NYS NEW STAR REGISTRATION

PROGRAM

According to a new legislation by New York State, all homeowners receiving a Basic Star exemption are now required to register with the New York State Tax Department, in order to receive the exemption in 2014 and subsequent years.

The legislation doesn’t require homeowners to register in 2013 to receive their Star exemption.

Homeowners will not have to re-register every year.  Based on the information provided in the registration process, the  Tax Department will monitor homeowners eligibility in future years.

YOU WILL NEED TO:

Provide a star code—but the state is mailing codes to all Basic Star recipients; or you can use the star code lookup

Provide the names and social security numbers for all owners of property and spouses.

Confirm that the property is the primary residence of one of its owners –married couples with multiple residences may only claim one Star exemption.

Confirm that the combined income of the owners and their spouses who reside at the property does not exceed $500.000.

Confirm that no resident owner received a residency-based tax benefit from another state.

Senior Citizens:

Senior citizens receiving Enhance Star Benefits, are not affected by the new registration requirement, which applies to Basic Star benefits only.

Seniors must, however, take steps to ensure that they continue receiving Enhanced Star.

Seniors receiving Enhanced Star who reside outside of New York City must continue to: apply annually or participate in the Income Verification program.

Seniors receiving Enhanced Star who reside in New York City will be contacted by the New York City Department of Finance when they need to review.

Registration Period:

Registration started on August 19, 2013 and will continue through December 31, 2013.

You can register for the Star exemption online @ https://www8.tax.ny.gov/STRP/strpStart

You can also register by calling — (518) 457-2036

Monday-Friday— 8:30 am – 8:00 pm

Saturdays—9:00 am – 1:00 pm

For more information call: (518) 457-2036

WILL WE EVER KNOW

MIRIAM CAREY

!DID A MOTHER OF A ONE YEAR OLD CHILD HAD TO DIE IN THE FASHION THAT SHE DID ON CAPITAL HILL? DID SHE DIE BECAUSE SHE WAS DISTRAUGHT—DELUSIONAL AND SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN IN DISPAIR. WE WILL NEVER KNOW WHY SHE CHOOSE TO GO TO WASHINGTON BUT FOR WHATEVER REASON SHE DID!

By: C. Harrison/10/20/2013

Today, all the police officers and law enforcement officials that are talking about the shooting on Capital Hill recently, are reciting the same speech to the public.  They stated that the U.S. Capital Police officers and members of the Secret Service Division— which were involved in the shooting of Miriam Carey, had the right to do so and was well within policy guidelines. They reiterated that Ms. Carey, disobeyed their direct orders to stop her car.  Thus, it gave them the right to use deadly force against her. But, the out pouring and out-cry  by some, reek that the shooting was not justified.

Thus far,   no one knows what was in Ms. Carey’s (the mother’s) head via playing on her mind.  We have no clue what she was going through; who or what set her off, more so even if something horrible was said to her.  All we know is that she set in motion a cause that ended her life fatally.  What we know for sure is this (she may or may not have been mental–delusional–which can be a state of brief time a nightmare or so).  If a black woman make a trip anywhere in a distraught fashion, she was either provoked, hurt to the core or some other infliction set on her— especially, if she have  a child or her children, along for the trip intentionally knowing the out come good or bad,  (unless she was not a suicide mission).  This simple means that it was done in a hurried fashion and she was not even thinking.

No member of Congress inside or outside of the Capital was in any immediate danger. And we all saw the tape of what Ms. Carey did from what she did not do. Excessive  force was the outcry thereafter, because this mother  was in fact gun down in a hail of bullets, 26 was the official count.

My first question was: did the police officers saw her daughter in the car? The official note was that she was reckless and used her car as a weapon but, who did she used her car against. She was trying to get away from them and of course she was surrounded by the police; at which point she hit one of the officers, who along with others must have been trying to –say get out of the car. The problem is —did she actually hear any of them or was she too focus on whatever was playing out in her head.

In hindsight and carefully speaking—when the officers saw that she have a child in the car and that she did not come out of the car—-shouldn’t they have known that something was definitely wrong with this person and treaded the incident like they would have done or treated an hostage situation– to calm her down, thus allowing her to come out of the car uninjured–making them surmount. They could have even blown out one of her car tire which would have made her stop indefinitely.

Mirian Carey’s  death has sparked not only an outcry but brought out voices that one don’t normally hear. Her death weights heavily on our community and myself, because I know that she did not have to die and I don’t believe that she went to Washington intended to die.  She probably went to make someone listen and understand or explain what was going on with her but not to die, this I feel.  I kept thinking what would have happen if any of the bullets leveled at her  had hit her daughter.   Why did these officers have to shoot at her so many times in front of her one-year old child;  it is hard to think about.  We in this mighty nation of ours do not ever want a repeat of this magnitude again when a child is involved, never again.

NYC BIKE RIDERS MALAY

Should The Driver Of The Range Rover Be Charge Also With Miss Conduct? Should The Undercover Cops Along With Other High Ranking Professionals, Along For The Evening Ride–Should have Blown Their Cover To Help?  Some People Say Yes While Others Say No.

By: C. Harrison/ 10/17/2013

A group of 80 or so  bike-riders were out a few weeks ago for their annual evening ride into Manhattan; when  they encountered a Range Rover driving in the middle of them. Weather the driver of the SUV, was driving fast or erotically we will never know or maybe that theory will come or play out in the courts. Anyway, what happened next was the telling point because the bike-riders slowed down for whatever reason and one of their own Christopher Cruz, of Passaic NJ, slowed down significantly right in front of this SUV causing a fender  bender—-at this point we do not yet understand why, except to say ——he claimed in a televised interview that he was looking to pull over to the side. Here, one could argue that maybe looking behind him the sun could have blind his line of sight but this argument has not yet surface.

Subsequently,  after this fender bender and for some reason the driver of the SUV, Alexian Lien, who had his wife and 2-year old child in the SUV speedup; never bothered to stop, he kept going mowing-down and ran over three other bikers. Realizing  what had happened—partly because bikers in the back might have called ahead to the front bikers and explained that the SUV  had ran over and seriously injured some of their own, not knowing how badly their friends were hurt  or if their friends were dead and the fact that the SUV driver never stopped, some of the bikers chased him down and caught up to him. This resulted in the mayhem of the motorcycles bashing in Lien’s drivers side door of his SUV—pulling him out and beating him up.

Not making light of the facts, everyone knows that when you are driving on the freeways and you see  groups of motorcyclist and it’s a lot of them, say 20 or more—you try to drive away from them staying in your lane going the correct speed limit or drive behind them, so as not to cause an accident.  That is the unwritten rules of the road—-growing up on Long Island taught me. If the streets are crowded and there are  score of bikers such as in this case 80 to 100, you don’t get in the middle of them. The second thing is this, everybody knows also that these bikers are like family, you have a problem with one then you have a problem with all.  The fact is that Lien, left the scene of a crime; even if he was afraid he should have pulled over to the side and get help.

The encounter has now entered into the courts system, where not only Cruz, is in trouble but cops and undercover intelligent officers.  I feel that the arrest situation is out of control or blown out of proportion. My take is this —-if their were local cops on the scene who could or wanted to intervene should have done so. But, if their were undercover deep undercover intelligent division officers on the scene—–while they could have voice for others to help and actually called in for help—they did the right by staying out of it. They had their day off and out for the evening–along for the ride work was out.

Multiple and ample people were there on the scene already helping—-they (these intelligent officers) saw that the situation was in hand. On the other hand, if it was a situation where gunshots were fired all over the place and people were dropping and the situation was spiraling out of control, then these officers had an obligation to step in and defused the instigator, weather to help or otherwise—lives would have been at stake.  But, to blow ones cover when it was not called for,  is not a wise move— it just depends on the right circumstances of a situation.

Now, I am not trying to justify what happened but I believe that the driver of the SUV, should get some form of punishment or some kind of charge brought against him—-for reckless endangerment and leaving the scene of a crime, at least. Biker rider Edwin Mieses, 32 whom Lien hit, is still in critical/paralyze state from waist down—a  Crushed Spine—-in a hospital; what was his crime—-he was out that evening enjoying a trip into the City,  Mieses has a wife and two children. The bikers involve should be dealt with fairly.

LG TACKLE RIVALS IN

THE LATEST TECH LAUNCH

The electro Giant LG announced and launched its first high resolution screen, Joining rivals in that market to take on Apple’s dominance.

By: C. Harrison/ 9 of Oct 2013

The G Pad 8 .3 is the first tablet by the South Korean firm in nearly two years to make it to market. The firm has struggled to regain lost grounds in the mobile market due to a shift to  smartphones growth and selling power.  The company which is the third largest smartphones maker behind Samsung and Apple electronic companies, hopes that the new tablet with a sharper display will help it gain traction.

The G Pad 8.3 has 1, 920 by 1, 200 resolution at 273 pixel per inch (PPI), better than Apple’s 7-9 inch iPod Mini; which has only 1, 024 by 768 resolution at 168 (PPI). It will square off against products like Amazon’s (NSE-AMZN)— faster and lighter versions of its Kindle tablet that were introduced late last month.

LG also added a feature that allows users to check and send message received by their Android Smartphones from the tablet; hoping such function will help it stand out in an increasingly crowded mobile market. This new tablet  is available for wifi only version. It will be sold for $550,000 won, this week in South Korea and introduce to 30 countries by years end.

Much credit to Reuters

PAY MORE ATTENTION TO

THE SPEAKERSHIP POSITION

For the last couple of years we have been duped by our current Speaker of the House. He has been taken us down slippery slopes over and cover again—making our chest tighten and in knots; with no air in our lungs, waiting to see what foot will drop next. And once again, we are in this state—this time, 8 days inside of a Gov. shut down. The question is, is this right for us as a nation? Should Boehner, be allow to play with us in this manner?  No

By: C. Harrison/ 9 of  Oct  2013

The Republicans and the Tea Party members of  Congress, have been dismissing the American public. They are acting have if we don’t count and to make matters worst, we can not tell them what to do because  they’re in-house playing God. There main objective is to discredit the President and try to make sure his Presidency is marked and go down in blemish when he leaves office. In essence, the Republicans are trying to make it easier for them to manhandle and manipulate whoever get elected President. We have to stop this from happening.

The unruly Parties, Republicans & Tea Party members—don’t want an imperial Presidency, as reported. They’re looking to spurt-up the Speakership position. They want to allow the Speaker of the House, to have more latitude in way of making more critical decisions for us the populace. And at this very moment they’re trying everything in their power to make it seem to their constituents that they’re actually fighting for just that. This idea was also in their game plan, along with ridding our nation of Obamacare and denouncing our President at everything he tries to do for us.

Here is my proposal, if the Republicans and Tea Party members of the House, wants a bigger share of the decision pie for the Speakership position or to put it bluntly more Power; then, we the people should vote on who becomes Speaker of the House and steps into that Power; simple. It is our faith that the Speaker is playing with.

It is reprehensible and calculatingly cunning on the part of the Republicans and their counterparts the Tea Party tyrants, to be doing what they have done to this country and setting up to do next week—-further pushing us over a cliff. Is it because they’re seeing that the country is becoming more—-not like themselves and is willing to allow us Americans, to go straight into a third world position.

People, when you see that veteran can’t get pay, we know that this is bad. We are looking down the barrel of a cannon. I am urging the Democrats in Congress to work harder and smarter —-fight for us in any lawful manner that you can to save this country.

GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

Thanks To The Brazen-eye Hunter From Texas

Ted Cruz

By: C. Harrison/ 3 Oct 2013

Today, days after the biggest turmoil on Capital Hill and in our nation, (after we have made so much stride toward fixing crisis via crisis since this administration took office) and 17-years to date after our first Government shut down—-we are here again. I couldn’t say or do anything previously because I see it as a historical mourning. This second time around is beginning to look like a cycle by House Republicans, that began with Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House–in 1985. The stunt made by Ted Cruz, and some House Republicans will cost us millions of dollars per day, until this stale-mate is resolved.

Ted Cruz, came to Washington in the last freshman class and it would seem that he came to hunt down the people’s President, Barack Obama. He paid close attention to what his party wanted and to John Boehner, current Speaker of the House, had to say and seriously took it to heart—–the deal was to (get rid of Obama by any means necessary), of which the first thing on the agenda-list was to rid us of  The Affordable Health Care Act, Obamacare–which is law. Cruz basically ran over everyone to get notice or be seen by the Tea Party scoffs as somebody. Pretty much to push himself straight to the top-as opposed to working his way up the ranks; doing it brazenly and dried eye wide open. Seriously following in the path his  predecessor Gingrich—-who self imposed himself into the speaker ship position during the 1985-1996 period in our history. So, now that we were bulldozer by Cruz and the deed is done, the Tea Party scoffers and some Republicans in the House who do not care, are literally looking at the blame game; really.

The hunter came to kill and he did just that, claiming that it is what there constituents want—-but lets look at there constituents; they are Republican populace who live in carved out districts, specifically made for the Republican caucus. 80 representatives in congress to be exact who carries these whitest districts and who want the status quo to remain the same. Imagine, small districts located around the country trying to manipulate and rule the entire nation-populace. This is insane, we can see that they are trying to hold on to something that might be slipping away from them but in all fairness they should not use fear to control all. What will be will be. This country was build on greatness and we work better together and I think for the greater good. America is about fairness to all of its people, no matter your color or creed and educational level even though it doesn’t feel that way sometimes. We have help each other in time of trouble or should no matter what.

The delay tactics that Ted Cruz tried to use as not worked to his or the Republicans advantage. He knew full well that their proposal or version of the Health care bill was dead on arrival and that delaying it will only see it killed at a later date; so he toyed with us, playing his game. Cruz played chest with the President and played out all  his cards. Moreover, his spin regarding a delay was rumping-around and literally was his last surge and he got whipped. The President Cruz did not realize, has the final chest-keys to make the last moves. The Republicans knows that the Affordable Health Care Act, Obamacare is a win win situation for all not just some and should give in.

I should interject here, that the President should watch out for Boehner, for the fact that he might pull a last card out of his hat.  But if he is still not playing cards on the nation’s behalf or term, then he should be gillt. Whatever he throws out not befitting to our nation, it should be dead on arrival to the Senate; because we know that later, they are going to find a way to tie this to the debt ceiling. This Health care law, should be kept separate at all cost.

For those of you who speak another language besides English, you can call the Affordable Health Care Act Center for information and you will fine that you can get help in 150 language.

Here is the thing, This President came to office as an elected official; who won fair and square by the populace. And even if you are not a Democrat you should respect the power of the people and the man elected to preside over the nation.

DELIGHTFUL AND CLEVER

By: C. Harrison/ 3 Sept 2013

The play, a well crafted original first played out in a novel written by author Jules Verne, during the 1870s, which captured one imagination and senses of awareness; as well as capitalized on its period’s emerging technologies. Borrowed from that era and thrust into modern times  by its script writer Mark Brown. Its producer Cedric Yau said  he was going far and wanted awesomeness. And that it was, the play was a delight to see.

Around The World In 80 Days,  was a clever, witty and unforgettable play. The characters were dauntingly versatile and had prepertoire. The show itself, was also very strikingly smart and was indeed infused with quality via steep elevations.  I was intrigued by the techno effects and because I also like traveling, I was beeches by the display of intervals.

As far the theatre, it was exactly as Producer Yau, wanted it; a retro-futuristic world and space. Inside one really felt that way.

In retrospect the play was a well polished conversion cloaked in modifications—-done in great taste. Much credence to its director , script writer and its producers.