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Celia Rivenbark - Bizarre snacks not fit for grocery aisle
Published: Saturday, February 8, 2014 at 3:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 7, 2014 at 10:42 a.m.
Shrimp mayonnaise-flavored Doritos? Mountain Dew Cheetos? Potato chips flavored with mushrooms, butter and soy sauce?
Settle down, Frito Lay! I've only recently decided to try salt and vinegar.
Fortunately, those super exotic varieties are only available in Japan, for now anyway, but I don't think we'll be far behind.
Have you spent time in the snack aisle at the grocery store lately? If not, prepare to be a little freaked out. If you can imagine it, chances are a major snack maker is already on it. I'm talking to you Snyder's of Hanover which offers pretzels flavored like "Deli Pieces," a flavor combination that tastes like all of your favorite deli sandwiches all mixed together. What could be better? Oh, that's right. ANYTHING.
I shouldn't be so hard on Snyder's. After all, I could live in Scotland where they enjoy Haggis & Cracked Black Pepper potato chips. Nothing says festive snack enjoyment like organ meat mélange, am I right?
Chip manufacturers are constantly trying to lure us with curiouser combinations all the time but even they seem out of ideas. Frito Lay is again sponsoring its "Do Us A Flavor" contest open to anyone to come up with a new flavor of potato chip that the company will actually select to manufacture and distribute across the nation.
Last year's winner, Cheesy Garlic Bread chips, earned the $1 million prize. Millions of people entered the contest and I'm still kicking myself for not offering my own idea: Smoky Pot Roast With Peas & Carrots potato chips, which I still think would be great for people too busy to eat a proper supper. The runner up last year was Chicken & Waffle flavored chips, which almost makes the Haggis sound good.
I have new ideas to win the million-dollar prize or even one of the three runner-up prizes of $50,000. I don't want to give it away but let's just say that I'm deep into developing a flavor profile that combines several of my favorite foods in one luxurious, heavily ridged chip: Grits, country ham and S'mores. Yeah, baby.
It's not just salty snacks that seem to be going a little crazy. Oreos, the classic standby beloved for generations, are now available stuffed with rainbow sherbet cream or cookie dough and marshmallow crispies, whatever that is. You know things are getting a little crazy when even the added-on ingredients are things that seem recently invented or slightly unreal.
And look at Taco Bell, which can't seem to understand that all we really want is a simple corn tortilla shell. I careth not for a shell that tastes of Loco (?) Doritos or requires a cardboard sleeve so you won't get "cheese" powder on your fingers.
Make the madness stop! (I mean, after I win the million dollars, that is.) There are some things that are always going to be better in their original form without all the endless reworking: Things like Oreos and Bruce Jenner's face.
You know I'm right.
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Some viewers are calling the father-daughter date heartwarming, while others say it's "very creepy."
Dickson's 3-year-old daughter Analynne opens the door with a huge smile.
"You are so beautiful!" Dickson tells her. "Look at your shoes!"
Analynne jumps into her dad's arms and gives him a quick peck on the lips.
"Are you ready? For the date?" Analynne asks excitedly.
Dickson escorts her to a table on their back deck, set up with a vase of red roses. He pulls her chair and lifts her into the seat.
They drink out of cups decorated with Disney princesses and munch on sandwiches, strawberries, cucumbers and carrots.
Then Dickson takes his daughter to a park, where she is seen smiling on the swings and slide.
The video ends with the message "You'll always be her first love. Happy Fathers Day."
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"It's just a chance to remember this moment when I have a 3-year-old and a 2-year-old and to encourage other fathers out there that they can do it, too," Dickson said in an interview on Good Morning America.
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Monday, April 16, 2012
MrB and I went to a preview of the musical Leap of Faith on Broadway last week. The play is based on a 1992 movie, starring Steve Martin, about a con artist posing as a faith healer. In the play, the sex-ay Raúl Esparza plays phony preacher Jonas Nightingale, who travels from town to town with a gospel choir. At each stop, the group pitches a tent, holds a flashy revival and fakes a miracle. The congregation shows its appreciation with a flurry of donations. When Nightingale's bus breaks down outside the drought-stricken town of Sweetwater, Kan., Jonas prepares to steal the locals' last few nickels. Town sheriff Marla McGowan, played by Jessica Phillips, is determined to stop him.
Leap of Faith was originally performed in Los Angeles in 2010 to unenthusiastic reviews. The play was then substantially rewritten. (For instance, Sheriff Marla was originally a waitress named Marva.) The Broadway dialogue and song lyrics aren't particularly dazzling, and the plot is predictable, but the charismatic cast is beyond reproach. Their great voices, dancing, and snappy delivery are well worth a ticket (unlike the very wan Broadway revival of Evita starring Ricky Martin as Che that I also saw this month).
The best-costumed of the night was definitely Raúl Esparza, who wears the hell out of a pair of black leather pants. I was coveting his Lady Gaga-esque mirror jacket until I read that it weighs 20 pounds and is trying to inflict death by a thousand cuts upon him.
I was dressed more comfortably.
What Wendy Wore
Dress: Stacy Lomman (2012. Seen here and here.)
Coat: Vintage Lillie Rubin (purchased between 1992 – 1995. Seen here and here.)
Shoes: Prada (2010)
Purse: Louis Vuitton (2001)
I was hoping to get a good shot of Stacy's dress, but the theater-district sidewalk crowds were challenging and I was too exhausted to do much posing. The last time I posted the vintage coat on the blog, it was in a photo from an event where I got woozy. But, normally, I feel very good in this coat. One time, when I wore it with a little black dress, a woman on the street said, "Look at you! You're so happy in your chic coat and dress." Ha! I bought the coat at the Upper West Side consignment/vintage store Allan & Suzi; I got my one-shouldered gold gown there many years later. The first time I went to Allan & Suzi, I heard the owners — yes, they are Allan and Suzi — sassing each other. I was so entertained, I wound up writing a little story about them for the Wall Street Journal in 1995. I have the clip, of course. Newspaper clips and coats from the early '90s — I keep it all. It's a miracle I haven't been on Hoarders yet.
I still use that line of Suzi's all the time. When someone asks me where they'll wear a big piece of jewelry, or a dramatic dress, or a pair of eye-catching shoes, I say, "To the supermarket!" Hey, you only live once!
14 Responses to "What Wendy Wore: Stacy Lomman Dress, Vintage Coat"
maybe i should make you a dress of mirrors!
i'm trying to decide if that would be vain?
That mirror jacket looks dangerous. Your coat is gorgeous on you. Yes Super-hoarder! Does Mr B have control of one tiny sock drawer while you have walls of clothes?
Sometimes I wear sequins and huge jewels to grocery shop or garden. Why Not? Life's short. Accessorise Hard I Say.
Pop over to Blog and check out my new cushions.
Sprint Don't Stroll. x
Heeyyyyyyyyyy, you used that supermarket line on me once! I love it!
Such a chic look Wendy!
That coat is beyond fab. And Allan & Suzi sounds like my kinda joint!
the coat is so nice <3
Feeling quite envious of that mirror jacket & yes I'd wear it to the supermarket!
Love your plaid coat! I have one with a similar print, but I love the cut of yours. I love that you keep everything and get to show us!
what a great coat
totally looks like what one should wear to a broadway show
I can see why that coat is a forever-keeper 🙂 You look amazing.
But 20 lbs of glass coat? Yikes!
Loe the mirrored coat but no not wearing anything heavier than my purse.
BTW I like your thought process hey we only live once.
Stacy you should definitely make Wendy a dress of mirrors.
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What was that all about. So I'm cycling down Red road minding my own business resigned to the fact this won't be a fast run home due to the head wind and the fact it is 28C and I notice a cyclist up in front. Why could I not have just said to my self: "That's interesting a cyclist in front of you, I wonder where he is going?" and left it at that. Instead it's lets see if you can catch him.
Well it turns out that I could catch him but then the trouble started. I caught him at the roundabout on the Bagshot road and past him just as we joined the road to Chobham. It's downhill so I'm not surprised that he is still with me at 30mph. As the hill eases 28mph, then I steady out at 26mph and start wondering if I will expire due to dehydration or just Bonk first and wonder if I can get the bag of Lucazade out of my pocket. Finally my speed drops to 24mph and he passes me lifting us back to 26mph after a bit I take my turn on the front secure in the knowledge he will turn right in Chobham.
We get the Chobham, he follows me left. No problem he will go straight on, (now this is a delusion. If you were going straght on you would never have come down the main road) he does not he follows me and we hit the now climbing road to Ottershaw. 23mph all the way to the airfield where the road climbs some more, still trying to work out how to drink the Lucazade. I'm on the front and the speed has now dropped to 21mph and he passes keeping us above 20mph all the way to the little climb outside Ottershaw. I pass him and get a gap on the hill by simply not slowing down. I then sit up in the hope he will catch me and we could talk, but the gap is to big and he does not catch me until the lights in Addlestone. We have a short converstation:
Him: "A bit fast for me".
Me: "Sorry"
Him: "It was a bit fast for me"
Me: "Oh, where are you going"
So it would seem that we were both going "A bit fast for me" and neither of us would slow down. One day I might learn. On the off chance he is reading this. Thanks for the tow.
I never did drink the Lucazade.
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BACKGROUND: The recently described Designed Ankyrin Repeat Protein (DARPin) technology can produce highly selective ligands to a variety of biological targets at a low production cost. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: To investigate the in vivo use of DARPins for future application to novel anti-HIV strategies, we identified potent CD4-specific DARPins that recognize rhesus CD4 and followed the fate of intravenously injected CD4-specific DARPin 57.2 in rhesus macaques. The human CD4-specific DARPin 57.2 bound macaque CD4(+) cells and exhibited potent inhibitory activity against SIV infection in vitro. DARPin 57.2 or the control E3_5 DARPin was injected into rhesus macaques and the fate of cell-free and cell-bound CD4-specific DARPin was evaluated. DARPin-bound CD4(+) cells were detected in the peripheral blood as early as 30 minutes after the injection, decreasing within 6 hours and being almost undetectable within 24 hours. The amount of DARPin bound was dependent on the amount of DARPin injected. CD4-specific DARPin was also detected on CD4(+) cells in the lymph nodes within 30 minutes, which persisted with similar kinetics to blood. More extensive analysis using blood revealed that DARPin 57.2 bound to all CD4(+) cell types (T cells, monocytes, dendritic cells) in vivo and in vitro with the amount of binding directly proportional to the amount of CD4 on the cell surface. Cell-free DARPins were also detected in the plasma, but were rapidly cleared from circulation. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: We demonstrated that the CD4-specific DARPin can rapidly and selectively bind its target cells in vivo, warranting further studies on possible clinical use of the DARPin technology.
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Clairey123 says:
Hello. Im Looking For a Horse To Loan. Preferrably 13.3-15.3. Im Experianced Rider. and Very Confident. In Based In Luton/Dunstable Area. Willing To Travel..
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*duskyteddy* says:
hi there-
just checked out your profile, and it says you have been riding 5 years, now i have been riding 7 years- and i wouldn't class myself as an experience rider- no where near- 5 years is nothing compared to some of the women/men on here- who have been riding 30 odd years- thats experienced, maybe instead of saying your experienced, say novice- intermediate- because if an offer comes up o n a horse who is for an experienced rider- you might be surprised- my old horse, Dusky, was 16.2hh, 8 years old and hadn't been broken in because of a terrible start to life, i thought i would be experienced enough to take him on- but i really wasn't, and i had a lot of trouble with him, even though he was a lovely horse, he was very frisky and liked to bolt- and we made the heartbreaking desicison to sell him- and that wasawful, but i have Shayden now, he is 14,2hh and been schooled and everything- he is arab, but he is sweet as sugar, but he does have his moments- and i even struggle with him sometimes, but maybe just be 100% honest about your ability- otherwise you may regret it,,
good luck in findign your horse,, amy :) x
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MaesSeren says:
Ditto duskyteddy, i know that after 5yrs you could have done alot of stuff, i had, ive been riding 7yrs and still wouldnt class myself as experienced and ive competed in a fair amount of disciplines, groomed for a BE rider, helped at BSJA shows, done BD myself at a top competition yard, and done alot of stuff unaffiliated, usually bringing back rosettes, however, theres still sooo much i dont know, im on an equine degree, so know a fair amount on paper, but practical experience is more important, and i havent had a true experience of angular/flexural limb deformaties for example. I may have seen my girl who is a wonky donk, and dissected distal limbs etc, but im certainly not experienced in anyway shape or form.
Id reword your ad, you might get more suitable replies back. Good luck though with the search, youre too far away from me to suggest anyone though.
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Apr 09
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yorkshiredeb says:
i might as well give up.
Surely a good heart is important- to actually love and want to care for horses?
do years and months count so much?????
Im speaking as a mum of 4 human children - they all survived,we all need to learn, i would say 5 yrs is good ?
Feb 05
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beckaroo says:
I think the point here that duskyteddy and maesseren are making is purely for Clairey123's safety and enjoyment of her potential new horsey - I'm sure it is not meant as a put-down yorkshiredeb! I have been riding for about 15 years now, am studying vet med and have BHS exams to my name - but I am still far from brilliant and most certainly cannot cope with every situation that arises! We do all need to learn, this is true, but unless you have someone to help you out on site, and if you advertise yourself as experienced and something happens which you cannot cope with - you are in a pickle! All the best looking for a horse Clairey123 - just bear what has been said in mind.
im not arguing at all - but 5 yrs is some xperience? i cannot wait till i have that much - 5 yrs - she cannot be a novice?
I am speaking as a total novice of less than 1 yr - i would respect her thats all im saying
Dec 08
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.(Mo!!y). says:
heyya, ive been riding eight years yorkshiredeb and i am far from 'experienced' but yes i do know what u mean, but i think everyone above are saying that because they want C123 to have a fun happy horsey experience not one that she feels like she cant cope with : )
Maybe have a look ^^ at the top of this page - there is a link 'horses for sale' and also put advertisments up in your local tack shop or stables. Good luck x
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Divasmum says:
Surely the main purpose of this post was to find a horse to share/loan. Has anyone got any ideaas of how Clairey123 can achieve this? If I were you I would think about putting an ad in Chiltern Rider. Also putting ads up on noticeboards at local tack shops and livery yards. It is also worth looking on the websites of local Riding Clubs and Pony Clubs because sometimes ads get put on for members who are looking for someone to share their horse. It is also worth ringing local Riding Clubs and Pony Clubs to see if they know of a suitable horse on the grapevine. Good luck and let us know how you get on.
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MizzPurpleKitten says:
Deb, I think as everyone has already said, that they were trying to ensure C123 gets the best out of whatever propective horse she finds (by the way C123, I hope you find something soon....I'd suggest local tack shops and stables etc but I can't reccommend anywhere as you're too far south for me to know anything). Basically, you could have years of riding experience at a riding school and be able to walk, trot, canter, jump and hck out but you still might have no clue about stable management, vetrinary issues, tacking up, bridle fitting, feed amounts and feed types etc etc. What everyopne is saying is just be careful and be as honest open and detailed as possible as there are many different perceptions of 'experience'.
Good Luck C123
Deb, ive known people who over estimate their riding abilities, think theyre more experienced than they are and they attempt to deal with a horse who is far from suitable, they cant handle it, they screw that horse up and then they also screw their own health up... i know, i did it! I was missold a 1st horse, told that the exeventer would be a perfect first horse, how wrong were we to buy one... i ended up in hospital more times than youve had hot dinners!
My current mare Gem, i bought her originally, i dont know why personally, but 2yrs ago she was rather wild, and i fell off her, i had physio for one of the falls off her today... i have ruptured ligaments in my wrist and will possibly need surgery. This isnt the only fall off her, now my riding has advanced enough and Gem is a sweet natured mare who is very loyal and whilst she didnt mean to get me off back then, she is very green, and it was her inexperience, and mine(!) which caused my fall.
When youve been riding under a year, you think that 5yrs is a long time, its not. I cant wait til i can say ive been riding 20+ years, that is a long time.
My post, and from what duskyteddys post reads, we are both very concerned that the OP is over estimating her own ability and experience, and she *could* get herself into some real deep water if she ends up with a horse which is too much for her to cope with, physically and mentally.
A good heart is important yes, but what good is that when youre underneath a towering 16.2hh beast of a horse because it felt like standing on you? What good is a good heart when youre in hospital after the horse you took on with a good heart knocked you unconscious? Horses are dangerous animals, we cannot communicate with them in a way in which we can say to another person 'sorry but im your boss, move over!' you need to learn how to interpret that into a language which horses understand. After 7yrs of riding (and my mums ridden for 40odd years and schooled naughty horses, and owned babies, jumped BSJA the lot) i do not feel equipped, mentally or physically, to take on a particularly experienced ride. As my post above said, ive done a fair amount, ive ridden and owned novice eventers, and difficult personalities also, theres no way id cope with one though on a one to one permenant basis! A good heart doesnt always do much good, you can get hurt, and its a worrying factor which crops up way too much in my life personally, so im not going to sit back and watch someone else attempt to make the same mistakes i made.
When i had been riding less than a year i was awing over people who had been riding 5-10yrs etc, but when you actually reach those milestones, you realise that actually, whilst yes they are better riders, theyre still not actually that fantastic (speaking from personal experience, not saying anyone on here isnt fantastic as i dont know any of you personally!) and it really makes you think.
As i said in my previous post, im not in your area clairey so not too sure what youve got down there but we have an admag where theres lots of horsey adverts but youre better off keeping an ear open for word of mouth loans. Tell staff at local tack shops and feed suppliers etc, you'll soon get something, ive owned 5 horses and none of those were actually advertised.
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I need to draw a dialect map, splitting an area up into differently coloured regions. Is there an online tool for creating dialect maps? Of course, any map drawing tool where I can take an existing map and draw lines, shade areas, label etc. would work fine
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I don't know of a specific tool for making dialect maps but it does sound like something suitable for OpenStreetMap (OSM) and its many map-making tools.
Egotistically, it would be a great overlay to put on top of another map on my GPS, which uses OSM =) It would make for some silly trips: Are we at the isogloss yet? This is retroflex /l/-country!
This question on Stackoverflow has information on where one can find blank maps to fill in. It turns out that Wikipedia has quite a few template maps.
There are several tutorials too on Wikipedia on how you can go about modifying them. In particular, the articles titled "Change the colors of a country", "Create and color map zones", and "Cut a map into several sub-areas". The last two of these are in French, but the Google Translated versions of these are quite readable too. Also, read this introduction to cartography with Inkscape.
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The Continue button is broken when trying to Harvest
I got an email telling me to harvest my words, but the "Continue" button is broken. It shows an error at the bottom of the page.
I tried to upload a screenshot but your Upload Photo button is broken too.
I am a professional tester and would be happy to debug your site for you.
OMG, professional tester? Don't say that, they gonna remove your profile and block you LOL.
I use "professional" in the loosest sense of the word.
what kind of "professional" are we talking about. I suddenly got very interested... ;)
A lonely, tiny, but hot tear ran over my cheek when I read this posting. I snorted. Let's wake up.
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@WilliamRyanKus, this does sound pretty terrible - which browser and operating system are you using? And if you could send me the screenshot to firstname.lastname@example.com that would be hugely appreciated,
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The New Mexico baseball team scratched out a 3-2 victory in 11 innings on Saturday night to complete a split of their season-opening games against host San Diego.
The Toreros won 6-4 in the resumption of the game that was suspended in the third inning Friday due to fog.
In the regularly scheduled contest, the Lobos jumped ahead on Alex Real's RBI single in the first inning, followed by Andre Vigil's RBI single in the sixth.
San Diego responded in the bottom of the frame as Kyle Holder hit a leadoff single, went to second when Grant Melker was walked and then to third on a wild pitch before scoring on Louie Lechich's groundout to second base.
UNM clung to that 2-1 lead until the ninth when Andrew Daniel hit a leadoff home run to tie the game and eventually force extra innings.
The Lobos used a little small ball to push ahead the winning run in the 11th inning. Aaron Siple singled, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt, took third on a wild pitch and then scored as Real reached on a fielder's choice grounder to second base.
A.J. Carman then retired three of the four batters he faced in the bottom of the inning on two groundouts and a flyout.
In the resumed game, it was tied 2-2 in the bottom of the third with a runner on second base. Lechich stole third base and then scored on Connor Joe's sacrifice fly to give USD a 3-2 lead.
Josh Goossen-Brown belted a two-run homer in the fourth inning to extend the Toreros' advantage.
Chase Harris brought the Lobos within 5-4 with a two-run double in the seventh, but USD added a run in the eighth and finished off UNM in the ninth.
The Lobos and Toreros will finish the series Sunday at 2 p.m.


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Hand Cut Screening in Santa Barbara December 4th; Enter to Win the DVD
If you've visited the Tin Shed, you no doubt saw the trailer for Hand Cut, a backcountry skiing and snowboarding film by 1% For the Planet member, Sweetgrass Productions. The film's tour schedule will be winding down at the end of the year, but not before folks in the Santa Barbara area get a chance to see the film on the big screen. Hand Cut will be shown on December 4, as part of Santa Barbara Surfrider's Annual Holiday Party (details after the jump).
For those who don't live in our neck of the woods, the Hand Cut DVD is now available to purchase at Patagonia.com. The movie blends old-timer wisdom with self-propelled backcountry riding and the original blues music of John-Alex Mason, all brought to life in High Definition and brilliant 16mm film.
Nick from Sweetgrass Productions generously donated a copy of the movie to The Cleanest Line and we're giving you the chance to win it. Just leave a comment on this post before midnight on Dec. 4 and we'll choose a random winner. Read on for the rules of the contest.
Somewhere between Colorado corn skiing and the Banff Mountain Film Festival, the folks from Sweetgrass Productions booked themselves a venue in Patagonia country. On Dec. 4th, they bring snow to the surf masses as their film Hand Cut plays right on State St. at the historic El Paseo Courtyard. From the hand-fired railroad days in Revelstoke to the miners of Colorado's San Juan Mountains, Hand Cut blends old-timer wisdom with self-propelled backcountry riding and the original blues music of John-Alex Mason. The film will play as part of the Surfrider Holiday Party with live music and refreshments from New Belgium to follow.
Hand Cut Screening at the S.B. Surfrider Holiday Party
December 4, 2008
8 pm
El Paseo Courtyard, 814 State St.
Santa Barbara, California
We have one copy of Hand Cut on DVD to give away. To enter, leave a comment on this post before 11:59 pm (PST) on December 4, 2008. One entry per person. Be sure and include your email address in the email field so we can contact you if you win (email addresses are not displayed). Only comments attached to this post are eligible. The winner will be determined by a random time generator -- the comment with the closest time-stamp wins. In the unlikely event of a tie, we'll place the finalists in order and generate another random number to determine the winner. See official rules for details.
Happy Thanksgiving everybody. We're especially grateful for the support you've shown Patagonia and The Cleanest Line. Have a wonderful holiday weekend.


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ARDMORE, Pa. — In an effort to resolve the controversy over whether certain expenditures made by a laundry business are currently deductible as repair expenses, or whether they must be capitalized and deducted over the life of the underlying business asset, the Internal Revenue Service has finally released new regulations.
The IRS's long-awaited expanded regulations for determining whether an expense must be capitalized because it betters or improves tangible business property or equipment, restores it, or adapts it to a new and different use, will have a significant impact on every laundry business that acquires, produces, or improves its tangible property.
In addition to clarifying and expanding the current rules, the new regulations create "bright-line" tests for applying the repair-or-capitalize standards, provides guidance for accounting for—and disposing of—repaired property, as well as clarifying other aspects of the repair/capitalize dilemma.
The new regulations specify how repairs made simultaneously with improvements are to be treated, and provide a "safe harbor" for routine maintenance expenses such as materials and supplies. The new rules are also must reading for landlords and tenants that must capitalize expenses related to leased buildings. And, because the new rules were issued in "temporary" form, every plant owner and operator will feel the impact immediately.
The new regulations are the IRS' third attempt to provide comprehensive guidance under the repair-or-capitalize rules. They attempt to answer such questions as how to treat environmental remediation expenses and how to treat rotatable spare parts used in repairs. One significant rule change allows a laundry owner or operator to deduct retirement losses for building components.
If, for example, the laundry operation replaces the roof on a building and disposes of the old roof, it now has the option of taking a retirement loss for the old roof. Of course, the replacement must be capitalized, but at least a retirement loss can be claimed.
Another change involves the "de minimis" expensing rule, a rule that allows a laundry business to expense or write off the acquisition cost of property on his books for financial reporting purposes. This immediate write-off is available to a laundry business with a written policy in place to do that, but only up to a threshold or ceiling. The new regulations also include many types of materials and supplies among those eligible for the de minimis expensing rule. Under earlier rules they were not eligible, or only some categories were.
As mentioned, under the new rules the costs of buying or producing materials and supplies remain deductible maintenance expenses in the year they are used or consumed. The cost of incidental materials and supplies, for which no record of consumption is kept, are generally deductible in the tax year in which they are paid.
However, while the timing rules for materials and supplies remain the same, the new rules provide a new definition. Materials and supplies may now be currently deducted as an expense if they are acquired to maintain, repair or improve business property owned, leased, or serviced by the laundry business, consist of fuel, lubricants, water and similar items that are reasonably expected to be consumed within 12 months, with an economic useful life of less than 12 months or costing less than $100.
Under an elective "de minimis" rule, amounts (other than inventory or land), along with amounts paid for any materials and supplies are not required to be capitalized. That is, the amounts do not have to be capitalized if the laundry operation has an applicable financial statement (such as one required by the Securities and Exchange Commission), a certified audited financial statement, written accounting procedures in place for treating the amounts as expenses on its AFS, and if the amounts paid and not capitalized are less than (1) 0.1% of gross receipts or (2) 2% of the total depreciation expense as determined in its AFS.
Every laundry business should have some way of tracking the equipment and other assets used in the business and their repair costs on a unit-by-unit basis. It's unlikely that those repair costs can be tracked mentally. Increasing repair costs can be a strong indication that equipment is coming to the end of its useful life, or that the operation has a "lemon" that will continue to suck cash.
Generally, it is useful to maintain a spreadsheet listing the purchase date, identifying the equipment and then listing repair or maintenance costs, along with a brief description of the work performed. It becomes easy to then determine which units or models are racking up the costs.
Thanks to the new rules, the owners and operators of many laundry businesses may discover that they will have to modify how they account for expenditures, as well as collecting information necessary to determine whether these expenditures are capital or alternatively currently deductible in the year that they are incurred.
Typically, if a repair cost were not deductible in the year incurred, it would be capitalized and depreciated. If, for example, a plant owner or operator had equipment or a machine and performed a "capitalizable" repair on it, that additional repair cost would be capitalized and depreciated over the appropriate recovery period for tax purposes. If it were a deductible repair cost, obviously the laundry operation would benefit from a deduction up front in the tax year incurred.
While awaiting the IRS' guidelines for implementing the new regulations, it is already obvious that many plant owners and operators will need to implement the changes for the 2012 tax year. Whether the IRS will treat the changes required under the new regulations as automatic accounting method changes, and whether affected laundry businesses will be required to obtain approval for a change in accounting methods, are, as yet, unknown.
The sheer volume of the new rules on deduction vs. capitalization of tangible property costs will obviously require professional assistance. Now is a good time to seek such help. While it's not urgent, now might be a good time to begin looking at repair and maintenance costs for 2012.
Information in this article is provided for educational and reference purposes only. It is not intended to provide specific advice or individual recommendations. Consult a tax adviser for advice regarding your particular situation.


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"Dear Steve, I have a large judgment against UFAN and Kristin Crone but both have declared bankruptcy. At any point did you have information about their malpractice carrier? Apparently having insurance is optional in CA, and the bankruptcy trustee has been unable to identify a carrier. Andrew" Dear Andrew, I had no idea they had filed bankruptcy. I did go ... Read More »
United Foreclosure Attorney Network / UFAN – Consumer Complaint – January 31, 2013
Consumer Statement: UFAN is, was a scam! They filed for bankruptcy. Kristin Crone has moved over to Quadra | Day, LLP 9075 Foothills Blvd, Suite 5, Roseville, CA 95747. Kristin Crone has graciously negotiated with her new employer to take over her case files for a nominal initial flat rate of $100, plus a $100 maintenance fee, plus $750 if ... Read More »
How You Can Find a Good Attorney or Lawyer
This guest post was submitted by Kristin Crone, Esq. from UFAN (United Foreclosure Attorney Network.) She is a California based attorney so the links given are for California but every state has a Bar Association and a quick search for your state Bar will lead you to the appropriate resource for you. While the advice given is about a mortgage ... Read More »
I Was Going to Sign the Retainer for UFAN but Now I'm Scared I'm Being Scammed. – Tony
"Dear Steve, I do not have information to share but rather need information. My date for sale has been given by the bank as Oct 15th, I was already to sign up with the UFAN group until I found some discrepancies with the retainer contract and what the affiliate explained to me prior and then reading your posts all made ... Read More »
UFAN Sent Me a Form 1012-R Mailer to Keep me in My House
"Dear Steve, Received a Form 1012-R mailer from UFAN I called the # 1-866-395-7446 i was transferred to a legal assistant named Jacob Rasmussen. After explained all my situation he said that I will have to sent in a copy of the DOT (Deed of Trust) and the engagement agreement signed in order to be set up for a consultation ... Read More »
Mass Joinder Receiver Report States What They Found During Raid
The court appointed receiver of the law offices and companies that were raided and seized in the recent mass joinder actions in California has shown that the very issues were were all concerned about, appear to have been true. Marketers for lawyers selling access to mass joinder and tort litigation created such a network of deception in cooperation with lawyers ... Read More »
UFAN – United Foreclosure Attorney Network
This article was written back in August of 2011. Since that time Kristin Crone, Esq. of UFAN has taken a number of steps to address issues I was critical of and worried about. Personally I have found her to be a person of action that does try to help people. I think you will find the UFAN of today to ... Read More »


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Recently there have been internal discussions about the TFS Proxy and one of the engineers shared some information I thought would be useful to post:
Here are some of the best practices for TFS Proxy
For information about Team Foundation Server Proxy installation, see the Team Foundation Installation Guide available online at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=40042 or the TFSInstall.chm file included with the product.
For information about Team Foundation Server Proxy configuration, refer to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=62391 or in the product documentation.
For information about Team Foundation Server Topologies
For more details on the TFS Proxy Server, Refer to the following screencasts.


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We're hiring! Legal Counsel Transactions – Vienna Office
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Speedinvest is a leading European venture capital fund for digital startups. With $100M under management, Speedinvest works side-by-side with early-stage entrepreneurs to build great companies. Thanks to our hands-on model, our global partner network and our operations in Silicon Valley, we have managed to become one of the main focal points for the European startup community. We do investments from pre-seed through Series-A and a big portion of our value-add comes through operational work. We concentrate on projects where we have direct experience, networks, and where we can take a well-defined, intensive operational role, and significantly create value for founders and shareholders.
As a legal counsel you will provide high quality and accurate legal advice with focus on contract law, corporate law and legal matters for our international projects. As a consequence you have to collaborate with external counsels in different jurisdictions, as well as with external legal inquiries and internal legal inquiries from our team and our portfolio companies.
- Completed Legal Studies (Business Law, Law)
- Focus on Coporate Law, M&A, Tax Law
- Perfect German and English language skills– ability to draft contracts in English from scratch
- Relative fluency in corporate finance and venture capital concepts
- 2-3 years of relevant work experience in an auditing or international law firm is a must
Your personal profile:
- Self-driven and independent.
- Curious, adaptive & flexible. You prefer new challenges over routines.
- An entrepreneurial 'can-do' attitude facilitated by continuous learning.
- Ability to juggle multiple projects and work on tight deadlines
- Ability to digest complex information, form a distinct point of view, and communicate it in a clear and relevant way
Salary: Minimum EUR 3500 gross/month (full-time) dependant on experience.
Please send your CV and any other relevant materials to firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll be in touch with you! Links to other websites and resources where we might learn more about you (personal blog, Twitter, etc.) are greatly appreciated.


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Our CompanyDelta Dental is a nonprofit service corporation that was created in 1957 to provide high quality dental benefits programs for employee groups throughout the state. Delta Dental's programs are available to employee groups of 10 or more people. Groups can choose managed fee-for-service, preferred provider and HMO-type programs.
Our Purpose
To continuously improve oral health
In 1957, Delta Dental's predecessor, Michigan Dental Service Corporation, was created with an important goal: to improve the oral health of the public by selling and administering high quality, cost-effective dental benefit programs.
Over the past four decades, we've successfully worked to achieve that goal. Along the way, we experienced some major changes:
While these represent major changes in 40 years of doing business, some things haven't changed at Delta Dental. We still continually seek innovative ways to manage both costs and care. And most importantly, our commitment to improving oral health is still as strong as it was in 1957 - making a difference in the lives of millions.
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At Delta Dental, we work to provide our customers with real value, to meet the needs of all those we serve quickly and effectively and to keep pace with marketplace demands. This means we need to manage change, build strong relationships and continually improve our products and services.
As we do so, all of us at Delta Dental are guided by the following principles-the Core Values that define our organization's character:
These are among the many reasons that Delta Dental stands out as the leader in dental benefits.
Our Employees
Delta Dental has over 575 staff members employed in five different locations with offices in Okemos, Lansing and Farmington Hills, Michigan as well as Columbus, Ohio and Indianapolis, Indiana. Our headquarters is located in Okemos. The average length of service with our employees is over ten years. Our outstanding benefits, compensation and opportunities for career growth attribute to our retention success. In addition, our company has grown incredibly during the last forty years. In 1957, Delta Dental Plan of Michigan employed less than 50 people. Now, we have over 300 employees in our headquarters facility alone.
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At Delta Dental, your income from the company comes in a comprehensive form of pay and benefits.
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Rihanna and Coldplay to Headline Made in AmericaThe festival will take place September 3rd and 4th in Philadelphia.
Coldplay Add US Tour DatesTwelve news dates have been added to their summer run.
Chris Martin Invites Son Moses Onstage at Coldplay ShowChris Martin celebrates son's tenth birthday by bringing him onstage in Peru.
Glastonbury Announces Full 2016 LineupAdele, Coldplay and Muse will be joined by a diverse group of artists.
Coldplay's Chris Martin is Inspired by 'Rocky IV,' Here's Why"That's the movie that taught me about not giving up. If you want something, you have to go for it."
'X-Men: Apocalypse' Trailer Remixes Coldplay's 'Don't Panic'The trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse hinges on a dramatic remix of the song for maximum blockbuster effect.
Watch Coldplay's Carpool KaraokeIn the latest installment of the popular Late Late Show bit, Corden picks up Martin who his hitchhiking his way to the Super Bowl.
Chris Martin Shares Springsteen's Superbowl Advice"I love the whole concept of trying to present your entire musical life in twelve and a half minutes, it's a great challenge."
Watch Coldplay and Beyoncé's 'Hymn for the Weekend' VideoThe clip was filmed in Mumbai.
Watch Coldplay's Nostalgic Video for 'Birds'Directed by Marcus Hainey, the video is a dreamscape of sorts that takes the band on a trip through California's Colorado Desert.
How Did Coldplay Earn a Favor from Beyoncé?Chris Martin explains how he asked Beyoncé for a favor. Coldplay performs "A Head Full of Dreams" on "The Late Late Show."
Coldplay Confirmed to Play Super Bowl 50 Halftime ShowAfter much speculation about who's playing Super Bowl 50, February 7th on CBS, it has been confirmed that Coldplay do the honors.


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Recycle your capsules
As part of Ecolaboration, we have been working to increase the number of collection points in each country. By 2013 we were able to collect 75% of all capsules sold worldwide. In New Zealand, we will be introducing more recycling points throughout 2014 to make it easier for you to recycle your used capsules.
As a Club Member, you can return your used capsules for recycling at the Nespresso Boutiques in Auckland and Wellington.
To store and transport your used capsules, Nespresso has developed a sleek and ergonomic container which can store up to 100 used capsules, and is available for purchase now.
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Shattered Sun categorizes their music as a hybrid incorporating melodic tones with a sound derived from a variety of metal genres from thrash to speed. Based in Southern Texas, the band grew up listening to 80s metal and consider bands like Metallica, KISS and Queensryche as some of their inspirations.
Impressed by their demo, Breaking Bands, the powerhouse team of Adrenaline PR CEO Maria Ferrero, former MegaForce Records and Crazed Management owners Jon and Marsha Zazula, the driving force behind Metallica, and Testament vocalist Chuck Billy signed Shattered Sun. Since then they've been hard at work in the studio working on their upcoming release "Hope Without Hatred" and doing promotional tours and press.
We had a chance to speak with Marcos Leal, lead vocalist for Shattered Sun, while they were out here in Los Angeles. Prior to their showcase gig opening for Skid Row at the legendary Whisky a go go on Saturday, May 17, we spoke to Marcos a little bit about the band and what the future holds for them.
Q: What are you guys doing in California?
MARCOS LEAL: We're out here doing a bunch of press. I think we're going to be touring this summer. Right now we're just in California on a showcase.
Q: You're from Texas? Which part of Texas?
ML: We're from Alice, Texas. South Texas. Corpus Christi.
Q: Is there a thriving metal community in that area?
ML: Yeah, you know what, we have a lot of strong talent down there. It's not just the metal, but all types of music. For some reason the music scene down there's really thriving right now. Definitely great to be a part of that and representing it.
Q: I know critics have categorized your music as Metalcore. What do you think about that?
ML: I like to consider ourselves more of a hybrid metal and Metalcore elements, but we also have, you know, thrash. We're very melodic. That's a big part of this band is being very versatile and not just like one band, you know, we added a bunch of our influences and make a signature style that we don't think anybody can mimic right now.
Q: The melodic element. That's dominant in your sound, right ?
ML: Yeah, adding that melodic side to our music it was very intentional. It's something we've always wanted to do since we started playing.
Q: What band(s) are you influenced by?
ML: If I could speak for the whole band, there's one band that really inspires us, it's Metallica. And it's pretty awesome because Johnny Z and Marsha discovered Metallica and have compared us, not our music style, but the type of band that we're aspiring to be, you know, compared us to their career. It's just crazy because that's the band that we've always looked up to. They're one of those bands that are very versatile. And for me, I grew up listening to a lot of older stuff like KISS, Metallica, Queensryche, a lot of the 80s metal. Paul Stanley too from KISS is definitely a huge, huge influence on my vocals.
Q: So they're managing you now?
ML: Yes. It's sort of a big deal for us because Metallica, being our favorite band, to be working with the people that discovered Metallica is just amazing for us.
Q: How do you approach your songwriting?
ML: It's more like everybody brings something to the table. Daniel and Robert, our lead guitar player and drummer, they usually bounce riffs off each other and then they find something with a really good groove and we slowly start adding in the members, you know, like layers. We'll add in our other lead guitar player Jessie and Joseph, bass, and we'll form the shell and I'll write the basic hook into the melodies of the song. We'll add in keys and then we'll take it to our producer and then we'll build it from there. It's more layered in stages than it is of everybody in one room writing the song in one day.
Q: Tell me about your current release .
ML: Confessions is our EP. That EPs out already but our new album is finished at the moment; we're in the final stages of it. It's entitled "Hope Within Hatred"
Q: Can you tell me about the lyrics to "Hope Within Hatred" ? What are you trying to convey?
ML: I wanted to write about something positive. I was watching a lot of videos of people that have had extreme tragedies in their lives, kind of like 9-11, stuff like that. I didn't want to write anything political, because I thought that was a little too heavy but I wanted to write about the people that went though those stories. The inspiration of losing everything but still having hope to get through the end of the day. I just wanted to write something about people still believing in each other. You know, not losing faith in humanity.
Q: What can fans expect from this upcoming album?
ML: The lyrics will be positive, trying to inspire people to believe in themselves and believe in each other, aside from everything that's going on in the world. It's real easy to lose site of and fall into the negative. Lyrically that's what it's going to portray. Musically, I think this is the best thing we've ever done. This is a concerted effort of a whole team of people. We brought in Mike, the guitarist from Spineshank to help us in pre-production. And then our producer Robert Beltran was with us the whole way through the production.
Q: I always like to ask this question. How did you come up with your band name Shattered Sun?
ML: It's a pretty simple story. My guitarist Daniel is a big Unearth fan and we all were and there's a song that they have called "Shattered by the Sun." And he took out "by the" and Shattered Sun and there you go. Pretty simple. The name just kind of stuck through the years and we never had the desire to change it.
Q: Your tour will start later on this year. Can you tell me about that?
ML: Yeah, we have every intention of being out there this summer and we're going to tour our asses off and definitely make a name for ourselves in this music industry.
Q: Any shout outs or something you'd like to leave us with?
ML: I just want to put a big thank you in for our area South Texas. They're the reason that we've come this far; their support and their love for us. Just want to give them a big thank you.
Shattered Sun
Marcos Leal - Vocals
Daniel Trejo - Guitar
Jessie Santos - Guitar
Joseph Guajardo - Bass
Robert Garza - Drums
Henry Garza - Keys/Samples
Shattered Sun will be touring this summer throughout the US and possible international dates as well.
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If it were not so pathetic, the amateurism of this White House would actually be funny. Let's face it – Obama hates Winston Churchill, who although a God awful military strategist, was our firm friend and an anti-Communist. For third world liberationists such as Barack Obama father and son, Churchill was an imperialist and they prefer to admire people such as Mao Zedong.
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The White House is continuing to tie itself in knots over the Churchill bust issue. As I noted in my previous blog, Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer was forced to back peddle furiously this weekend after he ludicrously denied that a loaned bust of Sir Winston Churchill had been sent back to the British government by the White House in 2009 soon after President Obama took office. In fact he wrongly accused Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer of an outright lie when he brought up the matter of the bust in an op-ed piece for The Post last Friday. After the British Embassy pointed out that Pfeiffer's comments were factually wrong, the White House staffer issued an embarrassing clarification in the form of an "update" on the White House blog.
Pfeiffer's gaffe over the Churchill bust has continued to build momentum in the US media and on Twitter, with former ABC and Fox News correspondent Brit Hume describing the whole episode as "amateur hour at the White House." Even The New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal called the White House's handling of the issue "bumbling and amateurish." A follow-up piece by Mr. Krauthammer calling on Dan Pfeiffer to apologise for his attack is currently the most-read article on influential US news aggregator RealClear Politics.
The issue was also raised on Monday morning at a White House press conference given by Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest, who has added fuel to the fire with his adamant rejection of the idea that President Obama might have snubbed the British by deciding to turf the Churchill bust out of the Oval Office. In response to a question by an American journalist, Earnest replied (watch the video here at RealClear Politics) that the White House was determined to combat "a myth floating in the darker corners of the Internet" regarding the motives behind returning the Churchill bust:
Question – Can you tell us why the White House decided to weigh in on this whole Winston Churchill bust scandal, and whether you guys are gonna clarify what bust is where, and … [drown out]
Josh Earnest – It is almost like a bad Sherlock Holmes script, right? The case of the missing Winston Churchill bust? Uh – the reason – uh –that we waited on Friday is because there is – uh – a myth floating in some of the darker corners of the internet that suggests that upon taking office the president went out of his way to snub the British people by prematurely returning the bust of Winston Churchill that had occupied a prominent place in the Oval Office of the previous president.
That's not true. Uh – as the White House curator has previously explained and I believe as we've explained on the end of the day on Friday – uh – the bust was loaned to President Bush by the British government. Uh – as is customary at the conclusion of President Bush's term and before President Obama entered the Oval Office – uh – the bust was returned to the British Embassy.
Mr. Earnest, who is clearly no Sherlock Holmes, did not elaborate what he meant by the "dark corners" of the Internet, but he was almost certainly referring to the British press in an insulting fashion, which reported widely on the decision to return the bust and how the move was causing consternation at the time among British officials concerned about a possible weakening of the Special Relationship under President Obama.
First to break the story of the Churchill bust being returned to the British Embassy was The Sunday Telegraph's Tim Shipman (now at The Daily Mail), who wrote in February 2009:
Barack Obama has sent Sir Winston Churchill packing and pulse rates soaring among anxious British diplomats. A bust of the former prime minister once voted the greatest Briton in history, which was loaned to George W Bush from the Government's art collection after the September 11 attacks, has now been formally handed back.
The bronze by Sir Jacob Epstein, worth hundreds of thousands of pounds if it were ever sold on the open market, enjoyed pride of place in the Oval Office during President Bush's tenure.
But when British officials offered to let Mr Obama to hang onto the bust for a further four years, the White House said: "Thanks, but no thanks."
Two weeks earlier, in January 2009, The Times had revealed the bust had been removed from the Oval Office and placed in storage, in a piece headlined: "Churchill bust casts shadow over the Special Relationship" (no longer online, but available on news databases such as Lexis/Nexis). Significantly, The Times noted that the British government, led at the time by Gordon Brown, was keen for the bust to go back to the Oval Office:
Britain wants President Obama to put a bronze bust of Sir Winston Churchill back in the Oval Office, where it stood for the past eight years as a symbol of an enduring special relationship with America. The White House is not so sure.
The bronze was lent to George Bush by Tony Blair in 2001 from the Government Art Collection for the duration of his presidency. It is now due to be returned.
However, a spokesman for the British Embassy in Washington said yesterday: "We have made it clear that we would be pleased to extend the loan should Mr Obama so wish." He added that no response had been received; yesterday the White House declined to comment.
It is very clear from these articles in two of Britain's leading newspapers that the British government gave every opportunity for the Obama White House to keep the Churchill bust, but the president chose not to do so. After all, he could easily have accommodated both Lincoln and Churchill in the Oval Office. The White House, however, remains firmly in denial over the return of the bust, which carries great symbolism on both sides of the Atlantic.
By any measure this was an insensitive snub to America's closest friend and ally, at a time when 10,000 British troops were fighting alongside their US allies on the battlefields of Afghanistan, and continue to do so today. And this was no isolated incident, but part of a broader pattern of disdain for the US-British alliance, culminating recently with the Obama administration's appalling decision to back Argentina's call for UN-brokered negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falklands. The White House is quick to mouth platitudes about the Special Relationship, but in practice clearly doesn't believe in it.
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In Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utiltity you can just mark the partition (not the whole volume) and at the bottom of the window it will show the mount point.
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1) diskinfo list gives you a list of all disks in the system. And with the partition names on the disk your're looking for you can do an diskutil info disk1s1 (replace disk1s1 with the actual partition name) which will list the mount point.
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Samsung Galaxy Core Advance gets announced for the elderly, the disabled, and the visually impaired
Ready for yet another Samsung Galaxy-branded Android smartphone to hit the market soon? No? Well, here it is anyway. Samsung's isn't slowing down its release pace, and it continues to churn out new handsets left and right. This one, though, is a bit special.
That's because the Galaxy Core Advance, which will be available in early 2014, seems to be geared towards elderly people and the disabled and the visually impaired. This is an interesting niche, one that hasn't usually been catered to by the biggest brands around. Until now, as you might imagine. Samsung clearly wants a piece of this market too.
The Galaxy Core Advance features a 4.7-inch 480×800 touchscreen, a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, a 5 MP rear camera, a VGA front camera, 1 GB of RAM, 8 GB of internal storage, microSD card support, 14.4 Mbps HSPA, Wi-Fi b/g/n, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, an FM radio, and a 2,000 mAh battery. It runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean.
It will be out in Deep Blue (pictured above) and Pearl White. Details about specific territories in which it will be sold haven't been made public yet.
The phone comes with enhanced accessibility features, such as Optical Scan (which automatically recognizes text from an image and reads it aloud), Light Sensing (uses the device's camera to sense light direction and brightness), Instant Voice Recorder (for quick voice notes), Screen Curtain (lets you operate commands on a black screen to ensure privacy and saves battery life), high quality Text-to-Speech functionalities, and Voice Guided Camera (which reads out the number of faces detected and their standing location for easy photo snapping). Alongside these come the "smart features" that we've seen on other Galaxy devices before – S Voice, S Translator, Sound & Shot, Group Play, Easy Mode, and so on.


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SANTA MONICA (LALATE) – The Santa Monica shooting 2013 today is tied the Yorkshire Avenue home fire, witnesses claim. The Santa Monica shooting today June 7, 2013 began actually with an arson and homicide on Yorkshire Avenue near Pico that ended in a house fire, so claim witnesses. The home address was first erroneously reported as the 2500 block of Kansas Avenue.
In a news statement moments ago, witness Reid Rosson told local news that an elderly male lived in the residence on Yorkshire Avenue in Santa Monica. Reid claimed that one of the male's sons came to the residence, fatally shot his father, then set the house on fire.
As the arson fire burned, the alleged killer then allegedly went on a shooting rampage. First the gunman purportedly shot at one car to stop in the Yorkshire street. He then allegedly shooting out glass in the driver's side window and riddled the side of the car with bullets. Moments later, the gunman allegedly carjacked another vehicle.
Witnesses tell news that the gunman left the arson scene with the driver. But witnesses were unaware that a carjacking had occurred until moments later. Rosson told news that calls were first being placed to 911 for the gunfire in the Kansas block. But during those calls, more gunfire erupted. Moments later, the house was purportedly set on fire. The gunman then headed to Santa Monica City College. Details are still conflicting as to where and how the gunman then progressed once at the campus. UPDATE: Police are telling news that they are two victims in the house. Police cannot confirm if the victims are the shooter's brother and father.


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Smartphone users tend to overlook locking up
Chances are you lock your door when you leave home, don't leave the keys in the ignition when you run into the 7-Eleven for milk and have at least some kind of security software on your computer.
But what about your smartphone?
For many people, a phone these days is a mobile office crammed with valuable contacts, a digital wallet from which you buy songs on iTunes or shoes on Amazon, and a portal to your online bank account.
Rather than locking the phones like bank vaults, most smartphone owners treat their devices with as much concern as they do Monopoly money.
According to a survey by data-security provider Symantec, 54 percent of smartphone users do not have a password lock on their phones when they turn them on or wake them from sleep mode.
"I think there's definitely an awareness gap right now," said Mark Kanok, group product manager for the Norton mobile division at Symantec.
"Just a few years ago, your phone was a phone. Then the iPhone comes out and people are downloading apps. People are now starting to ask the questions about, 'How is this going to affect my privacy, what happens if I lose it,' things like that."
On top of the dangers of your phone being lost or stolen, there are also a growing number of malicious apps designed to steal data from it or rack up huge texting bills.
Last week, Google pulled several dozen free apps from its Android market that had been stuffed with damaging code.
Symantec estimated that the apps were downloaded anywhere from 50,000 to 200,000 times in a four-day period before they were pulled.
John Thode, vice president and general manager of the mobility product group at Dell, said many smartphone users don't realize the value of their device until it's gone.
"The reality is that, yeah, whenever you lose your phone or your phone breaks, there's an instant panic that comes around," he said. "Holy smokes, where are my contacts? How do I get back my whole life?"
That concern is magnified when an employer starts giving out smartphones to its workers or lets those workers connect their personal devices to the corporate network, said Mary Chan, vice president of Dell's enterprise mobile-solutions division. Chan's group has begun offering security systems and procedures for mobile devices on corporate networks.
She said a compromised phone with access to a corporate network can wreak havoc.
"I think most of the IT and CIO folks are really concerned about managing the device itself, managing what's being loaded on the device," she said.
Chan pointed to an estimate by research firm Gartner that about 300 million smartphones will be connected to corporate networks by 2015, with about half those devices being employees' personal machines.
Similar advice
Much of the security advice for individual smartphone users and corporate managers overlaps.
Install only trusted apps on your phone.
Use Web-based programs that let you remotely track or delete all of the data on your smartphone if it gets lost.
Don't conduct financial transactions over public or unfamiliar Wi-Fi networks, where your data can flow through a hacker's router.
Employers can also take additional steps, Chan said, such as letting employees install apps only from a preapproved list.
Another option is keeping valuable corporate data only accessible online, rather than letting individual users download it to their phones.
Available tools
Phone makers and software developers are pushing out some of these tools to smartphone users.
Apple, for example, offers free software on the iPhone and iPad that lets users remotely set up a password lock if the device gets lost or stolen, track it geographically or even wipe all the data from the machine as a last resort.
Norton Mobile Security for Android devices includes a malware scanner designed to catch crooked apps before they bite you.
Even with technological protection, user awareness can go a long way.
Simple games and screen-saver apps, for example, shouldn't be asking for permission to access your text messages. If they do, you're probably better off canceling the installation.
Strong security software and individual vigilance will become even more important over the next few years as phone makers and carriers adopt a technology that will turn your phone into a wireless digital wallet.
So-called near-field communication, or NFC, systems should make life more convenient, letting you store your credit and debit cards and, eventually, your driver's license digitally on your phone.
You'll simply wave your phone over a scanner at the cash register to pay and be on your way.
Target for thieves
But as our phones become more valuable to us, they'll also become a more tempting target for thieves.
"Once NFC starts happening, you're going to see hackers enter this space in a much more substantial way," said Thode at Dell.
Apple is rumored to be including an NFC chip in the next-generation iPhone expected this summer, and Samsung has already released the NFC-equipped Nexus S.
Kanok at Norton said the growing need for better smartphone security seems to be sinking in.
"I think the maturity is a little bit lagging behind where we are on the PC front," he said. "But I think the sensitivity has picked up over the last year."
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Heirloom Beans (page 3 of 4)
by Michael MacCaskey
Pole or Runner Beans,Three to Six (or more) Feet High
Borlotti. (105 days) A classic Italian pole bean, this medium to large bean is tan splashed with red-black or magenta streaks.
Flavor: nutty
Texture: firm
Black Runner. (105 days) A beautiful variant of the Scarlet Runner bean. A flavorful snap bean when very young, it goes on to produce long pods full of deep black beans.
Flavor: sweet and rich
Texture: somewhat firm
Giant Pinto. (105 days) This buff bean w Cooked, the flavor is very much like that of ordinary pinto beans. Unlike most beans, it retains its distinctive markings after cooking.
Flavor: rich
Texture: smooth
Madeira. (100 days) Brought to the U.S. by emigrants from Portugal and Italy. A large cranberry bean with distinctive light tan skin mottled with red-maroon. Three to four feet high.
Flavor: nutty
Texture: firm
Mauve Runner. (105 days) A color variant of Scarlet Runner, this bean is lavender with deep purple to black flecks. Young purplish pods can be eaten as green beans.
Flavor: potato-like
Texture: smooth and starchy
Scarlet Runner. (105 days). Named for its red flower, this bean has long been popular in Europe. It produces well under slightly cool conditions. Reaching 10 to 12 feet, it requires a substantial trellis. Immature pods are edible. The large bean is purple mottled with black.
Flavor: potato-like
Texture: smooth and starchy
YingYang. (100 days) This is a rare heirloom variety that Berry maintains in three separate color forms. (They require different cooking periods.) Half the bean is white and half is either red, yellow or black. A curved boundary divides the two colors, and there is a single dot of color in the white half.
Flavor: rich
Texture: smooth
How to Grow Beans
Wait to plant until soil is thoroughly warm, usually a week or so after the average date of last frost for your area. In the South, that means early April; in the North, early June.
Sow seeds about one inch deep and four to six inches apart. Plant smaller seeds 1/2 inch deep and four inches apart. Sow six seeds of pole beans around each pole, then thin to three plants. If your soil tends to crust, cover seedbed with a light mulch.
It's best if soil is kept moist one to two inches below the surface. This is especially important just before and after germination, and later when seeds are developing inside pods.
The Mexican bean beetle is the most troublesome bean pest in the East. These are copper-colored beetles with 16 black spots. They chew and consume soft tissue of leaves until only lacelike veins remain. The pedio wasp (Pediobius foveolatus) is a commercially available parasite of bean beetles. Spined soldier bug (Podisus maculiventris) is a helpful predator.


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Holy Cross' Dave Dudzinski had 31 points on Tuesday.
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CENTER VALLEY, Pa. - Three Patriot League teams earned a win in their final non-League contest of the year on Tuesday as Lafayette, Holy Cross and Lehigh all pulled out victories.
The Leopards edged past Penn 85-83 on the road, while Crusaders earned a 78-69 triumph at home against Columbia and the Mountain Hawks beat Division III Muhlenburg 81-46. Army fell at Dartmouth, 75-58.
The 3-1 night brings Patriot League teams to a cumulative 62-62 in non-League action, with just one game remaining as Colgate hosts NJIT on Feb. 6.
Lafayette (7-10) won on the road for the first time this season in the 85-83 shootout over Penn. The Leopards led 41-40 at the half and went up by 13 points in the second half before Penn rallied to tie the score at 81 with 3:14 left. Lafayette responded as Bryce Scott hit a three-pointer for an 84-81 lead with 1:55 to go, and held on as Penn missed a pair of shots to take the lead in the final seconds. Tony Johnson led six players in double figures with 25 points on 10-of-14 shooting. Dan Trist had 17 points, Scott scored 11 and Joey Ptasinski, Seth Hinrichs and Levi Giese each scored 10. Lafayette shot 61.2% from the field at 30-of-49 for the game, and hit 7-of-15 shots from three-point range.
Holy Cross (8-7) snapped a three-game losing skid with its 78-69 triumph over Columbia. Dave Dudzinski scored 31 points on 10-of-14 from the field and 9-of-9 at the foul line and Justin Burrell scored 29 points on 9-of-13 from the field and 9-of-10 at the line. The Crusaders hit 26-of-51 shots (51.0%) in the game, including 6-of-11 from the three-point line, and connected on 20-of-22 at the line. Holy Cross closed the first half on an 11-0 run for a 34-25 lead at the break. The Crusaders went up by as many as 16 points in the second half, and closed the game strong after Columbia got within five points.
Lehigh (10-4) concluded its non-League slate with an easy 81-46 win over local foe Muhlenburg. The Mountain Hawks blew the game out early with a 42-17 lead at the half. Anthony D'Orazio had 15 points to lead the way, followed by Holden Greiner with 14, Gabe Knutson with 13 and Stefan Cvrklaj with 12. Corey Schaefer had 11 of the team's 25 assists.
Army (7-8) dropped its second straight game with the 75-58 loss to Dartmouth. The Big Green closed the first half with an 11-4 run for a 37-28 lead at the break, and led the Black Knights by as many as 25 points after intermission. Ella Ellis paced the Black Knights with 15 points.
Patriot League action opens up on Saturday with four games. Holy Cross is at Lehigh at 2 p.m. on CBS Sports Network, while American goes to Colgate (2 p.m.), Navy is at Lafayette (2 p.m.) and Army heads to Bucknell (7 p.m.) in games that will be available for free through Patriot League All-Access.
Recaps and box scores from Saturday's games are included below.
Lafayette 85 at Penn 83
at Holy Cross 78, Columbia 69
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at Lehigh 81, Muhlenburg 46
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at Dartmouth 75, Army 58
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The finale performance show of the season of X Factor took place on Wednesday, December 18th. The top 3 finalists each performed 2 songs solo and one as a duet with one of their musical heroes. The top 3 finalists included Jeff Gutt, Alex and Sierra and Carlito Olivero.
Jeff Gutt performed "Iris" with Johnny Rzeznick of The Goo Goo Dolls, "Dream On" by Aerosmith and Creep" by Radiohead.
Alex & Sierra performed "Bleeding Love" with Leona Lewis,"Say Something", "Give Me Love".
Carlito Olivero performed "Stand By Me" by Prince Royce,"Maria Maria" and "Impossible".
Judge Paulina Rubio also performed her current single "Boys Will Be Boys."
The Top 13 reunited in a 2 hour finale results show on Thursday, December 19th. Special musicial guests performances were by Pitbull, Lea Michelle, Leona Lewis, Mary J.Blige and One Direction. Alex and Sierra ended up winning America's vote, with Carlito Olivero finishing in third and Jeff Gutt coming as the runner up.
I spoke with judge Paulina Rubio backstage after the finale. Click on the video to see what she had to say about Carlito, The X Factor and what's next for her.
Click on the slideshow to see photos of Paulina from various recent appearances.
Check back to this page as I was live on the scene and talked to the contestants and judges both nights.
Suggested Links
- Video: Carlito Olivero talks performing Divas and Unplugged on 'The X Factor'
- Video: Carlito Olivero talks about his time on 'The X Factor'
- Video: Simon Cowell talks Alex and Sierra winning 'The X Factor'
- Video: Kelly Rowland talks working with Jeff Gutt and 'The X Factor' finale
- Video: Demi Lovato talks The X Factor and plans after leaving show


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Professor of SMART Materials and Devices (Part time)
Research Areas
Principal Scientist at the Science and Technology Facilities Councils Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (1999-2012) Process Development Group Leader for Micro and Nanotechnology.
Spin out companies
Areas of research include:
Professor Stevens is currently working on:
Opportunities to carry out postgraduate research towards an MPhil/PhD exist in the School of Science and Technology and further information may be obtained from the NTU Graduate School.
Current and recent research is being conducted with the collaboration, funding and/or support of:
Academic collaborators
Industrial Collaborators
Selected publications
For full list click 'Go to Bob Stevens publications' link above.
Professor Stevens is able to offer comment on the following:
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