be right, partly. They agree to this for two reasons: 1.) Stock options and 2.) they're already wealthy.
But this doesn't matter for income purposes. Why? These $1 executives aren't getting profit disbursements or dividends on their stocks. Therefore, they can only make money on the stock options if they sell the stock. (Which, by the way, they're often prevented from doing for a number of years.)
In contrast, this CPA had a small corporation where he was likely the sole stockholder. (I say likely because I didn't read the link. I'm lazy. Besides, I wanted to show off this knowledge. Oh, and another reason it's likely he's a sole stockholder is because it's likely a professional corporation where only other CPAs can be shareholders. Lawyers, doctors, and other professional get these restraints, too.)
Trying to 'trick' the IRS by paying yourself a meager salary and then taking the rest in profits won't fly. The IRS can, at their option, treat solely owned corporations like this as sole proprietorships under the tax code. Corporations and LLCs aren't tax vehicles per se; they're liability reduction vehicles under state law. The tax code has simply been designed to allow for tax benefits in certain circumstances, but these are not dependent upon 'structure' as much as it is 'actual use.'
Basically it comes down to if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck, then the IRS will call it a duck even if the duck calls itself a goose. Similarly, if a CPA tries to avoid tax liabilities by calling himself a corporation, setting himself a salary, and then giving himself a dividend on the rest of the profits then the IRS will call that not a 'profit' but, rather, an 'income.'
This is totally different from a $1 executive who only gets $1, gets stock options he can't use for 3-10 years, and 'realizes' no income because all he's gotten are stock interests that can't be sold and picture of Georgia Washington.
The Slashdot contributor is right about one thing -- rich folks do have better tax advisers. Then again, going to bloody H&R Block or simply spending 30 minutes reading the IRS website can give you this information, too.
It's not rocket science.
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How are you??? Could any one of you correct my esssay, pleas???? Well I need your help, I have to give an essay to the teacher. The essay is related to the 300 movie and it is based on freedom, it is more or less 300 words. Please tell me if it is wrong or if i have to change something.
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It was not easy to set up freedom in the world, in fact history shows that freedom was won, and maintained by the greatest of efforts, and on many occasions, at the cost of life and limb. Freedom is not something we have gained through the efforts of our ancestors; but, rather, it is something with which we are born; it comes with life's package. It is something that is necessary to our very evolvement and is necessary to our continued involvement in life. Like in human beings history, in the 300 movie when the essential human freedoms had been threatened by one the most important men's ambition: "power"; Spartan Countrymen had to fight in order to mantain freedom in their society even in the world
At first, on one side there were the Spartan countrymen, peaceful people who lived in peace and free with each other. Although they were peaceful people, they were very strong; their strong body and beauty showed their excelent fighting qualities. Spartan children grew up as fighting machines in order to fight and won any war. In this way, they prepared their sons as mortal worriors, since children they were carried off their parents and sent to train for the battles. As worriors their most important principles were: "no mercy" " never retreat" and "never surrunder". But they also were extremely perfectionist people, so as to kill their own sons. Everyone who born imperfect or with an illness had to be murdered.
On the other side were the Persians, ambitious people, who wanted the take control all over the world, spreading panic, death, unjustice and darkness. The Pearsians leader's aspiration was to conquer Sparta like he conquered the world and make people his slaves. He believed himself a God and superior to the common people. Persians were awful because they seemed like monsters from the hell, and their hearts were full of darkness and death.
As a conclusion I think freedom is something that is very closed with the men. As we saw in 300 hundred, it is a obligation to fight and gain it, not only In the future days but avery day as well, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.


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Thursday, November 16, 2006
Acupuncture anatomy goes mainstream!
Until recently complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) courses in medical school have been offered mainly as electives. Georgetown wants to take it a step further and "Aim CAM curriculum at all students through required courses." Plans for integration of woo into the basic science courses read like fodder for late night infomercials: psychoneuroimmunology, stress hormone modulation through relaxation, imagery and breathing regulation and more.
3 comments:
- james gaulte said...
I don't see how this "trend" can get any more ridiculous but somehow it will.
- Anesha said...
Hi Nice Blog . In this, the body is studied by regions rather than by organs. This is of importance to the surgeon who exposes different planes after the skin incision and who, of course, must be perfectly familiar with structures as he explores the limbs andHuman Anatomy studycavities.
- Stefano Marcelli said...
Dear Dr. RW and Followers.
your post is of 2006, and I find it googling "gross anatomy acupuncture".
Because of the subject of you post, I think you will appreciate the article I wrote and that has just been published. Among acupuncturists, MDs must admit that acupuncture absolutely lacks of evidences! Many MDs admit it. but many with a great effort. Meridians are coupled like devils (yang) and angels (yin) of our primitive superstitions :-). Nevertheless, the systematic gross anatomical comparative observation I adopted for the acupuncture meridian system, as a fundamental step of the scientific method, would put on my desk a rational hypothesis, though very far to be verifiable.
Best regards,
Dr. Stefano Marcelli MD


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I am learning about applets and have some questions about deployment. I have
the html applet tags all set and have deployed the class files to the directories
underneath the html page on the web server.
When running as an applet in a browser, the application classes are located
ok for my application but the basic classes are not. I had some issues with
applet.context, then started with some security package. These are basic
java classes that I would expect to be on the client side, with no need to
deploy. Jbuilder even goes so far as to say the sun.* packages are specifically
excluded from the deployment wizard.
On the client side, I have installed IE5 and JBUILDER 3, so I expected the
classpath and the basic classfiles to be available.
Should I have to address deployment of basic class files, even if they are
using a java capable browser?
What should the classpath look like on the client side?
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davetek77 wrote:How can I transfer a session variable from php to asp? I have a login.php page which validates a username and password against an ldap server. I want to pass the results of validation to an asp page. Whats the best way to do this?
I don't know which is the best way to do this, but I canthink of two:
1) write the results in a file and then open it to render the contents
2) write the results on a hidden Field in HTML
I don't know how those two languages could communicate else.
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Carlo Ancelotti's men climbed to the summit of the Ligue 1 table thanks to their Swedish talisman, who single-handedly swept aside their struggling visitors at Parc des Princes
The home side rode out a tricky period before the break to emerge comfortable victors and their talismanic Swedish forward stole the show by setting up the first two goals before collecting two of his own to pass a career landmark of 200 league goals.
PSG almost opened the scoring in bizarre circumstances in the early stages. A through-ball from Ibrahimovic sent Ezequiel Lavezzi though and the Argentine's cut-back was smashed against Blaise Matuidi by defender Maxime Colin, as the latter tried to clear.
The ball ricocheted towards goal and almost caught Yohann Thuram-Ulien off-guard in the Troyes goal, the Frenchman doing well to react and tip the ball over.
Seconds later, Ibrahimovic was played in by Veratti but the striker was almost too casual in his approach and Thuram-Ulien got down well to smother his tame effort.
The former AC Milan man then announced his return in fine style by setting up the opening goal. Ibrahimovic danced round the challenge of Rincon, after being played down the channel by Gregory van der Wiel, and his cut-back was deflected into the path of Maxwell, who slid home from just outside the six-yard box.
Troyes heads didn't drop, however, and the visitors began to suppress PSG's dominance. Their first chance fell to captain Mourir Obbadi, who let fly from 25-yards out but the midfielder dragged his shot wide of Sirigu's right-hand post.
PSG should have doubled their lead on 32 minutes but neither Lavezzi nor Ibrahimovic could capitalise on good opportunities. The Argentine was first to try his luck, but his header from Sylvain Armand's inviting cross was straight at Thuram-Ulien and his team-mate could only back-heel the rebound wide.
Troyes continued to cause their hosts problems before the break and Fabien Camus was next to try his luck, his effort deflected beyond the reach of Sirigu but landing just over the crossbar.
The home side weren't helping their own cause and Matuidi was caught in possession on the edge of his own area. The former Saint-Etienne man was given a reprieve, however, as Jean-Christophe Bahebeck could only scuff his effort into the ground, creating a simple stop for the PSG goalkeeper.
Bahebeck is currently on loan at Troyes from PSG and moments later the 19-year old was at the centre of the action again as he was brought down in the area by Marco Verratti. Despite the Italian's lack off contact with the ball, however, referee Bartolomeu Varela waved away all protests from the visitors and the hosts survived.
The Parc des Princes booed off their team at half-time and Troyes continued to be the more threatening side after the break.
Benjamin Nivet had Sirigu sprawling across his goalmouth when he cut inside from the edge of the area and
fired just wide, while passing in the final third let down the Ligue 1 strugglers on a number of occasions.
The visitors were made to pay for their profligacy as Paris Saint-Germain broke down the field to double their lead, once again laid on by their superstar striker.
This time Ibrahimovic surged forward down the left flank and threaded through Matuidi, who struck the ball first-time beyond Thuram-Ulien and into the Troyes goal via the right-hand post.
Zlatan wasn't finished either and he grabbed his 200th league goal after 70 minutes. Nene, on as a substitute for Javier Pastore at the break, fed through PSG's talisman who smashed home a ferocious effort which crashed home off the underside of the crossbar.
There was still time for the home side to add a fourth, Ibrahimovic tapping home from Lavezzi's cross in the 89th minute to compound the visitors' misery.
The win sends Paris Saint-Germain to the top of Ligue 1 after 14 matches, while and sees them end their domestic winless streak after two defeats and a draw in their previous matches. Meanwhile, Troyes still sit in 19th position, six points adrift of safety.


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KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) -- The night was already a success for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Brendan Harris' game-winning hit made the team's debut at Disney World that much sweeter.
Harris singled through a drawn-in infield with the bases loaded in the 10th inning Tuesday night, giving the Devil Rays a 4-3 victory over the Texas Rangers in the first major league regular season game played in Central Florida.
"It was kind of neat, actually. There was a buzz about the place," Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon said. "I know our players felt it, and I felt it. ... It was a nice atmosphere."
Despite slow advance ticket sales, most of the seats in the minor league park at Disney's Wide World of Sports complex were filled. Attendance was announced as 8,443, a little more than 1,000 below capacity and slightly better than the 8,241 the Devil Rays and Rangers averaged for six dates at Tropicana Field last season.
The Devil Rays shifted the three-game series from St. Petersburg to Disney -- about 90 miles northeast of the team's domed stadium -- in hopes of raising the franchise's profile in the Orlando area and bolstering television ratings across Central Florida.
"We didn't really know what to expect, but it was great" Harris said. "We saw some familiar faces as well as some new ones, so hopefully we made some new fans."
Harris' fourth hit of the game drove in the winning run off Scott Feldman (1-2), who was recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma earlier in the day. Brian Stokes (2-5) pitched the 10th for the Devil Rays, who loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the inning on two walks and Delmon Young's single.
Hank Blalock homered for the third straight game for the Rangers, hitting a solo shot off James Shields in the fifth. Brad Wilkerson had a second-inning sacrifice fly, and Nelson Cruz's RBI single in the fifth made it 3-3 against Shields, who allowed six hits in eight innings.
Carlos Pena, Elijah Dukes and Ty Wiggington drove in Tampa Bay's runs off Texas right-hander Brandon McCarthy, who allowed six hits and struck out seven in six innings. Meanwhile, the Rangers' Mark Teixeira went 0-for-5, ending a 12-game hitting streak.
Disney's 9,500-seat park is the smallest to host major league games since the Oakland Athletics opened the 1996 season with six "home" games against Toronto and Detroit at 9,000-seat Cashman Field in Las Vegas.
"It felt a little different. It's the first time that I could hear individual fans," McCarthy said. "I think once you get to the big leagues, you start to feed off that energy of 30,000 people going strong. I understand what they're doing here, but it's a little weird feeling."
Devil Rays principal owner Stuart Sternberg said before the game that he expected every seat in the ballpark to be filled, however there were rows and rows of empty green chairs for the first pitch, especially in corners of the upper deck.
With ticket prices ranging from $49 to $119 for the lower deck and $35 to $42 on the upper level, many fans opted for $15 lawn seating up the third base line and on the hill behind the left field fence.
"Success would just be people leaving the park tonight, tomorrow and the next day saying they had a great time," Sternberg said, adding that the team was open to the possibility of additional visits to Orlando in coming seasons if the experiment goes well.
"The only way I'd rule it out is if it is really atrocious," the owner said.
But one thing Sternberg reiterated is that the club's effort to reposition itself as a regional franchise is not an attempt to test the Orlando area as a potential site for relocation from Tropicana Field.
"We've got a house. We're extremely happy in our house. We've put a lot of dollars into our home," Sternberg said, backtracking on recent comments he's made about the long-term suitability of the domed stadium in St. Petersburg.
Although Disney has been the spring training base for the Atlanta Braves since 1997, it nevertheless is a minor league park that lacks many of the amenities that teams enjoy at major league venues.
The Devil Rays rented a 30-by-22 foot video screen that was installed behind the right field fence and players meandered around clubhouses smaller than they are accustomed to, trying to get acclimated to the new surroundings.
Most of Tampa Bay's players made the 90-mile trip by car, some arriving on Monday and taking advantage of the day off to visit theme parks. A handful took a bus that left Tropicana Field at 10:30 a.m.
"It's three more road games. That's what it's like," outfielder Carl Crawford said. "It's definitely not like being at home."
Rangers OF Sammy Sosa had the night off. ... Devil Rays CF Rocco Baldelli, who's in a 1-for-40 skid, left the game with a left hamstring strain after grounding out in the first. The injury will be re-evaluated Wednesday. ... The Rangers placed RHP Kevin Millwood on the 15-day DL a day after returning to the team and aggravating a hamstring injury that had kept him out for two weeks. LHP Ron Mahay was put on the DL with a strained muscle in his ribcage. Feldman and A.J. Murray were recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma. ... Wilkerson left the game with a right hamstring injury after sliding awkwardly to avoid a tag at second base on a fifth-inning double.
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There aren't a lot of games to pick from if you want to take in a local college football game this weeekend.
The University of La Verne (0-1) and San Bernardino Valley College (0-2) are idle and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (1-0), Pomona-Pitzer (0-1) and Chaffey College (2-0) will all be on the road.
The University of Redlands (1-0) will host Whitworth, Wash. (1-1) at 7 p.m. on Saturday at Ted Runner Stadium. The Bulldogs opened their season with a 21-10 win at East Texas Baptist last week. That looks like a good win given that team's big win the previous week.
This will be the second straight week the Bulldogs will be defending a star player. Not that you want to focus and entire game plan on one player, but Whitworth does rely on all-everything back Adam Anderson much the way East Texas revolved around its quarterback Sed Harris.
Redlands has the benefit of a solid quarterback and leader in Dan Selway, who is finally exhausting his eligibilty – foes in the SCIAC wil be happy to know. The Bulldogs do need to develop a running game, something coach Mike Maynard says has been a focal point in practice this week.
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps is going up to Pacific (Ore.) for a 1:30 p.m. game. That team is probably worse than the Lewis & Clark team it beat last week. Expect the Stags to move to 2-0. How good they are is still anybody's guess given the level of competition.
Pomona-Pitzer, which lost to Whitworth 35-7 last week, goes up to Lewis & Clark. So the Sagehens and quarterback Jacob Caron have a good shot at win No. 1.
In the junior college ranks Victor Valley (0-2) will be at Riverside (1-0) for a 6 p.m. showdown. The schedule makers did the Rams no favors. Don't get coach Dave Hoover started on that subject!
Chaffey (2-0) is off to an impressive start too but will face a tough task in marching down to Mission Viejo to square off against Saddleback, the No. 14 team in the state.


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An anonymous reader writes "UK video game site C&VG has posted a story rumoring Sony's PlayStation Portable handheld game console will allow both music and games to be downloaded via the newly announced Sony Connect online download store. An industry source quoted in the article says: 'PSP is intended to be able to link up with Sony Connect to offer digital music for download, but the bigger deal is the plan to put PSP games up there for download eventually, too.' C&VG says this rumor, if true, shows 'Sony's alleged drive to ultimately cut-out retail and handle distribution of software itself' - we'll find out for sure next week at E3." Elsewhere, GamePro/Famitsu interviews leading Japanese PSP developers, with Atlus producer Hideyuki Yokoyama saying: "I expect downloads and fees to be the primary business model."


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You might be familiar with Michael Ian Black, the comedian, from his sketch comedy shows The State and Stella. Or, you've seen Michael Ian Black, the actor, in roles in NBC's Ed and the cult summer camp comedy Wet Hot American Summer. But if you're a parent of small children, you may know Michael Ian Black, the author, from his quartet of children's books, one of which includes a lemonade-selling monkey who reads minds.
Michael took up writing children's books such as The Purple Kangaroo after reading countless others to his son and daughter while thinking, "Oh, I could do this. Let me see if I can make money off exploiting my children." (He was joking. Kind of.) His relationship with his kids, as well as that with his wife, is one of the topics Michael unpacks in his frank, hilarious memoir You're Not Doing it Right (2012).
The actor, comedian and long-suffering father of two sat down with Ask Me Another host Ophira Eisenberg to dole out some useful parenting tips, discuss his love of poker and reveal that the once-in-a-lifetime role he dropped out of NYU to pursue was as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
Since Michael seemed up for anything, we catered to his competitive spirit by inviting him to play an Ask Me Another Challenge against World Series of Poker champion Matt Matros. The topic? Poker, of course. As Michael put it to Ophira, "When [I] sit down at the poker table, all I'm thinking is, 'I need to vanquish my foes.' And everyone at the poker table are my foes. But really--the foe is I."
About Michael Ian Black
Michael Ian Black began his career with The State, a sketch comedy troupe he co-founded at New York University in 1988, which went on to have a successful run on MTV. He is also known for his work on NBC's Ed, Stella, Michael and Michael Have Issues and Wet Hot American Summer. Michael has appeared in several films and is a frequent contributor to VH1's I Love the... series. His first album of stand-up comedy, I Am a Wonderful Man, was released in 2007, and his first book of humorous essays, My Custom Van (and 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays That Will Blow Your Mind All Over Face) came out in 2008. He has written four children's books, and in 2012 released a memoir entitled You're Not Doing It Right. Michael is married and has two children.
In the video below, Michael Ian Black joins his friend, actor and comedian Michael Showalter, to discuss his children's book Chicken Cheeks.
(Warning: This video contains language that may not be suitable for all viewers.)
You're listening to ASK ME ANOTHER, NPR's hour of puzzles, word games and trivia. I'm Ophira Eisenberg, and joining me is this week's VIP, that's very important puzzler, actor and comedian Michael Ian Black.
EISENBERG: Welcome to ASK ME ANOTHER, Michael.
MICHAEL IAN BLACK: Thanks. It's great to be here.
EISENBERG: You get around. I knew you from MTV, the sketch "The State." You've gone on to appear in tons of television, movies. You have written half a dozen books of different genres. Some of them are children's books, a memoir, a book of essays. You are...
BLACK: Radical feminist poetry, you neglected to say.
EISENBERG: Radical...
EISENBERG: I can't wait to read the sequel to that. You are a prolific tweeter. You're a pretty good poker player.
BLACK: Yeah.
EISENBERG: You got a lot going on. We're going to have to focus here.
BLACK: You neglected the part where I'm often unemployed.
EISENBERG: Yeah, that just sounds like downtime to me, just a lot of downtime. Before the break, I teased a trivia question. In which of your stories does the main character have the ability to read your mind?
BLACK: That's in my second children's book entitled, "The Purple Kangaroo." But the character that reads people's minds is not a kangaroo, is in fact a lemonade-selling monkey.
EISENBERG: Ah. Did you always want to write a children's book or...
BLACK: No. Oh, no, no, no.
BLACK: No, but I had kids. And when they were little, I would read them these children's books, and I thought, like I think most parents do, "Oh, I could do this."
EISENBERG: Right.
BLACK: Let me see if I could make money off exploiting my children.
BLACK: And but what I found out is that, you know, children's book authors, when you talk to them, you know, you'll hear them say, you know it's very difficult to write children's books.
Because although the text may be short, you have to really construct it in such a sort of complicated way but it has to feel organic and you really have to spend a lot of time on word choice. It's the equivalent of writing any other kind of book. And what I discovered is that isn't true at all.
EISENBERG: It's really easy.
BLACK: It is really easy to write children's books. One of the things that was important to me in writing children's books is that I wasn't writing down to anybody. That, you know, I'm writing hopefully as much for the parent who has to read the stupid thing as the kid who has to listen to the stupid thing. And make no mistake, these books are stupid.
EISENBERG: I'm so happy to hear you got a new one on the way.
BLACK: I do.
EISENBERG: So as a, obviously as someone who writes children's books and you know - you have children, you know children, you could speak to them because you're writing books that - what is your number one child raising tip?
BLACK: When they say they hate you, it's best to just go "I hate me too."
BLACK: You turn the tables on them like that. Never fails to make them cry.
EISENBERG: Now, you went to NYU for performing arts. And that was - when you got accepted, were you just like my life's going to change?
BLACK: In that moment?
EISENBERG: Yeah.
BLACK: I actually will never forget that. I remember getting the envelope from New York University and when you're a college senior, you're taught the small envelopes are bad news, the big envelopes are good news. And it was a big envelope, and I opened it up and I remember just jumping and dancing. And it was the most physical activity I had ever performed up to that point in my life and probably since.
EISENBERG: But you did not finish NYU.
BLACK: Oh, no, I dropped out almost immediately.
BLACK: Once I got to New York, you know, my goal was achieved. There was no point in staying there. No, I finished my second year, had started my junior year and got the opportunity to become a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle and...
EISENBERG: Which one?
BLACK: Rafael.
EISENBERG: Okay, sorry.
BLACK: Obviously.
EISENBERG: Yeah, the best looking one, I understand.
BLACK: So when that opportunity presents itself, one doesn't say, oh, no thank you, I don't want to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. You seize that by the shell and you run.
BLACK: So that's what I did.
EISENBERG: So in addition to all this, you decided to sort of shed the comedic persona, you know, kind of smart-alecky, above it all, snarky guy and get very vulnerable and write a very hilarious memoir called "You're Not Doing it Right." As you're writing it, are you freaking out that people are going to read this...
BLACK: No. I don't have that kind of foresight where I'm thinking...
BLACK: ...somebody's actually going to read this. At the time, I'm thinking this book is a year over due; I just need to finish it. As it happens, people did read it.
And it was really interesting to me because the process of writing about myself, what was important to me was that I be as honest and as self-critical and not paint myself in any kind of flattering light that I didn't feel like I deserved.
In doing so, like I really had to talk about my relationship with my wife in as honest a way as I could. And I didn't really feel nervous about that in terms of her reaction because it wasn't anything that I hadn't said to her. You know, I'd say to her all the time "you're a terrible, terrible person."
BLACK: And she says the same to me but in much, much stronger language. But then I was surprised when the book came out and people, their reaction to it was often "I can't believe that you would talk about your marriage in these frank terms."
And it surprised me because it seemed to me that - I guess was surprised that I thought everybody who was married talked to their spouses like that. That everybody, you know, was awful to their spouse and wonderful to their spouse and that relationship encompassed the gamut of human emotion and feeling.
EISENBERG: Turns out everyone's just lying.
BLACK: That's the impression I get is that most people in relationships are just lying to each other and in denial about how they really feel. So, yeah, my advice to your audience, I guess, is break up.
EISENBERG: And now you're also a poker player. You've played...
BLACK: I am a poker player. In fact, I just played a charity poker tournament with Ira Glass, also of NPR fame.
EISENBERG: Wow.
BLACK: In which he eliminated me.
EISENBERG: Are you competitive?
BLACK: I'm very competitive. You can't play poker and not be competitive because the idea is when you sit down at the poker table, all I'm thinking is I need to vanquish my foes. And everyone at the poker table are my foes. But really, the foe is I.
EISENBERG: Ah.
EISENBERG: All right, Michael Ian Black, well we have a challenge coming up for you where you can decide is the foe you or is the foe the others. But first, I will ask you, do you think you'd be up for an ASK ME ANOTHER challenge?
BLACK: Oh, of course.
EISENBERG: All right. Michael Ian Black, thank you. We'll see you later in the hour for an ASK ME ANOTHER challenge.
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Video: Inside the Disastrous Louisiana Science Education Act
Professor of philosophy Barbara Forrest gave this presentation in May, describing the horrifying state of science education in Louisiana, where the stealth creationism bill signed into law by Bobby Jindal is having the intended effect of legitimizing the teaching of creationist fairy tales as "science."
Dr. Forrest goes into great detail about the deceptive code language used by the Republican Party to get these bills through the legislature, and the links between Gov. Jindal and religious right group Louisiana Family Forum.
While the right constantly fear-mongers about "stealth shariah," they're engaging in a very real conspiracy to sneak religious doctrine into America's public schools by disguising it as "academic freedom."
NCSE board member Barbara Forrest digs into the LSEA, why it passed, why repeal will be very difficult, how the legislative message of science denial is spreading to other states (like Tennessee), and more. When: 5/20/2012. Where: 3rd Annual Orange County Freethought Alliance Conference, Irvine, CA


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