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Missouri Laws Affecting Conserved Funds
See Mo. Rev. Stat. § 472.010. (West, Westlaw through the Second Reg. Sess. of the 93rd General Assembly (2006)).
As a representative payee, you should be sending the conserved funds of a deceased beneficiary to the probate court of the circuit court in which the deceased individual had a permanent residence.
If the deceased individual was not a resident of any county in Missouri, then the conserved funds should be sent to the district court in which the deceased left the largest amount of real property. The Missouri State Court system has a website which lists the circuit courts and the counties which they serve.
The Web site can be found at: www.courts.mo.gov/page.jsp?id=321. There is a link to each of the circuit courts' homepages with the contact information for the probate divisions.
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The appropriate place to send conserved funds in Missouri is to the probate division of the circuit court in which the estate is being probated.
472.20. Jurisdiction of probate division of circuit court.
The probate division of the circuit court may hear and determine all matters pertaining to probate business, to granting letters testamentary and of administration, the appointment of guardians and conservators of minors and incapacitated and disabled persons, settling the accounts of personal representatives and conservators, and the sale or leasing of lands by personal representatives and conservators, including jurisdiction of the construction of wills as an incident to the administration of estates, of the determination of heirship, of the administration of testamentary and inter vivos trusts, of disability and incapacity proceedings as provided by law and of such other probate business as may be prescribed by law.
See Mo. Rev. Stat. § 472.020. (West, Westlaw through the Second Reg. Sess. of the 93rd General Assembly (2006)).
To determine which circuit court is probating the estate, the Missouri Revised Statutes provide:
§ 473.010. Venue.
1. The will of any decedent shall be probated and letters testamentary or of administration shall be granted:
(1) In the county in which the domicile of the deceased is situated;
(2) If he had no domicile in this state then in any county wherein he left any property; except that when the major part of a nonresident decedent's estate in this state consists of real estate, the will shall be probated and letters testamentary or of administration shall be granted in the county in which the real estate or the major part thereof is located;
(3) If the decedent had no domicile in this state and left no property therein, in any county in which the granting thereof is required in order to protect or secure any legal right.

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AUSTIN -- NFIB/Texas, the state's leading small business association, today revealed the results of a new study by the association's Research Foundation, which found that a complete phase-out of the franchise tax would lead to 16,000 new private sector jobs in Texas.
The results of the study indicate reducing the tax by one-fourth over four years will allow taxable business entities to retain more of their pre-tax income to finance business expansion, build cash reserves, enhance worker compensation and provide better returns to shareholders.
Originally, the franchise tax was intended to produce approximate $6 billion per year, but the tax has failed to generate that amount; instead, the franchise tax is generating an average of $4.2 billion per year.
"With this amount in mind, we undertook a study to show what we have suspected all along," said NFIB/Texas Executive Director Will Newton. "Eliminating the tax and allowing businesses to retain more of their pre-tax income will result in reinvestment into the economy in the form of new jobs, business expansion, investments in technologies and inventory, enhanced worker compensation and the like."
In a recent survey of NFIB/Texas members, 57 percent of respondents said they have paid the franchise tax even when they did not make a profit. Forty-eight percent said their tax doubled or more since the tax was restructured.
"When a small business is unprofitable and must pay the tax, they use their personal savings, mortgage their home or borrow money from their family to meet their obligation," Newton said.
House Bill 2584, authored by Rep. Linda Harper-Brown, begins to address this issue by lowering the rate of the franchise tax. For tax payers remitting at 1 percent, the rate would be lowered to three-quarters of a percent; for those remitting at .5 percent the rate would be lowered to .25 percent.
"This rate reduction allows small business owners to keep more of the revenue they have generated to address the increasing cost of doing business," Newton added. "We have simply heard too many horror stories from business owners who have been dealt a tax bill far beyond the scope of what is deemed fair."
Small business owner Sherry Mckean of Amarillo is just one of those horror stories. In 2012, Mckean was audited for her 2009 margins tax and was assessed nearly $53,000 as well as interest charges of $6,800. This is in stark contrast to the franchise tax payment she used to remit, which ranged between $500 and $2,000.
"Small business is willing and able to pay taxes, but the scales must be balanced," says Mckean, whose business, Indian Ink, has six employees. "But in order for lawmakers to be part of the solution, they must understand that there is a problem."
Rep. Harper-Brown's bill also includes language that would make the $1 million franchise tax exemption permanent for Texas business owners. Making the small business exemption permanent has been a key NFIB/Texas reform measure since the inception of this tax.
New Braunfels business owner Ralph Marcantonio says the exemption must remain in place to protect businesses like his.
Last year, Marcantonio says he operated at a loss. If the exemption did not exist, he estimates he would have owed the state $4,000 in franchise tax dollars.
"It would have hurt to pay the state of Texas during years when I have not made a profit," Marcantonio said. "Businesses like mine that qualify for this exemption are struggling; in some cases, they are closing their doors. I am grateful that the Legislature put this exemption in place and I ask that they do not take it away."
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If it is thrush who would I see to get this fixed?
If it is thrush who would I see to get this fixed?
You can try some of the home remedies listed on the site I linked - taking probiotics yourself and for your LO, using diluted grapefruit seed extract on your nipples and swabbing the inside of the baby's mouth, and getting a script for the all-purpose nipple cream from your doc (see the link on Dr Newman's site) are all helpful. Make sure you wash all bras, towels, on hot water with vinegar, sterilize all pump parts, bottles, toys that baby has had in her mouth, etc, and wash your hands frequently.
If that fails, you can get a script for diflucan from your doctor. You need to treat your baby at the same time (even if she's not symptomatic) so you don't pass it back and forth. Doctors will often prescribe Nystatin orally for babies, but whether that is effective is often up for debate. I personally found the grapefruit seed extract more effective and easier to use.
Who should I see to diagnose if webhave thrush or not? Would it be my obgyn or her pediatrican ?
I guess that depends on who you think is more breastfeeding friendly and knowledgeable! Would her pedi prescribe meds for you if you needed them? I guess you might need to see both. Or you could try some of the home remedies first to see if they help at all.
So, you are describing my very similar experience, almost colic like symptoms. My guess is that this is from the oversupply. Even my lactation consultant was confused about this...she couldn't understand why my baby wouldn't sleep. I could tell that my daughter was angry that she kept getting milk when she wanted to just suck for comfort!
Oversupply = baby really can't nurse to sleep, and it's very difficult to comfort baby with nursing because you have so much that baby is getting blasted with milk every time. It's hard to envision what's happening inside baby's little mouth, but imagine you want to go to sleep gently sucking and you get sprayed down the throat by a garden hose.
We have the kind of newborn that had to be walked, bounced, etc. all. day. long. it was almost unbearable. And I have a toddler. And I am by myself with them for like 9+ hours a day with absolutely no family within 200 miles.
I would highly recommend a baby swing, we used one and it worked wonders. Definitely try to get in to the Lactation person ASAP. As in the next few days if you can. Again, try for someone who is an IBCLC. If your oversupply is really bad, she will be able to help you figure out a plan of attack to get it under control as soon as possible. Mine didn't go away for months, but it got much better for my baby when we started feeding lying down together. She had poor weight gain until I started doing that because she hated nursing so much, then we did that and she gained twice as much weight.
Now my baby who didn't really seem eager to nurse and howled when she was a newborn peacefully nurses to sleep for every nap and bedtime. She's almost 6 months old now. A miracle of the human body, after your hormones die down your supply will adjust, but it takes time and you will likely need to work with the consultant to figure out how to make that happen now if it can.
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Would using cabbage laves help the situation at all?
Cabbage leaves are good for treating engorgement, but be careful with them. Some moms find them really, really effective, and you don't want to reduce supply too much.
If you have thrush, you will not only have to get appropriate treatment for yourself and your baby, you will also have to sterilize or wash (I forget if it's always needed to sterilize) your pump parts and all bottles and nipples until it clears up.
This is why it is suggested that moms hold off on pumping and bottle if they possibly can. They either cause problems or exacerbate them.
IN your earlier thread, I though you said the formula at night bottles were to prolong sleep. I am sorry I missed that you have sore nipples.I am breastfeeding during the day and I do only 2 bottles of formula at night and I pump for those two bottles that I dont breast feed in order to give my nipples a break from breast feeding so many times a day, there extremely sore!
A baby nursing frequently does not cause sore nipples! We are all designed to be able to nurse our young baby's lots and lots. It is almost always a latch issue if mom is experiencing nipple pain. Thrush is a possibility too, and of course both could be happening.
Your baby's behavior sounds normal. It is not always going to be like this, this intense early period is very temporary. But the bottles and formula may well make things worse, not better.


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Peeping Tom Sears Manager Sued For $2.7 Million
It seems the floors aren't the only thing that's dirty inside Sears. According to Style Weekly, former Sears assistant manager, Robert E. Lee of Virginia, is being sued for $2.7 million for allegedly spying on a young girl and her mother through the ceiling tiles of a dressing room, while hiding inside of a "peeping hutch." The alleged crime occurred in March, 2006 when Lee was discovered spying from the masturbation station, strategically located above the ladies' dressing room. The young girl, whose age is described as "prepubescent," is said to have been traumatized when she suddenly noticed Lee leering from the ceiling while she and her mother were trying on bathing suits. Lee admitted his culpability. The lawsuit states, "During the search of the room, police officials recovered sexually explicit magazines and seminal fluids." Oh Sears. Before we were only ashamed of you, but now that shame has grown into disgust, with loathing not too far off in the distance.
Sears, Robert E. Lee Sued For Dressing Room Peep Show [Style Weekly]
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Police in Orange are investigating a burglary in the 2200 block of Westway St. reported Thursday morning. According to a report from OPD, someone broke in and stole the copper wiring from the victim's home while she was away.
Officer Taylor Saleme responded to the call at approximately 9:09 a.m. Upon arrival at the scene, Officer Saleme reported he met with the female victim. She told him that she left her residence the previous evening at approximately 7 p.m. When she returned home the Thursday at approximately 8 a.m., she realized her walls and ceiling had been damaged. Upon inspection, she realized all copper wiring and plumbing had been removed from the damaged areas.
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(Reuters) - When at least 80 tornadoes rampaged across the United States, from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico, last Friday, it was more than is typically observed during the entire month of March, tracking firm AccuWeather.com reported on Monday.
According to some climate scientists, such earlier-than-normal outbreaks of tornadoes, which typically peak in the spring, will become the norm as the planet warms.
"As spring moves up a week or two, tornado season will start in February instead of waiting for April," said climatologist Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Whether climate change will also affect the frequency or severity of tornadoes, however, remains very much an open question, and one that has received surprisingly little study.
"There are only a handful of papers, even to this day," said atmospheric scientist Robert Trapp of Purdue University, who led a pioneering 2007 study of tornadoes and climate change.
"Some of us think we should be paying more attention to it," said atmospheric physicist Anthony Del Genio of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, part of NASA.
The scientific challenge is this: the two conditions necessary to spawn a twister are expected to be affected in opposite ways. A warmer climate will likely boost the intensity of thunderstorms but could dampen wind shear, the increase of wind speed at higher altitudes, researchers say.
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In a 2011 paper, Del Genio calculated that, "especially in the central and eastern United States, we can expect a few more days per month with conditions favorable to severe thunderstorm occurrence" by the latter part of this century if the global climate grows warmer.
Indeed, the world has been experiencing more violent storms since 1970, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported in its most recent assessment.
Purdue's Trapp and colleagues got a similar result in their 2007 study, which they confirmed in research published in 2009 and 2011. "The number of days when conditions exist to form tornadoes is expected to increase" as the world warms, he said.
In addition, they found, regions near the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coasts not normally associated with tornadoes will experience tornado-making weather more frequently. They projected a doubling in the number of days with such conditions in Atlanta and New York City, for instance.
More powerful thunderstorms would be expected to produce more tornadoes, but wind shear could prove a mitigating factor.
Because climate change is not uniform, Del Genio wrote in the 2011 paper, "in the lower troposphere, the temperature difference between low and high latitudes decreases as the planet warms, creating less wind shear."
Other scientists are not so sure, and they see a surge in tornadoes last year as ominous. April 2011 was the most active tornado month on record, with 753, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), compared to the previous record of 267 in April 1974.
"I have no doubt that there will be many times when wind shear is plenty strong to create a tornado," said Trenberth.
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Post by punkUser » 19 Sep 2016, 17:40
par73 wrote:I meant will that part of the website support that type of information. player name and steam login/or steam id number.
par73 wrote:what type of information will be available when double clicking on a player's name in the lobby?only their dynamic nick?
Post by par73 » 19 Sep 2016, 15:45
punkUser wrote:par73 wrote:Will http://gateofstorms.net/metaserver support both player names and logins?Your account will be your steam account. If you don't have one, they are free and it's as easy or easier to sign up there as it is here (and more secure, which is the point).
par73 wrote:Will http://gateofstorms.net/metaserver support both player names and logins?
punkUser wrote:par73 wrote:Are logins still going to be displayed in the lobby?Somewhere there will be a link to your metaserver profile, ex. http://gateofstorms.net/users/85. Whether the name displayed there is fixed or changes depending on your most recent login is what we're discussing in this thread. That profile page will likely also have a link to your steam profile, although those of course are often private so won't have any useful information.
par73 wrote:Are logins still going to be displayed in the lobby?
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sharkdrivingabus wrote:Some of us are Luddites without steam accounts. What are the options for us?
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Post by par73 » 19 Sep 2016, 12:45
punkUser wrote:This is where the main question comes up - in this new system it's possible to restore the functionality of picking a nick name at login time since that is now decoupled from phpbb, etc. This means ingame you can't "trust" people's nick names again, but you will be able to get some sort of link to their profile here on GoS (and further to their Steam profile) via stats/info. I'm aiming to get a few changes into the new 1.8.1 beta to make this slightly nicer too (i.e. a clickable link in the stats page to go to someone's profile).That said, it does make it slightly more annoying to validate that someone is who they say they are in - for instance - a game lobby. You can always see afterwards on the games page of course for tournaments and the like, but it is a slightly loss in determinism on that front so I wanted to get people's input.
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wwo wrote:I'm not linking my Steam account to anything.
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dac wrote:force login/username in tournament rooms, allow free name changing in other rooms
dac wrote:keep the tourney rooms pure of the dummying, it helps a ton. might be confusing to switch rooms but well worth it.
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Financial expert Lynnette Khalfani-Cox (aka "The Money Coach") offers five money-saving tips that our viewers can incorporate into their daily life which can save them big bucks!
Think of all the purchases you make on a daily or weekly basis -- coffee, groceries, clothes, gas, etc. Whenever we pay in cash and get change back we have a tendency to throw that change into our wallets or purse and spend it later. Let's consciously think about this. Instead of leaving that money in our purses and spending it, put it in a fund for a specific purpose. I say, in 2013, don't spend your change. Put all of your coins into a change jar as an easy and pain-free way to save money. You can end up saving hundreds over the course of a year.
It's also a great visual reminder. A goal-oriented piggy bank or change jar is really great and motivates you to save. Personally, I love to travel, so I have a piggy bank that says "Vacation Fund." It's white with red and pink sunglasses. He has a margarita glass with an umbrella and straw hat. But you can do this with a "New House Fund" or a "Wedding Fund" or "New Car Fund."
Make 2013 the year you kick a bad habit like smoking or drinking excessively and replace it with a good habit. You can think of it as a way to get healthy and save money! Of course, there are a lot of reasons to give up bad vices, but let's focus on the financial. Let's take this example, if you're a smoker and buying a pack of cigarettes a week, you're spending an average of $50 a month and $600 annually! And think about those people who smoke a pack a day! Consider all of that money you're saving by quitting smoking or at least cutting back – not to mention that boost to your health. Maybe smoking isn't your thing, maybe it's drinking. We can apply the same idea. Instead of having that final glass of wine or beer, go to bed early. Or go for a walk outside. Maybe your vice is fancy chocolates. That too can add up quickly. If stopping altogether is daunting, test yourself by just trying it day by day and month to month. Use the financial motivation to help you.
We all want to look younger and every day there are new products coming out that claim they can do that for us. But ladies, get a hold of your compulsive spending and over-shopping on beauty products. For starters, avoid the malls and places that cause you to blow your budget! We all know how expensive makeup is. Some of those high end creams are $20 to $30 an ounce! Even if you stop yourself from spending for one month, you'll save money. But if the idea of giving up makeup scares you… there is no need to go completely cold turkey. Say you love perfumes, creams, toiletries, eye shadows, blush, lipstick… just ask for samples, freebies and complimentary trial size offers! You can go to your local department store and try on makeup. Often times, they will give you samples of the colors. Use those and save, then when you have the money to spend, you can go out and buy the one product that you really want. Until then, get someone to do your makeup at the department store makeup counter. It's free, you get the samples, and there's a great feeling of coming home with something you didn't have to pay for.
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A great way to save money this year is to slash your water use. Mainly stop constantly running water. Here are some examples; they say you should brush your teeth for two minutes. If you're running water for that long, you're literally pouring money down the drain. So while you brush your teeth turn off the faucet. Letting your water run while you're doing the dishes is also very inefficient. It's actually more economical to use your dishwasher instead of washing dishes by hand. The same can be said for when you're doing your laundry - washing your laundry in hot water cost nearly 70 cents per load, but washing in cold water costs less than five cents per load. So just by using cold water you'll save $5 bucks a month or $60 year.
Lastly, stop buying bottled water, especially the ones that cost two to five dollars apiece. It's expensive and bad for the environment. Instead purchase a water filter and reuse the same bottle container.
A few days ago, I was unhappy with how my dishes were looking after the dishwasher. I went out and purchased a product that had ten capsules and cost $3. Now I run my dishwasher every day, so if I stuck with this product, I could end up spending an extra $10 a month on this product alone! That's when I realized, you don't have to spend a small fortune buying brand name cleaning supplies from supermarket and retail stores. Just use your own homemade cleaning products. Lemon, baking soda, white vinegar and alcohol all clean really well. Just mix them with water and try them on dishes, countertops, floors and more. Not only are the cost efficient and great for sustainable living, they are non-toxic. A ½ cup of vinegar, ¼ cup baking soda mixed with ½ gallon of water will give you a good all-purpose cleaner. In fact, there are a lot of great websites that offer tips about using natural non-toxic products to use for household cleaning. If you clean your house regularly, this can be a huge money-saver and you can feel good about living in a healthier home!


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If we indeed get "healthy", we WILL make a run. If Ben had not gotten hurt, I think the offense would be humming by now.
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I wonder how LOUD it was for the "ambient sound guy" as a football slammed into the parabolic dish !
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That video freaked me out because I just rewatched Anchorman this weekend. And there's a scene where Will Farrell is in a similar type of situation. I haven't seen a guy with an erection probably since the last time I saw Anchorman 10 years ago. Now I see 2 in a matter of days. That's just odd.


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But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.—Acts 1:8
You know, the Church started out with a Bible, then it got a hymnbook, and for years that was it—a Bible and a hymnbook. The average church now certainly wouldn't be able to operate on just a hymnbook and the Bible. Now we have to have all kinds of truck. A lot of people couldn't serve God at all without at least a vanload of equipment to keep them happy.
Some of these attractions that we have to win people and keep them coming may be fine or they may be cheap. They may be elevated or they may be degrading. They may be artistic or they may be coarse— it all depends upon who is running the show! But the Holy Spirit is not the center of attraction, and the Lord is not the one who is in charge. We bring in all sorts of antiscriptural and unscriptural claptrap to keep the people happy and keep them coming.
As I see it, the great woe is not the presence of these religious toys and trifles—but the fact that they have become a necessity, and the presence of the Eternal Spirit is not in our midst! The Counselor, 41.
"Lord, we've been taught good methods in Seminary; we've emphasized the need to be technologically up-to-date to reach our generation. As I do indeed commit myself to excellence in reaching people for Christ, help me to remember that the power is not in the methods or the means, but in the Person of the Holy Spirit. Amen."
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Sneak Peek: 2010 DC Design House
Spring has arrived, and this year's DC Design House is a wonderful reflection of Washington's most idyllic season. The historic beaux-arts mansion was beautiful to begin with, but the all-star line up of designers has breathed an air of freshness and class into it that's fitting for a city currently overflowing with myriads of cherry blossoms and budding greens.
This year's design house was lovely for many reasons, but in my opinion, one of was the most notable — and unexpected — elements was the cohesion between the rooms. It would have been easy for such a large home to appear choppy, but the rooms flowed beautifully while still retaining their strong individual personalities. This was probably due to the fact that Farrow&Ball supplied all the paint and wallcoverings (with just a few exceptions).
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It was impossible to capture the grandeur and talent of this totally transformed house in a single post, so look out for more details and "before & afters" in the coming weeks. And in the meantime you can purchase your tickets online and mark your calenders for opening day, April 10th, to see it yourself! The Design House runs through May 9 (Tuesday-Friday: 10am - 3pm and Saturday & Sunday: 12pm - 5pm). All proceeds benefit the Children's National Medical Center.
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"All children and young people have a right to primary education, which should be free" (UN Convention, article 28)
The Tech Girls Club in Darul Hardis is relying on this article to make demands from school authorities, the Parent Teachers Association and the School Management Committee (SMC) for an ICT Lab with computers for pupils to learn.
Our School has a total of 720 students with just 4 computers with only 3 working well. These computers are in the headmaster's Office because the school does not have an ICT lab. The situation makes it difficult for students to practice during ICT lessons. As members of the Tech Girls club, we have been fortunate to be learning ICT every week which has contributed a lot to our ability to learn other subjects and that is why we want to demand from the school authorities to set up a computer lab in the school for all pupils to learn ICTs.
In the coming week, we plan to interview the Headmaster, PTA Chairman and the SMC chairman to find out how they can assist the school to get an ICT lab with computers and we hope to share that with you again.


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6.24.08 Fast BreaksPosted by nvr1983 on June 24th, 2008
- Comcast and the Big 10 network reached a deal that will put the channel on expanded basic in Big 10 states (except Iowa, which doesn't have Comcast) and its Sports Entertainment Package outside of the Big 10 states. Now everyone can be treated to 42-37 games without flying JetBlue.
- Arizona recruit Brandon Jennings (and the #1 player in the 2008 class, according to some experts) is considering playing in Europe next season if he cannot qualify in Tucson. Actually, according to Gary Parrish, Jennings may play Euroball next year even if he does get a passing SAT score.
- A second Kentucky Unforgettable gets his chance as a D1 head coach, as Sean Woods (The Shot before The Shot) was hired to become the top man at Mississippi Valley State. As for the other three Unforgettables, we know John Pelphrey is the head coach at Arkansas, and well, Richie Farmer is the Kentucky Agricultural Commissioner (go ahead, look it up). Whither Deron Feldhaus (except on creepy posters)?
- Davidson's Bob McKillop is reportedly close to inking a new deal to stay at Davidson for several more years (and why would he leave? He has Stephen Curry).
- We all knew that the Class of 2007 was a sick class filled with talented players, but did you know we could see as many as twelve freshmen selected in the first round of the NBA Draft on Thursday night? Incredible. Oh, and the party is over with respect to fantastic freshmen (thanks, Seth).


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University of Utah offers paternity testing for women fearing sperm swap
(Reuters) - The University of Utah on Wednesday said it is providing free paternity testing to women who conceived children at two fertility clinics that employed a lab worker suspected of artificially inseminating a patient with his own sperm.
Questions arose about practices at the now-defunct clinics when a woman artificially inseminated at Reproductive Medical Technologies Inc claimed that genetic testing showed that the late lab technician, Tom Lippert, rather than her husband, was the biological father of a daughter born in 1992, university officials said.
The mother at the center of the supposed sperm swap has not been identified by the university but told local television station KUTV in an interview earlier this month that she discovered the situation through DNA tests that she had conducted on her family.
A probe by the university into operations at the private clinic under contract to the school and its own community lab has unearthed records showing Lippert, who died in 1999, was considered a problem employee by some but a good worker by others, said Chris Nelson, a spokesman for the University of Utah Health Care.
Lippert prepared sperm specimens from 1988 to 1993 at both facilities, which were separate entities but shared the same building, overlapped on staff and administrative oversight and appeared to many patients to be one and the same, Nelson said.
The university has found no evidence so far confirming the claimed sperm switch but has offered to conduct free paternity testing for concerned patients, five of whom have contacted the school and two of whom have asked for genetic analyses.
"There's no easy answer to this one," Nelson said of the controversy swirling around the state's flagship research university, known for its advances in reproductive medicine. "It could be as simple as a labeling error, but the reality is, this guy is dead and he's the only one who could really know."
The school is seeking any available medical records from the private clinic, which was shuttered in 1998, and from the University of Utah Community Laboratory, which closed 10 years ago.
The university also has gathered a panel of medical experts to review the data and hired an independent medical ethicist to oversee any findings or recommendations by the medical team.
"We realize we have to have accountability and transparency, and we sympathize with the anxiety this may be causing the family and other patients," Nelson said.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 5th Jun 2012 17:09 UTC
"We're happy to announce that we have acquired Quickoffice, a leader in office productivity solutions. Today, consumers, businesses and schools use Google Apps to get stuff done from anywhere, with anyone and on any device. Quickoffice has an established track record of enabling seamless interoperability with popular file formats, and we'll be working on bringing their powerful technology to our Apps product suite." Excellent acquisition - Quickoffice has always been a fine product, and this gives Google instant access to a wide array of native mobile office applications. Crazy nobody else ever picked these guys and girls up. Also, if Google makes Quickoffice available for free, we can enjoy yet another "Google is competing unfairly by not charging customers money for products"-whine-a-thon. That alone is worth it.
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RE: Whining justified?
by plague on Wed 6th Jun 2012 10:47 UTC in reply to "Whining justified?"
RE[2]: Whining justified?
by dsmogor on Wed 6th Jun 2012 12:52 in reply to "RE: Whining justified?"
RE[3]: Whining justified?
by plague on Wed 6th Jun 2012 13:12 in reply to "RE[2]: Whining justified?"
True, however while WP is still small, MS Office is widespread with way over 50% penetration, and it's currently only available on Windows, Mac OS X and Windows Phone, thus creating a lock-in.
My original point however, was that since MS already bundles Office with WP, whining about Google in the future bundling QuickOffice with Android is not justified. Hell, most Android devices come with Polaris Office bundled anyways, so what's the problem?


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This Guest Post is by my friend and senior, Sensei Pat Nakata. Nakata Sensei is the head of the Okinawa Shorin-Ryu Karate Association in Hawaii. He was a student of Chosin (Choshin) Chibana in Shorin-Ryu, and also studied Ryukyu Kobudo under Sensei Fumio Nagaishi. When he was a young man, he studied Wado-Ryu Karate under Sensei Walter Nishioka.
Chibana Chosin Sensei often told me that the real fighting practice in Karate is in the Kata. This teaching is not unique to Chibana Sensei. In fact, it is universal for most Karate. In all of the traditional Karate Katas that I have seen, most of the techniques integrated 'seize and control'. This 'seize and control' within the techniques seem to have been lost, because of two main reasons:
- Most Karate teachers (including Chibana Sensei) taught that the a strong punch, kick, strike, and block were of utmost importance. Smashing techniques were in many cases reduced to striking techniques, thus losing the 'seize and control' that made them more brutal and combat effective.
- In tournament competition, grabbing and pulling (especially while executing a punch, strike, or kick) is prohibited, because of safety concerns. When Charles Goodin Sensei was looking at a tournament brochure on the illegal or 'outlawed' techniques, he commented that these were the effective techniques that one would use in a real self-defense situation.
Seizing an opponent is normally establishing control. To be victorious in an encounter, one must be in control, especially if there is multiple opponents. As the great swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi, points out in his 'Book of Five Rings', "one should move directly into the opponent. One does not make adjustments to the opponent, but lets the opponent make the adjustment to you. When the opponent does adjust, destroy him (cut him down)". Establishing control is one of the main fighting strategies in Martial Arts. This control is in the Kata (Classical Kata). Again, as Miyamoto Musashi said quite often in his book, "you must study this well".
Study well this 'seize and control'.
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Music critics who have witnessed the eye-popping spectacle that is a Cage the Elephant live performance have likened the band's singer to many things, among them "a demented Bible Belt preacher," "a Tasmanian devil whooping and jumping up and down like a frenzied gibbon." And that's just frontman Matt Shultz. The verdict? "Exhilarating, 100 mph stuff," raved British indie music bible NME about one of the group's UK gigs last fall.
Cage the Elephant's raucous live show — which made this red-hot Kentucky-bred band the talk of this year's South-by-Southwest music festival, and led USA Today to single them out as a band not to miss at 2009's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival — is the perfect showcase for their buzzed-about self-titled debut album for Jive Records. Recorded over 10 days with Grammy Award-winning producer Jay Joyce, and a Top 40 hit when it was released on British indie label Relentless in the U.K. last June, the album is a genre-defying blend of rock n roll and raw youthful punk energy all propelled by Matt's taunting, Dylan-esque rhythmic vocal delivery, Brad Shultz and Lincoln Parish's furious twin guitar assault, and bassist Daniel Tichenor and drummer Jared Champion's rock-steady funk grooves.
"The music comes from a pure place," Matt says. We really like the energy of music that feels passionate, raw, unplanned emotion. That's what we were really trying to capture in the studio."
And although the grooves are designed to make you move, there's more going on in these punk funk tunes than the reckless abandonment that first meet the ear. Lyricist Matt tells stories about his life. The first single off of the album is "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked," in which Matt describes being mugged by a drug dealer and picking up a young female hitch-hiker he soon finds out is a prostitute. "That song is about realizing that everyone's got a back-story and that essentially we're all the same," he says. "It doesn't matter if you're a priest, a coke dealer, or a prostitute; we all struggle with the same things, so how can we sit in judgment of others when each of us has something in our closet that we'd never tell anyone."
Or like his experience dealing with shady s***-talkers on the instantly addictive track "In One Ear" (sample lyric: "They say I'm just a stupid kid / another crazy radical / rock n' roll is dead / I probably should have stayed in school / Another generation X / who somehow slipped up through the cracks / Oh they'd love to see me fall / But I'm already on my back"), then tackles corruption and hypocrisy on "James Brown" and religion and war on "Lotus."
Throughout the album's 11-song cycle, Matt's frustration with society is readily apparent. "But mostly you can hear the frustration I have in myself," he says. "Like why did I buy into certain things the world has sold me? That's where I was coming from when I wrote the songs — just looking at the world and realizing it's full of hypocrites and I'm one too."
Given Matt's background, it's not surprising that such searching subject matter would find its way into Cage the Elephant's songs. The band members hail from Bowling Green, Kentucky — a town where working in the nearby Chevrolet assembly plant or Fruit of the Loom headquarters were the main employment games in town. "It was the kind of place where if you didn't play football, or you were a little bit different, people thought you were gay," Matt says. "I didn't want to be part of that jock world. I liked music so I quit the football team when I was a junior and started a band. Forming Cage the Elephant was a rebellious thing — a way for us to carve out our own path instead of following the path created by the community that surrounded us."
The Shultz brothers grew up poor, sharing a tiny room in the family's two-bedroom apartment with two other siblings. "Our dad drove a supply truck and he was gone a lot," Matt recalls. "There wasn't a lot of money or anything to do so we would make up goofy songs to pass the time." At age 12, Brad bought a beat-up guitar from a neighborhood kid for $20 that he played until it literally fell apart. Not long after their parents were divorced, Brad snuck home a cassette of Jimi Hendrix's Live at Woodstock, which the brothers listened to obsessively for three years, cementing their love for rock and roll. A few years later, Matt bought Bob Dylan's The Times They Are a-Changin'. "That was a huge, life-changing album for me." he says. "Just the honesty in Dylan's music and how he looked at society, it really opened my eyes to how blind we really are." After the brothers' parents divorced, the music floodgates opened and they began to devour everything they could find from the Beatles, The Ramones, Led Zeppelin, Chuck Berry, the Rolling Stones, Nirvana, and the Pixies, to name but a few.
"A lot of bands put themselves in a box and say, 'We're not going to be influenced by anything,' Matt says. "We don't mind being influenced though. I don't think you should force influence but to fight against it would be like fighting against nature. You have a responsibility to innovate but a lot of the time people allow pretentiousness to taint their innovation and what you end up with is very contrived soulless music. Everything we love about music we wanted to put in our own music. When it comes down to it, we just want to make music that we love."