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Day 6 of the 10 Days of Tea
Maybe Grandma really did know best. Some of her old adages and home remedies seemed silly to me as a kid. Like "early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy, and wise." But today, studies indicate that sleep deprivation can be dangerous to physical and mental health.
So, when I recently read that tea is a wonderful cleaning agent for furniture, I flashed back to a conversation I had with my grandmother years ago. She was born in the 19th century and had all kinds of advice on cooking and cleaning—whether recipients wanted it or not. She was also a wonderful storyteller who entertained me with tales of the "olden days." It had never dawned on me that there was a time before Windex until she told me about her daily chores which included cleaning and shining the household mirrors.
I listened intently as she said, "I brewed a big batch of tea…"
Wait, what? Tea?
I had heard correctly. Cooled tea was used by many people to clean and shine mirrors in the days before mass marketing of chemical cleaning agents. It was used to clean wood furniture and flooring, too. With so many people looking for green and chemical-free products, it seems we have come full circle. The tanic acid in the tea breaks down dirt.
To clean and polish mirrors, windows, and even TV screens, brew tea, using 2 tea bags to 4 cups of water. Let it cool. Dampen a soft rag with it and scrub dirt off of mirrors. Alternatively, you can fill a clean spray bottle with tea and spray it right onto the glass surface. Either way you apply the liquid, use a soft dry cloth to wipe it off and shine the mirror.
Clean wood floors and furniture the same way, but feel free to rub a little harder than you would rub glass if necessary. You'll remove dirt and deodorize your floors in a healthy way that's easy on the pocket book.
All things healthy and budget-friendly always sound good to me. If you'd like some other ideas for using your kitchen supplies to your greatest advantage check out the Easy Weekly Meals cookbooks. They're smart, they pay for themselves quickly, and they lead to delicious, healthy food.
Drop by tomorrow for Day 7 of 10 Days of Tea for National Hot Tea Month.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Roseburg man rode his runaway dock several miles down the Umpqua River in high, fast water and refused to be rescued because that would mean giving up the three boats tied to it.
KQEN reports (http://bit.ly/R1WuUL) the man wanted rescuers to push the boats to shore. The rescue team said that wasn't safe in the swollen river.
After a 90-minute ride Sunday afternoon, the man agreed to get into a rescue boat.
When they got to shore, police arrested 59-year-old Larry Strain on charges of disorderly conduct and reckless endangering, for putting rescuers at risk.
Police said the ride started when Strain went out to make sure the boats were tied up, and the dock gave way.
The boats were swept on downstream, and their fate wasn't immediately known.
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This page lists direct English translations of common Latin phrases, such as veni, vidi, vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as Greek rhetoric and literature were highly regarded in ancient Rome when Latin rhetoric and literature were still maturing.
The Latin letter i can be used as either a vowel or a consonant. When used as a consonant, it is often replaced by the letter j, which was originally simply an orthographic "long i" that was used in initial positions and when it occurred between two other vowels. This convention from Medieval Latin is most commonly preserved in Latin legal terminology—hence phrases like de iure are often spelled de jure.
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Have you ever been to a local running race or marathon and thought, "I can design a better shirt than this!" Here's your chance. Enter our first-ever LA Marathon t-shirt design competition at 99designs.com for the chance to have your shirt printed and sold at the event. In addition, we're offering $295 cash to the winner of the contest. The competition is open now and we'll accept designs until January 31st. At that point we'll narrow the field to the best six designs and put it out to an online vote to determine the winner.
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An introduction to the primary philosophical movements from the 17th to the 20th century. This course introduces students to the rationalist and the empiricist traditions, as well as addresses philosophical issues in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics and political theory. Thinkers covered typically include Hobbes, Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.
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A two-car wreck on the northbound 5 Freeway tied up traffic for nearly an hour Saturday afternoon.
The California Highway Patrol issued a SigAlert at El Toro Road shortly before 4 p.m. and cleared it at 4:44 p.m. Investigators were still working the scene after the road reopened.
The carpool lane along with the offramp and lanes 3, 4, 5 and 6 were closed for more than 30 minutes following a noninjury crash between two black SUVs.
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Last month, librarians of Milwaukee Public Library's East Library put a time capsule in the wall of the new building so that a future generation can find artifacts about what was used in libraries when the library was built. Since then, construction workers of Stevens Construction have put up the dry wall, adding definition to the new library's interior.
The Walker administration released a couple sets of numbers on Wednesday – about residents and health insurance.
People living in Milwaukee's 53206 zip code face tough problems, but on Saturdays, things are different.
Everyone fakes it from time to time. At Ex Fabula's January 2012 StorySlam at the Bay View Brew Haus, attendees heard lots of examples, including the following two stories.
There are lots of farmer's markets to visit during summer, but the one debuting in a parking lot on 4th and Wisconsin offers different twists.
There are certain streets that reflect the changing characters of the neighborhoods which they traverse. Sherman Boulevard. Brady Street. And on Milwaukee's South Side, historic Mitchell Street.
In their own ways, Milwaukee mothers Afriqah Imani and Barbara Robinson have both lost sons – Imani's were killed by gunfire, and Robinson's are serving hundred-year sentences in Wisconsin prisons.
The state's highest court says it was appropriate for a Madison judge to approve a UW Board of Regents request for a restraining order.
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I write about entrepreneurial innovation in medicine.
Businesses exist to solve problems, right? Certainly, this is the heart of the classic entrepreneurial model: you become obsessed with a particular problem, and create a business to solve it. Example: eBay was created by Pierre Omidyar to solve a perceived problem with inefficient markets, and since its inception has generally focused on doing exactly this.
Most enterprises are not blessed by such a coherent focus, at least not for long. More often, organizations – including university research labs as well as for-profit businesses – have a point at which they realize that their challenge has changed, and the problem they thought there were going to solve has shifted or even completely disappeared. The team – often an impressive group of people representing a wide range of capabilities — is then left to figure out what to do.
While disbanding is always an option, it rarely seems to happen, at least volitionally. Businesses, projects, academic enterprises – all are obsessed with their own survival, which rapidly becomes the defining mission. As a result, the organization urgently tries to figure out a way to pivot, a way to apply established resources in a different, useful way as it searches for a purpose to justify its existence. Very often, the question becomes: what should we do – what problem should we solve?
This desperate struggle for survival isn't necessarily a bad thing – in fact, the very urgency of this existential dilemma is arguably responsible for some of history's most important advances, whether the crisis is faced by a small tech company that's constantly shape-shifting as it tries to stay solvent or by a seventh-year PhD student whose first several projects crashed and burned and is desperate to find some way to graduate.
The constant need for businesses to adapt and survive rather than move towards a single fixed vision may help explain the David Brooks observation that continues to trouble me: most successful CEOs are not about self-actualization but good execution – they are diligent managers seeking to survive rather than inspirational leaders striving to fulfill a deep vision (it's also why we're so entranced with the rare visionary leaders like Branson, Jobs, and I'd add Howard Schultz), who offer so much more than simply responsible stewardship.
While biopharmaceutical companies may be thought of as mission oriented, they are almost certainly the poster children for adaptation.
Biotech start-ups are known to rapidly lurch in different directions in response to changing data – genomics platform companies become oncology products companies, for example.
Perhaps less well appreciated is that big pharmas (many of which began as chemical companies) are beset by the same dilemma: at a fundamental level, they often do not have a clear sense of what it is they should work on, or how they should do it – therapeutic areas, disease areas, organ systems, severity of illness, location of patients – what to do?
The need for focus was perhaps best captured by a consulting project I once worked on: the goal was to construct, for a large pharma client, a rank list of all human ailments, from 1 to the end, based on some weighted integration of a large number of factors (number afflicted, burden of disease, generic presence, etc.). Presumably, this master list would help the client prioritize opportunities; I'm not sure whether it was actually useful.
In most businesses, of course, you identify a customer need (via market research, intuition, or some combination), then go out and design a product to address this; at some fairly coarse level, this is how biopharmas work: you create a "target product profile" (TPP) that supposedly represents where you think where a new product could be useful, and then you seek to deliver against this TPP. Problem is – funny story – biology is pretty damn complicated, and you can't generally order up therapies along pre-determined lines. (Even if you succeed, forecasting turns out to be pretty damn fragile.)
Well written article. But someone who worked in different stakeholder positions in the pharmaceutical industry for almost 20 years (myself). this was painfully clear. Pharma for some decades has now finally have to face the reality that it can't simply develop a drug and expect it will be adopted. It simply can't use a big salesforce to hit the blockbuster stage. The system can't handle it anymore! Too expensive, limited value.
It always amazed me that pharma didn't learn from other successful companies. It has in the past looked to the semi-conductor industry model. Ha!!! Now we recently heard of looking at the automobile industry!! What next??? The airline industry!
Pharma has the problems that most health care technologies have in health care, they believe it is a technology push industry. They believe that technologies will provide better value, forgetting that in fact health care is a service industry and if it isn't coordinated, integrated, and multiple other "-ed" ending words it is going to take a lot more money and a lot more time to get fixed!
Step one, as you rightly point it is recognize you have other stakeholders and they must be integrated into the risk/benefit model! Thanks.
Crowdsourcing problems is an interesting thought, but I am concerned about the law of unintended consequences.
First, it could lead to a misallocation of R&D resources. Biomedical innovation is not a predictable linear process. It comes in waves, separated by periods of 'drought'. 10-year dry spells are not uncommon. Take schizophrenia: there were 18 drugs approved between 1956 and 1974; then nothing until clozaril was approved in 1989. Similar gaps can be found for almost any disease (e.g., depression, epilepsy, Parkinson's, insomnia, etc.). An exception is pain where the longest gap observed in the last 60 years was 8 years (1957-1965). The reason for these gaps seems to be that science has simply not progressed enough to deliver the next batch of innovation. Crowdsourcing, like market research, might steer funding towards areas that are simply not ready to deliver new therapies. And it is unclear whether drug R&D spending can shorten these gaps. Take Alzheimer's: both crowdsourcing and market research would likely identify it as a high-need area worthy of attention. This is exactly what has happened for the last couple of decades when over 200 experimental treatments have been tested in the clinic, at a cost of about $18 billion. Yet we still don't know what causes Alzheimer's. The result is that each drug candidate is really a roll of the dice, with very very tenuous odds of success. Indeed, half of the drug candidates have been abandoned, and half of those that remain target the same mechanisms as some drugs that have already been abandoned. It would seem that investing in basic research to first understand the etiology of the disease before generating drug candidates would be less wasteful.
The second problem with crowdsourcing (and market research) is that it would flag diseases with high prevalence or incidence, which would essentially rule out drug R&D for rare and neglected diseases. Yet, those 7000 diseases collectively touch 30 million Americans. In addition, many of them represent phenotypes of malfunctioning genes, which can provide valuable clues about the etiology of more common multifactorial diseases.
Rather than ordain research, which many CEOs have tried to do with disastrous results, it would be preferable to seek and fund breakthrough science wherever it can be found. This is no different from the model the industry successfully followed for most of the past century, i.e., take cutting edge discoveries from academia whatever they were (e.g., insulin, antibiotics, rDNA, monoclonals, etc) and turn them into commercial products. It is only in the last 15 years that the industry has departed from this success formula. Paradoxically, making scientists 'responsive' to the needs of the market has helped bring about an unprecedented innovation crisis, by directing talented scientists towards poorly understood areas of science that were not ready to yield new therapies. At the same time, breakthrough discoveries (e.g., synthetic bio, nanotechnology, tissue engineering, stem cells) were left on the shelf waiting to be translated into something useful…


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CEMETERY RESEARCH - Tips for Genealogists
From the Center for Thanatology
Be prepared by doing as much research on your family as possible before going to the cemetery.
Be prepared by knowing as much as possible about the era in which they lived as possible. Were there: Wars, epidemics, prejudices against ethnic groups, religion, the family? What country did the family come from - what was their native language? Are all these family behaviors the same as yours? If the markers may be carved in a foreign language, bring along a dictionary.
Be prepared for different attitude's toward women.
Be prepared for heartbreak, about women dying young, about the consistent death of young children.
Be prepared for mysteries: things you can't figure out, and have to find out with more research at home.
Be prepared for your ancestor's grave not being in the right place. Why? Mistakes on your map, information you were given, in the cemetery records, the stone was destroyed.
Be prepared for some laughter - see contrasts with current spelling and behaviors.
Be prepared for facts you learned at home to be incorrect. But be prepared to recheck every fact you learned in the cemetery.
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TRAVERSE CITY — The city needs volunteers to help fill open seats on four advisory boards, along with one seat on the Grand Traverse County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority.
City residents can apply for any of the vacancies, including the Board of Zoning Appeals, Historic District Commission, Parks and Recreation Commission, and the Brown Bridge Advisory Committee. Anyone interested should contact the city clerk's office at 922-4480 for an application.


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Mid- to late December ... 'tis the season of college finals, the end of fall semesters and (some) students skipping town for a while.
In Lower Merion and Narberth, the first school to let out, Harcum College, ends its semester Friday. Five other colleges finish over the following week, including three next Friday, Dec. 21.
See below for the full list of when local colleges and universities will dismiss for the winter and resume with their spring semesters, according to their academic calendars:
- Bryn Mawr College: Finals begin Dec. 16 and end Friday, Dec. 21 at 12:30 p.m. Classes resume Tuesday, Jan. 22.
- Harcum College: The semester ends Friday, Dec. 14. Classes resume Monday, Jan. 14.
- Haverford College: Finals begin Dec. 17 and end Friday, Dec. 21 at noon. Classes resume Tuesday, Jan. 22.
- Rosemont College: Finals began Wednesday and end Saturday, Dec. 15. Classes resume Monday, Jan. 14.
- St. Joseph's University: Finals end Tuesday, Dec. 18. Intersession classes run from Wednesday, Jan. 2 through Saturday, Jan. 12. Spring classes resume Monday, Jan. 14.
- Villanova University: Finals begin Saturday and end Friday, Dec. 21. Classes resume Monday, Jan. 14.


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Concentrations - Community Youth Sport Development
To prepare competent, socially responsible physical activity practitioners for work in youth serving agencies.
Concentration Description
The program concentration entitled Community Youth Sport Development offers KIN students an option to study in a non-licensure program designed to prepare them to teach and work in community-based youth serving agencies. Students gain competencies in teaching, program design, implementation and evaluation, funds development, community collaboration, volunteer and staff management/supervision, addressing social inequalities, and cross-cultural awareness. This concentration runs parallel to the K-12 licensure program with no requirement for licensure.
Rationale for Concentration
Within the last decade there has been an influx of school and non-school programs that seek to meet the diverse needs of youth. Shifting social conditions, such as economic hardship, the growing gap between rich and poor, disparate funding of public schools, and the growing elitism and privatization of non-school sport programs make it unlikely that the majority of nation´s youth will receive quality physical activity opportunities. Clearly, both school and non-school physical activity programs are required to effectively address the needs of all youth.
Likewise, non-school programs, such as those offered through Boys and Girls Clubs, YWCA´s, YMCA´s, and municipal recreation departments require well-prepared physical activity professionals to provide leadership, innovation, and dedication in enhancing the lives of all youth. The need for qualified and dedicated individuals to work in and lead these programs has increased dramatically. A recent national study of programs offered through non-profit agencies suggested that approximately 15,000 new professionals are needed each year to fill community service job vacancies.
We, in the Department of Kinesiology at UNCG are well-positioned to lead the field toward the systematic education and development of service-oriented physical activity professionals.
Program Content
Students enrolled in this concentration develop skills for volunteer management, fund raising, teaching and program evaluation, and development for community youth sport programs. In addition, knowledge and exposure to the social and cultural conditions that produce underserved communities are gained by students through their course work and field experiences.
See CYSD Suggested Four Year Course Sequence 2010-2011 (PDF).
Four new courses have been developed for this program:
- Physical Activity Programs for Underserved Youth
- Evaluation of Physical Activity Programs for Youth Development
- Mentoring in Community Youth Development Programs
- Internship (may be repeated for credit)
Program Requirements
In order for the students in the community program concentration to enroll in an internship the following are required:
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Ramapo High School "Goes Purple" on Jan. 11 to support Project Purple, an anti-substance abuse awareness program.
Project Purple is an initiative of The Herren Project, a non-profit foundation established by Chris Herren, a former professional basketball player who struggled with substance abuse throughout his basketball career. The program assists individuals and families struggling with addiction. Project Purple's goals are to create awareness and educate the public on the epidemic of substance abuse while encouraging teens and people of all ages to make good choices and stand up to drugs and alcohol. The program also works to raise funds to provide effective treatment solutions for those who need assistance to overcome substance abuse issues.
Herren spoke at both Ramapo and Indian Hills High Schools in November.
He had such a positive impact on the students and staff that the community enthusiastically joined together to "Go Purple." Ramapo donated all the money earned from selling t-shirts to The Herren Project.
For more information visit www.GoProjectPurple.org.
The above information was submitted by Ramapo Student Government Adviser Melissa Ferro.
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Colorado's politics have become positively Californian lately. There are new restrictions on guns. Pot is legal. The legislative agenda featured an expansion of alternative-energy use requirements for rural consumers. Gay couples can now enter into civil unions.
There's a reason for all this.
Lots of Californians have moved to Denver and its environs, bringing a progressive strain of politics with them and angering more conservative parts of the state — so much so that 10 northeastern counties are planning symbolic but serious votes on secession this fall.
An Oklahoma City couple has returned from Ecuador without their son, a class valedictorian possibly kidnapped while the family was in South America for a vacation.
The Oklahoma reported Wednesday that Chris and Randa Reiger recently returned to the state while the search for their son August goes on. Another son is back at school.
Ecuadoran authorities believe August Reiger was kidnapped because they have no other reasonable explanation for his disappearance. They say he would have been found by now if he had been lost or had fallen off a trail.
A Tulsa air school has been awarded a $12 million Air Force contract to provide ground and flight training for operations in Afghanistan.
The Tulsa World reports that Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology is getting the five-year contract.
Officials at the vocational training school say the contract will cover education on Cessna T182 and 208 aircraft. The school will also supply maintenance training on Beech King Air 350 aircrafts.
Gov. Mary Fallin has named longtime state Capitol reporter Michael McNutt as her press secretary.
McNutt has worked almost 30 years for The Oklahoman, including eight years at the paper's Capitol Bureau. During that time he covered the office of governor, the House of Representatives, various state agencies and a number of political campaigns.
Before moving to the Capitol, McNutt served as The Oklahoman's assistant news editor and assistant city editor. He has also worked in the newspaper's Enid bureau and for newspapers in Enid and Rolla, Mo.
Nearly 4,400 homeless Oklahomans were identified during the 2013 statewide count of homeless people, reflecting a slight decrease over two years ago, according to numbers released this week by state officials.
The statewide Point-in-time Homeless Count, which is conducted in January and mandated by the federal government every two years, seeks to identify each state's homeless population. Some cities, including Oklahoma City and Tulsa, also do homeless counts in other years, but the statewide count is biennial.
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Opponents of the Affordable Care Act often talk about how unpopular it is.
And this month's tracking poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation bears them out. Negative views of the law (42 percent) top positive ones (37 percent).
A new study shows yet another link between oil and gas drilling and manmade earthquakes in Texas. The report, by scientists at the University of Texas at Austin, says that a recent string of quakes in the Eagle Ford Shale formation of South Texas are mostly a result of oil and gas drilling.
The New York Times' website isn't working for us, and many other users, again this morning. As All Tech Considered reported Tuesday evening, the Times appears to be the victim of another hacking by the Syrian Electronic Army — a pro-Assad organization that has previously taken over the websites of other U.S.


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I write from D.C. about tax and retirement policy and planning.
If you've got problems paying the Internal Revenue Service, don't look for help from the ads on late night cable television. That's one of the lessons from an SEC filing Friday by TaxMasters Inc., disclosing the publicly-traded company will file for voluntary bankruptcy. As ABC reported last April, even after Houston-based TaxMasters had been accused of deceptive business practices by the attorneys general of Texas and Minnesota, it continued to buy millions of advertising on CNN, FoxNews and other cable channels. The ads featured Patrick Cox, the red-bearded TaxMasters CEO, assuring potential clients that his staff of tax pros, including former IRS agents, had helped "many good people just like you."
(Monday update: According to TaxMaster's three page filing in the Southern Texas bankruptcy court, it has less than $5,000 in assets and up to 5,000 creditors.)
Moreover, this is just the latest bankruptcy by a "tax resolution" service that advertised heavily—and made allegedly exaggerated claims–on cable TV. JK Harris & Co., a South Carolina-based firm which once operated hundreds of locations in dozens of states, filed for bankruptcy last October after being sued by both states and unhappy customers. Last December, it ceased operations and went into liquidation, leaving 5,400 active clients in the lurch. Harris' former clients, including those who won legal judgments against it, aren't likely to see any money from the liquidation. (Another firm, Resolute Tax Services, has purchased access to JK Harris' customer list; according to the privacy terms set by the bankruptcy court, customers must contact Resolute and agree to the transfer of their files, at which point Resolute says it will offer them a "credit of up to 50%" of the fees they paid JK Harris.)
In 2010, California Attorney General (now Governor) Jerry Brown sued "Tax Lady" Roni Deutch, who also had a big presence on TV, claiming she "engaged in a scheme to swindle taxpayers" by overstating the ability of her firm to gain concessions from the IRS. Deutch called the charges politically motivated. But lat year, she filed for bankruptcy and surrendered her law license.
If you've got problems with the IRS, here are a few pointers—that you won't get from a cable pitchman.
Hat tip to Chicago tax lawyer Robert E. McKenzie, a contributor to the Forbes IRS Watch blog, who called the TaxMasters SEC filing to my attention.
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"even after Houston-based TaxMasters had been accused of deceptive business practices by the *attorney generals* of Texas and Minnesota"
You're looking for tax assistance, am I right? I would consider browsing several tax resolution providers possible. ConsumerTaxReports.org actually does all the groundwork so you don't need to. The URL is http://www.consumertaxreports.org and it gives reviews, average payments of the provider, toll-free phone numbers along with other contact information, etc. If you have to research numerous organizations, you'll want to check out. The site can be quite very helpful.
John — I'm not sure I'd trust a business masquerading as an ".org" but that might just be me. I meant… look at the "terms" that this referral service says you need to accept BEFORE ACCESSING THE SITE! "acceptance of all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement is necessary for you to gain access to this Site" (the link was at the bottom of the main page!) I think this "terms" page is actually the LONGEST PAGE ON THE ENTIRE SITE!! just saying… http://www.consumertaxreports.org/terms.html
File the correct numbers and pay the tax timely in the first place and all will be fine.
Thanks, John! There ARE good tax resolution companies out there. Consumers just need to check them out. Classic Tax Resolution was formed to try and help those consumers who were lied to by TaxMasters and to help them out as quickly and efficiently as possible. The partners are all qualified tax preparers, they answer the phones themselves, they give good information, they listen and provide good information to the caller. Their fees are reasonable and honest. This company was formed so that customers would have an alternative company to call in order to get their tax problems accessed and fixed if possible. Classic's partners will work with all customers with honesty and integrity to ensure they receive quality customer service and the assistance they feel they need from a reliable resolution company. Please check out the website at www.classictaxresolution.com
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Thanks, great information John!!!! I was on the verge of doing business with a tax company and I really needed this information. Ms. Janet, great post as well…
25 Million people currently owe IRS over $300 billion. You can get billions of dollars of refunds online 24/7.
How do you get 150 million people to file a compliant tax return and pay the taxes when due? Or must you give out FREE refunds to all that partipate?
Not all Resolution companies are like TaxMasters. I frustrates me that the news media lumps "all companies" into one barrel and makes them look like they are all the same! Not true. There are some great companies out there that work within the law and do things the right way. Classic Tax Resolution is one of those companies. We don't ask for any upfront fees, we don't overcharge for the services offered, we only charge for the services rendered and we begin work on a customer's file immediately. There are tax preparers who answer the phone, provide tax information to the customer and have the credentials to prove they are qualified to handle a customer's tax issue/concern. It's companies like TaxMasters who are out to only make a buck off the customers that call in that make it bad for the really good companies trying to do the right thing. Don't judge a book by its covers. Classic Tax Resolution is a good company that does good work and shouldn't be judged just because it is a "resolution" company. Classic also provides accounting work such as bookkeeping, A/P, A/R as well as abatement services. So please don't make "all companies" appear to be bad. There are good people doing good things for consumers. Classic Tax Resolution is one of those companies.


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I cover public policy, particularly concerning economics.
The record of President Obama's first three years in office is in, and nothing that happens now can go back and change that. What that record shows is that President Obama, with his throwback, old-fashioned, 1970s Keynesian economics, has put America through the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression.
The recession started in December, 2007. Go to the website of the National Bureau of Economic Research (www.nber.org) to see the complete history of America's recessions. What that history reveals is that before this last recession, since the Great Depression recessions in America have lasted an average of 10 months, with the longest previously lasting 16 months.
When President Obama entered office in January, 2009, the recession was already in its 13th month. His responsibility was to manage a timely, robust recovery to get America back on track again. Based on the historical record, that recovery was imminent, within a couple of months or so. Despite widespread fear, nothing fundamental had changed to deprive America of the long term, world-leading prosperity it had enjoyed going back 300 years.
Supposedly a forward looking progressive, Obama proved to be America's first backward looking regressive. His first act was to increase federal borrowing, the national debt and the deficit by nearly a trillion dollars to finance a supposed "stimulus" package, based on the discredited Keynesian theory left for dead 30 years ago holding that increased government spending, deficits and debt are what promote economic growth and recovery. That theory arose in the 1930s as the answer to the Great Depression, which, of course, never worked.
That was the beginning of President Obama's Rip Van Winkle act, pretending not to know anything that happened over the previous 30 years proving the dramatic, historic success of the new, more modern, supply side economics, which holds that incentives for increased production are what promote economic growth and recovery. Indeed, that Rip Van Winklism pretended not to remember the 1970s either, when double digit inflation and double digit unemployment proved Keynesian economics grievously wrong.
As should have been long expected, Obama's trillion dollar Keynesian stimulus did nothing to promote recovery and growth, and almost surely delayed it. That is because borrowing a trillion dollars out of the economy to spend a trillion back into it does nothing to promote the economy on net. Indeed, it is probably a net drag on the economy, because the private sector spends the money more productively and efficiently than the public sector.
The National Bureau of Economic Research scored the recession as ending in June, 2009. Yet, today, in the 49th month since the recession started, there has still been no real recovery, like recoveries from previous recessions in America.
Unemployment actually rose after June, 2009, and did not fall back down below that level until 18 months later in December, 2010. Instead of a recovery, America has suffered the longest period of unemployment near 9% or above since the Great Depression, under President Obama's public policy malpractice. Even today, 49 months after the recession started, the U6 unemployment rate counting the unemployed, underemployed and discouraged workers is still 15.2%. And that doesn't include all the workers who have fled the workforce under Obama's economic oppression. The unemployment rate with the full measure of discouraged workers is reported at www.shadowstats.com as about 23%, which is depression level unemployment.
Today, over 4 years since the recession started, there are still almost 25 million Americans unemployed or underemployed. That includes 5.6 million who are long-term unemployed for 27 weeks, or more than 6 months. Under President Obama, America has suffered the longest period with so many in such long-term unemployment since the Great Depression.
Unfortunately, Uncle Skunk doesn't need your authorization; the essence of government is the monopoly on the use of force. Uncle Skunk can do whatever he wants. You WILL comply.
Ron Paul's promise to reduce the size of government and his unique stance on social issues would make him a viable candidate, if he didn't promote Antisemitism, the idea of third-world regime access to nuclear weapons, and an isolation policy that would offend even George Washington. Ron Paul has some amazing ideas and a strong sense of individualism, but he is simply off his rocker. Paul would be better off campaigning with another Republican candidate, where maybe his social competence and ability to communicate with the youth of America would rub off on that candidate.
Then YOU don't need to drive on Uncle Skunks' highways, and YOU don't need to be protected by Uncle Skunks' military or rescued by Uncle Skunks' Coast Guard, or….
So you just want everyone to go back to pure and simple anarchism right? Yeah, I'll remember you when you're screaming for someone to help defend you from the burglars, foreign invasion and the like!
Where were you when Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush were adding almost 11 trillion dollars to the national debt? Did you just become aware of deficits when Obama took office and had to spend in deficit to pay for the Bush wars that were never reported in his budgets? For Republican apologists, criticizing Democrats for the huge national debt is more than a little bizarre.
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So in your world adding 11 trillion in 28 years and adding 5 trillion in three years are equivalent. Have I got that about right?
gamath did you ever try to figure out the value of services and assets the Government provides for those 307 million citizens?
How simple is that math eh?
Ron Paul is against the very concepts and institutions that "Bailed Out" the Union and enabled the United States to become the Great Nation it is.
Article 6 of the Constitution in part states:
"All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation."
Under George Washinton the Central Bank was institutied.
"The establishment of the funding system of Mr. Hamilton, and especially the incorporation of the bank, operated like enchantment for the restoration of the public credit; repaired the ruined fortunes of the public creditors, and was equivalent to the creation of many millions of capital, available for the encouragement of industry and the active exertions of enterprise."
Two historic anniversaries in economics passed unrecognized : the bicentennial of the termination of the first central bank in the US and the signing into law of the Federal reserve legislation, late in the day, on December 22, 1913. Both are critical to today's economy.
Thomas Jefferson, President James Madison and the congress in 1811 terminated the bank's charter on the basis of the Constitution, their finding that there was no provision for transferring the sovereign authority of the United States to issue the nations money to a privately owned banking corporation.
Jefferson made his argument clear when he said: "When the power to create our money and credit is in private hands, and based on an exclusive franchise for debt-money creation and sale of bonds at interest – as opposed to direct Treasury financing – then the entire economic and social system is set up for private profit, and debt ruin, at public expense. As history has proven, this structure is virtually guaranteed to result in endless predation, corruption, and eventual collapse at immense public expense."
Late on the evening of December 22, 1913, with the majority of the US legislature home for Christmas, under the leadership of Nelson Aldrich, He and his party restructured the American financial system through the institution of the federal income tax amendment and the Federal Reserve System. The outcome of Aldrich's legislation has demonstrated the veracity Jefferson's 1811 augments.
It has been said that fewer than one person in a million understand the money creation process, from his article, apparently johnfranklinmason is not one of them.
Ron Paul is not anti-semitic. Ron Paul doesn't want isolation; he wants us to DEFEND ourselves. In case you haven't noticed, the U.S. has been playing OFFENSE for the past century and many countries in the world are not happy. They are telling us to not stick our noses into their business.
We should have our military DEFEND us in case we get attacked in the future. Not go into other countries and bomb them because we don't like their way of life.
Live and let live.
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- In a large, heavy sauce pan heat oil to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- In a medium bowl, mix cream cheese, crabmeat, garlic powder, paprika and water chestnuts.
- Place approximately 1 teaspoon of the cream cheese mixture in the center of wonton wrappers. Moisten wrapper edges with water, fold over the mixture and pinch to seal.
- In small batches, fry the wontons 3 to 5 minutes, or until golden brown.
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This is a great recipe, but I baked the wontons instead of frying them for a healthier alternative. I brushed them with beaten egg and a little water and baked at them 375 for 15 minutes. Make sure to seal them really tightly or they might ooze a little...
I was a little hesitant about trying out this recipe b/c of the mixed reviews, but with some tweeking, it turned out really good! I added some finely chopped green onions and used only half of ONE can crab meat for a stronger cream-cheese taste. Some people also commented that the filling was too mushy and fell apart in the oil. You can avoid this by squeezing out all the water in the crabmeat before adding to the cream cheese mixture (also results in less crabby taste). And when you moisten the wonton wrapper edges with water, you get a tight seal. None of mine fell apart in the oil... I tried various different folds and liked the triangular fold the best. This is pretty darn close to restaurant-quality!
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I used this recipe as a base for my crab rangoons. I thought there was a little too much crab and not enough cream cheese. I also added some green onions to off set the two. It turned out really well with those minor alterations. The added cream cheese (2 1/2 pkgs) made the inner mix a little creamier and not so crumbly. This was an excellent overall recipe..... it just needed a little tweeking for my taste. I hope this was helpful.
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Amount Per Serving (15 total)
- Calories
- 203 cal
- 10%
- Fat
- 11.7 g
- 18%
- Carbs
- 15.8 g
- 5%
- Protein
- 8.3 g
- 17%
- Cholesterol
- 39 mg
- 13%
- Sodium
- 268 mg
- 11%
Based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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September 20, 2007
Vintage Drucker on Innovation
Going through my collection of books on innovation, I came across Peter Drucker's book Innovation and Entrepreneurship. This book was first published in 1986! He was a visionary. It is interesting how he had distinguished the two disciplines. Most business colleges still have more courses on entrepreneurship than on innovation. I wonder whether entrepreneurship can be sustained without innovation.
Drucker's main work on innovation was published in the mid-eighties and focused on sources of innovation. He identified seven sources of innovation that are:
You are encouraged to learn more about your applicable sources of innovation.
It is amazing that Drucker tried to capture the process for innovation in the eighties. Here are Drucker's Do's and Don't's:
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Share your own Do's and Dont's with us. We all will benefit.
I would like to share my personal experience with Peter Drucker that shows his energy and greatness till his last. I had sent a copy of my book to Drucker and two other famous consultants for their blessings. Drucker sent an encouraging response within 24 hours in his shaky handwriting! He was truly a great person!
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The 47th annual East Aurora Holiday Tournament got started with a battle between two of the area's best teams — Geneva and No. 11 Neuqua Valley — and it was defense that set the tone.
Neither team was able to shoot over 39 percent from the field in a gritty battle, but Neuqua pulled out a 56-43 win to remain unbeaten at 11-0.
The Wildcats forced 25 turnovers to make up for 34.1 percent shooting from the field and pulled away late.
"Well, you've got to realize that's an 11-0 team playing an (11-2 Geneva team)," Neuqua coach Todd Sutton said. "That's two teams battling it out. They're very strong and they're very physical. Both teams struggled offensively, maybe because both teams have very good defense."
Neuqua got a shot of energy off the bench from junior Elijah Robertson to get the early lead. He had a putback late in the first quarter and then scored the first five points of the second quarter to give the Wildcats a 17-8 lead.
"That's my job coming off the bench, bring a spark to the game," Robertson said. "When games are dead like that and we start out slow, I just have to come in and bring the energy and get us going. I feel like I did that tonight."
But Geneva answered with a 10-0 run keyed by five points from sophomore Nate Navigato (game-high 15 points) to take a brief 18-17 lead. Neuqua was up 24-19 at the break.
A 9-1 run that stretched from the end of the third quarter to the start of the fourth gave Neuqua some separation, up 40-27. Once again, Robertson was in the middle of it. He scored six of the points in the run and scored a team-high 14 points overall.
"He's playing really good basketball," Sutton said. "He's really coming on strong. He made a lot of big plays early on the defensive end. He got a lot (of minutes) tonight, and he's going to keep getting more."
The closest Geneva could get in the fourth quarter was seven points before suffering its second loss of the season. The Vikings won the rebound battle (28-23) and shot better from the field (38.9 percent) than Neuqua, but they couldn't solve the Wildcats' defensive pressure as evidenced by their 25 turnovers.
"They did a great job of pressuring us, but we didn't set up our cuts right, we didn't set picks," Geneva coach Phil Ralston said. "There were some instances where instead of reading what the defense was doing, we had guys that were acting like robots and passing the ball to the wrong spots. When you're not doing those little things, you're not going to get away with that against a team like Neuqua."
Neuqua senior Jabari Sandifer scored 10 points in the win.
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The Reds Hall of Fame & Museum continues its collectible bobblehead series, presented by Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, with the release of the Barry Larkin bobblehead.
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Skip Schumaker is hosting a fantasy football challenge that will include 9 teams captained by Cincinnati Reds players.
National League All-Star manager Mike Matheny of the St. Louis Cardinals announced today, in conjunction with Major League Baseball, that right-handers Alfredo Simon of the Cincinnati Reds and Tyler Clippard of the Washington Nationals have been added to the N.L.'s active roster for the 85th All-Star Game.
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Meet Dwight Gooden Today
If you want to meet Dwight Gooden, you can do so today at Stan's on 850 River Ave., Bronx, New York (1/2 block from Yankee Stadium).
Dwight will be there signing baseballs and other memorabilia from 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM.
Former Met Jim Leyritz will also be at Stan's, but on Wednesday, April 14th, from 2:30 to 4:00 PM.
Oh, you forgot Leyritz was, technically, a Met? Kind of the same way Glenn Davis, Freddy Garcia, and Bret Boone were also "Mets".
In addition, former Yankee and hair salon magnate Joe Pepitone will be at Stan's this Saturday from 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM. Pepitone was never a Met but he has lived one of the most interesting lives of any MLBer in modern history, and remains a wonderful, generous guy with great stories to tell (though not all are "family friendly").
You can see all the signings coming up at Stan's by visiting the MintPros site. Yeah, it's a Yankee-heavy schedule, but they are all very congenial, fun, former players who come across as regular guys and yet have incredibly fascinating tales to tell.
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Joe Janish began MetsToday in 2005 to provide the unique perspective of a high-level player and coach -- he earned NCAA D-1 All-American honors as a catcher and coached several players who went on to play pro ball. As a result his posts often include mechanical evaluations, scout-like analysis, and opinions that go beyond the numbers. Follow Joe's baseball tips on Twitter at @onbaseball and at the On Baseball Google Plus page.
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Haydn Shaughnessy, Contributor
I write about enterprise innovation.
How credible is it for Nokia to create a new road map for manufacture in mobile phones, away from global to local production, it's stated intent after releasing specs to 3D print Lumia 820 shells?
How realistic is it for Samsung to become a global leader in device innovation?
Two recent conversations lead me to believe that enterprises are far more serious about 3D printing than might be apparent from reading the business press.
The first conversation was with a global transportation manufacturer. Imagine their historical position – they won RFPs, signed a contract, got a revenue advance and then started to build trains, trams or metros. Easy – most development costs were paid by the customer.
Today there are no cash advances. They must fund development and production, as well as offer to support local businesses in the process.Enter 3D printing, at the very least to help build up local parts suppliers.
There is no other game in town for companies that make this type of product. The move to APIs and open systems could be a decade away – all the way down a tortuous road where they will have to help set global standardization policies for inter-train communications.
In the meantime innovation is all about laying off responsibility and risk to suppliers.
That reminds me of Nokia and its view of the future – help stimulate, create and foster independent local production facilities, let them do the dirty work and the customer interaction, and sell IP into them.
Nokia is some years away from having a new supply ecosystem based around 3D printing but it makes perfect sense to float the idea and take a de-risked approach to attempting it, starting with the shell.
Mobile supply chains are now so complex that Apple is being forced to onshore some manufacture to reduce its exposure to supply chain disruption.
That brings me to the second conversation, with a leading supply chain insurer who told me that they had a problem. They had their systems adapted to periodic events like Hurricane Sandy, but events were beginning to overlap – say an invasion (Mali) and bad weather (Europe gridlocked). The insurance industry will find it extremely difficult to deal with multiple simultaneous events.
That's another way of saying that supply chains are now too complex to manage within an increasingly unpredictable global environment.
Now let's turn to Samsung. Here's arecent take from The Slate:
"….when Samsung first unveiled the Galaxy Note—a 5.3-inch smartphone that was big enough to be a minitablet, hence the ugly portmanteau—the world's tech pundits couldn't stifle their giggles. Was it a phone? Was it a tablet? Was it a joke? Smartphone industry blog Boy Genius Report called the Note "the most useless phone I've ever used," adding: "You will look stupid talking on it, people will laugh at you, and you'll be unhappy if you buy it." Gizmodo argued that the Note "isn't just designed poorly—it's hardly even designed for humans….Confounding our predictions, Samsung sold 10 million Notes in 2012, making it one of the most successful smartphone launches in history. Then, in the fall, Samsung launched the Galaxy Note II, an upgraded version with an even larger screen—and it promptly sold 5 million of them, and is on track to sell 20 million over the course of the year.
In The Elastic Enterprise Nick Vitalari and I were fulsome with praise for Apple's ability to rewrite the rules of business. And of course we all know about their phenomenal design capability.
We felt it was these two together than explained success. Design can be perpetually good but markets move on and the virtues of the iPhone will not persist. That can be solved quickly, however. Apple could enter the new large screen size mobile market and will inevitably enjoy success, though will also diminish its reputation for innovation.
What it really needs to do is make a systemic innovation to match the apps developer community of 2008 vintage. The apps community created the excitement around the iPhone, allowed Apple to scale its market and de-risked growth.
But the current trend is too non-Apple. Delegating production to new local producers who can customize the Apple form factor or interface? Or creating an independent hardware ecosystem? These are too big a stretch for Apple. Even in design the idea of going back to the Palm days with a stylus is impossible?
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Huh, Jimmy?
The S3 definitely does NOT "provide comparable value in UI, functionality and innovation as of the iPhone." And it is NOT "a fact" that Apple is going to release a cheaper iPhone. You need to learn the difference between fact and rumor…
CrApple is an iNOvator, they've never seen another techonology or idea they didn't want to and DID STEAL!
iPhony is the RIP-OFF of the 2006 LG Prada Smart Phone shown at CeBIT A FULL YEAR BEFORE the first CrApple iPhony prototype ever saw light! It's documented on the Web, look it up yourself!
Yeah, I'm sure it would be so hard for Apple to design a large smartphone. All it takes is a larger display. Not everyone in the world is going to purchase a smartphone sporting a 4.8″ display. Display size is a personal preference.
Is it always necessary to mention Apple in an article about Samsung? Does it mean that Samsung cannot stand on its own in an article without any mention of Apple?
Samsung with its 10,000 engineers is innovating but mostly reverse engineering & imitating.
Hiwever, Samsung has a new competency – marketing and promotion – with $12-13B in spend last year, Samsung has bought overall dominance in the smartphone market. It has been extremely innovative in its PR, negative campaigns, commission structure and give aways. Which is why it's surprising that with that kind of spend (12x apple marketing budget) it still needs to ride the coattails of an Apple headline.
I agree. For me its a case study. Even your comment above about the tech press getting behind Samsung is telling. The "war" between Samsung and Apple has been a big boon for Samsung. It's focus on winning mindshare (not just Marketshare) is in my view quite innovative and something Apple should learn from.
Good article…I think we should consider that it is not just about selling more handsets, and hey Samsung's Galaxy totally rocks… Rather it is about paving innovation and the influential leadership position and what does this leadership enable. iPhone (and Apple as a whole) has revolutionized the handset, beyond imagination. One of many elements enabled by the Apple phone revolution is the App availability and portability. While I see the new Nokia and Samsung devices as 'hot' and 'awesomely functional', I don't see what these companies are doing to gain the true leadership and influence position


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Where Will the Line Be Drawn on Anti-Muslim Remarks?
by Chuckie Corra, Fri Sep 24, 2010 at 08:02:55 PM EDT
(Crossposted on FDL Seminal)
Take Note: This post is inspired by the September 17th episode of Real Time With Bill Maher. In the show, Maher broaches the question "Do you think people like Sarah Palin and Christine O'Donnell do or don't want a war with the Muslims? Because I think they do."
The question itself seems like it should be more of a joke than a serious question, especially coming from a comedian like Bill Maher. However, stop and think for a second what this actually means.
The religiously motivated right (i.e. Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, etc. The list is numerous) aren't afraid to show their feelings about where God stands in relation to governance in this country. The bible thumpers and Evangelical Christians are quick to label this a "Christian Nation" because of our founding fathers. Those who claim this, however, generally tend to neglect the fact that not all of the founding fathers were Christian. Oh yeah…and then there's that thing in the Bill of Rights about Freedom of Religion. This, of course, also means freedom from religion if one so chooses.
In the recent years, and especially since Barack Obama came into the mainstream picture, Muslims have been falsely branded as an enemy to Christianity (among other things). In this day and age, when a Islamic mosque/community center can't be built near ground zero without a horrendous national uproar by people like Palin, is it really that outrageous to pose the question mentioned by Maher? . . .
My answer to that is no. Need a more physical example? Have a look at this campaign advertisement for Renee Ellmers, Republican candidate for Congress in North Carolina (It's important to mention that she is endorsed by holy crusader Sarah Palin herself).
(via Huffington Post)
Candidates like Ellmers are using the age-old GOP tactic of fear-based campaigning and putting a new spin to it. Post 9/11 has seen an increase in anti-Arab sentiment, and specifically targeted to the Muslim religion in general. This has opened the door for candidates to exploit the irrational fears of a gullible population in order to get more votes. Not only is Ellmers' campaign ad an embarrassment, it's riddled with assumptions. Playing on the token term "victory-mosques" Ellmers has falsely characterized the entire Park 51 Cordoba mosque situation. This effectively sways voters and leads them to believe these falsehoods, and thinking that a vote for the other candidate is a vote for terrorist victory.
Ellmers uses terminology suggesting that she characterizes all Muslims as terrorists. "The terrorists haven't won, and we should tell THEM in plain English No, there will never be a mosque at Ground Zero."
This makes me think that Ellmers views the people wanting to build the Park 51 center as terrorists. To go to such great lengths to get a vote, this shows a clear lack of rationality as well as intelligence regarding the entire situation she is describing. Not only does this alienate an entire population, but it grossly misleads a whole other population.
The part of this entire controversy that is the most heartbreaking to me are the Muslims who died in the September 11 terrorist attacks and their families. Due to such a blown up controversy, the near 60 Muslim Americans that perished that day are being overshadowed by Anti-Islamic sentiment from people like Renee Ellmers and Newt Gingrich. These people are Americans too, just like the Christians, Jews, Atheists, etc. that also lost their lives on that day.
The New York Times did a story of a woman widowed on 9/11 that happened to be a Muslim. Hadidjatou Karamoko Traoré's husband was a cook at the Windows of the World restaurant in the World Trade Center. In this excerpt she describes praying to Allah at Ground Zero.
When she prays, she calls God Allah. Mrs. Traoré, 40, says praying in the pit feels entirely natural, even if some of those standing with her — widows and widowers, parents and children — blame her religion for the destruction of that day.
"That's not fair," she said. "It's not because of Allah that these buildings fell."
Mrs. Traoré is the widow of one of roughly 60 Muslim victims — cooks, businessmen, emergency responders and airline passengers — believed to have died on 9/11. It is a group that has been little examined, and no precisely reliable count of their ranks exists. But their stories, when told, have frequently been offered as counterweights in the latest public argument over terrorism and Islam.
(Source: NYT)
"It's not because of Allah that these buildings fell."
A statement so simple, yet so powerful. A statement that many refuse to believe. It's time to stop this blatant hatred towards the Islamic culture and the Arab world as a whole. Generalizing an entire population because of a few radical extremists goes against what this nation was founded upon, the principles of freedom and equality for all regardless of who/what you pray to…if you do at all.
Tags: 9/11, CORDOBA MOSQUE, ANTI-MUSLIM SENTIMENT, RENEE ELLMERS, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, muslim, midterm elections, park 51, bill maher, World Trade Center, Culture of fear (all tags)


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1899: Evidence points to poison in mysterious deaths
The Nashville American reported that in January 1899, Squire Luke Stansbury, son of Rev. John Stansbury, discovered that Paris green and arsenic had been sprinkled over the hay they were feeding the cow. The evident intention was to poison the milk and, thus, poison the family. The hay was burned.
Drug testing policy deferred until October
With the start of the next school year only weeks away, the policy committee of the Cumberland County Board of Education decided to defer action on the extracurricular drug testing policy as implementation of changes would not occur before the 2015-'16 school year.
Model recalls special rail service to Camp Nakanawa
Camp Nakanawa, in the Mayland community of Cumberland County, dedicated a new, highly detailed diorama of the camp built over the past year by members of the Crossville Model Railroad Club.
The large display is a very accurate scale model of the camp and includes a track where an HO model of the Tennessee Central Railroad delivers campers to their summer home.
Souza vows to bring public comments back for vote
While a few public comments have been made during the last several Crossville city council meetings, the fact that some think their free speech is threatened by recent council actions has lead to discussions and letters to the editor in protest.
Panel considers building code options
The Cumberland County Environmental Committee met last Thursday evening to further discuss the status of countywide building permits and its agreement with the city of Crossville, but no action was taken.
Fields a possible buyer for TSUD
Barry Field, owner of Field's Engineering Consultant Services, LLC (FECS) has taken an interest in purchasing the highly contested waste water facility in Lake Tansi.
Haslam to speak at Chamber membership meeting
Crossville-Cumberland County Chamber of Commerce annual membership meeting will be held Aug. 8, 2014 at the Cumberland County Community Complex. The meeting will include awards, presentations and recognitions, with scheduled speaker, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam. The Chamber would like to recognize and thank Cumberland County Bank for its platinum sponsorship of this year's annual meeting.
Driver charged after woman injured in crash
A motorist who witnesses said plowed into a car without touching his brakes is now facing numerous charges, including endangerment of a pregnant woman who was injured in the second vehicle.
City to enter wastewater negotiations with Veolia
With a majority of Crossville City Council members in favor of retaining Veolia as the contract operator of the city's wastewater treatment plant, a motion to authorize City Manager David Rutherford to negotiate with the company was approved in the July council meeting in a mixed vote.
VEC phone scam warned
Cumberland County Sheriff's Department is warning citizens of persons makeing phone calls, claiming to represent Volunteer Energy Co-op, claiming an electric bil is past due.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) -- A woman in Bristol, Tenn., says she was just praising the Lord, although at high volume.
Bristol Police said 54-year-old Betty Jones was violating the city's noise ordinance.
WCYB-TV reported police cited her on their first visit. She told them she spent five hours on Sundays praising and dancing to music by Johnny Cash, Randy Travis, Alan Jackson and The Judds.
After more neighborhood complaints, officers went back May 28 and arrested Jones, charging her with disorderly conduct and violating the noise ordinance. She spent the night in jail.
Jones told the station she was praising God in her own home, but conceded that on the second police visit she was "going off and cussing."
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ATHENS, Ga. — Annie Park shot a 2-under 70 in windy conditions Thursday to take the individual lead and help Southern California increase its lead to 17 strokes with one round left in the NCAA women's golf championships. Duke is second at 2-under.
Park, a freshman, had a 9-under 207 total at the University of Georgia Golf Course for a two-stroke lead. Park birdied four of the last six holes after bogeys on Nos. 11 and 12. On the par-3 13th, after Duke's Celine Boutier hit to 6 feet, Park hit inside her. Both made their birdie putts.
Boutier leads duke at 3 under followed by Lindy Duncan at 2 under, Laetitia Beck (+1), Courtney Ellenbogen (+4) and Alejandra Cangrejo (+14).
Duke coach Dan Brooks remained optimistic.
"I have seen amazing things happen," he said. "Two years ago we were 23 shots down and won by 12. It would really be amazing for that to happen with USC on the course." Associated Press
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Saint Augustine's: The Falcons broke the national Division II record in the men's 4x100 meter relay with a time of 39.01 seconds on the first day of the NCAA Division II championships at Pueblo, Colo.
The Falcons foursome of Ramaan Ansley, Taffawee Johnson, Burkheart Ellis, Jr., of Raleigh, and Jermaine Jones beat the mark held by Abilene Christian, which ran 39.20 in 1984.
The win in Heat 2 qualified them for Saturday's finals, which are scheduled to begin at 7:20 p.m. Entering the meet, the team was the top ranked 4x100 team in Division II.