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Painting : Tamiya & Humbrol
Varnish : Tamiya
I do not care about Hubble (today).
Since the announcement of the end of the shuttle program... I wanted to do a Space Shuttle, the first one that I did was in 83 (from Airfix), at that time I did not paint it... and used only black markers for the black area... I 'll try to do better with this very small 1/200 model...
I started with painting the whole model in white, with a light "preshading", then I covered the model with many small chips of Tamiya masking tape.
The covered parts would be the most clean tiles, I airbrushed some grey/yellow in various proportions.
To break the monotony of the flat surface of this small model
I did a quick dry brush with white to highlight the structure. Many details are missing on this model, but as usual I do not have time for "scratch", so it will be "from the box" project again...


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Rhode Island is on a historic winning streak of 10 games, its longest in almost 70 years, and the Rams are ranked -- at No. 24 -- for the first time since November 2016.
They are also coming off their eighth straight conference road victory, a program record, in an 88-74 win at Dayton last Saturday.
Rhode Island's last 10-game winning streak occurred between the 1948-49 and 1949-50 seasons. The Rams (15-3, 7-0 Atlantic 10) look to build on the streak when they next visit another program nicknamed the Rams -- Fordham (6-13, 1-6) in New York City on Wednesday.
"We know the position we're in," Rhode Island coach Dan Hurley said. "We know what our goals are. We're just really locked in on that next game."
Of the ranking, Hurley said his team will not feel added pressure.
"It's attention you can't run from," said Hurley, whose brother, Bobby Hurley, has Arizona State ranked No. 21. "They should be excited about it and want to keep it going."
Fordham enters on the opposite end of the spectrum as losers of five straight games and seven of its last eight games.
In a 68-46 loss at Saint Joseph's last Saturday, Fordham was led by junior guard Joseph Chartouny and junior forward Prokop Slanina, who each scored 11 points with Slanina adding eight rebounds and two blocks and Chartouny seven rebounds along with four assists and two steals.
"I ask for our guys to fight and defend for 40 minutes," Fordham coach Jeff Neubauer said. "We certainly need to find a way to get over the hump."
Rhode Island's key to success is its depth led by senior guard Jared Terrell, who had a season-high 24 points in the win over Dayton. Senior backcourt mate E.C. Mathews, who had 17 points and seven rebounds, moved into the top 10 of Rhode Island's career scoring list with 1,686 points.
Another senior guard, Jarvis Garrett, had seven points, five assists and three rebounds in 20 minutes. Hurley calls Garrett "the key" to the team because of his acceptance of coming off the bench.
"If he would have gone sour coming off the bench and been frustrated, that would have had a negative effect on the team. Instead, he's a weapon," Hurley said.
Reserve junior forward Nicola Akele helped fill the void left by the foul-plagued Rams' frontcourt against Dayton with a season-high nine points, all in the first half. Forwards Andre Berry and Cyril Langevine had two personal fouls apiece while Akele went 4-for-5 from the field and added three of his four rebounds in 11 minutes in the first half.
Reserve freshman guard Fatts Russell scored all 10 of his points in the second half, creating a 10-5 run of his own.
"We have a special team," Akele told the Providence (R.I.) Journal. "I keep believing in myself, believing in the team and keep fighting."
Terrell added, "We've got a lot of guys that can come off the bench and do a lot of great things."

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The response below is what I received from CBC's Managing Editor Brodie Fenlon to my complaint filed May 21:
During the highly-charged, partisan climate of a provincial election campaign, it is critical for journalists to avoid any appearance of bias or unduly favourable coverage that would seek to promote the interests of one candidate or party over another. One of the most important ways journalists can uphold this standard, in turn, is to ensure whenever possible, all available facts on a controversial matter are fully reported, particularly when the controversy involves one candidate or politician making allegations of another's past record or future agenda.
In a May 20, 2014 article by CBC commentator Robert Fisher, Mr. Fisher offers a lengthy analysis of the legacy of the Walkerton water plant scandal, and the challenge the issue presents for both the PC and Liberal parties' electoral chances. Though the column makes mention of the fact that PC leader Tim Hudak "served as a loyal and enthusiastic member of cabinet" during the Harris years as a way of indicating Hudak's connection to the government whose budget cuts some consider responsible for the Walkerton scandal, Mr. Fisher's piece made no mention of the equally relevant fact that the Liberal government of which Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne was part cut funding for the Walkerton Clean Water Centre by $1 million in their 2011-2012 budget.
Since Mr. Fisher's column is described on the CBC website as neutral "analysis," and not partisan commentary, I believe it was inexcusable for the omission of the Liberal government's $1 million cuts to the Walkerton facility in an article on the political impact of Walkerton on the provincial election.
I've asked Mr. Fisher about this omission yet received no reply and am making this complaint in order to compel the CBC to respond and explain.
Thank you
Dean Skoreyko
Dear Mr Skoreyko
While I regret you are disappointed in Mr. Fisher's analysis, with respect, the information you feel he should have included is tangential to his point.
Early in the Ontario election then underway – and in what later proved to be a pivotal moment in his campaign – Mr. Hudak promised to cut 100,000 public service jobs, part of his larger plan to create a million jobs in the province. Not only would this cut result in smaller government, but the money saved would help reduce the province's considerable deficit, he said. It was the kind of bold action his advisors argued would strongly appeal to party supporters and as a result motivate them to get to the polls on voting day. His promise dominated election coverage and, more desirably for party strategists, for the next few days set the election agenda.
Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne had to respond. She chose a powerful but potentially risky way to do it, Mr. Fisher wrote, which was the focus of his analysis.
Ms. Wynne travelled to Walkerton, a small southern Ontario town in the midst of some of the province's richest farm land, where in 2000 seven people died and thousands fell ill after the town's drinking water was contaminated with deadly E. coli. bacteria. A subsequent investigation by Mr. Justice Dennis O'Connor, at the time the province's associate chief justice, offered a scathing indictment of the astonishingly incompetent Koebel brothers who ran the town's water treatment plant. Mr. Justice O'Connor was also sharply critical of the Mike Harris Conservative government's budget cuts, which he wrote were made "in the face of the warnings of increased risk to the environment and human health". Although Mr. Hudak indicated he would not cut water inspectors, for many people living in Ontario, Walkerton remains a potent symbol of the risks attendant on cuts to public services.
She wanted to use the symbol, but in doing so risked appearing to exploit the tragedy for political purposes. This was the tactical gamble that Mr. Fisher's article focused on.
He wrote that Ms. Wynne began her remarks that day "on a high note", saying no political leader would intentionally follow a policy that would risk another tragedy. He pointed out that while she "carefully did not draw a straight line" between the events of 14 years ago and Mr. Hudak's promise a few days earlier, she did say repeatedly that "'cuts have consequences'". And to be sure the point wasn't lost on anyone, he wrote, her staff handed reporters summaries of Mr. Justice O'Connor's report. She wanted to "allow voters to make their own connection", he said.
As an example of the risks in making a direct a connection, he went on to cite the "swift and harsh" reaction ten years earlier to former NDP leader Jack Layton's charge that Ottawa's cuts to affordable housing left Prime Minister Paul Martin responsible for the deaths of dozens of Toronto's homeless. Ms. Wynne was "more measured", he wrote, "carefully and deliberately" stopping short of saying the promised cuts would result in another Walkerton.
He concluded that both party leaders carry with them the baggage of former premiers (Mike Harris for one, Dalton McGuinty for the other) and both likely had what will be remembered as "'defining moments'" in their campaigns where Walkerton was a "key symbol"
In the context of the story, the Walkerton Clean Water Centre's financing is not especially relevant. Mr. Fisher wrote that Ms. Wynne took the opportunity offered by her visit to announce a 10-year, $30 million commitment to the Centre, but quickly pointed out that was not the "real purpose" of her visit. (While you (and Ms. Batra) say the Liberal government has cut $1 million from the Centre's budget, the government says it has not. The Ministry of the Environment says the government committed an initial $50 million to the project and since then annual funding amounts have ranged from $3 million to $7 million depending on operational requirements. The government says it will have completed transferring the committed funding by 2016/17).
Thank you for your e-mail and again my apologies for the delay in replying.


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It's that time of year when the birds are chirping, sun is shining, and ladies' skirts are, um, shortening.
June is a great month, housing the longest day of the year, the first beach days of the summer, and for grads, newfound freedom and rejoicing. Being that it is the month of graduations, we figured it's a good time to focus on some money management and finance tips for new grads. College grads, I'm talking to you guys in particular. You're about to enter the big bad "real" world, and we thought you could maybe use a hand in figuring out some of the financial stuff. Take it from Jeanne Kelly of the Huffington Post, who dedicated an entire article to covering the biggest credit mistakes that recent grads make and how NOT to make them yourself. Check out Kelly's rad article:
"Along with the increasing panic about impending exams, college graduates have the additional weight on their shoulders of thinking about what they'll do after graduation. For most graduates, that means finding a job and a place to live.
It's a new stage in life, which means there are many unknowns and a lot of learning (but this time, it's not classroom-style learning). If you are a new graduate, you are setting up your life — which doesn't just include a job and a place to live but also a credit history. The credit history you establish today is something you can build on (and rely on!) for years to come."
Click here to check out the rest of Kelly's article–the good stuff is in the middle of the page.
Ideally, you'll learn these types of lessons–credit stuff–without being on the receiving end of a low score. With everything, there's trial and error, and of course learning from experience. But trust me, one thing you don't want to learn from experience is a credit lesson, because a low score can take years to repair and actually cost you tons of money–besides making it a pain in the ass to rent a place, qualify for a credit card, or even get hired. Take a lesson in credit this summer in lieu of a summer class, and you'll thank me later.


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When I saw Manatee Mama's "comfy cosmetic corner" rigged with three home made polish racks, I was in awe! (All those pretty polishes o_O!) I NEED a polish rack or two for my growing collection of polishes. I didn't want to buy an acrylic one like they have in salons only because, well, i didn't want to spend money on something we can simply make. So I excitedly asked my hubby to make me one =). I contacted Manatee Mama and asked her for the dimensions for her polish racks and she responded with no problem. My hubby altered the original dimensions given due to spacing in our place.
In case you'd like to make your own polish rack...
This rack measures 3'x2'
We used 3"x1" wood to make the entire shelf.
I have a little over 80/90 polishes and I still have room on the bottom for more =)
We used thick fishing line to secure polishes so in case of an earthquake, the polishes won't fall off. (or so we hope it won't ;))
The spacing between the shelves are about 5 inches apart.
Hubby working hard on making my polish rack ^_^. I love him =D!
We spent $0.00 for all the materials because my husband's parents own a construction business and we were able to gather extra wood that weren't being used. But according to Mama Manatee, it cost her around $30 to build all three of her polish racks. That's cheaper than one acrylic wall rack that'll cost between $17-$30!
I've had my polishes in shoe boxes, bins, drawers, and I always got frustrated because I could never keep it organize. I feel that having them on a rack best suits me so I can see what color I want to use next and being that it's out in the open, I always want to keep it nice and organized because it's prettier to look at.
How do you organize your polishes?
Do you have them in boxes? Bins? Drawers?
Would you prefer them on a rack or are you happy with the way you have you polishes organized?
Thanks for looking =)
♥, Kristine


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Brother Lustig
There was one on a time a great war, and when it came to an end, many soldiers were discharged. Then Brother Lustig also received his dismissal, and besides that, nothing but a small loaf of contract-bread, and four kreuzers in money, with which he departed. St. Peter had, however, placed himself in his way in the shape of a poor beggar, and when Brother Lustig came up, he begged alms of him. Brother Lustig replied, "Dear beggar-man, what am I to give you? I have been a soldier, and have received my dismissal, and have nothing but this little loaf of contract-bread, and four kreuzers of money; when that is gone, I shall have to beg as well as you. Still I will give you something." Thereupon he divided the loaf into four parts, and gave the apostle one of them, and a kreuzer likewise. St. Peter thanked him, went onwards, and threw himself again in the soldier's way as a beggar, but in another shape; and when he came up begged a gift of him as before. Brother Lustig spoke as he had done before, and again gave him a quarter of the loaf and one kreuzer. St. Peter thanked him, and went onwards, but for the third time placed himself in another shape as a beggar on the road, and spoke to Brother Lustig. Brother Lustig gave him also the third quarter of bread and the third kreuzer. St. Peter thanked him, and Brother Lustig went onwards, and had but a quarter of the loaf, and one kreuzer. With that he went into an inn, ate the bread, and ordered one kreuzer's worth of beer. When he had had it, he journeyed onwards, and then St. Peter, who had assumed the appearance of a discharged soldier, met and spoke to him thus: "Good day, comrade, canst thou not give me a bit of bread, and a kreuzer to get a drink?" - "Where am I to procure it?" answered Brother Lustig; "I have been discharged, and I got nothing but a loaf of ammunition-bread and four kreuzers in money. I met three beggars on the road, and I gave each of them a quarter of my bread, and one kreuzer. The last quarter I ate in the inn, and had a drink with the last kreuzer. Now my pockets are empty, and if thou also hast nothing we can go a-begging together." - "No," answered St. Peter, "we need not quite do that. I know a little about medicine, and I will soon earn as much as I require by that." - "Indeed," said Brother Lustig, "I know nothing of that, so I must go and beg alone." - "Just come with me," said St. Peter, "and if I earn anything, thou shalt have half of it." - "All right," said Brother Lustig, so they went away together.
Then they came to a peasant's house inside which they heard loud lamentations and cries; so they went in, and there the husband was lying sick unto death, and very near his end, and his wife was crying and weeping quite loudly. "Stop that howling and crying," said St. Peter, "I will make the man well again," and he took a salve out of his pocket, and healed the sick man in a moment, so that he could get up, and was in perfect health. In great delight the man and his wife said, "How can we reward you? What shall we give you?" But St. Peter would take nothing, and the more the peasant folks offered him, the more he refused. Brother Lustig, however, nudged St. Peter, and said, "Take something; sure enough we are in need of it." At length the woman brought a lamb and said to St. Peter that he really must take that, but he would not. Then Brother Lustig gave him a poke in the side, and said, "Do take it, you stupid fool; we are in great want of it!" Then St. Peter said at last, "Well, I will take the lamb, but I won't carry it; if thou wilt insist on having it, thou must carry it." - "That is nothing," said Brother Lustig. "I will easily carry it," and took it on his shoulder. Then they departed and came to a wood, but Brother Lustig had begun to feel the lamb heavy, and he was hungry, so he said to St. Peter, "Look, that's a good place, we might cook the lamb there, and eat it." - "As you like," answered St. Peter, "but I can't have anything to do with the cooking; if thou wilt cook, there is a kettle for thee, and in the meantime I will walk about a little until it is ready. Thou must, however, not begin to eat until I have come back, I will come at the right time." - "Well, go, then," said Brother Lustig, "I understand cookery, I will manage it." Then St. Peter went away, and Brother Lustig killed the lamb, lighted a fire, threw the meat into the kettle, and boiled it. The lamb was, however, quite ready, and the apostle Peter had not come back, so Brother Lustig took it out of the kettle, cut it up, and found the heart. "That is said to be the best part," said he, and tasted it, but at last he ate it all up. At length St. Peter returned and said, "Thou mayst eat the whole of the lamb thyself, I will only have the heart, give me that." Then Brother Lustig took a knife and fork, and pretended to look anxiously about amongst the lamb's flesh, but not to be able to find the heart, and at last he said abruptly, "There is none here." - "But where can it be?" said the apostle. "I don't know," replied Brother Lustig, "but look, what fools we both are, to seek for the lamb's heart, and neither of us to remember that a lamb has no heart!" - "Oh," said St. Peter, "that is something quite new! Every animal has a heart, why is a lamb to have none?" - "No, be assured, my brother," said Brother Lustig, "that a lamb has no heart; just consider it seriously, and then you will see that it really has none." - "Well, it is all right," said St. Peter, "if there is no heart, then I want none of the lamb; thou mayst eat it alone." - "What I can't eat now, I will carry away in my knapsack," said Brother Lustig, and he ate half the lamb, and put the rest in his knapsack.
They went farther, and then St. Peter caused a great stream of water to flow right across their path, and they were obliged to pass through it. Said St. Peter, "Do thou go first." - "No," answered Brother Lustig, "thou must go first," and he thought, "if the water is too deep I will stay behind." Then St. Peter strode through it, and the water just reached to his knee. So Brother Lustig began to go through also, but the water grew deeper and reached to his throat. Then he cried, "Brother, help me!" St. Peter said, "Then wilt thou confess that thou hast eaten the lamb's heart?" - "No," said he, "I have not eaten it." Then the water grew deeper still and rose to his mouth. "Help me, brother," cried the soldier. St. Peter said, "Then wilt thou confess that thou hast eaten the lamb's heart?" - "No," he replied, "I have not eaten it." St. Peter, however, would not let him be drowned, but made the water sink and helped him through it.
Then they journeyed onwards, and came to a kingdom where they heard that the King's daughter lay sick unto death. "Hollo, brother!" said the soldier to St. Peter, "this is a chance for us; if we can heal her we shall be provided for, for life!" But St. Peter was not half quick enough for him, "Come, lift your legs, my dear brother," said he, "that we may get there in time." But St. Peter walked slower and slower, though Brother Lustig did all he could to drive and push him on, and at last they heard that the princess was dead. "Now we are done for!" said Brother Lustig; "that comes of thy sleepy way of walking!" - "Just be quiet," answered St. Peter, "I can do more than cure sick people; I can bring dead ones to life again." - "Well, if thou canst do that," said Brother Lustig, "it's all right, but thou shouldst earn at least half the kingdom for us by that." Then they went to the royal palace, where every one was in great grief, but St. Peter told the King that he would restore his daughter to life. He was taken to her, and said, "Bring me a kettle and some water," and when that was brought, he bade everyone go out, and allowed no one to remain with him but Brother Lustig. Then he cut off all the dead girl's limbs, and threw them in the water, lighted a fire beneath the kettle, and boiled them. And when the flesh had fallen away from the bones, he took out the beautiful white bones, and laid them on a table, and arranged them together in their natural order. When he had done that, he stepped forward and said three times, "In the name of the holy Trinity, dead woman, arise." And at the third time, the princess arose, living, healthy and beautiful. Then the King was in the greatest joy, and said to St. Peter, "Ask for thy reward; even if it were half my kingdom, I would give it thee." But St. Peter said, "I want nothing for it." - "Oh, thou tomfool!" thought Brother Lustig to himself, and nudged his comrade's side, and said, "Don't be so stupid! If thou hast no need of anything, I have." St. Peter, however, would have nothing, but as the King saw that the other would very much like to have something, he ordered his treasurer to fill Brother Lustig's knapsack with gold. Then they went on their way, and when they came to a forest, St. Peter said to Brother Lustig, "Now, we will divide the gold." - "Yes," he replied, "we will." So St. Peter divided the gold, and divided it into three heaps. Brother Lustig thought to himself, "What craze has he got in his head now? He is making three shares, and there are only two of us!" But St. Peter said, "I have divided it exactly; there is one share for me, one for thee, and one for him who ate the lamb's heart."
"Oh, I ate that!" replied Brother Lustig, and hastily swept up the gold. "You may trust what I say." - "But how can that be true," said St. Peter, "when a lamb has no heart?" - "Eh, what, brother, what can you be thinking of? Lambs have hearts like other animals, why should only they have none?" - "Well, so be it," said St. Peter, "keep the gold to yourself, but I will stay with you no longer; I will go my way alone." - "As you like, dear brother," answered Brother Lustig. "Farewell."
Then St. Peter went a different road, but Brother Lustig thought, "It is a good thing that he has taken himself off, he is certainly a strange saint, after all." Then he had money enough, but did not know how to manage it, squandered it, gave it away, and and when some time had gone by, once more had nothing. Then he arrived in a certain country where he heard that a King's daughter was dead. "Oh, ho!" thought he, "that may be a good thing for me; I will bring her to life again, and see that I am paid as I ought to be." So he went to the King, and offered to raise the dead girl to life again. Now the King had heard that a discharged soldier was traveling about and bringing dead persons to life again, and thought that Brother Lustig was the man; but as he had no confidence in him, he consulted his councillors first, who said that he might give it a trial as his daughter was dead. Then Brother Lustig ordered water to be brought to him in a kettle, bade every one go out, cut the limbs off, threw them in the water and lighted a fire beneath, just as he had seen St. Peter do. The water began to boil, the flesh fell off, and then he took the bones out and laid them on the table, but he did not know the order in which to lay them, and placed them all wrong and in confusion. Then he stood before them and said, "In the name of the most holy Trinity, dead maiden, I bid thee arise," and he said this thrice, but the bones did not stir. So he said it thrice more, but also in vain: "Confounded girl that you are, get up!" cried he, "Get up, or it shall be worse for you!" When he had said that, St. Peter suddenly appeared in his former shape as a discharged soldier; he entered by the window and said, "Godless man, what art thou doing? How can the dead maiden arise, when thou hast thrown about her bones in such confusion?" - "Dear brother, I have done everything to the best of my ability," he answered. "This once, I will help thee out of thy difficulty, but one thing I tell thee, and that is that if ever thou undertakest anything of the kind again, it will be the worse for thee, and also that thou must neither demand nor accept the smallest thing from the King for this!" Thereupon St. Peter laid the bones in their right order, said to the maiden three times, "In the name of the most holy Trinity, dead maiden, arise," and the King's daughter arose, healthy and beautiful as before. Then St. Peter went away again by the window, and Brother Lustig was rejoiced to find that all had passed off so well, but was very much vexed to think that after all he was not to take anything for it. "I should just like to know," thought he, "what fancy that fellow has got in his head, for what he gives with one hand he takes away with the other there is no sense whatever in it!" Then the King offered Brother Lustig whatsoever he wished to have, but he did not dare to take anything; however, by hints and cunning, he contrived to make the King order his knapsack to be filled with gold for him, and with that he departed. When he got out, St. Peter was standing by the door, and said, "Just look what a man thou art; did I not forbid thee to take anything, and there thou hast thy knapsack full of gold!" - "How can I help that," answered Brother Lustig, "if people will put it in for me?" - "Well, I tell thee this, that if ever thou settest about anything of this kind again thou shalt suffer for it!" - "Eh, brother, have no fear, now I have money, why should I trouble myself with washing bones?" - "Faith," said St. Peter, "the gold will last a long time! In order that after this thou mayst never tread in forbidden paths, I will bestow on thy knapsack this property, namely, that whatsoever thou wishest to have inside it, shall be there. Farewell, thou wilt now never see me more." - "Good-bye," said Brother Lustig, and thought to himself, "I am very glad that thou hast taken thyself off, thou strange fellow; I shall certainly not follow thee." But of the magical power which had been bestowed on his knapsack, he thought no more.
Brother Lustig travelled about with his money, and squandered and wasted what he had as before. When at last he had no more than four kreuzers, he passed by an inn and thought, "The money must go," and ordered three kreuzers' worth of wine and one kreuzer's worth of bread for himself. As he was sitting there drinking, the smell of roast goose made its way to his nose. Brother Lustig looked about and peeped, and saw that the host had two geese standing in the oven. Then he remembered that his comrade had said that whatsoever he wished to have in his knapsack should be there, so he said, "Oh, ho! I must try that with the geese." So he went out, and when he was outside the door, he said, "I wish those two roasted geese out of the oven and in my knapsack," and when he had said that, he unbuckled it and looked in, and there they were inside it. "Ah, that's right!" said he, "now I am a made man!" and went away to a meadow and took out the roast meat. When he was in the midst of his meal, two journeymen came up and looked at the second goose, which was not yet touched, with hungry eyes. Brother Lustig thought to himself, "One is enough for me," and called the two men up and said, "Take the goose, and eat it to my health." They thanked him, and went with it to the inn, ordered themselves a half bottle of wine and a loaf, took out the goose which had been given them, and began to eat. The hostess saw them and said to her husband, "Those two are eating a goose; just look and see if it is not one of ours, out of the oven." The landlord ran thither, and behold the oven was empty! "What!" cried he, "you thievish crew, you want to eat goose as cheap as that? Pay for it this moment; or I will wash you well with green hazel-sap." The two said, "We are no thieves, a discharged soldier gave us the goose, outside there in the meadow." - "You shall not throw dust in my eyes that way! the soldier was here but he went out by the door, like an honest fellow. I looked after him myself; you are the thieves and shall pay!" But as they could not pay, he took a stick, and cudgeled them out of the house.
Brother Lustig went his way and came to a place where there was a magnificent castle, and not far from it a wretched inn. He went to the inn and asked for a night's lodging, but the landlord turned him away, and said, "There is no more room here, the house is full of noble guests." - "It surprises me that they should come to you and not go to that splendid castle," said Brother Lustig. "Ah, indeed," replied the host, "but it is no slight matter to sleep there for a night; no one who has tried it so far, has ever come out of it alive."
"If others have tried it," said Brother Lustig, "I will try it too."
"Leave it alone," said the host, "it will cost you your neck." - "It won't kill me at once," said Brother Lustig, "just give me the key, and some good food and wine." So the host gave him the key, and food and wine, and with this Brother Lustig went into the castle, enjoyed his supper, and at length, as he was sleepy, he lay down on the ground, for there was no bed. He soon fell asleep, but during the night was disturbed by a great noise, and when he awoke, he saw nine ugly devils in the room, who had made a circle, and were dancing around him. Brother Lustig said, "Well, dance as long as you like, but none of you must come too close." But the devils pressed continually nearer to him, and almost stepped on his face with their hideous feet. "Stop, you devils' ghosts," said he, but they behaved still worse. Then Brother Lustig grew angry, and cried, "Hola! but I will soon make it quiet," and got the leg of a chair and struck out into the midst of them with it. But nine devils against one soldier were still too many, and when he struck those in front of him, the others seized him behind by the hair, and tore it unmercifully. "Devils' crew," cried he, "it is getting too bad, but wait. Into my knapsack, all nine of you!" In an instant they were in it, and then he buckled it up and threw it into a corner. After this all was suddenly quiet, and Brother Lustig lay down again, and slept till it was bright day. Then came the inn-keeper, and the nobleman to whom the castle belonged, to see how he had fared; but when they perceived that he was merry and well they were astonished, and asked, "Have the spirits done you no harm, then?" - "The reason why they have not," answered Brother Lustig, "is because I have got the whole nine of them in my knapsack! You may once more inhabit your castle quite tranquilly, none of them will ever haunt it again." The nobleman thanked him, made him rich presents, and begged him to remain in his service, and he would provide for him as long as he lived. "No," replied Brother Lustig, "I am used to wandering about, I will travel farther." Then he went away, and entered into a smithy, laid the knapsack, which contained the nine devils on the anvil, and asked the smith and his apprentices to strike it. So they smote with their great hammers with all their strength, and the devils uttered howls which were quite pitiable. When he opened the knapsack after this, eight of them were dead, but one which had been lying in a fold of it, was still alive, slipped out, and went back again to hell. Thereupon Brother Lustig travelled a long time about the world, and those who know them can tell many a story about him, but at last he grew old, and thought of his end, so he went to a hermit who was known to be a pious man, and said to him, "I am tired of wandering about, and want now to behave in such a manner that I shall enter into the kingdom of Heaven." The hermit replied, "There are two roads, one is broad and pleasant, and leads to hell, the other is narrow and rough, and leads to heaven." - "I should be a fool," thought Brother Lustig, "if I were to take the narrow, rough road." So he set out and took the broad and pleasant road, and at length came to a great black door, which was the door of Hell. Brother Lustig knocked, and the door-keeper peeped out to see who was there. But when he saw Brother Lustig, he was terrified, for he was the very same ninth devil who had been shut up in the knapsack, and had escaped from it with a black eye. So he pushed the bolt in again as quickly as he could, ran to the devil's lieutenant, and said, "There is a fellow outside with a knapsack, who wants to come in, but as you value your lives don't allow him to enter, or he will wish the whole of hell into his knapsack. He once gave me a frightful hammering when I was inside it." So they called out to Brother Lustig that he was to go away again, for he should not get in there! "If they won't have me here," thought he, "I will see if I can find a place for myself in heaven, for I must be somewhere." So he turned about and went onwards until he came to the door of Heaven, where he knocked. St. Peter was sitting hard by as door-keeper. Brother Lustig recognised him at once, and thought, "Here I find an old friend, I shall get on better." But St. Peter said, "I really believe that thou wantest to come into Heaven." - "Let me in, brother; I must get in somewhere; if they would have taken me into Hell, I should not have come here." - "No," said St. Peter, "thou shalt not enter." - "Then if thou wilt not let me in, take thy knapsack back, for I will have nothing at all from thee." - "Give it here, then," said St. Peter. Then Brother Lustig gave him the knapsack into Heaven through the bars, and St. Peter took it, and hung it beside his seat. Then said Brother Lustig, "And now I wish myself inside my knapsack," and in a second he was in it, and in Heaven, and St. Peter was forced to let him stay there.
从前打了一场大仗,大仗结束后,许多士兵被遣散回家。 拉斯廷老兄也退役了,他除了一袋干粮和四个金币外一无所有地上路了。 圣彼得装成一个可怜的乞丐站在拉斯廷老兄的必经之路上,等他走过来便向他乞讨。 拉斯廷老兄回答说:"亲爱的乞丐,我能给你什么?我以前是个兵,现在退役了,除了这袋干粮和四个金币就什么都没有了。如果我把这些也分给你,那我也得像你一样沿路乞讨了。不过我还是给你点吧。"说着就将干粮分成四份,给了乞丐一份并给了一个金币。 圣彼得谢过他就朝前走了,然后又变成另一个乞丐在前边等着,待拉斯廷老兄走过来时又向他讨,也得到和上一次同样的东西。 圣彼得谢过他之后又走了。 第三次他还是装成乞丐的模样向拉斯廷老兄讨钱,拉斯廷老兄将财产的又一个四分之一给了他,然后继续赶路。 他身上只剩下四分之一的干粮和一个金币了。 他来到一家小酒馆,要了一个金币的啤酒,就着面包把酒喝了又接着往前走。 这次,圣彼得变成一个退役军人的样子遇见他,说:"日安,朋友,能给我一点面包和一个金币让我去喝口啤酒么?""我上哪儿找去呀?"拉斯廷老兄回答说:"我退役的时候除了一袋干粮和四个金币外就再也没啥了。路上我碰到三个乞丐,分给他们一人一份干粮和一个金币,最后一份干粮和金币我在小酒馆吃了喝了。现在我啥都没有了,如果你也一样,倒不如我们结伴当乞丐呢。""不,"圣彼得说:"大可不必去当乞丐,我懂点医道,很快就能挣到足够的钱。""那倒是的,"拉斯廷老兄说,"那我只好一个人去当乞丐了。""只管跟着我,"彼得说,"无论我挣到什么,你都有一份。""那好啊,"拉斯廷老兄于是跟着圣彼得走了。
他们路过一个农夫家,听到里面传来哭声。 他们走进去一看,原来这家的丈夫病得要死了,他妻子正在大声嚎哭。
"别哭了,"圣彼得说,"我可以治好他。"说着就从口袋里掏出药膏给病人抹上。 不一会儿,病人站了起来,痊愈了。 夫妇俩极为高兴地说:"该怎么谢你们呢?你们要什么?"圣彼得什么都不要,农夫越是要给,他越是坚持说不要。 可是拉斯廷老兄用肘捅了捅他说:"拿点吧,我们准会用得上的。"后来妇人抱来一只羔羊,请他们千万收下。 圣彼得还在谢绝,拉斯廷又捅了他一下,说:"我求你收下吧,我们很需要呢!"圣彼得最后终于说:"那好,我就收下羔羊。不过我可不会抱它的,你要收下你就得抱着。""行。"拉斯廷说:"我可以轻轻松松地扛着。"说完就把羊扛在肩上,告别了农家。 他们来到一片树林里,拉斯廷老兄的肚子饿了,觉得羊越来越重,因此对圣彼得说:"你瞧,这地方挺不错的。我们可以在这里烤羊肉吃了。""随你便,"圣彼得回答说,"我可不会烧吃的。既然你要烧,我倒可以给你一只锅。我四下里走走,等饭做好了我会回来的。你要等我回来才吃哦!我会回来得正是时候的。""你去吧,"拉斯廷老兄说,"我知道怎么做饭。"圣彼得走后,拉斯廷杀了羊羔,生起了篝火,然后将羊肉扔进锅里煮上。 肉煮好之后却不见彼得回来,拉斯廷便从锅里捞出羊心说:"听说羊心最好吃。"就尝了一点,结果把心全吃完了。 圣彼得终于回来了,说:"羊肉全归你,我只吃点羊心就行了。"拉斯廷老兄拿出刀叉,装作在锅里找羊心,但是没有找到的样子,说:"这里没有呀。""能上哪儿去呢?"圣徒问。 "我也不知道啊。"拉斯廷回答。 "嗨,我们多傻啊!羊压根儿就没有心嘛,怎么会忘了呢!我们还在这里一个劲儿找!""哦?这可是新发现!"圣徒说:"每种动物都有心脏,怎么唯独羊羔没有呢?""我敢保证羊羔没心,兄弟,"拉斯廷老兄说,"仔细想想你就会明白羊羔确实没有心。""没有就算了,"圣彼得说,"羊肉我也不吃了,你自个儿吃吧。""一顿吃不完我会装到背包里的。"拉斯廷说。 他吃了半只羊,另一半装进了背包。
他们又上路了。 圣彼得变出一条大河横在去路上,他们不得不蹚过去。 圣彼得说:"你先过吧。""不,"拉斯廷老兄说:"你先过吧。"心里却在盘算:假如水太深,我就不过去了。 圣彼得大步蹚了过去,水只没到他膝盖;拉斯廷也开始蹚 ,但是水越来越深,没到了他喉咙。 "兄弟,帮我一把!"圣彼得说:"那你承认自己偷吃了羊心了吗?""没有,"他回答说,"我没吃羊心。"水一下子涨到他的嘴的深度了。 "拉我一把,兄弟!"圣彼得说:"那你承认自己偷吃了羊心吗?""不,"他回答说:"我没吃。"圣彼得也没让他淹死,而是让水位降低,帮他蹚了过来。
他们继续朝前走,来到一个国家。 听说国王的女儿病得快死了。 "嗨,兄弟!"退役士兵对圣彼得说:"我们的运气来了。只要我们把她治好了,这一辈子都不用愁吃喝了!"可是圣彼得走得没士兵一半快。 "加油啊,快点抬脚吧,亲爱的兄弟。"士兵催促圣徒说:"太晚了就来不及了!"然而圣彼得越走越慢,不管士兵怎么催、怎么推都没用,最后终于听说公主死了。 "这下完了!"拉斯廷老兄说:"都怪你,走路像睡着了似的!""少说两句吧,"圣彼得说,"我不仅能治好病人,还能起死回生呢!""那好啊,只要你办得到,"拉斯廷老兄说,"你至少该为咱俩挣回半个王国作回报才行。"
他们来到王宫,那里的人们正悲痛万分。 圣彼得对国王说他可以使公主复活。 他跟着他们来到公主面前,说:"拿个锅和一点水来。"等东西送来了,他让所有的人都出去,只留下拉斯廷老兄。 他把姑娘的四肢砍下来,扔进水里,然后点着火,架上锅煮了起来。 等肉煮掉了,只剩下骨头时,圣彼得将那些美丽的白骨捞出来,按照生长顺序摆在桌上。 一切就绪之后,他走上前对着白骨说了三次:"为圣父、圣母、圣子,死去的人啊,复活吧。"第三遍刚说完,公主就站了起来,生气勃勃,健康美丽。 国王万分喜悦地对圣彼得说:"说说你想要什么吧,即使是半壁江山我也愿意。"可圣彼得说:"我啥都不要。""哦,这个彻头彻尾的傻瓜!"拉斯廷老兄一边想一边用肘捅他同伴,说,"别犯傻!你要是不需要,我还需要呢!"可圣徒坚持不要。 国王一看另一个很想要点什么的样子,就叫司库将他的背包装满了金子。
他们接着上路了。 当来到一座森林的时候,圣彼得对拉斯廷老兄说:"我们现在分金子吧。""好的,"他回答说:"你分吧。"圣彼得将金子分成三堆,拉斯廷老兄暗想:"谁知道他脑子里到底转些什么疯念头!明明只有我们两个人他却分成三份。"圣彼得说:"我分的很精确:一份是我的、一份归你,另一份给吃了羊心的那个人。""哦 ,是我吃了羊心! "拉斯廷老兄一边说一边急急忙忙收拾金子。"相信我说的是真话。 ""怎么可能是真话呢? "圣彼得说:"羊羔不是没有心吗? ""唉,兄弟,也不知道你在想什么! 羊和别的动物一样,都有心。 怎么会没有呢? ""算了,算了,"圣彼得说,"这些金子你留着吧。 但是我不会再和你同路了,我自己走。 ""随你的便,亲爱的兄弟,"拉斯廷老兄说,"再见吧。 "
圣彼得走的是一条十分艰难的路。 拉斯廷老兄想:"他自己提出分手更好。他准是个圣人。"拉斯廷有了许多钱,却不善理财,只知道送人、挥霍,所以过了没多久他又是一无所有了。 他来到一个国家,听说国王的女儿死了。 "哦,哦!"他想,"这对我也许是件好事。我要让她起死回生,并且得到应得的报酬。"于是他去见国王,说他能使他死去的女儿复活。 国王那时也听说有个退役士兵游历四方,能起死回生,以为拉斯廷老兄就是那人。 可他还是不敢完全信任他,就去和大臣们商量。 大臣们说反正公主已经死了,不妨让他试试。 于是,拉斯廷老兄按照从圣彼得那里看到的办法,也要了一点水和一只锅,等人们都出去之后将死者的肢体砍下来放进锅里煮。
水开了,肉也掉了。 他取出骨头摆在桌上,可是不知道人体骨骼的顺序。 结果摆得乱七八糟。 接着他站在白骨前说:"为最神圣的圣父、圣母、圣子,死去的人啊,我命令你起来!"他说了三次,骨头一动不动。 他又说了三次,还是没用。 "讨厌的姑娘,起来!"他喊道,"再不起来我就对你不客气了!"说完,只见圣彼得从窗口进来了,他还是那副退役士兵的打扮。 他说:"你把骨头摆得乱七八糟的,让姑娘怎么站起来呀?""亲爱的兄弟,我已经尽最大的努力了。"拉斯廷回答。 "这次我帮你度过难关,但是有一点我必须告诉你:如果今后你再这么做,你会倒霉的。还有,你不许向国王要任何东西作回报。"圣彼得说着就将骨头依次摆好,说了三遍:"为最神圣的圣父、圣母、圣子,死去的人啊,复活吧。"国王的女儿站了起来,像从前一样健康、美丽了。 圣彼得又从窗口走了。 拉斯廷老兄很高兴一切进展顺利,可转而想到自己不能要任何回报,心里就烦了。 "我只想知道那伙计脑子里有些什么怪念头。"他想,"他一手给我一手又拿回去了……总之没道理!"当国王说无论他要什么都可以时,他也不敢明要,不过他用狡猾的暗示竟然使国王明白了他的意思,命人将他的背包塞满了金子。 拉斯廷老兄背着金子离开王宫,出来后看到圣彼得在门口等着他,说:"瞧瞧你是什么样的人!我不是不许你要任何东西吗?怎么背包里全是金子?""我怎么拦得住啊,"拉斯廷老兄回答说,"他们硬塞给我的嘛!""我告诉你:以后你要再这么做可要遭殃的!""没关系,兄弟,我不怕。既然现在我有了钱,干嘛还去洗骨头呢?""一言为定。"圣彼得说,"这些金子够你用上一阵子了!为了使你不再做犯禁的事,我让你的背包具有要什么就有什么的魔力。再见,以后你就再也见不到我了。""再见!"拉斯廷老兄一面说一面想:"你这古怪的家伙,自己提出分手是最好不过的了。我才不会跟你走呢!"可他根本没多想背包被施以魔法的事。
拉斯廷老兄又像从前那样挥金如土。 当他揣着剩下的最后四个金币路过一家小酒馆时,他想:必须把这些钱花掉。 于是要了三个金币的啤酒和一个金币的面包。 正喝着,飘来一阵烤鹅的香味。 他四下里打量察看,发现是店主家的烤炉里烤着两只鹅。 他想起他的同伴曾告诉他说将来无论他想要什么,他的背包里就会有什么。 于是说:"哦 ,我得试试,就要烧鹅吧。 "他走出小酒馆来到外面时说:"我希望那两只烧鹅能从烤炉跳到我包里来。 "说完就打开背包往里看,里面确实有两只烧鹅。"这就好了! "他说,"现在我是个富翁了! "他来到一片草地上,拿出烤肉正吃得香,走过来两个路人,眼睁睁地看着那只还没有动过的烤鹅。拉斯廷想:"我吃一只已经足够了。 "于是招呼那两人过来说:"拿去吃吧,为我的健康祝福。 "那两人谢过他之后就带上烤鹅走进了小酒馆,要了半瓶酒和一条面包,从包里拿出烤鹅吃了起来。女店主看到了,对丈夫说:"那两个人在吃烧鹅。 去看看是不是吃我们家的。 "店主跑去一看,好哇,烤炉竟然是空的!"什么! "他大叫道,"你们这帮贼,竟然以这种方式来吃便宜烧鹅? 现在要是不付钱,我就要用榛子水好好洗洗你们! "那两个人说:"我们不是小偷。 这是退役士兵给我们的,他就在外面的草地上。 ""别想这样蒙骗我! 那士兵是上这儿来过,可他像所有诚实的人那样从大门走出去的。 我亲自招待他的,我能不知道吗! 就是你们偷的,你们得付钱! "因为没有钱付,店主操起一根棍子把他们打了出去。
拉斯廷老兄继续走,看到一座富丽堂皇的城堡,附近有一家很糟糕的小旅馆。 他走进去,要求住一宿,可店主把他赶了出来,说:"店里已经住满了上等人。""真奇怪,他们怎么会到你这儿来而不去那座富丽堂皇的城堡里住。"拉斯廷老兄说。 "啊,的确如此,"店主回答说,"在那里面住上一夜可不是闹着玩儿的。那些去试过的人还没有一个活着出来的呢!""既然有人试过了,我也不妨试试。"拉斯廷老兄说。
"别靠近它,要不然你会没命的。"店主劝告说。 "它不会把我怎么样的,"拉斯廷老兄说,"只管给我钥匙和好酒好菜就是了。"于是店主将钥匙、酒和食物交给他。 拉斯廷老兄走进城堡,享受过晚餐之后便觉得困了,因为那里没有床,他便躺在地上,很快便睡着了。 到了夜里,他被一阵很响的声音吵醒了,睁眼一看,原来是九个相貌丑陋的魔鬼正围着他跳舞呢。 拉斯廷老兄说:"尽管跳吧,但是别靠我太近。"可魔鬼们靠得越来越近,它们那些可怕的脚都快踩着他的脸了。 "别跳了,你们这帮魔鬼精灵!"但是魔鬼们更加猖狂了。 拉斯廷老兄开始生气了,叫道:"别跳了,看我怎么让你们安静!"说着抓起一把椅子的脚,照着它们砸了过去。 可他一个人对付九个魔鬼还是有些势单力薄,他从前面打它们,其他鬼从后面揪住他的头发狠狠地扯。 "你们这群恶魔,"他吼道,"太过分了!等着瞧吧,你们九个坏蛋,统统滚进我的背包里去!"它们转眼就进去了。 他扣上背包,把它扔在一个角落里。 一切突然安静下来,拉斯廷老兄又躺下睡了,一直睡到大天亮。
店主和城堡的主人一起来看他怎么样了。 当看到他平安无事而且十分快乐时,他们十分惊讶,问:"看来那些鬼没伤害你?""他们之所以没害死我是因为我把它们全装进我的背包里了。现在你们可以平静地住在这里面了,它们不会再来捣乱了。"那个上等人给了他丰厚的礼物,并且要求他长期住下去 ,答应终身供给他衣食。 "不了,"拉斯廷老兄回答说,"我已经习惯四处游历,我还要朝前走。"
他又走了,来到一个铁匠铺,将装着九个魔鬼的背包放到砧子上,要铁匠和他徒弟狠狠地砸。 他们用大铁锤使足力气猛砸,里面的魔鬼"嗷嗷"直叫,听起来挺可怜的。 等他打开包时,八个已经被砸死了,只有一个因为卷缩在折缝里没被砸死,赶紧溜了出来,回地狱去了。
从那以后,拉斯廷老兄又游历了很久,到过世界各地,那些认识他的人能讲很多关于他的故事。 最后他也老了,想到了死,于是来到一个虔诚的隐士那儿,对他说:"我现在已经不想四处飘流了,我想按死后能升天堂的人那样生活。"隐士回答说:"有两条路可走:一条宽敞而快乐,却通向地狱;一条狭窄而艰难,却通往天堂。""我要是选那条狭窄的路岂不是傻瓜!"拉斯廷老兄想,于是选择了那条宽敞快乐的路。 最后他来到一扇黑黑的门前……那是地狱之门。 拉斯廷老兄敲了敲门,看门人把门裂开一条缝往外看是谁。 一看是拉斯廷老兄,吓得赶紧插上门,飞快地跑到最高层的鬼那儿,说:"门口有个人要进来,可要是你珍惜生命,千万别让他进来,要不然他会让地狱里所有的鬼全进他的背包的。有一次他把我关在里面狠狠地锤了一顿。"原来他就是那九个被锁进背包里的鬼之一,他鼻青眼肿地逃了出来。 因此他们对拉斯廷老兄喊叫,要他走开,不能进去。 "既然他们不让我进,我得试试能不能在天堂找个地方。我总得呆在什么地方才行啊。"他想。 接着他来到天堂门口,敲了敲门,圣彼得正好在看门,拉斯廷老兄认出了他,想:"我在这里遇到了老朋友,该好过点了。"可是圣彼得说:"我简直不敢相信你也能进天堂!""请让我进来吧,兄弟,我总得呆在什么地方。假如他们让我进地狱我也不会上这儿来。""不行,你不能进。"圣彼得说。
"既然你不让我进,那就把你的背包拿走吧,我不愿意要你任何东西。""放在这儿吧。"圣彼得说。 于是拉斯廷老兄将背包从栏杆里塞进去,圣彼得接过去挂在自己的椅子边。 这时,拉斯廷老兄说:"现在让我进背包吧。"只一秒钟工夫 ,他便进了背包,也就进了天堂,圣彼只好让他在那里呆下去了。
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Suspect arrested in scooter hit-and-run also faces armed robbery charges
The man charged in a hit-and-run crash that cut short a record-setting world journey is also believed responsible for a string of violent armed robberies.
And Mounties say the crash that seriously injured Polish traveller Piotr Glowacki took place shortly after the accused allegedly robbed a nearby liquor store at knifepoint, escaping with booze and cash.
Glowacki was piloting his scooter eastbound on Highway 1 near Range Road 274 Sunday night when he was struck and seriously hurt by an SUV, the driver of which fled the scene on foot.
A suspect was later tracked down in a nearby field by RCMP police dogs and taken into custody.
Glowacki had only just resumed his attempt to break a world record by circumnavigating the globe on a 50 cc scooter when the crash took place.
Mechanical problems stranded him in Calgary for the past month while his beloved bright green scooter underwent repairs.
The accused, 27-year-old Airdrie resident Christopher Ferguson, is also believed to have been responsible for a string of armed liquor store robberies committed in area communities over the previous week.
The first occurred on Monday, May 8, after a man armed with a knife robbed a liquor store in Olds, fleeing with money and bottles of alcohol.
Two days later, the same culprit help up a pair of liquor stores in nearby Cochrane, assaulting staff before fleeing the scene.
On May 11, a knife-wielding man fought with a clerk in Airdrie in his attempt to make off with the tray from the store's cash register.
Police believe Ferguson to be responsible for a fifth robbery in Carstairs on Sunday night, about an hour before the collision involving Glowacki.
Shortly after that crash, RCMP received a report from Ferguson claiming his SUV had previously been stolen an Airdrie — a call police claim was an attempt to avoid apprehension.
Police say evidence found inside the SUV linked Ferguson to the Carstairs robbery, and subsequent searches of his home linked him to the other four.
Ferguson faces a total of 20 charges, including robbery, assault with a weapon, impaired driving, uttering threats, public mischief and fleeing the scene of a crash.
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The 31-year-old North Carolina trainer deadlifted 155 pounds—for 55 reps—while competing with her CrossFit team, Us Weekly reported. In fact, these were kind of "meh" numbers for Breeze who, before she was pregnant, could do the same with 325 pounds.
She posted pictures of her athletic feat on Instagram (where she posts a lot of pictures of herself as a trainer) and, the internet being the internet, she received some feedback. Most were supportive but others told her she was putting herself and the growing fetus at risk with these heavy and strenuous maneuvers.
"The 155 pound dead lift would not be considered too heavy for me. I'm working at 50 percent of my normal pre-pregnancy 100 percent," she said. In other words, all good.
The event wasn't her first rodeo, not even her first one while pregnant. And it's not like she had just gotten up off the couch and starting squatting for a quick lift, either. "I'm still working out six times a week," Breeze said, with a doctor's clearance to do CrossFit, Olympic lifting and metabolic conditioning.
She's gained 26 pounds so far during her pregnancy and mentions in her Instagram posts that she's a little freaked out about whether she'll get back to her pre-baby weight. (We're thinking yes, and probably faster than the rest of us.)
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In the red-hot debate over immigration, myth too often takes the place of truth. It is easier to rouse fears than it is to find common ground. It is time to step back, take a deep breath and reflect before we react.
The truth is often distorted in ways that feed our divisions. For example, many contrast this generation of immigration with the Europeans who came at the beginning of the last century. That generation, we are told, came legally, whereas this generation of immigrants is coming illegally. That generation learned the language, whereas this one is writing the National Anthem in Spanish.
Peggy Noonan, President Ronald Reagan's former speechwriter, writes about her Irish family that came over on the boat: "They waited in line. They passed the tests. They had to get permission to come … . They had to get through Ellis Island, get questioned and eyeballed by a bureaucrat with a badge."
But as Michael Powell of the Washington Post reports, this is mostly nonsense. Until 1918, the U.S. didn't even require passports — the term "illegal immigrant" had no meaning. New arrivals merely had to provide their identity and find a friend to vouch for them. Customs officials tried to weed out the lunatic or those infected with disease or "anarchism." The Mexican-U.S. border was then unguarded and crossed freely. When finally passed, immigrant quotas exempted Northern Europeans and Mexicans, even then imported by employers seeking cheap labor.
And all the same fears that exist now existed then. There was a huge backlash against German, Irish and Italian immigrants. White Protestant reformers warned that they weren't learning English, that they were drunks, dissolute, lazy. Commentators warned of the "mongrelization" of the "White race." Conservatives warned that immigrants were importing European class warfare into America.
All those fears turned out to be unfounded. The immigrants by and large were immensely hard-working. They learned English and assimilated. Their energy helped fuel America's rise in the 20th century. And the fears this time are likely to be similarly unfounded. The children of today's immigrants are learning English. The newcomers are by and large hard-working. If they are competing at low wages now, they are also at the center of drives to raise the minimum wage and to organize low-paid workers.
In the current atmosphere, we ignore the many contradictions of our immigration policy. Cuban immigrants are invited into America, welcomed and subsidized. They are pawns in our continuing Cold War face-off with Fidel Castro. Immigrants from neighboring Haiti are locked out and shipped back.
Vigilantes hunt immigrants coming over the Mexican border. But the Canadian border is basically unguarded, and undocumented immigrants from Canada raise no interest and are never called "illegals." Yet, so far as we know, the terrorists coming over the border have come through Canada, not through Mexico.
Even as the vigilantes organize to keep undocumented workers out, employers organize to bring them in. They lobby for guest-worker programs, for seasonal exemptions for farm workers, for exemptions for high-tech workers. Or they just routinely hire undocumented workers as a source of cheap labor.
The U.S. military provides an accelerated path to citizenship for legal permanent residents who can present a green card at enlistment. There are some 37,500 foreign nationals from 200 countries in the active duty and reserve forces. Of those, 71 have died in Iraq; three in Afghanistan. Non-citizens perform well; they also tend to serve longer than citizens do. And the military recognizes the value it gets from having many languages available to tap.
This is an old tradition. In the Civil War, some 20 percent of the Union forces were not citizens; many were signed up directly off the boat. The second U.S. soldier who died under fire in the Iraq War had entered the U.S. illegally. With the Army and Marines having difficulty meeting their recruitment goals, more and more conservatives call for letting undocumented immigrants gain citizenship by agreeing to serve.
We need comprehensive immigration reform to remove the discrimination that embraces Europeans and excludes Africans, or hunts Mexicans and hugs Canadians. But we should remember that America is a nation of immigrants — that's a fact, not a legend.
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The Mississippi Queen, in action, blackening shrimp, at the Kitchener Blues Festival, August 12th, 2012
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Southern Groceries, Spices, and Sauces, available from Mississippi Queen Foods. Click here to view products in my
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Thanks for your time, and reading the newsletter for Mississippi Queen Foods. My love and passion for Southern food and culture, is no secret, and I am always grateful, when I get to share it with you.
My business is built on word-of-mouth, and I truly do appreciate when you take the time to share information, about my company, with your friends and family. As the interest in my company, and Southern products grow, I will be able to continually expand my product line of offerings and services.
If there are specific products, you would be interested in purchasing, please send an email to me, so I can add your request to my folder, for consideration on future orders.
Wishin' ya' lots of good eatin'!.....
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Mississippi Queen Foods will be at the Wasaga Beach Blues Festival, August 25th & 26th
If you are in the Wasaga area, on August 25th & 26th, you can get your hands on some of my infamous Blackened Catfish; Seafood Gumbo; Cajun Jambalaya; Buttermilk Cornbread; Spicy Coleslaw; and Southern Pecan Pie.
This is a relatively new blues festival, in only its second year, but comes packing a strong punch this year, with the artist lineup. I am happy to be a part of it, and lookin' forward to bringing some authentic, Southern/Creole/Cajun food to the Wasaga Beach area!
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Mississippi Queen Foods will have the 'Catfish & Seafood Shack' set up at Port Credit's
Southside Shuffle, September 7th- 9th
Ok, it's quickly approaching this year......the Southside Shuffle, and this year, it's newly revamped, with several stages, and more talent than you can possibly see at once! It's considered one of Ontario's Top 100 Festivals, for a darned good reason, and if you have not attended previously...now is the time. Great blues....great food....and great folks, all weekend long.
The Mississippi Queen will be set up with her juke joint/fish shack, in the 'Mississauga Meets Mississippi' area, welcoming my Miss'ippi Friends, to the Mississauga area, once again. Be sure to stop by the booth, because there are always a few 'surprises' in store.
I'll have Blackened Catfish; Jambalaya; Seafood Gumbo; Red Beans & Rice; Buttermilk Cornbread; Spicy Coleslaw; and Pecan Pie...and, as well, the Southern Groceries will be on dispaly, and for sale, should any of you wish to do a lil shoppin' at the festival.
These are a couple of shots I took, of my booth, the 'Catfish & Seafood Shack', at the Kitchener Blues Festival, very quickly
with my iPhone. The one in the middle is a resalvaged grocery display unit, which I constructed of materials, salvaged from
my Pa Pa's old chicken coops, originally built in the 1950's. The gate is made from an old, rusted, mattress frame and refrigerator
shelves, and the old, original chicken feeders are on the top of the unit. The sides have chicken wire, and it is finished off with
Pa Pa's old Mississippi license plate. Yes, I felt his energy with me, all weekend......
Blackened Shrimp with sides of Cajun Jambalaya
and Spicy Coleslaw
Not too shabby, considering this is what I whooped up, on Sunday morning, at the Kitchener Blues Festival, on the fly, after running out of ALL of the food, which I brough in, for the ENTIRE WEEKEND, by 8:00 p.m. on Saturday night!!!!!
Thank you for your love, support, and encouragement, Kitchener, for you are always so, very good to me!
I am forever grateful.........the Mississippi Queen
Another 'Buying Trip' South, will take place sooner....rather than later!!!!
Yes, I am thinking of another trip South, in either late September, or early October.
I am very happy to say my company is growing, and more and more people are finding my online General Store, especially by way of the YouTube videos, which I have been uploading.
Unfortunately, I am experiencing some 'growing pains', and as many of you have found, I am running out of many products, much faster than normal. To meet this growing demand, for Southern products, I will make additional trips, each year, most likely in April, September, and January.
For those of you who are new to my process, please feel free to contact me, with any of your special requests, for my next 'Buying Trip' South. I do keep these requests on file, and I always send out plenty of advance notifications, prior to my trips.
Thank you,
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Seven months before elections, criticism is growing louder of the lack of preparations by donors and the government alike. On Friday, the new head of the election commission – Daniel Mulunda Ngoy – opened a seminar on the electoral process in Lubumbashi. In the meantime, the national assembly is debating changes to the electoral law. There are rumors that there will be a delay in the electoral calendar and that the presidential elections may be held before the legislative polls, but we will have to wait for probably another week to have any confirmation of this.
In the meantime, where do we stand in terms of the financing of the elections?
The total budget for the elections is $618 million, which includes the regular operating budget of the electoral commission between 2007-13. The Congolese government is supposed to supply $350 million and donors $265 million. MONUSCO is also supposed to give $80 million in logistical support.
I am not sure where we stand on government support (by January they had disbursed $113 million), but here's where I think we stand on donor support. The figures might be a little outdated, as they stem from a few months back:
- Amount asked for: $265 million
- Amount pledged: $171 million
- Amount signed for: $98 million
(By far the largest contributor is the UK government, with Belgium and Canada following. The US is nowhere to be seen, as it is only providing $5 million to NGOs for civic education).
That leaves us with a shortfall of $94 million if all the pledged money comes through. However, donor officials suggest that most of that shortfall (around $78 million) will be for the local elections, currently scheduled for 2013, and for the operations of the electoral commission in 2012-13, so it is not an emergency. However, they have also pointed out that the funding needs may change depending on what the electoral commission decides this week. Also, MONUSCO's mandate to support the elections may not be extended beyond 2011, which would also affect funding – PACE (the UN-managed basket fund for election support) has submitted a new budget to take this into consideration.
While it appears that the funding situation may not be as dire as some thought, there are other risks regarding the elections. First, the civil society monitoring groups do not yet appear to be as organized as they were in 2006. The Open Society Institute is trying to get funding for a monitoring network, but this is still in the works with only seven months to go. There has been no independent evaluation to my knowledge of the electoral registration process, which has been ongoing for months now.
Secondly, the donor community has not moved on creating a coordination body – even an informal one – on election monitoring. Donors need to be able to speak with one voice if they are confronted with election abuses and concerns.
Lastly, the electoral institutions are already politicized, in particular the commission itself, but also the constitutional court that will preside over major electoral disputes. This could seriously compromise the electoral process in case of major problems.
See here for a good list of recommendations put forward by OSISA and AfriMap (from the Open Society Institute family) on elections (in French for now).
– Jason Stearns blogs about the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Great Lakes region at Congo Siasa.


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The new county fire-training center will not have the large driving course that was included in the original design and was supported by the county fire association.
In a 3-2 vote, the Jackson County Board of Commissioners voted to remove the driving course and instead increase the size of the concrete pad located around the burn tower to 285x300 to be used for driving practice.
Fire driving course axed by BOC; smaller design approved
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Galvanotaxis is the movement of cells in an applied electric field. The first steps to design a chip for observations of galvanotaxic behavior of cells were done in this work. The chip is a miniaturised system of previous larger galvanotaxis systems and uses materials which are thought to be biocompatible. The system was constructed on microscope slides with a channel in PDMS with adjacent polymer electrodes. The polymer electrodes were made from poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS), glycerol and Silquest A-187. The PEDOT:PSS electrodes were connected with either an evaporated metal electrode of titanium and gold or a gold net. Systems with PEDOT:PSS are neutralised when put in excessive amount of PBS (pH=7.4) for 24 hours. The final system had a channel with dimension length=14 mm, width=0.5 mm and height=0.25 mm. PEDOT:PSS worked as an electrode material and the achieved electric field through the channel was between 55 V/m and 160 V/m with an applied voltage of 1 V. The decrease of the electric field within the first hour was between 10 % and 30%. Further development of this system could give an easy way to observe galvanotaxic behaviour of cells or an instrument that can distinguish between different cell types.
Today people spend all the more time indoors. Asthma, allergies and Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) are affecting an increasing number of people. The remedy for all these affections has long been to increase the volume flow of outdoor air in the ventilation but at the same time cities all over the world are struggling with air pollution and smog rising above endangering levels. Living filters present a new solution where part of the indoor air can be purified and recirculated in a building. This project has compiled research on the area to describe the how and why concerning air purification by plants. Independent research conclude that plants can reduce most hazardous chemical agents in the air.
Climate change, global warming and increasing demands on energy performance induces a race for countries and companies to improve energy efficiency in all sectors. To the building engineering sector living filters presents a unique solution to cut ventilation energy loses. A powerful simulation tool IDA ICE was used to estimate the energy saving capacity when a living filter is applied in the lunch room of an office floor. Another simulation software; Comsol Multiphysics was used to illustrate the aspects of ventilation flow when a living filter cabinet is deployed in a room. The simulation results show that for three living filter cabinets each measuring 0,7x0,8x1,73 cm the buildings energy usage is reduced with more than the living filters use to operate. The single room simulations then show how a living filter can be accommodated with both mixing and displacing ventilation. However, these simulations also illustrate the importance of the living filters placement to achieve maximum ventilation efficiency.
The conclusions from this work are that living filters can reduce building sector energy demands and provide significant indoor environmental benefits. The main issue for using living filters is identified to be building regulations putting strict demands on outdoor air flow and that the hygienic function of each living filter must be verified before it may replace outdoor air.
Monoclonal antibodies can be used as targeting therapies for several diseases. One major concern when using these therapies is anti-drug antibodies which may hamper the drugs efficiency. Gyrolab is an automated platform which can be used to develop bridging immunoassays where the anti-drug antibodies affinity towards the monoclonal antibody is utilized. Anti-drug antibody immunoassay development on Gyrolab is limited mainly by three factors which may inappropriately affect signal intensity levels. In this project different variants of bridging immunoassays based on drug Fab fragments have been developed for monoclonal antibody Infliximab, with the purpose to illustrate the effects of these three factors.
Findings indicate that an assay based completely on drug Fab fragments is more sensitive compared to an assay based on intact drug since less affected by unspecific interactions between drug reagents and complex formations. Surprisingly findings also indicate that an assay based completely on drug Fab fragments is affected by human anti-hinge antibodies which decrease assay sensitivity. The most optimal assay variant is based on the combination between intact capture drug and Fab fragment as detection. This variant is insensitive to false positive reactions caused by Rheumatoid factor and human anti-hinge antibodies, less prone to form unspecific interactions between drug reagents and complex formations in the presence of anti-drug antibodies. The optimal assay variant also demonstrates best drug tolerance in combination with acid dissociation.
We present a simple and inexpensive method for label-free detection of biomolecules. The method monitors the changes in streaming current in a fused silica capillary as target biomolecules bind to immobilized receptors on the inner surface of the capillary. To validate the concept, we show detection and time response of different protein-ligand and protein-protein systems: biotin-avidin and biotin-streptavidin, barstar-dibarnase and Z domain-immunoglobulin G (IgG). We show that specific binding of these biomolecules can be reliably monitored using a very simple setup. Using sequential injections of various proteins at a diverse concentration range and as well as diluted human serum we further investigate the capacity of the proposed technique to perform specific target detection from a complex sample. We also investigate the time for the signal to reach equilibrium and its dependence on analyte concentration and demonstrate that the current setup can be used to detect biomolecules at a concentration as low as 100 pM without requiring any advanced device fabrication procedures. Finally, an analytical model based on diffusion theory has been presented to explain the dependence of the saturation time on the analyte concentration and capillary dimensions and how reducing length and inner diameter of the capillary is predicted to give faster detection and in practice also lower limit of detection. © 2016 Elsevier B.V.
Here, we review examples of artificial corneas that have been developed as alternatives to donor cornea transplantation. These consist of artificial corneas developed as prostheses and regenerative scaffolds. Examples of reinforced and composite implants developed within our group are profiled.
The general aim of this project was to develop experimental in vivo models that allow for minimally invasive investigations of responses in the skin to microvascular and metabolic provocations. The cutaneous microvasculature has emerged as a valuable model and been proposed to mirror the microcirculation in other organs. Dysfunction in the cutaneous microcirculation has thus been linked to systemic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes mellitus. Models for investigating skin responses could facilitate the understanding of pathophysiological mechanisms as well as effects of drugs.
In the first study, three optical measurement techniques (laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF), laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) and tissue viability imaging (TiVi)) were compared against each other and showed differences in their ability to detect microvascular responses to provocations in the skin. TiVi was found more sensitive for measurement of noradrenaline-induced vasoconstriction, while LSCI was more sensitive for measurement of vascular occlusion. In the second study, microvascular responses in the skin to iontophoresis of vasoactive drugs were found to depend on the drug delivery protocol. Perfusion half-life was defined and used to describe the decay in the microvascular response to a drug after iontophoresis. In the third study, the role of nitric oxide (NO) was assessed during iontophoresis of insulin. The results showed a NO-dependent vasodilation in the skin by insulin. In the fourth study the vasoactive and metabolic effects of insulin were studied after both local and endogenous administration. Local delivery of insulin increased skin blood flow, paralleled by increased skin concentrations of interstitial pyruvate and lactate, although no change in glucose concentration was observed. An oral glucose load resulted in an increased insulin concentration in the skin paralleled by an increase in blood flow, as measured using the microdialysis urea clearance technique, although no changes in perfusion was measured by LSCI.
The thesis concludes that when studying skin microvascular responses, the choice of measurement technique and the drug delivery protocol has an impact on the measurement results, and should therefore be carefully considered. The thesis also concludes that insulin has metabolic and vasodilatory effects in the skin both when administered locally and as an endogenous response to an oral glucose load. The vasodilatory effect of insulin in the skin is mediated by nitric oxide.
An electrode with adjacent optical fibers for measurements during navigation and radio frequency lesioning in the brain was modeled for Monte Carlo simulations of light transport in brain tissue. Relative reflected light intensity at 780 nm, I780, from this electrode and probes with identical fiber configuration were simulated using the intensity from native white matter as reference. Models were made of homogeneousnative and coagulated gray, thalamus, and white matter as well as blood. Dual layermodels, including models with a layer of cerebrospinal fluid between the fibers andthe brain tissue, were also made. Simulated I780 was 0.16 for gray matter, 0.67 forcoagulate gray matter, 0.36 for thalamus, 0.39 for coagulated thalamus, unity forwhite matter, 0.70 for coagulated white matter and 0.24 for blood. Thalamic matterhas also been found to reflect more light than gray matter and less than white matterin clinical studies. In conclusion the reflected light intensity can be used todifferentiate between gray and white matter during navigation. Furthermore,coagulation of light gray tissue, such as the thalamus, might be difficult to detectusing I780, but coagulation in darker gray tissue should result in a rapid increase of I780.
In situ sekvensering är en metod som kan användas för att lokalisera differentiellt uttryck av mRNA direkt i vävnadssnitt, vilket kan ge viktiga ledtrådar om många sjukdomstillstånd. Idag förloras många av sekvenserna från in situ sekvensering på grund av det kvalitetsmått man använder för att säkerställa att sekvenser är korrekta. Det finns troligtvis möjlighet att förbättra prestandan av den nuvarande base calling-metoden eftersom att metoden är i ett tidigt utvecklingsskede. Vi har genomfört explorativ dataanalys för att undersöka förekomst av systematiska fel och korrigerat för dessa med hjälp av statistiska metoder. Vi har framförallt undersökt tre metoder för att korrigera för systematiska fel:
I) Korrektion av överblödning som sker på grund avöverlappande emissionsspektra mellan fluorescenta prober.
II) En sannolikhetsbaserad tolkningav intensitetsdata som resulterar i ett nytt kvalitetsmått och en alternativ klassificerare baseradpå övervakad inlärning.
III) En utredning om förekomst av cykelberoende effekter, exempelvisofullständig dehybridisering av fluorescenta prober.
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The middle ear is a complex organ with multiple functions. It is prone to accidental, genetic, excessive noise exposure, or age-related damage. Its main role is to convey and amplify the mechanical vibrations of the tympanic membrane to the acoustic nerve through three connected small bones, the ossicles; malleus, incus, and stapes. When severely damaged, the most used solution is currently a partial or total ossicle replacement with inorganic titanium prostheses, which are not anatomically similar. However, 3D models derived from micro-CT scans of human ossicular chains are freely available for research and educational purposes in high resolution 3D files. Therefore, these files were scaled to anatomical size and used to print partial models of the malleus and incus using an extrusion contact method using a bioprinter and OsteoInk, a calcium phosphate-based paste sold by the bioprinting company regenHU. The use of this biologically analogous material to 3D print anatomically sized and shaped ossicles is novel. The process and settings for bioprinting the malleus and incus were devised and tested for repeatability. OsteoInk was found suitable to form hard bone-like objects after printing and curing. However, for this process to be successful with OsteoInk, the models required a flat base; the first .560 mm of the virtual model were not printed. A support structure is required for creating complete ossicles, but the hydrogel and polymer structures attempted were not deemed feasible. The support structure could be created by combining the OsteoInk with other biomaterials, or by fibers printed through Melt Electrospinning Writing. The workflow devised in this project is applicable to other bioprinters, and to thus to further the research in the field of bioprinting.
Ag nanoparticles (NPs) are deposited on BiVO4 photoanodes to study their effect on the photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting performance of the semiconductor. 15 nm light-absorbing NPs and 65 nm light scattering NPs were studied separately to compare their light trapping ability for enhancing the semiconductors absorption through light concentration and light scattering, respectively. The 15 nm NPs enhanced the BiVO4 external quantum efficiency throughout the semiconductors absorption range (e.g.,approximate to 2.5 fold at lambda=400 nm). However, when a hole scavenger was added to the electrolyte, no enhancement was ob-served upon NP deposition, indicating that the NPs only facilitate the injection of holes from the semiconductor surface to the electrolyte but do not enhance its absorption. On the other hand, the 65 nm scattering NPs not only facilitated hole injection to the electrolyte, but also enhanced the absorption of the semiconductor (by approximate to 6%) through light scattering. Such a dual effect, i.e., of enhancing both the surface properties and the absorption of the semiconductor, makes light scattering Ag NPs an ideal decoration for PEC water splitting photoelectrodes.


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Monday, January 30, 2012
Valentine Round-Up 2012
Clay Hearts
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Heart Hands
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"V" is for Valentine
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Valentine Dump Truck Card
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Valentines Galore!
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NORTH ANDOVER -- Two men wanted by Tewksbury police for alleged armed assault with attempt to murder were apprehended by North Andover police on Saturday night following a short search for the pair.
Michael Wilson, 39, and Aaron Russo, 29, described as "armed and dangerous" by police on radio broadcasts as the search took place, were in the custody of the Tewksbury Police Department Sunday night.
As the search unfolded shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday, police radio broadcasts reported that the two men were in a silver Audi and allegedly armed with a handgun and a baseball bat. The radio broadcast reported both had lengthy criminal histories.
Shortly before 11 p.m. Saturday, the suspects were spotted in North Andover and their vehicle had been pulled over by police, according to radio broadcasts. After being taken into custody, the pair were transported to Tewksbury.
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Hello, I have been experiencing some, well alot of joint pain for over a year. It was sudden onset, with what looked to be ganglion cysts. It started in my second month of boot camp and with in two days. I had three ultrasound treatments which seemed to work. A month later the pain and swelling was back in my right arm, along with some "cysts". Was sent to see the surgeon, no cysts. Since then the pain has started in both my ankles, both wrists, knees, elbows and has started in my shoulders and hips. I cannot do anything but extremely light exercise, even walking around a mall in comfy shoes makes me swell and ache from ankles to knees. I limit my writing and everything. Nothing seems to help. My pinky's seems to hurt the most, I have decreased flexibility in my hands, and decreased cordination, I will drop things unless I constantly tell myself to hold on to it.
I have been tested for RA, celiac...I don't even have an elevated white blood count. All x-rays and blood work and bone scans have been normal. I a thin, so it is hard to see the swelling on me, but I swell up a half a ring size.
Oh, if it helps, my knucles, primarily on my right hand starting with my index finger knuckle, becomes very red and swollen. Although the doctor says its "just the bone". So its like something is pushing the bone to be bigger.
Please help, I can't live my life, I can't what I want. I take anti-inflamatory drugs, but i worry about the damage due to my joints. Please, any ideas.


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