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Will Ferrell To Receive First-Ever Comedic Genius Award At Movie Awards
'Anchorman 2' star's contribution to world of comedy will be recognized with inaugural honor.
By Amy Wilkinson
Will Ferrell
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Soaring Science: Test Paper Planes with Different Drag
Key concepts
Aerodynamics
Planes
Forces
Drag
Physics
Introduction
Have you ever wondered what makes a paper plane fly? Some paper planes clearly fly better than others. But why is this? One factor is the kind of design used to build the plane. In this activity you'll get to build a paper plane and change its basic design to see how this affects its flight. There's a lot of cool science in this activity, such as how forces act on a plane so it can fly. So get ready to start folding!
Background
The forces that allow a paper plane to fly are the same ones that apply to real airplanes. A force is something that pushes or pulls on something else. When you throw a paper plane in the air, you are giving the plane a push to move forward. That push is a type of force called thrust. While the plane is flying forward, air moving over and under the wings is providing an upward lift force on the plane. At the same time, air pushing back against the plane is slowing it down, creating a drag force. The weight of the paper plane also affects its flight, as gravity pulls it down toward Earth. All of these forces (thrust, lift, drag and gravity) affect how well a given paper plane's voyage goes. In this activity you will increase how much drag a paper plane experiences and see if this changes how far the plane flies.
Materials
? Sheet of paper
? Ruler
? Scissors
? Large open area in which to fly a paper plane, such as a long hallway, school gym or basketball court. If you're flying your paper plane outside, such as in a field, try to do it when there isn't any wind.
? Something to make at least a one-foot-long line, such as a long string, another ruler, masking tape, rocks or sticks.
? Paper clips (optional)
Preparation
? Make a standard, "dart" design paper airplane (for instructions, go to the Amazing Paper Airplanes Web page ).
? Fold your paper into the basic dart paper plane. Fold carefully and make your folds as sharp as possible, such as by running a thumbnail or a ruler along each fold to crease it. Do not bend up the tailing edge of the wings (step 6 of the online folding instructions).
? Go to a large open area and, using string, a ruler, masking tape, rocks or sticks, make a line in front of you that's at least one foot long, going from left to right. This will be the starting line from which you'll fly the paper plane.
Procedure
? Place your toe on the line you prepared and throw the paper plane. Did it fly very far?
? Throw the plane at least four more times. Each time before you throw the plane, make sure it is still in good condition (that the folds and points are still sharp). When you toss it, place your toe on the line and try to launch the plane with a similar amount of force, including gripping it at the same spot. Did it go about the same distance each time?
? Once you have a good idea of about how far your plane typically flies, change the plane?s shape to increase how much drag it experiences. To do this, cut slits that are about one inch long right where either wing meets the middle ridge. Fold up the cut section on both wings so that each now has a one-inch-wide section at the end of the wing that is folded up, at about a 90-degree angle from the rest of the wing.
? Throw your modified paper plane at least five more times, just as you did before. How far does the paper plane fly now compared with before? Why do you think this is, and what does it have to do with drag?
? Extra: Make paper planes that are different sizes and compare how well they fly. Do bigger planes fly farther?
? Extra: Try making paper planes out of different types of paper, such as printer paper, construction paper and newspaper. Use the same design for each. Does one type of paper seem to work best for making paper planes? Does one type work the worst?
? Extra: Some people like to add paper clips to their paper planes to make them fly better. Try adding a paper clip (or multiple paper clips) to different parts of your paper plane (such as the front, back, middle or wings) and then flying it. How does this affect the plane's flight? Does adding paper clips somewhere make its flight better or much worse?
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Video: SCOTUS takes on the Voting Rights Act
>>> scalia calls voting an entitlement. let's play "hardball."
>>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. today in the arguments over the voting rights act justice scalia called the act, the voting rights act a racial entitlement. got that? entitlements. the friging right to vote is like food stamps . it's not actually. it's a right of citizens of the united states to vote shall not be denied to vote by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. that was ratified under president grant one of my heroes actually. as we know it was put into effect after a century of poll taxes , literacy tests and other gimmicks to keep blacks from voting. only because of the voting rights act of 1965 . yes, it has a wonderful name as you put it. the reason is not the words or written or spoken about.glish no. it's about its meaning. that the united states congress will ensure that people get to vote in places that they weren't before. and that does not refer only to the segregations of the past. it refers to the people out there in state capitals today sitting at bars and poker tables shouting the latest gimmick. they outbid each other with glee with their latest legislative squirm to convert into electoral minorities by denying the blacks the right to vote. right, justice scalia . it's not an entitlement. we're talking about the vote. not some government benefit. pete williams is the justice correspondent for nbc. thank you for joining us. you're such an expert on this. i have to ask you today and speak about the commentary from justice roberts , the chief justice, and justice scalia today. what was that all about?
>> i think we can assume that justice scalia based on what he said four years ago that he was going to vote against it that it seemed clear today. justice roberts , we are watching him closely as well. he asked a lot of questions of the obama administration's lawyer here saying which state does a better job of registering and getting a turnout of african-american voters compared to whites? he said the answer is mississippi. which does the worst? massachusetts. the point being he says the areas covered by the law may not be where the problem is. that's what the whole argument came down to today, i think, chris. as the voting rights act passed and reenacted in 2006 still a fit? does it still cover where the problems are? now now, the four liberal ossen the court said yet. it may not be a perfect fit , but it's close enough. they said the areas covered by the law represent about a quarter of the population, but account for more than half of all the successful voter discriminations lawsuits. the five conservatives seemed to be quite skeptical. not anl scalia and justice roberts but perhaps the critical vote justice kennedy . he said the times changed. now, it's hard to predict, chris, but it does appear the voting acts right is in trouble tonight. now, what will the supreme court do? if they do look over the abyss and decide they are going to strike down part of the most successful civil rights act ever, they may not strike down the preclearance requirement. that if you're a covered state you have to get permission from the federal government before you make any changes in your election laws. they could strike down the formula, the coverage map. and send it back to congress. but that would be politically explosive for congress to say okay let's see. now which areas do we want to cover under the law and which areas don't and shall we start including massachusetts and harrisburg as you mentioned? should we include all the areas in the south? that's the problem.
>> thank you. thanks for leaving that with us. i just spilled my coffee here. let's go with our guests now to talk about what this all means. we have julie fernandez right here. let's go to that right now. let's go to julie fernandez right now. and eugene robinson . thanks for joining us right now. let me ask you about this whole thing. if they kill it because it's unfair to certain states because it includes older states with civil rights histories in the past, but they're basically killing anything. so what they're saying is it's not perfect, so kill it. isn't that a bit inconsistent? in other words we won't have anything left.
>> it's very inconsistent. all the justices in the court acknowledge that section 5 is a very successful statute. and they asked hard questions about whether or not the coverage mechanism is still appropriate. but i think that we -- those of us working to protect the voting rights act itself, we have good answers to those hard questions about the continued pervasive racial discrimination that's going on in the covered jurisdictions about the flexibility of the coverage formula and the mechanism for deciding who's covered. and about how there are ways to address outside of the covered jurisdictions. i think the --
>> let's keep this simple. you're a lawyer. you're lawyering me here.
>> i'm sorry.
>> the bottom line is if you're black out there and you want to vote and you live in pennsylvania and they've been screwing around with voter i.d. cards or you live in florida and they're screwing around getting rid of sunday voting. what is killing voting rights going to do to those people? help them or hurt them or do nothing for them? don't you kill the whole spirit of the federal government jumping in on these cases?
>> if you get rid of section 5 on the voting rights act , you kill the -- if you decide section 5 is no longer needed you're taking the heart out of the --
>> gene, you grew up in south carolina and you're one of the states covered by this for good reason.
>> absolutely. for having good reason. look. my view is yes it's still needed in the states where it applies. and it's needed in other places as well. because there are places where during the last election cycle and previous election cycles we saw what looked to be system iic attempts to suppress the vote. in ohio, in pennsylvania , in other places that are not fully protected.
>> i understand your statement. i'd love it to cover pennsylvania and other states.
>> it doesn't make sense. the voting rights act is broad. it has a part that addresses zrejs in areas of the country. but this is a specific type of problem.
>> anyway, justice scalia really said stuff today. i think he said charged language. referring to the voting rights act the perpetual racial enentitlement. this is not the kind of question to leave to congress. they're going to lose vote ifs they vote against the voting rights act . en the name is wonderful. then sonia sotomayor challenged saying do you think section 5 was voted for because it was a racial entitlement? do you think racial discrimination has ended? there you have it. i mean, i don't know why scalia who's too bright to be doing this is giggling. why is he giggling using terms so loaded?
>> because he throws bombs. you know, from the bench. and that's what he does. and he uses the sort of loaded language . and i doubt that he could defend his choice of words that it's a racial entitlement. he knows it's protection of a right. but he's going to vote to knock it down. or it certainly seems that way. i think he was being provocative.
>> is it fair to say what we have is a crude instrument here that may not be a perfect fit because it doesn't address through section 5 all the cases like we've seen before like in harrisburg and tallahassee where they've been playing with voter laws, and texas. it doesn't effect them all but should we get rid of them? you're going to get rid of the only tool we have, section 5.
>> section 3 allows courts to decide if things are so bad in a state that's not currently covered, they can order that state or that county to have section 5 procured.
>> how do they do that? which court could do it?
>> any appellate court in america. it's been done 19 times since 1982 .
>> where have they done it? have they done it lately?
>> most lately in port chester , new york. but it's been in south dakota . new mexico.
>> what's holding up harrisburg ? they keep playing these.
>> if the federal government finds intentional discrimination --
>> i hope this doesn't offend you guys. people say because of we have an african- american president , that proves we don't need a voting rights act . is that just prima facie nonsense?
>> in f that offended me -- you can't read it on the air. i mean, that's absurd. it's ridiculous. it was a huge step that barack obama was elected president twice. that's a huge step in our 400-year struggle with race and racial discrimination . but it doesn't solve the whole problem. of course not.
>> and it doesn't solve the problem where the voting rights act is so powerful. police juries, city councils .
>> at the same time the voting rights act was being challenged at the supreme court today, up on capitol hill the work of rosa parks was being honored. there it is. a statue of parks will sit in statutory hall. the first statue committed by congress in 140 years actually. president obama paid tribute to rosa parks . let's listen to the president.
>> rosa parks ' single act of disobedience laumpbled a movement. the tired feet of those who walked the dusty roads of montgomery helped a nation see that to which it had once been blind. it is because of these men and women that i stand here today.
>> well, her statue will be there forever now.
>> it will be and it should be. we can't forget where we came from. we've been on a long struggle in this country to try and have racial equality , live up to our promise. the voting rights act is one of the key things that helped us get to where we are. let's not stop now.
>> gene?
>> i can't put it better than that.
>> thanks for joining us.
>>> coming up, look what's happening to the public's perception about guns. a sharp increase. that's good. in the number of people that want to see stricter gun laws . and today there was deep emotion and moving testimony from a parent of newtown massacre victims.
>>> plus a lot of republicans want to see the big cuts that are due to hit on friday. and right now they're the ones taking the heat. if the cuts kick in and the crisis drags on, i think the public will blame president obama as well. and i think the republicans are counting on just that. a long, miserable haul they hope will hurt him.
>>> and the new mccarthyism. new tongues wagging and congratulating everything they did to stop and perhaps ruin the reputation of chuck hagel for awhile. even after it was inevitable. they kept it up just to screw up the government, hurt its functioning, and smear a man. those are the facts. we'll document them.
>>> finally kfc or chick-fil-a, bagels and croissants or doughnuts? are you what you eat? what you eat may be determined by who you vote for. isn't that interesting? we'll show the parallel how we go to fast food stores and vote. this is "hardball," the
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Budget battle guide: Skidding into a fiscal pileup
Following a closed-door party caucus, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, accompanied by fellow GOP leaders, meet with reporters, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, to challenge President Obama and the Senate to avoid the automatic spending cuts set to take effect in four days. Speaking at the Republican National Committee headquarters, Boehner complained that the House, with Republicans in the majority, has twice passed bills that would replace the across-the-board cuts known as the "sequester" with more targeted reductions, while the Senate, controlled by the Democrats, has not acted. From left are, Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kansas, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., Boehner, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Following a closed-door party caucus, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, accompanied by fellow GOP leaders, meet with reporters, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, to challenge President Obama and the Senate to avoid the automatic spending cuts set to take effect in four days. Speaking at the Republican National Committee headquarters, Boehner complained that the House, with Republicans in the majority, has twice passed bills that would replace the across-the-board cuts known as the "sequester" with more targeted reductions, while the Senate, controlled by the Democrats, has not acted. From left are, Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kansas, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., Boehner, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Air Force personnel salute as Air Force One, with President Barack Obama on board, arrives at in the rain at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. The president was returning from Newport News, Va., for an event on the automatic budget cuts. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Standing in front of a ships propeller, President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks about about automatic defense budget cuts, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, accompanied by fellow members of the House GOP leadership, responds to President Barack Obama's remarks to the nation's governors earlier today about how to fend off the impending automatic budget cuts, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? America's leaders have threatened to shut the government down, drive it over a cliff and bounce it off the ceiling. Now they're ready to smack it with a "sequester." And it looks like they mean it this time.
Big, scary-sounding cuts in federal spending are set to begin Friday. Should Americans be worried?
A primer on the nation's latest fiscal standoff ? how we got here, who could get hurt and possible ways to end this thing:
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What, again?
Like life in a bad Road Runner cartoon, the United States has survived the New Year's "fiscal cliff," double rounds of debt-ceiling roulette and various budget blow-ups over the past two years. Now the threat is $85 billion in indiscriminate spending cuts that would hit most federal programs and fall hardest on the military. Pentagon programs are slated for an 8 percent cut; other agencies would lose 5 percent for the current budget year.
By law, these cuts known as the "sequester" begin unfolding automatically at week's end unless President Barack Obama and Congress act to stop them. Even after they've begun, the cuts still could be halted or reversed through legislation.
Why did Congress and Obama agree to automatic cuts they don't like? To corner themselves into getting the nation's deficit under control.
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Isn't deficit-cutting good?
Obama, nearly all of Congress and plenty of economists say two things:
1) The budget deficit needs to be reduced.
2) The sequester is the wrong way to do it.
"Only a fool would do it this way," says Paul Light, a budget expert at New York University. "Primordial. It's beyond belief."
It makes him think of the movie "Dr. Strangelove," with Slim Pickens riding bronco on an atomic bomb, waving his cowboy hat.
The sequester was designed to land with a mighty splat ? to create such a mess if allowed to occur that lawmakers would do the right and honorable thing and negotiate a measured, meaningful and discerning package of deficit reduction to head it off. But that didn't happen, so the sequester is about to.
And, yes, that should mean progress on the nation's debt. The sequester is one of several developments expected to restrain the nation's red ink after four straight years of deficits topping $1 trillion.
Yee-haw.
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Are the cuts really that bad?
It's unlikely they will be as bad ? or at least as immediate ? as some overexcited members of the Obama administration have made out. But the cuts have the potential to be significant if the standoff drags on.
Early on, about 2 million long-term unemployed people could see a $30 cut in benefit checks now averaging $300 a week. Federal subsidies for school construction, clean energy and state and local public works projects could be pinched. Low-income pregnant women and new mothers may find it harder to sign up for food aid.
Much depends on how states and communities manage any shortfalls in aid from Washington.
Furloughs of federal employees are for the most part a month or more away. Then, they might have to take up to a day off per week without pay.
That's when the public could start seeing delays at airports, disruptions in meat inspection, fewer services at national parks and the like.
An impasse lasting into the fall would reach farther, probably shrinking Head Start slots, for example.
Much of the federal budget is off-limits to the automatic cuts. Among exempted programs: Social Security, Medicaid, food stamps, Pell Grants and veterans' programs.
Even so, officials warn of a hollowed-out military capability, compromised border security and spreading deterioration of public services if the sequester continues. It's "like a rolling ball," said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. "It keeps growing."
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Maybe it's fiscal-crisis fatigue.
So far, Americans have yawned this one off. Only 27 percent of those surveyed for a Pew Research Center/USA Today poll last week said they had heard a lot about the looming automatic spending cuts.
Less than a third think the budget cuts would deeply affect their own financial situation, according to a Washington Post poll. Sixty percent, however, believe the cuts would have a major effect on the U.S. economy.
That's what economists and business people are nervous about.
The political standoff is the factor that economists blame most for the slowing economy, according to the latest Associated Press Economic Survey. The uncertainty about future government spending is causing businesses to hold back on investment and hiring, and it's making consumers less confident about their own spending, economists warn.
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How did it come to this?
Obama and congressional Republicans have been deadlocked over spending since the GOP won control of the House in 2010, with a big boost from tea party activists who champion lower taxes and an end to red-ink budgets.
House Republicans refused to raise the nation's borrowing limit in 2011 without major deficit cuts. To resolve the stalemate, Congress passed and Obama signed the Budget Control Act, which temporarily allowed borrowing to resume, set new spending limits and created a bipartisan "supercommittee" to recommend at least $1.2 trillion more in deficit reduction over 10 years. Republicans and Democrats on the supercommittee failed to compromise, however.
That triggered the law's doomsday scenario ? the so-called "fiscal cliff" package of across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts.
In a New Year's Eve deal, Obama and Congress agreed to raise taxes on some of the nation's wealthiest earners. And they postponed the spending cuts for two months ? until Friday.
That was supposed to buy time for a deal.
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But there's still no deal.
Obama and congressional leaders have scheduled talks for Friday, the day the automatic cuts begin taking effect. Democrats and Republicans still look far apart, however.
Obama insists on blending spending cuts with targeted tax increases. Republican leaders reject any more tax increases and want to shear spending while protecting the military's budget.
While both sides talk about reducing the deficit, Obama and other Democrats say this must be done gradually, to avoid wounding an already weak economy.
The president has been taking his case to the people, blasting Republicans at campaign-style events. GOP leaders, just back from last week's congressional vacation, are grousing that Obama should be bargaining with them, not grandstanding.
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Is there a way out?
Expect negotiations to intensify if enough Americans begin yelping about the pain from reduced federal spending.
Obama and Congress could agree to pare down the budget cuts to a more logical package of reductions, perhaps with some tax changes, too. Such a deal could also retroactively restore the missed spending where they want to.
The "sequester" isn't the only line in the sand, however.
On March 27, legislation that has been temporarily financing the government expires. Without agreement to extend it, the threat of a partial government shutdown looms. Later in the spring, it will be time to raise the nation's debt limit again.
So far, two years of budget crises have been settled with temporary fixes. They have barely dented the underlying disagreement over how to reform Medicare, Social Security, taxes and spending to address the nation's long-term deficit problem.
If those festering questions remain unanswered, the U.S. economy will remain a hostage to politics.
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AP Director of Polling Jennifer Agiesta contributed to this report.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
seyfert starkness: 501(c) and LLC notes : Law Office of Trish Newman
February 24, 2013
The two entities requested most for roller derby leagues are 501(c)s and LLCs.? There ARE other entity forms out there but these two are the ones I am most contacted about.? I have provided my raw notes from the talk I gave at Rollercon in 2011 about the two entities. I cannot go every year because of time and budget constraints but I think a basic understanding helps.? This should in no way substitute for the actual retaining of a lawyer for your organization because everyone has different organizational needs including administration constraints and how much time you can devote to maintaining your entity status (translation: devotion to the paperwork and meetings that goes along with these entities) and making sure your Articles and Bylaws match how your organization actually operates.
**This is informational only and is not intended to be legal or tax advice and does not confer attorney-client privilege nor create any attorney-client relationship.**
?Limited Liability Company (LLC) form
LLC is a non-corporate form of business. Owners are called ?Members?.? Combines the benefits of limited liability and continuity of business like a corporation with the ?pass through? taxation on profit like a partnership.
LLC laws vary widely from state to state.? There are restrictions on the types of business that can be LLCs based on the state. (eg. California does not allow professional services LLCs, doctors, lawyers)
Important to have:
-?????? Adequate capitalization
-?????? Separate bank account
-?????? An Operating Agreement
- Member managed v. Manager managed
- Members are owners; if chose Manager managed: Members do not participate in management or risk losing LL aspect
- Always have dissolution provisions, preferably written.
Organizing document is the Operating Agreement. Defines the basic structure of the LLC such as setting up:
-?????? Managerial responsibilities
-?????? Governance
-?????? Compensation
-?????? Distribution
-?????? Admission/Withdrawal of Members
-?????? Dissolution provisions
Flexible management and operational structure.
Limited liability is not absolute.? Members can still be personal liable if they:
-?????? Personally guarantee debts of the LLC
-?????? Participate in tortious conduct
-?????? Receive improper distributions
-?????? Commingling personal assets with the LLCs
LLCs are not subject to federal or state income taxes because of the pass through taxation to members unless it elects to be taxed as a corporation.
-?????? There may be state and local taxes specific to LLCs that must be paid.
?501cs
Nonprofits are not allowed to operate to the benefit of any specific individual.
***Prior to deciding to become a tax exempt organization get a good CPA who understands TEOs. They will be able to strategically assess whether it is worth it for your league.***
Nonprofits have to be some form of entity before applying for tax exempt status.? There must be en entity because you have to be able to make contracts, own property, exercise legal rights, etc., and because no one owns a non profit, but it still needs management function. The common types are:
-?????? Unincorporated associations ? established by mutual consent of parties involved (social clubs, lodges, athletic orgs)
-?????? Trusts
-?????? Non Profit Corporations (Most Common)
-?????? LLCs***(not really ? the members/owners of a non profit LLC must be exempt organizations; non ownership of a not for profit and LLC ownership are contradictory so there may be resulting confusion from your state and federal agencies if you go this route)
Corporations are creatures of statute and so close attention has to be paid to what it is you are forming.
-?????? Voting provisions ? quorums
-?????? Board requirements (eg. 3 outside independent board members; officer requirements)
-?????? Paperwork and filing requirements -? minutes, bylaws, articles of incorporation, SEPARATE BANK ACCOUNT with EIN.
To become a 501(c)(3) must be one of the following: Public Benefit, Mutual Benefit, Religious
-?????? Public benefit: charitable or public purpose, may not make any distribution of corporate assets to members at any time, and are subject to extensive governmental regulation and supervision
-?????? Mutual benefit: (frats, social clubs, homeowners assoc.) may be formed for any lawful purpose, may make distributions of corporate assets to members on dissolution, and are subject to less stringent state regulation and supervision
-?????? Religious: primarily or exclusively for religious purposes, may not make any distribution of corporate assets to members at any time, and are subject to less stringent governmental regulation and supervision.
Being not for profit is not the same as being tax exempt. You must apply for them separately. It is not automatic.
-?????? Tax exempt = exempt from income tax and donors can give tax deductible donations
-?????? No money to political campaigns; lobbying has restrictions
-?????? There is no reason not to apply for tax exemption if you are a not for profit unless you are not eligible.
Federal Tax Status
-?????? Incorporating at the state level is separate from getting and maintaining your federal tax status ? must include in your articles of incorporation your non profit purpose for the federal purposes
- 27 months from incorporating.? Can go back during that time to get the tax exemption and refund for the 2 years.? You must pay taxes until granted exemption.
- lots of different categories under section 501(c); not just amateur athletics.
- the application to get tax exempt status will cost you some money.
Nonprofits and Dissolution: No one technically owns a non-profit or its assets, and therefore if dissolved, there is no distribution of assets.? Must pay off all debts and the assets must go to another tax exempt not for profit.? Technically running a business for the benefit of society which is why you are given exemption. This also means there is oversight by the state ? usually by the State Attorney General and additionally by the IRS.? There are filing requirements and you must pay attention to the notices sent.? Make sure the agent for service of process actually gets her mail and pays attention to the oversight agencies.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
SPIN METER: In budget fight, sky is falling again
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama and his officials are doing their best to drum up public concern over the shock wave of spending cuts that could strike the government in just days. So it's a good time to be alert for sky-is-falling hype.
Over the last week or so, administration officials have come forward with a grim compendium of jobs to be lost, services to be denied or delayed, military defenses to be let down and important operations to be disrupted. Obama's new chief of staff, Denis McDonough, spoke of a "devastating list of horribles."
For most Americans, though, it's far from certain they will have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day if the budget-shredder known as the sequester comes to pass. Maybe they will, if the impasse drags on for months.
For now, there's a whiff of the familiar in all the foreboding, harking back to the mid-1990s partial government shutdown, when officials said old people would go hungry, illegal immigrants would have the run of the of the land and veterans would go without drugs. It didn't happen.
For this episode, provisions are in place to preserve the most crucial services ? and benefit checks. Furloughs of federal workers are at least a month away, breathing room for a political settlement if the will to achieve one is found. Many government contractors would continue to be paid with money previously approved.
Warnings of thousands of teacher layoffs, for example, are made with the presumption that local communities would not step in with their own dollars ? perhaps from higher taxes ? to keep teachers in the classrooms if federal money is not soon restored. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says teacher layoffs have already begun, but he has not backed up that claim and school administrators say no pink slips are expected before May, for the next school year.
To be sure, the cuts are big and will have consequences. Knowing what they will be, though, is far from a precise exercise.
And there is a lot of improbable precision in administration statements about what could happen: more than 373,000 seriously ill people losing mental health services, 600,000 low-income pregnant women and new mothers losing food aid and nutrition education, 1,200 fewer inspections of dangerous work sites, 125,000 poor households going without vouchers, and much more.
"These numbers are just numbers thrown out into the thin air with no anchor, and I think they don't provoke the outrage or concern that the Obama administration seeks," said Paul Light, a New York University professor who specializes in the federal bureaucracy and budget. For all the dire warnings, he said, "It's not clear who gets hurt by this."
The estimates in many cases come from a simple calculation: Divide the proscribed spending cut by a program's per-person spending to see how many beneficiaries may lose services or benefits under the sequester.
But in practice, through all the layers of bureaucracy and the everyday smoke and mirrors of the federal budget, there is rarely a direct and measurable correlation between a federal dollar and its effect on the ground.
That has meant a lot of tenuous "could happen" warnings by the administration, not so much "will happen" evidence.
So it was in Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' letter to Congress laying out likely consequences of the spending cuts for her agency's operations. She said the sequester "could" compromise the well-being of more than 373,000 people who "potentially" would not get needed mental health services, which in turn "could result" in more hospitalizations and homelessness.
Duncan left himself less wiggle room. "This stuff is real," he said last week. "Schools are already starting to give teachers notices."
Asked to provide backup for Duncan's assertion, spokesman Daren Briscoe said it was based on "an unspecified call he was on with unnamed persons," and the secretary might not be comfortable sharing details.
Briscoe referred queries about layoffs to the American Association of School Administrators. Noelle M. Ellerson, an assistant director of the organization, said Monday that in her many discussions with superintendents at the group's just-completed annual meeting, she heard of no layoffs of teachers. While everyone is bracing for that possibility down the road, she said, "not a single one I spoke with had already issued pink slips."
Most school district budgets for the next school year won't be completed for two months, she said, meaning any layoff notices would come in early to mid-May. "No one had yet acted."
School districts in areas set aside for tribal lands or military bases count on Washington for a significant share of their budgets, and are to lose $60 million, or 5 percent of their federal payments, when the sequester starts. Nearly all money to run most of the nation's public schools comes from local sources such as property taxes that are not affected by the federal cuts.
As for the assertion that 600,000 women could be dropped from the Women, Infants and Children Program, that's not to say the rolls would be cut by that number. The actual number is likely to include women who are not enrolled in the program now and could be denied when seeking to join it. Federal officials say the true number will depend on how states can manage their caseloads.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has warned of impending furloughs of air traffic controllers, who may need to take one day off every two weeks, and said air-travel delays are likely across the country. Asked Friday why the airline lobby predicted no major impact on air travel from the sequester, he said, "I don't think they have the information we're presenting to them today."
"The idea that we're just doing this to create some kind of a horrific scare tactic is nonsense," LaHood said. But it's a pressure tactic nonetheless: "What I'm trying to do is to wake up members of the Congress on the Republican side to the idea that they need to come to the table."
However the cuts fall, Light at NYU says the Washington Monument ploy, also known as the Firemen First principle, is at work.
It goes like this: Put someone's budget at risk and the first thing you'll hear is a threat to close a cherished national symbol or lay off firefighters and police, when in fact there are other ways to cut spending.
It so happens the Washington Monument is already closed, for earthquake repair. But Obama indulged in the Firemen First principle quite literally.
He appeared at the White House in front of officers in blue uniforms to warn of the consequences of the sequester. "Emergency responders like the ones who are here today ? their ability to help communities respond to and recover from disasters will be degraded."
The law gives little flexibility to agencies to protect favored programs, except for big ones specifically exempted from the automatic cuts, such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and veterans benefits. FBI and Border Patrol furloughs are expected. Still, the White House has directed agencies to avoid cuts presenting "risks to life, safety or health" and to minimize harm to crucial services.
In the partial government shutdown during his presidency, Bill Clinton and his officials told some tall tales and sketched dark scenarios that didn't come to pass, though some might have if the crisis had lasted weeks or months longer. The shutdown played out over two installments totaling 26 days from mid-November 1995 to early January 1996.
National park properties closed (yes, even the Washington Monument), passport and federal mortgage insurance processing were disrupted and toxic waste cleanup stalled as hundreds of thousands of federal workers went idle, paid retroactively later. But states, communities and private groups stepped up to tide over the neediest, keeping Meals on Wheels rolling with their own resources, for example, until Clinton found emergency money to cover the costs. Warnings that Medicare treatment would be withheld proved unfounded, and veterans got their care.
Contractors, who perform many key services for government, kept working for IOUs. A claim by the government that deportations "have virtually ended" was not so.
The Justice Department told the story of a Florida gas station rejecting the government-issued credit card of a drug-enforcement agent to illustrate the indignity of it all.
But the reality was humdrum: The card had merely expired.
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Associated Press writers Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Mary Clare Jalonick, Joan Lowy and Philip Elliott contributed to this report.
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Prosecutor urges trial for Costa cruise ship capt
ROME (AP) ? An Italian prosecutor has formally requested a manslaughter indictment against the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which crashed into a reef off Tuscany last year, killing 32 people.
The prosecutors' office in Grosseto also wants Capt. Francesco Schettino to be tried for causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship while the frantic evacuation of passengers and crew was still being conducted. A judge must decide whether to order a trial for Schettino and five others named in the indictment request Monday.
Prosecutors also said Costa Crociere SpA, the Italian cruise company, has asked for a plea bargain agreement which, if it was accepted, could see Costa pay a ?1 million ($1.35 million) fine.
The ship went aground off the Italian island of Giglio during a publicity stunt.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/prosecutor-urges-trial-costa-cruise-ship-capt-142306259.html
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Pierce lifts road-weary Celtics over Jazz in OT
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ? The Boston Celtics weren't too tired after playing five games in seven days back and forth across time zones.
They had enough left to play overtime to close out a long Western road trip, beating the Utah Jazz 110-107 on Monday night.
Thirty-five-year-old Paul Pierce led Boston with 26 points, including seven straight in the extra session.
"It was huge," Celtics coach Doc Rivers said. "Whatever that was, it was the best win of the year for me. . To go into overtime and still have enough to win."
It wasn't just the ageless Pierce. Kevin Garnett, three months shy of his 37th birthday, stood strong at the end, refusing to let Rivers sub him out by insisting, "I am good."
Rivers didn't believe that, "but I kept him in and he was terrific."
Garnett had four points in overtime on 2-of-2 shooting, with three rebounds. He finished with 13 points, 10 rebounds, a blocked shot and steal.
The Celtics also got a big game from Avery Bradley, who scored a season-high 18 points on 8-of-12 shooting.
Pierce had a chance to win it in regulation, but his 19-footer at the buzzer rimmed out.
Alec Burks' reverse layup pulled Utah to 108-105 with 37 seconds left in overtime. Garnett's banked 3-pointer with 13 seconds left came after the shot clock expired, giving the Jazz another chance.
Paul Millsap was fouled before he could get off a 3, but made two free throws with 4.2 seconds remaining.
Courtney Lee added two free throws at the other end with 1.2 seconds left to bump Boston's lead back to three, and Randy Foye's 26-footer at the buzzer missed everything.
It was another one the Jazz let get away, though Monday's game had huge swings both ways from start to finish.
Overall, the game had 13 lead changes and was tied 17 times.
"We were in position," said Jazz forward Marvin Williams. "We fought back in the fourth quarter to force overtime but Boston just made big plays down the stretch."
Gordon Hayward led Utah with 26 points, Millsap had 16 and Al Jefferson finished with 15 points and 11 rebounds.
The Celtics (30-27) were playing their fifth game in seven days, but didn't seem to care down the stretch.
The Jazz (31-26) led 101-99 in overtime on DeMarre Carroll's 21-footer, but Pierce countered with a 3-pointer, then followed with a pull-up jumper over Carroll and a 15-footer to give the Celtics a 106-101 edge with 1:12 left.
Jefferson hit a 15-footer with 1:05 left to get Utah within 106-103, but Garnett's jumper helped seal it.
"We knew this was probably going to be the toughest game for us physically and mentally," Pierce said. "Talking about a long road trip, coming in to one of the toughest places to play. We felt we could salvage this trip with a win here. So guys did a good job of just being mentally tough, digging in and doing what we had to do to get the win."
The Celtics, who went 2-3 on the trip, also were smart down the stretch, fouling with fouls to give and finding a wide-open Lee on the inbounds pass when the Jazz needed a late steal in overtime. His free throws provided the final margin.
The Jazz trailed by eight entering the fourth but opened on a 13-2 run.
Jefferson's 10-foot turnaround jumper over Brandon Bass tied it at 93 with 2:46 left in regulation.
Pierce hit an 18-footer with Carroll diving at him for a 97-95 Boston lead with 36 seconds remaining in regulation, only to see Burks tie it with a tough layup with 19 seconds left.
"We wanted to win in regulation," Pierce said. "It would have felt better just to get a stop when we needed it. That's what we need to get better at. We didn't do it in Portland. We didn't do it tonight. That's what we need to start focusing on. When we get the lead and we need crucial stops, we have to figure out how to get them."
The game took a 16-point swing in the third, as Boston trailed 58-50 only to counter with a 20-4 run and lead 80-72 entering the fourth.
Pierce ignited the run with a 3-pointer, Bradley hit two more 3s and Lee added a dunk after a steal and another 3-pointer. Pierce capped the run with a jumper over Hayward for a 70-62 Boston lead.
The Celtics hit 6 of 13 3-pointers in the 32-point third quarter, while Utah made just 5 of 16 from the field.
It was the same story as Saturday, when the Jazz fought back early only to see the Los Angeles Clippers go on a 23-4 run and douse any hopes.
A Jazz team that had won three straight and seven of 10 has now dropped two in a row.
While Hayward showed he is recovered from a right shoulder injury despite missing a pair of shots in overtime, the Jazz still need point guard Mo Williams back from a thumb injury.
Monday, Earl Watson started over Jamaal Tinsley, but Burks ended up playing the position during Utah's big second-quarter run.
Pierce said Boston reverted to various defenses to slow the Jazz.
"We did a lot of zone, did a lot of man and tried to force turnovers," Pierce said. "That's what we have to do. A lot of times we had to go to small because they had plenty of size and they rebound well. We just junked up the game a little bit by changing our defense."
It may have been junk, but it was a win nonetheless.
"We have champions," said guard Jason Terry, who made four 3-pointers and finished with 14 points and two assists off the bench for Boston.
"When you have champions that have been through so many tough games as we have, then you know you're in good hands. For us, we hang our hat on executing down the stretch."
NOTES; Jazz F Derrick Favors picked up his third foul with 9:06 left in the second quarter. . Jazz G Foye needed four 3-pointers to tie Mehmet Okur (129, 2006-07) for the franchise single-season record. Foye went 0-5 Saturday but hit his first Monday and finished 2 of 6. . Bradley started 5 of 5 and had 10 points in six minutes for Boston, while Millsap started 4 of 4 for Utah. . The Jazz led 53-48 at halftime.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pierce-lifts-road-weary-celtics-over-jazz-ot-045904827--spt.html
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ASUS unveils quad-core PadFone Infinity smartphone with 5-inch HD display
PadFone InfinityASUS (2357) on Monday announced its next-generation PadFone during a press event at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The PadFone Infinity, which is a smartphone that can dock into a tablet, is equipped with a 5-inch 1080p display, a 1.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor and a 13-megapixel rear camera. The device also includes 2GB of RAM, NFC, LTE, up to 64GB of internal storage, a 2,400 mAh battery and Android 4.2.
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The Pad portion of the phone, which ASUS calls the Infinity Station, features a 10.1-inch full HD 1,920 x 1,200-pixel display and is capable of increasing the smartphone?s battery life to 40 hours or fully recharging the docked PadFone up to three times.
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The PadFone Infinity will be offered in the U.K. for ?799 for the phone and an additional ?199 for the tablet dock. Like earlier models, the PadFone will not be available in the United States.
ASUS? press release follows below.
ASUS Announces PadFone? Infinity
LTE smartphone with 5-inch Full HD display combines with a 10.1-inch tablet dock for seamless mobile flexibilityMobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain (25th February, 2013) ? ASUS today announced PadFone? Infinity, a powerful LTE smartphone with a sleek metallic design and a 5-inch Full HD display that becomes a 10.1-inch tablet when docked to its companion PadFone? Infinity Station. PadFone? Infinity features Android 4.2 and groundbreaking mobile performance, thanks to its next-generation Qualcomm? Snapdragon? 600 quad-core processor and up to 19 hours* of 3G talk time.
?PadFone? Infinity is the latest evolution of our PadFone? line,? said Jonney Shih, ASUS Chairman. ?It combines incredible design with an uncompromised user experience derived from our Design Thinking philosophy.?
Premium design with premium performance
With a slender unibody design crafted from aerospace-grade aluminum, ASUS PadFone? Infinity is both beautiful and durable. The 5-inch screen features a 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution with an extraordinary 441 pixels-per-inch for text so crisp it looks like a printed page and wonderfully detailed high-resolution images. 64GB of storage complements the class-leading Qualcomm? Snapdragon? 600 1.7GHz quad-core processor for a smooth and responsive premium Android experience, while 100Mbit/s LTE and 42Mbit/s DC-HSPA+ ensure super-fast web browsing and downloads.
ASUS PadFone? Infinity features a high-performance 13-megapixel camera with an f/2.0 5-element lens that captures incredibly detailed images with no shutter lag. A dedicated image signal-processor enhances low-light image quality and enables PadFone? Infinity to capture up to 100 sequential photos at 8 frames-per-second, while simultaneously recording 1080p Full HD video. PadFone? Infinity can also output 1080p Full HD video via its micro-USB-compatible MyDP interface.
Share apps and mobile data instantly
The unique two-in-one nature of ASUS PadFone? removes the tedious need to synchronize data between smartphone and tablet. Data and settings on PadFone? Infinity are available instantly on PadFone? Infinity Station upon docking, and running apps are smoothly reformatted to fit the larger display. Mobile data bills are also reduced, since a single data plan can be shared between both devices.
PadFone? Infinity comes with new and exclusive ASUS apps, including SuperNote 3.1 for note taking, Story for creating stunning photo albums and ASUS Echo for voice control of PadFone? Infinity. PadFone? Infinity has up to 19 hours of 3G talk time*, which increases to up to 40 hours when docked into PadFone? Infinity Station. PadFone? Infinity Station also has sufficient battery capacity to fully recharge the docked PadFone? Infinity up to three times.
###*Specifications may vary without prior notice. Options, pricing, performance and availability dependent upon region. For more details about the products mentioned in this press release, please visit http://press.asus.com .
Availability & Pricing ? UK
The combined price of the ASUS PadFone? Infinity and Infinity Station will be around SRP ?799 (inc VAT). Exact price and availability will be announced closer to UK launch date.
This article was originally published on BGR.com
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/asus-unveils-quad-core-padfone-infinity-smartphone-5-031035293.html
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Monday, February 25, 2013
White House Previews Local Impacts of Sequester
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Governors Association's winter meeting is under way in the nation's capital, and while President Obama hosted the state executives for their annual black-tie dinner in the White House today, his administration is pushing a new angle over the partisan bickering around the sequester: how it relates to individual states.
READ: What's a Sequester?
Five days remain for Congress to agree to a deficit-reduction deal that would avoid triggering the $85 billion package of automatic cuts that would be split among the federal government over seven months, half from the Defense Department. There has been little public indication that lawmakers are in serious negotiations to avoid the deadline.
Tables released by the White House today indicate each state would receive penalties to mostly similar programs, including meal assistance for seniors and law enforcement grants. But the release is tailored to outline the individual impact to each state in the union.
In a sample from military-heavy Virginia, "90,000 civilian Department of Defense employees would be furloughed, reducing gross pay by around $648.4 million in total."
The document also says maintenance on 11 Navy vessels serviced in Old Dominion would be cancelled under the cuts.
Three-hundred disadvantaged children in Colorado could lose access to child care. Meanwhile in Louisiana, "1,730 fewer children will receive vaccines for diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, whooping cough, influenza, and Hepatitis B due to reduced funding for vaccinations of about $118,000," it reads.
READ: The full list of alleged consequences from the sequester
That state's governor, Bobby Jindal, is the head of the Republican Governors Association and was one of the state executives present at the White House dinner. Earlier that morning he accused the administration of fear mongering, rather than focusing on the issue at hand.
"It's time to stop campaigning," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "Stop sending out your cabinet secretaries to scare the American people. Roll up your sleeves and do the hard work of governing."
The governor, a fierce opponent of the president's healthcare agenda, suggested tweaks to the Affordable Care Act would be a good starting point to meet the debt goal.
"Just delay the Medicaid expansions, delay the health care exchanges so they can work with states on waivers, on flexibility. You could save tens of billions of dollars there by - and you're not even cutting a program that's started yet. Just delay it for a few years," he said.
With few exceptions, the sequestration law makes across-the-board cuts to all government departments, with each individual program taking a hit of between 5 percent and 7 percent. But as written, it does not allow those departments to reallocate funding between individual programs.
For example the Federal Aviation Administration says it stands to furlough the bulk of its 47,000 employees, including large numbers of air traffic controllers. Yet the FAA would not be able to take money from another program and dump it into the one that manages those air traffic controllers to offset the slashed budget.
READ: Devastating sequester spending cuts? Give me a break!
That may not mean the resulting cuts aren't salvageable. Economist Doug Holtz-Eakin, a former director of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, says that at the end of the day sound management could minimize the impact.
"Take defense for example. We're going to have to, at the present plan, furlough defense workers for roughly 22 days over the next six months roughly one day a week. You could do that by giving everybody Friday off, but Fridays would be a bad day for producing defense services. Or you could spread that out and have some people on Mondays, some on Tuesdays, some on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday," he told ABC News. "Manage the workflow to try to deliver what you need in terms of running the Pentagon and the effects would be a lot smaller.
Holtz-Eakin, who also advised Sen. John McCain during his 2008 presidential run, said the impacts would be "real" but may not be immediately recognizable for months.
"They're going to be slow," he said. "They're going to have the ability to manage the impacts and where possible states can pick up the slack."
ABC's David Kerley contributed to this report.
Also ReadSource: http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-previews-local-impacts-sequester-022731280--abc-news-politics.html
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Baby Showers
Your heart is in the right place, but people throw baby showers with the purpose of giving gifts to the new MTB. It just isn't really appropriate, IMO, for the occasion. Also, while it might not feel like this is what you are doing, you are telling your guests how to spend their money- which is an etiquette no no.?
This. While you do have good intentions, it is rude to ask guests how to spend their money. And since the purpose of a shower is to "shower" the MTB with gifts, I would let the guests give the gifts they want.
But if you end up with duplicate items or you end up receiving cash gifts, you can choose to donate those items.?
Source: http://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/72239302.aspx
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
Good Reads: A family in isolation, Pakistan's difficult present, Africa's biggest game
This week's good reads includes a profile of a Russian family that lived in isolation for 40 years, a young professor's return to Pakistan from the United States after 13 years, and efforts to end big game hunting in Africa.
A lion rests in the grass plains of the Maasai Mara game reserve in Kenya.
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EnlargeIn 1978, a group of Soviet geologists trying to land their helicopter in the taiga (thick wilderness) of remote Siberia saw startling evidence of human life. Soon they found the Lykov family ? who had been living in an encampment for more than 40 years with no contact with the outside world.
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Mike Dash, writing for Smithsonian.com, recounts their incredible story and the chance meeting that brought it to light. The Lykovs were Old Believers, a fundamentalist Russian Orthodox sect that had been persecuted since the days of Peter the Great. In 1936, after his brother was shot and killed by a Communist patrol, Karp Lykov took his wife, Akulina, and two young children and fled into the forest.
For 40 years the family eked out a living in the unforgiving Siberian wilderness, ?permanently on the edge of famine.? Two more children were born. Akulina died of starvation in 1961 when a June snow destroyed the family?s small crop. The Soviet scientists were astounded to learn that the family had no knowledge of World War II, the moon landing, or any other major development of modern society of the past half century. The two youngest children had never seen a person outside their own family.
But over the next few years, says Mr. Dash, as ?the Soviet geologists got to know the Lykov family, they realized that they had underestimated their abilities and intelligence.?
The family at first spurned, then gradually accepted most of the modern technology they saw at the scientists? research camp nearby. When, during this period, three of the Lykovs died, scientists tried to convince Karp and his daughter Agafia to leave the wilderness, but they chose to rebuild their small cabin and stay on.
After Karp died in 1988, Agafia, the youngest child, again refused to leave the life her family had forged ? and the only one she has ever known. ?A quarter of a century later, now in her seventies herself, this child of the taiga lives on alone, high above the Abakan.?
Pakistan, a forbidden love
For Taymiya Zaman, Pakistan is not Osama bin Laden or blasphemy laws or drone attacks. It is her homeland, a place of rich culture and history, struggling under the weight of change and competing stereotypes. But for many people in the United States, where she is a history professor, Pakistan is a harbor for terrorists or the scene of poor brown children waiting for Western benevolence.
Ms. Zaman?s rich personal essay appears in Tanqeed, an online magazine of politics and culture that focuses on Pakistan. Her essay first ran in the quarterly magazine Critical Muslim.
Tired of the questions and accusations surrounding her nationality, Zaman ?builds a wall? around Pakistan. Finally, weary of the disconnect, and against the advice of her colleagues, she returns to Lahore for a sabbatical year. It will be the longest she?s been home since leaving for college 13 years earlier.
She describes the homecoming: ?Landing in Karachi is like running into the arms of a lover you?ve been forbidden to see for years.? Once there, however, she gains ?the realization that I can?t hide from the things about being here that leave me troubled and edgy.? She is heckled by a bearded student who accuses her of disrespecting Islam. The traffic congestion is overwhelming.
Zaman returns to her teaching position in San Francisco with newfound appreciation for the US and enduring love for her Pakistan. ?I know the newspaper images that fuel Pakistan-bashing. I know the minefields of personal sorrow and betrayal that don?t make it to newspapers. I also know a Pakistan beneath these images that is rich with extraordinary possibilities....?
Take photos, not big game, on safari
On Foreign Policy Blogs, Daniel Donovan writes of Botswana?s recent decision to ban big-game trophy hunting by 2014. Zambia followed suit soon after by banning hunting of lions and leopards.
Botswana?s move has inspired both praise and criticism. In spite of short-term setbacks to the hunting industry, Mr. Donovan points to Kenya?s thriving nonhunting safari business as a sign of greater long-term economic gains in banning trophy hunting.
?While hunters and hunting advocates point to large profits being made in hunting of animals in Africa ... the reality is that photographic tourism far outdistances any money made in hunting safaris,? he writes. Big-game hunting in Africa has always held an allure for the rich and famous, but one study in Botswana showed that trophy hunting only represented approximately 0.1 percent of gross domestic product, as opposed to phototourism, which yields 11 percent. And as Zambia?s tourism minister, Sylvia Masebo, put it: ?Tourists come to Zambia to see the lion and if we lose the lion we will be killing our tourism industry.?
Donovan concedes that ?[c]ritics of the decision argue that it will encourage poaching over the long-term,? which has reached alarming levels in Kenya. But ?even countries that encourage trophy hunting are not immune from illegal hunting,? as revelations of poaching violations in South Africa and Tanzania show.
?Ultimately, each country must decide which direction will benefit them both ecologically and economically.?
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
Warriors rally past Spurs 107-101 in OT
Golden State Warriors' Jarrett Jack reacts after scoring against the San Antonio Spurs during the second half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
Golden State Warriors' Jarrett Jack reacts after scoring against the San Antonio Spurs during the second half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
Golden State Warriors' Draymond Green celebrates after scoring against the San Antonio Spurs during the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
San Antonio Spur's Manu Ginobli (20) goes to the basket next to Golden State Warriors' Carl Landry during the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
San Antonio Spurs' Manu Ginobili, right, drives the ball against Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry (30) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, in Oakland, Calif. At left is Spurs' Tiago Splitter (22). (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
Golden State Warriors' Harrison Barnes (40) drives the ball past San Antonio Spurs' Gary Neal during the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ? Jarrett Jack had 30 points and 10 assists, David Lee added 25 points and 22 boards, and the Golden State Warriors rallied past the San Antonio Spurs 107-101 in overtime Friday night to snap a 16-game losing streak in the series.
Stephen Curry finished with 18 points and six assists to carry the short-sleeve-wearing Warriors from 13 points down in the fourth quarter. Golden State, also playing without center Andrew Bogut, hadn't won against San Antonio since another overtime game at home ? all the way back on Jan. 7, 2008.
Danny Green scored 20 points and Tim Duncan had 19 points and 18 rebounds for the NBA-leading Spurs, who had won five straight and 16 of 17 overall. San Antonio fell to 6-2 on its rodeo trip.
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Aurora, CO - American Sentinel University Announces Scholarships
Studies project that healthcare costs, if left unchecked, could rise 30% or more by 2050. This forecast, along with the federal government's response in the form of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), are increasing the need for healthcare organizations to improve their understanding of the costs of care and the use of data-driven insights to optimize efficiencies while simultaneously improving patient outcomes and satisfaction.
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American Sentinel University's MHCI online degree is designed to develop skills in gathering, analyzing and presenting healthcare data to support clinical, administrative or quality decision-making needs that meet operational, legislative and regulatory requirements to reduce costs, improve workflows, impact quality and safety initiatives and more.
To be eligible for the scholarship, applicants must currently be employed by a U.S. health system or an organization supplying services to a U.S. health system. They must complete the application process, which includes submitting a resume and an essay describing their personal commitment to improving health systems and how American Sentinel's MHCI degree will enhance their effectiveness in their roles and organizations. Applicants must also hold a minimum of a bachelor's degree and be available to start class on April 15, 2013. The deadline for entries is March 11, 2013.
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Vatican blasts 'false' pre-conclave reporting
In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI, right, delivers his message concluding a weeklong spiritual retreat, at the Vatican, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013. Benedict XVI has lamented the "evil, suffering and corruption" that has defaced God's creation in a final address to the officials who run the Vatican bureaucracy. Benedict spoke off-the-cuff Saturday at the end of a weeklong spiritual retreat coinciding with the Catholic Church's solemn Lenten season. For the past week, Italian Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi has led the Vatican on meditations that have covered everything from the family to denouncing the "divisions, dissent, careerism, jealousies" that afflict the Vatican bureaucracy. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)
In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI, right, delivers his message concluding a weeklong spiritual retreat, at the Vatican, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013. Benedict XVI has lamented the "evil, suffering and corruption" that has defaced God's creation in a final address to the officials who run the Vatican bureaucracy. Benedict spoke off-the-cuff Saturday at the end of a weeklong spiritual retreat coinciding with the Catholic Church's solemn Lenten season. For the past week, Italian Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi has led the Vatican on meditations that have covered everything from the family to denouncing the "divisions, dissent, careerism, jealousies" that afflict the Vatican bureaucracy. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)
In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI kneels in prayer at the end of a weeklong spiritual retreat, at the Vatican, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013. Benedict XVI has lamented the "evil, suffering and corruption" that has defaced God's creation in a final address to the officials who run the Vatican bureaucracy. Benedict spoke off-the-cuff Saturday at the end of a weeklong spiritual retreat coinciding with the Catholic Church's solemn Lenten season. For the past week, Italian Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi has led the Vatican on meditations that have covered everything from the family to denouncing the "divisions, dissent, careerism, jealousies" that afflict the Vatican bureaucracy. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)
Italian police, left, and carabinieri cars are parked outside St. Peter's Square, at the V atican, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013 As 100.000 pilgrims are expected to crowd St. Peter's Square for the last Angelus prayer of Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday morning, the Rome municipality is expected to increase by more then 30% the law enforcement agents, volunteers and transportation, while more then 2000 cctv security cameras will monitor the Roman territory with dozens aiming only at the areas surrounding the Vatican. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
VATICAN CITY (AP) ? The Vatican lashed out Saturday at the media for what it said has been a run of defamatory and false reports before the conclave to elect Pope Benedict XVI's successor, saying they were an attempt to influence the election.
Italian newspapers have been rife with unsourced reports in recent days about the contents of a secret dossier prepared for the pope by three cardinals who investigated the origins of the 2012 scandal over leaked Vatican documents.
The reports have suggested the revelations in the dossier, given to Benedict in December, were a factor in his decision to resign. The pope himself has said merely that he doesn't have the "strength of mind and body" to carry on.
On Saturday, the Vatican secretariat of state said the Catholic Church has for centuries insisted on the independence of its cardinals to elect their pope. Now, it said, the "pressures of public opinion" is in play in a bid to influence their vote.
"It is deplorable that as we draw closer to the time of the beginning of the conclave ... that there be a widespread distribution of often unverified, unverifiable or completely false news stories that cause serious damage to persons and institutions."
It was issued as Benedict met for the last time with the Vatican bureaucracy before stepping down Feb. 28. The occasion was the final session of the Vatican's Lenten spiritual retreat, a weeklong series of meditations composed by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, himself a papal contender.
In one of his final meditations Friday, Ravasi denounced the "divisions, dissent, careerism, jealousies" that afflict the Vatican bureaucracy ? divisions that were exposed by the leaks of documents taken from the pope's study. The documents revealed the petty wrangling, corruption and cronyism and even allegations of a gay plot at the highest levels of the Catholic Church.
The three cardinals who investigated the theft of the documents had wide-ranging powers to interview even cardinals to get to the bottom of the dynamics within the Curia ? the Vatican bureaucracy ? that resulted in the gravest Vatican security breach in modern times.
Benedict has referred obliquely to the Vatican's dysfunction in recent days, deploring how the church is often "defiled" by attacks and divisions and urging its members to overcome "pride and egoism."
On Saturday, in his final comments to the Curia, he lamented the "evil, suffering and corruption" that has defaced God's creation. But he also thanked the Vatican bureaucrats for eight years of work, love and faith and promised them he would continue to be spiritually close to them in retirement.
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