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Reviving 6553, the news crew is here, bringing you the latest news and happenings around V City!
Hate the helicopter designs in the recent LEGO sets, and so I based on some nice builds on Flickr and did my own version. Not getting creative for the little van though, but at least it serves the function!
An elderly couple on a weekly market in Berlin. They look together at their smartphone. Impressionist street photography in black and white.
The official LEGO Ideas blog has just confirmed that nine LEGO Ideas projects that have hit the 10,000 votes required to go on to the first review of 2016.
The nine projects include two Star Wars based ideas - a rolling BB-8 and the Jedi high council chamber. There are four minifigure scale buildings: an old fishing store, modular railway station, Jurassic Park visitor centre and a gingerbread house. The movie based project this time is Johnny Five, a model of the eponymous robot. Finally, in the science themed section we have a fossil museum display of dinosaur skeletons and a functional model of a particle accelerator.
Read all about it on The Brothers Brick.
Good news for me:
My new clothes has arrived.
Good news for you:
I spent the whole weekend dressed in various outfits and I took many photos..
Good news for the LGBT coomunity:
At least the most important. I know many of you heard of it. On friday the german parliament passed a law named "Ehe für alle" (marriage for everyone). That is definetly the best decision in this election period. :D
This white building on New Bridge Street was once London's Central News Agency. In September 1888, they received the "Dear Boss" letter which was the first usage of the name Jack the Ripper, & once that was published, the story blew up even more.
The letter was written by a journalist, & it led to so many more imitation letters which wasted police time & resources.
Nikon D7000.
This is about finding out something that you didn't want to know.
I haven't posted anything in ages because I have no ideas. Flickr sharpening has messed this up somewhat. Hope everyone on here is well.
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Everly, Fancy Words, Spectators Splatters, Hot Off the Press Overlay
Two racks for free of charge newspapers. They are everywhere.
Grüze railway station, Winterthur (Switzerland).
Lomo LC-A
Ilford FP4 Plus 125
Sad news today of the death of Aurora, the last beluga at our aquarium, just 9 days after the passing of her calf, Qila.
My mom, daughter and I visited in September. I was so impressed with their grace and power. They are truly beautiful creatures. They will be missed.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/aurora-beluga-van...
new part 2,for news, just noticed a few lil things not finished, but took photo with phone now, some reason my scanner wont communicate with my laptop..so its shitty flick sorry bro..hope you see through the mistakes....safe fella..peace bro..catch up soon..
Dominion News, which has operated at the same location in a large store since 1924, historically carried a huge variety of magazines and newspapers. I used to get the Daily Racing Forms for Triple Crown Races there when they were the only supplier. As the old neon bespeaks, they had a lot of what were once called "girlie" magazines.
I have not been inside since the popularization of the internet, and have no idea how they have survived the internet.
an ongoing exploration...
we are co-creating what is happening and we are part of the body of news. every day.
You can see their expressions when viewed large on black
This shot was taken at the Mass Games, a 100,000 person choreographed performance of simultaneous dancing and gymnastics on the field of Pyongyang's May Day stadium.
Miss Woolly at the billabong with a baby grasshopper on her cheek…which I didn't notice at the time.
Anyway, good news about Woollygirl, the best birthday present possible, received the day before when we went back to see 'Auntie Anne', the local vet for a blood test.
Just occasionally, MW's gone a bit off over the years, the first time being about 6-7 months of age.
She had a blood test at another local vet, who I must say, was a young, obese, over-confident locum standing in for the regular one and well, she didn't 'capture my confidence' as soon as we walked in.
She failed to find a vein and the whole preceedure became a complete shamozzle, with poor baby Woolly finally sinking down to the floor with abject horrified surrender in a crumpled heap while Miss Fattyboombrakes Vet continued to stick her with the needle over and over again, then cheerfully declaring, "Oh, that's interesting, this has never happened before, now I'm getting blood out of her muscle !…"
What a twit. For want of better words.
On top of that I had to pay $400 up front before they'd send the sample to the lab, then had to keep chasing her up for a result, then no firm diagnosis, but she did say, "Well…there was something showing up regarding her kidneys…but that could've been just the stress of the blood test itself…"
No suggested further investigation, not very professional.
And no, we never went back.
Woollygirl bounced back from whatever that was and I started to question if it was just the different Maremma nature, far different from breeds I was more familiar with..
Anyway, she definitely wasn't right a few weeks ago, so off we went to this new vet at another local place with a jar of her pee.
Vet said it did look a bit too murky, indicating either a bladder infection or at worst, kidney disease, so for a start, put her on antibiotics in case it was a UTI and we planned to do a blood test another day … which I kept putting off ..
She bucked up soon after starting the tablets, began eating again and returned to her normal self.
But we still had to go for the blood test ..
Coming up to my birthday, I could hardly bear the thought of any bad news, but she'd developed a limp in the back, then a worse limp in the front, so two days ago off we went again.
Although a pee sample hadn't been requested this time, I was curious to see, so again I followed Woolly around the yard..
Surprisingly easy really, she hardly notices me slip the bowl under.
S'pose she's too busy to jump up out of the squat once she's started …
Only had to do this once with Bobby, but being a boy dog, the scenario, well, more to the point, yes, I did say that, the angle is completely different.
He didn't jump away, but gave me the most puzzled look.
Perhaps he might've copped some splashback .. sorry Bobby ..
Looked at this fresh sample expecting to see a lighter, clearer colour than before.
It was the opposite, so off we went with a heaviness in my heart ..
On arrival to this new vet I'm quite amazed the girls come in to the clinic when I ask them, without having to be coaxed in on leads.
Even MW, who was clearly not keen, stood outside and procrastinated a minute, gave a little whine, but in she came anyway.
Whatever nerves happen outside are forgotten once they've passed through the door. So many interesting smells, other animals, the packets of dry food, the TREATS..
Yes, they always get a little bag of those at the end, with my intention of a happy association to this experience.
And they know it. They lock on.
Then there's the weighing machine. They both go straight to the platform and take turns in getting weighed. Then more turns.
One gets off, the other gets on.
Round and round they go.
Auntie Vet's in her late 30's but she still gets the giggles from this. For a moment we all forget what we came to do.
( MW's actually gained weight too, which is not an indicator at all for kidney disease - usually one of the biomarkers is sudden severe weightloss - so I could feel my hopes rising …)
Because there was now a new pee sample, this was examined first.
Even got put in the whizzer.
Pardon the pun.
The centrifuge machine.
No sign of infection, no excess proteins, no white blood cells, no red blood cells.
The turbidity was now not a bad sign, as the kidneys should concentrate the urine overnight if they're working properly, and this was the first woolly piddle of the day.
Auntie Vet reckoned the kidneys were definitely problem free, then a thorough examination of all MW's joints showed no problem and no pain reaction, so perhaps she'd just slipped or knocked herself around while playing boisterously.
"So.. no blood test needed today?" I still hoped to get out of it..
"Well… not unless you think she's still not right, and we keep looking.."
Haha, guess what.
I replied, " Well, I Do think she's So much better, back to her normal self, oh, much much better, back to normal, absolutely, eating well..I'll just keep an eye on her, look for any changes …"
Me and Miss Woolly, we're both cowards with blood tests ..
I did promise to bring her back for teeth cleaning sometime soon and while she's asleep the blood test can be carried out at the same time.
Apparently the anaesthetic doesn't interfere with the results.
So it's a happy house now, with MW's UTI gone - and no longer on anti-inflammatories for her limps, they're gone too - and her appetite and bouncy exuberance returned.
That's the result, good news we think, but how she got UTI, I really can't fathom.
All I knew was, it made her very uncomfortable and she was demanding I do something about it.
A worry at the time, but a valuable lesson for getting to know the nature of one's dog(s), especially how well they communicate - even Pips, when she had those ticks upsetting her - as long as you're paying attention..
This was not meant to be so long, sorry about that, but thanks for reading, and it might serve to help to other doggies and their peeps..
Oh, one more thing. This new vet only charges $110 for blood tests.
I asked her re the disparity in price compared to the $400 at the other place, 4 years ago, and she said that she doesn't have to send it away to get some lab guy to make a diagnosis, as she can do it herself. One smart cookie.
So the better vets don't have to get someone else to do their job and you pay through the nose for the slack ones, I reckon !
"We journalists are of course obliged to cover the news, but our deeper mission is to uncover the news that powerful people would prefer to keep hidden." Bill Moyers
Old idea I always want to take!
News daily ‘Hindustan’ and ‘Hindustan Petroleum’ LPG gas cylinder made for a good combo, it seems, for the guys getting their morning dose of news.