Review: Crepe Affaire | Leeds-List

The arrival of Trinity Leeds saw swarms of new shops to the city centre, but it also saw a plethora of new eateries arriving in the heart of the shopping district.

We?ve talked a lot about restaurants recently ? and we mean a lot, have you seen our hot-off-the-press Leeds Food & Drink Guide? ? but we wanted to focus a little on the light bites that the city has to offer too.

This is where Crepe Affaire comes in. Residing near H&M on the second floor of Trinity, the venue isn?t particularly large, but it?s decorated with bright white walls and floor-length windows that look out over Albion Street.

You can smell the coffee before you even step into the restaurant ? and they?re not too shabby either ? but once you see the crepe and waffle menu, drinks are the last thing on your mind. They promise a fair bit, if we?re honest.

The menu is simply divided into two; sweet and savoury. There?s a fairly epic selection of fillings to stuff inside your pancake- we went for the veggie Le Goat, and the not-so-veggie Chicken Supreme, so as to cover all ground you see.

Much like a coffee shop, you order at the counter. You can see the pre-cooked pancakes ? more about that later ? sat on the counter, with a steam-producing contraption sort of balanced on top. The crepes are made in front of you, and are a slower affair than we?d expected, especially as the crepes are pre-formed, ready for heating and filling.

Our order was taken, and we were given a table number and told to take a seat. Apparently the time-saving factor of pre-made crepes didn?t count for a lot, as we were waiting for around 20 minutes for them to arrive with roughly the same amount of customers in the place as there were staff.

To be fair though, they were almost worth waiting for. The fillings were incredibly fresh tasting ? the goats cheese, tomato and spinach filling was light but satisfying, and the Chicken Supreme was practically bursting at the seams with ingredients ? but, it was the pre-formed crepes that let them down. We could only really dream of the French light and fluffy versions that melt on the tongue whilst chewing through the rather rubbery taste left in our mouths.

For a savoury light bite on-the-go, Crepe Affaire wouldn?t be a hideously bad option. The fillings do make up for the lack of authenticity in terms of the crepes themselves, and the sweet crepes looked really, really good. As a sit down venture, it felt like an odd mix of coffee house, fast food establishment and restaurant- not quite mastering either and possibly attempting too much.

We can?t say that we?ll be going back there any time soon ? but, with time, who knows. Perfection is an art form, after all. Maybe a little practice is all that?s required here.

Crepe Affaire, Trinity Leeds, LS1 5AT.

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For sale in NYC: Fridge with morbid history

NEW YORK (AP) ? It's a fridge big enough for a family of four.

New York's Office of General Services has turned to eBay in an attempt to sell off a huge, steel morgue refrigerator now located at a Manhattan psychiatric hospital.

Bidding on Saturday afternoon was up to $475 for the four-drawer unit, but that price doesn't include delivery. Buyers have to be willing to remove the fridge themselves from the Manhattan Psychiatric Center.

Office of General Services spokeswoman Heather Groll tells the New York Post (http://bit.ly/11htBpM ) that the ad is no hoax.

She says the agency does get unusual surplus items to sell from time to time, including barber chairs from prisons and police cars, but she doesn't recall a previous sale of a morgue cooler.

The auction runs through June 6.

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Information from: New York Post, http://www.nypost.com

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Shapeways Now Lets You 3D Print With Soft, Squishy Plastic

Are you reading for an influx of 3D printed sandal and slip-on shoe designs? Shapeways, your one stop shop for 3D printing when you don't want to shell out for a printer of your own, is now offering a new material called Elasto Plastic, a flexible off-white elastomer. It's soft and squishy, but still returns to its original shape when deformed so it's ideal for printing shoes and other wearable items.

At the moment Shapeways is rolling out Elasto Plastic as an experimental option, which means that it can only be used to print 3D models you've uploaded yourself, not in the company's online store. If it's found to be strong and durable enough, though, it could eventually be offered as an option for everything on Shapeways' site. And most importantly, if this were the only option, 3D printed guns would be far less scary. [Shapeways via TechCrunch]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/shapeways-now-lets-you-3d-print-with-soft-squishy-plas-510685624

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Naval Academy probing alleged sexual assault

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The U.S. Naval Academy is investigating allegations that three members of its football team sexually assaulted a female midshipman at an off-campus house last year, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday, and a lawyer for the woman says she was "ostracized" on campus after she reported it.

The names of the players were not made public and the athletic director deferred comment to a Naval Academy spokesman, who said school leadership were monitoring the investigation but declined further comment.

The allegation is the latest in a string of sexual assault cases that has drawn attention in Congress and at the highest levels of the Pentagon. Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the chiefs of each military branch, are scheduled to testify next week at a Senate hearing.

The alleged assault occurred in April 2012 at an off-campus house in Annapolis. The woman woke up after a night of heavy drinking and later learned from friends and social media that three football players claimed to have had sex with her while she was intoxicated, her attorney Susan Burke said in a statement Friday. She said her client reported the allegations to Navy criminal investigators, but was disciplined instead for drinking. The athletes were permitted to continue playing.

She said the Naval Academy Superintendent closed the investigation without bringing charges. The Navy agreed to reopen the investigation this year after the woman sought legal help, Burke said.

Naval Academy spokesman Cmdr. John Schofield declined to respond to Burke's statements.

Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren confirmed the investigation Friday but said he had no further details. He said academy officials are monitoring the investigation and evaluating options for adjudicating the case. Warren said Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is determined to stamp out the problem.

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Associated Press Writer Robert Burns contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:

ABC's "This Week" ? David Plouffe, former adviser to President Barack Obama; Karl Rove, former adviser to President George W. Bush.

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NBC's "Meet the Press" ? Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.; Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

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CBS' "Face the Nation" ? Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Jack Reed, D-R.I.

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CNN's "State of the Union" ? Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.; Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.

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"Fox News Sunday" ? Reps. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/guest-lineups-sunday-news-shows-183815643.html

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Embattled IRS staff remain in jobs despite U.S. tax review scandal

By Kim Dixon

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They've been scorned in televised congressional hearings for unfairly abusing tax laws, threatened with questioning in a criminal investigation and accused of using federal jobs to push a political agenda.

At this point in the saga surrounding the Internal Revenue Service and its use of "Tea Party" and other search terms to flag conservative groups while reviewing their applications for tax-exempt status, all of the employees caught up in the scandal are still drawing federal paychecks.

The official who has become the scandal's public face is on paid administrative leave. The former acting director, who was relieved of his job by President Barack Obama on May 15, departs on Friday.

The names of low-level officials who carried out the practice have been closely guarded by IRS higher-ups and agency's inspector general. No criminal charges have been filed.

There is some caution about a rush to judgment.

"We don't know all the facts yet," said R. Scott Oswald, an attorney who represents federal workers.

Protections exist so workers "are not treated in an arbitrary and capricious way merely for political purposes."

Dean Zerbe, a lawyer who from 2001 to 2008 worked for Republican Senator Charles Grassley on the Finance Committee that oversees the IRS, said the fact that employees are still working "leaves everybody with a bad taste in their mouth. But they do have their due process."

Grassley was among the lawmakers who had complained about the pace of action against IRS officials including Lois Lerner, the director of the tax-exempt division, who became aware in 2011 that some conservative groups were subjected to special scrutiny.

The senior Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee in the House of Representatives also called for Lerner's resignation.

Lerner, who earns about $177,000-a-year, according to a congressional investigator, was placed on paid administrative leave last week. Grassley last week urged a swift review of her case so she is not "in limbo indefinitely on the taxpayers' dime."

Lerner, who set the IRS scandal in motion by apologizing on May 10 at a Washington briefing for tax attorneys, could not be reached, and her attorney had no comment.

Former acting commissioner Steve Miller was pressed by lawmakers to hold individuals accountable in several recent hearings, but he would not name specific employees.

Miller, a near 30-year IRS veteran who was acting head of the agency but was not nominated as permanent director, has earned an estimated $180,000 a year. His government pension remains intact.

"As you sit here today, you were not fired from your job, and I can tell you in my private experience you would have been fired on the spot," Republican Representative Tom Reed told him when Miller gave testimony on Capitol Hill.

Miller's attorney William Burck, with the Quinn Emanuel law firm, said, "he had every right to stay on at the IRS and has done so to facilitate the transition to new leadership."

PROTECTIONS

Days after Lerner first revealed the IRS targeting practices, a report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration detailed the controversial IRS strategies to streamline review of applications for tax-exempt status.

At least three Congressional committees and the Department of Justice are now investigating whether any laws were broken.

Federal employees are protected by a 1972 Supreme Court ruling and a 1978 job security law.

The court ruling ensures due process for public sector workers and the law furthered those rights, including giving workers 30 days to respond to charges.

"The notion that you can't fire federal employers - that is a lot of hyperbole. But they can't summarily terminate an employee - because of these rights," said Joseph Kaplan, a lawyer at Passman & Kaplan, who represents federal workers.

MERIT BOARD APPEAL

If the IRS fires an employee, the worker can appeal to a Merit Systems Protection Board, which has 120 days to uphold or overturn the decision.

The General Services Administration, which operates government facilities and purchases supplies for agencies, went through a similar incident last year after Congress investigated its $820,000 expenditure on a lavish conference, prompting the resignation of the agency's chief and a management shake-up.

At least one executive was reinstated after the merit protection board found he had been fired in error.

It may be easier to fire an IRS worker compared to other federal workers due to the 1998 IRS Restructuring and Reform Act, which sets out what is known in tax circles as the "Ten Deadly Sins," according to experts.

The "sins" include providing a false statement under oath and threatening to audit a taxpayer for personal gain.

"These are offenses that are supposed to call for termination as the only penalty," Kaplan said. "It hamstrings the commissioner's discretion in terms of what penalty to mete out."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/embattled-irs-staff-remain-jobs-despite-u-tax-210345001.html

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Fed may need to let inflation rise to boost jobs: Kocherlakota

By Can Sezer

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve may need to let inflation run a little higher than its 2-percent target in order to bring down unemployment faster, a top Fed official said on Saturday.

Strictly capping inflation at 2 percent while allowing high unemployment to linger would be an "inappropriate" approach to monetary policy, Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Narayana Kocherlakota suggested in slides prepared for presentation at the Istanbul Center for Economic Research.

Instead, a balanced approach to policy could mean letting inflation run slightly hot for several quarters in order to speed the economy's path toward full employment, the slides suggested.

Kocherlakota's prepared slides contained little commentary beyond quotations of stated Fed policy, and offered little insight into the most pressing question of the day for Fed policy watchers: whether and when the U.S. central bank will ease up on the monetary gas pedal by reducing its bond-buying program, now at a massive $85 billion a month.

But graphs plotting inflation and unemployment under "balanced" and "inappropriate" scenarios did suggest that Kocherlakota has no appetite for policies that would allow unemployment to stay high for many years.

Kocherlakota has been virtually alone among top Fed officials in urging his colleagues to ease monetary policy even further to bring down unemployment faster.

In a presentation earlier in the day, Kocherlakota laid out a theoretical case under which too-tight monetary policy can result in overly high real interest rates and a decline in economic activity.

The slides provided in advance of that talk did not address Kocherlakota's views on the appropriateness of current Fed policy.

Against the backdrop of U.S. inflation that is currently well below the Fed's 2-percent target, a monetary policy that requires a trade-off between inflation and employment seems largely theoretical.

Indeed, Kocherlakota noted on Saturday, the very same policies that help bring the economy closer to full employment typically will also help bring inflation closer to the Fed's target.

The Fed's current bond-buying program, aimed at lowering long-term U.S. borrowing costs and boosting growth and hiring, is also expected to boost inflation.

But sometimes, Kocherlakota said, the Fed's two goals can come into conflict, and the central bank must balance them against each other.

That can lead to a policy that allows inflation to rise above the Fed's target temporarily, in order to bring down unemployment faster than otherwise, he said.

The Fed's preferred gauge of inflation rose just 1.1 percent in the past 12 months, data on Friday showed. The Fed watches this index closely to predict the future course of inflation.

(Writing by Ann Saphir; Editing by Diane Craft)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fed-may-let-inflation-rise-boost-jobs-kocherlakota-140404385.html

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