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More than two decades in the past, Claire and Lydia's teenaged sister Julia vanished and not using a hint. the 2 girls haven't spoken because, and now their lives couldn't be extra various. Claire is the glamorous trophy spouse of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a unmarried mom, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. yet neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak in their shared loss—a devastating wound that is cruelly ripped open while Claire's husband is killed.
The disappearance of a teenage woman and the homicide of a middle-aged guy, nearly a quarter-century aside: what may attach them? Forming a cautious truce, the surviving sisters glance to the earlier to discover the reality, unearthing the secrets and techniques that destroyed their kinfolk all these years in the past . . . and uncovering the potential of redemption, and revenge, the place they least count on it.
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I recently started reading The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius at the recommendation of a friend (check out Angelo Saludo's post entitled "Love Beyond" at fargreaterthings.blogspot.com). As humans, we are continually drawn to two diametrically opposite directions: one towards goodness and the other towards sinfulness. The Exercises aim to develop one's "discernment" or the ability to discern between good and evil spirits, which through continuous application and practice, the choices we make will become more aligned with God's will, which in turn lead us to a deeper union with God.
As I read through the Exercises on the Punishment of Sin, I can't help but reflect on the sins I commit on a recurring basis, without giving God's justice much thought! Suddenly I'm made much more aware of my own iniquities and how much I've offended God. I can imagine Him being saddened each time I resist His will and I persist in my stubbornness.
In the First Exercise, St. Ignatius touches upon "Sin punished in the rebel angels", wherein he asks us to consider the state of the rebel angels before they fell into sin: their purity, knowledge and wisdom, their powerful inclination toward good, God's most perfect and beautiful creations. Yet, despite of having possessed God's favor, they revolted against Him. Lucifer, in his desire to surpass God, led the rebellion. God's justice struck them like thunderbolt and were cast into the depths of hell, where they remain.
In the Second Exercise, St. Ignatius touches upon "Sin punished in Adam and his posterity". Again, as with the rebel angels, St. Ignatius asks us to consider Adam's state before he sinned: the excellence of his being, the happiness and glory of his being, the innocence of his heart, the paradise where he lived, his relationship with God and the fact that he was created in the likeness and image of God. Like the fallen angels, Adam also fell into sin when he chose to listen to Eve, who was tempted by the serpent to eat from the tree of knowledge. As punishment, God expelled them from the Garden of Eden, cursed Eve with the pain of childbirth, and made Adam toil the land for food. St. Ignatius characterized the first sin as imprudent, sin of the senses, cowardice, contempt of God and blindness.
Out of all these characteristics, "blindness" resonated with me the most. St. Ignatius defined blindness as having deceived ourselves at the moment of temptation by foolish reasonings on the justice of God and on His mercy; by having persuaded ourselves that sin is not so great an evil and God is too good to punish us. How many times have I begged God to hear my prayers despite knowing how my request must greatly offend Him; disillusioned with the thought that my unreasonable requests are not offensive in His eyes? How many times have I justified my errant ways by dismissing it as the "social norm" even when my conscience dictates it as unethical? Clearly I have much to learn on proper discernment.
These first two exercises show us that even the angels, God's most perfect creation, and Adam having enjoyed full benefits from God, were capable of sinning and despite their status, still God's justice fell upon them. These were meant to steer us into a deep reflection on the state of our own souls and inspire us to always choose the path that will lead us closer to Him.
I am often reminded that God is generous with His mercy and grace abounds to those who seek it; however, this journey with St. Ignatius makes me much more aware of my unworthiness, so the more fervently I must seek to do His will. I pray that these exercises will quench my thirst for a deeper communion with God, to gain a broader knowledge on how to discern God's voice amidst the noise that pollutes our senses today and learn practical ways in applying these exercises to stay on the path which leads us to God.
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Some people look like their pets, or their pets look like them, something about the shape of the chin, the set of the eyes, and Kit is no exception, almost. Where her furred friends are black and black/silver she Kit is red head. All three have amber eyes.

Kit's build is slight and athletic, her nails short and in need of good scrubbing. Astraia's fur is black, tipped with white, giving it a dark silvery color, except for the white around her shoulders, down the bridge of her nose, and tip of her tail. Nyx is darker, with a white tipped tail and a touch of white on one paw.

Strip away the mask and the resemblance increases. Black ears, a white tipped red tail, and slit pupil, amber vulpine eyes mark this beast as a red fox. And if you look closely at her 'dogs', you'll see the cat-like eyes, set foxes apart from their canine cousins. Pinned to her bush hat are three crocuses, and the scent of spring rain clings to her. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kit_v_carson:832 Rest stop 2007-08-30T02:46:04Z 2007-09-12T20:32:53Z Kit lets her backpack slide off her back then sits down on the park bench. She fishes out 2 apples and a bag of beef jerky from a pocket of the bag. She gives each of her furry friends a piece of jerky and gets out a pocket knife. While Nyx and Astraia make short work of the jerky she peels the apples, which she shares with her friends. While chewing on her piece of jerky she takes off her hat and wipes the sweat from her brow with a bandanna. Her red curls are pulled back into a pony tail.

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LAST NIGHT By James Salter
Salter was born James Arnold Horowitz, the son of a moderately wealthy New Jersey real estate consultant/economist, on June 10, 1925. He attended the Horace Mann School, and among his classmates were Julian Beck and William F. Buckley, Jr., while Jack Kerouac attended during the 1939-40 academic year. He is alternately said to have favored Stanford University or MIT as his choice of college, but entered West Point on July 15, 1942, at the urging of his alumnus father, Col. Louis G. Horowitz, who had gone back into the Corps of Engineers in July 1941 in anticipation of the war. Like his father, Horowitz attended West Point during a world war, when classes sizes were greatly increased and the curriculum drastically shortened (his father graduated in November 1918, after only 16 months in the academy, and with others of his Class of 1919 was called back after a month of duty to complete a post-graduate officer's course). Horowitz graduated in 1945 after just three years, ranked 49th in general merit in his class of 852. He was known among classmates as "Horrible" Horowitz. He completed flight training during his first class year, with primary flight training at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and advanced training at Stewart Field, New York. On a cross-country navigation flight in May 1945, his flight became scattered, and low on fuel, he mistook a railroad trestle for a runway, crashlanding his T-6 Texan training craft into a house in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Possibly as a result, he was assigned to multi-engine training in B-25s until February 1946, and received his first unit assignment with the 6th Troop Carrier Squadron, stationed at Nielson Field, the Philippines; Naha Air Base, Okinawa; and Tachikawa Air Base, Japan. He was promoted to 1st lieutenant in January 1947. Salter was transferred in September 1947 at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, then entered post-graduate studies at Georgetown University in August 1948, receiving his master's degree in January 1950. He was assigned to the headquarters of the Tactical Air Command at Langley AFB, Virginia, in March, where he remained until volunteering for assignment in the Korean War. He arrived in Korea in February 1952 after transition training in the F-86 Sabre with the 75th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron at Presque Isle Air Force Base, Maine. Horowitz was assigned to the 335th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing, a renowned MiG-hunting unit. He flew more than 100 combat missions between February 12 and August 6, 1952, and was credited with a MiG-15 victory July 4, 1952. He used his Korean experience for his first novel, The Hunters (1956), which was made into a film starring Robert Mitchum in 1958. The movie version of The Hunters was honored with much acclaim for its powerful performances, moving plot, and realistic portrayal of the Korean War. Although an excellent adaptation for Hollywood, it was very different from the original novel, which dealt with the slow self-destruction of a 31-year-old fighter pilot, who was once thought to be a "hot shot" but who found nothing but frustration in his first combat experience while others around him achieved glory, some of it perhaps invented. He served twelve years in the U.S. Air Force, the last six as a fighter pilot, before leaving the military to pursue a writing career, a decision he found difficult because of his passion for flying. His works based on his Air Force experiences have a fatalistic tone: his protagonists, after struggling with conflicts between their reputations and self-perceptions, are killed in the performance of duties while inept antagonists within their own ranks soldier on. Salter paints a vivid and familiar picture for any military pilot who has survived aerial combat. Salter was subsequently stationed in Germany and France, promoted to major, assigned to lead an aerial demonstration team, and became a squadron operations officer, in line to become a squadron commander. In his off-duty time he worked on his fiction, completing a manuscript that was eventually rejected by publishers, and another that became The Hunters. Despite the responsibilities of a spouse and two small children, he abruptly left active duty with the Air Force in 1957 to pursue his writing. His 1961 novel The Arm of Flesh drew on his experiences flying with the 36th Fighter-Day Wing at Bitburg Air Base, Germany, between 1954 and 1957. An extensively revised version of the novel was reissued in 2000 as Cassada. However, Salter himself later disdained both of his "Air Force" novels as products of youth "not meriting much attention." After several years in the Air Force Reserve, Salter severed his connection completely in 1961 by resigning his commission after his unit was called up to active duty for the Berlin Crisis. He moved back to New York with his family, which included twins born in 1962, and legally chaged his name to Salter.
Walter Such was a translator. He liked towrite with a green fountain pen that he had a habit of raising in the air slightly after eachsentence, almost as if his hand were a mechanicaldevice. He could recite lines of Blok in Russianand then give Rilke's translation of them inGerman, pointing out their beauty. He was asociable but also sometimes prickly man, whostuttered a little at first and who lived with his wife in a manner they liked. But Marit, his wife, was ill. He was sitting with Susanna, a family friend.Finally, they heard Marit on the stairs, and shecame into the room. She was wearing a red silkdress in which she had always been seductive, with her loose breasts and sleek, dark hair. In the white wire baskets in her closet were stacks of folded clothes, underwear, sport things,nightgowns, the shoes jumbled beneath on the floor. Things she would never again need. Also jewelry, bracelets and necklaces, and a lacquerbox with all her rings. She had looked through the lacquer box at length and picked several. She didn't want her fingers, bony now, to be naked. —You look re-really nice, her husband said. —I feel as if it's my first date or something. Are you having a drink? —Yes. —I think I'll have one. Lots of ice, she said. She sat down. —I have no energy, she said, that's the most terrible part. It's gone. It doesn't come back. I don't even like to get up and walk around. —It must be very difficult, Susanna said. —You have no idea. Walter came back with the drink and handed it to his wife. —Well, happy days, she said. Then, as if suddenly remembering, she smiled at them. A frightening smile. It seemed to mean just the opposite. It was the night they had decided would be the one. On a saucer in the refrigerator, the syringe lay. Her doctor had supplied the contents. But a farewell dinner first, if she were able. It should not be just the two of them, Marit had said. Her instinct. They had asked Susanna rather than someone closer and grief-filled, Marit's sister, for example, with whom she was not on good terms, anyway, or older friends. Susanna was younger. She had a wide face and high, pure forehead. She looked like the daughter of a professor or banker, slightly errant. Dirty girl, one of their friends had commented about her, with a degree of admiration. Susanna, sitting in a short skirt, was already a little nervous. It was hard to pretend it would be just an ordinary dinner. It would be hard to be offhanded and herself. She had come as dusk was falling. The house with its lighted windows—every room seemed to be lit—had stood out from all the others like a place in which something festive was happening. Marit gazed at things in the room, the photographs with their silver frames, the lamps, the large books on Surrealism, landscape design, or country houses that she had always meant to sit down with and read, the chairs, even the rug with its beautiful faded color. She looked at it all as if she were somehow noting it, when in fact it all meant nothing. Susanna's long hair and freshness meant something, though she was not sure what. Certain memories are what you long to take with you, she thought, memories before Walter, from when she was a girl. Home, not this one but the original one with her childhood bed, the window on the landing out of which she had watched the swirling storms of long-ago winters, her father bending over her to say good night, the lamplight in which her mother was holding out a wrist, trying to fasten a bracelet.
That home. The rest was less dense. The rest was a long novel so like your life; you were going through it without thinking and then one morning it ended: there were bloodstains. —I've had a lot of these, Marit reflected. —The drink? Susanna asked. —Yes. —Over the years, you mean. —Yes, over the years. What time is it getting to be? —Quarter to eight, her husband said. —Shall we go? —Whenever you like, he said. No need to hurry. —I don't want to hurry. She had, in fact, little desire to go. It was one step closer. —What time is the reservation? she asked. —Any time we like. —Let's go, then. It was in the uterus and had travelled from there to the lungs. In the end, she had accepted it. Above the square neckline of her dress the skin, pallid, seemed to emanate a darkness. She no longer resembled herself. What she had been was gone; it had been taken from her. The change was fearful, especially in her face. She had a face now that was for the afterlife and those she would meet there. It was hard for Walter to remember how she had once been. She was almost a different woman from the one to whom he had made a solemn promise to help when the time came. Susanna sat in the back as they drove. The roads were empty. They passed houses showing a shifting, bluish light downstairs. Marit sat silent. She felt sadness but also a kind of confusion. She was trying to imagine all of it tomorrow, without her being here to see it. She could not imagine it. It was difficult to think the world would still be there. At the hotel, they waited near the bar, which was noisy. Men without jackets, girls talking or laughing loudly, girls who knew nothing. On the walls were large French posters, oldlithographs, in darkened frames. —I don't recognize anyone, Marit commented. Luckily, she added. Walter had seen a talkative couple they knew, the Apthalls. —Don't look, he said. They haven't seen us. I'll get a table in the other room. —Did they see us? Marit asked as they were seated. I don't feel like talking to anyone. —We're all right, he said. The waiter was wearing a white apron and black bow tie. He handed them the menu and a wine list. —Can I get you something to drink? —Yes, definitely, Walter said. He was looking at the list, on which the prices were in roughly ascending order. There was a Cheval-Blanc for five hundred and seventy-five dollars. This Cheval-Blanc, do you have this? —The 1989? the waiter asked. —Bring us a bottle of that. —What is Cheval-Blanc? Is it a white? Susanna asked when the waiter had gone. —No, it's a red, Walter said. —You know, it was very nice of you to join us tonight, Marit said to Susanna. It's quite a special evening. —Yes. —We don't usually order wine this good, she explained.
The two of them had often eaten here, usually near the bar, with its gleaming rows of bottles. They had never ordered wine that cost more than thirty-five dollars. How was she feeling, Walter asked while they waited. Was she feeling O.K.? —I don't know how to express how I'm feeling. I'm taking morphine, Marit told Susanna. It's doing the job, but . . . she stopped. There are a lot of things that shouldn't happen to you, she said. Dinner was quiet. It was difficult to talk casually. They had two bottles of the wine, however. He would never drink this well again, Walter could not help thinking. He poured the last of the second bottle into Susanna's glass. —No, you should drink it, she said. It's really for you. —He's had enough, Marit said. It was good, though, wasn't it? —Fabulously good. —Makes you realize there are things . . . oh, I don't know, various things. It would be nice to have always drunk it. She said it in a way that was enormously touching. They were all feeling better. They sat for a while and finally made their way out. The bar was still noisy. Marit stared out the window as they drove. She was tired. They were going home now. The wind was moving in the tops of the shadowy trees. In the night sky there were brilliant blue clouds, shining as if in daylight. —It's very beautiful tonight, isn't it? Marit said. I'm struck by that. Am I mistaken? —No. Walter cleared his throat. It is beautiful. —Have you noticed it? she asked Susanna. I'm sure you have. How old are you? I forget. —Twenty-nine. —Twenty-nine, Marit said. She was silent for a few moments. We never had children, she said. Do you wish you had children? —Oh, sometimes, I suppose. I haven't thought about it too much. It's one of those things you have to be married to really think about. —You'll be married. —Yes, perhaps. —You could be married in a minute, Marit said. She was tired when they reached the house. They sat together in the living room as if they had come from a big party but were not quite ready for bed. Walter was thinking of what lay ahead, the light that would come on in the refrigerator when the door was opened. The needle of the syringe was sharp, the stainless-steel point cut at an angle and like a razor. He was going to have to insert it into her vein. He tried not to dwell on it. He would manage somehow. He was becoming more and more nervous. —I remember my mother, Marit said. She wanted to tell me things at the end, things that had happened when I was young. Rae Mahin had gone to bed with Teddy Hudner. Anne Herring had, too. They were married women. Teddy Hudner wasn't married. He worked in advertising and was always playing golf. My mother went on like that, who slept with whom. That's what she wanted to tell me, finally. Of course, at the time, Rae Mahin was really something. Then Marit said, I think I'll go upstairs. She stood up. I'm all right, she told her husband. Don't come up just yet. Good night, Susanna. When there were just the two of them, Susanna said, I have to go. —No, don't. Please don't go. Stay here. She shook her head. I can't, she said.
—Please, you have to. I'm going to go upstairs in a little while, but when I come down I can't be alone. Please. There was silence. —Susanna. They sat without speaking. —I know you've thought all this out, she said. —Yes, absolutely. After a few minutes, Walter looked at his watch; he began to say something but then did not. A little later, he looked at it again, then left the room. The kitchen was in the shape of an L, old-fashioned and unplanned, with a white enamel sink and wooden cabinets painted many times. In the summers they had made preserves here when boxes of strawberries were sold at the stairway going down to the train platform in the city, unforgettable strawberries, their fragrance like perfume. There were still some jars. He went to the refrigerator and opened the door. There it was, the small etched lines on the side. There were ten ccs. He tried to think of a way not to go on. If he dropped the syringe, broke it somehow, and said his hand had been shaking . . . He took the saucer and covered it with a dish towel. It was worse that way. He put it down and picked up the syringe, holding it in various ways—finally, almost concealed against his leg. He felt light as a sheet of paper, devoid of strength. Marit had prepared herself. She had made up her eyes and put on an ivory satin nightgown, low in back. It was the gown she would be wearing in the next world. She had made an effort to believe in an afterworld. The crossing was by boat, something the ancients knew with certainty. Over her collarbones lay strands of a silver necklace. She was weary. The wine had had an effect, but she was not calm. In the doorway, Walter stood, as if waiting for permission. She looked at him without speaking. He had it in his hand, she saw. Her heart skidded nervously, but she was determined not to show it. —Well, darling, she said. He tried to reply. She had on fresh lipstick, he saw; her mouth looked dark. There were some photographs she had arranged around her on the bed. —Come in. —No, I'll be back, he managed to say. He hurried downstairs. He was going to fail; he had to have a drink. The living room was empty. Susanna had gone. He had never felt more completely alone. He went into the kitchen and poured some vodka, odorless and clear, into a glass and quickly drank it. He went slowly upstairs again and sat on the bed near his wife. The vodka was making him drunk. He felt unlike himself. —Walter, she said. —Yes? —This is the right thing. She reached to take his hand. Somehow it frightened him, as if it might mean an appeal to come with her. —You know, she said evenly, I've loved you as much as I've ever loved anyone in the world—I'm sounding maudlin, I know. —Ah, Marit! he cried. —Did you love me? His stomach was churning in despair. —Yes, he said. Yes! —Take care of yourself.
—Yes. He was in good health, as it happened, a little heavier than he might have been, but nevertheless . . . His roundish, scholarly stomach was covered with a layer of soft, dark hair, his hands and nails well cared for. She leaned forward and embraced him. She kissed him. For a moment, she was not afraid. She would live again, be young again as she once had been. She held out her arm. On the inside, two veins the color of verdigris were visible. He began to press to make them rise. Her head was turned away. —Do you remember, she said to him, when I was working at Bates and we met that first time? I knew right away. The needle was wavering as he tried to position it. —I was lucky, she said. I was very lucky. He was barely breathing. He waited, but she did not say anything more. Hardly believing what he was doing, he pushed the needle in—it was effortless—and slowly injected the contents. He heard her sigh. Her eyes were closed as she lay back. Her face was peaceful. She had embarked. My God, he thought, my God. He had known her when she was in her twenties, long-legged and innocent. Now he had slipped her, as in a burial at sea, beneath the flow of time. Her hand was still warm. He took it and held it to his lips. He pulled the bedspread up to cover her legs. The house was incredibly quiet. It had fallen into silence, the silence of a fatal act. He could not hear the wind. He went slowly downstairs. A sense of relief came over him, enormous relief and sadness. Outside, the monumental blue clouds filled the night. He stood for a few minutes and then saw, sitting in her car, motionless, Susanna. She rolled down the window as he approached. —You didn't go, he said. —I couldn't stay in there. —It's over, he said. Come in. I'm going to get a drink. She stood in the kitchen with him, her arms folded, a hand on each elbow. —It wasn't terrible, he said. It's just that I feel . . . I don't know. They drank standing there. —Did she really want me to come? Susanna said. —Darling, she suggested it. She didn't know a thing. —I wonder. —Believe me. Nothing. She put down her drink. —No, drink it, he said. It'll help. —I feel funny. —Funny? You're not feeling sick? —I don't know. —Don't be sick. Here, come with me. Wait, I'll get you some water. She was concentrating on breathing evenly. —You'd better lie down for a bit, he said. —No, I'm all right. —Come. He led her, in her short skirt and blouse, to a room to one side of the front door and made her sit on the bed. She was taking slow breaths. —Susanna.
—Yes. —I need you. She more or less heard him. Her head was thrown back like that of a woman longing for God. —I shouldn't have drunk so much, she murmured. He began to unbutton her blouse. —No, she said, trying to rebutton it. He was unfastening her brassiere. Her gorgeous breasts emerged. He could not take his eyes from them. He kissed them passionately. She felt herself moved to the side as he pulled down the cover of the white sheets. She tried to speak again, but he put his hand over her mouth and pushed her down. He devoured her, shuddering as if in fright at the end and holding her to him tightly. They fell into a profound sleep. n earliest morning, the light was clear and intensely bright. The house, standing in its path, became even whiter. It stood out from its neighbors, more pure and serene. The shadow of a tall elm beside it was traced on it as finely as if drawn by a pencil. The pale curtains hung unmoving. Nothing stirred within. In back was the wide lawn across which Susanna had been idly strolling as part of a garden tour on the day he had first seen her, shapely and tall. It was a vision he had not been able to erase, though the rest had started later, when she came to redo the garden with Marit. They sat at the table drinking coffee. They were complicit, not long risen, and not regarding one another too closely. Walter was admiring her, however. Without makeup she was even more appealing. Her long hair was not combed. She seemed very approachable. There were calls that would have to be made, but he was not thinking of them. It was still too early. He was thinking past this day. Mornings to come. At first he hardly heard the sound behind him. It was a footstep and then, slowly, another—Susanna turned white—as Marit came unsteadily down the stairs. The makeup on her face was stale, and her dark lipstick showed fissures. He stared in disbelief. —Something went wrong, she said. —Are you all right? he asked foolishly. —No, you must have done it wrong. —Oh, God, Walter murmured. She sat weakly on the bottom step. She did not seem to notice Susanna. —I thought you were going to help me, she said, and began to cry. —I can't understand it, he said. —It's all wrong, Marit was repeating. Then, to Susanna, You're still here? —I was just leaving, Susanna said. —I don't understand, Walter said again. —I have to do it all over, Marit sobbed. —I'm sorry, he said. I'm so sorry. He could think of nothing more to say. Susanna had gone to get her clothes. She left by the front door. That was how she and Walter came to part, upon being discovered by his wife. They met two or three times afterward, at his insistence, but to no avail. Whatever holds people together was gone. She told him she could not help it. That was just the way it was.
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Kidney Stones
Physician developed and monitored.
Kidney stones (calculi) are hardened mineral deposits that form in the kidney. They originate as microscopic particles and develop into stones over time. The medical term for this condition is nephrolithiasis, or renal stone disease.
The kidneys filter waste products from the blood and add them to the urine that the kidneys produce. When waste materials in the urine do not dissolve completely, crystals and kidney stones are likely to form.
Small stones can cause some discomfort as they pass out of the body. Regardless of size, stones may pass out of the kidney, become lodged in the tube that carries urine from the kidney to the bladder (ureter), and cause severe pain that begins in the lower back and radiates to the side or groin. A lodged stone can block the flow of urine, causing pressure to build in the affected ureter and kidney. Increased pressure results in stretching and spasm, which cause severe pain.
Stone Formation
Kidney stones form when there is a high level of calcium (hypercalciuria), oxalate (hyperoxaluria), or uric acid (hyperuricosuria) in the urine; a lack of citrate in the urine; or insufficient water in the kidneys to dissolve waste products. The kidneys must maintain an adequate amount of water in the body to remove waste products. If dehydration occurs, high levels of substances that do not dissolve completely (e.g., calcium, oxalate, uric acid) may form crystals that slowly build up into kidney stones.
Urine normally contains chemicals—citrate, magnesium, pyrophosphate—that prevent the formation of crystals. Low levels of these inhibitors can contribute to the formation of kidney stones. Of these, citrate is thought to be the most important.
What Are Kidney Stones?
The chemical composition of stones depends on the chemical imbalance in the urine. The four most common types of stones are comprised of calcium, uric acid, struvite, and cystine.
Calcium Stones Approximately 85% of stones are composed predominantly of calcium compounds. The most common cause of calcium stone production is excess calcium in the urine (hypercalciuria). Excess calcium is normally removed from the blood by the kidneys and excreted in the urine. In hypercalciuria, excess calcium builds up in the kidneys and urine, where it combines with other waste products to form stones. Low levels of citrate, high levels of oxalate and uric acid, and inadequate urinary volume may also cause calcium stone formation.
Calcium stones are composed of calcium that is chemically bound to oxalate (calcium oxalate) or phosphate (calcium phosphate). Of these, calcium oxalate is more common. Calcium phosphate stones typically occur in patients with metabolic or hormonal disorders such as hyperparathyroidism and renal tubular acidosis.
Increased intestinal absorption of calcium (absorptive hypercalciuria), excessive hormone levels (hyperparathyroidism), and renal calcium leak (kidney defect that causes excessive calcium to enter the urine) can cause hypercalciuria. Prolonged inactivity also increases urinary calcium and may cause stones.
Renal tubular acidosis (inherited condition in which the kidneys are unable to excrete acid) significantly reduces urinary citrate and total acid levels and can lead to stone formation, usually calcium phosphate.
Uric Acid StonesDigestion produces uric acid. If the acid level in the urine is high or too much acid is excreted, the uric acid may not dissolve and uric acid stones may form. Genetics may play a role in the development of uric acid stones, which are more common in men. Approximately 10% of patients with kidney stone disease develop this type of stone.
Struvite StonesThis type of stone, also called an infection stone, develops when a urinary tract infection (e.g., bladder infection) affects the chemical balance of the urine. Bacteria in the urinary tract release chemicals that neutralize acid in the urine, which enables bacteria to grow more quickly and promotes struvite stone development.
Struvite stones are more common in women because they have urinary tract infections more often. The stones usually develop as jagged structures called "staghorns" and can grow to be quite large.
Cystine StonesCystine is an amino acid in protein that does not dissolve well. Some people inherit a rare, congenital (i.e., present at birth) condition that results in large amounts of cystine in the urine. This condition (called cystinuria) causes cystine stones that are difficult to treat and requires life-long therapy.
Incidence and Prevalence
People who live near large bodies of water (e.g., Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico), those who live in "soft" water areas, and those who have a sibling or parent with the condition experience a higher incidence of renal stone disease. According to the U.S. National Institutes of Health, 1 person in 10 develops kidney stones during their lifetime and renal stone disease accounts for 7–10 of every 1000 hospital admissions. Kidney stones are most prevalent in patients between the ages of 30 and 45, and the incidence declines after age 50.
When should I call a doctor?
Pain in the shaded areas may be caused by a kidney stone.
If you have a kidney stone, you may already know how painful it can be. Most kidney stones pass out of the body without help from a doctor. But sometimes a stone will not pass. It may even get larger. Your doctor can help.
You should call a doctor if you have any of the following signs:
• extreme pain in your back or side that will not go away
• blood in your urine
• fever and chills
• vomiting
• urine that smells bad or looks cloudy
• a burning feeling when you urinate
These may be signs of a kidney stone that needs a doctor's care.
What do my kidneys do?
Your kidneys are bean-shaped organs, each about the size of your fist. They are located near the middle of your back, just below the rib cage, one on each side of the spine. The kidneys are sophisticated trash collectors. Every day, your kidneys process about 200 quarts of blood to sift out about 2 quarts of waste products and extra water. The wastes and extra water become urine, which flows to your bladder through tubes called ureters. Your bladder stores urine until you go to the bathroom.
Wastes removed from the blood go to the bladder.
The wastes in your blood come from the normal breakdown of active muscle and from the food you eat. Your body uses the food for energy and self-repair. After your body has taken what it needs from the food, wastes are sent to the blood. If your kidneys did not remove these wastes, they would build up in the blood and damage your body.
In addition to removing wastes, your kidneys help control blood pressure. They also help make red blood cells and keep your bones strong.
What is a kidney stone?
A kidney stone is a solid piece of material that forms in a kidney out of substances in the urine.
A stone may stay in the kidney or break loose and travel down the urinary tract. A small stone may pass all the way out of the body without causing too much pain.
A larger stone may get stuck in a ureter, the bladder, or the urethra. A problem stone can block the flow of urine and cause great pain.
Are all kidney stones alike?
No. Doctors have found four major types of kidney stones.
• The most common type of stone contains calcium. Calcium is a normal part of a healthy diet.
Calcium that is not used by the bones and muscles goes to the kidneys. In most people, the kidneys flush out the extra calcium with the rest of the urine. People who have calcium stones keep the calcium in their kidneys.
The calcium that stays behind joins with other waste products to form a stone. The most common combination is called calcium oxalate.
• A struvite stone may form after an infection in the urinary system. These stones contain the mineral magnesium and the waste product ammonia.
• A uric acid stone may form when the urine contains too much acid. If you tend to form uric acid stones, you may need to cut back on the amount of meat you eat.
• Cystine stones are rare. Cystine is one of the building blocks that make up muscles, nerves, and other parts of the body. Cystine can build up in the urine to form a stone. The disease that causes cystine stones runs in families.
What do kidney stones look like?
Kidney stones may be as small as a grain of sand or as large as a pearl. Some stones are even as big as golf balls. Stones may be smooth or jagged. They are usually yellow or brown.
Golf-ball-sized and brown Jagged and yellow Small and smooth
Kidney stones vary in size and shape. These are not actual size.
What can my doctor do about a problem stone?
If you have a stone that will not pass by itself, your doctor may need to take steps to get rid of it. In the past, the only way to remove a problem stone was through surgery.
Now, doctors have new ways to remove problem stones. The following sections describe a few of these methods.
Shock Waves
Your doctor can use a machine to send shock waves directly to the kidney stone. The shock waves break a large stone into small stones that will pass through your urinary system with your urine. The full name for this method is extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. Doctors often call it ESWL for short. Lithotripsy is a Greek word that means stone crushing.
Two types of shock wave machines exist. With one machine, you sit in a tub of water. With most newer machines, you lie on a table. A health technician will use ultrasound or x-ray images to direct the sound waves to the stone.
Tunnel Surgery
In tunnel surgery, the doctor makes a small cut into the patient's back and makes a narrow tunnel through the skin to the stone inside the kidney. With a special instrument that goes through the tunnel, the doctor can find the stone and remove it. The technical name for this method is percutaneous nephrolithotomy.
A ureteroscope looks like a long wire. The doctor inserts it into the patient's urethra, passes it up through the bladder, and directs it to the ureter where the stone is located. The ureteroscope has a camera that allows the doctor to see the stone. A cage is used to catch the stone and pull it out, or the doctor may destroy it with a device inserted through the ureteroscope.
Ask your doctor which method is right for you.
How will my doctor find out what kind of stone I have?
Try to catch a stone in a strainer.
The best way for your doctor to find out what kind of stone you have is to test the stone itself. If you know that you are passing a stone, try to catch it in a strainer.
Your doctor may ask for a urine sample or take blood to find out what caused your stone. You may need to collect your urine for a 24-hour period. These tests will help your doctor find ways for you to avoid stones in the future.
Why do I need to know the kind of stone?
The therapy your doctor gives you depends on the type of stone you have. For example, a medicine that helps prevent calcium stones will not work if you have a struvite stone. The diet changes that help prevent uric acid stones may not work to prevent calcium stones. Therefore, careful analysis of the stone will help guide your treatment.
What can I do to avoid more stones?
Drink more water. Try to drink 12 full glasses of water a day. Drinking lots of water helps to flush away the substances that form stones in the kidneys.
You can also drink ginger ale, lemon-lime sodas, and fruit juices. But water is best. Limit your coffee, tea, and cola to 1 or 2 cups a day because the caffeine may cause you to lose fluid too quickly.
Try to drink 12 full glasses of water every day.
Your doctor may ask you to eat more of some foods and to cut back on other foods. For example, if you have a uric acid stone, your doctor may ask you to eat less meat, because meat breaks down to make uric acid.
If you are prone to forming calcium oxalate stones, you may need to limit foods that are high in oxalate. These foods include rhubarb, beets, spinach, and chocolate.
The doctor may give you medicines to prevent calcium and uric acid stones.
Points to Remember
• Most stones will pass out of the body without a doctor's help.
• See your doctor if you have severe pain in your back or side that will not go away.
• See your doctor if you have blood in your urine—urine will appear pink.
• When you pass a stone, try to catch it in a strainer to show your doctor.
• Drink lots of water to prevent more kidney stones from forming.
• Talk with your doctor about other ways to avoid more stones.
What I need to know about Kidney Stones
On this page:
• When should I call a doctor?
• What do my kidneys do?
• What is a kidney stone?
• Are all kidney stones alike?
• What do kidney stones look like?
• What can my doctor do about a problem stone?
• How will my doctor find out what kind of stone I have?
• Why do I need to know the kind of stone?
• What can I do to avoid more stones?
• Points to Remember
• For More Information
• Acknowledgments
Points to Remember
• Most stones will pass out of the body without a doctor's help.
• See your doctor if you have severe pain in your back or side that will not go away.
• See your doctor if you have blood in your urine—urine will appear pink.
• When you pass a stone, try to catch it in a strainer to show your doctor.
• Drink lots of water to prevent more kidney stones from forming.
• Talk with your doctor about other ways to avoid more stones.
For More Information
American Urological Association Foundation
1000 Corporate Boulevard, Suite 410
Linthicum, MD 21090
Phone: 1–866–RING–AUA (746–4282)
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Internet: www.auafoundation.org
National Kidney Foundation, Inc.
30 East 33rd Street
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 1–800–622–9010 or 212–889–2210
Internet: www.kidney.org
Oxalosis and Hyperoxaluria Foundation
201 East 19th Street, Suite 12E
New York, NY 10003
Phone: 1–800–OHF–8699 (643–8699) or 212–777–0470
Fax: 212–777–0471
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Alex Bagnara grew up in Costa Mesa, California. He was born on December 1st, 1992 in Huntington Beach, CA.
Alex attended Christ Lutheran Church and School in Costa Mesa from Pre-school through 8th grade. He attended Orange
Lutheran High School in Orange, CA. While in high school he was involved in the fine art departments. He primarily
enjoyed Sculpting courses. Throughout his high school years Alex would help out at Christ Lutheran in their Jr High youth programs. His experience
there and influence from his DCE in those years is what got him looking into the DCE field. Alex attended Concordia
Univeristy, Irvine. While there he was able to participate in the Around-the-World semester, which taught him a lot about
various world cultures, religions, and practices, his group traveled through 10 countries in 4 months. In May of 2015 Alex graduated from Concordia with a Bachelors in Christian Education Leadership and a minor in Global Cultural
Studies. During the 2015-2016 calendar year Alex will be interning at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Kingsville, MD. This internship year
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The September, 2012 issue of Educational Leadership had some excellent articles about feedback for learning (the theme of the issue). One article that struck a special chord with me is a short two-page essay by Carol Ann Tomlinson (the same Carol Ann Tomlinson who is the differentiation guru!)[i]. Because of its location (towards the back of the issue) and size, you might have missed it!
Two aspects of this article are extremely powerful. One is how the author took her failure to improve student writing to heart and, as a result, developed a powerful set of student feedback and improvement principles and practices. The second important result is the development of a concept called "teacher learning moments" -- i.e. the ability of a teacher to take a negative teaching experience and use it as a catalyst to develop improved instructional approaches. Let's look at these one at a time.
Improving student learning through feedback
In the article, Dr. Tomlinson (from now on called Dr. T) recalls a student in one of her English classes, Heather, who was a good writer. Dr. T. worked hard to provide her with helpful feedback and praise that would make her an even better writer, and thought she was really helping her to improve her writing. But, after Heather had graduated and gone on to college, Dr. T. met her mother in a local store and asked her whether Heather was doing writing in college that she enjoyed. In response, her mother said "Last week she (Heather) told me that for the first time in her life she was learning to become a better writer".
This comment was "a punch in the stomach" to Dr. T., but she used this negative experience to try to figure out why Heather (and probably the other students in the class) didn't feel that her writing had improved. Dr. T. realized that she had praised what Heather had written, but she "had no mechanism for helping her get better".
Due to this insight, Dr. T. spent some time rethinking her teaching of writing. A few years later, in an "advanced seminar on education issues" college level course, she implemented the following five feedback principles to improve the writing abilities of her students:[ii]
Develop and share core target goals. The first step in improving learning is to develop a clear focus, a clear target for improvement, and to share that target with students. What is it that you really want your students to improve? What is your focus? Without a clear target, how can you know if you are helping your students improve? Unfortunately, many teachers often do not have a focused, targeted goal for improvement. And often, even when there is clarity, it is not shared with students. Thus, Dr. T. made it a point to explain to her college students that her target was to help them develop their power as writers and thinkers.
Clarify and share the key elements of excellence for the targeted goals, along with progressions for growth for each element. In order to "turn good writers into stellar ones – and adequate writers into good ones", Dr. T. had to determine what poor, good and excellent writing look like. What are the characteristics of each? And how do you create a road map leading from poor to good and good to excellent writing? Dr. T. shared the key elements of writing excellence with students in a rubric format, along with a progression of growth for each criterion.
Give precise feedback and suggest specific ways for students to improve their work. Two key words here are "precise" and "specific". Given the current level of student work, what precise feedback and specific suggestions for next steps will help students make improvements? The clarity of good writing elements and the development of a writing improvement process helped to transform her formerly vague and general feedback into useful, precise feedback and specific, helpful suggestions. Thus, Dr. T. gave her students precise and specific feedback on the results of their writing assignments.
Ask students to consider which components of your feedback are useful and which are not, and why, and ask them to develop plans for improvement. After receiving precise feedback, students wrote notes to Dr. T. indicating "which elements of the feedback seemed useful to them and which elements seemed off target". They also wrote a brief plan for how they would use the helpful feedback to improve their writing. When there were misunderstandings in interpreting her feedback, Dr. T. met with the student briefly after class. This changed the improvement process from one that was being done to students to one that was being done with students! It also "customized" (differentiated) the learning process so that students developed their own unique plan and "owned" the result. And, finally, it gave her students a chance to learn how to analyze their own writing strengths and weaknesses, increasing the possibility of significant long-term results.
Don't grade students through the improvement process! Dr. T. realized that her early grading of writing got in the way of student improvement. As she puts it: "…many [students] were so focused on getting the right answer that actual learning was a sidebar". So she decided not to grade any writing until near the end of the semester! The upshot was that, during the early part of the semester, the students developed a true learning community that helped them all improve their writing.
After reflecting on Dr. T's principles for improving student learning, I realized how often, as a social studies middle and high school teacher, I violated and ignored these principles and practices. Sometimes I taught without having a clear, focused, targeted improvement goal, thereby making it virtually impossible for my students to improve their learning. Sometimes I was clear about my improvement goals, but spent little time clarifying the elements of excellence and providing precise feedback. Only rarely was I clear about a targeted improvement goal (such as helping my students categorize and create generalizations from historical knowledge), and then shared the elements of excellence, provided precise feedback, and visibly improved my students' learning.
I also realized that these five principles, taken together, create a powerful process that all teachers can use to improve student learning for many different learning targets – for example, research skills, science investigation, long term projects, problem solving skills, critical or creative thinking, information literacy, reading for understanding, and other major goals teachers may want to work on with their students. The five principles can be adapted to all grade levels and all subjects.
Teacher Learning Moments
While a major result of Dr. T.'s analysis of her teaching is the five principles of feedback, another important insight she also offers us is her basic attitude towards failure and improvement. We know that all teachers make mistakes, have problems with classroom teaching and individual students, and need support and help. But one major difference among teachers is how they deal with these challenges. Instead of using mistakes, errors, and failures to improve teaching, too many hide instructional problems behind the closed door of the classroom. Many teachers are ashamed of their weaknesses. Some schools and districts understand that evaluations create opportunities for feedback, improvement, and new learning, but, in many cases, teaching problems are equated with failure, and the typical teacher evaluation process often deals with problems and mistakes through a negative judgment lens, rather than treating them as learning moments. This ultimately reinforces the desire to hide mistakes, failures, and problems, so that little or no progress is made in rectifying the situation!
As a profession, we need to take Dr. T.'s personal attitude towards improving her teaching to heart. Simply put, teaching problems, failures, and mistakes should be continually used to improve and refine teaching! In fact, the five feedback principles cited above can also be used to improve teaching experiences. Let's use "teacher learning moments", garnered through teacher self-evaluations and teacher observations, to set teacher growth targets, clarify what excellence and progress means, observe and give specific, precise feedback, and ask teachers to evaluate feedback and develop plans for change. Let's develop non-threatening, non-judgmental environments so that teachers can work on improving their craft in a comfortable environment. This too is an important lesson we can learn from Dr. T.'s experience.
Learning occurs in many ways, and we can't, nor should we, always target the exact learning that will occur with our students. But one aspect of our teaching responsibility is to be clear about those things that we think are important for our students to learn and improve. Once we clarify core learning targets, how do we insure that our students improve their learning in these areas? The principles and practices described by Dr. T. provide us with an explicit process for improving targeted student learning. And they are also invaluable in helping teachers grow and become more competent over time. These insights make me wish that I were back in the classroom again, so I could use these principles to target student growth in key areas and analyze my own teacher learning moments so as to dramatically improve my own teaching!
[i] For more details and greater insight into both improvement principles and teacher learning moments, read Carol Ann Tomlinson's short but powerful article in the September, 2012 issue of Educational Leadership, What Heather Taught Me, pp. 88-89.
[ii] These five principles have been somewhat interpreted and adapted by the blog author, but the author has attempted to remain true to the essential features of the five principles developed by Dr. T.
Some Additional Resources on This Topic
Colvin, Geoff (2008). Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else. New York: Penguin Group. Especially the chapters on deliberate practice and their application.
Paul Tough (2012). How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishers. Especially Chapter 3, How to Think.


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When people use the term extremist, a lot of time people think of religion. While that can be true people can be extremist about a lot of things. Just look at the culture online when a celebrity does something that a group of people don't like. That's extremist.
Many have labelled Celebrity chef Pete Evans as a food extremist because of his radical views on nutrition. He has blasted a lot of science backed eating before but this time, he's taken aim on the "myth" that calcium from dairy is helpful against Osteoporosis.
While taking part in a Facebook discussion, a person that had just been diagnosed with Osteoporosis was asking him for his advice. His suggestion was that she remove dairy from her diet "as calcium from dairy can remove the calcium from your bones." When the user said they were going to have to do more reading into that, he responded with "most doctors do not know this information".
One Endocrinologist and medical director of Osteoporosis Australia took great umbrage with Pete's comments. Professor Peter Ebeling told The Daily Telegraph "He shouldn't be saying these things. It's really bad and just not true.
"The keystone to preventing osteoporosis is adequate calcium intake and this is achieved by three (daily) serves of calcium-rich foods like dairy. Dairy is the most easily available source and has the highest calcium content in it." Peter continued that Evans "has a high media profile and he does have a responsibility, but you can't assume what he says is scientifically correct". He concluded with "Osteoporosis Australia is happy to work with him and make him an ambassador to give the correct message."
It's just not Osteoporosis that Pete Evans criticised but also another user's cholesterol tablets. Telling the user "look into the side effects and the science showing how dangerous these meds are". Pete also told the user that cholesterol medication could cause Alzheimer's disease and then directed them to his $149 10-week program.
Cardiologist and Heart Foundation chief medical adviser Professor Garry Jennings fired back at the Celebrity Chef saying "I don't think he has the background training to be making these kinds of judgments, and they are not without consequence". He concluded "People are put at risk of death (with this advice). It's ill considered."
With Evans already in the hot seat for claiming that sunscreen had poisonous chemicals in them and advised people not to use them, he seems to be kicking it up a notch.


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Thursday, September 25, 2014
VIX weekly, a target
Here's the $VIX weekly candles, with 3 standard deviations plotted:
Looks like a typical market piddlefest sends $VIX above +3SD. Oh look, we had a similar piddlefest in end September 2013.
Of course there could be a bigger piddlefest this year, given the whole Fed rate rise fear thing.
But probably not as much of a piddle as the big 2012 Euro Dooooom piddle.
We'll see.
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Meanwhile Italian and Slovenian Ultramontane dictatorship are marching side to side (last parallel initiative: demolition of public administration sector), it turns useful to see the horror of WWII in North Adriatic regions considering the finalities for which was instigated:
From Douglas Willinger's post: http://continuingcounterreformation.blogspot.it/2012/06/avles-beluskes-returns-partially.html
2) Brother Primož Trubar was materially backed by the archduke of Wuerttemberg Christoph, being Wuerttember a Protestant [Lutheran] state. This is the reason for which the Jesuit order and his master 26th general superior Wladimir Ledochowsky set up the Satan's chess game of 1941-1945 occupation of Slovenia in order that they had to be the Germans the ones to cause the greatest loss and sufferance to Slovene, in order to cancel with the blood the old religious ties between the birth of the Slovenian nation and Protestant Germany.
I would add - concerning what I underlined -- that World War I, the first phase of Wlodimir Ledochowski's 2nd 30 Years War, was also to drive a wedge between "Protestant" USA/America and the birthplace of the heart of anti-Romanist Protestantism.
That was something quite apparant to me in the autumn of 1978, when I began reading English language news media accounts of Germany in the years leading up to WW1 and WW2, during my free second period at New Rochelle High School, which I attended from then to June 1980 (grades 11 and 12).
A disgusting anti German bias against the Kaiser Reich (1971-1918), but this oh the 3rd Reich is so wonderful and Hitler is such a gentleman nonsense subsequently.
From my ethnically mixed - Britian, Germany, Poland, Catholic, Jewish and some ancestral Protestant - perspective this was especially perplexing.
It ONLY made sense when looked at via the concept of the Continuing Counter Reformation.New Rochelle High School 1978
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Mučeniška pot k svobodi
Tribolation path to freedom
After Belogardizem, another very important and historical book presented to the public, now online! [Warning: some images could shock a sensible spectator. Images probably never seen by a larger public even just accustomed with the scenes of carnage of Roman Catholic Ustasha].
To drive an eternal bloody wedge of hate and blood between Protestant and German aided born Slovenia and Protestant Germany, a carnage was set up also in Slovenia, instigated by the Fascist Nazi occupation forces.
Please give a look at the pics 53 and 54, announcement of executions signed by Gestapo head Rösener, and the pic 55, with archbishop Gregorj Rožman shacking the same hand who signed that announcements of death. It is a fixed point in the Roman Catholic Ultramontane propaganda to underline that the Italian were better than Germans, and that the strict collaboration of the church with the Italians was due "in order to have a sort of damn against the German threat", allusively seen as "Protestant threat", and often accused to exploit if not to instigate the "Communist guerrilla of partisans' OF".
But Gestapo was since years a tool of Roman Catholic headed SS or: Sedes Sacrorum: http://one-evil.org/entities_organizations/evil_org_nazi_ss.htm
"........On 20 April 1934, Göring and Himmler agreed to put aside their differences—largely because of mutual hatred and growing dread of the Sturmabteilung (SA)—and Göring transferred full authority over the Gestapo to Himmler, who was at that time also named chief of all German police forces outside Prussia........."
Roman Catholic Himmler of course.
Recently the Institut for the Recent History of Slovenia calculated that the higher loss suffered by Slovenian was due to the Nazi occupator - 31,700 casualties, followed by the partisan army - 24,000, the Italian Fascist army - 6,400 and by the "anti-revolutionary front", the new name with which the Institute for the Recent History [Inštitutu za novejšo zgodovino] labelled the Slovenian collaborationist with the Nazis and the Fascists [a blog which reports the sums: (*).
With such amount of lossess and sufferance, the historical link of a Slovenia born as Protestant nation with a Protestant Germany, was forever amputated and substituted in the collective memory of the Slovene with the concept of the German as "barbarian", therefore with a Reformation which couldn't else be than a product of such "barbarianism".
It appears clear so why the church of Rome exposed herself in a vulgar manner in the bloody repression of the partisan guerrilla, after having guaranteed that no other kind of uprising against the occupant would exist outside an atheist ideology, and often seems that she purposely tried any trick to drag the military reaction of the partisan on herself. A Slovenian rural population and a more liberal citizen of the largest town, had no choice than to join the Nazifascist occupant or to surrender to the orders of the Titoist Communists under SJ trained Stalin control. Also in this way the Ultramontane crusade of 26th general superior Wladimir Ledochowsky was performed, not only massacring the liberal layers of the Catholics pushing them inside the guerrilla, but also denying any chance of political autonomy to other ideologies, more liberal than the Marxist one, in the war of resistance against Hitler, Mussolini and the Slovenian fascist collaborationist.
The pictures from #123 to #126 are esplicit, and perfectly explain why in 1953 it was chosen that cover for the book Belogardizem - from which kind of building are shoting the collaborationists Belagarda?
[Warning: I found many pictures in the posts with label "Belogardizem" which were censored and disappeared from the posts related to the events described in that book!]
Saturday, July 17, 2010
"I'll tell you honestly what I think of the MVAC. I'm not Slovenian, but also watch the Slovenes and their struggle: MVAC helps us Italians very much ... but among the Slovenes it creates such hatred that in fifty years you will not be able to overcome it. "
Italian general Ruggero conversation with the bishop Rožman in the autumn of 1942


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