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EN BIG HUGSSSSSSSSS AND THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR THINKING OF ME ! I WAS DISCHARGERED ON EDNESDAY AFTERNOON... BUT I AM IN HELLISH PAIN AND ALSO NOT BECAUSE OF THE OPERATION..MY SIGHT IS IN A TERRIBLE MESS. . THE STROKE WE KNOW MADE A HUGE MESS OF MY VISUAL CORTEX.... BUT HE CORTEX IS DOING AWFUL THINGS. I NEED TO MAKE APPOINTMENTS WITH H EYE DR SPECIALIST DR PATEL AND THE NEURO DR DR ANDREW BAUER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. SOMETHING HAS FRITZED IT BADLY MY BACK WOULD MAKE A FENCE…

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Le "Pont de l'Arc-en-ciel"? Juste à côté du paradis se trouve un endroit appelé le "Pont de l’Arc-en-ciel". Ce pont relie le ciel et la terre. De ce côté du pont se trouvent des terres faites de prairies, de collines et de vallées. Quand une bête chérie meurt, l'animal va à cette merveilleuse terre. Il y a toujours de la nourriture et de l'eau, sous un chaud climat printanier. Là, les animaux vieux ou chétifs sont à nouveau jeunes. Ils jouent toute la journées les uns avec le…

THE PAIN BLOCK INJECTION PROCEDURE WAS CANCELLED BECAUSE INSURANCE DIDNT GRANT IT THE PROCEDURE FINALLY HAPPENED TUESDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER !!!! BUT STEROID INJECTIONS DO NOT WORK FOR EVERYONE. OK YOU HAVE GUESSED IT !!!! IT JUST CAUSED ME EXCRUCIATING PAIN !!! OK.. MOVING ON YESTERDAY 5TH OCTOBER I HAD ANOTHER CHECKUP WITH MY SPINE SURGEON WHO DID MY 1-4 VERTEBRA FUSION SURGERY IN JANUARY. HE FEELS THAT NOW THE AWFUL PAIN NEEDS FURTHER FUSION OF THE NEXT TWO VERTEBRA. ON TOP OF T…

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But I haven't been around for a few months. Sorry! It's not just covid--Real Life has gotten in the way bigly around here. I won't bore you with details, but I haven't given up on Ipernity! We currently are smothered by smoke from the California wildfires, so I don't have much in the way of recent photos. But I'll try to post along even so-- Cheers, all! Steve

Can it get worse than a pandemic, record-breaking heat and a science-denying president? Yes, it can. All of that plus raging fires over big swathes of California, Oregon and Washington. If you don't know already, I live in southern Oregon. The closest fire to me is about 15 miles (24 km) north. The wind is currently blowing it toward the NW, but that changes, of course. There are so many fires all around that thick smoke is blanketing the entire region, making it highly undesireable to g…

EN TODAY MONDAY 32ST AUGUST I HAD A DOUBLE DOCTOR APPOINTMENT DAY. THE FIRST WAS WITH DR CHEEMA MY BRAIN SURGEON AT 11.4AM THEN DR GUNTER THE GAMMA KNIFE DOCTOR THAT DR CHEEMA TEAMED WITH ON 22ND JANUARY FOR THE GAMMA KNIFE PROCEDURE en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosurgery#Gamma_Knife WHEN THE GAMMA PROCEDURE WAS DECIDED ON IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT IT WAS NO INSTANT FIX AND THAT IT WOULD TAKE 18 MONTHS TO TWO YEARS FOR THE AVM IN en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arteriovenous_malformation…

UPDATED on 25.9.2020 It looks like DownThemAll developers have been busy to get it running with FireFox (Mozilla) again . However, the Metalink format used here on ipernity is not supported ! This is why one still have to either 1) use other methods , 2) use SeaMonkey and an older version of DownThemAll, as instructed below, or 3) wait until one fine day we get the whole ipernity reprogrammed. If the following old versions of Seamonkey and DownThemAll compo is not an option f…

Visiting the new grandson (our 1st grandchild). So, lots of things have fallen thru the cracks, Ipernity-wise! I'll try to be posting and commenting more.

I vaguely recall Max van Sydow's character saying that (or something similar) in David Lynch's problematic adaptation of Frank Herbert's "Dune." He was referring to those assassins left behind by the Harkonnens during the transfer of ownership of Arrakis. I'm using it to refer to the process of removing all of my book cover images over from flickr to this new home at ipernity. Every cover image (1,267 of them) is now here, many of them in albums (more set up here than I had there), now just wait…

There's a magazine dedicated to vintage paperbacks called "Paperback Fanatic," now available through 'print-on-demand' on Amazon, that I've sporadically contributed to over the years. Back in 2012 they published what was supposed to be the first part of an extensive A to Z of Gold Medal paperbacks - I've still to write any other parts! But a large portion of my free time last year was spent researching and writing an article on the Italian espionage imprint "Segretissimo," the first part of whic…

DEAR ALL THIS AFTERNOON A LARGE ENVELOPE FULL OF LOVE ARRIVED TODAY !!!! I AM TOTALLY OVERWHELMED. , I CANT UNDERSTAND WHAT I HAVE DONE TO DESERVE ALL THIS LOVE AND KINDNESS. I ALSO HAVE A BOX FULL OF CARDS SENT OVER THE TIME I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL AND REHAB. I AM COMPLETELY STUNNED AND AMAZED. I NEVER REALISED HOW MANY PEOPLES LIVES I HAD TOUCHED . I WAS BROUGHT UP TO REACH OUT TO REACH OUT PROPLE WITH A KIND WORD OR DEED . ITS WHAT MY BELOVED PARENTS BROUGHT ME UP TO DO. I HAD CONTA…

Well, Venezuela is far away (so are USA, Brazil and others), so is it interesting for me, for us? I think YES! Media are busy reporting about the failure of this country, about the failure of its current government, the failure of president Maduro. Fake news? Or truth? What's behind? It's quite difficult to forge an opinion, which is near to reality. If you are interested, spend this 45 minutes to view the following Youtube video - and then form your view of what's going on there. https://…

This thank you has been a long time coming, but it comes straight from my heart. As most of you know I had a huge Brain Bleed/Stroke on Friday the 7th of September this year. On that evening my world changed beyond description. I was one of the lucky ones as Jay, my husband, came into my work room and knew the signs of a stroke. (I will come back to this later.) He called 911 and an ambulance came fast. It's a ride I do not remember! But it would be another 5 weeks before I came…

Thought this may amuse, Take the government option, they never go to jail.

I have trying to get around to writing this for over a month ! The puppies grow in size and hyper energy ! They had their last set of injections on the 23rd March and then weighed at 16 weeks Celt ... 24.1lbs and Saxon ... 32.6 lbs Now ... I would guess they are ... Celt 36-38 lbs and Saxon 46-48 lbs !! I will know accurately on the 5th June when they next go to the Vet for neutering and they can be weighed. They are little devils ! They never stop . The…

Well here we are at the end of February and all hopes of me being able to hang on to any vestage of sanity are lost in a haze of paws ! Celt and Saxon are on the go all day but ohhhh soooo Thankful am I that they sleep at night . Life has become one long walk and play session ! I have , for over 12 years ,belonged to a dog/cat internet site . We always cautioned people NEVER to get TWO puppies at the same time . The exhaustion level a mere human such as myself goes through is why we sa…

[EN] Against all odds A year–end message from the ima–Team It was in December 2016 when the founder and CEO of Ipernity S.A., Christophe Ruelle, announced the closing of the platform ipernity.com by January 2017. (1) It’s now the end of 2017 and ipernity is still online. What happened? Of course, members were scared, disappointed and started looking for alternatives to Ipernity. But true alternatives were (and are) hard to find. Quite a bunch of users moved over to flickr – bu…

C&P of the [EN] version ... Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) We are glad to announce that we managed to implement the new Terms of Use before end of 2017. For details see here: www.ipernity.com/about/tos 2) Further we assigned responsibilities within the ima team to fulfill the tasks more efficiently. These are: Acting Executive Board: CEO (Chief Executive Officer) and President: Eric Desjours, France COO (Chief Operating Officer) William Sutherland, USA CFO (Chief Fina…