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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Mac Miller Was 'Skeptical' About Doing 'Most Dope' TV Show
'To see my life as an MTV Show is kind of weird, but it's gonna be tight,' Mac says of his reality TV debut Tuesday on MTV2.
By Nadeska Alexis, with reporting by Steven Roberts
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Why Have a Corporation or LLC if You Don't Use It? - Franchise ...
Why would you spend the time and money to set up a legal entity--a corporation or LLC (Limited Liability Company)--if you did not plan to use it?? It seems that almost weekly we learn that people have a legal entity they paid for--but they never took the steps necessary to properly transfer their business or its assets into the entity.?
It is easy to set up a Washington corporation or LLC.? You can just go online and do it for "free" using the Secretary of State's online form and paying the State's fee.? Leaving for another day, the quality of legal advice the state gives, in many cases "free" just means you have to spend a lot more money later to fix problems.?
This is particularly true when you have been operating a business for a period as a sole proprietor or partnership before deciding to set up an entity.? It can also become an issue when you are taking personal assets and contributing them to the entity in exchange for your ownership rights.
If you do not transfer the assets the new company is going to use to the entity, you have just gained a short stack of paper that will gather dust in the corner of your office or shop.? You may float along for weeks or years before discovering that you have a potentially expensive and troubling problem.?
If the business gets sued, the opposing party will soon discover that you co-mingled the entity with your personal affairs--by using your personal assets in and for the benefit of the business and meanwhile taking advantage of business tax and other benefits through the entity.?
Suddenly that protection from personal liability for business liabilities you thought you had is not available.?
Another place we see problems from not properly transferring assets is when "partners" get into a dispute.? Suddenly you discover that the computer on which you kept all of the business records is not an asset of the entity--and never was.?
Meanwhile, she takes the position that you did transfer your existing book of business and customer list to the business.? In effect you set up an entity (corporation or LLC) that sat on the shelf with no assets and conducted business using assets it may not have owned.? It can take an expensive and business-killing lawsuit to even try to unravel the mess.?
The solution: make it clear in advance, in writing.? A good rule is that if it is not in writing it did not happen.?
An experienced small business attorney can guide you as to documents and actions needed to make it clear what assets are transferred to the business entity and which remain personal.?
Arkansas Abortion Bill Vetoed By Governor Mike Beebe
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. ? Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe on Tuesday vetoed a ban on most abortions in Arkansas at 20 weeks into a pregnancy, setting up an override fight with a Republican-controlled Legislature that has been pushing for more restrictions on the procedure.
Beebe said he vetoed the ban, which is based on the disputed belief that a fetus can feel pain at 20 weeks, because it runs afoul of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion until the point where fetuses can survive outside the womb, usually at 22 to 24 weeks. The Republican sponsor of the measure said he'll seek to override Beebe's veto.
"Because it would impose a ban on a woman's right to choose an elective, nontherapeutic abortion before viability, House Bill 1037, if it became law, would squarely contradict Supreme Court precedent," Beebe said in his veto letter. "When I was sworn in as governor I took an oath to preserve, protect and defend both the Arkansas Constitution and the Constitution of the United States. I take that oath seriously."
Beebe also cited the cost of a potential lawsuit if the state enacted the ban. The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas has said it would likely sue if it went into effect.
Beebe's veto comes as Arkansas lawmakers are weighing stricter legislation that would prohibit abortions at 12 weeks into a pregnancy. Beebe has said he has concerns about that legislation's constitutionality as well. That measure is expected to go before a Senate panel Wednesday.
Rep. Andy Mayberry, who sponsored the 20-week ban, said he was disappointed with Beebe's decision and would ask the House and Senate to override the governor's veto. It takes a simple majority in both chambers to override a governor's veto. Republicans hold 51 of the 100 House seats and 21 of the 35 Senate seats.
Beebe announced the decision shortly after Mayberry, R-Hensley, met with the governor and tried to alleviate his concerns about the bill.
"Apparently he and I have differing opinions on that bill," Mayberry said. "We'll enter into the next phase of the legislative process."
Seven states have enacted similar 20-week restrictions, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which tracks laws affecting women's health. A similar law in Arizona has been blocked while a federal appeals court reviews a lawsuit challenging it.
In his letter, Beebe cited concerns about the cost of a similar challenge. He wrote that Arkansas had to pay nearly $148,000 in attorneys' fees to the plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging a 1997 late-term abortion ban that a federal appeals court overturned.
"Litigation fees and costs have increased extensively since then," Beebe wrote. "The taxpayers' exposure, should HB1037 become law, will be significantly greater."
Mayberry's bill included exemptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. Opponents have criticized it for not including exemptions for fatal fetal conditions.
Mayberry said he was confident he would have the votes to override Beebe's veto. The House approved Mayberry's bill on an 80-10 vote last week. It had been previously approved by the Senate on a 25-7 vote.
Abortion rights advocates who had gathered at the Capitol cheered when Beebe's decision was announced.
"I am very grateful that the governor understood that it's not reasonable for the government to interfere with these very private and complex medical decisions that a woman needs to make with her doctor and with her faith and with her family," said Jill June, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Heartland. "The decision to end a pregnancy is one of the most complicated decisions a woman will make in her life."
The bill marks the 11th time Beebe has vetoed legislation since taking office in 2007.
Beebe, who is serving his second term, has backed some abortion restrictions, including a bill signed earlier this month that bans insurers participating in the exchange created under the federal health care law from covering most abortions. Two years ago, he signed into law a proposal placing new regulations on the clinics that offer the abortion pill and in 2009 he signed legislation that mirrors a federal law banning late-term abortions.
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Plains states hit with second winter storm in a week
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A potent winter storm bore down on the southern U.S. Plains on Monday, dumping more than a foot of snow and creating blizzard conditions in Oklahoma, Texas and parts of Kansas still digging out from a winter storm last week.
Highways in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles and parts of Kansas were closed by the heavy and drifting snow that cut visibility and forced flight cancellations at airports across the region.
A man was killed Monday when his car slid off Interstate 70 in Sherman County, Kansas, near the western border, Governor Sam Brownback said. And in northern Oklahoma, one person died when the roof of a home partially collapsed in the city of Woodward, said Matt Lehenbauer, the city's emergency management director.
"We have roofs collapsing all over town," said Woodward Mayor Roscoe Hill Jr. "We really have a mess on our hands."
The storm was slowly moving out of Texas on Monday, while residents of Kansas City in turn were preparing for a foot or more of snow into Tuesday.
Tornado watches were in place Monday evening in parts of Mississippi and heavy rain was expected through the night in parts of Alabama and Georgia, according to the National Weather Service. The weather service Monday also issued flood watches for parts of the Carolinas and an ice storm warning for portions of West Virginia.
Some 17 inches of snow fell near Amarillo, Texas, according to the National Weather Service. Other areas in the Texas Panhandle reported more than a foot of snow and Texas Governor Rick Perry activated Texas military forces to be ready to respond to calls for assistance.
Amarillo could break the all-time record for the amount of snow in one day of just over 18 inches set in 1934, said Kristin Scotten of the National Weather Service.
Airports in Amarillo and in Lubbock, Texas, were closed and Interstate 27 between the cities was shut because of blowing snow, state officials said. Wind gusts of 75 miles per hour (121 km per hour) were clocked at the Amarillo airport.
Visibility was near zero on some roads around Amarillo, said Paul Braun, a Texas Department of Transportation spokesman.
"I am hearing that we have a lot of vehicles that are stalled in the main lanes of our roadways and they can't be seen because of the blowing snow," Braun said.
Texas State Trooper Gabriel Medrano said the snow was too deep to measure in Lubbock.
"We are having a lot of problems getting our troopers to these crash scenes," Medrano said. "Our troopers are getting stuck out there."
STORES SELL OUT OF BREAD, SHOVELS
In Oklahoma, a state of emergency was declared for 56 of 77 counties, with northwest Oklahoma hit hardest in the storm. All highways in the Oklahoma panhandle were closed because of blizzard conditions.
Parts of northwestern Oklahoma could get 16 inches to 24 inches of snow, with high winds creating drifts up to 6 feet high, the National Weather Service said.
"It's the biggest in the last several years, really," said James Hand, emergency management director in the small town of Mooreland. "Last year, we didn't have anything to shovel."
Kansas, hit by a foot or more of snow in spots last week, braced for possible worse conditions on Monday and Tuesday.
Numerous highways were closed in southwest Kansas by late morning and Kansas National Guard troops were standing by to help motorists, officials said.
"It's getting old real fast," said Kansas Highway Patrol trooper Michael Racy, who said highways were littered with cars and semi-trucks that slid into ditches.
Last week, about 200 miles of Interstate 70 in Kansas were closed because of the massive winter storm that dumped well over a foot of snow in parts of the state.
In the Kansas City area, which was hit hard in last week's storm, bread aisles at area grocers were nearly bare and stores sold out of snow shovels.
A Home Depot in Overland Park, Kansas, a Kansas City suburb, received 300 snow shovels Sunday night and nearly all were sold within an hour after the store opened Monday, a manager said.
Parts of western Missouri were expecting a foot or more of snow into Tuesday morning. The storm was forecast to drop nearly 10 inches of snow on eastern Missouri and slightly less on western Illinois after that.
Major thunderstorms followed by heavy snow was forecast for northwest Arkansas, said the National Weather Service, which issued a tornado watch for a small stretch of southern Arkansas, most of Louisiana and parts of western Mississippi.
(Additional reporting by Carey Gillam in Kansas City, Steve Olafson in Oklahoma City, Jim Forsyth in San Antonio and Suzi Parker in Little Rock; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe, Greg McCune, Bob Burgdorfer, Corrie MacLaggan, Andre Grenon and Lisa Shumaker)
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Spider-Man's web would be strong enough to stop train
In "Spider-Man 2," the superhero uses his webbing to stop a runaway train from plunging off its track. The feat seems improbable, but the toughest of spider silks really are up to the task, according to a group of British college students.
James Forster, Mark Bryan and Alex Stone, fourth-year physics students at the University of Leicester, took it upon themselves to model the forces upon the webbing in such a situation and compared it to measured values on the stiffness and strength of real spider?s webbing.
Given a fully loaded train carrying nearly 1,000 passengers barreling down the track at top speed, they found that a spider web would have to stand up to 300,000 Newtons of force. This figure then allowed them to calculate the toughness of the web at 500 megajoules per cubic meter.
The students said this toughness is in line with the web from a Darwin?s Bark Spider ? an orb weaver with the strongest known webbing of any spider.
?Having determined these parameters, it can be stated that Spider-Man?s webbing is a proportional equivalent of that of a real spider,? the trio conclude in a paper published in the University of Leicester?s Journal of Physics Special Topics.
The journal is published once a year by the university and is filled with short papers written by students in the final year of their physics degree program. It is an exercise meant to teach them about publishing and the peer-review process.
"Spider-Man has always been claimed to have the scaled up abilities of a spider and spiderweb has oft been quoted to be stronger than steel," Stone told NBC News via email. "We wanted to see whether or not Spider-Man's web, when pushed to its limits, was a reasonable facsimile of a real spider's web."
"In so doing, we also show what real spider's webs would be capable of if used on a larger, human scale," he added, noting that humans have recently gained the ability to produce spider-silk-like material at scale.
The three are far from the first physicists to get tangled up in the science of superheroes. James Kalkalios, a professor at the University of Minnesota, for example, recently created a new algorithm for cell regeneration that appeared in "The Amazing Spider-Man." He served as a science consultant for the film, released last year.
?Hollywood creators appreciate our contributions, for they realize that when the audience is questioning the physics of what they are watching or the authenticity of the laboratory set, that's a moment when they are not paying attention to the story,? he explained in an article for NBC News.
?The goal is not to ensure that everything on the screen is 100 percent scientifically accurate ? which would, after all, defeat the purpose of the escapist fantasy we have paid our money to watch ? but rather to get it just right enough to maintain the audience?s suspension of disbelief.?
John Roach is a contributing writer for NBC News. To learn more about him, check out his website. For more of our Future of Technology series, watch the featured video below.
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