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I'm going to conclude this series on running a small user group with a topic that came up for discussion earlier in the week. A friend of mine, and a member of Midlands PASS, made a remark that whenever the officers of Midlands PASS talk about the group, we call it the group. We don't act like it's our personal possession. We don't take the attitude that if we weren't around, there would be no group. In our minds, the group belongs to the community at large. We have the privilege of serving. Sometimes it's hard. This is especially true when we have a lot of work and family obligations and making it out and supporting a meeting is another hit against our time. But despite the effort we put in, the group isn't ours exclusively. It belongs to everyone who makes up the group.
That line of thinking hopefully keeps us from prima donna attitudes. It also drives us to look at those in the group and make our best effort to provide speakers and a meeting setting that meets the group's needs. I know the moment we start thinking of the group as ours, as in the officers', we will start serving the group differently. We'll start looking at the group to serve our needs or goals, not vice versa. And that defeats the whole purpose of a user group in the first place.
I know, because I saw this first hand back when I was part of a Commodore users group back in the 80s. The group was formed and driven by one individual whose primary purpose was to acquire more commercial software. That got old, fast. We talked about trying to do more to expand the group, including having teaching sessions, etc., so folks with Commodores learned how to use their computers better (and thus found more value in them) and those who didn't own Commodores learned that they could get use out of a personal computer (this was back in the day when such a belief was not so widely held). He wasn't interested in such things. He paid some initial lip service to the idea, but it was clear within a couple of weeks that he wasn't going to give any time to that sort of thing in the meetings. And since he wasn't interested and since he believed as president of the group he drove what the group did, the group never got past his goals. As a result it died a rather rapid death after a promising start.
So it's important to remember that the group belongs to the group. If you have a leadership capacity in a group, keep that in mind as you strive to serve. The key word there is serve. You're there to serve the group as a whole. If you start looking at the group to serve your needs, that can quickly alienate the members of the group to the point where there is no group. Certainly it cause some folks who might have stepped up to help the group to shy away. And that puts all the load on you as the leader to sustain the group. That's not something any one individual can do for too long. We all need help, especially running something like a user group.


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On a SXSW panel alongside Mitch Hurwitz and Jeffrey Tambor, Will Arnett offered a quick reminder before the next several years of Arrested Development movie questions begin: "We do have these fourteen episodes that are about to air, and people are already mad that we don't have the other — nobody's even seen these. Let's just enjoy this for now." Fine advice. And still, the movie's not off the table! Hurwitz said, "We very much want to do it," although there's no script or pitch yet.


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Who said anything about emptiness? Nagarjuna was referring to nihilists saying that there was no such thing as cause and effect and then neither sowing the seeds of positive results nor avoiding harming others which is obviously a catastrophe. I have not made any such claim. I am simply saying that Vajrayana is by nature dangerous, requires sharp faculties, honesty about one's capability and a strong conscience.lama tsewang wrote:I was not trying to make any personal attack , with my previous post.
I am trying to show how dangerous some of these statements can be .
I am reminded of what Nagarjuna , or rather what i have bee told, That it is much more dangerous to be attached to emptiness , than to be attached to following precepts and being attached to relative truth
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Cindy McCoy was a roller derby queen, skating before packed houses in the U.S. and Australia at a time when the sport commanded prime-time coverage and legions of teenybopper fans.
That was the mid-1960s, and the derby was in its heyday.
"Roller derby had started during the Depression, in the '50s and '60s. It was extremely popular with men, women and children," McCoy said. "One roller derby event at White Sox stadium had over 50,000 people."
Born and raised in Colorado Springs, McCoy cut her teeth clattering on steel-wheeled skates down the city's sidewalks and at Skateland, a rink once on Colorado Avenue. There, she took lessons with other skaters, and her natural skill began to show. McCoy could do jumps, spins and twirls that confounded most of the other skaters - even the boys. The chance to show off her athletic ability was new for McCoy, whose school had no organized team sports open to women.
"I always resented that. I thought there were some of us that were just as good or better than the guy players," said McCoy, 64, who has been nominated for inclusion in the Colorado Springs Sports Hall of Fame and who recently collaborated on a biography of her derby career, "Hell on Wheels." "I think what really attracted me to the roller derby was the fact that they had the men's team and the women's team, and you both played under the same rules."
After her parents' divorce, McCoy traveled with her mother to Los Angeles. At a roller derby game there, she saw an ad recruiting and training skaters for an amateur league. McCoy talked her mother into letting her join and started saving up for regulation derby skates.
She was 5-foot-6, 116 pounds, and only 14.
"We went through hours of training and building muscles, from just learning how to stand up, how to get the feel of the track, how to build up your speed and jump, and how to take falls," McCoy said.
Though it might not have appeared so to the casual observer, in many ways women's roller derby was more hardcore than it is today. There weren't helmets or mouth guards or toe-stops on the shoes.
"We skated on a banked track. We wore elbow pads, a little tiny piece of leather on our tail bone, and some sponge knee pads. If you wanted to stop, you fell. I probably ended up with four or five concussions, easy," McCoy said.
After a year of amateur games, she earned a spot on the Los Angeles T-Birds, the city's professional team. It was during that time McCoy met her "drill-sergeant" manager and trainer John Hall, a former military man with a history of molding professional skaters.
"When I first saw trainee Cindy McCoy, I was impressed by her determination and her motivation," wrote Hall in an email. "She quickly learned to do all necessary to become a professional banked track skater."
McCoy was small but athletic, and clearly had a natural acumen for the sport. What's more, she was "a genuine nice young lady," Hall wrote.
She impressed Hall so much that he advocated for her inclusion in the Roller Games League's first skating tour of Australia.
"The Australian fans loved her," Hall wrote. "Cindy McCoy gave me great pride as she demonstrated all that I taught her in her professional skating."
McCoy was the youngest member of the team, who became like the skater's second family. Attendance at Sunday competitions in Melbourne drew as many as 25,000 spectators. With her glamour girl looks, her skill on the boards and her signature ponytail, McCoy was an instant fan favorite.
"We would go to potluck dinners with the fan club," McCoy said. "The president taught me how to drive a vehicle over there. I felt like they were family, not just fans."
Hall wasn't there when fans in Australia named McCoy their Rookie of the Year and Roller Games Queen, but the importance wasn't lost on him.
"That is the only time in (the) history of Roller Games that any skater has received that honor from fans," he said.
McCoy skated professionally for the T-Birds for several seasons, earning good wages - about $300 a week - until she suffered a near career-ending accident. She was training a group of young Australian skaters, teaching them how to fall without injuring themselves. The youngsters weren't listening, and McCoy got frustrated.
"I realized I was going way too fast to do it. I guess I let my Irish temper get the better of me," said McCoy, who landed hard on a structural beam of the track, dislocating her tail bone and fracturing her last vertebrae. "My legs were numb. I had to have another skater help me out of my skates. I was in a lot of pain."
After surgery and six weeks in the hospital, McCoy was well enough to fly home.
"They had a farewell party for me. I couldn't skate, but at least I went out in my uniform," she said.
Despite doctor's dire predictions, McCoy was able to return to skating - first stateside in Los Angeles, and then, back in Australia. She left the sport for good when she was 18.
"I made a promise to my mom to go back to school if she would let me skate overseas, so that's what I did. I came back to Colorado Springs to go to high school," said McCoy, who went on to graduate from Air Academy High School and what was then Metropolitan State College of Denver. "After skating and traveling and being on your own, going back into high school was like amateur time."
McCoy took a job at First National Bank and then went on to a career in management before retiring. Last year, McCoy and her husband, Terrance O'Neill, moved to Las Vegas, and are hoping to find a producer for a movie version of "Hell on Wheels."
"It never really hit me at the time. I mean, now that I'm older and I see how everything went, it's kind of neat, but at the time you're so into skating and the fan club and the pace of it," McCoy said. "It was a pretty amazing life."


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Jessamyn Duke's Fight Night 45 Loss Was Due to a Broken Hand, Not Getting KTFO, According to Shayna Baszler
("Uh, Jessamyn, we're gonna need you to stop with the hand gestures while we take this x-ray.")
Fight Night 45 was one of the most violent non-Fight for the Troops cards in UFC History, featuring an astounding nine finishes, 8 TKOs, and a six fight main card that not once required a judge's input. My decision to spend most of the night ranting about Microsoft tech support notwithstanding, I thoroughly enjoyed what the card had to offer, from the prelim fights all the way up to the main event, which saw Donald Cerrone finish the damn-near unfinishable Jim Miller *twice* in their two round banger.
In one of those aforementioned prelim fights, Leslie Smith destroyed Ronda Rousey training partner (as she was introduced by Jon Anik) Jessamyn Duke in the first round, finishing her with a flurry of body shots, kicks, and knees that was Liddell vs. Ortiz-esque in terms of its volume. But it was only matter of time before the excuses started flying, and luckily, Duke's training partner, Shayna Baszler, is here to jump on that grenade.
"For everyone asking, @jessamynduke broke her hand. Didn't know what to do once Leslie turned it on when she couldn't grab and circle off," Baszler posted on Twitter shortly after the fight.
While I would disagree that Duke's inability to circle off was less the cause of her demise than her inability to use her massive reach advantage to her…uh…advantage, the above photo posted to Duke's instagram seems to indicate that her hand was indeed broken to shit. You can check out a few other photos of Duke's hand over at the UG, but really, this comment by UG'er rrefs sums up Duke/Baszler's excuse perfectly…Read More DIGG THIS


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A group of Naperville men probably weren't planning to be jail inmates for Halloween this year.
But the holiday festivities did help lead them into trouble. According to the Chicago Tribune, 25-year-old Andres Lopez and a group of his friends were arguing with another group outside a bar near Jefferson Avenue and Washington Street early Sunday morning when police officers intervened.
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Richard, a friend of mine tells me he connects dots.
I ask him if he connects all of the dots, or only some of them.
People go into business and either succeed or fail.
Profit taking makes the difference between success and failure. I connected more dots than you did.
I also said more about America and its reason for prohibiting MJ.
While I'm picking nits, here's another.
Consider your "...tens of thousands to rot in jail."
They rot only in metaphor.
In reality they and their guards do more, all at taxpayers' expense.
Talk to taxpayers about money and you will win allies to your cause.
You do want to win allies, don't you?
We are born without purpose, and we are free to make our own. My purpose is to make sure my nieces have someone who's there for them. Their love of me gives me meaning.
Similar with my friends and other members of my family. The respect I've earned, the worth I hold to them, gives me meaning.
Why can't Life be the meaning ... to live our lives?
Pandora, on occasional visits to a hospital over many months, I saw a man lying on a gurney with his eyes closed and his mouth sagging open.
Surely you define life as more than that. Give it a try. What does a life require?
Good point, Pandora ... To "live" lives free from religious tyranny allows for their fullest expression and (potentially) garners greatest meaning. So my response is yes, life can be the meaning, and living our lives, truly living them, contributes to them enormously. Tho I speak from my own experience, I'm fairly sure many others experience similar.
Thanx Chuck. I kinda think it's the simplest way to look at it.
Life is the point!
My purpose in life is to get my two kids through college. To read as many good books as possible. To oppose war. To warn people about our catastrophic environmental deterioration. to enjoy as many excellent beers as possible..in moderation of course. I dont need religion for any of this.
Bobh, Excellent. Your raison d'etre and my own overlap greatly. My only addition would be the contributions to happiness of the fairer sex.
Alan, based on what I have read the earliest christians were into drugs big time. And religions predating christianity likewise.
Glen, it goes back a lot further than the early Christians. I've done much research on this subject in preparation for Mirror Reversal. Just as I recently wrote that fundamentalists have a hard time accepting that we evolved from apes, the human genome makes it evident we evolved from viruses. As far as drugs go, our early hominid stages were mushroom eaters—hence enthusiasts of psilocybin.
Since around 1990, I've been a big fan of Terence McKenna, a great man who, like Carl Sagan and Chris Hitchens, was taken from us way too early. My "atheist novel" is dedicated to him and he is even a character in the story. Anyone who is interested in this tread on teleology and evolutionary biology, should consider watching one of Terence's videos for an enlightening experience.
"...we evolved from apes...."
I regularly tell fundamentalists that we humans and today's apes evolved from a common ancestor.
We and today's viruses also have common ancestors, but these ancestors are billions of years older.
Richard, anything to promote escape from our routine. Diana Agorio, an author and contributor to this site, writes about drug use of early christians and prechristian faiths. Some wild shit.
Also about sacrifice and homosexual practices that were considered "out there" by the romans. The hypocrisy of it all is comical.
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- Convert Strategic direction into Operational goals
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- Manage client engagement delivery to identify creative business solutions for large companies. Responsibilities include, among others, managing teams to create strategy, assessment, vision & roadmap, and business case deliverables
- Assist clients in developing a Shared Services organization and improve back-office efficiencies by eliminating duplication and streamlining processes
- Develop and maintain contact with top decision makers at key clients; organize and lead pursuit teams; participate and lead aspects of the proposal development process; contribute to the development of proposal pricing strategies
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- Promote a "high performance culture" of empowerment, accountability, and profitable growth
- Travel as dictated by business needs, often 50% to 80% overnight travel throughout North America and supporting Global Clients
- Enthusiastically contribute towards industry specific offerings/ thought leadership development.
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- At least 5-7 years of External Client Facing Strategy Consulting experience with an emphasis on Business Operations Consulting
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- Experience managing mid-to-large sized teams
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Well now that I have passed my political message across I can focus on the more meaningful aspects of life. Among my most persistent interests in the field of Levantine history is the pursuit of Syrian deities. I find it myopic that the West traces its roots to Greek culture and mythology then stops. The Greeks were outstanding in their own right and they indeed were the catalyst behind the rise of Western civilization. But history predated them and started a little further east, not too far from where I am sitting right now behind my American branded laptop. German Archeologist, Markus Gschwind remarked that "beneath every footstep in Syria is an ancient civilization(2)." Rightly so, as merely a stone throw away from my window Phoenician ships once sailed across the Mediterranean carrying dyes and silk in their holds and the Alphabet and Gods in the language of their sailors. My story today is about one Syrian Goddess by the name of Atargatis(3).
Phoenician sailors brought her to Sicily. From there her followers spread northward reaching Rome, where she was known as Dea Syria, the Syrian Goddess. She was admitted into the Roman pantheon side by side with Jupiter (Syrian Haddad :-) and worshiped as reverently. Her faith continued to grow and spread throughout the Roman Empire and the Gaul (Western Europe) and toward the end of this era she reached the status of the Great Mother Goddess of the Empire.
Atargatis is a Semitic word. She was called Athtart by the Phoenicians and perhaps that explains why she is often confused with Astarte. Strong evidence suggests that they were two different deities as their cults were very distinct from one another initially. Several other goddesses, Syrian, Greek and Roman were later identified with Atargatis, perhaps all better known than her: Ishtar, Venus Urania, Hera, Rhea, Cybele, Aphrodite and Artemis Azzanathcona. Even most Syrians today are more familiar with Atargatis' daughter Semiramis, the famous Assyrian queen who built the hanging gardens.
Early Syrian religions did not provide impetus for the rise of monotheist Judaism, Christianity and Islam only but formed the mythological bedrock of paganism in Europe. The statue of the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen(5) sculpted by Edvard Erichsen in 1913 is said to symbolize a fairy tale. Danish author and poet Hans Christian Andersen wrote about a mermaid who fell in love with a prince living on land and who came to shore everyday to see him. Is it a Viking figment of imagination or simply a Syrian story of old neglected by the sons and daughters of Atargatis?
(3)The Obscure Goddess Online Dictionary
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Advising a Client Who Has Won the Lottery
For estate planning lawyers, representing lottery winners is not like representing your usual clients. It is a challenge that will require you to use your counseling skills as much as your knowledge of relevant tax and property laws. Most lottery winners are fairly unsophisticated when it comes to legal, tax, and financial matters. They will be relying on you to advise them and refer them to other necessary professionals.
Almost nothing is as rewarding as helping a client who has "won it big," especially when such winnings can facilitate other dreams previously unattainable (e.g., sending a child to college, buying a home, or starting a business). At the same time, nothing is quite as frustrating as representing people who are starting "below ground zero" when it comes to their knowledge of the gift tax laws. Lottery winners want to buy new cars (or, in Texas, pickup trucks) for themselves and every family member. Even the cheapest vehicle is likely to have a value that exceeds the annual gift tax exclusion.
I have represented many lottery winners during my career. A few have declared bankruptcy, several have gotten divorced, and one committed suicide, all after winning the lottery. It seems inconceivable, but, as one ex-wife explained, "Before we won the lottery, my husband used to go out drinking all night with his buddies and I would lock him out of the house and he'd have to sleep in his truck in the driveway. After we won the lottery, he just got a big suite at the Four Seasons and partied all night—and never came home." So, although winning the lottery may solve some problems, it may cause new problems your client never had before.
Someone once said, "A lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math." Billions of dollars are "invested" in lotteries each year. Currently, 43 states and the District of Columbia sponsor a lottery. On the positive side, most lottery profits are used for the public welfare, such as educational expenses. On the negative side, many people spend too much of their disposable income on the chance to win it big. In Texas, for example, the likelihood of winning the Lotto jackpot is approximately 26 million to 1.
A psychological aspect of winning the lottery is "sudden wealth syndrome." Sudden wealth can come from a variety of sources: settlement of a lawsuit, an inheritance, sale of a business, a signing bonus (think professional athletes), a lump-sum distribution from a retirement plan, division of assets on divorce, sale of a book or invention. Sudden wealth from winning the lottery is quite different from other types of sudden wealth. For example, with some types of "sudden" wealth, the recipient may already have worked with professional advisors for many years and planned ahead for the receipt of the wealth (as occurs with the sale of a business or public offering of company stock). In a divorce situation, both spouses are usually represented by counsel and have professional financial advisors. Thus, some people who receive a large sum at one time already have in place a trusted team of professional advisors. With other types of sudden wealth, a great deal of time, talent, and effort is required to achieve it (e.g., writing a best-selling novel or inventing a popular device), making it less likely that friends and relatives of the recipient will feel entitled to share in the wealth. Most lottery winners have little or no prior experience with professional advisors and no mind-set regarding the need for on-going guidance. Further, friends, relatives, mere acquaintances, and even strangers will appear from every corner with a sob story designed to induce guilt in the winner sufficient to result in a handout. Because winning the lottery is pure luck, lottery winners are expected to share their good fortune with others. This pressure can severely strain relationships.
Another difference between lottery winners and your usual clients is that most lottery winners are not able to pay a retainer. Further, lottery clients will pressure you to do the necessary legal work as quickly as possible—they want to collect that prize now! Thankfully, I have never had trouble getting paid for my work representing lottery winners. Based on my experience, though, you should have your bill ready to present the moment your client collects the prize.
Claiming the Prize
The first decision your client will need to make is whether to claim the lottery prize as an individual or on behalf of an entity. This decision is often impacted by a decision your client made when he purchased the lottery ticket: whether there is a cash option. A cash option is an alternative to receiving lottery winnings in the form of annual payments over many years; instead, the lottery winner receives cash, in a lump sum, equal to the discounted present value of the future stream of payments. Usually, this will amount to about half the advertised jackpot. Other factors that impact this decision are whether your client purchased the ticket on his or her own or for a group, whether your client is married, and whether your client should do any estate planning before claiming the prize.
People have created general partnerships, limited partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies, revocable trusts, and irrevocable trusts as the winner of a lottery prize. Whatever entity is created, it should be something that is justified under the facts and makes sense for the particular client. Keep in mind how unused to complexity most lottery winners are. Don't over-plan a lottery winner's situation (and contribute to post-winning stress).
If several people were involved in the purchase of the winning ticket (such as an office pool), an entity should be created because the rule of many state lotteries is that there can be only one payee per winning ticket. Thus, in a multiple- beneficiary situation, it is advisable to create an entity because if only one person in the pool claims the prize, when that person distributes shares of the prize to the other members of the group, it could be a taxable gift. In addition, only that individual will receive the W-2G, reporting the lottery winnings as 100 percent taxable to him or her for income tax purposes. Further, the other members of the pool may not be comfortable with just one member claiming the prize as the winner, individually. People have filed lawsuits based on an alleged breach of agreement to share a lottery prize. In these instances a group arrangement should be used for all purposes and should be documented appropriately.
I once represented a group of house framers who purchased lottery tickets jointly every payday. When they won their prize—which amounted to about $120,000 per person—we created a general partnership and appointed their boss (also a pool member) as the managing partner. Upon receipt of the net lottery proceeds (cash option was elected), the managing partner distributed each partner's share of the winnings, along with a warning that, although the Texas Lottery Commission had already withheld federal income taxes (25 percent at the time), depending on a partner's personal income tax bracket, additional income taxes could be due by April 15 of the following year. We also had another tricky issue: It appeared that two of the 16 house framers might not have been in the United States legally. So, those two each substituted a (resident alien) relative to represent them in the partnership.
If the claimant is married, you will also need to consider the marital property laws of the claimant's domicile. In community property states, it will most likely be presumed that a winning lottery ticket purchased by either spouse is community property. Depending on the legal requirements of the particular state, it may be difficult to prove with sufficient evidence that a lottery ticket purchased by a married person is his or her separate property.
Married couples who win a large amount should consider estate planning issues prior to claiming their prize. For example, a married couple might create a joint revocable trust to which they contribute the winning lottery ticket. In their trust, they can create the usual estate planning trusts used by wealthier couples, such as a bypass trust and marital trust for the surviving spouse and lifetime, creditor-protected trusts for their children, effective on the death of the surviving spouse.
When the lottery first began in Texas, ticket purchasers did not have a cash option, and winners were prohibited from assigning any portion of their future lottery installment payments. This was unfortunate for winners of large prizes. At that time, estate planners often helped these winners create an irrevocable life insurance trust (ILIT) to provide liquidity to pay estate taxes in the event the winner died with many future lottery payments still outstanding.
From a financial planning standpoint, there are pros and cons of the cash option. Everyone who purchases a lottery ticket, however, should at least allow for the cash option at the time of purchase because having two choices for receiving the prize is better than having only one. For some people, taking the prize in a lump sum can be disastrous because they are not able to control their spending and they exhaust their winnings too quickly. For people with financial discipline, the cash option may be better because it enables them to use the money as they desire (buy a house, start a business). It also makes it easier to do estate planning.
Financial and Tax Planning
Every lottery winner who doesn't already have a knowledgeable and trustworthy financial advisor will need one. You, as the lottery winner's lawyer, should carefully scrutinize any financial "experts" who appear on the scene because some may not be professional or, worse, may not be legitimate. Early on, I had this happen to one of my lottery clients (who committed suicide). That client's financial advisor absconded with most of the $2.2 million my client was to receive pursuant to an assignment of ten years' worth of lottery payments.
In general, lottery winnings are taxable to the recipient as ordinary income when received. Each state sponsoring a lottery withholds federal income taxes pursuant to federal law requirements (state income taxes may be withheld also). The amount withheld, however, is often not sufficient to discharge the lottery winner's total income tax liability for that year. Thus, you must advise the lottery winner to set aside some of the winnings to pay income taxes due the following year (and to make estimated tax payments, if appropriate). Make sure your lottery client has a good certified public accountant. In addition, it is often hard for those receiving sudden wealth to resist the temptation to spend the entire amount received. A good financial advisor can help your client set up a separate tax account that is "off-limits" from spending or investing.
If the cash option was elected during purchase of the ticket (i.e., prior to the ticket being selected as the winning ticket) and the winner chooses installment payments instead of a lump sum, the constructive receipt doctrine (a federal tax rule that makes the taxpayer subject to income tax on income as soon as the taxpayer has an unrestricted right to obtain it, whether he or she actually receives all of the income at that time or not) does not apply; each lottery payment is subject to income tax only as received. On the other hand, unless the qualified prize option (another federal tax exception to the constructive receipt doctrine) is available, if a winner can elect either the cash option or annuity payments after the ticket is selected as the winning ticket, then the constructive receipt doctrine makes the entire amount taxable as ordinary income in the year the winner becomes entitled to the prize, even if the winner elects annual payments instead of the cash option. If the qualified prize option is available (it must be adopted by the particular state sponsoring the lottery whose prize the winner has won) , a prize winner will have 60 days after winning to decide whether to take a lump sum or an annuity; as long as the decision is made within that time, an election to take the winnings in annual installments will not result in immediate income taxes on the full amount won under the constructive receipt doctrine.
The regular gift tax rules apply to lottery winners. Lottery winners may make tax-free gifts to any number of individuals as long as the total amount given to each beneficiary in a year does not exceed the annual exclusion from the gift tax ($13,000 per recipient in 2010). A married lottery winner whose winnings are separate property may give unlimited amounts to his or her U.S. citizen spouse without incurring any gift tax; however, gifts to a non-citizen spouse are only tax-free up to the annual limit ($134,000 for 2010). A married lottery winner and spouse can also elect to "split gifts" for federal gift tax purposes. As noted, many lottery winners are not aware that there is a federal gift tax (and there may be a state gift tax in their jurisdiction, too). Their desire is to make significant gifts to family members immediately after winning, so helping them understand the gift tax rules is an essential part of your job.
The trickier gift tax issue involves transfers made prior to claiming the lottery prize. Obviously, the best time to make a gift of all or a portion of a lottery ticket is before the winning numbers are drawn because, clearly, the value of such a gift when made is negligible. Most people will not want (or be able) to spend any money to document such a gift prior to holding a winning ticket, however, so the idea of creating a lottery trust to benefit family members in advance of having a winning ticket is mostly theoretical. The gift tax rules are more blurry in the time frame between purchasing a ticket (before the winning numbers are drawn) and presenting the ticket for certification as the prize winner (after the winning numbers are drawn). Usually, the best evidence to negate a gift during that time period is a written sharing agreement. Not every lottery player thinks this far in advance, however.
There have been cases where oral agreements to share a lottery prize have been sufficient to avoid adverse gift tax consequences. A family in one reported case was able to prove that the entire family (two parents and five adult children no longer living with the parents) contributed money jointly toward the purchase of lottery tickets each week by dropping dollar bills into a goldfish bowl. Thus, when a ticket purchased with the pooled funds proved to be a winner, the parents were not deemed to be making a gift to their children of the shares allocated to the children. Because there was no written partnership agreement documenting the sharing arrangement, however, the Internal Revenue Service ruled that state law regarding oral partnerships applied, meaning that all seven family members were deemed to own equal shares of the partnership (and not the unequal shares they wanted to use).
The federal estate tax issues are fairly straightforward. A lottery winner's estate includes as an asset his or her interest in the lottery winnings as of his or her date of death, valued at fair market value. While many people believe that annual lottery payments cease on the death of the lottery winner and the value is zero, that is usually not the case. Instead, the discounted present value of the future lottery payments is included in the lottery winner's estate for federal estate and state inheritance tax purposes. Thus, if the lottery winner who was receiving annual payments was not especially successful at retaining amounts distributed to him prior to his death and died with many future lottery payments outstanding, his estate will often lack sufficient funds to pay the federal estate and state inheritance taxes due. Absent an estate plan leaving everything to charity or a spouse, the estate and inheritance taxes are often so large compared to the lottery winner's actual assets on hand that it can take up to ten years to pay all of the death taxes, plus interest. Thus, again, lottery winners may need to do some serious estate planning, such as creating an ILIT or designing a plan that uses the marital or charitable deduction. There are a number of reported cases involving discounting the value of the future stream of lottery payments for federal estate tax purposes. In general, if there are restrictions on the transfer of those future payments (e.g., state law prohibits assignments), the estate tax value of future lottery payments can be valued at a discount from the standard annuity tables used by the IRS.
Lottery winners are not your usual clients, and representing them can be challenging. If you are willing not only to learn the applicable rules but provide wise counsel and guidance, these cases can be among your most rewarding.
Karen S. Gerstner is principal of a small practice in Houston, Texas, focusing on estate planning and probate law; she may be reached at email@example.com 2010


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Pac-12 Morning Five: 03.14.12 EditionPosted by AMurawa on March 14th, 2012
- UCLA made it official on Tuesday: Ben Howland will be back as the Bruins' head coach in 2012-13. After missing the NCAA Tournament for the second time in three years and suffering through the aftermath of a critical Sports Illustrated article, there was some question. But, athletic director Dan Guerrero decided that he deserved another chance. The father of elite 2012 recruit Shabazz Muhammad issued a statement of his own, expressing his support for the decision and confirming that his son is still very much considering UCLA. Bruins' fans did find out that one of their own would be laving early, however, as Brendan Lane, a little used reserve forward, would be transferring elsewhere next season as a graduate transfer, making him eligible immediately. No possible landing spots have been discussed, but Lane is considering downshifting to a mid-major program.
- Across town, it's been known for some time that USC head coach Kevin O'Neill would be back next season. And, with players back from injury along with newly eligible transfers, the Trojans should be much better. Still, O'Neill understands that better is a matter of degrees, and mere improvement over this year's 6-26 record is not enough. The challenge is clear; much like Howland's UCLA team, O'Neill's squad will likely need to go to the NCAA Tournament in order to save the head man's job.
- The Pac-12 held a press conference on Tuesday to officially announce the move of the conference tournament to the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas. While they become the fourth conference to hold its year-end tournament there, it is the first to actually have the event at a location on the Strip. Going forward, the event will be televised by a combination of ESPN, Fox and the Pac-12 Network, with ESPN and Fox alternating rights to the event every year. ESPN and Fox will each carry one quarterfinal game, one semifinal game and the championship game, with the Pac-12 Network carrying the remaining games.
- NIT play kicked off last night, and three different Pac-12 schools were in action. And, unlike real life, the fantasy world of the NIT is kind to the Pac-12, as all three schools won and advanced. Washington shook off a sluggish first half to knock off Texas-Arlington behind 23 points from Terrence Ross; they'll face Northwestern in an interesting game that nobody will pay attention to on Friday night. Oregon hammered LSU by 20 with Devoe Joseph continuing his excellence (25 points); they'll face Iowa on Sunday. And Stanford used a big second half to pull away from Cleveland State as they had ten different players score in an eventual 11-point win. The Cardinal will face the winner of tomorrow night's Ole Miss/Illinois State matchup.
- Lastly, while Oregon fans enjoyed the win tonight, the idea that head coach Dana Altman may not be long for Eugene continues to gain steam. Altman and his wife still live in Nebraska, where he was born, raised and coached at Creighton until two years ago, and with the Huskers looking for a new head coach in the wake of Doc Sadler's firing, he'll certainly be among the first people called by NU athletic director Tom Osborne. Osborne and Altman developed a relationship when they were both at Creighton, and at the very least, Altman would listen to offers. George Schroeder at the Register-Guard is convinced that Nebraska is still a "dead-end job," but with a brand-new practice facility and a brand-new arena, they have facilities at least on par with what Altman currently has in Eugene. In short, while nothing is set in stone, Duck fans would be wise to accept that there is at least a significant chance that they'll be looking for a new head coach this offseason.


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With Colombia already through to the knockout stage, Mondragon, who celebrated his 43rd birthday last Saturday, replaced first-choice David Ospina for the Group C match in Cuiaba.
His appearance broke a record previously held by Cameroon striker Roger Milla, who played -- and scored -- at the age of 42 years and 39 days in a 6-1 defeat against Russia in 1994 in the United States.
"Faryd has been a very important player for us," Colombia coach Jose Pekerman said after Colombia beat Japan 4-1. "His performance was good and we always knew that our goal was well protected with him.
"When you have a national team, you have to protect your players. He has experience and other players are young, so he can share his experiences with them. We gave him a chance to play today so he can be recorded as the oldest goalie in the World Cup."
Mondragon took time to reflect at the end of the match.
"It's a great moment, at the end of a long journey, to play at the age of 43 at the World Cup, he said. "Thanks to all my colleagues.''
Mondragon jogged onto the pitch to a thunderous ovation from the large pro-Colombian crowd, and left it with the match ball under his arm.
"That's for my own private museum," Mondragon said with a smile.
Mondragon was a non-playing member of Colombia's 1994 World Cup squad -- whose group-stage elimination was followed by tragedy when captain Andres Escobar was shot dead in a Medellin nightclub car park less than two weeks after scoring an own goal against the United States.
Mondragon appeared in all three of Colombia's matches at the 1998 tournament in France, notably excelling with a series of fine saves in a 2-0 defeat against England in Lens.
He has taken part in six qualifying campaigns during a 24-year career that has seen him play for 11 clubs in eight countries.
Mondragon began his career in 1990 with Colombian side Deportivo Cali, where he has also played for the last two years following spells in Paraguay, Argentina, Spain, France, Turkey, Germany and the United States.
A short spell in France's Ligue 1 with Metz was cut short by the legal system in April 2001 when he was found guilty of using a fake Greek passport to secure the move. Mondragon was banned from entering France for two years and fined 30,000 pounds by a Paris court.
However, he remained in Europe for another nine years, playing in Turkey for Galatasaray between 2001 and 2007 and winning two league titles in the process, before moving to Germany with FC Koln.
He then moved to Philadephia Union in Major League Soccer for the 2011 season before returning to Colombia to rejoin his first club, Deportivo Cali.
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She comes to W&L from Randolph-Macon College, where she was the sports information assistant for the 2012-13 school year. In this position, she was the main contact for the field hockey, men's and women's soccer, women's basketball, tennis and women's lacrosse teams. She was also the social media coordinator for the Yellow Jackets.
A 2012 graduate of R-MC with a bachelor of arts in psychology, Roy was a four-year member of the women's basketball team and a three-time All-ODAC and All-Sate honoree. She led the Yellow Jackets to two ODAC Championship titles and to the second round of the NCAA Division III Tournament in 2011. The former guard played in all 110 games freshman-senior years, scoring 194 3-pointers (3rd all-time R-MC) and totaling 1,364 points (7th all-time R-MC).
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ARC Future Fellowships recognise groundbreaking research
25 July 2012
Early- and mid-career researchers at the University of Sydney will help us manage climate change and food security, improve our detection of money laundering schemes, and increase the wellbeing of mothers and newborns thanks to new government funding announced today.
This morning Senator Chris Evans, Minister for Science and Research, announced 209 Australian Research Council Future Fellowships totalling $151 million to provide research opportunities to some of the world's best mid-career researchers.
The University of Sydney received 22 of these, the largest single cohort of any institution.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Jill Trewhella congratulated all successful applicants.
"I would like to congratulate our Future Fellowship recipients," said Professor Trewhella. "It is fabulous to see our mid-career researchers recognised with these Fellowships. These really are important for the University in that they go some way towards securing the future of world-class research here and in Australia broadly.
"Again we have achieved funding across a broad range of disciplines, a testament to the continuing depth and breadth of research quality at the University of Sydney."
Among the 22 Future Fellows from the University of Sydney are:
- Dr Jane Ford, Northern Clinical School, Sydney Medical School
Tracking blood and blood products for a healthy start to life
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- Professor Seokhee Hong, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies
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- Associate Professor Jennifer Milam, Department of Art History and Film Studies
Visual cosmopolitanism, national identity and imperialist ambitions in garden spaces
This project will contribute to current debates about the globalisation of art by tracing the concept back to artistic practices and aesthetic theories of the enlightenment through a focus on experience within the eighteenth-century garden.
- Dr Budiman Minasny, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment
Dynamic soil landscape carbon modelling
Soil is the largest terrestrial store of carbon. This project will enhance our understanding of the causes and controls of spatial and temporal variations of soil carbon which is crucial for managing climate change, food water and energy security and for maintenance of biodiversity.
Other successful 2012 Future Fellows from the University of Sydney are Professor Peter R Anstey, Associate Professor Kirrie J Ballard, Associate Professor Madeleine Beekman, Professor Marcela M Bilek, Dr Gregory P Brown, Associate Professor Min Chen, Dr Ute Eickelkamp, Associate Professor Michele T Ford, Dr Aristides Gionis, Associate Professor Clare L Hawkins, Associate Professor Qing Li, Associate Professor Yonghui Li, Dr Baoping Li, Dr Andrew Merchant, Professor Sebastien Perrier, Associate Professor Daniela Traini, Dr Martin Wechselberger and Dr Bruce D Yabsley.
The Future Fellowships scheme began in 2009, to increase the opportunities for highly qualified mid-career researchers to continue working in Australia.
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BEIRUT (AP) — Regime airstrikes hit a gas station in northern Syria Thursday, setting off a fiery explosion that killed at least 30 people and wounded dozens, opposition activists said. Amateur video showed thick black smoke engulfing the scene.
Earlier Thursday, a Syrian military helicopter crashed near the capital of Damascus, and Syria's Information Ministry said the helicopter went down after its rotor accidentally clipped the tail of a Syrian passenger plane with 200 people on board. The larger aircraft landed safely at Damascus International Airport and no one was hurt, the ministry said.
The airstrikes and the close call in the sky underscored the growing turmoil and violence in Syria. The country is embroiled in a civil war between forces fighting for President Bashar Assad and those trying to topple him. More than 23,000 people have been killed in the 18-month conflict, according to activists.
In recent weeks, Assad's regime has stepped up airstrikes in northern Syria in an attempt to dislodge rebels from areas they control there. Activists said Thursday's air attack hit near the town of Ain Issa, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from Turkey. A day earlier, rebel fighters had seized control of a border crossing north of the town.
Rami Abdul-Rahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that witnesses counted at least 30 bodies and that dozens of people were wounded. Another group, the Local Coordination Committees, which gathers information from a network of activists across Syria, put the death toll at 55.
Amateur video showed thick black smoke rising near the gas station, which was partially intact. Several vehicles, including a bulldozer and pickup trucks, were on fire. The video, whose authenticity could not be confirmed independently, also showed several damaged cars. A man could be heard shouting "your son is dead."
Both groups quoted witnesses as saying the blast was caused by airstrikes on the gas station.
The Syrian conflict appears to have reached a stalemate. The rebels are holding some territory despite the government's military superiority but have been unable to score decisive victories. At the same time, the international community is averse to getting involved militarily and instead hopes economic sanctions will squeeze the Assad regime.
Meanwhile, the fighting continues.
Across Syria, at least 184 people were killed Thursday, the LCC said, reporting 35 dead in Aleppo, Syria's largest city, and 32 in Damascus and its suburbs. The Observatory put the day's total across Syria at 162. August has been the deadliest month so far in the Syria conflict, with activists saying nearly 5,000 were killed.
The crash near Damascus came after the rotor of a military helicopter clipped the tail of a Syrian Arab Airlines jet, the state-run news agency SANA quoted Syria's Information Ministry as saying. This seemed to counter speculation that anti-regime fighters might have downed the helicopter.
Rebels in Syria are fighting mostly with light weapons. Opposition fighters have claimed to have shot down helicopters and warplanes in the past, although the regime blamed most of the problems on mechanical difficulties.
Syrian officials did not report any casualties in the helicopter crash, saying only that it went down in Adra, a Damascus suburb. Adra is near the Douma district, which has witnessed repeated military crackdowns to purge the rebels.
"We heard the sound of several explosions and some gunfire, and a few minutes later, we were told that a helicopter had crashed," Mohammad Saeed, an activist in Douma, said via Skype. He said the helicopter went down near a factory for household items, adding that Syrian MiG warplanes and helicopter gunships had been flying low over the area before the crash.
On the diplomatic front, a coalition including the United States, the European Union and the Arab League met in the Netherlands to search for new ways of isolating the Assad regime. The group called "Friends of the Syrian People" was set up in February after the U.N. Security Council was unable to agree on a resolution condemning Syria's government, due to opposition from Russia and China.
Financial experts joined representatives of the group at their meeting in The Hague to help member countries understand how Syria may be using dual-use technologies and front companies to get around the existing sanctions, which include an embargo on oil and arms trade with Syria by participating nations.
Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal said the sanctions are having an effect, despite non-participation by Russia, China and Iran, citing a sharp fall in Syria's oil exports. Syrian opposition leaders have warned that sanctions alone will not topple Assad.
Shelling and gunfire also echoed across the northern border region with Turkey, a day after rebels seized control of the strategic Tel Abyad border crossing there. The Observatory reported renewed fighting near the crossing. Tel Abyad is about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of where the gas station was struck Thursday.
In Akcakale, a Turkish hamlet that straddles the border, a large explosion was heard. In the distance in Syria, military vehicles were seen rushing toward the blast scene as smoke billowed from the area.
Akcakale authorities closed local schools for a second straight day.
Turkish police vehicles escorted reporters covering the events in Syria away from the border. Turkish security forces were also seen moving local residents and cordoning off the area closest to Syria.
Residents of Akcakale said they fear for their safety.
"We're pretty scared. I'm not letting my children out of the house. I've sent them (the children) to another village, 5-10 kilometers from here," said resident Mehmet Resat Guvenic. "We're afraid because this is the first time we're hearing gunfire, and bombings, and shelling."
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SANTA CRUZ -- If some in Santa Cruz have their way, the Screaming Hand will soon haunt the dreams of Jeremy Scott.
Scott is a famous fashion designer -- "Fashion's Last Rebel," as the New York Times called him -- who is the object of a growing flame war on the Internet. He is being accused by legions of Santa Cruzans, as well as skateboarders from just about everywhere, of stealing the designs of iconic Santa Cruz graphic artists Jim and Jimbo Phillips.
Scott's Feb. 13 fashion show in New York, debuting his fall 2013 line, likely would have escaped the notice of most Santa Cruzans if not for several outfits that bore a strong resemblance to the work of the father and son duo who, between them, are responsible for many of the most famous looks in skateboard design, including the famous "red dot" logo for Santa Cruz Skateboards and the blue "Screaming Hand" logo.
"We want to expose this guy," said Dustin Graham, a Santa Cruz artist who helped launch the flame war by putting together a photographic side-by-side comparison between the work of Jimbo Phillips and the designs Scott brought down his runway in New York. "The skate community has really gotten behind this. I mean, this guy is Mr. Hollywood who thinks he can get away with this. I'm an artist myself so this means a lot."
Jimbo Phillips was reluctant to comment on the controversy. NHS Inc., the Santa Cruz-based skateboard manufacturer that owns the copyright to many of the Phillips designs, has not announced plans for legal action against Scott, who has not publicly commented on the controversy.
"The response has been overwhelming," Phillips said. "Skaters have been very passionate about it."
That's a strong candidate for Understatement of the Week. Graham's graphic has been shared more than 600 times on Facebook -- http://www.facebook.com/dustin.graham.167 -- from Graham's feed and more than 230 times from Jimbo Phillips's feed. Tweets and Facebook posts aimed at Scott run the gamut of epithets and curses -- something that Phillips said he is uncomfortable with and does not endorse. One Facebook poster redesigned the famous screaming hand, turning it around with its middle digit extended at Jeremy Scott.
As of Friday, Scott's apparently vandalized Wikipedia page read: "Jeremy Scott is an American fashion designer born in Kansas City, Missouri, known for plagerising [sic] other artists and designers work."
Various blogs and news sites have picked up on the controversy including Spin magazine and the New York Observer.
Though Scott's name is not a household word outside the fashion industry, many of his clients are enormously famous. His clothes have been worn by Madonna, Beyonce, Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry.
Scott is known for his appropriation of symbols and iconography created by others from "The Simpsons" to Coca-Cola. Many of those images were, of course, legally licensed. In other instances, he has admitted inspiration for other works such as "The Flintstones." He did neither in the case of the Phillipses.
The designs that Scott displayed at his Feb. 13 show did not duplicate the Phillips' designs outright, but altered them just a bit while using the same colors. The Phillips' look has always included a style that could be called "cartoon grotesque," faces of comic ugliness with yellowing teeth, bulging eyeballs and protruding tongues.
"It looks like he had someone re-draw (the original designs)," Jimbo Phillips said.
"We had never heard of Jeremy Scott until it was brought to our attention," said Bob Denike, the CEO and president of NHS/Santa Cruz Skateboards. Denike said Scott did not license the Phillips artwork or work in collaboration with either Phillips or NHS.
"It's obvious to us, the Phillips family, the fans of Jim Phillips Sr. and Jimbo Phillips, and fans of the brand Santa Cruz Skateboards, as well as many in the global skateboard and skate art community that there is clear and obvious infringement by Mr. Scott," Denike said. "We are discussing this with our legal team to determine our next steps.
"I hope that Mr. Scott sees that his actions have hurt and affected many people, including the Phillips family, and that he has also severely damaged his own reputation. It is not too late for him to do the right thing, as an artist and creative person, and fix his error in judgment."
Follow Sentinel reporter Wallace Baine on Twitter at Twitter.com/wallacebaine