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Z57 Academy takes up where traditional real estate education ends. Without implementing ZPro online marketing strategies, real estate agents like Chris Emmet would be left out in the cold in this competitive Internet space, said Z57 COO Ryan Whitlock

Z57, Inc., a leading provider of real estate online marketing services, announced today that North Pole, Alaska-based real estate agent, Chris Emmett of Century 21 Gold Rush, was Z57 Academy’s 1000th graduate. Emmett, a North Pole military relocation specialist, earned his ZPro Certification by completing the ZPro 100 Series course work. W

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Although tax practitioners cannot use the designation of Registered Tax Return Preparer until the RTRP exam is offered and they attain passing scores, they are already subject to tax preparer ethics. In fact, an ethics course is one of the requirements beginning in 2012 for tax preparer CPE.

The purpose of ethics education is helping tax professionals identify taxpayer mistakes in reporting income and deductions. Most of the situations they encounter are much less overtly fraudulent than the case of Paul J. Wagner.

Mr. Wagner, age 50, was a partner in Sawa Sushi Asian Restaurants. Instead of using a paid tax preparer professional, Wagner submitted false personal income tax returns.

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ST. CLOUD, Minn. — The St. Cloud school district expects to spend about $37,000 on legal fees to defend itself in a federal discrimination investigation that ended in a settlement.

The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations lodged a complaint in 2010 with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights.

The group said Somali students were harassed and discriminated against and the district did little to prevent it.

In October, the school board approved an agreement that ended the investigation. The district has denied it committed any civil rights violations, but agreed to take steps to ensure students were not subjected to a hostile environment.

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Learning can happen anywhere – especially at our nearly 400 national parks. 

In honor of Veterans Day, more than 100 national parks are waiving their entrance fees November 11 – 13. Before heading out to your favorite park, visit the U.S. National Park Service website for ideas and stories to help your family discover, explore and share the history of our land and people. 

When an adult video surfaced on WorldStarHipHop.com this week showing a woman leaving the University Center, the student center at the University of Memphis, wearing a U of M sweatshirt, a black baseball cap and Daisy Duke-style denim shorts, the university launched an investigation into whether she was a student.

That investigation consisted of typing a name that appeared on the video, “April Pratt,” into the student directory. No results. Then, said Sheryl Lipman, a university lawyer, her face was shown “to some people on the academic side of things.” Whoever those few people were — Lipman wouldn’t say Thursday — they were unable to recognize the woman out of the 23,000-member student body.

The video, posted Monday, already has already been viewed more than one million times.

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