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By John Revill
ZURICH (Reuters) - Logitech International raised its profit outlook for the year after strong sales of its gaming and video collaboration products helped the computer peripheral maker beat forecasts in its first quarter.
The Swiss-U.S. company said it now expects operating income of $260 million to $270 million, up from its previous view of $250-260 million.
Logitech made a good start to its financial year, Chief Executive Bracken Darrell said, with around two percentage points of growth expected to come from the acquisition this month of Astro, a maker of headsets for console gamers.
"We feel good about the year and that's why we raised our guidance," he told Reuters.
"Our game plan is to go aggressively after growth and profitability."
Logitech's PC Gaming business -- specialized keyboards and mice for people who play games online -- had a strong quarter, with sales up 38 percent.
"Will it continue at nearly 40 percent? Probably not, but PC gaming is on fire," Darrell said. "There are more and more people playing video games on PCs, with keyboards and headsets.
"In online gaming, people want faster keyboards and every little edge counts," he said.
Sales of accessories for tablet computers like detachable keyboards, previously a laggard, also increased, although this reflected an easy comparison with last year's figures, Darrell said.
But the PC speakers and earphones business struggled, with sales down 11 percent, as the company's Jaybird wireless earphones business underperformed.
Logitech increased sales to $530 million during the three months ended June 30 from $480 million a year earlier, beating forecasts of $512 million in a Reuters poll.
Net profit increased to $37 million, ahead of estimates of $26 million.
The company would use cash for its ongoing $250 million share buy-back, dividends and acquisitions, Darrell said, although it was unlikely a purchase would be bigger than the $85 million acquisition of Astro.
The company's stock has been one of the strongest performing tech stocks in Europe, gaining 47 percent in 2017. The shares opened 4 percent higher in Switzerland.
"Logitech's business model proves to work once again with solid growth despite one disappointing category and solid margin structures allowing to boost growth further," said Vontobel analyst Michael Foeth, who rates the stock "buy" and raised his price target to 43 francs from 39 after the result.
(Reporting by John Revill; Editing by Michael Shields)

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So let's just imagine your standing on a long line at the supermarket waiting for your groceries to be rung up, and as you start to become impatient you begin looking around, and checking out the different items when suddenly you quickly glance towards the floor, noticing the shoes that the lady in front of you has on. Wow! I wonder how much those bad boys cost? you think. Now of course you could either ask her the price, or go home with hopes on describing them well enough that Google will tell you, but with the new technology that's out today you don't have to do either one of those things anymore.
By using a visual search all you have to do is snap a close up picture of the item that they're wearing, and suddenly you'll have your answer within seconds with lots of other similar products to choose from too. You can either decide to have your items delivered to you then or wait and see if the price drops.
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Despite how advanced most of these search engines may seem they are still developing, and working to improve their services such as WeSEE which is a visual search engine also that is currently still in beta form, but you can expect to see them, and others continue to grow. For now we can just be satisfied with the idea of not having to beat our head against a brick wall to try and find that bag we seen in the magazine yesterday.


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Artist Mel Bochner Has a Case of the Blahs
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It's almost as if Mel Bochner works in your office! Slip this piece into your next PowerPoint presentation and see if anyone notices. Bochner's paintings of blahs, and many naughtier synonyms, are on display at Peter Freeman, Inc in Tribeca until Saturday. —Emma Pearse


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Review: Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM | A
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I recently had the opportunity to spend two months traveling with, and testing out, Sigma's new 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM | A lens. The newest lens in Sigma's 'Art' series, the 18-35mm is marketed toward travel, wedding, and event photography. It is the first lens of it's kind to offer a super fast f1.8 aperture in a wide-angle zoom lens designed for crop-sensor cameras. The first thing I noticed, when I pulled the lens out of the box, was how solid it felt in the hands. Although the lens is 0.4" narrower in diameter than my AFS Nikkor 28-70mm f/2.8D IF-ED lens, it weighs nearly as much, only 4.4oz less. In comparison, my AFS DX Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G has a reported weight of 13.8oz and is roughly half the size.


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Are You Familiar with These Types of Diversity on Campus?
Most college campuses have a very diverse student body. And, while some forms of diversity are well-known, such as race, religion or ethnicity, some are not as apparent.
In fact, many qualities that make people diverse are impossible to see with the naked eye. And these types of diversity can be just as important as others.
As we have noted before, there are countless benefits of having a diverse student body campus, as well as diversity among faculty. Exposing students to different points of views can only benefit their education—especially the ones maybe haven't thought of.
What Are Some Less Familiar Types of Diversity?
As we have noted, diversity can come in many different forms. And exposing students to these different types of diversity will help them understand the challenges their peers face. So what are some lesser known types of diversity? Well, we've compiled a list:
- Marital and parental status
- Sexual orientation
- Height, weight, and appearance
- Level of education
- Family background
- Economic class
- Upbringing
- Food choices
- Working and parenting styles
- Major life experiences
- Travel experiences
- Work history
- Communication style
As you can see, the list here is quite long, but it barely scratches the surface. There are still many other qualities people have contribute to the diversity of your campus.
But with increased diversity, comes different challenges you'll need to address. For instance, a student might want to join an intramural sports team but is not given the chance because of negative assumptions about their abilities due to their weight. This student might have the skills necessary to be a productive member of the team, but may not get the chance to prove themselves.
While you probably can't prevent all types of bullying and exclusion, investing in a diversity and inclusion plan is definitely a step in the right direction. Additionally, promoting diversity on your campus only benefits your students in the long run. The world is a very diverse place, and teaching your students about its benefits will set them up for success.
As we have stated before, embracing the diversity in your campus offers tremendous benefits to students. And training is a great way to help introduce many of these topics and issues so that you can invite faculty and students to lifelong learning.
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X-POSITION: Abnett & Lanning on "New Mutants" in the Wake of "AvX"
For many long-time comic book readers, the name "New Mutants" brings to mind a team of young, fresh-faced mutants who aren't fully in control of their powers. The current team, however, consists of mutants confident in abilities which, if not used correctly, could bring an end to the world as we know it.
The group has an Omega-level powered Shaman (albeit de-powered) in X-Man; they have an immensely powered technological being in Warlock; there's Legion, who remade the entire world with his abilities; and let's not forget Magik, who most recently possessed the power of the Phoenix (not to mention the fact that she controls a portal to Limbo). The remaining New Mutants' powers ain't nothing to sneeze at neither…
The team took a time-travel trip in recent issues and have now returned to a post-"AvX" world. What will it mean for them to have a teammate that was one of the Phoenix Five? And what will the team do when a couple of their members join the Avengers? X-POSITION contacted writers Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning ("DnA" to their fans) for answers. Let's see if we can squeeze a secret or two out of them…
We start things off with Ramelito, who has AvX anxieties. Can you offer some responses that will soothe his soul?
1) How will team react to Magik being part of the Phoenix Five?
The team's reaction to the situation with Magik and the aftermath of AvX will be explored in upcoming issues. Needless to say, these events will have a profound effect on the team as well as the Marvel Universe as a whole.
2) Why do you think the Phoenix force wasn't drawn to Nate Grey, especially considering ties to Jean?
Probably because he was displaced in time and space when the events concerning the Phoenix Force unfolded.
3) In light of what has occurred with Cyclops and the Phoenix Five, how badly do you believe the team feels for siding with Cyclops instead of Wolverine?
Their decisions were made at the time of the events of Schism and were prompted by their loyalties to Cyclops and the ideals he believed in. What happened to him as AvX developed couldn't be foreseen by anyone, even Cyclops himself. This is something covered in the upcoming issue #50 of "New Mutants" in a conversation between Dani and Wolverine.
4) Will we get to see the team's reaction to Xavier's death?
Not directly because of the time scale involved in writing the various issues and when they need to be completed by, but we see their reaction to the aftermath of AvX in issue #50.
Nissus is next and he's wondering if he could get some status updates:
1) What is the actual situation with Nate Grey as a Shaman? I reckon it's a role that's not suited for him anymore, and he should slowly rewind to his older original self. Do you have plans for him in the near future?
Nate's character and powers are slowly evolving as he comes to terms with his new 'de-powered' state. It's a situation that will unfold and develop in the future.
2) Is the Hel-cub still in the group? Will it be revealed what is going to happen to him?
He's still in their care, but what the future holds is still unwritten.
Andre4000 has been reading the Marvel NOW! news and hopes you can tell him how upcoming events will affect his favorite team…
1) Now that Sunspot and Cannonball are going to be Avengers (as part of Marvel NOW!), what's going to happen to the rest of the team?
We can't reveal anything as of yet, but things will be revealed as Marvel NOW! rolls out.
2) With Legion moving to "X-Men: Legacy," will any of the team be joining him in that book?
Answer is same as above.
3) Will the team stay in San Francisco or will they be heading to the east coast as part of Marvel NOW?
As above, sorry.
And that's strike three! Well, we had to ask…
Captain Cavalier is our final customer, and I believe his queries cover topics that won't spoil upcoming surprises:
1) In 'Fear the Future,' you told a time-travel story. As writers, what kinds of concerns do you have when telling these kinds of stories? What time-travel rules do you believe are most important and which are flexible?
Time-travel is always fun and a real staple of X-Men stories. Some of our favorite X-Men tales involve time-travel and future versions of the team. We always wanted to do our own take on this sort of story. For the most part when it comes to time-travel, anything goes. The most important rule is to set out your own rules and stick to them. As long as you obey the rules you establish, the easier things become. It can be very difficult to keep track of who's where doing what and how events impact each other in the future as well as in the past.
For "Fear the Future," we wanted to play with the notion of the future coming back to affect the past, which meant playing with paradoxes. That is why we had the future characters remove their past selves before they could come back, as this reduced the chances of paradox and time-ripples. It's the sort of story problem that time-travel throws up and the sort of thing we really enjoy playing with as they are really fun to explore and develop.
2) Who do you think is the most powerful member of the New Mutants?
Always tricky — they all have great potential. Nate would have been before he was de-powered by Sugar Man. Warlock could be awesomely powerful if he ever cut loose, and Magik has a whole supernatural dimension at her beck and call.
3) Who do you think is the most dangerous member? Between Magik, Legion, and Warlock, they are some frightening possibilities…
It has to be Legion as he's the most unstable and there's so many of him! Though, as we said, Warlock could be terrifying as a full blown Technarchy, and Magik is never more than a whisker away from becoming a cloven hooved, goat-horned demon!
4) I know this isn't necessarily up to you, but do you ever think we'll get to a next generation of New Mutants? I kind of thought the Five Lights might be that, but they turned out to be something else…
One thing the X-books have always done is evolve and add to its roster of characters. It's almost part of the mutant titles' DNA (if you'll excuse the pun), especially as they run a school and actively seek out new mutants to train and develop. So the chances of a New Mutants Next Gen is always there, just maybe not under that name is all.
5) Who would win in a fight between the Guardians of the Galaxy and the New Mutants?
Oh, that's unfair. It's like asking who'd win in a fight between two of your children! Howzabout saying — we'd love to be in the position to write a story where we get to answer that question!
And I'm betting there's a lot of folks out there who'd like to read that story…including me!
It's now time for our quick get-to-know-you question that we call "Behind the X." I need a good chuckle, so if you could both tell me… what is a movie that makes you laugh no matter how many times you've seen it?
Andy Lanning: "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy." Love that film! "The bad man punted Baxter — I'm in a glass case of emotion!" Gets me every time.
Dan Abnett: "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." Anyone? Anyone?
That's all for this week, but in seven days we return with a writer who bears the weight of two X's on his shoulder, Brian Wood. As the writer of both "X-Men" and "Ultimate Comics X-Men," he gets to play around with the mutants of two very different worlds. I'm expecting lots of questions from you, so type them up and send them to CBR staffer Steve Sunu as quickly as possible.
Why Steve instead of me? I'm afraid the time has come to hang up my X-POSITION hat. It's been five fun-filled years, but life demands are forcing me to move on — well, that and the fact that I'm all out of X-puns. Thanks to all of you for you involvement in keeping this column alive and interesting. And in the immortal words of Bill and Ted: "Be excellent to each other."
Editor's Note: Special thanks to George Tramountanas who's been running X-Position since it's first edition published May 31st, 2007! He shepherded this feature from the beginning and helped fans of Marvel's X-Books interact with their favorite creators. Thanks, George! — Jonah Weiland, Executive Producer, CBR
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February 2016, Part 4
Jim Miller on Politics
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Double Failure In Afghanistan: You've heard, I'm sure, about the recent advances of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
But you may not have known that, until recently, we had a working relationship with the Russians there, and for good reasons, because our interests mostly coincide, Both nations want to keep the Taliban out of power; both nations want to limit the flow of drugs out of Afghanistan,
That cooperation began after 9/11, and had endured, as one expects when there are advantages to both nations in cooperation. Now it has collapsed.
"We won't join the useless events, and we've already told the Americans," President Vladimir V. Putin's envoy to Afghanistan, Zamir N. Kabulov, told Russian state news media this month. Russia, he said, would sit out any talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government in Kabul, backed by the United States, Pakistan and China.That doesn't sound as if the Russians have much faith in the Obama administration's diplomacy.
- 6:23 PM, 29 February 2016 [link]
Thinking, Fast And Slow, About Debugging And Politics: Some weeks ago, I ran into a hardware problem — what it was isn't important for this post.
I thought fast and decided the problem was with one component, and ordered a replacement. I was wrong; the problem was with another component, something I could have established originally if I had taken the time to "think slow" and test my hypothesis. Instead, I went ahead and even ignored new information that should have made me reconsider my hypothesis.
As a result, I lost a little money, and a fair amount of time.
The temptation to "think fast" about politics is much stronger for almost all voters; their individual vote is unlikely to determine the outcome and accurate, unbiased information can be difficult to find, or even recognize. It is, almost always, cost-free to vote for the wrong guy (or gal).
But good citizens have an obligation to do what I didn't do in that original debugging session: test their hypotheses against the facts, to the extent possible.
For instance, we can apply that old investing maxim to politics: If it sound too good to be true, it probably is.
(Here's the first post in this series.)
- 1:11 PM, 29 February 2016 [link]
"What If Trump Doesn't Have Billions?" Jim Geraghty asks an interesting question, and provides some evidence that the answer might be yes.
Perhaps the most important part of the post is the description of what happened when Trump sued a New York Times reporter, Timothy L. O'Brien, who had claimed, in a book, TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald, that Trump was worth less than a billion, way less.
Three people with direct knowledge of Donald's finances, people who had worked closely with him for years, told me that they thought his net worth was somewhere between $150 million and $250 million. By anyone's standards this still qualified Donald as comfortably wealthy, but none of these people thought he was remotely close to being a billionaire.Trump sued O'Brien for libel, and lost, while refusing to reveal documents, including his unredacted tax returns, that might have supported his case.
We can, I think, draw four conclusions from this. First, Trump is almost certainly lying when he says he is worth $10 billion. Second, it is unlikely that Trump will release his tax returns, though he has promised to. Third, and this conclusion is tentative, there is a good chance that Trump, has made almost no money, or even lost money, since his big inheritance, $200 million, as I recall.
Fourth — and here's the sad one: If he does break his promise to release his tax returns, few of his followers will care.
- 10:25 AM, 29 February 2016
Correction: An alert reader pointed out to me that I was repeating a mistake Marco Rubio had made, assuming Trump inherited all of his father's estate. Instead, Trump almost certainly had to divide it with four siblings, so he would have inherited not $200 million, but somewhere around $40 million. As far as I know, the will is not public, so no one outside the Trump family, and the executor, knows exactly how much he inherited.
Most who have followed Trump's business career believe that his father helped him, directly and indirectly, in ways that may have been worth tens of millions. There is what strikes me as a fair-minded summary of his business career in this Washington Post article, if you want to read more on the subject.
- 1:37 PM, 1 March 2016 [link]
All The Recent Bad News put me in the mood to laugh at this cartoon.
- 9:39 AM, 29 February 2016 [link]
"Milk The Hot Hand." Followed, just a minute later, by: "The hot hand is contagious."
I was happily watching the exciting end of a basketball game this weekend when the TV color guy came up with those two distracting sentences.
Oh, I knew what he meant, and if you are at all familiar with basketball you know, too. He was suggesting running more plays for the player who had just made a couple of shots, and saying that when one player on a team makes a couple of shots, he may inspire his team mates to do the same.
But for a moment I was trying to visualize how you could "milk" a hand, and then wondering whether the CDC knew about those contagious hot hands.
At the time, the sentences were annoying; in retrospect they are pretty funny.
(Basketball announcers often talk about "milking the clock", which doesn't make any sense, either.)
- 8:54 AM, 29 February 2016 [link]
But Not A High Enough Price To Make Him Give Up Even A Single Golf Game: That was my bitter reaction to the second paragraph in this New York Times article.
If the temporary cease-fire in Syria begins to take hold on Saturday, despite the low expectations of the American and Russian officials who negotiated the agreement, it will be a landmark event. For the first time, diplomacy will have succeeded in abating the killing and misery that have already led to more than 250,000 deaths and millions of refugees pouring out of the shattered country.(Emphasis added.)
From what I can tell, President Obama's strategy in Syria is to do the minimum necessary to keep criticism here in the United States at a moderate level. I see no evidence that he much cares about the estimated 250,000 deaths in that war, the millions of refugees, or even the loss of American credibility.
(Obama did play golf last weekend, and I wouldn't be surprised if he plays this weekend.
Here's a more general criticism of Obama's foreign policy, from Charles Krauthammer.)
- 3:56 PM, 27 February 2016 [link]
With The Oscars Only A Day Away, this New Yorker cartoon seems appropriate.
- 2:53 PM, 27 February 2016 [link]
Employee Computers And Encryption: I am still trying to sort out the technical details of the Apple/FBI court fight, but while learning about those details, I discovered an essential fact: The Apple iPhone the San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook was using was not his. (He and his wife did own at least two other cell phones, which they destroyed.)
The phone belonged to his employer, San Bernadino County.
Which started me thinking about the whole problem of encryption on computers that belong to an employer.
Let me be journalistic for a change, and start with a story, a made-up story, but a story nonetheless.
Suppose Donald Jones is an employee of some large organization. For the moment it doesn't matter what kind of organization. Suppose Jones negotiates a contract with another organization, and takes a large bribe to make the contract favor the other organization. Suppose further that Jones then encrypts the records of that bribe on a company computer — and it doesn't matter much whether it is a large computer, a desktop computer, or one of the little computers we call "small phones".
Shortly thereafter Jones leaves the organization. A year or so later, the organization learns that the contract is flawed.
Investigators look at Jones's records and find an encrypted file on the smart phone the organization provided him. Jones claims that he encrypted it out of fear of an attack by hackers, and that he has,, alas, forgotten the key.
Unless investigators can find other evidence, the prosecutors are unlikely to even put Jones on trial, and the organization may suffer serious losses.
Which leads me to this conclusion: Organizations must be able to control any encryption on the computers they provide to their employees, including those little ones, smart phones, .
And, if the organization is a government department, then they may need that protection against individual encryption to comply with open records laws.
I suspect that organizations with competent IT departments figured all this out long ago — for computers, including desktop computers, but I am not sure whether even the better ones realize they need similar controls on smart phones.
And I have no idea whether the most popular operating systems for smart phones, those from Apple and Google, even support that kind of administrative control.
(I've received some informative emails on how Apple's encryption works, and hope to get back to that subject soon — after I have a better understanding of it myself.)_
- 3:28 PM, 26 February 2016 [link]
News On Vitamin D You May Be Able To Use: Can you make Vitamin D with the sunlight that comes through a glass window?
The useful ultraviolet-B rays ("290 to 320 nanometers") are blocked by ordinary glass.
But you can get a sunburn through those same windows.
It occurs to me that it might be possible to make windows that let the useful ultraviolet through, if not from glass, from some other material.
FWIW, yesterday I spent about an hour walking in the noon time sun — and felt great this morning (for my age).
(Wikipedia gives a slightly different range for ultraviolet-B.)
- 9:25 AM, 26 February 2016 [link]
If You Have Been Following American Politics, you were probably expecting this article, "Donald Trump to Foreign Workers for Florida Club: You're Hired".
Donald J. Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., describes itself as "one of the most highly regarded private clubs in the world," and it is not just the very-well-to-do who want to get in.Or one or more like it.
There are enough details in the article to persuade any open-minded person that Trump could have hired Americans for those jobs — if he had wanted to.
- 8:58 AM, 26 February 2016 [link]
An Almost Universal Joke? Field tests have made me think that the joke in this January post would make most people in the world smile, and many of them laugh.
I think you could tell it to anyone from an illiterate African farmer or to a German professor, and they would get it.
Here's my current version:
There's a young woman in Norway who thinks she's a cat. She claims to be able to see in the dark and to be good at catching mice.(I sometimes use both hands to imitate cats meowing at each other, and, of course, I pause slightly before saying the last phrase in the punch line, and slow down a little as I say it.)
Feel free to pass that on. And if you find someone who doesn't think it's funny, let me know. I think you'll have at least 80 percent success with the joke.
(Many of the Sidney Harris cartoons are non-universal jokes, because they rely on knowledge that most people don't have. For example, in one he shows us two men in classical dress, looking like ancient Greeks or Romans. One is holding a lantern, and the other is asking him, "Why don't you just consult a database?"
If that isn't obvious to you, you can find the explanation here.)
- 8:20 AM, 26 February 2016 [link]
Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump May Both Be In Serious Legal Trouble: You know, I assume, that there is an ongoing FBI investigation into Clinton's private email server.
But you may not know about Trump's little problem.
Donald Trump is slated to appear as a witness in the case charging him and the former Trump University with fraud.The lawsuit was filed "nearly six years ago", long before Trump began his latest presidential campaign.
Neither group of supporters, Clinton's or Trump's, will like this — but there is a good chance that both will be in serious legal trouble during this year's campaign.
The timing matters, in both cases, as you can well imagine. (The leaders of the two parties would probably prefer the legal troubles to come as soon as possible, and certainly before the party conventions.)
(There's more on the lawsuit against Trump in this Gawker article.)
- 2:24 PM, 25 February 2016 [link]
Worth Buying: Today's Wall Street Journal for this article, "How Islamic State's Secret Banking Network Prospers".
Money-exchange offices in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Jordan funnel millions of dollars daily in and out of militant-held territoryAs you would expect, there is a premium for moving money in a war zone. You can get some idea of how successful the network is, when you learn what that premium is, 5 to 7 percent:
A currency office owner from Anbar province said in late summer of 2014 his offices were handling $500,000 a week in money transfers in and out of Islamic State. Fees for such services were 10%, he said. Before the Islamic State takeover, fees were between 3% and 5%.(Emphasis added.)
If you read the whole article, you may conclude, as I did, that ending these transfers will be about as hard as eradicating kudzu.
(As a bonus, you'll get Daniel Henninger's fine column on Ted Cruz's strategy, and what happened to it. It is the best analysis of the Cruz campaign I've seen.
I have been wondering whether Cruz planned, after winning the nomination, to make the usual move to the center. I'm not sure what the answer to that is, though I an nearly certain that Cruz was thinking that far ahead, when he began his campaign. For what it is worth, Cruz is already to the left of many Republican leaders on some foreign policy questions.)
- 1:44 PM, 25 February 2016 [link]
Gail Collins Cracked Me Up: Every morning I look for a joke or a cartoon I can share with you. (And I plan to continue doing that as long as there is any danger that Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, or Donald Trump will become president of the United States.)
This morning, I found jokes without looking for them, in the latest New York Times column by Gail Collins. (No link, since I don't want to encourage her.)
Collins began by saying that she sometimes hoped that Donald Trump "could think outside the conservative box" and then, after much meandering, concluded that Trump is a "mail-order conservative".
When I read the column, before breakfast, I cracked up. There is no conservative "box"; conservatives have been debating issues and tactics for years, and debating them quite openly since George W. Bush left office. (Apparently Collins missed, among other things, that recent unpleasantness with Speaker Boehner.)
Trump is many things, depending on the day, the audience, his mood, and so forth, but he is not now, and never has been, a conservative, much less a mail-order conservative. To the extent that he has fixed views, he is probably a Bill Clinton Democrat.
Collins is free to write fantasy, but it ought to be labeled as fantasy, not presented as if it were a serious column.
(Unlike the White Queen in "Through the Looking Glass", I'm not able to believe impossible things before breakfast. Or after breakfast, for that matter.)
Those jokes in the column would be even funnier , were it not for the fact that Gail Collins was the Editorial Page Editor at the New York Times from 2001 to 2007.
- 7:38 AM, 25 February 2016 [link]


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Nancy felt her face turn red. Was Hannah really accusing her of stealing food?
"We didn't take them," Nancy protested. Her voice almost squeaked.
Hannah said, "Well, someone took them. And I wouldn't be surprised if it was that puppy of yours."
"No," Nancy said firmly. "She was with us the whole time."
"But she escaped once and hid under the steps," Bess said. "Remember?"
"See?" Hannah said. "She probably pushed the door open and ate those muffins and the paper cups, too!"
"No!" Nancy cried again.
"You have to watch puppies every minute," Hannah scolded gently. "Now she'll probably be sick. I should have told you — chocolate isn't good for dogs. Not even for chocolate Labs." Hannah hurried back into the house.
Nancy smiled slightly at Hannah's joke. But she still felt upset. First Hannah had accused Nancy and her friends of stealing. Then she'd accused Nancy's new dog!
"We have to find out who took Hannah's muffins," Nancy said.
"A mystery!" Bess exclaimed. "Super!"
"Come on," Nancy said. "Let's go look for clues."
Nancy clipped a new red leash to the puppy's new red collar. Then she and the puppy hurried down the driveway toward the kitchen door. George and Bess followed. Suddenly Nancy stopped at the screen door.
"What? What's wrong? Are more muffins missing?" Bess asked.
"No," Nancy said. She pointed. "But look. There's a clue."
Nancy handed the puppy's leash to Bess. Then she bent down to take a closer look. Something was caught on the edge of the screen door.
"What is it?" George asked, crowding in closer to see.
"It's a piece of a shoelace," Nancy said. She pulled the clue from the door frame and held it up.
The piece of shoelace had black and white stripes. It was dirty and tattered and about six inches long.
"Hmmm," Nancy said. "It might be from the thief's shoe."
"How do you know?" Bess asked.
"Because I don't have any shoes with laces like that. Neither does Hannah. And neither does Daddy," Nancy said.
"How about Kenny? Maybe it's from his shoe," George said. "Maybe he took the muffins."
"Maybe," Nancy said. "But I don't think so. Remember? He told us he's allergic to chocolate. So I don't think he took the muffins."
Nancy looked around the kitchen quickly. But there were no more clues. Then she hurried outside.
"Let's look for crumbs," Nancy said. "Maybe whoever took the muffins ate them as they ran away. Maybe they left a trail — like Hansel and Gretel."
"You're so smart," Bess said, admiringly. "No wonder you're a great detective."
Nancy grinned and headed down the driveway. She loved looking for clues and solving mysteries.
"Hey — here's a crumb!" Nancy cried, pointing at the sidewalk.
"Where?" Bess asked. Holding the puppy's leash, she ran down the driveway to see.
Just then the puppy pulled hard on the leash. She broke free from Bess and ran to Nancy. Instantly, the puppy sniffed the ground and licked the crumb.
"She ate the clue!" George cried.
"Bees, you have to hold on to her," Nancy scolded.
But it was too late. The puppy darted between Nancy's legs and scampered away!
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Just to recap, Hollywood is a fickle lover, and for some actors, that love affair can last a lifetime, or even beyond. For a vast majority, however, fame can be fleeting. The stars mentioned here are special cases. For a brief moment, each looked as though he or she might become the next megastar to grace Hollywood. Then, nothing happened. Some ended up in a string of bad movies which hurt their standing. Others fell victims to circumstance, bad choice of projects, or just plain burned out.
Our original list of 16 Stars Who Were Going to Be Huge...But Vanished provoked a fascinating response, alternating between rage, amazement, and with a whole lot of "oh yeahs!" reminding readers of would-be superstars who never panned out. The fifteen listed here fall into the same category, some deservedly, others less so. Regardless, each had bright, shining moments in the spotlight, and for most of them, that's all. Once above-the-line billing faded into just another name on the cast list, or at times, into oblivion.
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15 Julia Ormond
Also known as that woman who turned up in everything despite having no discernable fan base, Ormond had a wild ride in the 1990s. Touted as a latter-day Audrey Hepburn, she nabbed plumb roles in First Knight opposite Richard Gere, Sabrina with Harrison Ford, and Legends of the Fall costarring with Brad Pitt. English born and multi-lingual, Ormond displayed true dramatic range in her performances, and appeared comfortable in performing in other languages besides English.
Then, after a string high-profile roles, Ormond all but vanished. Her output post 1998 has been sporadic, at best, with the actress focusing more on television roles and bit parts. In 2007 she hit a career nadir starring as Lindsay Lohan's mother in the notorious bomb I Know Who Killed Me. Since then, she's redeemed herself somewhat, with acclaimed turns on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, CSI and as a series regular on The Witches of East End. Ormond started at the top and worked her way down, suggesting that even in today's climate of studio mega-marketing, stars are born, not made.
14 Josh Lucas
Lucas' sandy blond hair, hunky figure and bright blue eyes made him a natural for screen acting, and the actor began scoring roles at age 19 in television. He did however, have one problem: he didn't possess much in the way of talent. To his credit though, Lucas spent years taking acting lessons and developing his craft. In the early 2000s, his work began to pay off. He scored featured roles in American Psycho, Session 9 and A Beautiful Mind, cementing his standing as a featured player. He won the part of Reese Witherspoon's love interest in Sweet Home Alabama, which gained him leading man status as something of the poor man's Matthew McConaughey.
Lucas then appeared in Hulk as Eric Bana's slimy nemesis. Though much-anticipated, the film was something of a flop-hit, and audiences remain divided on it today. Lucas went on to score a leading role in Stealth which proved a catastrophic bomb, and greatly hurt the actor's standing. Poseidon did little to redeem him to audiences, and proved a major flop as well. Since then, Lucas has retreated into supporting and lower-profile parts, never quite achieving the stardom he appeared poised for.
13 Danny Masterson
New York born Masterson stared his career young. He and his four siblings all began modeling and acting in childhood, and for Danny, his innocent looks helped him rack up a considerable commercial reel, appearing in ads for everything from Frosted Flakes to skin products. He scored a recurring role on the sitcom Cybill before landing the part of a stoner-slacker teen in That '70s Show. The series proved a hit, and Masterson's part catapulted him to stardom. In 1999, TV Guide named him one of the most promising actors to watch.
Masterson tried to transition to film with less success, and parts in The Faculty, Dracula 2000 and Smiley Face did almost nothing to further his career. Following the cancellation of That '70s Show, Masterson continued to take guest roles on TV and embark on a DJ career. Neither, however, helped him to the megastardom once predicted for him. An outspoken Scientologist, Masterson scored a lead again on the short lived sit-com Men at Work, and on the Netflix comedy The Ranch opposite his former '70s Show costar, Ashton Kutcher.
12 Mike Vogel
Another blond hunk, Mike Vogel began his career as a jeans model before transitioning to acting. He made his debut on the sitcom Grounded For Life in a role which he would play over the course of three seasons. Vogel's good looks and charm made him a strong possibility for Hollywood megastardom. He attempted to cross over into films with the painful Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, to little effect. After a turn in the shipwreck of a film Poseidon, Vogel became somewhat infamous for the major roles he didn't get. He lost out on the lead in Tron: Legacy to Garret Hedlund, and the star-making part of Captain America in the Marvel film universe to Chris Evans.
Since then, Vogel has taken on smaller roles in lower profile fare, preferring instead to focus on his real-life role as a husband and father to three sons. In terms of career outings, he has found some success on television, appearing on Bates Motel, the telefilm In My Dreams, and as a regular cast member in Under the Dome.
11 Claire Forlani
One of the quintessential brooding, glum '90s girls, London-born Forlani first began acting as a child. After spending several years studying at the prestigious Arts Education School of London, she moved to the US to break into Hollywood. Supporting parts in a series of TV movies helped earn her some credibility, before director Kevin Smith cast her in a featured role in Mallrats. Subsequently, she landed the role of Sean Connery's daughter in The Rock.
From there, Forlani began to show off her dramatic gifts, turning in acclaimed performances in Basquiat and the big-budget remake of Meet Joe Black opposite Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins. In 2001, she landed a high profile endorsement deal, becoming the face of L'Oreal cosmetics. Unfortunately, her film roles after didn't offer the same level of prestige. Performances in The Medallion, Green Street and Ripley Under Ground went all but unnoticed. Forlani did fare a bit better on television, scoring a pair of recurring roles on CSI and NCIS: Los Angeles. Though still working and beautiful as ever, the kind of Winona Ryder-like stardom (and let's face it, even Ryder herself isn't up to that standard anymore) once anticipated for Forlani in the '90s has proved elusive.
10 Joey Lauren Adams
A former child actress, Adams first came to attention with a pair of break-out comedic turns in the stoner comedy Dazed and Confused and the big budget Saturday Night Live adaptation of The Coneheads. Director Kevin Smith then tapped Adams for the titular role in Chasing Amy, a semi-sequel to his films Clerks and Mallrats. Adams played a bisexual woman who becomes the object of Ben Affleck's affections in Chasing Amy to wide acclaim, and she nabbed a Golden Globe nomination for her performance.
Though touted as a possible Oscar nominee for Chasing Amy as well, the prestigious nomination was not to be. Good parts also proved in short supply, with Adams taking roles in forgettable films like Big Daddy and A Cool, Dry Place. She continues to work in film and television, including a recurring role on The United States of Tara. In 2006, she tried her hand at directing to some acclaim with the indie film Come Early Morning. Though major stardom has evaded Adams, her considerable talents make her hard to discount, and since Kevin Smith has announced she'll star in Mallrats II, said stardom may yet come.
9 Samantha Mathis
Mathis was born into Hollywood stock and began working at an early age. The daughter of actress Bibi Besch (best known as Dr. Carol Marcus from Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan), Mathis began working in television and commercials at age 16. She scored a leading role opposite teen heartthrob Christian Slater in Pump Up The Volume in 1990, and continued working in telefims and features, as well as on the New York stage. She nabbed the female lead in the much-hyped Super Mario Bros. only to see the movie become a notorious box office flop.
A relationship with River Phoenix, whom she met on the film The Thing Called Love, turned dour when he overdosed in front of Mathis at a Hollywood night club. Negative press coverage following Phoenix's untimely death forced Mathis to lower her profile. After two years in London, she returned to Hollywood with roles in Little Women, How to Make an American Quilt and Broken Arrow. Then tragedy struck again, when Mathis's mother Bibi Besch died of cancer. Mathis went on hiatus again, returning to acting several years later with American Psycho. Roles in The Punisher, Under the Dome, and the ever-abysmal Atlas Shrugged Part II did little to restore her standing. While not a major star, she nonetheless has a dependable reputation, and continues to work as an actress, most recently as a full-time cast member on the TV series The Strain.
8 Maria Bello
Blond bombshell Bello first tried her hand at acting after studying political science at Villanova University. She began with acclaimed roles on the New York stage before moving to Hollywood. After a number of guest spots on several TV series, she nabbed a recurring role on the hit drama ER. In the fourth season, she joined the main cast of the show. In 2000, Bello tried her hand at movies, appearing in the cult hit Coyote Ugly and the flop Duets. She's fared better in indie films, nabbing solid roles in The Cooler (for which she received a Golden Globe nomination), A History of Violence and Auto Focus.
Unfortunately, while Bello has fared well in supporting turns, her lead roles have proven less than fortuitous. She replaced Rachel Weitz in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, which effectively closed out The Mummy series. In 2011, what should have been sure fire stardom proved a monumental let down. Bello scored the lead in the long-awaited Americanized version of the British crime drama Prime Suspect. Unfortunately, for reasons that had nothing to do with Bello or her talent, the show proved a disaster. She's since appeared in minor film and TV roles, suggesting that if not a major actress, Bello is at least a resilient one.
7 Barry Pepper
Square-jawed Canadian thespian Pepper first broke out with a pair of acclaimed performances opposite Tom Hanks. Both The Green Mile and Saving Private Ryan established Pepper as an effective dramatic actor, and Hollywood immediately began to buzz about his future as a superstar. Then tragedy struck: Pepper appeared opposite then-hot star John Travolta in the monumental disaster Battlefield Earth. He won a Razzie award for his performance, and the bomb helped derail his career momentum.
Pepper acquitted himself well in the telefilm 61 as baseball legend Roger Maris. Since then, he's proven himself a fine character actor in We Were Soldiers, 25th Hour and True Grit. Still, star parts have proven fleeting. Turns in The Lone Ranger, Seven Pounds and The Maze Runner have not done much to elevate his status to Hollywood megastar, even if they've kept him employed. In 2011, he scored an Emmy for his performance as Robert F. Kennedy in The Kennedys.
6 Corey Haim
As tragic a young star if there ever was one, Corey Haim's tabloid lifestyle has become the stuff of Hollywood legend. That's a disservice to both Hollywood and Haim: the truth is, he was a wonderful actor.
The Canadian Haim began working as a small child, acting in commercials before landing several TV and film gigs. Early roles paired him with Liza Minnelli, Sally Field, Sarah Jessica Parker and Robert Downey Jr., and helped him gain notice. He landed his first leading role in Lucas with Winona Ryder and Charlie Sheen, and earned rave reviews for his performance as a nerdy teen. Critic Roger Ebert declared that Haim had a bright future ahead as a major actor. He followed up in the cult classic The Lost Boys, which paired him with another child star Corey, Corey Feldman. The two would become lifelong friends, star in several films together and become known as "The Coreys" in pop culture.
Fame, however, had its trappings, and though Roger Ebert had named Haim one of the best actors of his generation, Haim's career took a nose dive. The actor began to appear in a string of dud films, some of which went straight to video. Haim later confessed to heavy drug use, which took a toll on his work and career. His drug habit led to financial and legal problems as well, which derailed his career. After several years in obscurity, he attempted a comeback in the early 2000s, appearing on a reality show with friend Corey Feldman. He also had a cameo in a direct-to-DVD Lost Boys sequel. He continued to struggle with drugs until his death from drug-induced pneumonia in 2010.
5 Henry Thomas
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Thomas caused a sensation with his debut performance in E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial in 1982. E.T., of course, became a seminal screen classic, with Thomas' performance singled out as the key role in the film. At only age 10, he'd earned Oscar buzz and starred in what would become the most successful film in history to that point.
The success of the film brought Thomas immediate and extreme fame, and though Hollywood had pegged Thomas as a rising star, the actor retreated from the limelight. He continued to occasionally act while attending school, though he shied away from recognition. He returned to acting full time in 1990 with Psycho IV: The Beginning as a young Norman Bates, and acquiesced to supporting character roles thereafter. He earned strong reviews for work in Legends of the Fall, Gangs of New York and 11:14, and continues to act today. Thomas' career makes for a fascinating case where an actor was offered megastardom, but kindly refused instead!
4 Rachael Leigh Cook
Rachael Leigh Cook grew up in Minnesota and appeared in a few local commercials and worked as a print model before catching the acting bug. At age 14, she set her sights on Hollywood, and won a role in the much-hyped film version of The Babysitter's Club. She continued to work thereafter, and even appeared in a notorious anti-drug commercial where she smashed objects with a frying pan! Despite the camp factor of the ad, Cook landed a role in the teen romantic comedy She's All That shortly thereafter. The film became a surprise hit, and Hollywood looked to Cook as a future starlet.
Cook appeared in her first star vehicle Josie and the Pussycats opposite Rosario Dawson and Tara Reid in 2001, which promptly bombed at the box office. From there, Cook focused more on voice over and indie film work. She landed her first regular role providing a voice on the hit show Batman Beyond, and earned strong reviews for her performances in Into the West and The Bumblebee Flies Anyway. Critics drew comparisons between Cook and Parker Posey, predicting that she would become a queen of indie cinema. It didn't happen.
Despite a consistent career, megastardom has eluded Cook. She continues to provide prolific work as a voice over actress, and take smaller roles in film and TV, preferring lower profile roles to star turns.
3 Haley Joel Osment
Few child actors achieve the success of Haley Joel Osment, who burst onto the showbiz scene in 1999 with The Sixth Sense. The film became a runaway hit, and Osment, then only 11, nabbed an Oscar nomination for his work. He'd previously worked in commercials beginning at age four, and went on to nab parts in TV and film, most notably as Tom Hanks' son in Forrest Gump. He would go on to turn in solid work in Pay it Forward and Secondhand Lions, before taking the lead in Steven Spielberg's long-awaited A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. His performance again earned raves, and marked the pinnacle of his career. Critics, including the legendary Roger Ebert, named him one of the best actors alive.
Osment continued to act throughout his teens, providing voice over work in films like The Jungle Book 2 and the un-bearable The Country Bears. After a three year hiatus from acting, Osment made headlines again for a drunk driving accident. He returned to acting shortly thereafter, appearing in direct-to-DVD films, odd television appearances, and in a short lived production of American Buffalo on Broadway. Despite his early promise, Osment never quite sustained himself into superstardom. Though he continues to work in minor parts, the actor does have one high profile role he continues to return to: providing the voice of Sora in the popular video game series Kingdom Hearts.
2 Erika Christensen
Erika Chrstensen grew up in Hollywood, so perhaps it was only a matter of time before she tried her hand at the city profession. She began acting at age 15, landing guest roles on a number of popular television shows including Frasier, 3rd Rock from the Sun, and in the video for Michael Jackson's "Childhood." Her big break came in 2000, when she landed a featured role in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic. Her performance as a drug-addicted teen captured glowing reviews, and Hollywood focused on her as an up-and-coming megastar. Her follow ups to Traffic didn't bring her the same kind of acclaim, however. Turns in The Banger Sisters and The Perfect Score went all but unnoticed, while a lead part in the thriller Swimfan earned her atrocious reviews.
Following her career nosedive, Christensen pursued supporting roles in films like Flightplan and in various television parts. After appearing in a string of bombs and direct-to-DVD movies, Christensen had something of a comeback, landing an acclaimed role in the sitcom Parenthood. Following cancellation of the show, she continues to work in low budget films and on television, though her career hasn't quite lived up to the hype thusfar.
1 Leelee Sobieski
Hand selected by Stanley Kubrick to play a key role in his film Eyes Wide Shut, Hollywood turned its sights on Leelee Sobieski as a superstar in the making. She'd already appeared in a number of small roles on TV and in movies prior to her breakout, including parts in Deep Impact and Jungle 2 Jungle. She followed up her success in Eyes Wide Shut with an acclaimed performance in the telefilm Joan of Arc, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination. From there, her career path turned rocky. Sobieski earned starring roles, though most of her films proved mediocre at best. Star vehicles like Joy Ride induced motion sickness, while critics smashed The Glass House with savage reviews, and Sobieski's career subsequently went into decline.
From there, Sobieski turned to supporting parts, though none could stop her professional free fall. 88 Minutes and The Wicker Man again earned scathing reviews (the latter becoming a meme, thanks to Nicolas Cage punching her in the face!) and little box office notice, while In the Name of the King earned her a Razzie Nomination. Of late, she's shied away from acting, taking sporadic roles in TV and films, which have earned her little notice. Despite her promising beginnings, Sobieski proved less a star than a flash in the pan.
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Rodney Copperbottom (played by the always likeable Ewan McGregor) has big dreams that take him to where else? Robot City. Rodney wants to meet up with big name industrialist Bigweld...
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In our latest Faculty Voice, Professor Eric Heikkila writes, "Urban planning is ultimately about place-making, and that in turn is about people. Different people; different places. For urban planners to be effective in such settings, we must be able to bridge these fascinating and endlessly diverse perspectives." Read more about how USC Price helps students to develop this essential skill through our International Labs »
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With the results of the November presidential election, many questions have been raised for urban planning. In this Faculty Voice, Associate Professor Annette Kim, director of the Spatial Analysis Lab (SLAB), focuses on future directions in data and knowledge in planning. She writes, "We will have to bring even more creativity and passion to our intellectual project and practice, and we will have to find ways to live together, all of us." Read more about how her work on humanistic visual narratives and spatial analysis can help point the way forward »
Bohemian Rhapsody: How the Arts Drive Urban Economic Development
By Professor Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
In this issue of the Faculty Voice, Professor Elizabeth Currid-Halkett explains how the arts drive urban economic development — discussing topics from the "Soho Effect" to data visualization. "Whether in San Francisco or St. Louis, the retrofitting of loft space to imply artistic capital is employed in redevelopment schemes, no matter if a painter or sculptor is actually residing in these buildings – the mere implication of creative space is attractive to urban professionals and upwardly mobile younger generations," Currid-Halkett writes. Read more »
Solving Metropolitan Transportation Problems
By Professor Genevieve Giuliano
In this Faculty Voice, Professor and METRANS Director Genevieve Giuliano explores solutions to urban transportation problems. She writes that the L.A. region is a major "center for international trade" but is also "home to both extreme wealth and extreme poverty, and has one of the largest transit-dependent populations in the country." Read more about how USC Price is researching critical transportation topics such as urban freight, environmental justice, big data, and social media's portrayal of public transit »
On the Road to a Healthier City
By Professor David Sloane
Professor David Sloane, Faculty Voice, calls creating a healthy place "one of the fundamental tenets of urban planning." He writes that "planners have joined with public health professionals, community advocates and activists to shift the very nature of the city through radical reforms in transportation, land use regulation, health care access, quality of life programming and policies, environmental regulations, and other arenas." Read more about the links between planning and health, and the issues USC Price faculty are researching at this intersection »
New Directions in Justice and Community Engagement
By Associate Professor Lisa Schweitzer
In the Faculty Voice, Associate Professor Lisa Schweitzer focuses on new directions in justice and community engagement. "Whether a family can have a luxurious home is something that land and housing markets can sort. But whether a child breathes healthy air should not be a function of what a family can afford or where they live," Dr. Schweitzer writes. Read more about Price's research and activities to advance justice »
Faculty and Students Push Housing Solutions Forward
By Professor Dowell Myers
"Planners make the future more than just predict it," writes Professor Dowell Myers in the Faculty Voice. Read more about our efforts to address the housing crisis from multiple lenses, studying the links between markets, demographics, planning, and affordability »
Diversity and Social Justice
By Professor Marlon Boarnet
In the first Faculty Voice feature, Professor Marlon Boarnet shares, "There is perhaps no greater issue for the future of planning than ensuring diverse and traditionally underrepresented voices are fully present in our field." Read more about our strategies to expand diversity, social justice, and inclusion »


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The Pros and Cons of using Aluminum Cookware
This article will discuss the pros and cons of using aluminum cookware. The pros are that it is a good conductor so food heats up fast. It is lightweight and easy to move around, this can be a con too because it can be easily damaged by rough handling. But aluminum cookware is mostly used in commercial kitchens.
Aluminum pots and pans are very popular and easy to find. They are low cost because of their popularity which took off in the mid 20th century.
Another con is that it can discolor sauces when they are mixed with a metal spoon and stored in aluminum pots. Also, aluminum can react with certain foods and discolor them making them less appealing to eat so aluminum pots can not be used to store certain sauces and foods.
In the book "Professional Cooking" by Wayne Gisslen it mentions that there are special types of aluminum pots called anodized aluminum that have a harder, corrosive resistant finish on them, unlike regular aluminum pots. These pots are beneficial because foods stick less to the surface of the pot than with regular aluminum pots and other types of pots. However, these pots are more expensive and they are not as heavy duty and long lasting as regular aluminum pots. Also, this type of pot easily stained and not dishwasher safe.
There are different types of aluminum pots and each one has its own unique advantages and disadvantages. Heavy aluminum pots heat quickly and evenly. Thin aluminum pots heat unevenly as well as become dented quickly making more difficulties to let food lay evenly in the pan and cook evenly. Low end lines of pots have are usually enamel coated aluminum pots. There are other varieties of aluminum pots such as heavy-cast, pressure-cast and polished aluminum.
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These are the cheapest variety and they have the shortest lifespan. They are easily tossed out after they become damaged through rough handling.
These pots last longer than pressed pots because they have thicker sides and off more porousness. Heat is held in longer with these pots offering better cooking abilities.
These pots were mentioned earlier. The aluminum in them has undergone electro-chemical changes to affect its cooking abilities. They are the most expensive of the three catagories of pots but they offer great benefits such as non-stick surfaces, and scratch resistance.
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Deep fried baked potato bites sprinkled with parmesan cheese. Add cheddar & bacon $6.99
Fresh potato chips with mornay sauce, parmesan cheese and bleu cheese crumbles.
Assorted meats, cheeses, fresh greens, giardiniera & cream cheese.
Chicken or flame roasted veggies. Strip steak add $2.99.
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Hayrollers fresh shrimp mushrooms sidewalk fries.
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Buffalo wings onion rings barnyard chips.
Seriously tender pork ribs smothered in our own bar-b-q sauce.
8oz new york strip steak grilled to perfection.
Hand dipped and deep fried.
Bedded in garlic sauce & romano cheese.
Glazed in a honey mustard sauce.
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Over sauteed fresh veggies bar-b-q char-broiled with our own bbq sauce.
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Crab claw & pollack with shrimp, clam sauce & cheeses.
Seasoned ground beef, hot nacho cheese, sour dressing and salsa.
Add sour dressing $0.69
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Melted brie cheese with pepper jelly served on parmesan crusted italian bread with the soup of the day.
Served with bacon & cheddar.
On a french roll smothered in marinara sauce and sweet peppers.
Served with homemade potato chips.
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Corned beef or turkey, swiss cheese, sauerkraut & 1000 island dressing on grilled parmesan crusted rye.
Char-broiled with ham & provolone cheese.
Roast beef with melted swiss cheese, grilled onions and peppers on a french roll.
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Your choice turkey, ham, or roast beef on white, wheat or rye or half of a baked sandwich.
Turkey, ham, pepperoni, giardiniera, sliced tomatoes, melted provolone & swiss.
Artichoke hearts, zucchini, yellow squash, carrots, sun dried tomatoes, pico de gallo & fresh tomato with melted mozzarella cheese, served with pasta marinara.
Not your ordinary roast beef sandwich! Topped with pico de gallo and a variety of melted cheeses.
Hot and spicy.
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¾ lb. of fresh ground sirloin with lettuce, grilled onions, grilled mushrooms, bacon & swiss on a kaiser roll.
½ lb. of fresh ground sirloin with lettuce & onions served on a bun or dark rye.
½ Lb. Of fresh ground sirloin on parmesan crusted rye, cheese & grilled onions.
1/3 lb. enjoy all the flavor of beef without the fat.
Praline ice cream with toasted pecans, fudge caramel rested in an oreo cookie crust.
Freshly baked pizza crust with escalloped apples and a scoop of vanilla ice cream, drizzled caramel and whipped cream.
Vanilla, chocolate or peppermint.
Freshly baked hot cinnamon pizza crust, topped with vanilla ice cream, chocolate and caramel sauce, with whipped cream.
Layers of heavenly fudge covered with a deep, dark chocolate.
Homemade, silky key lime pie.
Chocolate, strawberry or vanilla shakes made with real ice cream. Add oreo cookies $0.79.
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Powering Your Future
There has never been a smarter time to invest in a power only or CHP unit that operates on natural gas or biogas. Today's low natural gas prices and higher electrical prices, along with the many state and federal incentives, make distributed generation systems a very attractive option for slashing energy expenses. Many of our customers save up to 50% on their energy, heating and cooling costs, and all enjoy the reliability and flexibility that come with onsite power generation.
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Traditional power generation comes in all shapes, sizes and technologies.
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STOCKTON - More than a year later, the reminders of her son's brutal death are still constant for Lisa Singer.
STOCKTON - More than a year later, the reminders of her son's brutal death are still constant for Lisa Singer.
They are at home, where her son, Neal, lived with her and played guitar.
She finds them at work, where she received the news her only son had been beaten to death near a downtown Lodi bar.
She suffers anxiety attacks when she drives by the hospital or hears an ambulance's sirens.
"Anything and everywhere is a reminder," Singer said through choked sobs Monday in a Stockton courtroom, where her son's killer sat several feet away.
Moments later, the illegal immigrant who last month was convicted of Lodi's only murder in 2008 was sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison.
Juan Antonio Velazquez, 38, spent much of Monday's sentencing hearing hunched over with his head down.
During brief comments to San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Charlotte Orcutt, Velazquez said he still does not remember the night police said he attacked Lodi resident Neal Singer, 35, in a drunken rage near a downtown bar.
Still, speaking softly in Spanish, his voice shaking, he apologized to Singer's relatives, about a dozen of whom sat in the courtroom.
"Every day I ask my God, 'If I did something wrong, please forgive me,'" Velazquez said through a translator.
He acknowledged that spending a lifetime in jail is not the same as losing a loved one.
"But it could be more awful to be living dead," he said.
Authorities said Velazquez and Singer argued over a $40 pool wager at a downtown bar in the early hours of March 21, 2008.
Shortly after the Sacramento Street bar closed, violence spilled into a parking lot around the block, where Velazquez used a 14-pound chunk of concrete to attack Singer as he cried for help.
Singer was found face down in a pool of blood in a parking lot at Sacramento and Elm streets. Witnesses reported seeing Velazquez attacking the burly heavy metal fan, and police arrested him as he walked a few blocks away.
DNA tests showed Singer's blood on Velazquez's jeans, shoes and sweat shirt as well as on the piece of concrete.
Deputy Public Defender Chris Steiner told jurors last month that Velazquez, a kitchen worker with no criminal record, was too intoxicated to remember much of that evening. He even suggested Singer might have provoked the attack.
Velazquez did not testify during the 10-day trial.
Outside the courtroom Monday, Singer's mother said that while Velazquez's conviction provided some solace as she deals with her son's death, the killer's words did not.
"He still has his life," she said. "My son doesn't."
Contact reporter Daniel Thigpen at (209) 546-8254 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Tom & Ollie recap week eight, discuss the Jamie Collins trade, and answer listeners questions.