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November 22, 2003
Volume 1, Number 10
ISSN 1554-6330
In this issue:
1. Carpenter Country Essay |
2. Top Drawer Article |
3. Top Drawer Tips |
4. Top Drawer Book Review |
5. Top Drawer Satire |
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CARPENTER COUNTRY
What's Happening in Our Neck of the Human ExperienceHere in Carpenter Country, we’re numbers people. So, after downloading the government chart on Tom Turkey’s preparation (the one that recommends roasting the bird at 325 degrees until the internal temperature is a safe 180ºF), we went in search of Thanksgiving statistics.
The first number we discovered finished off our half-baked ideas about the history of Thanksgiving. We found that at least three other Thanksgivings were celebrated before Miles Standish and the Plymouth colonists enjoyed their banquet in 1621.
One took place in what is now the Texas Panhandle in May of 1541. That’s when Francisco Vasquez de Coronado and 1,500 explorers gave thanks for their return from Mexico City where they’d gone in search of gold.
Another happened on June 30, 1564, when 300 French Huguenot colonists celebrated their good fortune in a settlement near Jacksonville, Florida.
And in the spring of 1610, 430 settlers who survived a Jamestown, Virginia winter famine enjoyed a Thanksgiving feast when English supply ships arrived with food.
Want more numbers? According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, farmers raised 270 million turkeys in 2002, and were expected to produce 572 million pounds of cranberries. In 2001, sweet potato production was 1.4 billion pounds and pumpkins weighed in at 831 million pounds.
To round out our figures (so to speak), tons of that delicious fare will be shipped to, and cooked for, the hundreds of thousands of military personnel serving our country both here and overseas.
We’d have even more Thanksgiving blessings to count if all of them were home.
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TOP DRAWER ARTICLE
Offshore Outsourcing
byHL Carpenter
Is your career doomed?
In what’s being called a jobless economic recovery, that’s a question you might be asking - especially when you read about jobs being sent overseas.
This information should not be considered legal, investment or tax advice. Top Drawer
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TOP DRAWER TIPS
Topics and Tidbits
Want to add a dish
to your Thanksgiving menu that's fit for a president? You can live chat
with the White House Chef on Tuesday, November 21 at 1 p.m. Eastern time.
Here’s the site: [Broken Link Removed].
Searching for an entirely different menu for Thanksgiving? Something old
fashioned? Something a bit upscale? For ideas, take a look at: [Broken
Link Removed].
Vote on a name for the soon-to-be-pardoned
National Thanksgiving Turkey. But you'll need to be quick, because voting
ends at 5 p.m. Eastern time, Sunday, November 23. The pardoning will take
place on Monday, November 24. Cast your vote here: [Broken Link Removed]
If
you need something to be thankful for, the IRS wants you to know there's
still time for make tax saving moves for 2003. Visit: http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=117868,00.html.
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TOP DRAWER BOOK REVIEW
byHL Carpenter
The Smartest Guys in the Room
by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
435 pages; hardcover; $26.95
Portfolio, New York, 2003
This book was ranked
#12 on the Wall Street Journal’s Best Selling Book list the week the
review was written..
Forget the pap you’ve been reading in those other management texts. If you want true success, as measured by the ability to pocket millions, schmooze with the powerful in Washington and mingle in high society, The Smartest Guys in the Room is the book for you.
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TOP DRAWER SATIRE
Accounting for Leftovers
byHL Carpenter
You bought an oven mitt, a turkey fryer, a saucepan stirrer and a digital thermometer. You remembered the turkey, two kinds of potatoes, gravy, stuffing and a variety of vegetables. You ordered the pies and stocked the refrigerator with whipped cream. You’re set for T-day.
Or are you? What about the inventory management software?
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HL Carpenter, an experienced investor and a CPA, specializes in reader friendly financial and tax topics for individuals and small businesses, and publishes Top Drawer Ink, a newsletter that's chock full of humor and common sense information.
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