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Iran's Rouhani rejects talks with Washington
DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani rejected talks with the United States on Tuesday, after President Donald Trump said Iran would call and ask for negotiations "if and when they are ever ready".
Tehran and Washington have escalated rhetoric against each other in recent weeks as the United States has tightened sanctions with what it says is the goal of pushing Iran to make concessions beyond the terms of its 2015 nuclear deal.
Trump withdrew the United States a year ago from the deal between Iran and global powers, under which Tehran curbed its uranium enrichment capacity, a potential pathway to a nuclear bomb, and won sanctions relief in return.
Trump restored U.S. sanctions on Iran last year and extended them this month, ordering all countries to halt imports of Iranian oil or face sanctions of their own. Iran has repeatedly rejected any further negotiations as long as the United States remains outside the nuclear pact.
"Today's situation is not suitable for talks and our choice is resistance only," state news agency IRNA quoted Rouhani as saying.
Trump said on Monday that Iran would be met with "great force" if it attempted anything against U.S. interests in the Middle East. He said reports Washington was trying to set up talks were false, but "Iran will call us if and when they are ever ready".
Critics have accused Trump of sending mixed signals. Last week three U.S. officials told Reuters that Trump had told his top advisers he does not want war with Iran.
Iran has portrayed the hot and cold rhetoric as evidence Trump is being goaded into war against his better judgment by hardline aides such as National Security Adviser John Bolton.
"Right after threatening Iran, they were forced to say they do not seek a war," Rouhani said in televised remarks on Tuesday. "Iranians will never bow to a bully."
FILE PHOTO: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attends talks in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Feb. 14 2019. Sergei Chirikov/File Photo
ECONOMIC WAR
Rouhani won two landslide elections in Iran on promises to ease its international isolation. But Trump's decision to abandon the 2015 nuclear deal has helped ensure that Iranians have felt little or no economic benefit from Rouhani's policies.
The rial currency lost about 60 percent of its value in 2018 under the threat of the revived U.S. sanctions, boosting inflation and provoking sporadic demonstrations. Iran has cracked down on businessmen it accuses of profiteering.
Rouhani said the country faced "economic war", and the government needed more powers to control the economy.
Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said courts had sentenced 10 businessmen to up to 20 years in jail on charges including "economic sabotage", the semi-official news agency Fars reported on Tuesday. Iran executed at least three businessmen for economic crimes last year.
Washington's European allies say they share U.S. concerns about Iran's behavior, but disagree with Trump's decision to pull out of the nuclear deal, arguing that it undermines Rouhani's pragmatic faction and boosts Iran's hardliners.
They have sought to ensure Iran still benefits from the nuclear deal by finding ways for foreign companies to do business there. But in practice this has so far failed, with companies cancelling investments for fear of U.S. punishment.
Iran said this month it could resume uranium enrichment beyond levels allowed in the nuclear deal if European countries do not find ways to ease financial pressure within 60 days.
French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said the Iranian threats were not helpful: "I do not think that Europe will get drawn into this idea of an ultimatum," Le Maire told reporters.
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Tuesday Iraq would send delegations to both Washington and Tehran to help ease the tension between them.
Iraq is one of the few countries with close relations with both the United States and Iran, which each have helped it fight against Islamic State militants. Washington abruptly pulled non-essential staff from its embassy in Baghdad last week, citing a threat from Iran-backed militias in Iraq.
Reporting by Dubai newsroom, Ali Abdelaty in Cairo and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin In London; Editing by Sandra Maler and Peter Graff


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Our services are tailored to an individual's needs. It's how we can most effectively encourage and empower individuals while providing all the support they need. Every individual's journey is underpinned by a comprehensive Support and Goal plan that they play an active role in defining.
We provide three levels of support for people with mild-moderate or severe learning disabilities, autism or both.
For individuals that have some level of independence but need support and occasional one-to-one intervention, 24 hours a day
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Enabling individuals to take control of their lives, build strong relationships and receive appropriate continuing care is essential from our perspective. It's why on admission every individual receives a Service User Guide that includes the names of key staff, their allocated key worker and information about the wider community.
And taking an active role in their own lives even extends to contracted employment opportunities with Magic Life if a return to work is part of their plan and will contribute to a successful outcome. It's part of our ethos of developing relationships between individuals, their families and those who support them.
Following a referral, every client undergoes a person-centred assessment within 24-48 hours. Once complete and we are satisfied with the compatibility is met, a proposal/costing is submitted to the placing authority for approval prior to placement. A comprehensive assessment is carried out for both full-time residents and those seeking respite care.
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We take great care to ensure individuals transitioning into adulthood follow a bespoke support and goal plan to achieve sustainable outcomes. We focus on inclusion to reduce the risk of social isolation, which includes education and social interactions within a range of activities, as well as encouraging individuals to look for work.
Each individual benefits from a nominated key support worker to further strengthen an important one-to-one relationship. We also develop a detailed 'All about Me' profile with families and external professionals, alongside a 'Hospital Passport.'
It's the kind of 360 degree care we find helps establish a trusting relationship and provides essential continuity of support.
To ensure high standards of care, every service user provides feedback to inform our Annual Quality Assurance audit. It helps us understand what we're doing well and what can be improved. If action is needed, we'll take it and feedback the outcome to relevant people. If we're doing something well, we can celebrate good practice!
As well as being visited for two days every six weeks by an external auditor, we also carry out monthly audits of:
Support and Goal plans
Magic Life UK is regulated by the Care quality Commission (CQC) and is rated 'Good' in all 5 inspected areas of service provision.
The wider Senior Management team includes a Counsellor/Psychotherapist and a Psychology Graduate.
Individual projects are managed by a Project Manager, Senior Support Workers and Support Workers.
Every member of staff:
Has undergone a rigorous interview process
Completed a robust induction programme
Has enhanced DBS clearance
Is trained to a high standard
Receives ongoing training and support
Has or is working towards the Care Certificate
Undergoes three-monthly supervisions and Annual Appraisals
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We know how critical staffing levels are. It's why we ensure that every one of our projects has the right amount of staff with the right skills.
Every individual has a dedicated key worker able to provide the one-to-one support they need. They will work closely with the individual to develop stimulating activities and opportunities, as well as helping to complete monthly support and goal planning.
Where possible, we encourage our service users to engage in peer support. This enables people to draw on their own lived experience in order to provide authentic support, advice and friendship for those on the same pathway.
Our approach to peer support also encompasses mentoring and befriending. This allows us to take a slightly less structured approach to traditional peer support, using activities such as group cooking sessions and crafts to build support networks, reduce social isolation and make meaningful connections with peers.
Our experience has shown that this kind of peer support can be very beneficial to those involved, helping them to build mutually beneficial relationships, increase confidence, build a strong sense of community and give individuals an improved sense of worth.
Peer support has also proven to be beneficial when building trust with hard to reach individuals.
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As well as assisting with identifying work experience and employment opportunities with our local area in North London, we also create paid opportunities within the Magic Life community. This allows us to support people with building their social and employment skills, while also giving them a real sense of giving something back.
We actively create roles that fit with the interests of the people we support. In the past, this has included creating the role of "Music Coordinator" for a service user who loved music, or "Arts coordinator" for art lovers. Those who take part are paid a wage, but the true value of the scheme in terms of self-confidence and wellbeing is immeasurable.
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Ruby Tuesday By Stephen Conley
March 19, 2011 Jason Michel	1 Comment
Martin stabs at the thin steak, burnt black at the edges. It's leaving little pale red pools on the Styrofoam plate. The dishes are never done. The steaks are always done wrong. The laundry sits wrinkled on the dryer for days. What does she do around here? Knit long socks for the winter and watch sad shows about families reuniting. She feeds those cats. They get better treatment than Martin gets sometimes. She's always cooing to them and bringing them new toys for him to step on when he goes to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
"All I want," he starts and then gives up.
"What??" in her braying voice from the stove.
"Nothing," and he drops the fork on the plate.
She was pretty once. Very pretty, otherwise he wouldn't have married her. She didn't have money or even a decent personality. But there was something about her that Martin couldn't put away. If it was her lopsided smile or the way she could make him do what she wanted, he couldn't remember anymore. Now he stares at her in that long, boring flower nightgown she's always wearing. That sure gets cleaned and ironed in a rush, doesn't it?
All Martin did wrong was get a good job. Well, it wasn't actually that good a job but the hours were plentiful. A year later, he turned around to a fat wife and a messy house and a beer belly. All that money he was putting in the bank and this was what he had to show for it.
"Why don't you shave more often? That mustache is irritating," she says and sits down across from him at the table.
Martin looks up from his plate and unrests his head from his hand so he can look straight at her. There is still some beauty in her eyes; somehow she managed not to lose it completely.
"Maybe you should shave it for me. You don't do much else around here."
"Oh, Martin. I do plenty. Eat."
"This? I'm cooking the steak next time; this is ruined."
"The mashed potatoes are good," and she puts her spoon at Martin, "Here, try."
He sits back.
"Get that out of my face."
She drops the spoon where it is and it hits the table between them, sending up tiny arcs of potatoes. Then she scoots back in her chair and picks up Martin's plate. He does nothing but look at her, maybe she'll re-cook it. She walks around the table and behind Martin, then she drops the plate into the squat plastic trash can.
"Enjoy," and she sits back down in front of him.
Martins sits still and feels his face grow hot with anger.
"I planned on eating that. Now what am I gonna eat?"
"Well I offered you some mashed potatoes. They're very good."
Martin lunges up from the table and his chair slides and clatters back against the wall.
"That is it," with his fists clenched.
Someone knocks at the door and his fists slacken and he turns his head at the door. So does she, then looks back at Martin.
"Martin, are you expecting anyone? Who is that?"
He pulls his chair back to the table and sits down with his arms crossed.
"You find out."
Martha touches her curlers lightly on the way down the hallway to the front door. She really needs to take them out but now there's someone at the door. Martin is such a coward these days. He wasn't always like that; maybe he's just "punishing" her by making her answer the door.
"I'll show him," she says, almost silently.
Through the peephole, all stretched and curved, is a pretty blonde in a white tank top and a leather jacket. It says something on the tank top but Ruby can't read it from the hole. She unlocks and opens the door and the blonde smiles a sideways toothy grin.
"Aren't you pretty," Martha says.
"I bet you say that to all the ladies," she says, her hands clasped behind her back, "Is the man of the house in?"
"Martin!" Martha yells.
"Yes, that's the guy."
The blonde puts her hand on Ruby's chest and pushes her against the open door.
"Move, bitch. Get out the way ha-ha-ha," and she strolls past.
Martha frowns and watches the blonde walk down the hallway. Her hips shift side to side just right under perfect blue jeans laid tight over a perfect butt. There are rips just under each butt cheek and her leather jacket is ill-fitting and frayed gray around the seams. She should eat more. Martha closes the door and follows her. She could lose all her weight and look like the pretty blonde if she wanted to. But why do that when Martin hadn't done anything to deserve a pretty girl in a long time.
"Maaarrrtiiinnn," the blonde sings, "Oh Maaarrrrtiiinnn," and she slides her fingers down the credenza as she passes. Then she's in the kitchen and Martha walks in with her and Martin looks up and squints a little.
"Well hello, Mr. Martin," she says and bends over at him with her hands on her knees. He doesn't respond.
"Martin, who is this?"
"I have no idea," he says, not taking his eyes off of the blonde. She turns just her head and looks at Martha.
"Oh, you have no idea, do you? How rude of Martin to not introduce us."
"I think you are the rude one," and Martha puts her hands on her hips, "You should leave or I'll call the cops."
The blonde is upright now and she turns to Martha and matches her body language.
"That won't be necessary, dear," she says.
"You must have the wrong house. And I think you should leave," Martin says, still not moving from the table.
"Well," and the blonde pulls out a chair and sits on it side-saddle, "You could just give me the money and I'll be on my way. Hell, you don't even have to give me all of it, just a couple thou will do."
"What money? You must be on drugs, lady."
"What money, Martin?" from Martha.
"Martha, please."
The blonde laughs with her head back.
"Martin and Martha? That would be cute if it weren't for the circumstances. You never told me her name was Martha."
"I don't know you."
"Really, Martin?" and the blonde stands up, "You don't remember fucking me on the love seat in there? Or right here under the kitchen table?"
"I think you should leave, lady."
"I think you should stand up like a man, Martin. And stop calling me "lady." Maybe I should tell her about the abortion."
"Martha, she's crazy. I swear I don't have a clue what she's on about."
The blonde walks to Martha and puts her arm around her shoulder. Martha leans her head back and looks at her.
"You know, Martha. I don't know how girls like me fall for guys like Martin. It must be that helpless quality he has. Like he can take care of himself for the most part but he still needs just a little help from the ladies. Does that sound like your Martin?"
Martha looks at Martin instead.
"I tried, Martin. I really did," she says and her lips tremble.
"Well," says the blonde and she lets go of Martha, "Sounds like you two have some catching up to do. I'm just gonna go freshen up a little bit. Talk amongst yourselves."
She strolls around the corner and down the hall.
"Should we call the cops, Martin? What is going on?"
"I'll get rid of her. Do not call the cops. She's obviously some junkie."
"What was that about an abortion? I don't know if I believe you."
"She's insane. I'll take care of this," but still he sits at the table.
Ruby struts down the hallway, back towards the kitchen. The whole house smells like dirt and food. It's almost enough to make her hungry but Chad is still waiting in the car. Martin's briefcase was easy to find. Right under the bed next to his revolver. It's a big one, has to be a Magnum. But Ruby never knew much in the way of guns. She turns the corner into the kitchen and sets down the briefcase and raises the gun and points it square at Martin's face. The look that crosses it fills her heart with jubilance.
"Don't," he says, and raises his hands.
"Martin, do something," and Martha backs up towards the wall.
Ruby thinks about the heartache after the abortion. She thinks about what her baby would be like these days. She thinks about Martin and his laziness and his lies. She was angry enough when she came in, maybe she doesn't need to think about more stuff.
"Martin. A man who sits back and does nothing but expects everything brings bloodshed to the land through his pacifism. Understand?"
"Ruby, put the gun away," says Martin, "We can fix this."
"You do know who she is. You lied to me."
"Yes, maybe you should apologize, Martin. That would be the right thing to do. And you don't have much time to do it."
"If I give you the money, will you go away and leave us alone?"
Ruby glares at him. Holding up the gun is starting to hurt her arm.
"You're running out of "I'm sorry" time, Martin."
"Please. Just don't shoot me."
"Oh, Martin. Like I'd put you out of your misery."
She rotates her hips and points the gun at Martha instead. Before anyone can protest, she squeezes the trigger and the gun explodes in her hand and the walls seem to shake with it. Martha slams into the wall and red splashes out behind her head and her eyes go blank as she slides down to the floor. Martin gets up and kneels next to her heap. A tiny wisp of smoke rises from the barrel and Ruby drops it to the floor and steps over it towards Martin.
"Martha," he says, almost silently.
She kneels down and puts her face an inch next to his. His eyes are as blank as Martha's.
Then she whispers, "You know what they don't tell you about abortions, Martin? All the stuff we read and hear about it and they never tell you how much it hurts. They don't say anything about the disconnection you feel when it's done. I lost something big when I rid myself of our child. You brought this on yourself," and she stands up.
"That's not all. My brother is waiting in the car. He called the police as soon as he heard the shot, they should be here shortly. And if I know you well enough, you went to the gun range today. You always go on Tuesdays. There are still powder burns on your hands from your shiny little gun. Enjoy explaining yourself; they always suspect the husband first."
Martin doesn't reply and Ruby backs off and turns back to the briefcase. She picks it up and carries it down the hallway towards the front door. She takes a deep breath and opens the door and walks out into the cool night. Chad looks asleep in the passenger seat. She opens the trunk and drops the briefcase in and lets the trunk shut by itself. Then she gets in the front seat and looks at her brother. He doesn't move and his face is hidden behind a hoodie. The sirens begin in the distance.
"Was that the money?" from Chad, and it startles Ruby.
"You're awake. Yes, it looked like all of it but I didn't count."
"Good. Let's get out of town then."
"Wonderful," and she starts the car and pulls off of the curb and drives through a stop sign and punches the gas.
Although Stephen Conley doesn't have anything currently published in print, an interview he conducted with author James Ellroy (http://chuckpalahniuk.net/interviews/authors/james-ellroy) will be published in a collection later this year. He also interviewed comic book writer Garth Ennis (http://chuckpalahniuk.net/interviews/comic-book-writers-artists/garth-ennis) for the same website.
Stephen attended a creative writing workshop in the fall of 2010 at Lonestar Montgomery College in Texas.
He also has two stories story published at Thunderdome.
Fashionably Late:
(http://thundadome.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=18:fashionably-late&Itemid=65)
BackBaby:
(http://thundadome.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=42:backbaby&Itemid=67)
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from voodoo.override import Override
from voodoo.log import logged

import urllib2
import json
import time

# Actually defined through the configuration.
DEBUG = None

class NewIncubatorExperiment(Experiment.Experiment):

    def __init__(self, coord_address, locator, cfg_manager, *args, **kwargs):
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        self._cfg_manager = cfg_manager
        self.read_base_config()

    def read_base_config(self):
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        self.server = self._cfg_manager.get_value('server')

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    def do_get_api(self):
        return "2"

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Chicago Hamburger Co. manager Dave Freidkin stands near the store sign, temporarily switched to draw business for the Finale.
PHOENIX, Ariz – This borders on treason.
Call it double entendre or double-crossing, but the Bulls' clash with the Suns for the championship has brought out a strange double side from transplanted Chicagoans and the Chicago-themed establishments that serve them.
According to the census, 191,000 people from Illinois now live in Arizona. Illinois produced more immigrants here than any state except next-door neighbor California. And just as sure as there are plenty of Grabowskis in the phone book, you can find the the Chicago Sports Bar, Chicago Title Insurance Company, Chicago Towers Pizza & Deli, Chicago Trust Company and Chicago's Best Painting & Wallcovering.
There's also the Windy City Pawn Brokers, a place called Theo's that served "Chicago Style Subs" (whatever those are) and Harry and Steve's Chicago Grill (named after Messrs. Caray and Stone, the former owners).
But a large number of Chicago-type restaurants are Chicago in name only. And these days, even that's not always the case, as they try to cash in on Sunsmania.
Just call the Chicago Hamburger Co. and listen to Dave Freidkin answer the phone.
But it was the Chicago-born owner, Bob Pappanduros, who came up with the idea and the locals "love it," Freidkin said.
The ex-Chicagoans like it out here, and they have also come to like the Suns.
"I'm pulling for the Suns because they represent the freewheeling West," said journalist Mark Scarp, a native of Oak Park.
Georgia Kanelos is even willing to bet her hair with her friends back in Chicago.
"If the Bulls take it, they're going to fly me back and shave my head," she said.
So easily converted. Don't these people keep anything from their Chicago days?


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cool. have u drawn it.
Nah. Some dude on Deviantart did. But I might draw it too.
cool.hats off to that guy and u.i really like it.


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Pressure: the word that makes everyone cringe. Whether it's a deadline at work, a presentation at school, or your day-to-day appearance–we all feel pressure in various forms on a daily basis.
Going out to shop for a new car should be a lot of things: fun, exciting, informative, but never pressured. Sadly, the latter is what most people are left feeling.
This frustrated us in a big way, therefore, we felt compelled to do something about it.
We know this is completely unconventional, and may even be hard to believe, but we've made the switch and we're not looking back.
Our customers continually tell us how appreciative they are of this change in the car buying process, but they aren't the only ones who are excited about the switch.
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Het Huis te Druten was een omgracht adellijk huis in het Nederlandse dorp Druten, provincie Gelderland. Het huis is in de 19e eeuw afgebroken, maar de omgrachting is nog herkenbaar in het landschap. Het voormalige kasteeleiland is eind 20e eeuw opnieuw bebouwd.

Hoewel het Huis te Druten er uitzag als een kasteel, kan het niet als zodanig worden getypeerd. Het huis werd pas in de 17e eeuw gebouwd en voor zover bekend is er geen sprake van een oudere voorganger. Tijdens archeologisch onderzoek in 1987 zijn er ook geen aanwijzingen gevonden dat er op de plek van het Huis te Druten een middeleeuws kasteel heeft gestaan.

Geschiedenis
Sinds 1076 was er al sprake van de heren van Druten. Zij verkochten in 1483 de heerlijkheid Druten aan Arnold Schenck van Nijdeggen. In 1485 kocht Johan Schenck van Nijdeggen een stuk grond met de naam Scharpe Esse, waarop zijn nazaat Hendrik Schenck van Nijdeggen in 1648 het Huis te Druten bouwde. Hij zou dit huis al in 1650 verpachten aan Herbert Cornelissen. Toen Hendrik in 1664 overleed, erfde zijn neef Christoffel de heerlijkheid en het huis. Christoffel kampte waarschijnlijk met geldgebrek en verkocht rond 1680 alle bezittingen in Druten aan Johan van der Molen. Toen Johans dochter Jeanette-Agnes in 1684 trouwde met Steven van Delen, kreeg zij huis en heerlijkheid Druten als bruidsschat mee.

Tussen 1720 en 1730 heeft Jan Hendrik van Delen het huis laten uitbreiden.

Na het overlijden van Steven van Delen III lieten zijn erfgenamen rond 1866 het Huis te Druten slopen. Alleen de theekoepel aan de Waalbandijk en een bouwhuis bleven gespaard.

In 1987 vond archeologisch onderzoek plaats. Hierna werden de grachten hersteld en vond er nieuwbouw plaats.

Beschrijving
Het Huis te Druten is in twee fasen gebouwd. De eerste dateert uit 1648 en betreft een omgracht, rechthoekig gebouw van twee bouwlagen en een souterrain, afgedekt door een hoog schilddak. Het huis had een afmeting van circa 18 bij 11 meter.

Tussen 1720-1730 werd op de oostzijde van het terrein een rechthoekig poortgebouw opgetrokken van circa 17 bij 8 meter. Dit gebouw had één bouwlaag, afgedekt door een zadeldak tussen topgevels. De binnenplaats die nu was ontstaan tussen het hoofdgebouw en het nieuwe poortgebouw, werd aan weerszijden met muren afgesloten.

Aan de zuidoostkant van het huis was de neerhof met een bouwhuis gelegen. Het gehele terrein werd door een singel omgeven. Aan de Waalbandijk werd in de 18e eeuw een theekoepeltje geplaatst. Dit theekoepeltje is bewaard gebleven en als rijksmonument geclassificeerd.

In de jaren 90 van de 20e eeuw werd het kasteelterrein opnieuw bebouwd, waarbij de grachten zijn hersteld. De originele stenen boogbrug biedt toegang tot de neerhof, waarop een huis staat dat waarschijnlijk nog restanten bevat van het oude bouwhuis. Op het kasteeleiland zelf is een nieuw poortgebouw opgetrokken, naar voorbeeld van het 18e-eeuwse exemplaar. Tevens is er een woonhuis gebouwd.

Verdwenen kasteel in Nederland
Kasteel in Gelderland
Druten

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8 Shocking Tax Stories
Tax prep specialist want to do all they can to find their clients those big deductibles. But some of them may be trying too hard. In some instances, they may falsify tax documents to make it look like taxpayers have more or bigger deductibles than they do.
Although this can save clients during tax time, it's likely that the IRS will catch on sooner or later. When this occurs, the taxpayer, and the tax prep agent, can get in trouble big time. Here are some examples of tax prep specialists who have led their clients astray.
Rosalynn Thomas operated Tax Pros in Temple, TX. She was charged with 11 counts of assisting in the preparation of false tax returns. She reportedly prepared taxes with false business income and education credits. She was busted when an undercover IRS agent decided to use her services.
Lenore Worthy of Temple Hills, Maryland found herself in a similar boat. She provided tax prep services under several business names including United Tax Services for tax years ranging from 2012 to 2018. She was accused of adding false deductions and business losses to the returns she prepared. She too was brought down when an undercover agent came to her door. Her actions resulted in a tax loss of $189,748.
Todd Lucas, CEO of i3 Brands, Inc. may not have been a tax prep expert, but he knew enough about the system to create his own type of scam. Although he had the legal duty to pay employment taxes to the IRS, he did not fully pay the withheld taxes owed. From 2008 to 2017, he failed to pay over $4.9 million in payroll taxes, penalties and interest. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
James Brassart of Bentonville did not seek the help of a tax expert. He was responsible for falsifying his own return. With a gross income of over a million dollars, he owed $486,438 to the IRS but did not pay any of the tax he owed. He went to great lengths to conceal his assets and has made false bankruptcy claims in the past to conceal his debt. Brassart was sentenced to three years in prison for income tax evasion.
Keysha Briseno and her spouse own and operate a tax preparation business under the name of Tax Genius LLC, Tax Genie and K&J Tax Service. The company prepared over 4200 return between 2017 and 2019, with more than 25% containing fabricated business losses. She was found guilty of similar charges in 2012 and had her license revoked but continued to prepare taxes under her sister's license. She consented to an injunction that bars her from acting as a tax preparer under her name or any of her company names.
Toni Gale Engeling and Michael Andrew McCann are a team that got taken down for their illegal tax related behavior. McCann is a Brazoria dentist and Engeling is a bookkeeper and McCann's sister. The team allegedly conspired to come up with a variety of methods to keep the IRS from assessing McCann's income including using nominee entrees, comingling personal and business finances and outright lying to the IRS. Both have been charged with conspiring to defraud the government. McCann is also being charged with endeavoring to obstruct the IRS, failing to file tax returns and making false bankruptcy declarations. If convicted, McCann could end up spending fourteen years in prison while Engeling is facing a possible 15 year sentence.
Alicia Coarsey, owner of Tax Express of Tifton, LLC is being charged with preparing tax returns with fabricated medical expenses and charitable contributions. She has claimed false business losses, in some instances for non-existent businesses, to get her clients higher returns. She also understated her customer's liabilities. In one instance, she claimed over $19,000 in medical expenses for a client who did not have significant medical expenses for that year. She is likely to have lost the United States over a million dollars.
Two Miami area tax return preparers are coming under fire for filing tax returns that understated their clients' tax liabilities. According to the charges against Gerald Vito and James Eleby of Gerald Vito, LLC dba Income Tax Services, the team prepared over 1900 taxes in the 2018 and 2019 tax year that understated the amount their clients owed. It is likely they lost the United States a million dollars in revenue. They have also harmed their customers who may now be required to pay interest and penalty for the tax returns they prepared.
It is unclear whether these tax prep agents and businesspeople made errors due to a lack of knowledge of tax law or whether they purposely set out to defraud the government, but one thing is for sure, a comprehensive understanding of the law would have certainly been helpful.
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The College Bookstore, Disrupted
By Judith Rosen |
Over the past few years there's been tremendous churn among college stores and their partners as they try to satisfy the needs of students and parents seeking affordable course materials. As the traditional market for textbooks has faltered, many college stores have dropped book from their names. And some have stopped selling textbooks altogether.
Some schools—such as American University in Washington, D.C.; the seven-campus City Colleges of Chicago; and Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, N.Y.—have moved the sale and rental of physical and digital textbooks online to third-party vendors. Many others, using a hybrid model, continue to have campus stores. But those that sell books tend to stock bestsellers and adult coloring books. The bulk of their inventory is comprised of logo merchandise, spirit wear, and other nonbook items, including grab-and-go food.
According to Jonathan Shar, chief marketing officer for Akademos, which works with colleges to provide a virtual bookstore and marketplace where students can get their textbooks, the pace of the transition to digital platforms has begun accelerating. "In the last 18 months, we've launched more virtual bookstores than in the entire history of the company," he said. Barnes & Noble Education, which operates 770 campus stores, made a big shift in March when it purchased the assets of digital educational platform LoudCloud Systems to better position itself in the digital products and services market. Following the acquisition, B&NE shut its own digital platform, Yuzu.
But having a strong platform doesn't always ensure long-term success. In October, Rafter—which evolved out of the country's first college-textbook-rental startup, BookRenter, and raised $85 million in venture capital—closed. One week after announcing its partnership with Avila University to provide course materials, Rafter posted a notice that is was closing.
Other companies that began by offering textbook rental have expanded and modified their models. Chegg, which is now processing rentals for BookRenter.com, has branched out to provide direct-to-student services, such as study techniques and test prep, through its platform. In reporting its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2016 ended Sept. 30, 2016, CEO Dan Rosensweig said that textbooks remain "a significant pain point" for students. Not so much for Chegg, which partnered with Ingram two years ago so that it could free up capital and stop stocking physical books by the end of this year.
Sidewalk, which launched as a rental alternative, CampusBookRentals, continues to find value in rental, but by working with campus stores to assist them in their programs. "What we did is rent a lot of [physical] textbooks, and we still do," founder and CEO Alan Martin said. "Our thesis hasn't changed. We are super focused on cost." Citing a recent report that 50% of students select their courses based on cost, Martin said, "It's just failure if you have half of your audience avoiding you. That's the thing that needs to be fixed."
Martin views faculty and the way they choose course materials as a major hurdle in getting students affordable course materials. Two years ago Sidewalk purchased Hero software from Brigham Young University and licensed it back to the school. What attracted the company to Hero was that it gives faculty more choice and transparency when choosing course materials, so that they know the cost of each adoption. Faculty can even use Hero to negotiate the cost of digital content. Hero also links with a university's campus store and with its students. "Our mission is to aggregate the largest number of faculty on a platform," Martin said, adding that Sidewalk is about to add its 100th university on the platform.
Despite the advances made in lowering costs thanks to rentals and digital content, a U.S. PIRG Education Fund survey released in 2014 found that 65% of students opted not to buy a textbook because of price and that 94% worried that their grade would suffer as a result. A report by the National Association of College Stores' OnCampus found that the average spending on course material was $602 for the 2015–2016 season, slightly up from the previous year, but down from a high of $701 in 2007–2008.
Greg Fenton, cofounder and CEO of RedShelf, a startup working to get digital material adopted on college campuses, wants publishers to transition away from their current model of trying to make 60% or 70% of their revenues when a book first comes out. "Everybody knows the $300 textbook is not going to be successful," Fenton said. "If everything converts to digital, we can make the student experience better and less expensive."
Some publishers have begun listening to Fenton's message. Over the past 12–18 months RedShelf has increased its title base to over 370,000 titles, and it expects to have a half-million titles next year. At this year's Frankfurt Book Fair, "all publishers wanted to talk about was, 'how do we get rid of used books and go digital?' " Fenton said. "I think it's a snowball effect."
Amazon has been among the biggest disrupters. It now owns 23% of the college-textbook market according to data from NACS. And ever since it first tested working with a college store, launching a partnership with the UC Davis Bookstore in November 2013, the e-tailer has become an increasingly visible presence on campus. Although not the official textbook vendor at UC Davis, Amazon is the official vendor at a number of schools including Purdue, where it opened its first campus pickup location in February 2015. By the end of 2016, Amazon will have 18 pickup locations in 17 college communities.
With textbook sales no longer a profit center, many colleges and universities are choosing to lease out the operation of their stores, if not to Amazon, then to B&NE or Follett, which operates 1,200 stores. Last year Follett purchased 200 on-campus and off-campus retail stores and their assets and inventories from Nebraska Book Company when it exited the business. In April, the University of Connecticut replaced the 40-year-old UConn Co-op and named B&NE its official college-store operator. That same month the University of North Carolina signed a 10-year, $30 million contract with B&NE.
"Our research shows that 80% of students still prefer to purchase or pick up their books in-store," said Patrick Maloney, president of B&N College, who views campus stores as campus hubs. "The role of today's campus store is to be much more than a place for students to get their textbooks or apparel. It's about rising above the retail transaction both in-store and online by creating an experience that truly supports students, empowering them to make deeper connections with their school, friends, and professors, and ultimately [to] succeed academically."
Maloney's view is not too far off from that of NACS CEO Robert Walton, who assumed the post last summer. Walton's concern is that there has been too much focus on retail and textbook sales, which only occur at most schools eight weeks a year. In addition to selling things, campus stores support faculty, host alumni visits, and play a vital part in branding. Independent stores, unlike lease operations, keep profits on campus.
Despite NACS's launch of its IndiCo subsidiary in 2013 to help independent stores survive, 85 indie campus outlets are replaced by leased stores each year. To stem the flow, NACS is planning to introduce new services for member stores at Camex (Campus Market Expo), set to take place in Salt Lake City in March. As part of the program, Walton is working on partnerships with a dozen platforms, including RedShelf, Sidewalk, and Verba Software (which allows stores to share the prices at other retailers with students). And he's even in talks with Amazon. "We need to change our business model," Walton said. "Otherwise there won't be any independent stores in 10 years."
Correction: An earlier version of this story stated that Amazon has 35% marketshare of the textbook. The correct percentage is 23%.
A version of this article appeared in the 11/28/2016 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: College Stores—and the Businesses That Serve Them—in a Time of Change


A liberal middle school principal in San Francisco has done something that has shocked parent, students and the community by cancelling the student council election results because TOO MANY WHITE KIDS WERE ELECTED!
That's right folks, too many WHITES won so this idiot pulled out the communist rule book and just wiped out the results like any commie dictator would. UNBELIEVABLE!
What a great lesson for these youngsters.
A middle school principal in San Francisco has refused to release the results of a school election because of a lack of diversity among the winning candidates.
Everett Middle School principal Lena Van Haren said in an email to parents sent Oct. 14 — four days after the student government election — that the results would be withheld because the winning candidates did not properly reflect the diversity at the school, according to KTVU-TV. Van Haren told the news station that her school's population is 80 percent students of color and 20 percent white students — statistics the election results did not represent.
"That is concerning to me, because as principal, I want to make sure all voices are heard from all backgrounds," Van Haren told KTVU.
"I feel like it is disrespectful to everyone who were running," Sebastian Kaplan, who was running for the position of seventh-grade representative, told KRON-TV.
"The whole school voted for those people, so it is not like people rigged the game, but now in a way it is kinda being rigged," Kaplan said.
Parents are complaining and students are angry- and rightly so! Diversity is trumping democracy!
This is wrong on so many levels. The message it sends is that skin color is the only thing that matters. Accomplishments? Fair elections? Those are obviously deemed RACIST! But only if you are WHITE!
Please share this on Facebook or Twitter if you agree that this principal is totally out of line!


In September 2016, the City of Houston retained a consulting firm at a cost of $565,000 to develop a long- range financial plan to address the City's structural budget deficits. As was Captain Renault in Casablanca, I know that you will be shocked to learn that their principal conclusion is that you should be paying more property taxes. Specifically, they want to repeal the property tax cap that voters imposed on the City in 2004 and raise property taxes by 83% over the next ten years.
The report projects that if the property tax cap is left in place, the City's property tax receipts will rise from $1.16 billion this year to $1.52 billion in ten years, a 30% increase. That is about what you would expect with the cap in place. But they are projecting that expenses will go up by about 36%. According to the report, this will result in a cumulative deficit in the general fund over the forecast period of $1.9 billion dollars. The report projects that the annual shortfall will be about $125 million next year and will gradually grow to $285 million by 2027.
While the consultant did not have the courage to actually say exactly how much property taxes will go up if the cap is repealed, it projects that the repeal would wipe out the $1.9 billion deficit and create a $900 million surplus. So, we can infer that the repeal means that property taxes would go up by $2.8 billion over the next ten years if their recommendation is adopted.
When you do the math, that ends up equating to 7% annual increase every year in the City property tax receipts for the next ten years. By 2027 you will be paying 40% more in property taxes than if the cap stays in place and 83% more than you are paying today. And that does not even include the additional taxes you would be paying that would go to the TIRZs.
The report also identifies certain "initiatives" it claims would save an additional $300 million. Many of these initiatives are sound and some of them have been recommended in previous studies but never implemented. But some are also pretty outrageous, like their suggestion that non-profits should start making annual contributions to the City since they are exempt from property taxes. So, all you churches out there get ready to start "contributing" to the City.
But even if these initiatives were implemented – and they won't be – $300 million is less than 1% of what the City will spend over the next ten years. Seriously? The City is run so efficiently that we can only save 1% of what they are spending?? By the way, the report also projects that the average personnel cost for the City's general fund employees in 2027 will be over $150,000 per employee.
A glaring omission from the report is any mention of the TIRZs. The TIRZs are already siphoning off nearly 15% of the City's property tax revenue, the majority of which is funneled into wealthy landowners' pet projects, like the Uptown bus lanes boondoggle. Lifting the property tax cap and allowing City Council to raise property tax rates by 7% per year would flood the TIRZs with more cash. I am going to try to run the numbers and see how much more revenue this proposal would generate for the TIRZs, but can you imagine what new boondoggles the TIRZs would cook up with a huge influx of new money?
This report is blatant political propaganda parading as financial analysis. It spends an inordinate amount of time making the case for more police officers and fewer fire fighters. I am sure that has nothing to do with the fact that Turner is in bed with the police union and at war with the fire fighter union.
I will have more to say about this $565,000 propaganda statement later, but taxpayers should see it for exactly what it is: The opening salvo in the battle to repeal the property tax cap so you can pay more in property taxes.
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Synthetic genome successfully transplanted into cell
By Will Parker on May 21, 2010 in News
Scientists have created the first cell controlled by a synthetic genome, a feat that will allow researchers to probe the basic machinery of life and to engineer custom-designed bacteria. Study leader Craig Venter, of the J. Craig Venter Institute, has published details of the work in the journal Science.
Venter's research team had already chemically synthesized a bacterial genome, and it has transplanted the genome of one bacterium to another. Now, the scientists have put both methods together, to create what they call a "synthetic cell."
"This is the first synthetic cell that's been made, and we call it synthetic because the cell is totally derived from a synthetic chromosome, made with four bottles of chemicals on a chemical synthesizer, starting with information in a computer," said Venter. "This becomes a very powerful tool for trying to design what we want biology to do. We have a wide range of applications in mind."
In the study, the researchers synthesized the genome of the bacterium M. mycoides and added DNA sequences that "watermark" the genome to distinguish it from a natural one. Because current machines can only assemble relatively short strings of DNA letters at a time, the researchers inserted the shorter sequences into yeast, whose DNA-repair enzymes linked the strings together. They then transferred the medium-sized strings into E. coli and back into yeast. After three rounds of assembly, the researchers had produced a genome over a million base pairs long.
They then transplanted the synthetic M. mycoides genome into another type of bacteria,Mycoplasm capricolum, and the new genome successfully "booted up" the recipient cells. Although fourteen genes were deleted or disrupted in the transplant bacteria, they still looked like normal M. mycoides bacteria and produced only M. mycoides proteins, the study notes.
Acknowledging the ethical discussion about synthetic biology research, Venter explained that his team asked for a bioethical review in the late 1990s and has participated in variety of discussions on the topic. "This is an important step we think, both scientifically and philosophically. It's certainly changed my views of the definitions of life and how life works," Venter said.
In the future, the researchers are planning to design algae that can capture carbon dioxide and make new hydrocarbons that could go into refineries. They are also working on ways to speed up vaccine production. Making new chemicals or food ingredients and cleaning up water are other possible benefits, according to Venter.
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Scientists create tiny RNA molecule with big implications
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Bon Jovi canceled, but Fort Collins opener the Patti Fiasco plays on
Frontwoman Alysia Kraft talks about the dream gig that wasn't to be
By Dylan Owens, Special to The Denver Post Apr 7, 2017, 5:26 pm
The Patti Fiasco isn't playing for Bon Jovi anymore, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have plans on April 14. (Marc Leverette Photography)
Ultimately, Denver's leg of Bon Jovi's This House Is Not For Sale tour would have been better named This Show Is Not For Sale.
After postponing its Pepsi Center show, earlier today, Bon Jovi called the gig off entirely with little explanation.
But with some light googling, it wasn't hard to figure out what transpired. According to Billboard, Jon Bon Jovi has come down with a bout of bronchitis, which forced the band to back out of its two shows at New York City's Madison Garden this weekend. It rescheduled those shows for next week, on either side of the date it was supposed to play in Denver.
Jon Bon Jovi since posted a statement to Facebook in light of the cancelation, apologizing to fans.
"To let you down is crushing," he wrote. "We have only ever given our all on every tour and on every show. We will make it up to you."
Why did the band straight-up cancel instead of just postponing again? Ultimately, we don't know. We've reached out to promoter Live Nation and representatives from the band for comment.
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And while it's a bummer for Bon Jovi fans, it hurts even worse for Fort Collins' Patti Fiasco, the band that won the right to open for Bon Jovi at its Denver gig. (The band's next confirmed show is at midnight at the Aggie Theatre on April 29, to close out the last day of FoCoMX.)
We emailed Patti Fiasco frontwoman Alysia Kraft to find out what happened with what could have been the show of a life time, and what their new plans are for April 14. (Hint: It still involves Denver and a bunch of Bon Jovi songs.)
It's safe to say fans of yours and Bon Jovi were excited about this show. Why was it called off?
To our understanding, Bon Jovi's been struggling with bronchitis that's been heavily affecting his performance.
It's a bummer for all our sweet fans flying across the country, driving long hours, taking days off work to come support us a the Pepsi Center.
When did you find out it wasn't happening?
To be honest, we got calls from fans who received email notifications of the concert cancelation. We haven't heard a word from Bon Jovi's management.
I understand that they're probably dealing with a myriad of logistical complications following the cancelation, but it's put us in a bit of a strange spot.
Did you have any contact with Jon Bon Jovi himself throughout the contest?
No. Just his management and representatives from Live Nation.
Any plans for what would have been your show at the Pepsi Center on April 14? Another show, or…?
I'm in the midst of a million calls to make something happen in Denver on April 14. Something big, and hilarious, and celebratory, and rock and roll. Never underestimate the tenacity of an underdog band with friends in all the right low places.
My friend suggested we recruit our best musician pals to do a set of Bon Jovi covers, and follow it with a fiery Patti Fiasco set. That felt right — so it's in the works!
Anything you'd like to say to the fans?
I issued this statement on Facebook earlier:
When life gives you lemons, you squeeze them in your eyes for a minute and then you get over it. Or you squeeze them in your hot toddy and sing your f****** heart out. It might not be the Pepsi Center, but ain't nobody gonna stop this Patti Parti. Don't cancel your flights, don't change your plans… We're working on a backup plan and an ultra fun night to celebrate all the love we've felt from you all from the beginning of this crazy roller coaster ride to the moment that the cart got a little jolt. MORE TO COME. THANKS FOR ALL YOUR LOVE AND SUPPORT!
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Church plans vigil for fallen Navy corpsman
Greenfield Recorder
By DOMENIC POLI Staff Writer
Published: 5/10/2019 11:16:07 PM
Modified: 5/10/2019 11:15:54 PM
GREENFIELD — The Episcopal Church of Saints James and Andrew has planned for Wednesday a "Vigil for Meaghan & Gun Violence Prevention" to remember Meaghan Burns, a longtime South Deerfield resident shot to death in Virginia a week ago, and others affected by gun violence.
It is intended to be a simple service, with candlelight, music and prayer. The vigil is slated to begin at 5 p.m. at the church on the corner of Church and Federal streets in Greenfield.
The service will feature a eulogy by the Rev. Dr. Will Sencabaugh, a friend of the Burns family. The Rt. Rev. Dr. Douglas J. Fisher, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of western Massachusetts and an active member of Bishops United Against Gun Violence, will also speak about the public health crisis of gun violence.
The Burns family has named Bishops United Against Gun Violence as a place to send memorial gifts. Anyone interested in contributing can send a check, payable to the Episcopal Church in Connecticut with "Bishops United" in the memo line, to: Episcopal Church in Connecticut, The Commons, 290 Pratt Street, Box 52, Meriden CT 06450.
Bishops United Against Gun Violence is a group of more than 80 Episcopal bishops working to curb gun violence in the United States.
Burns, 23, was one of three active-duty U.S. Navy corpsmen killed at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Portsmouth, Va., on May 4 in what police are calling a double homicide and suicide.
A Facebook dedicated to the vigil can be found at bit.ly/2VSu5GU.


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Those who will consecrate the Daime for the first time must first undergo an interview where they will receive information about the rules, objectives and characteristics of the Santo Daime doctrine. During this interview, beginners will receive orientation on to behave during the session and what they could experience after ingesting the Santo Dame brew, as well as other very importante pieces of information.
Participants cannot wear black or red t-shirts or shirts. Preferably they can wear white or any other light-colored shirts. Men must wear long pants and cannot participate in a session wearing bermuda shorts or shorts. Women are not allowed to wear sleeveless shirts, revealing clothes, and must always wear long skirts during the sessions.
Participants must be punctual and those who arrive late might not be able to participate in the session.
To better understand the spiritual session, we reccommend avoiding alcoholic beverages and practicing sexual abstinence for 3 days before and after the session.
This questionnaire needs to be filled out by those who participate for the first time in a Santo Daime session. First-time participants will provide personal information and sign a form stating that they are aware that they are going to ingest a mind-altering brew. This questionnaire contains questions regarding the participant's mental health, medications taken, and whether they have any drug addictions.
Medications than cannot be taken together with the Daime.
In addition to the medications above, there are other serotonin specific medications that need to be taken with precaution when consecrating the Daime. In the case of paroxetine (Paxil) or sertraline (Zoloft), it is ideal that the participant stop taking that medication one week prior to the Santo Daime session. He or she may resume taking the medication the day after the session, but it is always important to check with the doctor first.


I get giddy whenever I spy breakfast polenta on a brunch menu. It seems so glamorous, so luxurious… so Italian! But, the truth is, polenta takes all of 10 minutes to make. It's even quicker and easier (and, dare I say, more delicious) than its down-home American counterpart, oatmeal.
Polenta isn't quite as nutritious as oatmeal, so I riffed off of a breakfast polenta recipe from Martha Stewart to include blueberries and almonds, making a nutrient-rich start to the day. In short order, the Hungry Papa and our Hungry Boy were gobbling down bowls like there was no tomorrow. All while I imagined myself sitting in an outdoor cafe somewhere in Rome, my favorite city of all time.
PS: This is a great, easy dish to make if you're having people over for brunch (especially people with little ones).
PSS: This recipe has been chosen by editors Amanda Hesser (of the NY Times) and Merrill Stubbs as a wildcard winner to be featured in the upcoming Food52 cookbook!
1. Bring milk to a boil in a medium saucepan over high heat.
2. Reduce heat to low and add polenta, whisking constantly until smooth. Add almond meal and continue whisking until the polenta thickens to a creamy consistency. Add butter, continuing to whisk until it melts completely.
3. Turn heat off and whisk in honey, blueberries, vanilla and cardamom. Serve with a dollop of sour cream or creme fraiche and an extra sprinkle of blueberries.
Stacie – this looks GREAT. Is almond meal something I can find at the national health food chain in town in the bulk aisle?
I found it at my local Trader Joe's — in the baking isle. If you can't find it in store, it's nothing more than almonds processed into a powder! You can easily make it on your own in your food processor. It might even be nice left a little bit chunky!
Let me know if you make it and what you think. It really was ridonkulously good! I think I have to make it again tomorrow morning!
Mmmm, when are u having me over for a bowl?
I'm so glad that I spotted this recipe! I recently watched Tyler Florence make a chestnut polenta, that I'm anxious to try. I had never heard of breakfast polenta, and I LOVE polenta! I will definitely have to make this, instead of my Irish Steel-cut oats– which I love. This kind of reminds me of cream of wheat. Yummy!
saw this recipe when you posted it originally but never made it…….however, i spotted it again this week on your blog in this "Best of One Hungry Mama 2009" list. So – we gave it a whirl yesterday morning and it was fantastic and my 14 month old loved it. (doesn't hurt that she has a fruit crush on blueberries right now). We are lovers of all warm breakfast cereals, cream of wheat being our favorite but we may very well have a new fave!! So yummy! I make pancakes and waffles with Almond meal so I had all the ingredients on hand! Thanks for another great recipe – i love reading you every week! You are a very engaging writer and I appreciate you and your blog!
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Spinal cord disease can be associated with temporary or permanent inability to empty the urinary bladder. The result is a very full, over-stretched and uncomfortable bladder that is at risk for bacterial infection. Bladder management should improve comfort and reduce the chances of damage or infection of the bladder and kidney.
If you bend over such that your torso is perpendicular to your hips or parallel to the ground and think about where your bladder is positioned, this will be the same for a dog or cat. The bladder will be tucked up in the top and back of the abdomen right in front of the pelvis or if completely full it may be farther forward along the body wall.
With your pet lying on its side, place hands in a prayer-like fashion over the area where you imagine the bladder is located. If your pet is strong enough to support its weight then this procedure can be done while standing. You may find this procedure works better for you if your hands are facing toward the front of the animal as opposed to the rear.
Slowly apply equal and progressively increasing pressure to body wall and by extension the urinary bladder. Slow steady and progressive pressure is the key. This is a skill that your pet likely requires so try to be patient, keep trying and DO NOT BECOME DISCOURAGED.
The spinal cord can heal and hopefully your pet will regain the ability to urinate. If, while urinating without assistance, your pet is developing a stream of urine then it is likely this procedure is no longer necessary. If they are dribbling urine or not developing a good stream of urine in a 12 hour period, then likely they still need manual bladder expression. If your pet is painful during this process or the urine is a dark color, blood colored or smells foul then please seek veterinary care.
To view an example of bladder expression, click HERE.


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module SKUI

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  PATH_HTML = File.join( PATH, 'html' ).freeze

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  PLATFORM_IS_OSX     = ( Object::RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /darwin/i ) ? true : false
  PLATFORM_IS_WINDOWS = !PLATFORM_IS_OSX

  # Version and release information.
  require File.join( PATH, 'version.rb' )

  # Configure Debug mode.
  require File.join( PATH, 'debug.rb' )
  Debug.enabled = false

  # Load the availible UI control classes.
  require File.join( PATH, 'button.rb' )
  require File.join( PATH, 'checkbox.rb' )
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Fri Feb 4 2022
8:30 PM - 11:00 PM (Doors 7:30 PM)
The Tin At The Coal Vaults
Canal Basin Coventry CV1 4LY
The Tin, Central Committee and Creature Lab are pleased to announce that we will be bringing THE UTOPIA STRONG to the city.
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Kavus Torabi is an experimental/psychedelic musician with a long history in the field, including as a member of The Cardiacs.
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Tickets £10 in advance, £12 on the door.
Utopia Strong + Gunther Prague + Cristiana Ilie
The Utopia Strong
The Utopia Strong are a semi-modular trio, delivering medical grade music to the visionary music head.
The band were born on the evening of 2nd January 2018 after what can only be described as an experimental and revelatory improvised session together. Kavus Torabi, Michael York and Steve Davis have fused Modular Synthesisers with conventional and traditional instruments to create a weird and joyous celebration of all that is good about left field psychedelic music.
Kavus Torabi is an experimental/psychedelic musician with a long history in the field. He has his own band, Knifeworld and is frontman in the current line up of Gong. He has been a member
in various other bands including Guapo and most notably a guitarist in the final line up of Cardiacs.
He runs the boutique record label, Believers Roast, has collaborated with a wide range of left-field artists and co-presents a show on NTS Radio with Steve Davis, a show championing new, experimental, avant-garde, far out, underground, electronic, pop, folk, psych, rock and classical music.
Steve Davis was the most successful professional Snooker player of the 1980's, winning a total of 28 major ranking events including 6 World Championships. In recent years his involvement in snooker has been limited to TV punditry, which has given him more time to indulge in music related activities, namely collecting left field music from around the globe, presenting a monthly radio show on NTS Radio with Kavus Torabi and now joining forces with Kavus and Michael York to form The Utopia Strong, further cementing
his growing interest in playing the Modular Synth.
Michael York is a multi instrumentalist and luthier, working mainly with modular/analogue synths and woodwinds (primarily focusing on bagpipes, reeds and flutes of Europe and the Near East).
His piping has seen him work not only in the realm of folk, with the likes of Shirley Collins and the 7 piece bagpipe choir Zephyrus, but also with the esoteric avant garde ensembles Coil, Cyclobe, Current 93, Guapo and The Stargazers Assistant.
In 2014 as an outlet for his voyages in alternate realities through the medium of analogue electronics he formed the modular synth duo Teleplasmiste (with Mark Pilkington) and the ambient psychedelia group The Other Without (with Neil Mortimer).
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Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons (HWE) Reaction
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-The reaction between a phosphonate ylide and an aldehyde, which proceeds via mechanistic path similar to the Wittig reaction to give an α,β-unsaturated ester.
-The phosphonate substrate can be synthesized by a phospite and an α-haloester, a process known as the Michaelis-Arbuzov reaction. Nitrile, aryl, vinyl, sulfide, amine, and ether groups are also compatible besides ester.
-The reaction is generally E-selective, but there are Z-selective cases depending on the reagent as shown in the example section below.
-The phosphate byproduct is water soluble and easy to remove by simple extraction, which is an important advantage over conventional Wittig reaction.
・Horner, L.; Hoffmann, H. M. R.; Wippel, H. G. Ber. 1958, 91, 61.
・Horner, L.; Hoffmann, H. M. R.; Wippel, H. G.; Klahre, G. Ber. 1959, 92, 2499.
・Wadsworth, W. S., Jr.; Emmons, W. D. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1961, 83, 1733. doi:10.1021/ja01468a042
・Boutagy, J.; Thomas, R. Chem. Rev. 1974, 74, 87. doi:10.1021/cr60287a005
・Wadsworth, W. S., Jr. Org. React. 1977, 25, 73.
・Maryanoff, B. E.; Reitz, A. B. Chem. Rev. 1989, 89, 863. doi:10.1021/cr00094a007
・Kelly, S. E. Comprehensive Organic Synthesis 1991, 1, 729.
Reaction Mechanism
When the phosphonate is (CF3CH2O)2P(O), Z-product is formed preferentially (the Still-Gennari modification).[1]
Similarly, (ArO)2P(O) also renders the reaction Z-selective (the Ando modification).[2]
Using LiCl as an additive, the reaction can proceed with a weaker base such as DBU and Hünig's base (the Roush-Masamune conditions). This is useful when the reactants are unstable under strongly basic conditions involving NaH or LDA. LiCl is considered to act as a Lewis acid to increase the acidity of the activated proton.
Experimental Tips
[1] Still, W. C.; Gennari, C.Tetrahedron Lett., 1983, 24, 4405.
[2] (a) Ando, K. J. Org. Chem. 1997, 62, 1934. DOI: 10.1021/jo970057c (b) Ando, K. J. Org. Chem. 1998, 63, 8411. DOI: 10.1021/jo981337a (c) Ando, K. J. Org. Chem. 1999, 64, 6815. DOI: 10.1021/jo9909150
[3] Blanchette, M. A.; Choy, W.; Davis, J. T.; Essenfeld, A. P.; Masamune, S.; Roush, W. R.; Sakai, T. Tetrahedron Lett. 1984, 25, 2183.
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p-Methoxybenzyl (PMB) Protective Group
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Merrifield Solid-Phase Peptide Synthesis
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Compression of short-read sequences using path encoding
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By Carl Kingsford, Rob Patro
bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/006551 (published DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv071)
Storing, transmitting, and archiving the amount of data produced by next generation sequencing is becoming a significant computational burden. For example, large-scale RNA-seq meta-analyses may now routinely process tens of terabytes of sequence. We present here an approach to biological sequence compression that reduces the difficulty associated with managing the data produced by large-scale transcriptome sequencing. Our approach offers a new direction by sitting between pure reference-based compression and reference-free compression and combines much of the benefit of reference-based approaches with the flexibility of de novo encoding. Our method, called path encoding, draws a connection between storing paths in de Bruijn graphs --- a common task in genome assembly --- and context-dependent arithmetic coding. Supporting this method is a system, called a bit tree, to compactly store sets of kmers that is of independent interest. Using these techniques, we are able to encode RNA-seq reads using 3% -- 11% of the space of the sequence in raw FASTA files, which is on average more than 34% smaller than recent competing approaches. We also show that even if the reference is very poorly matched to the reads that are being encoded, good compression can still be achieved.


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Q: MariaDB subqueries to same table and column resulting in several columns I have a table and want to pick monthly minute data to compare column wize in 10.3.13-MariaDB
Tested and tested for hours and hours different approaches without success, one example is below. Some tests does not complain syntactically but takes forever, and some tests complains about column names not recognized. All subqueries if tested separately return the same number of records, each in one column.
SELECT RD, OT1, OT2, OT3 FROM
(SELECT rdate from  OO where month(rdate) = 7 and year(rdate) = 2006) AS RD,
(SELECT ot from OO where month(rdate)=7 and year(rdate) =2006) AS OT1,
(SELECT ot from OO where month(rdate)=7 and year(rdate) =2007) AS OT2,
(SELECT ot from OO where month(rdate)=7 and year(rdate) =2008) AS OT3;`

The result should be something like:
RD                   OT1    OT2    OT3
2006-07-01 00:00:00  1.2345 2.1234 1.543
...                  ...    ...    ...
2006-07-31 23:59:00  3.456  3.234  2.234

And, no I dont want to use UNION because then they will still follow one after the other...
Any thoughts?!

A: You are pivoting too soon.  Do the union, then pivot the results.

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Q: How to calculate the average snow amount per month for each NAME/LOCATION and then save the results in a .CSV file in Python? For each NAME/LOCATION, calculate the average snow amount per month. Save the results in two separate .csv files (one for 2016 and the other for 2017) name the files average2016.csv and average2017.csv.

I am using Python 3.8 with pandas.
I have tried this code:
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv('filteredData.csv')

df['DATE'] = pd.to_datetime(df['DATE'])
df['year'] = pd.DatetimeIndex(df['DATE']).year
df['month'] = pd.DatetimeIndex(df['DATE']).month

df16 = df[(df.year == 2016)]
df17 = df[(df.year == 2017)]

df_2016 = df16.groupby(df.month).mean()
df_2017 = df17.groupby(df.month).mean()

df_2016.to_csv('average2016.csv', index=False)
df_2017.to_csv('average2017.csv', index=False)

However, it is not doing exactly what I want it to do. This is giving me the average snow amount for each month of all locations combined. However, I need the average snow amount for each NAME/LOCATION for each month. How would I be able to get the average snow amount for each NAME/Location for each month and then save the results by the years, 2016 and 2017 in separate .CSV files?

A: If you want the average snow amount for each name/location for each month, you have to group on both of those columns:
df_2016 = df16.groupby(['NAME', 'month']).mean()

A: df.groupby(['month','NAME','LOCATION']).SNOW.mean()

or
df.groupby(['year','month','NAME','LOCATION']).SNOW.mean()