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"I'd Like To Ask You To Leave," Restaurateur Told Trump's Spokesperson
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LEXINGTON, Va.: Stephanie Wilkinson was at home Friday evening - nearly 200 miles from the White House - when the choice presented itself.
Her phone rang about 8 p.m. It was the chef at the Red Hen, the tiny farm-to-table restaurant that she co-owned just off Main Street in this small city in the western part of the state.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders had just walked in and sat down, the chef informed her.
"He said the staff is a little concerned. What should we do?" Wilkinson told The Washington Post. "I said I'd be down to see if it's true."
It seemed unlikely to her that President Donald Trump's press secretary should be dining at a 26-seat restaurant in rural Virginia. But then, it was unlikely that her entire staff would have misidentified Sanders, who had arrived last to a table of eight booked under her husband's name.
Stephanie Wilkinson is owner of The Red Hen who asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave.
As she made the short drive to the Red Hen, Wilkinson knew only this:
She knew Lexington, population 7,000, had voted overwhelmingly against Trump in a county that voted overwhelmingly for him. She knew the community was deeply divided over such issues as Confederate flags. She knew, she said, that her restaurant and its half-dozen servers and cooks had managed to stay in business for 10 years by keeping politics off the menu.
And she knew - she believed - that Sarah Huckabee Sanders worked in the service of an "inhumane and unethical" administration. That she publicly defended the president's cruelest policies, and that that could not stand.
"I'm not a huge fan of confrontation," Wilkinson said. "I have a business, and I want the business to thrive. This feels like the moment in our democracy when people have to make uncomfortable actions and decisions to uphold their morals."
When she walked into the restaurant, Wilkinson saw that there had been no mistake. The Red Hen is no bigger than some apartments, and the group table was impossible to miss: Sanders in a black dress, her husband, three or four men and women of roughly similar ages, and an older couple.
"They had cheese boards in front of them," Wilkinson said. Like any other family. The kitchen was already preparing the party's main course. Wilkinson interrupted to huddle with her workers.
Several Red Hen employees are gay, she said. They knew Sanders had defended Trump's desire to bar transgender people from the military. This month, they had all watched her evade questions and defend a Trump policy that caused migrant children to be separated from their parents.
"Tell me what you want me to do. I can ask her to leave," Wilkinson told her staff, she said. "They said 'yes.' "
It was important to Wilkinson, she said, that Sanders had already been served - that her staff had not simply refused her on sight. And it was important to her that Sanders was a public official, not just a customer with whom she disagreed, many of whom were included in her regular clientele.
All the same, she was tense as she walked up to the press secretary's chair.
"I said, 'I'm the owner,' " she recalled, " 'I'd like you to come out to the patio with me for a word.' "
They stepped outside, into another small enclosure, but at least out of the crowded restaurant.
"I was babbling a little, but I got my point across in a polite and direct fashion," Wilkinson said. "I explained that the restaurant has certain standards that I feel it has to uphold, such as honesty, and compassion, and cooperation.
"I said, 'I'd like to ask you to leave.' "
Wilkinson didn't know how Sanders would react, or whether Trump's chief spokeswoman had been called out in a restaurant before - as the president's homeland security secretary had been days earlier.
Sanders' response was immediate, Wilkinson said: " 'That's fine. I'll go.' "
Sanders went back to the table, picked up her things and walked out. The others at her table had been welcome to stay, Wilkinson said. But they didn't, so the servers cleared away the cheese plates and glasses.
"They offered to pay," Wilkinson said. "I said, 'No. It's on the house.' "
At the end of the shift, Wilkinson said, staff members left the usual overnight note in the kitchen for the morning manager: a problem with the credit card machine. Restock vodka and tequila.
If you've ever heard the term "to 86 someone," it comes from the restaurant industry - code to refuse service, or alternatively to take an item off the menu.
"86 - Sara Huckabee Sanders," read the note, below the reminder to buy more Pellegrino.
One of the servers photographed the whiteboard before going home Friday. He had posted it to his public Facebook wall by the time Wilkinson woke up Saturday. For all the angst that evening, Wilkinson said, everything had taken place with decorum. She had been polite; Sanders had been polite; the press secretary's family had been polite as they followed her out the door.
Not so much the rest of the world, as it discovered Red Hen waiter Jaike Foley-Schultz's Facebook post: "I just served Sarah huckabee sanders for a total of 2 minutes before my owner asked her to leave."
Jaike Foley-Schultz, a waiter at the Red Hen said the White House Press Secretary lasted just 2 minutes in the restaurant.
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Taxpayers Not Faring Well in Willfull FBAR Penalty Assessment
by ShuffieldLowman | Dec 19, 2017 | Blog | 0 comments
There has been a series of cases that bode ill for taxpayers who failed to file foreign bank account reports (FBARs). To review, the law requires taxpayers who have foreign bank accounts with a total balance of $10,000 at any point in a calendar year to file an FBAR the following year. Until recently, that return was due by June 30 with no extensions. Recent changes now make the return due at the same time your income tax is due and it is automatically extended to October 15 if you file an extension for your income tax return.
A non-willful failure to file can result in a penalty of up to $10,000 per account per year. However, the IRS has adopted procedures to reduce the amount pursuant to mitigation guidelines depending upon the total amount held in the accounts in any one year. The agent also has the authority to recommend a single $10,000 penalty regardless of the number of accounts or years. Further, if reasonable cause is demonstrated by the taxpayer, no penalty can be assessed for that year. Typically, taxpayers demonstrate reasonable cause in this area by showing they relied upon their tax preparers or advisors who failed to advise them to file. To succeed in making this showing, taxpayers must show the advisor was presented with all pertinent facts, that the advisor was competent to give advice on the subject and that the taxpayer relied, in good faith upon that advice. A recent bankruptcy case has held that if the advisor was aware of the foreign accounts, but failed to advise that FBARs were required to be filed, that the taxpayer could rely upon the failure to advise as if there had been a specific discussion about the requirement. It stated that to hold otherwise would require an advisor to review every possible form and filing requirement with a taxpayer and tell him whether it had to be filed. This, the court ruled, was not required by the law.
Unfortunately, those taxpayers charged with willful failure to file an FBAR do not have the opportunity to show reasonable cause. Somewhat illogically, the statute prohibits it. Yet one might argue (as the author and others have) that if you meet the elements of reasonable cause, you cannot have willfully failed to file. The penalties for a willful failure to file can be draconian. They are $100,000 per account per year or 50% of the balance in the account per year. With a six-year statute of limitations to assess the penalty, theoretically, a taxpayer could be assessed 300% of the highest balance. The IRS, has, however, graciously agreed that they won't take more than 100%. To further add to the potential misery, there are no mitigation provisions for a willful failure to file an FBAR.
Not surprisingly, this has led to litigation on the issue of willfulness. Although FinCen has delegated the authority to the IRS to investigate and assess FBAR violations, the IRS has no mechanism to collect any assessment it may make, except possibly offsetting a taxpayer's income tax refund by deducting the penalty as a debt owed to another Federal agency. Instead, The Treasury Department, through the Department of Justice, must file an action in Federal district court to obtain a judgment. The taxpayer may be able to pursue refund procedures in either the district court or the Court of Claims. Most of the reported cases have gone against the taxpayer. The facts in many of the cases involve taxpayers who have been convicted of tax evasion or who have admitted they intentionally concealed the foreign accounts to also conceal unreported income. These facts alone would seem to be all that would be necessary to sustain the willful FBAR penalty.
However, the courts are going further, unnecessarily in the author's opinion, and are creating what almost appears to be a strict liability rule. Essentially, they state that when a taxpayer signs a return, he states he has read it and it is correct. Then they point to Schedule B, Part III, which contains the questions about foreign trusts and bank accounts. The courts continue that it contains a warning that other returns may need to be filed. Thus, say the courts, the taxpayer either had actual knowledge of the duty to file an FBAR or is guilty of "willful blindness" in not pursuing the matter further to determine what his obligations are under the law. An argument could be made that this is "dicta' (comments by the court unnecessary to the ruling), but it is far from clear. Under this standard, a taxpayer who signs an income tax return and fails to file an FBAR may be, per se, deemed to be willful. Interestingly, the IRS has an internal rule that says simply failing to mark the box on the Schedule B, or marking it "no" is not enough. Perhaps that is why the courts that have made created this rule have spent a significant amount of time in their opinions setting forth the "bad acts" of the taxpayers in those cases. Unfortunately, they don't state that to be the case. Very recently, one district court held in favor of a taxpayer where, it held, the facts did not rise to the level that it believed was intended by Congress when they passed the law. The author was advised by an Appeals officer in Tampa, Florida, that the Government was going to appeal the decision.
All the above, together with the implementation of FATCA in countries around the world, the continuing expansion of the Foreign Institutions and Facilitators list ( a list of banks and people that assisted taxpayers in setting up off-shore accounts or trusts, etc. that the IRS has determined should result in a 50% instead of a 27 ½ % off-shore penalty under an OVDP submission) point to the need for individuals who have foreign bank accounts, trusts or other off-shore assets or foreign unreported income to seek advice and seriously consider participation in the Off-shore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP) where many of these penalties can be avoided or substantially reduced.
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Q: Verifying that a function is well defined Let $G,H$ be groups. let $\phi \in \operatorname{Aut} (G) $ and $\psi \in \operatorname{Aut}(H)$
Now let's construct the mapping:
$F(\phi, \psi): G \times H \rightarrow G \times H$ defined by $(g,h) \mapsto (\phi(g), \psi(h))$
I'm trying to verify that $F$ is well defined:
Here's my reasonning:
suppose $(x_1,y_1)=(x_2, y_2)$, then, $F( \phi, \psi)(x_1,y_1)= (\phi(x_1), \psi(y_1)) = (\phi(x_2), \psi(y_2))$ (because $\phi$ and $\psi$ are well defined) $= F( \phi, \psi)(x_2,y_2)$
Therefore, $F$ is well defined.
Is that the right way to approach the problem?

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Cementing Alan Moore's reputation as comics' foremost writer, V for Vendetta, illustrated by David Lloyd, now returns in a gorgeous, oversized Absolute edition with new material. Originally published in 1990, the story is both frightening and powerful, dealing with loss of freedom and individuality within a totalitarian England. Written against a background of third-term Thatcherism and tabloid rants against minorities, this is a work of startling clarity… everything that comics weren't supposed to be. With new material including never-before-reprinted silent art pages, an expanded sketchbook, the original series back cover art, and the re-colouring of the 2005 deluxe hardback edition – this is the ultimate edition of a modern comic masterpiece.
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Cleaning of Photovoltaics
Franchise Concept
BECOME YOUR OWN BOSS!
WERTHMANN® Franchise – Successfully Shape Your Future.
WERTHMANN® Franchise
Meaning of the Franchise System
Why a Franchise System?
Successfully Shape Your Future with the Unique WERTHMANN® Franchise Concept.
WERTHMANN® Franchise is Germany-wide the first franchisor in the area of cleaning of photovoltaics. We offer comprehensive professional service in Germany. With our franchisees we are on site for our customers and clean reliably.
As an associated member of the German Franchise Association, we train our partners based on long-standing experience regarding high-quality, professional, resource-saving and warranty maintaining cleaning of photovoltaics.
WERTHMANN® Franchise - The Successful Concept
What Does That Mean for Me?
You are an independent entrepreneur.
You invest your capital in your own system operation.
As an entrepreneur you are going to establish and lead this system operation independently and self responsibly. In the process, we actively support you.
You apply our business concept in your system operation.
In applying the business concept in your system operation, you cannot always decide freely, even if you are an entrepreneur. This is inevitable as our community can only accomplish a unified brand image through the consistent application of the business concept.
You are not alone. We are by your side!
Each operation is associated with risk. Like every entrepreneur, you carry this entrepreneurial risk. That is why we inform you extensively. We put enhanced emphasis not only on you recognising the opportunities, but also on you assessing the risk realistically. You are highly welcome to look at a sample contract, detailed information and especially the figures of already existing system operations with us personally in a training classroom in Schonungen. Did we arouse your interest? Then arrange a meeting now!
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Investment Sum *
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Ongoing Fee
* A part of the necessary equipment and tools can be rented from the franchisor. There is also the possibility to lease the company transporter. In doing so, the investment sum will be reduced.
** Ideally, 15-20 % equity is present. Nevertheless, it is possible to become a franchisee with only small or no equity at all. In principal, a financial commitment by the house bank is available for the franchisee.
The Contents of the Franchise Contract
In franchising, it became habitual to summarise the contents of the franchise contract by such information packages. We don't want to be an exception. However, we believe you can catch up much better on these contents if you have the contract on the table before you. That's why you can look at a sample contract and detailed information at our training centre in Schonungen.
Here is an overview of the most important contract contents:
Content of the franchise partnership, description of the contract rights.
Transfer of the franchise licence.
Regulation for implementations regarding modifications of the concept.
List of services of the franchisor.
Regulation for obligations of the franchisee.
Organisation of advertising and marketing.
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Organisation of goods purchase.
Recommendation for accounting, operating obligations, rights to control.
Entry fee: one-time 100,000 € plus VAT. In return, the franchisee receives training courses, manuals, start-up support and integration into the system.
Franchise fee: 9.25 % of net sales plus VAT.
Confidentiality rules to protect know-how.
Non-competition agreement, post-contractual non-competition agreement, ban on poaching employees within the franchise system.
Contract term: 5 years with an extension option.
Regulations for the termination of the franchise contract and for post-contractual obligations (e.g. omission of brand utilisation).
Right of the franchisor to take over the system operation after contract termination by purchasing it.
Penalties for violating obligations.
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Franchising has emerged by the end of the 19th century in the USA. By now it is popular all over the world. Franchising is the basis of many brands which are seen as branch systems by customers. The image in our pedestrian zones is shaped by franchise systems. Furthermore, company start-ups benefit from franchising, which is the reason why it is seen as a chance for our economy by politics.
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Kevin Sankey: Before vote, know facts
The Steamboat Springs School District and a political action group chaired by one of the current school board members has crafted a campaign to try to convince the voters to support a new school construction plan that includes the construction of a new high school on the far west end of town.
While almost everyone in our community supports the need for great schools, many of us think that this project is being rushed through the system with inadequate community involvement and too many unanswered questions.
Before you vote, know the facts:
■ One-hundred and seventy-one high school students below capacity in 2014.
■ Seventy-four high school students projected below capacity in 2019 (with largest current classes in attendance).
■ Zero approved intersections off U.S. Highway 40 and only one entrance and exit from proposed high school site.
■ One school board member continues in office (one member seek re-election and three members vacate their positions after the election).
■ One community meeting to announce the C-2 Overlook plan and get feedback (June 8 meeting at Steamboat Springs High School).
■ Four total "community" meetings, including kick-off meeting. All other "public" meetings (as claimed) were actually committee or school board meetings.
■ Twenty-one survey respondents (including staff) at May 26 community meeting. This data, which slightly favors the high school option, is the "mandate" for this project.
■ Forty-nine years that the current high school has been a centerpiece of our community.
■ Forty-nine days from introduction of new school options to school board decision to move the high school to Steamboat II (April 7 introduction of options to May 26 decision on new high school).
■ Thirteen days to abandon ill-conceived Steamboat II option C in favor of C-2 overlook option.
■ One hundred and twenty-two out-of-district students currently attend Steamboat Springs schools (and not paying taxes).
■ One-hundred and twenty-six projected enrollment at approved new Montessori charter school that will be leaving current schools. (Note: This decrease is not reflected in any district projections.)
■ One-hundred and thirty-nine enrollment in 2014 above capacity at local elementary schools (-109 without Montessori and out-of-district students).
■ Proposed bond totals $92 million with $178 million the actual cost of bond repayment (more than $14,000 for every person residing in Steamboat Springs).
I support education. I think in great schools. I also believe in doing things right.
I don't support a process driven by out-of-town consultants, architects and bond salesmen who stand to gain from
this construction.
As a Steamboat community, we deserve better. This important process, which has major social and economic ramifications, has been rushed. Propositions 3A and 3B gives an almost entirely new school board $92 million dollars to spend, with wide latitude for how and where the money is spent.
A no vote on 3A and 3B doesn't mean we don't support the schools. To the contrary, it simply asks that before we agree to the investment, the options are fully vetted and the community has agreed upon the best solution.
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What is it about people? You know, the ones who take credit for things they didn't do. Like when you clean out your grandmother's RV to help sell it and she tells everyone how hard she worked to get it cleaned up. And why does that make us so mad?
Or when you hear your mother-in-law mention time and time again that she wishes she had a gravy boat for her dining room table. You buy her one for Christmas and when she opens it she says "Oh, a gravy boat?" I looked high and low for that gravy boat. I poured time, energy and love into finding her the best one to fit her taste. And she acts like it was a random regifted gift. And why did that hurt my feelings?
Or my sister. My mom and dad are 78 years young this year. Every morning they work all of the puzzles in the newspaper. My sister knows this but for whatever reason the other morning, my sister had an issue that required my dads attention. See, my sister has a knack for dragging us into her drama. So she walks into my room and peers through the living room door to see dad working the puzzle, naturally. Then walks back through my room mumbling nondescript words of discontent that he is working is blankety-blank puzzles as though he is supposed to know it is "drama time".
Or the woman at church who is all about herself. She is a ruler. Yes, you can look up the definition and it will fit her, I promise. She is also a control freak. That definition will fit too. Anyway, the other day my mom and I went to the church the day before our festival to drop off a few items for a silent auction. She was the head of that too. Go figure. She was elbow deep in coleslaw and another woman asked her where she wanted us to place the items until she could get to them. Well, the woman came unglued. She started yelling that the sale wasn't today, that we couldn't buy anything until tomorrow, she started to explain what a silent auction was and went on and on and on. I looked at my mom and we headed to the office. We left everything with the secretary to handle and walked away. She clearly has issues that are not up to us to handle.
Why do people continue to amaze me? I'd hate to think that I'm as self-centered as they seem to be. God is so good! Why is it that even though we pray and trust Him, when things work out, it is always a "WOW!" moment. He's got it under control regardless of how out of control we may feel.
So, chill out…speak the truth with love…and hang on to Jesus for dear life. The ride will be worth it!
I met Christopher when he was four. His mom was very ill and the families of the fire department were taking turns helping with babysitting. His dad, my son and my daughter all worked together so we already felt like family. His mom got sicker and died expectedly. Christopher was the one who found her in bed. He was devastated to say the least. He didn't fully understand anything expect that she was gone.
For almost two years the fire department was their extended family. He was such a cute and sweet little guy. Despite what he went through, he remained a mostly happy little boy. Fast forward almost two years and my daughter became his step-mom. It was a role she was born to do. Of course, having such a sweet child made it all the more easy.
So here is the letter I will send him.
My dearest Christopher, you are my pride and joy. You will always be my oldest and first grandson. No one can take that away from me. You were chosen. I want you to know how special you are so I am writing this to you. I don't want you to have to wonder or question my love for you. It is bigger than the whole universe. You are special and I want you to know that.
Final week! Yay!!! I ate a lot of steamed veggies this week. I have struggled to mix it up but didn't give up. Of course it helped to pray a lot because I wanted to give up. I wanted some real food and some cheese and my favorite peanut butter and chocolate…lol.
But I held on. I lost a total of 6 1/2 pounds and that was the cool part. Now I get to add foods back being careful not to include the preservatives and additives that will make you sick and have lousy gut symptoms.
So that's it. It was a long hard month but well worth it. Not just that I lost weight but mostly because now the garbage is out of my system. It's like starting over.
I dropped the ball keeping this up to date but this adventure is working. It isn't meant to last for the long-term, only to give your gut a restart. Next week will be four weeks of vegetables only, or steamed but not cooked any other way. After that, start adding meat and cooking the veggies. The key is to stay away from prepared food and foods with additives and preservatives. But all in all, it has made a difference in how I feel. So if for nothing else, it has been worth that.
Who Is He? He's My Dad!
He use to take me fishing on the weekends when I was growing up. He worked out of town during the week so our weekends were special. We'd get up early in the morning, load our rods and boxes and head out. We usually went to Haulover Canal and picked out a nice quiet spot. Not too many people went there so it wasn't hard to find a good place. As I look back, I wonder what we took to sit on. Back then they didn't have those folding canvas type chairs. We probably turned over a bucket or stood most of the time. After all we both were a lot younger.
He is such a gentle soul. I remember he would bait my hooks depending on what we were using. I was a tom boy but some things I just would not do. He never laughed "at" me or made me feel bad about that. He encouraged me to try things on my own but was always there to help when needed. He taught me patience, humility and gentleness. I doubt he even realizes this.
I can always count on dad for any kind of help or brain storming. He has a natural mechanical mind and can come up with solutions to just about anything. As a kid I called them "Jerry-rigs". Now I understand it to be slightly short of genius. Several things I would see him do as I watched him while growing up have since then become real actual things you can buy.
He has days when he feels regret for not being home more when we were kids. But he was a wonderful provider and spent his free time with his family and not in bars. I think he is a wonderful example of a dad. I couldn't have asked for a better one. He stands up for us, he leads and guides us, he corrects us when we don't exhibit the best behavior possible. He does all this and so much more with a loving and kind heart.
I don't remember very many whippings from dad. But the ones I do remember, I deserved. He is an excellent judge of character. Many times he would point out things that weren't kosher with my friends that would come around. I didn't always like hearing such things, but I knew my dad had my best interest in mind.
We use to play chess often. He taught me how to when I was very young. I have yet to beat him. I don't lose on purpose mind you but he is the master who taught me so I guess it is supposed to be that way. I also taught my children to play. They were such bad losers that I refused to play chess with them until they learned how to lose. We would play endless games of Tic-Tack-Toe. After a few weeks, they finally learned how to lose and just have fun. It was a strange strategy but it worked.
Now that Father's Day is upon us I am grateful to still have him here with us.