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Optimize Your Self Storage Space

magellanstorageblogger — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:51:08 +0000

Move your stored items in/out of your storage unit with carts or dollies

Properly packing your items for storage is very important. Based on your storage needs and the storage unit size that you rented, you will need to be prepared and organized when you pack for and put your items in a storage unit. Magellan Storage offers a variety of storage unit sizes, both climate and non-climate controlled, at our facilities Magellan Storage offers a size range from 5×5, which are the size of a regular coat closet, up to 16×30, which is the size of a standard two car garage. It is important that you choose the correct size storage unit for your needs.

Once you have chosen your storage unit, the next step is to come up with a plan for the items that you need to store. This would include gathering packing supplies, correctly packing the boxes or prepping the items for storage, and creating a map of the storage unit and where you want to place your items. The map will be a great reference if you need to access items in your unit. Also, label the contents of stored boxes on all four sides of the boxes and keep a running inventory list of the items that you have placed in storage based on your labeling system and your map.

When you are packing your belongings for storage, make sure to carefully wrap glasses, plates, collectibles and other breakable items with plain newsprint, cloth or bubble wrap. Fill up the boxes to within an inch of the top with filler material. Boxes without filler material can easily collapse if stored in a stack damaging the items in the box as well as items in other boxes. Also, properly seal the boxes with packing tape to help prevent dust and dirt from entering the box and damaging the stored items.

Place the heavier boxes at the bottom of the stack and the lighter boxes on the top of the stack in the storage unit. Having like sized boxes will also make it easier to stack. Do not put the boxes too high or you will not be able to easily access them when you need to. Boxes should not weigh over 30 pounds for the same reason.

Place items that you might need to access more often at the front of the storage unit and place the less-needed items towards the back of the storage unit. Also, put higher value items such as electronics towards the back of the storage unit, away from the door. Allow a walk way either in the middle of the stored items or around the outside of the unit. Leaving room around the outside will allow for better air circulation in the storage unit.

You can create more space in your storage unit by vertically stacking certain items such as mattresses, couches and stacking chairs. Utilize all available space in appliances, dressers and storage units to store smaller boxes and appliances. You can also use furniture and mattress covers to protect your items from dirt, dust while in storage.

Magellan Storage’s Los Angeles and Orange County area locations have packing and moving supplies to help make your storage process easier. A free truck at move-in is also available to make the moving in process easier. Our friendly and helpful staff is available to assist you in choosing the best storage unit for your needs.

Maggie Sottero Fall 2013

mariposabridal — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:42:29 +0000

Consistently season after season Maggie Sottero creates some of the most beautiful designs for the most beautiful brides. So when we got a sneak peek of their collection a few months ago we started counting down the days until we could get our hands on them. Well ladies the time has arrived! Maggie released the photos on their website and we have started to receive our sample pieces. Whether you’re wanting traditional, modern, or vintage they have you covered. Every gown is designed down to the very last seam with details for days. Some of the most flattering fits come right off our Maggie racks as well. With insane structure and the best corset a gown can offer these beauties will have you feeling secure all day. All in all Maggie Sottero just gets it right.

So many pretty things our brains are in beauty overload. Maggie Sottero really nailed it this season. For a look at the whole collection head on over to www.MaggieSottero.com and get lost in all they have to offer. After you’ve spent hours day dreaming about these gowns give us a call and come see them in person!

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Summer So Far

Shalese Danielle — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:16:08 +0000

I have to say . . . it’s been a pretty solid summer so far. Here’s how I’ve been l

Photo-Venture June 8, 2013

jillianelder — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:17:21 +0000

After I took photos of the military plane I went do the waterfront to see what was going on. Sail boats caught my attention.

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Buzz Aldrin talks about future space exploration in O.C.

smartsells — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:33:22 +0000

Buzz Aldrin talks about future space exploration in O.C.

YORBA LINDA – The second man to walk on the moon strode into the Nixon Library on Tuesday evening, and the room full of schoolchildren was ready.

Buzz Aldrin, 83, was there to deliver a talk on his latest book, “Mission to Mars,” outlining his ideas on how to put humans on the red planet. Nearly 800 people attended the event.

Buzz Aldrin, left, Apollo astronaut who was the second man to walk on the moon, answers questions from Orange County elementary, middle and high school students at the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum on Tuesday evening.

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But first, he faced a battery of questions from about 35 Orange County youngsters, most of them in elementary or middle school.

The kids had been selected by their teachers based on questions they submitted for Aldrin, who followed Neil Armstrong onto the lunar surface July 20, 1969, in one of the space program’s most iconic moments.

The first question came from David Ponsen, 11, of Malcom Elementary school in Laguna Niguel

“What inspired you to be an astronaut?” he asked.

Aldrin recounted his experience at West Point and his time as a fighter pilot in the Korean War, a flier during the Cold War and eventually his entry into the space program.

“You don’t always go the straight, direct way,” he said. “Sometimes, you kind of cut around the end.”

He told the group he didn’t favor a repeat of the moon-landing program.

“We really don’t need to go back to the moon with our astronauts now, and maybe compete with the Chinese,” he said. “That’s a no-win situation.”

Instead, he advocates practicing building bases – first in Hawaii, then on the moon, then on the surface of Mars.

An organizer asked the children if they wanted to go to Mars, and one of them asked Aldrin if, as a child, he ever thought he would go to the moon.

“That was pure fantasy,” he said. “But it’s not fantasy when he asked if you wanted to go to Mars anymore, is it? No, because we’re thinking ahead. We’re planning to be able to do things like that. And I hope we do, instead of repeating what we did 40 years ago, and sending astronauts back to the moon again.”

One boy asked how Aldrin was chosen to go the moon.

“The best answer for that is being in the right place at the right time,” Aldrin said. “And then when I wasn’t, I kind of manipulated things.”

But the questioner who seemed to steal the show was Catherine Le, 11, a fifth-grader from Palmyra Elementary in Orange.

“Do you personally believe that there are extraterrestrials existing on other planets or on this Earth?”

Aldrin didn’t hesitate.

“I believe what there is good evidence to support,” he said. “And so far, there isn’t good evidence (of) anything other than what we normally see around us that’s living, like human beings.”

But he acknowledged that in the broader cosmos, it might be a different story.

“With all the billions of galaxies, and the billions of stars in the galaxy, the chances are that there are places like the Earth,” he said. “The chances are quite good. They might not look like us at all.”

Catherine wasn’t finished.

“Do you personally believe that a woman will some day walk on the moon or Mars?”

“Of course,” Aldrin said. “Do you want to be that person?”

“I’m not so sure,” she answered.

“That’s quite all right,” he said. “You’re allowed to hesitate.”

Once the questioning was over, Aldrin and the organizers revealed that they’d cooked up a bit of a surprise for the children.

In 1999, the 30^t^h anniversary of his moon landing, Aldrin had put on a pair of boots like the ones he wore on the moon and walked across a strip of wet concrete.

The footprints are still there, alongside a plaque to mark the occasion.

The troop of children were led upstairs and outside into a courtyard, where, in the last rays of the sun, Aldrin re-enacted his walk; then the children lined up single-file behind him, following in his footsteps.

“I want you to know that Michael Jackson always did it backwards,” Aldrin told the gathering.

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Photo-Venture June 8, 2013: City of Newburgh

jillianelder — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:12:16 +0000

As I was leaving on Saturday to scope out my usual photography stops, there was a military plane doing their stop touch and go exercises out of Stewart. I ran up to the parking garage and took some shots. I also got some more street shots of First Street and the people walking by.

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Andy Buckner — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:49:33 +0000

…is the one in your pocket, or the saying goes something like that. While I will leave that up to debate for you guys, here is a picture from my HTC One X cell phone. Not too shabby, right? This was taken at the gardens inside The Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

UCI gains $10 million for mental health study... from The OC!

smartsells — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:31:47 +0000

UCI gains $10 million for mental health study

UC Irvine has received a $10 million federal grant for research into the connection between a mother’s pattern of caring during her child’s infancy and emotional and behavioral problems arising during adolescence.

UC Irvine has been awarded a $10 million federal grant to study how a mother’s patterns of caring for her infant may cause brain changes that can lead to behavioral and emotional problems during adolescence.

The five-year funding, which was announced Tuesday, comes from the National Institute of Mental Health, part of the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Tallie Baram, a pediatric neurologist and neuroscientist, said researchers are studying children from the womb through the teenage years to better understand causes of depression, risk-taking behavior and other mental health disorders.

“By and large, mothers take good care of children but there’s variability and some are better than others,” she said. “We are trying to determine what is good maternal care and what makes it better.”

The UCI research focuses on the patterns of signals a mother sends to her baby – whether heart rate in the womb or a routine of offering a toy, smiling and hugging her child before bedtime.

“It appears that consistent, reproducible and complex patterns seem to contribute to resilience to stress later in life,” said Baram, the lead researcher on the study.

Inconsistency, she said, seems to change brain function and structure. For instance, a rat who received fragmented or unpredictable grooming as a baby will perform poorly on an intelligence test when stressed.

“What we seem to see is that this changes the levels of some very important molecules that respond to how we handle stress later in life,” Baram said. “This is true in both brain parts responsible for cognition, learning and memory and brain parts that are responsible for emotion.”

UCI psychiatrists will examine how frequent mood changes during pregnancy affect the fetus. Brain imaging of children and rodents will also be done to look for changes in brain structure, connectivity and function.

“The beauty of it is you go from one molecule to one baby,” Baram said. “You’re also looking across time from a fetus to an adolescent. It really is very comprehensive in approach.”

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Mattern Sausage and Meats: Tongue and Blood Sausage, Head Cheese survey-within-a-survey

Baguettes and Drumsticks — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:24:42 +0000

Since my Tongue in OC survey has only covered cow tongue so far, I jumped at the chance to include another animal: pig. I’ve been anticipating this addition to my survey for some time, though I didn’t run across a non-cow tongue dish until I had a chance to go to Mattern while my mom was at the dentist’s.

My parents have been going to Mattern since before I was born, and while we’re not exactly regulars anymore, we still stop in whenever we’re in the area. Their garlic bologna was one of the first solid foods I ate as an infant nearly 20 years ago–there’s hardly a better food than that for babies. As I developed my own tastes over the years, I settled on the bockwurst, a white veal sausage, as my personal favorite, but you really can’t miss at Mattern. Everything is delicious.

Head cheese, as it is composed of the flesh of the head, obviously includes the tongue. Mattern has 3 kinds of head cheese, all pork based: regular, with vinegar, and spicy. In all three, the pieces of meat–tongue, cheek, etc.–are suspended in the translucent aspic like a freeform mosaic, but the texture varies among the varieties. The regular head cheese is the most cartilaginous in texture, almost chewy, even, and it’s pretty mellow in flavor. The vinegar one is slightly more tender, and the aspic is more opaque with a yellowish tint to it. The vinegar flavor itself is a nice counterbalance to the soft richness of the rest of the head cheese. Finally, the spicy head cheese has various spices and an intense red color. Despite the name, I wouldn’t call this actually “spicy,” but the spices, like the vinegar, work well in the sausage overall.

In addition to the head cheeses, I also tried the blood and tongue sausage. This too is made with pork tongue, set in a beautiful red blood sausage. Here, one can distinctly taste the pork tongue. It has a richness similar to beef tongue, but less iron-y tang. Still, I love it.

Clockwise from top left: regular, with vinegar, spicy, blood and tongue.

For the eating part of this post, I simply buttered some rye bread and layered on a couple of slices of each sausage.

It was a nice snack.

The University of California at Boulder

Is Burnett's A Carb? — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:36:54 +0000

I always wanted to go out of state for college. So I chose CU. Being from Denver, I knew it’d be a good way to live in a district of California without paying out-of-state tuition. They’re both beautiful places, with a lot of beautiful people. Beautiful people who drive like lunatics, are willing to pay an easy 1,000 bucks a month for rent in a storage closet, and think dubstep is great to study to. If that’s not Cali, I don’t know what is. For the most part I have no complaints about being immersed with these special people, but there are just a few things I will never figure out about them:

1) The Obsession with In-N-Out. Yeah it’s a good burger, and the french fries sure do taste fresh, but honestly, it’s not that incredible, even for fast food. The patty is about as thick as a 13-year-old’s mustache and your stomach never feels quite right after eating one. The only reason people think it’s any better than say Wendy’s is because they have an exclusive secret menu and the company plays hard-to-get, keeping it to the West Coast along with Julie Cooper and celebrity governors.

2) Their Relationship to the Weather. Cali kids love to complain about how cold it is outside. Like every day. Yes, this is Colorado, and yes, we do have seasons. Besides, it’s almost always sunny here. The same cannot be said about their hazy homeland. When things do get inclement here in Boulder, Cali girls like to go to class dressed for ice fishing in the Antarctic and then go out later that night dressed for Vegas, claiming that their liquid blanket will prevail. Boys tend to think that the flip-flop is the go to shoe 360 days out of the year, perfect for combatting snow, ice and girls. Welp, you’ve got one of those right gentlemen.

3) Disneyland. Many Cali-born kids seem to think this place sits on a sheet of diamonds. I mean, yes, it’s got great atmosphere, but it’s also completely overpriced, overcrowded, and geared for eight-year-olds. Plus, it can’t even hold a sparkle to Disney World. And when was the last time you heard, “Omg yeah I’m from Florida, as in, where Disney World is.” That’d be never, unless it was at summer camp in the forth grade.

4) The vocabulary. Remember in tenth grade when people quit saying “lol” because acronyms are stupid. Everyone knows that if you actually thought their text was funny enough to laugh out loud you’d reply something a little more animated. If anyone uses “lol” anymore they’re hopefully joking and they’ll probably include a ‘z’ on the end to make sure the sarcasm shines through. So why do Cali kids think it’s okay to use acronyms OUT LOUD when it’s not even socially acceptable to do in texting anymore. I’ve heard perfectly cool people say “DGAF” multiple times, in like, venting conversations.

5) When they say, “I’m from Orange County.” Just because people know where Orange County is doesn’t mean that gives anyone a clearer idea of where you’re from except from Southern California, which they probably already assumed. It’d be like someone asking me where I’m from and saying “Jefferson County.” It’s okay to admit your from Laguna Beach boys, girls will only take advantage of your obvious trust fund when they’re hungry, thirsty, bored, or like, want to stay an extra four nights in Cabo.

Suspect Accused In Dry-Ice Bombings At Disneyland Released From Custody

Alan Carter — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:50:20 +0000

FULLERTON (AP) — A Disneyland worker charged in connection with the explosion of two dry-ice bombs at the theme park has been ordered released from custody.

Deputy District Attorney Andrew Katz says an Orange County judge on Thursday ordered 22-year-old Christian Barnes released on his own recognizance.

Katz opposed the release over public safety concerns given the lack of information about Barnes.

The order came after the judge had previously lowered Barnes’ bail from $500,000 to $50,000.

Prosecutors say Barnes placed dry ice in two water bottles that exploded last month at Disneyland. No one was injured in the blasts.

Barnes has pleaded not guilty to possession of a destructive device in a public place.

A message was left for Barnes’ attorney Seth Bank. Barnes’ next court date is July 17.

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