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Thinking Right's weekend free-for-all. Pick a topic:
● Help me think. Excluding anything to do with the personal lives of celebrity athletes and entertainers, has more ink been spilled needlessly on any issue more frivolous than voter ID? The Georgia Supreme Court this week joined others in smacking down the whiners who kept arguing that somebody somewhere would be kept from voting because of the requirement — but could never produce a living soul. Or, heck, even a dead one.
● A cap on state spending, as proposed by State Sen. Chip Rogers, R-Woodstock, would be an admirable addition to the state Constitution. The proposal is so flexible that only the most partisan proponents of big government can find objection. Spending is limited to the highest previous budget or to the previous year's, plus population growth and the rate of government inflation. Collections above that will go to pay for increased school enrollment, retire debt and build the state's "rainy day fund" to 15 percent of the budget (up from 10 percent now). When the rainy day fund's exhausted, the Legislature by a two-thirds vote can waive the spending cap. In an emergency, that'll happen. Besides, 15 percent reserves will ordinarily keep governors and legislators from having to make really tough budget cuts.
● Arguing against proposed changes in the HOPE program, the former president's grandson, state Sen. Jason Carter, sounds a lot older than his 35 years. In fact, he sounds a lot like the politicians of yesteryear. Said the young throwback: "There is no doubt if we cut HOPE …there will be some students who won't graduate from college because they can't afford it." A student so easily dissuaded may not have been college material to start with — and, furthermore, will have some real coping issues with adult life. Politicians always seem to be solving, or proposing to solve, problems that existed in their childhood — or before they were born.
● If one of those college enrollees who's freaked out by a slight decrease in HOPE handouts is looking for a career alternative — though, fair warning, it does involve work — Kennesaw's Superior Plumbing is begging for qualified plumbers. The job offers good pay and virtual lifetime security. Skilled machinists are in demand, too. The downside to those jobs is that you stay too busy to go downtown to boo and hiss state legislators while insisting that "fairness" demands that you be given more public money.
● Georgia has a projected deficit of $250 million in its $3 billion health benefits program for state employees. Since the state can't print money or run a deficit, the proposed solution is to raise premiums for current employees and retirees. Legislators could make a contribution by eliminating taxpayer-provided health care coverage for themselves and for other part-timers whose primary employment is elsewhere.
● As the nation comes to grip with the terrible debt that we're allowing to be passed on to the unborn, the media really does incur an obligation to be responsible stewards of information. It's awfully easy for journalists to rush out and find "victims" of heartless government — and, in fact, advocacy groups will produce them on cue — for quick stories allegedly detailing the impact of spending reductions. Most journalists lack the expertise to assess the real impact or to know, for example, that the job training program is one of 47 and may or may not be effective for "victim's problem." Another problem is that such stories are often a fact or two shy of providing the context that would allow us to know. The point really is that if we're going to be a nation of adults making responsible choices, we have to know if programs work. Otherwise we're teaching people how to game the system.
March 11th, 2011
8:58 am
Peter, what about your man NOW??? He said that he would have us out of Afghanistan in 16 months after taking office, he would close Gitmo, unemployment would never get above 8%, etc.
Keep blaming Bush Champ. Your man is now in charge & he & his big ears are a disgrace.
March 11th, 2011
9:00 am
Obama needs to get out & start campaigning. He needs to revisit the 57 states that he visited during the '08 elections.
March 11th, 2011
9:03 am
I am a Dem and think the Dems have blown the deficit up. However, to say the National Debt lays entirely at the feet of the Dems is completely delusional.
March 11th, 2011
9:47 am
"Mr. Obama has told people that it would be so much easier to be the president of China. As one official put it, 'No one is scrutinizing Hu Jintao's words in Tahrir Square.'"
March 11th, 2011
11:07 am
Milton Man, you ought to be reading my post more closely. I am not talking about voter ID. I am talking about the Obama birther bill wending its way through the GA legislature. The Voter ID law is old news.
March 11th, 2011
11:08 am
I can't think of another issue where more ink has been spilled needlessly on any issue more frivolous than voter ID either… Citizens of Georgia should thank God Almighty that The Georgia Supreme Court joined others in smacking down the New World Order integrationist crowd and the devilish black minions arguing that somebody somewhere would be kept from voting because of the requirement…
When the ruling was handed down, members of our self determined society thanked God Almighty for The Georgia Supreme Court's decision to uphold the state's photo-ID voting requirement by a 6–1 vote. It was unpleasant to think it possible for all the illegal aliens and criminals from every corner of the earth voting in Georgia? God Forbid. We know the illegal aliens can't be thinking right because after all, they did enter Georgia illegally.
If The Georgia Supreme Court had not upheld the state's photo-ID voting requirement, the vast majority of illegal aliens would vote for politicians in the Democrat party of Georgia, the party they believe most responsible for allowing them to enter the state, and avoid detection or arrest, and take advantage of the services intended for citizens.
March 11th, 2011
11:37 am
Velma, well put. As for HOPE, if a student has the drive to graduate, they will find a way to do it. A degree that has been earned will benefit a person more in life than something that has just been handed to them. Is there anyone out there who would disagree with that? I would love to hear your justification.
March 11th, 2011
11:42 am
The National Debt is a result of Bush's 8 nightmare years. Period.
The spending cap is a good idear only if Uncle Sam wears it backwards.
And the comments here reveal that we need to spend more on HOPE, not less.
" As the nation comes to grip with the terrible debt…" oh, something needs 2B gripped alright, but it's not the terrible debt.
March 11th, 2011
12:03 pm
Legislators could make a contribution by eliminating taxpayer-provided health care coverage for themselves and for other part-timers whose primary employment is elsewhere.
Amen to that. Hogs will fly before that happens, though.
Kennesaw's Superior Plumbing is begging for qualified plumbers.
Would one be correct in assuming those jobs are only open to licensed plumbers? Plumbing is actually a pretty complicated trade and the test to get a license isn't an easy one to pass. You have to have a very good working knowledge of hydraulics, among other things. You don't just walk in off the street, take a test and become a plumber. And plumbing is like every other occupation in life, you don't necessarily get paid for what you do, you get paid for knowing what to do.
March 11th, 2011
12:04 pm
The only argument I would raise is jhat I really do not see HOPE money as "public money" per se. It is not raised either by taxes or by fees, no one is required to spend a red cent on the lottery, and the lottery money cannot be put to any other usage (like, paying politicians off). So, while cuts in the HOPE may be necessary as fewer people are playing the lottery even as tuitions go up, it is not in any way "public money".
March 11th, 2011
12:47 pm
Without research, the problem with Hope seems to be the rapid increases in tuition and fees imposed by the Georgia University System.
Where is the need for another engineering school or medical school at UGA? President Adams needs to put his ego in check and stop competing with established, well-regarded schools at the Med College of Georgia and Georgia Tech. The cost for start-up of these programs was funded by tax dollars and the exhorbitant tuition and fees charges as a result of the Hope scholarship.
Adams and the other presidents of state institutions were simply following the "medical insurance" model for raising prices. Once the consumer is removed from the transaction the cost is no longer monitored. Now with Hope we will have the same problem as in the medical field – no cost containment!
Now as the public dollars disappear the burden for a more costly education will fall once again on the consumer but at a greatly increrased price. This is just another set of unintended consequences resulting from what was originally a well-intended program.
Without the Hope Scholarship the cost of an education would be less and the relatively recent increases in the qualifications required to enter UGA, for instance, would not exist.
March 11th, 2011
12:51 pm
You have proved that some people can be wrong on every issue. Since you only post "opinion" or your feelings, even in the face of statistics proving you wrong, you have at least followed in the foot steps of all liberal loons who preceeded you.
March 11th, 2011
12:56 pm
I wonder how many possible doctors, lawyers, engineers, chemists, science teachers etc. we lose because they just can't afford college tuition?
March 11th, 2011
12:58 pm
The utter failure of the Jimmy Carter Presidency and his subsequent sell-out of his position as a former POTUS (and his positions on foreign policy) to his pals in the Middle East for the dollars donated to the Carter Center should preclude the election of anyone named Carter to office in Georgia.
March 11th, 2011
1:03 pm
An excellent question! The greed demonstrated by the members of the University System as they ran to increase tuition and fees has certainly resulted in the loss of gifted individuals.
I am sure there are other consequences of the increases but one of them has not been a decrease in president Adams' or the other's annual compensation.
There is much hand-wringing on blogs regarding the pay of coaches but their pay comes primarily from the income generated by the programs and from boosters, unlike professors and administrators who benefit directly from the insane increases in tuition and fees.
March 11th, 2011
1:03 pm
We need to teach people the differences between rocket tubes and centrifuges. We need to teach people how not 2B pawns of any unelected GOP regime. We need to teach people how to separate church and state. We need to teach people how to recognize treason, and how to squash it.
We need HOPE more than ever. Ignoramuses thrive when the illuminati do nothing.
March 11th, 2011
1:11 pm
Why are we in Georgia always amending our constitution for all manner of policy decisions? Spending is a matter of policy and while guidelines are useful the proposed amendment is so porous as to be nearly meaningless.
What a waste of time under the Gold Dome.
March 11th, 2011
1:45 pm
WHY? RNC is Y
With every post you prove YOU would never be eligible for HOPE.
March 11th, 2011
1:46 pm
Not So Casual Observer
March 11th, 2011
12:51 pm
You have proved that some people can be wrong on every issue. Since you only post "opinion" or your feelings, even in the face of statistics proving you wrong, you have at least followed in the foot steps of all liberal loons who preceeded you.
March 11th, 2011
1:54 pm
Not So Casual Observer
And in the long run, think of what these talented people could have contributed to society. I am pretty sure that China and Japan would not dream of denying a promising student a college education because they can't afford it. They believe in long-term planing. Our politicans are obsessed with selling themselves to Big Business to get elected and re-elected. This is short-term planning and the chickens will come home to roost. Count on it.
March 11th, 2011
2:08 pm
Psalm 2 initiates a question so relevant to you:
"Why DO the heathen rage…
"…teach people how not 2B pawns of any unelected GOP regime" – are you serious? Or seriously demented?
And then you seem to ask for people to squash the current POTUS and his minions.
I am generally not an advocate of prescription meds but there must be an MD somewhere who can help you!
March 11th, 2011
2:28 pm
March 11th, 2011
2:58 pm
thought you all might like a little humor over the weekend. This in The Guardian regarding the great bloviator Newt G. and what could be his campaign slogans.
Newt Gingrich – "life, liberty and the pursuit of horniness". And I would say, "only a man who truly loves America would sleep with other women to save it." Gingrich 2010: Newt's campaign slogan could also be "Gingrich, sowing the seeds of liberty, one woman at a time."
March 11th, 2011
3:21 pm
I just loved seeing the grandson of "Jimmuh" spewing out the same ol liberal jargon that got "Jimmuh" beat like a drum.
Jimmuh 3.0, the grandson, wanted to insure that the top 2 students of each school get "free" money. Okay. I guess we'll see him trying to amend his wonderful formula this time next year when the parents of students ranked 3 and 4 (and so on) grunt and whine and claim racism, unfairness, George Bush's fault, etc. etc.
The new peanut ain't fell too far from the old vine.
March 11th, 2011
4:18 pm
Well today we learned all people are NOT Created equally in the eyes of the court system. Republican ex- judge get 30 days in jail, while most Americans would get years for what this guy did.
Typical baloney !
March 11th, 2011
4:18 pm
Arguably the Hope Scholarship program has destroyed any hope an average or slightly above student, without substantial means of support, will be able to attend a university in Georgia.
March 11th, 2011
4:46 pm
Republicans allowed the ex judge to retire before charging him…….so the judge gets to retire on tax payers money.
If he was charged first he would have forfeited his retirement.
Republican baloney !
March 11th, 2011
5:18 pm
I guess you are willing to keep Georgia at a permanent 49 or 50 in various categories including education. That is what will happen if the budget is limited to population increase plus inflation. Instead of investing in our future with education expenditures, we have just finished cutting it by several billion dollars. With that as a starting pt., this proposal will lock us into a permanent race with Mississippi and Alabama for last place. Wooten, I thought you were at least honest and smart. Why didn't you figure this one out?
March 11th, 2011
6:41 pm
Jim Writes……
As the nation comes to grip with the terrible debt that we're allowing to be passed on to the unborn, the media really does incur an obligation to be responsible stewards of information.
What he really meant was…….as Cheney put it ……"Deficits don't matter"….. That is why Republican's voted for Bush and Cheney.
March 11th, 2011
6:44 pm
Poor, poor Peter,
Liberals, Democrats and little Peter have been rendered insignificant, not by collusion, not by Republicans who outsmarted them, not by some "tea party" movement, not by some quirk in the election process and certainly not by an avalanche of Republican support.
NO, the above-mentioned are insignificant as a result of their own hubris, their failure to recognize their thought processes are flawed, their vision of socialism replacing capitalism, their savior Barack Obama, wholly unqualified and incompetent but worse BO hates America and is totally devoted to his pals in the Middle East, and the utter failure of their form of government in every instance throughout history.
Not to mention their idea that there is always more money to support their view of my money as theirs and your money as theirs to buy votes from the unproductive and worthless that have begun to permeate American culture.
Poor, poor Peter is now relegated to blaming every slight, every miscarriage of HIS idea of justice and all that his leaders have wrought on America – blaming this all on those he sees as Republicans!
March 11th, 2011
6:52 pm
By the way, Peter
Democrat Congressman Stark, I am sure you are familiar with the village-idiot from California, who claims deficits and debt do not matter – a sentiment shared by Harry (let's fund another festival) Reid and Nancy (my husband needs more money) Pelosi, would spend us into oblivion if given the chance.
Peter, please name any conservative, whether real or imagined, who as POTUS offered a budget with a deficit nearly equal to gross revenues such as that offered by the current POTUS.
If Congress – Republican and Democrat – do not pass a budget with at least $1.7 Trillion cut from that proposed by BO, then they should all be fired.
March 11th, 2011
9:53 pm
Like Ragnar, I'm intrigued by Jim's parting comments, regarding the state of American journalism. Wooten is ever worthwhile on the subject because he's like the last of the best–or best of the last, or both–of Old School newspapering, which for me is benchmark "journalism".
Herein he's lamenting the death of the beat in broadcast news. Whereas broadcasters used to emulate the forms of daily print reporting, e.g. beats/specializations/expertise, today the broadcasters borrow mainly from the entertainment divisions of their media conglomerates. So the talkers no longer really inform, because they typically know less about a given topic than much of the audience does. Sports reporting, however, often is an exception to this rule, as Americans won't abide a journalist who spews nonsense about competitive athletics, but only one wholly ignorant of military or international affairs, macroeconomics (as Jim Wooten says), health or education policy, Constitutional law or English syntax.
Ironically, this lobotomization of broadcasting is precisely a product of the so-called professionalization of journalism, of the implication–in fact the presumption–that advanced degrees in the neologism "Communications" bestow omni-functional status to sheepskin holders with expertise in Nothing particularly. The spectacle must irk Mr. Wooten no end.
Hell, even in my day we perfunctorily started on the police blotter, whence we graduated to the firehouse beat, thence to general news reporting until we were expected to begin to specialize until we became fairly expert at the sports or social pages, at political or crime reporting, at public health or education, at religious or business coverage, etc. A few good universities, including UGA, abetted that old journeyman, print tradition. But no more. In journalism today the academic departments pin a wagging tail on what little remains of the old dog. Hence we get dogspeak through the blower. Because they presume to know all, ergo Socratically they know bupkis.
March 12th, 2011
10:27 am
Glenn Beck took off last week.
I received an e-mail this am, his program next week will enlighten where this country is heading in the next few weeks.
EVERYONE must pay attention to this message starting Mon. @ 5pm, Fox (real) News.
March 12th, 2011
10:42 am
Hey stoner, (the rocket scientist one), you may be right!
March 12th, 2011
10:55 am
They say he donned a track suit and brand new cross trainers, then crawled into his bunk bed and–Shazzam!–the archangel Moroni piped him up on the coming of the tsunami. Most mysterious. Lord knows where he'll surf ashore…
March 12th, 2011
2:52 pm
Acid flashbacks R not pretty.
March 12th, 2011
4:48 pm
…seriously, Man, where will he make his glorious reappearance? Like, Pike's Market? The Lincoln Memorial again? Venus?
I vote: Venus. The dude's a born Venusian. What I'm certain of, is that his fried surfboard will be discovered sixty feet up in the crotch of a pine tree one mile inland. Happened after Hugo. Can happen again, if Beck truly is The Annointed.
Meanwhile, back to our regularly scheduled Wooten…
In re the hilarious reactions here to Jim's recommending the Trades as alternative career paths for undergraduates of faint HOPE. Some of us may recall that in 1984 the Reagan Administration proposed eliminating subsidies for the historic black colleges and universities. Paul Conrad, then the senior cartoonist of the Los Angeles Times, drew a panel depicting a young African American college student being told by President Reagan, "A Strong back is a terrible thing to waste".
Now THAT is funny. For my money. Dang me, but I enjoy the humor both in Jim's dare and in the derisions of his beard-pullers. (Reckon he might see it both ways too). Seriously, nobody's trifling with anybody's educational or existential future here. Several of us would be acutely sensitive to any whiff of that. So if HOPE recipients fear they'll scurry from the Emerald Castle at the merest Boo! from The Wizard, then they're not as fit as we hoped they would be to share the burdens of, much less make contributions to, Georgia.
So, BOO!
March 12th, 2011
10:22 pm
March 13th, 2011
6:29 pm
Methinks you made a boo-boo. Anyway, with student fees and, where applicable, tuition rising out of sight with inflation, perhaps it's best to look beyond those nasty curveballs and examine what else might be done to soften the blows. Especially for students pursuing technical majors the cost of books is nearing a breaking point. I'd like to see those costs first relaxed, then dramatically reduced. A relaxation in federal copyright law respecting educational uses could bring about some prompt relief. As an intermediate measure faculty should commit themselves to drive trucks through existing loopholes, making custom, Xeroxed readers available to students from the nearest copy shop. Ultimately, campuses should go as paperless as possible. MIT, which is run for academic purposes by its faculty, has pledged to do this. That's not my school, but I admire it. The teachers understand that their students commonly spend enough on books per annum to match the fee hikes at public universities in the 45 states operating in the Red.
I admit that it's apples&oranges, and I don't mean to capitulate in defense of the lowest possible fees and tuition in tax-supported colleges and universities, but pragmatically there are ways to soften the blow. Bear in mind that for every dollar that the Georgia's higher ed system gets from state taxpayers it gets almost twice as much from U.S. taxpayers. Obviously the more efficiencies we find, and the more efficient they be, the more Georgians (and distinguished visitors) we can run through our mills; ergo the better for our state long run.
March 13th, 2011
7:33 pm
Jim, this is the ugliest I have ever seen you. Your plumber reference was unnecessary and insulting to hard working plumbers. While you are correct that most families can handle a small loss of HOPE funding, some families will not be able to do so. If you had ever really gone hungry, I mean being totally without food, because the money ran out days before pay day, let alone on a frequent basis, you would not have made fun of the upcoming situations some families will face.
March 14th, 2011
6:41 am
Easy for him to say; he's already gone through college.
March 14th, 2011
11:40 am
You can't generalize from my experience. As an undergrad I carried a 21-unit load, year round, worked three campus jobs and a half-time internship, rode three days a week and shot skeet twice weekly. As a grad student I worked half-time on fellowship while studying full-time. I might add that a bit of romance, church attendance and general sis-boom-bah each held a place. Admittedly I did go hungry from time to time, largely because of unwise budgeting and an ignorance of frugal cooking, something I'd love to teach any undergrad. I've aways fought tuition and fee hikes. As an instructor I did everything I could to save grad students' money.
The choices confronting the Governor and General Assembly are bitter. I would want undergrads in public institutions to understand that however daunting and uncertain their expenditures, still the taxpayers vastly overmatch those costs in the expectation of great things from the students. To graduate students: the worst hit yet to your pocketbook nevertheless doesn't begin to cover the actual cost of your budgeted enrollments. Everything that serves you institutionally is more expensive: the instruction, the library collections, the laboratory space, the equipment and materials, the housing, etc
Atlanta, lacking the foresight and discipline to have socked away rainy-day moneys, now finds itself in an eminently foreseeable trap. The same economic crisis that spurs rising crime rates, has forced the city to cut frontline law enforcement. The state will have to ride to the rescue, on short rations. This is just one tile of the ugly fiscal mosaic into which students and their families, faculty and staff must be asked somehow to fit. We all should fight to ensure that the new fee/tuition rates drop as the fiscal picture improves. That's crucial, because historically the university systems exploit downturns as stalking horses for the establishment of new funding levels at student expense. In the worst cases of this, the newly introduced ceilings become the new floor, the argument being that if families and students could afford it in hard times gone then surely their can afford it in a time of restored prosperity. That would be an example of institutional bloat at it's cynical worst. We should watch out for it.
March 14th, 2011
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March 14th, 2011
2:28 pm
Remember on March 6, 2011 when we said our organization has God Almighty on our side, and the power thereof. And we believe because of what we saw.. And blessed are those who have not seen, and yet have believed. And how we can demonstrate the power of God Almighty on this evil New World Order integrationist crowd and their devilish black minions as Elijah did when he challenged the 450 prophets of Baal at the altar on Mount Carmel…
Verily, verily, verily, this evil New World Order integrationist crowd and their devilish black minions have hearts but lack understanding, eyes but can't see, and ears that can't hear, and a soul that's darkened black.
March 14th, 2011
2:38 pm
RNC? I always worked for the other team? Why assume? Aren't questions more fruitful?
Anyway, RNC or DNC until things heat up approaching the general we're all in the same boat. Policy NOW, politics anon, alas and alack.
March 14th, 2011
2:45 pm
Besides, I'd rather have jumped seven in the saddle, or shot 25 x 25, than owned a sheepskin. The subtler point in Wooten's universal put-down is something along the lines of what you can actually do versus the things that hinky haughty accreditors speculate you can do.
March 14th, 2011
3:09 pm
When precisely did Republicans take the mantle of fiscal responsibility? Throughout most of my middle lifetime each party spouted fiscal responsibility whilst each (arguably) overspent by dint of differing Cold War priorities. But my point is that both parties Palmer themselves off as penny pinchers, it was just that the spendthrift Democrats, not to be outdone by their more hawkish rivals, promised more domestic spending. Spending that turned out to be mostly symbolic, electioneered rather than engineered. Wasted. At everyone's expense.
So, a second query.
Q: When did Democrats come to concede, as herein, fiscal discipline to Republicans?
A: Upon the death of Pat Moynihan at the beginning of 2001.
March 14th, 2011
3:23 pm
Dang, this Apple device. Must learn how to disable the vacuous-copy-editor-from-hell function, starting by overriding The Order Cupertine's override of "hell" as, so help me, prudes, "he'll". Later, maybe I could get the. Appleites to permit the placement of punctuation in accurate attribution to the quoted author's intent rather than to some idiot's stylebook notion of ever placing syntactical punctuation athwart quotation marks.
We champion higher education whilst first infantalizing and then lobotomizing what remains of the American literary mind.
March 14th, 2011
5:45 pm
Only the knee-jerkmost lackeys for the union hall are indifferent to reason, as they're only the fists of the unions, not connected to the brains thereof. Ugh!


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Summary: CA's outlook for the fiscal year ahead is light. The company plans to cut workers and replace them with new folks with skills better suited for growth businesses.
CA Technologies reported a better-than-expected fourth quarter, but cut its outlook for the year ahead and said it would lay off 1,200 employees.
The job cuts will result in a $150 million charge in fiscal 2014 to "to rebalance its resources to better align with its business priorities." The layoffs will largely be completed by the first quarter, the company said. CA added that it will backfill those positions with people who are focused on stronger growth markets such as cloud computing.
CA reported fourth quarter earnings of $242 million, or 53 cents a share, on revenue of $1.15 billion, down 3 percent from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings in the fourth quarter was 68 cents a share.
Wall Street was expecting CA to report earnings of 55 cents a share on revenue $1.41 billion in the fourth quarter. For fiscal 2013, CA reported earnings $955 million, or $2.07 a share, on $4.64 billion, down 4 percent from the previous year.
As for the outlook, CA said it saw revenue for fiscal 2014 of $4.43 billion to $4.52 billion, down 2 percent to 4 percent from 2013. Non-GAAP earnings for fiscal 2014 will be $2.35 a share to $2.43 a share.
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- Enterprise solutions sales was $432 million, down 6 percent. Operating profit for the fourth quarter was $15 million.
- Fourth quarter services revenue was $99 million, up 6 percent from a year ago with an operating profit of $10 million.
CA rival BMC Software, which plans to go private, also reported results. For the fourth quarter, BMC reported $73 million, or 50 cents a share, on revenue of $568.6 million, flat with a year ago. BMC reported fiscal 2013 earnings of $331 million, or $2.13 a share, on revenue of $2.2 billion.
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(Columbia, Ky.) -- A multi jurisdictional pursuit that covered over 50 miles and reached speeds in excess of 100 MPH ended in Green County this morning with the arrest of a 17-year-old juvenile at 12:40 AM CST. The juvenile, wanted in Ohio on felony robbery and assault charges, rammed and disabled a Lexington Police cruiser while the Lexington Division of Police were actively investigating a disturbance involving the juveniles sport utility vehicle.
The pursuit traveled out of Lexington on Versailles Road and into the Post 12 Richmond area on the Bluegrass Parkway before entering the Post 15 area in Washington County traveling south on KY 0555. The SUV made its way into Marion County on KY 0055 where the juvenile vehicle struck Tpr. Donnie Moses cruiser before heading west On US 0068 and into Taylor County. A tire deflation device was deployed east of Campbellsville but was unsuccessful in stopping the vehicle. As the pursuit entered Green County, Tpr. Moses used legal intervention to disable the SUV on US 0068.
The juvenile was involved in three vehicle collisions with law enforcement prior to the legal intervention and was transported to Jane Todd Crawford Hospital by Green County EMS for treatment of injuries. He was charged with Fleeing and Evading 1st degree, Reckless Driving, Wanton Endangerment 1st degree, Assault 3rd degree, Failure to Wear Seatbelt, Failure to Illuminate Headlights, No Operator's License and Resisting Arrest. KSP Troopers from Post 12 and Post 4, Lexington Police Department, Anderson County Sheriff's Department, Lawrenceburg Police Department, Springfield Police Department, Lebanon Police Department, Taylor County Sheriff's Office and Campbellsville City Police Department assisted.
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Difficulty is just off the wall wack. It took me forever to beat the game, but I think it could be a little less difficult. Plus, the controls are a bit too rigid, in my opinion. Should definetly fix that :P And maybe make the jump button up.
Rated 3 / 5 stars December 25, 2011
Every time I finished a level I keep thinking: why am i still playing this? After plugging every deadly trap with a hundred copses, i did eventually finish it, but only after drinking and turning off the music.
The jump controll is very sensative, the platforms are slippy and momentum suddenly dissapears while slideing.
But all those complaints all count for old school platformers aswell... So at least it's quite athentic.
Rated 3 / 5 stars January 15, 2012
could be better
the controls are messed up, the fact that you must jump of the edge to get over the spike pits is anoying and that you cant air jump or double jump is unforgivable. would be better with a double jump and better controls.
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All the same- the difficulty level was just about right. Definitely not too easy to control but the levels took a few re-attempts and so they ought to. I loved the final level. Aside from the slightly lacking variety in level design and sticky controls- I had a good time playing so Thanks for including a mute button and thanks for making this. Nice one.


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The World Container Index of spot prices in the trade from Shanghai to Rotterdam, which is compiled by Drewry and the Cleartrade Exchange in Singapore, dropped 3.15 percent this week to $3,295 per laden 40-foot container from $3,401 on May 24.
This week's WCI shows a drop of 15 percent in the last four weeks from the WCI of $3,878 per FEU on May 3 that followed carriers' May 1 general rate increase of about $800 per FEU.
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Gao Hong, another member of the group, is a world-class and world-renowned pipa (pronounced pea-pah) player from China. Her movements on Wednesday were beyond graceful, and her energy and charisma were blatant. She was able to manipulate her four-stringed pipa, a 2000-year-old Chinese instrument, to imitate rainfall and the Chinese language.
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Hongs pipa is a multifaceted instrument capable of slow love ballads, intricate classical pieces, and rock-and-roll progressions.
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Europe finally has its own Tea Party. Or something like it.
Last weekend, citizens of 21 nations elected members of a new European parliament. The result? An outpouring of rage.
Angry voters across the continent and Britain cast ballots for protest parties, mostly on the far right, which doubled their number of seats and now account for close to one third of the parliament. French Prime Minister Manuel Vallis called the vote "more than a news alert . . . it is a shock, an earthquake."
What were the voters angry about? Well, everything. The parties that made big gains were anti-Europe, anti-common currency, anti-integration, anti-bureaucrat and anti-politician. They were also anti-immigrant. Angry voters were protesting immigration from within the Common Market (mostly by Eastern Europeans, who have the right to work in any European country) and from outside Europe (mostly by Muslims).
Anything else? Yes.
"This is a bad day for the European Union when a party with such an openly racist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic program gets 25 percent of the vote in France,'' the president of the European parliament said after it became clear that the far-right National Front led the polling in France.
Time for the people to decide on Britain's democratic future?
Britain's embattled political class are falling over themselves to modernise parliament, but given we have fully embraced the Internet age the proposals have a rather tame feel about them.
Gordon Brown's latest proposals for "democratic renewal" — the reform of MPs expenses and an elected House of Lords to name but two — could hardly be described as Parliament 2.0.
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TORONTO -- Carlos Delgado has some advice for his old team as it tries to overcome a disappointing start to the season.
And the former Toronto Blue Jays slugger says the recipe for the club's 2013 edition is simple.
"In the second half just take it one game at a time, don't start looking at the standings, don't start trying to figure out how many games you need to win to make it to the playoffs," Delgado said before Saturday's game against the Tampa Bay Rays. "You know what, just go out and have fun. But they have to play it out."
Delgado met the media ahead of Sunday's pre-game ceremony that will see him inducted into the club's Level of Excellence at Rogers Centre.
The 41-year-old was a member of the Blue Jays from 1993 to 2004 and is the franchise leader in home runs (336), RBIs (1,058), walks (827), slugging percentage (.556), OPS (.949), runs (889), total bases (2,786) and doubles (343).
The Blue Jays made a number of big moves during the off-season and were touted as World Series favourites before the season began. But they entered Saturday last in the American League East with a record of 45-50.
"I think (they) have a great group of guys," said Delgado, whose 17-year playing career also included stops with the Florida Marlins and the New York Mets. "I think they have a lot of talent but for some reason they haven't been able to put it together."
He adds that the team will only find the winning formula by trusting in themselves.
"Good players on paper don't win championships," Delgado said. "You have to figure out a way to gel, you have to figure out a way to pick each other up. They have to figure out a way to go out there and win even when guys are hurt, even when guys are struggling, even when your best players are not playing great.
"They have the talent and they showed in the first half that they've got a great bullpen. So they have things that they can build on. It's important for them to take it easy, let's go play, no panic but there (also) has to be a sense of urgency."
Delgado will be the sixth player to be added to the Level of Excellence, joining pitcher Dave Stieb, Hall of Fame second baseman Roberto Alomar, shortstop Tony Fernandez and outfielders Joe Carter and George Bell. Former manager Cito Gaston, former general manager Pat Gillick, late broadcaster Tom Cheek and current president and CEO Paul Beeston have also been honoured.
"This was a surprise," Delgado said of his selection. "I always said that I played the game to try to win, to go out there and do the best I can with my abilities."
Delgado's career ended with a hip injury that did not respond to surgery. He finally had a hip replacement several months ago. The two-time all-star (2000, 2003) won the Hank Aaron Award and Sporting News Player of the Year Award in 2000 and the Silver Slugger Award in 1999, 2000 and 2003.
"I'm not into awards or recognition. Having said that ....when I got that call from Mr. Beeston I was super excited," Delgado said. "I can look at that Level of Excellence and you see some great names, some great ballplayers and some great icons of Toronto Blue Jays history and I'm completely honoured."
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It's 1866, and everyone in this town has a job in, or related to the buggy business. After all, this is the town where five buggy shops were competing for the chance to carry you down mainstreet, and the two biggest names in the business were Summers and Smith.
"They returned to this town after the war and began a business," said buggy museum curator Shanna English. "They were aggressive and demanding of their employees, and the company did not last long, so they went into business for themselves."
All of this competition made this town the biggest buggy producer south of Cincinnati, as indicated by the drawing of the Smith and Summers Factory at left. Ads circulated the country, boasting the comfort and craftsmanship of this Georgia-made transportation.
"The route salesman would hook a team to five buggies and then go to the smaller communities. When they got down to the last buggy they would sell it with the team," said English.
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"From 1925 to 1928 the companies were mainly making spare parts, but by 1928 all of the bugy businesses were gone because of the automobile," English said.
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It was Weill himself who had been a big driver behind the repeal of this legislation so that he could create Citigroup through the merger of the bank Citicorp and insurance company Travelers in 1998. His office at Citigroup contained an etching of Weill engraved with the words "The Shatterer of Glass–Steagall".
Yesterday Greenberg said on Bloomberg TV's "Market Makers" program : "It wasn't Weill. It was that guy Sacha Barry Cohen, or whatever his name is, he was impersonating Sandy."
Greenberg said that it is unlikely that the big banks will be broken up. He said: "I think this is a huge country, we need big banks, we need banks that can make huge loans and I'm proud to be associated with a bank that can make the biggest loans in the world and they do."
He was asked whether there were any similarities between the Knight Capital, the trading firm that had to be rescued this week after a software error caused a $440m loss, and Bear Stearns, Greenberg's former firm which had to be acquired by JP Morgan in 2008.
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The Miami Heat have their backs against the wall heading in to Game 4 following an embarrassing outing in Game 3 where they were destroyed by the San Antonio Spurs. So with the team in danger of falling in a 3-1 hole with one game remaining in San Antonio, the Heat need to come out sharp and focused for the game.
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Bono stated in his TED2013 talk that the numbers show that we can eradicate all poverty worldwide by 2030. While I really hope that is true, it begs the question: Is capitalism sustainable? Is it possible to have a rich and middle class without a poor class? The sad reality of capitalism is that if there is an exponentially small number of people with exponentially large wealth, there has to be an exponentially long tail of much poorer people who are each contributing to that wealth. Not that we necessarily need an exponentially small number of people with exponentially large wealth, but would the world keep running without capitalistic incentives that increase the separation between rich and poor? Can we eradicate all poverty without the rich sharing their riches? What happens to civilization when nobody is willing to work in the factories and orchards, or build roads?
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'Tis the Season… To Reduce Your Tax Burden
It's that time of year again. Gift-giving, last-minute spending, and a whole lot of other activities intended to help individuals reduce their tax burden in the coming year.
But this time it's different. On December 31, 2012 – the date known affectionately as "Taxmageddon" – a broad number of tax law changes go into effect. From law firm Duane Morris:
"Not only are there expiring provisions, including the Bush tax cuts, but there are also provisions that already expired last year that may or may not be retroactively reinstated and more than 20 new taxes under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly called Obamacare), which may or may not be repealed in whole or in part. As a result of unprecedented levels of uncertainty, the complexity of tax law for 2012 has wreaked havoc and will continue to do so on year-end and beyond tax planning… For example:
1. The Bush-Era tax cuts sunset (which means expire), which will cause a substantial increase in tax rates effective January 1, 2013.
2. Last year's temporary payroll tax cuts that provided a 2% tax decrease for workers will end.
3. A number of tax breaks for businesses will end.
4. The alternative minimum tax (AMT) rears its ugly head and is expected to increase tax for about 30 million taxpayers.
5. Taxes increase as a result of President Obama's healthcare law."
What can you do to ease the pain? For starters:
1. Give away what you can:
"[M]aking gifts before the end of 2012 may provide significant transfer tax savings. In addition to the reduced rate, it is always cheaper to make lifetime gifts rather than making gifts at death. This result occurs because you do not pay a tax on the dollars used to pay gift tax, but you do pay estate tax on the dollars used to pay estate tax. The benefit is compounded further by the lower gift tax in 2012." (Katten Muchin Rosenman)
2. Record capital gains in 2012:
"If you are already thinking of selling assets that are likely to yield large gains because of a low cost basis, try to make the sale before year-end (considering market conditions). The 2012 long-term capital gains rate ia a maximum of 15%, but it's scheduled to rise to 20% in 2013. Also, if your adjusted gross income exceeds certain limits $250,000 for joint filers/$125,000 for a married individual filing a separate return/$200,000 for a single person, gains in 2013 might trigger an extra 3.8% tax (the so-called 'unearned income Medicare contribution tax')." (Fein, Such, Kahn & Shepard)
3. Consider converting your IRA:
"If your traditional IRA is (or was) loaded with equities and has yet to fully recover from the beating taken during the 2008–2009 stock market meltdown, the tax hit from converting your traditional IRA into a Roth IRA now will likely be less than it would have been at the market peak. This is because a Roth conversion is treated as a taxable liquidation of your traditional IRA, followed by a nondeductible contribution to the new Roth IRA. While even the reduced tax hit from converting may be unwelcome, it may be a small price to pay for future tax savings." (Duane Morris)
4. Set up a trust:
"An individual making substantial gifts often wishes to put some restrictions or limitations on the family members' access to the property. Trusts are flexible instruments that can be established to hold the property for the benefit of family members while providing restrictions on the use or expenditure of those assets. In addition, gifts in trust may allow the individual to use his or her GST exemption to transfer assets on a multi-generational basis with no transfer tax." (Womble Carlyle)
5. Prepay education expenses:
"One of the expiring tax incentives is a tax credit called the American Opportunity Tax Credit. Taxpayers should consider whether education expenses subject to the AOTC credit may be pre-paid in 2012 in order to qualify such expenses for the AOTC credit before its expiration." (Jackson Walker)
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- 2012 Year-End Estate Planning Advisory - Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
- 2012 Year End Tax Planning - The Time to Act is Now! - Fein, Such, Kahn & Shepard, P.C.
- Post-Election 2012 Tax Planning Alert: Practical Tax Planning Tips for You, Your Family and Your Business - Duane Morris LLP
- Gift Planning Before The End Of 2012 - Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC
- The Importance of 2012 Year-End Tax Planning for Individuals - Jackson Walker
Related reading:
- Gifting Opportunities in 2012 - Pullman & Comley, LLC
- Basics of Estate Tax and Gift Tax - Davis, Brown, Koehn, Shors & Roberts, P.C.
- Use it or Lose it - Short Lived Estate Tax Breaks Are Coming to An End - Dickinson Wright
- The $5 Million Gift-Tax Exemption: Going, Going, Gone - Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
- Back to the Future – Clinton Era Taxes for the Near Future? - Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green PA
- Still Clear as Mud: The Election's Impact on Estate and Gift Tax Policy - Carr, McClellan, Ingersoll, Thompson & Horn
- Once in A Lifetime Year-End 2012 Estate Tax Planning - Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP
- End-Of-Year Tax Changes Reminder - Bean, Kinney & Korman, PC
- 2013 Estate Tax Implications as the Fiscal Cliff Looms - The Virtual Attorney
- Taxmageddon Is Coming - How To Lessen the Impact?
- Gift Tax Exemption in 2012 - 5 Ways to Benefit Without Giving It All Away…
- Gift Tax Exemption Set to Expire at Year End: Here's What To Do
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