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The wine world increasingly sorts out into two camps, those who believe increasing globalization is good for the wine industry, and those who believe that it ruins everything good about wine. Never mind that it is most certainly happening and impossible to stop. Those who regularly follow my ramblings know that I think globalization is the best thing to happen to wine since someone figured out that stainless steel tanks made for good fermentations.
Leaving aside all the petty and ridiculous arguments about the homogenization of wine, which I think are bollocks, I offer the simplest and most compelling reason that globalization is good for wine:
The folks in Slovenia have been making wine since even before the region was a part of the Roman empire, of course, but some of the wineries operating today have been in business since the 1500's. Yet until recently very few people in the United States had even heard of Slovenian wine, let alone tasted any.
Globalization more than anything else means that the market for wine, even ones made in tiny countries, by tiny producers, from slightly obscure grapes have a chance to reach wine lovers all over the world. And if they're good, they have the chance to reach levels of popularity that would never have been possible based on the local demand of their region, or even neighboring countries. Perhaps the most well known success story of this kind in the region is Movia, whose wines I reviewed yesterday. But Slovenia is much bigger than Movia, and there are a lot of wines worth paying attention to.
Slovenia's three primary winegrowing regions of Podravje, Primorska, and Posavje are planted to around 60,000 acres of vineyards, representing more than one percent of the nation's tiny 7,827 square miles of territory. With more than 40,000 registered wineries according to the Oxford Companion to Wine, it's not hard to believe that the average vineyard size for the country falls somewhere in the 8 to 15 acre zone.
This incredible diversity of producers may partially be responsible for Slovenian wine staying off the radar for so long, as most producers are so small that they wouldn't have enough wine to sell on the global market even if they could afford to get it there.
Thanks to the work of some dedicated importers and the increasingly global view of many wine lovers, the world is getting more experience with this region and it's history of producing distinctive wines.
Slovenia was the first republic to declare independence in the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia, but before that nation was cobbled together, it sat at a major crossroads in the Hapsburg empire that, in some form or another, ruled the region even before the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire.
Snuggled as it is between the Mediterranean on the Southwest, Italy on the West, Croatia on the Southeast, and the Austrian Alps to the north (beautifully summarized by the country's coat of arms, seen above), it will come as no surprise that the region's major influences when it comes to wine are Italian, German and Hungarian with some French sensibility thrown into the mix.
Nothing is a greater influence on Slovenian wine, however, than the extremely variable climate of the region, which can vary to such a great degree that the size of the country's wine production regularly fluctuates twenty or thirty percentage points from vintage to vintage.
Like most relatively developed indigenous wine regions, Slovenia produces both red and white wines, but in my experience the white wines are by far the best and most interesting, and in some cases are nothing short of world-class. These whites are either made as single varietals or as blends, using a wide variety of techniques, from the more traditional vinification in large, old oak casks, to modern stainless steel winemaking.
Regardless of the methods used, Slovenian winemakers are producing distinctive wines from familiar grapes like Pinot Gris, Riesling, and Sauvignon Blanc; to less well known varieties such as Ribolla Gialla, Malvasia, Traminer, and Sylvaner; to the downright obscure Kerner, Pikolit, Vitovska, Sipon, and Pinela.
It is quite unwise of me to broadly characterize the wines of an entire country, as there are great variations, from the sweet dessert wines of the southeast, to the crisp whites of the western region that falls within the unique extension of Italy's Collio appellation. However, I will say that I find Slovenian whites to be extremely distinctive, and quite unlike white wines from anywhere else, save some of the producers in Italy's neighboring Friuli region. The best Slovenian wines, even those with residual sugar, seem to offer amazing combinations of floral, tropical fruit, and more earthy qualities, often with a touch of oxidation that gives them somewhat of an "ancient" quality.
Any wine lover who enjoys white wines I strongly urge to seek out some Slovenian wine and give it a try.
Here are some tasting notes from some of the best Slovenian whites I have had recently.
Full disclosure: I received these wines as press samples.
2003 Kogl M.D. Albus "Magna Domenica" White Wine, Podravje, Slovenia
Pale, greenish gold in color, this blend of Riesling, Yellow Muscat, and Auxerrois has a nose that combines slightly funky aromas of wet wool and wet wood with beautiful scents of white blossoms and ripe melon. In the mouth it tastes of paraffin, pear, and white flowers wrapped around a core of tart melon flavor. The decent (though perhaps not sharp enough for my taste) acidity brings a lightly mineral, even metallic quality to the long, intriguing finish. Score: between 8.5 and 9. Cost: $17.00. Where to buy?
2005 Kogl "Mea Culpa" White Wine, Podravje, Slovenia
Greenish gold in the glass, this wine has a gorgeous nose of acacia flowers, juicy peaches, and paraffin, which hints at the Riesling that makes up the majority of the wine. In the mouth the wine is beautifully balanced and offers a gorgeously complex pastiche of chamomile, lemon zest, and mineral qualities that are electrified by excellent acids and textured with silky smoothness. The flavors blend and swirl into a long, satisfying finish. In a word, "yum." Score: between 9 and 9.5. Cost: $19.99. Where to buy?
1999 Batic Reserve Pinot Gris, Vipava Valley, Slovenia
This wine pours a beautiful medium gold, even slightly orange in the glass. Orange wine is nearly always a good sign! It smells of honey and freshly shelled nuts. The nutty qualities continue into the waxy body of the wine which has a lightly oxidized quality that I find utterly compelling. The nuts and rainwater flavors carry through a long finish that seems to defiantly challenge anyone who says aged Pinot Gris can't turn into something special if made in the right way. Score: around 9. Cost: $29.95. Where to buy?
2004 Batic Pinot Gris Riserva, Vipava Valley, Slovenia
I don't think I've ever seen a wine quite this color before -- gorgeously orange-pink in the glass it reads visually more as a rose than a white wine, making me wonder if it didn't have a period of extended contact with the skins to extract such a hue. It's nose is equally wondrous - a jewel-like confection of candied apple, red apple skin, and exotic spices. In the mouth it is nicely balanced with good acid and a weighty presence on the tongue that dances flavors of paraffin, red apple skin, and those same hard-to-pin-down spices across the palate. The wine's finish is unusually short, but despite this deficit, it is most certainly one of the most distinctive wines I have ever had in my mouth. Score: between 9 and 9.5. Cost: $26.95. Where to buy?
2004 Santomas Malvasia, Primorje - Koper, Slovenia
Light gold in the glass, this wine smells of melon and honey. In the mouth it seduces with a silky texture and a waxy pear and melon mix of flavors that swirl pleasingly with good acid into a moderate finish. Score: between 8.5 and 9. Cost: $16. Where to buy?
2006 Crnko "Rumeni Muskat" Yellow Muscat, Maribor, Slovenia
Pale green-gold in color, this wine has an intoxicating nose of melon, kiwi, and other exotic tropical fruits. It's hard not to simply want to sit and smell this wine for several minutes. In the mouth, the wine offers bright flavors of sultanas and hints of the melon in the nose. A slightly waxy quality tangos with a light spritz on the tongue as the wine finishes without quite living up to the promise of the nose. This Slovenian rendition of the Austrian "Gelber Muskateller" grape is good for drinking, but even better for smelling. Score: around 8.5. Cost: $21.95. Where to buy?
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Kim Brooks Williams
Position: TE
Height: 6-4 Weight: 226 lbs.
Born: December 7, 1954 in Baltimore, MD
Died: January 25, 2008 in FL
High School: Frank W. Cox
College: North Carolina (school history) (Williams college stats)
Drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the 8th round (199th overall) of the 1978 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 3 (10660th overall since 1950)
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Recipes to get ready for National Vegetarian Week
It takes place next month from May 20-26.
To celebrate a selection of recipe ideas perfect for a veggie feast have been put together.
Starters include Beetroot & Butterbean Hummus, the perfect centre piece for a sharing plate.
Serve this delicious dip with pitta crisps or crudités.
Mains include Tenderstem & Bengali Split Pea Curry with Caramelized Shallots.
Making a curry from scratch can seem a daunting task, but this is recipe easy enough to make on a Friday night without causing any stress.
It's also a really healthy option, too, as it is full of protein from the split peas and packed with nutrients from the Tenderstem broccoli.
Beetroot & Butterbean Hummus (serves 4-6)
250g cooked beetroot dipped in vinegar (not pickled)
1 tin butterbeans (410g), drained & rinsed
1-2 cloves garlic, crushed
Small bunch fresh chives, finely chopped (reserve a few for garnish)
3tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Sea salt & freshly ground black pepper
Chop the beetroot into small dice, set aside in a medium bowl.
In a food processor blitz the butterbeans with the garlic, chives and olive oil. Season to taste with sea salt & freshly ground black pepper.
Transfer into the bowl with the beetroot and gently fold through to mix. Spoon into a serving bowl, drizzle with a little extra olive oil and garnish with a few snipped chives. Serve as a dip with pitta crisps, or part of a salad lunch spread.
Recipe from www.lovebeetroot.co.uk
Tenderstem & Bengali Split Pea Curry with Caramelized Shallots (serves 4)
1 large onion, roughly chopped
2-3 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced
2 cm piece fresh ginger, roughly chopped
2 tbsp vegetable oil
200g yellow split peas
200g Tenderstem, sliced into 3cm pieces
Small bunch coriander, roughly chopped
Freshly ground black pepper & sea salt
For the spice mix:
2 tsp cumin seeds
2 tsp fennel seeds
2 tsp fenugreek seeds
2 tsp mustard seeds
2 tsp nigella seeds
1-2tsp dried chili flakes, to taste
For the caramelized shallots:
300g shallots, peeled and cut into thin slices
3 tbsp vegetable oil
Make the spice mix by dry frying the all the spices together for a minute or so. As soon as you smell their aroma wafting up strongly from the pan tip them into a pestle and mortar and roughly grind. Set aside.
Puree the onion, garlic and ginger in a food processor until smooth, adding a tablespoon or so of cold water to help this process along if necessary.
Heat the oil in a large heavy based pan and gently fry the onion, garlic and ginger puree until soft and translucent. This should take around 10 minutes.
Add the ground spices and fry for a further couple of minutes before adding the split peas. Pour in enough boiling water to cover the peas by about 3cm and bring up to a simmer. Cook, uncovered, for 20 minutes stirring from time to time. You may need to add a little more water towards the end if it is looking a little dry.
Whilst the curry is cooking, caramelize the shallots by stir frying with the oil in a large frying pan or wok over a medium high heat. Cook until golden and crisp, then drain on kitchen paper. Set aside.
Stir the Tenderstem through the curry and continue to cook for around 5-8 minutes or until it is tender but with a little bite.
Serve the curry topped with the caramelized shallots and sprinkled with the coriander. Great served with plain rice or naan bread.
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June 1, 2010
Stanford, Calif. - Stanford's Lauren Schmidt was among the 48 players honored as All-American by the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association. She was named to the All-America third team, becoming the first Stanford player to be honored by the IWLCA since Laura Shane in 2007. The IWLCA will honor the National All-Americans at the IWLCA All-American banquet on June 12, 2010 at the Crowne Plaza Valley Forge in King of Prussia, Pa.
Last season, Schmidt was included on All-America teams by the various lacrosse websites, but this is her first All-America honor from the IWLCA. She led the Cardinal team that advanced to the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Schmidt is the two-time reigning MPSF Player of the Year and a first team all-region selection. The redshirt junior scored 37 goals and dished out 22 assists on the year. Her 59 points led the team and she was also tied for the team lead with three game-winning goals.
Schmidt was also named to the MPSF all-tournament team after scoring six goals and dishing out two assists in the tournament. Her final goal of the weekend came in the final minute of overtime to send the game to sudden death, allowing Stanford to advance.
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High School: Brazosport
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Calling someone or something a "lightweight" is usually a slight, but Ford calls it "the future". Today, the automaker unveiled its Lightweight Concept Vehicle. The sedan is what a Fusion might look like if it is built with the same materials featured in the all-new F-150.
According to the materials released by Ford, the Lightweight Concept reduces the weight of the 2013 Fusion by nearly 25 percent. Using high strength steel and aluminum, the concept Fusion weighs the same as a small Ford Fiesta. Reducing the weight of the vehicle should improve performance and gas mileage.
In a statement, Raj Nair, who oversees Global Product Development, says "Consumers today want better fuel efficiency, but they also want more technology, which usually adds weight to the vehicle." Nair adds "A focus on light-weighting will be fundamental to our industry for years to come."
This same research led to the dramatically redesigned aluminum-bodied F-150. The 2015 F-150 is the first to feature a military-grade aluminum body built on a high-strength steel chassis. The new F-150 is 700 pounds lighter than current models and features better acceleration and towing capacity.
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Late last fall I started walking like a penguin. The array of specialists I waddled in to see—the anesthesiologist, the physiatrist (a doctor who supervises physical therapy and rehabilitation), the rheumatologist, the sports-med doctor and finally the back surgeon—were baffled by my gait and the increasingly intense throbbing in my left buttock. The back doctor called in the hip doctor down the hall to see what he made of it. Nothing. So the back doctor made an appointment for me to see a neurologist.
At 11 o'clock the night of the back- doctor visit, I was heading for the closet to hang up my jacket when I tripped on a rug. As I slid down the wall, my upper thigh shot out to a 45-degree angle, and I felt an excruciating pain. "Joe, call 911!" I shouted to my husband.
My femur, or thigh bone, had fractured. Doctors implanted a titanium rod and two screws, and I spent three weeks, including rehab, at the nearest regional trauma center.
Two months after the accident, when I showed up (still using a walker) for follow-up care at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, I learned that the fracture had probably been caused by bisphosphonates. Those were the what-a-nuisance drugs that had me getting up early, swigging down a little pill with a big mug of water and—forbidden to eat for the next 30 to 60 minutes—enviously watching my husband enjoy his muffin, all in the interest of avoiding . . . hip fractures! After an osteoporosis diagnosis, I'd swallowed Fosamax for nearly 10 years, stopped for a year after I developed an ulcer, then spent three years on Boniva, the Sally Field drug. All this pill taking helped; I moved from osteoporosis to osteopenia, a milder condition. And yet a silly at-home accident had just broken my femur.
It wasn't as if I'd been using some kind of risky, experimental medication. In 2004 pharmacists filled more than 18 million prescriptions for Fosamax, manufactured by Merck. The first bisphosphonate available, it has been around since 1995 and was the best seller in its class until 2008, when its patent expired and generic equivalents became available. The potential market for Fosamax and its sister drugs—Actonel, Didronel, Boniva, Aredia, Reclast, Zometa and Skelid—is huge: 10 million Americans have osteoporosis, and an additional 34 million are estimated to have its precursor, low bone mass, also called osteopenia.
Bisphosphonates are known to produce side effects, and a few of those listed in the Fosamax package information for patients are "irritation, inflammation or ulcers of the esophagus, which may sometimes bleed. . . . Fosamax may cause jawbone problems in some people [which] may include infection and delayed healing after teeth are pulled. . . . Call your doctor if you develop severe bone, muscle or joint pain. . . . Some patients have experienced fracture in a specific part of the thigh bone. Call your doctor if you develop new or unusual pain in the hip or thigh." That last warning refers to the kind of bone break I had just experienced: extremely rare (or, more formally, atypical) femur fractures, incurred when the patient is doing nothing very demanding.
So why are these drugs universally recommended (albeit with qualifications) by some of the same doctors who identified the side effects? A few months after I had thrown aside both the walker and the cane that followed it, I put on my rumpled trench coat and set off to seek some answers.
Mixed Messages
The first thing I learned was that bisphosphonates are specifically intended to protect against something more serious than what I'd had: hip fractures. My break, on the shaft of the thigh, would eventually heal. But what we commonly call a hip fracture is much worse. It occurs either at the two knobs known as trochanters that sit on the top of each femur or at the neck between them and has dire consequences. Some 24 percent of elderly women and men who fracture their hips die within a year, another quarter end up incapacitated in nursing homes, and most of the rest never walk quite right again.
Both psychological and physiological factors account for this rapid decline and high death rate. Ethel Siris, MD, director of the Toni Stabile Osteoporosis Center at Columbia University Medical Center and a past president of the National Osteoporosis Foundation, explained to me that many formerly active patients in their seventies and eighties become depressed after undergoing surgery, spending months in a rehab facility and then finding they still can't get around.
Very low bone density, or osteoporosis, is not the only factor in fracture risk, but it is the most important and the easiest to measure. Osteoporosis most often becomes a concern around menopause. When you're younger, your bones stay healthy through a mineral process called turnover, in which breakdown cells (osteoclasts) remove the old, calcium-deficient bone, and buildup cells (osteoblasts) replace it with new, calcium-rich bone. In the years just before and after menopause, the breakdown osteoclast cells become more active, and the buildup osteoblasts grow sluggish, partly because estrogen, now being rapidly lost, is a key element in the turnover process. The result is bone that is less dense and more fragile and at its laciest is labeled osteoporotic. Only 4 percent of women in their fifties suffer from osteoporosis, while 52 percent of women over 80 meet criteria for the disease.
Before the Food and Drug Administration approved Fosamax in 1995, the only drug available for treating osteoporosis was estrogen, prescribed to prevent bone loss and thereby fractures. Fosamax, like the bisphosphonates developed later, blocks the work of the breakdown osteoclast cells but does not stimulate the buildup osteoblasts, so it slows decline but cannot rebuild bone.
In 1997 the FDA allowed for a broader use of Fosamax, as an osteoporosis preventive. And while the agency says it conducted its own analysis of clinical data before approving that use of the drug, in September 1998 an agency statistician re—evaluated the numbers Merck had submitted. Merck had pooled data from two studies, with different time spans, populations and goals, and the statistician raised the possibility that this may have distorted the results. He also suggested that the drug's effectiveness varied over time with the test populations' medical histories: it worked best with patients who had either full-fledged osteoporosis or prior fractures, a finding that called into question how useful the drug would be at preventing fractures among women who simply had low bone mass and had never broken their bones.
Still, once the FDA approval was granted, the drugs, which had been given primarily to people with osteoporosis, could now be dispensed to a much larger group on the basis of bone scans produced by a machine called a DXA (or sometimes DEXA). The scan, which came into wide use in the late 1990s, generates a "T-score" that rates a patient's bone-mineral density relative to that of healthy women at age 30, when bone mass peaks. A T-score below –2.5 equals osteoporosis; a score of –1 to –2.5 is low enough to make the patient a candidate for preventive treatment.
This ability to measure below—normal bone density fed into the grand old American notion of proactivity, of nipping a disease in the bud before it could get troublesome. Soon many doctors were prescribing bisphosphonates to patients in their midfifties in hopes of warding off osteoporosis and the grim consequences of hip fractures. The change also fed the drug manufacturers' bottom lines. When pharmaceutical companies add osteopenic patients to those with osteoporosis, the market more than triples.
Danger Signs
In 2000 more people started taking the drugs, and reports of side effects began to dribble out, most notably indigestion, a problem solved for many when Merck changed the regimen so that patients took a pill weekly rather than daily (the less often the pills are swallowed, the less they irritate your gullet, and the less vulnerable you are to indigestion). Other emerging side effects were more alarming. Around 2004, Joseph Lane, an orthopedist who's chief of the Metabolic Bone Disease Service at the Hospital for Special Surgery, began to notice strange events among some patients who'd been taking bisphosphonates for about six years. Two women stand out particularly in Lane's memory. "One had been complaining of thigh pain for three months," he remembers. "She'd had two epidural injections for back pain, and while she was in a swimming pool she broke her femur, simply by turning around. Number two is a woman who was getting on a plane to go visit her grandchildren. Similar story: She had earlier complained of sciatica, but her doctors didn't take an X-ray. Instead, they gave her an MRI and an epidural injection. Then, the day of her flight, she climbed the stairs during boarding and broke her femur going up."
In 2005, Lane read an article in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism that jibed with what he'd been seeing. A team at the University of Texas in Dallas and at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit had biopsied nine patients with osteoporosis or osteopenia, most of whom had been taking alendronate—Fosamax's generic name—for three to eight years and had "spontaneous nonspinal fractures" in odd places that took an unusually long time to heal. Bone biopsies showed "minimal, or no, identifiable osteoblasts" (the buildup cells) and low breakdown activity—a syndrome that became known in lay language as frozen bone.
This was a small study with no control group, and some patients were taking drugs besides alendronate. But the authors called for more research "to determine how long bisphosphonates can safely be given." Lane and four colleagues within the New York–Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center complex reviewed the records of all patients admitted to its trauma center from 2002 to 2007 with femur-shaft fractures that were "low energy," meaning they had been incurred while the person was simply standing around (or splashing in a swimming pool).
The 70 trauma center patients whose cases they reviewed had all suffered from what's technically known as an atypical subtrochanteric femur -fracture—and more than a third had been taking Fosamax, the bisphosphonate that's been available the longest. Three quarters of these Fosamax patients shared a particular radiographic pattern: a simple horizontal or diagonal fracture with a sort of beaky overhang of bone. Their X-rays looked exactly like the one I was presented with two years later. The pattern was 98 percent specific to Fosamax users, and those who displayed it had been using the drug significantly longer than those whose breaks did not look like that. A follow-up study matching a smaller group of patients who had femur fractures with a control group of subjects who had ordinary hip fractures showed roughly similar results: Nearly a third of those with thigh fractures were on Fosamax, as opposed to one ninth of the hip patients; two thirds of the thigh patients on Fosamax showed the pattern, and they tended to have been on Fosamax longer than those with hip fractures.
Meanwhile, more reports were coming out, one from Singapore and one from Japan. Researchers hypothesized that bisphosphonates produce bone that is brittle and fracture-prone and that the thigh pain comes from little stress fractures that don't heal but rather accumulate and build up to one big kahuna of a break. The patients Lane sees are active women seven to 10 years younger than those who break their hips (which happens on average at age 82). "Every woman I've seen has been out there shopping, working, running after her grandchildren, doing stuff," he says. "These are not couch potatoes. I have never seen this kind of fracture in a nursing home patient."
The subject of bisphosphonates and femur fractures was a point of controversy at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research conference in the fall of 2008, when a case was made that these drugs were not the problem. Bo Abrahamsen, an endocrinologist at Copenhagen University Hospital, had studied registry data for all patients born in 1945 or earlier who entered Danish hospitals with fractures from 1996 to 2005. He fished out those who had been treated with bisphosphonates and matched them with controls who hadn't taken those drugs but had experienced a fracture in the same place. If Lane's hypothesis were true, the patients taking bisphosphonates would have gotten more of the atypical-femur fractures while the untreated controls would have gotten more of the old-fashioned osteoporotic fractures, yet that hadn't happened.
Thus Abrahamsen concluded that the fractures Lane had deemed atypical were just ordinary osteoporotic fractures after all. The U.S. government, which is continuing to investigate the side effects of bisphosphonates, cited Abrahamsen's study when it released a statement this March, saying, "At this point, the data that the FDA has reviewed have not shown a clear connection between bisphosphonate use and a risk of atypical subtrochanteric femur fractures."
Merck, not surprisingly, concurs. While the company would not allow me to interview its researchers, a statement from its media-relations department said, "In clinical studies, Fosamax has not been associated with increased fracture risk at any skeletal site." A recent analysis funded by Merck and another drug company also found no connection, though the investigators said their study was too small to be definitive.
On the other hand, two New York teams, one at Columbia and another (including Lane) at the Hospital for Special Surgery, recently presented small controlled studies of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at the 2010 annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. The HSS team biopsied osteoporotic bone while the Columbia group analyzed the patients' scans, and both studies buttress the theory that long-term bisphosphonate use alters bone properties so as to increase the risk of atypical femur fractures.
The risk appears quite small, however, relative to the odds of experiencing a hip fracture. This issue was explored in a large study done by orthopedist Richard Dell of -Kaiser-Permanente in Southern California. The study is important because Kaiser-Permanente is, as Dell puts it, "a closed shop," meaning it provides comprehensive medical care and has complete medical records for large numbers of people. Dell looked at films and files of 172,000 people age 45 and older taking oral bisphos-phonates for more than three years, and he concluded that the drugs prevented 3,050 hip fractures that would have occurred in the untreated general population. At the same time, only 50 people in that group suffered bisphosphonate femur fractures like mine. (Merck is still looking into the question; it has funded a study run by Kaiser Pacific Northwest on the distribution and classification of femur fractures. Like Dell's, this study will review X-rays and medical charts.)
Weighing the Risks
So the question is, How can doctors identify ahead of time the likely candidates for femur fractures—that is, patients who should not be given bisphosphonates, or at least not for very long? Dell, now analyzing his data before publication, has a few hints. Like Lane, he suspects that the most likely femur-fracture victims are younger (in their sixties and early seventies), more active and on the medication for a long time; some seem to be on other drugs as well, including prednisone and estrogen.
But there is an element of Russian roulette in the situation: Very few people get these odd femur fractures, and doctors can't tell whether you'll be one of them. So it's important that people who take bisphosphonates be truly at risk for osteoporotic fractures. This calls into question the idea of using bisphosphonates as preventive medicine, and as a result the practice of routinely giving pills to almost every postmenopausal woman in her fifties with low bone density in order to ward off osteoporosis is becoming obsolete. However, some doctors probably haven't gotten the memo yet. The reproductive endocrinologist—gynecologist Wulf Utian, the founder of the North American Menopause Society, points out that the U.S. is a large and diverse country, and prescribing practices are "all over the map."
To better determine the benefit-risk ratio of taking bisphosphonates, the World Health Organization came up with FRAX, a test, still not widely used, that calculates your 10-year risk for osteoporotic fractures (see "What's Your Bone-Break Risk?" on page 122). "In the early to mid 2000s, physicians relied almost exclusively on bone-density results and fracture history to make decisions about prescribing a bisphosphonate or other medication," says Marjorie Luckey, medical director of the St. Barnabas Osteoporosis Center in Livingston, New Jersey. "Medication was often prescribed to prevent osteopenia from progressing to osteoporosis. But now we have tools that predict who's at high risk for fractures so that we can target pharmacological treatment to those who need it most. The FRAX is not perfect, but it's better than what we had before. With patients who have low bone density and are not at high risk for fractures in the near future, we try to convince them to take calcium and vitamin D, exercise regularly, stop smoking and limit alcohol. Many women can slow bone loss with just these steps once they are past the immediate menopause period." (But if you're taking bisphosphonates, you should continue unless your doctor advises you to stop, says the Endocrine Society.)
Some doctors now give patients, particularly those on Fosamax, a holiday of at least a year after a term of treatment. Here's how that works, according to Lane: After you take Fosamax or a similar drug for three to five years, bone turnover, detected by a urine or blood test, begins to decrease, and the bone gets "sleepy"—that is, the collagen in the bone picks up chemicals that alter its properties, making it predisposed to fracture. When the bone markers in a blood or urine test go down, you stop the drug. Then you get the markers tested at regular intervals, and when they go up, you start using the drug again, perhaps at a smaller dose or in a weaker formulation.
How does all this research play out if you're in your fifties and you're told you have osteoporosis or a too-high fracture risk? A variety of effective drugs exist, and patients at high risk of fracture (like me) are now prescribed a nonbisphosphonate drug called For-teo, which offers the benefit of building new bone as well as preventing bone loss. Its sobering downsides, however, are that the patient must inject it into her stomach every day, it retails for $1,100-plus per month, and because of safety concerns, it can be taken for only two years maximum.
For other patients with osteoporosis, specialists may switch between medications. Lane may, for example, move a patient off the longest-lasting bisphosphonate, alendronate (Fosamax and its generic versions), to Actonel, a less powerful one. Another drug often used is the milder Evista, which is not a bisphosphonate. It has been shown to protect the spine, another potential site for osteoporotic fractures, but not the hip, and therefore only some patients will benefit from it. Evista has the added advantage of helping fend off breast cancer.
Luckey says the field may evolve so that different medications are prescribed at different stages of life. One scenario might involve a patient taking a low dose of estrogen close to menopause to protect bones and help with menopausal symptoms, followed by Evista to reduce the risk of breast cancer and osteoporosis, and then use of a bisphosphonate, if needed, later in life when hip-fracture prevention becomes increasingly important.
The bottom line: Experts agree that bisphosphonates prevent a lot of fractures in elderly patients with severe osteoporosis, and more of these people should be getting the drugs. If you are in your fifties and have a mother in her eighties, most likely she is a better candidate for bisphosphonate therapy than you are. Before taking these drugs, consult with your doctor to be absolutely sure you have real osteoporosis or a high FRAX score. If you do begin this course of therapy, get checked after three to five years to see if you still need it. As Dell observes, "You don't give tumor drugs to prevent a tumor, and you shouldn't give an oral bisphosphonate to prevent osteoporosis in someone who doesn't have osteoporosis. This is a potent medication, not to be used by people who don't need it."
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[Image at top: Claire Grill, Fan, 2013, oil on linen, 10 x 11 inches. Courtesy of Soloway.]
According to curator John O'Donnell:
The works answer these questions in three ways, first by referencing the limitations of their structures ("the frame"), second by exploiting the physicality of their surfaces ("the canvas") and third by employing painterly strategies that enter the arena of the aesthetic realm ("the concept or idea"). Breaking down a painting into its anatomical parts—"bones," "flesh" and "brain," the exhibition recasts these concrete terms more playfully.Artist include Blake Shirley, Sharon Butler, Deborah Dancy, Zachary Keeting, Ben Piwowar, Jenn Dierdorf, Rob D. Campbell, Derek Leka, Clare Grill, and Tatiana Berg.
The stake of this show is to recognize a painting that might appear lazy, hip or naïve as a measured strategy or intelligent vehicle for challenging the tradition of what it means to be a painting. These artists trouble the notion that a painting must be a stoic representation of reality. Rather, they pursue casual abstraction as a method for depicting "reality" by questioning recognizable material, concepts and everyday forms.
Smart Painting," curated by John O'Donnell. Artspace, New Haven, CT. February 7 through March 22, 2014.
Note that on Tuesday, March 4, In addition to an artists' talk for the show, Sharon Louden and Sharon Butler (me) will be holding a conversation and booksigning for Living and Sustaining a Creative Life, Essays by Forty Working Artists. Louden edited the book and I contributed an essay.
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Ryan Murphy announced the newest "American Horror Story" would be set in the 1950s and Jessica Lange was working on her German accent just before the third season ended. From the information circulating today, the show may have flashbacks taking it back to earlier times. This will be the last installment of the series for Jessica Lange, so fans believe the season will be intense. Speculation is that the show may explore what the "freaks" had to deal with while on display and go in depth with what they are facing in the present.
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Definitions of DIDDLE in dictionaries:
- verb - deprive of by deceit
- verb - manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- To cheat; swindle: "The Swiss have special laws for people who diddle hotels" (John le Carré).
- To fabricate, change, or otherwise manipulate (data) illegally.
- To jerk up and down or back and forth.
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- To have intercourse with (a woman).
- To practice masturbation upon.
- To shake rapidly; jiggle.
- To play with: The children diddled with the knobs on the television all afternoon.
- To waste time: diddled around all morning.
- verb - to take money or property from by fraudulent means
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Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE) 11gR1 (188.8.131.52) now supports ADF Faces Tags
By pieter.humphrey on Feb 14, 2011
So the recent release of OEPE 188.8.131.52 has the ADF community buzzing. In addition to reading the product manager's blog entry on the new release...
...it's important to realize what this support entails now and in the future. This first step, of supporting ADF Faces tags, is not prelude to *complete* ADF support in OEPE. Rather, the aim of the Eclipse support is to provide tools for the MVC (Model-View-Controller) parts of the ADF runtime stack. This means that we plan to support ADFm and ADFc as well in the future, but not the entire ADF stack (ADF BC, etc).
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Buy Kodak Playsport – Review Of Kodak Playsport
Kodak Playsport is a new installment to the Kodak family what makes this camera stand out from the rest of the models is the fun factor as Kodak ZX3 Playsport is waterproof. It comes in a compact and sturdy appearance. Which is meant for those who love using their cameras carefree. If you love hiking and exploring the outdoors you are sure going to love this
The Kodak Playsport ZX3 is a digital HD waterproof camera. If I have to sum it up in one sentence. Among the features of this camera include the 5 MP camera with comes with LCD brightness, Face Detection, Microphone and speaker as well. It consists of SD card slot up to 32 GB with HDMI and AV jack as well. And the most exciting feature of them all is definitely the underwater mode. All these features are offered at a relatively affordable price which makes the ZX3 worth being owned. The battery life of the playsport is up to around 2.5 hours. Which is just one factor that concerns me but with the help of additional Li-Ion Rechargeable battery which can be easily purchased this problem is also taken care of. The New Kodak comes in Black, Blue & Purple. The whole bundle package consists of the tripod stand, Kodak remote control along with the 4GB SD Memory card. The Kodak ZX3 also has a TV output which makes it easier to connect and share videos and images. It also has a 4X optical Zoom which is pretty well as the images are not blur if you take still images with the full zoom.
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Sweet San Diego Pad (Gadgets Included)
From Margaret Everton on September 10, 2010 in San Diego
When most people design a home 5,500 square feet in size, adding gadgets comes lastusually after the dust has settled. But for Gad Shaanan, tech master of such things as cell phones and commuter trains, innovative and time-saving extras were top priorities for his spectacular La Jolla home. Among the man-I-wish-I-had-that additions? A dumbwaiter to carry the groceries from the trunk of the car directly to the pantrys shelves, and a fold-out ironing board situated over the fireplace in the master retreatsmack dab in front of the flat screen TV. However, with ocean front views and a light and airy modern design, Shaanans home has more to offer than high-tech conveniences. The main floor living area is brought together in a seamless design that incorporates the indoors with the out, punctuated by creamy Jerusalem stone tiling hand-picked in Israel by Shannan himself. Neutral, earthy tones contrast with the blues of the ocean and sky. Another seating area on the main floor is backed by an adjoining dining space with room for 14. Colors may be sparse, but textures are present throughout each space. Adding to the perfect entertainment setting is a gourmet kitchen complete with five ovens and two stoves. Stainless steel reigns in this room with frosted glass cabinets to hide cook books and other essentials. But whats the true highlight of this design gem and technological wonder? A stunning backyard that blends perfectly with the design scheme of the interior. A comfortable seating area and an inviting pool make this area a sure favorite for guests and family alike.


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Owners in sectional titles schemes don't always realise that, as a group, they can tell the trustees how to deal with a specific issue. Both the Act and the prescribed rules make that provision. Do owners in a home owners' association enjoy the same prerogative?
The day-to-day management of community schemes is almost always the responsibility of elected executives. In larger schemes, the executives commonly employ a managing agent to perform most of their functions, but the proper execution of those functions always remains the ultimate responsibility of the executives. What happens, though, when owners in the scheme have an opinion about how a certain matter should be dealt with, and that opinion differs from that of the executives? Can owners tell the executive committee how to deal with that matter, or do they just have to accept what the committee decides?
In sectional title schemes, the functions and powers of the body corporate are performed by trustees, subject to directives or restrictions by the body corporate in general meeting. And that means by simple majority of owners at a meeting. The situation is not usually the same in home owners' associations (HOAs), but the members can make it so.
In HOAs that are common law associations, the constitution often provides for the owners to make rules at the AGM. The intention, of course, is that the owners make rules about behaviour, use of the communal facilities, and so on. But these rules aren't supposed to tell the trustees how to run the scheme. Any well-drafted constitution also sets out how its terms can be changed, and this provides the opportunity for the members to introduce provisions, similar to those in sectional title legislation, that allow them to tell their trustees how they want a certain matter dealt with. It might also be necessary, however, to change some other parts of the constitution that provide the basis for the trustees' authority.
In HOAs that are non-profit companies, the situation is similar. The Companies Act provides for the memorandum of incorporation (MOI) to be changed. It also provides for the authority of the board of directors to be limited by provisions in the company's MOI. Such a change to the company's MOI - like any other - can be called for by members holding only ten percent of the voting rights; although their approval does require a special resolution, which is a 75% majority.
Of course, the governance documentation of both types of HOA could restrict members' ability to make changes, especially changes that restrict the executives' powers to run the association. That might be appropriate for certain types of association, but is it appropriate in associations that provide a community structure for people's homes and families? - Anton Kelly
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The beauty of a throwback aesthetic is that if done correctly, it puts you back into a happy place in time. Flipping over the hourglass and giving you a moment to all at once relive while moving forward. New York rockers, Dog Society have crafted a time capsule of raw 90's sound and emotion that somehow still feels very current. In the Shade has all of the ingredients to remind of some of the best times of your past.
"Heal Me" starts out the album with a low, slow tone before the song goes into a full flourish. There is no "adjustment period" on In the Shade, you are thrown into the deep end immediately. The next track, "Oleander Girl" is lyrically and tonally different from "Heal Me" in almost every way, and the energy is brought down to showcase some immediate versatility. If you weren't familiar with the band before In the Shade, you're getting a broad representation of their prowess from the early onset.
In the Shade also touches onto some late-60's era stylings, very similar to Bowie in his Major Tom days. You're never really sure which angle Dog Society will come at you, and it makes for a highly enjoyable listen. They are a band very comfortable exploring different era's and making them their own. Odds are, if you have a favorite rock "moment", they will touch on it in some way. This is a blessing and a curse in some ways, as you may not get a full example of the bands own identity, but it could also be a result of over 20 years of experience at play.
In the Shade is twelve tracks of introspection, longing and powerful hooks. The guitars ebb and flow with one another creating a melodious back and forth with the vocals, and that's just on the "traditional" songs. Some may find plenty to dislike about the album, but they will never be bored. If they weren't on your radar before, In the Shade should put Dog Society in your sights.
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March 25, 2012
SEATTLE - For the third straight day, solid starting pitching was on display for the Huskies as the Washington baseball team completed a three-game, non-conference sweep with a 13-1 win over CSU Bakersfield Sunday at Husky Ballpark.
Husky starting pitcher Austin Voth improved to 4-0 with the victory. In six innings of work, he gave up one run on four hits and no walks while fanning six. His pitching line was similar to those of Friday starter Aaron West (one run in six innings) and Saturday starter Tyler Davis (one run over seven).
Ten different Huskies recorded a hit and the 12 RBI were spread over nine different players. The Huskies, who scored in all but two innings, improved to 15-7 with the victory while the Roadrunners fell to 7-14.
Husky center fielder Jayce Ray led off the bottom of the first with a single. After moving to second on a bunt and to third on a groundout, he scored when Michael Camporeale beat out an infield single. The rally continued when Branden Berry was hit by a pitch and Jacob Lamb singled up the middle to score Camporeale.
After Lamb stole second base, freshman Trevor Mitsui smacked a single to left, driving in a pair to stake the Huskies to the early 4-0 lead.
In the second, the Huskies got two aboard on a single from Ty Afenir and a walk to Ray. After a bunt, freshman Robert Pehl came through with a single to right-center, driving in a pair to stretch the lead to 6-0.
In the fourth, the UW loaded the bases on two walks and a hit batter before a bases-loaded walk to Lamb forced in a run.
The Huskies kept at it in the fifth. After Afenir was hit by a pitch to open the inning, Ray sliced a triple down the right-field line, scoring the runner ahead of him. A Caleb Brown sacrifice fly scored Ray, making it a 9-0 score.
Bakersfield got on the board in the sixth when catcher Cael Brockmeyer led off the inning with a solo homer, his third of the year. It was just the third hit, and third baserunner, for the Roadrunners.
Washington got a run in the sixth when Trevor Mitsui doubled, took third on a wild pitch and scored on a B.K. Santy groundout. In the eighth, a pinch-hit single from Andrew Ely, a bases-loaded double play and an Erik Forgione single completed the UW scoring.
Bakersfield starter Taylor Aikenhead (3-3) suffered the loss, giving up six runs on six hits over one and one-third innings.
Washington returns to Pac-12 play with the first of nine straight conference weekend series next weekend as the Huskies travel to face Oregon State. Saturday's 1:00 p.m. game against the Beavers will air live on ROOT Sports television.
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Action 52?!? More like 52� horrible, broken, incomplete games!!
That's exactly what this game is. It's a broken pile of mashed up bad excuse for a game! It's 52 games in 1 cartridge, but most people think it's a pirate cart, but it's worse. It's so bad, The Angry Video Game Nerd reviewed this game!
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Worst games ever. When you look at action 52 for the first time you say "Awesome"! No, no, NOOOOOOO!!!! The game just keeps repeating itself, but with different sprites.
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Action 52 is simply a broken down mess.
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Closing the gap: Why are more black women dying of breast cancer?
John Raoux, Associated Press
Tiffany Jones was 29 years old when she found a small red bump on her right breast. It looked like an insect bite, but it didn't go away. When she went to see her doctor, she asked for a biopsy. He insisted that it wasn't necessary, but he did it anyway to give her peace of mind. An hour later, he called her while she was at lunch.
"You're not going to believe this," he said.
Tiffany responded, "I have breast cancer, don't I?"
Tiffany Jones is one of a growing number of African-American women —especially young women —who are diagnosed with breast cancer every year. Breast cancer is the most common cancer among African-American women, and they are likely to develop cancer at a younger age. In fact, a new study shows that these women are 40 percent more likely to die of the disease than their white counterparts.
In Houston, a black woman is twice as likely to die from the disease, according to the research published in Cancer Epidemiology that ranked major metro areas. In Los Angeles, the risk goes up to 70 percent.
Since the 1990s, survival rates for white women have shot up, according to the findings, but have only gone up a little for black women. Why have advances in breast cancer treatment skipped black women? Doctors and researchers say that economic disparities that disproportionately affect African-Americans are to blame, as well as lack of health insurance, but genetics, culture and a history of distrust and discrimination all play a role.
The economics of illness
Jones started aggressive treatment right away, resulting in a lumpectomy, chemotherapy and radiation treatment. She is now the founder of PinkChoseMe, a foundation for women with breast cancer and survivors, and says a primary reason the women she works with don't get treatment is that they can't afford it. Jones was lucky because family and friends helped pay for her treatment, but many women are not so fortunate.
A mammogram can cost $250 to $400. A single round of chemo costs thousands. "If you work 9 to 5 without vacation and sick benefits, when are you going to go to the doctor? After work, you have to pick up your kids," says Jones.
A survey from the American Cancer Society found that one-quarter of U.S. cancer patients put off getting a test or treatment due to cost. Director of the cancer care research program at Duke University, Dr. Amy Abernathy, did a study of 250 patients, most of whom had breast cancer. All but one had insurance, two-thirds were covered by Medicare, and nearly all had prescription drug coverage.
Still, even with insurance, their out-of-pocket expenses averaged $712 a month including medical bills, drugs and lost wages. Half skimped on food and clothes to pay for cancer medication, 43 percent borrowed money or went into debt. Over 20 percent failed to fill their prescriptions fully or took less than prescribed because of cost.
So is this largely a poverty issue? Yes — but not entirely, says Dr. Jessica Shepherd, assistant professor of OB/GYN at University of Illinois at Chicago, who is a gynecologist and women's health expert and a black woman.
According to americanprogress.org, 26.5 percent of African-American women are poor compared to 11.6 percent of white women and poverty makes it harder for to get access to good care, but that's only part of the story, says Shepherd. Breast cancer studies have been conducted mostly on caucasian women, so the research and advances favor the kinds of cancer that white women have, she says. This is in part because of a cultural mistrust of the medical community. She uses the notorious 40-year "Tuskegee Experiment," in which 399 black men with syphilis were told that they were being "treated" but were actually allowed to suffer and die from the disease so that doctors could study the effects, as an example.
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It's a well-known fact that it's not so easy to keep off additional weight during the holiday season. Somewhere between the Thanksgiving pies and the Christmas cookies, we tend to lose our self-control until we find ourselves standing on a scale after the new year, making weight loss resolutions we end up keeping for a month (if we're lucky!).
But to honor the end of the Mayan Calendar (and another 2,012 years of living), why not use this season to participate in five festive exercises that will make you and your waist line feel good? And the best part is, you won't have to do anything that you aren't already planning on doing this holiday season.
Take the stairs
It's so easy to take the elevator or the escalator after we've been walking around all day shopping, but try firming your tush by walking up stairs whenever you have the opportunity. And, hey, if you can't do the entire trip, just do a few flights. After all, two flights are better than none.
Carry your own bags
Don't weigh yourself down so you can't walk but also take it easy on asking for the boyfriend's help. Carry just enough weight so you can feel the bags and make sure you're arms are slightly bent. You won't reap the benefits if you let your arms hang.
Isolations are great to work individual muscles when you're walking, standing, or sitting. If walking, try engaging your abs from the rib cage all the way to your hips. If sitting, try tightening your bottom or biceps. And if you're standing, try various muscles and make sure to stand on two feet with your weight evenly distributed. You'll be exercising and those around you won't even know it.
Power walk
Tis the season to wear comfy (but fashionably sensible) shoes. And with a good set of shoes on your feet, you can really dash(er!) and prance(r!) around the malls. Take the time to walk to as many places as you can, and don't give into the temptation of driving across the street. That's why they have the pedestrian stop and go signs!
The Wrapping Stretch
You might think this suggestion is a stretch, but just trust us. Rather than sitting with crossed legs, try wrapping gifts while sitting in a "V" position. Spread your wrapping materials and gifts all around you, and stretch to grab each needed item. Keep your legs straight and really push yourself to go as far as you can without pushing too hard—It won't do to be limping around during the holidays.
Save jumping on the Resolutions Bandwagon for something other than the gym, and at the end of the season, you can prove to yourself that you really can have your cake and eat it too.


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Striking Distance
Debra Webb
2004, Romantic Suspense
Harlequin, $5.99, 300 pages, Amazon ASIN 0373835574Part of a series
Victoria Colby is the head of an exclusive private investigations agency founded by her late husband. The agency became her life after the murders of her husband and son years earlier. Now the same man who took away her family wants to finish her off once and for all.
Lucas Camp has no intention of letting that happen. A former colleague of her husband and a high ranking official in the intelligence community, he has loved her for years and will do anything to protect her. When he learns of the assassin tracking Victoria's every move, he hatches a plan to stop the killer by sending in someone who can get close to him.
CIA recruit Tasha North draws the assignment. After spending the first few months of her career sitting behind a desk, she is determined to prove herself in the field. That includes doing whatever it takes to get close to the dead-eyed assassin known only as Seth. The man is cold, utterly ruthless, and bound to his mission to kill Victoria Colby. That doesn't mean he's immune to Tasha's feminine wiles.
But getting close to him exposes Tasha to more danger than she expected. The seduction takes place entirely on his terms, pushing her into riskier and riskier territory. The closer she gets, the more she realizes just how dark his psyche is. The path that led him to become a killer is unimaginable, and even though her instincts warn her not to grow too attached, she can't fight her growing feelings for the man she has to destroy.
Striking Distance is a continuation of the author's multi-book Colby Agency and Specialists series that spread across the Harlequin's Intrigue and American Romance lines. It sits in that Harlequin single title gray zone, far more than a series book, but not quite a mainstream release. Webb still has a series author's habit of telling a lot more than showing, with way too much narrative and heavy expositional scenes. The opening in particular is slow with everything she has to set up. But storywise she's off to a strong start. There's more than enough material to justify the book's longer length, with its dual relationships between Tasha and Seth and Victoria and Lucas, and the complex suspense plot. It's not even close to being just a padded series book. It actually could have been longer, and some of the scenes push way beyond series territory, with at least one darkly sexual scene that made me wonder how far Webb was going to go in a romance.
On the other hand, despite being labeled a romance on the spine, the book is definitely far more suspense than love story. Character development for everyone except the hero is sacrificed to the action. The hero is so tortured and just plain screwed up that, while it's clear they've formed a strong bond by the end of the book, this is definitely just the beginning of their relationship. This felt more natural to me than squeezing their entire romance into a brief period of time, but other readers may feel differently. There are some problems with the plotting, especially with events that fell into place too easily. I had an issue with one big hole in the villain's motivation, and the "shocking" revelation that comes out late in the story isn't all that surprising, particularly for anyone read an earlier Colby Agency book with the exact same twist.
That said, it is still a fast and compelling read, mainly because of the fascinating hero. He is the sole reason I bumped the book up to a B when it otherwise lingered around a B-/C+. Tasha is a good tough-yet-vulnerable heroine and a good match for him, but the hero is the one who kept me turning the pages. He's more of an antihero. Very little, if any, of what he does in the book can be considered heroic. Dangerous and unpredictable, he's dark in ways most recent so-called tortured heroes can only aspire. I loved not knowing exactly what he would do or how far he would go. The darkly seductive relationship between the two crosses into some extremely gritty territory, and the story builds to a series of key emotional moments that are very effective. Some of what he reveals about himself to Tasha is devastating stuff, more daring than some authors would risk. His story carried me past the book's weaknesses. He really is one of the more interesting romance heroes I've read about in some time.
While the book had its problems, they were relatively minor in the overall scheme of things. A fast moving plot steered by two strong characters, Striking Distance is a most compelling read.
-- Leigh Thomas


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Three Dunedin gardens will be open this month to raise
funds for a cancer charity. Gillian Vine visits one of
The sweet-scented rhododendron Countess of Sefton by the
front door hints at what is to come - lots of absolutely
stunning rhododendrons.
Sue Carey-Smith and her husband, Tim, began creating the
0.4ha garden more than three decades ago.
"It was just going to be just to the edge of the lawn," Sue
They started with a bare paddock and planted shelter. Then,
because they loved rhododendrons, they joined the Dunedin
Rhododendron Group.
"Of course, then we needed more space to plant them, so we
rolled down the hill," she says with a smile.
While her husband built brick and stone walls and rustic
fences, Sue concentrated on planting.
Asked if it turned out as they wanted, she says: "It exceeded
our expectations because we didn't know much about gardening.
We learned over the years."
Going to look at established gardens was "very helpful" and
so were people in the rhododendron group.
Sue has "totally lost count" of how many rhododendrons there
are but points to a couple of favourites, the "blowsy" pink
Loderi Venus, lower-growing white Helene Schiffner and
the rare double form of Rhododendron griffithianum.
Finding plants that do well under trees is always
challenging. Sue has found some small irises do well,
including Iris cristata ("It's a sweetie"), although
it really does better in the sun.
Very successful has been a tough daisy, which Sue thinks is
the Catlins coastal daisy, Celmisia lindsayii.
"It's not invasive," she says.
Like many things at ground level, the celmisia and irises are
divided to fill gaps, necessary in a garden of this size if
the costs are not to become so high they ruin the pleasure.
Through the years, some of the trees planted early on grew
too big and had to be removed.
"It's made a huge difference to the garden. It's brought so
much more sunshine into the garden." Some larger trees
remain, including a lovely pin oak, which has lovely soft
green foliage in spring and rich orange-red leaves in autumn.
It was a good choice as, being deciduous, in winter it lets
light through towards the house.
Against the house are the climbing roses City of London and
Wedding Day.
"Wedding Day should be just smothered by the opening days,"
Sue says.
A pretty little garden alongside the drive has been dedicated
to Sue's uncle, sculptor John Middleditch, and his wife Mary.
A Middleditch work, Flight of Fishes, has pride of
place in this area.
Vegetables and fruit are not forgotten. There is a
polycarbonate glasshouse, mainly for tomatoes, and two
soft-fruit cages for black and red currants, raspberries and
strawberries, as well as areas for vegetables.
It all adds up to a lovely garden that is bound to find
favour with those who visit it.
See it
The Carey-Smith garden, Honeystone St, Helensburgh, Dunedin,
is one of three properties open on November 10 and 11 from
10am to 4pm as a fundraiser for Beat Bowel Cancer Aotearoa.
The others are Wylde Willow, in Abbotsford, and the Day
garden, Spiers Rd, Wakari. There will be refreshments and
plant sales at the Day garden.
Admission to each garden is payable at the gate and all money
raised will go to Beat Bowel Cancer Aotearoa. For more about
the charity or for directions to the gardens, see the website
at www.beatbowelcancer.org.nz
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Limited-edition handcrafted fairy holds a ladybug friend. Glittery ladybug-inspired wings, polka dot dress, striped stockings. Artist's remarque.
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A new fishing show is coming to television; "Crazy Alberto" has a quest, to catch trophy sportfish the striped bass. The trophy fish hunter is going to take us with him where you will get to see the intensity and dedication to the sport of fishing. Crazy Alberto has a well-earned reputation for tracking down striped bass and puts in more time than most anglers will put in during their own lifetime.
The sizzle begins
The Tactical Angler is a new breed of fishing television. The excitement is building get ready to catch more fish. The television show debuted was July 8. McCabe Productions have been bringing rod-bendin' drag screaming footage to you via Addictive Fishing chronicles the tournament angler and professional fishing tour guide Morgan Man Captain Blair Wiggins. They know their fishing leaving anglers on the edge of their seats.
It's that time of year no matter where you are
It's great for the fishing economy. The right show. Alberto is a great spokesman for the sport of fishing and he really does care. It's a conservation ethic. He's perfect for a new fishing show to protect the striped bass. The new generations can see hot to properly catch and release a fish and how to keep our fisheries and beaches in great conservation shape.
So many anglers just gear for specifically striped bass
Extreme fishing. It's one of the greatest game fish in the world. Everyone can afford to fish for striped bass, America's fish, not everyone can afford to go out and fish marlin. The stripers are known for their blitz on Montauk in New York. The summer is based on family fishing in the fall it's total anglers paradise.
Crazy Alberto striped bass on Montauk
There's a line of people right next to each other and the boats are on top of each other. It's considered one of the most dangerous areas to fish because the surf can take you out at any time on the slippery rocks. Footwear with metal studs to grip the rocks and dressing for combat is what it takes. Fall is off season for Montauk.
Crazy Alberto is known for his fishing intensity in the striped bass fishing communities
Alberto Knie is a IGFA world record holder for striped bass. He has designed a line for extreme fishing surf rods for Lamiglas. Alberto lives in Florida but makes the season pilgrimage to Montauk. It's some dangerous fishing from the "Surfcasting Capital of the World," from Hollywood royalty to self-professed masters drive the Lamborghinis and the Bentleys in the summer. In the fall custom four wheel drives, high clearance trucks and SUV's line the beaches. The spots for angling are getting busier and some striped bass anglers are taking to wearing wetsuits and swim out to the offshore rocks.
The deranged fringe of striped bass Montauk fishing society
It's pure adrenaline for all of the rush junkies, whether you go there once or make it a habit. Some anglers go "skishing" or swimming while you also fish. While you swim in the ocean the point is to catch a fatty trophy fish. The next point skishers do is to let the big fish pull you through the water.
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