Most people would think the two Bugattis in his garage sufficient to express Rick Adams' love for this ultra-high-end car brand. But Adams doesn't agree with that assessment, since he also had to have the Bugatti logo paved into his driveway.
"Doesn't everybody have a Bugatti logo in their driveway in stone?" joked Adams' wife, Elizabeth Hansen, as 15 models of the classic car — each rarer than the next — pulled into their long Ardath Road driveway on Friday, March 15 during the kickoff party for the first-ever La Jolla meeting of the American Bugatti Club.
Bugattis are French race cars designed for beauty and performance by Italian-born car manufacturer Ettore Bugatti from 1909 until his death in 1947.
Only about 8,000 were ever made. Adams and his brother John — who claim they are descended from a grandfather of second U.S. president John Adams — fell in love with the car brand when their father began collecting them in 1960.
The 360-strong car club has gathered for a series of Bugatti-centric weekend events every year somewhere in Southern California since forming in 1960. (Rick and John's father took them to the very first meeting as children, in Santa Barbara.) This year, the more than 30 Bugatti weekend attendees — they call themselves Bugattists — included Alan Travis and his 1913 Type 22 from Phoenix, Norman Cowell and his 1927 Type 40 from Lomita, and Mike Cleary and his 1926 Type 38 from Carpinteria.
The owners transported their cars by trailer to the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club, where most of them stayed and attended a banquet Saturday evening. They prefer to add miles only during their collective road rallies, Hansen explained. These included drives to and from the Rancho Santa Fe Cars & Coffee event on Saturday morning, and to and from a brunch at Only Yesterday Classic Autos (owned by La Jollans Chuck and Amy Spielman) on Sunday morning.
News quickly spread around the party of the arrival of the most eagerly awaited club member. It was Jim Hull, a retired furniture manufacturer, with his green 1938 Bugatti Type 57C (with 3-position Cabriolet body by Parisian coach-builder Letourneur & Marchand).
Malibu resident Jim Hull arrives with his green 1938 Bugatti Type 57C and a story you wouldn't believe.
"They didn't think I was going to make it," the 77-year-old explained to a friend, referring not to the Bugatti weekend, but to the other side of emergency open-heart surgery he had a little over two months ago.
Owning a car like this is a status symbol, Bugattists admit — and it's something you have to admit when your car is occasionally worth as much as, or more than, your house.
As Adams estimated that all Bugattis are worth "six figures at least," he motioned toward the silver 1924 Type 23 parked in his garage. As he estimated that others are worth seven, he motioned to the seafoam 1930 Type 46 next to it — winner of the 2014 La Jolla Concours d'Elegance Best in Show Award.
But it's about more than owning a status symbol, Bugattists say. There's a special connection they feel to Ettore Bugatti. It's like they get to own a piece of his genius.
Bugattists discuss their collective favorite subject during a lavish party in Rick Adams' and Elizabeth Hansen's La Jolla backyard.
Among the revelers was Michael Dorvillier, chairman of the La Jolla Concours d'Elegance, which will stage its 15th annual car celebration April 12-14. At the party, Dorvillier was caught in the awkward position of feeling playful pressure to acknowledge the superiority of Bugattis to every other car brand.
There are actually tons of car clubs out there, each dedicated to adoring a particular make. In San Diego alone, there are at least 87 — including clubs dedicated to Chryslers, Pontiacs and PT Cruisers. And each is full of dozens of people getting together under the impression that love for a car brand is the actual reason.
But as the night unfolded and fine wine lubricated the many laugh-filled candlelit dinner conversations about engines and chassis and such, it became apparent that what these conversations were really about was something else — maintaining meaningful connections in a world that feels increasingly disconnected.
Standing in stark relief to the rudeness of social media, it was a reminder of how much we all still crave hanging out in person with familiar faces and engaging in conversations about our favorite hobbies.


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Recently the California State Legislature passed a budget which called for massive cuts in the funding for California's court system. These spending cuts will no doubt cause many litigants to have justice delayed or even denied altogether. Hundreds of clerks in the San Francisco County court system have been given lay-off notices.
Many people in today's environment are unsympathetic. Often commentators speak of the government having too many employees that don't work hard enough and a few less won't make any difference. Those talking heads are quite simply wrong.
Most of the court clerks and employees are hard working individuals who have to meet the public on a daily basis, working with them to solve their problems. Those problems come from citizens who are usually unhappy in the first place with being in court. No one enjoys coming to court to pay a traffic ticket, deal with the dissolution of their marriage or contemplate being evicted from their home or business. Yet this is the daily work load of these employees who are being terminated from their jobs. Once these trained individuals are gone who will get the people's business done?
Funding the court system is important in maintaining the civility of our society. If citizens can't get problems resolved in an orderly and timely fashion the rules by which we all agree to live get ignored. For example, if a traffic ticket is wrongfully issued but the driver can never get into a courtroom to have a judge hear his side of the story, respect for the police diminishes, more people will ignore the rules of the road since the ticket may not be litigated for years, and ultimately we are a poorer society for it.
The court system and the respect individual citizens have for the rule of law is what makes a society free. Without the ability of a citizen to come into court and have a fair hearing for civil and criminal trials, the wronged party may take the law into his own hands. From freedom of speech, to the right to a fair trial, to the ability to get divorced, to every manner of complaint, the courts need to be adequately funded to preserve all of our rights and freedoms.


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PLAYSTATION 5 SURPASSES 10 MILLION UNITS SOLD, REMAINS THE FASTEST SELLING CONSOLE IN SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY
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Since launching in November 2020, PS5 global sales have outpaced PlayStation 4, SIE's previous record holder for fastest-selling console
Sony Interactive Entertainment announced today that its newest generation game console, PlayStation®5 (PS5™), has sold through more than 10 million units* globally since first launching on November 12, 2020. PS5 is the fastest-selling console in the company's history and continues to outpace sales of its predecessor, PlayStation®4 (PS4™).
SIE also achieved additional milestones across its portfolio of PlayStation Studios games, including:
● Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales from Insomniac Games has sold more than 6.5 million copies* since releasing on November 12, 2020
● MLB® The Show™ 21 from San Diego Studio is the fastest-selling title in franchise history with more than 2 million copies* sold across all platforms. The game has reached more than 4 million players since releasing on April 16, 2021
● Returnal from Housemarque, a new IP that launched to critical acclaim, has sold more than 560,000 copies* since releasing on April 30, 2021
● Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart from Insomniac Games has sold more than 1.1 million copies* since releasing on June 11, 2021
"I can't express enough the deep gratitude we feel for our passionate community of PlayStation fans who have embraced PS5, and the world-class development and publishing partners who bring such incredible gaming experiences to our platforms," said Jim Ryan, president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment. "While PS5 has reached more households faster than any of our previous consoles, we still have a lot of work ahead of us as demand for PS5 continues to outstrip supply. I want gamers to know that while we continue to face unique challenges throughout the world that affect our industry and many others, improving inventory levels remains a top priority for SIE."
Looking ahead, SIE's forecast for PS5 sales this fiscal year remains unchanged. The lineup of exclusive games coming from PlayStation Studios includes a new God of War from Santa Monica Studios, Gran Turismo™ 7 from Polyphony Digital, and Horizon Forbidden West from Guerrilla Games. Some of the highly anticipated games from SIE's partners include Battlefield 2042 from Electronic Arts, DEATHLOOP from Bethesda, Far Cry®6 From Ubisoft, and Kena: Bridge of Spirits from Ember Lab.
* As of July 18, 2021
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CUMBERLAND B.C – Residents in Cumberland are fighting to keep their pets, and their homes.
Tim Rooney and others currently living at Cumberland Townhouses have voiced some concerns that they would be removed from the complex, because of their pets.
Rooney says the current landlords have been sending out warning letters and eviction notices since the start of March asking renters with pets to remove the animals, because they did not receive written permission to have them in the complex.
Some residents have been given multiple notices, with time limits to remove the pets.
Rooney said that he has five days left on his warning, before the landlord will issue him an eviction notice.
He added that there are currently eight other renters who have pets, and have also received notices.
The tenants say they don't need written permission to have the pets, as verbal permission was given.
They have decided to seek out legal advice to help confirm their statement.
Shane Colclough is the legal advocate for the tenants and says, the verbal permission should be legally acceptable.
"Verbal person was given to them by the agent of the landlord, it was common practice to receive that verbal permission, and under the legal principle of the stopple, that applies," said Colclough.
"Simply because they did not receive that in writing is not reason enough to evict them."
Colclough also said that the landlord doesn't need proof in order to give out eviction notices.
"The landlord can serve an eviction for any reason they believe to be true, doesn't have to be necessarily true, they just have to believe to to be true."
He says he believes the landlords are aware of the situation, and he hopes they understand that the verbal permission is acceptable.
"At this moment, I believe the agents of the landlords have been informed that what they are doing has no grounds, but that doesn't meant they wont go forward with eviction."
"I hope in this case that the landlords can come to reason and observe the fact that they had provided verbal permission to various tenants in respect to their pets, and they can't unilaterally impose these new restrictions on the tenants," Colclough added.
Colclough has also stated that as of right now the tenants are waiting to hear from the landlords to see if further notices will be coming.
"If the landlords have determined the time frame to have passed, they are now going to possibly take action with a further notice or an eviction."
The MyComoxValleynow.com newsroom reached out to a representative of the landlord for comment, and as of this publication has not heard back.


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Democrats say they want to tax the rich, but they're also pushing a terrible tax idea that would be a big win for the wealthy
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
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There has been a fight over the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act's cap on the state and local taxes (SALT) paid deduction.
Lawmakers in high tax states, particularly Democrats, are pushing for a repeal of the $10,000 cap on the SALT deduction.
But such a repeal would mostly benefit high-income taxpayers and force the federal government to forgo $668 billion in tax revenue over the next 10 years.
Given these issues, Congress should keep the SALT cap right where it is.
The author of this opinion, Scott Eastman, is a federal research manager at the Tax Foundation, where he coordinates research production for the Center for Federal Tax Policy.
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The recent law overhauling the US tax code, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act's (TCJA), most controversial provision is arguably the $10,000 cap on the state and local taxes (SALT) paid deduction.
The provision is so unpopular in some circles that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has likened the policy to "an economic civil war that helps red states at the expense of blue states." Some in Congress — predominately Democrats in high tax states like New York, New Jersey, and California — want to repeal the cap and instead increase individual income tax rates on the wealthiest taxpayers to offset a small portion of the revenue loss.
Unfortunately, eliminating the SALT cap would be bad policy. Repealing the cap would almost exclusively benefit wealthy taxpayers, making the tax code less progressive. It would also do away with a major revenue-generating provision that policymakers have counted on to fund tax cuts for individuals throughout the country.
Given these issues, Congress would be wise to keep the SALT cap right where it is.
Repealing the SALT cap would be a win for the rich
The TCJA massively reformed the federal tax code. It cut tax rates, increased both the standard deduction and child tax credit, and limited notable deductions, including the SALT deduction. On net, most taxpayers received a tax cut from the TCJA's reforms.
Policymakers limited the SALT deduction — which allows taxpayers to deduct their property taxes and either their sales or state income taxes from their taxable income — to pay for these tax cuts and retain our tax code's progressively. Before tax reform, over 90% of the SALT deduction's benefits went to taxpayers earning more than $100,000, or the top 20% of taxpayers.
Most coverage of the SALT cap has focused narrowly on how taxpayers in blue states, particularly high-tax states in the northeast and on the west coast, have been impacted by the SALT cap. This analysis misses a crucial point.
The SALT deduction is not simply a policy that benefits taxpayers in blue states. It is better understood as benefiting high-income taxpayers. These taxpayers often live in high-value housing and reside in high-tax jurisdictions within high-tax states.
In other words, the SALT deduction is better understood as a policy that benefits wealthy taxpayers regardless of whether their state is red or blue.
For instance, in 2016, before the SALT cap was enacted, the mean SALT deduction taken by taxpayers in affluent Westchester County, New York was seven times that of the mean deduction taken in rural St. Lawrence County, New York.
In Indiana, far from a blue state, the mean deduction in Hamilton County, an affluent suburb of Indianapolis, is five times that of Washington County (population 28,000) in southern Indiana.
This disparity can largely be explained by differences in home values. The median home price in Westchester County is over $500,000, while the median home price in St. Lawrence County is less than $90,000. Taxpayers who own more valuable homes pay higher property taxes because property taxes are assessed on the total value of a home. This yields more state and local taxes that a taxpayer can deduct.
If policymakers were to repeal the SALT cap established by the TCJA, it would give an expensive tax cut to wealthy taxpayers across the country.
The cap also raises much-needed revenue
The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that the new $10,000 limit would raise $668 billion from 2018 to 2027. Removing the cap would eliminate this revenue, and almost all the benefits would be concentrated in the top 20% of taxpayers, with taxpayers in the top 5% and 1% benefiting the most.
For all the controversy surrounding the TCJA's $10,000 SALT deduction cap, the rhetoric does not match the reality. Repealing the SALT cap would destroy an important TCJA revenue generator and cut taxes for wealthy taxpayers.
If Democrats want to generate revenue in a progressive way, they should stop being salty and leave the SALT cap in place.
Scott Eastman is federal research manager at the Tax Foundation, where he coordinates research production for the Center for Federal Tax Policy. Scott has a master's degree in economics from George Mason University and a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
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Drag king comic Murray Hill vows 'the show will go on' after fire at Brooklyn apartment on his birthday
By Brittany Kriegstein and Leonard Greene
Drag king comic Murray Hill is anything but camera shy, but on Monday, as he sifted through the remnants of a fire that destroyed his Brooklyn home on his birthday, he was reluctant to pose for a picture.
Why? Because he wasn't in character. And Murray Hill is always in character, unless a four-alarm fire tears through his Williamsburg townhouse on Thanksgiving, damaging his gaudy suits, colorful ties and every piece of stage memorabilia that helps make him a star.
But Hill, always a trouper, obliged the camera, puffy coat and sneakers notwithstanding, fulfilling the promise that endures even in the hardest of times: The show must go on.
Murray Hill outside his burned Williamsburg apartment building. (Courtesy of Murray Hill)
"I was able to go and get the suits today," Hill said. "There's water and smoke damage, so we just put them in a bag. We're talking right now to see if I can get my memorabilia out."
Hill, who turned 50 on Thanksgiving, was celebrating with friends in Amagansett, L.I., when someone told him about the fire that erupted inside a neighboring apartment building, engulfing the residence before scorching Hill's home.
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The blaze broke out just after 11 p.m. on the top floor of a three-story, wood-framed house on Devoe St. near Lorimer Street.
Comedian Murray Hill performs on stage during Gilded Balloon 2018 Press Party, as part of the annual Edinburgh Fringe Festival, at Teviot Row House on August 2, 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (ROBERTO RICCIUTI PHOTOGRAPHY/Getty Images)
The fire spread into the space between the top floor and the roof. In all, 170 fire personnel were needed to bring the blaze under control just before 2 a.m.
Photos of the aftermath showed the top floor had been badly burned. The roof was destroyed. Debris and tenants' belongings littered the sidewalk.
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Six firefighters sustained non-life-threatening injuries. No civilians were hurt, but four families were left homeless, according to the American Red Cross. Hill is now staying at a local hotel, unsure of when or if he'll be able to return to the apartment where he lived for 15 years.
The fire spread into the space between the top floor and the roof. In all, 170 fire personnel were needed to bring the blaze under control just before 2 a.m. on Friday. (Theodore Parisienne/for New York Daily News)
Friends, including standup comedian Bridget Everett, launched a GoFundMe page to help raise money to cover Hill's relocating costs including furniture, appliances, clothing, rent and storage space.
It was a payback of sorts for 20-plus years of joy Hill has spread in New York City clubs through his drag persona that falls somewhere between Jackie Gleason and Joey Bishop. It's a shtick he has been perfecting for decades, so much so that his alter ego is more or less a mystery.
The downtown fixture has shot episodes for Amy Schumer's new Hulu Show "Life & Beth" and played a recurring character on the HBO show "Somebody Somewhere," among other gigs.
Six firefighters sustained non-life threatening injuries. No civilians were injured, but four families were left homeless, according to the American Red Cross. Hill was staying at a local hotel. (Theodore Parisienne/for New York Daily News)
Hill said he was moved by the GoFundMe donations, which have already netted $34,000 above the $100,000 goal. But the comedian said he was even more inspired by the first responders who risk their lives to protect people and property.
"I've always appreciated the city services, but I'm blown away by the FDNY," Hill said. "Because all of these houses have been here for so long. They're all connected, and six firefighters got hurt and it took them like three and a half hours to put it out."
Comedians Murray Hill (L) and Bridget Everett attend the "Other People" New York Screening at Dolby 88 Theater on September 6, 2016 in New York City. (Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images)
Despite the Thanksgiving setback, Hill said he is looking forward to his next holiday gathering, "A Murray Little Christmas" at Joe's Pub in Manhattan from Dec. 14 through Dec. 18.
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"The show will go on. It will," Hill said. "And you know, Stephen Sondheim just passed, and he had that classic song, 'I'm Still Here.' So that's basically how I feel. I'm still here."


A Moscow court has ordered the continued detention of Philippe Delpal, a French national and a partner at the Russia-based private-equity group Baring Vostok.
The Basmanny District Court on April 9 said it had ruled to extend the custody period to July 14 for Delpal, who has been charged with fraud.
Delpal's lawyer, Levan Dzhioyev, had asked the court to reject a request by prosecutors to maintain the Frenchman's detention.
Delpal, Baring Vostok founder and U.S. citizen Michael Calvey, and other executives and employees of the firm were detained in Moscow in February and charged with financial fraud.
Calvey and the others, who are also being held in detention pending trial, deny any wrongdoing.
If convicted, Calvey -- one of the most prominent foreign investors in Russia -- could face up to 10 years in prison.
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It manages more than $3.7 billion in assets, is particularly active in the technology sector, and owns a stake in the Yandex search engine.


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The aim of the present study was to examine prejudice against Muslim Australians and Indigenous Australians and the function of those attitudes using previously identified functions, direct experiential–schematic and value expressive, and including a new indirect experiential–schematic function. Respondents were categorised into two groups: accepting and rejecting. For the Muslim data there was no difference between accepting and rejecting groups regarding the value-expressive function, but acceptors reported the experiential–schematic function to a greater extent than did rejectors. For the Indigenous data there was no difference between groups on the value-expressive or the experiential–schematic function. With both target groups, rejectors reported the indirect experiential–schematic function more than acceptors. The valueexpressive function was higher for the Muslim data and the experiential–schematic function was higher for the Indigenous data. The importance of taking into account the function of respondents' attitudes, the distinction between source and function of attitudes, as well as specific issues surrounding target groups themselves, is discussed.


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1 July 2003 Seroprevalence of Avian Pneumovirus in Minnesota Turkeys
Sagar M. Goyal, Dale Lauer, Keith Friendshuh, David A. Halvorson
Sagar M. Goyal,1 Dale Lauer,2 Keith Friendshuh,3 David A. Halvorson4
1Department of Veterinary Diagnostic Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108
2Minnesota Poultry Testing Laboratory, Minnesota Board of Animal Health, Business Highway 71 N.E., Willmar, MN 56201
3Minnesota Board of Animal Health, 160 Agriculture Building, 90 West Plato Boulevard, St. Paul, MN 55107
4Department of Veterinary PathoBiology College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108
Avian Diseases, 47(3):700-706 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1637/6037
Avian pneumovirus (APV) causes respiratory tract infection in turkeys and was first seen in the United States in Colorado in late 1996. In early 1997, the disease was recognized in Minnesota and caused estimated losses of up to $15 million per year. This virus has not been reported in the other turkey producing states. We here report the seroprevalence of APV in Minnesota from August 1998 to July 2002. The average rate of seroprevalence has been 36.3% (range = 14.2%–64.8%). A seasonal bias was observed, with peak incidences in the fall and spring. A higher rate of seropositivity was observed in counties with the highest concentration of turkeys.
Sagar M. Goyal, Dale Lauer, Keith Friendshuh, and David A. Halvorson "Seroprevalence of Avian Pneumovirus in Minnesota Turkeys," Avian Diseases 47(3), 700-706, (1 July 2003). https://doi.org/10.1637/6037
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Station staff, fellow passengers revive woman who collapsed at Tel Aviv HaShalom railway station due to a heart attack.
A woman suffered t heart attack at the Tel Aviv HaShalom railway station Wednesday evening. Her life was saved thanks to the quick intervention and resourcefulness of the staff and nearby passengers.
The 30-year-old passenger, who was waiting at the station platform, collapsed suddenly from a heart attack. Her fall was seen by the steward on the platform and the shift manager, who immediately began resuscitation efforts.
While the station staff used a defibrillator to jumpstart the man's heart, several other passengers, including a doctor and a paramedic, came and began to administer CPR.
Due to the rapid treatment and availability of the defibrillator, the patient's heartbeat was restored, and the woman quickly recovered consciousness and was evacuated to the hospital via an intensive care unit.
Israel Railways installed the defibrillators in each of the 68 passenger stations, in all the operational areas of the train, along with medical kits, and this is not the first time that the life of a passenger or employee has been saved thanks to their ready availability.
Shachar Hillel, the station's director, said, "I am happy that we and the station staff helped to save the life of the passenger, along with our passengers, who included medical professionals. Today we received additional proof of the great importance of quick response in the event of a medical event. Employees of the passenger division of Israel Railways, including station managers, shift workers and inspectors, are regularly authorized to provide first aid and resuscitation, and this proves it. I and the station staff wish her a speedy medical journey on our behalf and on behalf of Israel Railways."


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When's the optimal time to get your coffee kick? Sometime between 9:30 and 11:30 in the morning should work well, neuroscience doctoral student Steven Miller explains in a supremely helpful blog post.
Except that with caffeine, you're not trying to change your body's pain/pleasure perception or bacterial load. You're messing with its alertness.
Just as you shouldn't hit up I-just-had-surgery-strength prescription painkillers for a mild headache, Miller suggests avoiding coffee during time periods when the body is naturally more alert. Instead, try a cup as the body is coming off these peaks, which are determined by the body's internal clock.
Check out Miller's post for more on the science of how that clock works, the hormone it releases periodically throughout the day, and other optimal coffee-drinking hours.


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Discover - PR 8 Ponta de São Lourenço Footpath
PR 8 Ponta de São Lourenço Footpath
Start: E.R. 109 (Baía d' Abra)
Finish: E.R. 109 (Baía d' Abra)
Time: 2h30m
Distance: 4 km (+ 4 km return)
The trail follows S. Lourenço Point, the eastern-most peninsula of Madeira island, so named after the caravel sailed by João Gonçalves de Zarco, being one of the three discoverers of Madeira island, who upon approaching this piece of land shouted to his ship "São Lourenço, that's enough!".
This peninsula is volcanic in origin, and is mainly composed of basalt, although there are also some limestone sediment formations. At the end of the Point there are two islets: the Cevada, Metade or Desembarcadouros Islet, and the S. Lourenço Point, Farol or For a Islet. The stone partition marks where the Regional government's land begins, and is part of the Madeira Natural Park. The peninsula is classified as a partial natural reserve and the Desembarcadouro Islet is a total natural reserve. All the land and sea at the North coast, up to a depth of 50m, is part of the European network of important community sites - Natura 2000.
The semi-arid climate and its exposure to North winds have sculpted the low vegetation and also explain the lack of trees, which distinguishes this area from the rest of the Island and is a veritable natural heritage. Here you can see the Island's basal plate at its best and several rare and endemic plants. Of the 138 species of plant identified on the peninsula, 31 are endemic (exclusive) to Madeira island. In terms of fauna there is one of the largest colonies of seagull (Larus cachinnans atlantis) in the region, which nest on the Desembarcadouro islet.
Along the route you can often see several bird species such as the Berthelot's Pipit (Anthus bertheloti madeirensis), the Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis parva), the Common Canary (Serinus canaria canaria), and the Kestrel (Falco tinunculus). Protected marine birds also nest here such as Cory's Shearwater (Calonectris diomedea), the Band-rumped Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma castro), Bulwer's Petrel, (Bulweria bulwerii), and the Common Tern (Sterna hirundo). The Madeiran lizard (Lacerta dugesii), which is the island's only reptile, is very common here. Another interesting aspect of this area is the high number of endemic land molluscs (24), commonly known as snails. In the sea, you may be lucky enough to spot the world's rarest seal, known in Madeira as a Sea-wolf (Monachus monachus). At the end of the trail, you can dive in the Sardinha port, named after the old owners. The Sardinha house is the base for a group of Rangers who work for the Madeira natural park, and monitor the area. On the horizon to the South you can see Ilhas Desertas (Deserted Islands) and to the North the Porto Santo Islands.
Baia D'Abra
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Michael Sikora, in collaboration with Mark Davis, PhD, Lars Steinmetz, PhD, and Ron Davis, PhD, at Stanford University, will examine the role of T cells and immune-related genes in ME/CFS. This may help address the outstanding question of whether ME/CFS is an autoimmune or infectious disease, or simply an activation of the immune system. Click here to read more about the plans for this study. Click here to hear Dr. Mark Davis talk about T-cell research.
Fereshteh Kenari Jahaniani, PhD, in collaboration with Mike Snyder, PhD, and Ron Davis, PhD, of Stanford University, are generating multiple large datasets (genomics, gene expression, metabolomics, proteomics, and cytokines) in a cohort of patients and their families. By comparing patients to healthy blood relatives, we are more likely to understand what genes cause or contribute to the development of ME/CFS. This data will also be integrated with the Severely ill Patients (Big Data) Study (SIPS) , providing important validation and extension of those findings. Read and watch more about the multi-omics approach.
Four technologies are being developed that could provide a biomarker for ME/CFS. Dr. Davis's team is dedicated to developing these into inexpensive tests that can be easily used in a doctor's office. In the future, all patients will be measured on all of these diagnostic platforms, enabling us to compare their efficacy and determine what combination of them will be most useful to export for diagnostic testing. Click here to read more about the plans for this study.
Nanoneedle: Rahim Esfandyarpour, PhD, in collaboration with Ron Davis, PhD, is validating and further developing the nanoneedle biosensor platform, which has shown promise as a blood-based diagnostic for ME/CFS. This is a nanofabricated device that measures electrical impedence from a drop of blood. Thus far, this test is able to distinguish ME/CFS patients from healthy controls. The technology will be optimized for easy clinical adoption and scaled up so that numerous FDA-approved drugs can be simultaneously screened as potential treatments. Click here to read more about why a blood-based diagnostic could be a game-changer.
Magnetic Levitation Device: Gozde Durmus, PhD, in collaboration with Ron Davis, PhD, has been developing a magnetic levitation device. This device uses a ferrofluid in a glass capillary surrounded by permanent magnets. This generates a density gradient and cells move to their respective densities in the capillary. Their position is imaged by a camera from a smart phone. It was discovered that white blood cells from ME/CFS patients are less dense than healthy controls. One patient was followed for several months, consistently showing a light density. It was further observed that there was a correlation between the lightness of the cells and the severity of symptoms. This could be a very inexpensive diagnostic test, and more patients will be tested in 2018.
Mitochondrial Function Test: Julie Wilhelmy, in Dr. Davis's lab, has developed a protocol using the Seahorse instrument that measures mitochondrial function. This protocol reveals a significant difference between activated T-cells of ME/CFS patients and healthy controls. The instrument is commercially available, which will allow other laboratories to easily reproduce our results.
OMF has newly awarded a grant totaling $1.8 million to establish a new ME/CFS Collaborative Research Activities at MGH and the Harvard Affiliated Hospitals. The new Harvard project will be led by OMF Scientific Advisory Board members Ronald G. Tompkins, MD, ScD, and Wenzhong Xiao, PhD, and will work synergistically with the ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center at Stanford led by Ronald W. Davis, PhD, of Stanford University, also funded by OMF. All science funded by OMF continues to be under the overall direction of our Scientific Advisory Board, directed by Ron Davis. Click here for more information.
OMF is also funding the expansion of the Stanford Data Center for the Severely Ill Patients (SIPS) Study to encompass all the data from the Stanford and Harvard ME/CFS Collaborative Research Centers, as well as data from any other research we are funding. The clinical results from the SIPS are currently already open to researchers with access via our website. This expanded data center will give researchers quick access to massive amounts of research data.
In 2019 our collaborative team meeting will be three days, September 4-6. The first two days will allow for in-depth scientific discussion of recent ME/CFS research results. On the third day, we will establish collaborations and discuss the most effective path forward to expedite ME/CFS research. At this groundbreaking scientific conference, over 50 international researchers will share unpublished data and ideas. Sharing unpublished data is a very effective way to accelerate the research because scientists can consider these results without waiting for publication. This interdisciplinary team of experts in numerous fields, including Nobel laureates, and several members of the National Academy of Sciences, will discuss genetics, metabolism, immunology, data integration, related diseases, drug discovery, and lessons from these and other fields for ME/CFS research.
The Third Annual Community Symposium will be held on Saturday, September 7. At the Community Symposium, the scientists will update patients and members of the public on the latest research and our progress towards understanding the molecular basis of ME/CFS and our plans for the future. The 2nd Annual Symposium was recorded and is available on OMF's Youtube channel for viewing.
Red blood cells (RBCs) transport oxygen from the lungs to the cells of your body and then carry carbon dioxide from your cells to your lungs. For RBCs to get to all these cells, they need to be able to flow through small blood vessels with minimal friction. Ultimately, this requires RBCs to be smooth, rounded, and elastic. Alterations in these properties of RBCs can occur during chronic inflammatory diseases like sepsis, and we have found that this deformability is also occurring in ME/CFS. For more information on RBC deformability, click here.
These observations along with new technology available for measuring RBC deformability prompted engineers from Stanford and their collaborators at San Jose State University to examine RBC deformability in ME/CFS. The following three projects will develop and evaluate a device to rapidly determine the 'deformability' of RBCs as a potential biomarker for ME/CFS.
The Shaqfeh group at Stanford University will produce computer 3D simulations of RBCs through a set of channels that resemble a blood circulation system. Using these simulations, the Shaqfeh group will determine how to characterize the properties of RBCs by the way they flow through these channels.
The computer simulations described above will be conducted in close collaboration with the Ramasubramanian group at San Jose State University, where they are producing a microfluidics chip to estimate the properties of RBCs. A microfluidic chip is a set of tiny channels etched into a piece of material like glass or plastic and is around the size of a SIM card. Designing the microfluidic chip will require ongoing RBC simulations by the Shaqfeh group to determine the optimal set of channels to distinguish ME/CFS RBCs from normal RBCs. The microfluidic devices suggested from the simulations will be tested at San Jose State with the ultimate goal being the creation of a sensitive diagnostic device.
A key part of determining RBC properties in these channels will be the development of a state-of-the-art image analysis tool that can automatically identify and track the position and shape of thousands of RBCs under relaxed and stressed conditions. The Santiago group will develop this visualization technology at Stanford University.
The visualization technology developed by the Santiago group will be applied to develop a microfluidics device in conjunction with the Ramasubramanian and Shaqfeh groups.
The longer-term goal of this collaborative effort between these three groups is to produce a low-cost, disposable device to determine the rapid quantitation of deformability of the cells in a single drop of blood.
4. OMF has granted Scientific Advisory Board member, Jonas Bergquist, MD, PhD, Uppsala University (Sweden), additional funds to expand his work on targeted proteomics for neuroinflammatory markers in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in ME/CFS patients.
Continuing with his ongoing study of CSF from ME/CFS patients, Dr. Bergquist has recently acquired a piece of technology that significantly enhances the detection of inflammation markers. This technology has yet to be used on CSF, so this will be the world's first test case for ME/CFS samples. Using this technology, Bergquist's team is going to selectively test for a set of over 900 markers of neuroinflammation.


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Q: Sequelize hasMany through another table Okay so i have the following three models
Module:
    var Module = sequelize.define('module', {
        id: DataTypes.INTEGER,
        name: DataTypes.STRING,
        description: DataTypes.STRING,
        category_id: DataTypes.STRING,
        module_type_id: DataTypes.STRING,
        gives_score: DataTypes.INTEGER,
        duration: DataTypes.STRING,
        price: DataTypes.STRING

    }, {
        freezeTableName: true}
)

Competence:
Competence = sequelize.define('competence', {
        id: DataTypes.INTEGER,
        name: DataTypes.STRING,
        organization_id: DataTypes.INTEGER,
        competence_type_id: DataTypes.INTEGER
    },{freezeTableName:true})

Module_has_competence:
        Module_has_competence = sequelize.define('module_has_competence', {
    id: DataTypes.INTEGER,
    module_id: DataTypes.INTEGER,
    competence_id: DataTypes.INTEGER,
    score: DataTypes.STRING
},{
    freezeTableName: true}
})

As you can see the relation between the tables are an n:m
So now i want to find all the Competence that a Module has:
So i created the following relationship:
Module.hasMany(Competence, {through: Module_has_competence, foreignKey: 'module_id'});

However when i try to run:
  retrieveById: function (quote_id, onSuccess, onError) {
                Module.find({include: [{ all: true }],where: {id: quote_id}})
                    .success(onSuccess).error(onError);
            }

it returns nothing. But if i delete the relationship it returns only the Module
Can anyone tell me what i am doing wrong?
When i debug
When i debug it does not log any sql sadly it seems it is just ignoring the sql call ?

A: From my understanding, the tables you've created a many to many relationship and that when you query for a "Module", you want all the "Competence" associated to it.
Though I wasn't able to get .hasMany() working, the error produced was:
Trace: [TypeError: Cannot call method 'replace' of undefined]
    at null.<anonymous> (/Users/sjlu/Development/29165644/app.js:61:13)
    at tryCatch1 (/Users/sjlu/Development/29165644/node_modules/sequelize/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/util.js:45:21)
    at Promise._callHandler (/Users/sjlu/Development/29165644/node_modules/sequelize/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:571:13)
    at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (/Users/sjlu/Development/29165644/node_modules/sequelize/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:581:18)
    at Promise._settlePromiseAt (/Users/sjlu/Development/29165644/node_modules/sequelize/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:713:18)
    at Promise._settlePromiseAt (/Users/sjlu/Development/29165644/node_modules/sequelize/lib/promise.js:76:18)
    at Promise._settlePromises (/Users/sjlu/Development/29165644/node_modules/sequelize/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:854:14)
    at Async._consumeFunctionBuffer (/Users/sjlu/Development/29165644/node_modules/sequelize/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/async.js:85:12)
    at Async.consumeFunctionBuffer (/Users/sjlu/Development/29165644/node_modules/sequelize/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/async.js:40:14)
    at process._tickCallback (node.js:442:13)

In which this output is almost impossible to debug.
However, I was able to create your model bindings and query it correctly with the .belongsToMany() associations
Competence.belongsToMany(Module, {
    through: Module_has_competence,
    as: 'module',
    foreignKey: 'module_id'
})
Module.belongsToMany(Competence, {
    through: Module_has_competence,
    as: 'competence',
    foreignKey: 'competence_id'
})

Which outputs a query that you're looking for
  SELECT `module`.`id`,
         `module`.`name`,
         `module`.`description`,
         `module`.`category_id`,
         `module`.`module_type_id`,
         `module`.`gives_score`,
         `module`.`duration`,
         `module`.`price`,
         `module`.`createdat`,
         `module`.`updatedat`,
         `competence`.`id`                                  AS `competence.id`,
         `competence`.`name`                                AS `competence.name`,
         `competence`.`organization_id`                     AS
         `competence.organization_id`,
         `competence`.`competence_type_id`                  AS
         `competence.competence_type_id`,
         `competence`.`createdat`                           AS
         `competence.createdAt`,
         `competence`.`updatedat`                           AS
         `competence.updatedAt`,
         `competence.module_has_competence`.`id`            AS
         `competence.module_has_competence.id`,
         `competence.module_has_competence`.`module_id`     AS
         `competence.module_has_competence.module_id`,
         `competence.module_has_competence`.`competence_id` AS
         `competence.module_has_competence.competence_id`,
         `competence.module_has_competence`.`score`         AS
         `competence.module_has_competence.score`,
         `competence.module_has_competence`.`createdat`     AS
         `competence.module_has_competence.createdAt`,
         `competence.module_has_competence`.`updatedat`     AS
         `competence.module_has_competence.updatedAt`
  FROM   `module` AS `module`
         LEFT OUTER JOIN (`module_has_competence` AS
                         `competence.module_has_competence`
                          INNER JOIN `competence` AS `competence`
                                  ON `competence`.`id` =
  `competence.module_has_competence`.`module_id`)
  ON `module`.`id` =
  `competence.module_has_competence`.`competence_id`
  WHERE  `module`.`id` = 1;

To my understanding .hasMany references a 1:M relationship, which does not require a join table.
http://docs.sequelizejs.com/en/latest/docs/associations/#one-to-many-associations
Here's the gist of how I got to this conclusion:
https://gist.github.com/sjlu/fa5c2e0e267cd692418a

A: Steven's answer did not work for me but switching the foreign keys.
Competence.belongsToMany(Module, {
  through: Module_has_competence,
  as: 'module',
  foreignKey: 'competence_id'
});
Module.belongsToMany(Competence, {
  through: Module_has_competence,
  as: 'competence',
  foreignKey: 'module_id'
});

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Cody v. United States
Brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and Due Process Institute as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner (On Petition for a Writ of Certiorari).
Argument: Without addressing the relevant text or history, the Eleventh Circuit held that, for purposes of the COA statute, a "proceeding under section 2255" extends beyond identifying a defect in custody—habeas's historic outer limit—to also include the process of choosing an appropriate remedy. The court of appeals erred by reading the jurisdictional limits in the Antiterror-ism and Effective Death Penalty Act ("AEDPA") in isolation from—rather than in pari materia with—the jurisdictional grants that they were enacted to restrain. Read together, sections 2255 and 2253 communicate Congress's unambiguous intent that a "proceeding under section 2255" has the same scope as a traditional proceeding for habeas corpus. This Court's habeas precedents, in turn, make clear that the scope of that proceeding does not include selecting a remedy. review is warranted because requiring a Certificate of Appealability prior to appellate review of a choice of remedy under § 2255(b) would be the functional equivalent of abolishing review altogether. COAs are available only for constitutional claims, but the choice of post-conviction remedy is an almost purely statutory procedure, and, as a practical matter, no COA could ever issue to a defendant in petitioner's position. This Court's review is needed to resolve that split and correct the Eleventh Circuit's misinterpretation of the statutes governing federal post-conviction review.
Comments on Proposed Changes to FRAP Governing Habeas Corpus (February 2001)
Letter to the Judicial Conference Standing Committee on Rules of Practice & Procedure regarding proposed rule changes to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure habeas corpus rules.
Comments to DOJ on Proposed Regulations in Capital Cases (September 2007)
Comments to the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs regarding proposed regulations in capital cases to address competent and well-funded counsel, post-conviction review, wrongful conviction, and racial disparity issues.
Walters v. Martin
Brief of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner-Appellant.
Argument: Walters' counsel's utter failure to communicate constructively denied him counsel so prejudice should be presumed. Alternatively, Mr. Walters established prejudice under Strickland and Frye resulting from his counsel's pervasive neglect. There is a reasonable probability that the favorable March plea offer would have been accepted and entered if counsel had communicated with Mr. Walters. If Mr. Stanley's deficient performance is instead viewed as a series of separate errors, Strickland compels a cumulative consideration of prejudice.
Statement to the Senate Judiciary on Oversight on Revealed Misconduct in FBI Labs (September 1997)
President Gerald B. Lefcourt's written statement to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts regarding misconduct in FBI labs that interferes with criminal cases, revealed in a Department of Justice Inspector General's report.
Wood v. Allen
Amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in support of petitioner.
Argument: The verbatim adoption of proposed orders is typical in Alabama capital postconviction cases and produces serious flaws in the resulting orders. The Eleventh Circuit erred in accepting as reasonable erroneous factual determinations in the trial court's orders that were adopted verbatim from the proposed orders drafted by state prosecutors.
Banister v. Davis
Brief of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner.
Argument: A Rule 59 motion is "part and parcel" of a habeas petitioner's "one full opportunity" to litigate a first federal habeas petition. The Fifth Circuit's rule leads to inefficient judicial administration of habeas petitions and unfair results for habeas petitioners. Rule 59 motions allow district courts to correct their own errors before judgment becomes final, thus avoiding unnecessary reversals and unfair results. Rule 59 motions also allow district courts to clarify their own orders even where they continue to deny relief, thus avoiding unnecessary remands. Eliminating Rule 59 motions would create additional burdens for the court of appeals. Recharacterizing Rule 59 motions as unauthorized second or successive petitions would deprive many petitioners of the opportunity to appeal in their first federal habeas proceedings.
Evans v. Chavis
Whether state supreme court's denial of post-conviction relief was decision "on the merits" for federal post-conviction purposes where state court denied relief without comment.
Bell v. Kelly
Amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Federal Defenders and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in support of Petitioner.
Argument: The absences of a "full and fair" state court review of petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claim renders the Fourth Circuit's application of §2254(d)(1) a violation of due process.
News Release ~ 05/21/2007
Supreme Court Declines to Re-impose Death Sentence - Washington, DC (May 21, 2007) – The U.S. Supreme Court today dismissed the state's appeal of a lower court decision which threw out a Missouri prisoner's death sentence. A majority of the Court, in an unsigned "per curiam" opinion, relied on an argument made by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, in a "friend of the court" brief, that the trial court misinterpreted the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) and federal case law when it dismissed death row inmate William Weaver's...
Harrington v. Richter
Amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in support of respondent.
Argument: AEDPA deference to a state court's summary disposition does not apply in an ineffective assistance of counsel claim because the plain language of 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) authorizes deferential treatment only after that decision has been subjected to the analyses prescribed in (d)(1) and (d)(2). Where the state court's decision fails to provide the information necessary to facilitate those analyses, however, the process Congress prescribed cannot be carried out. Held: Section 2254(d) applies to respondent Richter's habeas petition, even though the state court's order was unaccompanied by an opinion explaining the court's reasoning.
Rosario v. Griffin
Amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in support of the petition for certiorari.
Argument: New York's state constitutional "meaningful representation" standard to evaluate Sixth Amendment claims of ineffective assistance of counsel results in decisions that are "contrary to, or involve an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law" as required by the federal habeas statute.
Greene v. Fisher
Amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in support of the petition for certiorari.
Argument: The court of appeals held that a habeas petitioner may only obtain relief on the basis of a "new rule" if the Supreme Court has announced it by the date of a petitioner's last state court decision on the merits; this interpretation of "clearly established federal law" would create a class of petitioners theoretically entitled retroactive application of new rules but unable to obtain habeas relief.
Gonzalez v. Thaler
Amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Innocence Network in support of petitioner.
Argument: Appellate jurisdiction under Sec. 2253 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) does not depend upon a COA's conformity with technical formalities; direct review of a state criminal conviction cannot conclude for purposes of Sec. 2244(d)(1)(A) before the highest court to review the case relinquishes jurisdiction by issuing a mandate or its equivalent.
Lawrence v. Florida
Amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Argument: An application for state post-conviction or other collateral review is "pending" under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(2), while the U.S. Supreme Court is deciding whether to grant certiorari review of the case. Even if the statute is unclear, any ambiguity should be decided in favor of the petitioner.


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Federal tax reform could help mitigate state-level budget cuts this year
An influx of cash resulting from federal tax reform is helping to shore up Iowa's budget.
Federal tax reform could help mitigate state-level budget cuts this year An influx of cash resulting from federal tax reform is helping to shore up Iowa's budget. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: http://dmreg.co/2IfMkfD
Brianne Pfannenstiel, bpfannenst@dmreg.com Published 3:38 p.m. CT March 9, 2018 | Updated 6:01 p.m. CT March 9, 2018
President Donald Trump has signed into law a $1.5 trillion tax overhaul package. Trump touted the size of the tax cut, declaring to reporters in the Oval Office before he signed it Friday that 'the numbers will speak.' (Dec. 22) AP
Department of Management Director David Roederer talks with media Wednesday, September 20, 2017, at the Iowa Statehouse, discussing the stateÕs fiscal situation ahead of the Sept. 30 official closing of the stateÕs books on the fiscal year ending July 1, 2017.(Photo: Rodney White /The Register)Buy Photo
An influx of cash resulting from federal tax reform is helping to shore up Iowa's budget, potentially mitigating the need for funding cuts to state agencies and services this year.
Iowa's three-person revenue estimating body met Friday to review the numbers and discuss their effects on the state budget, which in December was facing a roughly $27 million shortfall for the current year.
"After today's REC meeting, we have a much clearer picture of what adjustments are truly necessary for the (current year's) budget," said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Pat Grassley, R-New Hartford.
Both chambers and the governor's office already were projecting about $11 million in increased revenue from federal tax reform. The numbers released by the Revenue Estimating Conference Friday show the state is expected to gain $33 million in new revenue this year. That's largely the result of federal tax reform, but not entirely.
If all of the new revenue is used to plug the shortfall, that leaves legislators to come up with at least $10 million in cuts or adjustments — far less than what the House and Senate previously have proposed.
The House and the Senate have yet to agree on how to cover the shortfall.
"There still needs to be some reductions in funding," said David Roederer, director of the Iowa Department of Management. "And it's what the comfort level will be for the governor and the Legislature as to what the ending balance needs to be."
The ending balance leaves a cushion in the budget in case revenue comes in lower or expenses are higher than officials anticipate.
Senate Republicans have pushed for greater cuts that leave a bigger ending balance, while House Republicans have been reluctant to make cuts above and beyond what's necessary to balance the budget.
"The latest REC estimate doesn't change much for us," Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Charles Schneider, R-West Des Moines, said in a statement. "Taxpayers expect us to be responsible with their dollars. That means leaving a healthy ending balance in the general fund so that we don't have to transfer money out of the reserve accounts to cover a shortfall."
House Speaker Linda Upmeyer, R-Clear Lake, said at a press conference last week that her caucus "doesn't see a need to cut out of departments unnecessary cuts."
"They want to make sure that people have the resources they need to do their work that we've asked them to do and still balance the budget," she said.
Democrats were critical, arguing the cuts could have been avoided altogether through better management.
"You can't put lipstick on a pig," said Sen. Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee. "No matter how Statehouse Republicans try to spin it, they still have a giant budget mess on their hands."
Both chambers have moved ahead with efforts to cut state taxes. A provision in Iowa's tax code known as federal deductibility means that when federal taxes go down, the amount Iowans owe in state taxes go up. Republican leaders and Gov. Kim Reynolds say the increased state revenue should be returned to taxpayers beginning in 2019.
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The Revenue Estimating Conference is projecting revenue to grow by about 6.4 percent over this year's revenue. That's "just about exclusively" the result of federal tax reform, said Roederer.
"It looks like there's a lot of additional revenue coming in, which is a true statement," he said. "But that's not because of organic growth that came in."
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Sharing Apples: Yasmin Khan on Her New Book, Iranian Food Traditions, and the Wonders of the Persian
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THE AUTHOR OF THE SAFFRON TALES WEIGHS IN ON FOOD CULTURE, HER FAVORITE SPICE, AND THE PROPER WAY TO BREW A CUP OF TEA.
asmin Khan winces apologetically at the pale brew she's inadvertently poured out of the teapot the two of us are sharing. She hastily pours the hot amber liquid back into the pot to brew a little longer, explaining with a laugh that she's cursed three times over to be a fussy tea drinker. "I can't help it: I'm English, my mum's Iranian, and my dad's Pakistani. There's just no room for weak tea!"
I met with Khan over lunch (and tea) at Red Rooster in Harlem, the same day as her book, The Saffron Tales (Bloomsbury), came out in the US. Khan is an animated speaker; she tosses her dark, wavy hair to one side, as if for emphasis, as she leans in to confide the end to an anecdote or leans back to dreamily recall the largesse of her grandparents' garden in Gilan in the north of Iran. Her stories have the effect of making one see the country as if clearly for the first time. Instead of the ochre-colored wasteland pictured in too many Hollywood movies, or the parlous domain of religious zealots, Khan's Iran is filled equally with verdant valleys, teeming port cities, artists, students, and home cooks eager to share their stories and recipes.
The book is a fascinating collection of recipes and travel narratives that Khan, who grew up in London with frequent visits throughout her youth to Iran, collected during the course of several extended sojourns through the country, from Tabriz to Bandar Abbas. Even the most weathered fans of Iranian food will find something new and instructive in the pages of The Saffron Tales, with its loving and carefully wrought portraits of a distinctive food culture and the ingredients and people that make it so unique. But it is for those poor souls who have never explored or wondered about Iranian food before that the book holds its most especial wonders. What a treat to first encounter Iranian food through Khan, who embraces the full variety and regionality of Iranian food, highlighting beautiful and distinctive local dishes, sharing the stories of local cooks, and curating a collection of new Iranian classics for avid cooks everywhere.
The Saffron Tales was published in April in the UK, where Khan lives, and when we met she was on the verge of leaving for a multi-city US tour. In the very brief reprieve between promoting the book in two countries, she gave me invaluable advice on the secret to making the perfect fesenjoon ("make sure your pomegranate molasses doesn't have any sugar or fructose in it and only use the freshest walnuts!"), and was stocking up on NYC essentials ("It's hard to get a good bagel in London, I just might have to freeze some to take back!"). Between it all, though, she shared her thoughts on Iranian food, the growing popularity of eggplants, and the dangers of seeing the world through a too-narrow window.
Rohan Kamicheril: So first things first: the book is gorgeous. In a weird way it was actually hard to get through because I kept wanting to start cooking from it!
Yasmin Khan: Thank you!
RK: The descriptions are so evocative—your love of food comes through so clearly. Can you tell me a little bit about how you first came up with the idea for the book?
YK: I had decided to spend some time at my grandparents' farm. My grandfather had passed away and I was on sabbatical from my job as a human rights campaigner. In order to pass the time, I asked family members to cook me their favorite recipes—as a sort of family history. We'd cook in the kitchen and I'd record our conversations. Being in the kitchen with someone is incredibly intimate—it's a great space for people to share recollections of the past or their hopes for the future. I collected all of these great recipes and recollections but I didn't really think anything was going to come of it at the time. But when I came back to the UK it was 2012 and just about the time the really tough sanctions had just hit Iran. People kept asking me the same questions about Iran, and I was getting tired of answering them again and again—no, we don't wear burqas, no I don't speak Arabic, yes I can drive there.
"There's something so nourishing and comforting about making the food from another culture."
And that's when I realized that there was this huge gap between people's perceptions of Iran and the Iran I knew. And I thought, well, maybe there's something I can do to address this. And food seemed like a fun and creative way to explore the culture. It helped that Persian food deserves so much more attention in the West. It's healthy, it's full of citrus, fresh herbs, that unique combination of sweet and sour flavors. People always tell me that it's unlike anything they've ever eaten. And there's something so nourishing and comforting about making the food from another culture that helps spread goodwill. Even learning about the little customs helps. I was just talking today to someone about how Iranians share food. As a kid I used to think this was such a pain, but now I really appreciate it—if you're sitting around with a group of people and you're eating an apple, you don't just eat the apple by yourself; you cut it into pieces and then it goes around, and in the end maybe you'll get the one piece left. And so you cut another apple. There's just this concept that food is something that you do socially.
RK: My dad actually does the same thing. He can't cook, but he can cut fruit, so his (self-appointed) job at breakfast is to cut fruit and give everyone a piece. It's such a sweet gesture, and it's so lovely to see a culture in which it's so enshrined.
YK: Totally.
RK: Did you grow up around food? How did you first come to love food?
YK: Well, I was born in the UK but when I was three months old I went to Iran with my mother because she was doing her fieldwork for her PhD in Nutrition and Dietetics.
RK: Oh, perfect!
YK: Yeah, I know, and my father's a psychiatrist, so I should really be the perfect child [laughs].
RK: Well, demonstrably.
YK: So I was in Iran for the first few years of my life. The revolution was happening and it was a challenging time, politically, and my mum wanted to be with her family. My grandparents had just bought a small plot of land and had begun cultivating rice and all sorts of produce: eggplants, tomatoes, peppers. There were dairy cows, lots of fruit trees—everything from strawberries to blackberries, kiwis, figs, greengages, persimmons, and apple and walnut trees. My grandmother was always churning her own butter or making her own yogurt, and pickling everything. It was a really fun place to be as a kid. Especially growing up in the West. We'd go back for these six-week stretches during the summer holidays and just be let loose in this playground of produce. We'd go for picnics to a nearby stream and that would mean we'd grab a massive watermelon or pick figs right from the tree. And my grandfather in particular really instilled in all of us a reverence for fresh produce and ingredients.
RK: Who would cook when you visited your grandmother's house?
YK: My aunts, mainly. In that classic Asian way there'd be the whole extended family, with my grandmother supervising.
RK: And when you were in the UK would your mother mostly cook Iranian food?
YK: Almost always Iranian food. My father's a great cook, too, though he mostly cooks Punjabi food.
RK: Was it easy to find Iranian ingredients in 1980s London? Or would you have to bring them back from Iran?
YK: Yes! We'd have to bring things back all the time! Or we'd have to send it over in the post whenever we went to Iran.
RK: So, no golpar or sumac?
YK: Oh no! My mum has a great story. Gilan, where we're from, in the north, is a very fertile, verdant part of Iran. And they eat a lot of vegetables. I always say that eggplants to the Gilaki are what potatoes are to the Irish. They're always on the table, and everyone's just happier when they're there. But in the UK in 1981 eggplants were, for one thing, hard to come by, but also really expensive. Do they grow in the US?
RK: They do, but I think it's taken a lot of work by immigrant communities to really introduce them into the mainstream. By puritanical standards it's a fairly obscene-looking vegetable, it's going to take some effort to convince people to eat it!
YK: [laughing] Well, once, when my mum was pregnant with me, she was out shopping for vegetables. She and my dad were new immigrants, and they didn't have a lot of money—my dad was doing his medical exams, and my mum was a young PhD student. She picked up two eggplants and they were something like £2 each, which in today's prices would be something like $5 or $7 each. She couldn't afford them, and so she went home and wrote a letter to her mum—in tears, about the fact that she'd come all this way to this foreign country where eggplants were so expensive. It's heartbreaking! Things have changed a lot and eggplants are available everywhere now and everyone eats them, but that wasn't the case thirty-five years ago.
RK: Do you think people are beginning to see the differences between the various cuisines of the Levant? I know that sometimes it's hard to overcome popular notions that there's just one pan-Levantine cuisine.
YK: You're absolutely right. Just a few years ago, people thought all Middle Eastern food was the same—either they'd never heard of Iranian food or they thought everyone in Iran eats hummus. But it's changed so much. Just as I was leaving London there was an Iraqi pop-up happening with Philip Juma of Juma Kitchen. How amazing to now be able to taste the flavors of the Iraqi kitchen. And then there's me and Sabrina Ghayour doing the Persian thing. There's a new book out called Palestine on a Plate…it's finally beginning to feel like we're seeing some more nuance in how people approach the food of the Middle East. It's one of the reasons why food is so fascinating: you can just keep peeling back the layers.
RK: That comes through in the format of the book, too. I love the combination of recipes with travel narratives and short stories about each of the recipes.
"I wanted this book to be more than just a collection of recipes. My hope is that it provides a window into a country that we're shown very little of in the West."
YK: The stories are really important to me because I wanted this book to be more than just a collection of recipes. My hope is that it provides a window into a country that we're shown very little of in the West. Last night I was watching the debates and it struck me how both Trump and Hillary were trying to outdo each other on who was tougher on Iran. The assumption was that Iran is evil. And it made me think—what if the rest of the world only saw America as Donald Trump? Would that be a true reflection of the values and opinions of the people of the United States? Not really. But that's what we do with Iran! We only depict it through a couple of people in its government. But yet you have this ancient culture, the incredibly rich, diverse, beautiful history, an incredible cuisine, and the human stories of all the wonderful people who live there. It was really important for me to share all of that.
RK: What was the most surprising thing you learned about regional Iranian cooking as you travelled around the country?
YK: I've been travelling to Iran all my life, but for the book I was going to places I'd never been before, with a mission to uncover the foodie essence of a particular place. I discovered loads of new flavors but Bandar Abbas, in the south of Iran was the biggest eye-opener because it's such an incredible place. It's not the most beautiful place. It is beautiful but it's not like Shiraz or Isfahan. It's a rough port town. You know how port towns are always a little bit seedy? Filled with the karma of all the sailors from years gone by [laughs]? It was on the old spice route, taking spices from India to Venice, so the recipes all have tamarind, ginger, chile, cilantro, which just aren't used otherwise in Iranian cooking. And it also has a really big African–Iranian population because the Portuguese used to control it and they used to have a big slave population and when the Portuguese left you had this population of people of African descent who made the area their home and have lived there for hundreds of years now. It was a whole new section of Iran for me.
RK: Is there an Iranian ingredient that you wish people used more?
YK: My current favourite—hmm, I don't know, I feel the need to be political about this [laughs]. If I had to choose just one, right now, I'd say sumac. Sourness is definitely the dominant flavor in Iranian cooking. I love using sumac because you can use it when you want that citrus flavor but don't want to add any additional liquid to a dish. It's great as a marinade for chicken and lamb and fish, it's wonderful in salads. I always use it in dressings. I would say that sumac is one of those spices, if you just buy some, you'll start using it in everything.
RK: Potato chips with sumac?
YK: Exactly!
RK: I love how, in the book, the people you talk to come from such a wide variety of professions and walks of life. A student, an electrician, an elderly bon vivant who loves to throw parties. It really gives the impression of a culture in which food is utterly pervasive and everyone thinks about it.
YK: Everyone, absolutely! Iran is one of those places where the home kitchen is revered. People don't really eat out. And if they do, it's sort of a rushed thing, or just kebabs. There's not a developed restaurant culture and there's not really a street food culture. But it does mean that everyone is invested in cooking and everybody's got an opinion on how you make something. And people are happy to spend hours in the kitchen—not that all Iranian food takes hours! In fact, I've specifically modernized a lot of the recipes in the book so that they're faster and easier to make.
"Iran is one of those places where the home kitchen is revered."
RK: The book does a wonderful job of marrying modern techniques with traditional recipes. Though many of the recipes are actually very easy and quick to make, you do stress the importance of taking a little time to cook—of letting it be an activity unto itself, not something you cram in between other chores. Do you think there's place for both—the more modern (and convenient) and more traditional (and time-consuming) ways of cooking?
YK: When I first started going to Iran for the book I'd come back and tell my mum about something I'd learned, and she'd say, "Oh, I never do it like that," or "We never used that when I lived in Iran!" And I have to say, Mum, you left Iran 35 years ago. Times have changed! For me it was important to have a modern cookbook. Yes, it's celebrating an ancient cuisine, but if we were still eating the food that they were eating in the UK or in the US thirty-five years ago, we wouldn't be enjoying it. Food changes. And I think there's an interesting debate about what exactly forms a country's food culture. I believe that a country's food culture is what people are eating at a particular given time. If you want to know what contemporary Iranian food is like, it's what people are eating right now.
RK: There are so many delicious recipes in this book, what would you recommend someone start with?
YK: Hands down, I think the dish that everybody should start with is fesenjoon. It's such an easy dish. It's just ground walnuts, pomegranate molasses, chicken, a pinch of cinnamon, salt and pepper. You hardly need to do anything to it. You just let the sauce bubble away slowly on top of your hearth. I guarantee you'll love it. It's just such a unique flavor—sweet and sour, with the rich creaminess and earthiness of the walnuts, and the tenderness of the chicken. Fesenjoon is known as the Shah of Iranian food—it's served at weddings and special occasions, but it's actually the simplest dish in the book, so I really recommend that people start with that.
Find Yasmin Khan's recipe for fesenjoon, from The Saffron Tales, over here.
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Q: How to include file path which is a Python string in Outlook email body? I am new to python and trying to build a python script which will send an email that consists a file path. I got a sample code to send email in python which is working fine after few hiccups with pywin32 and psutil module. The email is received but I am struggling to include a file path in the email body which is extracted in the same code. I am pasting the code below with comments.Can you please help me with this issue?
EDIT: I am running into weird issues. I kept trying and these are the issues I encountered:

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*Program runs fine when I manually run it on cmd prompt and provide an input path
C:\Users\<>\Desktop\Exp>python sendemail.py  C:\Users\<>\Desktop\Exp\xxx.txt

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*I see not output when I run the code with regedit, not sure why?

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*If I move the python code to C:\tools and run it manually on cmd prompt, I see the DLL load failed error:
C:\tools>python sendemail.py C:\Users\<>\Desktop\Exp\xxx.txt
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "sendemail.py", line 1, in
import win32com.client as win32
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32com__init__.py", line 5, in
import win32api, sys, os
ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
I am using Python 2.7.13 [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32. Windows 10 OS 64b
import win32com.client as win32
import psutil
import os
import subprocess
import sys

# Drafting and sending email notification to senders.
def send_notification(path):
    outlook = win32.Dispatch('outlook.application')
    mail = outlook.CreateItem(0)
    mail.To = 'jdoe@email.com'
    mail.Subject = 'File Location'
    mail.body = 'Hi User,\nThis is the file location\nFile=%s;' %path
    mail.send

# Open Outlook.exe.

def open_outlook():
    try:
        subprocess.call(['C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\Outlook.exe'])
        os.system("C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\Outlook.exe");
    except:
        print("Outlook didn't open successfully")

##############################################################
# Extract path of file (using regedit to trigger Python script)
###############################################################

#Filepath gives me the path where file is located: C:\Users\<>\Desktop\Exp
filepath = sys.argv[-1]

#split filepath to move one directory up to give me C:\Users\<>\Desktop
spath = filepath.split('\\')[:-1]

#Check if user is running script on the correct file
file=filepath.split("\\")[-1]
if file != 'xxx.txt':
    with open("ErrorMessage.txt","w+") as output:
        output.write("INPUT ERROR:Please run script on xxx.txt\n")
    os.startfile("ErrorMessage.txt")
    sys.exit()

#Final path which I need to include in my email body
path = '\\'.join(spath)

#Checking if outlook is already opened. If not, open Outlook.exe and send email
for item in psutil.pids():
    p = psutil.Process(item)
    if p.name() == "OUTLOOK.EXE":
        flag = 1
        break
    else:
        flag = 0

if (flag == 1):
    send_notification(path)
else:
    open_outlook()
    send_notification(path)