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[Monica] So, the story thus far: We'd worked out a syllabus, planned a quick and immersive introduction for the students into both medieval medical history and codicology (the study of medieval books as physical objects), and dropped our overly ambitious plan to work with TWO unstudied and unpublished texts on royal fertility. We would stick with our original plan: just focus on the Pomum aureum, Pierre André's Golden Apple, the treatise on fertility and childbirth he had composed for Gaston IV of Foix in the year 1444.
Theresa started off the course by herself, the first time she had ever taught either medical history or codicology!
[Theresa] This course posed some unique pedagogical challenges. First off, I had never before co-taught a class. The first hurdle was paying for it, which turned out to the be the easy part of this course. I had a modest budget to fund the course, thanks to an endowed chair from Seattle University. The real challenges came from how to design a course for undergraduates with some Latin, a course or two in the history of medieval Europe, and absolutely no experience with archival manuscripts. As I briefly noted in an earlier post (Royal Mothers, Part II: Down the Rabbit Hole We Went), the structure of the first half of the course—the overview of the history of medicine and reading Monica's edition of The Trotula (2001)—was made easier because I had materials used in the NEH seminar. The hard part, the part that made me lose sleep, was actually teaching the materials.
From time to time, we all teach out of our depth, so you can sympathize that while teaching this course I felt like a student cramming for an exam. I knew a fair bit about modern medicine from undergraduate classes in human biology, chemistry, microbiology, and genetics, but had never had a formal course in the history of medicine. Like most medievalists, I'd read around a bit, but focused mostly on gender and sexuality, books such as The Trotula (2001), Joan Cadden's The Meaning of Sex Differences in the Middle Ages (1995), Ruth Mazo Karras's Sexuality In Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others (2005). The closest I came to seriously studying the history of medicine was reading Roy Porter's The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present (1997). But my work on a childless queen, María of Castile, queen of the Crown of Aragon (d. 1458), led me to pose questions that only a study of the history of medicine could answer. I wondered if childlessness was due to infertility, but I wasn't even sure what infertility is. Is it a disease? A malady? A syndrome? A temporary or permanent condition?
This led me to a conversation with Monica in 2008 which, of course, led to more conversations, and all this conversation led me to the NEH Seminar at the Wellcome Library in London in the summer of 2012. This was the first time I rigorously studied the history of medicine. This gave me the necessary background and depth to teach Aristotelian, Galenic, and Hippocratic foundations of medieval medicine. But I felt, like most of us do when we teach new material, seriously over my head. Monica was a great guide who provided plenty of teaching materials that made it possible to do more that provide a "once-over-lightly" lesson plan. I was able to use many of the works we read that summer in the syllabus and that gave me what I needed (see the syllabus, in the Essential Reading tab on the left).
But I still felt like a student. I have a classroom policy that rewards students for what I call "Stump the Professor Questions" in order to create a safe place to pepper me with questions. Well, let me tell you, I was stumped often. Our unanswered questions were sent as emails to Monica, who sent long, detailed responses and conversed with us on Skype. In this way, she was part of the class, even as she prepared for the hectic end of the term at Arizona State and all the hubbub of grading and graduation.
I felt a lot more comfortable with teaching codicology thanks to coursework in graduate school at Fordham University on paleography and codicology. Ray Clemens and Timothy Graham's book, an excellent resource for advanced undergraduate students, led the way. Students gobbled up this book like candy. They had never before seriously thought about how books, medieval or modern, were made. This book, read alongside Monica's side-by-side Latin text and English translation of the Trotula, gave students a deep appreciation for how knowledge is created and transmitted.
[Monica]: This is where technology proved to be a valuable friend. And it proved to be a great pedagogical aid, too, because a lot of our initial discussion of the Pomum aureum centered around the production of the physical book that we were examining via a digital reproduction of a microfilm photo. Conscious of how advanced our own technology was, we continually asked: How did medieval manuscript books get made? And what could we learn about this particular book by considering such questions as format, quality of the scribal hand, and codicological structure?
[Theresa]: This was vital material so that when we read the Trotula, they had many cogent questions about the translations and the way Monica decided what parts of the ensemble of texts went where in the finished edition. The students were not so much troubled by the arrangement of the ensemble as they were by some of the translations. For example, they struggled with the Latin word aborsus. As 21st-century readers, they automatically assumed "elective abortion" and "Roe v. Wade," and all the current bitter political battles over abortion. But aborsus is a tricky word with a range of nuances and meanings that changed over the course of the Middle Ages. They learned one of the most valuable lessons anyone can learn when she or he studies the past: Check your a priori assumptions and your political leaning at the door. Do not presume that a word is static in meaning or usage. Do not let political inclination or religious beliefs get in the way of understanding what at word meant to a physician in Toulouse in 1444. Then, when we got to tackling the actual transcription and translation of the Pomum aureum, they realized just how hard it is to edit a text, that the nuance of a word like aborsus demands a careful analysis of context, a knowledge of more than just a single text but a myriad of texts on medicine, sexuality, and fertility. They realized that they needed to know how legal scholars used the term, so we directed them to Wolfgang Müller's The Criminalization of Abortion in the West: Its Origins in Medieval Law (2012). The students in this class will never be able to pick up an edited text again without recalling the arduous work and scholarly expertise required to get that book into press.
By the middle of the term, Skype had worked well, up to a point. It got us all in the same classroom at the same time, which was, as anyone who uses Skype can tell you, both a blessing and a curse. Yes, we were all slogging through the material, transcribing the same passage at the same time, which was brilliant. And then, the connection would drop. Or the micro-second delay in the conversation caused the conversation to overlap. But we all got the hang of it and made it work to our advantage.
[Monica]: I joined the class in earnest (via Skype) once we got going on Pierre André's text. One of the first conclusions we came to was that this particular copy of the Pomum aureum (the only copy that still exists, so far as we know) was almost certainly NOT the presentation copy given to its dedicatee, Gaston IV of Foix. How did we know? Well, first of all, the book wasn't "pretty." Later in the course, I would show the students several online "archives" of medieval manuscripts made for royal patrons. Called Europeana regia, this amazing project reassembles digitally the libraries of some of Europe's great royal houses: the Carolingians, Charles V of France and his family, and the Library of the Aragonese Kings of Naples. This last library was being assembled at the very time Pierre André was attempting to assist Gaston IV and his wife, Leonor of Navarre, in their reproductive needs. A properly "royal" book should look something like this one, a copy of the famous Baths of Pozzuoli written by Petrus de Ebolo at the turn of the thirteenth century.
Valencia, Universitat de València, Biblioteca Històrica BH Ms. 838, f. 4r (detail)
This particular copy was made near the end of the fifteenth century for Alfonso II, Duke of Calabria. Deluxe copies of books of regimen—how to live a healthy life, eat right, take proper exercise, and so forth—were often owned by nobility. This image shows women bathing in one of the Pozzuoli baths, many of which were recommended to treat fertility problems.
By contrast, the copy of Pierre André's work on fertility and childbirth that we were working with had none of these sumptuous qualities. Yes, the text was complete: divided into a section on Theory and one on Practice, each half was then divided into four chapters. There was a lavish opening passage praising the dedicatee, Gaston, and an equally overwrought conclusion. But it was an UGLY manuscript. Some use of majuscule characters to flag the beginning of new chapters, but otherwise no elegance whatsoever. Lines were uneven, words irregularly abbreviated. Rather than this being a copy for a noble patron (the one who paid the bills!), we concluded that this must be a later copy, made most likely for and maybe even by another physician, who wanted not only Pierre's work on fertility, but also his treatise on plague and the several other texts in the volume on surgery and other technical matters of medicine.
It was likely the haste with which this copy was made that caused the omission of the fetal images that were supposed to have been included. After all, Pierre himself flagged their importance for understanding what the midwife should know during birth:
It ought to be noted that the fetus naturally presents looking at the ground (though some say that females emerge on their backs). First, the head emerges and then the neck, then the shoulders, and the arms ought to be extended along the sides. But birth can happen unnaturally in various ways, 15 specifically, as can be seen readily in the following pictures. The reason why the face is turned toward the ground in a natural birth is because in its fundus the field of nature (or womb) has this shape, and at the hour of birth [the fetus] turns and commonly faces the ground just as before it had faced its navel, as can be seen in the present picture.
André then added further:
How and in what ways the woman can give birth, and what the midwife ought to do is made apparent in the following pictures which lay it out openly.
It seems, then, that André, wishing to make his text truly remarkable with these images, went beyond the Muscian tradition of just showing fetal malpresentations. Were this the presentation copy, therefore, we would have expected an artistic investment similar to, if not surpassing, that found in another fifteenth-century manuscript that incorporated the fetal images, this surgical scroll now in Stockholm:
Stockholm, Kungliga Biblioteket, MS X.118, ca. 1425–35 (England): the eighth fetal figure from Muscio, showing a footling presentation
By the end of our discussion of the manuscript's format, we weren't even sure that Pierre André had followed through on his plan to give this text to Gaston. What was becoming obvious to us was that we needed to know the POLITICAL CONTEXT of this text, not just its internal structure or its medical theory. Something about the timing seemed wrong. The text was clearly dated at the end: "Given [at Foix?] the sixth of October, 1444." But Gaston and Leonor's first child (also named Gaston) was, according to current research by Elena Woodacre, born in either 1443 or 1444. Was Leonor already pregnant when Pierre drafted his work? Had she already produced the requisite male heir? If she had, what was prompting this intense effort by Pierre?
What we needed was a political historian . . .
[Theresa]: Whew! I was on much more comfortable ground on the political history of Spain in the fifteenth century. At first I thought that Gaston commissioned the text because he was concerned about having a male heir to succeed him. The kingdom of Navarre did not prohibit women from inheriting and ruling in their own right and the presence of ruling queens was perceived by neighboring rulers as a weakness, particularly for the ambitious Trastámara clan. Leonor's mother, Queen Blanca I, had no surviving children from her first marriage, and the idea of marrying a queen-regnant was irresistible to Juan, infante (prince) of the Crown of Aragon. He married her in 1419 and together they had four children, including a son, but he shoved both his wife and son aside and ruled in Blanca's name. Leonor's sister, Blanca II, married King Enrique IV of Castile in 1440, but after thirteen years of marriage without children, Enrique secured an annulment of the marriage. The marriage may never have been consummated; Blanca was sent home where her father imprisoned her. Enrique had a daughter from a second marriage, but it was alleged that the king was not her father. In the resulting struggle for the throne, Enrique's step-sister Isabel of Castile (1451–1504) fought against him in a civil war to secure her inheritance and rule Castile.
It seems that the dynastic worries may have been less about producing children and more about protecting princesses from predatory lords from neighboring realms. The marriage of Gaston of Foix and Leonor of Navarre in 1434, when he was 12 and she was 8, was intended to strengthen links to the French county against Spain. Two years later, his father died, Gaston inherited the county, and eight years later, in 1443 or 1444 Leonor gave birth to their first son (although the sources are unclear; some scholars argue that a sister was born before him). They went on to have nine more children, so Gaston's concerns for children seem, in retrospect, to have been groundless. But his concern for a son to ward off his grasping Trastámara relatives may be why André devoted a section in his treatise to how to conceive a male child. The answer to why Gaston wanted this text may simply be that his family was very interested in medicine and owned a number of medical treatises.
By midterm, then, we had made good progress. Students were improving their command of medieval medical Latin, could converse skillfully about codicology and paleography, and were showing good historical instincts in their initial take on the text of the Pomum aureum. When Monica arrived in person, I thought that our dependence on the technology would end, but I was wrong.
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Barbara Radice est née à Côme en 1943 et est diplômée de l'Université Catholique de Milan en 1968.  Le groupe de conception collective d'avant-garde du Groupe de Memphis  a été formé lors d'un rassemblement à son domicile, à Milan en 1980, et Barbara Radice est le seul non-architecte parmi le groupe des sept membres fondateurs.

Elle est devenue  l'historienne et la porte-parole du groupe et a publié le livre Memphis: Research, Experiences, Results, Failures and Successes of New Design  (Rizzoli, 1984), qui a servi comme  manifeste pour la philosophie de conception et a souligné le travail des créateurs Nathalie du Pasquier, Matteo Thun, et Martine Bedin. Radice a écrit de nombreux articles explorant les thèmes et les théories de ce nouveau mouvement esthétique, et a été rédacteur en chef de la conception et de l'architecture du magazine Terrazzo de 1988-1997. Elle a été mariée au designer Ettore Sottsass, qu'elle avait rencontré en 1976 à la Biennale de Venise. Elle a publié une biographie critique sur Sottsass en 1993 et un livre de photographie en 2003.

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 Ettore Sottsass, Electa, Milano, 1993
  Ettore Sottsass Métaphors, avec Milco Carboni, Skira/Seuil, 2002

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I just picked up 2 internationals in a package deal.
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2) 1967 travelette 1200 4 door, with the factory installed utility bed, 4x4 engine ??? Trans (3 speed) ??? All original. I don't know what engine or trans is in it as I bought them with only limited viewing and discussion..
What engines were availible in the 1200 travelette? Were the 6's in those? If so which one..
I planning to sell my 08 f350 diesel and drive the one as my hauling rig..
This thread is worthless without pics. Lets see them!
hope you were able to buy the pair in the price range that we discussed.
Several of the I-6's were used and all of the sv engines were used.
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Interview with Ron Benegbi, Founder & CEO at Uplinq
"Uplinq is my fifth startup", Ron tells me as I welcome him to the podcast.
Ron Benegbi is a serial entrepreneur. Having previously launched three successful (and one not-so-successful) startups, he is now well underway with launching his latest company, Uplinq.
"We've created a technology that we're offering to small business lenders…that enables them to make better decisions around small business lending."
To kick off our conversation, I dive straight in and ask Ron to tell me about Uplinq.
"We're not a decision engine, we're really more of an analytics and recommendation tool. When we launch, nobody is going to have a technology like this in the market."
Ron explains the importance of small businesses in his life and how this has led him to the work he is doing with Uplinq.
"First and foremost, I'm an immigrant to Canada…but we were poor, my dad went and baked bread at night and had to put food on the table and he went to Royal Bank in the early 70s and he asked them for a small business loan to which the banker said 'you don't really qualify with respect to our lending criteria but I believe in people and here's $5,000'.
"That $5,000 dollars became the springboard for our family's success.
"Small business is just something that's very meaningful and personal to me…so if there's something that we can do at Uplinq to really help lenders better understand risk profiles as related to small business and help them generate additional loans that's something that's going to benefit all of us."
From a soft launch to a formal launch
Uplinq is currently in what the firm refers to as a 'soft launch', so I ask Ron to tell me about the steps the team are working through.
"We have a product that's actually built…we're simply repurposing it for our needs. We're currently recruiting and building out our team…that'll get us to the early part of [2022] and then at that point we'll be in a position to go from what we call a soft launch to more of a formal launch."
Ron moves onto the theme of resources (or lack of) and how as founders it's something we all need to deal with.
"I think most founders will relate to this; we're continuously strapped with a lack of resources, both human and financial so we have to do a lot with the very little that we have.
"In my case, I've been fortunate enough to establish a great network globally and from that, leverage those resources and networks in order to start spreading the word."
Ron tells me about how he plans the steps he is going to take.
"I look at where the business is today and where I want to be in the short term. I'm not worried about even three years from now, but where do I want to be in the next three months and how do I get there, what's the path of least resistance?
"As an example, if I know that in the next three months I want to raise a specific financing round and I need to get three customer commitments, it's unlikely I'm going to get contracts in that time, but maybe I can get letters of intent.
"What is the path of least resistance to get three letters of intent in the next 90-days? Based on that objective, I will think about who in my network can I go to that will have access to help me meet that objective."
Long term vs short term planning
In the process of speaking with Ron, I notice a recurrent theme; a focus on the immediate future ahead of longer-term planning. I ask Ron about how he treats short term vs longer-term planning.
"That way I look at it is what do I need to do to keep this company alive in the next three months, or the next six months?
"Quite frankly, I could have the best three-year plan in the world but if I run out of cash in six months because I didn't meet [my] objective, then who cares, it's a moot point.
"There definitely has to be a balance, but if you don't think about the initial short term, especially so early on chances are you could be in that [high percentage of businesses that fail]."
Building a network
Our conversation moves onto picking apart one of the most important things Ron has had throughout his career; a strong network of contacts.
I ask if it's is harder today to build a strong network.
"Today with social media, I could argue it's actually easier even easier to meet people because you're able to build a brand online, you're able to contribute content, there are so many different avenues today."
Getting messaging and positioning right
It's at this point Ron raises one of the most prominent topics within our conversation; messaging and positioning.
I start by asking how Ron goes about refining his brand's message.
"You talk to as many customers as possible, you listen to the market, you identify what those market signals are and you react accordingly.
"[Uplinq] has been the most difficult journey I've been on from a messaging and positioning point of view. When we really started to look at this it was a very raw and rough message.
"It took a period of six months where we did customer interviews, put together some marketing and positioning statements and ran them by potential customers. I met with a bunch of people in the market and got their thoughts on where is global small business banking going.
"Slowly over time, that message started to crystalise for us to the point where we are today."
Pivoting to bring life to a fading business
Moving away from Uplinq for a moment, Ron and I discuss his experience with the other startups he has been involved with.
One such company was Carlton One where Ron tells me about helping the firm to pivot away from almost certain failure.
"At the time, that company (Carlton) was very close to going out of business, so it wasn't about convincing [people to come along with me to pivot the business].
"I was able to [pivot the company]. What that did mean was we were running [two] businesses together under the one brand but then over time we migrated to what ended up becoming this full pivot because we saw there was an incredible market opportunity there."
Ron is a proud business development executive at heart, so I take the opportunity to pick his brains on the topic of generating and managing leads.
"There are so many playbooks that have been written about lead generation and building sales processes, what makes a good lead versus not. Ultimately I think it starts by having the right messaging.
"It's so important that the messaging, branding and positioning of your business is crystal clear to a potential buyer or anybody because there is so much noise out there.
"So if you've got that and you've been able to quantify that you have that then the ability to qualify a lead will be that much easier and the ability to move that lead throughout the sales cycle will be all that much easier."
Ron continues by explaining that when it comes to sales, "ultimately it's a numbers game…the more [people] you talk to, the more business you get at the end of the day.
"What I've seen when you're messaging isn't right that's when you struggle with either getting leads or you get leads, but they're crap.
"To me, messaging and positioning is where the sales process starts and that's why I put so much effort and time into it."
It looks set to be an exciting 2022 for Ron and Uplinq.
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Q: Help with SQL statement (JOIN) I'm having some trouble with an SQL statement that have to find the number of students attending a course.
My Database design look likes this:
Table Course:
id | course_name
Table Student:
id | name
And to connect the two many-to-many relationship I've an table:
Table course_student:
id | course_id | student_id
What I want is to find out how many students are attending the course named "Database Design". I know that the ID is "1" but let's say that I didn't knew, how would my SQL statement look like?
I have tried several different statements with different joins to first select the correct ID from the course table, where the name is "Database Design" and next I've to search in my course_student table where the course_id equal the founded id (in this case 1) and where all student_id is connected to this id.
I know it is a bit complex description so please tell me if I have to explain it in a better way.
Thanks
Mestika

A: You can try something like
SELECT  COUNT(cs.student_id)
FROM    Course c INNER JOIN
        course_student cs ON c.id = cs.course_id
WHERE   c.course_name = 'Database Design'

You dont have to join to the Students table as you already have the ID in the course_student table, so 1 less join.

A: SELECT count(a.id)
FROM Course a
INNER JOIN Course_Student b
ON a.id = b.course_id
WHERE a.course_name = 'Database Design'

A: just a slightly different style, but same results
select COUNT(cs.student_id) as counter
from Course c, course_student cs
where c.id = cs.course_id
and c.course_name = 'Database Design'

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Eric cane out of the office supplies store on Union and put on his sunglasses. There were only a couple cars in the parking lot and even the traffic was slow during the middle of the afternoon. He put his backpack on for what would be a half mile hike. Suddenly he heard a woman's yells. He looked to to the right and he saw a couple of toughs grabbing onto a woman and dragging her to a pickup. Later he would damn himself for getting involved, but he didn't think but trotted over and yelled "Stop!"
The smaller of the two kept on dragging her, as she kicked and bit. The larger, who was larger than him, said "Beat it looser" and got in a stance like he was going to hit Eric.
Eric swallowed and said "Woman doesn't want to go. You best let her go." He got in a stance with his legs spread and his hands loose.
The tough swung at Eric and missed, and Eric quickly punched him in the solar plexus, followed by an uppercut to the chin. The tough fell to the ground, and the smaller tough ran while the woman stood breathing quickly.
Suddenly a police car screeched to a stop, and a female officer ordered Eric to the ground.
The woman began yelling at the police officer, and the officer kept yelling down. So Eric complied quickly.
Eric stayed down while the officer cuffed the tough, who was beginning to wake up After a quick conversation between the officer and the lady, the officer told him to get up. She told him to wait while she talked to the woman. First she put the tough into the back of the patrol car.
Then, after an interminable conversation with the woman the officer came to him. "Well, Sir Galahad, let's hear your story."
Eric told her that the whole thing happened so quickly. He saw her struggling, he went over to help, the tough attacked him, he responded, and he got arrested. the whole thing happened in less than 30 seconds.
The officer nodded. "I am going to have you you make statements at the precinct on Alberta. " He told her he didn't have a car. She said "Number six bus will take you right there." Then she got in the patrol car and drove off.
The woman came up to Eric. "Katherine. What's yours?"
He looked at her. She was wearing expensive jeans and a very expensive blouse. Something about her bothered him. He just shook his head. "I've a bus to catch."
She laughed. "Well, I've a bus to catch, we are going to the same place, and busses come by every 20 minutes, so do you want to wait all that time? Or do you want to save a lot of time and aggravation with me?"
He sighed. "I would appreciate the ride."
She smiled. "Come on then." First she went to the pickup and turned off the moter, and grabbed the key and locked the pickup. Then she walked over to the lexus in the office stores parking lot. She gestured for him to get in while she got in her side.
Eric had never been in a Lexus before. He took off his back pack and gingerly got in car. She just plopped in. She made sure he was belted and she went across Union and turned left on Grand.
"Thank you very much I've a bus to catch. Those two had me so frightened was thought if was sure I was going to pee myself."
Eric shrugged. "I didn't have time to to think. I am surprised at myself."
She stopped at the red as the light rail went past. "Most guys I know would think it over and high tail it the other direction. I am sure a couple of them would still be running."
"That is unfair. I am sure most guys would help."
The light turned green. "I've a bus to catch, you are as naive as you are courageous. Or maybe you know a better class of people than I do."
"That is unlikely. You are unduly harsh. Most people don't have the need to do that kind of thing. "
They stopped at Weidler. She looked at him. "It is true I havn't had that kind of experience before, thank God, but I have had plenty of opportunities to test their metal. And all of the guys I know are pewter, except you, who I can see is pure steel."
He shook his head. "Nah, If I think, I run.
She looked right ahead. "We will never have an opportunity to test that, will we?"
He shook his head. "Nope, never. We just passed Fremont. Alberta is like four blocks up and the prescient is on the right. Better change lanes."
She turned the turn signal. "How do you know that?"
He said with a sour expression "We have a history." They were silent for a bit. He said "Turn here. Then go up the ramp for visitor parking. "
She turned and went up the ramp and parked. "So, I've a bus to catch, are you going to tell me your history?"
He said "No, that is private." Then he got out of the car and began walking down the ramp. She had to hustle to keep up He went into a small door. He went to a small cubicle and said "Officer D'Amatto please." to the speaker.
Katherine came up to the cubicle. The cop inside gave a questioning look, and she gestured to the both of them. He stared directly ahead, while she fidgeted. "I really am grateful for what you did back there. I would have been in serious trouble." He shrugged, but kept staring directly ahead. Officer D'Amatto came up do the door and led them in. She led Eric into one room, and shut the door. Then she led Katherine into another room, where Detectives Francis and Ostander were waiting and introduced themselves.
Detective Francis led it off. "Thank you for coming in and signing the statements. However we are confused as to why they were trying to kidnap you."
"My stepfather has a great deal of money. He is Thomas Pickering of Gough and Watson the engineering firm. I got my name in the paper friday and they apparently decided I was grab able. I really should have been more careful. I really would prefer you would keep my connection to my stepfather quiet in your report."
They nodded their heads in agreement and detective Ostander left for a couple of minutes. Katherine leaned forward "I am really fascinated by the guy who rescued me. He has refused to give his name, and he said he had some unpleasant connection with the Police."
Ostander said "He is Eric Harrison, 19, on four years supervised probation for shoplifiting from the Jantzen Beach Target where he was convicted of stealing a copy of Penthouse, a copy of Playboy, an Android phone, a backpack, and copy of Grand Theft Auto. I was his probation officer."
Katherine said "supervised probation?"
Ostander nodded. "He needs to come here every two weeks and check in with his probation officer and tell what he is doing. And what he is doing for restitution. The Phone cost $890. The vig on the restitution is 21% he is making payments, but he is going backwards. He works 30 hours a week at just a bit over minimum wage. And he is also working on his GED. He does not like us here. Here is the statement. Is this correct?"
Katherine read the statement, and signed it. "Is he still here?"
Detective Francis nodded. "We are going to talk to him next. It will be a formality."
Katherine left the precinct house and waited for Eric to come out. When he finally did, looking thunderous, she greeted him warmly. "Well, Eric, where to next?"
He looked at her with disfavor. "The bus stop."
"Come now Eric, I still owe you. So far I admit I have been a pest, but I promise I will keep quiet and take you where you want to go. Please."
He Grumbled at her. "I am going way out of your way. I need to catch the bus to 82nd and Division. That is where you don't need to go, so I will just..."
She clapped and said "PCC? That is exactly where I need to go after leaving you off. Come on, you will get me ridesharing points. Please. Otherwise I have to park way off from my classes!"
He shook his head and he headed toward Alberta street, to see the 72 bus going down Albera street, the next one leaving in half an hour. He stopped and balled his fists. He turned to her "No questions?" She put her finger in front of her mouth and made a zipping movement.
They went down to Fremont, turned left and followed Fremont down to 82. He finally asked "Why didn't you take the freeway?"
"At this time of day, the Banfield is going 20 miles an hour because everyone is on the freeway. It is a mess. It is the only freeway going east. I much prefer the surface streets. I can do 40 on Sandy or Hawthorne. "
They arrived at PCC in plenty of time. Katherine said "It is only 4:30. Your next class isn't until 6:00. What do you say about dinner, my treat? No questions. I owe you so much and I would appreciate so much if you would let me treat you."
He said "There isn't a place to eat."
"Au Contrer, there is a very nice Chinese place on the other side of this abandoned movie place that makes a killer broccoli beef. Come on!"
He sighed and nodded. "I know this place. They make excellent Hot and Sour soup."
They walked down the street. She was feeling nervous because of his silence. "I didn't get the laser toner for the printer because of those two jerks. My dad is going to be so pissed. That and the new pens. He is always making cracks. But I ask you, almost getting kidnapped is a legitimate reason for not getting the toner?"
"You don't respect your parent?"
"Not really. Anyway, he is my step dad. My real dad lives in San Francisco with his boyfriend. My step dad is mad at me all the time, so I think I will move out in three weeks when I turn 18."
"These modern families I find to be very confusing."
"Were here! I am paying, don't forget."
Katherine sat opposite Doona and Nancy. "I had an adventure yesterday. I think I found someone, but I need to check up on him first"
Donna looked skeptical. "I thought Bruce was going to be your fella."
Katherine shook her head. "Totally a broken reed. My step dad sent a pair of inept kidnappers. Bruce saw one look at them and he raced off. A real man stepped up out of nowhere and put paid to the kidnappers. "
Nancy said "Young, old tall short, gay,strait...?"
Katherine smiled "You have a single track mind, girl. He is 19. He is about 5'8"
Both Donna and Nancy looked approvingly as Katherine continued "He has sandy dark hair, and it is obvious that he works out."
Nancy interrupted "Where does he work?"
Katherine slumped. "Which brings me to the bad part. He is an ex con, and he hasn't finished highschool. But he seems intelligent. But he went to jail for something incredibly stupid."
Nancy inquired "Any interesting tattoos?"
Katherine shrugged. "None that I could see."
Donna looked skeptical "So he is good at saving your bacon, but he might be worse when he gets you to himself"
Katherine nodded. "That is why I am going to have a private investigator look into him. See what his deal is. Right now I think he is perfect. But I am going to find out all I can. He is almost too good to be true in some regards. He is dangerous beyond belief in others. I am going to move very cautiously."
Katherine sat down in Williams' office. "What can you tell me?"
"A whole lot of bad news, perhaps. This is all public information. It just needs collation. It conflicts other information, so it is up to you to decide what to do with it. "
Williams handed over a thick pile of paper held together with a binder clip. "First, a bit of background information. He is third of seven children. His parents belong to a millitant form of evangelicals. They have disowned him because of his arrest and conviction. They don't have anything to do with him anymore, and he is not welcome at the church anymore. They are very upset with him. There is next to nothing about them, but I got that much."
"The next thing I got is something I got from the chuch and public records. The church is big on martial arts for some reason. Their website has the slogan 'Put on The Whole Armor of God' and they do judo and boxing as part of their ministry. Eric came in sixth in his weight class in boxing in the Northwest regionals, and he came in Eighth in the Judo regionals. This means a lot. There were lots of competitors, 40 boxers, 120 judo competitors. He is very good, if he isn't going to national competitions."
"Next academics. He got a 3.6 GPA in the last term he completed. A pretty good, even outstanding record. There were 35 kids who got better GPAs, but there were 190 kids who did worse, and there were 60 kids who dropped out from his intake. He was taking advanced placement math and chemistry. A pretty good kid so far."
"Now the not so good things. He was arrested three weeks after his 18th birthday for shoplifting. He is convicted of taking a really weird collection of stuff. A copy of Penthouse, a copy of Playboy, 40 packages of condoms, a backpack, an Android phone, 12 women's panties. 2 bras, and copy of Grand Theft Auto. In addition, he had a fifth of Johnny Walker red, which he wasn't supposed to have as a minor."
"he was convicted and sentenced to two years, first offence, and he was a model prisoner. In addition to two days off for every day of good behavior he singed up for, and took every class he could, sheet metal shop, transitioning to civil life, etc. He didn't get any GED coursework. It is given to long termers first. He did the psychological evaluation as well, so he only served six months. The psychological evaluation was part of the packet, so it is part of his release paperwork. According to this, he is not naturally violent, but could be if provoked, especially if someone is being picked on. He has an enormous chip on his shoulder, feels put upon, and is suspicious of people. He would find it difficult to get a job when released"
"Which it seems to be the case. He had it very hard to get a job. The job he got is minimum wage, and does not have any interacting with the public. If he could interact with the public his boss would love to have him work the maximum. But...."
"So, the thing most employers see is a high school drop out, a felon, a guy with psychological issues, His applications get round filed immediately."
Katherine said "Interesting. Would you hire him?"
He thought for a moment. "Let me preface this by saying I couldn't by terms of my licence. He is a felon on probation. And there are some jobs I wouldn't hire him for at all. His psychological issues make any kind of dealing with the public job a total non starter. But for any intellectual job I would in a heartbeat. There are lots of jobs that he would be ideal for."
She picked him up at the bus stop on 47th and Division. "Please get in, I need to talk to you. It is important."
He stood in the pouring rain, and shrugged. And he gave in and got in the car.
She got out into traffic. She said "You know, this is a Lexus, last years model. And I own it free and clear. You can look at the title if you want. " He just looked at her. "I Am relatively wealthy. Of course, most of the money is in varius trusts, set up when my mom was my age and relatively wild. There is a lot of money in trusts, but I have access to a lot for day to day stuff, but I havn't splurged that much. I get to move out in three weeks. I have already boxed up a lot of my stuff, and I have my apartment already." She looked at him Which brings me to the next point. If I die, all the money goes back into the trusts. And the beneficiaries will be my step brothers. They currently get nothing. They are children of a different mom." He was still quiet. "That little drama yesterday wasn't a pair of random stupid jerks. I am sure my step dad sent them there. He sent me to the office store knowing they would be there. He wont let me hire bodyguards, per se. I need a boyfriend or something. I need you to be my bodyguard. "
He shook his head. "No, I don't think so."
"I will pay you $22, and you will stay in my apartment. I am frightened of my step dad. I have seen you at work. I need you."
"Let me out here..."
"no way! OK, that is the carrot, let's get out the stick. I will get you fired. That means you don't have a job which means you go to jail. And you don't eat. I will get your landlord to evict you for cause. Which means you are out on the street which means you are back in jail. So your choice. You get paid 45 hours a week, with overtime, $22 and free rent, or you get evicted from your roach motel and you loose your 30 hour burger flipping hell hole. You will have a long time back in Salem, which is a lovely town, with all those delightful people that make that facility so wonderful. Which is it going to be?"
"I'm thinking it over."
"Ok, think. But on the 21st, you will be working for me, or you will be heading to Salem"
"What would prevent me from working for your stepfather?"
"I know you. I have my detective reports. It is extremely fulsome. You are incapable."
She turned into the community college and drove to a parking spot. "I don't know why you are so pig headed about this. I need you. I can't survive without you. I am in fear of my life but I can't move until the 20th. And after the 20th, he is going to be that more dangerous."
He shook his head. "I don't believe it, that he would try and kill you. You are watching to much TV. "
She made a mou of displeasure. "You don't know him. I do. Anyway, think it over." She watched him as he went to his class. Then she got out herself and grabbed her textbooks and walked to a place inside where she could watch the door to his classroom.
When he came out of his classroom she waved him down. He sighed and sat down next to her. She put her books away and took a notebook out. "You will be through you GED next week, correct?" He nodded. "We will need to get you signed up for PSU by September, when I plan on starting there. You should have no problem getting in now you have your GED. All we have to do take your SAT's, which given your GPA should be a doddle. I will be taking my SAT's in April too. "
"Why will I be taking classes at PSU? "
"Body guarding me means we will be taking the same classes. You will be taking Structural Engineering classes. It is a requirement of my grandfather's trust. I take the classes or I loose out on 3.4 million dollars. So I need to pass into the program. And I need you to watch over me. Since the classes will be in something other than your favored underwater basket weaving, I will pay for your classes and we can share books."
Eric nodded. "That will be very kind. Might I suggest you take the SAT's in Eugene or someplace equally distant? If your stepfather is as powerful as you suggest and this will an expensive test for him, he might be able to bribe a proctor."
She nodded and leaned forward. "I already thought of that. All my SAT stuff goes to our new address. And I will be taking the SAT exam in Seattle. As will you."
He shook his head "Your new address. You scare me. Not your step dad, you. I can't take the SAT in Seattle. I can't go to Washington. Also I still think returning to Salem would be preferable"
She leaned back "Oh come now. Why do you make so much trouble? And you know as well as I do they don't have cops checking to see if any probationers are crossing the border. "
"You look like someone who would cause legal troubles when you tire of me. I want to be done with the law totally. You are the legal spider inviting me to her parlor. "
She laughed. "OK, think it over. How much do you have to do on your GED?"
He shrugged. "I am done. I just finished the last course and I just finished my final."
"Then I will take you home and let you stew over my proposition. I am not dangerous. I am a little kitten, OK, totally un dangerous. It is still pouring out there. You don't want to face this going home."
He stood up and made a "go on" gesture. She laughed again.
The trip to Eric's apartment was silent, except for the hiss of the windshield wipers. She decided to let him make up his own mind. Pushing to hard would result in him digging in his heels. When they got there, there was a confusion of fire trucks. She couldn't reach the parking lot, so she had to park half a block away. They got out of her car and walked his apartment house. Firemen were putting away hoses and putting up crime scene tape.
He walked up to the fire captain and introduced himself as the tenant of apartment 27. The captain shook hands and said "I am very glad to see you! It means we don't have search for a body when this cools down." He pointed to the structure " The tenant of 25 was cooking some meth and it caught fire and it was a very fast and ugly. We are having to put up everybody into emergency housing. This is not a good option,so we are hoping you have some place else you can go"
Katherine said "He has alternative housing"
Eric said "Where is the alternative housing?"
The fire captain said "102nd and Foster. You know the place?"
Eric nodded. He turned to Katherine "Where is this alternative housing."
She smiled "You will like it, I promise. But we will have to go to Safeway and get you some breakfast first. There isn't anything in the kitchen, or the bathroom, and there is only a camp bed and some old blankets. I think there are some sheets? We can go to Sears and get some better sheets and Blankets too."
"That isn't necessary. I have to go to work early and I want to go to sleep early."
She shook her head. "You are working for me now."
"I still don't know about that, and my boss is depending on me to do prep."
She sighed. "Ok, we will go to Safeway. "
She drone across the river and went up Columbia street. When they reached 15th street she drove to a garage under Safeway. She parked and got out a key card and drove under a parking structure different from the one that serviced Safeway. "Our place to stay. I am going to my parents house after I get you situated. There are six floors of parking The ground floor is Safeway, the first and second floors are section 8 housing, they have a different entrance, the next five floors are condos."
She parked the car. "The parking is assigned. " She led Eric to the elevators. "These elevators go to Safeway and the condos. To get to Safeway you key in 333." They waited. for the elevator and when it arrived they got on. "This place is really bats about security because of the section 8 people. In order to build this they had to provide the section 8 housing, but they really didn't want to. You will have to do all kinds of things to keep the druggies out. " When the reached Safeway she grabbed a cart. "So, what do you want for breakfast?"
"He picked up a basket. "All I need is instant oatmeal, skim milk, and some dates."
She sighed again. "Dairy is to your right, I think cereals are aisle 4 or 5, I nave no idea where the dates are."
They made a quick run through the store. In addition to the dates he also picked up some almonds. She grabbed a set of bowles, a glass, some silverware, some soap, toilet paper, shampoo and a a set of towels. After a swift argument that he won about who would get the check they headed to the elevators. She used the key card to get into the elevator cubicle. She keyed in 6B3 into the keypad. "You enter the complex through here in Safeway. They are open 24 hours. You have the key card, you enter a three digit code to get to your floor. The number changes every month. Then when you reach your floor you have to enter a five digit number to enter your unit. They make you change it every three months. They are paranoid about the people on the second and third floors. No one gets unauthorized entry." The elevator arrived and they got on. There were no floor buttons, only emergency call buttons. The elevator went up very swiftly. When they got out they saw two rows of doors. No numbers. She went to an anonymous dour of the left , opened the keypad and entered 5612A, and waved him in. She turned on the lights and told him "Kitchen to the left."
He went to the left and put his bag on the counter. He put the milk in the fridge and looked around. The apartment was almost totally bare, except for a gas range, a microwave and a refrigerator. She said "I wasn't ready for living here yet, so you will have to live rough." She went to a drawer and pulled out a key card. "This gets you into the elevator. You need 6B3 to get to this floor, and 5612A to get into the third door on the left. I will write it down before I go. Make sure you go to the correct door. Entering any number into the wrong door will have security on your neck." She handed him the card. Then she turned to the right. There were two doors there. "The door on the right is my room. The door on the left will be yours." She opened the door. The room was very small. She proceded him into the room. She opened a glass door. "Shower and bathroom. Not much. It is supposed to be for a servant or just a small office. Well, that is all there is right now. Be waiting here for me at 4:00 when I get off of school, OK?. We need to do some stuff. But for right now, I am going to call it a night. See you tomorrow at 4:00, please." And with that she she wrote some notes on a one of the grocery bag, and left.
Eric walked through the empty apartment. There was a picture window which looked over PSU. Off to the left there was the river, and the mountain. He would enjoy the view tonight. But he would go back to his place. He lay down in front of the window. Amazing.
Eric woke up early. He had no idea what time it was. It was still dark, but there was the blush of sunrise behind the mountain. He quickly ate his oatmeal, dates, almonds and milk. Then he went to the elevators and entered 333 on the keypad. The elevator took him down and he raced to the bus stop for the number 14. He made it for the 5:15 run, so he felt lucky.
But his luck seemed to run out when he got to work. The boss, mr Sanderson, was there, he usually didn't show up until 7:30, when the place had already been open for an hour. And Mr Sanderson was surprised to see him . "Your lady friend you had a different job already, wouldn't be here.." Eric shook his head. The job was very slow today. There were only five customers by 10:00, quitting time. When Mr Sanderson called him into his office.
Mr Sanderson was blunt. "You see the number of customers we got today? It has been like that for the last week. I have been dithering between letting two of you go. Your girlfriend made the decision easy. Frank is going to have his hours cut back, and I can use him in the front counter. He is kind of dim, but he has a wife and a kid, so I was leaning toward him. This makes the decision so much easier. No hard feelings?" Eric shook his head. "Cool. Here is the check for your wages. Including todays. I can't let you cash the check out of the till. You would clean me out. " He stood up and led Eric out of the office and to the front door. "You have been a great worker, and you new boss will be very fortunate. I have hired a lot of guys out of the office. You have been the best. "
Eric walked to his apartment. When he got there there were men in HazMat suits cleaning out the four apartments. He looked for someone in authority and he saw a woman with a clipboard.
"My apartments number 27. Is there anything I can rescue out of my closets...."
The woman said "You are from 27? Here." She handed him a notice from the county that said his apartment was a superfund site. She nodded at the apartments. "The guy in 25 had some serious stuff in his unit. They are going to have to take the whole structure down. And no, you can't go closer than three meters to your unit. Sorry. I thought they explained that in the shelter last night."
"I had someplace else to stay last night."
She grinned. "Stay there then. The shelter is the pits"
Eric turned and began walking toward downton. Then he began running. He ran 47 blocks down to the river, and then he ran across the bridge. He ran faster when he got to the other side, then he headed north past the Morrison bridge, past the Brunside bridge, past the Steele bridge where he turned around at the railroad, then he ran back again, Burnsidem, Morrison, Hawthorne, where he finally stopped, exhausted. It began to rain gently. He looked around and after a minute, he began walking. He walked up ten blocks and he turned right, and he finally reached the library and went inside when it began raining heavily. He went into the popular library, looked at the clock on the wall, he grabbed a science fiction book at random and began reading.
Eric read until 3:50, whereupon he put his book down. He sighed. He left the library and began the treck up to Columbia street. He reached Safeway at five after. He saw Katherine waiting for him. She stood arms akimbo. "Why didn't you take your key card? Why didn't you take the instructions? You are almost more trouble than you are worth."
"I am here, unwillingly. What do you want me to do?"
"I want you to get in the car. We have to get you settled. Into Safeway and to the elevator." They went into the store and into the elevator. She entered AB4 into the keypad. "You go to your workplace?"
He nodded. "He fired me. Not unexpected. The traffic has been slow for the last week."
She nodded. "He pay you your last day?" He nodded. "Where do you bank?"
"I don't. He lets me cash out of the till on pay day."
Her jaw dropped. She shook her head. "One more thing to do today. My step dad banks at US Bank. I bank at Wells. So you will bank at Wells too." She drove out of the garage and drove down 10th. "I had the beds and the couch delivered today. And the dining table. We are going to get you some clothes. And some blankets and so on. We are going to get some place settings too. but first, the bank."
They went to the bank. She insisted on getting some ocean view checks. He didn't know where he would use them.
Then they went to Sears. She started in mens furnishings. She insisted on choosing his underwear, much to his discomfort. She chose dockers, he preferred the Sears generics, but she insisted. He went for the lumberjack plaids. She made a mou of displeasure, getting him some Acosta sport shirts. She chose some speedo swim trunks, he turned bright red and put them back, finally compromising on some loose swim trunks. He insisted on white socks, she wanting him to try the colored.
She had the cloths sent to the pick up area. Next they went to the bedding. She pointed to the double size for him, while she chose queens. He chose the simplest sheets and blankets. He chose a single pillow, when she insisted on a second pillow.
Her choosing her bedding took a while. He knew it would take a while, so he just let flow. the bedding chosen, they had them sent to the pick up area. She spent a long while over the place settings. She ordered six sets when they were chosen.
Then she moved down to the appliances. She asked him which TV they should get. He shook his head. "Where the TV is, I will be elsewhere. TVs are evil." She looked at him like he had grown five heads. Then she moved down to the washing machines.
"I will have to do this for myself in three weeks. " She looked confused by the choices. "We always have had a maid do this kind of thing."
He pointed out a washer dryer combo. It had a relatively small drum. Eric said "We are two people only, and I think this is the most ecologically sound system. But it is the most confusing. And it uses the least space."
"You will do the laundry. You have experience." She smiled. "I really don't want to deal with it, so it becomes your employee responsibility." She purchased the washing machine and dealt with the complicated instructions for having it delivered Then she turned to him "I think I have done all the shopping for what we need for right now. You go to the pick up area, I will meet you there. "
After they got all the purchases together she drove to the Athletic Club on 18th. She reached in the back for his swim suit, which she tossed into his lap She smiled. "One of the places we will be going a lot is here. Only members can enter, and there is no loitering. So we need to get you a membership."
He grinned. "I have always wanted to go inside here. I hear it is wonderful."
She got out of the car. "I wouldn't call it wonderful, but for what it is, .... well, it is the second circle of hell."She marched toward the entrance and he followed.
He waited as she did the paperwork of getting him signed up for membership. He remained quiet, though the information she had on him made him nervous. Grabbing the towels and handing him one she showed him the way to the lockers to the swimming pool. Changing swiftly he went into one of the slow lanes and began slow and steady laps. After 10 laps he saw a hand in the water so he stoped and looked up.
"You are supposed to wait on me!" she said. He looked at her. She was wearing a two piece bathing suit where the top was extremely skimpy.
"This job is very new to me." He said.
She looked around. "What I do is rest in the jescussi. I didn't realize you are a shark in the water. Tomorrow you can do laps. For now, sit in the hot tub for 30 minutes."
"So tell me about this 'bodyguard' you have hired '' Nancy inquired archly.
Katherine exclaimed "He is legit. I found him when I was being kidnapped. I am sure my step father wants me dead. I have been getting ready for move out on my birthday. That is when the first of my trusts vests. The next one is a biggie, $100,000, when I start school. He is going to have to refresh it of go to jail. I think he is going to have to sell something at a major loss. Hense the kidnapping. "
Donna said "We know. Don't sidestep the question. Tell us!"
Katherine took a long pull on her straw. Dona and Nancy stared at her. "He is paranoid. And he doesn't talk about himself. All I know is what my detective got from public sources."
"You went swimming with him" Nancy said waving her hand in a motion that said more. "We want to know how he looked in a speedo."
Katherine said "He refused to buy a speedo. Totally refused." She paused. "But he has a six pack of abs. Not 8 oz cans, but 16 oz. And he had muscles on top of muscles. When I got to the pool, he was already swimming laps and was going through the water like a hot knife through butter. He was incredible."
Donna said "How is he in bed?"
"He is paranoid and deeply religious. Not the kind of religion where he he is mostly in a congregant's skirt. He really is sincere about everything. "
Donna and Nancy gave incredulous looks. Katherine continued. "Not that I don't want to find out. But I have to go at his own pace. "
Nancy said "You really should have got him the speedo."
Katherine grinned "Lord knows I tried. I picked it up and he put it back and said 'NO.' I asked why not and he turned beet red. He just sad 'no' and looked so unhappy so I gave up."
Donna asked "What did he think of your swim suit? The one with the light pink top?"
Katherine laughed. "I am so used to guys who talk to my chest. He didn't do that, but boy he wanted to! He resolutely talked to the the space above my head, but he so much wanted to stare at the girls."
Nancy said "Maybe he is gay?"
Katherine said "No. He was suffering. He definitely had a hard on for me, rather than the life guard. He tried to hid it. It was a loose pair of swim trunks, but there was some long and hard under the fabric."
Eric got off the bus across from Wilson High. He looked around, and saw the library. He sighed and walked up the ramp to the entrance. He hoped she would have decided not to continue this face. He had looked into some jobs, but no one was interested in hiring an ex con. He stood in the doorway for a moment, and finally walked in. She was at a table directly in front of the doorway, and waned him in.
"Right on time!" She stood up and grabbed him by the shoulder and grabbed her notebook. Then she led him to a secluded table. "We are going to have to do some things a bit differently about your pay. You need an employer that looks legitimate for the state. You can't work for a security firm. But you need a company. You can't work security period in this state. My step father gets to look over my spending. I don't want a security firm on my spending sheets. Fortunately, setting up a company in this state is easy, until you have to pay the taxes. Then it becomes really really hard. Taxes are going to be be the death of me. So, .... First setting up the company. That was pie. You are now employed as of next monday by Willamette Records. I even got a Taxpayer ID on line. I filled out the W-2 for you, all that you need to do is sign it. I told you that you would get paid $22 an hour. This is the bill I send myself every month. I have to pay Social Security of almost 8%, and I have to pay a tax on the company's sales, and I have to pay 2% wage tax to the bus compay."
"You have been busy."
"Oh, I almost forgot. " She dug into her purse. "Your phone. I get the same make and model as mine. It makes payed the bill every month easier. But my phone has stickers all over it. We should't confuse it."
"You shouldn't have"
"I am going to keep you on a very shot leash'. And taking of cell phones..." She opened another section of her notebook and took out a sheet of paper. "...this is your bill you owed for restitution to Target. Paid in full. I must say the restitution at 21% was kind of harsh. No way you could have paid that off "
"You borrow money from any credit card, 21% is light interest."
Katherine tapped the paper. "Do you want to explain why you bought bras, panties, condoms...."
Eric leaned back angrily "No, I don't want to explain myself." He glowered.
Katherine pated the air gently "take it easy. I don't see you buying any of this stuff. I just wondered wha the story wast"
He just sat and scowled.
Katherine smiled and said "Well! ok then. Next up is your hours. We need to go to a office supplies store and get a time clock. How do you want to do your work schedule? During the rest of school year, I suggest we six hours a day from 4:00 to 10:30."
He scowled some more. "I don't work on Sunday. I don't go shopping either. "
Katherine looked at him. This would be a deal breaker for him. "Fine, 4:00 to 11:30 Monday through Saturday. but you are going to be near me all day Sunday."
"I will be at church for morning and evening services on Sunday, You can come with me or not. "
She looked at him skeptically. "This is not your usual church, is it? Where is it. And we have to get you a suit, I think. They aren't going to like you showing up in dockers and a lumberjack shirt. I will have to get a demure skirt and blouse, I think."
He looked daggers at her. "Give me some room!"
She looked at him. "You have a woman you like..."His demeanor proclaimed that her guess was correct. She paused for a moment. "OK, I can stay in the apartment on sunday. "
He looked thankful. She shrugged. There would be chances later. She reached down into her backpack and pulled out another packet. "This is the application for the SAT. I filled out most of it, but like the W2 you have to sign and date it. And get your picture taken. You don't have to have your final grades. I would appreciate if you could get this done and in the mail pronto. They take their time, so you can't. I would like if you could take it at the same time as I am. "
He nodded. "Can't you take a picture of me with your cell phone and print it off yourself?"
She shook her head. "You need to go to e Canof those passport photo places. As a matter of fact..." She looked through her cell phone. "Yes! There is one very close by here. Lets do it now. We can do that and we can probably get it in the mail before 5:00." She began packing her things up. "No time like the present. Can you take my books for me? "
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The Kitten, the Witches and the Bad Wardrobe • View topic - My first W/T wallpaper! The Kitten, the Witches and the Bad Wardrobe • View topic - My first W/T wallpaper!
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That's really nice. That Willow and Tara kiss is at the top of my list of most passionate, I love the cloud effects, and that quote is so true. Good job!
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How can I speed up Google Sheets?
I'm looking for insights on how to make Google Sheets update more quickly. At present my spreadsheet has 22 sheets with 15 to 100,000 cells each. Mind you many cells are blank.
has a lookup on product code (Sheet Trees) to fetch product descriptions.
has a lookup on product code and size to get prices (Sheet Trees, and Sheet Standard Prices).
Inventory does a query on Cust_Orders to fill in what people have ordered. It also does lookups using Trees and Standard Prices.
Inv_Grouped does a pivot table on Raw Inventory to show what remains.
Anyway, at times when I update a number it takes well over a minute for the sheet to update.
I'm looking for a general set of guidelines to speeding up updates. A quick search for Google Spreadsheet optimization has found nothing of note.
Some of the sheets are reference only. They tend to be small, and mostly just keep similar stuff together.
Would a QUERY be better?
Should I rearrange my data so that I can use VLOOKUPs instead?
Does it cost much to use named ranges instead of sheet!RC references?
Is it better to put intermediate results on a different sheet, or to put them in hidden rows or columns?
Is it worth while to try to arrange your sheet linearly so that dependencies flow in a particular direction?
There are likely a bunch of things I've not thought of.
Avoid to do fill down/right across hundred or larger number of cells.
Remove unnecessary rows and columns.
Split independent sheets into several spreadsheet files.
Reduce the number of cells that use custom functions.
Note: One of them is in Spanish, try Google Translate or something similar).
My answer to Which factor will give most speedup to every update to a large Google Spreadsheet?
¿Cómo medir el tiempo de ejecución del recálculo de una hoja de cálculo de Google?
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It seems like breakfast almost always contained an egg while we were young! The high concentration of protein, as well as other essential vitamins, means that our bodies can develop at a normal rate and get all of the necessary nutrients to grow properly and set young people on a trajectory for lifelong health. Protein is necessary for cell creation, which means that every part of our body, every organ, hair, blood vessel, and bone in some way relies on protein to exist. Also, protein is necessary for repair and regrowth, so it is a lifelong necessity for us that we can acquire through eggs!
While there has been significant criticism in recent decades about the potential dangers of eggs on heart health, due to its admittedly high content of cholesterol, many people don't look at the type of cholesterol, nor its effect on the body. Most studies have actually shown eggs to protect against strokes and improve heart health, as the "good cholesterol" (HDL cholesterol) levels increase, which can help to eliminate "bad cholesterol" in the body. By lowering LDL cholesterol levels, eggs help to avoid atherosclerosis, blood clots, strokes, heart attacks, and other serious cardiovascular conditions!
Since eggs are so full of those important proteins that our body needs for development, eggs also tend to be a very satisfying and filling form of food. They provide energy and nutrient stability in our body and satisfies our hunger. Eggs can be a great way to get the healthy balance you need without consuming excess calories, which is a great way to lose weight or keep your weight down.
One of the lesser known benefits of eggs is its impact on cognitive health, primarily due to the high levels of choline present. Choline is often grouped with B-vitamins, but in fact, it is a somewhat unknown nutrient that helps to create critical neural pathways in the brain. About 90% of the population is estimated to get less choline than the body requires, but whole eggs supplies choline in large quantities!
It seems as though any food with antioxidant capacity is considered healthy, but many people forget that eggs contain various antioxidants, including vitamin A, lutein, and zeaxanthin. Vitamin A works as an antioxidant in a number of areas in the body, but works particularly well with lutein and zeaxanthin in the eyes to protect against macular degeneration and the development of cataracts. Antioxidants are able to seek out free radicals and neutralize those dangerous particles (formed as byproducts of cellular metabolism) before they can cause oxidative stress on body organs, resulting in chronis diseases, such as cancer and heart disease.
The mineral composition of eggs is wonderful, but it is also unique, in that it can be difficult to obtain certain minerals, like iodine and selenium, in our diets. Eggs are so versatile and universal that we can almost unconsciously stay balanced by eating eggs, ensuring that the those rare minerals keep our antioxidant activity up (selenium) and maintain healthy hormonal functioning in our thyroid (iodine).


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The Sam Villa Company promotes Andrea Skokan to National Sales Manager
Skokan was previously National Channel Manager handling the State/RDA part of the company's business. In her new role, she will continue to report to Tom King, VP of Sales for Sam Villa.
"Andrea has been part of the company for over three years, and during this time she has demonstrated both a commitment and passion to building our business with State Beauty Supply and RDA stores. She's built a reputation for excellence and appreciates our customers needs while representing the Sam Villa brand," says King.
As National Sales Manager, Skokan will take the lead in working with the company's national distribution partner, SalonCentric, in developing strategic communications for the company's product launches, promotions and training programs in the field. Her experience enables her to centralize communications while tailoring information to the different national and district managers for SalonCentric and State/RDA. The objective is to reach the store, street and sub distribution groups with consistent messaging for development of the Sam Villa brand.
Skokan joined Sam Villa in 2013 after working with Marianna Industries for six years. At Marianna, she was responsible for working with top industry brands to increase client product lines by taking new ideas from concept to shelf. This included overseeing product formulation, determining correct packaging specifications and creating a marketing strategy for successful launch.
Sam Villa is founding partner of the Sam Villa® brand (Allvus, LLC), designed to bring "More Sam to More People." The educational world of this Behind the Chair Stylist Choice Award Winner for Favorite Platform Artist and Educator (2012, 2011 and 2007), Favorite Overall Educator of the Year (2015) and Education Artistic Director for Redken 5th Avenue, can be experienced on www.samvilla.com/pro
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