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A phobia is an overwhelming and unreasonable fear of an object or situation that poses little real danger but provokes anxiety and avoidance. Unlike the brief anxiety most people feel when they give a speech or take a test, a phobia is long lasting, causes intense physical and psychological reactions, and can affect your ability to function normally at work or in social settings.
Several types of phobias exist. Some people fear large, open spaces. Others are unable to tolerate certain social situations. And still others have a specific phobia, such as a fear of snakes, elevators or flying.
Not all phobias need treatment. But if a phobia affects your daily life, several therapies are available that can help you overcome your fears — often permanently.
Phobias are divided into three main categories:
No matter what type of phobia you have, it's likely to produce the following reactions:
An unreasonable fear can be an annoyance — having to take the stairs instead of an elevator, for instance — but it isn't considered a phobia unless it seriously disrupts your life. If anxiety affects your ability to function at work or socially, consider seeking medical or psychological treatment. Most people can be helped with the right therapy.
Much is still unknown about the actual cause of phobias. However, there does appear to be a link between your own phobias and the phobias of your parents. This could be due to genetics or learned behavior.
These factors may increase your risk of phobias:
Although phobias may seem silly to others, they can be devastating to the people who have them, causing problems that affect many aspects of life.
If you've made the choice to seek help for a phobia, you've taken a huge first step. Start by talking to your primary care doctor. Depending on your situation, you may be referred to a mental health provider for evaluation and treatment.
These suggestions can help you get the most from your appointment.
Prepare questions to ask your doctor ahead of time, such as:
Don't hesitate to ask questions at any time during your appointment.
Be ready to answer your doctor's questions so you have time to focus on points you want to talk about in-depth. Your doctor may ask these questions:
There are no lab tests for phobias. Instead, the diagnosis is based on a thorough clinical interview and diagnostic guidelines. Your doctor will ask questions about your symptoms and take a medical, psychiatric and social history.
To be diagnosed with a phobia, you must meet certain criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association. This manual is used by mental health providers to diagnose conditions and by insurance companies to reimburse for treatment.
Diagnostic criteria for specific phobias include:
Diagnostic criteria for social phobia include:
Diagnostic criteria for agoraphobia include a severe fear or anxiety about two or more of the following situations:
These situations cause anxiety because you fear you won't be able to escape or find help if you develop panic-like symptoms or other incapacitating or embarrassing symptoms.
In addition, diagnostic criteria for agoraphobia include:
Your doctor or a mental health provider may suggest medications or behavior therapy or both to treat phobias. Most adults don't get better on their own and may require some type of treatment. The goal of phobia treatment is to reduce your anxiety and fear and to help you better manage your reactions to the object or situation that causes them.
Medications can help control the anxiety and panic from thinking about or being exposed to the object or situation you fear.
Talking with a trained mental health professional can help you deal with your phobias.Several types of psychotherapy, also called talk therapy, may be effective.
Treatment depends on the type of phobia you have:
Professional treatment can help you overcome your phobia or manage it effectively so you don't become a prisoner to your fears. You can also take some steps on your own to cope and care for yourself:
Childhood fears, such as fear of the dark, of monsters or of being left alone, are common, and most children outgrow them. But if your child has a persistent, excessive fear that's limiting his or her ability to function in daily life, talk to your doctor.
To help your child cope with fears:
If you have unreasonable fears, consider getting psychological help, especially if you have children. Although genetics likely play a role in the development of phobias, repeatedly seeing someone else's phobic reaction can trigger a phobia in children. By dealing with your own fears, you might not pass them on to your children.
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by a fresh morning fog. We discover a beautiful woman walking home. It looks as though
she's been up all night and whatever might have happened, it has changed her deeply.
Alexandra "Alex" Buchanan had had an ongoing love affair with Manhattan since she was six years old and her grandmother took her to her first ART GALLERY in SoHo. As they'd perused sleek walls adorned with the works of Salvador Dali and Marc Chagall, her dreams had been forged. Alex never forgot the magic of that trip - or the words her grandmother had uttered as they'd stood on the observation deck of the EMPIRE STATE BUILDING and marveled at the city below: "This is what you are."
She'd made New York her home and in a few hours she would be attending the grand opening of her art gallery, The Interim. Alex had worked toward this moment her entire life, encountering plenty of hurdles along the way, but never doubting her dream. The one thing Alex hadn't expected was opening-night jitters. But there was no time to dwell. In fifteen minutes, she was meeting her best friend, Sophie, at the gallery, for a celebratory drink.
Taking a final look in the mirror, Alex smiled. The dress was exquisite. A friend hoping to make his mark in the fashion world had designed it for her. He'd chosen ivory satin and created a masterpiece with a square neckline and A-line lapels that tapered to a fitted waist. "Thank you, Andre," she whispered.
She considered hailing a cab, but her gallery was an easy walk, even in four-inch heels. She set off at a brisk pace, enjoying the shop windows and crowded cafes. It wasn't until she reached Broadway that she noticed the man behind her, keeping pace, watching her. She got an impression of a well-cut suit, dark hair and striking features before she lost sight of him. Alex was used to attention from the opposite sex, but something about him unnerved her. Wishing she'd taken a cab, she quickened her pace.
Five minutes later, Alex entered the E.V. Haughwout BUILDING at Broadway and Broome. It was a historic structure with cast-iron facings and architectural details that never ceased to inspire. She took the elevator to the second floor and let herself into the gallery. The scents of patchouli and sandalwood greeted her and a sense of pride swept through her. Alex had designed everything, from the gleaming oak floors to the textured walls and track lighting, while preserving the original brick. The lower level was dedicated to paintings: oils, watercolors and acrylics. Modular seating and a bar at the rear were perfect for events.
A spiral staircase ushered visitors to the second level where muraled walls, tropical plants and pendant lighting delighted the senses. Display cases contained a treasure trove of Mambilla figurines, Gabonese masks, Yombe sculptures, and bronzes. The effect was one of sophistication and intrigue while allowing the eye - and the mind - to focus on the art.
The caterer had delivered the food and Alex went to work arranging platters on the buffet table. For music, she chose Tabu Ley Rochereau's Voice of Lightness. She was pouring herself a glass of Malbec when the buzzer sounded. She unlocked the door and Sophie beamed a thousand-watt smile. "You look fabulous! That dress! And those shoes!"
Grinning, Alex threw her arms around her. "You, too."
A Brooklynite, Sophie was lovely and smart and the best friend Alex ever had.
"You're going to knock it out of the park tonight."
"Of course."
Alex poured while Sophie chatted away and her nerves began to unwind. They strolled to the window, looking out over Broadway. On the street below, Alex caught a glimpse of the man who'd followed her earlier. "Did you see that guy?"
"The one in that killer Armani?"
But he'd disappeared in the crowd. "He was following me earlier."
Sophie sobered. "Be careful, Alex. You never know about people, even if they do have good taste in clothes."
An hour later, the gallery brimmed with art enthusiasts, artists, bloggers, and, much to Alex's delight, buyers. She was speaking to a collector from Parsippany when she spotted the man who'd followed her earlier. Excusing herself, she went to confront him. The man watched her approach, his expression inscrutable. He stood over six feet tall, mid-thirties, with the athletic build of a runner and a face not soon forgotten. Sophie had been right about the Armani; this man definitely wore it well.
"Jack Megason." His eyes sparked with interest as he extended his hand. "Your gallery is magnificent."
"I'm sure it's an oversight, but your name wasn't on the invitation list." Her voice remained amicable, but she didn't accept his hand.
His mouth curved. "I saw the Times story." He handed her his card.
Alex read. Jack Megason, owner Megason Fine Art, Boston.
"The art world is small. I'm surprised we haven't met."
"Had I known you were so beautiful, I'd have made the effort."
His undeniable charisma prompted her to extend her hand.
"I'm Alex."
His grip was assured, but not overpowering.
"How's the opening going?"
He held on to her hand an instant too long, but the contact wasn't unpleasant. He leaned close and whispered, "I saw the art critic from the New Yorker earlier."
"Now you're making me nervous."
"Don't be. He was smiling." He crossed to one of the oil paintings. "That's a stunning Malangatana Ngwenya."
"You know your art."
"His work is primal and violent." He turned to her. "I hear you have Mambilla figurines."
Alex motioned toward the staircase. "They're upstairs if you'd like to see them."
She was keenly aware of his proximity as they started up the staircase. The scent of his aftershave - a rousing mix of bergamot and musk - tantalized her senses. They reached the second level where the lush palms and dim lighting lent the room an intimate ambiance.
Jack made a sound of pleasure in his throat upon spotting the Gabonese masks. "It's an amazing collection."
"Thank you."
"I understand you have a rare Dogon statue."
She gave him a sharp look. "That wasn't in the Times article."
"Artforum did a piece as well," he said.
"It's not on display." But there was nothing she loved more than to share a beautiful piece of art, so she ceded. "This way." She took him to the storage room, unlocked the door and flipped on the light. It was a small space, dimly lit and jammed with paintings and less noteworthy pieces. She'd tucked the Dogon into a display case.
"It's a Niongom." Jack came up beside her and they admired the statue. "Fifteenth century. Exceptionally fine aged. Where did you get it?"
"The Dogon tribe believes it promotes fertility." He gazed at her intently. "I think it speaks to the dangers of love."
For an instant Alex couldn't look away. Her senses seemed heightened. The soukous throbbed in her ears. The richness of the wine heated her tongue. The conversation from downstairs faded away. He was standing so close she could smell the mint on his breath. Her intellectual side sensed danger, but the more adventurous part of her knew he didn't pose a threat.
Movement in the corner startled her. Adrenaline tore through her when a man emerged from the shadows. He had brown hair and a sturdy build. "Don't make a sound," he said, his voice deadly calm.
Never taking his eyes from them, he produced a handgun and used it to shatter the glass case. The statue teetered. Without thinking, Alex lunged forward and caught it. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Jack charge the man and tackle him to the floor. The weapon skittered across the floor. She watched, stunned, as Jack flipped
the man onto his stomach, pulled his arms behind his back and cuffed him.
"Call 911," he growled.
Alex didn't argue.
It was three AM when the last police officer left the gallery.
The would-be thief had been arrested and both Alex and Jack gave statements. They were sitting near the buffet table, decompressing.
"Your hands are still shaking," Jack said.
"It's not every day that you experience your first armed robbery."
He surprised her by chuckling. "I think that's the most exciting opening your guests will ever attend."
She couldn't help it; she laughed, too.
Rising, he poured two glasses of wine and handed one to her. "This'll help."
"He was after the Dogon?" she asked.
Jack nodded. "His name is Trevor Battistoli. International art thief. The FBI has been after him for years."
"And you?"
"I'm an art security specialist. I've been working with the FBI."
He grimaced. "I'm sorry I misrepresented myself, but I needed
to maintain my cover."
"That's why you were following me."
That's why I was following him."
She thought of the gun and shivered. Jack noticed and set his hand on hers. "I know it's late, but would you like to grab a cup of coffee? I know the chef over at Balthazar. He's used to me coming by late." He smiled. "I could give you some pointers on security."
She smiled. "In light of what happened, I think that's an offer
I can't refuse."
Twenty minutes later, they were seated at a bistro table, looking out at Spring Street. Over cappuccinos they talked and laughed until the window turned gray with dawn.
"I'd like you to have a new alarm system installed," Jack said.
"Security cameras. I can hook you up with a reputable company."
"I appreciate that."
"Alex." He reached out and took her hand. "I have to confess... our being here isn't about the gallery or art or security systems. It's about you and my hope that you'll have dinner with me tonight."
She smiled. "I'd like that."
"Unfortunately, I have a meeting in an hour." Rising, he came around to her chair and brushed his lips against her cheek. "Can I get you a cab?"
Alex rose. "Dawn is lovely in New York. I think I'll walk."
Like most little girls, I grew up watching fairy tales and dreaming of my own Prince Charming. Even as I got older and became more realistic, I held onto the belief that I'd one day find Mr. Right. But unlike many of my friends, who let their single status define, even haunt, them, I focused on things I could control: surviving my third year of law school at NYU, passing the bar, and going to work as a district attorney to fulfill my passion to right wrongs in my native BROOKLYN. I was open to having a relationship but not desperate for one, and felt that if I stayed on my path, the right guy would eventually join me. There was certainly no need to panic, and even less reason to settle. So for years, that's exactly what I did. I had my share of boyfriends, but found myself drawn to relationships I knew wouldn't last for one reason or another. When they wouldn't commit, I was secretly relieved. When they wanted to commit, I found reasons to end things. And so I turned thirty alone.
Meanwhile, my friends endlessly set me up on blind dates. My sister insisted that I worked too much and needed to do something about the growing circles under my eyes. And my mother reminded me with increasing frequency that my window for having children was closing, emailing me depressing articles about premature ovarian failure. I insisted that I was fine and in no hurry, but could feel myself caving to the mounting pressure and tiring of my role as dutiful bridesmaid and platonic third wheel. Then, right after I broke down and signed up for an on-line dating service, I bumped into a tall, dark, strikingly handsome man with Bradley Cooper-like hair at La Colombe, my regular coffee shop in SoHo. He was also charming, I discovered, when the barista mistakenly gave him my skim latte and me his café americano.
"You must be Evan?" I said, handing him his cup. He nodded and smiled, and within minutes of casual banter, invited me to dinner.
Three nights later, I donned my favorite little black dress, hailed a cab to the Village, and walked into the dreamy, candlelit back garden at La Lanterna. When our eyes met, Evans's face lit up in that adoring way men look at women in movies, a look I didn't think existed outside of Hollywood. As I approached the table, he stood and pulled out my chair, his manners as beautiful as his green eyes and custom suit. When he ordered an expensive bottle of champagne, he raised his glass and said,
"To chance meetings. And mixing up coffee orders."
I laughed, checking the "funny" box, as we began our first-date conversation. A fellow lawyer and aspiring politician, Evan was intelligent, driven and successful. Check, check, check. He was well-read, had great taste in music, owned a summer home in the Hamptons, spoke lovingly of his mother, and never once glanced in the direction of the supermodel seated one table over. By the end of the night, every box was checked, including boxes I had never even thought to consider. In a word, he was perfect.
After dinner, he walked me home, kissed me goodnight on the steps of my brownstone, and promised to call the next day. He kept his word - and called me every day after that. Very quickly, we became a couple, falling into a satisfying, fulfilling routine. I left clothes at his place; we spent Sunday mornings reading the paper in bed; and we started planning vacations and holidays together. Our relationship seemed idyllic: passionate enough to keep me from being bored, but also stable and mature. It didn't take long for me to become consumed by our momentum. My friends adored him, and my mother seemed prouder of my ability to land Evan than any of my professional achievements. She held her breath, praying for the ring to arrive on my finger, mentally planning my WEDDING, and naming her future grandchildren. I told her not to jinx it, but was secretly as excited as she was. Evan thrilled me, made me feel both lucky and loved. On the anniversary of the day we met, he popped the question at our coffee shop, then threw a surprise celebration with all our friends and family at the site of our first date. He thought of everything. He was becoming my everything.
But then came the changes, the shift subtle, almost imperceptible at first. It started with Evan having opinions on what I wore to dinner and which topics of conversation were "appropriate". When some of his social plans interfered with my caseload, he suggested that I scale back, consider working in private practice as he did. He knew of a small firm in GREENWICH where I could work part-time after we married. He remarked that DA work was dangerous, too dangerous for the mother of his children. I reluctantly agreed to consider his points both because I loved Evan and because I trusted his opinions as much as my own. But I couldn't shake the nagging feeling that the more I fell in love with Evan, with us, the less I liked myself.
One night, I couldn't ignore it anymore. We were watching golf on television, one of Evan's favorite pastimes, when I happened to glance at his laptop, noticing a draft of our wedding announcement.
Words like prestigious and prominent jumped off of the glowing screen. I told Evan I didn't like the complacent tone; he said that it was necessary for inclusion in the New York Times. I argued that such announcements were pretentious - and for that matter, so were his wedding plans for a grand affair at THE PLAZA. Couldn't we have a smaller, more intimate ceremony? He shook his head, insisting that he couldn't possibly scale his guest list to fewer than three hundred.
I confided in my mother, but she reminded me that nobody was perfect and that I needed to embrace compromise. I started to feel more isolated from my loved ones than I ever had when I was single. Then, one evening, about a month before our wedding, while I was preparing for an arraignment the following day, Evan insisted that he needed me to come to an art gallery opening with him, that some "very important" people from Goldman Sachs would be there and he needed to make a "proper showing." I looked at my fiancé with his exquisite smile and gorgeous hair, and something inside me broke. I went to the opening, but later that night, back at Evan's place, I told him that I couldn't continue to put his dreams ahead of my own. I told him that I didn't want to give up my job and move to Greenwich, that I was still several years away from wanting children. Maybe more.
"That's way too long," he said decisively. "You know I want children by thirty-five. We've talked about this."
"I just don't think this is going to work," I blurted out, instantly relieved.
"Don't be silly."
"Yes. Silly. I mean, I think I'm a pretty good catch."
"Did you really just say you're a catch?"
"That didn't come out properly," he insisted in his best campaigning voice. "What I meant was that we're a perfect couple."
I told him he was right. He was a catch. He was perfect - and was everything I had ever wanted. But all of that still didn't make us perfect together. At least not anymore.
"This is ridiculous," Evan said. "We're getting married."
I leaned across the table and placed my hands over his. "I'm sorry. I can't marry you."
He tried to argue through the night, doing his best to convince me that it was all just cold feet and last-minute jitters. He told me that if I didn't marry him, I'd regret it forever and likely end up alone.
"Maybe so," I said, finally. "But I'm okay with that."
Then I quietly slipped off my gorgeous ring, placed it next to him, and walked out the door.
As I stepped out of Evan's apartment, I thought about all the people in my life, how many would see this turn of events as tragic. They would see me as alone again, back to square one. They'd believe I had made the biggest mistake of my life and had ruined my best chance for happiness. But I also knew that for everything they claimed I had lost, I had regained something far more important: the type of well-being I could only get by living on my own terms. Starting over was scary, but I was determined to find my passion again, the thing that I had hoped to find in another but realized only comes from within.
I took a deep breath, and started to walk home in the early-morning calm. The city streets were mostly quiet, windows still darkened, shops yet to open, save for my favorite corner fruit stand. The summer sun was beginning its lazy ascent over the East River, bringing with it the promise of a new day. New York felt light, peaceful. And for the first time in a long time, so did I.
Her phone rang at two in the morning, as the party was winding down. A gruff voice she'd never heard before said only her first name.
She stepped outside, leaving the clatter of voices and music behind. The party was for a film she'd produced, and the response at the festival showing had been excellent. But her attention was focused on the voice in her ear. "Mr. Hargreaves," she guessed. "I've been hoping you'd call."
The voice laughed, a low, gravelly rumble. "Yes, from your twenty phone messages, I had that impression."
His tone was surprisingly friendly, for a ghost. Even at the height of his career, Max Hargreaves had never been known for his people skills. He was mercurial, quick to anger, a difficult perfectionist; he was also widely considered the top film director of his generation - until the day he disappeared. Some said he went to Mexico, others, France. No one had seen or spoken to him in seventeen years.
From the day she saw his first film, she loved his work. The BLACK-AND-WHITE love triangle among three college students; the uncanny horror film set in a country house; the poignant, presumably autobiographical story of his mother who'd died when he was young. His work was at once warm and cerebral, each shot exquisitely framed, cinema that was both intensely moving and high art. She'd never been able to understand how a person capable of producing such beauty could one day just stop.
She'd moved to New York two years earlier to take a job at an independent film company in SOHO . On her first day, her boss asked her what her dream project would be, and she said, "A new Max Hargreaves."
Her boss laughed dismissively. "Good luck with that one."
She raised her chin; she didn't like being dismissed. From that day forward, she made it her mission to locate Hargreaves. She interviewed his family, combed through newspaper archives and online databases, made calls and sent text messages, emails and Facebook requests. At last, her pursuit paid off. An actor in California named Henry Lime, who'd appeared in that first black-and-white film, wrote in an email, I shouldn't give you this, but here's the number I have.
She started calling and kept on calling. And now here he was, the enigma in person, saying her name.
"I was hoping we could talk."
"Meet me at the Omega Diner on 10th Street."
"Now?" she said, but he'd already hung up.
She hailed a CAB and headed downtown. As she passed through Times Square, the lights danced and jittered, neon pixels ever-hectic, ads and news tickers swiveling into the night.
On 10th Street, things were quieter and darker. The Omega Diner was a holdover from a more bohemian era. Artists and writers used to gather there to debate ideas while nursing endless cups of coffee. Now it had become a relic, a museum of itself, sandwiched between upscale shops and cafés. The booths were cracked green vinyl, and the menu behind the counter hadn't been updated in decades. The single waitress didn't look up when she came in. It was a place out of time, one the city had forgotten.
In the back sat an old man wearing a blue ski jacket, though the weather was warm. Sliding in opposite him, she ordered coffee. The waitress brought him a slice of pie, which he wolfed down, the blueberry filling staining his mouth. Her instincts told her not to rush him. When he finished, he raised the plate and licked it clean of crumbs.
"You're much more beautiful than I expected," he finally said.
"And you look a lot worse than I expected," she answered.
He raised an eyebrow, but didn't seem offended. It was the truth, after all: his eyes were watery, and a grey beard crept down his neck in uneven patches. What had happened to him? His last film had won an Academy Award, although he'd never showed up to collect it, which was the first symptom of his retreat from the world. She remembered something else Henry Lime - who'd played one point of the love triangle in that first movie, the boy who tragically did not get the girl - had written in his email. You may be surprised by what you find, he'd warned her. You may not like it.
"So," Hargreaves said, "tell me what's so important that you
had to badger me with phone calls for weeks."
"I want you to make another film. And I want to produce it."
He grimaced, showing his blueberry-colored teeth. "You and everybody else."
She leaned forward, meeting his gaze. "I'm not everybody else." Up close, his skin was etched with fine red veins that crossed his face like a map of his sorrows over the years. She pressed on into the silence. "I've seen each of your films over and over. And you know what I've decided? That they're all the same film. You tell the same story over and over again, just from different directions."
"What story is that?"
"It's about love," she said. "A boy loses his girl to his best friend. A family in a beautiful house falls apart. A child misses his mother. They're all about searching for a lost love, hoping for its return."
For a long moment, Hargreaves said nothing, and she knew she'd struck a nerve. He stared down at the grimy linoleum, and she wondered if he was crying. But when he glanced up again, his eyes were steely. "If all my movies are the same, why would I need to make another one?"
"Because you still haven't found love yet," she said.
He considered this for a moment, but then shrugged. Raising one finger, he ordered another slice of pie, lemon meringue this time. The waitress brought it over, pouring more coffee for each of them. "Look, I appreciate your interest, but I'm retired. I said everything I have to say."
"Then why are you here?"
"I like pie," he said.
She smiled. They sat together companionably for a moment, drinking their coffee. Around them in the diner were small, middle-of- the-night commotions. A couple in another booth argued softly, the woman's eyes bright with tears. The waitress poured coffee for a man slumped against the counter, trying to wake up or sober up or both. It was just before four in the morning: past parties, before work. The quietest hour in New York. A time for invisible people.
She had to push him, to take a risk. "I think I know what you're scared of," she said. "You know how good your films are, and you're afraid you'll never make anything that good again. So you're hiding. From yourself more than anything."
Without warning, his hand whipped across the table and grasped her wrist, twisting hard. For an old man with battered features, he was strong, and his eyes were not friendly, but furious.
"You think you know what scares me?" he hissed. "You don't know anything."
She wasn't going to let him intimidate her. "Then prove me wrong."
Just as suddenly as he'd latched on, Hargreaves let go and leaned back against the booth. His hands, still on the table, trembled a little. Looking down at them, she saw the truth. Hargreaves had grown up on a farm in Pennsylvania, which he'd hated, and had escaped to New York as soon as he could. One reason he'd hated the farm was a childhood accident in a threshing machine, which had injured his right hand, especially his little finger, which had stayed permanently crooked. She knew everything about Hargreaves, including this. The man across from her had elderly, age-spotted hands, but no injuries.
"You aren't him," she said softly. Disappointment coursed through her sharply. All her hard work, those two years of searching, and she was facing an imposter. Someone was playing a joke; someone wanted her to look a fool.
And then a different feeling came over her, one of understanding, and wonder. The man looked different to her now. Underneath the patchy beard, the veiny skin, she could see the strong chin and clear blue gaze of a man who'd once commanded the screen. He'd been handsome, sought-after by women, captured in camera flashes. In his greatest role, the part Hargreaves had given him, he'd played the man every woman hoped for: the sensitive and soulful one, the one who will love you forever, no matter your faults or choices, because to him, you were perfect and always would be.
"You're Henry Lime."
It was a guess, but he flushed, and she knew that she was right.
"You were never in California."
"Why would I be there," he said, gesturing around the Omega Diner, or the WEST VILLAGE, or maybe, more broadly, at New York itself, "when I could be here?"
"And you never knew where Hargreaves was, either."
He shook his head. He slid sideways in the booth, crab-like, preparing to leave.
Now she was the one who reached out and grabbed his wrist.
"Wait," she said.
The sun rose as she made her way home. All around her the city was coming to life, the sky lightening, the first early risers already headed to work, but none of it was as alive as what was inside her. In the diner, at the exact moment her quest had failed, she'd had another idea. She was going to make her own film - about New York and the movies and lost love and uncertain fame, and about Henry Lime, an invisible man desperate to be seen, an actor so keen for a role that he'd impersonate a ghost. As for Max Hargreaves, she'd keep looking. But for now, there were other stories to tell.


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It was a scene familiar to those who remember the late Princess Diana's 1984 christening of a cruise ship: the Duchess of Cambridge's launching Princess Cruises' new $735-million Royal Princess with a $1,500 crystallized bottle of Moët et Chandon Impérial on Thursday.
"May God bless her and all who sail in her," Kate, the ship's godmother, said right before the four-gallon Nebuchadnezzar (equivalent to 20 bottles) crashed against the ship's hull.
Wearing a $260 Dalmatian-print coat from high street store Hobbs and a bespoke hat by Sylvia Fletcher at Lock & Co., Kate arrived around 11:35 in the morning to take her place on the quayside stage under the shadow of the 141,000-ton, 217-ft.-tall ship in Southampton.
Smiling at what was her penultimate public engagement before she takes maternity leave, Kate stood to attention and was sometimes distracted by her long hair blowing in the blustery harbor wind.
Princess Cruises CEO Alan Buckelew told the crowd, "We can think of no more fitting godmother for our magnificent new ship. Her Royal Highness is an inspiring ambassador for Britain, and she is admired around the world for her style and grace, and for her compassion for others."
Helping Kate at the ceremony, besides ship captain Tony Draper, were two youngsters from one of her charities, East Anglia's Children's Hospices. Izzie and Charlie Rowbotham, who presented Kate with the scissors to cut the rope, lost their brother George when he was 21 months.
After the ceremony, Izzie, 15, told PEOPLE, "She was really lovely. She wanted to know how [the East Anglia's Children's Hospices] had helped us, so we told of their care and support for us all in the family."
Their mother Alie, from Milton, near Cambridge, added, "We were so proud to be involved. She looked amazing and seemed really excited when the Champagne bottle exploded."
Kate Launches New Cruise Ship – As Its Godmother
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portugese word for bitch, also word for femail goat.
es uma cabra
you r a bitch
you r a bitch
av kit_kat_29 22 juni 2005
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This is the spanich term for a female goat. Male would be cabron.
Often used in the term "chupa cabra", to describe a Puerto Rican mythical creature that sucks the blood out of cattle and pets.
av T Lizzie 16 mars 2005
da place where all the viet-chinks hang out and do gangbashing sumtimes.. also home of the t5sd bye bye azn pryde
cabra is very dangerous unless u got ur whole gang in a 10 metre radius, which makes it even more dangerous
av chiakt 13 februari 2005
Derogatory Mexican-Spanish term for scared.
Jump off the cliff, "no seas cabra." (dont be scared)
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Spend a spectacular day in stunning Montserrat. This picturesque Benedictine monk mountain retreat is located approximately one hour north west of Barcelona and surrounded by an area of natural beauty that is simply breathtaking. Park your car at the bottom of the mountain and take the rack railway, or cable car, and enjoy an exhilarating journey to the top. Learn about the fascinating history and religious importance of the monastery or choose one of the walking trails and take in the amazing views of the Catalonian countryside.
Take a trip to this small town, situated on the French Border. The birthplace of famous artist Salvador Dali, this town is home to Teatre-Museu Gala Salvador Dalí – a large museum that was designed by Dali himself and attracts many visitors. Alongside Dali's Surrealist masterpieces, you'll find various museums and monuments - as well as a calendar full of festivals and events. See examples of Modernist and Neoclassical architecture, alongside medieval walls and the outstanding castle of Sant Ferran.
Travel along the north east coast to Girona and admire the medieval architecture en route. Close to Barcelona, located midway between the sea and the mountains, it boasts a privileged position. This beautiful town has all of the attraction of a large city, but without the crowds. Spend a day exploring and find yourself awestruck by the charm and beauty that surrounds you. From the Old Town, with its intriguing history and grand cathedral, to the picturesque bridge and houses along the Onyar River.
Take a day trip to Tarragona and combine captivating history with one of Europe's most outstanding theme parks. Universal Studios Port Aventura is located in the heart the Costa Daurada. With five themed areas, an array of exciting rides and a water park, it's the perfect place to make the most of the warm Spanish climate. Beyond this, the city offers a wealth of cultural and historical wonders including a UNESCO world heritage site and one of the best-preserved Cistercian monasteries.


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The most beautiful, angelic, ambrosial, enticing, gorgeous, enamoring, pretty, amazing, lovely, lovable, and wonderful girl anyone could ever met. The girl any guy would dream about spending their life with.
Me: I am unconditionally and irrevocably in love with her.
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Me: Maya =]]]
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A super hot amazing girl every guy wants. She is incredibly sexy and is often mistaken for a goddess. Mayas are often envied by other women, because they are good at EVERYTHING. Any guy would be very lucky to have a Maya, not only because they are pleasing to the eyes.
Boy: HAH! I got with a maya last night
Other boy: NO WAY! You are the luckiest man alive.
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A beautiful, smart woman. She loves texting and going on the internet, but at the same time she LOVES the outdoors. She loves water, pools, oceans, lakes you name it. If you don't find Maya in the garden, cooking, texting, bike riding, or at the pool, she is probably reading a book. Maya's are beautiful inside and out, never hurt a Maya for she will never forgive you. Maya's don't let things go. If you are lucky enough to get a Maya never let her go, treasure her forever!
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av chachachachia1998 2. juni 2010
1. sidartha gautama (buddha)'s mother
2. hindu goddess
3. a super hot and amazing woman
2. hindu goddess
3. a super hot and amazing woman
guy 1 - how was your weekend?
guy 2 - it was awesome, i went on a hot date with maya.
guy 2 - it was awesome, i went on a hot date with maya.
av express4u 18. mai 2008
Sanskrit for "illusion". Also an appealing female name, which sadly was not used in The Matrix.
Female:"My name is Maya"
Male:"So you aren't real?"
Female: "Now I really hate my parents.."
Male:"So you aren't real?"
Female: "Now I really hate my parents.."
av JM 14. desember 2005
Wonderful, amazing, funny, lovable, gorgeous, girl. who will always be there for you. when you find a Maya NEVER LET HER GO!
Maya is such a sweetie!
av geekyditz 7. november 2011
A girls name that means beauty, intelligence and talent. She will always be goofy, charming, outgoing at times and forever awesome to family. She will always make you smile well not all the time sometimes she can be a little annoying
Mayans group of people
maya is hilarious
maya is hilarious
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The American adjective. A concept, object or act whose worth lies somewhere between non-objectional and life changing.
Use: in leiu of all other adjectives.
Use: in leiu of all other adjectives.
We defeated Hitler. Awesome!
We have kettle chips. Awesome!
We have kettle chips. Awesome!
An adjective used to describe a person who surpasses all human expectations, whose genius blinds all those around, who sets the supreme standards for humans to strive for, who is an Ideology all by himself.
Yoganand is Awesome.
sailor_jupiterによって 2011年09月07日(水)
Extremely impressive or daunting; inspiring great admiration, apprehension, or fear.
Extremely good; excellent.
Extremely good; excellent.
bhagya is awesome
OpethFTWによって 2013年04月13日(土)
Prussia is awesome.
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An Inspiration for an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, or fear. Causing or Inducing "Awe"
Link8417によって 2013年10月12日(土)
Someone who is absolutely amazing and exhibits the traits of being worthy of awe! Perfection at it's greatest. When one is considered to be amazing, it can be inferred that they are also amazing, cool, beautiful, and fantastic. See Example.
Bob- "Isn't Lauren awesome?!"
Jim- "Of course! She's the most amazing person in the world! How couldn't she be?"
Jim- "Of course! She's the most amazing person in the world! How couldn't she be?"
LaurenFan123によって 2010年06月06日(日)
Used to only mean great or extremely cool, but now used as much sarcastically to mean something bad or unfortunate.
Guy 1. I just spilled beer on your f&(*n iPhone.
Guy 2. Awesome : /
Guy 2. Awesome : /
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Vice President Joe Biden's "buy a shotgun" statement is raising eyebrows, but should it? Speaking on Facebook as part of an online video town hall hosted by Parents Magazine Tuesday, Biden responded to this question by one of the participants:
"Do you believe that banning certain weapons and high-capacity magazines will mean that law-abiding citizens will then become more of a target to criminals as we will have no way to sufficiently protect ourselves?"
After a little banter, chuckling and flashing those pearly whites, the vice president asked for a repeat of the question then said this: "…if you want to protect yourself, get a double-barreled shotgun." Biden then proceeded to explain what he told Jill Biden, his wife, to do if she ever felt threatened in their home. He said he kept two shotguns and shells locked up at his residence and that no one needed an AR-15 assault style weapon to protect themselves. Of course now he has the Secret Service for 24-hour protection and doesn't need his wife to wield those shotguns for at least another four years.
"I said 'Jill, if there's ever a problem, just walk out on the balcony...put that double-barreled shotgun and fire two blasts outside the house" Biden said. He added, "You don't need an AR-15. It's harder to aim, it's harder to use and in fact, you don't need 30 rounds to protect yourself." [See video above for more].
As I asked at the beginning of this article, why is that statement causing controversy in some circles? I think the National Rifle Association, along with gun lobbyists and many legislators on Capitol Hill have effectively scared the public into thinking that gun control, including the 23 executive orders proposed by President Obama, meant taking away all guns. The fear-mongering and propaganda have ratcheted up since the Dec. 14 shooting massacre as Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. The brutal slaughter of 20 young children and six of their educators has ignited a fierce debate for moref gun control on high-capacity rifles easily available to the public-- and the NRA is not happy.
The general consensus was anyone on the side of gun control was anti-gun or anti-Second Amendment, which was grossly exaggerated to rile up gun enthusiasts. It seems to be working, for guns are flying off the shelves at Walmart faster than they can stock them. So fast in fact that the biggest gun retailer had to ration off sales—allowing only three boxes of ammo per customer. Interestingly, the NRA head Wayne LaPierre didn't always think rational gun laws were unnecessary, for in 1999, he thought background checks were needed for anyone purchasing a gun in the United States.
What do you think: Was Biden's statement counter-productive to his administration's pursuit of new gun regulations, or does one have nothing to do with the other?


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Study of Hsp90 Inhibitor AUY922 for the Treatment of Patients With Refractory Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor
This study has been completed.
SCRI Development Innovations, LLC
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First received: July 21, 2011
Last updated: July 28, 2015
Last verified: July 2015
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Detailed Description:
This is a multicenter, non-randomized, single agent, Phase II study of AUY922 in patients with refractory Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST). The primary endpoint of this study is to determine progression-free survival (PFS) for patients with GIST receiving AUY922 intravenously (IV) on Days 1, 8, and 15 of a 21-day treatment cycle with restaging at 6 and 12 weeks and then every 9 weeks thereafter. Patients may continue treatment until evidence of disease progression.
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor
Drug: AUY922
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase II Study of Hsp90 Inhibitor AUY922 for the Treatment of Patients With Refractory Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Progression-free survival (PFS) [ Time Frame: At 6 and 12 weeks then every 9 weeks thereafter, expected 1 year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Measured from time of randomization until objective tumor progression or death.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Response Rate (RR) [ Time Frame: Measured by repeat scans at 6 and 12 weeks then every 9 weeks thereafter, projected 1 year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Defined as the proportion of complete and partial responses assessed per RECIST v1.1.
- Overall survival (OS) [ Time Frame: Measured by repeat scans at 6 and 12 weeks then every 9 weeks thereafter, projected 1 year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Measured from the time of randomization until death from any cause.
- Frequency of Adverse Events as a Measure of Safety and Tolerability [ Time Frame: Days 1, 8 and 15 (Cycles 1 - 2) plus ≥30 days of finishing treatment or study discontinuation, projected 1 year ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]Assessed according to NCI CTCAE v4.0
|Study Start Date:
|December 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|February 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: AUY922
Drug: AUY922
AUY922: 70 mg/m2 IV over 60 minutes on Days 1, 8, and 15 of each cycle. Treatment cycles will be repeated every 21 days. Patients will be evaluated for response at 6 and 12 weeks and then every 9 weeks (i.e., every 3 cycles) thereafter. Patients may continue treatment until evidence of disease progression.
Detailed Description:
Preclinical data have shown that Hsp90 inhibition can lead to decrease in tumor growth of GIST tumors that are both imatinib-sensitive and imatinib-resistant (Bauer 2006). A recently reported phase I trial evaluated Hsp90 inhibitor IPI-504 for the treatment of patients with GIST refractory to tyrosine kinase inhibitors (Wagner 2008). In this study, 100% of patients had been previously exposed to imatinib and 93% to sunitinib. For 36 patients treated on this trial, the partial response (PR) rate was 3% and stable disease (SD) was 67%, with a median PFS of 12 weeks. This is significantly improved over a placebo median PFS of 6 weeks for patients treated with sunitinib versus placebo who were refractory for imatinib (Demetri 2006).
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Pts with histologically-confirmed metastatic or unresectable GIST who have progressed on, are intolerant of, or are not a candidate for imatinib and sunitinib therapy. Pts must not have received prior treatment with Hsp90 inhibitors.
- Must have an ECOG Performance Status of 0-1.
- Must have a life expectancy of ≥3 mos.
- Must have at least one unidimensional measurable lesion definable by MRI or CT scan. Disease must be measurable per RECIST v1.1.
- Must have normal serum phosphorus and magnesium ≥ the lower limit of normal prior to trial entry.
- Normal bone marrow function defined as: ANC ≥1500/μL Hgb ≥9 g/dL Plt ≥100,000/L
- Adequate hepatic function defined as: AST or ALT and ALP must be 2.5 x ULN, or ≤5 x ULN in pts with liver mets Total bilirubin ≤1.5 x the institutional ULN
- Renal function defined as: Serum creatinine ≤1.5 x ULN or 24-hour CrCl 50 mL/min
- Women of childbearing potential (WOCP) must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test performed ≤7 days prior to start of treatment.
- Must be accessible for treatment and follow-up.
- Must be able to understand the investigational nature of this study and give written informed consent prior to study entry
Exclusion Criteria:
- Currently receiving or have received cancer therapies ≤21 days of initiating study therapy. For pts receiving small molecule targeted therapy, study treatment may begin ≥21 days after last dose or ≥5 half lives of previous treatment, whichever is shorter. The patient must have recovered from or come to a new chronic stable baseline from all treatment-related toxicities.
- Use of any non-approved or investigational agent ≤30 days of administration of the first dose of study drug. Pts may not receive any other investigational or anti-cancer treatments while participating in this study.
- Uncontrolled brain mets. Pts with treated brain mets (resection or radiotherapy) are eligible if brain mets have responded to treatment as documented by CT or MRI scan obtained at ≥2 wks after completion of RT, neurologic symptoms are absent, and steroids have been discontinued.
- Treatment with therapeutic doses of coumadin-type anticoagulants (maximum daily dose of 1 mg allowed for port line patency permitted).
- Impaired cardiac function with any one of the following: History (or family history) of prolong QT syndrome. Mean QTc ≥450 msec on baseline ECG. History of clinically manifested IHD ≤6 mos prior to study start. History of heart failure or any history of left ventricular (LV) dysfunction (LVEF ≤45%) by MUGA or ECHO. Clinically significant ECG abnormalities including 1 or more of the following: left bundle branch block, right bundle branch block with left anterior hemiblock. ST segment elevation or depression >1 mm, or 2nd (Mobitz II) or 3rd degree AV block. History or presence of A-Fib, atrial flutter or ventricular arrhythmias including ventricular tachycardia or Torsades de Pointes. Other clinically significant heart disease. Clinically significant resting bradycardia (<50 beats per minute). Currently receiving treatment with any medication which has a relative risk of prolonging the QTcF interval or inducing Torsades de Pointes and cannot be switched to an alternative drug or discontinued prior to commencing AUY922. Obligate use of a cardiac pacemaker.
- Known diagnosis of HIV, Hep C virus, or acute or chronic Hep B infection.
- Concurrent severe, intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.
- Women who are pregnant or lactating.
- Any condition that would prevent patient comprehension of the nature of, and risk associated with, the study, and the inability to comply with study and/or follow-up procedures.
- Other malignancies ≤3 years, with the exception of adequately treated basal or squamous cell carcinomas of the skin, carcinoma in situ of the cervix, or localized prostate cancer with a current PSA of <1.0 mg/dL on 2 successive evaluations, at least 3 mos apart, with the most recent evaluation no more than 4 wks prior to entry.
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01404650
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01404650
|United States, Connecticut
|Yale School of Medicine
|New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06520
|United States, Florida
|Florida Cancer Specialists-South
|Ft. Myers, Florida, United States, 33916
|Florida Hospital Cancer Institute
|Orlando, Florida, United States, 32804
|Woodlands Medical Center
|Pensacola, Florida, United States, 32503
|Florida Cancer Specialists-North
|St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, 33705
|United States, Missouri
|Research Medical Center
|Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 64132
|United States, Nebraska
|Nebraska Methodist Hospital
|Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68114
|United States, Tennessee
|Tennessee Oncology
|Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37203
Sponsors and Collaborators
SCRI Development Innovations, LLC
|Study Chair:
|Johanna Bendell, MD
|SCRI Development Innovations, LLC
More Information
Keywords provided by SCRI Development Innovations, LLC:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 30, 2016
|Responsible Party:
|SCRI Development Innovations, LLC
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01404650 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|July 21, 2011
|Last Updated:
|July 28, 2015
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
Keywords provided by SCRI Development Innovations, LLC:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors
Neoplasms, Connective Tissue
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Digestive System Neoplasms
Digestive System Diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases
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Lowman exhibit set at library
MARTINSBURG - The Martinsburg/Berkeley County Public Library will host the photo exhibit of Rick Lowman through November, on the main floor of the library. Lowman is an avid nature photographer. His photography covers the mountains and valleys of West Virginia and Tennessee to the coastal areas of the Eastern shore and Florida. Lowman photographs primarily flowers, birds, butterflies and outdoor landscapes.
Opera House has events on horizon
SHEPHERDSTOWN - The Shepherdstown Opera House has announced the following lineup:
Today: Davina and the Vagabonds;
Friday and Saturday: Shepherd Film Festival;
Nov. 30: Larry Keel and Natural Bridge;
Dec. 13: The Black Lillies
Dec. 15: On the Bus;
Dec. 21: The Speakeasy Boys and Frost Mountain Revival;
Dec. 31: The Hillbilly Gypsies and The Woodshedders.
Admission ranges from $5 to $30, depending on the concert, and more information is available at www.OperaHouseLive.com.
Civil War lecture set for today
HAGERSTOWN - Chief Historian at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Dennis Frye is also a Civil War expert, award-winning author and movie producer. Dennis Frye will be featured as the fourth of 11 speakers in the year-long Civil War Lecture Series presented by the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts. Offered monthly through July 2013, the lectures are offered in conjunction with the Museum's headline exhibition Valley of the Shadow that commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Civil War in Maryland and Southern Pennsylvania. Speakers for the Thursday Evening Series are drawn from a wealth of regional experts, historians, authors and preservationists. Enjoy a pleasant dinner under the evening sky in the Museum's Kaylor Atrium at 6 p.m. followed by the lecture in the Museum's Bowman Concert Gallery at 7 p.m.
Tickets for this unique event are available by calling the Museum at 301-739-5727. Tickets for dinner and the lecture are $25 for non-members, $20 for Museum members. Tickets for the lecture only are $5 for non-members and free to Museum members. Special group rates are available by calling in advance. For more information and a complete list of speakers for the Thursday Evening Civil War Lecture Series please visit the Museum's website, www.wcmfa.org.
Today, Dennis Frye will present his lecture, "September Suspense: Lincoln's Union in Peril" as well as signing copies of his newly published book of the same title. The lecture is sponsored in part by a Maryland Heritage Areas Authority grant, M&T Bank and Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Newcomer.
For more information on the Museum, call 301-739-5727 or visit www.wcmfa.org.
Museum hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Friday; from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday; and from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Art show on tap Friday-Sunday
SHEPHERDSTOWN - In its 12th year, the Potomac River Artists' Guild will share its art Friday to Sunday at the War Memorial Building. The display will include paintings using many subject matters and techniques encompassing wildlife, still life, landscape, impressionalism, abstract by using watercolors, acrylic, oil and more. Show hours are from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 9; from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 10; and at 10 a.m. Sunday. Show is free and open to the public. A meet the artist event will be held at 3 p.m. Nov. 10.
Film Festival starts tomorrow
SHEPHERDSTOWN - Friday marks the beginning of the first annual Shepherd Film Festival, a two-day event consisting of a short film competition, independent feature film screenings, live music, and performances. The Shepherd Film festival will be held at the Shepherdstown Opera house, 131 W. German St. Shepherdstown, WV 25443. Tickets prices are $15 and can be purchased online at www.shepherdfilmfest.com, Operahouse live.com and at the door.
Mosaic exhibit starts tomorrow
BERKELEY SPRINGS - The Lion's Lair Gallery and Gifts, 81-B North Washington St., is pleased to present "Something from Nothing," an exhibit of mosaic art pieces by local artisans Amanda Footen and Megan Lewis. The exhibit will run Friday through Dec. 2, with an artist's reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday.
All of their supplies come from reclaimed items; from scrap wood and glass to old magazines and broken jewelry. A yard sale or a clean dumpster is an artist's paradise for them.
For more information, call 304-258-0066 or visit www.lionslairgalleryandgifts.com
Mountain Studio Tour in 23rd Year
CHARLES TOWN - It's been called a scavenger hunt for the craft afficianado, a chance to meet artists in their native habitat, and a scenic drive along an art-filled byway. Now in its 23rd year, the Over the Mountain Studio Tour, which will be held Saturday and Sunday, is all of these, and more.
Twenty-five artists and craftspeople collaborate by opening their studios to the public at nine studio stops along a scenic driving route throughout Jefferson County, including stops in and around the charming small towns of Shepherdstown and Charles Town.
The annual weekend of visiting artists in their studios has become one of the Shenandoah Valley's premier arts events. And, with the holiday season approaching, it might be the perfect way to purchase handmade crafts and art of stellar quality and imagination.
The tour will include painters working in oils and watercolor, metal craftspeople presenting sculpted jewelry, and a blacksmith working in iron. Visitors will also discover and get to know artists working in basketry, sculpture, stained glass, photography, pottery and much more. Some of the artisans are steeped in the traditions of American craft, while others push the boundaries of contemporary American handmade crafts.
For information, visit www.studiotourwv.org, email info @studiotour wv.org or call Anne Bowers at 304-725-0567.
Elkins Night at the Museum set
ELKINS - Museum characters will come to life from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Beverly Heritage Center, during the annual "Night at the Museum" event. Admission is $25 in advance; $30 at the door; and $10 for kids under 12.
For more information, call 304-637-7424 or email infor@beverlyherit agecenter.org
Poetry reading to be held Saturday
MARTINSBURG - A poetry reading will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Martinsburg Public Library. Featured poets include Georgia Lee McElhaney, Ed Zahniser, Paul Gant, Tom Donion and Sonja James. The program is free and open to the public.
Singles dance set for Sunday
FUNKSTOWN, Md. - A singles dance will be held Sunday at the Funkstown Legion Post 211, 12 W. North Side Ave. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Come early and have dinner from the menu until 7 p.m. Must be 21 or older. Casual dress. Event wil also feature snacks, door prizes and a 50/50 drawing. Cost is $7 per person.
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Remember the Erie Canal? Remember the song we sang in elementary school? ("Low bridge, everybody down"). Remember learning how it shaped modern history? Well, that ancient relic is still around, and its uses have expanded from its original purpose of shipping and transportation.
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This Living Hand and Other Essays by Edmund Morris, Random House, 496 pages ($32). Here is not an everyday problem. A universally lauded biographer of Teddy Roosevelt has been persuaded that his next presidential subject should be Ronald Wilson Reagan. He wins the approval of the Reagans to be the president's "authorized" biographer, with all the massive access that implies. He soon discovers that "the central paradox about Ronald Reagan, our most world-changing president since Harry Truman, was that a man so attractive in his public persona, so implacable in negotiation and so transparently decent a human being, could have been such a bone-cracking bore. … It wasn't what he said or wrote that glazed your eyes … Only where you begin to note around the sixth or thirty sixth time he repeated himself, that his facial expressions, his phraseology, even his self-deprecatory chuckles seemed to be projected from some inner, infinitely replayable DVD, did you get the creepy feeling he was not quite real and wondered where, if anywhere, the real Reagan was."
The resultant "biography" by Edmund Morris – called "Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan" – was a scandal, a "biography" where facts were presented in an entirely fictional "memoir" by a Reagan contemporary, a wild and wickedly deviant bit of creativity that solved Morris' "bone-cracking bore" problem but earned almost universal obloquy from "history profs and political drones" as well as TV reporters (Lesley Stahl calls him after his "Today" show set-to with Katie Couric and nastily chuckles over Morris' evasions). It is Morris' curse that he is, self-evidently in this essay collection, the exact opposite of a "bone-cracking bore." Musical subjects abound in these merrily perverse pages, as befitting a Beethoven biographer. So do pieces on Teddy Roosevelt (of course). But he is fascinating too about Evelyn Waugh, Janet Malcolm and, in one essay, renowned public prevaricators Bill Clinton, Lillian Hellman, Teddy Kennedy and O.J. Simpson. His final defense of "Dutch" called "The Ivo Pogorelich of Presidential Biography" turns out to be a near-classic overview of civilization's long and complex contrapuntal interplay between imagination and fact.
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Jim, West PA
March 19, 2013, 11:55 AM
a spring or father's day sale from Cabella's ?
Maybe Pietta '58's fer $179 again ?
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I got mine from Taylors at Christmas:
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March 19, 2013, 12:40 PM
Man, I'm hopin'. Because my short "want list" includes the Dance and Brothers revolver or Griswold and Gunnison (both of which I've had a hankerin' for ever since reading Albaugh's book on Confederate Handguns). But if the price is right, I sure wouldn't mind owning an 1849 Uberti pocket pistol or 1860 Army.
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Nothing, but good things to say about Taylors, excellent people to do business with. Yep Jim ya ought to try Taylors for those new smoke poles. BTW did ya ever get Mama that new spark burner pistol? I've been out of commission for a bit, went to Pahrump, NV (Front Sight) for a 5 day Tactical Handgun Course, & CCW all rolled up into one. Now all I need is to figure out is how to conceal an 8" Remington 1858, in a pair of shorts and a tank top this summer!?:D
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Hahahahahaha !!!
Yer quite the hoot noose.
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