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Sunday, February 05, 2006

Results: What kind of subatomic particle are you? - Quizilla Quizzes

Neutron
Neutron -- You don't take sides, you just sort of

hang out and blend into the crowd. If someone

lets you loose though, you can cause some

serious damage. If you are arround too many

other neutrons you get bored and start to

decay.


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Results: What kind of subatomic particle are you? - Quizilla Quizzes: "Neutron -- You don't take sides, you just sort of hang out and blend into the crowd. If someone lets you loose though, you can cause some serious damage. If you are arround too many other neutrons you get bored and start to decay.

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Thursday, February 02, 2006

Should You Buy Stock Funds or Fund Company Stock?

Morningstar.com - Should You Buy Stock Funds or Fund Company Stock?: "'I decided there was only one place to make money in the mutual fund business—as there is only one place for a temperate man to be in a saloon, behind the bar and not in front of it . . . so I invested in a management company.'
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson uttered those words at a 1967 Senate hearing on financial legislation, but it doesn't take a genius to see the truth in it. We compared the returns of the shares of publicly traded mutual fund companies with the average returns of their mutual funds and found Samuelson's quip to be as incisive today as it was nearly 40 years ago. In most cases investors would have done better with the firm's stock than with its average stock fund."
The difference between fundholder and shareholder returns was often stark. U.S. Global Investors' GROW shares rose 24% on an annualized basis over the 10-year period ending in December, or five times the gain of the small shop's average equity fund. Over the same time period Eaton Vance EV shares rose more than 33% on an annualized basis, which was quadruple the average return of the typical Eaton Vance stock fund. Meanwhile, the shares of Alliance Capital Management AC increased by an annualized 25%, or more than three times the return of the average AllianceBernstein equity fund.

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Delhi fashion shops demolished

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Delhi fashion shops demolished: "'We were doing good business and getting foreign revenue. The mall was a success story but a lot of people could not digest that,' he said.
One designer who preferred to be unnamed said they had been selectively picked up for action by the municipal authorities.
'Municipal officials should demolish all such structures in the city together. They should not pick and choose,' he said.
The Delhi high court, which has ordered the demolitions, recently remarked that action should be taken against the 'powerful and the influential of the city' to send a message to the common man that he was not being discriminated against."

If they were illegal they should have been demolished I guess, even if they were targetted demolitions.

BBC NEWS | Europe | Anger grows over Muhammad cartoon

BBC NEWS | Europe | Anger grows over Muhammad cartoon: "The caricatures from Denmark's Jyllands-Posten paper included drawings of Muhammad wearing a headdress shaped like a bomb, while another shows him saying that paradise was running short of virgins for suicide bombers.

The offices of Jyllands-Posten had to be evacuated on Tuesday because of a bomb threat.

The paper had apologised a day earlier for causing offence to Muslims, although it maintained it was legal under Danish law to print them.

Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen welcomed the paper's apology, but has rejected calls to punish the paper, saying the government cannot censor the press. "

Again freedom of speech vs being sensitive. But I think I can understand why muslims feel this way.