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Methylprednisolone Replacement for Dexamethasone-induced Hiccup
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01277731
Recruitment Status : Withdrawn
First Posted : January 17, 2011
Last Update Posted : November 20, 2012
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Dexamethasone is a potent synthetic member of the corticosteroid. It is given to cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy to counteract emetic side effect and essential drug for the chemotherapy-treated patients. Hiccup is common adverse effect of corticosteroid especially on dexamethasone varying from 3% to 60% of given patients. Discontinuance of dexamethasone relieves most hiccupping cases, but vomiting/nausea rates increase. It is not clear whether hiccup side effect is limited to the dexamethasone only or other corticosteroid group.
Methylprednisolone, synthetic corticosteroid as similar as dexamethasone, could be considered as antiemetic agent for the patients with receiving chemotherapy. The investigators perform this pilot study under hypothesis that replacing dexamethasone with methylprednisolone could maintain antiemetic role and prevent hiccup.
|Condition or disease
|Dexamethasone Hiccup
|Drug: Methylprednisolone
|Not Applicable
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|0 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Pilot Study of Methylprednisolone Replacement for Dexamethasone-induced Hiuup Patients
|Study Start Date :
|July 2010
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|July 2011
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|December 2011
Experimental: Methylprednisolone replacement
This study will enroll the patients who were previously experienced dexamethasone-induced hiccup. Patients who experienced dexamethasone-induced hiccup during chemotherapy will enroll to study arm.
Run-in period * Dexamethasone 10mg-20mg q day iv during chemotherapy
▶ measure hiccup and nausea/vomiting severity
Treatment period * Methylprednisolone 60mg-125mg iv during chemotherapy
▶ measure hiccup and nausea/vomiting severity
Response will be evaluated by Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 4.0 (CTCAE) and NRS to hiccup at 24hrs after start methylprednisolone.
Nausea and vomiting will be assessed as CTCAE 4.0
Drug: Methylprednisolone
Run-in period: dexamethasone 10-20mg q day iv during chemotherapy Treatment period: methylprednisolone 60-125mg iv during chemotherapy
- Prevention rate of dexamethasone induced hiccup [ Time Frame: 24hrs after chemotherapy ]measure the presence of hiccup and its severity 24 hous after chemotherapy
- Prevention rate of nausea and vomiting [ Time Frame: acute; 24 hours, delayed; 7 days after chemotherapy ]Prevention rate of nausea and vomiting 24 hours and 7 days after chemotherapy, respectively
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, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|21 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age olderthan 21
- A Patient on chemotherapy who was diagnosed malignant tumor
- A Patient who is newly developed hiccup in the course of chemotherapy
- A patient with the willingness to comply with the study protocol during the study period and capable of ccomplying with it
- A patient who signed the imformed consent prior to the participation of the study and who understands that he/she has a right to withdrawal from participation in the study at any time without any disadvantages
Exclusion Criteria:
- A patient with history of uncontrolled seizures, central nervous system disorder or psychiatric disorders that are considered clinically significant by the investigator that would prohibit the understanding of informed consent or that may be considered to interfere with the compliance of the administration of the study medications
- A patient with uncontrolled diabetes
- A patient who developed uncontrolled serious infection or other uncontrolled serious concomitant diseases
- A patient with disease progression after run-in period who is expected to receive another chomotherapeutic agents with different level of emetic risk
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01277731
|Korea, Republic of
|Gyeongsang University Hospital
|Jinju, Korea, Republic of
|Principal Investigator:
|Jung Hun Kang, M.D, Ph.D
|Gyeongsang University Hospital
|Responsible Party:
|Jung Hun Kang, Associate Professor, Gyeongsang National University Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01277731 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|January 17, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|November 20, 2012
|Last Verified:
|November 2012
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Signs and Symptoms, Digestive
Signs and Symptoms
Dexamethasone acetate
Prednisolone acetate
Methylprednisolone acetate
Methylprednisolone Hemisuccinate
Prednisolone hemisuccinate
Prednisolone phosphate
Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Autonomic Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Gastrointestinal Agents
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal
Antineoplastic Agents
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Neuroprotective Agents
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Tuesday, 29 March, 2016 - 18:30
Buttermere, parking on the start of Newlands pass NY 177 171
Knott and Ard Crags, back down the valley.
Sun sets at 19:42......probably wise to take a torch just incase
Mission : to show Mick what a real hill is before he goes off to climb Everest.
We will then say au revoir in the Fish, with some food and beer. They will take orders for food until 9 p.m. No need to preorder.

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Sales of small MPVs in Europe are falling at accelerating pace with a 44% decline in the fourth quarter leading to a loss of 26% in 2017. With less than 225.000 sales the segment now accounts for just 1,5% of total European volume, down from 2% in 2016. With two more models being pulled out of the class, this segment will consist of just 4 models as of 2018, of which one a low-volume EV. With a 23% loss the segment leader Fiat 500L actually improves its share of the shrinking segment to 28,1% but still sells almost 20.000 fewer units. It has also become more dependent on its home market Italy, which accounts for 73,6% of its European sales in 2017. At least the 500L can claim that it's the best seller in one country: its production home Serbia. The surprise #2 of the segment this year is the Ford B-Max with a gain of 7%. What's surprising about this is that until last year, sales of the B-Max had been slowly declining for 4 years, and moreover production of the model ended in September 2017. The last few thousand remaining in dealer stock will be sold off in early 2018. As a result of PSA replacing the Opel/Vauxhall Meriva and Citroën C3 Picasso with crossover models, sales of these two models were also in freefall in Q4, and these two will also sell of remaining stock in early 2018. [Read more…]
European sales 2017 Q1-Q3: small MPV segment
Sales of small MPVs in Europe accelerate their decline in Q3 of 2017. After a 14% loss in 2016, a 10% decline in Q1, a 23% decline in Q2, the segment loses 35% in the third quarter, bringing the year-to-date figure to just over 190.000 sales, down 22% on last year as we continue to lose players in the segment. Surprisingly, one nameplate manages to improve its volume in Q2 and does so with double digits. The Ford B-Max, which has seen its sales decline every year since 2013, gains an impressive 34% in the third quarter, which makes it the best selling model in the segment for that period. However, that party won't last too long as production of the model has ended last September. The traditional segment leader Fiat 500L is down at a similar rate as the rest of the segment and holds on to its 27% share of the segment. [Read more…]
European sales 2017 first half: small MPV segment
Sales of small MPVs in Europe accelerate their decline in Q2 of 2017. After a 14% loss in 2016, a 10% decline in Q1, the segment loses 23% in the second quarter, bringing the first half figure to 146.494 sales, down 17% on last year. Surprisingly, one nameplate manages to improve its volume in Q2 and does so with double digits. The Ford B-Max, which has seen its sales decline every year since 2013, suddenly gains 15% in the second quarter, as dealers are getting rid of the remaining stock models before production is scheduled to end next September. This allows the B-Max not only to become the only model in the first half to increase its sales, but also to overtake the Opel/Vauxhall Meriva for 2nd place. The Meriva has been replaced by the crossover Opel/Vauxhall Crossland X and will also be phased out soon. As a result, segment leader Fiat 500L is likely to increase its share of this shrinking segment in the second half of the year, even though it too sees its demand fall, at a similar pace as the rest of the segment: -22% in Q2 and -18% in the half. The 500L now holds 27,6% of the segment. Three quarters of its sales come from its home market Italy, but at least it manages to be the best selling car overall in one European country: Serbia, where it is produced in the former Zastava (Yugo) factory.
European sales 2017-Q1 small MPV segment
The small MPV segment in Europe continues to lose volume, with another 10% decline in the first quarter of 2017, to just 78.000 sales. Every single nameplate lost volume compared to Q1 of 2016, except for the single newcomer to the segement. The traditional segment leader Fiat 500L loses share but still accounts for more than 1 in 4 cars sold in this segment. 72,5% of its volume comes from its home market Italy, the highest of the 500 family. Despite almost being replaced by the more crossover-like Crossland X, the Opel/Vauxhall Meriva manages to finish Q1 as the best performer of the segment, with sales virtually stable (down just 28 units). The Ford B-Max with its sliding rear doors is also relatively stable with a loss of "just" 8% and therefore gains share of the segment.
European sales 2016 small MPV segment
Sales of small MPVs continue to nosedive, as 2016 segment volume is down 12% in the fourth quarter and down 14% for the full year, barely staying above 300.000 sales. That means the entire segment sells fewer units than the Renault Clio by itself. This also makes it by far the fastest shrinking segment in Europe for the second year running. Until 2014, more than 400.000 small MPVs were consistently sold every year. Unsurprisingly, all models share the pain, with not a single nameplate growing its volume in 2016, after only one model improved in 2015. The segment leader Fiat 500L shows the slowest rate of decline at -4% and improves its share of the segment to 27% and logically remains on top of the ranking, followed by the Opel/Vauxhall Meriva, which will be replaced in 2017 by the Crossland X. This will be a more crossover-like model, co-developed with PSA which will launch a new generation Citroën C3 Picasso on the same platform. The Ford B-Max is unlikely to be replaced when it hits the end of its life cycle, but holds on to the third spot is took from the Nissan Note in the beginning of this year.
European sales 2016 Q1-Q3 small MPV segment
The small MPV segment in Europe is dying quickly at -15% in the first three quarters of 2016, and it may drop below 300.000 units this year, down by a third on 2013 when Europeans bought more than 450.000 small MPVs. Those customers have switched to buying small crossovers, which are more trendy and also offer a higher seating position, one of the main selling points of these cars. Not a single of the still existing models in this segment improved its sales on last year, with the Nissan Note taking the biggest hit, losing almost a quarter of its volume and the Citroën C3 Picasso performing the best at just -2%. The Fiat 500L remains the distant leader thanks to its home market Italy which buys 2 out of 3 500L's sold in Europe. The Opel/Vauxhall Meriva and Ford B-Max complete the top-3. GM and PSA are developing the next generation Meriva and C3 Picasso together and are designing more crossover-like models to appeal to a wider audience. The Meriva will be renamed Crossland X.
European sales 2016 first half small MPV segment
Sales of small MPVs in Europe are slowing down fast, as customers are switching away from these roomy alternatives to subcompact hatchbacks in favor of the more trendy crossovers that are gaining popularity quickly. And the manufacturers are giving the people what they need: there are no new models entering the segment, and the existing models that are due to be redesigned are all switching to a more SUV-like design. All of the top-5 players in this segment also have a crossover model in their line-up and all of those are outselling their MPV counterparts, making this segment a difficult business case to spend money on developing a next generation small MPV. As a result of that, the aging segment (not only in terms of model age, but also the age of the prospective buyers) is down 15% in the first half of 2016, dipping below 200.000 sales as only one of the players in this segment sells more than it did last year, and by a tiny margin.
European sales 2016 Q1 small MPV segment
The demise of the small MPV segment in Europe accelerates in the first quarter of 2016, as sales plunge by 20% after a 15% drop in 2015. Just one model shows an increase in sales (with the exception of the 3 sales of the Lancia Musa, a model that ended production in 2012), and two more lose single digit volume, while 7 models show double digit declines. This is partially due to a lack of new products, but also a result of cannibalization from small crossovers, the fastest growing mainstream segment in Europe. These are similarly priced and sacrifice a bit of practicality for less awkward design. The Fiat 500L gains market share with sales down "just" 15% and is now at 26% of the segment. The Opel/Vauxhall Meriva loses just 3% even though a replacement is due later this year. That new generation is being co-developed with PSA who will market a new C3 Picasso version of that same model. And to reflect the shift of interest by consumers from MPVs to crossovers, the new Meriva and Picasso will have a more SUV-like design, similar to the current generation Peugeot 3008 and the latest version of the Renault Espace.[Read more…]
European sales 2015 Small MPV segment
The small MPV segment in Europe is under stress from the small crossover segment, with sales down 60.000 units or 15% in 2015 to 354.425 sales. This is the lowest figure for the segment since 2003 when the first generation Opel/Vauxhall Meriva had just been introduced and none of the other current contenders were around yet. The pain is shared among all players with the exception of one: the facelifted Kia Venga manages to improve 13% and leapfrog the Skoda Roomster, which ended production in April and sold just a handful of remaining stock models in the last few months of the year. The Fiat 500L remains the best selling small MPV thanks to its home market Italy, which takes mroe than 58% of the total European volume. Serbia, where the 500L is produced, is the only country in the world where it's the best selling model overall, albeit with a humble 1.819 sales.
European sales 2015 Q1-Q3 Small MPV segment
The decline of the small MPV segment continues in Q3 of 2015, as customers flock to the increasingly popular small crossovers. So far this year, there's only one model in the segment to improve its sales year-on-year, and that's unsurprisingly from a brand that doesn't (yet) offer a small crossover. Nonetheless, the Fiat 500L keeps its crown as the best selling small MPV in Europe, but has been outsold by its crossover sibling 500X in every month of Q3.
The Opel/Vauxhall Meriva follows at a distance, holding on to the second spot it took from the Nissan Note in Q2. The Note is even under fire from the Ford B-Max, the car that once led the segment before falling out of grace when newer and better alternatives appeared onto the market. However, Ford is the only brand where the small MPV outsells its crossover rival, with the Mokka-Meriva at a 3:1 ratio and the Juke-Note at 2:1, while the B-Max still outsells the Ford Ecosport. [Read more…]


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The Top 10 TV Characters of 2012
Ah December. List time. When we try to quantify and categorize everything that happened in the 12 months we all just were lucky enough to live through and make some sort of sense of the chaos. This year I have decided to make a list of my favorite characters on TV because there were so so many good ones. The main trend I noticed this year in characters I loved was the struggle of gender identity. The female characters were trying to be bad-asses who maintained something essentially feminine without becoming ciphers or sex symbols and the male characters tried to figure out how to be masculine without losing their humanity. All in all, it was a great year for authentic human beings on the small screen. Here are my favorites, in reverse order. SPOILER ALERT! I mention things that happened in the most recent seasons of various TV shows. Be forewarned.
10. Jax Teller in Sons of Anarchy:
To be honest, I am pretty much over Sons of Anarchy. It was a fun diversion for the first couple seasons but at this point we all just want Clay to die so Jax can move somewhere nice with his doctor wife and their cute little boys. That said, I will never be over Jax Teller. This could be because the vessel in which he resides, Charlie Hunnam, is actually a British pretty boy who could be Heath Ledger's (R.I.P.) baby brother, who first became known (to me anyway) as the adorable young gay boy Nathan Maloney in the original Queer as Folk. He followed that role with the dreamy ladies' man with an accent, Lloyd, in one of the great sitcoms about my generation, Undeclared. This history makes Jax Teller's codified commitment to biker club machismo somehow more nuanced. Sure he is leading the club now and raining down wrath on his enemies, but he's really just a confused little boy with no idea how to be a man and some seriously beautiful eyes.
9. Mindy Lahiri in The Mindy Project:
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Recently TV has been all about women in their mid-twenties to early thirties (JUST LIKE ME). In the comedy sphere, it is really Mindy Lahiri (played by Mindy Kaling) who is shining through as the character to root for (sorry Lena Dunham and Zooey Deschanel). She wears normal clothes, has a real job and her jokes are smart and not based on being on the Autism spectrum (Zooey) or the tragedy of being sooooo rich (Lena). I know Mindy Lahiri isn't real, but nonetheless, I kind of wish we had been roommates in college and she was still my best friend and we went on whacky trips together to fun and extravagant places (sorry real best friends, you just aren't as funny or as well-paid as she is).
8. Owen Slater in Boardwalk Empire:
Oh Owen Slater! I could write poems about your Irish accent and your soulful eyes! Owen, played by Charlie Cox, is faring better than most of the men on this list (for awhile at least) in the battle of masculinity and humanity. Sure he is a killer, but for him it's just a job! And he's got a really solid plan to get out. Not just that, he cares about the women in his life and not just in an "I'm here to protect you, lady" kind of way, but in a "we are both equal, imperfect human beings" kind of way. Sadly for everyone, this doesn't end well, but it was sure fun while it lasted.
7. Jane Timoney in Prime Suspect:
Prime Suspect was short-lived here in the U.S. Blink and you probably missed it, so you might not know about Jane Timoney, played by Maria Bello, a tough homicide detective trying to make her way in the boys' club of homicide detectivery (of all the places boys' clubs flourish, I imagine the Homicide Department is top of the list). But unlike other lady cops on TV, she isn't a lady. She does have to struggle to be taken seriously by her male counterparts, but that isn't because she is fragile or clearly spends 5 hours a week in a salon or is the hot one or the bitchy one. It's just because, as it is in real life, people with xx chromosomes have to work harder to be considered professionals. Go back and watch Jane kill it on Hulu and help me start a letter writing campaign to get this show back on the air.
6. Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad:
The thing about Breaking Bad for me is that it is almost impossible to watch without curling up in a ball and thinking about trying to score some meth. This means I generally watch it binge-and-purge style by binging on like half a season in 2 days and then purging with a full year of procedural crime dramas. After one of my epic Breaking Bad orgies, the main thing I am left with is a deep desire to cuddle with Jesse Pinkman, played by Aaron Paul. I know this is based on brain chemistry and the fact that when you watch a lot of the same character on TV, your brain subconsciously starts to think they are your friend and you develop unnatural relationships with them that lead you to do things like put pictures of them up on your cubicle walls and list them all for arts websites and stuff like that, but Jesse... He's so cute and deeply flawed and fiercely at war with himself and his addiction and so the horrible, ingrained girl part of my brain that sees a lost little boy bunny and knows I can fix it can't help but want to fix him hard. Seriously, thank god Jesse Pinkman is a character on TV and not a human being I know, because give it a week and I would be his enabler. Give it 2 and I would be smoking meth with him in a dirty motel room while my parents frantically called the police.
5. Sally Draper in Mad Men:
In the world of Mad Men transposed onto today, Sally Draper, played by Kiernan Shipka (best name of the year, clearly), grows up to be my mom. Her generation, the baby boomers, were and are an important group of people, even though they are constantly talking about the "Summer of Love" and telling us to put on a sweater because it's cold outside, EVEN THOUGH WE ARE LIKE 30 NOW MOM WE CAN TAKE CARE OF OURSELVES. It's great that this little maniac has pretty much become the only sympathetic character on the whole show. Plenty of times it seems like Sally is the only one who has the slightest clue what is going on. Is this because she is the only sober person in all of New York state? Maybe. Regardless, this character, played by a 12-year-old, is somehow humanizing an entire generation of mothers, by believably living through a time when girls weren't encouraged to be themselves or reach for the stars, but were still kind of thinking that maybe that's what they would do anyway.
4. Arya Stark on Game of Thrones:
This was the year of the little girls and Arya Stark, played by Maisie Williams, is exactly what every 10-year-old girl, including probably Sally Draper, wishes she was: a tough, secret princess with amazing sword fighting skills who is basically an orphan. In a show populated by awesome, compelling characters, Arya might be the truest hero.
3. Nicholas Brody on Homeland:
The thing people say about haters is that they like to hate. And everyone is currently hating hard on Homeland. Regardless, Sergeant Nicholas Brody, played by Damian Lewis who is a Brit ( listen to him talk in his real accent, it will blow your mind), is one of the most interesting and complicated new characters to show up on TV. In this interview, Lewis says acting is "advocating" and he is constantly advocating for his character. That's why this potential terrorist, definite murder, philanderer and liar is also a compelling father, lover and American patriot.
2. Richard Harrow in Boardwalk Empire:
As I write this list, it is becoming clear to me that I have a thing for damaged men in general and those with PTSD in particular. Richard Harrow, played by Jack Huston, is a classic case. He did not start as a major character on the show, but bit by bit his narrative is becoming more important and he played pretty much the crucial role in the Season 2 finale. I attribute this to the awesomeness of a character that may have begun as a throwaway but has developed from a sidekick enforcer for James Darmody (R.I.P.) into the moral center of the entire show, the terrifying force that will protect little Tommy Darmody at all costs. In a show that is as much about flawed relationships between parents and children as it is about anything else, Richard Harrow is the only father figure I trust, even though his half blown-up face makes him look like a monster and he is possibly the coldest-blooded and most effective killer on all of television.
1. Carrie Mathison on Homeland:
If Mindy Lahiri is the best comedic woman in her late twenties to early thirties on TV and Arya Stark is the best child and Richard Harrow is the best guy with PTSD, then Carrie Mathison, played by Claire Danes, is the best human being. Much has been made about her crying face and her less than stellar record with following the rules at the CIA, but let's be honest, WHO FOLLOWS THE RULES AT THE CIA? There are so many subplots and intrigues going on at that place it's a wonder anyone ever gets anything done!
Here's the thing about a really good fictional character: she has to be a little bigger than life, doing things a little more important than you or I do, acting a little crazier, wearing a little nicer shoes. It worked for Shakespeare, and it works on every good show on TV today. Very few of the people of America are gangsters, princesses, war heroes or CIA analysts and yet in our own minds and our own universes, we are that important.
Maybe the decisions I make in my relationships and at my job don't affect national security, but they sure feel like they do. So when Carrie Mathison can't help but fall in love with the terrorist she is supposedly protecting America from, I GET IT. I'm in love with a terrorist too, I think. And when she struggles at her job to be taken seriously because okay, sometimes she can be a little emotional when things don't go her way, I totally understand, because even though nobody dies when I make a spelling mistake on Twitter, it kind of feels like they do and it still makes me want to cry. Basically, Carrie is just a girl, trying to succeed at her dream job while maintaining relationships and her sanity. And we all know, even those of us who aren't going undercover in the Middle East, that is much easier said than done.
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There you have it. My top 10 characters of the year. What did I get wrong? Who did I forget? Tell me in the comments.


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Outfit: Dress - Vintage ($25), Shoes - Forever 21 ($22)
Many of you remember reading about the gorgeous vintage 1920's lace dress I swooped up at the Niles Flea Market for a cool $25. I put it on the other day and decided the old train station in Niles would be the perfect backdrop to display this lovely dress. I felt like I was a leading lady in an old film trying to catch the train before her love vanished. No need to mention how fun it was :)
I bought this dress on my very last walk through the flea market. When I asked the woman selling it how much it was she told me $40 (which I already thought was very reasonable), however I decided to throw $25 out there. Surprisingly, she obliged. I still walked away for an hour to conduct the ultimate test to determine if I actually "needed" the item. The test is simple: Walk away for an indefinite time, if you are constantly thinking about the item in that time then it is definitely something you can not live without.
When I discovered my obsession about this dress I was frantic to go buy it, worried it may now be gone. When I arrived at the booth she was packing up, luckily the dress was easily accessible and available. I happily paid her and took home my treasure. Whenever I wear this dress, I can't help but wonder what the woman was like who bought it 90 years ago. I'm sure she a was fabulous!


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It might be hard for weary dwellers of America's most popular cities to believe — but some Australians have even bigger housing headaches than we do. Google "Sydney housing affordability crisis" and you'll find the same hand-wringing and agita familiar to anyone looking for an apartment in, for example, the Bay Area.
In San Francisco, the main solution seems to be giving millionaires even nicer options so they vacate the less expensive spots — trickle-down real estate totally works, right? One Aussie architect has come up with a completely different solution: flat-pack houses that can be constructed with the help of nothing more exotic than a hammer and drill. (And presumably some nails and screws.)
Alex Symes's off-grid Big World Homes cost between $45,000 and $60,000. A base model consists of 39 individual panels, which can go up with the aforementioned tools plus some "online support." Each home sits on a trailer, meaning it's portable — and there's a need for neither a foundation nor a big swath of land. A solar energy panel sits on the roof; tanks collect rainwater for future use. The basic model provides a bedroom, bathroom and living space, but each unit is fully modularized, meaning it's easy to add on for extra space.
Interested? The project is currently in the prototype phase. But we may very well be on the waitlist as soon as it's announced.


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The "Human Rights Art" exhibition cultivates human rights awareness, reflection and activism, showcased in 32 mixed media artworks from the permanent collection of South Texas College. This educational exhibition addresses global and regional human rights, social justice and environmental issues. Through their artwork and personal statements, the artists strive to encourage reflection, and generate discussion that ultimately leads to change.
The new exhibit runs through Sunday, June 3, 2018, in the Museum's Mincberg Gallery at the Morgan Family Center, 9220 Kirby Dr., Suite 100.


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Stories of Edgar Allan Poe A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
An unnamed narrator from Charlottesville, Virginia introduces an interesting acquaintance from a wealthy family named Augustus Bedloe, whom he had met in 1827. Although this man claims to be young in age, his body has been aged and oddly transformed due to some illness, causing him to appear at times to be one hundred years of age, "He was singularly tall and thin. He stooped much. His limbs were exceedingly long and emaciated. His forehead was broad and low. His complexion was absolutely bloodless. His mouth was large and flexible, and his teeth were more wildly uneven...His eyes were abnormally large and round like those of a cat...their ordinary condition was so totally vapid, filmy and dull, as to convey the idea of the eyes of a long-interred corpse" 85-86. Augustus' skin is very pale, his teeth are set apart, his eyes appear to be dead at times, and the bone structure in his limbs is disproportionate to his body. Although initially discomforted to see the weird appearance of Augustus' body, the narrator adjusts to this over time, and he learns that this is due to "neuralgic attacks," or diseases that attack his nervous system, thus causing his body to transform far beyond its actual age.
To assist him, Augustus hired Doctor Templeton to be his full-time private physician after they had met up in Saratoga many years ago. Templeton is not the traditional sort of doctor, since he follows the teachings of Mesmerism, or hypnosis, which believes in the mind's ability to control the body. Augustus had at first been resistant to Mesmerism as well, and Templeton accordingly insisted that he experiment on this young man in an attempt to convince him otherwise. At first there were few results, and Bedloe showed little reaction to Templeton's experiments using the power of his mind and magnets to control Bedloe's body. However, as time went on Bedloe became more and more repsonsive, until eventually the two developed an interdependence, a "magnetic relation" that was extremely powerful. According to the narrator, Templeton can put Augustus to sleep at a moment's notice without warning, even when the doctor was not within Bedloe's sight. He adds that in his present year of 1845, such events are more well known than when he had first met Bedloe and Templeton nearly twenty years before, when this story takes place.
Augustus also takes lots of morphine on a daily basis in order to alleviate some of the pain he experiences from his illness, and each morning he likes to go out walking in the Ragged Mountains that are outside of Charlottesville. On one particularly warm day in November, he leaves for his usual walk but does not return until nearly eight o'clock in the evening. The narrator and Templeton were very worried about Augustus Bedloe and had even gotten ready to go out searching for this sickly man. However, Augustus has a fascinating story to tell; after leaving his home he walked for awhile and decided to take a new path he discovered along the way that led through a gorge. The area there was very pure, with the "green sods and grey rocks" that had never been walked upon before by any other human. Walking onwards, Augustus followed a winding path for several hours, and "In the quivering of a leaf -- in the hue of a blade of grass -- in the shape of a trefoil -- in the humming of a bee -- in the gleaming of a dewdrop -- in the breathing of the wind -- in the faint odors that came from the forest -- there came a whole new universe of suggestion -- a gay and motley train of rhapsodical and immethodical thought" Poe, pg. 88. Possibly influenced by the morphine, Augustus' senses were enhanced and he imagined that the world around him was suddenly so much more alive there than it has ever been before. The leaves, the trees, and in the bugs around him, everything seemed to suddenly be transformed than how it was before.
At this point Bedloe recalled that the Ragged Mountains have a reputation for being mystical, and that a dangerous race of mountain men supposedly lives there. At that moment, a drum beat rang out through the air to his surprise, and a strange half-naked man ran up and abruptly thrust an object with many steel rings upon it into Augustus' hand. Continuing to run ahead, a large hyena followed this man without giving Bedloe a moment's notice. Stunned, Bedloe pinched himself to make sure that it wasn't a dream and found a stream where he could get some water, sitting nearby under a palm tree. Noting that pine trees don't grow in the Virginia woods, Bedloe stood up, confused at where he was. Walking ahead, the air became very hot, and reaching an open space he found himself at the bottom of a huge mountain. Below there was a large exotic city, designed as if from The Arabian Takes, filled with minarets, busy bazaars, beards, turbans, mosques, and "Beyond the limits of the city arose, in frequent majestic groups, the palm and the cocoa, with other gigantic and weird trees of vast age and here and there might be seen a field of rice, the thatched hut of a peasant, a tank, a stray temple, a gypsy camp, or a solitary graceful maiden taking her way, with a pitcher upon her head to the banks of the majestic river" Poe, pg. 91.
Whatever city that Augustus Bedloe saw, it certainly was not any place in Virginia; this city had men who wear robes and turbans, and the weather has even become extremely hot as well. It seems as if he had walked to India or some far off land in the Middle East, rather than remaining in America. At this moment, Bedloe pauses from his story to affirm that he was not dreaming at all whether from the morphine, or from fatigue. He strongly asserts that everything he is describing actually occurred, and that he is not mistaken or disillusioned, in an attempt to seek validation from the narrator and Doctor Templeton, who are patiently listening to this tale. Templeton merely urges Bedloe to continue his story, declaring that he does not doubt Bedloe, and suggesting next that Bedloe went down into the city to explore. Augustus confirms this, adding that he walked down into the city, where an extraordinary event was occurring, as a huge mob of native people were attacking a small group "officered by gentlemen in a uniform partly British." Diving in to assist, Bedloe picked up some weapons from a fallen soldier and joined the pack, fleeing away as the mob pursued them. They finally found safety for a bit in a small building, observed an "effeminate-looking person" crawl out of the window of a nearby palace, jump into a boat, and run away across the river.
Next Bedloe's group dashed out of their hiding place, running down the street while the mob still pursued at full force, tossing spears and poisoned arrows. One of these arrows hit Bedloe in his head and he fell down, dying. The narrator interrupts at this point, declaring that it must have all been a dream because Bedloe obviously is not dead. Augustus does not reply, and Templeton, who is now visibly shaken, shouts out "Proceed" without regard to the narrator's comment. Bedloe recalled that he laid there for awhile in the dark, dead, until all of the crowd had departed. Bedloe merely feels as if this has occurred, for he cannot see it because he is dead. Then he rises up and feels that his body is lying dead there with an arrow through his brain, and then he climbed up the hill again overlooking the city, and he walked back the entire route whence he had come, until he arrived at the strange gorge again, at which point his body was violently jolted and he could see again and became his old self. He then returned to his home in Charlottesville, where he met Templeton and the narrator. Augustus declares once again that this experience, although very strange, was not a dream at all.
With the conclusion of Bedloe's story, Templeton agrees that this was not in fact a dream at all, taking out an old picture that exactly resembled the fact of Augustus Bedloe. The narrator still isn't sure what this means. Templeton now tells a tale of his own; the picture was taken of an old friend named Mr. Oldeb, in 1780, whom he had known in Calcutta, India when Warren Hastings was in charge of that country. Templeton adds that Bedloe's experience in the Ragged Mountains is exactly what he and Mr. Oldeb had endured in Bedares, India, when a group of natives led by Cheyte Sing had tried to overthrow the colonial British government. Sing was the man fleeing from the palace by boat; Hastings led the smaller group of which Templeton and Mr. Oldeb were a part, and of which Bedloe was a part during his experience. Oldeb was shot and killed by a poisoned arrow while fleeing the natives, much to Templeton's dismay. In fact, it was because of Augustus Bedloe's keen resemblance to Oldeb that Templeton had befriended him in the first place at Saratoga; Templeton was in the process of writing this memory down upon paper, while Bedloe was walking in the mountains. Certainly, the presence of a mesmeric connection between these two men is even clearer after hearing this revelation. Somehow Bedloe lived through the events in Templeton's mind as he was himself recalling them.
Several days after these events occurred, the narrator read Augustus Bedloe's obituary in the newspaper, learning that this man had a bad fever and a buildup of blood in his head as a result. Templeton had applied leeches to his head to relieve some of this pressure, although Templeton accidentally applied a poisonous leech to Bedloe's head, which poisoned his blood and killed the poor man. The article notes that the poisonous and friendly leeches of Charlottesville is different because the poisonous one is darker, and its body looks like a snake. The narrator is stunned to read this article, but he is even more concerned to observe that Augustus Bedloe's name is spelled "Bedlo" in the obituary. Arriving at the newspaper's office to ask for an explanation from the editor, the man responds merely that it is just a mistake that the "e" was omitted from his last name. Dissatisfied with this response, the narrator mutters aloud that "Bedlo" spelled backwards is "Oldeb," the very same name as the young friend of Doctor Templeton who had been slain in India by the poisoned arrow while fighting the rebellion. The narrator remains confused and baffled as he walks away from the newspaper's office, still trying to understand exactly what exactly the relationship is between Bedloe, Oldeb, and Doctor Templeton. However, the answers he receives only provoke more questions.


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How to Use Pinterest in Homeschooling
Posted in Homespun Blog on Tuesday, March 19, 2013
You have an endless source of Christian homeschool ideas, tips, and encouragement right at your fingertips and you may not even know it. Pinterest, a content sharing site where users can "pin" images linked to websites, can be the answer to long, rainy days and moments when you are scrapping the bottom of your creativity list. Once you understand how to use Pinterest, it will become a part of your homeschool tool belt.
Field Trip: Whether you just moved to a new location, are wondering what is new in your area, or are going on a road trip, you can use Pinterest to find fun ideas for local field trips. Simply type your city into the search bar and browse through a rampant amount of ideas. Don't get stuck searching under the "pins" section, which the site automatically searches. Click the "boards" and "pinners" search options on the top of the page to narrow your search. Try adding different keywords to your search, such as "activities, field trip, homeschool, Christian, or fun," to find specific, enjoyable educational activities wherever you want to go.
Inspiration: If you have had a long homeschool day or are bracing yourself for one, sometimes all you need is a little encouragement. Pinterest is a good source for finding relevant scriptures and motivational quotes for homeschoolers. Boards such as Alpha Omega Publications' Inspiration Board have quotes and scriptures that you will want to pin on your own account and even on your refrigerator!
Activities: When you want an activity to coincide with a science lesson, your learners are bored, or you need a spark in homeschooling, Pinterest is the place to go. You can find hundreds of easy activities to do with objects around the house or cheap items you can buy locally. Start by searching a broad topic, such as "spring." If the results are not showing an ideal activity, focus your search by adding additional related words, such as "activities, crafts, and DIY." Searching under the "DIY & Crafts" section also brings up fun activities and crafts that you can tailor to your topic.
Follow: An important part of using Pinterest and reaping the benefits is following other accounts. Follow your local chamber of commerce, activity center, or favorite homeschoolers. When you find a pin that you like, check out who pinned it and follow them. Eventually, you won't have to search for as many ideas because they will automatically show up on your own wall and your own boards.
Check out AOP's Homeschool Pinterest account for craft ideas, homeschool tips and facts, sales, free stuff, and more!
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SALYERSVILLE – Very little has been released regarding a federal drug bust that occurred last Friday, ending with one Magoffin man in jail in Woodford County.
Gregory Howard, 44, of Salyersville, was picked up on Friday, March 3 and originally taken to the Pike County Detention Center under the charge "federal prisoner held – in transit/court/serve out." The next day he was transferred to the Woodford County Detention Center with the same charge.
While no new charges have been filed against Howard, on March 2 his federal probation officer petitioned the court to revoke Howard's probation, citing four violations described as "commission of a crime – distribution of oxycodone." The petition was granted by the court and a warrant of arrest was issued on the same day.
Howard was on probation for a 2013 case where pleaded guilty (via a plea deal) to one count of distribution of oxycodone and sentenced to time served, three years supervised release and $100 special assessment. The charge carried a maximum sentence of not more than 20 years imprisonment, $1 million fine and three years supervised release.
A final revocation hearing is scheduled in Lexington for today, March 9, 2017, at 1:15 p.m.
Editor's Note: The indictment or charge of a person by a grand jury or otherwise is an accusation only and that person is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.


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A.D . 1150. Louis, king of France, and Eustace, the son of king Stephen, came with a numerous army to the castle of Argues, on account of the quarrel which I have mentioned above, and Henry, duke of Normandy, was also present there, and his father, Geoffrey, count of Anjou, with a great army of Anjouins, Bretons, and Normans ; but the chiefs on each side, seeing that those legions could not meet in a hostile manner without a great effusion of blood, began to treat of peace, and by the intervention of mutual friends, the king of France received the homage of Henry, duke of Burgundy, and so the two armies separated peaceably. After this, while duke Henry was with his nobles, discussing the question of the expedition into England, his father being seized with a severe illness at the castle of Beri, departed this life, on the seventh of September, and so Henry, his son, became count of Anjou, and duke of Normandy. The same year, Robert de Gorham was created abbot of St. Alban's, as Rodolph had resigned that post from ill health. Louis, king of France, and Eleanor, his queen, were formally divorced, for they were too near of kin, in the fourth degree of consanguinity. King Stephen fortified the castle of Reading on the twentieth of January. The same year, William Turbus was consecrated to the bishopric of Norwich.
Henry, duke of Normandy, married Eleanor, formerly wife of Louis.
A.D. 1151. Count Theobald of Blois, the brother of king Stephen, died. Henry, duke of Normandy, married Eleanor, who had formerly been the wife of Louis. Queen Adelicia died, the wife of king Stephen. The castle of Reading was pulled down. The same year, John, a monk of Sagium, was appointed the second bishop of the Isle of Man, which is between England and Ireland. The first bishop was Raymond, a monk of Savinaim. The same year, William, bishop of Durham, died, and Geoffrey Arthur was appointed bishop of St. Asaph, in North Wales ; he it was who translated the history of the Britons from the British language into Latin. The same year, Gratian, a monk of the city of Guise, and a native of Tuscany, composed decrees according to Hu. 2. q. 6 ; C. form.


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In the words of Example... "And the love kickstarts again...."
by katywalkerSep 16th 2013
Its now the end of the triathlon season and while its been a non existent triathlon season for me, with my plethora of injuries, ailments and general excuses, its time to draw a line, settle into the winter training and the love kickstarts again....
Still have a few goals to get out of the way before the end of the year. That sub 1:45 half marathon is still calling me in particular!
Winter goals:
1) Get my lazy ass back in the pool four times a week...
2) Cycle through the winter and stop bailing out when its cold!...plus need to use my new Layzene Power Drive XL lights ;)
3) Work on running speed over shorter distances
But before we get too bogged down in Winter training, a round-up of the year so far....
The year started with a real injection of enthusiasm and a great self imposed run training regime as well as some great swim coaching from endurance360coaching...you must remember the swim analysis photos...shocking! Here they are again...lol!
February was when the run training paid off and I knocked 8 mins of my (admittedly poor) half marathon PB...remember the bin bag photo? Like the football in Castaway, that bin-bag became my friend that day - ffrrreeeeezing day!!
March was cycle training and headed to Italy to hit the hills of San Marino...
All was going well....
April came and with it came my withdrawal from Majorca 70.3 and first bout of breast surgery :(
May saw me travel out to Majorca in any case and soaking up the atmosphere in the Ironman Majorca 70.3 as a spectator! Got a good amount of cycling in, so not a total waste...
June...write off!... more surgery!
July saw me back in the water, back on the bike and running again...albeit slowly... More exercising than training!
August and back to Swanage for another year... Won the relay event and got 'silverwear' to boot! :)))
September means BTS Club Champs time...and having had a shocking swim, Heather stormed the bike and thanks to Simons sub 17 minute 5km, we got a second place...officially, if you check the website...stewards inquiry though!! ;)
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Hi, I agree with Søren that this is not necessarily a good idea. It is not trivial for an indexer to figure out which view results changed. One method to so is storing all indexed view results and then comparing them to the updated view once the indexer is called. This is a needless waste of resources. Updating the view index based on changed documents is even more difficult. You would have to recompute the view at least partially to find out which view results changed. Given the reduce step this means that any number of documents, including unchanged ones could be involved. This creates a lot of work. I think the problem we face here is different usage patterns of views. There are views which process a lot of data and which are based on documents that are updated frequently. But they might only be read from infrequently. These views profit from JIT computation. However many applications use views which are infrequently updated but often queried or searched. Such views benefit from live updating. If an application allows searching data it nearly always means that the data will be read more frequently than it is updated. So in conclusion both methods (JIT and live updates) make sense for views. But search normally only needs the live update mechanism. I believe it should become configurable whether a view is updated immediately after a change or only after a query takes place. Fulltext search would always work on views with immediate updates. The indexer would be notified about the changed results. On views which delay updates, search would only work if the fulltext search provides a mechanism to compare the new view results to the old ones. Cheers Nils Jan Lehnardt wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2008, at 12:06, Søren Hilmer wrote: >> Hi >> >> Have you read Chris' response about letting the view engine call the >> indexer, >> as it has the information needed for the indexer? As I understand the >> idea, >> it will essentially keep the fulltext indexer and the views in sync. >> >> I like this idea and I believe the code for the indexer would be much >> simpler >> and efficient. >> >> Also as the shift goes towards indexing views and not documents, it >> makes >> sense that it is the View engine that triggers the indexer, right? > > The only problem here is that views are changed, when they are being > queried and not when documents are added. So you could end up with a > lot of not-indexed data because your view hasn't been queried. That > can be worked around, but I don't think it makes things any easier :) > > The design of the update notification is intentionally simple. We > expect the clients (the Indexer in this case) to be smart. We believe > that this makes the server code is more robust in that way. > > >> I have to study the View engine, if I am to provide any code for >> this, though >> (provided consensus blows in this direction). >> >> Have fun >> Søren >> On Friday 11 April 2008 13:26, Jan Lehnardt wrote: >>> On Apr 11, 2008, at 08:55, Søren Hilmer wrote: >>>> Hi Jan >>>> >>>> It certainly would simplify configuration, allthough the >>>> DbUpdateNotificationProcess setting ought to be retained as it is >>>> potentially usefull for other stuff than indexing (can you have more >>>> than >>>> one of these, setup?) >>> >>> No, the update searcher will stay! :-) >>> >>>> I am also worried about responsetimes for searching, potentially the >>>> indexing can take considerable time. With the current approach >>>> indexing >>>> can be done off peak hours and only searching is done at prime time. >>> >>> Right, if you want to be conservative with resources, you might want >>> togo >>> with my approach at the expense of possibly higher response times the >>> first time things are searched for (as it is with views). I just >>> wanted to make >>> available my idea that fulltext indexing could be modelled after how >>> views >>> work, in case this is useful for a specific scenario. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Jan >>> -- >>> >>>> Have fun >>>> Søren >>>> -- >>>> Søren Hilmer, M.Sc., M.Crypt. >>>> wideTrail Phone: +45 25481225 >>>> Pilevænget 41 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com >>>> DK-8961 Allingåbro Web: www.widetrail.dk >>>> >>>> On Thu, April 10, 2008 23:32, Jan Lehnardt wrote: >>>>> Heya, >>>>> while thinking more about the fulltext implementation, I began to >>>>> wonder why we don't model it after the view engine. >>>>> >>>>> At the moment, we have an Indexer waiting for update notifications >>>>> and >>>>> polling CouchDB for changes and a separate mechanism to register a >>>>> fulltext query Searcher, that looks up things in the index. >>>>> >>>>> My proposed architectural change would be to trigger the Indexer from >>>>> the Searcher module when a request comes in, just like views work. >>>>> This would delay the creation of fulltext indexes until they are >>>>> actually needed. >>>>> >>>>> The possible drawback though is, that when building the fulltext >>>>> index >>>>> is rather slow, old-style pre-calculation might be more feasible. >>>>> View >>>>> deal with that by requiring frequent requests (possibly cron-ed). >>>>> >>>>> This is not a proposal or anything, just a thought I wanted to share >>>>> with those who work on fulltext integration. >>>>> >>>>> If you have any input on this, please let us know ;) >>>>> >>>>> Cheers >>>>> Jan >>>>> -- >> >> -- >> Søren Hilmer, M.Sc., M.Crypt. >> wideTrail Phone: +45 25481225 >> Pilevænget 41 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com >> DK-8961 Allingåbro Web: www.widetrail.dk >> >
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根据下面的提示,用英语写一篇短文,介绍下岗女工刘亚茹,以便刊登在China Daily上。要点如下:
1. 刘亚茹,济南一家纺织厂(weaving mill)的女工,在厂工作已14年。
2. 1992年,她失业了,当时她34岁。
3. 刚开始,她呆在家里,既着急,又对找到另一份工作没信心。
4. 一段时间后,她不再怕别人看不起她,到一家茶馆作了一名服务员(waitress),工作干得很好。
5. 现在许多顾客都愿光顾(call at)她所工作的这家茶馆。
1. 词数90~120.题目自拟;
2. 下岗:laid-off
A Good Example of Laid -off Workers
Liu Yaru, a woman worker, had worked in a weaving mill in Jinan for 14 years. In 1992 when she was 34, Mrs Liu was out of work. At the beginning, she stayed at home. She was worried and was not sure about finding another job. Some time later, she was no longer afraid of being looked down upon. She managed to find a job as a waitress at a teahouse. She does well in her job, and now many customers like to call at this teahouse. She makes a lot of money through her hard work. She has set a good example for the laid-off workers.


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I received an email from Pearson Publishing the other day.
Attached to it was a pdf that they wanted me to sign authorizing a few authors to use the blogging rubric that I had created a few years ago. These authors were writing a college textbook potentially to be priced at $117 and they wanted to include my rubric in it. A few years ago I had signed the same paper allowing this resource of mine to be included in the first version of this book.
But this time I said no. This time I emailed them and simply said that I wasn't interested in allowing them to use this piece. A few emails ensued where they questioned my decision and asked me to reconsider. In the end, I still said no thanks.
I've decided that there was no use allowing this piece of my work to be included in this textbook. This time, it just didn't seem to make sense. I've been fortunate enough to have my classroom practices mentioned and examined in a number of books and articles. But, with my own stuff, everything I make and share online is covered under a Creative Commons license. If you want anything of mine; take it. Modify it. Use it in your classroom. Just don't pretend its yours and sell it and make a bunch of money.
What effect will this have on Pearson publishing? None at all. I hope it doesn't interfere with the authors (none of whom I know) or their work. I sincerely hope that their piece goes forward with this only being a small blip in the road for them. But in this day, when even a guy like me, an educator from a small town in the middle of nowhere, can have a global voice and share their work and ideas with anyone who wants it, publishing something in a locked down $117 book seems like an anachronism from another age.
By the way, here's the link to the blogging rubric. Use it as you will.


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A pitcher from Saskatchewan continues to live his dream.
Andrew Albers, a native of North Battleford, is one of the pitchers playing for Team Canada in this year's World Baseball Classic.
Albers took to the mound in Canada's first game of the tournament in Miami on Thursday night. He relieved starter Ryan Dempster in the third inning, allowing only one hit and striking out two batters over two innings against a powerhouse lineup from the Dominican Republic.
He said being ready to go at a moment's notice is one of his keys to success.
"Everybody's got to be ready to pitch every day," he said.
"You just never know when you're going to be used and things can change real quick through the course of a game in these tournaments."
Once the World Baseball Classic is over, Albers will begin the 2017 season in the Atlanta Braves organization after signing with them as a free agent in December.
Coming from a place not necessarily known for producing baseball talent, he said he had to defy the odds.
"You have to persevere through the ups and downs and catch a few breaks here and there," Albers said. "All those things have happened for me and I've been very blessed and very fortunate to have the journey that I have."
The 31-year-old has also spent time with the Toronto Blue Jays and Minnesota Twins, and traveled to South Korea to play for the Hanwha Eagles in 2014.
For many who aspire to "make it to the bigs," Albers is an example of why they shouldn't give up on their goals.
"You just never know when that break is going to come. Baseball is a game where the smallest of adjustments can make the biggest difference," Albers said.
"Sometimes you learn a new grip on a pitch or you figure out something with your swing and all of the sudden it changes your game."
Regina's Dustin Molleken is also pitching for Team Canada.
Canada plays Columbia on Saturday.


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It's kind of silly but I'm having one of those days where I need to get my mind off of everything. If you feel so inclined let's see if we can get thrifting as a contender for the top 25 Eco-Friendly Moms. I personally can't think of much that is eco-friendlier than teaching our children how to thrift, negotiate and sell. If you click on the button I should be listed somewhere on the list and you can vote for me. I won't ask again but it would be lovely to have Thrifting up there in the top 10 of Eco-Friendly Moms.
Keiran bought a game on Sunday morning for $2.00 at a yard sale and went on and on about how it should have been 50¢. The seller told him that she paid $10 but he still wasn't pleased on the price. While it could be construed as a little greedy, I was so proud of him. He's getting the concept of the value of the thrifted dollar. He arrived home with game in hand only to tell his father the story. Bless him. Luckily we'll get hours of fun out of the game which is why I decided to pay the $2 although I think Keiran was ready to walk away.
Cerys's class had their play this week and one of their traditions is to wear their pajamas the day after, bring pillows, a plushie and food to share. Cerys wanted new pajamas because she felt that her pajamas were too childlike. I understood her dilemma so we headed to (in my opinion) one of the worst places; the Mall. We went to Macy's, Sears, Crazy 8, Gymboree, Gap, (some horrible store called Justice which gave us all stimulation overload) and The Childrens Place. She couldn't find anything. Either the clothes were slathered in tv characters, sprayed with flame resistant chemicals or just plain hideous. Cerys was pretty annoyed as we walked out of the last store. Being in the mall reminded me on so many levels why we enjoy buying a majority of our clothing from yard sales and thrift stores. Just last Saturday Cerys and I walked to a yard sale the next block over and Cerys bought 4 shirts and a pair of shorts for 16¢ each. She kept going on and on about how much money we saved. In the end Cerys found a pair of PJ's in her drawer that she felt would be suitable. Money spent? $0.
As we head toward her becoming a teenager it will be interesting to see whether she'll want to shop in thrift stores or consignment stores or demand (in her very strong willful way) to buy new.
Keiran was crying the other day telling me that he wished that we were rich so that he could buy his clothing at Old Navy. I had to smile at that. Of course for me, the idea of buying a shirt from Anthropolgie at a thrift store for $5 when someone originally paid over $80 is my idea of being rich. That $75 that we saved can go toward their school, our savings account or to buy organic food.
I truly love the lessons that we are teaching our children about money, especially at a time when prices are going up. When you live frugally and you raise thrifty kids, you don't feel the recession the same as families who rely on buying retail. I see ad after ad in Craigslist of people selling year old furniture that they claim they paid "$800" or "$1500" for and now they are selling it for so much less. I can't quite wrap my head around buying a $1500 couch and then not wanting it a year later. I can relate to buying a $50 couch and not wanting it five years later because it was replaced with a better and more fabulous thrifted couch or two. I plan to sell the $50 couch to even pay for both couches if I do my math correctly.
It will be fascinating to see what all of our children do with the thrift skills that we are teaching them now. Wouldn't you all love to get together in 25 years and see what our children have become? I can't think of a more eco-friendly skill to teach them.


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Upcoming Webinars
Endowments and the CDP
Spring 2015, date and time TBD
Past Webinars
College and University Endowments and the Principles for Responsible Investment | September 16, 2014
The UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and the Intentional Endowments Network presented a webinar about the steps university endowments are taking to address sustainability issues in their investments, and how this fits with their roles as long-term investors. This webinar provided an overview of the sustainable investing landscape and the spectrum of strategies available. It highlighted the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), and offer insights from university representatives who have experience with PRI.
- Sonal Mahida, US Network Manager, Principles for Responsible Investment
- Dave Gorman, Director of Social Responsibility and Sustainability, University of Edinburgh
- John Pierce, Assistant Treasurer, Simon Fraser University
- Georges Dyer, Coordinator, Intentional Endowment Network
Slides: coming soon
For more details please click here.


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Wonderware , a business unit of Invensys announced four major new offerings that are designed to help customers break down barriers to achieve operational excellence across their manufacturing and industrial businesses.
These new offerings coexist and interoperate with existing systems and software from Wonderware and other vendors.
Wonderware is also launching the new Internet-based 'Wonderware Breakthrough Experience' to provide operations, engineering and IT personnel with first-hand experience of the capabilities of these new offerings.
Mike Bradley, Wonderware's president said, "These releases represent some of the most significant breakthroughs that Wonderware has delivered in its 20-year history. We have invested more than 100 person-years to ensure that these offerings and our channels can deliver on real-world software performance and productivity that will continue to enable our customers to meet some of their toughest operations, engineering and IT challenges."
InTouch 10.0 software provides new innovative ArchestrA graphics capability. The intelligent graphics capability, along with direct support for Microsoft .NET technology, enables InTouch 10.0 HMI to provide enterprise-wide visualization for a wide range of real-time applications. With more than 200 new features, InTouch 10.0 HMI delivers the latest intuitive graphical interaction and animation techniques for maximum operator response and comprehension, while minimizing design and engineering efforts.
Craig Resnick, research director, ARC Advisory Group said, "The manufacturing community has spoken loud and clear that they expect their automation suppliers to protect their application investments, even if it was a solution deployed in the 1980s on a legacy Windows operating system,"
"ARC is a strong advocate of solutions that offer migration from legacy to state-of-the-art functionality while not disrupting a manufacturer's production schedule or requiring a significant amount of time or work. It appears that Wonderware has met this challenge by enabling customers to take an InTouch software application that was developed 20 years ago on Windows 2.0 and have it continue to operate with the latest version of InTouch 10.0 HMI running on the newest Windows Vista environment, without any significant effort or loss of production time for the manufacturer."
The new Wonderware Development Studio provides a unified environment, which empowers the collaboration of IT and engineering teams to perform software application modeling, development, change management and deployment across the full range of Wonderware software applications including InTouch 10.0 HMI, System Platform 3.0 and associated application modules. Using the Wonderware Development Studio, applications can now be deployed across a wide range of enterprise devices running on Windows Mobile, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating environments.
The Wonderware Development Studio supports the industry's broadest range of plant floor and business system connectivity products and technologies. It is compatible with more than 325 I/O servers and DA servers, and provides support for OPC, XML, SQL, SAP Netweaver and Microsoft .NET. As a result, users benefit from having one highly productive tool for building, integrating and maintaining virtually all of their manufacturing and industrial operations software applications.
Wonderware System Platform 3.0 delivers major runtime performance updates to the Wonderware Application Server, including the ability to take full advantage of the latest multi-core microprocessor technology.
Wonderware System Platform 3.0 also provides a rich set of software services for creating, deploying and managing distributed real-time applications, with faster time to value and with lower life-cycle costs.
System Platform 3.0 works seamlessly with InTouch 10.0 software by offering complete integration of ArchestrA application objects with ArchestrA graphics running inside InTouch HMI visualization. Wonderware is offering discounts for customers that upgrade their existing InTouch software licenses to InTouch 10.0 software and additionally purchase the Wonderware System Platform 3.0 and customer support.
The new Wonderware Compact Panel offerings provide unprecedented ease of installation and a new entry price point by bundling a subset of InTouch 10.0 HMI runtime functionality, along with rugged, industrial touch screen operator panels operating Windows Mobile 6.0. A range of screen sizes and industrial environments can be supported with these devices including NEMA 4X/IP 66 and Class 1, Div. 2. Customers can now have a common visualization strategy from the smallest devices to a network of servers and hundreds of clients all utilizing InTouch 10.0 software and the common Wonderware Development Studio.
Chris Colyer, worldwide director, manufacturing operations strategy at Microsoft said, "In collaborative manufacturing, it's critical to get the right information to the right employees so they get the data and insight needed to do their jobs better on a daily basis. These new offerings from Wonderware leverage the latest technologies from Microsoft to deliver innovative new ways of tying people and information together."


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I was gonna wait until this was printed and distributed so I could show the finished product in shiny plastic and all, buuuut that will take a while and I am impatient! So here's the final album art and CD design I made for my friend Matt's band, Matt Kollar and the Angry Mob. they're pretty amazing. check them out. www.mattkollarandtheangrymob.com. now!
Once the actual CD and jacket is back from printing in a month or so I'll be sure to post up some photos. Hope everyone is well!
August 31, 2009
6 comments:
- Thomas Yamaoka said...
awesome job Allie!
- September 15, 2009 at 1:00 AM
- Monica Grue said...
- September 17, 2009 at 12:25 AM
- us all said...
we be peepin' on ya
--tiffany and kate
- September 17, 2009 at 5:06 PM
- Renrut said...
Allie this is so amazing! Love it! Did you use a combo of watercolor inks and the computer?
- September 19, 2009 at 10:53 PM
- Jose said...
Oh man this is so sick!
- September 29, 2009 at 12:07 AM
allie , this is soooooooooooooooooooooooo sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!! well, sweet is a lame word , for a raven cracki-laken on music notes.............
lovin you , auntie kathy
- October 12, 2009 at 9:26 PM
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More WG-1 GPS Samples (of Mine)
As long as IQ is concerned, I am not convinced what the Q could do more than a contemporary P&S DC after viewing so many Q samples. In fact, user-friendliness wise, I believe that the Q does even have less portability, than most DCs.
Anyway, further to my last full review on my WG-1 GPS, I post some more more samples from the WG-1 so that anyone here can compare once again, to see if the Q could really supersede any current DC in IQ, and how would it be different, or not!
All samples are resized to 12 megapixels. Original images are available for download per picture page.
You can measurebate again the resolution, colour rendition, dynamic range, noise, flare resistance and whatsoever. Nonetheless, the video quality is still terrible, which will not be changed at the end of the day! :-( Here is yet a sample clip (view in 720p for the best possible video quality):-
(URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3icTswewl9s)


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Additional platform for the PCB ind
Additional platform for the PCB industry electronica continues success model of PCB Marketplace
In close cooperation with the ZVEI (Electrical and Electronics Manufacturers' Association), the PCB Marketplace communications platform is being initiated at electronica for the first time. Following its successful launch at productronica 2011, now the forum as well as a networking area will be a central gathering for the PCB industry at electronica. The International Trade Fair for Electronic Components, Systems and Applications takes place in Munich from November 13 – 16.
The PCB Marketplace features an extremely diverse lecture program at the forum and networking opportunities, and it invites visitors to participate in an intense exchange of information on the topic of PCBs, other circuit carriers and EMS. The Marketplace will be located in Hall C1. The exhibition sector will be located in Halls B1 and C1 and features companies such as FELA Leiterplattentechnik, Flextronics International Germany, Multek Europe, Italia, SANMINA - SCI Holding, Würth Elektronik and Zollner Elektronik. Christoph Stoppok, Managing Director of the Electronic Components and Systems and PCB and Electronic Systems trade associations in the ZVEI: "The concept of the PCB Marketplace as a central communications gathering proved to be extremely effective, so we decided to introduce this successful model at electronica, as well."
The main themes of the lecture program include connectors, PCB & EMS (electronic manufacturing services), MCD (material content data) and IMDS (international material data systems). The first items on the agenda have already been announced: On November 14, the ZVEI will hold a panel discussion on "The World of Testing – Achieving the Desired Quality Safely". After that, representatives from companies such as Robert Bosch, Lackwerke Peters and Varioprint will discuss "PCB Reliability". A list of all lectures at the PCB Marketplace is available in the electronica event database. Additional information about the PCB Marketplace: www.electronica.de/ supporting-program.


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The Employment Law for HR Managers Masterclass focuses on the legal issues that are proving the most challenging and complex for HR practitioners and business managers. The program is presented by experts from Toronto's top law firms, who will provide valuable insight into a number of topics with a focus on recent cases and court decisions.
|Event Date
|March 5, 2018 8:00 am
|Event End Date
|March 5, 2018 6:00 pm
|Individual Price
|Vancouver Convention Centre


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It turns out that sticking to a sleep routine is not as easy as I'd first thought.
I love my sleep, I really do. And I need plenty of it; I'd sleep for 12 hours every day if I could. Having said that, I figured that around 8 hours of sleep a night should be sufficient. Working backwards from 6am (since that's the time I have to get up if I'm going to get up at the same time every day), I arrived at a bedtime of 10pm. That's early, especially on the weekend. And who wants to get up at 6am on a Sunday?
Needless to say, I'm having difficulties with my new sleep schedule, and I'm only a week into it. I've already missed my new bedtime three times and consequently allowed myself extra time in bed the morning after to make up for it. It seems that sticking to a sleep routine and having a social life aren't the most compatible.
I am enjoying the wind down period before bed, however. 8:30pm is now my official cut-off time for work or anything that requires alert thinking, and for those nights that I've stuck to it (most of them, honest!), I've definitely noticed that I fall asleep more easily. Scheduling time into my day to relax feels strange at first (it's not very often that I plan time to relax without feeling guilty about it) but, oh what a pleasure! Taking a warm bath, reading a magazine, or preferably, reading a magazine in a warm bath, really do help to relieve anxiety and switch off a busy mind. If I've learnt one thing this week, it is the joy (and positive effects) of relaxation.


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It takes silence to listen to the Gods. There are many layers of existence that are going on at the same time on so many different dimensions; but if you focus and you ignore or get "past" the everyday sounds of non silence (like TV's blaring, the sound of yourself typing, the sounds of trains on the railroad tracks, or cars driving down the road, or airplanes zooming over head). If you can tune out all of that then you can hear what is really going on. Especially in the mornings when you have not had time to cut on your "chatterbox" that is rattling what you have to do for the day, week, month in your head. You know that voice that immediately reminds you of the laundry you have to put in the washer, or fill the coffee pot, or pack your lunch, or what you are going to wear that day...? Yeah, that voice.
If you get up before that voice is "awake" then you can hear the Universe........
The sun rises slowly in the east illuminating the sky with white light. It's beams circle like halos on the earth, and you very easily can reach out and drink in its perpetual light; lighting up your stomach with the light of the sun, sending it down to your pelvis, further down your calves, into your feet, your toes spread sending it down into the earth that you feel yourself connecting too. You hear that? That is the beat of the Earth God Geb below you . Yep, that's right! The sun energy you sent him made you connected to him. Beat, beat...Bump, Bump....Beat, Beat,.....Bump, Bump.
You sit there swaying to the energy of the Planet Earth's heart beat until you feel it feeding you. It pushes you up and back...You need a quick breath. In hale! That is Shu...(Say it like Shuuuuu), yep say his name outlide and let it roll of your tongue...SHEWWW. Feel his light blue light filling you up, entering through your mouth, coating your tongue, tickling your throat, going to your chest and swirling around there. Blue light blue....Send that swirling energy down to your navel, further down into your pelvis, let it trickle down your thighs and then creep into your calves, rushing down into your feet...spreading your toes and planting you firm.
Look up. Notice the beautiful blue sky stretching over you and the clouds chasing each other. That's Nut (pronounced Newt) Say it...NUUUUUT! That is your big atmospheric Mama protecting you! Isn't she just beautiful! Yep, you do live in a bubble and that Bubble is cradling you and protecting you! Doesn't it feel nice to know you are that loved and taken care of?
Breathe in the Shu, Sway to the heartbeat of Geb, Look up at Nut and Feel that you are loved.
Feel the bright sunshine prickling your skin. Notice its warmth; let it enter into every pour of your being. Notice that it is illuminating you and that for a moment our vision is smeared like Vaseline on a window pane. That is Ra, Grandfather Ra. Say Thank you Ra, for that insight today. (Hear yourself saying those words and notice how heartfelt they are and how happy you are right now!)
Now go on get inside and get ready for whatever your day is unfolding to be. Prepare in joy, let your pace be the same as the universes, may you flow and understand that you are so loved; and truly truly a remarkable being...and while you are driving to drop off your children at school, going to work, or just taking your dog for a walk; remember that heart beat, feel that sun flowing under your skin! SMILE! You are connected!
Thank you for the gift of your time!


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At Radiance, we strongly believe that mutual dependency is a way of life and following the mathematical formula "Invention Exploitation = Innovation", we strive to convert invention done by our professors and students fixated in our labs into innovation by exploiting opportunities from who's who in the industry. An event, where different sectors of industry and academia are brought together to facilitate a pleasant and yet vibrant exchange of knowledge. Consonant with that we bring you an arsenal of events that endeavors to explore every dimension and aspect of the science that we call "Mechanical Engineering".
Radiance 2011 is powered by 3A Composites as Platinum Sponsor, MSc Software as Gold Sponsor along with ANSYS as Student support Sponsor. The festival has AUTODESK, CCTech and MBS as workshop sponsors, GEOMETRIC as IDPpartner; ThinkDigit, OVERDRIVE and DARE as Magazine partners along with PlugInCampus, BHASH, Freshersworld, CrazyEngineers, KnowAFest as Online partners.
Competitions at Radiance Explore the new assignments at Radiance and challenge your self-complacency. Radiance hosts a galaxy of events aimed at boosting the technological skills in almost all major areas of Maschinenbau inherent in today's youth and providing them with an opportunity to showcase their innovative ideas and thoughts.
This year Radiance introduces two new events along with conventional competitions after their remarkable success. Vaigyaniki which is national level research and project presentation competition, received huge response over the years. Industry Defined Problem (IDP) is the second attraction of Radiance, here student will get the chance to handle real life engineering problem and interact with industry expert. MechView is a online video making competition, this is new initiative this year, students suppose to make video related with "Mechanical engineering world" to show their skills and creativity. Mecha Know is national level technical quiz competitions consisting of elimination and quizzing rounds at Radiance2011, the chance for geeks to show their knowledge about mechanical engineering world.
1) "Revenue Management and Dynamic Pricing" - Dr. Goutam Dutta, Prof. IIM A, Production and Quantitative Methods Department.
2)"Effective Utilization of Resources in Mechanical Design" - Dr. G R Reddy, Senior Scientist at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
AUTOSPARK - (Prefest workshop): - A complete Automobile Workshop This workshop will inform the students basics of automobiles along with recent technologies as well as live engine demonstration. This workshop is two days workshop.
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Workshop (Fest workshop): Powered by ANSYS India Now a days it is important to be aware of new technology so in this workshopParticipants would get a chance to solve fluid mechanics or heat transfer problem during the workshop using what is popularly known as "Virtual Wind Tunnel – A CFD Software" using their own laptop. At the end of workshop, participants would get a chance to interact with CFD professionals from industry and discuss feasibility of doing their academic projects using CFD tools.
[RELATED_ARTICLE]Think. Create. Build. Amaze - Robotics Workshop by AUTODESK (Fest workshop): Main aim of this workshop is to teach how to built a ROBOT using the VEX Robotics Classroom Lab Kit and Autodesk Inventor.
AutoSketch Workshop - by Institute of Dilip Chhabria (Fest workshop): The workshop will mainly deal with automotive sketching, including cars, trucks, and bikes. The workshop aims to instil confidence in students about their sketching skills.
Algomech: The coding competition where student suppose to code a real life engineering problem in any language. Brainvita is the online puzzle competition.
For more information log on to www.radianceiitb.org


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This was my 5th year and still one of my favorite races. The weather was perfect and I had a lot of fun. My race itself was not one of my better ones, but I didn't care, it was a good time! The race is 5 miles through the various trails of Golden Gate Park. There's also a 3 mile walk and 3 kids races for various age groups. Plus, there's a ton of prizes for the winners and a HUGE raffle at the end. In fact, this was the first year I didn't win anything in the raffle. Proceeds benefit the track teams for Lowell and Washington High Schools.
I am very thankful this Thanksgiving Day Weekend for being healthy. I am thankful for, no matter how slow, being able to run. I can and will get faster! I have decided to really make it a top priority to attain maximal health and fitness, no matter what in 2018, so I'll get a head start in the weeks before the new year. Sure, I overate and have a couple extra pounds, but now it's time to get serious and dive headlong into fitness!
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Just in time for Spring here is the Spring Break Trio from Zoya. This set includes Tracie, Wednesday, and Shelby, these are from the new Beach Collection. These colors are so fun I picture myself wearing them on the beach in Cabo sipping on a nice fruity drink soaking up the sun.
Tracie: A very pretty green with a hint of shimmer, she went on very well and had good coverage. with one coat.(I used two)
Wednesday: A lovely bright spring blue, she went of nice and had great coverage with just one coat. (I used two)
Shelby: A nice bright bubble gum pink, she was a little streaky and needed three thin coats for a nice finish.
This set is fabulous I am so glad I jumped on the promo last week and ordered this, I think this was the first one of the sets offered on the promotion that day that sold out, and I see why. But you are in luck, because right now Zoya is running a great promo. If you create a NEW account at Zoya.com you can get a coupon for a FREE bottle of Zoya Nail Polish when you use this LINK ! Use the free polish coupon and add 2 more polishes – and you also get FREE SHIPPING! **If you only use the code for a free polish you do still have to pay shipping, so might as well get all three.**


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The king up on the stage isn't bothered as much by this as I am. He's off in his own plane..soulfully singing of love lost and regained in a dimly lit room. His fingers flutter over the black and white keys like he's been doing this his whole life. This man is making my insides shiver. What would my girlfriends think?
They'd say "girl, he is too fine. And he can sing. Go for it."
I've never made the first move. Ever. Never had to. Men have always poured in abundance around these parts. I make it a point to never appear that desperate. But this one. Whew. This one is making me not care. Abandon all of the self-implemented rules. I think I'm gonna talk to him. No, I know I'm going to talk to him. Why not? I'm grown. Educated. Pretty. And if I must say so myself I'm looking the part of a real head-turner tonight. I feel grown and sexy. He should be honored.
His set winds down and he looks around, whispers a deep voiced "thank you" to the five of us who were actually paying attention. It's hard to keep a room full of Josh Grayson fans interested in his Mos Def demeanor and Raheem Devaughn soul grooves. That's okay. I'm hooked. And that's enough. He looks so out of place with his Okayplayer t-shirt and jeans. The crowd patiently waits for their karaoke party to begin, break out the Kelly Clarkston cds.
I stand, smooth the imaginary wrinkles out of my black pants. Pull my black halter down over the top of them. Check the toes peeking out of my black sandals for any signs of a pedicure emergency. Fluff up my huge halo of kinky ringlets in my reflection on the bar. Hotness.
But I'm still nervous.
Mr Too Fine For His Own Good is off to the left of the stage, engaged in a spirited conversation with a 30something white man with spiky Hollywood hair, not noticing me and my mini meltdown at all. I take a a last sip of my luke-warm water and walk towards him carefully, confidently. The last thing I need is some blooper reel worthy fall right now.
Oh snap. I see the 30something white man stroll past me, giving the appreciative smile that all white men give black women that they can't have. Mr Too Fine notices that, notices me. His eyes smile. His lips follow. Even his teeth are beautiful. I'd thank his mama right now if I could.
I don't notice that he's walking towards me until he's a foot in front of me.
"This makes eight." He says and smiles.
He smells like Heaven. I inhale deeply.
"Eight?" I just know he is not counting all the women who have approached him tonight.
"Yes, eight. I have seen you sitting in that exact same spot at that exact same table eight times in the last two months. Seven of those times I was too stupid to talk to you."
I smile. "You have any history of stalking in your past?"
"I should be asking you the same thing. I know you're not here every Tuesday cause you like the food." He shoots, one eyebrow raised.
"This is my getaway. I go out with friends on the weekends, but this, Tuesdays are my day to spend time with me. To know self is to love self, right?"
"Oh definitely, in your case I can appreciate that. I feel the same way about coming here. Cause you know the majority of these people in here don't even pay me any attention. If i wasn't doing it for myself...it would pretty much be pointless."
"No, you'd be doing it for me." My words are coming out smoother than I expected. Good.
His smile is genuine. "I'm sorry, I'm being rude. My name is Abram, yours?"
He extends his hand. It is surprisingly soft.
"Ata. And no, it isn't a stage name." I say, anticipating his next question. It's one I have been asked many a time.
"Ah, okay. I was just wondering what it means, didn't peg you as someone who would have a stage name."
"Why not? It means 'a gift'. Ata Nafia. Arabic and Swahili. My first and middle name both mean the same thing. My mother had difficulties having children. I was her last attempt, and the only child to live. I guess Gift was too ghetto."
He laughs. "Well it's beautiful. Fitting. And I only meant that I've seen you eight times here at open mic and you've never once gotten up on the stage. That's not someone who goes around telling people her stage name."
"Guess you're right."
Okay, so far he's doing well. He can count (at least up to eight), speak correct English, smiles a lot, compliments, pays attention to things, and hasn't called me baby, boo, ma, or sweetie yet. Good sign.
We walk out together and I head for my car, glad to have the whole anticipation of this meeting over with. I'm still slightly nervous, but the overwhelming sense of disappointment that usually accompanies a conversation with a gorgeous man such as himself has not come yet. Another good sign.
He lingers. Leans on my white Honda Accord. Asks if we can 'chat' sometime over coffee. Hands me a baby blue business card with a pic of a baby grand in the corner. Abram Montgomery. He gives the best deals on piano lessons for those age five and up according to his card. How sweet.
I tell him I may call, he just has to stay tuned to his cell to know. But I know I will.
Looking at him up close, he's almost unreal. The photographer in me admires his angles. Wishes i had my camera, he'd be nice to shoot. Strong chin. Full lips. cheekbones any female model would go under the knife for. But there's something else. Something magnetic. Maybe it's the moonlight casting the romantic glow on his peanut butter skin. Or the extreme sense of testosterone his tall, muscular frame is emitting. Or the way his smile travels from his mouth to his eyes. I don't know.
Abram Montgomery. Nice. I guess we'll see...