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ClearPath® - Integrated Servo System
ClearPath® - Integrated Servo System
The ClearPath-MCVC model is used mainly for velocity (speed) control replacing AC induction motors, synchronous motors, DC motors, and more expensive (and non-integrated) servo systems. But it also has a torque mode, as well as the ability to precisely move between two different user-defined positions, so it can replace pneumatic and hydraulic cylinders. In all cases, you get smooth, quiet, bi-directional, and precisely servo-regulated motion in a low-cost, integrated package.
Torque/Speed Curves
|Peak Torque
|Cont. (RMS) Torque at 30°C
|Peak Torque
|Cont. (RMS) Torque
|Max Speed
|Peak Power
|Cont. (RMS) Power
|Qty 1-9
|Qty 10-49
|Qty 50-99
|Qty 100-199
|Qty 200+
|Volume pricing requires registration
Click the "See Accessories" button to view a list of required and recommended accessories to complete your ClearPath system. Select from assorted cables and more. Also, download your free copy of ClearPath software.
|Motor Frame Size
|NEMA 34 - 3.42 in (86.87 mm) sq.
|3.14 in (79.76 mm)
|Input (bus) Voltage Range
|24-75 VDC (90 VDC max)
|Peak Torque (@75 VDC)
|288 oz-in (2.0 N-m)
|Cont. (RMS) Torque (@75 VDC)
|67 oz-in (0.5 N-m)
|Max Speed (@75 VDC)
|Achievable Resolution
|0.450 degrees
|0.03 degrees
|Shaft Diameter
|0.500 in (12.70 mm)
|3.0 lb (1.4 kg)
|Rotor Inertia
|3.9 oz-in² (0.7 kg-cm²)
|Logic Input Voltage Range
|4.0 to 28 VDC
|Maximum Radial Load
|50 lbf (222.4 N)
|Maximum Thrust Load
|10.0 lbf (44.5 N)
|Ambient Temperature1
|-40° to +70° C
|Ambient Humidity
|0-95%; non-condensing
|Environmental Rating
|Dust & water splash resistant
|Regulatory Certifications
|UL recognized; cUL recognized; CE; RoHS
|Supports STO (IEC 60204-1) Safety Requirements
|Country of Origin
|3 Years
1The RMS torque limit on certain motors is derated for operation in ambient temperatures above +40 degrees C. Contact Teknic for derating assistance.
2Wired according to Teknic's instructions, ClearPath surpasses STO (IEC 60204-1) Safe Stop 0 safety requirements. Contact Teknic for more information.
2D Drawings*
3D Drawings*
ClearPath User Manual*
*Requires quick registration
Control your ClearPath-MC servo systems with a ClearCore™ or ClearLink™ Motion & I/O Controller. ClearCore is a C++ programmable controller for general-purpose machine control, while ClearLink adds motion and I/O capability to any EtherNet/IP-compatible PLC.
With either controller you can coordinate up to four ClearPath-MC motors per controller. You can also control 13 software-configurable, analog and digital I/O points (up to 24VDC). Both controllers can be networked to control larger systems with more motors, and you can use I/O expansion modules to increase the I/O count.
Blower Kit
Part Number: BLOWER-1P230V
Connector: Screw Terminal Block
Length: Adds 2.12 in to motor length (see manual/3D models for specifics)
Input Power: Single-phase 190-230 VAC
Weight: 2.0 lbs
|Qty 1-9
|Qty 10-49
|Qty 50-99
|Qty 100-199
|Qty 200+


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By Kyle Duffy – Product Specialist
Humans are naturally curious creatures, we tend to ask a lot of questions and some of us are Do-It-Yourselfers (DIY), we take matters into our own hands. Some of us will leave the dirty work to others, but still need to know the right stuff to get for the job. Thank technology for the creation of the internet (or you wouldn't be reading this) and forums! An Internet forum is an online discussion site where you can submit questions or information for other to see and discuss. Sonic Electronix just rolled out forums of their very own, where you can go get your questions answered, answer questions to help others, or just keep up on what's what in the car audio world. Some of you may be new to the idea of "forums", but don't fret, let's see why you should join the ever growing Sonic Electronix community.
With the Sonic Electronix forum, you can ask the car audio community any questions you may have about speakers, amplifiers, subwoofers or the like. In the middle of an install you're trying to pull off yourself, and you have no idea how to proceed? Ask on the forums! Let the community help you out, it's best not to blow fuses, mentally or physically when you're stuck on wiring. You may be ready to buy a big system, but want some advice on the parts you chose to make sure they are quality, compatible parts. No problem, ask on the forums! Now, I know some of you have some pretty sweet rides with bumping systems installed, and I know you want to show it off. On the Sonic Electronix forums, post some pictures and show off your ride to your fellow audiophiles. Confident you know all about car audio, maybe even installed a bunch of systems? Help out those less fortunate and answer their questions, they only wan't some friendly advice after all.
Don't be afraid, forums are the now, and the future. Don't you think it's time to jump on the bandwagon and keep up with the world population and communication?
Sonic Electronix Forums:
– Car Audio Forum
– Home Electronics Forum
– Marine Audio Forum

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Google Glass with designer frames go on sale on fashion websites
Two years after she brought Google Glass to the New York Fashion week runway, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg has teamed with Google Inc. to launch a line of designer frames for the smart glasses to hang on.
Von Furstenberg-- best known for her easy-to-put-on wrap dresses -- helped reshape the $1,500 computerized eyewear into something that looks more like a normal pair of glasses.
Women's fashion retailer Net-A-Porter.com is selling the limited collection in an $1,800 package that include Glass (in black, green, plum, brown or white), a frame and shade, a mono ear bud and a case. The site's men-focused companion, MrPorter.com, is selling a $1,650-package with frame varieties of either bold, thin or half-and-half.
Elements of the packages can be bought separately through Google. The frames support prescription lenses.
Though they don't completely shed the sense that Glass wearers are robots, the upscale frames have been applauded by some consumers as giving more style to Glass.
Potential Google Glass buyers have complained that Google's original version isn't appealing, and they have no intention of buying the smart glasses until Oakley, Ray-Ban, Armani or the like give it a makeover.
Google has said the DVF | Made for Glass line is expected to be the first of many such collaborations.
In addition to a growing number of apps, Google Glass allows users to do online searches, use maps, take photos and record videos through a combination of voice commands and taps on the frame. On Monday, Google opened up sales of Glass outside the U.S. People in the United Kingdom can now buy Glass for £1,000, or about $1,700.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Donna Karan mingled with Miss Piggy, Michael Kors judged karaoke with Kate Upton and Kim Kardashian signed perfume sets Thursday as shoppers broke out their stilettos — and their wallets — for the fourth annual Fashion's Night Out.
The celebrity-studded night lured shoppers into stores for celebrity spotting, music, giveaways, food and drinks, and, just maybe, shopping.
By early evening in New York, the basement beauty floor of Bergdorf Goodman was packed. Madeleine Russell of Manhattan, wearing her FNO shirt from last year, got her nails done ahead of a long line. She attends Fashion's Night Out events every year.
"I'm inspired by all the fashion around me and I get my own ideas," she said.
Like the FNO pro she is, Russell planned to head home from Bergdorf to put on makeup and her Manolo Blahniks to see Cyndi Lauper at the Blahnik store promoting her new musical, "Kinky Boots."
Across town, Kim Kardashian signed $123 gift sets of her perfume True Reflection at Lord & Taylor and was ready to hop a plane to Charlotte, N.C., for an after party for the Democratic National Convention.
"Because it is a lot of running around I wanted to be comfortable," she said. "This Tom Ford dress is, like, stretchy. So at least I'm really comfortable."
Fashion's Night Out — launched in 2009 in New York by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour — has proven so popular that it's now a fixture in some 19 countries, over three weeks involving tens of thousands of shoppers.
By dusk in Paris, the luxury shopping district was awash with thousands of people out to see spectacles like the one at Chloe, where a parade of dancing cheerleaders descended from a Chevrolet truck.
"There are too many people here to buy clothes. But people get to know the brands, and buy another time. Today, it's all about fun," said Corine Marneffe, 50.
In London, models Yasmin and Amber Le Bon (wife and daughter of Simon) were walking in a fashion show at the Westfield shopping center along with Lizzy Jagger (daughter of Mick).
But the splashiest events were in New York, where Donna Karan schmoozed with Miss Piggy at the DKNY store on Madison Avenue, the pig in a black dress designed by Karan herself — fittings and all. The two fashionistas posed together with hunky New York City firefighters featured in the fire department's calendar, their ladder truck parked outside.
Michael Kors helped judge a karaoke contest with Debra Messing and Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover girl Upton at his Madison Avenue store. He called Fashion's Night Out the trifecta: "It's starting the new season, you're excited to see what's in stores. You're reminded it's fun to shop and you can feel the energy."
At the nearby Ann Taylor store, bank worker Lenore Muller of Manhattan headed inside for a chance to be made over by stylist Mary Alice Stephenson and get counted among 50 women to pose in the store's windows for the crowds outside.
"We call it window glamming," Stephenson said.
At Bergdorf Goodman, crowds out to see Victoria Beckham, Rachel Zoe and Robert Verdi wore Burger King-style hats promoting the store. A glass bar in the Donna Karan department shattered and a kid ate ice cream — chocolate — dangerously close to the Pucci department. Nearby Bendel's was too crowded to enter later in the night.
Pharrell was at Bloomingdale's promoting his collaboration with designer Mark McNairy. "It makes sense as fashion has given so much to me for us to try and give back and support the movement for what these guys do," he said.
Not far away was "Twilight" star Kellan Lutz, supporting the bedding collection Charisma. Fortunately, bedding is instrumental to his style. "See, the good thing about being a guy, you get the whole bed-head look waking up," he said.
At the Macy's in Herald Square, 38-year-old customer service rep Keisha Carter from Brooklyn picked up two shirts and a dress on sale, but she admitted she hadn't realized it was Fashion's Night Out — for the second year in a row! She said she enjoyed the energy.
"People are more helpful," Carter said. "There's a busy-ness feeling, even more than usual."
In the makeup department, Lorrin Lynn, 24, a CPA, got a free makeover at Bobbi Brown after buying her special FNO lipstick. She also went hunting for reality star Bethenny Frankel showing off her shapewear line in the intimates department and "Bachelorette" star Emily Maynard at the Benefit Cosmetics counter.
"It's fun to go out to the stores, see the trends, and there's free booze!" said Lynne, cruising the night with a friend for their second FNO.
At Lord & Taylor, several hundred people lined up for Kardashian's autograph.
"Kim is the only person I put my life on pause for," said Aaron Ward, 26, a personal trainer from the Bronx who showed up at 4:30 p.m.
He bought the Kardashian perfume gift set for his mother and has purchased more than 50 other items from the Kardashian brand as gifts.
"I love Kim but I am not a girl," he added. "I am a Kim Kardashian curator."
Meanwhile, Nicole Richie and Jennifer Hudson were among a handful of designers who were promoting their creations on QVC from 9 pm to 12 midnight. "It's a dream to debut on Fashion's Night Out," said Jennifer Hudson, who had just finished a 12-minute segment selling 13 pieces of her new collection exclusive for the home shopping network.
This is the third year that QVC televised its shopping program in Manhattan on Fashion's Night Out. Company officials noted that viewership typically is twice what they see compared to other days.
Does all the starpower and hoopla help at the register? "Ask me tomorrow," Max Azria said with a laugh backstage before his BCBG presentation at New York Fashion Week. He said it can't hurt to meet shoppers.
Stores across the U.S. also held events, though less star-studded. In Chicago, Saks Fifth Avenue offered free cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and music; in Atlanta, Lenox Square Mall gave out gift bags and makeup touch ups at Aveda.
Models walked a quarter mile runway at the Galleria Dallas. The mall's fashion expert Holly Quartaro said that by the end of the night, each model will have walked a mile and a half in heels. NorthPark Center featured runway shows, beauty stations for mini-makeovers and an exhibit of Roberto Cavalli gowns.
"We've got an amazing crowd out here," said the shopping center's director of public relations, Victoria Snee, adding that some shoppers were "dressed to the nines."
Fashion's Night Out, timed for the first day of New York Fashion Week, also coincides with the final night of the Democratic National Convention. A Vogue spokeswoman said the event was planned a year in advance with thousands of retailers.
She added that Wintour is a supporter of President Barack Obama and noted that shoppers had five hours of events — plenty of time to get home to watch Obama speak if they wish.
Thakoon Panichgul — who has dressed first lady Michelle Obama — planned to do just that. But the conflict didn't bother Simon Doonan, the creative ambassador-at-large at Barneys: "That's what Tivo's for."
NBG Productions analyst Brian Sozzi said Fashion's Night Out started inconspicuously but has gained traction over the years.
"It gets customers into stores in a non-peak hour after work and it gets them energized," he said. "It's a win-win for retailers who are piggy backing on Fashion's Night Out's own marketing so it's not a big investment for them."
On Twitter, Fashion's Night Out's hashtag, (hash)FNO, was one of the top trending keywords. Laura Ashley tweeted about goodie bags while designer shoe label Christian Louboutin shared a special Fashion's Night Out Spotify playlist.
Kelly Talamas, director of Vogue Mexico & Latin America, said that last year's Fashion's Night Out boosted local sales. For its second year, Fashion's Night Out Mexico more than doubled the number of participating stores, to 250 from 100 in 2011. FNO Mexico will also expand to the Mexican city of Guadalajara, where activities will be held Sept. 13.
"Mexico is one of the strongest countries in the fashion scene, there is knowledge about fashion and interest in shopping," Talamas told the AP. "All the brands representatives told us that they sold a lot. There were some who said to us: 'Wow, we sold more than ever! This has been the most successful day in the year,'" she said.
Associated Press writers Mae Anderson, Anne D'Innocenzio, Nicole Evatt, Leanne Italie, Fay Abuelgasim and Karen Abbas contributed to this report from New York. Thomas Adamson contributed from Paris, Cassandra Vinograd contributed from London, Isaac Garrido from Mexico City and Jamie Stengle from Dallas.
Follow AP Fashion on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/AP_Fashion


text: Evidence collected from a website that was recently used to flood U.S. banks with junk traffic suggests that the people behind the ongoing DDoS attack campaign against U.S. financial institutions -- thought by some to be the work of Iran -- are using botnets for hire.The compromised website contained a PHP-based backdoor script that was regularly instructed to send numerous HTTP and UDP (User Datagram Protocol) requests to the websites of several U.S. banks, including PNC Bank, HSBC and Fifth Third Bank, Ronen Atias, a security analyst at Web security services provider Incapsula, said Tuesday in a blog post.Atias described the compromised site as a "small and seemingly harmless general interest UK website" that recently signed up for Incapsula's services.An analysis of the site and the server logs revealed that attackers were instructing the rogue script to send junk traffic to U.S. banking sites for limited periods of time varying between seven minutes and one hour. The commands were being renewed as soon as the banking sites showed signs of recovery, Atias said.During breaks from attacking financial websites the backdoor script was being instructed to attack unrelated commercial and e-commerce sites. "This all led us to believe that we were monitoring the activities of a Botnet for hire," Atias said."The use of a Web Site as a Botnet zombie for hire did not surprise us," the security analyst wrote. "After all, this is just a part of a growing trend we're seeing in our DDoS prevention work.""In an attempt to increase the volume of the attacks, hackers prefer web servers over personal computers," Atias said. "It makes perfect sense. These are generally stronger machines, with access to the high quality hoster's networks and many of them can be easily accessed through a security loophole in one of the sites."Another interesting aspect of the PHP-based backdoor analyzed by Incapsula is that it had the ability to multiply on the server in order to take full advantage of its resources, Atias said. "Since this is a server on the hoster's backbone, it was potentially capable of producing much more traffic volume than a regular 'old school' botnet zombie."In addition, the backdoor script provided an API (application programming interface) through which attackers could inject dynamic attack code in order to quickly adapt to changes in the website's security, Atias said.The attack script on the compromised U.K. website was being controlled through another website in Turkey that belongs to a Web design company. Incapsula's researchers believe that the Turkish site had been compromised as well and was serving as a bridge between the real attackers and their website-based botnet.A group calling itself the "Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters" has taken responsibility for the recent wave of attacks against the U.S. financial websites that started in December. The same group claimed responsibility for similar attacks launched against the same financial institutions in September.The group claims that its DDoS campaign is in response to a film trailer mocking the prophet Muhammad not being removed from YouTube. However, some U.S. government officials and security experts are convinced that the attacks are actually the work of the Iranian government, The New York Times reported Tuesday.The possibility of Iran being behind the attacks has been advanced before. In September, former U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, an Independent from Connecticut, who was chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs at the time, blamed the Iranian government for the attacks against U.S. banks and said that they were probably launched in retaliation for the economic sanctions imposed on Iran.The Iranian government officially denied its involvement and the U.S. government has not yet released any evidence that supports this claim.That said, the sophistication of the tools used in the attacks, as well as their unprecedented scope and effectiveness, have been advanced as arguments that this DDoS attack campaign might be state sponsored.The attacks against the U.S. financial industry from the past few months are unique in scale, organization, innovation and scope, Carl Herberger, vice president of security solutions at Israel-based network security vendor Radware, said Wednesday via email.The company cannot comment on the origin of the attacks, because it only focuses its resources on attack detection and mitigation, Herberger said. However, in Radware's view, the DDoS attack campaign against U.S. banks has represented the longest persistent cyberattack on a single industrial sector in history, he said.If someone in the U.S. government is indicating that the Iranians are doing it, like Lieberman did a few months ago, they're probably spot on, Scott Hammack, the CEO of DDoS mitigation vendor Prolexic, said Wednesday.These attackers are not using the traditional "pull" command and control technology where the botnet clients periodically connect to a server to check if new instructions are available. Instead, they are using a "push" technology to send instructions in a matter of seconds to hundreds of compromised servers, Hammack said.This allows for more dynamic attacks, but also leaves the attackers open to being identified a lot easier, Hammack said. The U.S. government is monitoring some of the compromised servers used in the attacks and can see exactly where those instructions are coming from, he said.Herberger described the DDoS attacks as well-organized and innovative in the sense that they use newly uncovered vulnerabilities and attack origins. One example is that they leverage the infrastructure of cloud providers instead of the resources of consumer-oriented computers.The attacks are definitely very sophisticated, Hammack said. The attackers know exactly what weak spots to hit and target them in rotation. They've obviously done a lot of research into the infrastructure of the banks and how it's configured, he said."These attacks have, almost simultaneously, been launched on nearly every major commercial bank in the U.S.," Herberger said. However, not all of the targeted banks have suffered outages, which suggests that some effective defenses do exist, he said.


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Here's what the current geomagnetic storm looks like right now, data-wise:
The visuals are in the sky, in the form of brilliant auroras, visible all over Canada and as far south as Michigan. The near-full moon doesn't help, but the show is there to see. (Alas, I'm in North Carolina, so it's a longer shot.)


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Background Paper on Immigration and National Security
In the immediate aftermath of September 11, the U.S. government committed to increasing national security through every possible avenue. Although the most effective measures to combat terrorism will inevitably rely on intelligence, certain immigration programs and procedures can contribute to better intelligence and enhanced security. This background paper evaluates a number of effective procedures related to the arrival of foreign nationals to the United States, explores existing frameworks in the European Union, and offers a set of recommendations on how best to proceed in this area.
The background paper provides an overview of the visa regime and the numerous visa categories under which a foreign national can seek entry into the United States. Although those seeking authorization to enter are required to supply a long list of supporting documentation and attend a personal interview, this paper finds that the timely sharing of reliable intelligence between the Bureau of Intelligence and the Consular Affairs Bureau is of upmost importance. The paper also underscores the importance of effective intelligence cooperation to securing borders in the North American region. In terms of the European Union, the paper finds that the 15 current Member States have made advancements in developing common rules and regulations; creating shared databases; monitoring cross-border criminal activity; and managing extradition. These advancements, it is argued, can be contributed in large part to the collective interests shared in the region where internal borders have been effectively dismantled. The paper outlines as series of policy recommendations and argues that policy measures should be taken to increase national security, but that in considering various policy options, policymakers be mindful of America's commitment to freedom and individual rights.
Immigration and National Security
The Visa Regime
Controlling U.S. Borders
The Asylum System
Learning from Others: The European Experience
Civil Liberties/Data Protection
Other Arrangements
Lessons from Europe


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Packing Videos
Learn How to Pack Professionally
Packing Tips for Moving
Here are a few pointers to keep in mind when packing items into moving boxes. Before you start packing your going to need a work surface to pack on. An adjustable table or counter top is always recommended. Crinkle up four to eight pieces of packing paper before you start loading and place them at the bottom of the moving box. This will provide a great layer of protection for your valuable items. Pack heavier items to the bottom of the box, lighter items to the top. This will help prevent items from being crushed during moving. Pack the boxes tightly as possible without damaging the items. Packing per density is important because it prevents items from shifting during transit. Make sure you line all empty spaces in the box with crinkled packing paper or peanuts to keep the items from shifting.
Pack cartoons tightly if a carton rattles or make noise the contents could be damaged in transit. Blankets and other soft goods could fill the extra space in not quite full cartoons. An interesting note to remember is that the larger the box is the lighter and bulkier are its' contents. So pack heavier items into smaller boxes and do not over pack larger boxes. The most important thing to remember is you have to carry it. Don't leave packing for the last minute you'll have so much to do. Give yourself enough time to gather all the packing materials that you're going to need, your moving boxes, your paper, your markers, your tape, and all the other packing materials we talked about. Don't underestimate how much you own.
Start packing several weeks before your move. Take inventory of your home, make a list and catalog all your possessions. Set aside valuables you won't load on the truck. Like documents and most importantly your jewelry. Don't be a packrat. Dispose of items you no longer want, have a yard sale, a garage sale, or make a donation. If you haven't used it in a year, throw it out. Pack belongings that you don't often use first and save the items that you use on a daily basis for last. Keep in mind that there are going to be a variety of items you are going to need as soon as you arrive in your new home. As you pack make sure you identify each moving box very specifically. If your boxes don't have a labeling chart write directly on the box, identify the room, where the box will go, what the contents of the box are and what side up the box should be placed. Never ever pack flammable items such as fuel or aerosols.
Packing up the Kitchen
We will now provide you with moving tips and specific information as to how to pack dishes and glasses for moving. Obviously, one of the most important rooms to pack up is the kitchen, use the kitchen or dish pack moving boxes for loading the contents of the kitchen. Don't forget to fill the bottom of the box with a layer of protection. Use crinkled paper probably about 8 sheets. This will provide a cushion for your very fragile kitchen items. Since you'll want to place your plates at the bottom of the dish pack start packing your china with the plates first. Take one plate at a time and place it in a safety packed foam pouch. Then take three of the filled pouches and place them in the middle of the white packing paper. What you will do is fold the corners towards the center of the plates and we will call this the wrap and roll technique.
The corners are in the center and roll the plates away from you. What you will now have is a nice bundle of dishes. Repeat this step with three more plates every time. Take your bundles and place them in the bottom of the moving box. It is important to remember to always place dishes on their edge and never lay them flat in the box.
When you are finished with your bottom level you will begin on your second level of the box. Start by covering your first level with another layer of crinkled paper, eight sheets usually work well. Your second level will be bowls, canisters, or small appliances. When wrapping bowls you will fill the center with paper before wrapping. Place another bowl in the center and cushion with packing paper. Use the wrap and roll technique on the bowls. You will want to use a couple more sheets of packing paper to protect your glass bowls. Wrap and roll up a bundle and place it in the dish pack. When wrapping casserole dishes with lids remove the lid and cover the bowl with two sheets of paper. Use the wrap and roll technique we've already described. Wrap the lid of the casserole separately also using this technique. Place the casserole and its lid next to each other in the box and on its side for protection.
Take a single glass and place it in one of the glass kit foam pouches. Then place the filled pouch in the center of two pieces of white packing paper. Cover the glass with the paper and roll it away from you. Fold the corner towards the center of the glass one side at a time. Uboxes could provide you with the safety pack for the glasses all you need to do is put the cell divider into a medium box and fill the spaces with your glasses. It provides excellent protection. The procedure for wrapping stem wear or wine glasses is exactly the same as it is for regular glasses. Please make sure when you load your stem wear into a box always place the stem of the glass facing to the top to evenly distribute the weight of the glass.
Now we are going to wrap pots and pans. Wrap the pot with paper using the wrap and roll technique and then place the lid face down in the center of the pot, using additional sheets of paper to cover the unusual shaped item. You will use this procedure for the assortment of pots and pans you have in your pantry. Since they could be heavy pack them in a medium box for easy lifting. Place the pans on edge in the box if you have empty space fill it with paper, remember never over pack your box. The top of the box can be filled with foils, placemats, towels, or any loose item.
Packing small appliances can be a delicate job if you're packing a blender remove all three pieces and pack them in white packing paper separately. First, pack the base using the wrap and roll technique. Next, wrap the glass pitcher and fill the inside with crumpled packing paper to protect it from cracking. Then wrap up the lid and place all three items next to each other in the bottom of a medium box. Silverware should also be wrapped in white packing paper. Place two or three spoons and forks on the paper and roll away from you, after one or two revolutions add two or three more pieces of silverware. Fold the corner to the center and continue to roll. Place your silverware at the top level of the dish pack, pack knives the same way you pack the rest of your silverware, but be sure that you mark knives on the outside. You don't want to cut yourself as you're taking that package out of the box. Once you've filled up your dish pack place some crinkled paper on top, close the flaps, and tape the box closed. Don't forget to mark all pertinent information of its content on its side.


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Ivy Koester 1st – Giordana Velo Women's Omnium (Scratch, Win-N-Out, Points) Bob Francis 3rd – Arizona State Crit Championships Men's Master 55+ Nathan Roberts 2nd – JNTC...Read More
Billy Taylor 1st – Jr M 15-18 Chris Hinds Sunshine Crit Nathan Roberts 1st – Steve Reed Memorial Time TrialRead More
Nathan Roberts 1st – Jr Men's Omnium – JNTC #1 1st – Jr M Madison – JNTC #1 1st – Jr M Points – JNTC #1 1st – JNTC...Read More
While living at the Olympic Training Center in 2013, I received my first concussion baseline exam. It was a new concept at the time, but one the OTC took...Read More
Bob Francis 5th – Men's 45+ Hungry Dog Criterium 7th – Men's 55+ Hungry Dog CriteriumRead More
The BPC tema kit order is only open until the 14th of March. Get your order in now for team kit. If you have questions, please send us a...Read More
Billy Taylor 4th – Junior Men Scratch Race – Provincial Championships 4th – Junior Men Team Pursuit – Provincial Championships 9th – Junior Men Points Race – Provincial Championships 10th –...Read More
Billy Taylor 38th – Valley of the Sun Jr Men 17-18 Criterium 44th – Valley of the Sun Jr Men 17-18 GC 55th – Valley of the Sun Jr...Read More
Tony Shumskas 1st – Cat 3 Men's Tempo 5th – Cat 3 Men's Points Race 9th – Cat 3 Men's Omnium 12th – Cat 3 Men's Scratch 15th –...Read More
Bob Francis 5th – Avondale Criterium Homare Yamashita Junior Women Cyclocross Rider of the Year U19 PA CX BAR Champion U15 PA CX BAR Champion 4th – PA CX...Read More
Bob Francis 3rd – Avondale CriteriumRead More
Billy Taylor 1st – Junior A 2km Scratch Race – Youth Development Series, Milton, ON, CAN 2nd – Cat A Jr Keirin – Youth Development Series, Milton, ON, CAN 3rd...Read More
As part of the new USA cycling Olympic Development Program Endurance Squad, Nate Roberts has been granted the opportunity to compete with the nations best across the pond this...Read More
In one day, the course changed to a whole new animal. That animal was mud. Everywhere. The Junior Women's 13-14 field was the largest Junior Women's CX field fo...Read More
Homare Yamashita 8th – USAC CX National Championships Jr W 13-14 1st – Solstice CX U19 Jr W 1st – Solstice CX U15 Jr ! PACX U19 JR W...Read More
Homare Yamashita 2018 MAC Series Overall Champion Elite Women 9-18 2nd 2018 MAC Series Overall Amateur Women 13-14 3rd 2018 MAC Series Overall Women 4/5 15-18 25th 2018 MAC...Read More
Homare Yamashita 1st – West Chester CX U15 1st – West Chester CX U19Read More
We are very excited to announce that Kayla Hankins (Founation for American Track Cycling), Nathan Roberts (Young Medalists), and Grant Carter (T-town Elite) have been named to the USA...Read More
Homare Yamashita 1st – Stoudts CX Jr W U15 1st – Swashbuckler CX Jr W 9-14 1st – Sly Fox CX Jr W U19 1st – Sly Fox CX...Read More
We are very proud to be sending Ivy Koester, Kayla Hankins, Nathan Roberts, and Grant Carter to the first ODP Selection Camp at the Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center...Read More
Danielle Shumskas 2nd – Jr W U19 Crossasaurus CX Homare Yamashita 1st – Jr W U15 Crossasaurus Awesome CX 1st – Jr W U19 Trogenator CX 4th –...Read More
What a sweet worlds it was. With the second year in Los Angeles, we saw new and returning faces, and as usual, the BPC athletes showed up to play....Read More
Joe Camacho 12th – Men's 45-54 Team Sprint 21st – Men's 50-54 Sprint (PR) 32nd – Men's 50-54 500m (PR) Bob Francis 25th – Men's 50-54 500m TT...Read More
Ivy Koester 26th – LAVRA Flying 200m Time Trial Homare Yamashita 1st – Jr W 9-14 Town Hall CX 2nd – Jr W 15-18 Town Hall CX Nathan Roberts...Read More
We'd like to congratulate Ivy Koester, Kayla Hankins, and Nathan Roberts, on being selected to attend the first Olympic Development Program Selection Camp. This selection camp will be used...Read More
Nao Yamashita 1st – Master's 35+ 10 Lap Tempo 4th – Master's 35+ 25 Lap Points 4th – Master's 35+ Omnium Tony Shumskas 1st – Cat 4/5 Men...Read More
Lisa Nutter 3rd – Cat 4/5 Women/Master's 35+ – 3 Lap Scratch 4th – Cat 4/5 Women/Master's 35+ 7 Lap Snowball 4th – Cat 4/5 Women/Master's 35+ Omnium ...Read More
DO NOT miss out on the only and FINAL chance to get USA Master's Worlds kit prior to the world championships in October!. This store is open NOW it...Read More
Ivy Koester 11th – UCI Jr W Scratch Race Qualifier Heat Two World Championships 12th – UCI Juniorr Women Keirin World Championships 19th – UCI Juniorr W Sprint World...Read More
Kathryn Bertany 1st – Women's 50-54 2km Pursuit (Northwest Regional Champion)Read More
Ivy Koester 3rd – Elite Women's Sprint National Championships 4th – Elite Women's Team Sprint National Championships Coach Giddeon Massie 3rd – Elite Men's Keirin National Championships 3rd...Read More
Congratulations to Coach Andy Lakatosh on receiving his Level 1 Coaching Certification from USA Cycling! "In order to achieve USA cycling's highest level of coaching certification, a coach must...Read More
We are proud to announce that Ivy Koester has been named to the USA Cycling Jr National Team, for the 2018 UCI Junior Track Wrold Championships, which will be...Read More
Danielle Shumskas 22nd – Jr W 15-16 Time Trial National Championships 23rd – Jr W 15-16 Criterium National Championships 24th – Jr W 15-16 Road Race National Championships ...Read More
Homare Yamashita 2nd Overall Jr W 13-14 Omnium 2nd Jr 13-14 Omnium Scratch 3rd Jr 13-14 Omnium Scratch 5th – Jr 13-14 Omnium Points Ivy Koester 1st –...Read More
Coach Missy Erickson 2nd – 3km Scratch 2nd – Supersprint Elimination 5th – UCI Sprints 6th – UCI Scratch Race 8th – UCI Keirin Kayla Hankins 10th –...Read More
Ivy Koester 4th – UCI Women's Class 1 Keirin Coach Missy Erickson 1st – Pro Am Women 5 Mile 1st – Pro Am Women Preme Race 2nd – Pro...Read More
IVY KOESTER 1st – Cat 3/4 Women 3km Snowball Fuji Pro Am 1st – Cat 3/4 Women 3.3km Points Race Fuji Pro Am 1st – Cat 3/4 Women 4km...Read More
What an incredible feeling…the nerves are starting to show, you're getting sweaty balms just reading this. Ahhh, yes…the final preparations are beginning. Some of you have probably already started...Read More
Homare Yamashita 1st – Junior B 8 Lap Point-a-Lap (Master's & Rookies) 1st – Junior B 2km Points Race (Fuji Pro Am) 2nd – Junior A 14 Lap Snowball...Read More
We're going pro! Team gear is now available via our Squad Locker store, to BPC Athlete sand their family. Show your support for our team with men's, women's, and...Read More
Nao Yamashita 1st – Stagiaries/Pro Women Scratch Race 1st – Stagiaries/Pro Women Omnium 2nd – Stagiaries/Pro Women/Cat 3/4 Women Scratch Race 3rd – Stagiaries/Pro Women/Cat 3/4 Women Omnium 4th...Read More
DANIELLE SHUMSKAS 3rd – Junior B Point a Lap 3rd – Junior B Omnium 4th – Junior B SnowBall 5th – Junior B Elimination 9th – Somerville Street Sprints...Read More
KURT SATO 3rd – LAVRA 500mm TT (35.533) 8th – LAVRA "A" Sprints (11.608) ROBERT FRANCIS 5th – LAVRA "B" Sprints (11.96) 9th – LAVRA 500m TT (37.932)...Read More
DO NOT miss out on the FINAL chance to get BPC kit prior to the national championships. This is a "basic" version of our kit store, and it is...Read More
NAO YAMASHITA 1st – Men's 50-59 Overall Regional Omnium 1st – Men's 50-59 State Omnium 1st – Men's 50-59 500m TT 2nd – Men's 50-59 Scratch Race 2nd –...Read More
Thank you for all you do, and for bringing your strength, commitment, and work ethic to every training session. We are proud to have you as part of BPC!Read More
COACH GIDDEON MASSIE 2nd – LAVRA Sprints Group A TOMAS MUNDARIAN 6th – LAVRA Sprints Group A KURT SATO 1st – LAVRA Sprints Group B BOB...Read More
HOMARE YAMASHITA 2nd – PA Jr State Crit Championship (Jr Win 13-14) 7th – Lower Providence Criterium IVY KOESTER 7th – LAVRA International Omnium Women 21st – LAVRA...Read More
KURT SATO 5th – LAVRA Time Trial Series Team Sprint 6th – LAVRA Time Trial Series 500m MARVIN HALL 4th – LAVRA Time Trial Series Team Sprint 12th...Read More
You've been working hard all winter, and as the race season comes around, you're ready to let it all fly. You've got huge expectations. You expect to be right...Read More
BPC Water Bottles Have Arrived!
Sad because you missed out on the first round of bottles? Do not fear. You can still order or pick them up, because we have more! Send a message...Read More
Klean Athlete Affiliate Program Discounts!
Coach Miss is a Klean Athlete/Coach now! Which means there's a discount to be passed along to all of you! Create your Klean Athlete account today to receive a...Read More
Kayla Hankins 1st – Tuscon Classic Circuit Race W Cat 4 2nd – Tuscon Classic Road Race W Cat4 3rd – Tuscon Classic Overall GC W Cat 4 6th...Read More
Kayla Hankins 6th – Junior Rules! Omnium 15-16 Combined 12th – CBR Carson Crit Senior Open Shannon Castle 3rd – LAVRA Upgrade Series W4/5/40+ Ivy Koester 10th...Read More
Danielle Shumskas 4th – U17 Scratch Race 5th – U17 Individual Pursuit (PR) 5th – U17 Points Race 7th – U17 Flying 200m/Sprint (PR) 7th – U17 500m 10th...Read More
Danielle Shumskas 7th – U17 Pursuit Ontario Cup 3 9th – Cat 2 Women's Omnium Tempo 9th – Cat 2 Women's Omnium Points 10th – Cat 2 Women's Omnium...Read More
With the opening ceremonies of the 2018 Olympic Games just two days away, it's an inspiring, emotional, and exciting time to be an athlete. Right from our homes, we get...Read More
Our house in PA was built in 1850. 1850. It is 168 years old. The walls are built of stone, that are two feet thick, through the basement, up...Read More
Kayla Hankins 3rd – U17 Points Race 8th – U17 Tempo 6th – U17 Omnium Giddeon Massie 11th – CBR Dominquez Hills Criterium Open/Pro 1/2/3 MenRead More
Ivy Koester 7th – LAVRA Upgrade Omnium SeriesRead More
BPC Takes on Milton | Hall wins in LA
While the weather said otherwise, we braved the storm, and drove through the night to find our cozy little house in Brampton. BPC Athletes Danielle Shumskas, Homare Yamashita, and...Read More
MARVIN HALL: 1st – Ontario Criterium Photo credit: Marvin Hall HOMARE YAMASHITA 4th – Points Race "C1" 4th – Motor Scratch "C1" 10th – Heart Starter "C1" Photo Credit:...Read More
We saw world champions crowned, world records set, lifelong dreams achieved, and stepping stones laid for the future. Thank you for trusting in our process, our techniques, and our...Read More
Homare Yamashita 1st – Womens 15-18 Rivertown CX 1st – Women's U19 Solstice CX 2nd Overall PACX U19 SeriesRead More
We have partnered with Power Meter City, which gives us access to a wide range of power meters, from road, to track, to mtb, and everything in between. This...Read More
Homare Yamashita 2nd – WXXC #2 U19 PA State Champion Kayla Hankins 6th – LAVRA Juniors Rule Track Series 15-18 CombinedRead More
Growing up in Minnesota as a junior, and experiencing collegiate cycling in Colorado gave me quite a bit of experience in the "cold" weather department. Some of my favorite...Read More
Homare Yamashita 2nd – Sly Fox CX U19Read More
Kayla Hankins 1st – AZ NICA Series Final 2nd – AZ NICA Series Overall Homare Yamashita 2nd – Stoudts CX Junior Women's U19 2nd – Swashbuckler CX Junior...Read More
Super exciting news for Coach Andy as he was elected to the USA Cycling Board of Directors this month! In his new role Coach Andy will have a real...Read More
Homare Yamashita (13) 2nd – Crossasaurus Awesome Women's 15-18Read More
A BIG "Thank You" From Coach Andy "I don't sugar coat shit." For those of you who have worked with me for more than probably a single day,...Read More
HOMARE YAMASHITA 2nd – Jr Women's 9-18 West Chester CX DANIELLE SHUMSKAS 3rd – Jr Women's 9-18 West Chester CX ALAN WIGNALL BRONZE – Men's 65+ Team...Read More
Performing at your best requires more than just on the bike training. It requires you full attention to the finest details. As your competition gets even closer, its time...Read More
Danielle Shumskas 1st Hippo CX Juniors U19 Current PACX U19 Points LeaderRead More
The moment you purchase your USA Cycling license, you are subject to random testing at any point in competition. It doesn't matter if it's a local race, the world...Read More
Missy Erickson 1st Town Hall CX Danielle Shumskas 1st Town Hall CX U19 Homare Yamashita 2nd Town Hall CX U19 Kayla Hankins 1st – NICA Series #2, Prescott,...Read More
Rick Lilliberg Texas State Road Race Champion Homare Yamashita 2nd – Nittany Lion CX Day 2 Missy Erickson 7th Women's 3/4/5 Nittany Lion CX Danielle Shumskas...Read More
So this is it. The BIG one is just around the corner. While nearly everyone I know has spent at least the last 12 months thinking about this, most...Read More
Kayla Hankins 1st – AZ Interscholastic Cycling League Mtb Race – FlagstaffRead More
Coach Andy Lakatosh had the privilege of being selected by Cycling Canada to head the Elite Track Sprint Program for Cycling Canada, at the 2017 Elite Pan Am Track Championships...Read More
Hugo Barrette GOLD Men's Sprint SILVER Men's Keirin Amelia Walsh & Steph Roorda SILVER Women's Team Sprint Christina Birch 8th Elite Women's Individual Pursuit – Pan Am...Read More
Nao Yamashita 2nd Legends 45+ Flying Mile 2nd Legends 45+ Miss-N-Out 2nd Legends 45+ Omnium 5th Masters 40+ 15 Lap Tempo Points Race Missy Erickson 2nd Pro Women SuperSprint...Read More
Want to truly experience Autumn in PA in all it's glory this year? Then join us for the BICYCLING Magazine Fall Classic on October 1st! Pick your choice of...Read More
Danielle Shumskas 4th Omnium Women 4th Women 9 Lap Points Race 5th Women 10 Lap Scratch 5th Women 9 Lap Snowball Points Race 5th Future Stars 15 Lap Points Race ...Read More
Tyler Nothstein (Elite) 9th Benchmark Twilight Cycling Classic 1st "B" Group Championship Sprint Wars 2nd Group "B" Keirin 6th Pro Men Omnium 5th Pro Am Men & Stagiaires 10km...Read More
"Olympic silver medalist Jennifer Valente (San Diego, Calif./Sho-Air TWENTY20) won both the scratch race and omnium at the Track National Championships last week and will represent the USA in both of...Read More
Our sport demands excellence. It demands perfection. All the elements from training your body physically, mentally, and emotionally have to come together on one single day to have our...Read More
Paige Shumskas – 2nd Overall Pro Women – Tour of Millersburg – 1st Pro Individual Time Trial – 2nd Pro Road Race – 2nd Pro Criterium Danielle Shumskas...Read More
Homare Yamashita – 2nd Overall Jr W 11-12 Omnium – 2nd Jr W 11-12 500m – 2nd Jr W 11-12 1km Scratch – 2nd Jr W 11-12 2km Scratch...Read More
Ivy Koester Gold – California Elite Women's Sprint Champion Silver – Omnium 1st – Jr W 17/18 Flying 200m 1st – Elite W Flying 200m Christiana David 2nd...Read More
"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it." – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan When I started track cycling, no one...Read More
Nick Baker 4th Stagiaires 20 lap points race 10th Overall stagiaires Omnium 1st Stagiaires 12 lap Tempo Points 2nd Stagiaires Omnium 4th Elimination 5th 3km Scratch 4th Stagiaires 3km...Read More
Nick Baker 2nd Stagiares 3km Scratch 3rd Stagiares 12 Lap Tempo Points 4th Stagiares SuperSprint Elimination 2nd Stagiares Omnium 4th Stagiaires 20 Lap Points Race 10th Omnium Stagiaires ...Read More
In 2014, I went into my first non-tapered elite national championships. And I got my butt handed to me in the time trial events, and I was s-l-o-w. I...Read More
Paige Shumskas BRONZE – Jr Women's 17-18 Criterium 5th – Jr Women's 17-18 Road Race 35th – Pro Women's Criterium Danielle Shumskas 7th – Jr. Women's 13-14 Time Trial 12th...Read More
Jim Kloss – 5 Titles + BAR GOLD – Sprint GOLD – Scratch GOLD – Points GOLD – Time Trial GOLD – Pursuit Best All-Around Rider Kurt Sato...Read More
Leo Longo won the California State Team Time Trial Championship, and also set a new PR in the 500m at the LAVRA time trials! Rick Lilliberg took the Texas...Read More
The coach/athlete relationship is built upon communication. We use training peaks as a simple form of communicating with our athletes on a daily basis. The task of completing your workout,...Read More
Homare Yamashita took the win in the Philly Time Trial, which also means she is the new Juniors 10-12 Women's State Time Trial Champion! Christiana David attended the LAVRA...Read More
There's a quote by Mia Hamm I love… "Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little...Read More
Christina Birch took 5th overall in the Women's 1/2/3 LAVRA Main Event Track Series. Christiana David took 10th overall in the Women's 4/5 category in the LAVRA Main Event...Read More
It should come as no surprise, that sleep is one of the highest contributing factors to an athletes ability to perform. And it isn't just the quantity of hours...Read More
Paige Shumskas raced the Wilmington Grand Prix with her professional team, Fearless Femme. She placed 21st overall, with her little junior gears! Paige also raced the first Fuji Pro...Read More
Coach's Corner: Plan, Prepare, Perform
Training sessions and racing doesn't always happen inside temperature controlled indoor velodromes – sometimes it's freezing, windy, rainy, and miserable. And there's nothing worse than standing out there in...Read More
Christina Birch took the win in the women's 1/2/3 International Omnium at the LAVRA Series in Los Angeles. Bob Francis took 15th in the Men's Cat 1/2 in the...Read More
Marvin Hall won the Dana Point Grand Prix in commanding fashion! Bob Francis raced in Encino Velodrome this weekend and brought home a total of 4 victories, including on...Read More
Paige Shumskas raced with USA Cycling's Junior Women's Road National Team last week at Omloop Van Borselle. Paige was one of 140 junior women competing in the race, and...Read More
Paige Shumskas is currently racing in Europe as part of the USA Cycling Junior Women's National Team Program. In her first trip to Europe, we had long discussions about expectations,...Read More
BPC athlete Paige Shumskas was selected by USA Cycling to take part in two European stage races, as part of the USA Cycling Junior Women's National Team squad. We...Read More
Leo Monty Pettus took the win in the Master's 60+ Cat 1/2/3/4 race at the Ontario Criterium!Read More
The picture above was on one of those days. Slugging through training…actually, I don't even think I slugged through this day. I pedaled maybe 100 meters and stopped. Another...Read More
Marvin Hall took another win of the season at the Victorville Road Race Omnium Event! Marvin Hall with another podium for 2nd place at the Victorville Omnium Road Race...Read More
For two weeks, challenge yourself to drink 1 ounce of water per pound of body weight. This means, if you weigh 140 pounds, you're drinking 140 ounces of water. Don't...Read More
It comes at us in many forms – school, work, relationships, training, kids, daily life…shall I go on? It affects everything from our mental state, to our physical state,...Read More
When you demand 100% of yourself in training, your body demands 100% from you. The choices you make in fueling your body, have a direct correlation with the kind...Read More
Last summer, Matthew Rotherham stunned the crowds in T-town with his ability to not only take the sprinters to the line, but give the enduros a run for their...Read More
When the woodcutter got his job, he showed up on the first day ready to go: his axe was brand new, in pristine condition, his body was rested and...Read More
The smallest member of BPC conquered the freezing temps and barriers as tall as her to finish an impressive 10th at CX nationals over the weekend. Congrats on a super successful CX...Read More
No matter what you celebrate, unless you went full Grinch in the last 2 months, it's safe to say that the holiday season had an impact on your training....Read More
Supplements can be a very slippery slope for any athlete competing at any level. The supplement industry and the sometimes bold and brash claims about their products go largely...Read More
Last week, Homare Yamashita became the 2016 U15 Women's Pennsylvania State Champion! She also won the Overall U15 PACX Series!Read More
Homare Yamashita took 1st in the U15 CX race at Rivertown Cross last weekend! Matthew Rotherham – In session 1, he won the 6 lap dash, he took 4th in...Read More
Tis the Season! Cold season that is! Unless you live in a bubble far away from civilization and human contact, it's pretty much inevitable that you'll contact some kind...Read More
Matthew Rotherham took 2nd in the elimination, 5th in keirin heat 1, 5th in the handicap, and 4th in the overall standings. In session two, he took 3rd in keirin...Read More
Our very own Kurt Sato brought home silver in the 55+ Team Sprint when he rode ANCHOR on a 333m track!!! All in the midst of a full training...Read More
Homare Yamashita took 1st in the Jr 9-14 category at Kutztown CX this weekend!Read More
Junior rider Homare Yamashita has been rocking the CX skills sessions and showing her new techniques off on the weekend races! Homare took 1st at Stoudts Cross, in the...Read More
This girl might challenge Ivy Koester on the happiest girl on a bike. Christiana David took on the athletes at the Encino Velo this past weekend. Matt Rotherham traded...Read More
Tom Rotherham ripped it up at the Revolution Cycling Series Round 2 in Glasgow, Scotland. He took 1st in Keirin Round 4, 1st in Keirin Round 6, 2nd in Elimination...Read More
Matthew Rotherham took the win in the Gerald William Pyatt 20km Scratch Race. He also took the 200m track record with a time of 10.81, breaking the old time of...Read More
"The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail." -Charles R. Swindoll To me, feedback is to training performance like putting money in to a savings...Read More
San Diego rider and BPC athlete Christiana David wracked up a 3rd place this past week in the Snowball Points Race in the San Diego racing series! Way to...Read More
After living in LA for 5 years I had started to forget the many different meanings to the word "season". In SoCal, regardless of the application, the season is...Read More
Christiana David is still racing in San Diego, and took 3rd in the scratch race! She's been kicking butt!Read More
RIDER OF THE YEAR : Matthew Rotherham Matthew Rotherham took 2nd in the Pro Men 12 Lap Scratch, 1st in the Pro Men 3km Motor Scratch, 4th in the...Read More
Matthew Rotherham won the Pro Men's 12 Lap Snowball Points Race. He took 6th in the overall omnium that night. Matt continues to lead the Rider of the Year series....Read More
We assume it is a great problem to have, when you are constantly double checking and realizing you are missing results postings…What an incredible few weeks of racing and...Read More
Matt Rotherham won the Men's Keirin Cup final, as well as the Longest Lap. He is leading the Ttown Men's Rider of the Year competition currently. Missy Erickson won the women's 2km...Read More
Coach & Athlete Missy Erickson took home the US Women's Elite Scratch Race National Championship Title! Christina Birch and Missy Erickson on the podium in the women's madison, with silver and bronze, respectively. Dr....Read More
Christina Birch US Elite Women's Individual Pursuit National Champion! Kurt Sato Men's 55+ Team Sprint CA State Champion Men's 55-59 Open 500m CA State Champion David Prechtl Men's 55+...Read More
Coach/Athlete Missy Erickson took the win in the women's scratch race from the Golden Wheel Race in ttown. She finished 4th overall in the omnium. Christina Birch took 2nd in the points...Read More
Bob Francis takes 6 state titles at the Arizona State Track Championships at the Encino Velodrome. Ivy Koester take the California Women's Elite Sprint State Title, with fellow BPC Athlete Christiana David in...Read More
Riders Ivy Koester and Christina Birch tied for 2nd place in the final Friday Night Racing event of the LAVRA series! Dennis Grob took the overall win for the LAVRA FNR series, taking home...Read More
Todd Woodlan won the Collegiate Omnium in San Diego. Nick Baker won the miss n out at Kissena. Christina Birch won the LAVRA Friday Night Omnium for the women's 1/2/3! Marvin Hall is...Read More
Mavin Hall wins US Master's Tandem National Championship! Marvin Hall also took home a silver medal at the US Master's National Championships! Ivy Koester takes 2nd in the Cat 3 California State Crit Champs....Read More
Bob Francis took home wins in the 500m, 2000m, Elimination, and Team Sprint at the Encino Velodrome. Matthew Diefenbach racing in the Thursday Night Training Crit Series.Read More
Chelsea of Red Beard Racing took up the road bike this weekend and placed 4th in her first race, and top 20 in the second. Matt Diefenbach in the mix dodging...Read More
Junior athlete, Ivy Koester, is our newly minted Jr. Women's California Crit State Champ! Christina Birch made her presence known during Speedweek with a few great results!Read More
Marvin Hall on the podium in 3rd place at the Dana Point Grand Prix! Christina Birch taking on Speedweek. Matthew Diefenbach (far left) taking on the rainy weather in PA. Chelsea from...Read More
Athlete Chelsea Marie of Redbeard Racing takes over the win for the women's 1/2/3 field omnium for day 5 of 6 days of kissena! Athlete Mark Wagner of Redbeard Racing placed 3rd in the...Read More
BOOM! Ivy Koester takes the win in the women's 3/4 at the LAX Circuit Race Christina Birch took another podium spot at the LAVRA Friday Night Racing Series. Redbeard Racing's Mark Wagner took 2nd...Read More
LAVRA Series Overall: Athlete Christina Birch is currently sitting in 3rd overall in the series, while Coach Missy Erickson remains in 5th overall despite relocating to the east coast. Junior athlete Ivy Koester remains...Read More
Redbeard Racing's Chelsea scored a 2nd place finish in the women's 1/2/3 of Lucarelli & Castaldi 6 Days of Kissena (Day 1)!Read More
Coach Missy won Saturday Afternoon's 500m scratch and 8000m scratch. And also Saturday Evening's 8000m scratch event. The California Wave finished 3rd overall as a team. Athlete Marvin Hall won two stages,...Read More
Bob Francis pulled off a 2nd place finish this weekend at the Hungry Dog Criterium in Arizona!Read More
Athlete, Christina Birch, (aka S-T-R-E-T-C-H), won the women's 1/2/3 at CBR with a crew of teammates! She's making this a common occurrence. Athlete Marvin Hall took 2nd in the...Read More
With the Elite World Championships starting tomorrow, and the Rio Olympics only a few months away, it's easy to get consumed with dreams and fantasies of winning each of...Read More
The wins and podiums for BPC keep coming fast and furious every week! Barely 8 weeks into the year now and we've already had 7 wins and counting! Keep...Read More
Coach Massie was at it again at the LAVRA Friday Night Racing. Bob Francis takes 2nd at the Avondale Criterium #2 in Arizona! Bob Francis takes 4th in another...Read More
While I was growing up in this sport, I focused a lot on other athletes. I focused on what they were doing, what they looked like, how big/small they...Read More
Coach Giddeon Massie takes the win in the men's 1/2/3 omnium at Friday Night Racing! Coach Missy Erickson takes the win in the women's open omnium, with athlete Christina Birch taking third! Junior athlete, Ivy Koester,...Read More
Throughout my competitive career, I've held a personal belief that I don't strive to work as hard as I do, with the expectation of losing. As a matter of...Read More
Anytime I think about "time" I usually get some bad rendition of Time is on My Sideby the Rolling Stones or Fly Like an Eagle by Seal stuck in my head for...Read More
We know some of you are still buried under snow and probably expecting more on the forecast. And while everyone in SoCal is experiencing "freezing" temperatures by SoCal standards,...Read More
What's better than a good burger, tacos, or fries after a ride…am i right?! It tastes so good. All that sugar, fat, and sodium just pumping through your veins,...Read More
Marvin Hall was ON FIRE again this past weekend at CBR! Killing it in the 50+ category and marking win number 2 for BPC in 2016! Great work by...Read More
One of BIG Picture's newest athletes Marvin Hall put the first notch in the 2016 win column for BPC this past weekend! Absolutely smoking everyone in his age category...Read More
I recently caught one of the early commercials promoting the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. I could watch these over and over and it would still bring goose bumps to...Read More
Who doesn't love a little football player training montage, mixed with some music from the Friday Night Lights movie? Add in a speech on what it really means to...Read More
What do you want to achieve this year? Write it down. Now, what do you need to do to achieve this? Write that down. What kind of support do...Read More
Holiday season got you down? Well at least it's you're not having a Griswald style Christmas! Well, hopefully you're not! This is video is a clip one of my...Read More
To go along with This week's sponsor highlight – a little TLC recipe for your chain! Your chain is one of the most unappreciated parts of your bike. We...Read More
For many, the turn of a new year marks a short lived sprint to health and fitness goals that will only be met by dissolution that says, "meh, I've...Read More
One of our favorite terms when I was training for the 2008 Olympics was "Rocky Up". It was a phrase coined by our coach, multi time World and Olympic medalist,...Read More
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"The Grey" is not the movie I expected, it is better. Going in I thought the audience was simply getting Liam Neeson fighting wolves. A survival action with Neeson taking down some Alaskan wolf pack one by bloody one. I pictured director Joe Carnahan behind the camera revving up the action and going for the throat with edge of your seat thrills for ninety plus minutes. By every stretch of the imagination, I was absolutely content paying to see exactly that, but director Joe Carnahan wanted to make something that digs a little bit deeper than just your typical survival action. He wanted to peer into our psyche, our passions, our memories, our resolve, and our determinations. Director Joe Carnahan definitely went for the throat with thrills and action throughout "The Grey" but he also goes for the heart with patient characterization and tragically raw human emotions.
As you'd expect, Liam Neeson is riveting to watch. Neeson is one of those actors that has always carried himself in such a manner that you are automatically drawn to him, and here is no different. When he speaks, you are at attention and when he says to do something, you do it. Neeson's character Ottway, easily gravitates as the person to follow after the crash landing for the group of survivors. They latch on to his survival skills and from an audiences perspective, there's no questioning their decisions because of Neeson's persona, which seems to continually drip natural born leader and a bona fide badass. Ottway doesn't just lead in the way of survival tactics either, he models behavior the other survivors (and audience) admires and connects with. One prime example of this comes in the second act while the group are huddled around a fire and Ottway expresses his fear of survival. Neeson has you hanging on every word during this dire monologue and you feel the depth of Ottway's emotions as Neeson puts them out there for all to hear. Lastly, it was a nice touch to have Neeson speaking in his native accent. It is just another piece to the puzzle that makes Neeson such a distinguishable actor.
There is an unexpected patience Joe Carnahan displayed in "The Grey" that ended up propelling this movie from being a good action to an all around great film. One big reason is the amount of attention spent on characterization of the survivors. Carnahan's script allowed for each and every survivor to have something that the audience could connect with. These are real human characters on screen that are facing an extremely dangerous environment and dying. They are coping with tremendous fear and "The Grey" boldly slows down and allows for authentic moments and feelings to come out on screen. Carnahan also gives each of the survivors fitting deaths, he takes us through their pain and suffering before the release. He builds a bit of discomfort and uncertainty within the audience and balances it with stunning moments of serenity.
Let's talk about the wolves for a moment, actually wait, allow me to stop and applaud Joe Carnahan for not just making totally cgi wolves. Too many movies have actors running from a tennis ball on a stick imagining it will be a monster or wolf in the finished product, but here Carnahan went out of his way to make sure they utilized something that looked real. Something the actors could work with and see on set. The result is apparent on screen and there is a nice balance of real wolves, animatronics, and cgi enhancements that combined to make the wolves incredibly ferocious and undeniably frightening. One sequence I found absolutely chilling doesn't even feature physical wolves that the audience can see, but instead only their breath as they howl into the black Alaskan night. The suspense of the wolves throughout "The Grey" is without error. Any notion that a member of the pack is near is matched with instant tension that is palpable just as if the audience was watching a slasher horror film. From the growling, snarling, and/or howling to the panting breath as the pack would chase closer, each moment with a wolf on screen is met with white knuckle panic.
The wolves aren't the only thrills director Joe Carnahan provides either. Much of the sequences of the group battling the elements are equally thrilling. Seeing as the snow builds up on men's faces, as they sink deeper and deeper with each step forward, or as they struggle to maintain the fire against the seventy mile an hour winds. The endurance and resolve these characters/actors exhibit is both compelling and vivid. These men are facing their fears in the Alaskan wilderness and Carnahan along with cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi really put the audience in the perspective of the characters. This tactic is used most of the time with the attack sequences but also in a few scenes where the survivors face their fears. One fear in particular being heights and the first person point of view Takayanagi uses with his camera takes the audience right over the edge into a truly daunting experience. Some attention must also be payed to the intimidating crash sequence. Much of the crash focuses on Neeson's character Ottway, as the plane goes down. I loved the balance Carnahan again displayed throughout this sequence. Half unnerving, half soothing and the result of those two halves is totally spine-chilling.
"The Grey" is a tremendous start to 2012. It is a survival horror and a drama that will stand the testament of time. It houses rich characters and heavy hitting thrills that you will want to experience again and again. Ultimately it is a film that will leave you thinking and talking about it, but also telling friends to see it immediately.


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Ahhh, yes... Bacon Fat.
Now this, my friends, is a true staple of the southern kitchen in my little ole humble opinion and it is a rare southern household that doesn't have a Mason jar or grease pot full of this hanging around the stove or in the fridge.
Course lots of times we cook with bacon, so we use both the bacon and the rendered fat from the bacon. Yum - nothing like bacon. Bacon fat just adds so much flavor to cooking it is impossible to match with any other fat, even butter, and y'all know I love butter.
First, while we're here on fats... {pulls out soapbox} as far as the butter versus margarine argument, I just flat out don't believe in using margarine. Period. I know there are arguments on both sides of the issue and mostly people use margarine for health reasons, but even still, I question that, because I believe that butter is the better choice when there is a health reason, when it is used it in moderation.
Here are my arguments. For one, butter is all natural. Butter is made from churning the cream that rises to the top of milk - that's it - so I know that butter is natural and my body immediately recognizes it for what it is. Butter is a great source of fat soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K and contains natural fatty acids our bodies need.
Margarine has its start from very low quality, chemically extracted refined vegetable oils to begin with. It often contains trans-fatty acids and toxic residues resulting from the process of turning that poor quality oil into a solid substance. These residues in excess can cause lung cancer, kidney disease, depression and contribute to diseases such as arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure and malignancies. Margarine also contains artificial coloring agents to make it look like butter. Butter does not contain those trans-fatty acids or toxic metals or artificial colors.
Yes, margarine is cheaper, but considering that it is completely nutritionally bankrupt in comparison to the purity of butter, is that really a bargain? I choose to pick my budget battles and pinch my pennies in other areas to pay a little more for things like real vanilla and pure butter.
So, for me, butter wins hands down. Now... of course, I'm not gonna call you out as wrong for what you choose to use - I would never do that! Whatever you use is right for you and who am I to try and tell you otherwise?! I'm just sharing why I choose to use butter. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it! ;) {tucks away soapbox}
But... we're here to talk about bacon fat right now!
Except for the strainer that is built into my grease pot, I don't worry too much over straining it well,except for in some cases when I am about to use it, most often with a dark roux since I don't want the solid bits of bacon in there to burn my roux. Then I just warm it and strain it before using it. But as far as storing the rendered bacon fat, when I cook bacon, I just pour the drippings into my little grease pot or a mason jar and I keep it stored in the refrigerator. I know that some folks keep their bacon fat right on the stove or the counter. I don't know if they are straining it well first or not, but the idea of pieces of pork possibly being in that fat and going rancid and growing bacteria is disturbing to me, so I just play it safe and keep my jar in the fridge. When you pull it out to use it, just draw your spoon down to the bottom to turn the drippings and scoop from there, that way you're always circulating the older fat to the top.
If you want to strain it, while it's still pretty warm and liquid, just place a coffee filter or a paper towel over a spouted container of some sort like a glass Pyrex measuring cup and pour the bacon fat through the filter. This will remove the solid bits that are left behind from cooking the bacon. Discard the filter and transfer the strained fat into your Mason jar or some other glass container - don't use plastic - and stick that in the fridge.
What do you use it for? Well, I'll be the first to tell you that I use heart healthy oils like olive oil wherever I can. But sometimes getting a little boost of flavor from bacon drippings can really make a difference in flavor. Just about any place where you would generally use butter or oil to saute or flavor a dish, or oil to fry, you can use bacon fat.
On the occasion when I decide I want a dirty fried egg, I always cook a strip or two of bacon and cook my eggs right in the bacon drippings. I like my whites cooked and my yolks runny, so if I have made two strips, I'll crumble up one of them and sprinkle it right on top of my eggs just before I dig in. I've made my fried eggs that way forever and I love them. I'd eat them every day if I could get away with it. I do my Birds in a Nest in bacon drippings too.
I use bacon drippings a lot for my skillet cornbread, not only to coat the skillet to produce that wonderful crunchy crust we all love, but then after I swirl it around, I pour it right into the batter as my fat. I just love the flavor it adds to cornbread, and sometimes I'll even add in some crumbled bacon. It's great for old fashioned skillet biscuit bread too. It's even good with chex mix, though I still lean toward butter for that snack myself.
When I am making a light roux or gravy, bacon drippings add wonderful flavor to chicken gravy, or peppered milk gravy for chicken fried steak. I use bacon drippings in combination with butter for my loaded baked potato soup.
I use either bacon fat or bacon in combination with the drippings for many dishes I do, like when I make fried cabbage, collards or turnip greens, skillet potatoes, southern style green beans as well as my sweet and sour green beans. I use it for cream corn, drizzle it over crispy smashed potatoes, creamed squash and fried corn, but it's even great to use for a quick pan saute of fresh spinach or fresh greens too, both of which I love even though the Cajun won't touch either. I even use some bacon drippings in my skillet fried apples!
It's great for shallow frying meats, or even for browning grilled sandwiches, or even tater cakes. I use bacon with the drippings for pot roasted chicken and the fat even makes a great salad dressing. It's great for okra and tomatoes, or even just for sauteing okra in before adding it to a gumbo.
How long are stored bacon drippings good for? That's subjective I reckon! Depends on how often you use it and how you store it. The food police will tell you to use it up from the fridge within about 6 months, but I hesitate to say how long I've had my jar going. I just top the jar off with the new strained drippings, and take a spoon to turn it over so that the older drippings come up on top each time that I take it out of the fridge. Frozen, it keeps for a little bit longer.
You see? Cooked bacon and the residual drippings really are quite versatile! Just search my site using that search bar in the upper right hand corner with terms like bacon fat or bacon drippings, and I'm sure there are many things that will motivate your imagination, but start saving your bacon fat, and don't forget ... use it!


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Ebola vaccine may be available by 2015
Clinical trials of a preventative vaccine for the Ebola virus made by pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline may begin next month and made available by 2015, the WHO said on Saturday.
"We are targeting September for the start of clinical trials, first in the United States and certainly in African countries, since that's where we have the cases," Jean-Marie Okwo Bele, the WHO's head of vaccines and immunization, told French radio.
Jean-Marie Okwo Bele said he was optimistic about making the vaccine commercially available.
"We think that if we start in September, we could already have results by the end of the year.
"And since this is an emergency, we can put emergency procedures in place … so that we can have a vaccine available by 2015."
There is currently no available cure or vaccine for Ebola, a virus that causes severe fever and, in the worst cases, unstoppable bleeding.
It has claimed close to 1,000 lives in the latest epidemic to spread across West Africa this year. Fatality rates can approach 90 percent, although the latest outbreak has killed around 55 to 60 percent of those infected.
Several vaccines are being tested, and a treatment made by San Diego-based Mapp Biopharmaceutical, ZMapp, has shown promising results on monkeys and may have been effective in treating two Americans recently infected in Africa.
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text: IT salaries will remain mostly stagnant in 2015, except for workers with highly coveted skill sets, according to a report tracking IT salaries and skills demand in the coming years."When you look at the actual salaries, just speaking in general, what you see is a lot of highly paid positions. You don't see a lot of big increases," said Jack Cullen, president of IT staffing firm Modis, which presented this data in its 2015 IT salary guide. "Companies don't want to pay exorbitant rates. However, when they have a particular niche that's really hard to fill, they don't want to lose the right talent."While pay increases for some technology jobs may be modest, these raises will "certainly be better than the normal pay increases that we are seeing in the job market," he said.Smaller raises don't mean falling demand for IT workers. In fact, technology hiring through 2022 looks robust, Cullen said. The Modis report, citing U.S. government statistics, predicted an 18 percent annual growth rate in technology jobs and the creation of 685,000 technology jobs over the next eight years. By comparison, the growth rate for all other industries is projected at 10.8 percent.Modis salary data shows that companies will give raises between 3 percent and 18 percent in 2015, depending on the person's skill level, Cullen said. The report noted that a company's size and location affect compensation.It forecast hefty raises -- and strong career growth -- for IT careers involving security, big data and mobility.IT security jobs have the highest projected growth rate, according to the report. By 2022, there will be a 37 increase in jobs in that field. The average base pay for security positions ranges from US$74,917 for a security administrator to $115,415 for a data security manager."There's such a concern of the cost of infraction that you are going to see this is an area where companies can't take a chance of not spending. They need to make sure that their data is protected," Cullen said.The average base pay for security positions ranges from $74,917 for a security administrator to $115,415 for a data security manager.Companies are especially concerned about securing mobile devices as more employees use personal tablets and smartphones for work tasks, so mobile security backgrounds will command higher salaries, he said.Skills demand doesn't necessarily translate into higher salaries. Take Web application developers versed in .Net and Java, for example: The need for those programming skills will increase by 20 percent over the next eight years, according to the report. However, the salaries would "probably be more consistent to what they are today," Cullen said. The report lists $66,000 as the average salary for a Web developer, going up to as high as $85,000.Jobs at lower end of the skills chain, such as network administration technicians, may see a pay increase that is only slightly more than the rate of inflation, Cullen said. Although those workers may leave for larger paychecks, employers are willing to accept a high turnover rate since "the feeling is, we can always find those people," he said.One market with both strong growth potential and compensation is health IT, which has a projected value of $56.7 billion by 2017. Jobs in that sector include clinical systems trainer (average base salary: $66,710), HIPAA security analyst ($72,414) and clinical systems architect ($141,371), according to the report."Health IT is one of the fastest, most in-demand sectors. Compliance is critical, and penalties associated with noncompliance are very substantial, so there is going to be a continued ramp up on spending for companies involved with health IT," Cullen said. Other growth markets for IT jobs include the finance sector and small and medium-size businesses, he said.IT jobs with increasing growth rates over the next eight years include project managers (15 percent), systems analysts (25 percent) and software developers (22 percent).Many of those project management and business analyst roles may be filled by women, who are already taking an interest in these positions, Cullen said."Women are recognizing that a path to success on the business side does come from knowledge in the IT area," said Cullen. "You are seeing a lot of cross over from CIO to CEO levels now. So if you follow that path, you're seeing a large number of women looking for career opportunities in the IT sector."Fred O'Connor writes about IT careers and health IT for The IDG News Service. Follow Fred on Twitter at @fredjoconnor. Fred's e-mail address is email@example.com


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This year, Chifuku Kuwahara, an aspiring artist from Roxbury, is making a New Year's resolution he knows he's going to keep: He's vowing to make no resolutions.
"There's this cultural idea that you have to come up with something," he said, "but pressuring yourself on New Year's Eve is the wrong way to do it."
Every year a substantial portion of the population sets a personal fiscal or dietary or no-smoking cliff. Studies show that about 60 percent of American adults plan to make a resolution and that 40 percent actually do, said John Norcross, a psychology professor at the University of Scranton and author of "Changeology: 5 Steps to Realizing your Goals and Resolutions."
But what about the other 40 percent, who not only don't make resolutions, but don't even aspire to? Who gave them permission to opt out of a ritual that historians say dates back to Babylonian times, when the ancients promised to repay debts and return borrowed items?
The abstainers fall into two categories: those who say the annual rite is for wimps who put off making necessary changes and those who have been repeatedly burned by their own failings.
Sandy Poirier, the owner of Shag hair salon in South Boston, is decidedly in the first group. "I don't have to start fresh with the New Year," he said. "I stay in shape. I work out. I'm a good person."
He shared his theory about people who declare their intentions to change in the new year. "It's like taking a test drive [in] a fast sports car," he said. "You're never going to be able to afford it. It just gratifies you for that second."
Brenda van der Merwe, a realtor from Watertown, agrees.
"If you are going to live life well, you should already be doing it," she said.
Van der Merwe sniffed at those who say "This what I'm going to do about my life after this date passes," declaring that "it's just a way of putting it off."
But Jessica Hazelton, a native Bostonian home from Los Angeles for the holidays, says that she has come to her no-resolution policy after yearly failures. "I would always get disappointed with myself," she admitted.
Now Hazelton sets goals, not resolutions, and makes them over the year. In October, she kicked off a healthy living push with a juice cleanse. "I feel like I'm constantly trying to be a better person," she said as she shopped in the Fenway.
Statistics on the resolutions market are hard to come by, but the self-help industry is thriving, according to Marketdata Enterprises, a Tampa-based publisher of research reports. The firm estimates that the industry in the United States will hit $10.44 billion in 2012, $11.07 billion in 2013, and $12.24 billion by 2016.
But the antiresolution camp has its devotees, said Marc Cowlin, director of marketing for CafePress, an online retailer that sells, among other items, magnets reading, "My resolution is to spend more time avoiding friends and family," and drinking glasses that proclaim, "Let's resolve to repeat last year's mistakes."
As Cowlin pointed out, it's easier to buy a cheeky mug than it is to lose weight or stop smoking. "There is something about adding a layer of humor that takes the sting out" of giving up on the annual rite, he said.
Failure to keep resolutions is so pervasive that it has spawned its own genre of New Yorker cartoons. "Nope, no New Year's resolutions for me this year," reads one, "I'm still working on a backlog dating from '87." Another shows a man on a street with a paper shredder and a sign. "Shred your New Year's resolutions 50¢."
Why do most of us continue to proclaim that come Jan. 1 we are going to stop wolfing down brownies or file our expense reports on time?
Joseph Boskin, a Boston University professor emeritus of American social history, says that believing we have the opportunity to reinvent ourselves is a significant American characteristic.
"That plays into the whole concept of therapy," he said, "and that's why Oprah was such a powerful force. She captured this in her own persona."
Boskin never makes resolutions, he said, "but I wouldn't mind if many people I know would indeed change. I would applaud it, but I think I'm more cynical than that."
Of course, change, particularly big change, is hard, says Joseph Ferrari, a psychology professor at DePaul University and author of "Still Procrastinating? The No Regrets Guide to Getting it Done."
People unintentionally sabotage themselves by setting unrealistic goals, say, losing 40 pounds in one month, he said.
"We are in this instant generation. If you are trying to lose 40 pounds and you lose four, you're disappointed," he said. "But if your goal is four and you lose six, you'll be happy."
He advises people to set small goals, reward themselves along the way, and consider making resolutions public, perhaps on Facebook. "Now you are going to be held accountable," he said.
But in Belmont, Zayna Gold, co-owner of the Boston Body Pilates and Barre Studios, said she has sworn off resolutions, even small ones. This year, for the first time ever, she is not vowing to lose weight.
"Just knowing I was going to make the resolution was a license to binge over the holidays," she said. "Now I don't even want to overeat. This is crazy, but I've lost 5 pounds. I'm thinner than before I had children."
So is not making resolutions the way to go? Not for most of us. Consider this one last statistic, from Norcross, the University of Scranton professor. People who explicitly make resolutions are 10 times more likely to attain their goals than equally motivated people who do not.
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