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It's July. It's unlikely that anyone has had as turbulent a Summer as Saints so far (Quelle surprise!), so I thought I would give my thoughts on some of the (it's) happenings at St. Mary's.
As common an occurrence at the South Coast's premier club as a bottled North London title challenge, we are used to seeing our top assets walk out at the first sign of fluttered eye lashes from one of the Premier League's oh so powerful 'MASSIVE' clubs. I have to admit though, the loss of Wanyama and Mane in quick succession was a tough one to take. I've made no bones that they were two of my 'favourite' players from recent squads, and both will be difficult to replace.
In Victor's case, it was no real shock, I think he got the same treatment as Schneiderlin had previously and was told he could go in the Summer if he knuckled down and got on with it, which he did. Spurs are in the Champion's League, and Wanyama is a much better player than a lot of Saints fans give him credit for. On the bright-side though Oriol Romeu's performances were a massive credit to him when he played last season, and most would argue that he is a more than capable replacement. I personally think he is not 'Victor level' just yet, but the signs are positive and he is becoming a popular figure with the crowd.
Mane's move to Liverpool struck me as a purely financial decision by the club. £34 million plus add-ons is a lot of money for a player who can blow hot and cold. Having said that, he is unplayable on his day and the club did the right thing holding out for a 'silly' offer before conceding. I can understand a player's motivation for wanting to play for Liverpool, but it irks slightly that Mane has moved to a club who finished below us last season, and without European football, albeit on no doubt a much higher salary.
Nathan Redmond has already joined so technically Mane's position is covered. I'm a big fan of Redmond, and believe he has huge potential, but like Romeu I think the issue could be that he isn't at the same level as Mane yet.
Oh, and Juanmi left. *Shrugs*.
The New Boss
Claude Puel. What do I know about him? Very little in truth, but unlike some, who immediately wrote him off as 'underwhelming' or an 'unambitious' appointment, I did the due diligence and read all I could.
It's fair to say his reputation in France is good. He has a good record with every club he's been at, won the league with Monaco, got Lyon to the Champion's League semi finals and Nice into the top four twice, but more importantly, he has a reputation for playing 'the best' football in the French league and promoting youth. A move back to the Southampton ideals a certain Dutchman was happy to ignore?
Since he joined I've been impressed with his cool persona. He's as French as they come, and the nonchalant expression as he was shown round the club's facilities was official Saints YouTube channel gold. In my head he was simply thinking 'Ok, stadium and changing rooms, great. Show me where I can get a double espresso.'
He will be assisted by the superbly named Pascal Plancque and Eric Black. I know nothing about Plancque, but Black is a well respected coach who happens to be fluent in French (a shrewd move).
I look forward to seeing what this new coaching setup gets out of our talented squad.
The Kit
Announced yesterday after a series of teaser trailers, the new strip would appear to have been worth the wait.
In my opinion (abusive replies can be made in the comments section below) it is the smartest home kit we've had since the sash and the away strip is decent too.
As a long term admirer of Under Armour equipment (I used to use their cooling t-shirts literally under armour in my highly decorated military adventures in the Middle East) I was excited to see what they come up with and I think they have hit the nail on the head.
Some people are worried about sizing with the emphasis these days on designing for the elite athletes rather than the beer bellies in the crowd (seems misguided), but I ordered yesterday on the basis that I wear large UA coolswitch t-shirts for running and they fit me well. We'll see.
The main complaints I saw from the terminally diagnosed naysayers were firstly 'It looks like a bra at the top', which was most brilliantly shot down by one of our female fans who questioned why a lot of our male fanbase seemed confused about the position of breasts in relation to the chest.
Secondly, it seemed a lot of people wanted a Yellow away strip. Now this is going to be controversial (comments section) but I for one didn't want a yellow kit. I get the tradition and the history, but yellow kits are consistently garish. Besides, last season was the 40th anniversary of the cup win, so that was the time to have yellow. The black shirt is smart.
Right now our squad is not as strong as it was last season, in fact I would say it is considerably weaker. But I think we can expect a few through the door once Claude has made his assessments of the current squad.
In my opinion we need another defensive midfielder, another striker/winger and perhaps another goalkeeper.
We've already been associated with pretty much anyone who has ever kicked a ball, so I am not going to comment on particular names, most of which are being also linked to much bigger parties anyway so seem unrealistic.
All I ask though, is that you try not to have a tantrum when other clubs sign somebody. We only need to worry about our own club, and in the last 5 years, with regards to incoming transfers they've (almost) always got it right.
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Sunday, May 1, 2011
Cathedral Windows- The Quickie Way
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it's gorgeous! I think I *need* to make one of these! :)ReplyDelete
Oh, very cute! I love the soft ragged edges. Looks like another quilt for my Wish List! :-)ReplyDelete
It's just so sweet and your fabric choice was just right!ReplyDelete
Can you please come to my house and give me a class on how to do this? It's so adorable! I have the Dream On charms waiting!ReplyDelete
This is really beautiful, and such an interesting way of quilting. I love the way the stitching looks on the back.ReplyDelete
I am obsessed with Cathedral Windows. I've been to Cotton Way a hundred times and never noticed this awesome pattern before. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I love the fabric you chose for it too. So perfectly spring-y.ReplyDelete
Pretty cute!! Great job!ReplyDelete
I love that..I've been trying to decide what solid I should use with my "Dream On" layer cake. Now I know...white!! Thanks!ReplyDelete
Love the quilt, especially those raw edges, I tried the classic cathedral windows before and not only is it really time consuming, the look of a final product was not as modern as I wanted. I really like this "cheater way"ReplyDelete
What a gorgeous little quilt!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 4, 2011 at 7:49 AM
I love the citrus colors you've used! Perfect way to brighten up anyone's day!ReplyDelete
So pretty! I love catherdral, also on my list, but I like this take on it and the scalloped borders are fantastic!ReplyDelete
Looking forward to meeting you in SLC in October!
I LOVE that quilt! What a great idea!ReplyDelete
hi there! thanks for the comment on my blog ... this quilt is amazing! makes me want a summer picnic :)ReplyDelete
i want to find out more about how you did it ... ??
I've always wanted a cathedral window quilt but they're soooo much work - this seems much more feasible!!ReplyDelete
Such a lovely quilt! It looks like it takes a lot of skill!ReplyDelete
Mrs. Hearts
This is beautiful! It looks bigger than what the pattern shows...how big is your quilt? I really want one just like it - so perfect for summer.ReplyDelete
That is gorgeous!!!ReplyDelete
That is gorgoues! Love how it turned out.ReplyDelete
oooh! It is so pretty- the colors, the lines... you have such a good eye!ReplyDelete
I love to hear from you! I try to reply to most comments via e-mail, so make sure to add your e-mail address if it isn't linked up (especially if you have a question!)

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I've recently been interviewing engineers for my new start-up (fyi, this is wholly separate from Mailinator). We're well-funded, have a world-changing idea, and as you can imagine, I plan to build an awesome engineering team. (Regardless of where you are, if you're a passionate developer, I'd love to hear from you. Check out the Job Description here and email me your resume at email@example.com ).
I've been talking to engineers from all over hearing their stories. There's really amazing talent everywhere and honestly, a non-trivial amount of it seems to be idling or even decaying in environments that aren't using its full potential. A bunch of moons ago I used to work for Dow Chemical in the dreaded "IT department". It was pretty clear to me then that I was not growing technically in that job. I left to start my Ph.D. but I always vowed from then on that if I was going to be a software guy, I was going to work for companies who's business was creating software. In other words, at Dow I was an expense, I'd much rather be an asset.
Eventually and with that goal in mind, I ended up at Google. Without reservation I can say it was a fantastic experience. I have said before, "if you're the smartest person at where you work - quit". And trust me, nothing makes you realize how smart people can actually be by working at a place like Google. (To avoid any implications - I did eventually quit Google, but rest heavily assured, it was not because I anywhere even close to being the smartest person - read on!).
I did over 200 interviews while at Google and it was actually a bit fun to interview someone who was coming from someplace where they were the smartest person (at least about tech). I could always tell. It's no surprise that if you're the smartest person somewhere for a long time, you get used to it. You get used to waiting for people to catch up to where you are.
By no fault of their own they walked into the interview with some attitude. An attitude of impatience if nothing else. After someone like that started at Google however, it didn't take long for them to realize the situation they were now in. It was humbling in many respects and I don't mean that negatively, simply they'd not recently (or ever) experienced a place where many of the people they met were at their level or better. Obviously, there are smart people everywhere but almost universally, smart people enjoy the company of others like them, the synergy makes them all better. This is why Silicon Valley is a magnet for them.
As I said, Google (and similarly Facebook, etc) are great places to work. At some point after working there however I thought to myself what a wonderfully steady and safe place to work it was. My responsibilities, expectations, and compensation package were well outlined. I was working with awesome people and learned a ton but I still felt it was far too big for me to have any real impact.
For a time, I worked on the Google Web Server which I could best describe to non-techies as "well, sort of the thing you interact with when you do a search" (this is a bad definition at best). A woman I was dating thought about that answer a moment and condescendingly replied - "what do you mean you work on that - isn't that done?"
In one sense she was right, I worked on that darn thing every day but to her it all worked the same. To her, I was having no impact.
It occurred to me that Google would be a fantastic place to work if what I wanted was a meaningful 9-5 job that after each day of work I could drive my minivan back to my home in the suburbs. But I didn't have a minivan. And I didn't own a home. And I didn't live anywhere near the suburbs. What the heck was I doing there? The smart-person environment was at start-ups too - I could get that there and even have some ownership of what I was building.
It's a relatively normal course of life in our sea of first-world problems that you'll have many chances to take risks early in life and those chances diminish as time goes on. Simply put, Google will always be there. And if Google isn't - the next big, awesome company will be. Every decade or so has a "company" (or two) where the greatest things and the greatest people are happening. At times it was Microsoft, Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook, etc.
I left Google not because Google was in any way bad, but because I wasn't done swinging for the fence. And I still had the luxury of trying. If I ever got to the point where I wanted to realign my life's risk profile, Google (or Google-next) would be there. And this is a pretty common theme - places like Google and Facebook incubate some set of people into entrepreneurs who then go start their own start-ups. But with big ideas, agility, and impact. And they don't tend to fall far from the tree. You might think Google doesn't like this - but I doubt that's true. This is a constant stream of risk-takers that go try stuff for them that they can buy back if needed.
What gets me today is how vibrant Silicon Valley is right now. And even for Silicon Valley this place is on-fire. It seems cities around the world try to copy it but that's really hard to do. The start-ups are here because the investors are here, and the investors are here because the start-ups are here. Guy Kawasaki wrote a great article several years ago partially about why Silicon Valley is Silicon Valley.
I am fully aware that Silicon Valley has a nasty habit of simply not being able to darn well shut-up about Silicon Valley. Other cities are hotbeds for tech too (Austin, NYC, etc), but truth be told, you could find a cadre of smart engineers doing a great start-up in a Des Moines, but it's not easy. There's LOTS of great companies in Silicon Valley that can take you to the next level.
We're in the midst of a huge wave. Depending on your risk profile, joining a start-up or joining "a Google" is the best way to put your chips in the game. Regardless of where you are - if you're a crack-shot engineer looking to change the world, you could do worse than coming here. Again it's all about your risk profile and what's keeping you where you are (which may be great reasons). Start-ups will not only pay to relocate you, we'll put you up for a few months (in the corporate crash-pad) while you find your own place. Joining a start-up now will get you experience both technically and start-up-wise that you can't get anywhere else.
I'm not thinking the start-up life is for everyone. I can definitely see a point in my life or where I have life-constraints where I'll want my job to be a less important part of my life (probably because my life will be more about, well, you know - just "life"). But for me right now, and maybe for you - I'm swinging for the fence. And love or hate IT departments, I couldn't do that there.
Again, if you're a software engineer that loves what you do and lives in commuting distance to Palo Alto, CA or is willing to relocate, I'd really love to hear from you. We're well-funded and I'm literally building the first engineering team right now. It's a fantastic opportunity to get in on the ground-floor of a great start-up. Refresh.io jobs


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November 3rd, 2017Autumn Parkin: Force-on-Force Training
Autumn Parkin notes there are very few programs more effective in preparing for the realities of a gunfight than simulated force-on-force training.
November 3rd, 2017Autumn Parkin: Drawing While Under Attack
There are many elements to take into consideration in order to safely draw your gun from concealment during an attack. Autumn Parkin tells us more.
November 3rd, 2017Autumn Parkin: Life-Saving Medical Kits
Autumn Parkin shows what she carries on a daily basis to be prepared to render emergency medical assistance in the aftermath of a violent encounter.
October 4th, 2016Carrie Lightfoot: Drawing from Concealment
Firearms instructor Carrie Lightfoot provides tips and advice on how to properly draw a firearm from concealment.
October 4th, 2016Carrie Lightfoot: Getting Started with Concealed Carry
Instructor Carrie Lightfoot explains the four areas of commitment that gun owners must make when deciding to carry a concealed weapon.
October 4th, 2016Carrie Lightfoot: Which Gun Do I Choose?
Tips & Tactics instructor Carrie Lightfoot outlines how to choose the perfect concealed carry firearm.
October 4th, 2016Carrie Lightfoot: The Right Holster for You
Carrie Lightfoot of The Well Armed Woman walks through the process of how to choose the perfect holster for your concealed carry firearm.
October 4th, 2016Carrie Lightfoot: Personal Concealed Carry System
Tips & Tactics instructor Carrie Lightfoot explains what to consider when creating a personal concealed carry system.
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NRA-certified instructors Cat and Whitney Potgeter discuss how to decide if you're ready to carry concealed.
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January 14th, 2016Cat & Whitney Potgeter: Rights with Responsibility
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July 30th, 2015Dee Dee Van Buren: Clearing a Handgun Malfunction: Basics
Dee Dee gives us instructions on how to deal with two types of semi-automatic handgun malfunctions.
July 23rd, 2015Dee Dee Van Buren: Lasers: An Important Tool for Self-Defense
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August 7th, 2014Tatiana Whitlock: Using a Mounted Light for Home Defense
For home defense, Tatiana encourages adding a mounted light to your firearm.
July 31st, 2014Tatiana Whitlock: Carrying in Different Outfits
Tatiana shows you how to practice carrying in different types of clothing so you don't print (show your firearm), and so you'll feel more confident.
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Tatiana suggests always carrying a handheld light.
September 19th, 2013Il Ling New: Maintaining Distance from a Threat
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September 12th, 2013Il Ling New: Situational Awareness
Il Ling New, Gunsite Rangemaster, is also a professional guide in the United States and a National Sporting Clays Association Instructor.
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VANCOUVER - Animal cruelty charges have been laid against the owner of Captain, the two-year-old German shepherd left for dead in a dumpster this summer.
The dog's owner was charged under the Criminal Code and faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison, a lifetime ban on owning animals and a $75,000 fine.
After hearing its cries coming from the 1400-block of Maple Street on July 18, Kitsilano residents discovered the malnourished dog wrapped in a bloody towel, covered in cuts and bruises to his head and body. The dog was alive but unresponsive and, despite receiving veterinary care, died the next day.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals received an outpouring of emotion and outrage following Captain's death. A vigil was held in his honour and more than $70,000 was donated in online campaign to raise money for the SPCA investigation.
"We deal with thousands of cases every year and deal with heartbreaking cases every day, but I think this particular case — the image of this dog, critically ill, lying in a dumpster — really touched people's hearts," said Lorrie Chortyk, SPCA community relations manager.
Captain had once been a police dog candidate but was deemed too friendly, the SPCA said this summer.
Since the matter is now before the courts, Chortyk could not reveal further details about the investigation.
Brian Whitlock, 26, was charged with wilfully causing suffering to an animal and will make his first court appearance on Friday.


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There's a version of the story of U.S. President William Henry Harrison's inaugural address that goes something like this: President Harrison's two-hour inaugural address in cold, wet weather was responsible for his catching a cold and dying of pneumonia before he could complete even one month in office.
These days, we now know you can't catch a cold just by being cold (or wet) -- it takes direct contact with infected droplets for that to happen, usually from a sneeze or cough of someone with a cold. Rhinoviruses -- the viruses that cause colds -- can live for as long as three hours on the surface of your skin. So, to avoid infection, be careful about touching objects (such as the remote control, or a doorknob) and then touching your eyes, nose or mouth, and be vigilant about hand washing -- it's one of the best ways to avoid catching a cold [source: Scott].
Still, when we do catch a cold we really have no idea what to do. Antibiotics or over-the-counter cough medicine? And sometimes we're not even sure if we have a cold or if we have the flu. Colds commonly all have similar symptoms: You find yourself sneezing with a scratchy throat, a runny nose and nasal congestion. Some cold viruses also cause coughing, fatigue, headaches, muscle aches, sore throats and sometimes a mild fever.
Before we kick off our list, there's one important thing to remember: Americans alone will catch an estimated 1 billion colds this year, and there is currently no way to prevent or cure the common cold. Even without a cure, colds make us feel so badly that one-third of the time we accept a placebo as beneficial treatment [source: Szabo].
We've collected 10 cold remedies that actually don't do anything to treat a common cold, but are popular treatments just the same. First, let's talk about how peppermint will freshen your breath, but it won't do anything to help that postnasal drip go away faster.
While we all are familiar with peppermint as a flavoring in our favorite gum or candy, some people also use its leaves and oil as a remedy for digestive problems and a way to soothe headaches, inflammation and pain, among other complaints. It's also been considered a helpful treatment for coughs, colds, sinus and respiratory infections. In the laboratory, peppermint has been successfully used to kill some forms of bacteria, fungus and viruses, but this hasn't translated into any antibacterial, antifungal or antiviral benefits for humans yet. So far, there isn't enough evidence that peppermint is an effective treatment against coughing and the common cold.
If you got your annual flu shot and still got sick, don't blame the shot. The shot only immunizes you against the three influenza viruses determined to be most potent for that season, but not against any other viruses, including the 200 or more viruses associated with upper respiratory infections and the common cold that often have symptoms that feel a lot like the flu.
Your flu shot can't save you from the common cold, and neither can any of the prescription antiviral medications used to treat influenza viruses. While antivirals such as Tamiflu and Relenza® may help reduce the duration of the influenza virus if treated within the first few days of onset, they don't work at all against the viruses known to cause a cold.
Americans spend more than $4.2 billion every year on over-the-counter promises of cold, cough and flu relief, and that number grows even higher when you add in what people spend on alternative remedies, such as Airborne [source: Szabo]. Airborne is a product that once sold itself as the number one natural cold remedy, and now claims to be essential for immune system support.
Airbone is not FDA approved, which means there's no evidence that it is able to prevent or treat a cold. And while we haven't talked about echinacea, vitamin C and zinc yet, Airborne contains these three ingredients, which are known to do nothing to treat or prevent a cold.
When you're sick with a cold, it's important to drink plenty of fluids, but you may want to stick to chicken soup, hot tea and other non-alcoholic beverages rather than trying to douse your germs with whiskey. Beverages and broths that are hot and steamy are good two-fold: Not only does breathing in the steam temporarily relieve your nasal congestion, drinking a warm beverage can feel soothing. Almost any beverage will help keep you hydrated, and being well-hydrated will help thin out all that mucus you've been making. And now here's the almost: Drinking caffeinated or alcoholic beverages will dehydrate you. And drinking alcohol to treat a cold may also backfire because taking a tipple a few times a week weakens your immune system [source: Bouchez].
Echinacea is a natural, herbal remedy that has long been used by Native Americans, and today is popular among those who prefer natural and alternative medicines to over-the-counter cough suppressant. Echinacea is an herb, often taken as a pill or prepared as a tea in an effort to treat and shorten the duration of the common cold and upper respiratory infections.
Despite its popularity, studies show that its benefits are debatable. According to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine as well as research funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) echinacea is no more effective than a placebo -- or nothing at all -- in preventing colds [sources: Barrett, NCCAM].
Zinc is an important mineral in your diet, like iron and calcium, and your body uses it for everything from your senses of taste, smell and vision to keeping your reproductive and your immune systems healthy. It also has antioxidant properties, which help to keep your cells healthy.
Some people take zinc supplements to treat the common cold, but current research about zinc suggests that at best, it may only help reduce the symptoms of your cold by roughly one day. Studies have had mixed results, so zinc is not considered a good way to treat your cold.
While it won't cure your condition, nasal irrigation with saline may help relieve some sinus symptoms. Despite this, it's a remedy that is still not recommended. Why? One theory is that when we overdo it with nasal saline irrigation we increase our risk of developing sinus infections.
One study, for example, conducted by the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology found that when regular nasal irrigation users stopped rinsing, their rate of chronic sinus infections dropped by 62 percent the following year [source: Zerbe]. Nasal mucus is full of antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal properties important in protecting us against infection -- and when we use saline irrigation products regularly, we wash away those benefits.
If you're one of the many people who boost your vitamin C intake when you feel a cold coming on, it turns out you're wasting your time. Vitamin C doesn't reduce your risk of catching a cold, nor will it help treat your cold. There is conflicting research about whether or not taking vitamin C can shorten the duration of your cold –- but even if it does, it may not be by much. Some studies find vitamin C supplementation may shorten a cold by about a day while others suggest it's only shortened by a few hours, and yet others find it does nothing at all to shorten a cold's duration. Bottom line? Vitamin C won't hurt you, but it probably won't help your cold -- and beware -- taking too much can cause an upset stomach.
Vitamin D (paired with calcium) is important for bone health, and preliminary research suggests it may also play an important role in preventing cancer, preventing infection, reducing chronic pain and reducing our risk of developing autoimmune diseases. It may also provide cardiovascular benefits. And vitamin D supplements do play a beneficial role in boosting your immune system.
While the verdict is still out about vitamin D's role in many of those conditions, we do know that it does nothing at all to prevent, treat or reduce the duration of upper respiratory infections -- including the common cold -- according to recent findings published in the Journal of the American Medical Association [source: Linder].
The problem with treating your cold with a round of antibiotics is this: Antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections, but colds are not caused by bacteria. Colds are caused by viruses, more than two hundred varieties of them. Antibiotics won't help at all.
In fact, they may be harmful. Taking antibiotics when they aren't needed or helpful is adding to the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, making it more difficult to treat you with antibiotics when you do indeed have a bacterial infection. They can also cause a host of unpleasant side effects, such as yeast infections and diarrhea.
Sometimes, other conditions look a lot like a common cold, at least at first, including ear infections, strep throat and pneumonia -- these are actually bacterial infections, and should be treated with antibiotics. Other times, bacterial infections, such as a sinus infection, may develop after a cold, so if your cold symptoms don't get better after about one week to 10 days, see your physician.
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When I found out I'd be writing about this topic I woke up with a cold. Very funny, universe. So how disappointed was I to find out that studies prove vitamin C won't help prevent catching the common cold, nor shorten it by more than a few hours. All those colds, and all that orange juice. What a sham. Echinacea, too. As effective as a placebo. It turns out, though, I did find some good news in the world of cold relief: During my discovery and research process I learned that instead of running out to the store for orange juice, nasal saline or echinacea, very recent and very preliminary findings suggest probiotics may be the new trend in cold-relieving remedies. My fingers remain crossed for this one.
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Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers named Sporting News Athlete of the Year
By Matt Crossman, The Sporting News
~This is how close games become not close games: Aaron Rodgers gets on a roll. On Thanksgiving Day, the Packers entered halftime with a 7-0 lead over the Lions but had been (arguably) outplayed and (decisively) outgained. On the opening series of the second half, Rodgers engineered an easy touchdown drive.
The next score would be crucial. The Lions moved the ball, but the Packers picked off a Matthew Stafford pass. With the Packers taking over at their 35, the Lions needed a stop to stay in the game. The Packers needed a touchdown to put it away.
It took one whip of Rodgers' arm to see which team would win that battle.
Rodgers faked a handoff, saw the safety bite, noticed wide receiver James Jones wide-open and fired the ball on a line to him. Jones caught it and sprinted into the end zone. Game—and threat to the Packers' pursuit of perfection—over. It was the most important pass of the game, the highlight of the day for the Packers, yet afterward, Rodgers seemed, well, a little disappointed in it. "I underthrew it a little bit, but I didn't want to overthrow it. He made a nice catch."
Jones caught the ball in stride and ran for more than 30 more yards virtually untouched; how those two things could be true and the ball could still be called underthrown is a mystery to everyone except Rodgers. Maybe he didn't like the throw because Jones had to move his hands to catch it. Whatever. The idea that Rodgers would dump on his own pass should scare the bejabbers out of the rest of the NFL. Rodgers is playing at such a high level that he critiques his game-changing touchdown passes.
It's because of that pass, and hundreds more like it, that Rodgers is Sporting News' 2011 athlete of the year. Nobody in any sport played at a higher level than Rodgers has the past year. He threw for 304 yards and three touchdowns in the Packers' Super Bowl victory in February, and he has led Green Bay to a 13-0 start this season. He is a lock to win the MVP award and has led some analysts to say he is playing the quarterback position as well as anybody ever has.
In three-plus years as a starter, Rodgers has gone from good to unreal without stopping at great. Sporting News asked players and coaches on teams the Packers have beaten this year how he does it. A sampling of their answers:
"He's got it all," says Rams cornerback Justin King.
"Everything that you ask for out of your quarterback, he has," says Falcons corner Dunta Robinson.
"He has the total package," says Broncos defensive coordinator Dennis Allen.
"He's got everything you want in a quarterback," says Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher.
These answers are as mind-numbingly consistent as the man who provokes them. Probe a little deeper, though, and the answers start to vary. It's his legs that make him stand out. No, it's his arm. Nah, it's how accurate his arm is when he's using his legs. Forget that—dude is so smart, that's what makes him special. Wait! You've got to hear about this guy's vision. And on and on. Barely a body part goes unmentioned. Before long his pancreas will have an exhibit in Canton. This solidifies the idea that he's the total package: From head to toe, he uses his whole body to carve up defenses.
"He's very, very mobile," says Bears defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli. "When he breaks that pocket, boy, he is tough. He's accurate. He'll run, but he is extremely accurate outside that pocket."
But he's almost sneaky about it. Nobody would call him a dual-threat quarterback. But he can beat defenders with his legs if they force him to run, and he can beat them with his arm if they force him to pass. It's a lose-lose situation for the defense. Consider this example against the Rams. The Packers had a second-and-goal at the Rams' 7 late in the second quarter. Safety Craig Dahl and King had wide receiver Donald Driver double-covered right at the goal line; Driver was sandwiched between them.
Rodgers broke the pocket, and he was heading toward the goal line, though he was still behind the line of scrimmage. Dahl and King had a decision to make: stay with Driver or pursue Rodgers before he ran in for a TD. They both broke for Rodgers, who in an instant pulled up and whipped the ball to Driver for a touchdown.
Jones says he'll sometimes make a bad break on a route, and when he gets to the huddle, Rodgers will point it out, leaving Jones wondering how in the world Rodgers even saw it.
Rodgers sees lots of things others don't. For example, he sees an open player where there isn't one; there's no other way to explain the number of passes that get caught by blanketed receivers. It happens so often and in so many different ways it has become normal. What's remarkable about this is that usually, a quarterback who tries to fit the ball into such small holes often has a high number of interceptions or at least a poor completion percentage. But through 13 games, Rodgers has thrown only six interceptions (and has 39 touchdown passes) and has completed 69.6 percent of his passes—not far off Drew Brees' all-time single season NFL record of 70.6. "He's like an under-control gunslinger," King says.
But vision is only part of the story with Rodgers' eyes. It's not just what he sees but where he's looking, a lesson Robinson learned this season. "He started on his right and was coming back over to our left. He wasn't even looking at the receiver. He just turned and threw it to a spot, and the receiver ended up catching the ball," he says. "I thought I definitely had a chance to intercept the ball, but it got there so fast that I didn't get a chance to get a hand on it. I just had to make a tackle at the end of the play."
The tackle left Robinson one up on Panthers safety Jordan Pugh, who was beaten on a similar ploy by Rodgers that turned into a key 49-yard touchdown by Greg Jennings. "Aaron came out of the play-action, threw his eyes opposite of where he was going," says Panthers head coach Ron Rivera. "Then he brought them right back. So he cleared everybody out to this side, and because he looked over to this side, Jordan was still hung out there by himself."
A defensive back who is alone against a Packers wide receiver might as well not be there at all.
Rodgers' shoulders and hips work in tandem to create fakes that give his receivers space. "He uses (his shoulders) to manipulate the DBs into thinking he's going in one direction with the ball before swiveling elsewhere or using them for hard pump fakes on double-move routes," says Charles Davis, an analyst on Fox and the NFL Network.
A good example of an effective pump fake came against the Rams. Angled toward the left sideline, he faked once—not just with his arm but with his shoulders and hips, too—then threw to a wide-open Jordy Nelson. This pass actually was underthrown; had it been on target, Nelson would have sprinted uncontested into the end zone. He scored anyway but had to beat the two defenders who caught up to him as he waited for the pass. Which, again, should scare the bejabbers out of the rest of the NFL: Even Rodgers' "bad" passes turn into 93-yard touchdowns.
Davis adds this: "He's carrying his team on his (shoulders), easily, and happily, and he always kept those same shoulders up while waiting for his shot behind you know who."
"The guy went to Cal," says Rivera, who also went there. "So he's a smart guy."
Let's hear from someone who doesn't have an institutional bias: "He's extremely intelligent, so it's hard to fool him," Allen says.
Rodgers doesn't get rattled when teams try to rough him up, either; in fact, he seems to almost like it. After Lions end Kyle Vanden Bosch pummeled him a few times in the Thanksgiving Day game, Rodgers, wearing a sly grin, characterized Vanden Bosch's trash talk as mild, almost as if he were disappointed Vanden Bosch wasn't more abusive (vocally, that is).
Rodgers has unnatural patience, both in the pocket and in life. As Davis noted, he waited on the bench for three years behind Brett Favre before getting a chance to start, then weathered the preposterous controversy surrounding Favre's departure with impressive grace. On and off the field, he is steady, and he rarely makes a bad decision. "For a guy who hasn't started that many years for the Packers, he has a crazy amount of poise in the pocket," says Bears linebacker Lance Briggs.
The best for last. None of these body parts would matter if Rodgers didn't have an incredible arm, of course. His arm makes all the other parts work together.
Opponents, teammates and analysts marvel at the speed of his release, the velocity he gets on the ball and his ability to fit the ball into tight holes. There is no official stat for this, but he completes more passes to covered receivers than anybody in football. This is suggested to Nelson, and he breaks into a grin: "Are you saying we can't get open?"
Well, no, that's not exactly the point. The point is this: When a quarterback constantly completes passes to covered receivers, there's not much a defense can do. Says Vikings coach Leslie Frazier: "There are a number of times we look at tape and you say, 'What do you tell that defensive back in that situation?' The ball is thrown where only the receiver can make that play."
Here's a suggestion: Grin and bear it, buddy, you just got beat by Sporting News' athlete of the year.
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Legend by Marie Lu
Synopsis by GoodReads:
"What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem.
From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths—until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias's death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets."
This book is set in Los Angeles, CA, written from alternating viewpoints – one chapter from Day, and one chapter from June. I'm a fan of dystopian novels anyway, and I've heard lots of good things about this book. It's been compared to the Hunger Games, but I can't say that it grabbed me the same way. I did enjoy the book though! Day and June become characters you can believe in, and feel emotion for. Although Day is labeled as a wanted criminal, his crimes resemble Robin Hood. He steals from the rich (the government and military) for the poor. He gives them money, food, clothes and other items he is able to steal. He also sells things he "finds" to people who can afford them, and saves the money to take food, clothing and other necessities to his family. All but his oldest brother, John, believe him to be dead from being sent to a work camp after his failure to pass the Trials. Children of the Republic are tested when they turn 10 – they have to pass an interview and physical challenges as well as an intelligence test on a written exam. Only one person in record has ever "aced" the Trials test with a score of 1500 – June Iparis.
June and Day seem to be complete opposites – one a prodigy from a wealthy family, and one a failure, reduced to stealing to feed himself, sleeping in abandoned buildings, and hiding from the Republic military. Their paths cross in an unexpected way, and they are immediately drawn to each other. June is recovering from the loss of her beloved brother, Captain Maties Iparis, while Day is struggling to get enough money to buy a plague cure for his youngest brother, Eden. Their attraction is the beginning of a young romance.
As they each struggle to accomplish vastly different goals their paths continue to cross. June is searching for her brother's killer, and eventually believes it to be Day. Day is struggling to feed and medicate his family, and learn the secrets of the Republic. Will they survive their repeated interactions? What is the Republic government hiding, and who does it affect? Who does it betray?
I enjoyed Legend and am looking forward to the 2013 release of Prodigy. I rate it a 3.5 out of 5.
Marie Lu started writing Legend, her debut novel, when she was only 14 years old. Here are some excerpts from her web page – questions and answers about her work.
How did you come up with LEGEND? One of the main characters in LEGEND, the boy criminal Day, has been in my imagination since I was 15. He started out as a teen rebel character in a fantasy novel I wrote in high school. I always had trouble thinking of a good rival or enemy for Day, though. I wanted someone who could match him. Then, one day in 2009, I was lying on the carpet in my living room (this is how I daydream), and the movie version of Les Miserables was on. The Jean Valjean vs. Javert concept started me thinking about Day, and the central idea for LEGEND came almost right away: Day vs. an equally sharp detective agent. I was so glad that I could bring Day back to life, because he's a character very close to my heart.
- When is the sequel to LEGEND coming out? Legend is the first book of a trilogy. The second book is titled Prodigy, and comes out on Jan. 29, 2013!
- When did you start writing? I remember writing as early as 4 or 5 years old. When I was 5, I wrote a "book" (i.e. 10 sheets of notebook paper stapled together) about farm animals. I was always stapling together books of all shapes and sizes. Another time, when I was 7 or 8, I wrote out a bunch of short fairy tales about unicorns and cats, and stapled those together as well. I wrote my first "novel" (80 handwritten pages) when I was 11, a fantasy heavily influenced by Brian Jacques. I remember thinking about how to mass-produce that and bring it to the public. Little did I know there were publishers who did that …. somehow I thought every book at the library was magically distributed and printed by each individual author and delivered directly to the library. I started writing seriously at 14 when I finished my first official manuscript.
- I hear that June started out as a boy! How would the story have been different if that were the case? Yes, initially June started out as a boy because I was basing it off the ValJean/Javert relationship in Les Miserables, so that was the first thing that came to me. 🙂 However, when I pitched this to my boyfriend, he immediately frowned and said, "You know, it'd be so much more interesting if the teen detective was a girl." And all I could think was, "omg, that fits SO much better." A lot of elements would probably have been the same–there still could've been a romance between the two leads either way, still the same action and the same emotional arc….but I think making June a girl added a strong female presence that was lacking from my original idea. I think she really helped round out the girls present in the story.
- Will LEGEND ever be a movie or TV show? I hope so! Currently CBS Films holds the film rights, with Temple Hill (Twilight) producing. I think it would make a cool movie–but then, I'm a little biased. 🙂 I also think it'd make a great cartoon show along the lines of Avatar: The Last Airbender or Teen Titans, something for the 8-12 age group, about Day's adventures as a boy fugitive before the events of LEGEND. (This is good news! I'd love to see CBS make Legend into a movie!)
Here is a link to the finalized cover art for Prodigy, as well as the exclusive first chapter on USA Today's Book Buzz.
- Divergent by Veronica Roth
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- Hollowland by Amanda Hocking
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National Family Mortgage ® is a continuation of Founder and CEO Timothy Burke's commitment to leveraging the internet to empower consumers to efficiently build, protect, and transfer family wealth. Prior to founding National Family Mortgage ®, Burke was a key member at peer-to-peer lending pioneer Circle Lending. In 2007, Circle Lending was acquired by British billionaire, Sir Richard Branson, and re-launched as Virgin Money USA. Mr. Burke and his teams have facilitated over $1 Billion in peer-to-peer lending volume.
Mr. Burke holds an MS in Philanthropy from Suffolk University and a BA in English from Boston College. A recognized expert on intra-family loans, Burke has been interviewed and quoted in top financial publications, including, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Kiplinger, AARP, and syndicated columns nationwide. Mr. Burke is also a featured expert in the 2016 edition of Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home.
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Starz has released the first image of Scottish actor Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser from its upcoming series "Outlander."
I wonder if he's going totally traditional--and commando--with that kilt.
In Ronald D. Moore's ("Battlestar Galactica") adaptation of Diana Gabaldon's series of eight bestsellers, Heughan plays Fraser, a Scottish warrior in 1743 who marries Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is somehow transported back to his time. Claire falls for the chivalrous Fraser, but is torn because she still loves her 1945 hubby.
And speaking of her husband ... Claire and her new (old?) beau will run into British baddie Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall, who apparently is an ancestor of her 1945 hubby Frank Randall. Tobias Menzies, who played Edmure Tully in "Game of Thrones," stars as both Randall men. Irish actress Caitriona Balfe plays Claire.
Lotte Verbeek from "The Borgias" plays Geillis Duncan, a Scotswoman and friend of Claire's.
Other casting includes James Fleet as Rev. Wakefield, Graham McTavish as Dougal MacKenzie, Gary Lewis as his brother, Colum MacKenzie, Duncan Lacroix as Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser, Annette Badland as Mrs. Fitzgibbons, Laura Donnelly as Jenny Fraser, Stephen Walters as Angus Mhor, and Nell Hudson as Laoghaire MacKenzie.
"Outlander" will premiere sometime in 2014.
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Architecture Reflects Pioneering Cultures
Paraskeva, Sandy. "Architecture Reflects Pioneering Cultures." Bismarck Tribune, 16 February 1982, 10A.
This side of diaries and journals, architecture leaves perhaps the most vivid trail to a people's values, energy, creativity and perseverance.
It is even more revealing when a people moves to a new land, using an alchemy of tradition laced with new necessities. To move, for example, from forest land to great plains of grassland demands a cultural adjustment that is deeper than architecture, but architecture often is the only remaining key to the past.
In developing America, the log cabin seemed to be the most prevalent type of house. But the supply of lumber in the Dakotas was limited, requiring some settlers to look around them for building materials.
About 85 percent of the Germans from Russia who homesteaded in North Dakota built their first homes of sod or a straw-and-clay brick, according to John Hudson a Northwestern University geographer who has studied records of about 1,000 of this state's early settlers.
Hudson in the article "Frontier Housing in North Dakota," suggests that the German-Russians were the only pioneers who came from a physical background similar to that of this state.
He says they "were thus largely pre-adapted to the ways of life on the plains. They had the least need to modify their traditions. They were also the most likely group to construct sod houses."
Norwegian immigrants were accustomed to using wood in the old country, and most who homesteaded in the Red River Valley continued to do so. Because those settlements occurred in conjunction with the development of the rail system in eastern North Dakota, supplies of wood weren't a problem, says Louis Hafermehl, director of archeology and historic preservation with the State Historical Society.
If they happened to settle farther from a railroad or wooded area along a stream, some of those first Norwegian immigrants were forced to live for a time in a home made of sod before putting up what was usually a simple, wood-frame dwelling.
"There is no Norwegian architecture (in North Dakota)." says Playford Thorson, associate professor of history at the University of North Dakota.
Because Norway is forested and mountainous, its native architecture doesn't fit here, Thorson contends.
But Ron Ramsey, architect and assistant professor of architecture at North Dakota State University, notes that the Norwegian immigrants who settled in the Red River Valley practiced a strict brand of Lutheranism. And that, he says, shows up in what there is of their architecture.
Ramsey says the Norwegians brought rugged, stripped-down qualities with them, and applied the same attitude to building construction.
Hafermehl says factors that influenced other buildings in North Dakota may have applied also to Norwegian ethnic construction.
At the time when white settlements were occurring with great frequency in North Dakota, the eastern United States was relying more on technology, and transcontinental transportation was improving.
"Many of those traditional styles didn't last too long because materials were easy to get. Houses were mass-produced. Homesteaders could order a complete house from Sears and Roebuck and other sources for $300," Hafermehl says.
"They would shipped the lumber and a variety of floor plans. It was efficient and/or inexpensive to provide housing that way so traditional ethnic characteristics were lost."
The following is an account of Hans Westley, who recalled being 12 when his family moved from Norway to the Cooperstown area of Dakota Territory in 1881:
"The first thing we discovered about our sod hut was ants, found here and there; and not only that but once in a while we found lizards crawling about.
"But a hut such as ours, dug into the hill side, was cold in summer and warm in winter. In order to make it more homelike inside, and instead of having only the black sod walls and floor, we began making clay from gumbo and slamming it into the wall, fistful by fistful.
"One had to throw hard to make it stick. We then smoothed it out to resemble a plastered wall, and having finished this process we procured some lime and washed the walls with it, making them as pretty as plastered housewalls.
"For the floor we had to get lumber and lay it down. Aside from the long rafters inside holding up the roof, the room was open to the very top. The brush and hay laid over the supports was, of course, timber-dry, and from our stove the smoke-pipe went up through the roof, with the tinder nearby."
Ed Sherlock was reared in a sod house in McHenry County. He had some similar memories for interviewers with the North Dakota Oral History Project:
"Well, I'll say one thing, they get fleas in 'em - these kind o' fleas that come from the ground. You've got a heck of a time with 'em.
"But you know how they used to do with them old houses? They used to take this yellow clay. You dig this black stuff off the top, you understand, and take that yellow clay down below and wet it a little and dampen your walls. You'd plaster just like you would a plastered wall, and they used to plaster that old sod house inside. They're nice and warm."
Hafermehl says the sod dwellings weren't intended to be permanent; Hudson says they generally lasted about five years.
Historians point to the Rev. William Sherman of Grand Forks as an authority on early German-Russian housing in North Dakota. Sherman writes:
"There seems to have been four basic construction methods, all borrowed from the local Russian inhabitants ... puddled clay with occasional mixture of rock rubble, the adobe type of clay brick, the stone house with clay mortar and the rammed earth style.
"A fifth and less frequent variation was used by some early German settlers, a type of wattle and daub which is upright poles interspersed laterally with sticks and saplings in a latticework kind of structure. Clay was daubed onto the framework until the walls reached a desired thickness."
He advises: "As it is difficult to separate the 'German' from the 'Russian' in the study of German-Russian housing forms, so also it is difficult at this distance in time to distinguish the 'Russian-German' from the early American. The question 'who borrowed from whom?' must be approached with caution and the investigator must be satisfied at times with some very tentative conclusions."
Tim Kloberdanz assistant professor of sociology at North Dakota State University, says the clay brick homes were more durable than sod houses and didn't wash as much in the rain. Clay brick also allowed better control of architecture since windows could be set and walls stuccoed and whitewashed.
With an eye toward functional usage rather than ethnic individuality, the German-Russian rammed earth dwellings are still being studied for their energy efficiency in natural cooling and heating, Hafermehl says.
The Johannes Goldade house at rural Linton is a particularly well-preserved example of the German-Russian form, says Jackie Sluss, formerly an architectural historian with the State Historical Society.
The house is constructed of handmade clay bricks on a sandstone slab foundation. Mortar throughout the house is a mixture of native clay, straw and water. Bricks were made by ramming a similar mixture into a wood mold.
Wet bricks were sun-dried for several months, Sluss explains. When dried, the bricks were hard enough to spark a flint and insulate against extreme heat and cold.
The house built in 1890, has been lived in continuously and currently is occupied by the Gerard Goldade family.
"There's quite a bit of cold air that comes in, especially by the windows, but we keep our heaters going," says Linda Goldade in an interview. "There isn't anything that's really wrong with it. We just don't have enough money now to get another house."
She says she, her husband and their son, also named Gerard, stay in the kitchen and bedroom and use the third room for storage since one of the walls is caving in. ·
It's a 19-by-50-foot, one-story house, with gabled roof and the "vorhausel," or entryway, characteristic of early German-Russian housing, Sluss says.
Nominating the Goldade house to the National Register of Historic Places Sluss wrote: "The existence of these houses on the North Dakota prairie symbolizes the continuity of highly stable German-Russian communities: rural and village communities bound by common church affiliations, language, customs, family and history."
The Hutmacher complex at Manning is the best known example of the stone slab construction technique in North Dakota, according to the Historical Society.
This method was brought to North Dakota from eastern Europe by Ukrainian and German-Russian immigrants and was used most in the late settlement of the state's southwest corner, says Kurt Schweigert of Bismarck, who prepared the Historical Society's nomination of the Hutmacher complex to the National Register of Historic Places.
The Valentine Hutmacher farmstead was built at the complex in 1911 by an immigrant from South Russia. "And although in ruins, it established the ethnic-cultural continuity of the building method," Schweigert says.
"The Frank Hutmacher farm (built in 1928) is a very late utilization of the stone slab building technique," he says. It was abandoned in the summer of 1979.
"All of the Hutmacher farmstead buildings are made of sandstone slabs quarried, from nearby hilltops and erected crib-like with a clay-straw composition mortar," notes Schweigert
Alexander Hutmacher, now of Dickinson, lived in the Frank Hutmacher residence until 1979, when he was 29. Frank was his father. "It was warm in the winter, and cool in the summer," Alexander said in an interview, pointing out that the rock walls are two feet thick. "I considered myself lucky to be living in a house that old."
Where immigrants settled, they also built churches.
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church at Wilton is one of three original Ukrainian Greek Orthodox churches in North Dakota. Wilton's Ukrainian Orthodox families worshiped in private homes until 1913, when enough money was available to build a church, according to the Historical Society.
None of the three has a congregation today. The other two are St. Peter and Paul's at Belfield and St. Pokrova in rural Killdeer.
Carpenters John Krivatski and John Schowchuk supervised construction on the Wilton church and carved out the icon screen and handmade tabernacle, says Nick Kassian of Wilton, who looks after the church property.
"They didn't have blueprints," Kassian recalls. "They had a picture in their minds from the old country."
St. Stanislaus Church at Warsaw was designed in Gothic Revival by Grand Forks architect John W. Ross.
Writing the nomination for the National Register, historian Schweigert said of the Polish church at Warsaw: "Since 1894 the building and grounds have been the center of organized activity of one of North Dakota's most cohesive and persistent ethnic settlements."
In addition to homes and churches, post offices were necessary. The Grassy Butte post office is the last known remaining example of Ukrainian-type log and clay plaster construction in North Dakota.
Built in 1914, the post office served the area until 1963. It is maintained by the McKenzie County Historical Society as a museum.
Ukrainian style of architecture is reflected in the Dan and Polly Cerkoney home built in 1909 near Gorham. The house, with four-sided roof, is of wattle and daub construction. The materials are cedar poles, wood and a clay mixture made of horse manure, straw and mud.
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Little Known About Timing of Menopause in Women With HIV
As the life expectancy of people living with HIV increases due to more effective care and treatment, there is an increasing focus on the presentation and management of conditions associated with aging. For all older women, menopause presents a physiological change whose management has undergone dramatic changes over the last few years as a result of studies questioning the safety of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Data on the presentation and management of menopause in older women living with HIV have been limited. Unanswered questions that remain include the impact of HIV on the timing and presentation of menopause, and the optimal management strategy in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and no HRT.
To try to shed more light on this issue, Fantry and colleagues interviewed 120 women living with HIV to better understand the timing of menopause and its associated symptoms in these women. Areas covered included obstetrical history, symptoms, demographics and drug use. Women were chosen who were pre-, peri- and post-menopausal, and were over the age of 40. Post-menopausal was defined as having no menses, peri-menopausal as having 1-11 menses and pre-menopausal as having 12 menses in the past year.
Among the women interviewed, the average age was 45.5 (range 40-57). The study population included 95% African Americans and 58% on antiretroviral therapy. Forty-nine percent of the women were pre-menopausal, 26% peri-menopausal and 25% post-menopausal. The median age at menopause was reported as 50.
The authors examined a number of symptoms in the 3 groups of women. Vaginal dryness was reported more frequently among post-menopausal compared with peri- and pre-menopausal women (55% vs. 37% and 22%, respectively; P = .015), as were hot flashes (87% vs. 74% and 62%, respectively; P = .049). There were no differences in a number of other symptoms, including irritability, insomnia and headaches, many of which were common in all 3 groups.
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Compared with pre- and peri-menopausal women, post-menopausal women had similar CD4+ cell counts, body mass indices, and rates of antiretroviral use, pregnancy, cigarette smoking, and use of oral contraceptives. Menopausal women did have increased rates of drug use, including cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methadone, but only methadone use was associated with increased rates of menopause (hazard ratio: 3.3, 95% confidence interval: 1.6-6.8).
The study did have some limitations. The authors were not able to make any conclusions about the impact of HIV on age at menopause, given the absence of an HIV-uninfected control cohort. In addition, no significant conclusions could be drawn about the association of methadone and menopause, given the absence of models controlling for potentially confounding factors associated with increased risk of menopause (such as age). This finding must be further analyzed and repeated with other cohorts.
While limited in its scope, the study does provide some helpful information to the very slowly growing knowledge base about menopause in women with HIV. The authors show that non-specific symptoms that may be associated with menopause are common among all women living with HIV, while more specific symptoms are seen at higher rates among post-menopausal women. This finding is important for providers caring for these women, as the providers will need to be educated about the potential relationship between many of these symptoms and menopause, and will need to address those symptoms more likely associated with hormonal changes. The optimal management strategy is not clearly known at this time.


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Jan. 29, 2013 - Kenneth Cole New York, through its licensee partner, the Geneva Watch Group, unveils the limited edition Powered by You watch, the newest style in its renowned automatic watch collection. The limited edition Powered by You watch is designed to inspire individuals to generate change in their global community. Through its partnership with Kenneth Cole New York and a continuation of both companies' long standing commitment to giving back, Geneva Watch Group will donate at least $25,000 from the sale of the watches to amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research.
Over 25 years ago, when publicly mentioning AIDS was still considered taboo, Kenneth Cole used his platform as a fashion designer to launch a series of provocative advertising campaigns that helped generate awareness and raise funds for research aimed at finding a cure. In 2011, Cole partnered with amfAR and the MTV Staying Alive Foundation on the reinterpretation of the iconic AIDS ribbon and created a celebrity driven international PSA campaign, re-igniting a new wave of awareness about the disease with the millennial generation. Now in his 8th year as Chairman of amfAR, Cole furthers his dedication to amfAR, an organization that has eased the burden of millions around the world living with AIDS. "This is the time to step up our investment in a cure for AIDS," says Kenneth Cole. "This new, limited edition Powered by You watch is intended to cultivate a call-to-action for today's generation to find a cure."


text: Kekeletso Mabeleng remembers vividly how she enjoyed getting WFP school meals when she was a small child in a poor district of Lesotho. Now, as an adult, she works for WFP helping make sure today's children get the same benefits she did. She has been with WFP for eight years and works as a senior programme assistant, implementing nutrition and health programmes with the government.