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DALLAS — Mark Cuban says he's a follow-the-rules investor who checked with his broker to make sure that his 2004 sale of stock in an Internet company was legal.
Cuban testified Thursday that he was upset when the company's CEO told him news that would reduce the value of his shares, for which he'd paid $7.5 million. But he said he did nothing improper when he sold those shares over the next two days.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is suing the owner of the Dallas Mavericks for insider trading, claiming that he broke a promise of confidentiality and traded on private information that gave him an advantage over other investors.
A jury in federal district court is hearing the civil lawsuit, which doesn't involve criminal charges.
The case may hinge on a single phone call between Cuban and the CEO of Mamma.com Inc., a search-engine company based in Canada.
In recorded testimony played to jurors this week, CEO Guy Faure said he told Cuban about the planned stock issuance. Faure said that Cuban agreed at the outset that the information would be confidential.
Cuban testified that he was upset to learn about the stock offering, which would dilute the shares of earlier investors like himself, but he denied ever agreeing to keep the information confidential. He said he couldn't recall details of the conversation.
Executives of Mamma.com, a search-engine company based in Canada, believed that Cuban had promised not to trade until the stock offering was publicly announced. Cuban said he would never have made such an agreement.
"Nobody's going to tell me" when to trade, he said.
An email from his broker at UBS suggested that Cuban asked if his sale of Mamma.com stock was legal. "I don't like to do anything that's not 100 percent kosher," he wrote.
Cuban said he had reasons beyond the stock offering for selling his shares, including concern over ties between Mamma.com and a convicted stock swindler, Irving Kott. But SEC lead lawyer Jan Folena produced an email exchange from early 2004, before Cuban sold his stock, in which he appeared to dismiss another investor's worries about Kott.
Folena also produced an email in which Cuban directed a reporter for his sharesleuth.com website to dig up dirt on Faure and Mamma.com. Folena said that Cuban wanted to discredit Faure's recollection of the critical 2004 phone call.
Folena charged Cuban of cheating because he couldn't stand the idea of losing on an investment.
"You look at every loss in your life as a huge failure," she said.
"Absolutely not," Cuban answered.
Folena then quoted from a business article that Cuban wrote in which he said he took every loss as a huge failure.
Cuban was Mamma.com's biggest shareholder, owning a 6 percent stake.
The SEC says Cuban avoided $750,000 in losses by selling on insider information before the shares fell by nearly 10 percent once the private stock offering was announced. The SEC wants Cuban to give up that money and pay a fine.
As Cuban took the witness stand Thursday, he was relaxed — smiling and making a few jokes. He smiled less often as he jousted throughout the day with Folena.
In the afternoon, guided by one of his lawyers, Cuban told the jury his life story — growing up in Pittsburgh; graduating from Indiana University; moving to Dallas and sharing an apartment with five other guys; starting his first company at 25; becoming a billionaire in 1999 when he and his business partner sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion.
Cuban looked directly at the jurors as he recounted buying the Mavericks. His wife no longer sits with him because he screams too much, and he misses some games to spend time with his three kids.
"I'm the luckiest guy in the world," he said of his wealth, which Forbes estimates at $2.5 billion. The jurors paid rapt attention; a few of them smiled.
The trial will resume Monday.


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Guess who loves the 90s and probably also BuzzFeeᴅ. ESPN's Samantha Ponder and her husband, backup Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder.
To celebrate Halloween, the couple dressed up as Wendy Peffercorn and Squints Palledorous from The Sandlot, a movie that is a cultural touchstone for anyone who came of age in the 90s. Above you can see them re-enacting the famous mouth-to-mouth scene from the movie as well as engaging in some grinding. That's a thing people used to do in the 90s, and it is not to be confused with twerking.

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For some years I have covered in my talks the possibility of the UK ending up as a retirement home, as high taxes and intergenerational conflicts of interest couple with the forces of remigration and professional mobility. The newspapers this morning say that of the 3.6 million to leave the UK in the last 10 years, two million were between 25 and 44 and one million were professional/managerial. Only 125,000 pensioners left. While this is hardly a major catastrophe, it is still worrying, but then again, it confirms my theory so at least I get to say I told you so.
On one hand, emigration is consistent with a healthy system. We want our kids to be sought after and to be free to move and prosper in a globalised world. On the other hand, those who are leaving are the ones we need to keep to pay for those that won't leave. If this pattern continues, the ratio of old people to those paying taxes to look after them will increase still further, making care costs even less manageable than they already are. And it is a vicious circle – more will want to leave as it gets worse.
If emigrants were balanced skill for skill against immigrants, there would not be a problem. We certainly will need immigration to balance the outflow, but to solve the problem it needs to be the right immigrants with the right skills. Some immigrants won't contribute sufficiently to pay for their extra load, others will contribute well in excess of their loading, so we need to get as many of those as we can. To attract them and deter others is not easy. Every country wants the best people to come to help pay their bills.
Low taxes, light regulation and freedom would be much more likely to attract and keep good people than high taxes, high levels of poor regulation and an obsessive surveillance and control culture. It would be better to change in that direction before it's too late.


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Gawker Stalker at a Glance
While you ate lunch, celebrities roamed the Earth. Today in #stalker sightings: Jude Law and Sienna Miller (twice!) and John Slattery.
- John Slattery walking his Jack Russell.
- Jude Law and Sienna Miller shopping at FAO Schwarz, followed by their...
- Makeout session at the Russian Tea Room.
There are two new ways to submit sightings: 1. You can email them to email@example.com or 2. see your sighting published immediately on the site (if you're an approved commenter) by using the Share box at the top of the front page and including the #stalker hashtag. Either way, be sure to give us details you'd want to know - what they were wearing, what they said, who they were with, what they ate. Brownie points for spelling their names right and using proper capitalization.


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3 teenagers' failure to buckle up was fatal
Andrea Reyna had just gotten her first car and was showing it off to her boyfriend when she realized she missed her 10:30 p.m. curfew.
She jumped in the car and called her mom to say she'd be a few minutes late, but never made it home Wednesday night.
Reyna was not wearing a seatbelt when she lost control of her speeding 2008 Hyundai Accent in the 11500 block of Crosswinds Way about 11 p.m., and she was ejected as the car struck a culvert and went flipping off the road.
She probably would have survived if she'd just buckled up, traffic investigators said.
"These kids, they think they're invincible," said her mother, Anna Reyna, her voice trembling. "They need to make sure they follow all the rules."
Reyna was the third San Antonio teenager this week who may have lost her life because she was riding in a car unrestrained during a collision.
A day earlier, two Brandeis High School students, Gabriella Lerma, 17, and Georgina "Gina" Rodriguez, 16, were fatally injured in a wreck that occurred while they were out of school during their lunch break.
Lerma was pronounced dead at a hospital and Rodriguez died Wednesday night.
Lerma and Rodriguez were riding in the back unrestrained, while the surviving driver and front passenger were wearing seatbelts.
Nearly half the 295 teens killed in traffic fatalities in 2011 were not buckled up, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
That year, there were 1,074 traffic crashes in which unrestrained occupants ages 15-20 suffered injuries that were serious or fatal.
Teens are among the riskiest of drivers on the road, crashing four times more often than adult drivers, according to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
Car crashes are the leading cause of death for people ages 16-20, killing more than 5,600 youths each year.
Since 2007, Texas law requires that everyone riding in a motor vehicle be secured by a safety belt, whether they are in the front or back seat.
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There are myriad reasons teenagers ignore the rule, said TxDOT spokesman Mark Cross — they find seatbelts uncomfortable, they forget or they have a false sense of security.
The carefree, rebellious nature of teenagers likely also is partly to blame, Cross said. And because strapping on a seatbelt is a habit that many adults are accustomed to doing before getting behind the wheel, many young drivers simply aren't used to doing it.
"I think people that don't wear them have a false sense of security and invincibility," Cross said. "Or they just weren't taught that you have to wear a seatbelt. You have to learn it and practice the habit."
Andrea, a softball player who was in her junior year at Roosevelt High School, had been taking driving classes at Judson Driving School since she was 15, her mother said.
The youngest of three, Andrea had been driving with a permit for about a year before she was old enough to get her license.
She wanted to have a car so she could drive to work at Whataburger, a job she had recently acquired. Andrea was responsible, often volunteered to do chores for her mom and though she often negotiated her curfew, she seldom missed it.
That's why her mother grew worried when she didn't arrive home about 15 minutes after calling to say she was on her way back from her boyfriend's house, which is only about 5 minutes from home.
"I got in the car and drove toward her boyfriend's house," Anna Reyna said, her eyes welling. "I could see all the emergency vehicles."
She stopped when she recognized the mangled Hyundai Accent that her daughter had been so eager to drive just hours before.
"She was all excited," Anna Reyna said. "She really wanted a car."


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The wonderful Jenna Sauers of Jezebel posted recently on PETA's attempts to be edgy and arresting in their support of animals at the expense of women, minorities, and basically all people except thin white patriarchy-lovin' youngsters. Jenna outlined some of PETA's worst antifeminist offenses — equating women with meat, putting them in cages, building campaigns on the naked airbrushed bodies of D-listers, basically extra-blatant versions of everything the fashion industry does with a little more subtlety. She also provided examples of PETA's racist advertising, which equates farming and animal slaughter with slavery and lynching. It's a thorough and stomach-turning denunciation.
What Jenna doesn't address, though I'm sure she realizes it, is that PETA isn't only trying to use shock and sex to get attention — they are also attempting a kind of satirical analogy. (In some of the ads. Some are just gross.) They intend to use our natural tendency to be shocked at cruelty against humans, a tendency they believe they can count on, to make a point by analogy about animals: why aren't we shocked at similar treatment there? The imagery is (in some cases) not intended to be gratuitous, but to make a point about hypocrisy. I'm generally a fan of that approach — satirical analogy is used to great effect by my favorite political cartoonists, Jon Stewart, etc. So why does it fail here so thoroughly?
For one thing, there's the naivete of believing that PETA's target audience of class-privileged white teens is going to reliably experience shock at seeing women mistreated, or seeing historical images of the mistreatment of black Americans. Certainly there are white college students with a deep understanding of cultural pressures on women, an awareness of patriarchy and privilege, and a sense of how historical oppression feeds ongoing inequity, but they're not exactly the go-to group for such things.
More than that, though, I think this reflects the power of conceptual metaphors. I'm not a linguist, though I sometimes think I should have been, but I'm fascinated by metaphors — both those we build specifically to illuminate, and those that are so entrenched in the way we use language that they actually affect how we view and speak about the world. I will let T-Rex explain.
What people in the PETA demographic fail to realize, or don't want to realize, is that the WOMAN AS MEAT and POC AS ANIMAL and WOMAN AS PROPERTY and POC AS PROPERTY schema are still absolutely alive and well, absolutely entrenched in our current language and expression and understanding and visual rhetoric. That's the status quo. I'm not going to go deep into the realm of example, because I think Advanced Blamers will see this as obvious, but just off the top of my head: LeBron James in Vogue, Naomi Campbell and Li'l Kim, gendered food, the entire "Objectification" tag on Soc Images (which includes both women-as-thing and nonwhite-person-as-thing).
This implicit metaphor makes the explicit metaphor fall flat. The PETA ads purport to say, for example, "treating a nonhuman animal as meat is just as bad as treating a woman as meat." But the idea that a woman is an object for consumption is so ingrained that the analogy reads as "treating a nonhuman animal as meat is just as bad as treating meat as meat" — or, and this is probably more what the experience of viewing the ads is like to many, "treating a nonhuman animal as meat is just as bad as having more or less exactly the same images of women that we always have in every ad we see." Not exactly a call to action. With the satirical content deflated, what's left? Just a girl in a bikini in a cage — what the fuck else is new? (And of course, the preponderance of animal-women in PETA ads just reinforces the woman/meat metaphor, making every subsequent iteration even less surprising and therefore less effective.)
Metaphor is a minefield. When wielded well it's a tool for revelation. When wielded badly, layers of intended and unintended analogy can lead to really stunning outrages (which will instantly be written off as "oversensitive" by people who are undersensitive, of course — part of the reason metaphors are powerful and dangerous is because they're so often obscured). PETA's attempt to pretend there's something subversive about comparing a woman to food smacks of similar hamfisted analogies like "feminism is exactly like sexism" and "whites-only basketball leagues are just like organizations for minorities." When I see these, my reaction is usually just to bang on whatever's nearest and yell "it's NOT the SAME!" This is part of why I am currently the least prolific contributor here — because most of the time I decline analytical writing in favor of the bang/yell approach. But we can, in fact, tease out why things that are NOT the SAME! are not the same. It's because systematized oppression doesn't cut both ways. It's because there is not a finite amount of human dignity, and raising up one group is not the same as debasing another. And often it's because of unexamined metaphors that scupper the intended one — because of the ways in which we unconsciously compare one group to something less-than or different-from. (For an example of how this can be exploited satirically, see the now-classic videos of people asking pro-lifers how much jail time women who have abortions should receive.)
I want to make clear that I'm talking here about PETA's rhetoric, not its goals. I don't want this to turn into a discussion of the value of animal rights activism, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals vs. People for the Ethical Eatment of Animals, or anything. (Joke shamelessly stolen from NPR.) This blog doesn't have an official position on meat-eating; I believe all five of us do it, none of us do it all that much, we all give a shit about unethical farming and its effect on both animal welfare and the environment because our capacity for giving a shit about important things is limitless, but it's not our main focus because our energy is not. But the truth is that the messages and images I'm condemning here don't forward PETA's agenda whether you believe in it or not — quite the opposite. Here's what SM said when we discussed this post:
SM: I actually think in some ways we might be MORE shocked by the animal images than by the people images, since there are huge industries dedicated to hiding the cruel aspects of factory farming — but there are huge industries SELLING US the cruelty to humans images.
Dang, that's smart! The point here is that we do not live in a society where you can make a subversive analogy between women and meat, because that analogy is being used in earnest to sell us things or shut us up every day. These underlying metaphors are often so common as to be transparent, which is what trips PETA up when they make them overt — the image is all the more abhorrent because of the injustice that underpins it, and the satire is completely flaccid because the metaphor is a commonplace.


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Unlike in the Navy, the PT in today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Chrysler doesn't stand for Patrol Torpedo or Physical Training. Considering its price and custom de-lidding, you'll need to decide just what it does stand for.
Hey, how's your LUV life? Are you getting any? If you happen to be the seller of yesterday's soft top 1980 Chevy LUV then what you got was 60% Nice Price win, which is almost as good as sex, and almost as rare around these parts.
You know, I liked that custom drop top enough that I wondered what would happen if we did another- and one that's not a car considered as lovely as an old LUV? Would the result be anywhere in the same neighborhood? Well, here's a 2002 PT Cruiser that's been convertiblized, so let's see.
Chrysler initially planned the PT Cruiser as a model under the Plymouth brand, but seeing as new boyfriend Daimler seemed adamant about giving that value nameplate the heave-ho, it was introduced as a Chrysler. Now, PT Cruiser was and is a weird name, and while many of you may consider the PT to stand for Pretty Terrible, it did in fact officially mean Personal Transport. Oh, and Cruiser.
Based on the Neon platform, the Toluca Mexico-built PT arrived with a 150-bhp 2.4-litre four and a choice of 5-speed stick or 4-speed Ultradrive automatic. A cool feature of the manual-equipped cars - like this purple people eater - is the cue ball shift knob, yet another nod to the past.
Back when it was new, the PT Cruiser was a hit, and people who bought them tended to love the style and space that the small but tall wagon afforded, as well as all those retro styling cues. The buff books liked it too, Car and Driver adding the PT to its Top 10 list for 2001. More than a million PTs were built during its ten-year lifespan, most in Mexico, but a few too at the Eurostar plant in Graz Austria.
During that decade, a hotter turbo mill was made optional and, in 2005, a second body style became available, that of a two-door, basket handle convertible. At no time during the car's model run however was a factory four-door drop top offered. Thanks for today's car obviously go to the aftermarket, and of course to the crazy people of Florida, without whom we'd likely not have such wonders as this, nor pretty much any sort of news-worthy weirdness that just plain makes the rest of us feel better about ourselves.
The seller notes in the ad that he bought the car when it was two years old, at which time it had only done 1400 miles. Since then he's put another 70,600 on it, which speaks volumes about its ability to keep from folding under its own weight due to the lack of a hard roof. Adding a further eff-you to the naysayers, this custom job also has a tow hitch allowing you to drag around, I guess, a modest-sized trailer.
The conversion to convertible on the PT is more common than you might imagine, as there are shops that would cut the top off an 18-wheeler if given enough cash. This one seems - from the pictures at least - to be reasonably engineered, and maintains the cross-over bar at the B-pillar to provide seatbelt mounts and a modicum of structural support. The bris of the formerly roof-wrapping doors does look weird however.
New brakes and tires, plus some shiny alloys are plusses in the mind of the seller, and overall the car looks to be in fie shape with only some clouding of the headlights and an odd fade line on each bumper to belie its age. Well, those and the fact that its a PT Cruiser, which is kind of played if you ask me.
Of course you didn't ask me, but it's now time for me to ask you what you think about this custom PT's $4,500 price tag. Do you think that's a deal for this unusual four-door convertible? Or, does that price make this PT totally Past Tense?
You decide!
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New York is the most written-about, sung-about, studied, chronicled and filmed city in America — maybe the world — and its stories, monuments and attractions are too numerous to count. So where do you start? Just go for a walk.
Author Layla Schlack Photography Chris Sanders
DAY ONE | Begin the day stretched out on your king-size bed high up in The Ritz-Carlton, watching the sunshine wash over the manicured vastness of Central Park. Donning a plush robe, you wander over to the window and use the telescope provided to survey what feels like your dominion. The scene below beckons, but then so does breakfast. Breakfast wins.
Step outside and have the doorman hail you a taxi. Your destination is 72nd Street Bagel, for a quintessentially New York start to the day. Behind an unassuming storefront, this popular spot serves the best whole wheat everything bagel in the city. It's soft and chewy on the inside, with a bit of crust on the outside. You get yours with cream cheese and lox, and take it to go.
Head a few blocks east to Central Park and stroll through the Great Lawn, an impeccable 55-acre green that, while originally a reservoir, has been a prime picnicking ground since 1937. Now, in the autumnal chill, you mostly see people walking their dogs and the odd urban forager digging up mushrooms around the edges. To the north of the lawn is the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir. Framed on either side by stately apartment buildings, it's a favorite jogging track of Bill Clinton and Madonna, and a perfect spot for a morning constitutional.
Stopping short of the full 1.58-mile loop around the reservoir, step out of the park and walk to the corner of Fifth Avenue and 86th Street. There, you find the Neue Galerie, set in a gorgeous Beaux-Arts mansion constructed for industrialist William Starr Miller in 1914. Inside, your footfalls echo through the cool marble lobby as you make your way to two floors of German and Austrian holdings, which include an impressive collection of Gustav Klimt paintings, midcentury modern furniture and couture frocks.
Once you've taken it all in, head downstairs to Café Sabarsky, where Old New York meets Old Vienna. Chef Kurt Gutenbrunner specializes in hearty German and Austrian comfort food, and you opt for the goulash and bratwurst, which you nibble on at a wrought iron table while reading the New York Times and sipping coffee from a silver service.
Next, take a leisurely 20-minute stroll down Fifth Avenue toward the most famous shopping area in the world. Your eyes bounce from Bergdorf Goodman's avant-garde window displays to the buttery soft leather bags fresh from Milan on display at Barneys to the vivid scarves at Hermès to the pearl-clad women walking tiny dogs. As you make your way south, the socialites are replaced by hustling businessmen. In front of you looms Grand Central Terminal. It's one of the best examples of Beaux-Arts architecture in the country, but beyond that it has that quintessential combination of peerless grandeur and controlled chaos that defines much of Manhattan. With a sequence of balletic steps, you cut through the mob of commuters rushing to their trains, and you head upstairs to the Campbell Apartment, the restored office and salon of 1920s businessman John W. Campbell. Sitting at the bar sipping your Flapper's Delight champagne cocktail, you gaze out the window while businessmen sip scotch around you, happy to be away from the madding crowd.
Time for dinner. You had the foresight to make a reservation at Per Se, Thomas Keller's New York outpost on Columbus Circle, back by Central Park. You eat your way through nine decadent courses, including "Oysters and Pearls" — butter-poached oysters, osetra caviar and sabayon sauce — over three-plus wine-rich hours. After a long day of wandering through the city, it's the perfect way to unwind.


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joey-the-menace necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 30 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
I had a meeting yesterday with my team and the guys want to see an apple.com version. Here are the links they used as reference:
HINT: Try to use icons with reflections, tabs with glossy/shiny effects. Have you seen iPHONE screens? Something like that!
Desired Color Scheme:
Desired Style:
Google Earth, Google Maps, Yahoo Maps interface distribution/funcionality.
Accepted File Formats:
I had a meeting yesterday with my team. We still haven't select a winner yet and we are extending this contest for 1-2 extra days.
In yesterdays conversation, guys want to see an apple.com version. Here are the links they used as reference:
HINT: Try to use icons with reflections, tabs with glossy/shiny effects. Have you seen iPHONE screens? Something like that!
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Because of confidentiality issues, I cannot write too many details but I'll do my best to provide you the info you'll need.
I decided too add more details of what the application does without compromising the confidentiality issue.
Imagine DEVICE_A is connected with DEVICE_B by SUBDEVICES_01. At the same time, SUBDEVICES_01 is connected by SUBDEVICES_02, etc. The mapping is to view the location of those DEVICES and SUBDEVICES and check the connection status between them. Thats why the alerts section and the ticket section. The sections will have info of the devices, like where are located, their status, etc.
The tabs are to add more functionality to the application besides mapping the devices like for example: create reports, re-configuration of devices, devices modeling, etc.
When designing, don't limit yourself! Try to be as functional as possible but I prefer creativity over functionality. I want you to concentrate also in the shiny screen, glowing icons, smooth corners, etc. I haven't seen that yet except in 2 designs.
Some people have asked me which designs I like from Skins Factory. Here are the ones I found more suitable to use as reference for this particular project:
Yahoo! Search Gadget: http://www.theskinsfactory.com/skin…portPage=1
Ringtone Ripper: http://www.theskinsfactory.com/skin…portPage=2
Nero Showtime 3: http://www.theskinsfactory.com/skin…portPage=2
ATI Catalyst Control Center: http://www.theskinsfactory.com/skin…portPage=3
SourceTech Check Partner: http://www.theskinsfactory.com/skin…portPage=3
Disney Mix Central: http://www.theskinsfactory.com/skin…portPage=1
eZanga: http://www.theskinsfactory.com/skin…portPage=1
Basically I need a Google Earth/ Yahoo Map kinda interface with Skins Factory look n feel. Let's say you'll be designing a newer shinier version of Google Earth/Google Map and/or Yahoo Maps. I need a professional design that is sleek and shiny like the ones created by The Skins Factory.
I do not have an existing logo for this site and I don't need one for now (but keep in mind there will be one so make some space for it).
Project Details:
Content: There will be a lot of data that will need to be shown. So you have to come up with novel ideas to show these.
Sections: Can't tell anything except that where the mapping goes, it will be have tabs (6 minimum). Each tab will have different content - see SKELETON (http://www.webstunner.com/sitepoint…eleton.gif).
For Yahoo Maps, go here: http://maps.yahoo.com/broadband#env
For Google Earth, go here: http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
For The Skins Factory, go here: http://www.theskinsfactory.com/skinsfactory/
The winner must provide the PSD file of the layout.
It is highly likely that the winner will be asked to complete future paid work on the layout. I have new upcoming projects that need designs so it would be great to establish contact with some talented designers.
NOTE: As a condition of this contest we will need a signed copyright release.
Thanks for participating and good luck!


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Every Wednesday, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Tiny Blessings Play Group. Come meet moms and little ones from our community. Drop in Wednesdays from 10:30-12:30.
You are invited to join us for a time to relax and connect with other moms, in a child friendly place where little ones can explore, play and interact. All are welcome!
For more information please contact Melissa Wiens at or 250.765.6622.
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Photo of Geeta courtesy of Hush Supper Club
What's a former World Bank worker doing running a secret supper club? Meet the accomplished amateur cook who goes by the name Geeta and hosts the Hush Supper Club in her Washington D.C. home. This summer, Geeta brought Hush to the Bay Area, where she served up culinary storytelling along with vegetarian Indian food.
Geeta grew up in Chicago eating the food of the Gujarati region in northwestern India. Her family followed the dietary restrictions of people who practice the ancient religion known as Jainism, a vegetarian cuisine that prohibits eating root vegetables that can't regenerate on their own (think potatoes, onions, and garlic). Well, there was that brief period when her father, worried about his children's ability to assimilate in America, took them out to eat hamburgers for a year or two. But otherwise, Geeta told me, she's led a meatless life.
Around three years ago, Geeta's mother became ill and she worried she might lose her (she's well now). But at the time, Geeta was struck by the fact that if her mother passed she'd take with her all the recipes to the food Geeta grew up with. She vowed then to learn the food traditions of her family and to master the comfort dishes from her family home.
Now in her late 30s, Geeta recently gave up her World Bank job traveling to Africa to devote much of her time to educating people about the food traditions of her culture and the stories behind these classic dishes.
Her Supper Club's are popular in D.C., where word spread quickly. Prominent media coverage in The Washington Post and on Rachel Ray's blog has helped.
Hush Supper Club. Photo: Pam Rutter
In late July she held a Supper Club in a friend's home in The Elmwood neighborhood of Berkeley. Hush came to San Francisco's Potrero Hill and Oakland's Jack London Square in early August. Geeta spoke with this reporter while she was in town.
What can attendees expect at a Hush Supper Club event?
I think of it more as a salon than a trendy underground dinner.There's a playfulness to these salons, a sense that people can be kids again. I want to challenge the hipsters who aren't bothered to get bothered (or involved) with something. We'll start with a cocktail, which allows people to get the "What do you do?/How did you get here?" questions out of the way. I don't socialize with my guests at this stage, I like them to get to know each other, as it's often strangers coming together.
I like to keep it small; 12 is ideal, sometimes we'll have up to 16. The more intimate the better. The evening typically lasts four to five hours and the suggested donation is $75.
Why did you start the supper club?
For three reasons: One, India is on the move and I wanted to tell the story of my people and my culture. Secondly, before there were celebrity chefs and fetishized food, there was just food and the stories behind the dishes we eat, and I want to continue that tradition. And three, as someone who likes to tell stories, I like to question people's assumptions about culture and provoke them to think through food.
What are some misunderstandings about the Jain diet and how closely do you follow the food regimen?
Some people think we don't eat dairy, but yogurt is a big part of our diet. It gets kind of complicated with the food rules but essentially we don't eat any plant that can't regenerate itself, which is why tubers like potatoes are off limits, as well as garlic and onions. When I traveled to Africa a lot I found myself eating eggs, which is a big no-no in the Jain world, but I needed to find protein sources. As a rule, Jains don't drink, but this Jain likes a cocktail.
What's on the menu this weekend?
We'll probably start with a saffron-cardamon infused cocktail. Since it's summer I'm thinking mangoes. Mango lassi, of course, but also mango soup which is savory. I'll do a chaat making demonstration. I'll probably serve a chana chaat (chickpea snack), which is the quintessential Gujarati street food.
We'll have dhokla (steamed lentil-and-rice cakes), a chana masala, and a classic corn dish, with green chili, coconut, and raisins. Maybe some okra.
And then falooda, a cooling, creamy, rose-scented dessert with basil seeds and gooey noodles, that you mix all together. It has this wonderful perfume. Chai, of course.
Have you noticed differences in the dinner conversations in the D.C., Chicago and Bay Area Hush Supper Club events?
In D.C., since so much of Washington life involves international travel, you can literally verify headlines at dinner parts with people just back from Uganda and Iraq. I challenge people there not to ask "What do you do?" In Chicago I suggest people find something else to talk about beyond the bears, bulls, cubs — in other words sports. Here in the Bay Area, there's a lot of talk about the food and food culture, so I encourage guests to mix it up.
What are some of the signature flavors in your cuisine?
Common spices used in Jain cuisine include saffron, cinnamon, cardamon, chili, coriander, cumin, and turmeric. Fresh herbs include cilantro and mint and curry leaves in the winter. We get a lot of protein from chickpea, lentil. or bean flours. And we use yogurt in our flat-bread doughs.
What's the secret ingredient in your spice box?
The mystery ingredient is hing (asafoetida) which is a pungent garlic-like flavoring and a digestive aid, known for its anti-gas properties, as my mother likes to say.
What's next for Hush?
I'd like to write a memoir about my food and culture, and my experience sharing it through the supper clubs. I walked away from a life at the World Bank for a spice box. But that kind of entrepreneurial pluck is respected by my people.
This post originally appeared on KQED's Bay Area Bites.
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|Newman Technology manufactures door frames from these stamped and rollformed parts.
Newman stamps and assembles exhaust systems and door frames, as well as door inners and window moldings. It asks its blanking presses (the 400-ton model and a smaller 200-ton blanker) to supply blanks used to stamp, among other parts, right- and left-hand inner and outer door-frame side panels. A rollformed and stretch-formed part welds to the panels to complete each frame. The firm outsources large two-out blanks used to stamp one-piece door frames for certain vehicle models, produced on a twin-press tandem line comprising two 2000-ton transfer presses with robotic blank feed and an inter-press transfer robot. (All of Newman's presses are Aida models).Changeover Time Slashed from 40 min. to 15 min.
"Before upgrading the stacking system on the blanking press, we would hold a full run of blanks in inventory, because it took so long to change over the press from job to job," shares Jeff Thomas, group leader/stamping and tool and die at Newman Technology. Thanks to a new two-out continuous-run stacking system (engineered by ne Trail Technologies, Fort Loramie, OH), the pressroom has no need to store blanks, says Thomas. "Instead, we now can inventory finished stampings to help meet just-in-time unscheduled orders from our customers (the plant blanks full coils rather
Newman upgraded the blanking-press stacking system when it was challenged with producing a set of six blanks that comprised a large two-out tailor laser-welded door-frame blank (TWB).
"We ran all six blanks (from 0.6 to 1.2 mm thick) each day and laser-welded them here," Thomas says, "which meant six changeovers per model on the blank-stacking system (at least) per day. So, it's easy to see why reducing changeover time became such a critical goal."
Thomas credits what he refers to as a "simple and efficient stacking-system design" with allowing the pressroom staff to complete a blanking-line changeover in 15 min., compared to the previous 40 min. required for changeovers. (Adding a second bolster to the press contributed greatly as well). The system simultaneously stacks blanks from the front and exit end of the press. To allow the blanking line to run progressive dies, which it does at least once per week, ne Trail designed and installed a new belt conveyor on the end of the press that pivots up and out of the .
TWBs Extinct,but Benefits Remain
While the tailored blank design for door frames has been eliminated by Newman and replaced with the stamped and rollformed design, the blanking-press stacking system continues to pay dividends. The line toils at 110-percent capacity to churn out door-frame blanks. Its adjustable side guides (±30 deg.) and backstop safely and neatly handle the array of oddly-shaped blanks Newman stamps. Adjustments are made manually during changeovers; Thomas notes that ne Trail designed the system to accept an upgrade to servo-motor adjustment, but can't as of yet justify the upgrade.
Other significant stacking-system features: it was designed specifically to avoid dinging blank edges, to ensure precise alignment for TWB laser welding; and, a pallet-conveying system allows loading of permanent pallets on both of the conveyors outside of the stacker position. At each of the two stacking stations, a roller conveyor drives one of the pallets onto a driven roller conveyor mounted on a hydraulic lift. The lift raises the pallet up to the stacking position, and then lowers the pallet as the stack builds, thanks to a sensor that detects stack height. A driven roller conveyor then moves each full pallet outside of the stacker at the same time that a conveyor on the opposite side of the stacker moves a new pallet into the stacking location. Adjustable risers allow access for fork-truck removal of each blank stack from the pallets. The system handles blanks from 210 to 1500 mm wide, 300 to 1000 mm long, of steel 0.5 to 2.3 mm thick. Maximum stack height is 18 in.; maximum line speed is 70 strokes/min.
Nearly all of the blanks emerging from the press feed the firm's pair of 1200-metric-ton transfer presses. The ability to blank continuously just adds to the throughput gain realized via quicker changeovers. With its older blank-stacking setup, the press would stop to allow a tow-motor driver to remove each blank stack and load empty pallets at the two stacking stations.
"That process used to eat up another 10 to 15 min. of press time per hour," says Thomas. "Now we can run the blanking line continuously, at that maximum stroke rate on some of our one-out blanks (as long as feed length is in the 300- to 400-mm range)," says Thomas. "Longer feeds require us to slow the press down a bit."
Other Enhancements:Indexing Conveyor, Tandem-Line Robotics
In addition to engineering Newman Technology's new blank-stacking system, ne Trail also came to the rescue with a solution to improve productivity at the firm's monster twin-press tandem. That line stamps one-piece door frames from two-out blanks. At one time, as many as four operators worked at the press-line exit conveyor to remove, stack and palletize the stampings. To reduce end-of-line labor content, ne Trail designed and installed an indexing servo-driven end-of-line conveyor, programmable to any desired feed length and speed.
"We can pause the conveyor while the press continues to run," says Thomas, "so that as many as four stampings stack and nest on the conveyor at a time. Stacking on the conveyor allows us to manage the end of the line with only two operators rather than four."
Lastly, Thomas showed us a pair of Aida four-press tandem lines in the plant, which stamp exhaust-system components, recently upgraded with new robotic transfer systems. The lines initially were set up with a robot between each press; presses would run intermittently, stopping to await transfer movement. The new robotic transfer setup on each tandem line employs a common feed bar that runs the length of the line. In addition to dramatically reducing each line's footprint (since Newman was able to locate the presses closer together), the presses now run continuously—during each transfer cycle, the feed bar tends to all four presses.
Thomas explains that the productivity gain—line speed has increased by as much as 8 strokes/min.—was critical to meet new exhaust-stamping production requirements. The new model exhaust systems take all laser-welded components, Thomas explains, which required Newman to completely redesign its stamping procedure.
"Laser welding the exhaust-system stampings (rather than arc welding) requires much tighter tolerances on part dimensions," he says, noting that tolerances are now +0 and –0.2 mm, compared to ±0.5 mm before. "Meeting the tighter tolerances required not only an entirely different approach to die design and build, but also forced us a from two-out stamping to a more controllable and repeatable one-out process."
Hence the desire to increase line speed via the new robotic transfer system. MF
See also: Lincoln Electric Automation – Wayne Trail
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Japan's capital is a place of unfathomable size, endless variety and constant movement, but just below the surface of this futuristic megalopolis is a surprising and delightful sense of calm
Author Robert Michael Poole Photography Marie Takahashi
• Population: 37.1 million
• Area, in square miles: 3,300
• Residents per square mile: 11,300
• Number of Fortune 500 companies: 48 (#1 in world)
• Number of Michelin stars: 331 (#1 in world; Paris has 85)
• Deaths from eating fugu (puffer fish) since 2002: 13
• Priciest tuna sold at Tsukiji auction: $736,000 ($1,238 per pound)
• Number of people using Shinjuku Station every day: ≈3.6 million
• Base metro fare, one way: 160 yen (≈$2)
Standing in front of the spectral figures in Lee Changwon's "Parallel World" exhibit at Mori Art Museum, you can't help but feel drawn toward the gallery's large windows, beyond which Tokyo sprawls and shimmers.
The museum occupies the top few floors of the 54-story Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, a building whose futuristic design seems at times to compete with the artwork it houses. In true Tokyo style, the Mori doesn't host permanent exhibits, opting instead to go with a revolving program of challenging and sometimes controversial art.
This is the place where the celebrated Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's bicycle sculptures rose to prominence. A more recent show, "Arab Express," highlighted some of the grittier pieces by Middle Eastern artists, including Egyptian Ahmed Basiony, who was killed during a protest in 2011, and Halim Al-Karim, who avoided conscription into Saddam Hussein's army by hiding in the desert for nearly three years.
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"When I was younger, I played guitar," he says. "Now manga is my instrument." At his side is a significant stack of comics, from which he'll pluck one and assume the personas of its characters. During a performance, his voice will veer from somber baritone to feminine shriek, while his face will twitch and wince through dozens of expressions.
As Toho sees it, his readings do more than indulge an obsession with manga; they give him a way to honor the tradition of Japanese storytelling, passing down modern interpretations of age-old folk tales with every squawk. "Please," he says quietly to the people gathered around him, "allow me to make a powerful performance."
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The vast majority of millennials value homeownership and want to buy a home, but they are less certain on where they want to live and whether they will ever be able to afford it, a new survey indicates.
The poll, done exclusively for The Huffington Post Canada by Abacus Data, found 73 per cent of millennials who currently rent or live at home want to own a house or condo before reaching the age of 31, and 85 per cent feel it is somewhat or very important to own their own home one day.
As respondents age, and expectations meet reality, the importance of owning a home diminishes.
The poll, conducted between Oct. 23 and 25, surveyed 1,004 Canadian millennials between the ages of 18 and 30.
Forty-nine per cent of non-homeowners rank the high cost of purchasing as the primary obstacle to buying a house, while 27 per cent feel too much personal and student debt is the main issue. High minimum down payments are also seen as a major issue.
"Owning our own home is very important to most Millennials in Canada. But higher student debt levels, sky-high housing prices and changes to mortgage rules, make that dream much harder to achieve" said Abacus CEO David Coletto. "What happens when Baby Boomers want to sell their homes to downsize and no one is there to buy them because few have the down payment or mortgage available to buy them?"
Nevertheless, optimism is relatively high among millennials: 71 per cent consider it somewhat or very likely they will be able to buy a home before reaching the age of 31, compared with 22 per cent who think it is unlikely.
Among those aged 21-23, 76 per cent believe they will be able to buy a home. But that optimism decreases as respondents get older — only 48 per cent of those between the ages of 28 and 30 who are not already homeowners feel it is somewhat or very likely they will be able to make the purchase before turning 31.
When it comes to where millennials want to live, opinion is divided. Generally speaking, larger houses can be found in the suburbs and the country, while smaller houses are closer to services. By a slim ratio millennials prefer houses that are comfortable and spacious to those within walking distance of services — 54 per cent to 46 per cent. The only region of the country not to prefer larger homes is Ontario (again by a slim ratio). Men are more likely than women to want services nearby, while married millennials overwhelmingly express a preference for comfortable and spacious homes for what one can assume are their growing families.
More specifically, 42 per cent of millennials would rather live in a suburb close to a city while another 34 per cent would rather live downtown. Only one in four prefer to live in the country. Although there were no large regional variations in the survey, Atlantic Canadians are more likely to choose the country over the city. The suburbs are favoured by Ontarians, Quebecers and British Columbians. And immigrant millennials are more likely to prefer the suburbs than native-born Canadians, but only one in eight are fans of the country.
In sum, millennials want to own homes that are comfortable and spacious and located in urban centres but not necessarily downtown. Not coincidentally, the suburbs are the fastest growing parts of Canada. Nevertheless, a large proportion of millennials value urban living and easy access to amenities.
If the survey is correct, is seems the urban and suburban housing markets are unlikely to collapse any time soon.
— Abacus Data has focused research on the Canadian Millennial. Read more here.
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Tired Of The Cold? These 11 Products Make Winter So Much More Manageable
Long winters can be tough. The days are shorter, the nights are colder, and you're more vulnerable to pretty much every health issue—but especially dry, itchy skin, the seasonal cold and flu, and seasonal affective disorder (SAD). During these months, we typically spend less time outside with friends and more time in hibernation mode. And while lounging on the couch watching movies and drinking hot tea is a great form of self-care, too much of it can greatly affect our mood and energy levels—and make winter feel like it's going to last forever.
Knowing all this, it's a great idea to have a few tools to call upon during the winter to make it just a little easier to handle. Here are 11 that are worth adding to your routine. They'll make you feel well-nourished, energized, and happy to take on the day (freezing cold as it might be).
C by GE Lightbulbs
We're learning more and more how much your circadian rhythms affect your sleep, mood, and even ability to maintain a healthy weight. This light bulb from GE aims to tackle that issue. You can hook this light up to an app on your phone and change your room's mood to align with the time of day. You can even set it on a schedule to make sure it supports your natural sleep-wake cycle and the sun outside.
C-Sleep Light Bulb, GE, $44.94 (for a set of two)
Weleda Skin Food Lip Butter
Chapped lips, anyone? No matter how much water you drink, a few minutes in the cold, winter wind can make your lips feel like they might fall right off. This lip butter from Weleda is here to rescue you. It's amazingly nourishing, hydrating, and has a nice glossy finish that isn't sticky. As an added bonus, it's free from synthetic fragrance, color, and preservatives.
Skin Food Lip Butter, Weleda, $6.99
USD Instant Pot® Duo Plus
Instant Pots are all the rage, and for good reason! They make it incredibly fast and easy to make nourishing stews, soup, and even bone broth. Getting essential vitamins and minerals is particularly important in the winter, as your immune system is already in a vulnerable state with all the germs floating around. So if you don't have one of these in your kitchen yet, it might be time to take the leap.
Duo Plus, Instant Pot®, $129.95
Lord Jones CBD Lotion
If you're someone who's skin gets itchy or irritated in the winter, this one is for you. In fact, research suggests that the cannabinoids in hemp could even help with inflammatory skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis. This lotion has a great smell and texture, and unlike most other brands, it has a metered bottle so you know exactly how much CBD you're getting per pump.
Pain & Wellness Pure CBD Lotion, Lord Jones, $60,
Dyson Humidifier
Dyson is the kind of brand that always seems to get it right. And this humidifier is no exception; it has Ultraviolet Cleanse Technology to kill bacteria, which ensures that any mist coming out of this machine is free from bacteria, fungi, and mold. A humidifier is a great addition to your home for many reasons, but in the winter it can help keep your nasal passages from drying out, which helps protect you from respiratory infections. It's also small and sleek so it fits nicely in a corner without drawing too much attention to itself.
Humidifier, Dyson, $299.99
mbg's 28 Days To Bliss Yoga Class
Winter is the perfect time to pick up a new hobby. Well, let's be more specific and say it's the perfect time to pick up a new indoor hobby. This class, led by 900-hour registered yoga teacher (RYT)and mbg Collective member Caley Alyssa is the perfect way to spend your cold winter days. You'll learn the fundamentals of a yoga practice plus breathing techniques and how to overcome obstacles that might be standing in your way.
28 Days To Bliss Yoga, mindbodygreen, $149.99
Vitamin D/K2 Liquid Tincture
Most people aren't getting enough vitamin D, and in the winter, we are even more vulnerable to a deficiency. This tincture from Thorne is an inexpensive solution that will last you all winter long. It combines vitamin D with K2 to help with absorption and should make up for the lack of sunshine this time of year. It's also conveniently tasteless, so you can just drop a few drops into your water in the morning and get on with your day.
Vitamin D/K2 Liquid, Thorne, $24
Hyaluronic Acid Cream
Hyaluronic acid (HLA) is one of the best-kept skin care secrets out there. Once you discover it, you'll never want to buy a moisturizer without it again. They can be expensive, so this one from NOW Foods stands out for its reasonable price tag. It will leave your skin extra moisturized. In fact, it might be the only thing that helps your dry, inflamed winter skin.
Hyaluronic Acid Moisturizer, NOW Foods, $18.99
the be.come project
It's cold and dark outside, so getting up early for the gym can be extra tough this time of year. If you can relate to this, this app is your new best friend. It features 25-minute workouts that are reminiscent of a boutique fitness studio class—without the high cost or need to leave the comfort of your own apartment. There's a new workout every week and requires nothing but a yoga mat—just in case you needed another reason to put that gym membership on pause until it warms up.
the be.come project app, $35/month
Verilux LED Light Therapy Lamp
The lack of sunshine in the winter can leave you feeling a little stir crazy, putting you at risk for seasonal affective disorder and the general winter blues. If you're craving sunlight so much that you're about to book a trip to the Bahamas, light therapy is definitely worth a try. This UV-free product from Verilux is also portable, so you can bring it with you to work to help increase your energy, mood, and focus. It will help you soak up some much-needed sun—and it's definitely cheaper than a plane ticket.
HAPPYLIGHT LUCENT™, Verilux, $44.95
Somneo Sleep and Wake-Up Light
If you have trouble waking up on time in the winter, you're definitely not alone. There's something so unnatural about rising before the sun, and it's easy to find yourself pressing snooze over and over (and over!) again. Enter: this alarm clock from Philips. It emits morning light and wakes you up to the sound of birds chirping, which is objectively way better than being rudely awakened by a blaring foghorn alarm—and then fumbling around in the dark for your phone. You won't regret making the switch.
Somneoo Sleep and Wake-Up Light, Philips, $199.99
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HP shows off colour display 'skin' for gadgets
Animated laptop-lid logos, anyone?
HP has created a wacky flexible display technology that it's pitching as a way of customising gadgets.
Although HP's remaining somewhat coy about eSkins' specific uses, it described the technology as a "flexible reflective colour film" that gives gadgets "an electronically controlled colour surface".
Sounds bizarre, doesn't it? HP's description makes eSkins sound like a secondary display that would sit over, say, your mobile phone's primary screen.
HP's eSkin's "flexible reflective colour films" could be integrated into gadgets as a second screen
As eSkins would probably draw less power than your handset's main screen, allowing the HP film to permanently display a wallpaper when your phone's not in use, or the time and date.
Alternately, MP3 player manufacturers could use eSkins as a way of displaying lyrics without soaking up your battery, or as a way of showing you pictures of the band or singer you're currently listening to.
Whatever's shown, the eSkins are able to reflect print-like colours and "electronically shift into a transparent state", revealing the surface below - in this case, the mains screen when the user turns it on.
HP added that eSkins also offer brand manufacturers new ways to personalise their products, because the film can reflectively display icons and alpha-numeric characters.
If this were the case then perhaps Apple might consider integrating an eSkin into the iPhone as a way of animating and colouring its static back-of-case logo, while PC manufacturers could incorporate dancing logos into the lids of their laptops.
eSkins are manufactured using a roll-to-roll process, so sheets can presumably be made to measure.
HP hasn't said when you can expect to see eSkin-equipped gadgets in the shops, but has promised to demo the technology at a display fair in San Antonio, North America later this week. ®
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As the "Back to School Blog Tour" continues to wind around the internet, we're excited to have two sets of the books being promoted in that tour available to giveaway this week. Thanks to Pauline Books for sponsoring this week's contest!
This week's giveaway:
Each prize pack includes one copy of each:
- Forever You: A Book About Your Soul and Body and I Forgive You: Love We Can Hear, Ask For, and Give, by Nicole Lataif
- Ten Commandments for Kissing Gloria Jean, by Britt Leigh
- a.k.a. Genius and Genius under Construction, by Marilee Haynes


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Gluten Free Bakeries and Restaurants in Seattle, Washington: Sunny Valley Wheat Free and Da Vinci Cafe and Bakery
In 2006 I went to Seattle to attend my cousin's wedding and while I was in town, I tried the goodies at two two gluten-free bakery cafes. One was located in Maple Vally, Washington and was called "Sunny Valley Wheat Free," and the other was located in Seattle, Washington and was called Da Vinci. I had a great experience at both places and immediately typed up reports to share with my fellow SillyYaks members on Yahoo Groups. I hadn't thought about it much since, but the other day a reader mentioned that she was planning a trip to Seattle soon. I have links to both places posted on my blog, but without a review it's hard to know what to expect, so I thought, why not revisit that old review that I'd written and share it again with you here? Enjoy, and I hope you get the chance to visit these two wonderful gluten-free havens located in my beloved home state.
Sunny Valley Wheat Free
22035 SE Wax Rd. #10
Maple Valley, WA 98038
*This bakery is no longer open to the public- A note on their web site states that "In early 2010 we moved to Kent, WA and transitioned from a retail establishment to distributed wholesale." Check their web site for information on where you can get their tasty products. There are other gluten-free bakeries in Seattle, so check out my other reviews. -Sea 8/2011*
Sunny Valley Wheat Free is located in the Maple Valley area, not too far from the Sea Tac Airport. I was really excited about visiting a GF bakery, and scheduled a breakfast/ lunch trip to their store. I was especially interested in their pizza and other hot items. The bakery is located in a very modern, clean new shopping area. The store is very neatly organized, with gluten free goods stored in refrigerators and shelves around the room. At the time (two years ago) they turned their ovens off on Saturday and were closed on Sunday so I was unable to get a hot pizza, sniff, but they may have changed things since then. At that time they also did not have tables or chairs for in-house dining. I'm not sure what the situation is like now.
I was impressed by the wide variety of goods, including hard to find and labor intensive items like real homemade graham crackers, cheese crackers, and miniature bread sticks. They also had a fabulous range of desserts, including cakes, chocolate eclairs, miniature cheesecakes, tons of donuts with different toppings, and about 10 flavors of scones.
They also had ice cream sandwiches- which were delicious, but HUGE! I couldn't eat a whole one and had to recruit DH to help me out. Also something in the creamy filling made me really thirsty. I bought the miniature strawberry cheesecakes (kinda like cheesecake muffins) and took them to the wedding, pulling them out of my purse and enjoying when everyone was eating cake. The eclairs were amazing- I stored them in my hotel refrigerator and enjoyed them later. I was especially impressed by the unique texture of the eclair pastry. It was unlike anything I'd ever had and was flakey but not oily. The sweet creamy filling was also nice. And can you believe- a GF eclair? Clearly there is a master baker at Sunny Valley Wheat Free- no novice here!
I also couldn't resist the cutest GF holiday cookies that were shaped like adorable leaves and frosted just like a Starbucks or other gourmet cookie! They tasted pretty good, although were slightly dry by the time I could bear to eat something so cute.
They have a wide variety of breads available, and one of their newest breads (at the time) incorporated bean flour for what is, IMO, a superior springy and moist product, compared to the white rice tapioca etc. blends. However, (at that time) most of their breads seem to be based on white rice flour- good for those with bean allergies, but this may have changed. I bought their onion bread, but they also had cheese jalapeno and seed bread etc. Next time I'd buy the brown bread (with bean flour)- I tried a sample and it was great. I had the onion bread the next morning and found it a little heavy and dry- but the flavor was good.
I was given a sample of their maple bar, and had to take it home because it was so rich I could only eat a few bites. But, it was very good and I found it both fluffy and tasty. The woman there said it was the same base as their donuts. Her favorite was actually the scones, rather than the donut based stuff. I bought a tasty orange cranberry scone- unfortunately mine had some little bitter pockets of baking powder(?)- but my initial impression was very positive.
They had tons of gorgeous giant monster cookies, too. I bought snickerdoodle, but they were all tempting. Another customer was there for his weekly GF food run- he bought about 8 packs of their graham crackers and some frozen ready to bake cookies, so that is an advertisement in of itself.
Although I was bummed about not getting to try any of their pizza, if my hotel had an oven I could have bought some mini frozen pizzas complete with toppings. This place had several GF hearty options that were vegetarian, as well as lots of chicken etc. pasta dishes as well for those interested- lasagna, ravioli, and pizza) I bought cheese ravioli (Yay!!!) for a very reasonable price- under $5, maybe even under $4. Microwave in its container and you can have homemade ravioli with no muss, no fuss, and no pulling out the pasta machine. It was wonderful- being the freaky foodie I am, I kinda wished they'd had more gourmet fillings- pumpkin and mushroom, spinach ricotta etc- but I really enjoyed having microwaved ravioli in our hotel room late that night. Soooo good! I would totally buy these all the time if I lived in Washington. They also had some ready made soup (slightly pricey) in several varieties, including vegetarian. *with cost of ingredients rising, prices have undoubtedly increased since 2006.
I really enjoyed my visit. I was EXTREMELY impressed with how ambitious and varied their offerings were. I'd love to see them go into the gf frozen food business and give, say, Amy's, a run for their money with some GF certified products. I had several things I've never had before in my life, and while I don't really feel like I need these things in my life all the time, it's definitely fun to have a special treat once in a while. Also, the prices were pretty darned good, compared to Whole Foods GF bakehouse in California, at any rate. If you're in the area, definitely make it a GF stop- especially if you will have access to a microwave in your future.
List and pics of the goodies you can currently expect to find in their store
Looking for a more recent review?
Try Celiac in The House's Review in May of 2009
Da Vinci, Bakery and Cafe*
10003 Greenwood Ave N
Seattle, WA 98133
*url updated 8/2011- they are still in business! yay!
Store hours as of 8/22/2011 *confirm before you make the drive:
Monday to Saturday 8am – 5pm
Sundays 8am – 3pm
*NEWS 8/2011 They are transitioning to be an entirely rice-free bakery this month! This is wonderful news for those who must be rice-free as well as dairy-free. :D
We also made a special trip to Da Vinci, a gluten free bakery housed in a charming little house in North Seattle. It is always mind boggling to walk into somewhere where I can eat any darned thing I like, and this little cafe was no exception. They have a lovely bookshelf full of savory breads (most dairy free) and tons of absolutely stunning sweet desserts in a refrigerator case, as well as other stuff sprinkled across the counters and some daily specials.
On my 2006 visit, most of the savories (besides the breads) had meat in some form or another, so it was a little tricky finding daily meal bits that were
vegetarian. They had a roasted red pepper quiche and a feta salad- otherwise, the pizzas all included meat. DH had a lovely pizza with bacon, cream cheese, and cheddar which he quite enjoyed. Meanwhile I enjoyed the red pepper quiche and shared a cherry strudel and blueberry cinnamon roll with my Mother.
Da Vinci has mastered the art of creating clever espresso beverages (see their menu- I had the picasso- or whichever one has cayenne and orange… note, I couldn't really taste the bite of the cayenne). At the time of my visit, they were a fairly new bakery so it seemed that they might not have completely decided on their menu. In 2006 they seem to use some of the traditional gluten free flours (rice, tapioca, potato) and haven't really gone into the bean or sorghum flours, so some of their savory or plain breads were slightly heavy for my taste. (This may have changed, so take this comment with a grain of salt.) However, avoiding bean flour would make them an excellent choice for bean sensitive individuals, and they do have an egg-free, dairy-free line also helpful for those with multiple intolerances. However, I did make myself a lovely sandwich later with their new onion hot dog bun, and it was very nice!
Later I also used their dairy free sun dried tomato bread for very flavorful crumbs on a eggplant parmesan- made a vegan parmesan for my mother with toasted pine nuts and this bread that she really liked. DH and I also bought a slice of one of their exquisite cakes- mocha espresso frosting… DH said it was "just like a normal store bought cake" and i liked it a lot as well. We shared a slice for our respective birthdays and enjoyed it thoroughly. Gorgeous! It was probably the highlight of my visit.
I can't tell you how thrilling it is that these gluten-free cafes and bakeries are popping up all over the United States. But you know, they all rely on our business to stay afloat- so lets make sure to support our gluten-free bakeries whenever we have a chance, whether local or a traveler's destination. Eating all those goodies is a tough job, but somebody's got to do it!
Traveling to Portland? Read about my visit to a gluten-free cafe bakery and fish house!
Near Sacramento in Davis, California? Read about Davis' GF Farmer Cafe
In Berkeley, California? Check out my report on the GF friendly Cafe Gratitude
In Oakland, California? Visit the GF Cafe Mariposa Bakeshop
Read about my adventures at the Italian restaurant Mangiamo with a fabulous GF menu in Windsor, Ca
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When: Thu 1st of January 1970
Where: Grand Hall Olympia, London
Last week saw the yearly ski and snowboard show at Olympia in London. Once again I joined the masses of eager punters and blundered my way through a series of tube misconnections before finally arriving at Olympia via Shepherds Bush in time for the UK FreeSki Awards, 'FreeSki Awards?' well at least they were presented by Ed Leigh.
All in all the Ski and Snowboard Show is a pretty tight event, aimed at the holiday making skier and snowboarder, the show caters to their one and many needs whilst providing a fantastic forum for industry folk to drink, drink, drink, talk, talk, talk and hustle, hustle, hustle. From buying the latest equipment (having the opportunity to check all the hottest product in one massive winter sports shopping mall) to sampling local schnapps and Weiner schnitzel or testing your skills on a mini mini snowflex slope to watching the freshest UK talent showing you how to do it better.
This year the show had reorganized its space to a more user friendly layout, setting up with 'real' ice tunnels and bar on entry. Appealing to a keen snowboard crowd they had added many interesting features including the premiere of Chunky Knit productions 'Last Winter', board art and artist exhibits, winter photography displays and workshops, a live fashion show and Bboy show and even an ice climbing wall.
The spirit of UK freestyle competition was kept alive with the AIM Series British Quarter Pipe Championship, with winners Sam Cullum and Jamie Nicholls taking away tickets to the 6-star TTR World Snowboard Tour O'Neill Evolution event. Held on the snowflex quarter pipe (check the earlier news entry for an in depth report on this), riders take note Jamie Nichols may be small but he hits big taking all the lads for a ride with his 900's, and jumping as many feet as his years from the scissor lift to snowflex transition.
UK tradition held fast this year, in true roast beef style, the rain came, the roof leaked and the industry folk got wet, leaving no choice but to seek refuge at the local boozer and wait of the rain to turn to snow.
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Farmingdale State - 68, The Sage College - 46
Albany, N.Y. – The Farmingdale State women's basketball team posted a 68-46 win over The Sage Colleges to improve to 13-7 overall and 12-1 in the conference, which puts them atop the league standings heading into the final week of the regular-season. Sage drops to 8-15 overall and 4-9 in the league.
Junior guard Baytania Newman (Brooklyn, N.Y.) netted a double-double with 15 points and 13 rebounds for the Rams. She added six assists with four steals to pace the team as they held a 33-17 lead at the break. Rookie guard Christina Merrill (Levittown, N.Y.) added 11 points, while junior guard Jeanette Zubizarreta (Bay Shore, N.Y.) added 10 points.
Senior guard Sarah Carciobolo (Niskayuna, N.Y.) led the Gators in the loss with 11 points. Junior guard Carly Vallee (East Greenbush, N.Y.) tallied nine points. Rookie forward Amie Jefferson (Albany, N.Y.) finished with eight points and six rebounds with one block.
The Rams will now host Hunter College in a non-conference match-up on Tuesday, February 14th at 7:00 p.m.


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MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASADENA, CALIF. 91109 TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov
Mars Climate Orbiter Mission StatusDecember 11, 1998
3:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
After a one-day delay, NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter blasted off launch pad 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Station, FL, at 1:45 p.m. Eastern Standard Time today and hurtled skyward on a 9-1/2- month flight to Mars to embark on a study of the planet's climate and current water resources. The 24-hour launch delay will not change the spacecraft's arrival date at Mars on September 23, 1999, or alter its primary mapping mission.
Mars Climate Orbiter Launch Photos Available Here
The spacecraft shot through a breezy, cloud-laced mid- afternoon sky atop a Delta II launch vehicle on the second day of the primary launch period with new onboard software to guard against overcharging the spacecraft's battery. The orbiter team tested the new software using the Mars Polar Lander spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center, FL, as a testbed. Mars Polar Lander, which will join Mars Climate Orbiter at Mars in December 1999, is currently being processed for launch on January 3, 1999.
Sixty seconds after liftoff, the four solid-rocket boosters were jettisoned, two at a time, followed by first-stage separation and second-stage engine ignition. The second-stage burn lasted approximately 11 minutes, 22 seconds, placing the spacecraft in a low-Earth orbit at about 189 kilometers (117 miles) above Earth's surface.
Third-stage separation occurred at approximately 2:26 p.m. EST, followed by a burn of the third-stage engine for 88 seconds. Once out of Earth's gravitational grasp, the orbiter was jettisoned from the third stage using the spacecraft's onboard thrusters to remove all remaining motion. Four minutes later, the spacecraft's solar arrays were unfolded and pointed toward the Sun for power. NASA's Deep Space Network complex near Canberra, Australia, acquired the orbiter's signal at 2:45 p.m. EST. Spacecraft controllers at Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver, CO, and at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, are now assessing the spacecraft's initial performance.
Now on its way to Mars, the Climate Orbiter will rely on its low-gain and medium-gain antennas for communications with Earth during the first half of the journey to Mars. Ground-controllers will track the spacecraft 24 hours a day during the first week of cruise, then reduce tracking time to 12 hours a day using 34- meter (112-foot) antennas of the Deep Space Network. Twelve days into flight, one of the spacecraft's science instruments, the Pressure Modulator Infrared Radiometer, will be powered on and acclimated to the environment of space.
The first trajectory correction maneuver to remove errors in the spacecraft's flight path introduced at the time of launch will be performed 10 days into the cruise phase, on December 21, 1998. That thruster firing will be the largest and longest of all four trajectory correction maneuvers, lasting about 15 to 20 minutes and changing the spacecraft's velocity by about 30 meters per second (67 miles per hour).
Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander are the second set of spacecraft to be launched in NASA's long-term program of robotic exploration of Mars.
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