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HOUSTON -- Rice University researchers are making strides toward a set of rules to custom-design Lego-like viral capsid proteins for gene therapy.
A new paper by Rice scientists Junghae Suh and Jonathan Silberg and their students details their use of computational and bioengineering methods to combine pieces of very different adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) to create new, benign viruses that can deliver DNA payloads to specific cells.
The research appears this month in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Synthetic Biology.
AAVs are found in nature and commonly infect humans but cause no disease. That makes them good candidates to serve as carriers that target cells and deliver genes to treat diseases.
The team, which included graduate student and lead author Michelle Ho and undergraduates Benjamin Adler and Michael Torre, wants to define rules to design a variety of viruses that deliver therapeutic genes. They used computer models to find likely AAV candidates for recombination and then tested the model predictions by engineering 17 unique virus capsid proteins and evaluating their ability to fold and assemble into capsid-encased viruses.
Gene therapy shows promise in the treatment of not only genetic disorders but also cancer and cardiovascular diseases, said Suh, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Rice's BioScience Research Collaborative.
"But you need a mechanism to get the correct gene into the human body and to the target cells," she said. "To do that, people use gene vectors, and viruses encompass the largest category of vectors. They've naturally evolved to deliver genes into the body. Our goal is to reprogram them to target specific organs or tissues.
"The big challenge is to go about this in a rational manner," she said. "People have done a lot of work to solve the structure of viruses. We know what they look like. The question is: How can we use that information to guide the design of our viral vectors?"
The team's answer starts with the "SCHEMA" algorithm they adapted to predict how parts of very large viruses can recombine by homing in on the viral protein sequences that work well together.
Silberg, an associate professor of biochemistry and cell biology, said approaches to virus design can lean either toward brute force -- "Let's make 1,000 of them and maybe we'll get lucky" -- or purely computational, where a biophysicist will try to predict the role of small changes to the virus capsid.
"We're working on a hybrid approach," he said. "Instead of making a random library (of viruses) or computationally designing a single virus, which has a low frequency of working, we're trying to make smart libraries. We're learning to adapt computer programs used for small proteins with a few thousand atoms for viruses with more than 100,000 atoms."
Rather than target mutations in particular viruses, the researchers used the program to compare parts from different but related viruses to see if they would combine together to form new viruses.
"We're treating them like Legos," Silberg said. "We're taking distantly related viruses that nature might not recombine very efficiently and looking for self-contained pieces of these proteins that can be swapped."
The "parent" viruses were AAV serotype 2, which Suh said is the most commonly studied for gene therapy today, and AAV serotype 4. "They're part of the same virus family, but genetically, AAV4 is one of the most different from AAV2."
She said it has been difficult for researchers in the past to rationally make chimeras -- one organism that combines parts of two or more genetically distinct elements -- from these viruses using traditional techniques.
But Suh's lab confirmed the chimeric structures predicted by the computer models could be made into real hybrid viruses. Now the challenge is to make a much larger library of chimeric viruses to establish a statistically solid set of guidelines.
"We want to know how to make a more stable virus, or a virus that switches its conformation after it enters a cell," Silberg said.
"And we want to know how to make one that goes not only just to the brain, but to a specific part of the brain to target a neurodegenerative disease," Suh added. "The bottom line is that we want these rules."
Silberg said the researchers had expected to confirm that the SCHEMA algorithm could efficiently predict recombinations that could deliver cargo to cells. "But we also learned something really surprising: that you can beat these viruses up a lot more than you can small proteins, and they still assemble into large virus particles," he said. "It's really interesting that viruses fundamentally seem to tolerate the kind of mutation we're doing."
The Keck Center of the Gulf Coast Consortia Nanobiology Interdisciplinary Graduate Training Program (through a grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering), the Robert A. Welch Foundation and the National Science Foundation supported the research.
Read the abstract at http://pubs.
This news release can be found online at http://news.
Follow Rice News and Media Relations via Twitter @RiceUNews
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Rice University researchers adapted a computer algorithm to find the parts of two distantly related adeno-associated viruses that could be recombined into new and useful viruses for gene therapy. They intend to determine the rules by which custom viruses can easily be designed for therapies. (Credit: Benjamin Adler/Rice University)
Rice University researchers adapted a computer algorithm to find the parts of two distantly related adeno-associated viruses that could be recombined into new and useful viruses for gene therapy. They intend to determine the rules by which custom viruses can easily be designed for therapies. (Credit: Benjamin Adler/Rice University)
Rice University researchers have laid the groundwork for rules to custom-design viral vectors for gene therapy. From left, graduate student Michelle Ho, Professors Jonathan Silberg and Junghae Suh and Rice senior Benjamin Adler. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)
Rice graduate student Michelle Ho is lead author of a new study that sets the groundwork for rules to custom-design viral vectors for gene therapy. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)
Senior Benjamin Adler and graduate student Michelle Ho are co-authors of a new study at Rice University to set rules for the custom design of Lego-like viral capsid proteins for gene therapy. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)
Located on a 300-acre forested campus in Houston, Rice University is consistently ranked among the nation's top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has highly respected schools of Architecture, Business, Continuing Studies, Engineering, Humanities, Music, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences and is home to the Baker Institute for Public Policy. With 3,708 undergraduates and 2,374 graduate students, Rice's undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is 6-to-1. Its residential college system builds close-knit communities and lifelong friendships, just one reason why Rice has been ranked No. 1 for best quality of life multiple times by the Princeton Review and No. 2 for "best value" among private universities by Kiplinger's Personal Finance. To read "What they're saying about Rice," go to http://tinyurl.


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|Jets backup Chris Mason turned down a two-year deal and signed in Nashville.
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In a day that saw a number of teams land bigger name free agents - Dallas landing Ray Whitney, Tampa landing Sami Salo, Colorado landing P.A. Parenteau, and Vancouver landing Jason Garrison - the Jets had a net loss of players, as forward Tanner Glass signed a two-year deal with Pittsburgh worth $1.1 mil per and backup goalie Chris Mason returning to the club who drafted him for one year worth $1.25 mil per.
These two departures may be the biggest blow to any Jet fans ego because of the weight these guys held with the fans and with the team identity.
Mason, who was the first Jet to step onto the ice at the MTS Iceplex last summer along with ordering special order Jet goalie pads, blocker, and glove, appeared to be the most gung-ho and passionate about wanting to stay in Winnipeg, even as a backup to budding starter Ondrej Pavelec.
But according to TSN's Sara Orlesky via Twitter, Jets General Manager Kevin Cheveldayoff offered Mason more term and more money, but Mason opted to move back to Nashville.
Ken Wiebe, of the Winnipeg Sun, mentioned that Mason was torn between a two-year deal offered by the Jets and the Predators one-year deal.
In all, fans may feel that Mason paid somewhat cheap lip service to Jet fans and media about his intentions and his passions.
Luckily for Jets fans, he's just the backup goalie.
Talks were beginning with New Jersey Devils backup Johan Hedberg, according to Orlesky via Twitter, but has somewhat stalled since.
Other backup goalies Jets fans could potentially look forward to seeing in a Jets jerseys as UFAs include Marty Turco, Andrew Raycroft, Justin Pogge, and Al Montoya among other lesser known names.
As for Tanner Glass, his departure leaves more to be desired to be replaced by the Jets.
|Fan favourite winger Tanner Glass is off to Pittsburgh.
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Signing with Pittsburgh was the Penguins way of filling the hole left by Arron Asham.
Now that Pittsburgh signed a Winnipeg fan favourite, the Jets will probably not search too hard as they may look to fill the gap left by Glass with an upcoming prospect in the likes of a Patrice Cormier.
Filling the void left by Glass on the GST line may seem as either a big job or not significant at all depending on where value is placed on Glass' impact on the team.
Surely, he was a prototypical Cheveldayoff guy - grit, heart, lunch pail work ethic - but can a Patrice Cormier fill that role at a younger age and cheaper contract?
|Jets inked Ponikarovsky to one year @ $1.8 mil per.
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Ponikarovsky reached his first Stanley Cup Final last season with the New Jersey Devils - his fifth team in five years - and had nine points in 24 playoff games.
He had a disappointing start to the 2011-12 season after scoring only 15 points in 49 games with the Carolina Hurricanes fresh off a new, one-year contract.
But after a trade to New Jersey, Ponikarovsky seemed to find a bit of a stride scoring 18 points in his final 33 games with the Devils.
Ponikarovsky has played in 636 career games, collecting 314 points (135 goals, 179 assists) with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins, Los Angeles Kings, Hurricanes, and Devils.
As he is reunited with Antropov, the immediate thought is how Ponikarovsky will add size and will possibly help his former linemate in Toronto to produce more.
Antropov had 35 points (15 goals, 20 assists) in 69 games with the Jets last season, his lowest point total since 2006-07 with the Leafs. The Jets centre is only two years removed from a career year of 67 points in Atlanta, so the hope is Ponikarovsky can help Antropov.
Along with the signing of Ponikarovsky, the Jets also re-upped Winnipeg native Derek Meech to a two-way deal and Jason King to an AHL deal.
Meech, whose season was shortened due to injury, was an instrumental part of the St. John's Ice Caps blueline en route to their long Calder Cup Playoff run scoring nine points (four goals, five assists) in 15 playoff games.
|Jets re-signed local Winnipegger Meech to a two-way deal.
(Photo Courtesy Yahoo! Sports)
A former Detroit Red Wings pick, Meech will look to prove himself again to the Jets that he can be a full time NHLer and has good shot at it too as the only local boy now on the team with the departure of Eric Fehr.
In 128 career NHL games, the 5'11 defenseman has 16 points (four goals, 12 assists) and 43 penalty minutes.
As for King, he had a good first season back in North America after playing three seasons in Germany.
In 70 games for the Ice Caps, King registered 22 goals and 19 assists for 41 points alongside 34 penalty minutes and a minus 14 rating.
In 15 playoff games, King had four points (two goals, two assists)
Look for Cheveldayoff to take a measured approach to the remainder of the summer when sizing up his team.
For the Jets brass, changing the identity is key as they will want to further distance themselves from being an organization that was built by another GM in Atlanta and becoming more and more ingrained as the Winnipeg Jets.
Again, the Jets are doing things the Chevy way - thus patience is key.


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Quixtar Inc Nutripet Premium Dog Food
Date of last review
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Feeding guideline:
A 50lb dog should be fed about 2 cups
Chicken meal, ground brown rice, ground white rice, oatmeal, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), dried beet pulp, dried egg product, fish meal, flaxseed, dried peas, dired carrots, salt, dried apples, dried cranberries, beta-carotene, dehydrated kelp, yucca schidigera extract, DL-methionine, vitamin A acetate, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin E supplement, riboflavin supplement, vitamin B12 supplement, d-pantothenic acid, niacin supplement, choline chloride, thiamine monomnitrate, folic acid, ascorbic acid, biotin, lecithin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, rosemary extract, inositol, polysaccharide complexes of zinc, iron, copper and cobalt, potassium iodate, sodium selenite, lactobacillus acidophilus, lactobacillus casei, enterococcus faecium, B. subtilus, bacillus licheniformis, bacillus coagulins, aspergillus oryzae, aspergillus niger.
Guaranteed analysis:
Crude protein min. 24%
Crude fat min. 14%
Crude fiber max 4.0%
Moisture max. 10%
Vitamin A min. 22,000 IU/kg
Vitamin E min. 165 IU/kg
*Ascorbic acid min. 30mg/kg
*DHA min. 0.1%
*Omega 6 Fatty Acids min. 2.7%
*Omega 3 Fatty Acids min. 0.65%
Beta Carotene min. 5.0mg/kg
*Total Lacric Acid Producing Live Microorganisms 240 million CFU/LB
*Not recognised as an essential nutrient by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles
Nutritional Statement:
For growing puppies and adult dogs alike, Nutripet provides 100% complete and balanced nutrition based on standards set by the Association of Feed Control Officials (AFCO).
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First ingredient is a named meat product
Insufficient meat content, controversial filler
The First ingredient is a named meat product, in meal form. There is a further meat meal ingredient 8th on the ingredient list, but this is too far down to make a substantial contribution to the overall meat content of the food. It is a fish meal ingredient, but we find no guarantee on the manufacturers website that protein sources are ethoxyquin-free (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative commonly added to fish destined for meal, and is believed to be carcinogenic).
The main grains in the food are rice and oatmeal. These are good quality grains but with three grains in the top four ingredients, the food looks rather grain heavy and we cannot have much confidence in the meat content of the food. Beet pulp is filler and a controversial ingredient it is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
We appreciate the range of fruits/vegetables and probiotics in the food, but would prefer to see the use of whole eggs rather than egg product.
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Hey folks! Haven't updated in a while, but I'll be updating The Daily Doodle again very soon! Just two weeks left with my day job at the grocery store. Once that's over, I'll be doing freelance illustration and design full time. This means I'll actually have time in my schedule to Draw comics again. I'm hoping to return the first week of July. If not then, then the week after. Once I get the ball rolling it should be a regular thing like when I first started, but better than ever!Posted 20:55
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I love this.
A Starry Night from Torchbox on Vimeo.
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These posters are awesome. There's nothing more to say. Be sure to click on the images to see them in full size and see which fonts were used to create them.
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A few years ago, I joked with a coworker that we should design carbon fiber cookware. Our first design was to be chopsticks. Now the joke is real. Designed with a special coating to be non-toxic and dishwasher safe, these may just be the fastest chopsticks in the world.
If you have copious amounts of money to spend, buy a set over at Carbon Fiber Gear for $150.
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I've found that decorating a home office can be quite a challenge. You want your room to look nice but having a functional work space is more important. Every once in a while you get lucky come across a piece that combines form and function absolutely perfectly. For our office, that piece is the Cognita Storage Bench. Designed by Blu Dot for Herman Miller's Lifework series, this walnut bench provides an upholstered sitting area, drawers for notebooks and supplies, and a solid surface for displaying artwork or holding your often required home office liquor collection. The best part, however, is that the entire seat lifts up to reveal an enormous file cabinet that holds letter and legal size files.
Available in green, red or brown from YLiving for $999.
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This is for all you DIY geeks. Simply amazing.
Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.
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It's no secret, I love wooden toys. They just have a certain feel to them that makes playtime seem so much more satisfying. What is a secret, however, is that IKEA has some classic wooden toys at their typical unbelievable prices. Their MULA stacking rings are probably my favorite. The colors are deep and bright and the rings are cut to be just difficult enough to teach kids hand-eye coordination and mechanics.
Available from IKEA for $6.
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I've been scouring the internets for the perfect alphabet art to hang in our child's room and this piece from Bookhou might be a winner. Laser cut in 1/4 inch birch plywood, it's perfect for hanging on the wall or just leaning against it. While the company normally uses wood to produce furniture, their take on an age old kid's poster idea is right up my alley.
Available from Bookhou for $50.
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A wooden cube that transforms into a robot that you can pose? Awesome! The fact that it was inspired by Japanese joinery makes it that much cooler. I can't wait to get my hands on one.
Available from Twine for $25.
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I love photography. I love manual photography even more. Ever since I picked up my Dad's old SLR as a little boy I've loved the feel of a metal camera in my hands, the gears clicking as I adjusted the exposure. You can imagine, then, my lust for the new Leica M9 Titanium. A limited edition of 500, this model was designed by Walter de'Silva, a master automobile designer for Volkswagen AG. Constructed with a titanium frame and Audi leather trim, this already premium camera takes on a whole new level of awesome.
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And we're back! Sorry about the delay. Between preparing for a new baby and moving across the country, I didn't have much time for design writing. Here's my attempt to change that.
This bike shelf from Knife & Saw was too beautiful not to post. Hewn from solid walnut or ash, it's the perfect way to store a bike in plain sight without the use of ugly industrialized racks. Plus, it acts as a shelf for your keys, bike lock, world domination plans, whatever. I think I want to start riding my bike again.
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POLL: Tight Arts - Rebuff leaves Renew at risk
THE state government has slashed its financial support for Renew Newcastle, jeopardising the arts initiative that is credited with reinvigorating the city centre by breathing life into dozens of empty buildings.
Arts NSW has knocked back the request for $70,000 in annual funding, agreeing instead to provide $30,000.
This is a cut from the $50,000 a year that has typically gone to the organisation.
Renew Newcastle has received international acclaim for its initiative to encourage artists, cultural projects, budding entrepreneurs and community groups to set up in vacant buildings.
Only this week, seven boutiques and showcases opened in the former David Jones building, renamed The Emporium.
Renew founder Marcus Westbury said the funding cut could spell the end for the program, which had been a catalyst for change.
''It will make it very hard for us to continue,'' Mr Westbury said.
''The timing is really difficult when we've just opened up David Jones ... and have all of this momentum at the moment. It really will curtail that.''
Renew Newcastle got the bad news late on Thursday from Arts NSW, its main funding source.
''There are more than 50 buildings in Newcastle that were vacant when we started working on them less than four years ago,'' Mr Westbury said.
''There are 39 projects currently running in what would otherwise be empty buildings ... and then there's the legacy of all the places we've been working in.
''There is a danger that that activity will disappear from the parts of town that we're already working in, but also a danger that we will lose any ability to expand and continue to do new projects and bring new parts of the city back to life.''
Newcastle MP Tim Owen said he had written yesterday to Arts Minister George Souris seeking an explanation.
''I know money is tight, but these guys do a great job,'' Mr Owen said.
Mr Souris said an independent panel assessed the applications.
An Arts NSW spokeswoman said the panel consisted of industry peers, who assessed applications against published criteria.
''Each year we receive many more applications than can be funded,'' she said.
''Some organisations have received less than requested and some organisations funded in 2012 will not be funded in 2013.''
The panel assessed 109 applications seeking a total of $6.9million.
It recommended funding for 74 applications totalling $3.2million, a success rate of 68per cent.
''If there's anything that represents better value out of that budget I'd love to know what it is,'' Mr Westbury said.
Hunter Business Chamber chief executive Kristen Keegan said Renew Newcastle was ''a world-leading initiative'' that had been replicated across the country.
''We would be very concerned if they were to lose their funding.''
Labor's Hunter spokeswoman, Linda Burney, called on Mr Souris to step in and reverse ''this short-sighted decision'' immediately.
''At a time when the O'Farrell Government is already cutting funding for arts courses at Newcastle TAFE, this is another big blow for the local arts community and the people of Newcastle,'' Ms Burney said.
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April 28, 2016
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April 27, 2016
Harvest Bins are back + Organizing my Pantry + Gift Baskets
I introduced this basket in late February with my Spring Collection. It flew out of the door and I immediately ordered more... and then I was told that they would not have more made until April. Of course! So, here we are at the end of April, restocked and ready to go.
I love the size and shape of this basket. It has squared corners, making more of a bin, perfect for organizing cupboards and shelves. Here, I filled it with some Lilac favorites for a gift that I'm giving to Emma's teacher. I included more details about how I put the basket together and products included, at the end of the post.
With a plethora of bins available, yesterday, I picked up a couple for myself and did some much needed organizing...
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Are you ready for a peek inside my pantry? This photo is post a 30-minute organizing session yesterday. Before I started I grabbed my camera and took a shot of the very messy "before" pantry, but as fate would have it, my camera didn't have a card in it... which I just realized as I was uploading these photos. So, lucky you, you don't get to see my embarrassing mess of a pantry, but only the cleaned-up version. I lucked out!
This is one of those projects that I have put off for months, but that drives me crazy every day. I'm not kidding that it just took 30 minutes - so much better.
I realize I could've styled the heck out of this, but I wanted to keep it real. I organized it for our real life. This was just what was already in here, but now better organized.
Before the organization, I didn't have any baskets to help rein and divide the clutter. Everything was just piled in, and if it was behind something, it may as well have been lost.
In the "snack" area, I have a Small Harvest Basket for fresh fruit (it also lives on the counter, sometimes, but Emma can reach it better here) and a Harvest Bin for bags of chips and pretzels. I can easily slide the baskets out to access items stored behind that aren't used as often.
I used a Large Harvest Tray as a sort of drawer to hold allllll of the pasta that I apparently need. I also need some more binder clips to hold the opened bags securely closed. I love that I can slide it out to see what I have, instead of just reaching my hand back there and hoping I come out with what I need.
On the top shelf I keep a basket with bread + onions + potatoes + garlic. Again, nice to be able to easily pull it out and see what I have.
Behind it, I keep Plastic Containers (16 for $8) of baking essentials like chocolate chips, banana chips (for muffins!), pecans, dried cranberries, milk chocolate chips, peanut butter chips and butterscotch chips. You never know...
The basket to the left reins all of the brown sugar and powdered sugar that hasn't made it to the countertop canisters.
On a lower shelf, I have Quart Baskets that hold crackers, girl scout cookies, oatmeal pouches, etc. - all at Emma's reach. Below that is our S'mores basket ready to go out to the fire and Mr. Darcy's food!
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Ick, my lighting was off in this photo! But, you can get a glimpse of what is happening in the upper cabinets where I store vases, jars of jam, cookbooks, candles, etc. I probably need a better system up there, too, but one step at a time! You may notice that the door to the right (where Emma keeps her art and crafts supplies) is closed as it has recently been officially unorganized by a fun cousin weekend. That will be my next project!
Ok, back to the gift! I included (left to right)
Lilac Tea Towel, $14
Bath Brush, $14
Meena Lilac Apron, $34
Concord Green Candles, $10.50
Kitchen Scrub Brushes, $10
Lilac French Tumbler Candle, $25
Lilac Oven Mitt (on sale, comes as set of 2 for
Everyday Occasions Boxed Gift Card
As I was making the basket, I thought I'd share this look out of my window at the new playhouse! We had torrential storms here last night, so I'm relieved to see that it is still standing... and that all of the cedar shakes are still in place and the door didn't fly off.
The details are coming next week, I hope : )
April 26, 2016
Inspiration : The Two Great Classics, Martha & Ina
There are two books that I will always love and consider to be my favorite all time examples of entertaining, "Great Parties" by Martha Stewart, and "Parties!" by Ina Garten. I remember reading each of these books for the first time (shortly after college) and being so inspired by the casual, chic style of each "party." Maybe I was so moved because it was the first time I had seen books completely devoted to casually elegant entertaining? The parties weren't terribly fancy or pretentious feeling (no fine china or lace in site), but they were parties that I could envision myself hosting - in a dream garden of my own... in the Hamptons, of course ; )
Without a doubt these two books were the cornerstones of my first business, Occasions Entertaining, that focused on "small to medium-sized events" in my clients' homes. I would tote these two books to my meetings with dog-eared pages to show my clients.
Great Parties by Martha Stewart, 1997
Having moved six times since first starting my business 10+ years ago, I somehow forgot about and misplaced this "Great Parties" book by Martha Stewart. Last week, I was racking my brain and googling like crazy to find a photo of an outdoor party by Martha Stewart that I knew I had seen somewhere... but couldn't find it online anywhere. Then, I came across a cover shot of this book and it was like complete deja vu. I ordered it instantly (used from amazon, it is now out of print!).
Each page was a trip down memory lane. I remembered each and every featured party and it completely reinvigorated my love for casual, elegant, chic entertaining. Thank Goodness it is spring and the height of outdoor entertaining season, because almost everyone of my favorites from this book is set outside in a lush garden.
Inspiration is so huge for a person like me. I find it everywhere. New inspiration is like gold. When you have written so many posts and executed so many parties, it can feel like you've done it all. Old inspiration that feels new again (revisiting it 10 years later!) can be even better because it is the original flame - feeling that new excitement all over again is so special.
Here are some of my favorites :
I can't tell you how many wedding showers I did that started with this page! This page started my collection of cake stands and mason jars, too.
This book is Martha in her heyday, when things seemed simple, effortless and lovely. This seems like a world away from the crazy DIY, trend following, modern-chic, urban-chic, vintage-chic, farm-to-trend, everyone copies everyone, everything looks the same pinterest world we live in today. I promise, my only soapbox of the post! I just miss the old days of real parties in real homes with classic style as inspiration : )
Do you recognize this garden shed? This book was my first exposure to Ina, when she was just a shop owner and a friend of Martha's from East Hampton in 1997.
I'm fairly certain my own wedding was based on this feature.
Those lanterns!
This. This is my dream. Thank you, Martha, you have just secured my need for a country home with a skating pond to host a party just like this. Mike thanks you, as well ; )
Why have I never made ice lanterns?! I will be re-stocking my white glassine bags for cookies after seeing this post - I remember how obsessed I was with them when I first started my business. Every cookie I made was in a glassine bag.
Sweet, sweet original Ina. I love all of the color she was embracing. I know people don't always realize this, but there was a huge shift in design color palettes after 9/11/01. In 1997 no one would've dreamed of painting their entire house grey. I'm as guilty as anyone in my love of neutrals, but seeing this feel so happy, easy and comfortable.
Ina's garden and her original crew - Frank Newbold and Martha included. Always fun to see someone before they are someone. It reminds me of when we were seated next to her for dinner in East Hampton - so normal and sweet.
Being a Midwest Farm girl, I love all of this... but I can tell you it was probably very staged, as no real farming family I know has ever set up a family picnic party like this : ) I still love it.
Yum! What a spread.
Love this imagery so much that I bought sour cherries at the store yesterday... I need to find a producing cherry tree this summer!
Another feature that inspired so many baby showers and bridal showers for my clients.
I am aching for this setting - I want the plates and those flowers. And the chairs.
Love this cake with broken pieces of brittle on the sides. Those flags made of ribbon are darling, too. I maybe copying one of these shortly (fathers day?!). This cake would look spectacular with some of my Celebration Candles (also a favorite of Martha's).
"Parties" by Ina Garten the Barefoot Conessa
The other book that is well worn, but still in constant use is the Barefoot's "Parties!" cookboook. Yes, that is probably chocolate on the spine... from many years ago when I was making her flourless chocolate cake.
I read somewhere that Ina and Martha first bonded over building their new "old homes" in East Hampton.
Everything thing in this book, like Martha's, is timeless. Both were written almost 20 years ago, but I still love every single page.
How many of us dream of spending our days like this? This is probably what I thought my business days would look like - sometimes they actually do now, but when I was running my event planning and catering business it looked a lot different!
I love that Ina isn't afraid to set a table wherever it fits. She gave us the courage to not "need" a formal dining room. Did you know that Ina uses Creative Candles, too? My sales rep says Ina's assistant calls her orders in for Tapers to keep on hand.
I love this. I love the blue and white, I love the muscari and I love that coffee cake on a pedestal dripping with glaze.
Such a pretty setting with beautiful color.
Don't those glasses look familiar! That combination of roses is so stunning. I can always tell when a book was shot - though they are going for a fall table, it still looks like summer.
My love affair of parchment paper starts here!
Stripes are never out of style.
I used this photo as inspiration last month for Joy's birthday party dinner! Emma picked it from the book. See those 6" Celebration Candles?
One of my favorite recipes of all time. Herbed grilled shrimp with pesto pasta.
Are these the same green plates from Martha's book? Ok, I might have to add to my white plate collection : )
Do you have timeless sources of inspiration? I would love to know what copies of books and magazines that you keep around. I would also love to know about bloggers out there doing timeless, classic posts - such magic when you find a good one!
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Omnia in orbis? Really?
Data archiving, data hygiene and good old common sense can help keep your company off the spinning disk treadmill. Find out what Jon Toigo has to say on the subject.
- Jon Toigo, Toigo Partners International
Data archiving, data hygiene and good old common sense can help keep your company off the spinning disk treadmill. Find out what Jon Toigo has to say on the subject.
A few years ago (and this may come as little surprise to readers of this column), I was fired by a publication for something I had written. As I recall, the piece was entitled "Time for a SAN Report Card" and I wrote it for a competing publication's microsite that supported the efforts of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), the industry consortium of storage vendors.
I noted in the piece the inconvenient truth about Fibre Channel storage-area networks (SANs); that they weren't networks at all, unless you were willing to go along with the industry marketecture that basically held that SANs were networks "because we say they are." Last year, I ran into a speaker in a hallway at Storage Decisions who told me he was helping folks understand the limits of SANs, noting that while he had disagreed with me at the time when I observed that SANs weren't networks, just a channel fabric, many of the problems that folks are having today related directly to that fundamental truth.
I guess I should have been pleased by the validation, at long last. But I actually paid it little attention. It was yesterday's issue, and I have long since gotten over the "pain" of having been so universally panned by SNIA and its minions for my "iconoclasm."
I've been ruminating on this bit of history for several reasons. First, I had to endure EMC World and all their chatter about Atmos and clouds. Then, I had to deal with the planners of a prominent fall trade show regarding an email blast they were issuing to promote the show that was literally brimming with marketing bull that hit all the shiny new memes: cloud, mobility, BYOD (bring your own device -- I had to look it up), "big data" and so on. And lastly, I found myself ticked off by an email I received stating that data is doubling every 1.2 years to justify the purchase of faster servers.
Let's go to the last one first. A prominent server manufacturer, using money provided by a prominent manufacturer of the latest generation of fast CPUs, asserted a rate of data growth that was attributed to a smart guy at MIT Sloan School of Management. I copied and pasted the link and went to a blog page where the factoid was gathered and found nothing but a statement made by the bearded professorial writer -- an assertion of this data growth stat. There was nothing to justify it; no empirical evidence whatsoever, just a statement I guess we were supposed to take as gospel because it was wrapped in a nicely designed blog site at MIT Sloan.
I've tracked data growth claims since IDC began writing "Exploding Digital Universe" research papers with the expectation, I guess, that they would convince consumers to buy more capacity for their SAN-that-isn't-really-a-network. UC Berkeley was first out of the gate with this analysis, which referred not to the rate of data growth inside companies, but the rate at which data formerly stored in analog media (film, vinyl records, analog tape, paper) was being converted into digital files.
I know of no empirical research that demonstrates with any validity the rate of data growth in a business. That's because no one knows how fast their data is growing; they only know how much storage they're buying year over year. The latter isn't an indication of data growth rates, but of data mismanagement, pure and simple. A combination of archive and good old-fashioned data hygiene could whittle that capacity demand down substantially, based on the research of my firm, which demonstrated in a population of more than 3,000 companies that less than 30% of the data occupying disk needs to be on spinning rust.
But no one wants to talk about a storage reclamation strategy, only a storage expansion strategy. Everything-to-disk (soon to be everything-on-flash solid-state drives) ideology has replaced common sense thinking about the data deluge and I'm frankly getting sick of it.
Why do you need storage clouds like Atmos? As elbow room for your SANs and network-attached storage (NAS) boxes, of course. And why do we need the elbow room? Because of all that big data stuff we should all be doing to make our businesses more competitive, or to redress the piggishness of server virtualization wares that require data to be replicated all over the place to support high-availability clustering -- not only for critical apps, but for file servers and low traffic Web servers.
Omnia in orbis -- Latin for "everything on disk" -- may sound collegiate, but it isn't a foundation for sound storage strategy. It isn't the basis for buying a high-end server. And it shouldn't be the organizing principle for a trade show that once served as part primer/part technology update for practitioners of the dark arts of IT.
BIO: Jon William Toigo is a 30-year IT veteran, CEO and managing principal of Toigo Partners International, and chairman of the Data Management Institute.
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We had a week off between World Championships and going to Sochi, Russia for the World Cup Finals. Our goal for this trip was to do recon of the hill and prepare ourselves for 2014 Paralympic Games. Easier said than done. Going out the starting gate in a downhill race, I am committed. In a downhill race reaching speeds up to
65 mph there is no way to give half the effort. You have to commit. Downhill skiing is our favorite discipline. It is packed with fast speeds, extreme adventure, intense fear, pure trust, excitement and fun we (Rob and I) have on the course. I love downhill ski racing!
Due to very warm weather and very soft conditions the first day of training was cancelled. As a result, we had a downhill training run followed by a race the same day.
The Training Run was a great first run. I had a lot of nerves, doubts and excitement about doing my first "real" jump in a race course. Rob went over the course with me after inspection to give me confidence. Rob always knows what to say and do to encourage me to go for it. Kevin Jardine (our high performance director and head coach) said something to me that made me believe in myself because he did and it was time to go.
Downhill race 1:
The sun was out and the snow was getting soft. We were unaware the conditions were challenging. We push through the start again committing to the run (still very nervous and scared). Once I am through the start I let go of fear and focus on the moment. The top was a little soft and grabby but we seemed to have control. I went into the jump and the timing was perfect. It was a nice flight for only my second time in the air. The landing went smooth and then it felt like I could not get control of my skis. The skis were grabby with the soft surface. Down I went. The next thing I knew I was in the red room (the protective netting), wondering what just happened.
The video showed I went into a rut with too much weight on my inside ski. The ski came off and shot at least 20 feet into the air and ended up bent. I tried to save myself and my hip and knee went into a bad position, then I did a flip and landed on my face, and then slid fast into the nets. It was a while before I moved. I heard the course workers saying in a distance "medic, medic," then another said "Do you need an ambulance?" They all sounded far away and I was thinking to myself, 'am I ok? Am I bleeding? Is my body distorted? Why are they screaming medic and ambulance?'
Then Rob got there (since he is in front he had to hike back up to me) and said to them "She is fine, she will be ok." I heard his voice and knew I would be ok and started to move. My face hurt, my chest hurt when I breathed and my leg/hip was hurting. We made our way down without any assistance. When we got to the bottom our team doctor was there too. We put snow on my face (which was swollen and cut), he stretched me and wrapped my ribs to give me relief when I breathed.
That night our athletic trainer stretched me, wrapped me and encouraged me to spend some time in the whirlpool. Our ski technician Mark Kelly (Skiddy) prepared a new pair skis for the next day, since mine were done. Skiddy always tunes our skis to perfection and always gives me a meaningful high five. He really is an awesome tech and good person.
Downhill race 2:
The next day I woke up sore and not knowing if I could pull off a race after the crash. My knee was hurting really bad. Doc wrapped it up at breakfast and Rob and I agreed to go inspect and decide from there. The way things felt it was unlikely we would race, but at least we could still do more recon.
We inspected the course and my knee was hurting so bad. Rob and I went down to talk to our athletic trainer (Sara) and she said she could wrap my knee and it will feel supported. Her confidence and reassurance was so helpful.
We went back to the top of the race course and it was about 20 minutes until the start. I had not skied yet on the new skis and with my body feeling like a truck had hit me. We knew I had to ski before racing. Rob did not push me; he was understanding and very supportive. He told Kevin we were going to have to make a free run and that we may be back. If we missed the start then we missed the start, but we had to see if I could ski. Kevin understood and said no problem. We skied down and I felt stronger than I thought I would. We got on the gondola and started stripping down to our speed suits. As the lift passed over the start we were four racers from our start. We jumped out of the lift and skied down to the start area and just made it with two minutes to spare.
Kevin, as always, helped calm my nerves. Rob and I had a plan in case I could not make it through the entire run. We went into the gate and I knew once I went through the start, "I am committed to the run." We had a solid run, a little slower on the top. I almost crashed the jump but pushed through and went full-throttle from there to the finish and when we got to the bottom. Rob said "we are winning." I was in major pain and did not grasp what he said. WE WON OUR FIRST WORLD CUP DOWNHILL RACE! We won on the same course we will be racing at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games. When it came time for the medal ceremony Erik Petersen, our coach and mentor; who has helped us from the very beginning of our career was the one who put our medals around our neck. Then hearing our country's National Anthem at the awards ceremony was incredible. Tears of joy and accomplishment rolled down my face.
Don't ever give up. I am living proof anything is possible. I am a wife, a mother, a visually impaired (with an eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa) ski racer on the U.S. Paralympics Alpine Skiing Team and I live with multiple sclerosis.
Still today I am in shock. We did it! We accomplished this together, against all odds and we did it as a team. Team Vision4Gold. I love my husband, guide and best friend Rob. I could not be where I am without him every step of the way.
We could not have done it together without the support of all our sponsors, donors, coaching staff/medical team/ski technicians, teammates, friends and most of all family. Thanks for your continued support.
Congratulations to our teammates for their success in Sochi too.
Downhill race 1 - Tyler Walker = Gold
Downhill race day 2 - Chris Devlin-Young = Gold; Allison Jones (standing) = Bronze; Alana Nichols (sitting class) = Bronze


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Anything astronauts
do in space is practiced dozens of times on the ground -- whether
it's attaching a new piece of equipment to the space station during
a spacewalk or growing cell cultures to better understand how cancer
trainers ensure that astronauts not only understand every task they
will do in space, but that they understand the intricacies of the
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Sentence Correction Tip: When to Listen to Your Ear
Once in a while, the GMAT will hurl a particularly nasty question in your direction, one that seems deliberately designed to make you feel uncertain about all of the answer choices. These sorts of questions will most likely include rare idioms, awkward phrasing, and suspicious pronouns to keep you off balance.
In these instances, sometimes your only defense is to plant your feet firmly on the ground, forget the rules, and pretend that you're saying the sentence to your best friend. Pick whichever choice makes you feel the least ridiculous. However, this strategy should be reserved for those times when your knowledge of grammar isn't helping much. Even if English is your second (or third) language, remember that using your ear and feeling the sentences on your tongue can still be one of your most powerful tools.
Take a look at the following question:
Students in the metropolitan school district lack math skills to such a large degree as to make it difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming ever more dependent on information-based industries.
(A) lack math skills to such a large degree as to make it difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming
Pretty nasty, right? Reading each choice aloud helps to clear things out.
This question is testing the proper use of the idioms "such X that Y" and "so X that Y," in which Y should be a clause. The original sentence uses the idiomatically incorrect to such a large degree as to, rather than "that."
Choice C uses lack as a noun instead of a verb, so the noun students loses its corresponding verb. Lack as a noun would be correct if students were a possessive, but unfortunately it isn't. Choice D's lacking so much in math skills as to be is unidiomatic because of the awkward insertion of much. Choice B is unnecessarily wordy and convoluted. Not only do we have to a large enough degree rather than simply so, but we also have an extra relative clause, economy that becomes, rather than simply economy becoming. In the absence of concrete grammatical errors, we need to look to stylistic concerns. Here, Choice E is far better stylistically. It uses the correct idiom "so X that Y" and is clear and concise. Choice E is correct.
Although at first glance their antecedents may seem unclear, the pronouns it and them in Choice E are not ambiguous. The pronoun it refers to the following phrase to absorb them into a city economy. What will be difficult? To absorb students into a city economy. Compare this to simple phrases such as "It is easy to bake a pie." The pronoun "it" refers to the action "to bake pie." What is easy? To bake a pie. The active version of this sentence is "Baking a pie is easy."
The pronoun them can logically refer only to students, since it does not make sense to describe skills as absorbed into a city economy. It's important to keep an eye out for pronoun errors, but don't assume an answer choice is a weaker option just because you see pronouns.
Takeaway: Familiarity with correct idioms and proper pronoun usage will be invaluable come test day. That said, don't forget that you can occasionally rely on your ear to steer you in the right direction.
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So you like to play WoW, and you like to play WoW well. And you like to raid. But you're having trouble finding a guild that meets your crazy hours. Maybe you have an erratic work schedule. Or maybe you're only available one night a week.
Good news!
My guild, Team Sport, is a group of people who have weird work schedules, who have limits on how much they can play. And we also have members who never miss a raid. What we have in common: the time we have to play, we do our best to make the most out of.
We'd love to have a few more like-minded people to join our ranks. We especially need dps, but due to the nature of our group, there's always room for another healer or another tank.
Sound like you?
We raid on Tuesday and Thursday, from 5 to 8 Pacific Time on Nerzhul (Alliance side).
We've got 4 bosses down in Firelands and we're working on our Alysrazer kill as well as getting Baleroc on farm.
We play well. We learn fights fast. Deaths to standing in crap are rare. It's just that with such a tight raid schedule and constantly changing raid composition, progress isn't just handed to us. I've written before about how we're growing as a team and I'm excited to say that we're living up to hopes and expectations. (That's right. Anyone who dares take a random AFK mid-raid without a valid excuse gets to meet the Giant Spoon up close and personal.)
But we could really use a few more teammates.
Wondering what we're like?
Our guild is kind of the opposite of other raiding guilds. Most raiding guilds focus on their raid team, with a friends and family rank. We're a social guild with a raiding rank. Members of the raid team don't have to be full members of the guild at large, as long as they're committed to raiding with us. We have no attendance policy: like you, we're all busy and can't make every raids.
We're fairly democratic too, with all important decisions being made through voting. It took me 6 months to discover that we had a GM. We don't have official officers. Our raid leaders are just members who believe in the team and go the extra mile to make sure we keep killing bosses. Obviously, we're not for the cutting edge player, but if you're tired power-struggle-ridden guilds, you'll feel refreshed by our equality-based and democratic atmosphere.
The general feeling is pretty laid back. We've got enough gossip to make life interesting, but in the over 6 months I've been in the guild, I've never seen any major blow outs (or, really, any blow out that I wasn't personally responsible for ^_^). The old-timers have been gaming together since they were in diapers (or almost), and our new recruits tend to blend in so well that it is actually pretty hard to guess who is new.
Sound like an environment you'd enjoy?
Get in touch with me, either through email, twitter or whispering Rykga (or Snowfia or Eloïse) on Nerzhul. If you're lucky I'll show you my Spoon. Gently. Not the way I show the AFKers. You can also hit up our raid leader Thespius on twitter if you won't take my word for it. (He has no Spoon though.)
Oh! And of course, check out our website and forums for more info!


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