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Those born on August 26

     Those born on August 26^th rarely assume the conspicuous position in a business, family or social function, generally preferring to work along with others toward a common goal. More specifically, many August 26^th people have to struggle for recognition. Inside they know their own worth, but the world is not always quick to recognize it. If those born on this day remain content with a supporting role, or are patient enough to wait for their time to lead, they will be happy and industrious if not they may become frustrated and unproductive.

     August 26 people generally make excellent parents, as they understand the importance of structure and organization in the lives of children. Those with little ambition are usually pretty relaxed in the demands they make on their offspring.

     Many August 26 people enjoy working behind the scenes, and in exceptional cases can be the moving force behind of a well known individual or group. Not only team players, they actually take satisfaction in remaining unseen and anonymous rather than fretting for lack of attention, they may actually luxuriate in the freedom, as they see it, of doing their work without much ego interference. Such dedicated individuals are usually worth their weight in gold to a family or business.

   Those born on the 26^th of the month are ruled by the number 8 (2+6=8 ). Those born on this day are usually charismatic and determined to succeed; the negative qualities include complacency and the misuse use of power.

Advice:    Sometimes being too accepting is not good. Learn to stand up for yourself, be more forceful in demanding rights in return for the work you do. Don’t live through others, take the lead yourself sometimes.

Strengths:    Selfcontaining, accepting and cooperation

Weaknesses:  passive, regressed and self sacrificing

Born on this day:  Geraldine Ferraro, Branford Marsalis, and Lee De Forest

This Day in History:  On this day in 1939, the first televised Major League baseball game is broadcast on station W2XBS, the station that was to become WNBC-TV. Announcer Red Barber called the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York.

Famous inventions on this day: 1902 Arthur McCurdy obtained a patent for a daylight developing tank for roll film.

Meditation

Two shapes in a painting, happening in the same space, create a time between them-a kind of rhythmical occurrence.

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Meet the scofflaw who allegedly owes more than $172 million to the IRS -- a broke, former Alphabet City hipster who has had to borrow money from relatives to make ends meet.

Garage-band guitarist Marcos Esparza Bofill quit his floundering job as a day trader in the city after less than a year -- and left the tiny tenement apartment that he shared with roommates on East Sixth Street to move back to his native Barcelona, Spain, in hopes of having better luck with music career there, friends said. 

"The first thing he said to me [yesterday after learning of the tax bill] was, 'What's the IRS?' " one pal told The Post.

"He was shocked. He's trying to figure out what's going on.

"It's something that can easily be cleared up," the friend added. "It's crazy. He's a very chilled, relaxed guy. I think he's making music right now. He plays guitar and I think is doing some deejay stuff. 

"In the end, he wasn't even making money [as a trader]. He was definitely taking a loss. He arranged to get some money from a family member and wound up borrowing money again. 

"He had a very modest apartment. I think he was in a room that all you could fit in was a bed. 

"It's ridiculous," the pal said of the tax lien. "[The IRS] is just out of control. It makes my stomach turn."

Esparza did not return requests for comment.

IRS officials refused to talk about his case, citing federal privacy laws.

According to IRS documents posted on The Smoking Gun Web site, Esparza owes $172,101,056.48 on his unfiled 2006 tax return. 

But experts said he clearly doesn't owe that amount. 

The number was likely generated by the total amount of trades he made, instead of the profit he earned from them, one tax expert said, adding that's a typical move by the IRS when returns aren't filed.

Read more and photo: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/irs_says_this_broke_ny_hipster_better_YO0mGaltl4KryhYx53iU8L#ixzz0xgDKCTZe

Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010

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Posted: Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010

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Joe Raedle Getty Images A police car with lights ablaze responds to an emergency call this month in Miami.

Budget cuts are forcing police around the country to stop responding to fraud, burglary and theft calls as officers focus limited resources on violent crime.Cutbacks in such places as Oakland, Tulsa and Norton, Mass. have forced police to tell residents to file their own reports — online or in writing — for break-ins and other lesser crimes. 

"If you come home to find your house burglarized and you call, we're not coming," said Oakland Police spokeswoman Holly Joshi. The city laid off 80 officers from its force of 687 last month and the department can't respond to burglary, vandalism, and identity theft. "It's amazing. It's a big change for us." 

MORE: State police forces shrink BUDGET CUTS: Mounted police fading in sunset?  Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, the nation's largest police union, said cutbacks are preventing many police agencies from responding to property crimes. 

"The chiefs are putting the best face on this they can," Pasco said. "But think of this: that next property crime could involve a junkie who killed someone the night before."

In Tulsa, which lost 110 officers to layoffs and retirements, the 739-officer department isn't sending cops to the scene of larceny, fraud and car theft.

 Tulsa police spokesman Jason Willingham says some residents have said they won't bother to report those crimes any more. "They think nothing is going to be done, so why mess with it," he said. 

In the Boston suburb of Norton, police told residents there may be delays or no response at all to some calls, including vandalism. The department posted the new policy on its website. 

"We wanted to let people know about this," Norton Police Chief Brian Clark said. "We didn't want people to be surprised." 

Bernard Melekian, director of the Justice Department's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, said the actions reflect are a reflection of the hard economic times across the country.

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     August 25^th people have an overwhelming desire to reveal themselves to others, whether in public or private. Those born on this day are capable of carrying secrets around with them for years, only to one day disclose or even flaunt them publicly. Most August 25^th people are by nature exhibitionists of all types, but they can play the role of highly private people when it suits them.

     Although they are generally blessed with active, intelligent minds, August 25^th people are intensely physical and are emotionally forward. Those born on this day are not afraid to make their wishes known in a dramatic fashion. Both men and women born on this day know how to employ their best features to win a mate-whether it is beauty, brains or personality.

     Those born on the 25^th day of the month are ruled by the number 7(2+5=7). Those ruled by the number 7 generally enjoy change and travel, but the number 25 also has associations with danger, so they must be vigilant where potential accidents are likely.

Advice:  You are a valuable person. Don’t spend so much effort in attracting or winning the approval of others. Get to know yourself better. Do you like yourself? If not, work on it.

Strengths:  Flamboyant, sexual and energetic

Weaknesses:  Needy and Insecure

Born On This Day:  Leonard Bernstein, Ivan the Terrible, Sean Connery, and Althea Gibson

This Day in History:   On this day in 1835, the first in a series of six articles announcing the supposed discovery of life on the moon appears in the New York Sun newspaper.

Known collectively as "The Great Moon Hoax," the articles were supposedly reprinted from the Edinburgh Journal of Science. The byline was Dr. Andrew Grant, described as a colleague of Sir John Herschel, a famous astronomer of the day. Herschel had in fact traveled to Capetown, South Africa, in January 1834 to set up an observatory with a powerful new telescope. As Grant described it, Herschel had found evidence of life forms on the moon, including such fantastic animals as unicorns, two-legged beavers and furry, winged humanoids resembling bats. The articles also offered vivid description of the moon's geography, complete with massive craters, enormous amethyst crystals, rushing rivers and lush vegetation.

The New York Sun, founded in 1833, was one of the new "penny press" papers that appealed to a wider audience with a cheaper price and a more narrative style of journalism. From the day the first moon hoax article was released, sales of the paper shot up considerably. It was exciting stuff, and readers lapped it up. The only problem was that none of it was true. The Edinburgh Journal of Science had stopped publication years earlier, and Grant was a fictional character.

Famous Inventions:  1814 The British burnt Washington, D.C., however, the Patent Office was saved by the British Superintendent of Patents, Dr. William Thornton

Meditation

Repeatedly falling in love can be an expression of an individual’s inability to love himself or herself.

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Hulton Archive/GettyDNA tests of 39 living relatives of Adolf Hitler suggest the leader of Nazi Germany may have had Jewish and African relatives.

The repulsive leader of Nazi Germany may have had Jewish and perhaps African relatives, according to DNA  tests conducted on nearly 40 living relatives. 

The report comes from the Belgium magazine, Knack, which says it obtained saliva samples after tracking down 39 relatives from throughout Europe, as well as in America. 

"One can from this postulate that Hitler was related to people whom he despised," Jean-Paul Mulders, the journalist who wrote the article, stated in his report. 

Working with historian Marc Vermeeren, the samples were tested and were found to contain a chromosome called Haplopgroup E1b1b (Y-DNA), which is rarely found in Western Europeans. 

"It is most commonly found in the Berbers of Morocco, in Algeria, Libya and Tunisia as well as among Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews," Vermeeren said in the article. 

Hitler's heritage has been called into question before, with some suggesting his grandfather was Jewish. But this is the first claim with any scientific data to support it. 

Similar reports have been made against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has repeatedly denied the Holocaust occurred and regularly bashes Israel. 

It was suggested in the British press in 2009 that the nuke-hungry leader's name was changed from Sabourjian, a Jewish name meaning "cloth weaver," when it was converted to Islam after his birth.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/08/24/2010-08-24_nazi_leader_adolf_hitler_had_jewish_and_african_relatives_dna_test_suggests.html#ixzz0xZg58juP

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In this photo provided by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Aug. 23, 2010, a seized article involved in an attempt to ship more than 50 pounds of marijuana inside a tombstone is shown. (AP Photo/U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

Marijuana found in tombstone in Ohio

Marijuana's street value estimated at about $52K

Tuesday, 24 Aug 2010, 7:07 AM CDT

CINCINNATI (AP) - Customs officials say they seized more than 50 pounds of marijuana from inside a tombstone being shipped from Jamaica to England through Cincinnati. 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers made the discovery with help from a narcotics detection dog at the Cincinnati DHL Express hub at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. 

Officers questioned last week why someone would ship a tombstone from Kingston, Jamaica, to London. An x-ray machine revealed packages of the drug in a metal box, wrapped in metal mesh and hidden inside the hollowed-out concrete marker. 

The stone bears the name of 35-year-old Delroy Senior. Part of its inscription reads, "your place no one can fill." 

Authorities estimate the marijuana's street value at about $52,000. They have no suspects.

Monday, August 23, 2010

The Associated Press

A Pittsburgh woman is facing charges after she allegedly left her 6-year-old son with a stranger on board a bus while she was being arrested on a shoplifting charge.

Police say Portia Scoggins had two children with her Friday when she boarded a bus after taking items from a pharmacy, but just one when they pulled it over and arrested her.

Officers say Ms. Scoggins left the older child on board, giving a stranger the address for one of the boy's friends and instructions to drop him off there.

Police later learned the boy had been on the bus and found him at the address Ms. Scoggins supplied to the stranger.

The children are in the custody of county social workers

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10235/1082082-100.stm#ixzz0xXR62Zoz