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|By Tkdgal (Tkdgal) on Tuesday, August 03, 2004 - 09:43 pm: Edit
I know many of you have read a post similar to this in the past few months, but thanks to the help of many posters here I have been introduced to many new schools and have amended my list. I think this is it! Do you think I need another safer school, or will this do?
--Small, all girls Catholic school in NJ
--1440 SAT (760v680m)
--At least National Merit Semi, I think - 224
--800 Writing, 710 Lit, taking 2c and French
--3.99 Weighted GPA....school doesn't rank
--Hardest courseload, 2 AP junior year, 3 senior
--Tae kwon do black belt, biggest EC, very involved. (6+ years)
--Brazilian Jiu-jitsu/submission wrestling - lots of competition, teaching, training (all 4 yrs)
--First trombone in school orchestra (9,11,12)
--Treasurer of major club in school for 3 years straight. (Environmental/Human Rights activism)
--Creative Writing Club, treasurer next year
--Volunteer at Special Olympics tennis (all 4 yrs)
--Work....15 hours a week during year, more in summer, teaching tae kwon do. Since freshman year. One of the head instructors at the school.
--Won Scholastic Gold Key (Regional) and Silver Award (National) in Humor for a play I wrote that is being put on at my school.
--Won New Jersey's Governor's award in the Arts, awarded to only 70 high schoolers in the state.
--Next year I have an editorial column in our school paper.
--I am senior class treasurer.
I am applying to:
Swarthmore (ED)
Johns Hopkins
Thank you so much for putting up with this rediculously long post!
|By Tkdgal (Tkdgal) on Wednesday, August 04, 2004 - 08:48 am: Edit
|By Alexandre (Alexandre) on Wednesday, August 04, 2004 - 09:10 am: Edit
There are no real safeties here. I would add one true safety, bu you should get into half of the schools above. Great list otherwise.
|By Dmxdawg (Dmxdawg) on Wednesday, August 04, 2004 - 09:50 am: Edit
I am really sorry for "hijacking this thread, but this is addressed to Alexandre" (just ignore this everyone else)
Since my thread has been neglected and you seen really knowledgeable, is it ok if I e-mail you my stats so you could develop a list for me as well?
|By Alexandre (Alexandre) on Wednesday, August 04, 2004 - 10:13 am: Edit
Dmxdawg, I would be glad to communicate via email. Feel free to email me anytime.
But I also encourage you to use this forum. There are so many incredibly knowledgeable people here. Many are more knowledgeable than I in some respects. You would be best served bu waiting it out on the boards. Some of the input you can get here is invaluable.
|By Tkdgal (Tkdgal) on Wednesday, August 04, 2004 - 12:00 pm: Edit
I thought Occidental would count as a "true" safety because I am well into the top 25% of SAT scorers. Do you have any suggestions for another school, Alexandre?
|By Neo (Neo) on Wednesday, August 04, 2004 - 12:08 pm: Edit
Where's your safety?
|By Alexandre (Alexandre) on Wednesday, August 04, 2004 - 12:10 pm: Edit
TkdGal, Occidental is most likely in the bag, but you never know. By true safety, I mean a school that is a guaranteed. Only apply to one of them since you will most likely get into a few of the schools on your list above.
Some good safeties in my book are:
Colorado College, CO
Dickinson College, PA
Franklin and Marshall College, PA
Lawrence University, WI
Sarah Lawrence College, NY
St. Olaf College, MN
University of the South, TN
|By Tkdgal (Tkdgal) on Wednesday, August 04, 2004 - 02:38 pm: Edit
Thanks a lot for the schools....I'm checking them out!
|By Tkdgal (Tkdgal) on Thursday, August 05, 2004 - 09:44 am: Edit
Would Scripps be a safety? How about Lewis & Clark College?
|By Palmbeach12 (Palmbeach12) on Thursday, August 05, 2004 - 09:50 am: Edit
To be honest.. you probably have a 95 % chance of getting into at least one of the schools on your list... you even have a really good shot at Swarthmore ED!
But yes, with the nuttiness of college admissions, i would heed the above posters suggestions and apply to some or one of the schools above as a safety
|By Blaineko (Blaineko) on Thursday, August 05, 2004 - 10:51 am: Edit
Yes, Lewis & Clark would be a safety.
It has a beautiful campus, is close to Portland, has great study abroad programs, and an international feel like that of Macalester. It tends towards the liberal, but not as much as Reed does.
The Evergreen State College is a good safety, as it feels very much like Reed College, although a little more interdisciplinary in nature. It's not unusual for people to transfer between Reed and TESC and visa versa. I've had two handfuls of friends to it, and all seem to say the same thing. That is, Reed and TESC feel very similar.
Skidmore, Connecticut C, Bard, Lafayette would also be safieties for you, given your stats. Grinnell would be a match/safety and very similar to schools already on your list.
Hope this helps.
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Part of being frugal is constantly re-evaluating your bills to make sure the services you pay for are serving your needs. Up next for re-evaluation in our house is our Phone/TV/Internet service. When we moved here two years ago, we signed a contract with Qwest/DirecTV for phone and satellite television. That contract will be up in September, and we're looking to make some changes.
As I mentioned before, we currently have a Qwest/DirecTV bundle for our phone and TV service. Charter cable is our only option for high speed internet, which I need for blogging, and we have cell phone service through AT&T. Our AT&T contract won't be up until next March, though we'll probably stay with them, because we get good reception out here in the boondocks.
Here's the breakdown on what we pay:
The total comes to $275 a month. That's a lot in my book.
Our family needs:
In all honestly, everything else is a want, as far as family needs go.
My business needs:
My husband's business needs, if he is to continue as a NASCAR blogger:
1) We could keep things the way they are, but we're currently paying full price on just about everything. Plus, I'm not a fan of DirecTV, so I'd rather end that relationship. Monthly cost: $275.
2) We could bundle our phone, internet, and cable with Charter for around $130 a month, depending on the package they're offering in September. Adding in our cell phone plan, that would bring the cost to $235, saving us $40 from what we're paying now.
3) We could bundle the internet and cable with Charter, and switch to cell phones only, picking up an extra line for my 12 year old daughter. Our AT&T bill would increase by $10-$20, depending on whether we'd have to bump up our minutes, though we're not big phone people. Our Charter package would run about $104, but the price would only be good for 6 months. Total: $230, saving us $45 from what we're paying now.
4) We could get Dish Network for $37 a month, but it would require a 24 month commitment, and the price would go up $15 after 12 months. We'd drop the landline and use cell phones. The total for Dish TV, Charter internet, and AT&T Wireless would be around $211, saving us $64 a month for the first 12 months and $49 a month for the second 12 months.
5) The final option would be for my husband to end his NASCAR blogging career. We'd go cell phone only, adding $10-$20 to our AT&T bill, and drop both the landline and TV package. The bills would then total $180, saving us $95 a month.
Though it's tempting to drop TV all together, my husband loves writing Bump-Drafts, and he's getting a lot of traffic lately. Though the site isn't making him a much money yet, I've found blogging can lead to great opportunities in the future. I'd like to see him continue. That pretty much rules out option number 5.
On the other hand, if we keep paid TV mainly for the basis of my husband's career, I'll start writing off the portion of the bill that we use for his blogging, which is actually a pretty good portion. Other than sports, we're not big TV watchers.
Option #1 is out, because it's the most expensive, and I want to get away from DirecTV.
That leaves me with options 2, 3, and 4. I'm tempted to drop the landline and go with a cell phone only, as we're probably looking at getting a cell phone for my daughter in the next couple of years anyway.
Ironically, bundling everything with Charter won't save us the most money, mostly because their DVR service is so expensive. It would seem that the most cost effective option would be to use AT&T for phone service, Charter for internet, and Dish Network for TV. The only thing that makes me nervous about going to cell phones is that a lot of times 911 operators can't trace cell phones as well as landlines. My husband is going to check with his contact at the fire department to see how big an issue that is.
I won't make any firm decisions until September, as I don't know what other options might present themselves before then. What would you do if you were in my shoes?
*I realize that my cell phone bill is quite high. If I didn't use a data plan for blogging and related work, I would never dream of paying that much for cell phone service. I'd probably have a go-phone.
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This has inspired me to re-evaluate my current setup with bell and look towards other smaller companies to get our internet, satellite, and phone from different companies, or just a cheaper alternative. Thanks!
Instead of a DVR, I would buy a winTV that you connect to your computer. I have had a winTV for years and it is great ( paid $80 for the version i have). This beats paying the cable companies monthly fee in the long run. You connect it to your cable and connect it to your computer using a USB 2.0 port. Then you can set it to schedule every time NASCAR shows up in the guide and it records onto your computer. I have an older XP machine that I use specifically for that and my Magic jack for my VoIP which is another option you can use for phone. Magic Jack costs $40 for the first year and $20 a year after that and I have never had any issues with it.
Just cut out your landline. If you need high speed internet, you can always do DSL "dry loop" where you don't have to have a landline (Verizon offers it in my area, though I'm sure other places do too) or do your cable, since you are already getting cable tv. AT&T may also do high speed net for you and tack it on to your cellphone bill.
I hate landlines because a) I don't ever talk on the phone unless its an emergency b) you can use your cell as your contact number.
Cutting out your landline and bundling your cell/internet could be the way for you to go. Also, if you have options such as unlimited texting or data plans then that also drives your cost up.
thanks for sharing
Will your cell phone plan have unlimited texting for your daughter? I have a 14 year old daughter and she rarely "talks" on her cell phone using her voice, but she texts – a lot! Pretty much all of her friends do – she is often carrying on 3, 4, 5 or more conversations at the same time. I would not have envisioned this 2 years ago, but things change as they grow older. It's something you should keep in mind.
I am saving so much money because I switched to Net10. I used to spend so much on my contract cell phones, but now I am finally stress-free about it all. I control my bills. Also, Net10 has amazing nationwide coverage. Such a great deal!
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I'am 60 this year and need coverage for the next few yrs. but
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Straight Talk is expensive for prepaid, unless your daughter is planning on using her phone significantly. You could probably go cheaper with TracFone or Net10 and pay for the minutes used. This could also help her budget (i.e. we'll buy you 200 minutes/month and you buy any extras with allowance).
The NHL offers a subscription for games; I'm sure there is a NASCAR one too. If you have an old PC, you can turn it into a Linux based DVR type system– I know there are instructions floating around online. You can also use this system with cable, so you don't have to have a DVR from the cable/satellite company.
Do you have to have a landline for Dish or DirectTV? Although I haven't read their policy in awhile, I know when I signed my Dish contract I had to have a landline to plug the Dish in to.
Have you checked to see if Tivo would be cheaper than having a DVR from the cable company? You could purchase one used online, and you can get a much better rate by paying up front.
For 911:
The question for 911 is how quickly the dispatcher can get your location. The most reliable service for this is land line, because your address is mandatory for the service to work–since you are literally connected to your house and cannot move the service at all.
VoIP does not work the same way, even if you get it bundled with your cable provider. When call 911 on VoIP, your equipment/software contacts the server/trunk of your provider online. The server recognizes your equipment and will include the address you have on file when you call 911. However, this address can be wrong (such as the gentleman in 2007 who moved from Georgia to Oregon and failed to update his address; so when he called 911, they dispatched in Georgia, or the boy in Calgary, Alberta where they dispatched in the city where the service was based instead of where he lived). However, in most cases this is consumer error, where they did not verify the address on file was correct.
Cellphones connect to various radio towers around where you live; it is very hard to have one confirmed address. You will have to tell the dispatcher your location. Also if you have not updated your phone number to be local, you will need to be transferred to a different center. (This happened recently for me, as I have moved to a different city and spent a good 10 minutes getting the right dispatcher to report an injury at the nearby park.)
Some other important things to think about: all phones will allow calling 911, (so you can just leave a phone in for emergencies) but if you don't use it, it will make it hard to notice if your phone is broken, or if you do somehow notice, difficult to request repair. If you have lifeline/alarm systems/other digital equipment, they might not work over VoIP very well. (I had a customer learn this the hard way, by falling down and his life alert did not contact 911; his apartment manager found him 2 days later when his light was on all night.)
There are many cheaper VoIP services out there that are cheaper than bundling with your provider that provide good service; but if something does go wrong, you will probably get troubleshooting advice over a phone, where a provider can just send out a tech.
I believe that per call dialing is something that must be available for all big providers, but it is extremely discouraged in sales talks and not advertised anywhere. You should be able to get this with Qwest.
I would also look into options for IPTV for the Nascar stuff.
Remember when going to straight cell phones how very often we loose cell service in this neck of the woods…. sometimes its just for a couple hours – but it was 8 days when the wind storm got the tower 2 years ago – and many times it has been over 24 hrs.
I also have an Ooma phone as its great. The only worry I had was if the power goes out and we need to dial 911, we wouldn't be able to. But my boyfriend has a cell phone provided by his job we could use(I don't think they would get mad if he used it to call 911) and even a cell phone that doesn't have service can dial 911. Now I have a prepaid net 10 phone as well that I can use for emergencies and I use when I am traveling. with net10 its always 10cents a minute regardless of what phone card you buy, and its not the same with other prepaid phones like tacphone. the most the net 10 phone would cost me would be 20$ a month to keep active. or you can even get one and just get a phone card and not activate it unless you actually need it.
Someone else mentioned still being able to dial 911 to a plugged in phone without phone service, I hope that's true everywhere b/c that's awesome.
My Bf's job pays for the internet, but if they didn't I wouldn't pay for it, I'm fine just going to the library to use it with my laptop. and we won't pay for cable at all, we just watch stuff online or rent movies occasionally.
Have you checked in to Clearwire.net? I don't know if they're in your area, but we have them and they're only 29.99 a month for internet service.
I messed up, Wal-mart's new cell plan is Straight Talk, not Smart talk but an excellent deal.
Erika – Thanks for mentioning this. Something I'll keep in mind in case I get laid off, or manage to make it to retirement :) Except we don't have a Walmart within 80 miles – so will have to make a trip if need be.
Here is what we recently did with our cell phones, we ditched the contracts and Wal-Mart has a new plan called Smart Talk it is a prepaid cell service that works off of Verizon's network, you can do 1000 minutes and 1000 texts and 30mb of internet for $30/month or have unlimted minutes, texts and internet for $45/month. I now get cell service at my house! We also have charter cable extended package with their phone service, which is great because there is no long distance fees at all, and there high speed internet we pay $130 per month which includes taxes. We don't have DVR but we could probably add it for $10/month (I think?)
Federal law requires the phone companies to maintain 911 access. You should be able to plug in a phone into the landline and it will dial 911 even if no phone service is paid for (this is also the same for cell phones).
Is this really true? I would love to try it.
if there is no dial tone on an old land line that currently has no service..how would one "dial" 911?
Is Measured Dialing available thru your phone company?
Mine is now $2.07 for 6 months and $7.07 after. Unlimited incoming, and 10 cents an outgoing call. That way you have the landline for 911 location if you can't talk… According to my local 911, they cannot tie my cell phone to my house address – I looked into that about a month ago.
Don't you have an old-fashioned DVD or VHS recorder that can record the sports for viewing later, instead of the pay-for package thru the cable company?
I was at $107 + $15 for bundled phone, basic TV, low speed internet, and cell phone. However, the cell phone is paid by my company, except that I pay $15/month to the company for unlimited texting for personal use with family.
Yesterday I looked at my options.
I continued the basic TV for news, weather, and babysitting grandkids, and the occasional Hallmark movie :) Except for the grandkids, I'd drop the TV entirely…..
I dropped the internet entirely – meaning my desk top computer has no internet now – I'll have to move things via flashdrive. But my laptop picks up free wireless – probably from the local library nearby. And without the internet (which required a full service phone for the bundle package) , I could get the low cost measured dialing for the phone – mentioned above. The only time I call out on the land line is to find my cell phone :) I'll just have to be more careful where I put it!
Cost now: $32/month plus taxes, rising to $37 plus taxes, and then the $15 texting charge on the cell phone.
I saved $70-$75/ month, or about 2/3rds less :), taking advantage of various opportunities, including the free wireless and some inconvenience.
It's well worth checking out your options!
Most people I know have dropped their landlines and rely on their cell phones. My main worry was the same as yours–having 911 trace my call if something happened. I've have dialed 911 since dropping my landline and you have to be very clear when giving information to the operator. I know you want to save money, but you also have to consider what will work best for you, and sometimes its worth spending a little extra.
We have cell phones only, no land-line, on a family plan with my mom. We dropped the cable when we realized we were watching a lot of tv and then dropped the cable internet when they tripled our bill from $25/month to $75! We switched to ATT internet, which is 19.95/month. When we do watch tv now, we often watch on hulu.com. My husband watch F1, not NASCAR, and he watches those online as well.
Is it possible to watch ESPN and Nascar online? Don't they have those paid subscriptions?
@Erika and marci357: You can order StraightTalk online so you don't have to go to Wal-Mart. They will ship the phones directly to you and you can sign up for service online. The service is fabulous!
@Lynnae: Is your husband's blogging career bringing in enough money to justify the monthly expense of satellite TV? You have to look at what makes sense from a business perspective. If it is just for fun, then don't make satellite service a 'need.' If he doesn't have the readership or a strong growth trend to bring in the income to cover his time and expenses, then it is not a good business strategy.
cool on the online – thanks!
You know what? It just is expensive. My husband needs high speed internet for work and let's face it I can hardly live without it either. TV is certainly a luxury that we don't need and have rarely had in our married life, but since having cable lowers our internet bill it doesn't really cost us much. We are a cell phone only family. And our cell bill is much higher than I would like due to my hubby's data plan. Sigh. I have tried to come up with a cheaper option, but so far nothing has presented itself. And I HATE that TV/phone/cable companies can't just offer a permanent rate! Why the stupid promo prices that jump astronomically after 6-12 months? Boo.
Our family recently switched home phone service to a VoIP provider to save money. We went through several providers, but at the end of the day we decided on getting an Ooma Telo. It was $200 on amazon, but completely nixes the phone bill completely (except $12/yr for regulatory fees). The voice quality is top notch, although you do want to check your broadband connection to make sure it is strong enough for VoIP (http://www.whichvoip.com/voip/.....speed.html). We were spending upwards of $30-35/month for phone service before, so the break even for us was around 6 months. As for the rest of our services, we bundle TV/Internet and renegotiate yearly…
Good luck!
Ditto on the Ooma. Had mine for almost a year. Great phone. I work out of home office but am in meetings 4hrs+/day. And you can keep current #, link your address to it for 911, etc.
Pro – low low initial cost, free US long distance, great spam call blocking. Call and vmsg fwd'ing to another phone or email.
Con – tricky to fax, but does work. If internet is out, so is phone.
Drop cable altogether. Use over the air for local channels. Repurpose a space PC to run Boxee (or other) and watch tons of free and legal TV shows from the web. And rely on Redbox or Netflix.
Don't scrimp on the Internet if your work, phone, and movies depend upon it. And get involved in net neutrality.
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I used to work at a summer camp with a generous blueberry patch, and I would take groups of campers out in late summer to pick them (and eat them, of course!). One group decided to make a batch of hand-cranked blueberry ice cream with their bounty. That was the best ice cream I've ever had, and it was great to see the kids get as excited about seasonal cooking as I was--they were just amazed that something could go from plant to "real food" (as one girl said) in such a short time!
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Salad, salad, salad! (Ok, and realistically, I also start craving the first summer beers right about now--especially Brooklyn Brewery Summer Ale--you can have your clean start and drink it too, right?)
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Days Of Our Lives Poll: A Dying DiMera.
It was recently revealed that Chad was not suffering from a brain tumor. Chad has continued to keep his secret under wraps even though he continues to have flashbacks of his appointment with the specialist and Cameron hounding him about telling his family that he is sick. It is more than likely that Chad won't be able to keep lying about his illness any longer. Is it possible someone will discover his secret?
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it's not like it's a snap for an American to get a p/t or fulltime job in Europe.
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but not a single band from the US ahas ever had any problems touring Europe. Not a single US band has been denied entrance on grounds of work related stuff. Touring as band is not regarded as working (i.e. taking jobs from Europeans) in Europe (either fulltime or p/t) wheeras in the US it apparently is seen as such.


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Watch events live from the U.S. Center in Copenhagen. Follow the U.S. Center on YouTube and Flickr.About the Author: Susan Elbow serves at the U.S. Mission to the European Union. She is currently on assignment at the U.S. Center in Copenhagen."Hi, this is Susan Elbow from the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, here in Copenhagen. This conference is the focus of the world's attention, and that means that there's just lots and lots of media here. And, in fact, today I heard that whereas last week there were some 1,500 credentialed journalists, this week that number has gone up to 3,000. Right now, I am standing just outside the main big briefing room, in an area where journalists have their cameras set up to do a lot of stand-ups with principals who come out after the briefings.
The U.S. delegation just like every other delegation has an assigned daily time for its briefing. Most days our briefer is Todd Stern; he is the U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change and the Head of Delegation. In today's briefing, he emphasized the enormous efforts being made -- the meetings late into night, the huge number of negotiation sessions taking place -- all trying to find common ground to reach an agreement.
You can find these events streamed live every day on the UN's webpage. We also put the transcripts of every daily briefing up on the State Department's COP-15 website, so check that out. There are still three days left to go in the conference and the U.S. delegation is growing every day. Of course, we're all anxiously awaiting the President's appearance on Friday. So, check in with me again tomorrow as I bring you more information about the activities taking place here in Copenhagen."


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It's almost tragic that the most badass escaped slave story most people know is Django Unchained. Because in real life, not only did slaves frequently escape, but they often did it without help from free whites, and without murdering several hundred people. Instead, what they had was cleverness and the audacity to try ridiculous plans that by all rights should never have worked.
5 A Couple Cross-Dress Their Way Out of Slavery
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In 1848, a slave in Georgia named William Craft hit upon a brilliant plan to escape from his life of bondage: His wife, Ellen, was very light-skinned, and with some forged papers she could easily pass for white. So, why not just pose as her slave and get on a train heading north? There's no way that plan can turn into some kind of wacky Three's Company-style farce!
Since it was pre-Civil War, it was more like Three-Fifths Company.
Wait, there was one problem -- in those days, it was pretty much unheard of for a white woman to travel alone in the company of a male slave, presumably because white men were wary of the enormous sex party that would inevitably break out in just such a situation. For the plan to work, the dainty Ellen would have to be disguised as a white man (she in no way looked like one of those). So, in true wacky '80s sitcom style, they wrapped most of Ellen's face in thick bandages and a pair of tinted glasses. Then, just to make sure that this disguise would attract as much attention as possible, they threw on a huge top hat. Since Ellen couldn't write, they also put a fake cast on her right arm so she wouldn't be asked to sign her name.
"You just put an 'X.' What's your first name?"
"Uh ... Malcolm."
With Ellen now resembling the invisible man in disguise as a mummy, they boarded a train to Philadelphia, only to find that they would be sitting across from a close friend of Ellen's master, who had known her for years. Luckily he didn't recognize them. Unluckily, he kept trying to start a conversation, forcing Ellen to pretend to be deaf to avoid talking to him. She kept this up for the rest of the journey, probably thinking that at any moment somebody was going to spring out and announce that it had all been a practical joke.
Finally, at their last stop in Baltimore, a suspicious railroad employee refused to allow William to board the train to Philadelphia without proof that he did actually belong to Ellen. However, the other passengers were so sympathetic to the thought of the clearly deathly ill "young man" wandering around Philly without his faithful slave to help him, they insisted that both be allowed to board. And with that, they were free.
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4 Lewis Williams Is Switched With a Body Double Mid-Trial
As a young boy, Lewis Williams escaped from slavery in Kentucky and grew up free in the abolitionist stronghold of Cincinnati. Things went wrong in his early 20s, however, when he decided to visit a local psychic to find out if a girl he liked was into him. Somehow he also ended up confiding that he was actually an escaped slave. Astonishingly for a woman who made her living ripping people off, the psychic immediately betrayed him to his former owner in exchange for a reward. Williams was seized by bounty hunters and taken before a judge to be extradited to Kentucky.
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While the bounty hunter took him away, the girl he asked about finally said "I love you." He said "I know."
And they would have gotten away with it, too, if the leader of the black community in Cincinnati hadn't been a stone-cold badass by the name of Reverend William Troy. No sooner had he heard about the arrest than he was dreaming up a plan so insane that no one would see it coming.
And certainly not that douche psychic from earlier.
As luck would have it, Troy knew another young man who bore a striking resemblance to Williams. And he also knew that some white people have famously questionable skills in the field of advanced telling black people apart. So when Troy heard that Williams had been seized, he made sure that a crowd of his fellow abolitionists rushed over and packed into the courtroom. Then they simply waited until everyone else was distracted by a dramatic legal argument, at which point Williams and his double quickly switched places and Williams crawled out the door on his hands and knees, hidden behind a wall of hilariously large old-timey women's skirts.
To give him time to escape, Williams' lawyers allowed the trial to continue for several more hours before a bailiff finally noticed that the defendant was an entirely different person. Williams' troubles weren't over there, though, and the house he was hiding out in was surrounded by suspicious policemen. Again, Troy swung into action with another of his patented wacky schemes. And as in the previous entry, it was cross-dressing to the rescue.
How has Tyler Perry not made this movie yet?
So, Troy disguised Williams as his daughter in petticoats, crinoline, and a large bonnet with a veil. The fugitive walked right out the front door and past the crowd of policemen on the arm of a "gentleman caller." Another life saved due to the heroic power of shenanigans.


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I'm a male 5'9". 165 lbs. Aggressive skier that almost only ski at Whistler. Off-piste, including double diamonds, tree runs and occasionally mogul runs. I'm in the market for an all mountain ski and have tried Rossignols, Fischers, Atomics, Salomons and Volkls. Liked the S3, Shoguns and Mantra. I've not been able to try any Blizzards. My current skis: Rossignol Z9. Length: 162cm and dimensions: 136- 74- 105 Volkl Supersport Limited Edition. Length:168 - approximate dimensions: 115- 70-102. I mostly use this pair, when the conditions are for piste runs. The 2011-2012 Bonafide dimensions: 133-98-116. So considering my current skis and that the Bonafide has rocker tip and tail. I'm assuming either a length of 173 or 180.
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Peak Moment 217: Portland's backyard fruit - from waste to feast
"We look forward to a time when we're really able to harvest all of the fruit trees in the city that aren't being fully utilized," envisions Katy Kolker, founder and executive director of Portland Fruit Tree Project. Volunteer groups harvest trees whose fruit would otherwise go to waste. Half of the fruit goes to neighborhood food banks, and the remainder goes home with the volunteers. Tree Care workshops offered to the public cover pruning, thinning and pest and disease control. They also train Tree Care Teams who adopt clusters of fruit trees in a neighborhood. From harvesting 8000 pounds of fruit in 2008 to three times that in 2010, this growing project is bearing fruit and benefitting thousands. [portlandfruit.org]
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Wandering: New Photographic Works by Linda Bourassa
January 23 - February 24, 2012
"This exhibition is the result of a sabbatical leave in the Spring of 2011. It began with a trip to Florida and in that month, two trips to Payne's Prairie, south of Gainesville. I took long walks, with my camera, along raised earth paths with dredged canals that were populated with many alligators and species of large birds. Despite having the reputation of being a national park with the most Apex predators, it has a subtle beauty that challenged me to slow down, observe, and find new rhythms."
Linda Bourassa is a Professor of Art and faculty member of the Art Department since the Fall of 1987. She completed two master's degrees from the University of Iowa. The first was a Masters in Film Production in 1980 and the second, the terminal degree, an MFA in Photography in the Spring of 1987. She teaches Fine Art Photography and Film Art as well as Contemporary Media, Digital Art, and Entrepreneurship in the Studio Arts.
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- Days to Decades: A Retrospective
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The Los Alamos High School cross country program will start summer practices this week and the Los Alamos Middle School's cross country program will begin the following week.
Practice for LAHS' program starts Wednesday. The first practice is at 6 p.m. at Sullivan Field. Practice for LAMS will start 6 p.m. June 20 at Sullivan Field.
Anyone interested in competing during the fall season is encouraged to attend.
A local bowling team picked up first place in its division at the state open championship tournament last month.
The Lobos bowling squad rolled a total of 3,613 pins at the state tournament, which earned it the men's Division I title, but without much room to spare.
The team, comprised of locals Tim Ellis, Jeff Brown, Bryan Fearey, Travis Turner and Kerry Coffelt, slipped past the Throw Togethers, a team from Roswell. Throw Togethers tallied a combined 3,598 in the tournament.
One of the initial organizers of the YMCA's fundraising golf tournament was there in spirit Saturday.
Just a little less than a year after his death, the YMCA renamed one of its biggest fundraising events of the year for Ed Griggs. Griggs was a longtime volunteer and member of the local YMCA, but is remembered for lending a hand for anyone who needed it.
But among Griggs' many passions were golf and gardening. So when the YMCA dedicated a plaque in his honor Saturday at Los Alamos Golf Course, the most logical place was on the third tee box where he was out several times a week tending the flowers planted around it.
Cross country summer practice starts this week
The Los Alamos High School cross country program will start summer practices this week and the Los Alamos Middle School program will begin the following week.
Practice for LAHS' program starts Wednesday. The first practice will be at 6 p.m. at Sullivan Field.
Practices for LAMS' team will start 6 p.m. June 20, also at Sullivan Field.
Anyone interested in competing for either program during the fall 2012 season is encouraged to attend.
Youth basketball camps to benefit elementary schools
Los Alamos wide out Seth Drop tries to evade a defender from Española Valley during a 7-on-7 passing league game Thursday at Santa Fe. Santa Fe High, Capital and Santa Fe Indian School also took part. The Hilltoppers play in the touch-football league, which has games every Thursday this month.
Just three weeks after one of the most punishing footraces in the southwest comes another punishing race.
The Run The Caldera 10K is scheduled for Saturday while the marathon and half-marathons will be run Sunday. All the races start and end at the Banco Bonito Staging Area.
Saturday's 10K starts at 9 a.m. The marathon goes off at 7:30 a.m. Sunday and the half-marathon gets going at 8:30 a.m. Sunday.
This is just the second year of the Run the Caldera's 10K. The marathon and half-marathon will be in their seventh year.
The races all feature elevations over 8,000 feet and the marathon features more than 2,100 feet of elevation change throughout.
On a tough-to-predict course, Alexander Romero nipped Nikol Strother for the best prediction in this week's Pace Race.
The Pace Race was Tuesday. The race was held on the New Pipeline Gutbuster course in Quemazon. In all, 24 runners and walkers took part.
Romero, who was a dual winner this week, was off by 28 seconds from his predicted finish time Tuesday. Strother had the next-best prediction with a 31-second error and Amy Regan had a 32-second error.
The fastest runner on the 1-mile course was Melinda Burnside, who finished in 9:48. Zachary Medin finished the course in 10:22.
On the 3.2-mile course, Romero had the fastest finish (26:01). Regan finished in 29:28.
Members of the Atomic City Roadrunners take off from the start of the New Quemazon Gutbuster run. Results will be in Friday's Los Alamos Monitor.
The Family YMCA's third annual Strong Kids Classic Golf Tournament changed its official name to remember long-time Y friend and golf community member, Ed Griggs.
The Ed Griggs Memorial Strong Kids Classic will be Saturday at Los Alamos Golf Course. The scramble-format tournament has a 1 p.m. shotgun start time.
Taylor fires an ace at LAGC
Los Alamos Golf Course had its second hole-in-one of the 2012 season and Wayne Taylor had the second hole-in-one of his life June 1.
Taylor aced the par-3 No. 8 hole at LAGC. Taylor used a 6-iron on the 172-yard hole.
The hole-in-one was witnessed by Jay Staton, John Engle and Beau Ballard.
Brewer earns football award
Los Alamos Hilltopper football player Peter Brewer picked up an award at football camp last week.
Brewer was named Top Gun Linebacker by Football University at its regional camp in Denver. The national camp will be July 19-21 in Williamsburg, Va.
Brewer is one of Los Alamos' top returning starters for the 2012 season.
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Thousand Islands Performing Arts Center Announces 2013 Season
The Thousand Islands Performing Arts Center has announced its 2013 season at the Clayton Opera House.
Among the highlights: a July 20 appearance by Broadway veteran Ben Vereen; a July 27 benefit lecture by Watertown native Dr. Toby Cosgrove, who is president of the Cleveland Clinic; and an August 14 appearance by pianist Christopher O'Riley, host of NPR's "From The Top" program. O'Riley is also known for two albums of solo piano recordings of music by the band Radiohead.
The classic rock group Jefferson Starship will perform August 22.
The list of performers is long and covers a variety of genres. A complete list can be found here.
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American Samoa is being represented in the 2012 Oceania Wrestling Championships (January 27- 29), with wrestlers from the American Samoa Wrestling Association (ASWA), as well as those who are of Samoan descent and have been training off-island. The championships are taking place in Sydney, Australia, and are the first stage of the Olympic qualifier for the 2012 Olympic Games to be held in London, England this summer.
The American Samoa High School Athletic Association (ASHSAA) wrestling season is just getting warmed up for this 2011-2012 season,with its first regular season tournament on Saturday at the Samoana High School gymnasium, with a starting time of 9:00 a.m. Nine teams are competing; Leone, Nu'uuli VocTech, Tafuna, Faga'itua, Samoana, Kanana Fou, South Pacific, Fa'asao Marist and Manumalo.
Samoa Bowl IX featured a lot of new sporting events to its weeklong schedule, one of which was the Girls Softball clinic, called the "Ta'alo Malosi" Softball Clinic, hosted by the Ricketts sisters, Samantha, Keilani and Stephanie. When they left island, they not only donated equipment to the territory's softball association, but also left a wealth of insight or tips into the game that has brought them success, both in their professional as well as personal lives.
Samoa News reported in the second week of January 2012 on the statistics out of the Attorney General's Office, which indicate that there is a "massive increase" in sexual crimes in the territory, based on figures the office has collected in 2010, and compared to 2011.
The Senate has again rejected Gov. Togiola Tulafono's nomination of Dr. Jacinta S. Galeai as director of the Department of Education, as the nominee failed to muster enough "yes" votes to be confirmed yesterday. The vote was 8 in support of Galeai, while 6 senators voted "no". She needed at least 10 "yes" votes.
Two police officers are at the center of a police investigation on allegations that they took two iPods in connection with a stolen property case from a store last year.
This has been confirmed from a government official who asked for anonymity because this person is not authorized to speak about the investigation at this time.
The government official said a local store filed a complaint with police last year about minors who allegedly stole two iPods from the store, and police were contacted. The minors were taken in for questioning, along with the iPods.
The American Samoa Hawai'i Cable Limited Liability Company (ASH Cable), whose primary business activity is the operation of the only undersea fiber optic cable between Hawaii, American Samoa and the Independent State of Samoa recorded a net loss of over $1.159 million in 2010 after more than $2.5 million in depreciation. Before depreciation and interest deductions, the net profit from operations was more than $2.2 million.
After making several amendments to a Senate bill, the House approved yesterday in final reading the measure that provides for the LBJ Medical Center funding to the tune of $3 million, which is a loan to be repaid with a new 2% wage tax.
The bill now goes to the Senate, where senators will decide on whether or not to accept the amendments. If they do, the bill will then be registered and sent to the governor for his action but if not, a conference committee will be called for both chambers to iron out final language of the measure.
The federal court in Washington D.C. has ordered Paul Solofa to be released on his own recognizance but he must self surrender in Honolulu for detainment while awaiting sentencing in April.
Solofa, the local Department of Education's former business office manager, was convicted last week by a federal court jury on one count each of witness tempering and obstruction of justice in connection with the DOE school bus spare parts scheme.
The Attorney General's office has re-filed their case against Aaron Wisdom, the owner of the container at Port in which customs agents allegedly discovered a marijuana substance, drug paraphernalia, guns and live ammunition two weeks ago.
The government's move to re-file followed when District Court Judge John Ward dismissed the charges against Wisdom Monday afternoon, after the government failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that a crime had been committed and that Wisdom had committed that crime.
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Mountaineer men ousted
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Dejan Kravic rebounded Texas Tech's desperation shot and dropped it into the bucket just ahead of the buzzer, lifting Texas Tech over West Virginia 71-69 in the opening round Wednesday night of the Big 12 tournament.
The Red Raiders (11-19), who lost twice to West Virginia in the regular season, gave up a 14-point lead in the first half but managed to hold on for only their second victory all year away from home.
Texas Tech will meet the Big 12 regular-season champion, No. 7 Kansas (26-5), in Thursday's quarterfinals.
Jaye Crockett's 18 points led Texas Tech, which had lost 11 of its last 12.
West Virginia (13-19) ended its first season in the Big 12 on a seven-game losing skid, again denying coach Bob Huggins the victory he's been needing to tie Ray Meyer for 18th on the all-time Division I winning list. Terry Henderson had 12 points for the Mountaineers.
Fighting from behind virtually the entire game, the Mountaineers cut the deficit to 64-63 on Aaric Murray's 3-pointer and then went up 66-64 when Jabarie Hinds connected from behind the arc. Crockett's free throw cut the West Virginia lead to 68-67 at the 1:43 mark, but with 62 seconds left, the 6-foot-11 Kravic got inside for a bucket and gave the Raiders a 69-68 lead when he missed the ensuing free throw.
Murray's bucket was waved off when he was called for traveling, but on the other end, Kravic was called for a foul while fighting for an offensive rebound, sending Deniz Kilicli to the foul line for a one-and-one with 20.1 seconds to go. He made the first, tying the game at 69. But he missed the second and Texas Tech rebounded.
Ty Nurse hit 3 of 4 3-pointers in the opening minutes, but did not attempt another shot the rest of the game and finished with 12 points for Texas Tech. Jordan Tolbert fouled out with 11 points and Kravic totaled 10.
West Virginia got 11 points from Murray and 10 from Kilicli.
Right after Matt Humphrey's 3-pointer got the Mountaineers to within a single point at 42-41, Humphrey drew a personal foul for taunting – West Virginia's second in the game – and Nurse sank a pair of free throws, followed by another foul shot by Tolbert and a fast-break bucket by Josh Gray that pushed the lead to 47-41.
With Nurse getting wide-open looks from 3-point range, the Red Raiders scored 16 of the game's first 20 points and seized a big early lead which reached its highest point at 30-16 when Toddrick Gotcher scored a bucket at the 6:01 mark. A few minutes earlier, West Virginia's Murray had drawn a personal foul and Nurse converted one free throw.
But then the Mountaineers, thoroughly outplayed to that point, unleashed a 16-5 spree capped by Eron Harris' basket. Josh Gray's two free throws sent the Raiders into halftime with a 37-32 edge.
In the final 6 minutes, the Red Raiders managed only one bucket – Crockett's 3-pointer that made it 35-24.
Nurse was wearing jersey No. 55 because somebody forgot to pack his regular jersey with the number 4.
In the Tech-dominated opening minutes, Nurse nailed two 3-pointers and then got a third straight wide-open look and missed, but Crockett was there for a tip-in for a 9-2 lead.
A moment later, the Mountaineers again left the 6-1 senior open on the wing and he canned it, making him 3 for 4 from beyond the arc and giving the Red Raiders a quick 12-4 lead which went to 14-4 when Crockett canned two foul shots.


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...while a particular state budget might report receiving $20 billion in taxes (just barely enough to sustain its $20 billion in costs) - the CAFR might reveal the state's real income is in the neighborhood of $60 billion - three times as much as reported on the budget. If these allegations are accurate, the particular state could stop charging all the taxes we are familiar with and, not only survive but, either double the amount of reported government services or give every citizen a huge tax rebate.
The implications are mind-boggling. The CAFRs reveal that the world is so different from what we are led to believe, so much more corrupt than suspected, that we are left with three choices, either; 1) government agrees to end the deception and stop overtaxing us, or 2) the American people agree to accept their status as slaves, or 3) both sides refuse to agree and precipitate a shooting revolution. The issue is that big. - Walter Burien Jr.
Why Taxes Are Not Necessary: Introduction to CAFR by Walter J. Burien, Jr.
Walter Burien Jr. worked as a Wall Street Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) for fourteen years, but now resides in Arizona. According to Mr. Burien, every state, county, school district, government run enterprise operation, and major metropolitan city is keeping two sets of books. One set, the Budget report, is commonly available and tracks each governmental entity's tax revenue and where they spend that tax revenue. The Budget is the financial record that's promoted to the public and used by politicians to justify new governmental services and higher taxes.
However, there is a second or far superlative book, called the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, or CAFR, which is virtually unknown to the public but contains the real record of total governmental gross income. According to Mr. Burien, although the Budget gives an accurate account of government use of tax revenue, only the CAFR gives an accurate account of government's true gross income.
For example, while a particular state budget might report receiving $20 billion in taxes collected (just barely enough to sustain its $20 billion in expenditures) - the CAFR might reveal the state's real income is in the neighborhood of $60 billion - three times as much as reported on the budget. If these allegations are accurate, with public intervention to restructure a government body, the particular state, county, or city could stop charging all the taxes we are familiar with and, not only survive but, maintain without taxation the amount of reported government services or give every citizen a huge cash rebate.
The implications are mind-boggling. The CAFRs reveal that the world is so different from what we are led to believe, so much more corrupt than suspected, that we are left with three choices, either; 1) government agrees to end the deception and stop taxing us, or 2) the American people agree to accept their status as slaves, or 3) both sides refuse to agree and precipitate a shooting revolution. The issue is that big.
Are Mr. Burien's allegations correct? How could any governmental entity dare to routinely overcharge its citizens by 200%, underreport its income by 2/3rds, and knowingly press for higher taxes based on an inaccurate budget? Worse, how could such a fraudulent system become widespread among all states, counties, cities and the Federal Government?
Due to the money involved! It is that simple.
Those who have made efforts to verify Burien's research indicate that the conclusions drawn by Burien are probably correct. For instance: The State of Alaska and the city of Anchorage both use Budget/CAFR accounting systems that conceal a breathtaking difference in reported revenue. Another researcher in Wyoming claims that a comparison of his state's budget and CAFR also support Mr. Burien's arguments. A retired federal auditor after talking with Mr. Burien put up a website http://CAFRMan.com that lists CAFR surplus reviews of most state governments. In every case, there are two sets of books and the gross income reported on the budget report is millions or billions of dollars less than is reported on the CAFR.
These verifications of Burien's research and findings lend credence to his allegations.
What follows is an amalgam of statements or implications raised by Mr. Burien in various interviews.
Mr. Burien reports first discovering the CAFR report in New Jersey in 1989, when he helped start and incorporated a New Jersey tax protest group called "Hands across New Jersey." While involved with that group, Mr. Burien read in the state's Annual Budget that the total cost of all public services was $17 billion and the "net available" (the money on hand to pay all bills) was $24.6 billion. But then he asked himself the first question the IRS asks in any audit: "What are the gross receipts?" He added the figures from various state government sources and came up with about $44 billion and began to wonder how the state could have $17 billion in expenditures with $24.6 billion in cash on hand shown on the Budget report, and at least $44 billion annual income? The numbers didn't add up, so he began to dig deeper.
Because his father had been the Director of Personnel for the State Treasury for four years, Mr. Burien understood how to get around in the various government departments. The state Director of the Budget Richard Kievey was on vacation, so Mr. Burien called one of his lowest level assistants and said, "I m working on a report for Richard [the vacationing Budget Director] and I need all the figures on the autonomous agency accounts, interest accounts, investment accounts." The assistant said, "Oh, you want the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR)." This was the first time Burien had heard of the CAFR but he said, "Yes, I need it" and the assistant mailed it to him.
The 1989 CAFR showed that New Jersey had liquid investment funds (cash equivalent) of $188 billion of which; common stocks worth $70 billion, $10 billion in loans made by the state due from public and private corporations, and $14 billion in insurance company equity participation. The little state of New Jersey, which admitted to less than $17 billion in annual income on its budget, reported $188 billion in cash, stocks, loans and equity participation on its CAFR. According to Mr. Burien, "On that day, I learned the definition of syndicated organized crime." Keep in mind that most of the revenue and investments from the 21 counties, hundreds of cities, municipalities, school districts, state financial authorities, many other local government owned pension funds, and 69 enterprise authorities, all of which put out their own CAFR or Combined Financial Statement are not in most part inclusive with the state's revenue and investments. Totals from all here when looking at composite New Jersey government figures are well in excess of 1.8 Trillion dollars. Divide that figure by the population of New Jersey to see the per capita share of the wealth.
So why are the taxes in New Jersey some of the highest in the country? The answered is; Power corrupts, absolute Power corrupts absolutely. Mr. Burien keeps emphasizing to the public that they, the public, left the VAULT door open, and those sharp little crackers said thank you very much. The problem is that most (99%) of the public responds with, Vault, what vault. With this well entrenched attitude of naivety by the public in place, those sharp little crackers now have even stopped saying thank you very much as they plunder the wealth in their unabated efforts towards the building of their own empires within the corporate structure of Composite Government.
The scam worked something like this: Anything that was a cost or expense for public services (the traditional side of the Annual Service Budget, such as the Department of Transportation, health and welfare, etc.) was reported on the Budget where public taxes primarily paid 100% of the bill for those services. That was $17 billion.
However, any governmental agency that was a profit center (the Port Authority for New Jersey, the New Jersey Turnpike, and investment accounts, etc.) that generated no tax revenue was "restricted by statute from being reported in and benefiting the Annual Budget. Why? Because the state legislature passed laws to prevent reporting the income from investment or venture profit centers on the Budget. Instead, income from these profit centers was disclosed only on the CAFR or other financial reports referenced in the notes of the CAFR.
But that disclosure was not immediately apparent. For example, when Mr. Burien looked for New Jersey's 1989 "gross cash receipts" in the CAFR, he found the figure buried on page 174, under the "Waste Water Treatment Trust Fund." It showed the amount of the total cash receipts (Cash Additions) for 1989 from all state agencies, departments, and sources was $83.799 billion. In other words, New Jersey State Government from all sources was grossing $84 billion to provide $17 billion in taxation applied public services as seen in the openly represented Annual Service Budget. New Jersey citizens were paying $5 for every $1 in services they received, and the state was pocketing (utilizing) the other $4 as "profit" for other purposes.
When breaking down the true revenue income, the most important revelation was that only one third of the states income came from taxes, fines and fees. Two thirds of state government's income came from Other Sources of investment return and enterprise operations with no direct tie to the publicly known budget. When looking at the openly disclosed Budget, which each year continued to grow at a runaway pace, here ever-expanding taxation primarily covered the expenses.
The 1989 CAFR also reported the state owned $32 billion in common stocks - but this figure was footnoted. The footnote revealed that the stocks were valued according to their original purchase price, not the current market value. In other words, if the state bought a stock in 1968 at $1.25 a share and it's worth $300 a share now, they still report it on the CAFR as worth $1.25 a share. Burien determined that the true market value for the "$32 billion" in stocks reported on the New Jersey CAFR was actually about $70 billion.
But Mr. Burien goes further - he claims that the dual system of books is definitely not unique to New Jersey, but also common among the in 1989 over 54,000 local government corporate entities operating within all fifty states. Moreover, he claims the dual accounting system used ten years ago in New Jersey was created in 1946 through an "private" association by the name of GFOA (Government Financial Officers Association) and is the primary local government accounting structure being used today overseen for policy and accounting rules to follow dictated by GASB (Government Accounting Standards Board) another "private" association.
For example, "In 1977 Arizona's annual service budget reported $2.8 billion in "gross" revenues but the state's 1977 CAFR reported total cash receipts of $3.1 billion, a mere $300 million difference."
"However, in 1997, Arizona reported an Annual Service Budget of $5.5 billion while the State's CAFR (printed by the Auditor General's Office) showed total gross receipts of $17 billion. That's a difference of over $11 billion over what was reported on the Budget report. In just twenty years, Arizona had caught up to New Jersey in that both states annual Budget reports showed less than one third of the actual gross income seen in the states CAFRs.
"CAFRs, AFRs (Annual Financial Report), and Combined Financial Statement reports (federal) indicate that the composite totals for all government (Federal, state, county and city) ownership of publicly traded stocks exceeds $32 TRILLION (53% of the total ownership of all listed stocks from ALL exchanges INTERNATIONALLY in 1989), $8 TRILLION in insurance company equity (should we be surprised by high priced mandatory auto insurance or unaffordable health care?) and $5 TRILLION in Bond Surety Escrow Accounts for future liability of existing or potential debt. Government in fact was using their own investment funds through the back door to fund a large percentage of their own debt promoted to the public at the front door.
Governments use Bond Surety Escrow Accounts to evade that pesky little rule that government should not operate at a "profit." That is, government should not impose more taxes than it actually uses to run the government. By designating tax revenue that exceeds operating costs as "Bond Surety Escrow" for future liability, government avoids calling excess revenue a "profit" and is thereby enabled to continue to substantially enrich itself at public expense.
To illustrate the potential for abusing "future liability payments," consider the New Jersey plan in the 1950s to build the New Jersey State Turnpike and Garden State Parkway Authorities. The state asked voters to approve a $7.5 billion bond to construct the turnpikes. The state explained that these turnpikes would be operated as toll roads by the bondholders until the $7.5 billion bond was paid off - but the bondholders could not operate the toll roads at a profit. Once the bonds were repaid, the turnpikes would revert back into the state s Annual Budget as a normal cost/revenue item. The public voted yes.
Over the following years, the state sometimes alleged that the toll revenue from operating those turnpikes failed to cover their operating expenses, and so additional bonds were passed to fund the turnpikes. As a result, in 1990, the total bond liability still owed for the turnpike had grown to $14.5 billion. But guess how much was in the Bond Surety Escrow Accounts? $32 Billion! Enough to repay the standing $14.5 billion bonds off twice!
How could that happen? Say the toll road made a $400 million profit for the year and the scheduled payment on the $7.5 billion bond was $100 million. The state made the $100 million payment but payment of the $300 million extra into the Bond Surety Escrow Account that generated substantial annual dividend returns while being designated for future liability payments. Although they kept the $300 million, they did not declare it as an asset but wrote it off as a line item payment. In other years, even though they made a good profit, by depositing more than the profit made they alleged that they lost money and therefore floated more billions in bonds. (Guess who pays?)
The bottom line is that New Jersey and other local government entities are collecting hundreds of billions of virtually unreported dollars from other operations. The motivating factor is not public welfare, but control of those billions.
Mr. Burien not only alleges that the dual accounting system exemplified by CAFR is not only used by all fifty states, but also by all counties, cities and the Federal Government itself. If Mr. Burien's allegations are correct, as they appear they are after verification from many others that have now looked, they comprise the most damning indictment of big government yet seen. In sum, Mr. Burien implies that our government is in fact acting as a criminal enterprise bent on oppressing Americans by extorting several times as much tax revenue then is needed for what it spends on public services and using the majority of those extorted revenues to further enrich, empower and enlarge government at public expense.
Mr. Burien contends that the inner circle of the individuals controlling the top wealth of this structure, have the attitude toward the public of; Keep the Chipmunk (the public) running on the treadmill, confused as possible, as through trickle down economics, just enough revenue is supplied to keep the chipmunk running at optimum efficiency as the top inner circle controlling parties tap off 80% of the energy produced by the treadmill. The key words here are Optimum Efficiency and by the definition of what the public has allowed to happen as they left the vault door unintentionally open, the true final effect of forced labor, control, and subservience has masterfully and strongly rooted by unrestrained takeover.
According to Mr. Burien, although the public is absolutely ignorant concerning the wealth and gross income shown in the CAFR, the primary cause for that ignorance is not the politicians firmly entrenched for enrichment but the mainstream media. When Mr. Burien first discovered the CAFR reports in New Jersey in 1989, he went on radio 101.5 FM in a live 45-minute interview. Several days later, that radio station was threatened with losing its license on "other" issues and was almost shut down. CAFR had become another example of - "third rail journalism" – since the 60's any reporter or media outlet that touched the issue would be silenced or driven from journalism. As a result, there's been a total mainstream media blackout on disclosing CAFR reports. For over fifty years the directors and CEOs of the primary syndicated media organizations both print and broadcast, were sent state CAFR reports each and every year, as they maintained a blackout towards the simple mentioning of the report. As the wealth base grew, more hands were firmly entrenched in the pockets of that wealth.
Mr. Burien reports the discovery of the fact that as of 1990, New Jersey State Judges are vested in a personal retirement guarantee of $5,000,000.00, per judge after they serve as a judge for one year (they vested with 100% retirement benefits after 1 year). Federal district court judges did not have a retirement or pension plan do to the fact that they were appointed for life. Being appointed for life they received their full paycheck and benefits for life. Do you need anyone to spell it out for you? Would a New Jersey State or Federal District Judge allow an attack on the squirreled away $Billions and jeopardize his entry into $Millionaire$ boys retirement club status? The inner circle gets the gold!!
Later, Burien learned that the New Jersey official in charge of discrediting his CAFR discoveries was a former reporter (Harvey Fisher) who d been appointed Assistant State Treasurer - even though he had no former financial background. Burien investigated his background and learned that as a reporter for the Bergen Record he made $35,000 a year. But as Assistant State Treasurer he made $65,000 a year - plus a Carte Blanche tax free expense account of $125,000 !????????
Burien claims this was not an aberration: "I knew there was a state data search department under the Department of Treasure Personnel division which tied all agencies and departments together. In 1990 I called that department and asked for a data search on all key level directorships and supervisory positions for all budgetary or autonomous agencies, and they came up with some 3,400 names currently listed that were placed over several administrations. Almost 1800 of these Directors were former editors or reporters! It is a virtual certainty that many of these appointments were payoffs for the journalist's previous "cooperation" in spinning or silencing stories to suit government as it took it all over by expansion and investment wealth takeover..
If you conduct a comparable search in other states, you may find a similar symbiotic relationship between government, editors, and reporters. The more money held and generated by an agency, the higher the percentage will be. If so, the media's "liberal, pro-government bias" may run much deeper than anyone has imagined, and the military-industrial complex" described by President Eisenhower in the 1950's may have been replaced by a "media-bureaucracy-banker complex" in the 1990s.
Therefore, Mr. Burien recommends that once you analyze your state's Budget and CAFR reports (and make sure to look at back issues over the decades), you insist that your local news mainstream media (TV, papers, radio) raise the "Public Awareness" by reporting the difference between the composite "total of cash receipts from all agencies, departments, investments, etc." and the "actual total composite revenues held or controlled." Mr. Burien started with national disclosure of the CAFR and the structure behind it on June 8th 1998. In 1999, GFOA and GASB (Government Accounting Standards Board) changed through successive transmittal letters sent to local governments the accounting requirements for local governments within the Combined Financial Columns of the CAFR from; All revenue, income and investments being shown, To; All revenue, income and investments being shown that were necessary to meet obligations and liabilities of that local government. This change in accounting is substantial. The good point here for disclosure is that you can look at a pre 1999 CAFR report, 1997-95-93, etc., and spot modifications made in revenue reporting from pre 1999 reports in comparison with post 1999 CAFR reports. With this being done, you now know to ask and look closely at the note sections for the accounting of those revenue streams taken off the balance columns of the CAFR. Read the notes of the CAFR carefully.
If your local media refuse to publicize your state's CAFR, they may be cooperating with a criminal agreement which has effectively silenced public disclosure of the CAFR reports for over fifty years. However, once Americans know how much money is out there, where it's coming from and where it's going - the government's and the inner circle's game will be over.
Any media that refuses to make "simple" and immediate mention of the CAFR report should be publicly and aggressively exposed for their symbiotic cooperation in silence. Exposure of the complicity of media is the jugular vein of exposing the evil and corruption. TREASON: "Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason." Sir John Harrington, 1561-1612
A video produced started in December of 1999, by Mr. Burien, entitled: "The Biggest Game In Town", is available and is set up for airing on your Public Access or local TV stations. Mr. Burien, in this video introduces a program that could lead to the final elimination of taxation in this country with a possible dividend return to the public by and through the restructuring of the principle of operation of government by public mandate in making the public the direct beneficiary of the wealth. The information on the video is a must see for every American.
POST NOTE: The video was uploaded to Google video on December 25th 2008 for worldwide viewing of which in a few months after release it has been viewed 2.7 million times breaking "all date records" If you do a Google search for the key words: Government wealth, you will get 55 million hits with the video being the first hit and Mr. Burien's website CAFR1.com being the second hit. Even in light of this; The silence continues from our political bodies and the main-stream syndicated media. It is apparent the "silence is golden" routine is truly golden for those so well entrenched and intentionally involved..
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