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When he was 13, in a prescient act of defiance that would prove to illustrate his contradictory nature, Stefano Pilati tattooed interlocking male and female symbols on his arm. "My parents should have wondered about me right then," Pilati, who is now, at 42, the designer of Yves Saint Laurent, told me in late February as he stood backstage an hour before the presentation of his fall-winter 2008 collection for women. It was a cloudy night in Paris, and Pilati, who is tall and elegant, was wearing a fitted white jacket and loose gray trousers of his own design. As always, his look was carefully calculated to appear effortless: his pants were just-so short and his nearly unbuttoned, pale blue shirt subtly matched the indigo of his socks. Pilati was chain-smoking, but he did not appear to be nervous, despite the swirl of organized chaos in the white tent, which had been erected inside the Grand Palais. Surrounding him in various stages of dress and undress was a flock of models. They all wore bowl-cut wigs of straight black hair with bangs that covered their eyes and even darker lipstick. With their features obscured and unified, the sky-high, slim women blurred into a sea of androgyny. "It is exactly as I imagined — I can't tell them apart," Pilati said, sounding delighted. "They will be a perfect canvas for the clothes."
Outside the tent was the stage, which Pilati — who professed an early interest in architecture ("I couldn't tell my parents I wanted to work in fashion," he said. "They thought everyone in fashion turned out to be gay or a drug addict. And I became both!") — had transformed into a kind of space-age cathedral. Lining the catwalk were rows of benches, where the media, buyers, a smattering of celebrities (Julianne Moore, Kanye West) and Pilati's mother would soon sit. This collection — Pilati's eighth since he became creative director of Yves Saint Laurent in 2004 — was important. In recent years, the house has struggled in the global marketplace. Unlike, say, Chanel, which instantly conjures images of tweed suits and strings of pearls, YSL no longer has a singular identity. Yet YSL stands for Yves Saint Laurent, one of the few true icons of fashion. Saint Laurent, whose designs spanned nearly five decades, was known for a brilliant mix of tailoring, practicality and innovation: "le smoking," for instance, turned a pantsuit into evening wear before most women even wore pants in public. "Saint Laurent did everything," Pilati said. "You go to the YSL archives, and you feel he thought of any idea I could ever imagine. It's intimidating."
But by 1993, the company was in financial trouble, and Saint Laurent and his partner in business (and for much of his life), Pierre Bergé, agreed to YSL's becoming part of the state-owned French pharmaceuticals conglommerate, Elf Sanofi. Sanofi sold the label to François Pinault in 1999 for $1 billion, and that same year, Pinault sold it to the Gucci Group N.V., which put Tom Ford, then the designer of Gucci, in charge. Ford was quickly disparaged by critics as the renegade American out to destroy a master of French couture. Ford, who had shepherded Gucci's rise to prominence by consistently invoking the styles of the jet set '70s and selling sex, tried this same approach at YSL. But he bumped up against a large obstacle. "Saint Laurent challenged women," Pilati said. "Tom had a very precise vision of the company that didn't challenge women." And yet when Ford quit YSL and the Gucci Group in 2004, his global branding legacy remained. In today's increasingly competitive marketplace, designers have to do more than dictate the look of the season. More than ever, it is necessary to create a must-have item (usually a handbag) that will project an image for customers around the world.
"There is a difference between having a gift and having talent," Pilati explained as he sat on one of the benches to watch a final run-through of his show. "Madonna is a talented person, but she is not gifted. She's not Pina Bausch or Margot Fonteyn. And Tom is talented but not gifted. That's the way he managed the business. Tom would say: We can't do this silhouette because she looks fat. Or, Oh, no — women don't like this fabric; we can't use it. That mentality was something to learn but was so far from my way of thinking. Why do you want to be safe? I'm more like, Why don't you wear gray flannel for an evening dress? I find that fantastic! Not Tom. Never."
Pilati stopped and lit a cigarette. "But if you consider yourself only a gifted person, you live in your la-la land," he said as the first model emerged. She was wearing a thigh-length, black wool cutaway jacket with wide leg pants that tapered to a cuff. The look was both geometric and familiar. The lines of the clothes, suitable for women of nearly any age, were sharp, but the softness of the unlined fabrics — wool felt, Donegal tweed, cashmere — made the clothes inviting. Pilati stared intently as another model in an asymmetrical leather jacket walked past. "I define myself as a pure creative person," he said. "But as a designer, you have to manage the business, too. We live in a world where you have to ask yourself, Would I pay thousands of dollars for this dress?"Continue reading the main story
In past seasons, Pilati was too far ahead of the customer. When he showed tulip-shaped skirts in 2004, the proportion was still confusing to women, and the collection did not sell well. Now, it is difficult to find a skirt that is not tulip-shaped. When, in 2006, he designed long, narrow tunics over pants, his collection was panned, but the following year, the look became a mainstay of women everywhere. Similarly, in 2007, Pilati brushed brightly colored paint on simple white silk dresses, and the look was widely copied by design houses like Max Mara at, of course, lower prices. "Two summers ago, I did flowers," Pilati said as the parade of bewigged girls continued. "The press killed me because they said it was too romantic. And this summer, flowers are everywhere." He lit another cigarette. "I used to think it was a good thing to be different than the other designers, but no, it's not. But I can't always help it. When I was 17, the design director at Nino Cerruti, who was my first mentor, taught me that to be too much ahead is to be behind. The most important thing is to be right on time."
As a model in a black wool dress with a transparent bodice marched past, Valérie Hermann, a slim blonde in a white YSL pantsuit, sat down next to Pilati. Hermann became the C.E.O. of YSL three years ago, and since her arrival, losses at the company have been reduced by more than half, from nearly $100 million a year to $48 million a year. Although YSL is considered a French national treasure, it has not been profitable in more than a decade. Its losses are absorbed by the financial strength of its parent company, the Gucci Group, which makes millions on its other brands, like Bottega Veneta and Gucci.
Hermann, who is 45, is often credited with the financial success of Christian Dior, and analysts believe she will help steer YSL toward profitability. "When I arrived at this company, everyone was saying how lucky I was to work at YSL,' " Hermann told me later. "And I said, 'Just what have you purchased at YSL recently? Everyone thought it was such a prestigious brand, but did they want to have a YSL bag? Or a YSL shoe? The answer was always no because they didn't know what a YSL bag or shoe would be."
At Dior, Galliano helped to turn around the company when he created a purse called the Saddle Bag. "Accessories drive every luxury brand," Hermann said. "Shoes and bags are 60 percent of our business. But I don't treat Stefano like a baby and say, Design a bag or a strong jacket and great pants because that's what the market desires. Instead, I say, Can I propose something?" In 2005, at Hermann's suggestion, Pilati designed the so-called Muse bag, which remains a best seller. And this year, he introduced Muse Two, which looks nothing like Muse One. "I do not get this naming of bags," Pilati explained stubbornly. "Customers seem to like to ask for bags by name, but I don't really like to name my bags — they are not children or pets." Muse Two, which retails for just under $2,000, is selling well. "I have reconciled myself to the fact that for many of our customers, their uniform is jeans, a white T-shirt and a Muse bag," Pilati sighed.
For the fall-winter 2008 collection, Pilati designed a black patent-leather ankle boot, and Hermann has high hopes the shoe will prove popular. "People are talking about an international financial crisis," Hermann said as she and Pilati watched the last look of the show leave the catwalk. Instead of a ball gown, Pilati ended with the patent-leather boots and a practical black wool coat, which folded around the model's knees in a loose ruffle. The coat, timeless and versatile, seemed like a smart investment. "I like that one," Hermann said. Pilati nodded, pleased with the collection. It was serious and spare — a tough chic for tough times.
Pilati's designs have typically been more feminine and romantic. In the past, he would try to create at least one red-carpet-worthy dress. "But the Oscars and all those events were ruined by the stylists," he said. "Mr. Saint Laurent would never have tolerated the stylists having this much power. Unfortunately, it does affect sales. If an actress wears your dress, customers will call the day after to get that dress. That one dress may give popularity to the brand, but is it popularity you look for? I'm not sure. I think I'd rather have loyalty." He paused. "There is a change," he said as he headed to the backstage area with Hermann. "The difference now is that there is so much competition in the market that I don't think we should produce too much. The main goal is to create a strong identity."
A few months later, Pilati was walking through Paris when he spotted a pair of sandals on the feet of a Moroccan man. They were rustic, made of woven camel hair, and they were tanned with age. "Did you see those sandals?" Pilati asked Siddhartha Shukla, his head of communications, who was with him. "They are amazing. I want to buy them." Shukla, who had not noticed the sandals, was sent to purchase them off the man's feet for 100 euros (about $150). "The guy wanted 500 euros," Pilati told me a few days later over lunch at the plush Hôtel Plaza Athénée, near his office on the Avenue George V. "But we got them for 100. The sandals are from a tribe of Bedouins, and they are genius. Maybe they'll inspire me, maybe not. One day, they might fit into a Moroccan moment. You can find greatness everywhere. You just have to look."
Pilati, who is appealingly direct about his anxieties, was in a cheerful mood. Maybe it was the sandals, maybe it was the reviews of the women's collection, which was heralded as a breakthrough. In The New York Times, Cathy Horyn wrote that "Mr. Pilati crossed that mysterious bridge to the big stage. In their movement, shape and attitude, the clothes evoked the swagger and spirit of the Rive Gauche era, when Saint Laurent ruled."
Since the show, Pilati had been working nonstop. "You're almost like an athlete," Pilati said as he ordered steak tartare. He was wearing a black turtleneck and narrow black pants with a royal blue pinstripe. "Every day I'm working on everything from the design of our shops to the heel of a shoe to a piece of fabric for men's to knitwear for women to the media campaign. But it's good for me. Work is my salvation."
Although he's in a constant swirl of activity, there's something solitary about Pilati. He lives alone with an albino boxer named Bepi, not far from his office, as if on an island of his own making. For the last few weeks, Pilati's 16-year-old nephew has been living with him. "What a change!" Pilati said now. "My life is me, me, me. I organize my life only to think about myself. All of a sudden, this nephew is here, and it's not just me in the mirror. His eyes are looking at me. And I think, What is he thinking?"
Pilati paused. "Sixteen was the age I decided to be part of the fashion world," he said. The only son of a government employee, Pilati grew up in Milan with two much-older sisters. "I was an unhappy child," he recalled. "With my father, everything I said or did was wrong. Everything I wore was wrong. Everywhere I wanted to go was wrong. So I began to worry that there was really something the matter with me. When I was sketching something, I didn't feel alone. Eventually, I said, Enough — I'm going to belong to another world instead. And the fashion world looked beautiful."
Pilati is an avid believer in the transformative power of clothes: he has, in his Paris apartment, six specially designed closets that contain everything from basics in every color ("there are nuances in beiges and grays") to hand-knit sweaters to jewel-toned blazers to velvet evening slippers embroidered by Lesage with Pilati's initials. "I have been this way since I was a child," Pilati said. "I never had sneakers. My mother was pushing me to dress up, but from the ages of 8 or 9, I picked out my own clothes. I would change my clothes up to five times a day. To play, I had clogs. I had loafers to go to school. Lace-up shoes to go to Mass. This kind of discipline taught me a lot. To the point where I could then be more transgressive. I tried very early to break rules. I wanted to wear clothes from Fiorucci, that was the dream. My mother didn't want that. And, of course, I did."
In 1982, at 17, Pilati worked as an intern for Nino Cerruti, who was known for his innovations with fabric. Cerruti's design director, Gianni Aglietta, asked Pilati to put adhesive dots on the fabrics he preferred. Instinctively, Pilati picked the ones that sold best. Recognizing Pilati's talent for selecting fabric, which is the linchpin of clothing design, Aglietta began taking him to the mills and taught him about the structure and history of cloth.
"That was the best thing that ever happened to me," Pilati said, "but I was still lonely. And when you're by yourself, you're much more attracted to following someone in the wrong direction." He paused. "Not long ago, a friend told me that being a heroin addict requires the highest form of discipline," he continued. "I was working while I was a heroin addict. It was integrated in my everyday life: in the morning, you take the drug, and then you go to work, and then again in the afternoon and evening. You can easily switch from the obsession of the drug to the obsession of the work."
By the time he was 31, he was at Prada, where he worked on the Miu Miu line; he had been through rehab twice. "The second time was a very tough program that had been created in Canada for Vietnam vets," Pilati said. "Can you believe it? I lived for one year with a T-shirt, a pair of jeans and nothing else. That was a shock from where I was coming from." He laughed. "In the end it was a privilege to spend a year on myself. I went to rehab because the drugs were starting to affect my creativity. I was in love with someone, and I thought it would be forever. But it wasn't. Now, I never look back. I'm much more intrigued by lucidity than I was by my alteration."
After five years at Prada, where he began working in 1995, and a previous stint at Armani in the early '90s, Pilati was approached by Tom Ford, who was known to assess potential hires on the basis of whether he could imagine having dinner with them. "Tom is a seducer," Pilati said. "When I met him, I was under his spell. But I was amazingly scared to move to Paris and work for YSL. Prada was like a family, and it was a very female environment. Tom was surrounded by men, and he was like a fashion designer in a movie. We were naïve at Prada — we did things because we liked them, and they took off. Tom was much more calculated. I spent the first year trying to absorb his mentality. It was very difficult. Tom was mostly living in London, and I was being tested by everybody at YSL in Paris. Even the receptionist. They all hated Tom, and they were all telling me about Mr. Saint Laurent and what he used to do."
The fashion business was greatly complicated by the collapse of the American market after 9/11. "On Sept. 11, the '90s ended," Ford told me near the end of 2001. "It was a difficult moment to build a brand." But YSL began to rebound when it introduced a bag (the Mombasa) and a perfume (Nu). "It was quite fascinating for me to observe all that," Pilati continued. "And useful. They were all looking for the brand bag to save us. I said, 'I'm not a bag designer, but I will do my part.' We came up with the Mombasa."
When Ford resigned after a power struggle with his bosses at Gucci's parent company, PPR, it was widely assumed that Pilati would inherit YSL. "I was candidate No. 1," Pilati recalled, "but they were still looking for someone else. Every day there was a new candidate — Hedi Slimane or Alexander McQueen — but I didn't wait for them to tell me yes: I started designing two collections. And, eventually, they gave me the position."
From the start, Pilati sought to re-establish Yves Saint Laurent's sophisticated legacy. On a fundamental level, YSL has always represented an oasis of good taste. "There's a formality to my designs," Pilati said. "And yes, I think people can learn taste. It is part of my job to teach them."
On June 1 of this year, Yves Saint Laurent died at the age of 71 after a long illness. He received a grand funeral, attended by President Nicolas Sarkozy, legendary muses like Catherine Deneuve and nearly every major designer. It is impossible to imagine any American fashion designer eliciting a similar reaction. "It was like a state funeral," Pilati told me.
It was very early July, and we were on the Eurostar heading from Paris to London for a party celebrating Édition 24, Pilati's more affordable line of clothing. "Everything in the collection is around $1,100," Pilati said as he peeled a peach on the table between us. Édition 24 was conceived as seasonless clothes for women who travel — classic pieces like a trench coat, simple trousers or a cardigan, tweaked and linked by fabric and presentation.
I asked Pilati if Saint Laurent's death had liberated him in some way. "I have thought about the Freudian 'killing the father stuff,' " Pilati said, "but I have nothing but respect for Mr. Saint Laurent. For me he was a spiritual presence. He was never at the studio, and I never really talked to him. I did not work for his approval. Bergé, on the other hand, is a presence. He comes to the office, and we show him the collection and the campaign."
Pierre Bergé was in many ways the inventor and protector of the YSL identity; the foundation he established with Saint Laurent still controls the designer's vast archives. "I would like Bergé's approval," Pilati said. In the last YSL ad campaign, which was conceived by Pilati, Kate Moss is standing outside YSL's and Bergé's foundation, her face pressed to the glass door where their names are inscribed. "You don't know if she wants to get in or they are trying to keep her out," Pilati said. "That mirrors my anxiety." Although Ford may not have been intrigued by the YSL archives, Pilati has visited often, most recently to study the famous Ballets Russes collection, which featured enormous floor-length taffeta skirts. "Sometimes you can see a certain color or an embroidery or a technique," he said. "There is nothing that Saint Laurent didn't think of first."
Pilati is also inspired by Saint Laurent's freedom in expressing his sexuality. "He and Bergé were the first famous gay couple," Pilati said. "I think a lot about whether or not my being homosexual affects my work as a designer, just as I think it influenced film directors like Derek Jarman and Pasolini and artists like David Hockney and Francis Bacon. I always wonder why 99 percent of the top male fashion designers are homosexual. In my case, I would say that my sexuality has led me to love women to death and to hate them as well. This is the engine for my creativity."
For many years, Pilati lived as a heterosexual, and there are women who knew him back then who were surprised by the switch. "I was shocked," one told me with a certain sadness. "He's so handsome, and he always had girlfriends, and I thought Stefano was open to anything, but that may have been wishful thinking on my part." As always Pilati sees things in less black-and-white terms. "I decided to be my homosexual self," he said matter-of-factly. "And it helped me understand the male mind. But when I do a fitting with a woman, I think, Would this woman seduce me? Being gay allows me to be objective about women."
Despite his sexual preference, Pilati does not like fashion shows that feature men. "There is a dream factor linked to female models that you don't have with male models," he said as the train sped toward London. For the last two seasons of his men's-wear collections, Pilati has made a short film rather than having models parade down a runway. "A well-dressed man is someone you want to share an evening with, have a conversation," Pilati continued. "You don't want to see him on the catwalk. Whatever your sexuality, fashion is female." Pilati took a swig of water. "I know I sound contradictory," he said, "But even as a gay man, with women, my intent is in refining the curve of the female form. How beautiful is it to see the breast or the derrière moving on the street? We are all seduced by the blue of the sky and the red of the flower, why not the behind of a woman? It's just a beautiful part of nature."
Later that evening, around 9 p.m., Pilati arrived at Dover Street Market for the Édition 24 party, nearly two hours late, with Naomi Campbell on his arm. Campbell, who is featured in the fall YSL ad campaign, was wearing a beige YSL dress that was tightly fitted at the waist with black bouclé detail and then pouffed into a mushroom-shaped skirt. "I love Stefano's clothes," Campbell told a small throng of reporters. Pilati, who had changed into loose gray pants, a cornflower-blue jacket accented by a polka-dot pocket square and (strangely) New Balance sneakers, almost blushed. Stepping in, Valérie Hermann, wearing a fitted YSL dress in a reptile pattern, guided him toward the Édition 24 section of the store. "Everything is symbolism," Pilati said to a journalist as Hermann pulled him away. "Naomi represents the new world — in my mind, she is a mix of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton."
Dover Street Market is a six-floor shop devoted mainly to the Comme des Garçons empire. Interspersed among the various CDG brands are solo racks of clothes by designers like Rodarte and Alber Elbaz of Lanvin. The idea is to offer something in Dover Street that cannot be found anywhere else. Toward that end, Pilati designed a special Dover Street cloth shopping bag for every Édition 24 purchase. He shrunk the YSL logo until it looked like tiny scratch marks and scattered those shapes all over the canvas sack. "He's also only doing turquoise and red clothes for Dover Street," Hermann said.
Even with the addition of that charming bag and the colored clothing, the Édition 24 display was minuscule and hardly seemed worth a trip to London, much less a gala celebration. Pilati stuck close to Campbell, who investigated the two racks of Édition 24 clothing. There was a patent-leather trench coat that seemed to particularly intrigue her and a black cashmere wrap that she looped around her neck. "I said to Valérie that maybe the next Édition 24 collection should be all about health food," Pilati told a journalist. "It's the concept that's important: you can wear an expensive jacket with a very cheap T-shirt, and you're set." In fact, Hermann and Pilati were planning Édition Soir, which would allow a customer to order from a collection of 25 YSL evening dresses in a variety of colors and fabrics. "There's a need," she said. "French people don't really wear long dresses, but they need cocktail dresses, and what if you're the sister of the bride? Or even the bride? We want to be there if you need a dress."
Pilati lit a cigarette. "I always start out loving these events," he had told me on the train, "and then I quickly want to leave." When we exited the Eurostar, he looked over at a group of four men who had been holding a meeting during the entire three-hour trip. "I'm not a businessman," he said, shaking his head. "But actually that's not correct. I have become a businessman. The times require that."
At Dover Street, the reality of the epiphany seemed to be registering: "How often can you say that these clothes are a good investment?" Pilati said. He picked up a cardigan that had a small button detail on the lapel. "I would like everyone in the world to wear this," he continued, "but I'm not sure I want to be the one to say that."
It was around noon on a cool day in July, four days after the Dover Street event, and Pilati was concentrating on his fit model, who was standing before him in the fourth-floor YSL studio. One floor down was his personal office, with its curved 1960s Charlotte Perriand desk and a mannequin wearing a dress made out of zippers by Junya Watanabe, a designer Pilati has never met. The studio is large, with wall-to-wall cream carpeting and, at one end, a mirrored wall that conceals a dressing room. Pilati, who was wearing a midnight-blue cardigan designed to look as if it had carefully darned moth holes (although no moths were involved), was sitting in front of a long table flanked by two female assistants. He was wearing glasses, and he was smoking.
For the past few months, Pilati had been inventing this collection. "There's something intriguing about air," he told me cryptically in February, just days after he showed his fall collection. "I'm intrigued by flatness. So I need to refine the air with flatness." But adapting that general and perplexing mood required fabric.
From beginning to end, it's fabric that seems to speak to Pilati. Back in the studio, he picked up a piece of cloth and dropped it to the floor to see how it would fall; he scrunched up some linen in his hands and released it to test its body; he stretched a piece of nylon to gauge its elasticity; and he draped a triangular piece of metallic leather over his shoulder to study the iridescent shine in the mirror. "Show me the next look," he said in French as he stared at a swatch of black knit woven with tiny black pearls.
A slim brunette model emerged from the dressing room in a tunic that ended in harem pants. After designers create a look, pattern makers and assistants assemble something like a rough draft of the imagined garment — this would be the first time Pilati would see his spring collection on something other than a dummy. True to his vision of the air, the garment was transparent. "I don't like the naked bit," Pilati told an assistant, who was wearing a belted sarilike dress. He pinned the side seams to make it tighter across the bust. Pilati then pulled up the shoulder and asked the model to walk. "I'm not sure," he said. "Trop basic."
Pilati, who was going back and forth between Italian, French and English in nearly every sentence, studied the gray jersey fabric. He continued tweaking the jumpsuit while the assistants observed. "The roundness of the front is not correct at all," he said, sounding clinical. "We need to get the shape down."
The model was asked to change clothes, and she soon returned in a white skirt and a short-sleeved knit sweater. Pilati pulled at the nylon ribbing that finished the sleeve. "This is a little gay pride, no?" he said, pointing to the binding elastic. "I get scared when it looks random, like something that is not considered." He paused. "Personally, I would wear that." Pilati has been known to try on his women's collection in order to check the weight or movement of a garment. "I happened on him once in that state," Hermann recalled of seeing him in a petticoat. "I said, 'Stefano, take that off!' "
After he puzzled over a metallic knit twin set ("Why is this button brown? It's not like we need to invent something: mother of pearl is in nature"), disapproved of a gray sheath with a see-through panel on the back ("There's something vulgar about it — if you wear a bra, you will see it, and I hate to see the bra") and remained undecided about a T-shirt full of holes created by the application of acid on the fabric ("Maybe it's so bad that it's good — we need to leave room for accidents"), Pilati was finally impressed by a white, one-piece long-sleeved knit body suit. When the model appeared, he was speechless. He asked her to turn around slowly. "You go, girl," he said admiringly.
It was difficult to imagine how this skintight garment, which would be virtually impossible for anyone but a model to wear, would encourage the global marketplace to buy YSL, but it did reveal a provocative vision. "It's just a brick," Pilati told me later. "I see everything that I'm doing at YSL as another brick to build, build, build. Eventually, there's going to be a wall that will either separate me forever or a tunnel that will connect me to the world." Pilati laughed. "Maybe I'll open a window from time to time, but then again, maybe not."Continue reading the main story


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Monday, February 15, 2010
My New Normal
I haven't felt well in several months. The first time I actually remember thinking, "Something is wrong with me," was back in early November. I just generally felt bad. Extremely tired. Nauseous on and off. Just bad. But it was very easy for me to attribute it to other things, and so I tried to ignore. Then a month or so ago, I stepped on the scales and noticed I had lost around ten pounds that I had done nothing to lose. In fact, I felt like I was eating and drinking more than I ever had. I was a little freaked out, but let's be honest… a little psyched, too.
But then there was that almost always present 'bad' feeling. The only way I can describe it is that I would get up in the morning and think, 'How in the world am I going to tackle this day?' I felt like I could sleep all day everyday and could fall asleep in any situation throughout the day… driving, reading, talking with someone. It was irritating. And then one day I picked up a tube of moisturizer and couldn't read the writing on the back. I put on my glasses and still couldn't read it. And then I realized almost everything was a little blurry. Still, I tried to ignore.
In the back of my mind, I thought maybe my blood sugars were off. For anyone who might not know, I had gestational diabetes with Jeb, and it was very difficult to control. My endocrinologist said I had none of the risk factors that would make me a likely candidate, so when we had such a hard time managing it (and we had a VERY hard time), it was frustrating to everyone.
In my defense, I had no test strips left from my pregnancy, and they are extremely expensive to buy. So, I told Matt I should probably run up to the school and have the school nurse test me 'real quick'. But I never went. Two months passed.
I happened to be at Shiloh on Thursday. I had felt pretty bad all day, but honestly, after so many months, it had already become my new normal. L, the nurse, was in the hall, and I asked Matt to ask her if she could test my sugars. She is so sweet, and told him 'of course'. I can't remember the exact number since I've tested so many times since then, but my number was around 400. For random testing, normal numbers should fall between 70-125. A reading of 400 is not just bad, but really, really, really bad. L also tested me for ketones, and I tested positive—also bad. Ketones make your body too acidic and completely mess up the body's chemical balance. Ketones are what make things scary.
L had Matt call my endocrinologist while we were still in her office. I don't think she would have let us leave otherwise. And wouldn't you know it? No appointments were available till June. Luckily, Matt still had his contact info in his phone. He emailed him and explained what had just happened. Within the hour, the dr. emailed back and said 'Come right now.'
And so we went.
We were there past office hours. Everyone was so gracious and kind. A nurse did a blood test and determined that for the past 3 months, my levels have averaged around 400. The dr.'s words to Matt were, 'If she hadn't come in today, no doubt in my mind by the weekend or early next week, she would have been in ICU." Awesome, right?
Bottom line, I have Type 1 diabetes. It was once known as Juvenile Diabetes but can develop at any age. Basically, my pancreas has decided to stop producing the insulin I need, and it never will again. Unlike Type 2 diabetics, the foods I eat make no difference. Type 1 diabetics are insulin dependent.
I left the endocrinologist's office with a mountain of supplies and instructions to give myself a shot every two hours until my levels dropped from the 'dangerous' status and I tested negative for ketones. After 3 ½ days on that plan, he gave me the go-ahead to stop with all the shots and begin my new plan--which is testing levels before meals followed by a shot and a shot at night. That's just 4 shots a day. Much better. The actual giving of the shots are not as daunting to me as having to figure out how many carbs I'm about to eat and dialing up the shots accordingly. It's a pain. And I don't do math, so it kills me much more than giving myself shots all day. The good news (if you can look at it that way) is that my dr. said we will look at an insulin pump in the future so I won't have to do any figuring on my own. At first the thought of something being stuck to and in me was too much to even consider, but now, I think I would greatly prefer it.
Right now, my numbers are still high, but I'm hoping the current plan will bring them down quickly. The good news is--no ketones.
So sorry for the extremely long post, but this is for me to remember, too. I know it may sound weird, but as much as this all really really sucks and completely affects the rest of my life, I'm ok with it. I already feel a little better, and again, God has shown me SO much over the past several months. This is just part of what He is revealing to me, and I'm rolling with it. Because I trust Him, and I can do this. I'm ok with a new normal.
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- Anonymous said...
I am SO glad to hear that you are now under a doctor's care and so thankful for God's protection while you were SO busy taking care of everyone else.
Your attitude is good. You are such a precious person.
Love you and pls take care!!
Tammy Moore
- February 15, 2010 at 11:12 AM
- Erica said...
Wow. PTL you caught it just in time. What an inspiration you are, to not complain about it but to fully trust God in the midst of something so hard.
Thank you for sharing. I'll be praying for you.
- February 15, 2010 at 11:50 AM
- Superchikk said...
I'm so glad Matt was able to contact your specialist and you were able to go directly to him! I'll be praying for you. Please let me know if you want me to pray for anything specific.
- February 15, 2010 at 12:55 PM
- Leanne said...
Oh, Angela! Bless your heart! As always, you are an inspiration to everyone who reads your words. The way you handle things is amazing. I know how very scary sugar problems can be after dealing with it myself & with Emma, & I will be praying for you.
- February 15, 2010 at 1:04 PM
- Nel said...
Girl, I am so glad you had this checked and am glad you are feeling better. You have a wonderful attitude about it and God will be with you thru it. He never will put more on us than we can handle. Praying for you!
until next time... nel
- February 15, 2010 at 1:28 PM
- Aimee Bryan said...
Oh my heavens! You've been through A LOT this week! That's a big deal, but I know you can handle it! Praise Jesus for his hand in this. Bless Matt, the school nurse, the doctors, and of course your family!
- February 15, 2010 at 1:44 PM
- The Jordon Family said...
Angela! I am so glad you got some serious help.. that is so scary..
You will start feeling better soon.. Wow.. God really had his hand on you :)
- February 15, 2010 at 5:23 PM
- Chris said...
My dear friend, I am so thankful you had this checked! those school nurses are special. We have students with Type I diabetes at school and regularly keep them checked. I can tell when they come in and do not feel well. So I understand you not feeling well! Just so thankful that you found out why you were not feeling well. I will keep you in my prayers! Kiss your doctor for taking you in ASAP! He is special! AND your hubbie for keeping the email info!
- February 15, 2010 at 5:40 PM
- Josh, Lori and Reid said...
I agree with Chris...gotta give that hubby of yours some props for taking care of his love! Glad you are getting things under control. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help you. Your RusVegas peeps are thinking about you...
- February 15, 2010 at 6:15 PM
- Cindy said...
Praying for you friend. Another friend was recently diagnosed also. The new normal for her also comes with mixed blessings. God is good and He will direct your steps. Yes, it changes you life, yet at least there are choices for treatment.
Believing God will use this for HIS glory as you move forward:)
Blessings to you,
- February 15, 2010 at 8:41 PM
- April said...
Hey there friend! I just read your blog and heard about this, what a change for you. Health concerns impact every area of our lives and are never easy to conquer. But, remember that our faith and hope is not in medicine, doctors or technology, but the Lord alone - Jehovah Rophe. He has already given you peace, which shows me your faith is strong and you know He will see you through. Wish I was there in person to help, but I can pray. Take care of yourself and I will pray for your sugars, your management of care and your future. You are so strong, I know you will handle this! Sending lots of love your way!
- February 16, 2010 at 7:45 AM
- Liz said...
OH Angie! How scary. So glad that it was caught in time. Good luck as you figure out how to juggle everything!!
- February 17, 2010 at 11:31 PM
- Boni said...
ANGELA! I saw this and my stomach was hurting for your through the whole post!
I am so glad you are are taking care of yourself and under a doctor's care.
Your attitude about it all is amazing!
- February 18, 2010 at 10:51 AM
- Emily said...
Isn't diabetes fun!? Glad you are managing it so well!
- March 4, 2011 at 3:44 PM

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Details, Details, Details - Finding the Theme and Details in 3 Versions of a Story
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Objective: SWBAT compare and contrast the theme and details of 3 versions of the same story by different authors and make a connections to the world.
Big Idea: The fables differ in their plot and theme – let's look at the versions and make connections.
- The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig Eugene Trivizas
- The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Jon Scieszka
- The Three Little Pigs (traditional)
- 'Details Details' organizer worksheet
- Lesson vocabulary words from the Reading/Writing word wall: key detail, connect, theme, plot, retell, version, literature, evidence
You could use 3 versions of another fable if you want, but make sure they are different in their themes and plots
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Underlined words below are lesson vocabulary words that are emphasized and written on sentence strips for my Reading & Writing word wall. I pull off the words off the wall for each lesson, helping students understand this key 'reading and writing' vocabulary can be generalized across texts and topics. The focus on acquiring and using these words is part of a shift in the Common Core Standards towards building students' academic vocabulary. My words are color coded 'pink' for literature/'blue' for reading strategies/'orange' for informational text/'yellow' for writing/'green' for all other words)
Engage students:
"I have some stories today to read for you. Tell me what you think as I write and read the titles."
- The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
- The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
- The Three Little Pigs
Bring students to a common starting point:
- "So what do you think? We've talked about different versions of the same story before. Here are 3 versions of the story by different authors."
- "Today we'll compare the plot and theme of the stories."
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Teacher's Turn
Review concepts:
- Review 'plot'. How you use the headers for story elements. Using a visual reminder of the story elements helps for the kids generalize how the characters, events, problems and solutions interact in a story.
- Plot includes the key details of the story - what is really important." I reviewed a 'math problem' from a previous lesson. Character + problem + solution = plot
- Review 'theme'-'big message' that the author is trying to teach. (4-5 words long)
- I used this connecting plot and theme chart as a reminder of plot vs theme.
Model the strategy:
- Draw 3 houses on the whiteboard. "I have 3 houses here because there were 3 pigs. There were also 3 stories that I read."
- "We'll find the plot and theme for the 1st story. Key details for the plot are in the words and illustrations.
- Quickly read one of the books and have students brainstorm with you – THINK OUT LOUD - "The pigs built 3 houses – yes that's a key detail. The pig has a flute - does that help me understand the story better? So let's do our math problem – characters + problem + solution. What is the key detail about the problem? What detail could you write for the solution? Let's make a 'plot sentence' that makes sense." Here's the whiteboard example for this book.
- "What's the theme of the story? We'll have to infer– the author does not tell us. It's the big idea. Let's write the theme inside this triangle."
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Guided practice:
- "Now let's write the key details to make a plot and theme for the second book together."
- Pass out 'details, details organizer' worksheet. Let's fill in the first house with what we already have on the board." (Give students time to copy)
- Read book 2, making comments as you go… that seems like an important detail…. I don't think that part is a key detail. The problem seems to be….. This story seems to be about…. As you finish a story, give them a moment to write down their connection and reasoning." (I read the next story to the kids because there was not time to have the kids read them and they were above their reading level.) I also did do considerable prompting with the second story. Here's the whiteboard example book 2 and a video of some prompting for theme.
Independent practice
- Repeat with the third book
- See if you can figure out the details, theme and connections yourselves."
- I did put up ideas after the kids were mostly finished for my struggling students. Here are the prompts on the whiteboard for book 3 and how I prompted to get a connection.
- Here's an example of student artifact.
The emphasis in the Common Core Standards toward the ability to compare and contrast versions of a story (RL.2.9). Fables are a great choice for this because there are usually several versions. I chose this fable because the students are very familiar with it, but enjoy hearing the different versions. They are familiar with the details of the basic story, but the versions vary in theme and some plot details.
These fables are fun to examine for character development (RL.2.2), helping the students learn how to read closely and examine text to verify answers to questions. The characters change and develop in different ways in these versions and the students can understand the humor of the newer versions.
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Discussion and reflection:
- Students share their favorite version was and why they liked it. Give explicit text evidence.
- Students share their connections and why they picked the theme.
Encourage students to share their ideas and connections. You can gauge student understanding by listening to their connections. Were they shallow connections (I like the pigs' houses ) or deeper connections (The plot of this story switched the characters and we saw a different point of view.) Make comments on the kinds of connections that the students made. Also ask them to verify the reasons why they liked or didn't like the stories.
Scaffolding and Special Education: This lesson could be easily scaffolded up or down, depending on student ability.
For students with academic challenges more prompting will be needed. I did go through the organizer pieces with them to help them fill it out. I also 'modeled out loud' my thinking when I read – "I can make a connection to those beautiful flowers because I went to a garden and loved the smell!". Encourage them to make those deeper connections, even if you have to lead them through the process.
This is a great lesson for students with more academic ability. I would expect them to be able to write themes with higher level vocabulary ('do a favor for a friend' vs 'help your friend') and to create connections that are deeper ('he called the cops when he saw the wolf like the boy who cried wolf called the townspeople')


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What does someone with breast cancer expect, want, and need from a caregiver?
From the moment a loved one delivers the news of a breast cancer diagnosis, a host of questions arise about how your family is going to cope with everything that needs to be done in the days and months ahead. The role of caregiver can encompass a huge variety of responsibilities, large and small, and deciding who's going to do what is a process you and your family need to tackle together. Start by sitting down with everyone involved and making a list of everything that needs doing, so you can prioritize which ones you should focus on.
To get you started, here are some of the most common responsibilities that can come under the "caregiver" job description:
Helping with physical needs
- Communicating and coordinating with primary care physician, oncologist, and other medical staff
- Obtaining and helping organize medications, equipment, and other supplies
- Managing pain, nausea, vomiting, constipation, diarrhea, and other symptoms
- Handling grocery shopping and cooking, helping with eating and cleaning up
- Taking care of cleaning, laundry, and other household tasks
- Driving to and from appointments and running other errands
Helping with emotional issues
- Supporting and dealing with issues such as depression and anxiety
- Finding and coordinating membership in a support group or other supportive therapy
- Being available to talk through sadness, fear, and other emotional issues that arise
- Supporting her relationship with her spouse or partner
Helping with financial issues
- Paying bills
- Getting answers to medical insurance coverage questions
- Handling other insurance issues
- Planning long-term financial issues
Supporting her social life
- Helping coordinate visits with friends, family, support staff, and other community members so she doesn't become isolated
- Communicating with family and friends about her status and needs
- Helping her continue with favorite activities and hobbies
Breast Cancer Burnout
One caveat: It's important to recognize, from the very beginning, the dangers of caregiver burnout. There's no way you can take on all aspects of caregiving alone, and if you try, you're bound to grow frustrated and discouraged pretty quickly. Keep in mind that breast cancer treatment takes time, and you're at the beginning of a long and difficult journey. If you use up all your reserves of time, energy, and support at the beginning, during the "crisis" phase, you might not have enough stamina to hang in there during the prolonged phase of care management.
Your role will constantly change as you and the person in your care evaluate what she can do and what she needs you or someone else to do for her. "It will be a constant evolution as she goes through periods of helplessness and then through times of feeling empowered," says Bonnie Bajorek Daneker, author of The Compassionate Caregiver's Guide to Caring for Someone with Cancer . "You'll find you're constantly trying to balance between these two stances. You always have to adjust, depending on how she's feeling."
For example, Daneker says, it's common for cancer patients to feel strong and capable during periods between chemotherapy treatments, and then extremely fatigued and emotional during and right after treatment. Or you may find that the steroids often prescribed during chemo give the person in your care a short-lived energy boost that lasts for a day or two before dissipating, at which point the fatigue hits. "As a caregiver, you have to be so in tune with what the patient wants and needs," Daneker says. "It's important to be flexible and highly communicative to deal with the constant changes."
Breast Cancer Caregiving: What Are You Able to Do?
Becoming a caregiver for someone with breast cancer may be a role you choose, or it may feel like a role that's been thrust on you. After all, it's not easy for you -- or anyone -- to accept the idea that a serious illness has entered your life. You may struggle with denial and acceptance just as the person in your care is struggling with these issues.
By stepping into the role of caregiver, you're offering the incredible gift of having someone to turn to in a difficult time. It's important, though, to try to be as realistic as possible about what's needed, and about your own limitations, right from the get-go.
Start by accepting the fact that caring for someone with breast cancer is a very big job. Practical considerations such as whether you live nearby or at a distance, how much time you have available, how many other responsibilities you have on your plate (children? work?), and how comfortable you are dealing with certain situations will play a role in which aspects of caregiving you take on, and which you choose to delegate to professionals, family, and friends.
Talk as openly as possible with everyone involved about both your strengths and limitations as a caregiver, and explain what you're able to take on, and what you've asked others to do. You might say something like, "As you know, my job doesn't make it easy for me to take time off during the day, so I'm going to come to your oncology appointments, but Bob and Betty are going to take turns driving you to your chemo appointments."
One huge challenge you'll likely encounter is how to support and encourage her optimism and will to fight the cancer while absorbing information that can at times be frightening and discouraging. You may find yourself torn, for example, between wanting to say positive and encouraging things while still helping her face the reality of a less-than-positive prognosis.
How to Establish Lines of Communication as a Breast Cancer Caregiver
Talk with other caregivers, and you'll quickly learn that one of the hardest parts of being in this role is dealing with guilt, anxiety, and the constant feeling that you aren't doing enough. (That's why it's essential to let yourself off the hook: you're doing all you can, and that's good enough.) To help protect yourself -- and other involved -- from these feelings, you're going to need to set limits for yourself. And the key to doing this is clear communication.
You may, for instance, need to explain a little more than you ever have before about your job -- what your responsibilities entail, when you can get away, and when you can't. You may need to set some limits around your own family time, such as asking family not to call past a certain point in the evening unless it's an emergency, or setting up a phone tree so that calls about some issues come to you, and others are directed to your siblings or to family friends.
How to Set Expectations as a Breast Cancer Caregiver
Another way to establish limits is to set clear expectations with everyone involved, especially the person with cancer. What can she expect your help with, and what's b eyond the scope of what you can provide? Explain that while you're going to be the "point person" for caregiving, others will help you make sure everything gets done.
Using the list you made together of all the things she needs help with, focus on working together to assemble a reliable team of helpers to get it all accomplished. If you have siblings, set up a communications system that enables you to delegate tasks to them. Even those who live at a distance can take on a set of obligations. For example, you might give your sister on the opposite coast the job of dealing with medical insurance, or your brother could take over financial planning questions.
If you don't know all of your loved one's friends and neighbors, don't be shy about asking. Remind her about her bowling league, her church community, and any support network available, and ask how to get in touch with these folks.
Friends, neighbors, and other members' of her community will ask how they can help, and when they do, suggest that they pitch in with cooking, cleaning, driving, and other household needs -- then choose a specific task and assign it.
How to Set up a System for Breast Cancer Caregiving
To make everything run smoothly, you'll want to get your siblings, other family members, and other potential members of your caregiving team on the same page. What you especially want to avoid is the "Call me syndrome," where every problem that arises -- and there will be lots of them -- triggers a call to you. Protect yourself from becoming a communications hub by making clear who's doing what. You might say, "Sarah's handling insurance, so call her when you have questions about what's covered." If there's a friend or neighbor you can put in charge of coordinating driving for errands and routine appointments, then ask your family to call that person directly, and only call you when it's an appointment or errand that involves you. If it's hard for your loved one to keep it all straight, you might type up a list of responsibilities and contact numbers and tape it to the wall by the phone.
Another key to avoiding feeling overwhelmed is to marshal professional resources so that every issue that arises doesn't land on your plate. You might, for instance, need to discuss expectations about cooking, cleaning, and other household tasks. Perhaps there's money available to hire someone to clean once a week, or to call a handyman -- rather than you -- when routine maintenance issues cro p up.
One thing you'll probably start to realize fairly quickly is that there aren't any hard-and-fast rules for how involved or take-charge you'll need to be. There will be times when you'll be asked to step in and make key decisions, and other times when your role will be to simply listen and offer your emotional support.


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Letters from the trenches
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Excerpts from this compelling correspondence are published in the November 8 edition of The News.
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Local artist who were asked to paint "What does it mean to be a USA citizen?" or "What does the USA represent to you?
Jose Pena - "In this painting, I depicted the Atlas of Rockefeller Center in NY City. The Atlas is lifting or supporting a coin representing NY City as the world's leading financial center. The Lady Liberty symbolizes the American Dream; the dream that brought me to USA. I chose the Atlas at the Rockefeller Center because to me it represents strength and power and no matter what adversity the city faces; it will always rise.
Image rights: [c] Jose Pena; This image is owned by the artist and it is for use of this website only. Use of these image in any other matter will be subject to legal action.
This piece was painted for the "Divided State of America" at Studio 905 on Juniper on October 2013.
The Divided State of America", a provocative new, larger than life, nine-piece collection of paintings by San Francisco spray paint artist, Chor Boogie, commissioned by scientist, inventor, immigrant, and entrepreneur, Dr. Nirmal Mulye, highlights the tension between the broken pieces of an ideologically fractured America.
"The Divided State of America" made its national debut at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. in October 2012, and was lauded by critics and the public alike as "groundbreaking", "powerful", "disturbing", "provocative", "impactful", "inspiring", "timely", and "controversial". The traveling exhibit comes directly from California and is based on the original work.
The exhibit also included 12 local artist who were asked to paint "What does it mean to be a USA citizen?" or "What does the USA represent to you?"
About Jose Pena
Art making is the spark that fuels Jose Pena's life. Working in his studio is a spiritual experience that allows him to connect with his soul, and work to represent the natural splendor of the world. After working with realistic, figurative work in the 1990s, Pena has embarked on new trajectory toward nonrepresentational abstraction. The vibrant colors and dynamic compositions reference are inspired by Pena's memories of growing up in the Caribbean: the many blues of the ocean, the verdant forests, and the ever-changing sunsets. In addition to acrylic on canvas, Pena uses myriad tools to achieve his visions, including palette knives, cloth nets, various hardware, modeling paste, and found objects. Regardless of the materials, Pena always pursues a spontaneous building of color and form, allowing his instincts to erupt on the canvas.
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|06 Feb 2013
Hard Drive Capacity Meter Color Change
Hey all, long time lurker first time poster. This site has helped me change many an icon and other simple customization tasks so I thought I would ask this here. I'm trying to change the color of the meter that shows how full a hard drive is. It seems like it should be simple, but many things never are, and this is one item I haven't been able to find any info on but I know its possible through windowblinds (however, I don't want to run a 3rd party app just for an appearance).
I'm attaching a pic in case I'm not clear about what I mean. I have a very simple black and white theme going on and the light blue bar just kind of messes it up for me. Is this possible with a registry edit or file replacement? Possibly a setting I've missed? Any and all help is appreciated, thanks.
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Yes that is possible to change that is just a image.
To help you out I need to know if you are using a third-party custom theme or the default Aero theme, I need to know this so I can give you the right image number.
If it is a third-party custom theme post a link to it.
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Nope, no 3rd party themes or apps, just some downloaded icons and some registry tweaks to apply them. If it's just an image, its probably similar to changing the start menu background, right? I tried to do that following a guide (probably from here) but couldn't get it to apply, it just broke my aero.msstyles file, although I'm sure that was my error somewhere along the line.
But yes, default aero with personalized touches, nothing too wacky. Thanks for the help.
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OK when you edit the .msstyles it becomes a custom theme and you need to do 1 of these 2 ways of Enabling custom themes for it to work.
Enabling Custom Themes - Windows 7
Theme - How to Apply Custom Themes
But you should never use the original aero.msstyles to do your editing so you do not corrupt it, you should start a new theme from scratch, look at Post #38 of this thread Start menu color change ?? it will show you how to start a new custom theme.
That image you want to edit is #659, use this tutorial to edit that image (it is for the taskbar buttons that you can use it using that 659 number) Taskbar Button: Change Color of Orange Flashing Button
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Jackpot, thank you very much sir. And I realize that the start menu guide I followed wasn't the one you linked, so that's my next step. Thanks again
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|06 Feb 2013
You're welcome
Look at this I have mapped some image #s Where are the .dll and .exe files responsible for the look of windows?
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|06 Feb 2013
My god, you're my hero. I was just wondering why I haven't stumbled across a resource like that in my searches. +1 Interwebs for you, cheers!
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alright, one last semi related question because you are the most knowledgeable person I've come across, windows explorer background... its blazing white. I know I can switch to a classic theme and change it, but I'd much prefer not to. I know its possible with style builder and windowblinds, probably other apps, but I would really like to not use them. Is it possible with just restorator/gimp or registry edit? If not, I can live with it, but I'd like to squint less so making this gray would be awesome. I've scoured the internet and all info comes back to either switching from aero or using 3rd party apps.
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|07 Feb 2013
I'm sorry but that Explorer background can only be changed with Windows Style Builder and I will take your word on it for windowblinds(I have never used it)
I have Windows Style builder and I could change that color for you and post it here, it may be best you get all your changes done first and then post your .msstyles and then I can make the change, if I do it now it will change all your image numbers making it harder to find things for you.
Let me know
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Making Sense of Surface Area (day 1 of 2)
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Objective: SWBAT understand and compute the surface area of a 3 dimensional object.
This lesson introduces the idea of surface area without providing the new terminology. I don't want students to think that surface area is a completely new topic, separate from area. But I also want them to notice the subtle differences as well without me having to tell them. The tricky part about surface area is that one is finding a 2 dimensional measurement of a 3 dimensional object. Many times students have become confused by the adding component, because they have learned that area IS multiplying and perimeter IS adding. This happens a lot when students have learned in a very rote fashion without a focus on understanding. Having students struggle and figure out what's tricky about surface area with their partners helps them better understand the definition of surface area as well as its relationship to area in general. When they have a strong understanding of what it is they don't get confused about which operation to do.
Working with a physical model helps all students, including ELL students, demonstrate and build meaning. Asking students to represent their ideas in diagrams is also really helpful when developing new vocabulary and expressing mathematical ideas with each other. Having students make decisions and plan together helps them construct and critique arguments and also develop more precision in their vocabulary.
Warm up exploration
As a warm up task students in small "math family" groups are given a 3 dimensional object built out of connect cubes. They are asked to find the total area of the object. While they are trying to figure it out in small groups I circulate to check their thinking and to help them progress. I purposely do not introduce the new terminology of "surface" area. I have found that when I make such a distinction up front that students think that surface area is a new topic unrelated to the area they have already come to understand. I think it is important for them to struggle with making sense of the question to gain a better understanding of the concept and its connections to other math topics. Once they understand the concept the calculations fall into place. So, my job is to help students investigate the task and engage in some discussions that will help them build the idea of surface area.
There are several points where students are likely to become confused and several of the videos show how you can help them navigate:
- Students may find the volume volume instead by counting or calculating the number of "cubes" rather than flat surfaces.
- Some may be confused, but not be able to make sense of what is confusing them. Some of them may be able to articulate what is confusing about the question is that they are asked to find a 2 dimensional measurement of a 3D object. If they can then I ask what is 2 dimensional about the object so they start looking at the surfaces. Once they start identifying the surfaces I suggest they might want to draw draw them out.
- Someof my students have trouble representing the side with the steps and may need help integrating different ways to look at the steps. Asking students to show me helps them discover mistakes and can help them make adjustments to their thinking.
Once most of the groups have started drawing faces or sketching a flat pattern (net) and I am convinced they have the idea of finding the area of each of the surfaces I move on to the next section.
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Poster Planning
Moving on to this next stage does not guarantee that all students have a clear understanding of what surface area means. Planning their poster helps students continue to think about, ask clarifying questions, and develop their understanding. My job is still just to facilitate their group conversation and investigation. Asking students about their diagrams helps them think about and engage with each others ideas. Students are given a large piece of butcher paper and are told to make a poster that they can use to help show the class how they figured out the total area for the object. I tell them that each group is thinking a little differently from the others and I want them to be able to clearly express how they reached their solution. They should put on their poster anything that helps the class understand where their numbers came from and how they arrived at their final answer. They might include diagrams, labels to explain what the diagrams represent, and numbers that the group can refer to as they explain. Students have access to other supplies in the room as well like markers, rulers, etc. I didn't introduce the poster idea earlier, because I was afraid they would spend too much time making pretty pictures rather than representing their thinking.
As I circulate I am looking for a couple of things. I first want to make sure each group is arriving at the correct solution of 36 square units. Some groups are so focused on making their process clear that I may need to remind them to write their final answer on the poster. I first look for incorrect answers, because I don't want them to get too far along in their poster and feel like they wasted their time. For those that have the wrong answer I ask them to explain so that I can figure out where their thinking went astray to help me focus my questioning to get them back on track. Even for groups with the right answer I find that asking them to explain their process helps them decide how to represent it on their poster. I am also looking for what is unique at each group. I will tell the group that no one else saw it this way and I want them to make that part really obvious, because it will be new to the class and they will need help understanding it. I may ask questions like:
- "what made you realize that?"
- "what would that look like?"
- "how could you make that clear to your audience?"
- "show me where that is on the figure."
- "what does this drawing represent?"
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Before students leave I want to know how they have come to understand the idea of surface area. I tell them that what they have been calculating is the object's surface area and ask them to do a brief silent write to explain what they think surface area is. Then I ask them to share with their group and make any changes or additions to their original definition. Then I ask each group to share what they have come up with. Students have many different ways of explaining it and will use interesting vocabulary to express their ideas. Some responses are very mathematical in nature and some appeal to the visual/special sense, etc. Sharing these with the class can help students gain a richer more complete, nuanced definition. In addition, it helps me see if we need any redirection or further exploration before we move on the presentations in the next lesson.


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Victoria Mallory, the original Anne Egerman in A Little Night Music, has died of pancreatic cancer. She was married to Mark Lambert, who played Henrik Egerman in the same production. Their daughter, Ramona Mallory Lambert, played Anne in the 2009 Broadway revival.
Another sad loss to the Sondheim family, so soon after the irreplaceable Elaine Strich.
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