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Yesterday I posted Part 1 of "Let's Get Real" a guest post from my friend Erin Berry Scott! She is on the blog sharing some tips on living a healthier lifestyle with advice that we can all use and implement! She's already shared that we need to set priorities, educate ourselves and find what moves us, and to get help and engage others. Read below to check out her final tips!
This is a biggie! In fact, this is where I spend most of my time and energy when it comes to living the fit life! Deciding to begin and commit to a new workout when you are not in the habit of working out regularly is HUGE. For some, that kind of commitment level tends to bring people to a pretty serious place mentally and emotionally: "I have no other choice but to make this change…my life depends on it." That is a LOT of pressure! The wellness journey is a life-long one. Having an attitude of lightness and positivity will make the journey all the more pleasant. Having a sense of humor about your fitness journey is helpful in two ways:
1) laughing is a stress-reliever!! The simple act of smiling almost always puts you in a good mood!! Stress is one of those, what I call, "silent saboteurs" to fitness and wellness goals. I know so many people work really hard in their workouts, stay hydrated, keeping an eye on their eating habits and portions and… nothing. They feel stuck. They are stuck. Upon further investigation, it is the stressors in their lives that are contributing to their slow crawl towards their goals.
2) Having a sense of humor and laughing at yourself along the way actually helps you stick with it!! Believe it or not, I have students in my fitness classes that come to just have fun (and I believe to hear my jokes!) and realize only after the fact, they got an incredible workout. Did they nail every punch and kick with precision and power? Probably not every one. But they stuck with it, continued to get better and better until their form and coordination had improved. Because they are able to just let go, not fret over the errors and just have fun with it, they automatically improve. For some people, their lives are SO FULL this is the only time in their day they have to experience joy! That blows my mind! They come to my classes consistently and that yields results. If someone were to get all hung up on thoughts like, "oh, I have two left feet. The moves are too fast. I'll never nail it like you. I missed that punch. My jumping jacks are lame. Squats are haaaaaaaard," they would see little success. If, however, they approach their workout with an attitude of "Haha! Did you see that 1-legged jack I just did?! I just invented a new move for ya, Erin!" or "Squats = jello legs!!" it puts a positive spin on, what can often be, a tough journey.
Know that all of these steps are realistic and effective–when addressed one at a time or in a step-wise fashion. Did you ever try to hop with two feet up a flight of stairs? Pretty challenging…but when you place one foot on each step at a time, you were able to climb the flight of stairs with much more ease.
Changing too much at once is a recipe for disaster. Determine your priorities first and figure out when and for how long you are free to commit to fitness. Do some homework and find what kinds of fitness styles work for you. Once you've nailed down a program/system, get help sticking with it. Support is huge–people will be able to better help you stick with it once you know what it is you're doing. Lastly, protect your positive attitude and outlook. Belief–or lack of–can surely guarantee success–or failure. The benefits of having a light-hearted attitude about it all go far beyond simply sticking with a program that will get you to your goals. A little bit each day is sure to realistically move you towards a healthier, happier life!
THANKS to Erin for her expertise and advice. I'm all about living a healthier lifestyle and these tips were just what I needed to fulfill my goals!!
About Erin: Erin Scott (BSc, cPT) lives in Boston, MA with her husband, Steve, and 9 year old dog, Angel, who are the center of her world. She is an AFAA-certified group fitness instructor, teaching high-energy classes such as Turbo Kick and PiYo Strength throughout the Boston-area. Erin is the founder of SillyFit and enjoys being an Independent Team Beachbody Coach–helping others become physically and financially fit. She also holds an ACE Personal Trainer certificate and is listed as a certified fitness professional with IDEA FitnessConnect. Erin has always had a passion for lifting others up and helping people see their fullest potential. She is always looking to learn more, improve and grow…and pass it on! When she's not teaching, training or coaching, Erin is a neuroscientist–researching psychiatric disorders, spending time with her friends, family and loved-ones, serving her neighborhood and community, dancing, bowling, enjoying music and cheering on her favorite Boston sports teams–especially the Red Sox. You can connect with Erin by Email, Facebook, and Twitter.


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Milwaukee will upgrade the Dew Deck above the right-field bleachers with a 25-foot rock-climbing wall shaped like a Mountain Dew can and other new features, and the Home Plate Lounge will undergo several changes.
"Every year, we formally survey fans to get a better understanding of their changing tastes and preferences," Brewers chief operating officer Rick Schlesinger said in a statement. "National surveys of fans and media consistently rate the Miller Park fan experience among the very best in all of sports, but we don't take that for granted. We are committed to enhancing the facility and experience every year to remain a top destination for fans."
In addition to the rock-climbing wall, Miller Park's Dew Deck will have new lighting, ceilings and flat-panel TVs next season. The area accommodates parties of 25 to 260 people with stadium seating, an all-you-can-eat buffet, a private bar and restrooms.
The Home Plate Lounge, meanwhile, will undergo several changes. The current concession stand, storage area and restroom will be replaced with a new "Chef's Table" counter, Concierge counter, carpeting, lighting and furniture.

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JavaOne 2012 preview: Our favorite speakers tell all
JavaOne speakers Adam Bien, Kai Wähner and Jevgeni Kabanov explain why they love JavaOne and how to get the most out of it.
TheServerSide.com asked some of our favorite JavaOne speakers what to do at JavaOne 2012 and how to get the most out of the conference. Read on to hear from Adam Bien, Jevgeni Kabanov and Kai Wähner. Bien is a Java Champion and holds a place on the JavaOne Rock Star Wall of Fame. Kabanov is the founder and CEO of ZeroTurnaround and frequently posts on TheServerSide.com newsfeed. Wähner is a German consultant and an international speaker on topics such as Java EE, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and enterprise architecture. You can catch online lessons from both Bien and Wähner at TheServerSide.com's Java University. You might also want to check out Cameron McKenzie's JavaOne picks for 2012.
What's your favorite part of JavaOne?
Kai Wähner: The best thing is to meet so many awesome IT experts, including vendors, Java EE spec leads and experienced developers. Discussions with these people bring the most benefit of JavaOne.
Jevgeni Kabanov: The amazing random hallway conversations are better than anything you can try to organize. And to ensure you get those, it's worth your while to visit every evening event.
Adam Bien: I'm probably the only strange guy who attends JavaOne just because the technical content and not because of the hallway discussions. However, I highly appreciate the BoFs as well. :-)
What do you expect the exciting trends to be at JavaOne 2012?
Wähner: The most important big trend for me is big data, and technologies such as Hadoop and its related frameworks. Besides that, I am really excited to learn more about the future of Java, i.e., which JVM languages should be used, what new features product vendors are offering, and finally what's happening with cloud computing in the next two years (as Platfom as a Service( PaaS) features will not be part of Java EE 7).
Bien: Yes, I'm excited. The attendance seems to be higher [than last year]. For my talk "TUT3907 - Java EE 6/7: The Lean Parts" there are already 185 attendees ... on the wait list. I'm also expecting the continuous improvement of Java and a few surprises.
Kabanov: Cloudy-cloud-cloud-da-cloud-de-duh-cloud.
How do you let off steam between sessions?
Bien: My problem is not letting off steam, but getting lunch. My schedule last year was so packed, that I got lunch only twice. This year I optimized my schedule even further -- JavaOne, and sleeping is optional -- so I spend most of the time drinking coffee and taking notes.
Wähner: I don't go to a session every round. This would be almost impossible due to the several buildings where JavaOne is held. I often omit sessions and go to vendor booths during this time. When sessions are held, talking to vendors and experts is much more relaxed as most people are in sessions.
Kabanov: I hold it all in, and let it out at my talks. That's how I get all the crazy energy; it's all pent up and ready to explode.
Who are you looking forward to seeing at the conference?
Bien: I'm particularly looking forward to sessions delivered by Oracle engineers. You get a unique opportunity to meet them at JavaOne and get insights about the current developments in core Java SE, EE and FX space.
Wähner: Especially, I am looking forward to meet several Java EE spec leads and creators of other awesome products, such as JRebel.
Kabanov: I think about 200 awesome folks who I get to meet at conferences. JavaOne is a great opportunity to catch up.
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a few weeks ago, i was wandering around the 'net and came across a cool wall hanging made entirely of straw trivets. what would make this story better is if i had a link to share with you, but i can not for the life of me find it now!* i tried googling "straw trivets doormat" and similar searches and got no hits. basically, they had taken old straw trivets and somehow strung them together and hung them on the wall. picture it in your mind, it was pretty cool. and it stuck in my mind for days
* i need a better way to keep track of cool things i come across. bookmarking isn't cutting it. suggestions? tumblr?
now, i really dislike visual clutter, especially on my walls. i wouldn't say i'm a minimalist by any means, but i do like bare walls with the occasional piece of carefully chosen artwork. (actually, don't you find that art chooses you? but more on that another time…)
so i started wondering if i could take that idea and put it to use elsewhere. i like the colours and swirls found in these old trivets, there's something intriguing and pleasing about the patterns.
i got a bagful of them the other day, and thought about how to connect them together.
i figured i could sew them together with clear plastic thread. but decided against that and tried to keep it a bit simpler and closer to the "natural" materials used in the trivets by using raffia instead.
raffia is made from the membrane found on the underside of palm tree leaves. there are so many uses for it, and i keep a spool of it in my kitchen drawer. you might remember it was used as a decoration on that card, as well as to tie up those herbs.
i cut the raffia into 5 inch (about 13 cm) strips, roughly.
now the next part is either fun or torture, depending on how much you enjoy things like jigsaw puzzles. i moved the trivets around until they were in position next to each other, ideally touching each neighbouring trivet in one or more spots, while minimizing the gap between them.
basically, shift em around til you're happy with the layout, making sure they're all touching, then start tying them together right where they lay.
i slipped the piece of raffia through a loop in one trivet,
brought it up through the neighbouring trivet, and tied a knot. i did this for the entire collection, until i ended up with this:
i trimmed the loose ends down to about 2 inches (5 cm) each, then used my fingers to push the tail ends of each knot within the spaces of the trivet. so it looked something like this for each tie:
and that's it. i flipped the whole thing over, and i had this funky looking floor mat.
i considered using it in the kitchen, but the straw is a bit rough on bare feet. so i put it out back on the patio and i'm using it as a doormat.
i like it so much. the colours, the patterns, everything. fun, easy project which is totally functional. now if you're concerned about how it will feel under foot or worried that it may not last, the same construction method can be used to create a decorative wall hanging, placemats, table runner, a mat for underneath plant pots or pet dishes or… do you have any other ideas?
what do you think? will you give this a try? if you do, let me know how it turns out. i'd love to see photos!
i found the link that got me started on this project. turns out it wasn't a trivet at all, just sisal rope used to make a similar design! it's funny how your mind makes connections, fills in the gaps, and that becomes your reality. huh! :)
update #2! july 30, 2010
today, this project was featured on craft gossip (thank you!) and i thought i'd give an update on how it's holding up now, almost a month later. we're in and out of that doorway constantly, and it has held together well. one thing i would recommend is placing one of those rubber underpads (you can find them in the dollar store, the kind used to line drawers and such). depending on the surface you've placed the mat on, it can be slippery. craft safely ;-) and have fun with this one!
i shared this post with sarah and her readers at thrifty decor chick.
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+ Check out the January issue of LOIS.
+ NJ tax pros might want to check out my "review" of the annual NJ-NATP "Famous State Tax Seminar" here and here.
+ Go to the MISSOURI TAXGUY blog and look for my Robert F page at the "Store".
+ Kelly Phillips Erb, aka TAXGIRL, asks "Are You Ready for Government Prepared Tax Returns?" and is taking a poll at her FORBES.COM blog.
I am not ready for a "Ready Return". In addition to the reasons Kelly mentioned here is a very important additional one –
The IRS sends a taxpayer a "Ready Return" showing only $100,000 of matched income. The taxpayer knows full well he/she had $150,000 in taxable income, but since the IRS only wants tax on $100,000 the taxpayer will leave it at that, thrilled that he/she avoided tax on $50,000 of income.
+ And Kelly begins her series of interviews on taxes with Presidential candidates in "Tax Talk 2012: Vern Wuensche".
"With that in mind, I contacted each of the candidates who has officially declared an intention to run for president. To keep it simple, I asked each of the candidates the same six tax-related questions."
I must admit I had never heard of the Republican candidate, head of Woodmark Kitchen and Bath, Inc.
+ MARKETWATCH.COM reports that "2012 Rapid Refund Checks BOUNCE".
"All American Check Cashing announced today several checks it cashed for customers of Instant Tax of Hattiesburg have been returned. The checks were issued to Instant Tax customers as part of a rapid advance tax refund. The checks were issued by Tax Tree of Miami, Florida and written on Bank of America."
No specific information is provided as to why the checks bounced.
Maybe this will finally mark the end of this reprehensible practice. The IRS should ban tax preparers from offering RALs.
+ JOE TAXPAYER presents a BUZZ-like "round-up" of personal finance blog posts concerning alleged "financial expert" Suze Orman, her pre-paid debit card scam, and her tweet rants in "A Sorry Suze Roundup".
I have not had the time to review the many posts, but I will say that I have absolutely no use for Suze Orman, and do not listen to her rantings.
+ Jason Dinesen, who responded to my THE TAX PROFESSIONAL blog post on measuring the success of the tax preparer regulation regime in "Thoughts on Preparer Regulation", answers the question "How to Claim Your Same-Sex Spouse as a Dependent" in his "Same Sex Monday" installment at the DINESEN TAX TIMES.
+ Kay Bell, the yellow rose of taxes, discusses "Taxpayer Rights and Responsibilities" at DON'T MESS WITH TAXES.
Kay quotes Nina Olsen in suggesting taxpayers have responsibilities as well as rights -
". . . the National Taxpayer Advocate recommends in her latest report that Congress organize taxpayer responsibilities under the following five principles:
1. Obligation to be honest.
2. Obligation to be cooperative.
3. Obligation to provide accurate information and documents on time.
4. Obligation to keep records.
5. Obligation to pay taxes on time."
+ And don't miss Kay's "Tax Carnival #95: Tax Filing Season 2012". Oops! I forgot to submit to this one.
+ FYI, Mary O'Keefe has posted Henry and Richard's 2012 Fee Schedule in "H+R Block Pricing This Year" at BED BUFFALOES IN YOUR TAX CODE.
FYI – the revival of ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER with Harry Connick Jr is closing on January 29th. Disappointing. I am glad I saw it when I did.


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On Fifth Anniversary Of New Kidney, Teen Hopes To Give Back
Stonington — Five years ago this morning, 11-year-old Zachary Abbett was wheeled into an operating room at Hartford Hospital to receive a new kidney.
In the operating room next to him was Tia DeWick of New London, who had read in The Day three months earlier that Zachary needed a new kidney and decided to donate one of hers even though she had never met him.
It took seven hours of painstaking surgery for doctors to remove DeWick's kidney, sew two of its small arteries together and then implant the kidney behind Zachary's right hipbone. Seconds after it was connected, the new kidney began to function.
Today, Zachary is a sophomore at Stonington High School and his transplanted kidney is working just fine.
"Overall I'm good. When I hit 5 feet we celebrated," said Zachary, whose growth had been stunted by his failing kidneys.
He adds that he's now 5 feet, 51/4 inches tall.
Since his surgery, Zachary's parents have split up, he wears braces to help him walk and he faces mounting medical bills.
Doctors have declared him legally blind because of a damaged optic nerve that has diminished his depth perception, peripheral vision and ability to distinguish some colors.
"There's no way to know how bad it will get," said his mother Laura.
Still Zachary is undaunted. He wants to be a professional photographer someday.
"Everyone's against me on that one because I'm legally blind," he said.
Everyone except his sister Amber, who gave him her old digital camera, and his mother, who has managed to keep a positive outlook in the face of her father's death, concerns about her son's health and losing Zachary's disability payments because she works two jobs to make ends meet.
"We're scraping by, but we still have a roof over our heads. It's always one thing after another and you wonder 'When am I going to catch a break?' " she said while sitting in her small Bradley Street apartment with Zachary and Amber. "But life has to go on, and I have these two nuts to keep me going."
Laura Abbett said she's not heard from DeWick in some time but would love to see her again.
"There's not a day that goes by that I don't think of her," she said.
She also said that many people are under the incorrect assumption that a child's serious illness brings families together.
"That's not always true," she said. "You have all these different stresses and people go in different directions."
While Zachary is on schedule to graduate in 2008, Laura Abbett said it often takes her son two hours to do an assignment that might take another student 20 minutes to do. He has to use large print books or those on tape. Zachary said one of his favorite courses has been introduction to chemistry.
Before his surgery, one of Zachary's major problems was that he could not keep his food down. That's no longer a problem. His mother said he "eats like a horse." He still has to take 11 medications a day and has to go to Hartford Hospital for periodic checkups.
With all the Abbetts have been through and are still facing, they have turned their attention toward helping Pete Logan, a Pawcatuck man awaiting his second lung transplant.
The Abbetts had originally planned to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Zachary's kidney transplant, but decided to turn the event into a fund-raiser to help both Logan and the National Kidney Foundation.
"I saw Pete Logan in the paper and it broke my heart," Laura Abbett said. "We've been blessed with Zachary's health, and so many people helped us I thought this would be a way to give back to the community and help someone else."
The fund-raiser, featuring performances by six bands from Connecticut, Boston and New York, will be held from 4 to 10 p.m. Friday at the Pawcatuck VFW on Route 1, just east of the high school. Admission is $8 per person.
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i sent baby finn an email late last week with one request: dear little finn, my weekends are all tied up with weddings. i can't wait to meet you, but could you please come during the week sometime so i can be there to celebrate and capture your birth? then the long-awaited text message came through yesterday afternoon: water just broke. about to head to the hospital.
the night proved to be a long and hard one for my friend, lora, but as i was honored to witness firsthand, two are truly better than one.
andrew was a loving support throughout lora's labor but you know, now that i think about it, the barbeque and ugg-booted hall walks seemed to help as well. 😉
the sun set, lora worked through the night, the sun rose, and the new day brought with it promise of a new life…
oh, and so was his darling pouty lip.
congratulations, lora and andrew, on a precious addition to your family. it was a joy and delight to share in this amazing event with you!!
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oh love love love! i just cried big tears of readiness for this to be us SOON! Cannot wait for you to capture this for us friend! you are so talented! Oh, and Im going to have a talk with Jude about coming on a weekday too
What a shot with the doctor and baby Finn first coming out! Made me tear up. Beautiful pics. Congrats to you all!
Allison! Beautiful!
Oh Lora! Thank you so much for sharing these pictures with us. I felt like the "doula in the pocket" again even though I had nothing to do with this one at all. I went to sleep last night praying for you and I woke up this morning praying for you and have been praying for you much of the day. I am sooooooooo happy for you and Andrew to be blessed again with this sweet little child. He looks wonderful!!! God bless you and your whole family!!! I look forward to reading your blog about your version of all the events.
God Bless you and sooooo happy for you!!!
In HIS Labor,
How great to have such a special moment captured in pictures like this!!
Crying at these beautiful pictures. Amazing. Congratulations to you guys!
Oh, LORA! Love.
Congrats to Lora and Andrew!
And as always, Allison, your talents never cease to amaze me…..beautiful pics, beautiful timing! Your gift often leaves me speechless……
LL and Andrew… He's beautiful! So glad everything went well and he's here safely.
What an amazing gift these photos are. Thank you for sharing such an intimate beautiful moment in your lives with us! Well done LL and Andrew!
[…] I'll tell you about it, but in the meantime, my friend Allison put up the most beautiful post of pictures she took from Finn's birth. These pictures will make me weep until […]
Congratulations! I was all kinda of sobby looking through these beautiful pictures-he is precious. Praise the Lord!
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Senegal and Egypt win to secure African Nations Cup qualification
Egypt and Senegal qualified for the African Nations Cup thanks to wins against Tanzania and Burundi.
First-half goals from Premier League duo Sadio Mane and Mame Biram Diouf sealed a 2-0 win for Senegal at Burundi and ensured they will win Group K, having won five games from five, scoring 11 times and conceding just twice.
The other game in that group saw Namibia run out 1-0 winners against Niger with Peter Shalulile's 15th-minute goal settling the game.
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Defending FCIAC champion Danbury rolls past Staples in opener
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WESTPORT -- The Danbury High girls basketball team doesn't plan on taking any steps back after rolling to its first FCIAC title a year ago.
Staples learned that the hard way on Wednesday evening.
Using runs of 12-0 to start the first quarter and 15-0 to begin the second, the Hatters pulled away for a 60-30 rout of Staples and looked every bit the legitimate contender.
"You're looking at, in my estimated opinion, a top-five team in the state of Connecticut," Staples head coach Ed Huydic said of Danbury. "They came out firing on all cylinders. For somebody sitting in the stands watching it, it's an attractive form of basketball--run the floor, knock down (3-pointers), layup after layup.
"They were outstanding."
Four different players scored in double figures for Danbury (1-0), which led 37-16 at halftime and by as many as 33 points in the second half. Junior guard Rachel Gartner led the Hatters with 14 points, while senior guard Uniqua Tucker added 12 points, including nine in the opening quarter. Gartner's twin sister, Rebecca, had 11.
A popular choice around league circles to repeat, the Hatters provided their longtime coach with just the start she was looking for after finishing 25-1 a season ago.
"After what everybody said, I've got a bull's-eye on my back. ... We have to play every game ready to get knocked off," said Jackie DiNardo, who is in her 26th year at the helm. "I'm very pleased with how we started."
Danbury locked down defensively along the perimeter and held Staples scoreless for close to four minutes to begin the game. The Hatters quickly transitioned to offense on most of those possessions and generated points off the fast-break.
"The transition was disturbing," Huydic said. "For us not to be able to get back was troublesome."
Staples (0-1) trailed by as many as 15 points in the first quarter and cut the deficit to 22-11 heading into the second. Senior Nicole Bukovsky scored six of her team-high 12 points in the opening quarter. Her backcourt mate, Erica Stein, finished the game with 10 points.
Danbury used balanced scoring to begin the second half with an 11-2 run. The Hatters opened up a 30-point lead in the third quarter--the largest of the game at that time--before Staples answered back with two quick buckets from sophomore guard Margaret Fair and Bukovsky.
Six different players scored in the second half for the Hatters, taking some of the responsibility off the shoulders of the Gartner sisters. Sophomore forward Allie Smith had 10 points in the win, while guard Lindsey Eanniello scored five.
"People think it's only a Rebecca and I type of game. We don't want it to be like that," Rachel Gartner said. "We're going to be off some nights and it's great that other players can step up and take our roles."
"That's what makes us kind of unique," DiNardo said. "We got (scoring) from everywhere."
Conversely, the Wreckers struggled to find consistent scoring on the evening. Their largest run of the game was 6-0 in the second quarter.
After seeing three starters from last year's team graduate, Huydic knows that the Wreckers must generate offense to keep their streak of 30 straight state playoff appearances alive.
"This is going to be a work in progress all the way to the end of February and hopefully into March," he said. "Our goal is to win eight games. Anything more than eight we'll take."
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Nahla Ward 2 0-0 4 Cassandra Almonte 0 0-0 0 Rachel Gartner 6 2-2 14 Allie Smith 5 0-0 10 Uniqua Tucker 5 1-1 12 Kellie Gaston 1 0-0 2 Kasey Boisvert 0 0-0 0 Rebecca Gartner 5 0-0 11 Kaitlin Aldridge 0 0-0 0 Lindsey Eanniello 2 0-0 5 Kayla Handberry 1 0-0 2 Janine Kerr 0 0-0 0 Shannon Geary 0 0-0 0 Melissa Peachman 0 0-0 0. Totals 27 3-3 60.
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One of our top three most significant Chicago show debuts. Saturn's Astra is significant because it represents one thing: Change. GM's fuzziest, cutest, and most user-friendly brand (Showroom as living room! Fixed price tags! Warm Cosby sweaters!) has long suffered from a lack of product. Traditionally, Saturns have been boring, dull, crappy, boring, boring, and, well, boring. The GM division was created as a front-line effort in the battle to regain ground lost to the Japanese; unfortunately, however, its product line never quite lived up to the hype.
Like most of the Saturn line these days, the Astra is in fact a pirated Opel. GM's European division--last seen stateside with products like the Manta and Opel GT--contributed the Astra's underpinnings and cosmetics. As such, it's likely to actually be somewhat decent to drive, be decently well-built, and be a good value.
The Astra is the final model in Saturn's long-needed revamp (the Sky roadster is now the brand's oldest showroom offering), and it caps off a year of tremendous turnaround for the brand. (Really: When was the last time you actually heard people talk about lusting after a Saturn?) Good show, Saturn. Here's to hoping the Astra doesn't suck.
The Astra will be available only in hatchback form with three or five doors. Only a sporty XR trim will be offered for the former, while the latter gets the option of a cheaper XE model. All will be powered by a 140-horsepower, 1.8-liter four-cylinder with variable valve timing and an estimated highway fuel economy in the mid thirties. The base transmission is a five-speed manual, but all models will have an optional four-speed automatic.
All Astras will come equipped with six standard air bags, and the three-door also features standard stability and traction control (it's optional on the five-door.) For added safety, a high-mounted third brake light uses quick-responding LEDs, just like higher-priced Cadillacs.
Along with the standard features, there are some pretty cool options. Five-door models can be upgraded with a huge two-panel sunroof and seventeen-inch wheels, while three-doors miss the roof but get eighteens. Heated seats are offered with both cloth and leather, and XR models can be fitted with steering wheel-mounted audio controls. If a Saturn salesman were to have gone into a coma at this time last year and were to wake up now, he'd probably fall back under just from the shock of his company's turn around.


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TBS baseball analysts Ron Darling and John Smoltz aren't very confident that the Red Sox will make the playoffs next season, no matter who manages the team. But Darling doesn't expect Bobby Valentine to return in the job.
"I think it's going to be tough for Bobby," Darling said yesterday.
CBSsports.com reported later in the day that the Red Sox will fire Valentine as early as today after the Sox finished last in the AL East in his only season in Boston.
Darling pitched for the Mets, but grew up in Millbury and graduated from St. John's High, so he knows Red Sox history and still feels such a connection with Massachusetts that he referred to the T&G as his hometown newspaper during a conference call with the media.
Smoltz is also familiar with the Red Sox because he pitched for them in 2009 after spending his first 21 seasons in Atlanta. He blamed the team's woes this year on the front office.
"They need continuity," Smoltz said, "within the organization from general manager on up to the ownership. You can't have confusion after a year that was so devastating and there was so much behind-the-scenes destruction. It never had a chance to settle down for Bobby.
"Do I think he makes it (back)? Well, the only reason he would make it is because the team had so many injuries and certainly did not have an opportunity to put the baseball team on the field that they had hoped for. If he doesn't make it, it will be because of the atmosphere and the attention given to a lot of things that were said in and out of the clubhouse (that) will become the undoing, fair or not."
Ernie Johnson, who will provide play-by-play of the ALCS on TBS alongside Darling and Smoltz, believes Valentine was his own worst enemy. Whereas Johnson credited former Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox with always backing Smoltz and the rest of his players, he doesn't feel Valentine did the same.
"Early on in the Bobby Valentine regime," Johnson said, "the clubhouse got splintered right away and it's very hard to put a cohesive unit and effort on the field every night when that kind of stuff is going on. I don't know if Bobby will be back or will not be back, but you can't splinter the clubhouse and go after guys who are the foundation and the backbone of that team, and I think it really had a drastic effect on that team."
Whoever manages the Red Sox next year will face a difficult challenge of trying to reach the postseason for the first time since 2009.
"They're going to have to improve a lot of their team," Darling said.
Improving might not be enough in the powerful AL East.
"I think the most difficult part that they have to face," Darling said, "is not only what they do within their own ballclub, but Baltimore (is) legit. Tampa Bay, not even in the playoffs, (is) legit. Yankees (are) always legit. … Again, just a very difficult division. It's going to be a lot of work for (GM) Ben Cherington and his staff this winter."
"In baseball," Smoltz said, "many teams have proven how you can make a one-year adjustment. To say they can get back, there's no doubt they can get back, (but) they need a lot of factors going their way."
In addition to the Red Sox' poor record, there's another reason Valentine probably will be fired — to boost the ratings on Sox-owned NESN. Even though the team ranked fifth in baseball by attracting 6.43 percent of local households, its ratings on NESN plummeted 18.4 percent this year, according to USA Today.
TBS will televise both wild-card games tomorrow night and up to 18 games in the division series and ALCS. MLB Network will televise two division series games and Fox will carry the NLCS and the World Series.
The pick of Smoltz and Darling to win the American League championship might surprise you — it's Detroit. The Tigers own the worst record of any team in the AL playoffs, but they peaked at the right time, and the pitching of Justin Verlander and the hitting of Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder make them tough to beat.
"Verlander is the surest thing in baseball," Darling insisted.
Smoltz and Darling both picked Cabrera as their AL MVP. Smoltz selected St. Louis catcher Yadier Molina as his NL MVP, and Darling went with Giants catcher Buster Posey.
Tomorrow night's one-and-done wild-card games will be tense.
"For every manager," Smoltz said, "it's their worst nightmare. Nobody really wants to manage this type of game because there's going to be so much second-guessing and so many opportunities to question strategy that in a best-of-five series you don't do as much."
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MOVIE REVIEW- <i>Toy</i> joy: Woody, Buzz and friends still delight
The first two Toy Story movies centered on the relationship between a boy and his toys. In Pixar's Toy Story 3, young Andy has grown to college age and the story leaves the toys pretty much on their own. In a third act where they find themselves fighting for life on a conveyor belt to a garbage incinerator, we fear it could be renamed Toy Story Triage.
The problems all begin with that most dreaded of commands, "Clean out your room!" No mother in history understands that a boy's room has all of his stuff exactly where he needs it, even if he dumped it there 10 years earlier. Andy's mom gives him three choices: (1) attic; (2) donation to a day care center; (3) trash. Examining his old toys, his gaze lingers fondly on Woody (voice by Tom Hanks), and he decides to take him along to college.... [full review]


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Major Areas of Research
- Correlates of immunity: parasite adhesion phenotypes, parasite antigens, and antigen specific antibodies
- Disease biomarkers: pathways analysis of host response and disease comparison
- Identifying targets of pre-erythrocytic immunity
Program Description
The Molecular Pathogenesis and Biomarkers Section applies functional genomics and molecular immunoparasitology tools to understand malaria pathogenesis in naturally exposed individuals. Our goal is to identify malaria biomarkers and candidate vaccine antigens that may be useful in developing new interventions. Specifically, we focus on the following:
- Study malaria pathogenesis in naturally exposed children in Mali and Tanzania, including defining the adhesive properties of parasites associated with discrete clinical syndromes, and evaluate specific antibody responses that block parasite adhesion. This study is based on our model of pregnancy malaria. In this model, susceptibility to pregnancy malaria results from the unique binding profile of placental parasites that adhere to chondroitin sulfate A (CSA). Over successive pregnancies, women develop specific humoral immunity to placental parasites that are associated with reduced prevalence of infection, reduced parasite densities, and improved pregnancy outcomes.
- Identify and evaluate biomarkers for malaria disease and immunity that are urgently needed for vaccine development and monitor interventional trials using proteomic tools.
- Evaluate pregnancy malaria vaccine candidates.
- Identify parasite targets of pre-erythrocytic immunity to forward the development of a liver-stage vaccine using proteomic tools.
Dr. Fried earned her Ph.D. in molecular parasitology at Hebrew University (Israel) and M.Sc. in biochemistry at Ben-Gurion University (Israel). She made a groundbreaking work on the molecular basis of placental malaria and described the model of protective immunity that is the basis of the current effort to develop a pregnancy malaria vaccine. The model of pregnancy malaria is currently expanded to studies of severe malaria in children carried out in longitudinal studies in Africa.
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Ben Orsburn, Scientist
Paul Southworth, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
Patricia Gonzales, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
Njinda Choo, Post-baccalaureate Fellow
Selected Publications
Duffy PE, Fried M. Pregnancy malaria: cryptic disease, apparent solution. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 2011 Aug;106 Suppl 1:64-9.
Simpson DC, Kabyemela E, Muehlenbachs A, Ogata Y, Mutabingwa TK, Duffy PE, Fried M. Plasma levels of apolipoprotein A1 in malaria-exposed primigravidae are associated with severe anemia. PLoS One. 2010 Jan 21;5(1):e8822.
Fried M, Hixson KK, Anderson L, Ogata Y, Mutabingwa TK, Duffy PE. The distinct proteome of placental malaria parasites. Mol Biochem Parasitol. 2007 Sep;155(1):57-65.
Fried M, Domingo GJ, Gowda CD, Mutabingwa TK, Duffy PE. Plasmodium falciparum: chondroitin sulfate A is the major receptor for adhesion of parasitized erythrocytes in the placenta. Exp Parasitol. 2006 May;113(1):36-42.


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Why I went: Studying abroad changed my entire life. It was amazing to experience new cultures, and to compare and contrast life in other countries to life here in the United States. It was just such a beautiful experience — something you can't just get in class.
Witnessing poverty: In Mexico, a lot of indigenous women were moving from rural cities to bigger cities to make money. They would sell bracelets and purses, and they faced a lot of discrimination. There were language barriers, gender issues, and also classism and racism.
Seeing the inequality really reinforced what I always knew I wanted to do, which was to help people. Here were these women, coming from poor villages to better their lives. Not everything is perfect, but people really try to make things work for them regardless of what system they're living in.
In the classroom: I had some of the best professors. Not only were they brilliant, but they were so down-to-earth and willing to help students.
I took classes associated with the Caribbean and Mexican culture, including archaeology, Caribbean literature and history. For my thesis project, I made a film about Cuba and the social impact that tourism had on the island from the 1980s to 2005.
It was just so fun and so interesting, and added so much to the experience of living abroad.
Living in a convent: There are programs from other universities where students stay in hotels, but we stayed in regular neighborhoods. In Cuba, we stayed in an old convent, and in Mexico, I stayed with a host family and then rented an apartment with friends. People in both countries welcomed me with open arms. They were very nurturing, happy people.
What I'm doing now: My experiences abroad confirmed my passion for international development work and empowering underserved communities.
Since 2005, I have been working in New York City, managing programs focused on workforce development, education, housing and financial education, while volunteering for organizations that focus on immigration issues. I am also an adjunct instructor at a local college, where I have taught Puerto Rican and American history.


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State Board of Education sees little shift
Three years after an ideological split over teaching evolution pushed the Texas State Board of Education into an unflattering national spotlight, Tuesday's election suggested the new board may face similar battles over the next few years.
All 15 seats were up for grabs because of redistricting, and only eight incumbents were on the ballot.
But if the board's partisan makeup shifts, it will do so only slightly. It currently is made up of 11 Republicans and four Democrats.
Incumbent Republican Carlos "Charlie" Garza lost to Democrat Martha Dominguez for the District 1 seat in far West Texas, and the District 2 seat in South Texas remained unsettled early Wednesday. Depending on the outcome, the board will have four or five Democratic members.
A core of social conservatives will retain clout, although not necessarily a majority.
"Things are not going to change a whole lot as far as the balance of power," said Jonathan Saenz, president of Texas Values.
The board will adopt new science textbooks in 2013, and social studies textbooks in 2014. It also manages the $26 billion Permanent School Fund.
While Saenz saw the board's continued conservative makeup as a good thing, Dan Quinn of the Texas Freedom Network predicted the science textbook adoptions will be "very divisive."
"That's the big culture war battle you see in many states," Quinn said.
Board Chairwoman Barbara Cargill, a Republican from The Woodlands who beat Democrat Dexter Smith of Friendswood, said she doesn't expect a replay of the controversies that inspired the documentary, "The Revisionaries," which examined the battles over teaching evolution and the content of the history curriculum.
"I think the dynamics on the board are different," Cargill said. "We've learned from the past. I think it's going to go much more smoothly."
Incumbent Democrat Lawrence Allen Jr. of Fresno was re-elected, beating Republican Dorothy Olmos of Houston in District 4.
In the District 6 race to replace Terri Leo, Republican Donna Bahorich of Houston won over three challengers: Democrat Traci Jensen of Houston, Libertarian Gene Clark of Odell and Green Party candidate GC Molison of Houston.
Bahorich, who previously worked for Republican state Sen. Dan Patrick, has said she's a social conservative but will consider each issue separately.
Republican incumbents Thomas Ratliff, David Bradley, Ken Mercer and Pat Hardy were re-elected, as was Democrat Mavis Knight.


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Mismatched pairs of simple things can inspire ingenious solutions
When I was a child, I enjoyed accompanying my father to the bakery, where I could observe things that I found to be as sweet intellectually as the confections on the shelves were sensually. My appetite for the mechanical devices and gadgets in the place was insatiable. I was fascinated by the slicing machine into which the woman behind the counter placed a full loaf of bread and received a neatly sliced one in return. After lifting the segmented loaf from the machine with two hands, imperceptibly compressing it the way a juggler does a set of cigar boxes that looks to be defying gravity, the bakery woman upended the loaf of precisely aligned slices and balanced it in a vertical position in the palm of one hand while reaching with the other and snapping open the white paper bag into which she would slide the sliced loaf and in which the customer would carry the bread home. To me, indeed, the whole process was the greatest thing since sliced bread itself.
Another operation that captured my attention was the action of placing a pie or cake in a box, which itself first had to be formed from one of the flat sheets of irregularly but deliberately shaped white cardboard that were stacked neatly on a shelf under the counter. First, in plain view of a father and his child, three sides of the latent box were folded up and joined together by a tab-in-slot sleight of hand. Into this partially formed box the pie or cake was partly lowered from the top and partly slid from the front, thereby displacing neither a crumb of crust nor a swirl of icing. With the dessert in place, the last of the box's sides was raised like the tailgate of a delivery truck and made secure by another tab-in-slot maneuver. As the shopwoman brought the top of the box down to close it, her deft hands kept the flaps from invading the space between the insides of the box and its contents. The flaps were left outside flapping like wings.
The box still had to be secured with cotton string, sometimes plain white and sometimes candy striped. The supply of string was kept on large spools that had the shape of truncated cones and turned on strategically located spindles. I know this because the spools were often kept in plain sight, either right on the work counter or high above it. But no matter from where it was deployed, the string could be played out easily, if noisily, and it was wrapped around the box seemingly with the speed that Superman could circle the Earth. First three or four turns secured the front flap, and then three or four did the same for the side flaps. In preparation for tying the concluding knots, the string was cut with the flick of a finger, which wore a pragmatic steel ring set not with a stone but with a small knife blade shaped like a miniature sickle. When two or more boxes were to be taken home, they were stacked in a tower formation and tied together for the carrying. The only thing that bothered me about the uniting of pies and cakes with boxes and string was that the pies were round and the boxes square.
The world of things is full of mismatched objects. Like round pegs in square holes, they do not fit neatly together. But when they are joined, neither do they easily fall apart. The world of things can be a world of awkward pairings, marked by misfit, imperfection and compromise, but even in these there can be lessons to be learned about why and how they came to be. And their stories can reveal the secrets of how so many things do fit together, albeit imperfectly.
The white-boxes-and-string world of the old-time bakeshop is alien to the baked-goods department of today's supermarket. Here, most things are prepackaged in transparent plastic cases formed to conform to the shape of their contents. Round pies tempt us from beneath round transparent domes. Tops snap onto bottoms and lock in place without the use of string. The packages are neither biodegradable nor easily carried with one hand, but they do fit, if not geometrically congruentlyalong with the round cans and bottles and globular fruits and vegetablesinto the ample trapezoidal hold of a shopping cart. The incongruity of things made and things found is a fact of life, and like most facts of life it is accepted as the way things are, if not embraced as welcome variety. Maybe it would be a more efficient use of resources and space if all things, including pegs and holes, were square, but who would want to slice a squarish pie or catch a cubic ball?
So, we not only accept the shapes of the world as we find them, but we also adapt to the idiosyncrasies of their interaction. And one of the most common surviving examples of this is the round pizza delivered in the squat square box. As my father accepted without comment his chocolate cake and apple pie in white boxes bound in candy-cane string, so most of us accept our pizzas in corrugated-cardboard containers that come in a wide but limited range of styles and colors. The basic container comes in the neutral earthen color of corrugated-cardboard boxes, but some restaurants think it to their advantage to use white cardboard and imprint the boxes they use with the name of the business, often in the green, white and red colors of the Italian flag. However dressed up, the corrugated-cardboard box is near-ideal packaging for a hot pizza that must endure a 15-or-sominute journey from commercial oven to domestic table.
Relatively thin and unreinforced cardboard, the stuff of which cake and cereal boxes are made, is a rather flimsy material and hardly suitable for bearing the weight of a pizza pie distributed over the reach of a 16- or 18-inch circle. That box material worked for pies and cakes not only because their diameter is typically only about eight inches, but also because they were usually supported by a pie tin or cake base that enforced their burden's flat shape. Pizza pies, on the other hand, are notoriously soft and floppyespecially when they are hotand if there is anything between them and the box they are placed in, it tends to be a flimsy sheet of waxed paper, whose purpose is to provide not structural stiffness but a modicum of gentility. Where the pizza is especially oily, the paper also may help keep the box bottom dry.
Like the old bakery-cake container, every pizza box begins as a flat sheet, which is die cut into an irregular shape that can be folded into a (usually prismatic) box. Like the cake container, the box gains stiffness by being closed, but with the flaps tucked inside rather than being tied down outside. Some of us have experienced the transformation from flat to full first-hand by assembling gift boxes out of the unassembled parts we have been provided by a department store. For those of us who have not, we can reverse engineer any cardboard box to gain a tactile appreciation for the advantages of the closed structure. We know from shopping at the supermarket that full and sealed boxes of corn flakes hold their shape and protect their fragile contents through the successive processes of being filled at the plant, packed into cartons there, shipped to the store, stocked on the shelf, taken down from the shelf, placed in the cart, slid past the scanner, thrown in the bag, stuffed in the car, jostled on the road, dropped on the drive, squeezed into the pantry and brought to the tableintact. Soon as the box is opened, however, we can feel its rigidity drop. That is because the sealed top had prevented the sides from altering their geometry.
Reverse engineering the cereal box begins with emptying it of its contents and unsealing the bottom. This leaves an open-box structure, which is readily felt to be much less rigid than its closed counterpart. The doubly-opened box can be sighted through, as if it were a tube. However, unlike a circular tube, whose shape cannot be changed without some crushing, the rectangular tube of the cereal box can be transformed into a parallelogram without altering the flatness of any of its sides. It is this nature of the rectangle that requires it to be braced with diagonals if it is to be used as a basic structural shape for, say, a building or a bridge. Since diagonals bisect a quadrilateral shape into triangular ones, we see triangles dominating the structural pattern of so many bridges and buildingsat least before they are clad in an architectural facade. Without diagonals, the open cereal box is more a mechanism than a structure, and its interior shape can be transformed from rectangle to parallelogram and even to a flattened box with ease. Locating the seam that usually runs down one corner of the box and separating its glued surfaces allows us to open the box fully and lay its insides flat out. This is how the cake box in the bakery and the pie box in the pizzeria are delivered from the box factory.
The corrugated cardboard box is remarkably well-suited for transporting a hot pizza, and this is no doubt why for decades it has remained generally unchanged in design and use. Starting out flat as it does, it takes up relatively little storage space, which is often at a premium in mom-and-pop pizza shops. A basic pizza box is relatively inexpensive, costing perhaps 25 cents when bought off the Internet in lots of 50 and considerably less when purchased wholesale in chain-store quantities. Corrugated cardboard is a relatively stiff material and so, especially when closed, a box made of it is good at holding its shape and so at preserving the shape of its contents. In addition, the nature of the corrugation process is to include channels of air in the sandwich structure, thus providing insulating properties somewhat similar to those of a double-glazed window pane. This, of course, helps the pizza retain its heat while in transit. Finally, cardboard is absorbent, and so to a degree keeps olive oil or other pizza juices from dripping out.
But nothing is perfect in design or use, and so the common pizza box also has its limitations, shortcomings and downright failures, which tend to be accepted and adjusted to by proprietors and customers alike. But few flaws escape the eyes of inventors, designers and engineers, who are always looking to improve on things. Yet even among these groups, the fact that a square box is used for a round pie is hardly worth further comment, other than to mention that there have been evolutionary changes that have addressed the problemif it can be called even thatof the mismatch in geometry. Domino's Pizza developed its polygonal box that better approximates the circular geometry of its contents, and there are circular pizza containers made of Styrofoam and other moldable materials. Such extravagances might be justified by branding, marketing and targeted advertising objectives, but they are seldom affordable to the small, independently owned pizza parlor.
There are nongeometrical problems with the pie-in-a-box concept that do lend themselves to simple and inexpensive solutions. But these kinds of problems tend to be invisible to or ignored by all but the most persnickety of inventors. One such problem manifests itself when the top of the box in which a hot pizza resides sags excessively because of the softening effect of the steamy environment inside or because something heavy is placed atop the box. The problem can also arise when the boxed pizza is transported in a car that rattles over railroad tracks or bounces in and out of potholes. When the box is opened after such a ride, more cheese can be found stuck to the underside of the box top than remains on the pizza itself. Tolerant customers might scrape the cheese off the cardboard and redistribute it on the pie, but inventors can be intolerant of everything but their own inventions.
The inventor Carmela Vitale was evidently bothered enough by the problem of the box top eating the cheese off the pie to devise a solution. As she explained in her patent, which was issued in 1985, cheaply made and disposable containers, "particularly those used to deliver pizza pies or large cakes or pies, comprise boxes with relatively large covers formed of inexpensive board material" that have a tendency "to sag or to be easily depressed at their center portions so that they may damage or mark the pies or cakes during storage or delivery." Her solution was "to provide a lightweight and inexpensive device," which would be molded "from one of the plastics which is heat resistant such as the thermo set plastics and which will resist temperatures of as high as about 500F." The form that she preferred, and the one that is illustrated in the patent, is a utilitarian tripod, a minimalist three-legged stool. In her description of the so-called "preferred embodiment," she explained that the legs should have "a minimal cross section to minimize any marking of the protected article" and also "to minimize the volume of plastic required" and thereby keep the cost low.
Curiously, Vitale called her little device a "package saver" and used that term also as the title of her patent. In fact, as she herself recognized in the claims of her patent, the benefit of the tripod is in "preventing damage to the packaged food article by the cover." Thus it is not the disposable package that is being saved, but its contents. The device has since been appropriately renamed a "pizza saver," though few people who admire the thing for so effectively saving their pizza from being scalped of its cheese know it by that name. In fact, it is most popularly referred to as an all-purpose "little thingy," which in context everyone understands. People also appreciate that with its thin, spindly legs it has a very small footprint on the pizza and consumes very little of the pie itself.
Although possessing no grace or elegance of form, Vitale's answer to the problem of the cheese-eating box top is considered an elegant solution. It has no unnecessary embellishments. Clearly, the small and inexpensive device was meant to be as disposable as the pizza box, but not everyone who saw the pizza saver could throw it away. Especially people engaged in arts and crafts tended to wash it off and put it away for some future use that they were sure it would someday have. One woman whose hobby was decorating eggs found that turning it upside down made it serve as an ideal egg easel. She did have one complaint, however, and that was that the little thingy was rather expensive, a fault that she attributed to having to pay for its elaborate packaging, namely, a large pizza in a larger box.
As elegant a solution as the pizza saver might be, not everyone saw it to be without structural flaws of its own. One inventor identified a critical shortcomingespecially when the pizza saver came in the form of a dollhouse-size three-legged table with a solid round top. How was it to be packaged when purchased not one at a time but in bulk, for the pizzeria that wanted to secure a supply of pizza savers had to buy them in quantities of a thousand. The way the savers typically came was loose in a large corrugated-cardboard box, and, as with a box of cornflakes, the contents tended to settle during shipping. Still, the large box could take up an inordinate amount of space in a cramped pizza shop. The inventor's solution to packing pizza savers with flat table tops more compactly was to incorporate into the top holes into which the legs of a second saver could be inserted. A series of savers nested in such a way would naturally take up less space than a random jumble of them. What the inventor seemed to ignore, however, was the labor that would be involved in nesting the tripods, thereby adding to the cost of something whose price was supposed to be kept as low as possible. Inventors sometimes lose sight of the bigger picture.
Keeping the cheese on the pie is only one problem with hot pizza. Another is getting the first slice out of the box. It is here that the square box actually works to advantage. While a round container would certainly be more geometrically matched to its contents, getting the pizza out of it could lead to considerable frustration, for if the fit were too snug fingers could not easily get under the crust to lift out a slice. With the box square, however, there is ample open space in the corners to get a full hand of fingers underneath the pie. Unfortunately, there can still be another hurdle to overcome before the slice is fully free, for the hot melted cheese tends to flow across the cuts defining the slices, effectively fusing them together in transit to the table. In this case, it can be virtually impossible to lift a slice apart from the rest of the pie without having some undesirable redistribution of cheese between adjacent slices or experiencing the stretching out of long strings of cheese that tie the adjacent slices together. When this happens, it is convenient to have a knife or wheeled cutter handy to sever the connections.
Some inventors, like still-life painters who crowd as much onto their canvas as possible, try to solve multiple problems with multipurpose devices crowded with features. Sometimes their inventions succeed; sometimes they do not. One pair of inventors looked to solve the sagging box top and stringy cheese problems with a single device, which they called a "combined pizza box lid support and cutter." Made of plastic to keep its cost down, the dual-purpose device resembles a rotary cutter but with the wheel's axle extending to about the height of a delivery box. Another team of inventors received a patent for a "combination food server and container lid support," which consisted of a pie-slice shaped spatula with its handle offset like that of a mason's trowel, the amount of the offset being roughly that of the height of the pizza box. (The patent even explained how the device could be inserted into a sliced pizza, so that the blade was under the pie and the handle above it, supporting the top.) Another inventor received a design patent for a combination fork and wheeled cutter, thereby enabling the fastidious pizza eater to cut and spear pieces of pizza without needing two hands free to manipulate a separate knife and fork.
Another team of inventors received a patent in 2007 for what they described as a "lid support and serving aid," which was embodied in a plastic tripod with one of its legs inclined, elongated and serrated so that it could be used to cut through cheese and crust to produce individual slices. The top platform of the tripod contained a hole large enough for an index finger so that a good grip could be had for executing the cutting process. The platform was also shaped so that individual tripods could be nested like function-room chairs, thus saving shipping and stocking space.
No matter how a slice of pizza is gotten free from its neighbors and from the box they all came in, there can still remain obstacles to neat and comfortable eating. Especially when they are hot, slices of pizza tend to be floppy and so extra care is required in lifting them to the mouth in a configuration that will not encourage cheese to slough off and oil to drip onto the eater's clothes. A number of inventors have patented pizza boxes with perforated tops and bottoms that allow wedge-shaped pieces of cardboard to be separated from the delivery box to be used as "plates" on which to serve individual slices of pizza. (Some come complete with thumb holes that can be punched out for easier holding.) This reuse of the box not only helps support saggy slices but also encourages the reuse at least of parts of otherwise throwaway boxes.
One traditional way of handling the sagging slice is to bend it along a radial line from tip to crust, effectively creating a trough that gives structural stiffness to the otherwise limp wedge. Interestingly, it is the same structural principle of folding that gives stiffness to the corrugated cardboard box that the pizza comes in and the dimpled paper plate that it is often served on. The principle can easily be demonstrated with a single sheet of paper. Unfolded, it will sag easily when lifted off a pile; folded one or more timesas is done in the process of making a paper airplanethe sheet has considerable stiffness to hold its shape. Achieving stiffness by folding is a ubiquitous technique in structural engineering, being exhibited in everything from corrugated tin roofs to sculpted concrete shells to molded automobile bodies.
The everyday actions of boxing, transporting and delivering a warm pizza, as well as those of separating, serving and eating a slice of the pie, provide familiar examples of how problems are perceived and solutions offered for the engineering and design of complex systems of all kinds. Indeed, anything made and used can serve to illustrate the processes of engineering, invention and design, and the more simple and familiar the thing employed, the more illuminating the example may be.
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By Claire Walla
They may be nice to look at, but for some they're there to eat.
So the story goes here on the East End, where periwinkle hydrangeas, fuschia rhododendrons, clusters of violet flocks and bold stalks of multi-colored lilies are devoured each year by the bane of many a gardeners' existence: deer. Until a few years ago, this contingent of disgruntled agrarians included Dafna Priel and Leslie Gelb. Only, instead of letting deer destruction get them down, they came up with a solution. They called it: Whitetail Solutions.
The East End company — managed by both Priel and Gelb — uses a home brew of organic materials to combat the onslaught of those pesky four-legged creatures with an unfortunate appetite for beautiful things.
"We may not be the only game in town, but we're the best game in town," Gelb said.
Whitetail Solutions offers seasonal packages for local homeowners. With a one-time summer payment, Gelb said homeowners can expect their yards to be taken care of for the entirety of the summer, with anti-deer spray applied to all the flowers and foliage at least every other week.
"We know what we're doing and we know it works," she added.
Part of the company's appeal, Gelb said, is that its owners have experienced the trouble with deer first hand.
"We've seen just about every scenario out there," she explained.
Gelb and Priel started the company in earnest about three years ago all because the completely unpredictable eating habits of these woodland creatures had become increasingly frustrating for the two avid gardeners.
"There's no rhyme or reason to it," she continued. "The hydrangeas at one home would be fine, but the hydrangeas at the house next door would be devoured."
It's a story with which hundreds of East Enders have been all too familiar, especially this year, which Gelb referred to as "a code red situation."
She said she's seen frustrated homeowners who have used various blends of relative deer-combatting potions made with everything from tea bags and Irish Spring soap to human hair and coyote urine. She's also seen frustration from landscapers who have used chemical solutions that quickly wash off plants, emit intolerable smells or leave white residue on behind.
Early on, Gelb and Priel were once equally bogged down by efforts to deter the deer.
"We just tried everything, and things would work for a little while or they wouldn't work at all," she began. "Or else they were just so disgusting and vile!" She said one of the "stinky ones" is Bobbex—a concoction of fish oil and putrid smelling meat meal.
"Our products don't smell awful at all, they don't leave a white film [allowing flowers to keep their vibrant colors] and they're rain resistant," Gelb explained. After experimenting with a number of over-the-counter solutions and run-of-the-mill elixirs, Gelb said she and Priel finally found a mix that seemed to work without any of the pitfalls that plagued the solutions they had used in the past.
Gelb stated that she and Priel knew they had a winning mixture when friends of theirs who worked for the Long House Reserve began using it. Without going into details, Gelb said their secret ingredient is an odorless liquid with an extremely bitter taste.
White Tail Solutions currently serves about 40 clients and five landscaping firms, which use the company to deer-proof their building sites. She said their patrons have been impressed with their work. Not only do their organic sprays keep the deer away, but they've been known to help restore life to some plants left for dead in the wake of hungry whitetails, she said.
"Some plants aren't that fortunate, [especially] if they've been picked at year to year," she said. "But, if we catch it in time, they grow back, and we love that!"
Gelb is hesitant to offer exact pricing because "every yard is different," but she said White Tail Solutions does offer free assessments. Plus, she added, whatever the grand total, "it's a lot cheaper than putting up a fence."


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The Transportation Security Administration has moved to fire six bag-screening officers at Logan International Airport for violating inspection procedures for checked luggage and suspend 14 others for inattention to duty, the agency said.
The action was triggered by a routine audit that showed some officers were not paying close attention to computer monitors that display the contents of each bag as they are screened by an explosives detection machine, according to the TSA. The screeners were distracted by their cellphones and other electronic devices.
Others ignored protocols to hand-inspect bags that triggered alarms. Bags containing dense objects, such as clay or cheese, can set off alarms, although it happens infrequently. If an officer can't determine what the object is on-screen, the bag is supposed to be brought into a screening room for further inspection before it is loaded onto a plane.
No dangerous materials got through the detection system as a result of these lapses, the TSA said, noting that bags pass through several more layers of checks after they are screened.
All 20 employees facing dismissal or suspension, including two managers and a supervisor, worked in the same baggage room, one of 10 at the airport. They have seven days to appeal the findings.
In all, the TSA has 1,374 employees at Logan, including 1,280 officers and 23 managers.
TSA officials said the proposed terminations and suspensions are unrelated to the inquiry into allegations of racial profiling by TSA behavior-detection officers at Logan. The TSA is investigating allegations by more than 30 TSA officers in Boston that colleagues trained to identify suspicious passengers, based on appearance and body language, were focusing on minorities.
"All TSA employees are held to the highest standards of conduct and accountability," the TSA said in a statement about baggage screeners. "These standards are critical to our work and TSA's commitment to the safety of the traveling public."
The Massachusetts Port Authority, which runs Logan Airport, declined to comment on the TSA's disciplinary actions.
In the past year, the TSA has moved to fire or suspend 88 checked-baggage screeners at four airports: in Honolulu, Charlotte, Newark, and now Boston. In June, seven TSA officers in Philadelphia who the agency said tried to pay a training manager for a passing grade on annual certification tests were told they would be fired.
In the past 10 years, the TSA has fired 240 of the 3,500 security officers who have screened bags and passengers over the years at Logan. Monday's action represents the most employees recommended for removal or suspension as the result of a single investigation.
Each baggage room is audited at least once a month, and the frequency of bags that set off alarms and are brought in for additional searches is compared to national averages. Managers can review closed-circuit television footage to see what triggered an alarm and how it was resolved.
TSA authorities in Boston launched a review in November after a manager noticed officers who were not following procedures while screening checked luggage. In December, these officers were moved to nonscreening duties, such as instructing people to remove their shoes before going through security, while officials in Washington investigated.
The disciplinary measures were determined by the agency's Office of Professional Responsibility, which administrator John Pistole established after he took over in July 2010 to raise standards, increase accountability of workers, and oversee disciplinary actions.
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents TSA workers, is reviewing the allegations against the Boston agents and will probably challenge the disciplinary actions, said Chad Harris, the union's acting supervising attorney for TSA employees.
"This incident is an indication of a systemic problem that exists not with the employees but with the managers and supervisors at Boston Logan International airport," he said.
TSA workers, he said, "are highly monitored employees. They don't have the discretion to make the decisions that are not in compliance with what their managers say they should or shouldn't be doing."
Dennis Graham, a suspended screening officer, said baggage rooms are understaffed and workers sometimes eat on the job or talk on the phone because they aren't given breaks.
"The place is a walking disaster," said Graham, 36, who has worked at Logan for 10 years. "The place is anything but safe right now."
Under TSA rules, baggage screeners get a 30-minute meal break and two 15-minute breaks per eight-hour shift.
Katie Johnston can be reached at email@example.com.


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