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Hi all! I haven't been really communicative lately. The reason is that I was working on a project and I found that I was not able to focus very well due to an influx of questions from social media, etc. In April of this year, I received my Lumia 920 and wished to unlock it to its fullest potential. I soon discovered that Windows Phone 8 was a whole new beast and wasn't really having any success in hacking it. I decided to stop using twitter, mail and forums for a while, at least until I made some significant progress. Sorry to all people who I haven't answered over the last period of time. It wasn't because I'm an arrogant prick; I just needed to focus on my project. I will try to go through my inboxes and answer the most important questions sometime soon.
At this moment, I can't really say I have big news yet, but I do want to share some of the things that I worked on so far. I first decided to target the Windows Phone 8 Emulator, because the emulator has many of the same security features as retail devices have and the emulator is easier to test with. All this research has resulted in the fact that I have now root access on the emulator. That is a little break-through for me, because that means that I already understand and defeated a big part of the Windows Phone 8 security features. Please note that there are still a couple of big steps that need to be taken to accomplish the same on retail devices.
During my quest for root access on the emulator, I encountered an overwhelming amount of security routines. It's really clear that this kernel has been under development for about 20 years now. Windows Phone 8 has now the same Windows NT kernel as new desktop PC's have and now uses the advanced NTFS file-system security. A part of the Windows Phone 7 security engine has been ported to Windows Phone 8, but it has now been glued to the security features of the Windows NT kernel. The new security engine is like a hybrid version of the old Windows Phone security engine and the Windows NT security engine. The Windows NT kernel has been extended with a sandboxing mechanism and a capability mechanism. While at kernel-level the security-tokens and NT privileges are still used, towards user-mode the far more extended capability-system is exposed.
By default all applications are launched in a sandbox. The sandbox can be decorated with capabilities. Other than that, it is normally not possible to step outside the sandbox to view or change data on the phone or use system functions from the phone. Everytime a secured object (like file or registry-value) is accessed, all security-token-attributes like Access Control List, Lowbox-state, Restriction-state, Privileges and capabilities are checked. Furthermore, everytime code is loaded, it's integrity is checked. Simple hacks are often not possible, because everything is checked and double-checked and many OS features depend on it. For example, if you completely disable the sandboxing mechanism, many apps won't launch anymore because the sandbox also defines the identity of the application. Without that identity, it's not possible to load COM-objects and Windows Runtime Components or have cross-process-communication. This results in many crashing or hanging applications. So, to get unlimited access to secured objects and APIs, you need to gently circumvent the systems that check the integrity of the code, the Access Control Lists, the privileges and the capabilities. You also need to be able to impersonate other, non-lowboxed accounts. Therefore, I studied the processes that build the security tokens, restricted and sandboxed them, then used that to create new processes and I studied all the runtime security checks. It took me quite a while, but I think I understand most of these mechanisms now.
During my research, other people have been working on Windows Phone 8 too. For example GoodDayToDie and -W_O_L_F- from the XDA forums have found a way to get Interop Unlock on the Samsung Ativ S. I've been asked if it is now possible to create WP8 Root Tools now, but unfortunately: not yet. Interop Unlock is not the same as root access. Interop Unlock can potentially provide privilege escalations, but it still needs hacks to do further modifications to the Windows Phone OS in order to get root access. On Windows Phone 7 I developed the Policy Unlock, which is a very complex mechanism that can be used on most of the Interop Unlocked Windows Phone 7 devices to get root access. This process also requires a complex installation to achieve that so this functionality was built-in to WP7 Root Tools. For Windows Phone 8 I would need to create a similar mechanism, but Windows Phone 8 security is completely different from Windows Phone 7 security and the process would need to be created from scratch. You could say that my root access for the Windows Phone 8 emulator is an approach from the kernel-side and Interop Unlock is an approach from the application-side, but they still need to meet in the middle. So far, that hasn't happened for Windows Phone 8 yet and this will need a lot more research.
Since I have root access on the emulator now, I can work on the implementation of WP8 Root Tools. I already have implemented some core-parts and I am porting UI stuff from WP7 Root Tools to Windows Phone 8. In the meantime, I'm also looking for new exploits that can be used to deploy my root access hacks to retail devices. During my previous research, I already found some weak spots in the implementation of the OS, which definitely need a closer look at. I hope to bring more news on Windows Phone 8 as my research will continue.
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More Americans over age 50 are smoking marijuana than ever before. Are my parents among them?
At the time, Mom's question caught me by surprise: "Have you ever tried marijuana?" she asked, sloshing her coffee around in a mug as we stood together in the kitchen. My mind went blank. Could this be the fabled "drug talk" that parents are supposed to give to their teenage children? If so, why was I getting it at 30?
It turned out my mother was less interested in my drug use than her own. When I told her I'd smoked pot in college, and a bunch of times since, she took the news in stride. The thing was, she and my father were hoping to score some weed. Did I know anybody?
A little context: My parents paid for my college education. They put me up for a semester of graduate school. They sat through three school plays and one flute recital; they came to my art opening; they bought me a skateboard. But given the chance to pay them back—in part, at least—for so many years of support and encouragement, I failed to deliver so much as a dime bag.
"You didn't say no," my mother recalled the other day, "but you didn't say yes. It was clear that you were very hesitant about this." After a moment, she added: "You didn't give off positive vibrations."
OK, so I never hooked up my parents. But in the weeks and months that followed, I discovered that many of my contemporaries—people in their late 20s or early 30s—had experienced something similar. Soon I'd heard dozens of stories about retired moms and pops returning to the marijuana habits of their youth. There were solicitations made over family dinners, intergenerational drug deals worked out over holiday weekends—the anecdotes were easy enough to find. Would I come across any data to support this trend?
In fact, a statistical trace of what I've taken to calling the "puff daddy" movement emerged a few years ago, when researchers at the National Institutes of Health compared national drug surveys conducted over two-year periods beginning in 1991 and 2001. Their analysis, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that the percentage of people who say they smoked marijuana in the past year had remained fairly stable over the 10-year stretch. (That is to say, it ended where it started.) But they found a very different pattern among those between the ages of 45 and 64: As my parents' generation matured, the number of smokers in that group had nearly tripled.
The baby boomer drug uptick turns up again in the recent data. According to the 2007 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, almost 6 percent of all adults between the ages of 50 and 59 reported smoking marijuana in the past year. That's up from about 3 percent five years earlier. Meanwhile, the number of recent users over the age of 50 has climbed to 2.65 million people nationwide (and we can assume the real prevalence is somewhat higher, since these figures are based on self-reported drug use). Here's something to think about: There are about as many boomers using cannabis today as there are high-school students doing the same.
Still, it's not easy to get an accurate picture of who these puffing oldsters are and how their drug habits have evolved over the last few decades. (It's also not clear to what extent the legalization of medical marijuana has been a factor.) detailed look (PDF) at patterns of drug use among the boomers. Most appear to have used marijuana continually throughout their lives, but a sizable portion were classified as "resumers"—those who recently emerged from a long hiatus in smoking dope. Sure enough, almost all the puff daddies and pot mommas I've encountered fall into this latter category: After years of abstinence, they've just recently started to rifle through junk drawers for vintage roach clips and rolling papers.
In August, researchers at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration published aBarbara, a 61-year-old mother of two from Belmont, Mass., began using drugs in her post-college years. She was living in Europe and following the Hippie Trail through Turkey, Pakistan, and Afghanistan in 1971 and '72—a period during which she smoked hash every single day. Then she came back to the United States, got married, and started a family.
Over the next 20 years, Barbara says she tried marijuana only a handful of times, with friends. "I was a soccer mom," she explains. "I wasn't into smoking at all. I didn't think about it, and I didn't miss it."
The habit came back after she separated from her husband in the 1990s. These days it's more about the living room than the magic bus: "I like to smoke at home and just relax," she says. "Sometimes I'll get on my treadmill; sometimes I'll get out my guitar; sometimes I'll just watch Desperate Housewives and giggle."
Barbara's story jibes with the conventional wisdom on how drug and alcohol use develops across the lifespan. Getting married and having kids tend to be associated with reductions in drug use, while divorce and retirement often come with increased dosages.
Whatever the cause, empty-nesters seem to be enjoying marijuana now more than ever. That doesn't mean they're comfortable with the public face of marijuana use: As a rule, the people interviewed for this article did not want to share even their first names—some cited the potential for legal trouble; others worried about what their friends might think. As for the experience of smoking itself, none reported any paranoia or anxiety whatsoever. In fact, most said they find a calm and serenity in marijuana that was lacking in their youth.
For a 57-year-old retired schoolteacher in southeastern Ohio, smoking has become an evening ritual with her husband. She'd given up a weekly habit in 1975, only to be reintroduced by her son 25 years later. (First they shared a joint to celebrate his engagement; then he helped her fashion a beer can into a rudimentary bong.) Now she and her husband enjoy a few puffs as they watch the sunset through the kitchen window. "It's really a treasured part of our day, just calming down from whatever, chewing over what was going on," she says.
The high never makes her feel self-conscious or uncomfortable, as it did when she smoked at parties in the old days. "My mind is a lot more peaceful than it was when I was younger," she says. "We're not trying to buy a place, we're not trying to get enough money to live on, we're not raising a family. … It's just very mellow."
Where does she get her marijuana currently? She has a friend "who knows somebody" with a top-notch source. "It's a designer variety. Acapulco gold."
The mind-boggling array of highly potent cannabis strains can be intimidating for some boomers. "Pot's different now," says a divorced, 54-year-old counselor in Philadelphia, who remembers an awkward evening spent with her son and a pan of brownies. "One hit and you're gonzo. I figured that out after a few behavior mishaps."
Back in the early 1970s, an everyday habit had made her deeply depressed, and she ended up quitting at the suggestion of her therapist. ("It was like I could see the sky again," she says.) Later she spent some time as a drug and alcohol counselor, helping college students who were smoking too much. But her recent experiences with marijuana have been very positive, once she got used to the modern varieties.
The puff daddies and pot mommas do have some reservations about smoking, but these tend to be health-related. Barbara, the ex-soccer-mom from Belmont, is afraid of a product tainted by biotechnology. "I am like a Whole Foods profile," she says. "I want organic meat; I want fish that comes in from dayboats; I only drink distilled water. … What I smoke today, I know who grows it, and I know it's not a genetically engineered superstrain." Others fear gaining weight from too many bouts of the munchies or bad interactions between marijuana and prescription meds.
The clinical evidence suggests that the greatest danger faced by boomers who use cannabis is heart disease. Getting high can increase your heart rate by about 40 beats per minute and cause unusual blood pressure fluctuations, which may in turn temporarily boost the odds of a heart attack. In 2001, a team of researchers from the Harvard Medical School found that smoking marijuana causes a transient, fivefold increase in risk. (Exercise, sexual activity, and bouts of anger can cause similar short-term risks.)
A 2008 paper published in the American Heart Journal takes these findings a step further: Although its sample sizes were small, the study found that marijuana users were significantly more likely to die, from cardiovascular distress or other problems, than those who didn't use illegal drugs. According to the paper's first author, Kenneth J. Mukamal, marijuana appears relatively safe when looked at across the general population. But it may be risky for certain subgroups, like those with incipient heart problems.
Then again, there may be some good reasons to keep smoking. In August, researchers at the University of Edinburgh published evidence that the drug might help prevent osteoporosis among the elderly. Cannabis can also be used to treat nausea and unintentional weight loss, and it may (or may not) have some salutary effect on older patients with glaucoma or Parkinson's disease. Advocates for the medical use of marijuana cite many other potential applications.
I called Dr. Mukamal to find out whether he thought cannabis was good or bad for old people. He didn't seem too impressed by its age-defying effects. "People of heart-attack age are smoking marijuana. Frankly, I think those folks should be concerned about it."
My parents didn't seem perturbed by this doctor's warning. Nor were they put off by my cautionary tale about the 65-year-old grandma who'd recently been caught with 33 pounds of premium marijuana in the trunk of her car. I tried to nag them, but they were pretty mellow about the whole thing.
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7th March 2003, 05:10 AM | #1 |
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pc cd drive to standalone cd player?
I have this 52x LG pc cd drive, any ideas how could it be converted to a standalone cd reader? if possible..
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7th March 2003, 05:27 PM | #2 |
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I found what probably is a dac nearby the headphones out.
Its a SO8 package and its written 3543 1t65 or ( IT65) on it. anyone heard of this? anyway, the drive has digital out, what if I use a external DAC? anyone think its possible?
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8th March 2003, 12:00 AM | #3 |
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I have an experience of using the CDROM to be the transport, actually I'm using this tranport now. The most important thing is that your CDROM must have a "PLAY" key on the front panel at least, or you have to build a controller of it. Second, you need a power supply to connect to the CDROM, the easiest way is using a PC power supply, but my suggestion is that build a power supply(12V and 5V) for it by LM317 or 7805. Third, if you want to get high quality sound, using the digital out(2-pin) instead of earphone plug or analog output(4-pin). But it means you need a DAC. |
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A little µC is advisable for controlling the drive via the IDE port, not only to provide basic functions such as skip, search, pause etc., but also to setup the drive not to spin up the CD to 52x speed - you want a quiet environment to listen to music.
I've bought a book on the IDE interface to figure out an easy way how to do this with an ATMEL controller. I'lm limited in time at the moment, but I'll post software and hardware when I'm done. The digital out at the back of most CD-ROM drives (never seen those at DVD-drives, though) is S/PDIF format, but at TTL level. It can be converted to standard S/PDIF easily. There have been circuits on the forum. |
8th March 2003, 03:57 AM | #5 |
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thx for the replies.
Yhea, I'll make a DAC ( the only problem for now is the price of the ics.. but..I'll figure out a way to get em) Yhea, I have no problem making a psu, got the parts here, and the cdrom drive has a play/skip and stop button. I'll make some kind of remote control too. The part where I lack knowledge is as AMT-freak stated, the ide interfacing, to force the player not to spin at 52x all the time cuz its really loud, and to have other functions too (maybe track name? I have some exprerience controlling small lcds via Paralell port maybe that could be possible?) I can make a solid box for it.. using like thick aluminium or thick acrylic. for now the problem is all the interfacing.
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I believe when a CD-ROM is playing back an audio CD, it defaults to 1x speed (unless the software requests higher speed, such as for audio extraction) anyway?
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This one spins preety fast :\
anyway, makes alot of noise for sure.. I'll try installing is on some very thik plate of something... maybe acrylic (cheap)
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Lot 1149: MINAS RIBA-DOURO, CIA. DAS
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Description: 5 May 1884 LISBOA. 5 Acçoes de Rs.50$000. blue. No 547-551. Decorative mining company with traditional vignette of mining lamp and tools. The mine was located near the river Douro, east of Porto.
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On a trip to Paris last year, I finally got a chance to visit the Louvre. I didn't go inside because of time constraints but the exterior of the building is still very beautiful. Despite the inspiring surroundings, this fellow seemed to just not want to be part of the vibe. I hope he's alright because I watched him for 20 minutes and he didn't move a muscle. Comments are welcome...
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- Free listening hours will be halved from 20 hours per month to 10 hours. - Free users can play a track up to five times only. For new free users, both new limits kick in after six months. For existing free users who joined before last November, the new track limit will take effect from this May 1.
- Because it can: Spotify has proved it can convert one million out of its 10 million users to pay. But, with nine million left over, there's an ample pool to try converting. - It's about cost control: This is not the first time Spotify has limited playing hours. To manage bandwidth during its first-year boom, it temporarily disabled new UK sign-ups and recast its unlimited free tier as the 20-hour Open it has today. A further clamp on play time could be another attempt at controlling bandwidth or royalty outgoings, which are about to grow when it launches in new countries. - It's a label stipulation: Though Spotify has signed two majors on its U.S. odyssey, they remain keener than their European counterparts on more pay-oriented music services. Spotify was also recently renewing its European label deals.
Spotify has always said its free service remains a critical premium driver, from which it nevertheless makes "millions" in ad sales, and that any U.S. service would launch with a free element, albeit slightly different. Spotify's New York-based chief content officer Kenneth Parks says today, somewhat defensively: "Our chief priority is to keep the free service, which is what has made Spotify so popular and successful."
- There is no reduction in recruitment rate X%, or that access to the US with a larger market pool allows "X%" to drop but a larger market is addressesd, so numbers are still maintained or increased - The conversion to "For Pay" stays the same (or at least stays high enough to fund the Free users) - ideally they fond a way to bias recruitment towards those likely to trade up - That "Churn" % of For Pay does not go up due to newer deals - Thart the labels will sign unique access deals to existing players (eg Spotify) and freeze new entrants out
- Those Freetards join the New New service and enthuse about that, increasing its recruiting and driving X% and conversion to Pay % down and possibly driving existing user Churn % up - The New New service grows and its buzz and scale allows it to negotiate better deals so when it launches a Pay service then its markedly more attractive (there being no real sustainable competitive advantage in Internet Music services)
Spotify premium for a month is less than the cost of a new CD. It saves me around £1000 a year. Why don't we talk about that?


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The Autobiography of an Ex-White Woman: Bliss Broyard's One Drop
Suddenly, white people are fascinated by race. Good for them. Good for all of us?
If you haven't read Bliss Broyard's One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life-A Story of Race and Family Secrets, you must. No matter how well you thought you understood, this book makes you realize just how relentlessly integral race is to American life and just how crucial it is to move beyond it. A complex book on a complex issue, it's hard to know where to begin (good reviews here, here and here).
Here's the easy part: One Drop is about having a semi-famous father who gave you all the insulated, WASPy pampering any white girl could want but who turns out, on his deathbed, to have in fact been black, then backtracking to figure out why and how he did so. And where that leaves you in a nation where boxes must be checked and sides must be taken. Only in America could a strained conversation in your dying father's sickroom change your race. This just in: you're black.
Pere Broyard, Anatole, was a New Orleans Creole, as it turned out, who helped create a post-war, bohemian-intellectual Manhattan where he and his friends "didn't know where books stopped and they began." But the world did. The only way for the cerebral, wavy-haired Negro to claim a place in that rarified atmosphere, seduce numberless white girls, or even get a decent job, was to stop being black. The price of doing so for two generations left Broyard a twisted soul, self-eliminated from family and culture, adrift in a world which existed mostly in the minds of the trendy Communist sympathizers and slumming trust-funders who fed on each other until it was time to marry and move to Connecticut. "Our tribe of four made us seem alternately special and forsaken," Bliss writes, "the last survivors of a dying colony or the founding members of an exclusive club."She and her brother had almost no interaction with either side of the family, so deeply 'incognegro'was Anatole. So were they black now? If they're not, is it because it's too late or because it's too easy?
It was often gruesome watching Broyard try to figure out what to do with whatever blackness she might possess; someone should have persuaded her to resist exulting in her belief that she can dance "like a black girl." As she must be to deserve cashing in on her family's hideous conundrum, however, she's painfully honest, as when forcing herself to relive instances of her own racism, post-revelation. But what keeps you slogging through the tedium of her 'am I black?' essentializations is her seamless vivification of racial history through a family that lived in a special world at a special time and faced a very special temptation. Few writers have the tenacious luck to unearth ancestors who played such we-were-there roles in history without being in the least famous (the Broyards' slavery and Civil War histories take on a surreality which screams screenplay). You can't put this book down – it works best as a mystery – until she's tenaciously, followed all those foolish, foolish breadcrumbs (like looking for some black Broyards in slum New Orleans who were likely low-lifes). Black people will often dislike her for this book; many will have to fight their own spite throughout, sputtering with remembrances of all the tragic-by-choice exotic multi-breeds they've known who expect nappy headed ho's to sympathize with their inability to grow afros. More than hair follicles block that connection. Bliss figured that out eventually, one exhaustively researched book later, one massive act of penance for ancestors she can never understand. There's no getting to the bottom of race or becoming black by revelation. 'Race' is how the world reacts to you, not your genetic code. When asked, and in America you will be, Bliss answers: "My father was part black but I was raised white. "She's described race perfectly: she told you everything and nothing.
Now, the hard part: why are white people suddenly so interested in race and how should blacks feel about them bumrushing the racial microphone?
Broyard's joins a growing canon of books about whites finally interrogating their family's role in America's original sin. Edward Ball's Slaves in the Family, and Cynthia Carr's Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America are among the best. Too damnably good, like Broyard's, to dwell on their cashing in on racism on both the front and back ends.
In the first, a descendant of South Carolina's slave-owning, diary- and genealogy-obsessed aristocracy set out to unearth the black Balls so scrupulously obscured in his family's voluminous records, a journey which he doggedly followed across America and to Africa. The second (which I reviewed) is by the granddaughter of a man who may have joined in an infamous 1930 lynching in Marion, Indiana. Just as Ball grew to adulthood before wondering why he knew nothing about the humans his family owned, Carr did so without knowing she'd grown up in a Klan stronghold where her kindly old neighbors may well have participated in an unfathomably evil event they later airbrushed from the town's memory.
Clutching a gruesome trophy photo typical of lynchings , Carr, like Ball with his family's slave registries in hand, undertakes a journey of racial discovery that is by turns, both heroic and unavoidably self-aggrandizing.
White interest in racial history proceeds as did the history itself: slavery (Ball), then the domestic terror campaign that kept free blacks in their place (Carr). Now, with One Drop, we enter the phase of whites owning up to the rapes and miscegenations that tell the truth on America's hypocrisy but which also implicate everyone. No group's hands are clean but it is mainly blacks, due to their all but marginal absence from the historical record, who are prevented from sallying forth equally well armed, documents in hand, to turn over history's rocks. Screwed again.
Still, these works do what America never will; participate in all the truth and reconciliation we're ever going to have—piecemeal, caveated, hazy, statute of limitations-expired but more than blacks knew before. More than whites could bear to admit to before. Leave it to white narcissism to do for us what the urgings of conscience never will: put white perpetrators center stage. Now that it's safe. Given that America won't hold its breath until a black person goes digging for the ancestor who narc'd on Denmark Vesey, maybe blacks should cut whites some slack on their long overdue introspection. There's no denying that blacks desperately want to know what the hell happened and how and only whites can tell us that.
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I'm well aware that this is a sad confession to make, but I love tax time.
Most years I turn to a friendly tax agent, who smiles in a bemused fashion as I claim everything from flights to Cuba to house-sitting registration fees (all story fodder!).
If it's a good return, I'll gleefully skip out of the appointment, mentally spending the money before the tax office has even refunded it.
Admittedly my work-related expenses are a little higher than average because I'm self-employed, but nearly everyone can claim tax deductions.
The deadline to file your own tax return is usually October 31.
You can get an extension by calling the tax office on 13 28 61 or filing through a tax agent.
Or you can spend the next day or two going through your receipts and filling out the paperwork. Maybe you can get a kick out of tax time too.
Mark Chapman, tax specialist at H&R Block, says you can generally claim on any purchases you've made that are related to your job.
If you're a tradie, that might mean safety clothing. Those in hospitality or nursing, for example, can deduct the cost of uniforms.
Then there are travel costs. If you need your own car to visit clients or customers, that's tax deductible. However, the cost of getting from your house to work (say the office or factory) is not.
Chapman says union fees, professional subscriptions and the cost of running a home office are all other potential tax claims, as is your mobile phone, laptop or tablet if you use it for work.
"If you go on a course or if you undertake some form of study which is linked to your job, that's tax deductible as well," Chapman says.
"People who work in the acting profession claim dancing lessons, acting classes."
Don't forget, you can make a claim only if you keep the receipt, either by hard copy or electronically (don't forget to back it up).
Plenty of apps, such as the ATO's myDeductions, or Shoeboxed can help you keep track.
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I woke up at about 7:00 and decided I deserved a bit more sleep before getting to work today. I fell back asleep and proceeded to dream that I woke up about 7:00 and decided I deserved a bit more sleep before getting to work. In the dream, I overslept my next alarm and woke at 4pm, and I was freaking out about missing the whole day. In this 9 hour block, I had a dream that I was both in Sons of Anarchy and watching it on DVD. (We/they were trying to work out a deal with a Taiwanese Triad. It was going well until the FBI showed up looking for a WikiLeaks server of all things.) Then I dreamed I fell asleep while watching the SofA DVDs and had a dream about moving into a new apartment and having to pack all my stuff this weekend, and also playing some game involving magnets and the positions of tables in a library. There was also a trip to a very rocky beach, some sandals I had made out of duct tape, and a hockey rink which had wheels on big stilt-like legs so it could stand up and reposition itself.
If I'm counting correctly, I think I had a dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream. My previous best for nested dreams is four, but those were the same dream at each level while all of these were different.
PS I hesitate to mention this, but at some point in my dream I discovered that in the space of an hour I had grown eyebrows at least three times larger than Thuffir Hawat's in David Lynch's 1985 Dune adaptation. One minute they were normal, and then all of a sudden they were the sizes of small squirrels.
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It just laid around and did nothing. After a while it went bad, like a rotting pumpkin. Nice, huh?
In my dream everyone was cloning their heads and taking pictures of them in odd environments, to post on the Internet. It was all the rage. But also illegal, so you had to claim you just Photoshopped it.
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As (mis)fortune may have it – Brooklyn, NY band Pela have called it quits this September after subjected to a load of tremendous obstacles over the last few years; from recording the same album twice, to firing managers, injuries, legal battles, and record deals falling through.
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The North Mustangs basketball team lost Thursday's home non-conference game against Mesa in overtime by a score of 92-90.
In Thursday's non-league outing, the Mesa Jackrabbits (Mesa, AZ) basketball squad edged the host North Mustangs (Phoenix, AZ), by a margin of 92-90.
The Jackrabbits (4-0) will now prepare for their outing against Westwood (Mesa, AZ). The Warriors go into the non-league outing with a 1-1 record.
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Douglas McWilliams, the former chief economic adviser to the Confederation of British Industry, claims in a new report published today that the recent outperformance of the US economy is due to a "transformation in the operation of capitalism on a sufficient scale to justify being described as a reinvention".
Professor McWilliams said there has been an "explosion" in mutual funds, the US equivalent of unit trusts, which are now owned by 37 per cent of American households, compared with under 6 per cent in 1980. The managers of such funds are so heavily incentivised that their outstanding share options are thought to be worth between 10 and 15 per cent of the value of the whole US equity market.
"They give them huge incentives. They are massive." Professor McWilliams says. "And so far they have generated the share price performance and the profits performance. The size of the carrot being dangled before them is one they really cannot ignore."
The result has been soaring US share prices and a gross domestic product which has grown by 15.9 per cent in 1990s, compared with 10.9 per cent for Western Europe. At the same time, figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development show that return on capital has accelerated from an average of 13.5 per cent in the 1980s to 17.8 per cent during the 1990s so far and 18.5 per cent for 1996, according to the latest estimate.
But this performance has been achieved at the expense of wages, which have risen by 22.4 per cent in the years 1990-96 in the US, below the 24 per cent increase in consumer prices. By contrast, earnings in the European Union expanded by 39.5 per cent in that period, some 16.3 percentage points faster than prices.
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I have a small one, a 3522s.
I bought it as a demo unit (I think it sat on a shelf in a case), still have the clearance tag that was on it.......
that will be excellent on the tweets..maybe too much power!!!! ya ,i hear ya..im staring at my new finished sub box for my four tens got thurs to finish up my set up,and i had my shoulder n bicept fixed fri, and it weighs approx 200 lbs,to go in my xcab, and i cant lift an empty plastic cup for a while...blows..know the feeling:crap:
Thats right, I forgot I read you had surgery a few days back, get better, the audio can wait.
Soat Twister 4 channels Amp, one of my friend cleaned out his garage and came across it then give it to me. I want to test it to see if its working but he sprayed all over panel with the symbols... I heard these amps are rare, If it works I will sand it and repaint it white. I just cannot tell whats power/remote/ground and so forth. Any help will be much appreciated...
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That amp literally looks EXACTLY like my 4-channel Urban Audio amp internally and externally, minus the different paint scheme. I'm dead serious too, I practically memorized the internals because I spent two weeks de-soldering every single component from the board until it was bare, just for the hell of it.
That's how u troll
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anybody know the specs on this amp?
If you tell me the length I can let you know for sure (no homo, LOL). It looks like a HiFonics Colossus VI to me. Have you tested it, does it work? I might be interested in it working or not if you want to let go of it. If it is a Colossus VI, rated at 600x2 at 4 ohms, 900x2 at 2 ohms or 1800w bridged at 4 ohms.
If it's approx. 29" long, it's a Colossus
I haven't posted pics here in a while, so here ya go:
1973 Fosgate PowerPunch PR-7000 (Fosgate's FIRST car amplifier!)
Here's another rare piece of auto sound history...
Late 70's Fosgate PR-235 in MINT condition! 35 watts x 2 at 4 ohms
sue does look like a colossus VI to me, too. definitely a VI, and fusing matches


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wow thats a good idea to save our files in disks as it secures data and also we can take it out with us to other computer system or use it later for our use only
Nowadays I rarely ever watch dvd's because we have a media player.. But that doesn't stop my girlfriend "having to physically own" the movie we are watching... So there is always a constant stream of dvd's to be backed up lol
I prepare backing CDs for choir rehearsals - kids forget usb drives, so it's easier just to rock up with prepared CDs to issue them with their names written on the disks already.
We are both retired now and taking movies from camcorder is a great way to share with family and friends and also as a memory prompt.
Then with something like Ashampoo Burning Studio we can put them to CD or DVD, awesome! -
Yes, I use it for back purposes especially softwares
for boot discs and backups
Yes, For some of my old-ashoined friends
still burn movies on DVD's....occasionally music to CD's
Yes, for school purposes
I think its one of the best burning solution....
Do you still burn CDs or DVDs? What for?
For burning movies to watch on a DVD Player or for storing clients documents on so that they have a backup copy of their files in case they lose them.
I only burn DVD's when I want to share videos with family members who are not very tech savy. As for CD's, I cant remember the last time I burned one.
I still burn CDs and DVDs for installation Discs and music discs.
i still burn cds and dvds because i like to watch them on dvd players
Yes to back up pictures, homemade videos and important info :) Thanks for the opportunity!!!
for movies, songs, photo albums...
for back up data and collection film.
I use DVDs for backing up my camera pictures.
Do you still burn CDs or DVDs? What for?
I still burn DVDs for data backup & transfer, and occasionally CDs for sharing photos.
My car still has a CD player in it. I upgrade my car on a far longer schedule than my other electronics!
i burn dvd/cds for my sony car audio
backup and sharing
I burn DVDs' for data backup
I still burn DVD's and CD's, mainly to put music inside them
I don't know how to burn a Cd, thats why I LOVE the makeuseof site as it is turning this Computer literate Technophobe into a functioning member of 21st Century society.
Yes, burn cd's for wife's car! :)
Thanks for the giveaway! Nice!
Ashampoo make some great Apps and Burning Studio is one of them.I have B.S.9 but would love version 12 and yes I do burn DVDs I copy all my grand children Dvds as they get scratched to bits so they always have a back up so thanks for the chance.
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Still burn CD's/DVD'S for backups and the car stereo!
I really enjoy the articles about the giveaways and other info
I burn dvd and cd because i have a lots of data.
I could makeuseof this. I would definitely burn all of my DVD's, for my daughter has the tendency to remove them. She is not nice to them at all...
I rip DVDs and CDs mostly for friends or family who love to have their dvd collecitions up to date and dont know how to. Also for backup purposes and live cd burnings.
I rip dvd's for my ipads.
I do it for backup reasons.
I rip a lot of DVD's for the kids and CD's for music or software..
We burn to share videos and pictures with some relatives, and also rip DVDs for backups.
For my back ups!
yes i still do.. to backup all my collections of downloaded movies and pictures...
I still burn DVDs. I use them to store movies and tv shows.
I burn DVDs for church and rip the sermon for posting on Vimeo.
I still burn DVD's and CD's mostly photos and files now a days for family and the such.
Mostly for bootable dvd images and backups.
It is a very good product... I have Burning Studio 11... want to use 12 now...
I burn DVD's of my images for my clients to have as a backup of my photo shoots. I also burn duplicates of slide shows that were shown at the rehearsal dinner and wedding reception for the parents and other guests that request it. This would save me some time.
like to burn cds/dvds to keep backups of movies and my computer software.
I still burn cd/dvds for backup and sometimes just to have a duplicate copy of my movies and/or software.
lol yes I still do use them both
It is for backing up my important data
for movies, songs compilation, bootable cd/dvd
Very good program very easy to use. Is very fast.
Very good program. Very easy to use.
For making backup copies to use so as to keep originals safe.
My car still uses CD's, so I use those of course. I still watch DVD's, and I often make use of them as temporary data backups, or for diagnostic tools.
Backups, ripping DVD's, CD's.
I use CDs and DVDs as archive backup, and to make boot disks for computer repair
very good product.. nice giveaway
yes, still use both, for backup, coping audio CDs and movie DVDs(my husband isn't CD / DVD friendly)...
I'm a professional illustrator and back in the days I saved all my work files to CD-RWs. Then one day the discs couldn't be read anymore and I lost literally thousands of files, which I could never recover. I don't use discs anymore—now save everything to an external HD.
With my music I just use Bluetooth to transfer files back and forth from my PC to my phone or music device. So with the external HD and Bluetooth I don't really have a need to burn anything anymore.
I only use CDs/DVDs when USB boot is imposible
I burn for my own enjoyment and for work for teachers, students. etc. to use in class or in plays, talent shows or other venues.
CD's for music for friends .
Great software I still burn DVDs as a cheap backup solution.
Yes for backups
Yes. For my assignment, of course.
Burn MP3 CDs for my car (the player is old and has no USB), and burn DVDs for backups as well as duplicating corporate videos.
I mainly use burning CD or DVDs for backup and studying materials
Absolutely! I love compiling pictures and saving them on CD's and DVD's are very useful to me for back up purposes.
Yes, my car's cd player doesn't play anything else
I burn DVDs for movies storage..
I burn DVD's for the movies I download..(legally) :-)
Thank you ,great software.
For my Mother who doesn't use a computer and watches indie and foreign films by DVD as her town is too small to have then turn up at any theatre.
Yes. I burn music for my family. I also work with other audio and video software from Adobe and this would be an awesome addition to my library
i like ashampoo products very much they are well made products too i would like very much to win this great giveaway i hope i do and even if i win or not good luck to all who enter and do win this great giveaway from ashampoo they always have lots of giveaways of there software all the time online now
I actually had this and lost it due to a crash! It's a wonderful program! Liked, shared, would love to have it!
very nice giveaway. thank you.
I still burn CDs to listen to in the car.
need to transfer the files from my computer to another computer
backups and compilations
I still burn cds a lot. I burn them for music, movies, data, photos and what ever use I can find. I use Ashampoo burning studio 11 and would love to have the newest version. Thanks very much
I think I haven't burnt a DVD in years, but i've accumulated quite a lot of photos on my external HDD and I should probably not rely on that alone. Can't hurt to burn them on some DVD's as well...
I burn CD's of online scrapbooks.
Thanks for the giveaway! I'm mostly burning backups of my data.
Yes, movies for my friends.(and some bootable tools)
I put almost everything on USB disks, but I still have to burn the occasional disk to my regrets
I burn DVDs because I don't have a couple of petabytes of disc storage!
For work or home related uses. This software is better than Nero or Roxio by far, small footprint install file size, makes it easier and more fun to use.
I use it to backup and archive my data.
Archiving info
Have heard about this software and thought about getting it. Would be nice to win a copy. Can't seem to find the link to enter the contest. Keep getting caught in a loop. Like...share...share...share...can't like more than once. I can't even see how many points I have available. I'm frustrated.
My car's stereo plays MP3 CDs so I burn my podcasts onto CD to listen to in the car.
to backup movies
Burn DVD for backups
Please count me in. I use CDs for backups and Ashampoo Burning Studio is the best for the job.
Do you still burn CDs or DVDs? What for?
Backup; most stable and durable media.
Well some people do prefer old school so a tool like that comes handy to pass media to them.
I do a lot of driving, so often I will make up playlists for driving music, then burn the lists to CD. It would be nice if all auto players had digital input jacks, but that's not the case. And in the Florida sun, the "dash-life" of a writeable CD is only about a year; plus no worries if they are stolen (or given away)!
I still burn CD's and DVD's. I burn CD's of the music I bought on iTunes or other online stores to listen in the car. I burn DVD's of pictures or software I bought online for backup purpose. I also burn disc copies of linux for tech support purposes every now and then.
1:1 copies of cd/dvd where possible just to save the original from getting damaged..
I burn cd's for music on the go and dvd's for backups.
Usually i burn CD/DVD when reinstalling my windows, or repairing some ones computer.
To burn my favourite tv episodes to watch on DVD with my family and friends
Can the software be used on Lightscribe disks? i.e. graphics
Mal -
I still burn DVD's so I can back up our collection. Nothing worse then putting a movie in and having it skip and not play then having to go out and buy it agian.
for fun
I burn DVDs for my library of photos as a hard backup...
Sometimes I burn CD, but usually its mor for my friends cause I have a FreeNAS and I stock my files on the FreeNAS usually or Hard Disks. Its mor cost effectives to keep stuff on Hard Drives.
I burn dvd to back up genealogy documents/photos, digital photos and graphics .
I burn many a music CD for the car and friends etc and DVD's with programs, apps and autorun's.
I burn DVD's as a backup. External HD's can still fail.
I burn CD's quite often, backing up and/or sharing files and photos, and occasionally burning a "personal mix" music CD. I don't burn DVD's very often, though I have occasionally used DVD to back up and/or share large numbers of photos or files.
I use CDs to make boot disks for computer repair, and DVDs for archive backups, primarily photography raw files. Burning Studio is one of my favorites, and just lost an install on a laptop that I sold.
use dvd's only for backups..
I still burn CDs. I am interested in burning movies and ripping to tablet format for my kids to take on trips
CD's & DVD's - church sermons for my over 65 friends who can't go to church and don't have access to the internet. Keeps them in the loop.
I use CDs and DVDs as archive backup, and to make boot disks for computer repair. It's rather silly that here in Canada, blank DVDs are cheaper than blank CDs...
i rip Music as I tend to listen to it more on the laptop than stereo!
so the kids can have the dvds and doesnt matter if they scratch them as you just rip a new one
backup of pictures
When ever I need a boot cd.
yes, I still use DVDs . Mainly for backup purposes.
I rip DVD's because I have a large DVD collection, and I also have little kids that aren't 100% DVD-friendly. So I've been ripping them to back them up and to also be able to put them on my phone, tablet, media player, PS3, XBOX, and computer.
I rip DVD's because I have a large DVD collection, and I also have little kids that aren't 100% DVD-friendly. So I've been ripping them to back them up and to also be able to put them on my phone, tablet, media player, PS3, XBOX, and computer.


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I'm sure it's actually very nice but that name sounds as though the main ingredient is phlegm harvested from TB-inflicted elderly.
Lech is the current fave, the cans have golf-ball dimples in the side to top you dropping them when pissed!
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Fall of the Black Widow
When Jim Moseley sat down at the Dean & Deluca store in Charlotte, North Carolina, at 9:30 a.m. last Friday he was nervous. Officer Harry Inch had assured the businessman that Inch and other members of the Violent Criminals Apprehension Team would take down the target before she got anywhere near him. Two plainclothes officers sat at a table near Moseley. Other officers were outside, positioned so that they could watch the front door and rush inside as soon as Moseley identified their quarry.
As the minutes dragged on, Moseley's worry turned to fear that she wouldn't show up. The elaborate sting would be for naught. Then suddenly, Camille Powers appeared behind him, slipped into a chair at his table and apologized for being late. She'd come in the back door, not the front. She looked unkempt: hair stringy with two inches of gray roots showing, and she was carrying a purse and a big bag stuffed with so much junk it was strained at the seams.
His heart pounding, Moseley excused himself to go to the bathroom, stood up and looked at the cops sitting near him.
Sandra Bridewell
"Um, guys," Moseley said, "it's her!"
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Moseley stepped back and watched as Inch grabbed the woman, told her she was under arrest and handcuffed her. As those in the coffee shop watched, the woman stared straight ahead, looking mortified.
Moseley's three-week roller-coaster ride was over. Jim and his elderly mother Sue Moseley—with help from a couple of real estate agents and the Dallas Observer—had ended Powers' bizarre crime spree in the bucolic coastal town of Southport, North Carolina. For the first time in a long and checkered career of deception, Sandra Camille Powers Bridewell—known in Dallas as the Black Widow—found herself in the law's clutches.
Inch marched her to a squad car and explained that he had several warrants for her arrest; Bridewell didn't ask what they were for. She refused to answer Inch's questions, staring straight ahead while a TV reporter stuck a microphone in her face.
"I know my rights," Bridewell told Inch. "I want a lawyer." Except for prayers mumbled under her breath, that was all she said.
When he searched her purse and overstuffed bag, Inch found no identification, nothing with her picture. She had no cash, just two of Sue Moseley's credit cards, gift cards, real estate brochures, makeup samples and bits of paper with scribbled notes. "It was like searching a bag lady," Inch says. Bridewell was charged with two counts of check forgery and one count of credit card fraud.
It was the "bag lady's" big aspirations that brought her down. That, and Google.
Bridewell has been the subject of two cover stories in the Observer in 2004: "Return of the Black Widow" and "Seductress of the Saints." Accusations of fraud have followed Bridewell ever since she left Dallas in the late 1980s.
Dallas remains fascinated with the once-beautiful Southern belle, who earned her nickname after the death of three husbands and a female best friend. Bridewell remains the only suspect in the murder of her third husband, Alan Rehrig, who was found shot to death in his car in Oklahoma City. She has refused to comment to the press but has maintained to friends and family that she is the victim of malicious gossip and rumors.
In her earlier years, Bridewell relied on her charm and sex appeal to weasel money from men. But in recent years she's turned to posing as a missionary to foreign lands. She wed a fourth husband in San Antonio a few years ago after meeting him at a religious conference. He filed for divorce after only a few months of marriage, saying she had stolen his savings and was practicing witchcraft.
This time a woman brought about her downfall, albeit inadvertently. Sue Moseley met Camille Powers (Bridewell's maiden name) through her sister in mid-2006.
A kind-hearted person had seen Bridewell standing outside a grocery store with her belongings stuffed in paper bags. He took her to a furniture store owned by a former Baptist preacher. After assisting her for a time, the preacher introduced Bridewell to Audrey Harrington, who at his urging hired the "missionary" as a live-in caregiver, paying her $250 a week. Harrington says she already had a helper but hired Bridewell as a favor to the preacher.
"She came with all her paraphernalia," Harrington says, "bags and bags and bags." Harrington bought Bridewell clothes and groceries, an added expense because she insisted on organic or natural foods.
Bridewell was mysterious from the beginning, refusing to tell Harrington anything about her background. She stayed six weeks. "She manipulates; she's very controlling," Harrington says. "And she pouts when she doesn't get her way."
When Bridewell quoted Scripture to Harrington, the older woman wasn't intimidated. Harrington knew the Bible and could fling back chapter and verse. "Several times we really got into it," Harrington says. "I told her, 'You're a spoiled rotten brat who is practicing witchcraft'—meaning secrecy, control and deception—'and playing at missionary.' She didn't like that."
Harrington asked Bridewell to leave, but she didn't go far, moving in with Harrington's sister, Sue Moseley. A widow, Moseley lives in a gated golf-course community in Southport near the intra-coastal waterway in a home valued at more than $1 million. "She told me she didn't want to stay with Audrey and that she would be going to Africa in October on a six- to eight-week mission trip," Moseley says. Feeling it was her Christian duty, she invited Bridewell to stay in her home until her trip.
Bridewell moved in on Labor Day and stayed six months.
At first Bridewell was helpful around the house and drove Mrs. Moseley around town. She commiserated with Mrs. Moseley's difficulties with a troubled daughter. She raised her beautiful soprano voice in song at Moseley's church. After she gave a talk at another church about her mission work, the audience took up an offering of about $500. Bridewell didn't ask Mrs. Moseley for money; they had agreed to split the cost for groceries and gas. Though it always seemed Bridewell got the better end of the deal, Mrs. Moseley sensed nothing wrong.
The two women were driving around one day in January when Bridewell pointed out several houses that would be a great location for the training center she wanted to open to teach "natives" from Third World countries organic farming techniques. At Bridewell's urging, Mrs. Moseley called the real estate agents listed on the signs.
Dennis Krueger and Jack Vereen showed Mrs. Moseley and Bridewell around several expensive homes. Bridewell settled on one in particular, a stately Queen Anne-style mansion on the water that was listed at $2.7 million. She said it would be a great place for her six children to visit and hinted that Mrs. Moseley wasn't going to be able to live by herself much longer.
But the agents got suspicious. They couldn't figure out if Moseley or Bridewell was the buyer. "I finally had to ask," Vereen says. "'Look ladies, who am I selling to?'"
"Me, I'm the buyer," Bridewell told him, "with my organization." Bridewell said she was paying cash.
That waved a giant red flag. After several weeks of discussions, they noticed that Moseley and Bridewell didn't seem as close as they had at first.
In fact Mrs. Moseley had gotten fed up with Bridewell. "She was getting bossy, and she was trying to pour my medicines for me and putting water by my bed at night." Bridewell urged Moseley to stop taking her blood-pressure medication.
She badmouthed Harrington, telling Mrs. Moseley her sister hated her and other hurtful things. "Divide and conquer is her mode," Harrington says. After a few months, Bridewell was intercepting the mail and answering the phone, even refusing to let Harrington talk to her sister.
"I knew something was wrong with this girl, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out what," Mrs. Moseley says. "I was praying the last six weeks that she would go to India and not come back."
Vereen couldn't quell his skepticism. "She creeped me out," Vereen says. But he didn't even know Bridewell's last name. So he turned to Google, putting in the bits of information he knew: Camille, missionary and Texas, where she said she once lived. Bingo! Up popped the Observer stories, complete with pictures of the "missionary." She'd repeated the same real estate scenario in Atlanta and in Santa Rosa, California.
Vereen and Krueger called me to explain what was going on and to ask if I thought Bridewell was dangerous. I pointed out that Bridewell was still the only suspect in Rehrig's shooting death. Someone had to warn Mrs. Moseley. But how to handle it since the two women were inseparable?
When the day of her mission trip arrived in early February, Bridewell drove Mrs. Moseley to Charlotte to stay with her son Jim while Bridewell was overseas.
After Bridewell was gone for a few weeks, I tracked down one of Mrs. Moseley's sons, who was skeptical but agreed to read the Observer articles. A few days later, Jim Moseley contacted me. His mother was staying with him in Charlotte, and they had discovered Bridewell had run up a $1,900 bill on one of her credit cards without Mrs. Moseley's authorization. They contacted police.
When Bridewell returned, she called Jim and said she would come to pick up the car and take his mother home. At the request of police, Jim played along, agreeing to meet her for the car exchange, where Bridewell was arrested.
Returning home, Mrs. Moseley was shocked to find a letter from her mortgage company saying her house was going into foreclosure. Bridewell had been intercepting the lender's letters and calls since October.
Then Mrs. Moseley learned that all her IRS documents were missing. "She said she would help me straighten out my files and stuff," says Mrs. Moseley. "She tried to change the address on my Social Security card. They caught her on tape." But the scariest thing of all: Bridewell allegedly tried to change the name of the beneficiary on Mrs. Moseley's life insurance.
Bridewell now has been extradited to Brunswick County, where Mrs. Moseley lives. Even before Bridewell's arrest, detective Jane Todd had contacted detectives in Oklahoma City. Seems they want to talk to the elusive woman once married to Alan Rehrig.
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