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Weed at $9 a pound:
Dandelion leaves and other wild
greens (a fancy name for weeds)
are reaching dinner plates.
"These are as good a yuppie
green as you can get," said
Morrigan Green who was picking
up some dandelion greens at $9 a
pound at a produce stand in
Washington, D.C. More people
are paying top dollar to eat these
weeds. And the dandelion,
perhaps the most common weed
of them all, is seeing a huge surge
in sales at grocery stores. Other
long-scorned greens making the
leap to the dinner table include
purslane, lamb's quarters and
stinging nettles, a skin-irritating
plant that can be eaten safely after
boiling.
Republicans seriously
considered labeling their rival
party: the "Democrat Socialist
Party," earlier this year!
Both optimists and pessimists
contribute to the society. The
optimist invents the airplane and
the pessimist the parachute.
The light at the end of the
tunnel is not an illusion.
The tunnel is.
The Wright brothers made
their historic first airplane flight in
December 1903 at Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina. First Orville and
then Wilbur took their invention to
the sky for about a minute each.
Though others had flown in gliders
and balloons, the Wright brothers'
flights were considered the first
gas powered, sustained flights in
a heavier-than-air vehicle. Orville's
flight lasted 12 seconds, and
traveled 120 feet. Wilbur flew the
only controlled flight of the day, 852
feet in 59 seconds. "If we worked
on the assumption that what is
accepted as true really is true, then
there would be little hope for
advance," said Orville Wright.
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A.R. Kakhsaz Company, is in its 15th
year of providing information, presented
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can depend upon and trust.
It was serendipity that let to
the discovery of America.
Columbus was looking for India. It
was serendipity that gave us Post-it
Notes. Inventors tried to come up
with a new use for the glue they
had invented that didn't stick the
way they had hoped. And some
say it was serendipity that led to the
discovery of tea. Supposedly, a
Chinese emperor was boiling
drinking water when leaves from a
nearby plant floated into the pot.
The word serendipity has been
derived from Serendip, part of the
title of a Persian fairy tale, "The
Three Princes of Serendip," about
princes who made discoveries by
accident as they traveled.
"Audit the IRS," said a
bumper-sticker I saw the other day.
Don't write so that you can be
understood. Write so you can't be
misunderstood.
Researchers found a chemical
that can kill breast-cancer stem
cells.
What's large, orange, a good
source of vitamin A, and the state
fruit of New Hampshire? Yep, it's
the pumpkin, used as a pie filling,
jack-o'-lanterns, cattle feed and
pepitas. Even its flowers are
edible. Pumpkin chunking,
competitive pumpkin growing (the
record stands at 1,689 pounds),
and pumpkin festivals of various
sorts are wholesome autumn
activities. Ninety percent of U.S.
pumpkins are raised within a
90-mile radius of Peoria, Illinois.
We see more in numbers
than just numbers...
Ali R. Kakhsaz, CPA, MAcc
www.arkcpa.com
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