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The United States has a military presence in two-thirds of countries around the world, and some of them have had enough. A group of terrorists calling themselves The Engineers initiate a terror ultimatum called the Blacklist - a deadly countdown of escalating attacks on U.S. interests.
Though it doesn't look like much, this thorn tip was embedded in my right thumb pad for half a year. I coundn't see it, and I couldn't get it out. Finally I decided to spend a couple of hours in the bath and dig around with a needle and some lignocaine.
First I found two tiny fragments well up bathed in seurum and a blob of white blood cells, but something told me there was something bigger ... deeper. Eventually squeezing, working the area, I saw a shadow beneath the pressure whitened cells. It was my reluctant quarry, I persisted until it was finally free. Within a couple of weeks the thickened skin reabsorbed, and I had full function and sensation back. Two hands! two thumbs!
Perhaps I should of gone to a GP to get an ultrasound earlier, but I'm just glad its over, it too easy to shy away from the things we must.
Sarah Splinter.
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Toronto, Canada ~ April 16, 2016.
From left to right. GW 28mm Mordheim figure, Splintered Light Kobold, Mini Knights 1/72 Orc Shaman, Airfix 1/72 Merryman, Splintered Light Kobold, Splintered Light Ratman
A hundred days. An NSA agent. Twelve housemates. One house. Will Sam Fisher take the Big Brother challenge?
Regular prescribed burning is healthy for the bog. Without occasional fires to suppress the tree and shrub
layers, the ground will become shaded, and the sun-loving
herbaceous plants will decline and eventually die.
ADCNR Photo
Graflex Speed Graphic Anniversary model (1944)
Ektar f4.7 127mm lens
Extended bellows
Ilford Delta 100 sheet film
Kodak D-76 developer