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First Views of ISS at Full Length, Full Power
Space shuttle Discovery undocked from the ISS on Wednesday, providing the dramatic first views of the space station with its full company of solar arrays unfurled. "Discovery, Alpha, Godspeed," ISS commander Mike Fincke radioed after the shuttle departed. "Thanks for making us symmetrical, giving us full power, and all the other wonderful things you did for us. You did great work. Come again."
"Thanks for the great work as well," shuttle commander Lee Archambault replied. "Have a good one, we'll see you on the ground in about a month."
The fly-around was timed to begin at orbital sunrise, to allow for good lighting for the much anticipated pictures. But everyone had to wait until later for a high-definition video replay on NASA TV. The shuttle's KU-band television antenna didn't have a good link with NASA's relay satellites until after the fly-around was complete. The image above has been updated to show an official NASA image taken by the Discovery astronauts during the flyaround, and below are a few screenshots from the high-def replay, showing different views of the ISS, post undocking.
UPDATE: Video of the flyaround is now available, and can be seen below:
At a mission briefing after the undocking, mission managers expressed their excitement at seeing the images of the space station at full length, saying they felt an extreme amount of pride and joy for everyone involved with the ISS project.
"We're getting ready to turn the station over to the research community," said Dan Hartman, chairman of the space station mission management team, "and they will be challenged to keep the crew busy — and that's a good thing. By the end of May (when the ISS crew size will increase to six), we'll be ready to go."
The Discovery crew took Sandy Magnus along with them, bringing her her home after her long-duration stay on the ISS, and left behind Koichi Wakata, Japan's first long-duration astronaut.
The shuttle is scheduled to land on Saturday, March 28 with the first landing opportunity at 1:43 pm EDT.
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I just saw them orbiting the earth apart from each other. I was watching tv and didn't even know it was going to pass by when I first saw the ISS throught the window… Was pretty cool.
i am now experiencing jealousy of Wowbagger's sighting of both the ISS and Discovery, I am under overcast right now
The ISS passed over Cornwall twice last evening. I was watching with my Celestron 15 X 70 bins (handheld), the first pass looked normal, the second appeared to have something hanging off the back, this was Discovery doing its fly-around! On checking I discovered that this event corrisponded exactly with its time over Cornwall. RESULT!
Roseland Observatory.
I'm so jealous of you guys. I've had to be indoors for all the flyovers where I live. But I did catch the shuttle and ISS flying close together quite by accident about 2 years ago.
Great accomplishment!
Great to see Space Station Alpha in a symmetrical config. Kudos to both the astronauts & the engineering team who both worked together to get Station Alpha to this stage.
Well alrighty! Ve gots power! YO!
Now is that 'Better late than never'? or is that 'Better never late'?
The ISS is almost ready to recieve visitors.. lots of em. Hopefully some of the visitors won't be from this planet. At least it would be a good place to meet anyway… "Anybody home?"
Man is a microcosme in our universe.
God is great and good for us.
Good work…
ISS is just a big empty garage. The most useless project ever, 100 billion U.S. dollars discarded in the mud. Voyager, Cassini, Spirit is a true exploration of outer space. Hubble, Chandra is a true science. I recommend the interview with Nobel prize winner Steven Weinberg
Beautiful pictures – thank you for posting them Nancy. ISS is so bright in the sky now it's an amazing sight. Unfortunately we were clouded out last night too so no chance to see the two together.
Safe home Discovery. 🙂
Dear Peter,
after reading the linked article you've posted, I have to correct you, Steven Weinberg did not claim that the ISS "is just a big empty garage", but an "orbital turkey". Where do you have your "information" from?
Professor Steven Weinberg further says: "Yes, I think the ISS is just one example of NASA's ridiculous overemphasis on manned spaceflight."
But why ISS and why not the MIR or even Salyut 1 to 7?
He says: "I'm willing to grant that maybe the ISS is a good place to study the effect of low gravity on people, but I don't care about the effect of low gravity on people. That's only of interest if you are going to go, [i.e.,] continue human exploration."
I do really hope that in near future there will be Nobel prizes awarded to scientists involved in human space flight. It is rediculous that Mr. Weinberg who got his Nobel prize for mere fundamental research, claims that space science has to be either cost effective or otherwise "raises a larger question: is it worth doing that?"
It is rediculous how theoretical physics treads space science like an absurdity. So thank you for the link to the Weinberg interview, Peter, because it showed us a new example for Nobel prize winners' "Eseleien".
I too saw them!! Yesterday ( 26 Mar 09) at around 20:05 GMT..We were doing Globe at night in our university when all of us saw these two objects trailing each other… It was an awesome sight….
Hi all –
Having viewed the HD video of the shuttle fly-around I got busy creating some 3D anaglyph views.
I have them loaded on flickr – look for my name – or I'd happily share with who ever wants to view them : )
nathanialburtonbradford at yahoo.co.uk


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Thursday, April 07, 2016
Use the present imperative—Now!
…a Greek uses a present imperative only when he wants to stress that in his eyes the situation requires immediate action.—The Greek Imperative, page 50
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VK184(asteroid) is rock on way
SCIENTISTS have identified an asteroid that has a faint chance of ploughing into the Earth, leaving a two-kilometre-wide crater and wiping out life for 6000 square kilometres.
Called 2007 VK184, The asteroid measures 130 metres across and is travelling at 70,000 km/h. It would cause huge devastation if it hit the planet
If the object struck Earth it would be up to three times worse than the asteroid that hit Russia in 1908.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Bath time!
Friday, November 14, 2008
I'm a Nana...
Saturday, November 8, 2008
First Anniversary
My wonderful husband Peter and me on our 1st anniversary, Nov. 7, 2008!!! One year and counting!
He took me to Bella Jack's Mexican Restaurant in St. Thomas. I bought him the sweater he's wearing in the picture. :)
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
The Source of My Song
Oh the source of my song is the Saviour
The reason for my singing is the Man from Galilee
It does not depend upon my circumstances
For Jesus is the source of my song
One verse says, "If we only sing when we're happy, we will not be singing very long." One of my good Jamaican friends has taught me that when I begin to feel irritated or frustrated to start humming... even if I don't feel like it. I have begun to put this into practice: with amazing results! Something wells up inside of you when you begin to sing to the Lord.
This morning all five horses we own ran out into the pasture rather than into the barn to eat their grain, as they have been trained to do. I was at the barn by myself, and I am not by any means an experienced horsewoman!
Let me back up and explain that everything in my life right now is an adjustment. There is not much that is the same. I live in a new country with a wonderful new husband. I am trying to build a relationship with three teenage stepchildren. I am learning-as-I-go as a pastor's wife. I am endeavouring to be my husband's helper as he works daily in his custom home business. I am about to become a Nana. (I get every grandparent's dream: have the grandkids first!) I am leading a choir (which I have only done once before in my life). I am coordinating numerous singing groups at church. I am seeking to shepherd and encourage our ladies.
Many days I feel very overwhelmed with my new life! (Understatement of the year!) This morning's experience when the horses all ran out into the field was one of those times: I burst into tears, and asked God if He'd left me! That sounds like an extreme response to horses running out of the paddock. But I can assure you it was not merely because the horses did not do what they were supposed to do! I was overwhelmed by the adjustments of life. I felt out of control. I felt stretched beyond what I could endure, beyond what I could handle.
I said, "God, I CAN'T do this anymore!" But He showed me that I indeed could do it--with HIS power. With the use of the whip, I herded all those equines into the barn and secured them into their stalls for breakfast time!
And God taught me a powerful lesson: I can't do anything without Him... and He is moving me to the end of myself so that I will look up and trust Him with EVERYTHING. As long as I can still do it in my own strength, in my heart of hearts I will believe that I don't truly need Him.
As painful as it is, I'm thankful God is removing all my props and teaching me to trust Him alone. Jeremiah said, "Lord God, behold I cannot." Chapters later, God replied, "Is there anything too hard for me?"


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original poster for Alucarda
|Directed by
|Juan López Moctezuma
|Written by
|Alexis Arroyo
Juan López Moctezuma
|Tina Romero
Claudio Brook
Susana Kamini
David Silva
|Distributed by
|Yuma Films, Films 75
|Release date(s)
|January 26, 1978 (Mexico)
|Running time
|74 min
Alucarda (Spanish title: Alucarda, la hija de las tinieblas, or Alucarda, the daughter of darkness) is a 1978 Mexican horror film directed by Mexican horror filmmaker Juan López Moctezuma, starring Tina Romero in the title role. Often thought to be based on the 1872 novella Carmilla, it revolves around two teenage orphan girls living in a Catholic convent, who unleash a demonic force and become possessed by Satan. Although it was made in Mexico, it is an English language film. It was released in theaters across Mexico on January 26, 1978.[1]
The film takes place in a Mexican convent that not only serves as a place for nuns, but also as an orphanage. Alucarda, a fifteen year old orphaned girl, has lived at the convent her entire life. Another girl of near age, Justine, arrives at the convent, also an orphan. She and Alucarda become very close friends, and form a relationship that borders on being sexual.
While playing in the nearby forest, the girls stumble upon a band of mysterious gypsies, and subsequently unleash a demonic force after opening a casket at a nearby burial site. What follows is a bloody chain of events after both Alucarda and Justine become possessed by the Satanic entity, and wreak havoc on the convent and its inhabitants.
Alucarda is notorious for its extreme subject matter and themes, which includes that of Satanism, murder, demonic possession, exorcism, orgies, and lesbianism, among other things, within a religious setting. All of these things made the film controversial, especially for the time it was made. Because of its extreme violence, scenes of sacrilege, and perversly defiled religious imagery, it has gained notoriety among fans of the horror genre.
The film has been often compared to Ken Russell's 1971 horror film The Devils, and William Friedkin's 1973 film classic The Exorcist, due to the fact that Alucarda was released within five years of both of them, and that they share similar plot themes.
After the film's release in January 1978 in Mexico, it never received much attention from critics nor audiences, but over the years became something of an underground film and a B-movie cult classic. While it is not widely known by horror fans, many fans who have seen it consider it an unrecognized gem.
Columnist Michael Weldon of the Psychotronic Video Guide said the film was "The strongest, most imaginative, and visual witch movie since Ken Russell's "The Devils"."[2] Well-known Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has also expressed his appreciation for the film and other works from director Juan López Moctezuma.[3]


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I decided to set up the gamble and see how close we would come. The big question is whether to approach the gamble DOR or DOL. There are two major problems involved with starting DOR. First, the handler will in all probability end up fairly close to the gamble line when she sends her dog over #1 to the tunnel. Because the tunnel is only 15' and quite curved, there will be no opportunity for the handler to step back from the line since her dog will see her doing so and be drawn to the AF. This means that the handler has no way to apply physical pressure to her dog's line when he exits the tunnel. Additionally, because the handler is already so far down course, the AF will block her from her dog's view when she starts to move toward the finish.
By entering the gamble DOL these problems are neatly avoided. The handler will be behind the tunnel exit and have the opportunity to move away from the gamble line without her dog seeing her. When the dog exits the tunnel, she will be in a perfect spot to apply pressure on the dog's line so that he will move away from the AF and take the #3 jump. Additionally, because the handler is behind, she can maintain pressure on her dog's line until he has taken #4.
So, did it work for us? Willie carried it off beautifully. His speed and stride took him to the correct tunnel entrance and he didn't have much trouble understanding what I wanted him to do after the tunnel. Belle, on the other hand, ducked into the wrong end of the tunnel. However, she had no difficulty with the last two jumps.
P.S. An important aspect of the gamble is being in a good spot to begin the gamble when the horn sounds. I didn't set up the entire course, but if I were running this at a trial, I would finish up my closing with the teeter, the jump at (68,40), and the weave poles back to back. Hopefully, the horn would sound when we were doing the weaves for the second time.


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Friday, December 11, 2009
I'm in here.... [i love you World Sweet World]
here. Remember it's in NZ dollars, which is always less than the rest of the world!!
I'm so excited. Actually I have a spare copy, leave a comment and I'll draw a name out to give one away. And just because, suggest a recycled project that we could make (you don't have to have made it, just an idea!!)
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I love the idea of recycling and reusing items. I've saved the caps from medicine bottles and basting spray to make cupcake pincushions.ReplyDelete
I bought World Sweet World yesterday in Whitcoulls, I'd never heard of it before but I'm totally sold already! Definitely going to subscribe :) I had a little "OH!" moment when I turned the page and there you were. Congratulations, it's a great little tutorial.ReplyDelete
Congrats! That is so awesome! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 11, 2009 at 11:38 AM
I have never seen this magazine! I love the idea of reusing, and recycling to create new and wonderful things.ReplyDelete
Have a great weekend! x
Congratulations Deb on making it to this great little magazine. Love your new Christmassy Banner too! YOu don't have to include me in your giveaway as I can easily buy this mag. The only recycling idea I can think of is I like to recover cardboard cans ( like the ones ovaltine comes in) using pretty scrapbooking paper. I have one on my computer desk thaat holds my pens.ReplyDelete
i'm thinking about making one of these wreaths (seen here) out of paper scraps from our recycle bin.ReplyDelete
if i can make time, of course!
My recycling is usually using scraps & odd sizes of fabric to cut up into scrap quilts.ReplyDelete
I love seeing the pics of Annie-Rose. She is growing so fast. They just don't stay babies long enough.
I love taking thrift store napkins and making bread and produce bags out of them. They're already cut to size so they make a great quick project.ReplyDelete
That magazine looks awesome!
Congratulations - how exciting!ReplyDelete
I like to use old adult clothing to make clothing for my kids - one advantage of toddlers being so small =)
deb congratulations!!!! i love these projects. one of my regular reuse recycle projects is cutting up old cotton t's and undershirts for rags around the house....wish i had something more creative.ReplyDelete
The WSW mag is definitely very interesting!! Congrats on your published work in it and thanks for sharing it.ReplyDelete
Recently, i've started looking at those extra small shirts from my daughters days of being 4 and 5 year old--the soccer team shirts, trips to the zoo, the shirts grandparents collected for her on their travels...there has got to be a super easy way to turn those into reusable produce bags or as little totes for trips you never seem to carry a bag to (pharmacy, notions store, thrift shop)?!
Thanks so much for dropping by. I love to hear from you and I want you to know that I really appreciate each comment!!


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Don't Feed the Beast
What does government do for us? How many have suffered from frauds and cheats only to find the courts uninterested in helping bring justice. Even if one does hire a lawyer and prevail in court the court does not make them pay. One still has to, at one's own expense, seek to force the criminal to pay up.
Are there gangs in the neighborhood or drug dealers? Don't expect the police to help. They are too busy writing tickets to help bring in more revenue to the government.
Or what about the citizen who defends his home against criminal invasion. Isn't he then exposed to charges also?
Do we own our property? The tax levied against it says no. Try and not pay it and the government will take your property away. We are renting from the government, our land lord.
How many have sent their children to private school or are home schooling because the public schools are either useless or dangerous, yet one still must pay for the public school. One can send one's children to an out of state collage and pay dearly but illegal immigrants get in state discounts.
The hospitals are full of illegal immigrants who don't pay so the hospitals drive up the costs to the citizen who supports those hospitals and clinics with his tax dollars.
All the while government at all levels is going broke while it builds lavish offices, coddles surly bureaucrats, builds stadiums for sports teams whose ticket prices are too high for regular people to afford and the politicians seek new and elaborate means to tax every activity. They are now looking to legalize drugs and prostitution simply to have something new to tax.
There really is only one solution. Stop Feeding the Beast!
Money is the only language government speaks. It is a beast however; when it gets hungry it will get angry if its food is withheld. We must accept that we will suffer if we stop feeding the beast. We will suffer anyway whether we do so or not. If we were to just start with not paying our personal property taxes it would bring government to its knees. There is no level of government that is not bankrupt. If local government is choked out the others will falter. If local government is beaten people will be emboldened to take on the rest.
Stop Feeding the Beast!
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Kagan hearings open thread: opening statements
We won't see any explosive question-and-answer sessions today, but we will see senators and the nominee establishing the themes that will mark the next few days of hearings. I'll update this post as Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) and Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) make their opening statements.
12:31 Everyone's in place; Leahy just gaveled proceedings open
12:32 p.m.: Kagan looks absolutely radiant, as if she's actually looking forward to this!
12:33: Leahy recognizing the service of Sen. Robert Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat who died this morning at age 92.
12:35 p.m. Leahy now back to Kagan, lists her many accomplishment -- Princeton undergrad, Harvard law, Harvard law dean, solicitor general.
12:37 p.m. The first utterance of "judicial activism" comes just a few minutes into the hearing. In this case, Leahy lambastes "conservative" judicial activism. Be prepared to hear these buzzwords from senators from both the right and the left.
12:42 Leahy urges Kagan to be open about how she approaches judging. Kagan, in my opinion, should be more open than most about her "judicial philosophy" because, having never served as a judge before, there is no judicial paper trail from which to assess her approach.
12:44 p.m. Ranking Republican Jeff Sessions of Alabama now gets his 10 minutes for an opening statement. He, too, starts by remembering the late Sen. Byrd.
12:46 p.m. This is not "a coronation," Session says. Kagan has less "real" experience than any nominee in 50 years.
12:47 p.m. Sessions is on a roll, cites Kagan's undergrad thesis on socialism in which he says she "bemoans" the demise of American socialism.
12:48 p.m. Sessions raises gun rights for the first time -- but likely not the last. He notes today's Supreme Court decision extending 2nd Amendment rights nationwide.
12:49 p.m. Sessions blasts Kagan for restricting military recruitment on the Harvard law campus. Expect this to be a running theme throughout the hearings.
12:51 p.m. Here comes judicial activism again, this time from the conservative viewpoint of Sen. Sessions. He talks about Kagan's work for liberal judges and justices, including the late Thurgood Marshall, who use the law to get to desired political goals. This, Sessions, says, worries alot of Americans, especially in a time of expanding federal power.
12:53 p.m. here's something Leahy and Sessions and maybe even Kagan agree on: the need for Kagan to be more open with her thoughts on the law because of the lack of a paper trail....Don't expect much more agreement from these three.
12:57 p.m. Herb Kohl, the Wisconsin Democrat, refers to the impact a Supreme Court justice has on ordinary citizens. This has been and will be a running theme for Democrats. Leahy and several other Dems held a press conference just last week to discuss Supreme Court cases where the court handed down rulings that hurt "the little guy."
12:59 p.m. Kohl gives former Judge Robert Bork a figurative slap. Kohl criticizes Bork's now infamous statement that he wanted to be on the court because it represented an "intellectual feast." This goes hand-in-hand with Kohl's argument that justices must be compassionate and care about the common man....Something tells me that Republicans won't embrace this approach?
1:02 p.m. Utah Republican Orrin Hatch up now....says lack of judicial experience not a disqualifier for Supreme Court experience..Good for Kagan....But there's a "but"....Hatch says previous justice with no judicial experience had extensive legal experience in private practice and in the courtroom....Not so good for Kagan, who worked for only a couple of years in private practice and until last year, when she became solicitor general, had not argued a case in court.
1:05 p.m. Kagan has gone from looking radiant to looking serious and concerend....this is to be expected...I'm sure she's been prepped by her handlers to look at all times like she's taking in every word uttered by a senator and weighing their thoughts carefully..
1:09 p.m. Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California....not surprisingly, Feinstein lauds Kagan for being first woman to lead Harvard Law School and first woman to serve as solicitor general....as for Kagan's lack of judicial experience -- Feinstein finds it "refreshing."
1:12 p.m. I mean no disrespect to the senators, but is this part of the confirmation process really necessary? Do we really need to hear these opening statements? Why not give the chairman, ranking member and the nominee 10 minutes each for opening statement and then move right to questions? I'm just saying.....
1:17 p.m. Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa.....A lot of senators do this, but it always amazes me that Grassley seems to be reading his statement for the first time and that he hadn't even bothered to review it before delivering it....Style aside, he's just blasted Kagan for having a "thin record" and being deeply steeped in liberal principles....
1:23 p.m. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) up next....Will he be the first to bring up Kagan's record of taking very, very conservative national security positions in her work as solicitor general?
1:27 p.m. I'm getting worried...Feingold has been a real critic of many of the Bush/Obama national security policies, including wiretapping...but he's spent the first few minutes of his time talking about diversity on the bench....not surprisingly, he's fuming about the Supreme Court's decision to overturn part of the campaign finance law tthat bears his name.
1:31 p.m. Wow, Feingold took a complete pass on national security questions. Wonder if this would have been true if Kagan had been nominated by a Republican?
1:33 p.m. Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona, takes on Obama (is he the standing for confirmation?) and says flatly the president's desire for judicial nominees with "empathy" is "wrong." . . .
1:35 p.m.: My colleague Stephen Stromberg not-so-unfairly paraphrases Jon Kyl: Whatever criteria the president uses to select court nominees, he's wrong.
1:38 p.m. Big strike against Kagan, according to Kyl: She's from the Upper West Side of Manhattan....Now, there's a substantive argument.
1:39 p.m. Is it just me or is Kyl especially cranky today? Honestly, is there any need to go through the charade of a hearing when it's already pretty clear how some senators are going to vote?
1:42 p.m. Next up: Arlen Specter, the Republican -- I mean, Democrat -- from Pennsylvannia.
1:45 p.m. Did Kagan just pull a Papa Bush and look at her wristwatch for the time? Not clear, but I wouldn't blame her.
1:48 p.m. Supreme Court nominees are coached not to come across as arrogant or like they think they're smarter than the senators lest they tick off thin-skinned lawmakers. But shouldn't the same courtesy be extended to the nominee? Isn't it cruel and unusual punishment to force a nominee to sit silently while being lectured by those she KNOWS aren't as smart or learned?
1:51 p.m. Interesting...Specter says Kagan told him during their pre-hearing meetings that she favors cameras in the court....Wonder how her prospective and camera-allergic colleagues are taking this...
1:53 p.m. Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina....lauds Kagan for some "good" things she did as solicitor general, including opposing granting terrorism detainees in Afghanistan the right to challenge their detentions in federal court....Will any Democrats take up this line of questioning? Do they also think this was "good"?
1:57 p.m. Graham is about the only senator who I think truly has an open mind. He acknowledged Kagan's stellar intellect, her accomplishments, told her he's concerned about her handling of military recruitment at Harvard but rather than pound the dais to score cheap points he clamly told her he wanted to have a "conversation" with her about this....He's just told Kagan that he thinks she's likely to pass the qualification test, that he looks forward to hearing her address a few concerns about whether she'll be able to keep "activist" impulses in check. And he finished by telling her that it's okay to disagree with "us up here."
2:02 p.m. Chuck Schumer, D-New York. . . oh no....Schumer just began a sentence with "In 1905. . . "
2:04 p.m. Schumer spends a few intense minutes pounding the Roberts court for "bending" the law to achieve ideological goals which, in the process, hurt the common man. So judicial activism is bad and twisting the law is unacceptible? Not quite...He seems to suggest that it's okay as long as he agrees with the desired goals....so much for consistency.
2:11 p.m. John Cornyn, Republican of Texas . . . just started his opening statement by referring to a "man of war." Presumably he was referring to the ship and not to his state of mind...Let's hope so.
2:18 p.m. Dick Durbin, Democrat of Illinois...In speaking about liberties and the expansion of freedom throughout the country's history, Durbin mentions critically the case of Koramatsu, the World War II-era Supreme Court ruling that upheld the government's internment of Japanese Americans. Surely, SURELY, Durbin, who takes pride on being a leader on human rights issues, will mention what he sees as troubling aspects of the Obama administration terrorism and detention policies that Kagan has defended. But no....he moves on . I can only assume that the administration or Democratic leaders in the Senate have been very persuasive in urging Democrats to avoid this subject.
2:25 p.m. Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn (or, Dr. Coburn, as he's referred to in his Capitol Hill office). . . . Give Coburn credit for speaking from the cuff -- no written statement, perhaps no notes...
2:31 p.m. Leahy has just announced a 10 minute break after Ben Cardin (D-Md.) finishes his statement
2:53 p.m. Just to double back on a point made by Sen. Coburn. He says the issue in these hearings isn't so much Kagan's qualifications -- he suggests that she passes that test -- but whether her judicial philosophy is acceptible. I disagree. Unless a nominees approach to the law is so outside of the mainstream, I think the president deserves significant deference in choosing nominees that reflect his approach and his values. As Lindsey Graham said last year during Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings, elections have consequences.
2:56 p.m. Back live...Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) has the microphone....He also criticizes the Citizens United decision, in which justices struck down part of a massive campaign finance law. I'm not certain, but I think every or nearly every Democrat has brought up this case.
3:03 p.m. it's ever more clear that Democrats are trying to turn the hearings into a platform over corporate profits and corporate irresponsibility (i.e., Wall Street bonuses in the face of financial collapse, BP and the Gulf oil spill)
3:06 p.m. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) gets a chuckle after praising Kagan's skill and courage in managing law professors, whom she said were "fearless in the face of supervision." Klobuchar suggests that Kagan's ability to deal cordially with people of all stripes will be in asset on the court, enabling her to forge coalitions even with those with whom she disagrees....I'm not so sure...I don't think the justices will be so easily swayed by the newbie....There's no lack of confidence (i.e., ego) on the bench.
3:15 p.m. Now up: Ted Kaufman, the Delaware Democrat who took over the seat when Joe Biden was tapped for vice president. Let's see if Kaufman can match his predecessor's penchant for inexplicably long and sometimes weirdly personal outbursts. I bet he can't.
3:21 p.m. Kaufman obviously got the Dem's memo...He rails against a Supreme Court that sides with "business interests" instead of the "people's interest."
3:25 p.m. Kaufman just said what everyone in the hearing room is probably thinking: "Very soon, those of us up here will stop talking. Thank goodness."
3:26 p.m. Al Franken, the former Saturday Night Live cast member and now a Democratic senator from Minnesota, is the last to speak. (He's the junior member on the Democratic side.) Once Franken finishes, Kagan will be sworn in by Leahy and deliver her opening statement.
3:35 p.m. Kudos to Kagan for sitting stone-faced for three hours. If confirmed, she may want to take the same approach during State of the Union addresses. Sam Alito may have a few words of advice on that.. . . .Massachusetts Senators John Kerry (D) and Scott Brown (R) are now introducing Kagan....Kagan will speak in a few minutes.
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The Post's "analysis" of these hearings is coming from Rodriguez, who does not even know the difference between a lawyer's statement of her own opinions and her advocacy for a client! I guess this shows how low the standards of this once great paper have fallen.
Posted by: turningfool | June 28, 2010 1:03 PM | Report abuse
Sen. Sessions seems to forget Harriet Miers (nominated by Pres. Bush in 2005) when he says 'Kagan has less "real" experience than any nominee in 50 years.'
Being head of Harvard Law School would seem to me to be an incredible (and real) experience in managing all those judicial heavyweights.
Posted by: Pete_from_nyc | June 28, 2010 1:57 PM | Report abuse
>>...Rodriguez, who does not even know the difference between a lawyer's statement of her own opinions and her advocacy for a client!<<
Huh? Where did Rodriguez say anything close to this?
Posted by: GingersDad | June 28, 2010 2:03 PM | Report abuse
Old "Two Face" Alabama White Trash Senator:
"This nominee does have serious problems. ... She was a Clinton operative for quite a number of years." -- Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, 6/28/10
"I did support her initially. She had 26 years of law practice and it worked in the White House a number of years." -- Sessions on Bush-era Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, 6/28/10
---quoted from today's "Public Citizen"
Posted by: lufrank1 | June 28, 2010 2:32 PM | Report abuse
Of GOP extremism that opposes all change, Abe Lincoln would have said;
"You can fool some of the people, ALL of the time"... ;^)
Balkingpoints / www
Posted by: RField7 | June 28, 2010 3:04 PM | Report abuse
"Huh? Where did Rodriguez say anything close to this? "
In her earlier column today (strangely taken down mid-day) Rodrigues took things Kagan said in argument as Solicitor General, and said these were Kagan's conservative positions on issues.
Posted by: turningfool | June 28, 2010 3:37 PM | Report abuse
My tax dollars at work producing hours of pointless, rambling, predictably partisan statements from a bunch of self-aggrandizing mediocrities. Fantastic.
Posted by: Nissl | June 28, 2010 4:18 PM | Report abuse
I have to give Kagen credit--sitting through three hours of blowhards sounding off their party lines at what is supposed to be a "hearing" of Kagen demonstrates her restraint and equanimity. She must have been stifling laughs and yawns at the same time.
Posted by: aguy7 | June 28, 2010 5:59 PM | Report abuse
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The dead are more than the process of death.
Marks the spot.
Marks the spot.
Under the earth, within Neolithic pits, post-holes and within long barrows, people once placed human remains, fragments of precious pottery, shards of stone.
Each line or curve of bone, placed under the dark soil alongside chalk and flint is part of a hologram: when a holographic plate is fractured into a thousand pieces, I can take any one of these single fragments and when the laser is shone through, the whole image will appear.
A holograph embeds the total image within every part of the whole. Each fragment contains the whole image. The more pieces the more detail.
A single fragment will provide the whole image.
In a similar way, a fragment of bone from the ancestors is all ancestors.
Because this is the way our minds work...
Monuments commemorate events, and their existence creates memories.Without understanding the holographic nature of meaning, all we are left with are ditches and earthworks and broken things.
Therefore it follows that events at a monument add meaning to that monument...
Over the centuries there have been many answers to the questions the rings and rows of stones and post-holes, pose; created from the outlines of structures and the remains of objects found there.
If the dead are included in the story of a place, they are, by convention, always located in the past.
Whole or broken
They have been removed.
Sometimes reburied and lost.
Other times placed in biscuit tins or cardboard boxes and stored.
Instinctively we know that the dead remain in the present.
Archaeology provides linguistic tricks to help distance ourselves further. Skulls and bones signify 'rites of intensification', or 'ancestor worship'.
They cannot be a part of us.
With that in mind, I take a deep breath and dive into the song-lines of Avebury.
A story that excludes the dead.
I begin with Stonehenge.
Inigo Jones was given the task of surveying Stonehenge for King James the first. His conclusion was that Stonehenge had not been built by the ancient Britons, but was, in fact, a Roman temple of the Tuscan order (a style of architecture) and dedicated to the sky god Coelus.
Inigo was quoting from Vitruvius, who described open air temples as dedicated to the gods of air and sky, in particular those who wield thunderbolts. Tuscan temples dedicated to Jupiter were common, Inigo reasoned, therfore Stonehenge must be, on account of its great age, dedicated to the father of Saturn, grandfather of Jupiter: Coelus.
Stonehenge is circular.
Inigo Jones says that within the thirty Sarsen circle there are three equilateral triangles.
Vitruvius writes that to construct a plan for a Roman theater, the architect should inscribe three triangles within a circle, just as astronomers do when dividing the zodiac into twelve parts, according to musical ratios...
Enter stage right: William Stukeley.
Inigo Jones's book on the architecture of Stonehenge was published in 1655.
William Stukeley had made up his mind about Avebury, in 1743...
Following Inigo, henges and stones represented ancient temples, and following Althanasius Kircher [who was following Plotinus] in Stukeley's mind, the complex arrangement of earth and stone of Avebury was a hieroglyph.
Stukeley was looking for an older, pure religion.
Cambridge Platonist Ralph Cudworth had argued in 'The True Intellectual System' [1678] that the idea of the Trinity could be found in Orpheus, Pythagoras and Plato, and in the theology of the Egyptians, Persians and Romans, and that this knowledge had been passed to the Jews.
In Avebury, Stukeley saw circles and snakes:
The Holy trinity.
"... is the representation of god or the great soul of the world among the Persian magi, the Egyptian priests and we find it here among the Western Druids doubtless tis of vastest antiquity and borrowed by them all from the post-deluvian times"Stukeley believed that there had been a time of revelation; that in the past god has spoken to man
"If there was no Revelation made to men in the first ages how came the knowledge and worship of god so early into the world?"He held to an earlier scholarly tradition that Pythagoras had through his "diligent searches" in Phoenicia, Egypt and Babylon "acquired a great stock of ancient truths" and that
"Plato's works are everywhere full of the ancient traditions".He believed that:
"instead of maintaining the credit of their philosophy, they [the Pythagoreans] corrupted it by degrees, made it subtle and unintelligible, until in time it was sunk into nothing"I must admit I have some sympathy for his point of view...except of course we still use 'Babylonian' time, dates and angles. Babylonian gods are re-imaged as Jesus and Mary, Meslamtea's blue flame burns as the Holy ghost. Naram-Sin's image of himself as Nergal stalks the Christian underworld as Satan, whilst Ishtar terrifies the world as Lady Ga Ga and Marylin Manson...in this film adds Ningishizida, the twins and Erra to the mix.
What came after Stukeley is hard to follow...
But in the 1930s Avebury was recreated with money from marmalade.
You couldn't make that up!
And Maud Cunnington was digging up The Sanctuary.
Seems that the 1930s were an interesting time.
Sandwiched between Margaret Murrey and Gerald Gardener.
It is clear that Maud Cunnington thought that the Midsummer solstice was significant in our prehistory, because she remarks that the child-burial at Woodhenge was aligned with the midsummer sun-rise...
Maud didn't waste time with ambiguities: the midwinter full moon wasn't considered at all. Nor any of those pesky stars!
But I'm missing the Avebury point.
Avebury isn't obviously aligned on anything...
But Stukeley had seen a hieroglyph of circles and serpents...
Now Plotinus [AD 205- 270] had said that "The wise men of Egypt embed 'secret knowledge for those with wit to read' and in the 15th century, Plotinus was translated into Latin by Ficino.
From then on, Egypt and hieroglyphs went all Dan Brown...
In 1652-54 Kircher's Oedipus Aegytiacus, took Plotinus a bit too far, and shows a figure of a globe, serpent and wings which Kircher [as a good Jesuit) translates as the Divine Trinity.
Stukeley said that..
"All writers Jewish and Christian with one mouth assert the snakes practice of shedding its skin and returning to life again was a fit emblem of Christ's Resurrection"...And thus the way became wide open for people, such as Hargrave Jennings (1817- 1890) to quote Stukeley and write all about ancient serpent worship in Britain as evidenced by the Avebury avenues.
The New Age branch of Modern Paganism, as a synthesis of historical practice and modern innovation; a desire to find an authentic religion preserved in the past of British prehistory begins in my view, with Stukeley.
It may look back to the work of those who preceded him, but it is Stukeley's serpents who slither under the hills and barrows of Avebury, as Lung-mei, or geodetic forces: the soul of the world.
Stukeley's notion that prehistoric 'temples'are full of sacred secrets, fuels hours of research for those who diligently work at proving alignments based upon Euclidean geometry between the myriad post holes, henges and circles of Britain.
Manly P. Hall is a particularly useful reference for this.
But eventually, in keeping with contemporary experience, a new mythology, a scientific mythology began to appear in the late 1950s as a high alpha wash, over the lines and contours of Avebury.
In 1958 a French researcher Aime Michel noted that UFO sightings seemed to follow straight lines (orthotony). He published a book called 'Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery'.
His work was taken up by Bruce Cathie who in 1968, drew up an earth energy 'grid'.
Inter-dimensional vortexes and portals...
Ways to navigate between realities
Harmonic 695.
And paranoia.
Tony Wedd had read Alfred Watkin's work on lay-lines and had attended a lecture about Adamski...who in 1952 had met an otherworldly being called, Orthon:
'a medium-height humanoid with long blond hair and tanned skin wearing reddish-brown shoes, who took him to Venus'.God damn it!
Why doesn't this ever happen to me?
Ex RAF man, Tony Wedd found his own Adamski in the person of Mary, a woman who received telepathic messages from space people.
One day whilst studying the landscape around Chiddingstone and plotting the alignment of pine clumps, Tony saw a UFO and put 2 +2 together...to get Aime Michel's theory.
"I began to suppose that saucer crews knew about leys'...In 1961 Tony Wedd published 'Skyway's and Landmarks' .
But there was nothing new here. Forty-seven years before Aime Mitchel. in 1911, W Y Evan-Wentz' published "Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries". This describes processions of spirits, of the souls of the dead:
The Ankou who is a king of the dead, and his subjects, like a fairy king and fairies, have their own particular paths or roads over which they travel in great sacred processions; and exactly as fairies, the hosts of the dead are in possession of the earth on November Eve, and the living are expected to prepare a feast and entertainment for them of curded-milk, hot pancakes, and cider, served on the family table covered with a fresh white table-cloth, and to supply music. The Breton dead come to enjoy this hospitality of their friends; and as they take their places at the table the stools are heard to move, and sometimes the plates; and the musicians who help to entertain them think that at times they feel the cold breath of the invisible visitors. Concerning this same feast of the dead (La Toussaint) Villemarqué in his Barzaz Breiz (p. 507) records that in many parts of Brittany libations of milk are poured over or near ancestral tombs--just as in Ireland and Scotland libations of milk are poured to fairies.
And the Area 51 guy remembers 'Odin's Wild hunt'...
Finally it all came together with 'The View Over Atlantis' by John Michell published in 1969.
The book that:
"put ley lines on the map, re-enchanted the British landscape and made Glastonbury the capital of the New Age." [Quote from Bob Rickard]And linked:
Platonic idealism, sacred geometry, ancient metrology, leys and alignments, megaliths, astro-archaeology, strange phenomena, simulacra, crop circles, UFOs, the Shakespeare authorship controversy, and the nature of human belief. Link..The UFO/earth-energy link was still alive and kicking around ten years ago in the form of crop circles.
Alfred Watkins is supposed to be the one who began this malarchy about energy-lines, but in fact Alfred wasn't particularly interested in energy, more the problem of navigation. Standing stones, church spires and the like give landscape meaning...I'm not sure that he used dowsing.
Why would he need to?
Dowsing was used to find water underground
You can see spires and stones.
Guy Underwood, on the other hand, wrote a book in 1939 called "The Pattern of the Past". He had come across the work of Reginald Smith, who, in the 1930s had described testing stone circles and henges and found underground streams of water radiating out from blind springs...
I don't know what that means?!
Guy Underwood set about investigation and described 'geodetic lines': natural forces related to, or dependent on magnetism of gravity.
The mythos has shifted a long way away from Stukeley
Seriously though...
Crop circles and the END of the WORLD
last year...
How the Nibiru myth becomes Melancholia...
Is for another day!


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Above and to the right are my workbenches for
crafting and my sewing machine. It already looks messey and I haven't even done any crafting.
This is one of the bookcases that I am filling with stamps & inks. I still have lots of stamps to put out so that is why I need more storage.
To the left is my collection of Fresco paints from Paper Artsy.
This workbench is my cutting/ die cutting station and is at a height at which I can stand at.
I am going to stop off at Ikea on the way home from Ally Pally on Saturday to buy some more bookcases.


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As mentioned earlier, Mom let the girls loose in the studio last week. It's something we've let them do on almost every visit, and they absolutely love it. Dyeing yarn is so much fun for kids, and after taking the proper precautions (old clothes, drop clothes, aprons and gloves) not a whole lot can go wrong.
And as I said - it's old hat for this pair
but the rest have gone up in the shop. Each one of these are one-of-a-kind, never-to-be-repeated colourways, so once they are gone, they are gone. Word has it, they also signed the labels of their masterpieces, so you knitters can purchase a true work of art!


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The Seymour Herald - 27 November 1952
Mr. and Mrs. John Hickie and son, Melvin, spent the week end with the George Nichols family in Buffalo and with relatives in Davenport. White they were gone from home, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hickie of Brazil looked after the farm and were guests of Mrs. Lyda Bollman.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mincks, Mary Catharine and Stephen spent the week end with the Billy Mincks family of Cedar Falls.
Mrs. Effie Houx of Cedar Rapids is spending several days with Miss Susie Sidles.
Charles and John Morris spent Sunday with relatives in Madrid. They were accompanied by Jimmy Condra.
The Harvest Home Sunday observed at the Methodist church was well attended and the message given by Roger Crews of the Farm Bureau extension office was enjoyed.
The Loyd Hickie family of Promise City and the George Sidles family spent Sunday with Mrs. Lyda Hickie.
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Allen of Iconium spent Sunday with the John Ponsettos.
Jim and Pete Sidles of Iowa State College, Ames, will spend the Thanksgiving holidays at home. Also Miss Colleen Hefner of Des Moines will be home for Thanksgiving and the remainder of the week.
Guy Goughnour of Allerton was a business caller in Jerome Wednesday.
J. W. Workman is convalescing at home after a short time in the St. Joseph's hospital.
Rev. M. R. Gonzales' nephew and family of Philadelphia came Friday to spend a few days with them and soon after they arrived the nephew became ill with asthma and was taken to the St. Joseph's hospital in Centerville for oxygen treatments.
The women of the W.S.C.S. have already begun preparation for the Thanksgiving dinner to be held at the school auditorium Thanksgiving day.


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The fallout from December's vote on tuition fees seems unlikely to settle. Universities are looking for ways to replace the 80% cut in their teaching budgets, and leading institutions are gradually lining up to announce their intention to ask for the full £9,000. The universities minister unabashedly encourages a supermarket-style of higher education, when he tells them they may look "rather silly" if students opt for the "budget" brand of university, revealing surprisingly little confidence in modern students' capacity to evaluate or discriminate.
His Lib Dem colleagues have also been taking turns to scold any institution angling towards the higher end of the scale. Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, reminded universities last month that permission to charge the highest amount would only be granted where they could show they were accessible to students from poorer backgrounds. His harshest criticism, inevitably, was directed at Cambridge and Oxford.
Twenty years ago, I might have been the kind of student Clegg had in mind. A bookish lad, with no family tradition of higher education, from a middling Essex comprehensive whose students rarely troubled themselves with fantasies of an offer from Oxbridge – those who did, and achieved them, could expect to see themselves in the local paper cradling an improbable stack of randomly selected books beneath an awkward grin.
That didn't happen to me, though I did eventually get into Cambridge. Not as an undergraduate – I teach here, and every December I sit opposite a few dozen anxious, bright, ambitious and usually delightful young people hoping to persuade me to include them among the English students my college will admit the following year.
The educational backgrounds of applicants interest me very little. You can't teach passion, and native intelligence is more likely to show itself in a flash of individuality than by any amount of coaching. It may be the case that the expensively educated have a greater share of self-confidence than their peers from the maintained sector, but interviewers can see through that. A good deal of effort goes into ensuring only the best applicants receive offers, regardless of where they were educated or the cost to their parents.
These applications, obviously, in no way reflect the fact that 93% of young people go to state schools, and 7% to independent schools. If we exclude overseas students, 35% of applicants to Cambridge in 2009 came from independent schools. But it must be worth asking what proportion of parents whose children go to state schools, compared with those who pay to send them to independent schools, expect them to go on to higher education. My guess is that this is where the biggest gap exists.
The fact is that Cambridge University does not disproportionately reject maintained-sector applicants. It does not proportionately receive them in the first place. But the perception of Cambridge as the university for the privileged is fiendishly hard to overturn, despite our admissions tutors' tours of state schools and open days, access programmes, generous bursaries and the efforts of schools liaison officers. Even the best state applicants hesitate to view Cambridge as the natural place for them to flourish, and if they apply elsewhere because of this, it's our loss as much as theirs. If we are to correct the imbalance at Cambridge, we need more exceptional state students to feel confident that they will fit in here.
The government's answer? That students regard their education as an investment rather than an expense, which may well be an everyday habit of mind for the wealthy who populate the cabinet. Not so for families with modest savings books and no tradition of higher education. It fails to acknowledge that a debt of £27,000 means something quite different to a household for whom this represents a gross annual salary rather than an agreeable shares dividend. It fails to observe that if £6,000 per student will cover, barely, what the government has sheared from the education budget, any requirement to enlarge bursaries must be met by other means. The government offers universities no other means, except the option to charge more than £6,000.
Punitive fees will make it harder than ever to attract the best state students to apply. And if they don't, we are hardly able to admit them. Cambridge has tried for years to attract more state students, precisely to correct the imbalance – with a little, if only a little, success. This will lurch sharply into reverse when even fewer state students apply. We will then witness the irony of the universities minister and the deputy prime minister telling us that we have failed, and probably fining us accordingly.
• David Clifford is a lecturer in English at Homerton College, Cambridge


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At first they were just a novelty, their colours and size seemed useful. I found them quite handy for quickly scribbling something when I was reading and then sticking them between the pages of the book as bookmarks.
Little by little as it often happens with objects in my drawer (they undergo some inexplicable metamorphosis!) the stack grew bigger. I loved replacing the rubber band with which I tied them for a bigger and fatter one, not to mention that characteristic sound worthy of a poker scene!
Destiny had it that the tickets would one day and in their very own right be sitting too!
These chairs had been thrown away and their cute three-legged body seemed most appealing to me in that modernist fashion, so the chairs had to be given a new home and new garments.


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OT: Verlander breaks bat on check-swing
I'm sure it wasn't purely Verlander's 100mph gas, but breaking a bat on a check-swing is quite uncommon.
This was also his 116th pitch, maiking it even more amazing. I don't know much about the art of pitching, but I've always been amazed at Verlander's durability since he is rather skinny - he must have superb mechanics.


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Perilunate dislocations (see image below) and perilunate fracture dislocations are the most devastating closed injuries of the wrist.[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] They often are missed on initial evaluation, leading to devastating complications. These injuries occur as the final stage of a spectrum of injuries progressing around the wrist in a radial-to-ulnar direction.Posteroanterior plain radiograph of a dorsal perilunate dislocation. Notice the reduction of the radiolunate articulation.
In the setting of a high-energy wrist injury, radiographs must be scrutinized carefully for perilunate dislocation or one of its variants. Prompt open reduction with ligamentous repair or reconstruction is necessary to achieve favorable results. Posttraumatic arthrosis may result following these injuries irrespective of treatment, requiring a late salvage operation.
akibat tekanan yang hyperextension pada wrist leh la jadi cam nie....
view dari tepi plak..
Pure ligamentous perilunar injuries of the wrist are classified as lesser arc injuries, while the transosseous variants are regarded as greater arc injuries. The mechanism of perilunate dislocations has been described as a 4-stage process, as follows:
- First stage - The RSC ligament and the scapholunate interosseous ligament rupture.
- Second stage - Dislocation of the capitolunate joint occurs as the injury progresses through the space of Poirier.
- Third stage - The lunotriquetral interosseous ligament ruptures.
- Fourth stage - The lunate becomes dislocated.
This mechanism has been reproduced in a cadaver model by applying pronation and ulnar deviation on a hyperextended cadaver wrist.
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Surgical options include the following:
- Closed reduction and casting
- Closed reduction and percutaneous pin fixation
- Open reduction and open ligamentous repair with internal fixation or with percutaneous pin fixation
The surgical treatment of choice is open reduction and ligamentous repair with percutaneous pin fixation.
Once informed consent has been obtained and the surgeon has again identified the affected extremity, the patient is taken to the operating room. The patient is positioned supine on the operating room table, and the affected extremity is placed on a radiopaque hand table. Because the duration of the procedure may be long, padding should be placed beneath the knees and heels, and the use of a Foley catheter should be considered. An upper arm tourniquet is applied, being well padded, and the tourniquet is inflated after the arm is prepared and draped.
Attention is turned first to the dorsum of the wrist, where a midline longitudinal incision is made and the extensor retinaculum is exposed.
See image below.Dorsal approach to the wrist demonstrating disruption of the scapholunate interosseous ligament.
The extensor retinaculum is divided between the third and fourth dorsal compartments, and the dorsal wrist capsule is exposed. The dorsal radiotriquetral and dorsal intercarpal ligaments are identified. A radially based, dorsal V capsulotomy is performed, with the base of the V at the intersection of the dorsal intercarpal and radiotriquetral ligaments. This capsulotomy preserves these dorsal ligamentous structures, which are known to play a role in the stability of the wrist, as seen in the images below.Capsulotomy approach to the scapholunate interosseous interval, with preservation of the dorsal intercarpal and dorsal radiocarpal ligaments. Image adapted from The Wrist: Diagnosis and Operative Treatment (Mosby, 1998).Reflected dorsal wrist capsulotomy preserving the dorsal intercarpal and dorsal radiocarpal ligaments. Image adapted from The Wrist: Diagnosis and Operative Treatment (Mosby, 1998).
Through this capsulotomy, accurate reduction of the radiocarpal and midcarpal joints is accomplished. It is imperative that the scaphoid be contained securely in the scaphoid fossa and that the lunocapitate articulation be reduced completely. The lunate is derotated from its dorsal position and is stabilized with a 0.062 Kirschner wire (K-wire), which is directed from the radial styloid into the body of the lunate.[20] The lunate reduction is extremely important, because after the lunate is reduced, the remainder of the carpus can be reconstructed. See image below.Drawing showing the reduction of the scapholunate interval using Kirschner wire (K-wire) joysticks. Drill holes are made using straight needles for subsequent passage of suture. This scapholunate repair technique was originally described by Taleisnik.
The scapholunate ligament is identified, and 1 of 2 methods is chosen for ligamentous repair. One option is the placement of 2 small suture anchors into the defect of the scaphoid proximal pole. This defect typically is created following avulsion of the scapholunate interosseous ligament. The accompanying suture attached to the suture anchors can then be placed through the scapholunate ligament, with the ligament secured once the scapholunate interval is reduced. See image below.Drawing demonstrating suture anchor placement for the repair of the scapholunate interosseous ligament. Image adapted from The Wrist: Diagnosis and Operative Treatment (Mosby, 1998).
Alternatively, 2 small drill holes are created from the defect in the proximal pole, exiting at the waist of the scaphoid along its radial ridge. These drill holes are created with a 2-mm drill, and a 2-0 nonabsorbable suture is placed through the scapholunate interosseous ligament. Once reduction of the scapholunate interval is ensured, a pair of 0.045 K-wires is advanced from the scaphoid into the lunate. A third wire is passed from the midwaist region of the scaphoid into the waist region of the capitate. Once the reduced scapholunate interval is secured, the sutures may be tied. See images below.Drawing showing repair of the scapholunate interosseous ligament using drill holes and suture passed with straight needles, as described by Taleisnik. Image adapted from The Wrist: Diagnosis and Operative Treatment (Mosby, 1998).Drawing showing the final repair of the scapholunate interosseous ligament using drill holes, as described by Taleisnik. Image adapted from The Wrist: Diagnosis and Operative Treatment (Mosby, 1998).
Similarly, an attempt may be made to repair the lunotriquetral interosseous ligament, although generally this is technically difficult. The surgeon often resorts simply to pinning the lunotriquetral interval percutaneously. The midcarpal articulation is stabilized with the pinning of the scaphoid to the capitate.
In the transosseous variants of the perilunate dislocation, providing internal fixation of the fractures is preferable. Scaphoid fractures, for example, should be reduced and stabilized with a cannulated compression screw, as should capitate fractures. Radial styloid fractures, triquetral fractures, and smaller varieties of capitate or scaphoid fractures may be better suited for reduction and stabilization with percutaneous K-wire fixation. The placement of percutaneous K-wires, as well as the assessment of the midcarpal joint reduction or of the scapholunate interval reduction, is carried out with intraoperative fluoroscopy.
Once the perilunate dislocation or the perilunate fracture dislocation has been reduced and stabilized successfully, attention is turned to the volar aspect of the wrist. An extensile carpal tunnel approach is used to expose the volar wrist capsule, and the carpal tunnel is released. A transverse rent in the volar wrist capsule is routinely found and should be repaired with 2-0 nonabsorbable suture. See image below.Volar wrist approach for the repair of the transverse capsular rupture, an injury that is typically seen in perilunate dislocations.
The tourniquet is released prior to closure, and the wounds are closed once hemostasis is obtained. A sterile dressing is applied, followed by a well-padded volar plaster splint. External fixation should be considered in the setting of marked swelling or open wounds. It should also be considered when patient compliance is a concern or fixation stability is in question.
Following surgery, the hand should be elevated for 48 hours and the neurologic and vascular status should be monitored. Overnight admission to the hospital is recommended. A small pullout drain generally is recommended for both wounds. Sometime between postoperative days 3 and 5, the dressing and splint should be removed so that the wounds can be examined. At 10-14 days, the sutures are removed, and a short arm cast is applied. See radiograph below.Postoperative posteroanterior radiograph following open reduction and percutaneous pinning of a dorsal perilunate dislocation. Note that suture anchors have been placed in the scaphoid to directly repair the scapholunate interosseous ligament. Suture anchors have also been used in the distal radius to perform a capsulodesis using the dorsal intercarpal ligament.
Following open reduction and ligamentous repair of the perilunate dislocation, the cast is maintained for 3 months. Radiographs are obtained periodically to ensure maintenance of midcarpal and radiocarpal reduction. Upon cast removal, the patient is placed in a removable splint, and gentle range-of-motion exercises are begun. Splinting is continued until 6 months postsurgery. Full activity is not renewed until 8 months postsurgery.
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I'm not a particularly huge fan of Sinningia, though in fairness to the genus I should point out that I've also never tried to grow one. They just seem like they'd be easily upset.
Part of this is my semi-recent bias against gesneriads, who have really not been co-operative since the move and were frequently not patient or forgiving before the move either.
The other part of it is that I've noticed that I don't know anybody who has one, or ever has had one, which makes me suspicious. I mean, maybe WCW has had one before and just neglected to tell me about it. But that seems unlikely.
They also always used to fall apart as soon as they arrived at work, too. Which was frustrating. Anyway. In conclusion, Sinningias suck. Probably.
But enough badmouthing of the plants. Let's speak of happier things, by which I mean Nina:
I've been trying to get a picture of this forever, but there's usually not been enough light to make it work. (My camera is sometimes extremely selective about what light levels it thinks it requires in order to get a picture.)
So but the above picture is Nina, looking daggers at me for interrupting her sleep, which lately has been taking place inside her Vriesea. She had previously been sleeping out in the semi-open, on one of the leaves. It took me a while to clue into this, and so there were a few episodes of panicked room-searching because I couldn't find her anywhere in the terrarium. Eventually, though, order was restored. She sleeps in there about six times a week. It's not the same leaf every time; if she has favorite leaves, I haven't been paying close enough attention to notice.
The real reason for bringing this to your attention is, of course, that it is THE MOST ADORABLE THING EVER!!!1!1!!!
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Pretty pictures: Sinningia speciosa cvv.
I'm not a particularly huge fan of Sinningia, though in fairness to the genus I should point out that I've also never tried to grow one. They just seem like they'd be easily upset.
10 comments:
- Water Roots said...
This is the cutest thing! It looks like she loves the home you've made for her; such a lucky girl.
- August 9, 2009 at 5:46 AM
- Tatyana@MySecretGarden said...
Can you give a common name for Sinningia, please? It looks good for me, lovely. The little creature looks good, too!
- August 9, 2009 at 7:46 AM
- mr_subjunctive said...
The only common name I know of for Sinningia is gloxinia, which is their old botanical name. Davesgarden.com also lists "florist's gloxinia," "Brazilian gloxinia," and "violet slipper."
- August 9, 2009 at 7:51 AM
Nina is just adorable! That is the cutest picture!
Lol, it reminds me of when my cats would hide somewhere and I would be panicking and searching frantically for them. Then I would see them sitting somewhere in plain sight looking at me like they were wondering what I was searching for.
- August 9, 2009 at 9:39 AM
Nina is adorable. I agree with Water Roots; she looks like she loves her home.
I have one Sinningia these days. I used to have another, which I grew from seed. I had it in my basement, under lights. Apparently, I also had mice in my basement. I found out, the hard way, that mice will eat gesneriads. Apparently if you want to know what is toxic in your collection, get some hungry house mice. They ignored every other plant I had in my light set-up, but they devoured my Sinningia and my two Steptocarpus.
Anyway, they aren't all that difficult. The one I still have (it was upstairs at the time of the massacre) has survived considerable neglect. They do die back to their tubers, and can easily be restarted later.
- August 9, 2009 at 9:50 AM
- Chris said...
Nina rocks!
- August 9, 2009 at 9:58 AM
I love Nina updates! She's so cute. I used to keep anoles as a kid, but I never gave them a nice terrarium with such an abundant choice of sleeping places. Maybe I'll get another one of these days...
- August 9, 2009 at 7:52 PM
Anoles definitely are the cutest when they sleep, and where they choose to do it.
- August 9, 2009 at 8:38 PM
Cute shot of Nina. Rather surprised that she is down in the leaf axil -- would have thought it would have been wetter there than she would desire. Ah well they choose what they like.
If I'm recalling correctly, glox's require cooler temps to be happy. Might have been the issue at the greenhouse. *shrug*
- August 13, 2009 at 9:20 AM
- Diane said...
That is just too adorable for words.
- August 14, 2009 at 2:22 PM


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The Top 25 Money Tips of All Time, Part 5
I'm finally delivering the last installment of MoneySense's top 25 money tips of all time. This follows parts 1, 2, 3 and 4. Now, without further ado, are the final five money tips, as decided by Canadian financial experts.
Understand how your advisor is paid. In Part 4, some tips were related to finding the right financial advisor. This is an important aspect of completing that task. Some advisors are paid by commission when selling certain products. You can be sure he or she will be looking out for his or her own interests (making money through commission) rather than offering what is truly best for the customer. "sk your adviser to put on paper a complete list of all the ways he or she will derive compensation from your account, as well as estimated amounts… nly by understanding your adviser's incentives can you judge whether the advice you are receiving is unbiased."
Consider risk. The article says you should have your advisor put any statements including the phrase "no risk" in writing. Anyone promising high returns with no risk is trying to take advantage. If markets are efficient, any no risk, high return opportunities will be gone long before we regular folk will have access to them.
Ask questions. Ask for credentials. Ask for the fee structure, as we mentioned above. Ask for discounts.
Beware of 10% solutions. I've heard many estimates of a 10% annual return in the stock market, but a 5% to 7% return is more likely. The 10% figure that is common excludes fees and was calculated at the height of the stock market book in the 1990s, according to MoneySense.
Write it down. Any investment conditions you would like to set should be written down in a formal agreement. You could call this an "investment policy statement," and it may outline types of funds (like those containing investments in tobacco, defense contractors, or Japanese auto makers) that you wish to exclude from your portfolio. It should also outline your risk tolerance and your expected returns. "How do you know if your statement is complete? Ask yourself if a new manager who has never met you could, with only that information, handle your portfolio the way you would like. Only if the answer is yes should you be satisfied."
It took me a while to finish posting the series, but these top 25 tips are excellent suggestions for maintaining personal finances and working with an advisor. Remember that these tips came from advisors, so they may be biased. Some people prefer not to work with advisors. Everyone needs to make a living and it's often difficult to determine who in the services industry is really there to help the customer rather than their own.
The more educated the customer is, the more of a chance he or she will succeed.
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Devilvet wrote: "What's wrong with condemnation? "If that art wakens the spirit only to condemn it...that seems wrong, somehow." What about If that art condemns the absence or bastardization of the spirit in hopes to awaken." And he continued: "I can see how taking the attitude that They with a capital T are narcotized could lead to a position of superiority by the artist that if perceived by the audience would distance them significantly. But is condemnation synonymus with alienation? Can an artistic endevour compartmentize it's condemnation?"
Allison Croggon: "I'm not sure that those who are not awake to (say) the suffering of others can really posit themselves as victims. And some things need to be condemned, because they (by default) condemn others in very real and material ways - think 1930s Germany. It's not the "spirit" that is being condemned, after all, if condemnation is indeed what's going on, but whatever imprisons it."
George Hunka: "There is also, I would suggest, the guilt that the artist him or herself might bear. Is that not worthy of condemnation? We all like to see ourselves as victims, but honestly, we must recognize our capacity to act as victimizers as well. In which case, we still must answer."
To which MttJ appended: "or at least (and maybe more constructively,) we must question."
As p'tit boo notes, this is an issue that we have discussed in the past at various times, often with me leading off with an aggressive tone, which of course is then met with an equally aggressive tone. This time, I'm feeling much more pensive, and so these comments have touched me.
Today, I begin teaching The Cherry Orchard in my Modern Drama course. When I did a brief introduction to Chekhov and his writing, I used the following story from Maxim Gorky's "Anton Chekhov: Fragments of Recollection" (http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc6w4.html) to illustrate Chekhov's nature:
I think that in Anton Chekhov's presence every one involuntarily felt in himself a desire to be simpler, more truthful, more one's self; and I often saw how people cast off the motley finery of bookish phrases, smart words, and all the other cheap tricks with which a Russian, wishing to figure as a European, adorns himself, like a savage with shells and fish's teeth. Anton Chekhov disliked fish's teeth and cocks' feathers; anything "brilliant" or foreign, assumed by a man to make himself look bigger, disturbed him; I noticed that whenever he saw any one dressed up in this way, he had a desire to free him from all that oppressive, useless tinsel and to find underneath the genuine face and living soul of the person. All his life Chekhov lived on his own soul; he was always himself, inwardly free, and he never troubles about what some people expected and others --coarser people--demanded of Anton Chekhov. He did not like conversations with which our dear Russians so assiduously comfort themselves, forgetting that it is ridiculous to argue about velvet costumes in the future when in the present one has not even a decent pair of trousers.
Beautifully simple himself, he loved everything simple, genuine, sincere, and he had a peculiar way of making other people simple. Once, I remember, three luxuriously dressed ladies came to see him; they filled his room with the rustle of silk skirts and the smell of strong scent; they sat down politely opposite their host, pretended that they were very much interested in politics, and began "putting questions":
"Anton Pavlovitch, what do you think? How will the war end?"
Anton Pavlovitch coughed, thought for a while, and then gently, in a serious and kindly voice, replied: "Probably in peace."
"Well, yes ... certainly! But who will win? The Greeks or the Turks?"
"It seems to me that those will win who are the stronger."
"And who, do you think, are the stronger?" all the ladies asked together.
"Those who are the better fed and the better educated."
"Ah, how clever!" one of them exclaimed.
"And whom do you like the best?" another asked.
Anton Pavlovitch looked at her kindly, and answered with a meek smile:
"I like candied fruits ... don't you?"
"Very much," the lady exclaimed gayly.
"Especially Abrikossov's," the second agreed solidly. And the third, half closing her eyes, added with relish: "It smells so good." And all three began to talk with vivacity, revealing, on the subject of candied fruit, great erudition and subtle knowledge. It was obvious that they were happy at not having to strain their minds and pretend to be seriously interested in Turks and Greeks, to whom up to that moment they had not given a thought. When they left, they merrily promised Anton Pavlovitch: "We will send you some candied fruit."
"You managed that nicely," I observed when they had gone.
Anton Pavlovitch laughed quietly and said: "Every one should speak his own language."
I admire this accepting, gentle nature. There is kindness in his approach, and understanding. And yet...and yet... Chekhov also said "All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!'" Surely this is a condemnatory attitude. He goes on: "The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life. And so long as this different life does not exist, I shall go on saying to people again and again: 'Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!'" This is the attitude of the doctor that Chekhov was: a combination of condemnation and encouragement: you have high cholesterol (condemnation), but if you change your eating habits and exercise your health will improve (encouragement).
A doctor often must be blunt and realistic when describing a diagnosis: you have cancer. But if a doctor simply said that and left the patient sitting there, what good has he done? And yet...and yet...Chekhov said that the artist's job was to ask questions, not provide answers, and again I agree. But while Chekhov never provided answers, he also never closed the door on whether an answer was possible.
The underlying assumption being explored here is that the artist is analogous to the doctor, and that healing is goal. If you reject that, then this discussion makes no sense. But if you do accept it, even temporarily and for the sake of argument, there are so many directions one could go. The surgeon must cut and open up a patient in order to heal -- must hurt in order to help. If he were afraid to cut the skin, the surgeon would be worthless. Yet the intent, the overall goal, is to heal, not simply to cut. There have been times when I have felt that certain artists (and interestingly, these have more often been performers, designers, and directors than playwright) seem to feel that cutting is an end in itself, and they glory in the gash and the scar.
If I am ill, I don't want a doctor who is going to empathize with me, I want one who is going to look at my symptoms, reach a diagnosis, and take action. But a doctor not interested in healing is simply a sadist.


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Thursday, June 7, 2012
Sir Miles Sedgewick
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Oh Bethany, he IS a handsome chap, that Sir Miles!!! The two of you look smashing together....red dotty shoes and all!! You only live once kiddo! I am so happy for you!!! He is a dream boat!!!ReplyDelete
; ) Kris
Well don't the pair of you look smart. Shoes, bag and car all matching. Sir Miles is gorgeous. I'm sure you'll have wonderful times together. LOLL Congratulations Us ladies need to treat ourselves more often.ReplyDelete
My first car was a blue mini so I have a real soft spot for them!!ReplyDelete
Umm....guess who else loves that car and would love to have one??? Congrats...so jealous!ReplyDelete
Love it... so cute!ReplyDelete
I can tell you're really happy with it and I'm sure the pair of you would look lovely at a picnic ;-) Congratulations, I'm very happy for you xoReplyDelete
Oh I do love him (and not just because I'm British ;o) )ReplyDelete
The matching outfits you and Sir Miles wore on the day you tied the knot are just precious! It is most definitely a match made in heaven. Predestination. You fit together perfectly. Congratulations on taking the plunge and doing something FUN for yourself. It's worth it to be able to walk on air! ^o^/ReplyDelete
That is an awesome car. There's just something about Coopers that scream "instant classic" when you see them. And what a name to give it, haha! Fits its British roots, for sure! Enjoy the new car. It's a sweet ride!ReplyDelete
It's not at all uncanny to have the Mini Coop as you're dream car. It's definitely an iconic piece. With its British charm and German engineering, the Mini Cooper is one stylish, affordable go-kart for adults.ReplyDelete
A lot of people also dream to own a Mini Cooper same as you did. I'm glad you already got your dream car. Congratulations! Anyway, have you watched the Italian Job movie? If you want to get amazed with how good Minis are, I highly recommend you watch it. :) Arlyne Nelms @ Spartan ToyotaReplyDelete


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Well, still no welcome from any of the political parties. They should take a leaf out of the Sunday Times Wine Club. As soon as I had registered with them and agreed to join their email list, I received a welcome email from them, the contents of which are below.
Many thanks for letting us know you'd like to hear from us. From now on we'll keep you up to date with all our latest news and offers.
As we often buy limited-edition wines from quality-driven producers (the sort a supermarket would be forced to overlook) our list changes frequently. With great new discoveries coming in and out of the cellar all the time, it's worth staying in touch and checking your emails regularly to avoid missing out.
If you'd like to see our latest offers - and find details of our relaxed tasting evenings - please visit our website.
Best wishes,
Dan Snook, Wine Director
An immediate welcome with confirmation that I had registered and with some indication of what I can expect.
Lets hope the wines are as good!!


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It insisted that the Government's £9.3 billion investment in Olympic infrastructure remains a worthwhile investment despite the parlous state of the public finances.
Speaking at the end of a three-day inspection of progress in the capital that coincided with the gloomiest Budget statement in years, the chairman of the IOC co-ordination commission, Denis Oswald, said the legacy the Games would leave in the East End remained a valuable investment.
The Government has set aside an Olympic construction and infrastructure budget of £9.3 billion, which includes more than £2 billion in contingency funds. Almost £500 million of that has already been allocated to a fill a gap in anticipated private finance, and the Government's own figures predict that at least £1.5 billion will eventually be used.
With public spending set to be cut across all Government departments, the wisdom of the Olympic investment may be questioned, and those delivering the Games are under renewed pressure to remain within budget. Oswald said it remains money well spent.
"You have to assess this £9.3 billion properly. In every city where you organise the Games it is a unique opportunity to improve the infrastructure in one way or another," he said.
"If you look at previous cities like Athens, they built a new metro system, a motorway, an airport, and this was all done on the occasion of the Games but these were investments that were needed by the city to become a modern city. It is a very similar situation with the East End part of London, which needed improvement, and the Games are just the best opportunity to do that."
Oswald's view was echoed by Olympics minister Tessa Jowell, who said: "It is good value for money, it is transforming east London and its doing what only the Olympics when the economy is going through a very difficult time. The IOC has given us another ringing endorsement of that."
Oswald and his commission visited the emerging Olympic facilities during their visit and received a detailed breakdown on progress across all areas of Olympic operations, from transport to ticketing.
They were impressed, and having awarded the capital "9.75 out of 10" on their last visit a year ago, Oswald felt no reason to downgrade their score.
"They are close to 10," he said. "We have had very positive meetings and we can confirm that London 2012 is on the right track.
"We had the chance to visit the park for the first time in 11 months and we were really deeply impressed by the progress made in the construction in the different venues. The stadium is impressive, as is the Olympic village and the swimming pool. It gives a very good feeling three years before the Games."


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|Dover Castle
Photo by Karen Roe, reproduced under Creative Commons Licence
In the middle of the once-in-a-decade September storm which rocked the
this weekend, I visited Dover Castle, high on a windy
and very wet hill looking out towards the French coast. There were the usual English
Heritage features: handy castle plans, on-site museum with artefacts, and
animated films about the Angevins playing on large screens. Inside the main
keep, however, the keepers and curators had prepared something more unusual
– a mock-up of how the main rooms might have looked in the time of Henry II (1154-89).
Wandering through them was a rather peculiar experience. The throne room, with its giant banners of dragon-shaped lions, scarlet hangings and rather psychedelic royal chair looked more like a scene from The Last Emperor, than anything you might see in a standard textbook on medieval
. In
Henry's bedroom, a fire illuminated a painted
wooden bed, with a squirrel-pelt, silk-lined bedspread, and a very solid
wardrobe, brightly painted with Old Testament kings. The colour scheme was
mainly cobalt-blue, poppy-red, and yellow-orange. "Lots of visitors say the
furniture reminds them of Ikea," said one of English Heritage experts on hand.
This Henry-II look was painstakingly recreated, in a £2m project executed by
140 craftsmen, by copying surviving 12C furniture in southern England Scandinavia,
and depictions of medieval interiors in illuminated manuscripts.
English Heritage have written that their aim is to allow the 21C visitor vividly to 'experience' the medieval past (a kind of medieval virtual tourism). Perhaps the purpose of that experience is to make the 13C more tangible, a place we can relate to with its cosy beds and large wardrobes. For me, at least, the strange and beautiful rooms of the
Henry II Tower had the opposite effect, and I found them
unsettling because they rendered the local past and its material culture so
very unfamiliar – rather as the HBO series
made the ancient city memorably more eastern, garish and dark than the clean
marble metropolis of popular imagination. The rooms had a fairytale, slightly
unworldly look to them, as if a dragon were about to creep out from under the
bed. This slightly trippy recreation of Henry II's Rome seemed to make it less real, less
tangible, and to cast a pall of myth over it. Here, the line between the
recorded past, the re-imagined past and a medieval dream world seemed very
blurry indeed. It made me wonder what we want the medieval past to be – a sober
story of the origins of English laws and institutions (Magna Carta, Parliament,
etc.), or raw material for 'medieval' fantasy epics, such as Game of Thrones. Dover


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She also has had a terrible runny nose, something she's never had before and because Monkey Man and I both had colds over the weekend, I assumed it was that. She also had a small diaper rash...and Monkey Man also had one (he has super sensative skin and many foods he eats besides gluten can give him a diaper rash pretty quick, just not as severe/long lasting).
Thinking she and he might be sharing some kind of a bacterial infection, I stripped all of my diapers. If you want to know about that, click here. It is quite a bit of work to do an entire stash for two kids.
How wrong I was. She was simply getting a tooth! Yeah for Rosebud!