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EN I AM BACK FROM THE 2ND FOLLOW-UP APPOINTMENT WITH THE CARDIOLOGIST. I HAVE HAD RI KEEP A RECORD 4 TIMES A DAY OF MY BLOOD PRESSURE AND HEART RATE, BOTH HAVE BEEN VERY HIGH... IN HIGH STROKE RANGE (I HAVE ATRUGGLED ALL MY LIFE WITH VERY HIGH NUMBERS IN BOTH. ANYWAY... MEDICINE CHANGE ONCE AGAIN. THEY HAVE TO TRY AND GET MY BLOOD PRESSURE AND HEART RATE DOWN. I HAVEGRO GO BACK IN 6 WEEKS AGAIN BUT GOOD NEWS THIS MORNING FOR MY MRI . I HAVE AN MRI APPOINTMENT ON THIS FRIDAY 4…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) In addition to the language options in the main menu, we have enabled Esperanto for group management again . This allows our Esperanto speaking members to continue editing the descriptions and rules of existing groups. 2) The seed capital for the reprogramming of ipernity has grown gross to 19,740 EUR meanwhile. Of this, 3,389 EUR are donations and 16,351 EUR are bonds from the community. After deducting 700 EUR bank fees, this brings the…

This is only a quickie, but I just had to share with you.... Emily, my helper/cleaner, took some baby spider plants a few months ago, from my larger plant... I'd put the babies in water and told her to wait until the roots showed and then plant them into soil. Well when she came today, she said that she was wondering why there were tall thin shoots coming out of the top of the plant. Then she looked at my plant in the kitchen and said - that's exactly what is happening with her p…

Back in 2009 (only ten years ago as I write this) I had a "fold-up" mobile phone. I bought it to make telephone calls - the obvious reason. Then I found that I could also send text messages and that it had "predictive text" (which almost invariably produced results that were risible). It also had a built in camera. There is an old photographic saying that "the best camera is the one you have with you". That's true enough, if the alternative is no photo at all and, clearly, the phone mak…

EN THE PREICARDITIS MEDS PRESCRIBED FOR MY HEART PROBLEM DID NOTHING AT ALL. TODAY WAS THE FOLLOWUP WITH DR MIKE THE CARDIOLOGIST. HE IS GOING TO TRY NEW MEDS AND SEE IF THEY HELP AT ALL. BEING A DOGGIE PERSONE I AM VERY SHY OF PREDNISONE. EVEN MY WONDERFUL VET WILL ONLY PRESCRIBE IT IF THERE IS NOTHING ELSE LEFT FOR A DOGGIE. IT TAKE YEARS OFF LIFE. BUT.. AS DR MIKE Sid we are not looking to this S LONGTREM.. BUT MORE A KNOCK OUT PUNCH ! IT IS JUST A 6 DAY PACK HE ALSO IS RESTATING…

All of us who lived that 9/11 day eighteen years ago will never forget. That fateful Tuesday started out full of promise with a cloudless sky and mild temperatures until the first plane, American Airlines Flight 11 hit the North Tower of 1 World Trade Center at 8:46 AM. A second plane, United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower seventeen minutes later. By 10:28 AM both towers had collapsed and New York City was shrouded in darkness with the Statue of Liberty the only beacon of light as it…

Insects “may all look alike to human eyes, but each… is unique” with its own distinct face and “personality” that consists of traits like boldness, forcefulness, determination, shyness and even the presence of an ego, [1] despite being an estimated quintillion in number. At the same time, insects are conscious sentient beings that can communicate, think, have subjective experiences, possess a memory, feel pain, display emotions including empathy and engage in both individualistic and group b…

Many times the decision to exhibit or permit a public exhibit of photographs featuring the nude (aesthetic or erotic) art is not an easy decision since the delineation between legitimate art and pornography may appear to be blurred. Examples of this paradox exist when one considers the sculptures at the Kandariya Mahadeva Temple in Khajurâho, India, 19th century Japanese Shunga art, and the jury finding that a collection of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) featured in The Perfec…

There has been some talk around here about the use of watermarks. I have never had to use them, so I thought I would look into it and let you all know what I found out. Firstly, at present all of the websites that I post my images on are for photography or photographers, so they have the security measures of the right-click-save disabled, and so forth. But after this was brought up here, and I looked into it, I decided it might be about time I start doing adding a watermark also. One myth…

EN FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT DONT KNOW... I WAS TAKEN INTO HOSPITAL FROM MY CARDIOLOGISTS OFFICE LAST TUESDAY WITH HEART PAIN. HE GOT ME ADDMITTED STRAIGHT AWAY. HE SHEDULED A CARDIO ANGIOGRAMME IN A BID TO FIND OUT WHAT WAS WRONG. I WAS GIVEN A STRESS TEST ON WEDNESDAY.... AND THE RESULT WAS INCOMCLISIVE. THE ANGIOGRAMME WAS PERFORMED ON THURSDAY. TWO POSSIBILITIES WWERE RULED OUT AND WHAT IS LEFT FOR NOW IS THAT THE PERICARDIUM .. THE SAC SURROUNDING THE HEART IS INFLAMMED. I NOW HAVE…

When you're at a scene, taking pictures with your camera, flashes cross your mind, busy as it is registering people, behaviour, objects, light and atmosphere. Perhaps the idea how the final image should look is already growing.

From a distance Buddhism that emphasizes attaining the “highest good” and Christianity that focuses on salvation through the cross, appear incompatible and distinct especially since one branch of Buddhism is non-Theistic (Godless) in nature. However when the sayings of Siddhartha Gautama (563-483 BC), a monk, teacher and philosopher in northeastern India and the founder of Buddhism, a strand of sutras when pieced together form a messianic text and Mahāyāna Buddhism (the dominant branch with 53%…

[EN] We currently have a server malfunction. For unknown reasons one of the parallel working frontend servers is obviously looking towards an old version of ipernity. We are trying to fix this problem as soon as possible. Your IMA team [FR] Nous avons actuellement un dysfonctionnement d'un serveur. Pour des raisons inconnues, l'un des serveurs frontaux s'exécutant en parallèle fonctionne manifestement sur une ancienne version d'ipernity. Nous essayons de résoudre ce problème…

I've been a photographer for several decades, not counting from when I was a kid, and I've heard many myths and truths about what and who makes better pictures.

When it comes to plants, there is a certain way to plant seeds that will produce abundant growth and life from the plant. In life, whether we plant seeds with self or others, the results can be the same. For example, I belong to this ministry at my church that the pastor started a few years ago. Now it is time for him to move to another parish, and someone mentioned how the pastor will be missed .... and he will be. However, I brought up the importance of noticing the seeds he planted, and…

Plus aucun géotag visible parce que google demande 700 dollars d'abonnement pour assurer ce service: soit une augmentation de 600 %. Je propose de boycotter Google pour cet abus de position dominante. En l'état des choses, le groupe Geotag n'a plus de raison d'être. Il nous reste la solution de remplacer le géotag par une légende précise sous la photo.