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Oooh - watch out for using garbage bags for anything other than garbage. I once lost an entire wardrobe of summer clothes because somebody got helpful and put it out with the trash.
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in lieu of buying 'spacebags' ive found garbage bags with a vacuum hose stuck into the open end sucks the air out the same way...
i like the vacuum sealers (think seal-a-meal), but tend not to buy in bulk, just buy items in a size that i will use all of before they go bad.
internet.... well i guess it depends on what you want to spend. if his clients are big accounts, you can spend as much as you want.
do a google search for 'sailnet and broadband' or 'sailnet and internet' and you will get plenty of info
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Why is it that when I go to post pic's I have only a 20.5k upload? How is it that other people can upload all the pics that they want knowing its over a 20.5k limit.
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Intracytoplasmic sperm injection combined with preimplantation genetic diagnosis for the prevention of recurrent gestational trophoblastic disease. | |
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PMID: 9159446 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
A strategy for the prevention of repeated molar pregnancies by using intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) coupled with preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) with fluorescence in-situ hybridization (FISH) was developed. In this approach, complete moles which arise from dispermic fertilization are avoided by the use of ICSI. ICSI is followed by preimplantation selection against the transfer of 46,XX embryos, thus preventing complete moles resulting from a fertilization of an inactive oocyte, by a haploid X-bearing spermatozoon which subsequently duplicates. Triploid partial moles which arise mainly from dispermic fertilization may also be prevented by ICSI. The preimplantation confirmation of diploidy by FISH guards against triploid partial moles which may result from mechanisms other than dispermic fertilization. The employment of this strategy in an attempt to prevent a repeated event of molar pregnancy in a patient with a history of two previous episodes of gestational trophoblastic disease is reported. |
B E Reubinoff; A Lewin; M Verner; A Safran; J G Schenker; D Abeliovich |
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Title: Human reproduction (Oxford, England) Volume: 12 ISSN: 0268-1161 ISO Abbreviation: Hum. Reprod. Publication Date: 1997 Apr |
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Created Date: 1997-07-22 Completed Date: 1997-07-22 Revised Date: 2009-11-19 |
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Really Hip to S&M: An enterprising dominatrix, The Empress finds fame, fortune and a whole lotta kicks, thanks to the guidance of our man Phil, her adoring, PR-churning disciple.
So what's a guy with a Ph.D. in history doing writing ad copy for a sexy dominatrix? Well, he's making a living while getting his kicks
By Kelly Luker
HE WAS BRILLIANT, FAST-talking, personable--and cursed with a mile-wide streak of self-destruction. Phil had a way of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory more times than even he could count. That dubious talent, combined with bipolar disorder--what you and I call manic depression--greased the skids for this successful businessman one more time just a few years ago.
This time, though, was bad. No spring chicken, Phil had long since lost that youthful c'est la vie attitude that had held him in good stead through the other times he'd run aground. By his mid-40s, Phil had learned at least one valuable lesson: poverty sucked. He liked butter-soft Cole-Haan loafers, not couch surfing. He longed for fat Maestoso cigars, not food stamps.
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IT'S TRUE, I GUESS, what they say about folks being like onions, each layer revealing a little more than the last. But I'd known this particular onion almost 10 years before getting to that particular revelation. In retrospect, it shouldn't have surprised me. Well, of course it should have--how many fellas do you know that worship at the feet of whip-snapping, epithet-hurling, latex-corset-wearing, raven-haired goddesses?
According to Phil, more than you'd think, but it's not the kind of tidbit one offhandedly drops over cappuccinos or while shooting pool at the local beer joint.
Given to grandiosity, big visions and sweet-talking, Phil had managed to shinny up the ladder of success a few times in his life. He had the good fortune to marry an heiress, and enjoyed furthering his education at her expense until she demanded he choose between her and his love for cocaine. The million-dollar marriage lost.
Phil's newly won doctorate in history earned him a teaching position at a small Northeastern college. But the tenure track was derailed by his newfound fondness for injectables--heroin, preferably--and his wanderlust brought him to the Greater Bay Area, looking for a way to make a buck.
All that scribbling and research for his thesis taught the man how to write, so he tried his hand at developing ad copy for a local community paper. Within a couple of years Phil had his own ad agency and a staff of eight toiling for him. The good life, like all the other times, was short-lived. The profits disappeared up his nose--he had abandoned smack for his first lady love, cocaine--followed shortly by his new Lexus, the tony office address, about every stick of furniture in his home and then, of course, his home.
Submissionary Position
THE MANIA AND DRUGS would fuel late-night litanies of the latest depths to which he had descended. It was in one of these midnight chats with me that he outlined his latest scheme.
In the uniquely American passion of combining business with pleasure, Phil would take his "top" to the top. Surely I knew he was a submissive, he said with some surprise. Like most coke-driven manic depressives, Phil had a hard time understanding that others didn't spend as much time pondering Phil--or Phil's sex life--as he did.
"The Empress," he called her. Phil couldn't help himself, he explained. He just wanted to worship cruel, domineering--and beautiful--women. And The Empress was breathtaking. Phil mailed a Polaroid of her stroking a riding crop, staring haughtily down into the camera's eye. A long, coal-black mane of hair just brushed the top of her breasts, shoved impossibly high by a shiny bustier.
The Empress charged $150 an hour to make men grovel, beg and do all sorts of things you'd be happier not knowing about (and you wouldn't believe anyway). At the pinnacle of his success, Phil could manage the yard-and-a-half every week for his hour of worship. But Phil was broke, and The Empress certainly wouldn't berate on credit.
It was pure inspiration, actually. With the right kind of press, would The Empress be any harder to move to the masses than Snapple or Toyotas or Sonys?
At 25, the gorgeous dominatrix had a fully equipped "dungeon" and was already pulling down a six-figure income without Phil's help. But fame, notoriety--to have the whole world worship at her stilettoed feet--that idea was almost as heady as a well-placed kick to one of her acolytes' backsides.
She was sold and put Phil on retainer.
Bound to Please: The Empress was sitting pretty. A drop-dead gorgeous dominatrix, she was pulling down a six-figure income making grown boys cry.
World Domination
SO PHIL TOOK TO researching the market. Too busy up until then with his own fetish, Phil didn't realize just what a big ol' twisted world this was. He discovered that he wasn't alone in his taste for humiliation and degradation.
The hidden world of "power exchange," as it's euphemistically known, turned out to be a multimillion dollar industry in services, publications, videos and gadgets.
The latex outfits alone could account for a generous slice of Goodyear's market share. The gang behind the handcuffs have been doing their own PR for years, touting their tortuous, nipple-tweaking path to orgasm as "safe, sane and consensual." In the wake of general queasiness about bodily fluids exchange, slap-happy folks are apparently lining up in record numbers to learn the ropes--and other restraints--of non-penetrating sex.
So Phil rolled up his sleeves, sharpened his pencil and went to work. Within months he was proudly recounting his success. The Empress had been profiled in two of the largest circulating "special interest" magazines, Domina and Encore.
Phil had set up a letter-writing service for those too shy--or too broke--to seek The Empress' favors in person. Ghostwriting her replies, Phil would dish out the abuse at $40 a pop. In addition, they could purchase one of her (worn) nylons for $15 or a pair of unwashed panties for $30.
Soon The Empress was jetting to Europe and Asia for $5,000 weekend sessions with royalty and CEOs. She began to make the tours of the hottest dungeons on the East and West coasts.
In the world of bondage, The Empress had arrived. Funnily enough, so did Phil. The drunken, rambling late-night calls lessened, then ceased altogether. When we chatted, he sounded clear and focused. Purposeful.
Who knows? Maybe he finally got the delicate alchemy of Lithium and Prozac just right. Or maybe he beat the demons of booze and blow that stalked him most of his life.
But if you ask me, I don't think he beat his demons. I think it was the other way around.
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Heh, some people I know were on vacation on one of the the Maldive Islands.
They survived, it wasn't really close to the epicenter.
Bummer for the people on Sri Lanka though... Lot's of people died there.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia - The world's most powerful earthquake in 40 years struck deep under the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra on Sunday, triggering tidal waves up to 20 feet high that obliterated villages and seaside resorts in six countries across southern Asia. Nearly 10,000 people were killed in the devastation.
Tourists, fishermen, homes and cars were swept away by walls of water that rolled across the Bay of Bengal, unleashed by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake around 7 a.m. The tsunami waves barreled nearly 3,000 miles across the ocean to Africa, where at least nine people were killed in Somalia, witnesses said.
At least 4,185 killed in Indonesia, the country's health ministry said.
In Sri Lanka, 1,000 miles west of the epicenter, more than 3,000 people were killed, the country's top police official said; that number, however, does not include the unconfirmed 1,500 deaths reported by rebels who control part of the country.
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The epicenter was located 155 miles south-southeast of Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province on Sumatra, and six miles under the seabed of the Indian Ocean. There were at least a half-dozen powerful aftershocks, ranging in magnitude from almost 6 and 7.3.
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Some of the worst devastation was in Sri Lanka, where a million people were displaced from wrecked villages. Some 20,000 soldiers were deployed in relief and rescue and to help police maintain law and order. Police chief, Chandra Fernando said at least 3,000 people were dead in areas under government control.
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"It is a huge tragedy," said Lalith Weerathunga, secretary to the Sri Lankan prime minister. "The death toll is going up all the time." He said the government did not know what was happening in areas of the northeast controlled by Tamil Tiger rebels.
The pro-rebel www.nitharsanam.com Web site reported about 1,500 bodies were brought from various parts of Sri Lanka's northeast to a hospital in Mullaithivu district, 170 miles northeast of the capital, Colombo.
About 170 children at an orphanage were feared dead after tidal waves pounded it in Mullaithivu, the Web site said.
No independent confirmation of the report was available, but TamilNet — another pro-rebel Web site — said some guerrilla territory was badly hit. "Many parts ... are still inaccessible and it was difficult to provide damage estimates or death tolls there," it said.
In India, beaches were turned into virtual open-air mortuaries, with bodies of people caught in the tidal wave being washed ashore.
"I was shocked to see innumerable fishing boats flying on the shoulder of the waves, going back and forth into the sea, as if made of paper," said P. Ramanamurthy, 40, who lives in Kakinada, a town in Andra Pradesh state.
The huge waves struck around breakfast time on the beaches of Thailand's beach resorts — probably Asia's most popular holiday destination at this time of year, particularly for Europeans fleeing the winter cold — wiping out bungalows, boats and cars, sweeping away sunbathers and snorkelers, witnesses said.
"Initially we just heard a bang, a really loud bang," Gerrard Donnelly of Britain, a guest at Phuket island's Holiday Inn, told Britain's Sky News. "We initially thought it was a terrorist attack, then the wave came and we just kept running upstairs to get on as high ground as we could."
"People that were snorkeling were dragged along the coral and washed up on the beach, and people that were sunbathing got washed into the sea," said Simon Clark, 29, a photographer from London vacationing on Ngai island.
On Phuket, Somboon Wangnaitham, deputy director of the Wachira Hospital, said one of the worst hit areas was the populous Patong beach, where at least 32 people died and 500 were injured.
Another survivor on Phuket was Natalia Moyano, 22, of Sydney, Australia, who was being treated for torn ligaments.
"The water kept rising. It was very slow at first, then all of a sudden, it went right up," Moyano said. "At first I didn't think there was any danger, but when I realized the water kept rising so quickly, I tried to jump over a fence, but it broke."
On Phi Phi island — where "The Beach" starring Leonardo DiCaprio was filmed — 200 bungalows at two resorts were swept out to sea.
"I am afraid that there will be a high figure of foreigners missing in the sea and also my staff," said Chan Marongtaechar, owner of the PP Princess Resort and PP Charlie Beach Resort.
Some 200 seriously injured people, most of them foreigners, were evacuated by helicopter from the island after dark, said Maj. Gen. Winai Nilasri of the Border Patrol Police. He said the island, which was crammed with tourist facilities, was without electricity.
There was no tsunami threat for western North America or Hawaii, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
Scientists said the catastrophic death toll across the region might have been reduced if India and Sri Lanka had been part of an international warning system designed to advise coastal communities that a potentially killer wave was approaching.
Although Thailand is part of the system, it has not yet been implemented for the western coast of the Thailand penninsula, where the waves came smashing ashore Sunday, the scientists said. The system relies on a network of earthquake seismic sensors and tidal gauges attached to buoys in the oceans.
Indonesia, a country of 17,000 islands, is prone to seismic upheaval because of its location on the margins of tectonic plates that make up the so-called the "Ring of Fire" around the Pacific Ocean basin.
The Indonesian quake struck just three days after an 8.1 quake struck the ocean floor between Australia and Antarctica, causing buildings to shake hundreds of miles away but no serious damage or injury.
Quakes reaching a magnitude 8 are very rare. A quake registering magnitude 8 rocked Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on Sept. 25, 2003, injuring nearly 600 people. An 8.4 magnitude tremor that struck off the coast of Peru on June 23, 2001, killed 74.
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Heh, some people I know were on vacation on one of the the Maldive Islands.
They survived, it wasn't really close to the epicenter.
Bummer for the people on Sri Lanka though... Lot's of people died there.
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Ack. Sucks to be them. Good thing I wasn't anywhere near there.
holy crap that was no good.... must've wiped out their entire supply of cheetos T-T
Hope they recover from som'n like that.
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Thats so crazy. I mean nothing like that really ever happens in the US of A so its hard to imagine what it must be like to see something like that happen. I've lived most of my life on the coast and to me its just nuts to hear abotu these sorts of things, a little frightening too but fortunately its not as bad here.
And I don't see why that comment should be considered funny... Have a little respect for the 13,000+ lifes that this horrible incident has taken...Originally Posted by jaderabbit
Yeah, all we get are the occasional bad president coupled with the average terrorist attack. I'm jealous.Originally Posted by Delerium
This is a terrible tragedy. I'm very saddened by this and am very worried about my mates/co-workers who have relatives in those countries and go there during this time of year.
Damn all of you who are using this as a sick excuse to joke.
Show some f-cking respect.


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Saturday March 21, 2015Welcome to New York, Ya Schnook
A week ago Saturday I landed at JFK Airport after our flight circled for 45 minutes. Visibility issues. We didn't come out of the clouds until we were maybe 40 feet from the ground.
Last time I landed at JFK—a year ago—I had to wait around for more than an hour before my luggage showed up, so on this flight I didn't check baggage. Did the overhead compartment thing that everybody does.
(Sidenote: I don't really get the economics of airlines. Why should passengers have to pay to check bags, which seems to inconvenience no one but yourself, but get to carry on big honking things, which inconveniences everyone? It makes boarding take longer, exiting take longer, requires more work from flight attendants. Shouldn't airlines be doing the opposite of what they do?)
Anyway I was practically whistling a tune as I was wheeling my luggage through JFK. Before I knew it I was outside, spotted the taxi cabs, and was heading in that direction when a voice interrupted my thoughts. "You want a cab?" I looked over. "Yeah," I said. "Follow me," he said. I assumed we would head toward the yellow cabs, but we went past them toward the parking lot. Were there cabs there, too? I wondered. But we didn't stop at a yellow cab. We stopped at an SUV-type vehicle.
"This isn't a cab," I said.
"It is a cab," he insisted.
"How much?"
"Seventy-nine dollars plus tunnel fee."
I was thinking, "I thought Patricia said there was like a flat fee of $50 for cabfare from JFK." But for some reason I let the momentum carry me along.
That could be the mantra (or lesson) of my life, by the way: For some reason I let the momentum carry me along.
To be honest, I didn't fully realize what I'd done until we were in traffic. That's when I looked around, noticed no meter, no official anything, and realized, "I just got into the car of a complete stranger at JFK Airport."
The dude got me where I needed to go but for almost double what it should have cost me. I don't know if he was a different branch of cabdriver or if I just got took like a schnook. I assume the latter. It was so disheartening it took me three days to share the story with Patricia.
Trailer: 'Knight of Cups' is Terrence Malick's '8 1/2' and 'La Dolce Vita'
Or has aspects of each anyway: the director who's lost his way, the journalist who's lost his soul.
"Knight of Cups" is apparently a Tarot card. From Wiki the wicked:
If the card is upright, it represents change and new excitements, particularly of a romantic nature. It can mean invitations, opportunities, and offers. The Knight of Cups is a person who is a bringer of ideas, opportunities and offers. He is constantly bored, and in constant need of stimulation, but also artistic and refined. He represents a person who is amiable, intelligent, and full of high principles, but a dreamer who can be easily persuaded or discouraged.
Reversed, the card represents unreliability and recklessness. It indicates fraud, false promises and trickery. It represents a person who has trouble discerning when and where the truth ends and lies begin.
One assumes the creative one is Malick, easily persuaded, easily made unreliable and reckless, by Hollywood in the ... '70s? "Let me tell you about you" means "I'll make you the you I think you are, while you lose you in the process."
Of course, we all lose you in the process, don't we?
But thank God for the conflict. Otherwise it looks too much like "To the Wonder," and that's Malick's weakest film. Bale is Affleck (Batman bros), and Portman, Poots and Blanchett are some combination of Kurylenko and McAdams.
Another concern: No script. It was all improvised. Malick is disappearing down the hole of his own creativity and he's either going to bring back something amazing, or drown.
Sheets again, too. They're replacing wheat.
"All of those years ... living the life of someone ... I didn't even know."
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Posted at 06:04 AM on Dec 16, 2014 in category Travels| Permalink
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EuroTrip 2014: Where is The Third Man Museum?
We were only in Vienna two full days, and our last full day began poorly but ended well. After breakfast we started walking toward the Kunsthistorisches Museum but realized—again, standing by the Hofburg Palace—that it didn't open for another hour. So what to do in the meantime? At this point it got a little "Marty": "What do you wanna do?" "I don't know, what do you wanna do?" P had done the research, knew what she wanted to see, I hadn't and didn't, and she was a little tired of leading the way. In the end, we decided to see something I wanted to see: Schreyvogelgasse 8. The doorway where Harry Lime first appears in Carol Reed's "The Third Man."
It took us to a part of town we hadn't walked before—westish—where it felt less touristy. It felt like people were rushing to work rather than to museums. Along the way, P spotted a café with insane looking pastries, Café Central, but we'd just had breakfast so we simply made a mental note to return. We missed one block, then another, but eventually, clumsily, we found ourselves at the doorway. Was it the doorway? There was no plaque. It was just ... there.
P was also tired having her picture taken and never getting to take mine. So here she reversed it. Get in that doorway, she said. I obliged. I tried to do the Harry Lime look, the amused, amoral "Aren't I clever?" look he gives Holly Martins after being discovered in the shadows. We tried once, twice, maybe 10 times. My eyes watered from the effort. That shit's tough. Then we switched places and P didn't try for the Lime look. She just owned the doorway. "One-take Patricia."
Is there karmic serendipity in giving up what you want for what someone else wants? Early in their relationship, my sister left her job in D.C. to follow her then-boyfriend down to Atlanta, but got a better job as a result. A few years later, after they were married, she got an even better job offer in Detroit so he followed her there ... where he got a better job as a result. Something similar happened to us that morning. P went to the "Third Man" doorway for me, but found, half a block away, at Ludwig Reiter, the purse she'd been searching for all over Europe. The shop wasn't open yet—when do the Viennese rise, anyway?—but she made a mental note to return. We left the area full of mental notes and digital photos.
We didn't approach the doorway for the Kunsthistorisches Museum—across the plaza from yesterday's Naturhistorisches Museum—until it was nearly 10:00, by which time a small line for tickets had formed. We got in it. And waited. And waited. And didn't move. I got out of line to see what the hold-up was, and wound up conferring with another dude, a math professor from Brazil, both of us marveling at the remarkable inefficiency of the Austrians. Here we all were at the biggest art gallery in one of Europe's biggest cities at the beginning of summer, and they had ... one ticket seller behind one glass booth? Really? In some ways it was comforting: a stereotype buster. Here was another: my guy from Brazil wasn't particularly interested in the 2014 World Cup, which was still in its middle rounds at that point. Probably good for him in the long run, considering.
We spent several hours at the Kunsthistorische—P is all about the Dutch Masters—then had lunch, then split up again for the afternoon. She wanted to stay, I wanted to check out a museum to "The Third Man."
My trip got muddled quickly. Most of the maps we had ended a few blocks south of the Ringstrasse, but the Third Man Museum was a few blocks south of that. Plus I got lost. Or misdirected. I convinced myself I was going in the wrong direction but wasn't. I kept trodding over the same territory and felt the panic of missing out. P was seeing tons of art while I was wasting my time here! That panic of missing out, of not taking advantage of my surroundings, followed me, in varying degrees, throughout the vacation. To be honest, all vacations. It's why it's almost a relief when the vacation ends. You can get back to work and relax a bit.
To get to the Third Man Museum, I eventually realized, I had to cross over the Naschmarkt, with all of its goodies ("Patricia should really see this," I thought), and the two busy streets on either side. Serendipitously, I wound up on Pressgasse, the street I needed to be on, and kept walking. A block later, after what seemed like hours walking around blind (it was probably a half hour at most), I finally spotted the museum on the corner of Pressgasse and Mühlgasse. It looked small and nondescript. It also didn't look very busy. As I approached I had a sinking feeling in my stomach that was confirmed when I got close: "Closed." The fuck? "Saturdays: 2-6 PM." One day? It was only open one day? For four hours? Shouldn't the guidebook have mentioned something like that? I rechecked it and found out it did—although it also mentioned Tuesdays. So instead of indulging in the bits and pieces of Carol Reed's classic, I took a few pictures from the outside. In my head, I kept hearing Calloway's dismissive advice to the idiot American abroad: Go home, Martins.
It took a while to find my way back to the Ringstrasse and the Kartnerstrasse, and once I did, and felt less tense (it was partly the hectic traffic outside the Ringstrasse), I wandered a bit, bought P macaroons at a small, snooty shop near our pension, then returned to our room and rested there for a moment. But there was no rest. The panic returned. In a day I wouldn't be in Vienna! I was wasting my time! So I bounded out again—quickly, quickly—and visited Mozart's residence on the other side of the Stephansdom. It wasn't bad but it wasn't great. Near the end, P phoned. She said she was on the other side of the Hofburg Palace and they weren't letting anyone through because there were cops everywhere because Vladimir Putin was in town. Putin? I was missing out! I rushed over ... and found P on this side of the Hofburg Palace, on Kohlmarkt, not at all blocked off by the many cops there. She was just confused. She had a new purse with her, too, from Ludweig Reiter, which she loved, but less so the designer. He also made shoes and when she inquired if he had any in her size, size 11, his reaction was a dimissive laugh. "No," he said, shaking his head, "we never have them in that size."
For dinner, we went north, up the Rotenturmstrasse until we hit the Wien river, then along the river and up some steps to St. Rupert's Church. This was a quiet area, and there seemed to be a few students around. Did I think that because of the name of the pub we stopped at for a drink? The Philosoph? It was the old Jewish section of town. It felt relaxing. For some reason, it's a highlight in my memory. Sitting at the Philosoph, on Judengasse, enjoying a cold beer, an Ottakringer, in the magic-hour light before dinner. For a moment, I didn't feel like I had to be anywhere else.
Tags: Europe Trip 2014, Vienna, The Third Man, Orson Welles
Posted at 05:54 AM on Aug 20, 2014 in category Travels| Permalink
Eurotrip 2014: Stephansdom, Ringstrasse, Naturhistorisches, Gasthaus
I'll confess: This was the first trip I felt old. Not because I couldn't walk the walk but because I couldn't read the map. The guidebook maps in particular. I'd look at them, blink, pull the book away, try to adjust to the proper range. "Hey, they made this print too small. They need to ..." Then the other shoe. "Oh. Shit." I went through the three stages of farsightedness: annoyance, realization, acceptance. Will scope out readers soon. Because carrying around two pairs of glasses just isn't enough.
The Pension Neuer Markt, where we stayed in Vienna, and which always made me think of John Irving's Pension Grillparzer—but without the bear and with a much better bathtub—offered, as had the Hotel Meteor in Prague, a breakfast buffet, in a cramped but elegant (but slightly frayed) dining area. We ate there every morning, and every morning when we returned to our room it had been cleaned. I assume, when we ordered coffee and they asked for our room number, that they relayed this information to the cleaning service, who went to work. However they did it, it felt efficient.
We were efficient on our first full day in Vienna. We shot the works at Stephansdom: bought the pass for the audioguide, catacombs, south tower, north tower and treasure. I did it all but the north tower, while P traded catacombs for art later in the day. How old is Stephansdom? Work began on it in 1304—or 188 years before Columbus sailed to America. Think about that. When Mozart was married at Stephansdom, when he lived a block away, it was already, at that time, nearly 500 years old.
After the audioguide tour and the south tower climb, fighting for space in the narrow stone stairs with hordes of kids on field trips, we ran into different versions of Wolfgang Amadeus selling opera tickets along the Stephansplatz. After our great experience at the Municipal House in Prague, we were interested in hearing music again, so I bought a pair of cheap tickets from a short, fat Mozart for about as much as it cost to shoot the works at Stephansdom. It was just money, right? Euros. Like play money. You just spend it. It's there to be spent. The bill arrived recently. Oops.
Since we missed the #22 tram in Prague, P was interested in taking the Red City bus tour along the Ringstrasse to get a better overview of the city, which we did, meeting, along the way, a ticket seller from Spain, who admitted he wasn't a big fan of German food. But the place across the street, he said, was good. We remembered the location more than the name: Plachutta: Gasthuas zur Oper.
We had no Wenceslases on this tour, just an audio guide, as we sat in the sun on the top deck of the bus. We didn't stay long. Patricia, with a penchant for taxidermy, had us get off at the Naturhistorisches Museum, with its small elephant statue in front and a Noah's Ark full of stuffed and mounted animals inside. The hallway was cavernous, the exhibits never-ending, Patricia in heaven. It was also fairly empty of tourists. Most people don't go to Vienna for the taxidermy. But you could tell, 100 years ago, that this was the thing to do: to collect and preserve different and exotic species for display for the masses. Back then, the exotic was natural and from some far-flung place on the globe. Now it's some two-dimensional phantasm, occasionally with 3-D glasses.. We also saw a good, frightening exhibit on "The Long Shadow of Chernobyl."
After lunch at the museum, and the remainder of the Ringstrasse tour (there's a Franz Grillparzer Street!), we wanted coffee, so stopped at the outdoor Mozart Café of the Sacher Hotel. P had talked all day about getting a Sachertorte, which, to my non-foodie ears, sounded like "soccer torte." It was fine but not something to travel to Vienna for. Meanwhile, I wanted a simple iced coffee but wound up with some distinctly Viennese concoction. It rose up in the glass, impossibly white and fluffy, with various cookies stuck into it. If I must.
Traveling together as a couple is a bit of a test. You wake up together, eat together, plan together, walk together, visit the same things together, eat together again. For dinner one night, we sat down, looked over the menu, ordered, looked at each other. Silence. Finally I broke it. "So how was your day?" I asked. That's why it's always a good idea to split up every now and again, which we did that afternoon. P wanted to see the Durer exhibit at the Albertina, and I walked her there. Of course, us being us, we got lost. We walked as far as the Hofburg before she realized her mistake and backtracked. I stuck around there, though, basically kicking stones and taking pictures and going my own way.
Ten minutes later my phone rang—my first call in Europe! Patricia, of course. She said I just had to see the steps at the Albertina. Plus, right next to the Albertina, was a museum to film, which I needed to check out, too. So I walked over, saw Durer's rabbit painted on the steps, entered the sedate Film Museum. But the name was a misnomer. It was basically a movie theater that showed art films in the evenings. The good news? On the way back to Stephansdom I saw a relief of Franz Grillparzer. See slideshow below.
It was a hot afternoon and so a tour of the catacombs at Stephansdom sounded like a good idea. An hour later, after spending time walking down cool stone steps in cool hallways and viewing the bones of the victims of centuries-old pestilence, I emerged into Stephansplatz, where P, waiting, was full of stories. Together we toured the Treasures section of St. Stephens, which included many reliquaries, of which P, a good, wayward Catholic girl, was a fan. For dinner, we followed the advice of our Spanish tour guide (the gasthaus near the Opera) and didn't regret it. I regretted the opera a bit. It wasn't the national opera, near the gasthaus, but a few blocks further south: "Mostly Mozart." Crowded and kitschy. They let the tourists on stage, sitting there in their shorts, which P thought a bit gauche. Or at least linke. But the music was good. As in Prague, a lot of "Magic Flute."
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Posted at 06:09 AM on Aug 01, 2014 in category Travels| Permalink
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Alan Wake coming to the PC
Steam's registry indicates that Alan Wake is coming to the PC
This is huge, this is really huge. According to Steam's registry, Alan Wake is coming to the PC. Although we don't have any specific release date, we do know that those registry entries are as valid as they can get. We've also captured a screen from this registry entry that can be viewed bellow. In case you were unaware of, Sonic Generations' PC version was leaked in the same way, so there is no doubt about the validity of the source. Steam's registry does not lie, that's a fact. Bottom line is that Alan Wake is coming to the PC, it's semi-official now.
Let's also not forget Remedy's Aki Järvilehto statement:
"We have received feedback from a lot of PC gamers, and I have to admit that yes, we somehow ignored that. Let's see if in the near future we could have some positive news to tell you about dating!"
This can be easily translated as "We are developing it and will let you know about its release date". The key word here is dating. Aki could easily had stated that they might have some good news about the development of a potential PC version. But no, Aki intentionally used the word 'dating' which hints to a future release of Alan Wake to the PC.
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US 4846807 A Abstract A continuous frame of resilient foam material is strapped to a patient with a central aperture of the frame surrounding the puncture area of an intravenous (IV) needle inserted into the patient. A separate dome with ventilation apertures is attachable over the central aperture of the frame to shield the needle. The IV tube is anchored to the frame at a plurality of different locations such that tension applied to the tube is not transmitted to the needle to dislodge it.
Claims(6) 1. In mechanism for securing an IV tube extending from an IV needle inserted in a patient which mechanism includes an anchor member, means for securing the anchor member to the patient adjacent to the puncture area of the IV needle and means for securing such tube to the anchor member, the improvement comprising the anchor member having a generally U-shaped cut defining an opening, the tube-securing means including a flap normally closing said opening but raisable relative to the remainder of said anchor member for insertion of the IV tube thereunder to retain the IV tube engaged between said flap and the marginal portion of said anchor member adjacent to said cut.
2. In the mechanism defined in claim 1, the anchor member including a sheet material portion having the generally U-shaped cut, such cut being in the form of a narrow slit with substantially circular holes at the opposite ends thereof, the flap being integral with such anchor member portion for swinging substantially along a line extending between said holes for insertion of the IV tube thereunder to fit in said circular holes.
3. In the mechanism defined in claim 1, the flap being integral with the remainder of the anchor member.
4. In the mechanism defined in claim 3, means for biasing the flap toward the remainder of the anchor member after insertion of the IV tube under the flap.
5. In the mechanism defined in claim 4, the biasing means including a strap and means for retaining said strap extending snugly over and engaged against flap.
6. Mechanism for protecting an IV needle inserted on a patient and having an IV tube extending therefrom comprising a continuous frame having a central aperture, means for securing said frame to the patient with said aperture surrounding the puncture area of the IV needle, and means for anchoring the IV tube to said frame, said securing means including an ankle cuff, means for securing said ankle cuff to the lower leg of the patient and means for securing said frame to said ankle cuff over the foot of the patient.
Description This is a continuation of copending application Ser. No. 858,143. filed on Apr. 30, 1986, now abandoned. 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a device that can be strapped to the body over the location of insertion of an intravenous (IV) needle to shield the puncture area against contact and for anchoring the IV tube so that the needle will not be pulled out inadvertently. 2. Prior Art It is known to apply a self-adhesive sheet, film or membrane over the area of insertion of an IV needle into the body, primarily for the purpose of keeping the area clean. The covering sheet does not substantially protect or anchor the needle or IV tube. The rigid connector between an IV needle and its tube sometimes is covered by a small plastic pill cup which is taped to the body, but the cup does not offer substantial protection against dislodging the needle by tension exerted on the tube. The problem of protecting the area of the body into which an IV needle has been inserted and anchoring the IV tube in such manner that dislodging it inadvertently is unlikely is of particular importance for children with an illness requiring frequent or prolonged hospitalization. Under current techniques, a child quickly develops a fear of the needle and goes to extremes in trying to protect it, yet may inadvertently dislodge the needle, sometimes while asleep. Consequently, the activity of the child can be affected adversely and, of course, the health of the child may be jeopardized if dislodgment of the needle is not detected for a substantial period. In addition, it can be extremely important that an IV needle remain inserted as intended if there are few or no remaining veins accessible without surgery. The principal object of the present invention is to provide a device for shielding the area of the body into which an IV or other needle for introducing therapeutic liquid is inserted and for anchoring the IV tube closely adjacent to the point of insertion such that painful contact of an object with the IV needle is unlikely and tension applied to the IV tube will not be transmitted to the needle so as dislodge the needle. An additional object is to provide such a device in simple, compact, inexpensive form, easy to use and reliable for shielding the IV needle and anchoring the IV tube for a long period even on infants or children. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the foregoing object is accomplished by a continuous frame of resilient foam material with a central aperture of a size sufficient to surround the puncture area of the IV needle. A separate dome or shield with ventilation apertures is attachable over the central aperture of the frame. The IV tube is threaded through a slot and under tabs in the frame to a return bent, or, preferably, serpentine path, and is maintained in position by straps which also secure the frame and dome combination to the body. FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic top perspective of an IV tube anchor and shield in accordance with the present invention with some parts only partially assembled, illustrating application of the device to the back of the hand of a patient. FIG. 2 is an enlarged, fragmentary, top perspective of a corner portion of the IV tube anchor and shield shown in FIG. 1. FIG. 3 is a top perspective of the IV tube anchor and shield shown in FIG. 1, but with parts assembled, illustrating application of the device to the underside of the wrist of a patient; and FIG. 4 is a section along line 4--4 of FIG. 3. FIG. 5 is a top perspective of a slightly a slightly modified form of an IV tube anchor and shield in accordance with the present invention mounted on a larger cuff; and FIG. 6 is a side elevation showing such modified form and cuff applied to the foot of a patient. FIG. 7 is a front elevation of the upper body portion of a patient with an IV tube anchor and shield in accordance with FIG. 1 applied over the chest. FIG. 1 illustrates a representative type of IV needle 1 and its immediately adjacent rigid needle and tube holder 2 with the usual narrow IV tube 3 that extends to the male component 4 of a joint 5. Such joint includes the female component 6 on the end of the usually larger IV tube 7 which extends to a metering device controlling the flow of therapeutic liquid from a bottle or other reservoir. The needle is inserted into a convenient vein which may be on the back of the hand as shown in FIG. 1. The rigid needle holder 2 and immediately adjacent area usually are covered by a thin sheet, film or membrane 8 which has a self-adhesive bottom surface and which is intended to keep the puncture area clean. In accordance with the present invention, the area of insertion of the needle 1 and its holder 2 is surrounded by an anchor member or frame 9. The frame has a central aperture 10 fitted over the covering sheet 8. The short narrow section of IV tube 3 from the rigid holder and connector 2 to the joint 5 extends under an end of frame 9 and upward through a slot 11. The inner portion 12 of the slot can be slightly enlarged to snugly retain the tube in position without crimping or kinking it. Next, the tube section 3 is fitted under a flap or tab 13 in an adjacent corner portion of the frame. As seen in FIG. 2, the tab 13 can be bent upward so that the tube can be inserted under the tab so as to be lightly clamped between the the tab and the remainder of the frame. Preferably, the tab is integral with the remainder of the frame and is formed by a generally U-shaped cut or slit with enlarged circular portions 14 at the opposite ends for snugly receiving the tube without kinking or crimping it. The tab normally closes the opening of the frame defined by the slit. The joint 5 joining the tube sections 3 and 7 can be fitted in a recess 15 in the frame, at the same side of the frame as the corner tab 13. The other corner portion of the frame at the same side has a flap or tab 16 identical to the tab 13 for receiving the tube section 7. The opposite ends of the frame have strips of fastening material 17, preferably the hook type material of hook-and-pile fastenings. Straps 18 of the pile, loop or foam type fastening material which is complementary to the hook type fastening material can be looped around the hand and wrist for securing the frame in position. As best seen in FIGS. 3 and 4, preferably the straps extend directly over the tabs 13 and 16 to hold the tabs down and prevent the tubes 3 and 7 from escaping. In assembled condition, the IV tube 3, 7 is turned at the frame slot 11, again at tab 13 and again at tab 16. Preferably the tube is return bent at least once and follows a serpentine path. The tube is anchored to the frame at two, preferably at least three, of the turns of such path, making it extremely unlikely that tension applied to the tube 7 will be conveyed to the tube section 3 adjacent to the rigid connector 2 so as to dislodge the needle. In the preferred embodiment, the central aperture 10 of the frame 9 can be closed by a removable rigid dome or shield 20 having ventilation apertures 21. The dome can have a flat marginal flange portion 22 with one type of the complementary fastening material along the underside of the flange to mate with the other type of fastening material arranged in a circumferential strip 24 along the top margin of the frame aperture. With the shield in position, the puncture area is substantially enclosed. In the preferred embodiment, the frame is somewhat resilient and flexible closed cell foam material of a thickness of about 1/4 inch (0.63 cm) to about 1/2 inch (1.27 cm). FIG. 3 illustrates the assembled frame, strap and dome construction as applied to the underside of patient's wrist. As seen in FIG. 4, if the frame is of a thickness less than the height of the rigid needle holder portion 2, the dome or shield 20 must have a concave underside allowing room for such holder and protecting the holder and needle from inadvertent contact. The slightly modified frame 9' shown in FIG. 5 is identical to the frame shown in FIGS. 1 through 4 with the exception that strips 30 of one type of the hook-and-pile fastening material are secured to the underside of the frame 9' along its longitudinal side edges to adapt the frame for attachment over a cuff 31. The cuff is contoured to fit around the bottom of the foot and the back of the ankle portion of a patient as shown in FIG. 6 and can be secured in position by quick-coupling straps 32. The frame 9' is positioned over the top of the foot, between the opposite sides of the cuff, where there is a vein which can be used for intravenous introduction of liquid. Additional straps 18' extend over the opposite ends of the frame to retain its tabs 13 and 16 in position after the IV tube sections 3 and 7 have been fitted under them. Consequently, the frame is maintained securely in position over the top of the foot to protect the IV needle inserted in that location which is common for hospitalized children. FIG. 7 illustrates the assembled combination of frame 9, straps 18 and dome 20 as applied over the chest of a patient. Straps 18 are looped over one of the patient's shoulders and have their opposite end portions secured to a larger chest strap 40 at the front and back of the patient, respectively. Insertion of an IV needle in the chest area may be desired for dialysis, chemotherapy or infant intravenous feeding. As in the previously described embodiments, the puncture area is protected by the dome or shield 20 and the IV tube 3, 7 extends through the frame end slot 11 and under the corner tabs 13 and 16 which are held down by one of the straps 18--such straps preferably having patches or strips of fastening material positioned for mating with complementary patches or strips of fastening materials mounted on the frame 9 to hold the tabs down and secure the frame in position. Patent Citations
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Interface Properties
Properties can be declared on interfaces. The declaration takes the following form:
[attributes] [new] type identifier {interface-accessors}
- attributes (Optional)
- Same as properties on classes.
- type
- Same as properties on classes.
- identifier
- The property name.
- interface-accessors
- The property accessors. See the Remarks section below.
The accessor of an interface property does not have a body.
Thus, the purpose of the accessors is to indicate whether the property is read-write, read-only, or write-only.
The following is an example of an interface indexer accessor:
public interface IMyInterface { // Property declaration: string Name { get; set; } }
In this example, the interface IEmployee
has a read-write property, Name
, and a read-only property, Counter
. The class Employee
implements the IEmployee
interface and uses these two properties. The program reads the name of a new employee and the current number of employees and displays the employee name and the computed employee number.
// cs_interface_properties.cs // Interface Properties using System; interface IEmployee { string Name { get; set; } int Counter { get; } } public class Employee: IEmployee { public static int numberOfEmployees; private int counter; private string name; // Read-write instance property: public string Name { get { return name; } set { name = value; } } // Read-only instance property: public int Counter { get { return counter; } } // Constructor: public Employee() { counter = ++counter + numberOfEmployees; } } public class MainClass { public static void Main() { Console.Write("Enter number of employees: "); string s = Console.ReadLine(); Employee.numberOfEmployees = int.Parse(s); Employee e1 = new Employee(); Console.Write("Enter the name of the new employee: "); e1.Name = Console.ReadLine(); Console.WriteLine("The employee information:"); Console.WriteLine("Employee number: {0}", e1.Counter); Console.WriteLine("Employee name: {0}", e1.Name); } }
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Sample Output
Enter number of employees: 201 Enter the name of the new employee: Hazem Abolrous The employee information: Employee number: 202 Employee name: Hazem Abolrous
In the preceding example, you could use the fully qualified name of the property, which references the interface in which the member is declared. For example:
public string IEmployee.Name { }
However, the fully qualified name is only needed to avoid ambiguity when the class is implementing more than one interface with the same property signature. For example, if the class Employee
is implementing two interfaces ICitizen
and IEmployee
and both interfaces have the Name
property, the explicit interface member implementation will be necessary. That is, the following property declaration:
public string IEmployee.Name { }
implements the Name
property on the IEmployee
interface, while the following declaration:
public string ICitizen.Name { }
implements the Name
property on the ICitizen
For more information, see 13.4.1 Explicit interface member implementations.
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Properties | Accessors | Comparison Between Properties and Indexers


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Name: | Micahel J. S. Cafferata | |
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Title: | Economic Comparisons Between an Even-Aged and an Uneven-Aged Loblolly Pine Silvicultural System | |
Degree: | Master of Science | |
Department: | Forestry | |
Committee Chair: | W. David Klemperer | |
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Keywords: | uneven-aged silviculture, even-aged silviculture, loblolly pine, Net present value, NPV, Economic Comparisons | |
Date of defense: | May 28, 1997 | |
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This study compares financially optimal uneven-aged and even-aged silvicultural regimes of loblolly pine (Pinus Taeda). Uneven-aged regimes which maximize net present value (NPV) are found by quantifying the effects of diameter distribution (Q factor), maximum diameter, cutting cycle, and residual basal area on NPV. For the benchmark inputs, the regime yielding the highest NPV had a maximum diameter of 12 inches, residual basal area of 45 ft2/acre, and a cutting cycle of 11 years. Financially optimal even-aged regimes are taken from published literature of even-aged silviculture. Even-aged and uneven-aged silvicultural regimes are simulated starting from, 1) bare land, 2) a balanced uneven-aged loblolly pine stand, and 3) a mature even-aged loblolly pine stand. For the three starting conditions and selected benchmark variable values, simulation of even-aged silviculture yields NPVs of $877, $2,152 and $3,400 per acre and simulation of uneven-aged silviculture yields NPVs of $644, $2,084, and $2,569 per acre. Sensitivity analysis shows, for the levels of the variables tested, that even-aged silviculture yields higher NPVs than uneven-aged silviculture when starting from bare land or from a mature even-aged stand. When starting from an uneven-aged stand, for the variable values tested, uneven and even-aged silviculture are financially very competitive.Aside from the aesthetic benefits of avoiding clearcutting under uneven-aged silviculture, non-timber considerations between loblolly pine silvicultural systems are not well documented. Resource professionals hold opinions often in direct conflict with each other regarding the non-timber costs and benefits of even-aged and uneven-aged silviculture when considering wildlife, soil and water, and catastrophic damage events.
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Who thought there'd be nothing funner
Than to blog about feet
And how they're so neat
But now, he is all done-r.
Annoyance Of De Feet: Victoria Marathon Race Report
Let me start off by coming clean: I started the race off with a blatant lie. A guy with a news camera saw me and my shodless self at the start before the race and asked me the usual questions. One of the questions was "Have you ever run a marathon in shoes?" "Yes," I answered honestly. Then dishonestly I added, "all my slowest marathons were in shoes."
I have no idea why I said that. It just came out. You all know, since you surely keep track of these things, that before this race my fastest, second fastest, and third fastest marathons were in shoes. So sorry about that.
I told another lie on the course. Noticing my feet (I swear, they get all the attention), someone said, "You must have read Born To Run." I replied, "Read it? I was REFERENCED." That lie I won't apologize for, because it was funny.
The roads were much rougher than I thought they would be with many long stretches of chip seal. I've gotten to the point in the art of barefootery that I could run fast on the stuff without it hurting, but it still wasn't fun. I also couldn't afford any sloppiness – stomping was out of the question. After a while, I would have liked the option to stomp. Just a little. That stuff is so obnoxious. I was mad at shoes. If people didn't wear shoes, chip seal would never have been invented.
My training was spectacular. Over a thousand miles in fifteen weeks, hitting all the suggested paces for a projected 2:50 marathon, and I felt great. Still, I planned on playing it conservative for race day. My actual goal was anything below 2:58:48. I ran accordingly, pacing twelve-to-fifteen seconds per mile slower than what the training suggested I was capable of. That didn't matter, though, as I started falling apart before halfway. Just like my previous marathon at Umstead. And, frankly, almost every other marathon I've ever run. As early as mile eight I had a sense of foreboding, even though I wasn't breathing hard and my legs felt fine.
Mile twenty-one I was too far behind the pace to meet my goal, so I stopped at the beer aid station. "You're not pregnant, are you?" they asked before giving me a little cup of IPA, "Because that would make you barefoot and pregnant!" After swigging down the liquid mood-elevator, I said, "Nope, and I'm not in the kitchen, neither. I'm sure as hell not cooking. I'm cooked." I slowly hobbled on my way, wishing I had instead just hung out with those guys the rest of the day.
Mile twenty-two: left hamstring cramped mightily. I only cramp in marathons, never in training. I should be studied by science.
Lots of walking, even though I had some fuel left in the tank after recovering from the cramps. I didn't even breathe hard the entire day. I was defeated and SO SICK OF STUPID CHIP SEAL OMG WHY DOES THIS STUFF EXIST IT IS SO STUPID AND ANNOYING.
"I can't hear you right now bro, I'm locked in," said an earbud-wearing barefoot runner who had caught up to me a mile-and-a-half from the finish. "I'm in a lot of pain, man," he continued. Using gestures and facial expressions, I said, "Me too." The race had not gone according to plan at all. I was depleted and depressed. Maybe I could salvage a bit of the day, and at least be the first barefoot finisher. I started pushing the pace, ignoring my tight hips and aching hamstrings. My barefoot competition kept up. "Yeah, man," he said as we accelerated. 800m to go. Someone in the crowd yelled "IT'S A BAREFOOT BATTLE!" I felt like crying but pushed on, getting faster. "YEAH MAN." He kept saying that, matching me stride for stride. YEAH MAN!" The dude was totally getting off on the pain. Now he was controlling the pace. 400m, I quit. "You got me," I whimpered to no one, slowed down, and watched him finish thirty seconds ahead.
3:20:05 said the clock. My fastest barefoot marathon, second fastest marathon overall. Just a few years ago I never thought I'd be able to run a marathon that fast. My feet are in excellent condition, and the rest of me is uninjured. Of course those perspectives hold no weight at all. On the walk back to the hotel I tried not to wallow too much, because I didn't want to take away from Iris' excellent PR-smashing performance in the half. Fortunately, she was a little bummed too because she thought she could have gone even faster than she did. Running is so fun sometimes. Yay.
"Oh, that is SO unhealthy – you need to put some shoes on. SO unhealthy," cautioned a concerned busybody woman as we staggered among other staggering marathon finishers. "Lady, YOU'VE BEEN LIED TO!" I retorted. "SO UNHEALTHY!" she shot back. Ugh. Whatever.
In my tired state, I kicked the curb HARD. "Ow, you okay?" asked Iris. "Yeah, I'm fine. It would be a fitting end to the day, though, for me to break a toe walking around after finishing a marathon barefoo…" WHACK! I kicked another curb. "Um, maybe you should put some shoes on," suggested Iris as politely as she could under the circumstances.
Shannon planted a seed in my head: I should do another marathon right away. Like, in three weeks. If I can't find a race nearby, maybe I'll just run it. Enough writing, time to start looking for races and/or routes. Wow, that was a short epilogue.
What To Wear?
One of the hardest parts about a Goal Marathon: what to wear? Shorts are easy enough (the shortest ones I've got, of course); but the shirt? Here are the options:
Umstead Tick Shirt:
Pros: easy to pick out in a crowd, tradition, bugs
Cons: a little heavy, tight around the neck, living in the past
Ink'n Burn Blue Mountain Shirt:
Pros: aesthetically pleasing, looks like our new home, accolades from the Ink'n Burners
Cons: a little long in the torso, blue hard to pick out in a crowd, attention from Ink'n Burners would make failure more public
Shirtless (SDBC):
Cons: chilly at the start (low-mid 40s), bib-rules, traumatizing for onlookers
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