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Good Evening Everyone;
I am not sure how long this will be- I have lots to share, given that I haven't blogged for quite a while...
Nor have I been around to your own blogs, barely even getting to any emails I might have in my inbox.
I threw my back out, and just want to go lie down and cry... - But it hurts too much to lie down, or sit up in this chair, or, or, or, or...
- Standing and walking, (baby steps), is a bit easier than anything.
- Standing still is not an option unless I have something to lean on.
- Bending is out of the question unless I have a really comfy place to remain for a month or so.
That said I have a zillion unplanted seeds, and 2 acres of unmown lawn.
Rainy today... An excuse to do a few dishes and to take it relatively easy. - Which is exactly what I did.
On Wednesday evening my phone rang- Polly, a dear friend of mine from Wyoming, come to Wisconsin on her way to Rockford, Illinois to work on their house there. At one point years back we lived next door to each other on Jaworski Road in Pulaski.
Would it be possible to meet with her while she was in town?
(Don't ask next time Sweetie, just tell me where to go to see you).
I called Casey too. Would she be willing to come with me to see Miss Polly too? She was very excited to do so. Needless to say I don't get to Wyoming much. Always wanted to. Never did.
I picked Casey up Thursday morning-
Punk gets so excited to see her Casey that she sees Casey's front door and almost chokes herself hanging out the window as she waits...
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I think I have pretty much freaked everybody out with my own little fears for Casey about the Swine Flu virus. So much so that Miss Polly brought sanitizer and wipes as well. We decided to walk to Denny's Restaurant. It was about 10:30.
Perfect timing too as there were very few people dining at that point.
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Casey, Punk and Polly!
Such wonderful company! I was SO happy to see her- We talk on the phone sometimes, mostly by email, but there is nothing as wonderful as seeing her in person!- We chatted until after noon- More people were coming in at that point, and time for us to leave anyway.
One question with respect to this H1N1 virus-
Why is Wisconsin the second highest in the nation with #'s of confirmed Swine Flu cases?
CLICK HERE for the map of the entire US from the CDC.
Casey came out here afterward, and I did plant a few more seeds in the old flower bed. (Until my backside and legs felt as they were completely on fire, and didn't work right anyway). - Casey left.
- I came in to rest.
~I have been quite like Goldilocks this past week- I sleep in one bed, another, even a third, or I sleep on the couch. Mostly I just nap. Even doubling up on the meds the doctor gave me on Wednesday doesn't help. And since I am not a horse, I cannot sleep standing up. My doctor gave me an new MS drug that should be helping, "Baclofen" (and no, I have not doubled up on that).
I also have my brace on, which does help a bit too. God, what awful timing! I have too much to do to be this laid up right now.
Having grown almost dead of boredom, Casey and I went for a little drive yesterday- I had a few bills to pay, (thank God for drive-up windows), and had to pick up a few things too.
After that, she suggested a stop at The Humane Society. A tough stop for us both as we always wish to bring all the animals home.
There were very few people visiting... - ...Even fewer dogs and cats. 4 dogs, and maybe 10 cats. I imagine they are putting them down almost as fast as they come in, and that breaks my heart! When questioned, the lady told me that they were all taken to get spayed and neutered.
I doubt that. Not too many vets have time like that to take care of a whole bunch of animals in one day.
Back home again... To drive in the yard to see the most wonderful presents!
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.As I took those pictures, I heard a curious rata~ta~ta~tapping behind me.
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Makes all that snow shoveling a bit easier to stomach...
Maybe.
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It was this little guy, mad at his reflection!
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He was SO funny to watch!
He would take a seed or two; and then rap at his reflection.
Happy I have a good zoom on my camera!
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I shall write more later, know that sitting is not working too well right now.
May you all have a grand Mothers Day!
Hmmm... - While I am on the subject...
- What most memorable piece of advice ~or words to the wise, did your mother give to you?
- And... have you turned into your mother?
My love to all.
XOXO
Me
Anna~Anna
"Flintville Annie"
© 2006-2015
Any Words of Wisdom?
Japanese scientist claims breakthrough with organ grown in sheep - Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6222361.ece
May 5, 2009
Japanese scientist claims breakthrough with organ grown in sheep
Huddled at the back of her shed, bleating under a magnificent winter coat and tearing cheerfully at a bale of hay, she is possibly the answer to Japan’s chronic national shortage of organ donors: a sheep with a revolutionary secret.
Guided by one of the animal’s lab-coated creators, the visitor’s hand is led to the creature’s underbelly and towards a spot in the middle under eight inches of greasy wool. Lurking there is a spare pancreas.
If the science that put it there can be pushed further forward, Japan may be spared an ethical and practical crisis that has split medical and political opinion.
As the sheep-based chimera organ technology stands at the moment, says the man who is pioneering it, the only viable destination for the pancreas underneath his sheep would be a diabetic chimpanzee.
The organ growing on the sheep was generated from monkey stem cells but the man behind the science, Yutaka Hanazono, believes that the technology could be developed eventually to make sheep into walking organ banks for human livers, hearts, pancreases and skin.
It could happen within a decade, he guesses, perhaps two.
“We have made some very big advances here. There has historically been work on the potential of sheep as producers of human blood, but we are only slowly coming closer to the point where we can harvest sheep for human organs,” Professor Hanazono told The Times.
“We have shown that in vivo (in a living animal) creation of organs is more efficient than making them in vitro (in a test tube) but now we really need to hurry.”
The reason for Professor Hanazono’s sense of urgency — and for the entire organ harvest project being undertaken at the Jichi Medical University — lies many miles away in Tokyo and with a historical peculiarity of the Japanese legal system.
Japan defines death as the point when the heart permanently stops. The concept of brain death — the phase at which organs can most effectively be harvested from donors — does exist, but organs cannot be extracted at that point.
The long-term effect of the legal definition has been striking: organ donation in Japan is virtually nonexistent, forcing many people to travel abroad in search of transplants. In the United States, the rate of organ donors per million people is about 27; in Japan it is under 0.8.
The effect, say pediatricians, has been especially severe for children. The same law that discounts brain death as suitable circumstances for organ donation broadly prevents children under 15 from allowing their organs to be harvested.
To make matters worse, international restrictions on transplant tourism are becoming ever tougher, making Japan’s position even more untenable. To avert disaster, say doctors, Japan either needs the science of synthetic organ generation to advance faster than seems possible, or it needs a complete rethink on the Japanese definition of death.
In response to the impending crisis, and with Professor Hanazono’s sheep still very much at the experimental stage, a series of revisions to the transplant law have been proposed, but the debate has been divisive.
Taro Nakayama, the MP behind the most liberal revision — a change that would allow organs to be harvested from the brain-dead — is a former paediatrician. “Organ tourism is finished and Japan has to change its ways very quickly,” he said.
Gene genies
— In 1997 US scientist Dr Jay Vacanti grew a human ear from cartilage cells on the back of a mouse. He said he believed that it might be possible to grow knee cartilage and even a human liver
— In 2007 two scientists at the University of Nevada created a sheep with 15 per cent human cells as part of research into farming human organs from animals. Human cells were injected into a sheep’s foetus
— Last month Stelios Arcadiou, an Australian artist, unveiled an ear implanted on his arm. He planned to broadcast the sounds it would “hear” on the internet
— Last week Korean scientists said they had cloned beagles that glowed in the dark. Four puppies were created from cells injected with a gene that made them glow red under UV light
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Tuesdays Ten
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Good Morning All;
Another fine day ahead, and will be typing fast so's I can get my backside outside.
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I finally have my 1st tulip!
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Did you have breakfast yet?
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There might be another miracle in the making. John Pryes came yesterday afternoon to look at the Simplicity tractor. (This is the one with the tiller on it).
Maybe, just maybe, I might have that garden yet. He ended up taking it home so he can work on it there.
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Brandy came along too. She helped me out a lot, even crawling down into the water pit for me to get the hose turned on. I have to get another shut off valve for it though, it is dripping as I type.
I especially loved her shirt.
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Also quite funny is this- Received in an email from my daughter Jennifer.
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I firmly believe this kid should have gotten a higher score.
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Confession... .............(Maybe).
Last year 'someone' might have stolen some lilacs from Kelli and Tim's place. And 'someone' might have then planted them along the east side of my garden...
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And now there might be a few blooms on my side of Flintville too!.
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I am in the process of digging out the west side of the old garage.
This has not been cleared for...
Hmmmmm............ (thinking now)...
Well, it probably has never been done.
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Methinks the weather people are overworked when they issue a statement like this:
Many clumps of quack grass and nettles
(aka "itchweed" among others).
These are so easy to dig out too. With their runners for roots I just loosen the soil with a fork, (that's the hardest part), and keep on pulling the roots out. Bet some of those shoots were 3' long!
I hope to throw a few flower seeds in the ground there.
After I get rid of the nettles.
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Makes me itch to even look at them
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I quit digging when I could no longer keep standing and stooping without shooting pain down my back and legs.
Quite like the mark of Zorro I had to leave hand prints on the side of the garage when that pain threatened to put me down to the dirt.
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Come hell or high water, I shall resume my project today-
Rain coming tomorrow
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I copied this from Newsweek. CLICK for the whole story.
"The Path of a Pandemic"
Around Thanksgiving 2005 a teenage boy helped his brother-in-law butcher 31 pigs at a local Wisconsin slaughterhouse, and a week later the 17-year-old pinned down another pig while it was gutted. In the lead-up to the holidays the boy's family bought a chicken and kept the animal in their home, out of the harsh Sheboygan autumn. On Dec. 7, the teenager came down with the flu, suffering an illness that lasted three days. He visited a local clinic, then fully recovered, and nobody else in his family took ill.
This incident would hardly seem worth mentioning except that the influenza virus that infected the Wisconsin lad was unlike any previously seen. It appeared to be a mosaic of a wild-bird form of flu, a human type and a strain found in pigs.
It was an H1N1 swine influenza. Largely ignored at the time, the Wisconsin virus was a step along the evolutionary tree, leading to a virus that four years later would stun the world.
Flash-forward to April 2009, and young Édgar Enrique Hernández in faraway La Gloria, Mexico, suffers a bout of flu, found to be caused by a similar mosaic of swine/bird/human flu, also H1N1. And thousands of miles away in Cairo, the Egyptian government decides pigs are the source of disease, and orders 300,000 animals in the predominantly Muslim (therefore not pork-consuming) society slaughtered.
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Each of these three incidents is related to the unfolding influenza crisis.
It is the manner of human beings to seek blame during times of fear.
Fingers are now pointing, either at the entire pig species Sus domestica, or at the nation of Mexico.
Such exercises in blame are not only scientifically ill founded, but are likely to prompt government actions that, at the very least, are useless and, at worst, harmful for efforts to control a pandemic.
Would somebody please tell me if this is true WHY there is NO vaccine?
Forget for a moment that this happened in Wisconsin...(If I wasn't mad before, I sure as hell am now).
After all, this is 3 and a half years later!?!?
wth?
Then this article, click here. Maybe horses can help?
"horses with the flu have antibodies for the human H1N1."
That was 1918! Again I ask, WHY is there no vaccine???
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"Parts of the South will see plenty of showers and thunderstorms on Tuesday as a cold front slips eastward. The main precipitation threat will be on either side of the Mississippi River."
Hmmm... Really? Ya think?
Have a great Tuesday! Must get my backside outside now.
XOXO
Me
Drop Your Pants. *No peeing. *No Drinking
http://weirdnews.about.com/b/2009/05/04/10000-expected-to-moon-amtrak.htm?nl=1
10,000 Expected to Moon Amtrak
Monday May 4, 2009
Let's Move Amtrak
Does pulling down your pants and going loco in front of a locomotive sound like fun to you?
A crowd of 10,000 is exptect to be dropping trou in Laguna Niguel as the California town celebrates the 30th anniversary of the "Mooning of Amtrak."
This tradition started at the Mugs Away Saloon as an alternative to darts, quarters and other lame bar games. And now, every year, on the second Saturday in July, revelers gather before a chain link fence, and pull down their pants as the train passes.
Unfortunately, local officials threatened to call off what some call, "Orange County's Mardi Gras" after some local residents complained of public drunkenness.
After a bit of negotiations, however, the city council has relented. The event will go forward, but with new rules: No more public consumption of alcohol and no more urinating outdoors.
Strangely, no one complained about the bare butts, not even the folks riding the trains. It seems some Amtrak riders even moon back.
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OMG... This is so funny!
(Although I do take issue with darts being called a lame bar game)...
Mark your calendars- 2nd 'SAT'urday in July!
hehehe
XOXO
Me
Wonders if there really IS a full moon that day?
A Parasite, Without a Vote
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One must know how to "duck"
when you stumble onto a shoulder high robins nest.
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Good Morning Everyone!
In reference to the above picture... As Punk and I were coming around the corner of the house 3 days ago, I very nearly had my face taken off by a robin hellbent on flying out of her nest. As I had my camera, so I have the picture!
I mowed the back yard on the 30th for the first time this year. Hard to believe how badly it needed it already. But so my grass grows quickly after those rains we had, especially in the lower back lawn.
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There is new "life" in my weeds too! hehehe
Looks much nicer too!
(Sorry, no "before" picture).
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Sue me.
I never did clear out the old flowerbed last Fall. hehehe
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There pretty, and delicate, flowers are growing in the pines out front.
Not sure what they are?
(Nor do I recall seeing them there before)?
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Might these have been "imports", maybe, Beep?
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My garden needs tilling, (but my little Simplicity tiller tractor never did get picked up for those repairs)-
That said there is no way that I can do the whole thing by hand, so maybe no big garden this year.
Even after tilling it last Fall I have almost a whole row of onions! hehehe.
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And even one gypsy onion growing about 20 feet away from the rest!
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Maybe it's just an outcast- or a nonsocial variety..
Hey, I know people like that!
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So much for being a "shut-in" (her words, not mine), Casey took a drive out yesterday.
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Punk is always so happy to see 'her' Casey!.
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While she was here I had to show her my Robins nest.
(And dang, if that mama bird didn't try to remove my face again)!
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What a shock to see another egg!
Damnable cowbirds-
Yes they are parasites, and no they do not get a vote..
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Blasted birds.
Cowbirds practice what is known at "brood parasitism" and is an example of an "obligate parasite" because it is locked into victimizing other birds which hatch and then raise its young. It is the cowbird’s only strategy, one it is "obliged" to use.
Cowbirds build no nest of their own and lay their eggs in at least 200 different species’ nests instead. It is a North American variation on the European cuckoo’s behavior—the root word for the word "cuckold."
To read more about these parasitical birds, please click here..
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- There is another parasite, (a REALLY new one), down in Texas.
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Please CLICK HERE and offer any advice you can possibly come up with. It's only 6 little sentences, with one little request.
(BTW, "congrats, SD").
Going to be 19 years before THAT parasite will get to vote. hehehe
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Randy was out on Friday. Granted a rare photo op, I snapped this picture..
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OK, so really, he cannot control my camera....
Hell, I can't even control it half the time!
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He did not come inside.
Nor did he pet the dog. (Punk is reserved for Casey's hands).
Understanding our uneasiness, respectful that his own profession puts him in a more compromising position than most of the general public, he brought out some supplies and put in a few hours of yard work too. (He is, and has been, a Sheriff Deputy for Brown County for 30+ years).
I have not yet panicked over this H1N1 Swine Flu virus...
We will wait to see how it plays out over the next few days/weeks.
As I have repeated to you, Casey does not have a spleen- This leaves her unable to fight this virus (or any others for that matter). Knowing that a vaccine for this "new" strain is 4-6 months out yet, brings us more cause to be ever so respectful of what could potentially develop.
She already has been told that she cannot receive the antiviral meds that help others that have this strain.
I have read many news articles (and yes, even your own, and others, blogs) that are pertinent to this s(h)ituation.
What I find so alarming is the obvious lack of compassion and utter disregard for many people like my daughter.- On one blog, & after I had posted about Casey's medical history and current special susceptibility, one gal even responded with "LMAO".
Stupidity at its finest if you ask me.
So go ahead and laugh at this if you must. Know that we will be erring on the side of caution.
Incidentally, this cruel and repugnant person (that replied "lmao") was on my friends list on 360 at one point. (She even has kids). She dropped "me" after Casey had told her off, big~time, way back when. hehehe No great loss there.
Hmmm... Wonder who's LMAO now?
For those of you in the area, my home is reserved for Casey to visit. You will be asked to remain outside, or to save your gas. Any/Everyone. - (Should you choose to come and remain outside, please pick up a rake and remove any gravel that is still in the yard and the lawns and return it to my driveway). You may pee in the woods or hold it til you leave.
My sister, nephew, and niece found this out yesterday. At least they were coming home from up north, and hadn't made a special trip up from Appleton to visit.
We talked, through the window, for over an hour.
All the while my niece having to use the bathroom... They finally stopped at the gas station on the way home for her. Poor kid.
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Brandon, Janet, and Brit.
Through the window!
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So, enough of my prattling on and on...
My love to all. Have a Sun(ny)day!
XOXO
Me
I am Unique, and Weird... hehehe
http://my8s.astrology.com/scripts/runisa.dll?AO.458866:FREEREPORTS:1233895452:ACREPORT
Good Morning Kids... I am cleaning out my drafts folder. hehehe
New blog, "Incidental and Aimless", will be posted soon.
I don't understand a lot of this astrology... (But I know what the two title words mean).
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Maya * Aztec Astrology Report
http://rep.astrology.com/free/
Prepared for Anna
DAY-SIGN: 2-Rabbit
(Maya: 2-Lamat)
YEAR: West -12 (Tikal System)
13-DAY PERIOD: 1-Deer
(Maya: 1-Manik)
NIGHT LORD: 7
VENUS PHASE: Morning Star
Introduction - The Astrology of Time
The ancient Maya and Aztec astrologers studied the mysterious influence of the rhythms of the sky on earthly life. Everyone knows the Sun rises and sets every day -- this is the basic rhythm of life around which we set our clocks and calendars. What the ancient astrologers discovered was that other time cycles existed that were multiples of this basic day cycle. This fact was discovered about 100 years ago in Europe and these cycles (there are many of them) are now called biorhythms.
The most important time cycles in ancient Mayan and Aztec astrology are those of the day, 9-days, 13-days, and 20-days.
Additionally, years are counted also, in groups of 4 and 13. Each day is then part of several other cycles, so no two days are exactly the same. Your Maya/Aztec horoscope below shows exactly where in each of the cycles you were born. Each category below examines a specific cycle and a specific aspect of your personality. Keep in mind that our personalities are complex and contain many contradictions. All of us present a different "face" depending on who we meet. The delineations below will reflect this, but they will also give you a clear picture of who you really are. The true value of astrology lies in self-knowledge, the first step to wisdom.
Your Most Personal Traits -- The Day-Sign of Your Birth
Here are your strongest and most obvious personality traits. The delineation below describes who you are and how you appear to others, at least on the surface. In Aztec astrology this part of is your horoscope is your Tonalli, or Day-Sign, the form bestowed upon you by the Sun.
RabbitRabbit: You have a mind that never quits. You need constant stimulation and are fond of talking, debating, reading, writing and other forms of communication. This nervous energy of yours often translates into bodily tension that needs a physical outlet. You can be quite competitive and do enjoy sparring with others. You will often purposely take on an opposing or unpopular point of view just to keep some tension in the atmosphere. You may be fond of exercise, or dancing, or some other activity that keeps you moving about. You are a person who can do enormous amounts of work in very little time, and not seem to be tired for it.
You also have a strong need for attention. It is possible that you are a performer or entertainer, or are closely connected with show business, stage and screen. You are really quite egocentric, but you are not as confident of your abilities as you would let others think. Because of this, you tend to avoid taking on large responsibilities, but if you do take them on you handle them best from behind the scenes. In general though, you are not particularly good at sustaining a self-managed business project and you prefer to serve others than be a leader.
You have a most complex mind. You may be of high intelligence but you can also be quite paranoid about certain things or even at bit "spaced-out." You are impressed by cleverness and always appreciate a good joke, perhaps as an escape or just an appreciation of subtlety. You probably also enjoy games, languages, codes, mysteries and taking risks -- including gambling.
There is a potentially self-destructive side to you that you are probably aware of. The worst thing you could do to your complex and sensitive mind would be to indulge in drugs or alcohol. Please be careful using these substances. If drugs or alcohol should ever become a habit, and you know how obsessive/compulsive, you can be, a cycle of self-destructive behavior may set in. Those of you with good self-control may find that working around other people in weakened conditions, as in hospitals or in the psychologists office, is particularly satisfying work. In such situations, you can help others who struggle with problems you may understand very well, even if they have never gotten the best of you.
Your Deeper Self -- The 13-Day Week of Your Birth
Each of us reacts to the world around us in different ways. Our reactions are mostly unconscious; they represent what our deeper self needs. Our reactions both attract and repel us from things, people, and situations. What we like, what we like to do, and who we really are is shown by the 13-day week called the Trecena that we were born under. Each of these periods begins with the number 1 and the name of the day-sign that starts it. A number is attached to your position within the 13-day period that may be an important number for you.
This is the second day of the 13-day period beginning with 1-Deer. Beneath your surface personality you struggle with freedom vrs. security issues. Part of you wants to take off for parts unknown, but the rest of you wants the security of home and family. Because your struggle with this conflict leads you to unique solutions, you are probably an innovator of sorts, or at least have created a somewhat unconventional lifestyle for yourself. You probably also have unusual interests that are of an investigative or searching nature. You are also a very sensitive person and should definitely avoid alcohol or drugs. Ultimately you are a rather unique individual with a brilliant, though at times somewhat weird, mind.
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Yeah, right...
XOXO
Me
[World Organization for Animal Health] OIE statement
http://www.oie.int/eng/press/en_090427.htm
My notation is at the bottom; after the info...
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OIE statement
Re: A/H1N1 influenza like human illness in Mexico and the USA:
Paris, April 27 - 2009 -
"Urgent scientific research must be started in order to know the susceptibility of animals to this new virus, and if relevant to implement biosecurity measures including possible vaccination to protect susceptible animals. If this virus would be shown to cause disease in animals, virus circulation could worsen the regional and global situation for public health.
Currently, only findings related to the circulation of this virus in pigs in zones of countries having human cases would justify trade measures on the importation of pigs from these countries. The OIE will continue its alert function and will publish in relation with its Members, Reference Laboratories and Collaborating Centres all appropriate information in real time.
OIE and FAO underline the great value of the influenza veterinary laboratory network called OFFLU, in charge of the surveillance of the evolution of influenza viruses in animals. There is a strong need to reinforce this network whose members are urged to put immediately in the public domain any genetic sequence of influenza virus they obtain.
This influenza event underlines in all countries the crucial importance of maintaining worldwide veterinary services able to implement in animals early detection of relevant emerging pathogens with a potential public health impact. This capacity is fully linked with veterinary services good governance and their compliance with OIE international standards of quality."
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http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/topics/Flu/understandingFlu/2009h1n1.htm
# Researchers in laboratories on the NIH campus are studying the basic biology of influenza, including its pathogenesis, immunogenicity, transmissibility and genetic variability. This research includes investigating host immune responses to the virus in animal models and in humans; developing vaccines to prevent influenza, especially strains with pandemic potential; and studying influenza epidemiology.
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http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/masks.htm
"Three feet has often been used by infection control professionals to define close contact and is based on studies of respiratory infections; however, for practical purposes, this distance may range up to 6 feet. The World Health Organization uses "approximately 1 meter"; the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration uses "within 6 feet." For consistency with these estimates, this document defines close contact as a distance of up to 6 feet."
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Good Afternoon Everyone,
Take what you will from the above statements.
While I am not panicking yet, I do believe we all need to be more aware of what/who/where we touch.
The above referenced virus can live on surfaces for 72 hours.
(That's 3 days, Folks).
About the article above, I have just spoken to the vet.
He said the best he can do at this point is to advise us to keep our pets away from other dogs/animals until more is known either way.
There is a virus going around [here?] that seems to only affect those dogs that are in contact with other dogs/animals. (Kennels, groomers, etc).
He further stressed that it is NOT this swine flu virus.
He said no other dogs, especially when taking into consideration the absence of Caseys pancreas.
Funny I had already asked Kelli yesterday already not to bring Mr Miller 'til we know more.
Love to all.
XOXO
Me
Ode to a Thief
- Mr Innocence
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Happy Day, Happy Day
It's time to blog-
Time to blog
about a dog
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Dogs are trouble
this we know
even though
we love them so.
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The weather has warmed
(what a relief)
The sunlight emboldening
a dog that's a thief
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As I was out raking
He'd entered the shed
The whole of the dog,
(and not just his head).
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My back had been turned
so I didn't know
What happens to dogs
When so boldly they go.
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In search of new toys
in my rummage sale
He'd taken a peek
And he'd spotted a whale.
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I'd come to the house
to rest for a bit
And spotted this teddy
all covered with spit!
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"Where did this come from?"
I wondered aloud
But I soon grabbed my camera
when I spied that dog...
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So silent he was
So bold and carefree
By this time already
he had stolen just three.
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By the end of the day
there were seals and bats-
Raccoons and Christmas
And a Halloween cat.
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They were all over my yard
strewn all over the place
(When Kelli retrieved one-
He'd bring more to replace).
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So a word to the wise
is what I have in mind
Tie those dogs up securely
or they might rob you blind.
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Love to all.
XOXO
Me
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