{"id":5464,"date":"2012-02-17T12:32:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T20:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5464"},"modified":"2012-02-17T12:32:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T20:32:27","slug":"friday-cleanin-out-the-links-financial-news-food-news-robocalls-and-theatre-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5464","title":{"rendered":"Friday Cleanin&#8217; Out The Links: Financial News, Food News, Robocalls, and Theatre Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5014\" title=\"userpic=pacific-coast-route\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicpacific-coast-route.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"68\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>Well, it&#8217;s Friday, and you know what that means: Time to clear out the links over lunch&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Financial News You Can Use<\/strong>. We start with a few financial items. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/money\/la-fi-mo-obama-housing-20120201,0,4264474.story\" target=\"_blank\">White House is proposing a mortgage refinanciang plan<\/a>. This actually is of interest to me: I&#8217;d like to refinance down to the lower rates (IMSC, we&#8217;re at 5.125% now), but am unsure about having sufficient equity. Of course, it doesn&#8217;t help that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/realestate\/la-fi-home-prices-20120216,0,3745958.story\" target=\"_blank\">prices in SoCal haven&#8217;t bottomed yet<\/a>. For those dealing with taxes, here&#8217;s another wrinkle: starting next year (i.e., for actions this year), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/perfi\/taxes\/story\/2012-02-12\/capital-gains-tax-statements\/53061388\/1\" target=\"_blank\">reporting stock sales just got a lot more complicated<\/a>. I hope you have good records.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Food News You Can Use<\/strong>. A number of food items have accumulated in the links list. First, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/features\/bs-ae-gluten-free-craze-20120209,0,6175388.story\" target=\"_blank\">an article about how not all of those going Gluten-Free need to be GF<\/a>. What caught my interest on this particular article was that they relied on Dr. Alessio Fasano, director of the University of Maryland Center for Celiac Research. Next we have <a href=\"http:\/\/yourlife.usatoday.com\/fitness-food\/safety\/story\/2012-02-15\/Wash-your-hands-of-these-food-safety-facts\/53108938\/1\" target=\"_blank\">a collection of food safety myths<\/a>. Next up is <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/nationnow\/2012\/02\/trinidad-moruga-scorpion-worlds-hottest-chili-pepper.html\" target=\"_blank\">the world&#8217;s hottest Chile Pepper: The Trinidad Moruga Scorpion<\/a>, at 1.2 <em>million<\/em> Scoville units. Ouch! Lastly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/industries\/food\/story\/2012-02-16\/mars-fewer-calories-in-candy-bar-pack\/53122594\/1\" target=\"_blank\">M&amp;M Mars is going to be making their candy bars smaller<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Those Annoying Phone Calls.<\/strong> Speaking of food, if you&#8217;re like me you hate those robocalls during dinner. Evidently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/money\/la-robo-calling-rules-20120215,0,3017021.story\" target=\"_blank\">the rules are changing and they will be more limited to calling you<\/a>, except of course, when they aren&#8217;t changing (such as when they can construe some relationship). For me, the most hated calls are from Van Nuys HS (we typically get four a night, between 6p and 7p), usually about stuff we don&#8217;t care about.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>P.S.: Something for me to look into: A local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playbill.com\/news\/article\/159871-Glee-Star-Lindsay-Heather-Pearce-Janel-Parrish-and-More-Cast-in-LA-Spring-Awakening\" target=\"_blank\">small production of <em>Spring Awakening<\/em><\/a>, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toa.edu\/\/rentals\" target=\"_blank\">Arena for the Arts stage in Hollywood<\/a>, which is where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldstar.com\/events\/los-angeles-ca\/gypsy-1\" target=\"_blank\">we saw Gypsy<\/a>. Everyone seems to be doing <em>Spring Awakening<\/em> these days: even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actorsrepofsimi.org\/season\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Simi Valley Repertory is doing it (October 2012)<\/a>. I also need to look into the next Pasadena Playhouse production: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playbill.com\/news\/article\/159830-Pasadena-Playhouses-Heiress-Will-Star-Heather-Tom-Julia-Duffy-and-Richard-Chamberlain\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;<em>Heiress<\/em>&#8220;, which will star Richard Chamberlain, Heather Tom, and Julia Duffy<\/a>. This was recently broadcast on LA Theatre Works, and I enjoyed the story. The trick is finding time for these shows during this busy Spring: there are already numerous shows (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldstar.com\/events\/los-angeles-ca\/for-colored-girls-who-considered-suicide-when-the-rainbow-is-enuf\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldstar.com\/events\/los-angeles-ca\/albert-herring\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chancetheater.com\/season_2012\/01_rooms\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">that<\/a>) that I just can&#8217;t seem to work in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Music: <\/strong><em>Pachebel Canon and other Baroque Music<\/em>: Rondeau From Sinfonies de Fanfares<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s Friday, and you know what that means: Time to clear out the links over lunch&#8230; Financial News You Can Use. We start with a few financial items. The White House is proposing a mortgage refinanciang plan. This actually is of interest to me: I&#8217;d like to refinance down to the lower rates (IMSC, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5464\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,56],"tags":[68,125,351],"class_list":["post-5464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-news-chum","tag-gluten-free","tag-money","tag-theatre-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5465,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions\/5465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}