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Chelsea is a medium energy kind of girl. She adores playing in the yard, but is content to curl up and snuggle. She loves her little dog friends and we feel that she needs to be placed in a home as a second dog or as part of a little group because she is such a team player and she takes comfort in the company of another dog. She is very much a people loving dog though and she aims to please!
Chelsea is working on her house training. As with all of our dogs, even if they master this at our cozy in home shelter, they are likely going to have to continue their education once they go home.
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Julian Fane
- Artist: Julian Fane
- Links: Fanespace
Julian hails from Vancouver, Canada. He worked as a day trader on the NASDAQ until he gave it up for music (man). I met him in Seattle on my Bilious Paths tour where he gave me a cd. He'd previously been in bands (Waikiki) and done electronic forum geek mp3 stuff under "Aardvark Interface" and "Taoist Blockade". But. This 21 year old has produced an album that belies his years. Epic songs that recall Radiohead, The Flaming Lips or Mercury Rev mix with the kind of lush electronic production heard on Mum's second album or Four Tet, but these songs build and have an intensity similar to Godspeed. OK, maybe I've bigged it up too much, but it's a good album. Girls like it. People who hate Planet Mu will like it. He'll probably sign to some other big label...


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This guy is so hot, I found some small thumbnail pics of him, I have them attached here.
Please can anybody post that thumbnail images in larger version, THANK YOU!
This guy is so hot, I found some small thumbnail pics of him, I have them attached here.
Please can anybody post that thumbnail images in larger version, THANK YOU!
more thumbnails
Are those real Dick McKay's?
Yes, he's a great subject.
McKay is damned hot. He's little guy too about 5'7".
Yes, they're real, but so small, hope anbody does have those pics in large size, PLEASE POST THEM HERE!
He seems to be a small guy, but that cock, my good, pure perfection.
he's sssssssssssssooooo hot
He only did solo videos....anyone knows a m/f video action??.....or maybe a gay action video
so cute..and that dick...nice
Thanks for the hot pics TOMERSH.
Maybe you can find the thumbnail images in larger size too, I can't find them at the web.
Here's a series of 50 pics, but not of the ones you're looking for.
I'm still searching....
OK, here's a download of 4 picture sets, one of which contains the ones you're looking for...
Hello my name is Gary...
...the "R" is silent
Rapidshare doesn't seem to be working.
Here's what I have:
Hello my name is Gary...
...the "R" is silent
And here's the rest of them:
Hello my name is Gary...
...the "R" is silent
I would love to eat one of those. LOL.
I came across Dick recently at the Brazzers str8 porn site. His performer name is now Ralph Long. According to his site bio, he has 25 sex scenes under his belt so far. He is looking very hot. Check out the attached pics.
He is also developing his own website, but it is not up and running at the moment. Here is the link:
I hope to be seeing more of this sexy hung man in the future!
i don't know who's who and whether both dudes are the same but i'm fucking ready to cum over those photos of him with his cock in that juicy pussy of that girl with the gorgeous tits. thanks for posting those pix
He's adorable! And what a hammer!
Have some big "Dick" to share with you
And some more
very nice cock
More pics please, and we need the VIDEO of him jerking off!!!
Nice looking cock on him.
Don't stop me now, don't need to catch my breath , I can go on and on and on. When the lights go down and there's no one left I can go on and on and on. Give it to me, yeah.
What I love most is the look on his face. He's so proud of his big, fat cock. He loves showing it off. That's such a turn on.
Has anybody seen his body image video? I'm thinking of buying it, I want to see him jack off so badly. Is it worth it?
Believe it or not his real name is Richard and he was a hair dresser at a cheezy mall salon. He used to take out his magazine layout when it first appeared almost 10 years ago and show his clients how big his dick was.
It was a total turn off for people as it was a really small city in the middle of western Canada! He was very short and I suspect that's why hid dick appeared to look so big. Great smile though and a fairly nice guy.
My friend who was quite good friends with him said that for his earliest photo shoot he let the photographer blow him after the shoot was over. Supposedly he was "straight" but he seemed like the VERY bi type...


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Friday, January 13
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Attendance: 18,997
Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - Kobe Bryant eclipsed the 40-point plateau for the third straight game, and the Lakers dropped the Cavaliers, 97-92, to give head coach Mike Brown a win against his former team.
Bryant finished with 42 points on 15-of-31 shooting, while Pau Gasol added 19 points and 10 rebounds for Los Angeles, which has won five straight and improved to 8-1 at home.
Kyrie Irving netted 21 points to pace Cleveland, which trailed by as many as 19 but pulled within one possession midway through the fourth quarter.
The Lakers, perhaps looking forward to their matchup against the Clippers on Saturday, did not make a field goal for the first five-plus minutes of the final frame.
Their 12-point cushion entering the stanza shrunk to 82-79 with seven minutes left following Alonzo Gee's 1-for-2 effort from the foul line.
Daniel Gibson had a chance to tie the game on Cleveland's next possession, but missed a three-pointer. Bryant grabbed the rebound and hit Matt Barnes for a transition dunk to halt the 9-0 spurt.
Bryant put in his 39th and 40th point on a jumper for an 89-81 edge with 2:55 remaining, and the hosts hit enough free throws down the stretch to come away with the surprisingly tight win.
"Our guys just withstood their run. It wasn't pretty, but we just found a way and got enough stops," Brown said.
Brown's counterpart, Byron Scott, wasn't happy with his team's performance.
"I thought we could have played a lot better," Scott said. "You can't turn the ball over 20 times against quality teams like this."
The Lakers led 32-28 after the first quarter, and Bryant matched the Cavs' production in the second with 13 points. The future Hall-of-Famer bookended an 11-1 run with three-pointers for a 52-39 advantage late in the frame.
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On the Bookshelf-Elizabeth Gilbert
The one advantage of wasting yet another hour of my life arguing with Oprah, was that it upgrade the prayer status of my one true childhood friend. (I've moved three times in my childhood, losing all my friends at age six and then again at age fourteen. Emily, the amazing violinist, has stayed friends with me since we were both eighteen months old. At age 23, we both found ourselves in Madison, Wisconsin together and had several deep conversations about Christ. Emily's grandfather was a Protestant minister & her father had died recently from cancer. The summer before she had help build a Buddhist stupa somewhere out West. Now she had serious doubts of whether Christ was the one road to salvation. Our conversations were mild, pleasant. She envied me for being so certain and comfortable in my faith. Two years later, Emily departed for a THREE year study of Buddhist meditation in India. At the time, I thought it was cool. I had left my Methodist roots to join the Catholic Church. My friend was also a serious seeker and engaged in Buddhism. Same search, all paths lead to union with God.) After watch Gilbert, however, I told my husband- "I think Emily might be in serious trouble." The whole turning your back on Jesus thing isn't a recipe for a clean, serene earthly experience.
So I actually read "Eat, Pray, Love" on my birthday because I was curious about my friend. What I found out was helpful. I wouldn't recommend this read for someone with a shaky spiritual foundation, I would recommend book for to cradle Catholics. It's R rated due to pre-martial sex. But what it does explain is the horrible "lostness" of this generation. There is a hunger, a loneliness, a spiritual void, and nothing, nothing to fill it. "Our hearts are restless, until they rest in Thee."
This problem is serious for Protestants, because they are fed a slanted version of the true faith. They have baptism, they have Holy Scripture. They don't have "the church." So when doubts come, there is no pillar of truth to stand on. So people go on amazing quests, come up with batty answers, work very hard (nothing seemed more difficult than life at the Ashram) all for a shred, A SHRED of the truth we take for granted as Catholics.
I found Gilbert's voice to be typical of those fuzzy spiritual questions launched by my college friends. Gilbert's spiritual journey actually began long before she started dreaming of buying an airline ticket to Italy. At age 10, she has a full-blown crisis about her own mortality. She describes so clearly how her tenuous ties to a Protestant church did nothing to alleviate her anxiety or give her hope.
"The panic I was feeling at age ten was nothing less than a spontaneous and full-out realization of mortality's inevitable march and I had no spiritual vocabulary with which to help myself manage it. We were Protestants, and not even devout ones, at that. We said grace only before Christmas and Thanksgiving dinner and went to church sporadically. My dad chose to stay home on Sunday mornings, finding his devotional practice in farming. I sang in the choir because I liked singing; my pretty sister was the angel in the Christmas pageant. My mother used the church as a headquarters from which to organize good works of volunteer service for the community. But even in the church, I don't remember there being a lot of talking about god. This was New England, after all, and the word God tends to make Yankees nervous. My sense of helplessness was overwhelming. " (page 152).
It's hard to understand that someone can be in a Christian church and still not understand to whom their religion is named after. Yet, I can attest, this does happen. Gilbert describes her mixed up feelings and her isolations from practicing, believing, "Orthodox" Catholics who she nicknames "those who speak and think strictly."
"Culturally, though not theologically, I'm a Christian. I was born a Protestant of the white Anglo-Saxon persuasion. And while I do love that great teacher of peace who was called Jesus, and while I do reserve the right to ask myself in certain trying situations what indeed He would do, I can't swallow that one fixed rule of Christianity insisting that Christ is the only path to God. Strictly speaking, then I cannot call myself a Christian. Most of the Christians I know accept my feelings on this with grace and open-mindedness. Then again, most of the Christians, I know, don't' speak very strictly. Those who do speak (and think) strictly, all I can do here is offer my regrets for any hurt feelings an now excuse myself from their business." (page 14.)
Gilbert starts on a spiritual journey after praying for the first time in her life while crying in her bathroom floor over trouble in her marriage. What I found fascinating as a former divorce lawyer is that she refuses to give any reasons for the death of her marriage. She simply states "the many reasons I don't want to be a wife anymore are too personal and too sad to share here." (page 12.) Yet the overwhelming pain from her failed marriage is what forces her to start praying to God she doesn't yet understand. In the midst of her divorce, she begins a new sexual relationship with a man named David. He was utterly wrong for her in every way. Yet post-break-up she inexplicitly retains contact with David's "spiritual teacher," a female Guru from India. When her divorce if finalized, when her relationship with David is over, her self-imposed recipe for recovery is to give herself one year of world travel. She wants to eat pasta in Italy to learn the art of pleasure, attend an ashram in India "to learn the art of spirituality" and end in Bali "to find balance."
Reading about the start of her journey in Italy got me hooked into her story. Gilbert writes in clear prose. I felt kinship with her urge to travel. I enjoyed how she kept backing up her Hindi conversion with dramatic quotes from Catholic writers or Italian paintings. Around page 45, I told Jon "my head hurts from reading this." Reading all the swirling thoughts in Gilbert's lost head made my own head throb. After reading to the start of her journey to an ashram in India, I put down the book. I said my Te Duce for the end of year indulgence. I got ready to take my family to Midnight Mass on the Holy Day of Obligation. I was so grateful for the safety and security of living inside the Catholic Church at a time of such cultural confusion.
After service, I felt better. I picked up the book and was rewarded for my labor of the ashram with Gilbert happiness over her reunion with an 85 year old palm reader in Bali. Her journey ends in "love" with the auspicious beginning quoted below. (This is R rated, and you may want to skip this quote. I'm including it because you simply cannot make this stuff up. If anything convinces you to keep away from palm-readers and avoid trading the Pope for an Indian Guru is this next passage where Elizabeth happily reports she's finally found "love" with a fifty-two year old Brazilian.)
"Should we have an affair together, Liz. What do you think?"
"I showed him my hesitation. Which was this-that as much as I might enjoy to have my body and heart folded and unfolded for a while in the expert hands of an expat lover, something else inside me has put in a serious request that I donate the entirety of this year of traveling all to myself. That some vital transformation is happening into my life, and this transformation needs time and room in order to finish this process undisturbed. That basically, I'm the cake that just came out of the oven, and it still needs some more time to cool before it can be frosted. I don't want to cheat myself out of this precious time, I don't want to lose control of my life again." (page 243).
(For us Catholics the whole chastity mandate is utterly clear without the cute cake metaphor. Unfortunately, Liz's opinions are based on the flimsy insights gained by therapy and meditation. Her thoughts do not stand up to the utterly non-convincing arguments of her future lover.)
"Of course, Felipe said that he understood, and that I should do whatever's best for me…
Don't worry-I'm not going to chase you back to New York when you leave here in September. And as for all those reasons you told me a few weeks ago that you didn't want to take a lover, Well, think of it this way. I don't care if you shave your legs every day, I already love your body, you've already told me your entire life story and you don't have to worry about birth control-I've had a vasectomy."
Felipe, I said "that's the most appealing and romantic offer any man has ever made to me!" (page 243).
AHHH! The most appealing, romantic offer ever made to her is from a guy who floats his vasectomy? But what else can you expect as a conclusion to this intense, yet misdirected spiritual quest?
Reading this book clarified some important points for me.
Number one, the whole frantic issue of my generation "should I, or should I not have kids" is completely misdirected. The real problem is that my generation has terrible intimacy issues that prevent women & men from coming together in Holy Matrimony. If you want marriage, the Catholic Church, wisely insists, you must be open to having children. If you don't want to have children with someone, then you aren't validly married. Call it "a true spiritual partnership", flout it on Oprah, it doesn't matter. Reading Gilbert's book gave me the insight that all my "kids are great arguments" that I share with on the fence female friends is totally misdirected. Instead, I'm working hard on taming my temper issues and making my marriage of shiny, sterling quality.
Number two; I have nothing in common with people who specialize in "spirituality." We talk about similar things: meditation, truth, virtues, etc. But we are using similar tools to climb totally different mountains. The truth of Gilbert's quest is laid out in plain English. She ends up having a lot of non-life-giving sex with a fifty-two year old man and calls it "finding love." And she self-imposes amazing efforts- she scrubs temple steps, she eats all vegetarian food, she memorizes 182 versus of Sanskrit. Yet all this spiritual accomplishment falls apart as soon as she hits a rough patch. In the end, Gilbert tells a major lie to her closest friend in Bali. Her ethical framework falls apart. Her house is built on sand. "Tell the truth" quotes in the opening pages of her story "except when attempting to solve emergency Balinese real estate transactions, such as described in Book 3."
Reading Gilbert made me tired. And then it made me run out and buy a shiny New Revised Standard Bible and the complete works of our Holy Father. I'm so grateful that have access to the truth each week at Mass and even at my neighborhood Barnes and Noble.
To conclude, I wish to share one more quote. This sums up the intense effort that non-Christians can put into the spiritual quest, which the rest of us freely have handed to us through religion.
While on a bicycle ride in Bali, Gilbert states the following: "I keep remembering one of my Guru's teachings about happiness. She says that people universally tend to thing that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay a float on top of it." (Page 260).
"A mighty effort," "happiness is the consequence of personal effort," "participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings." Those words dovetail seemlessly into ideas of Yankee ingenuity, the Protestant reformation, individual spiritual quests. Our words as Catholic are subtly different. "Grace rather than individaul merit." Joy. Hope. Love. Chastity. Obedience to Authority. These words, along with the indescribable, mystical union with Jesus happen during the Mass everyday. Let us not take the gift of our faith lightly. Let us pray fervently for the union of all humanity like chicks gathered for protection under Christ's hen-like wings from the approaching storm.
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YIKES!! Danger Will Robinson, danger!!!! You know, I've always felt Oprah is smarmy and yet she is so wildly popular and some many people follow her suggestions. I'm sure her endorsement encouraged a lot of people to goofy read this book.
So have you contacted your friend? I always encourage people to read CS Lewis Mere Christianity when they are searching but lost.
BTW. What's a Te Duce for the end of year indulgence? I've never heard of that.Wow! This was a fascinating read. Thank you for posting this -- I just can't handle reading books like that, so it's helpful and interesting to read your summary. So much to think about.
I feel so bad for people who are lost in "spirituality" culture. I was recently on a mom's email list where about 99% of the women were atheist / agnostic / pagan, and it was just so painful to read of how they struggled with *everything* from raising their kids to being happy at home to death of loved-ones to relationships, etc. etc. The angst on the list was palpable. It was just so sad to see the state the their belief systems left them in.Anne Marie, we just finished watching "Lost in Space" over the New Years Holiday!
The public recitation of Te Deum on Dec 31, and Veni, Creator on Jan1 by the faithful can both gain two plenary indulgences.( I found English translations of both latin prayers on the internet.) The regular rules about going to Confession w/in 8 days, praying for the Pope's intentions, etc. also apply to make this (and all other indulgences) valid.Great post Abigail! I could have a whole post in commentary! First, your point about Protestants especially being susceptible to Eastern Mysticism relgions is true- and I think because the Protestant tradition is fairly weak on the mystical life. There are no St. Teresas, St. John of the Cross, St. Therese, St. Ignatious, etc... for them to have as guides in the mystical life that is so attractive.
Also, the big difference between Christian mysticism and Eastern mysticism (as found in Father Thomas Dubay's works on prayer) is that one is focused outwards towards union with a PERSON(S)- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit- as opposed to being focused inwards upon oneself and achieving a state where you literally cease to be (one with universal "All"). Some of the statements and practices sound similar and look similar- but the movement of the hearts and minds involved are going to two very different directions...
Finally, her comments on Christ and Christianity show her (and her "Christain" friends) weepingly sad understanding of the religion. It's a classic mistake- trying to accept Christ without accepting his own teachings and actions. They treat Jesus as a person he never claimed to be: "teacher of peace". He taught that He WAS peace! They fail to understand that He claimed Divinity- the summation and source of ALL things- exactly that "strict and narrow" thinking of Orthodox Catholics. It's true- we accept that one truth- Jesus is Lord- and it IS a narrow and strict Fact which opens up the entire expanse of Eternity- in which even the Universe is a small thing in our vision of life!Wow! Joshie, this comment is fantastic! The whole inward meditation vs. outward meditation on the Holy Trinity- is so true. Something that I felt but couldn't articulate. Jesus down-graded as a "teacher of peace" versus the "way to peace".
I'd like to encourage more people to talk about their take on this issue.I'm so glad you did this post! I just read this book last week (someone gave it to Ruth) and I felt disturbed by it as well. I thought about doing a post on it, but felt to tired. Now you did an even better one!
Two quick points: As much as I think Oprah really has good intentions in helping people, I think she has done serious harm to the spiritual well-being on many women in America. This is not the first book promoted on her show that has very serious spiritual dangers, veiled nice, fuzzy language. As they say, the path to hell is paved with good intentions!
Secondly, as interesting as I found the book from a kind of spiritual sociological point of view, overall I regret the time I spent reading it. I saw why in the past the Church banned the reading of certain books. Reading the book left me feeling vaguely disturbed for several days, did not actually do much to promote my own spiritual growth, and opened me up to unconciously imbibing dangerous emotional/spiritual ideas or even just feelings. I've never really felt this way about reading a book from "the other side" but it was a very different experience this time. Not sure why - maybe because she is a very talented writer? Hmmm...
Anyway, fabulous post!Abigail,
Thanks for the post on the book. I feel like I've read it.
So many folks I know have read it... folks hoping that it might unlock a secret or two about the spiritual pursuit.
But I think the appeal is more like the appeal of travel writing. We admire her adventure... we get to live vicariously through her pursuit of the highest and noblest aims of life.
But you're right. Where she arrives in the end, after all that work, is pretty sad.
I've just learned that self-made spiritual journeys appeal to the "self-made man" myth in America. But the end up being expansive, yet shallow. I even found the same things, ultimately, in Kerouac. But that's another story.
Hope we might stay in touch...
DLThanks for the Post. I am glad that I read it before buying the book. I am floored with her talk which is put up on YouTube and decided to buy her book. Well to give my perspective on westerners seeking God, spirituality in India is load of baloney.. What I can say about Ashrams is a congregation of sex starved people who can't find a decent person on their own and seeking guidence from social rejects and petty criminals turned into Sadhus. This is true 99% of the time. Just go thru the history of these people from birth up to sanyasi/Yogi state.
She spoke well on creativity though. I can give her credit for that...
Well thanks again for the detailed post. It saved my time, hard earned money and most importantly precious time I spend with my Kids on a weekend. I guess I should check with you before I spend a week end on reading any book!!!
Are you on Linkedin?? There you can have a list of books that you read and recommendations. It's a great feature!!


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so just kind of curious seem to have some high ass iat's seems like i remember somebody on here posting about pulling cooler charge tubes out supercharger lid and having a bunch of gunk on theirs. just was curious maybe thinking mine could be clogged causing the iat's to be so high in the car, have tim c's heat exchanger and bled the system a few times static and using tech 2 to command the pump on manually. thinking may be a air pocket in it just wondering if anybody had ever pulled the tubes out of their supercharger lid due to problem with them being clogged?
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Never seen one clogged.
The best way to fill my heat exchanger is from the top hose that attaches to it. You need to do this before reinstalling the bumper cover. Just fill it from that hose till water comes out, then connect it to the top nipple on the exchanger. If you didn't do it that way there is a chance that there is a huge air pocket in the exchanger itself.
How much water did you put back in?
It's got about gallon and a half back in the whole system so far I drained and refilled it trying to get some of the dexcool out putting distilled water back in.
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Try to pop the cover off the s/c to see if you have coolant. There is a small, square cover on the firewall end of the s/c. I was able to open mine to top off the coolant and put it back on with no issues. Others have complained about it no sealing back up though...


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Dell Inspiron laptop. About one year old. (From Dell) It downloaded a bunch of updates last night. This morning it configured them. Everything since has been very slow. When I tried to shut it down, there were several programs still running. Got that down to one but the thing still won't shut off. I have unplugged it but still it goes. Is there anything I can do before I have to take it to the shop? I am glad there are those of you who understand this. Makes me feel like a total dodo. Thanks, Rose |
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Well, that proves it. I am not only a total dodo but an impatient one as well. . The machine is now off and I will try it tomorrow. Thanks so much for the speedy help. |
Sometimes the configuring takes a long time..and during those configurations, it tells you "not to turn off the computer".. |
Rose don't beat your self up. These are not everyday things we all need to know and when we get frustrated things get worse. It took me over 90 minutes total and 3 tries to install my HP printer because HP insisted the user had to have administrator priviledges - which I had. Frustration was in charge here yesterday ha ha. |
and when we get frustrated things get worse. I can sure vouch for that! Sue |
It's a constant learning process for most every one. I just went through the printer installation and spend 2 hours wasting my time. It took the HP tech about 2 minutes before she told me it was a bad one. After all of the time spent trying the tech said I had two options, they would send me a replacement or I could take it back to the store. I ended up returning it and buying the cheapest HP printer I could find and it uses only 2 cartridges and prints in color or black ink only for only $69. |
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Elliot Shevel
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Dr Elliot Shevel – Migraine Surgery Pioneer
Nationality | South African |
Alma mater | University of the Witwatersrand |
Occupation | Founder and Medical Director of The Headache Clinic South Africa |
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Dr Elliot Shevel BDS, DipMFOS, MBBCh (born 3 January 1943 ) is a South African maxillo-facial and oral surgeon, best known for his contribution to understanding of the underlying processes involved in the pain of migraine. He is, inter alia, a tireless campaigner to bring to the attention of migraine specialists the importance of the extracranial (outside the skull) structures in migraine. The importance of these structures in migraine is not generally appreciated by most migraine specialists. The anatomical structures that have been proven to be important in migraine are a) the pericranial (around the head) muscles, and b) the extracranial terminal branches of the external carotid artery. The reason for the lack of awareness among migraine specialists of the importance of the pericranial muscles and the extracranial arteries in migraine, is that these structures are not mentioned in the diagnostic criteria for migraine laid down by the Headache Classification Committee of the International Headache Society (IHS). The IHS Classification does not require the examining physician to examine the muscles or the arteries when diagnosing migraine.[1] Shevel maintains that progress in the understanding of migraine pain has been materially retarded by this, and has published a number of papers on the subject.[2][3][4][5][6][7] Shevel has shown that the universally accepted diagnostic criteria for migraine, as laid down by the IHS, are not supported by data, and are unscientific. At the Congress for Controversies in Neurology in Vienna in 2012, Shevel debated the validity of the IHS classification criteria of migraine with the chairman of the IHS classification committee, and, after presenting conclusive evidence that the criteria had no scientific validity, was adjudged the winner of the debate.
Shevel has practised as a Maxillo-Facial and Oral Surgeon in Johannesburg, South Africa, since 1973. In 1999 he was awarded an honorary fellowship by the International College of Craniomandibular Orthopedics, and he is a peer reviewer for "The European Journal of Neurology", the "International Journal of Clinical Practice", "Headache", the official journal of the American Headache Society, and "Cephalalgia", the official journal of the International Headache Society.
His first contribution to medical science was the development of an atraumatic method of removing impacted wisdom teeth, which significantly reduces the amount of post-operative swelling and pain.[8] His major contributions have however been in the field of migraine and other primary headaches – these are expanded upon below.
Arteries and migraine pain[edit]
In 1995, Shevel observed that in some migraine patients the frontal branch of the superficial temporal artery throbbed visibly during a migraine attack. Digital compression of this artery sometimes resulted in the pain being reduced or eliminated while the pressure was maintained. When the pressure was removed, the pain returned. As a Maxillo-Facial Surgeon, he knew that this vessel could be tied off without any untoward side effects. Encouraged by the results of the surgery, he decided to publish a description of the procedure. At that stage, Shevel was unaware of the work of Harold Wolff, but when he studied the published literature, he was astounded to find that the involvement of the extracranial terminal branches of the external carotid artery in migraine pain had been recognised and proven by Wolff as long ago as 1934.[9][10][11][12][13][14] Wolff's theory has since been confirmed many times.[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]
Arterial surgery for migraine – The Shevel Procedure[edit]
Armed with this knowledge, Shevel developed a protocol for the accurate identification of the painful vessels, using a combination of history, clinical examination, Doppler flowmetry, and 3 Dimensional Computer Tomograph Angiograms. The Shevel procedure consists of minimally invasive surgical exposure and cauterisation of the painful arteries. The results of the Shevel procedure for surgical cauterisation in selected patients were excellent, particularly as all the patients undergoing the surgery were suffering from 'refractory migraine' – migraine that had not responded to any other form of treatment.[38]
Historical perspective of arterial surgery for migraine[edit]
A search of the literature brought to light a number of previously published papers describing either ligation or cryotherapeutic ablation of the terminal branches of the external carotid artery for migraine and migraine-like headaches. The first mention in the literature of arterial migraine surgery was by Abu Qasim al-Zahrawi, the personal physician to Al-Hakam II, Caliph of Cordoba, in Al-Andalus (936–1013).[39] Since then there have been numerous reports of this procedure from many countries,[40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50] but they have been largely unnoticed or ignored by mainstream headache scientists. Painful dilatation of the extracranial terminal branches of the external carotid artery is not a diagnostic criterion for migraine in the International Headache Classification,[1] and most headache specialists are unaware that is an important component of migraine pain. Harold Wolff, and his co-workers showed conclusively as far back as the 1940s that the terminal branches of the external carotid artery are a source of pain in migraine, but his work has been forgotten, and most migraine researchers today are unaware of its importance. On the contrary, some have, notwithstanding the evidence, made a concerted attempt to discredit Wolff's findings,[51] even though no one has been able to provide evidence that disproves Wolff's theory. Shevel has devoted himself to resuscitating Wolff's ideas, and to this end has published a number of articles in peer-reviewed medical journals,[2][3] while writing a constant stream of letters to the editors of the important headache journals.[52][53][54][55][56][57]
Muscles and migraine pain[edit]
In 1992, he developed an intra-oral appliance (called the Posture Modifying Appliance or PMA) for the treatment of the myofascial pain dysfunction syndrome (MPDS). When some of his patients reported that wearing the PMA had reduced or eliminated their migraines, he realised that there must be a muscle tension component to the pain of migraine. This was confirmed in a literature search, which revealed that the presence of pericranial muscle tenderness in migraine had been extensively documented, and that there is focal pericranial (masticatory and cervical) muscle tenderness with associated referred symptoms that reproduce the headache pain.[58][59][60][61][62] As the migraine headache increases in intensity, there is increasing tenderness of the pericranial muscles.[63][64] The literature search also revealed that various intra-oral appliances designed to reduce muscle tension, are effective in the treatment of migraine.[65][66][67] Shevel started restricting his practice to the treatment of migraine and tension-type headaches. The results of muscle tension treatment with the PMA for tension-type headache and for the muscle tension component of migraine are excellent, particularly as the medication with its side-effects is eliminated or reduced in successfully treated migraineurs.[68][69][70][71] Although the treatment of muscle tension has been shown to be effective in some migraine sufferers, this form of treatment has not been recognised by the vast majority of migraine specialists, and muscle pain is not listed as a symptom of migraine in the official headache classification of the International Headache Society.[1]
- ^ a b c Olesen J (2004). "The International Classification of Headache Disorders". Cephalalgia 24: 1–160. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2982.2003.00823.x. PMID 14979299.
- ^ a b Shevel E (2009). "Middle meningeal artery dilatation in migraine". Headache 49 (10): 1541–3. doi:10.1111/j.1526-4610.2009.01495.x. PMID 19656222.
- ^ a b Shevel E (2011). "The extracranial vascular theory of migraine: an artificial controversy". J Neural Transm 118 (4): 525–30. doi:10.1007/s00702-010-0517-1. PMID 21207080.
- ^ Shevel E (2007). "Vascular surgery for chronic migraine". Therapy 4 (4): 451–456. doi:10.2217/14750708.4.4.451.
- ^ Shevel E (2007). "Migraine pain – intracranial or extracranial?". Headache 47 (10): 1458. doi:10.1111/j.1526-4610.2007.00942.x. PMID 18052959.
- ^ Shevel E; Spierings, EH (2004). "The role of extra cranial arteries in migraine headache: A review". Cranio – the Journal of Craniomandibular Practice 22 (2): 132–136. doi:10.1179/crn.2004.017. PMID 15134413.
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1 I looked long and hard at what goes on around here, and let me tell you, things are bad. And people feel it. | 1 I have seen another evil under the sun, and it weighs heavily on men: |
2 There are people, for instance, on whom God showers everything - money, property, reputation - all they ever wanted or dreamed of. And then God doesn't let them enjoy it. Some stranger comes along and has all the fun. It's more of what I'm calling smoke. A bad business. | 2 God gives a man wealth, possessions and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires, but God does not enable him to enjoy them, and a stranger enjoys them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil. |
3 Say a couple have scores of children and live a long, long life but never enjoy themselves - even though they end up with a big funeral! I'd say that a stillborn baby gets the better deal. | 3 A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he. |
4 It gets its start in a mist and ends up in the dark - unnamed. | 4 It comes without meaning, it departs in darkness, and in darkness its name is shrouded. |
5 It sees nothing and knows nothing, but is better off by far than anyone living. | 5 Though it never saw the sun or knew anything, it has more rest than does that man-- |
6 Even if someone lived a thousand years - make it two thousand! - but didn't enjoy anything, what's the point? Doesn't everyone end up in the same place? | 6 even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place? |
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As for Diana, making her butch would be an insult to her as a character. Diana exemplifies that a woman can be both feminine and still have the strength of character to be a hero, this has been stated in canon for decades. Making her butch implies that a woman must take on masculine traits in order to be an equal to her male peers, something Diana herself would find insulting. Your opinion on her outfit fails to account for what kind of culture she comes from, in terms of modesty her current outfit covers more than what the ancient Greeks wore in to battle (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_…. In order to make her as you wish her to be you would have to butcher her origin, all to satisfy a modern feminist ideal.
And here comes the part you are really going to hate, you said: "that the only way a woman can be happy is by being with a man who is as powerful or even more powerful than she is" was wrong... Well... it's not. How many women want a guy who is physically weaker then them? Shorter than them? Dumber than them? The answer is not many, women are attracted to certain things in a man simply due to the way their biology works, the same is true for men. Do you think Lois would be attracted to Clark if she could physically overpower him at any moment. Finally, you totally ignored my point about how a massive difference in strength would destroy any relationship, so this time I will use Diana to explain. Say Diana is sleeping in a bed with Steve Trevor, she has a nightmare during which she kicks... now, depending on her sleeping position there are any number of pieces that Steve's body has been torn into, but I think it would be safe to assume he is dead or close to it. For someone with such great strength a relationship with anyone not on their level would just be negligent to the life of others, man or woman.


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I have decided I would like to buy a good 22 pistol or revolver. For plinking and fun with my sons. (We have several 22 rifles.)
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Deputy national police chief Pongsapat Pongcharoen, who will run as the Pheu Thai Party's candidate in the upcoming Bangkok governor election, will outline his vision for the city at a meeting of the party's executive committee on Tuesday.
Pheu Thai spokesman Prompong Nopparat revealed Pol Gen Pongsapat's planned schedule in the lead up to the election on Thursday, the Daily News website reported.
Mr Prompong said the party's executive committee would call a meeting on Sunday to officially endorse Pol Gen Pongsapat as the candidate for the city's top job. The officer would have to resign from his three posts as deputy police chief, secretary-general of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) and as a member of the State Enterprise Policy Office's board before apply for membership of the party the next day.
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The Chicago Tribune reports that their home town senator and political wunderkind Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will embark on two campaigns this week: one for the White House and the other for his health. Obama told the paper he has (once again) resolved to quit smoking.
The Senator, 45, will formally announce his presidential plans this weekend and, in that introduction to the nation, the telegenic politician would prefer that 'smoker' not be a part of his resume.
"I've never been a heavy smoker," Obama told the Tribune, "I've quit periodically over the last several years. I've got an ironclad demand from my wife that in the stresses of the campaign I don't succomb. I've been chewing Nicorette strenuosly."
No doubt Mrs. Obama will have some help in keeping her husband true to that pledge as hundreds of reporters and photographers follow Obama's every move — and puff — on the campaign trail.
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15 And whosoever he be that shall be found guilty of this fact, he shall be burnt with fire, with all his substance, because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and hath done wickedness in Israel. | 15 He who is caught with the devoted things shall be destroyed by fire, along with all that belongs to him. He has violated the covenant of the LORD and has done a disgraceful thing in Israel!' " |
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At what point in history did humans decide it was a good idea to apply poison to food crops? And with all of the science we have on the toxicity of pesticides, why do we still do it?
Poison Takes a Holiday: Rio Grande Aerial Weed Killer Spraying "Indefinitely Delayed" |
By: Kirk Murphy Saturday March 28, 2009 6:35 pm |
Last Tuesday Homeland Security's very own Border Patrol announced they were canceling their plans to begin aerial spraying of the pesticide imazapyr along a stretch of the Rio Grande the following day. In other words, the agency that demands billions to seal America's borders in large part so they can prevent Americans from voluntarily putting dangerous chemicals in their own bodies grudgingly changed their own plan to involuntary expose Americans to dangerous chemicals.


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