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SLAMF6 Recombinant Human Protein, His Tag, Invitrogen™ Sino Biological™
This recombinant protein was expressed from a DNA sequence encoding the extracellular domain of human SLAMF6 (Q96DU3-1) (Met 1-Met 226) fused to a polyhistidine tag at the C-terminus
Brand: Invitrogen 11945H08H25
Additional Details : Weight : 0.01000kg
DescriptionSLAM family member 6 (SLAMF6), recombinant human protein is supplied as a lyophilized powder. It is suitable for use in protein studies such as protein structure analysis and protein-protein interactions. In general, recombinant proteins can also be used as an immunogen, as a protein standard, or in cell biology research applications.
- Activity: Measured by its ability to bind biotinylated recombinant human SH2D1A in a functional ELISA
- Formulation: Lyophilized in 140mM NaCl, 2.7mM KCl, 10mM Na2HPO4, 1.8mM KH2PO4, pH 7.4, 5% Mannitol, 5% Trehalose, 0.02% Tween 80
- Reconstitution: Dissolve the protein in sterile double distilled water to a concentration of 0.2mg/mL or lower; aliquot and use as soon as possible
This protein is manufactured by Sino Biological Inc.
|Other Proteins
|Proteins, Expression, Isolation & Analysis; Enzyme & Protein Activity Assays; Protein Assay Controls, Reference Standards & Accessories
|5 x 5μg
|<1 EU/μg
|SLAM family member 6
|His Tag
|Other Proteins
|Assay Standard
|≥85% by SDS-PAGE
|Store at -20°C. Store aliquots under sterile conditions at -20°C. Avoid repeated freeze-thaw cycles. Expires one year from date of receipt when stored as instructed.
|RP11-528G1.1, FLJ50657, KALI, KALIb, Ly108, mgC104953, NTB-A, NTBA, SF2000
For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.


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Pickwick Hall
Your budget hostel
Pickwick Hall provides accommodation in private rooms and in dorms for people who want cheap, clean and attractive short term lodging in central London.
Budget prices
- Private rooms start from just £50 per person per night.
- Dorms of 3 and 4 people start at £30 per person per night.
- Choice of bedrooms with ensuite bathroom or with use of shared bathrooms on same floor
Central location
- Just 2 minutes walk from the British Museum and less than 10 minutes from many colleges of the University of London
- Only 10 minutes from the entertainment and shopping districts of the West End, Covent Garden, Soho and China Town.
- Easy access from London's airports and Eurostar trains, by Underground, train and buses
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- Our prices include breakfast, bed linen, towels, free WiFi in all rooms, fridge in all bedrooms, cooking facilities with cutlery and crockery and common sitting room with cable TV, computer and printer
- Hotel quality beds with pocketed spring mattresses - no bunk beds
- For an extra cost, we provide use of clothes washing and drying machnes and personal safes.
- Choice of en suite bedrooms or shared bathroom facilities
- English, Portugeuse, Spanish, French, Russian and Ukrainian speaking
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Foundations of Pear: Rapid Php Development
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PEAR, the PHP Extension and Application Repository, is a bountiful resource for any PHP developer. Within its confines lie the tools that you need to do your job more quickly and efficiently. You need to be able to quickly assess and determine which PEAR package is the right one for the task you are up against. Then you need to know the API and see some examples of how to best use it. Foundations of PEAR is your one-stop resource for locating the PEAR package you need. Authors Nathan Good and Allan Kent have carefully selected the most useful and widely used packages for this book. Each package is broken down logically by function, and each one is covered in detail. The book presents each package in a manner that allows you to jump quickly to the key items you need to implement a solution. The authors understand that you need to see the packages in action - each performing in real-world applications. So they've included four projects in the book that each use a combination of PEAR packages in their implementations. Once you're armed with the knowledge in this book, you'll be set to take your PHP development to a new level. Hide


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Lightbox | Elbow Grease and Grime – 1942
Brought to my attention by a friend of mine, we give you a fantastic set of images from the Office of War Information made available by the Library of Congress. Depicting the hardy efforts and faces behind aviation production and American life, are iconic Kodachrome transparencies by Americana photographers Alfred Palmer, Jack Delano, John Vachon and Howard Hollem.
Bringing back 1942 in all it's rich and saturated glory are these dramatic images that include glimpses of the Douglas aircraft assembly plants, North American Aviation and the Chicago & North Western Railyards. Take a step back into 1942 and take in the sights and sounds of the noblest of modern times. A big thanks and tip of the hat to James for sending this our way. More images after the jump. (more…)


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Prep Cook Job
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Instructions and details
About Instawork Gigs
Instawork is the best place for hospitality workers to find temporary jobs on-demand. From Michelin-star restaurants to small coffee shops, Instawork makes it easy for bartenders, cooks, servers, dishwashers and other experienced hospitality workers to find work at local businesses and earn up to $30/hr on a flexible schedule. No interviews or paper resumes. Just book the gig in the app and show up to do the work. Se habla español.
A prep cook's role refers to a back of house worker whose primary responsibility is to set up the job site for success.
Prep Cook responsibilities:
Follow the prep list created by chefs to plan duties.
Label ingredients and food items and stock pantry and refrigerator shelves in an organized manner.
Measures ingredients and prepares them in accordance to chef's specifications.
Washes and peels ingredients in order for them to be used in different meals.
Cuts and portions different types of meat according to specifications.
Prepares different types of food from the menu, following carefully the recipes.
Makes stock soups to be used during cooking process.
Prepares drinks and cocktails according to chef's specifications.
Portions the food and prepares the dishes for plating.
Packages take-away food for clients.
Places food trays under food warmers, so that the food arrives in good conditions at the table.
Carry food items and utensils to food stations.
Fill in for sous chef under emergencies.
Analyze recipes to see how cost-effective they would be to serve based on all overhead costs.
Assist the chef in development of new menu and testing.
Follow mark-down procedure and suggest a way to reduce food.
Use manual and electric equipment for food preparation.
responsible for compliance with industry food safety standards.
Perform basic cooking tasks such as stirring, straining, and parboiling food and reducing sauces.
Carefully supervises the food temperature and the temperature from cooling rooms, to ensure that the ingredients kept are kept at the appropriate temperature.
Accepts or rejects ingredients from food suppliers, based on their appearance and quality.
Keeps track of ingredient quantities and ensures there are always enough for the day/week.
Properly store food items in designated containers.
Informs superiors when the ingredients stock is getting low.
Promptly reports food quality problem to kitchen Manager.
Maintain records of quantities of foods and ingredients used.
Inform managers about broken or malfunctioning equipment.
Cleans and sanitizes the working surfaces, tools, utensils and working area.
Comply with food safety and sanitation guidelines.
Follow the proper rotation procedures .
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MONTREAL - It's less than a week until launch day and the Global Montreal office has a level of excitement it hasn't seen in years. The tiny office that hosts Montreal's least-watched local evening newscast is preparing to increase its daily television production by 300 per cent. That means new hires, new equipment and a lot of preparation to choreograph the intricate three-hour dance those workers and equipment will perform on a daily basis.
On Monday, the station launches Morning News, Montreal's first locally produced morning show on English TV in five years.
The show, along with a similar one launching the same day in Halifax, completes a promise that Shaw Communications made to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission when it bought the Global TV network in 2010.
The CRTC mandated that Shaw spend $45 million over seven years to launch and maintain local morning shows in six markets. That includes $5 million each for Montreal and Halifax, which are the last two to launch because they're Global's weakest major markets.
They were originally planned to launch in the fall of 2012, "so we're behind but not terribly behind," said Troy Reeb, senior vice-president of Global News.
"We wanted to find a formula where we find success in a market where we've traditionally found challenges," he said, reiterating that the plan is for the shows to make enough money to be sustainable once the special funding runs out.
Morning News stars Richard Dagenais, a familiar face among Global Montreal viewers as the host of the 11 p.m. newscast, and Camille Ross, who was a reporter for CTV Montreal. Joining them is weather specialist Jessica Laventure, who comes from a similar job as a morning host on MétéoMédia.
"We met at the photo shoot," Laventure said this week of her co-stars, who have spent the past two weeks in rehearsals and have already developed some chemistry with each other.
Dagenais was a regular feature of Global's previous local morning show, This Morning Live, which was cancelled in 2008. As a roving reporter, he got to do crazy, fun and sometimes even embarrassing things on air.
"When the alarm went off in the morning, I was like 'today I get to go go-karting,' or 'today I get to go caving,' " he said, explaining he doesn't get easily embarrassed and making a fool of himself "was great TV."
Ross, originally from Toronto, worked as a reporter and anchor in Yorkton, Sask., and Regina before coming to Montreal to work as a reporter for CTV. The career advancement that Global's morning show presented was too good to pass up.
"A chance to launch something brand new is a rare opportunity," she said. "I love reporting. I love the hard news. With reporting, it's such a creative outlet. But also I feel like on the six o'clock news, viewers never saw me smile. It's always hard news."
Laventure got her start as an editorial assistant here, moving to Quebec City at the suggestion of her boss. "That's where I got my first on-air experience," she said. When that same boss, station manager Karen Macdonald, called Laventure to tell her she'd been hired for this morning job, "I felt like I'd come full-circle," Laventure said. "I told Karen: I feel like I'm coming home."
Laventure will spend most of her time outside the studio, mainly at a still-undetermined location in the West Island, likely a restaurant serving breakfast, so that the show can connect on a personal level with its viewers in that part of town. (At least the ones who have nothing to do before 9 a.m. on a weekday.) She'll also be putting together packaged reports, similar to what Dagenais did on the previous morning show.
Otherwise, much about the show is still vaguely described. It will have local news, interviews and information about the community, as well as regular contributors and columnists, though none have been announced yet. Macdonald said the first half, from 6 to 7:30 a.m., will be more fast-paced, more newsy, with more interviews in the latter half. Dagenais is also hoping for regular musical guests, though that will depend on whether it's technically practical to have them.
The show's main set is virtual, just like the one for its newscasts. The hosts sit in a room with green walls, facing only a pair of robotic cameras. The virtual set, programmed to change with the movements of the cameras, is inserted behind them by computer.
"For me, spending lots of money on bricks and mortar is not really an important thing," Macdonald says of the reuse of the virtual set. "How we talk to our audience is way more important."
The show will be directed from a new automated control room. Unlike its evening newscasts, which are controlled in Edmonton, Global Montreal's morning show will be technically controlled locally, by remotely controlling servers in Vancouver.
A station with limited resources competing against the 50-year-old market leader CTV, Global has tried to outflank its competitor by focusing on community news, in particular the anglo-rich West Island. That will continue and even be enhanced with the morning show, though it won't ignore the big headlines.
"I love the idea that we have the time to do all of these interviews that wouldn't necessarily make the half-hour or one-hour newscast," Ross said, like a peewee hockey team that just won a regional championship.
"I hope people give it a chance," Dagenais said of the show, which he warned might still be a bit rusty out of the gate.
It won't have long to prove itself. The City network, which launches in Montreal on Feb. 4, is putting together its own local morning show, due to start in August.
And both of them will have to work hard to wrestle away some of the 40 per cent market share held by CTV's Toronto-based Canada AM.
Morning News airs from 6 to 9 a.m. weekdays on Global Montreal, starting Monday.
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I used a bunch of special fabrics to make these little birds, mixing the delicate Meadow line with bolder favorites like Kona Cotton and Cake Rock Beach to create a vibrant patchwork flock. They are easy and quick to sew. You could make one to bring as a gift to your next holiday party or make a bunch to hang on your own tree. Either way these little guys will spread holiday cheer wherever they fly! –Molly
- Nine 1/4- yards of assorted prints. I used (from top to bottom): Kona Cotton in Snow, Moda Muslin in Natural, Olympus Sakizome-Momen in Beige, Seven Islands Meadow Beige Leaves, Meadow in Tan Flowers, Cake Rock Beach in Fire Waves, Net of Jewels in Ruby, Kona Cotton in Pomegranate, and Kona Cotton in Cerise.
- One piece of Wollfilz Wool Felt in Bright Pink
- One piece of Wollfilz Wool Felt in Ecru
- A craft size package of high loft cotton batting
- 100% cotton thread in colors 1040 and 5860
- Valdani or DMC Pearl Cotton Embroidery Thread in Magenta
This is enough to make a whole flock of birds!
Download and print our Simple Sewn Bird Ornaments Template here
Cut Fabrics
Download and print the templates above.
To make 12 birds:
Pick out two fabrics, one for your bird body and one for the wings. Press the fabric and fold each piece right sides together. (In the picture above I am using the Pomegranate Kona Cotton for the bird and the Meadow in Beige Leaves for the wings.)
Using a fabric marker or a pencil to trace the bird template onto the doubled body fabric and trace the wings twice onto the doubled wing fabric. Make sure to transfer the markings from the templates as shown above.
Trace the body template once and the wing template twice onto a single layer of your batting.
Repeat for the remaining 11 birds.
Cut all the pieces out. You will have: One batting body, two batting wings, two fabric bodies, and four fabric wings.
Pin together the fabric body pieces together right sides together. Pin each pair of wings together, also right sides together.
Cut twelve 1/4-inch X 7-inch strips (six from each color) from the wool felt. This will be enough for twelve birds, so you can put eleven of them aside for now.
Sew Fabric
Staring at one of the transfered marks sew around the body with an 1/8-inch seam allowance stopping at the other mark thus leaving a little opening as shown above. Repeat for wings.
Turn all the pieces right sides out. You can use a small knitting needle to poke out the corners of the beak, the tail and the wings.
Stuff and Finish
Take your wing batting and fold it in half lengthwise and slip it into the wing. Make sure the batting piece is oriented in the same direction as the wing.
The batting should fit snuggly inside the wing.
Repeat for the second wing and close both with a slip stitch.
Slip the body batting inside the fabric body tail first.
You might need to use that small knitting needle again to get the batting in every corner.
Fold a wool strip in half and place the ends into the opening.
Use cotton thread which matches the body fabric to close the opening with a slip stitch. Sew the wool strip into place as you do.
Thread an embroidery needle with the magenta embroidery thread and tie a knot. Pull the thread through the backside of one of the wings at the point where you'd like to attach it to the body.
Place both the wings where you want them on the body and pinch all three pieces together as shown above. Push the needle through the wings and the body as shown above to attach the wings to the body. Sew through all the layers again, making a "X" stitch on either wing and pulling very tight.
Once both wings have these little "X"s pull your needle through a wing but not the body and tie a knot where it will remain hidden in-between the wing and the body.
Repeat for the other eleven birds and you'll have your own beautiful flock!


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Woody Allen, who famously quipped that "80 percent of success is just showing up," has lived that line, turning out an amazing (albeit some more amazing than others) 40-plus movies over the last four-plus decades.
Still, for all his cinematic output, the Woodman is a virtual recluse by the standards of Hollywood, a world he disdains (the only cultural advantage to Los Angeles is "making a right turn on a red light," according to Allen).
Sure, there was Barbara Kopple's fascinating 1997 documentary, "Wild Man Blues," which showed Allen at full neurotic tilt, fussing over hotel room shower drain placement while touring Europe with his New Orleans-style jazz band. But, until now, there hasn't been anything comparable chronicling Allen at work doing what he sometimes does best: making movies.
Which is why we're bananas over the prospect of the two-part PBS "American Masters" documentary about Allen, set to begin Sunday. Even if the 3 ½-hour look at Allen's life and work is long overdue, give director Robert Weide 100 percent credit for showing up at a great time.
Allen is still riding as high as a man with anhedonia (the inability to experience pleasure – and the original title for "Annie Hall," incidentally) can off "Midnight in Paris," his funniest movie in years and by some measures his most successful film.
It's unclear why Allen finally permitted an extensive look at him on the set (Weide followed him for 1 ½ years). But we're guessing the man who said, "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work – I want to achieve it through not dying" might be thinking about his place in movie history.
Allen, after all, turns 76 next month, and he's coming up on the 20th anniversary of the scandal that threatened his career as the most independent of filmmakers: his affair with Soon-Yi Previn, daughter of his then-girlfriend Mia Farrow. Few would have predicted then that Allen would still be with Previn, nearly 35 years his junior – and that he'd still be making a movie a year.
Farrow is just about the only key Allen figure missing from the documentary, which includes interviews with collaborators like his ex-wife Louise Lasser, Diane Keaton and Tony Roberts.
Weide got to trail the perhaps overly prolific Allen in London during the making of last year's "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger," which falls into the growing "not bad" category of the director's oeuvre – better than, say, "Melinda, Melinda," but not in the same league (or city) as, say, "Annie Hall."
"Annie Hall," perhaps Allen's most acclaimed work, ends with him telling an old joke about a man whose brother thinks he's a chicken – but he doesn't turn in his clucking sibling because "I need the eggs." Allen used the joke as commentary on relationships, but it also applies to his movie making. He still needs the eggs – and so do his fans. Thanks to Weide and PBS, we're in for a look at how they're hatched. Check out a preview below:
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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Assessing the impact of indoor air pollution on Europeans
The health impact of indoor air pollution is a real environmental health issue, which is believed to have a bearing on respiratory conditions such as asthma. This has prompted a European study to take action. While outdoor pollution is often cited as the cause of many asthma related issues, indoor threats are also being addressed in the light of World Asthma Day. The HITEA project ('Health Effects of Indoor Pollutants: Integrating Microbial, Toxicological and Epidemiological Approaches') has studied short-term and long-term respiratory, inflammatory and allergic health impacts on children and adults associated with indoor air exposures, with a focus on microbial agents. As a result, new and innovative approaches have been applied in exposure assessments, leading to developing recommendations for health professionals on how to study indoor microbial contaminants. The five-year project was led by Professor Aino Nevalainen and Docent Anne Hyvärinen at the National Institute for Health and Welfare in Kuopio, Finland. The project had a consortium representing eight research institutions in seven member states of the EU, with funding of EUR 2.7 million from the European Commission. The project first looked at indoor air in schools using identical study set-ups in Finland, the Netherlands and Spain, with in-depth analysis of microbial, immunological, toxicological, and dampness-related properties of indoor environmental samples. An extensive respiratory health questionnaire was used to collect data from more than 9.200 pupils and 645 teachers, coming from a total of 66 schools, all of which were inspected for moisture damage and dampness. In addition, spirometric lung function measurements were conducted in approximately 3.500 pupils in a subsample of 25 schools. More than 500 pupils with asthma or asthma symptoms and 180 teachers were followed in a longitudinal, detailed health survey. In parallel, extensive exposure assessments and sample collection campaigns were performed in the study schools focusing on a variety of biological agents, as well as assessing chemical and physical parameters. Scientists reported different types of moisture and dampness problems in 24-47% of schools surveyed in Finland, the Netherlands and Spain, with the type, occurrence and severity of these moisture problems varying across geographical areas. Moisture damage in schools was found to have an adverse effect on respiratory health in pupils, especially in the Northern climate. Teachers working in schools with moisture problems had a higher risk of upper and lower respiratory tract symptoms, underlining the public health relevance of damp and mould problems in indoor workplaces. An extensive set of indoor microbial exposures were measured in the study schools, including fungal and bacterial subtypes, general markers of microbial exposure such as endotoxin, as well as mycotoxins, and inflammatory load in settled dust. Endotoxin levels in schools were found at clearly higher levels compared to homes, indicating that school endotoxin may contribute significantly to total endotoxin exposure in children and teachers. Several of the microbial exposures measured were linked to moisture damage and dampness in the schools. However, these findings were mostly not consistent between countries. The researchers found large temporal, geographical and spatial variation in microbial exposures between countries, stressing the importance of longitudinal studies and repeated measurements when assessing respiratory health in response to microbial exposures in children and adults. Their second in-depth study then focused on the long-term impacts of biological contaminants in the home environment on adults' health. Scientists analysed biological agents from 1000 house dust samples from 21 areas in Europe contributed by the European Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS II) and identified various factors determining the levels of microbial contaminants in homes. The researchers found an enormous geographical variation in microbial exposures in homes across Europe and concluded that incoherent observations of health effects of endotoxin may be partly owing to the geographical heterogeneity of the exposure. Higher exposures to bacterial and fungal genera measured with DNA-based methodology were associated with certain current respiratory and asthmatic symptoms, indicating both adverse as well as protective effects of home microbial exposures. Finally, a third part of the project integrated several on-going European child cohorts, with an emphasis on the long-term health impacts of biological agents. Exposure data from different time points during life were combined with the comprehensive information on children's health already collected in these cohorts. An initial analysis revealed variability of levels and determinants of general markers of indoor microbial exposures across Europe, which may play a role in the differences in asthma and allergy prevalence's across countries. The results of the study will lead to a better understanding of the role of biological agents in both adverse and protective respiratory and allergic health effects and the mechanisms underlying these observations. HITEA has produced new data on the characteristics, determinants and potential health effects of indoor microbial agents and has established novel methods for exposure assessment of these agents. The project has produced new knowledge on indoor exposure relating to dampness and moisture damage in schools and has highlighted the public health relevance of this issue. These results are expected to impact on the way maintenance is carried out in school buildings.For more information, please visit: HITEA http://www.hitea.eu/ World Asthma Day http://www.ginasthma.org/World-Asthma-Day


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Cheese Regulations, Seed Vaults, and More in Food Policy This Week
A roundup of news clippings we're reading that affect the way we eat.
Is Non-GMO Really Just a Cheaper Alternative to Organic?
Short answer: no. But some shoppers think it is, which is leading to an increasingly tense relationship between organic and non-GMO producers. Trends suggest that consumers assume that non-GMO foods are grown under the same conditions as organic foods. But this isn't true. Non-GMO standards only require that the seeds of those plants are not genetically modified. Organic foods, on the other hand, have stringent restrictions for chemical application, soil quality, and seed type. And organic meats require organic feed, an expensive investment for any farmer. Consequently, organic foods often carry a heavier price tag than non-GMO. But if your priority as an eater is avoiding chemicals in your food, organic is still the best bet at most supermarkets. As GMO labeling becomes more and more common, consumer education must keep pace so shoppers can continue making informed decisions about what they're buying.
Svalbard Seed Vault Accepts 20,000 New Seeds
Consider a future without sweet potatoes, black beans, wheat, okra, or some of your favorite food crops. Pretty bleak, eh? That's why the Svalbard Global Seed Vault was established in 2008. In the face of climate change, tense international relations, loss of pollinators, and increased use of monocropping, a seed vault seemed increasingly necessary to protect the world's biodiversity. The vault contains about 800,000 different seeds, including everything from heritage crops like ancient cherry tomatoes to modern variations of wheat and corn. And just this week, it opened up to accept 20,000 new seeds into its collection. The vault is heavily protected and closed to the public, though the occasional world leader will stop by to pay a visit. Its location—carved into a mountain 600 miles from the North Pole—protects the vault from earthquakes, explosions, and presumably most tourist activity.
New Trade Negotiations May Change the Name of Your Favorite Cheese
The European Union and the U.S. are in the process of negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, an agreement that could have serious consequences on the American cheese industry. One of the agreement's proposed rules is that American cheese producers stop using European names—think Gruyere, Parmesan, or Muenster—to sell their cheeses. The E.U. already has many geographically protected traditional products, meaning that foods like Champagne or Parmigiano-Reggiano can only be sold under that name if they're produced in a particular region. But for several reasons, including fewer traditional food production practices, the U.S. has never seriously considered such regulations. We'll keep an eye on the TTIP and let you know if your favorite Brie will soon be sold under a different label.
Americans Wasted 133 Billion Pounds of Food in 2010
According to a USDA report, Americans wasted about 133 billion pounds of food in 2010. That accounts for roughly 30% of all food purchased by shoppers and diners (so it doesn't include food that was wasted before it got to a retail location). This $162 billion loss is about 50% produce and fruit and 12% fish, meat, and poultry, by volume. Consumer food waste contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. About 20% of landfill trash is food waste, which gives off potent methane gas as it decomposes. Per capita, food waste represents a loss of over 1,200 calories per day.
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A Visit to the 2012 Exergy-Twenty12 Training Camp
Mark Johnson takes us inside the sights and sounds of the camp
At 9:00 AM on a Tuesday in February, 12 women hang around a gas station parking lot in Mecca.
Their heads are not covered with scarves and veils, and their bodies are decisively not hidden behind baggy cloaks.
Instead, the women's muscled frames are lacquered with taut Pearl Izumi cycling kits. Their heads topped by sleek Catlike helmets. And this isn't the Mecca you are thinking of in Saudi Arabia.
This Mecca is a scrubby agricultural town on the northern end of Southern California's Salton Sea. A short drive from a rented house in Palm Desert, the Exergy-Twenty12 pro cycling team have gathered at this windblown am pm gas station for an 80-mile ride during their week-long February training camp.
Leaning on their Felt F1 road bikes, clicking shoe buckles tight and generally fidgeting to get back in the saddle, the riders listen in as Kristin Armstrong, the team's managing partner and a 2008 Olympic time trial gold medalist, explains their route from here to Joshua Tree National Park and back to Palm Desert.
"It smells like Belgium," team mechanic Dave Drumm remarks from the back seat of a wheel-stuffed follow car as the team rides out of town past fields of lettuce and mounds of cow manure.
20 minutes into the ride, British director sportif Simon Cope pulls the team car up to the riders and tells them Canadian Rhae Shaw is going to have a flat. This is part of the day's drill, running through the process of mock flats and race-pace wheel changes.
A few minutes later Shaw raises her hand and pulls onto the dirt margin. Drumm leaps out of the back seat, pops a new carbon fiber Zipp wheel into her chain stay and gives Shaw a running shove down the road. The ex-triathlete who, at 35 took a leave from her job at Microsoft, became a pro cyclist, and in 2011 won stages at the Tour de Bretagne Féminin and Tour Féminin en Limousin and placed 7th at Worlds in the time trial, smoothly catches her team and pulls back into the rotation.
"Who should we have next?" Cope asks. "Heather maybe?" team founder and general manager Nicola Cranmer suggests from the shotgun seat. "She hasn't been a bike racer that long."
Cranmer refers to Heather Logan Sprenger, a 30-year-old Canadian who completed her doctorate in exercise physiology in 2011 and turned pro in 2009. Drumm points out that he has not yet removed the lawyer tabs from the front forks of Sprenger's brand new team-issue Felt, so the front wheel is not a good idea. The car pulls up to the double pace lined riders and Drumm calls out, "Heather, you are going to have a rear flat!" Cope then instructs her teammates Tayler Wiles and Alison Starnes to drop back when Sprenger "punctures" and pace her back to the field.
A few minutes later, Sprenger peels off to the right. She does not raise her hand, and she comes to a slow, tentative stop. Watching from behind, Cope observes, "They need to pull in and stop." The reluctant braking makes it difficult for the support car to know where to halt, and for the mechanic to effectively launch out of the vehicle without getting run over.
Drumm has to shift Sprenger's rear derailleur into the small cog before pulling the wheel off and popping in a new one. Back on her bike, Sprenger pulls up to the car and says "this one feels flat." The car stops again and sure enough, the replacement tire is losing air. Drum repeats the procedure with another wheel and pushes Sprenger up the road to her soft-pedaling teammates Wiles and Starnes.
Approaching the point where this deserted desert road crosses the I-10 freeway, the team car and another team van pull off the road.
Cranmer, Cope and Drumm spread out for a half-kilometer on the right side of the road, each holding an armful of water bottles. The riders have been riding for less than an hour and don't really need fresh bottles, but practicing negotiating the chaos of a feed zone handoff is also on the day's agenda. 2002 US road and 2009 US time trial champion Jessica Van Garderen (previously Jessica Phillips until marrying BMC pro Tejay in 2011) plucks a bottle from a hand and yells out a brightly appreciative "Thanks!"
10 minutes after passing the feed zone, Armstrong drops back to Cope's window and tells him she has to pee. But, she adds, "I don't want to tell the girls.' Armstrong, a tough, no-nonsense rider, explains that "Usually when someone says they need to stop and pee, I tell them to start racing their bikes and they will forget about it." Today, the uber-experienced Armstrong tells Cope, she doesn't want to "set a precedent as a pee breaker." She disappears into the desert scrub for a minute, reappears and we motorpace her back to the field.
Beyond the freeway, the road enters the otherworldly landscapes of Box Canyon. Copper, turquoise, white and brown fins of earth jut toward the sky like the backs of prehistoric dragons. Seen from the canyon walls above, the riders look like tiny figures in a natural history museum display. The earthen ledges amplify the whir of chain over sprockets.
At 10:30, Cope asks, "Shall we have a double puncture for Coryn?" The car sidles up to the riders and Drumm informs them. They hoot with delight.
Five minutes later, Coryn Rivera, at 19 one of the younger riders on the squad, but with 40 national titles to her name also one of the most experienced, holds up her right arm, drops back and stops smartly on the right of the road.
She gets off her bike, shifts into the smallest rear cog and is already pulling her rear wheel off when Drumm appears with a wheel in each hand. She has done this before—many times—and knows exactly what to do to make both her and her mechanic's life easier. "Who would have thought!?" she exclaims in mock surprise of her double puncture.
Inside the Joshua Tree National Park boundary, the road climbs steadily up a sandy wash through the Cottonwood Mountains. A sign on the side of the desperately dry desert reads "Vegetation Gathering Prohibited." Splashes of early-blooming yellow wildflowers dot the landscape, but the riders aren't paying heed, since the pace has settled into a steady 20 mph. Though the tempo splits the group on the climb, Armstrong drops back to the car and tells Cope that the lead group is "just cruising." It's time for some effort.
Cope waves Rhae Shaw over to the car. The final three miles of the road leading to the park gate where the riders will turn around steepens. He instructs her to apply pressure as the team ascends to the 3,000-foot-high Cottonwood Visitor Center. "Attack?" Shaw asks. No, he clarifies. Just steadily torque up the pace. Shaw returns effortlessly to the lead riders, goes to the front and notches up the velocity a couple of MPH.
5'2" Rivera gets dropped. "In actual fact, I think Coryn is tired," Cope notes. He drives next to her waves his hand forward. "Come on, Coryn," he urges. Rivera, who just returned from the Tour of Qatar, looks fatigued from racing and hours of air travel from the Middle East, but she bears down in an effort to rejoin the group. "It's good for her," Cranmer observes.
Alison Starnes and Tayler Wiles have also been dropped. They are going 19 MPH up hill. "Come on you guys," Cranmer encourages from the passenger seat. "Big effort to get there. You are doing well." It's 11 AM, and the manager pushes the trio to work together to bridge the gap. Meanwhile, in the advance group, Armstrong is tapping out a seemingly effortless pace at the front; the steeper it gets, the faster the 39-year old mother of a two-year-old son goes.
At the top of the climb, the riders grab Clif Bloks and bars from the back of the team car and pull on jackets and vests against the 56-degree chill. Armstrong's husband, Joe Savola, who has been discretely riding behind the team caravan with a couple of friends all morning, turns on GoPro cameras mounted to the front and back of his wife's bike. One by one the riders bomb back down the hill, passing a photographer who waits on a scenic curve to shoot action photos for team sponsor, Felt Bicycles.
On the ride back to Palm Desert, Cope discreetly instructs the riders to rope-a-dope Armstrong. He calls Jackie Crowell to the car. "Attack before the end of this road," he tells her. During a week that will have the riders put in nearly 30 hours of road time, he empathizes, but is firm: "I know you are hurting, but attack."
Crowell launches as the road slices through a grove of grapefruit trees. She swings well wide of the group and accelerates decisively, allowing neither space nor time for anyone to slip into her draft. Cope nods appreciatively: "That's how you do it."
Later that afternoon, back at the team's rented house in Palm Desert, Alison Starnes opens the refrigerator, pulls out an eggplant, and begins dicing it into a wok for her lunch. Women's pro cycling teams are remarkably lean financial operations, and each rider is responsible for supplying her own food at camp.
The floor is lined with grocery bags. At the granite kitchen counter, Tayler Wiles eats egg and tomato tacos from a plate dressed with arugula and three carrots.
Meanwhile, Pearl Izumi product manager Ron Rod sets up camp in an adjoining dining room that also serves as Swiss rider Pascale Schnider's bedroom. With a tailor's measuring tape around his neck, Rod takes detailed rider dimensions—waist, inseam, thigh circumference, neck, bicep extended and flexed—and plugs them into a tiny laptop. He then uses these both to ensure that the riders get the appropriately sized clothing, and for Pearl Izumi "to use the as a base" for the development of future products.
When Andrea Dvorak walks into the room in her skin suit, she comments that it does not feel comfortable. Smiling, Rod says the speed suit is only designed to fit when in a time trial position, not when walking. "When you get down into this position," he bends forward with his arms extended like he is on a TT bike, "all this wrinkling here will go away." He plucks at wrinkles gathered on Dvorak's shoulders. Sure enough, when she bends into a TT position they vanish.
The next day, Wednesday, is a rest day. While some riders take a short spin in the morning, most lounge by the backyard pool and sprawl across a living room couch. One by one they go outside to pose for team headshot photos.
At 11 am, the riders pile onto living room chairs and couches to hear Rod talk about the Pearl Izumi products they will wear in 2012 and to solicit their input for product improvements. Two requests are wind vests with back pockets and bib shorts that allow the riders to go to the bathroom without having to pull off the suspenders—a real issue for women, especially in time-critical race situations.
Next the team's doctors take the floor. Team Physician Kristin Wingfield explains how in 2012 she will be working with clinical neuropsychologist Eric Freitag to take baseline neurological assessments of each rider.
Freitag explains brain physiology to the team, then points out that if one of them were to crash and hit their head, it can result in "a metabolic injury." That is, a harmful change to the way the brain processes energy.
To help manage any potential head injuries in 2012, Freitag explains that after lunch each rider will take a 30 minute neurological exam—the same exam NFL players now take at the beginning of their football season. Then, should any of the riders have the misfortune to crash during the season, he will be able to use those data points to assess when the rider has returned to their normative state and is well enough to safely start training and racing again.
"My goal in the treatment of this" he tells the riders, "is not to take you off the bike every time you get a bump on the head, but it's actually to shorten the duration of the recovery. And we can do that if we manage it right out of the gate."
And then the riders break for lunch, fuel for another day in the busy training week of the Exergy-Twenty12 pro cycling team.


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The unbeaten run had to come to an end sometime and it screeched to a halt at number 49 in the most dramatic of circumstances. Juventus are not invincible, that much had become clear in recent weeks with the Champions League and their controversial victory in Catania. After 18 seconds of the Derby d'Italia it looked as if we'd be in for more weeks of people bringing up the ghost of Calciopoli as Arturo Vidal's goal should've been chalked off. When Stephan Lichtsteiner inexplicably avoided a second booking, that just added to the sense this was playing straight into the hands of the conspiracy theorists.
Thankfully, Inter fought back to win fair and square in a result nobody can contest, otherwise we'd never have heard the end of it. Can you imagine the utter chaos if Juve had avoided defeat in those circumstances? I tell you, Juve fans, it's better to have lost than suffer through that!
Even the most ardent Juventino must bow down and accept Inter were the better team on the night. Andrea Stramaccioni deserves immense credit for having the courage and the sheer gall to bring a 3-4-3 system to Turin. It was extremely risky and downright arrogant for the youngest Coach in Serie A to take such an attacking approach, but Strama confirmed comparisons with Jose Mourinho. He is arrogant and smug, but that's what makes him so very effective. That is what gave him the guts to break down a Juve side that had won all their home games this season.
The Inter boss even brought back memories of Mou by mocking Juve's "we won 30 on the pitch" motto and stirring up further controversy on why he considered 'carefree tactics' to be an insult from Beppe Marotta. Strama might not be carefree, but he is admirably unfettered by doubt.
This could well be good for Juventus, too. They have been coasting recently and relying too heavily on their aura of invincibility to intimidate opponents – not to mention riding their luck... They must remember it's no mean feat to dominate Serie A and every point must be earned. Maybe we'll see better performances from now on, as they have it all to prove again.
Now the season gets truly interesting. Juve have already shown they struggle to balance the Champions League with Serie A, while Napoli are far too reliant on Edinson Cavani. Milan have left themselves too much to do, Lazio and Fiorentina are still works in progress, but then again the same was said of Inter. What will the Nerazzurri do once Wesley Sneijder returns from injury? Can too many choices become a problem for Stramaccioni? Seeing him at the Juventus Stadium, I get the feeling this Coach can take anything in his stride.
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Casey Jones is doing well: despite being an (unfairly convicted) ex-con, she has established herself as one of the Triangle's premiere, if unofficial, private investigators. But when Tawny Bledsoe walks through her door, she gets a bad feeling. At first, Casey attributes this to the fact that the pale, fragile-looking Tawny is black and blue all over, and claims that her ex-husband first beat her, then stole their four-year-old daughter. Ms. Bledsoe begs Casey to get her child back, and with her special interest in wronged women, Raleigh's toughest cookie is on the case. However, Tawny's story begins to look suspicious after Casey easily tracks down the ex, and instead of a wife-beating kidnapper, finds a reputable Wake County Commissioner and devoted father who is a respected member of the African-American community. When Tawny's $1,000 check bounces, Casey is convinced she's been had in a spiteful divorcée's spat. But then Tawny's current beau (a scummy car mechanic named Boomer) turns up murdered, and Casey knows there's more to the situation than simple fraud. As the P.I. snoops around, she uncovers several unsavory parts of Tawny: the cocaine addict, the blackmailer, and the abusive parent. When Casey's no-good ex-husband Jeff gets involved, things quickly move from bad to worse, and the gloves come off as Casey goes to all lengths to put Tawny behind bars where she belongs.
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Today Nissan stopped by Cars and Coffee Irvine during its IDx in Socal event. I was there as the cars arrived to get some pictures and hobnob with Nissan PR folks and get as much information about the car. I didn't learn anything new from Nissan, even though I bribed them with Girl Scout cookies (what sort of human does not respond to Thin Mints?). I also did not get to sit in them, I was one of about 1000 people that asked the exasperated folks in charge of the cars, but I thought trading the privilege of using my Google Glass for a sit in the car would work. Not so much. I can say that the Freeflow IDx does have actual shag carpet and real denim seats, this should absolutely be an option and I would check that box.
There was also some more to Cars and Coffee Irvine than just IDx on Saturday. Some cool classic Datsun 510's, a classic Mini delivery van, Bisimoto 550 HP turbo CR-Z, and one saved Ferrari Enzo. Below are the Glasshole pics I have from this morning and a shaky cam video of the Free Flow actually moving on its own.
First off here is the IDx NISMO, fun fact it has a totally flat undercarriage, but mostly because it is a concept and not really meant for the streets.
People just crowded around it to get pictures and try to touch it, not pictured is the guy taken away by ninjas for actually touching the car.
The interior is race ready, just not FIA approved. I would like to point out that this is a two pedal car.
The Freeflow is the version I would prefer, I love the smoother lines and less busy body work.
Here is the interior shot with that cool shag carpet and denim seats, but maintaining the minimalist interior aspects like the door pull handles.
Here is that shaky cam video I was talking about.
As for the other rides of note..
A sweet 510
On Mini delivery van.
A Bisi CR-Z pushing 550 hp and still a hybrid!
And one saved Enzo!
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Anyone who orders the new Memory Almost Full album before its release will also receive a free music video and a digital download of the Ever Present Past single. The rest of McCartney's solo and Wings back catalogue will be available on the iTunes Store later this month.
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The stars of Point Park University were sparkling at the University's 16th annual Starmakers gala. Violet Gallo's star was shining brightest of all as she received the 2010 Performing Arts Partnership and Achievement Award for her numerous contributions to Point Park's art department and her support of arts throughout the City of Pittsburgh. It was a show-stopping evening featuring high-energy musical theatre and dance performances by Conservatory of Performing Arts students. More than 500 guests raised more than $300,000 to benefit Point Park's Conservancy of Performing Arts and its scholarship program. "We were very pleased to be able to honor Mrs. Violet Gallo and are grateful of the support of Ron and Pat Violi as honorary chairs," says Point Park Director of Marketing and Communications Mary Ellen Solomon. "It's a wonderful way to raise scholarships for our students and to showcase the talent of our Conservatory students and faculty."
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Second Round Game Analysis: SaturdayPosted by rtmsf on March 19th, 2010
Over the next two days in a series of separate posts, RTC will break down all 16 of the second round games using our best analytical efforts to understand these teams, the matchups and their individual strengths and weaknesses. Our hope is that you'll let us know in the comments where you agree, disagree or otherwise think we've lost our collective minds. Here are the Saturday games.
1:05 pm – #2 Villanova vs. #10 St. Mary's (Providence pod)
A great opening game of the day for the group of teams that produced the best opening day of the NCAA Tournament ever. A lot of experts are going to be calling for an upset here and based on the way these two teams are playing we can't say that we blame them. The Wildcats came into the NCAA Tournament having lost five of seven games and nearly lost to Robert Morris (down by 7 with less than 4 minutes left before some controversial calls went 'Nova's way). On the other side, the Gaels stormed through the West Coast Conference Tournament and knocked off Richmond, a team that a lot of people had as a potential sleeper, in the first round. The key to this game will be how Reggie Redding handles Omar Samhan. After watching Samhan rip apart the Spiders, Jay Wright has to be concerned about his interior players going against one of the best low-post players in the country. On the other side, Saint Mary's has to figure out how to deal with Scottie Reynolds and the rest of the Wildcat backcourt. They are certainly better equipped to match-up with Villanova's perimeter players with Mickey McConnell and Matthew Dellavedova than the Wildcats are to handle Samhan. Saint Mary's perimeter players pack enough offensive punch to make keep up with Villanova's guards, but Mouphtaou Yarou and Redding shouldn't challenge Samhan too much defensively. The one wildcard here is Reynolds. Will he "learn" from Wright's "teaching moment" and become the Scottie Reynolds we knew for most of the past two seasons or will be the 2-15 from the field Reynolds?
The Skinny: Samhan overwhelms the Wildcats on the inside and advance into the Sweet 16 as this year's Cinderella.
3:20 pm – #5 Butler vs. #13 Murray State (San Jose pod)
The second game of the second round will feature the top mid-major program in the east versus an upstart who would love to get there themselves. In their first round game, if you haven't heard, the Racers' Danero Thomas hit a shot at the buzzer to knock Vanderbilt out of the Tournament, but what you may not know about that game is that Murray State pretty much controlled it throughout. It was very late when Vandy regained the lead and set the stage for Thomas' game winner. The point: Murray is better than your typical #13 seed Cinderella. Butler, on the other hand, had a weak first half and a superb second half to put away UTEP. It was two of the staples of Butler's attack — relentless halfcourt defense and the three-ball — that allowed the Bulldogs to quickly take the lead and never look back against the Miners. As for this game, Murray State does many of the same things that Butler does, it's just that Brad Stevens' team does those things better. It will certainly be interesting to see how Butler responds to being the Big (Bull)Dog in an NCAA Tournament game, as they're usually the upstart taking on some higher-seeded Kansas or Florida type of team.
The Skinny: We'd love to take Murray State here, but Butler isn't going to let a johnny-come-lately out-Butler them en route to the Sweet Sixteen, so we expect Butler to hang on and win by 6-8 points.


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So, quickly, because the next batch of goodies is ready to come out of the oven-
I want to wish everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS! What a beautiful time of year to remember our Savior and His birth. I heard my new favorite Christmas song that I thought I'd share with you all and hope it touches you just as much! However, I can't figure out how to add it to song player, so I am putting the youtube video here and hope you enjoy it.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Christmas Wishes
So, quickly, because the next batch of goodies is ready to come out of the oven-
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Friday, December 12, 2008
Lesson Learned- maybe
So, do you all remember the funny that my son told me about wearing my pajama pants while taking him to school? Well, yesterday I learned something about not doing my hair before I take him to school. Most days I just jump out of the shower, brush my teeth, gel my hair and moisturize my face. Oh ya, and get dressed. But, aside from gelling the hair and brushing it to a smooth, greezy-looking hair helmet I don't usually do anything with it. Hair takes time and they are so many more enjoyable things to do with my time than blowdrying my hair so I don't embarrass my kids. I can list a few if you like, but really, they are already listed on my sidebar under my family and friend blogs and my shameless blog stalking lists. Anyhow, I ran a ton of errands yesterday and the wind was blowing and it was dry and cold (static) and when I got home I looked like this:
So, after showing my crazy hair all over town I thought maybe I would do something to make me look not quite so insane. After just a few minutes of primping and spritzing I was no longer a total embarrassment to my family. I was one hot mama!
Now isn't that better? The sacrifice of my time was well worth it, don't you think? WHAT? That isn't the same person? That isn't even me? Well, I never...
Okay you got me, but my hair did look like a frizzy mess in my before which I am too embarrassed, myself, to post. My hair was also pretty sweet looking in my after even if my hair isn't that long and thick and beautiful. In my defense, though, I didn't have to waste time blowdrying my hair because the wind had done a fantabulous job of getting ever strand uber dry. I only had to straight-iron it and put some more smootz in it and viola- sexy momma!
Theme song- Fixing her hair by Ani DiFranco. The into is VERY long, but it is so appropriate for this post.
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Where are you Christmas?
So, if you read my last post you will know that I live in filth. I did laundry for the better part of yesterday and you can see my front room. YEAH.
Unfortunately we still have a LARGE pool table/air hockey table that was given to us and is just taking up room in my front room. It currently is a place just to stack random crap that I need to actually put away. It is not being used for its original purpose. I am sure that if the table had feelings it would be sad that it is so used! With it there I have no place to rearrange my furniture and put up my Christmas tree. I am having a seriously hard time getting into the Christmas mood without my Christmas tree. I need to see the bazillion white lights and all the random ornaments that adorn my tree every December. I need to hear the music in the background telling me- "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas." And I need to believe it! I need to bust out the garland that drapes across my super long, uber cool mantle that my friend made for me. I need to hang the stockings from the mantle and light the candles that will fill my house and nostrils with the Christmas spirit. The ONLY WAY FOR THIS TO HAPPEN is to get that table OUT OF MY FRONT ROOM. Anyone want it? You gotta pick it up. We are not your normal Mormon family with a truck, so I have no way to get it to your house, but I need it gone. Hubby has promised it to his sister, but she has yet to show her face at my house to get the monstrosity. It is in great condition, but really, my kids aren't old enough to know how to play pool. They use the stick to fight which isn't my favorite activity for them to engage in in my living room. They have already lost one set of the mini balls, which I have replaced and put away for safe keeping until someone gets the table OUT OF MY FRONT ROOM!
Any takers?
Theme song- Where are you Christmas? by Faith Hill from the movie- How the Grinch Stole Christmas with Jim Carey.
From the brain of MakingChanges at 8:34 AM
Sunday, December 7, 2008
This is where I apologize profusely
I have been neglecting my blog friends. Can you ever forgive me? I have been working like a crazy woman doing so many other things that maybe I should just be committed. I don't want to reveal too much private information, but I happen to have a governmental job that gets REALLY busy around the holidays. If you can't figure that one out you might want to check your mailbox for a clue. Anywho- I'm now working like 50 hours a week, I also have a side business making personalized vinyl stickers (which I totally love doing) and I have 4 kids and a hubby to take care of. My house is a trash hole, I barely got the dishes done, but the stack of crap on the counter (School papers, DVDs, half empty grocery bags, books, and nick nacks) is still overflowing. My sink has yet to be disinfected. My bathroom hasn't seen a scrubber in more weeks than I care to admit. There are laundry baskets full of clothes that have been waiting to be folded (and since I haven't gotten around to that we have been living out of laundry baskets for the last 2 weeks- don't judge my wrinkly clothes, okay?). My bed only gets made right before I get into it, and that is only if I happen to be going to bed before hubby. If he gets in bed first, forget that. We just have to fight over who gets the most covers. I have uncased DVDs scattered in my front room and the cases are just as scattered. And still I sit here, feeling bad that my blog friends have not seen much of me lately. Can you tell where you all rank on my priority list? Just after dishes, but way ahead of laundry. I know you feel special.
So, here is my crazy apology.
- First of all I am sorry that I told you all about my crazy house. Just don't try to mentally picture it or you might be disgusted by me and never visit my blog again.
- I am sorry that I only have one or two days a week to check on your blogs and comment. Trust me, I am still trying to keep up with all of you, and if possible comment on your postings. I love comments. I am addicted to comments, but since I have been MIA on the blogging scene so much lately my comments are dwindling. I sense some pent up hostility in the form of the silent treatment, people!
- I am sorry that my postings have lost some of their flavor. I haven't been in my right mind for the last... 32 years. I am trying to be creative, cool, humorous and just plain funny to keep your attention, but really I am not that funny. Ask the people that really know me.
- I am sorry for the last of background music changes. This one I am trying to remedy- tonight's theme song is Sorry by Buck Cherry. "Please enjoy the music while your party is being reached." (Couldn't help myself)
- Lastly, I am so, so very sorry just for being so sorry. Retarded, I know, but hey, I already told you I haven't been in my right mind for 32 years.
(Theme song to Jeopardy- do do do do do do do do do do do do dododododo do do do do do do do...do do do do do do do, dum dum.)
Do I have to beg for a comment? I'm on my knees pleading! Just picture it! PLEASE!
From the brain of MakingChanges at 8:31 PM
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Gingerbread Mansions
My kids love my cousins' tradition of making gingerbread houses every year the day after Thanksgiving. That day is only for the adults, though. My kids get really excited to see what I create. I didn't get any pictures of my gingerbread house this year. Sorry to disappoint you all. If you want to see a fantabulous house, though, here is my cousin's house she did. She has quite the talent. We were sitting at the same table this year, but her talent did not cross the table to my area, so just imagine that mine turned out this good (even though it really didn't).
Anyhow, my kids have been asking me EVERY day when they were going to make theirs. Last year we started our own family tradition. After I make mine I help the kids make little Graham Cracker Houses. Last night we finally got around to it. It was a blast, and a mess. Dalen was worried that the kids were getting the icing on the table. I told him it will come off fairly easy, I just have to get it wet. He looked at me like, "There is no way!" But what he really said made me laugh. "If it is so easy to get off of the table why is it like cement on the house, making it nearly impossible to steal candy off of it?" Now I know who the homewrecker is. It isn't just my kids, but my hubby has shown them what to do- steal my candy and ruin my gingerbread house.
Malia with her house. She had more fun eating all of the candy.
Kylie was really proud of her creation!
Snake with his house. At one point his roof was falling down and he tried really hard to fix it himself- this included just stacking all of the graham crackers on top of each other and calling it good.
Now this is just funny- Britin was done with making her house, so she went into the bathroom. Unbeknownst to us, she was playing with daddy's razor. Mind you, this in not the first time she has done this. Nor is it the second time. This is actually the third time my daughter has tried to shave her face. (I can hear all of the cries of pain- we have all been there, maybe more in the leg area of the body, but a razor cut none the less). This is the reason for the tears. It wasn't nearly as bad as the previous 2 times, but really, 3 times. Is it really that hard of a lesson to learn?
From the brain of MakingChanges at 8:37 AM
Passing it on
When I was young my Grandma taught me how to make rolls, bread and cookies. Yes, folks, my world famous cookies were from the mind of my grandma. Of course, I have perfected them over the last 100 years (since I am oh, so old), but they started with a Grandma spending some quality time with her granddaughter. Good memories.
But, Cookies are not the point of my story. My point is ROLLS. Each year we have Thanksgiving with Dalen's family I am required to make the rolls. I do as my Grandma did. This year was extra special because my Kylie wanted to get in on the action. I had her help me with measuring, mixing, rolling, buttering and baking. She was a natural. Just like her mom, though, she doesn't like to be dirty/messy, so as soon as it became too much for her little hands to mix the dough she ran into the bathroom to clean off all of the sticky dough, leaving me to finish adding enough flour to unstickify it. (hey, that's a Julie word, don't be looking it up in Webster's dictionary). I was so proud of that little/big girl, who wants so hard to be like me, although that is quite a scary thought. Enjoy the few moments Dalen captured for me to always remember my first moment of passing down the rolls to another generation.
Theme song- From the classic movie Jungle Book from Disney- "I Wanna Be Like You."
From the brain of MakingChanges at 8:24 AM
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Another really great giveaway found through blog stalking
I have already joined BSA (not the Boy Scouts of America- Blog Stalkers Anonymous). Really it isn't a group to help overcome blog stalking as it is a group to encourage and give ideas to find more fun blogs to stalk. A little backwards? Probably, but I am not ready to give up on my addiction.
Today, whilest checking out my favs on my sidebar, My trusty friend, the author of Miss Delacourt Speaks Her Mind is now having a groovy giveaway. Check it out. As always, if you win and you got her link from me I am like the government, I take half of your winnings. Really, it is only fair, right?
From the brain of MakingChanges at 1:08 PM
Monday, December 1, 2008
My Children did NOT get this from me
I was sitting today thinking about all the seriously funny things my kids do and realized that none of this comes from me. They get it all from their Dad's DNA. I'll add as many pictures as I can to illustrate my point since I know y'all love pics. But, as you will read, some of these are not appropriate for viewing, hence there are no pictures to view.
- Britin is a girlie girl. She loves skirts and dresses. If she is MADE to wear pants she rolls them up so they don't touch her ankle, thus defeating the purpose of keeping her legs warm in cold weather. I, on the other hand, wear skirts and dresses only when necessary.
- All of my kids love to look at themselves in the mirror, especially Jacob. He would stay there all day if there was a computer next to the mirror. Playing games and checking himself out are his 2 favorite things. Here's one for the "no pictures" items. He gets undressed before he gets in the shower and jiggles himself all down while watching. Strange child.
- Malia loves to be naked. When she gets ready for naptime it is a requirement that shoes, socks and pants MUST come off. She has finally learned to keep the shirt on since she is a wiggler in her sleep and the blankets need a little help keeping her warm. I hope no one turns me in for the following totally inappropriate picture. It's just too funny not to share.
- Britin loves to make up her own songs. I have already posted a number of songs Britin sings, but in case you have missed any previously here is one of my favorite performances.
These few things them brought me to my next thought of the things my kids did get from me. Hmmmmmm- Well, Kylie looks like me. Britin loves to laugh (I love to laugh). Jacob is a lover (I consider myself a lover). Malia- I couldn't come up with one so I asked Dal- he said, "good looks." Either he really wants to score some brownie points with me or he forgot to take the trash out like I asked and he is just buttering me up. I love him either way.
Theme song for tonight- My Little Girl by Tim McGraw. Always reminds me of my daughters and hoping that they might want to dance to this song at their weddings... in the VERY far off future.
From the brain of MakingChanges at 2:45 PM


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Unofficial DataVolley Statistics * Official Statistics
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 28, 2011) – U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team Head Coach Alan Knipe showed confidence in his starting lineup and it paid off on Saturday as the U.S. Men defeated Poland, 25-22, 25-19, 37-35 to earn their first victory in the Continental (pool play) Round of the 2011 FIVB World League in Lodz, Poland
The U.S. Men improved their record in Pool A to 1-1 as they head to San Juan, Puerto Rico for their next two matches on June 3-4. Poland (1-1) will travel to Rio de Janeiro to face Brazil on June 4-5.
Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.) made no changes to his starting lineup despite its poor performance against Poland on Friday, when it was swept. His confidence paid off as four players scored in double figures and the U.S. Men improved all aspects of their game.
In a third-set battle, the U.S. Men held leads of 15-10 and 16-12, but Poland fought back and tied the match at 21-21. Poland took its first set point at 24-22 and went on to hold seven more set points while the U.S. took match point five times before finally getting the victory.
"We were a more focused team tonight; focusing intently on each and every play and taking the game one point at a time," U.S. Assistant Coach Gary Sato (Los Angeles, Calif.) said. "We developed a much better rhythm tonight and the guys showed a lot of heart and character to bounce back and win the serve and pass battle. Donald Suxho executed the game plan perfectly."
For the second night, outside hitter Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.) led the United States with 17 points on 15 kills and two aces. He was named the match's Most Valuable Player.
Outside hitter Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.) had a much better night on Saturday, scoring 16 points on 13 kills, two blocks and one ace.
Zbigniew Bartman led all scorers for a second night with 21 points on a match-high 19 kills and two blocks. Poland also used the same starting lineup as Saturday, but made many more changes throughout the match.
The teams were tied in kills, 42-42. However, the United States' hitting efficiency was 0.333 and its kill percent was 46.7 while Poland's hitting efficiency was 0.189 and its kill percent was 39.6.
The United States out-blocked Poland 15-6 and had eight aces while Poland scored on three.
Poland led in digs 66-63, but was hurt by 28 errors, while the United States had 15. The U.S. was credited with 28 excellent receptions and four faults while Poland had 21 excellent receptions and seven faults.
"I am extremely happy, we played a lot harder tonight," U.S. middle blocker Ryan Millar (Alpine, Utah) said. "Technical things aside, we were disappointed about yesterday's game. I am happy we made that third set really close, it was a good test for us. We served the ball better, we set better, and our block was better."
Millar finished the match with 11 points on five kills, five blocks and one ace. Among the other U.S. starters, middle blocker David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) also scored 11 points on five kills, five blocks and one ace. Opposite Clay Stanley (Honolulu, Hawaii) totaled nine points on three kills, three blocks and a match-high three aces.
Setter Donald Suxho (Korce, Albania) scored one point with a kill, and was also credited with 32 running sets and one fault on 65 attempts.
Libero Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.) led the team in digs with 17 and three faults on 22 attempts. He was also credited with seven excellent receptions and one fault on 20 attempts. However Anderson led the team in excellent receptions with 16 and three faults on 28 attempts.
Outside hitter Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.) played in the match as a serving substitute while opposite Gabe Gardner (San Clemente, Calif.) was brought in for blocking support.
Poland took a 4-2 lead in the first set, with the U.S. Men scoring on a Lee kill and Millar block. The U.S. Men tied the score at 4 with an Anderson kill and Poland error, and then scored on another Poland error to lead 5-4. Poland took a 6-5 lead when a Suxho setter dump tied the score and a Millar ace gave the U.S. the lead. Lee followed with a block to give the United States the 8-6 advantage at the first TTO. Poland tied the score at 8-8 on a Bartman kill and Bartosz Kurek block and then took a 9-8 lead on another Bartman kill; but then lost the edge with an error. Poland went ahead 10-9 on yet another Bartman strike. Anderson tied it at 10-10 with a kill, but Poland went ahead 12-10 on a Kurek kill and ace from Gregorz Kosok. The teams traded points until Poland's lead was 15-14 and it scored on a U.S. serving error to lead 16-14 at the second TTO. Coming out of the break, a Kurek quick kill led Knipe to call a timeout. Stanley responded by scoring on a kill and block to bring the U.S. back to within two at 18-16. A Kurek kill ended the mini run, but the U.S. got the ball back on Poland's serving error. Priddy took the serve and the U.S. made it 19-18 on a Lee block and Poland coach Andrea Anastasi called timeout. The U.S. run continued, however, as it scored on a Priddy kill, another Lee block and an ace to take a 21-19 lead. Anastasi called timeout again and Kurek responded with a strike. But the U.S. Men came back with a block by Lee and kill from Anderson to lead 23-20. Poland scored on a kill by Piotr Nowakowski. But a service error gave the U.S. set point. Poland scored once more on a kill by Michal Ruciak. But Anderson ended the set with a kill.
Poland took a 6-3 lead in the second set as Bartman and Kurek again took control for Poland. The U.S. Men had scored on two kills from Anderson along with Poland's serving error. A Stanley kill gave the serve to Anderson who followed it with an ace to pull the U.S. to within one at 6-5. But Poland stayed on the offensive and its lead was still two points at the first technical timeout (TTO). With Poland leading 10-8, the U.S. scored on a Poland error and Lee ace to tie it up. Poland went ahead again on a U.S. error and Kosok kill, but Stanley got the serve on a Millar kill and the U.S. scored three more points on a Millar block, Priddy kill and Poland error to lead 14-12. Poland came back with a successful Kosok attack and the two teams traded points until the U.S. led 17-16. The U.S. went ahead by two on Priddy kill and made it three on a strike from Anderson. Anastasi called timeout, but Lee blocked Bartman to make it 20-16. With the U.S. leading 21-17, Poland scored on two kills from Kurek. Knipe called timeout and iced the serve of Marcin Mozdzonek. After scoring on Poland's error, the U.S. scored its final two points on a Millar block and Stanley ace.
The U.S. Men opened the third set by taking a 6-1 lead, scoring on a Lee kill, an Anderson block, a kill and block by Millar, a Stanley block and a Priddy kill. Poland came back with a 4-0 run, but the U.S. Men still held an 8-6 lead at the first TTO. Later, with the U.S. still leading by two at 12-10, Stanley used a block and an ace to increase the lead to four. Anastasi called timeout, but Stanley responded with another ace. Poland scored twice before a Priddy kill gave the U.S. a 16-12 lead at the second TTO. Poland came out of the break to score three straight points, including a Bartman kill and Ruciak block, to pull to within one at 16-15. Knipe called timeout and iced Michal Bakiewicz's serve. The U.S. still led by one at 18-17 when Priddy used a tip and an ace to increase the lead to 20-17. Anastasi called timeout and a U.S. hitting error gave Poland a point. An Anderson kill made it 21-18, but Bartman erased that lead with three straight strikes. Knipe called timeout and Poland's error put the U.S. back up by one. Later, with the U.S. leading 22-21, Poland tied the score on Bartman's kill, then took its first lead of the match on Bartman's block and added an ace by substitute Pawel Woicki to reach set point at 24-22. The U.S. fought it off twice with a Priddy back-row attack and a U.S. block, but it would not be the last Polish set point.
Bartman gave Poland a third set point with a kill, making it 25-24, but Millar answered. Poland's fourth set point was from a Ruciak quick kill, but Priddy tied it up on an attack. Poland reached set point two more times. The second time, Anderson tied with a kill and then scored with a block to give the U.S. its first match point at 29-28. This time Bakiewicz answered with a kill. The U.S. held match point four more times, but Poland answered each time. With the U.S. leading 33-32, Poland used a kill from Ruciak and a U.S. error to get to its seventh set point at 34-33. The teams exchanged service errors to give Poland its eighth set point at 35-34. A Priddy kill tied the score at 35-35. Anderson's attack made it 36-35 and the U.S. finally won the set and the match on a Millar block.
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Tickets to see the U.S. Men play Poland at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates are available at the Sears Centre Arena Box Office (5333 Prairie Stone Parkway), online at SearsCentre.com or by calling (888) SEARSTIX (732-7784).
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Tickets to see the U.S. Men play Puerto Rico on July 1-2 (7 p.m. PT both nights) at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach can be purchased by visiting the Long Beach State athletics web site, by calling the ticket office at (562) 985-4949 or by visiting the box office (open 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. starting June 6; the address is 1250 Bellflower Blvd.).
For more information, visit the USA Volleyball World League web site.
2011 FIVB World League
Roster for May 28 in Lodz, Poland
No. Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
1 Matt Anderson (OH, 6-10, West Seneca, N.Y., Penn State)
4 David Lee (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Calif., Long Beach State)
5 Rich Lambourne (L, 6-3, Tustin, Calif., BYU)
6 Paul Lotman (OH, 6-7, Lakewood, Calif., Long Beach State)
7 Donald Suxho (S, 6-5, Korce, Albania, USC)
8 Reid Priddy (OH, 6-5, Richmond, Va., Loyola Marymount)
9 Ryan Millar (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Utah, BYU)
10 Brian Thornton (S, 6-3, San Clemente, Calif., UC Irvine)
12 Russell Holmes (MB, 6-8, Fountain Valley, Calif., BYU)
13 Clay Stanley (OPP, 6-9, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Hawaii)
15 Gabe Gardner (Opp, 6-8, San Clemente, Calif., Stanford)
17 Max Holt (MB, 6-9, Cincinnati, Ohio, Penn State)
Head Coach: Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.)
Team Leader: Rob Browning(Newport Beach, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Gary Sato (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Medical Doctor: Stephen Daquino (San Diego, Calif.)
Trainer: Ron Larsen (Lafayette, Calif.)
Technical Coordinator: Chris Jackson (Phoenix, Ariz.)
Medical Support: Aaron Brock (Storm Lake, Iowa)
Pool A Standings
Team record (points)
1. Brazil 1-0 (3)
2. Poland 1-1 (3)
4. Puerto Rico 0-1 (0)
U.S. Schedule and Results
Date: May 27-28
Opponent: Poland
Location: Atlas Arena in Lodz, Poland
May 27: Poland def. USA, 25-20, 25-22, 25-19
May 28: USA def. Poland, 25-22, 25-19, 37-35
Date: June 3-4
Opponent: Puerto Rico
Location: Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Date: June 11-12
Opponent: Brazil
Location: Mineirinho in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Date: June 17-18 (7 p.m. both nights)
Opponent: Poland
Location: Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Ill. - BUY TICKETS
Date: June 24-25 (7 p.m. both nights)
Opponent: Brazil
Location: Reynolds Center at the University of Tulsa (Okla.) - BUY TICKETS
Date: July 1-2 (7 p.m. both nights)
Opponent: Puerto Rico
Location: Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, Calif. - BUY TICKETS
Date: July 6-10
Opponent: Teams must qualify
Location: Gdansk-Sopot, Poland


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Brother of suspect in nun's death gets 4 months for lying to feds
The brother of a man sought for the hit-and-run killing of a nun in Water Mill has been released from federal custody after serving 4 months for lying to investigators.
Miguel Ixpec-Chitay, 26, of Riverhead, was arrested in September by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, accused of falsely telling them he hadn't been in contact with his fugitive brother.
Authorities believe Carlos Ixpec-Chitay, 30, fled the country in July after being named a suspect in the death of the nun, Jacqueline Walsh, 59, of Syosset. She was struck by a vehicle while walking, police said.
When questioned by ICE agents, Miguel Ixpec-Chitay said he hadn't heard from his brother, but agents discovered that he had called Carlos or received calls from him 19 times soon after Walsh was killed.
Miguel Ixpec-Chitay was convicted of lying to federal agents in December.
On Thursday, Judge Denis Hurley in federal District Court in Central Islip sentenced him to the 4 months he had already served. Federal guidelines called for a sentence of up to 6 months.
In court papers asking for the time-served sentence, Ixpec-Chitay's attorney, Leonard Lato of Hauppauge, said his client may have been upset and misleading when questioned about his brother because of a 2007 encounter with ICE agents.
Lato said the agents then arrested Ixpec-Chitay on suspicion of being in the country illegally. An immigration judge later threw out the case after finding that the agents had entered and searched Ixpec-Chitay's house without a warrant or the occupants' permission, Lato said.
The agents did not dispute that one of them also hit Ixpec-Chitay three times on the head with a flashlight, according to the attorney.
While the government is appealing the judge's decision, Latos defended the immigration status of his client.
"There is no evidence that he is here illegally, which is why he was released," Lato said last week.
Eastern District federal prosecutor Lara Treinis Gatz declined to comment.
Ixpec-Chitay plans to appeal his conviction on the lying charge because he doesn't want a felony on his record, Lato said.
Meanwhile, the search by federal and local police for his brother in the nun's death is continuing. Authorities believe he initially fled to the West Coast and then to his native Guatemala.