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I've been wondering if you are getting more information on how to use the mirrors. I've been around a lot of paraplegic people and amputees. I've always felt that they go through pain just in a different way. Pain comes from the brain. It's interesting because that could help so many people if it works. I just think it really could.☺
I will let you know how successful it is. My therapist was very helpful. I explained it in a post here to Lyn.
 

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Talked to my therapist today on zoom.
She walked me through the procedure.
It's a 10 minute routine daily. Need to be in a calm, quiet place and a meditation state of mind. Need to mimic what I do with good hand slowly while watching the mirror and concentrating on the muscles. So I use the same muscles in the right hand as the left. She says I should see improvement in my phantom pains in about 2 weeks. Then I might be able to cut back the procedure to every other day. It takes the combination of a meditated/hypnotic state of mind and a reflection therapy with the mirror to fool the brain.
Do you also have phantom pain in your leg?
 

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Very funny, but none of them are likely to be true, I'm sorry to say.

1. There was never any such law. The Rule of Thumb was likely a rough measurement of goods sold.
2. No. It is likely the word 'golf' originates from the Scots word 'goulf' meaning to cuff or hit. Which itself comes from the Dutch 'kolf'; a club or bat. The first woman player known was in 1552 and it was much later that men forced women out and some smarty-pants created the acronym GOLF for Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden as a joke.
3. No. The phrase is first recorded from 1866, long after bed ropes had been replaced by springs.
4. No. It is probably just from the idea that the first month (moon) of marriage is the sweetest.
5. Charles Churchill 1763.
"On all occasions next the chair,
" He stands for service of the mayor,
" And to instruct him how to use,
" His As and Bs, and Ps and Qs.
It just means to learn ones alphabet.
6. No. First mentioned in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", but probably much older, your 'whistle' was a name for your throat and if you had a dry thoat you would wet your whistle.
7. No. First mentioned in print in "Hobson's Choice" 1916. It just means an audacious theft as opposed to a safer crime committed during the hours of darkness.
8. There is no evidence to support this. Probably from the Romani word 'posh' which meant half and 'posh-kooroona' was half a crown, a lot of money back then.

Sorry to be a spoilsport, but I love etymology.
But I'll smile on Friday. :)
Spoiled sport!
 

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wow! Does anyone get the fact that this mosquito lived a million years ago?
How wonderful to see it looks freshly made.
???
One million?
Nah, this is from the Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation, so is Eocene, about 50 million years old.
As is this speciemen :
insect1.jpg
 

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Very funny, but none of them are likely to be true, I'm sorry to say.

1. There was never any such law. The Rule of Thumb was likely a rough measurement of goods sold.
2. No. It is likely the word 'golf' originates from the Scots word 'goulf' meaning to cuff or hit. Which itself comes from the Dutch 'kolf'; a club or bat. The first woman player known was in 1552 and it was much later that men forced women out and some smarty-pants created the acronym GOLF for Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden as a joke.
3. No. The phrase is first recorded from 1866, long after bed ropes had been replaced by springs.
4. No. It is probably just from the idea that the first month (moon) of marriage is the sweetest.
5. Charles Churchill 1763.
"On all occasions next the chair,
" He stands for service of the mayor,
" And to instruct him how to use,
" His As and Bs, and Ps and Qs.
It just means to learn ones alphabet.
6. No. First mentioned in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", but probably much older, your 'whistle' was a name for your throat and if you had a dry thoat you would wet your whistle.
7. No. First mentioned in print in "Hobson's Choice" 1916. It just means an audacious theft as opposed to a safer crime committed during the hours of darkness.
8. There is no evidence to support this. Probably from the Romani word 'posh' which meant half and 'posh-kooroona' was half a crown, a lot of money back then.

Sorry to be a spoilsport, but I love etymology.
But I'll smile on Friday. :)
Well.... there be no wind in my sails.... ???
 

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Now I'm really confused. We have two members with very similar names - Ellymae and Elliemay. My head hurts.




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I noticed that a while back! I had to chastise @Chubbs the tegu for incorrect spelling . Didn’t want him summoning the wrong person to his Racy Jokes ?
 

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Now I'm really confused. We have two members with very similar names - Ellymae and Elliemay. My head hurts.




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I realized that too, at first I thought EllieMay (I’ve got the right person, that makes me automatically better then Chubbs ha!) had just changed her profile pic, then I looked at the amount of messages and I was like, that can’t be right.
 

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I noticed that a while back! I had to chastise @Chubbs the tegu for incorrect spelling . Didn’t want him summoning the wrong person to his Racy Jokes ?
I saw him do that once, I don’t think he can read properly. He calls me golden, but my username is obviously Golden Greek Tortoise 567!?
 

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The abstract......all u prob want to know...

The palaeobiogeographical distribution of the six major clades of Ordovician echinoderms (asterozoans, blastozoans, crinoids, echinozoans, edrioasteroids and stylophorans) is analysed based on a comprehensive and up-to-date database compiling 3701 occurrences (1938 species recorded from 331 localities) of both complete specimens and isolated ossicles. Although historically biased towards a limited number of regions (Europe, North America, Russia), the resulting dataset makes it possible to identify six main palaeobiogeographical provinces for Ordovician echinoderms: Laurentia, Baltica, West Gondwana, East Gondwana, Avalonia and Siberia. At a global scale, the high endemicity of echinoderms during the Early to Middle Ordovician coincides with the time of maximum dispersal of continental masses. Late Ordovician faunas tend to become more cosmopolitan, possibly as a consequence of changing palaeogeography and/or relatively higher sea-levels in the Sandbian–Katian interval. Regional biodiversity patterns of Ordovician echinoderms confirm that their major diversification during the Ordovician is not a single, universal evolutionary event, but rather results from the complex addition of contrasted local evolutionary trends.


and a pix

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Thank you so much
 

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Well the trip to the vet was uneventful.. they drew 5 tubes of blood to send off to the equine lab for analysis. Regular exam says he’s doing great... I have him on a complete feed with a weight booster but he’s not as thick as I’d like yet. I can’t exercise a whole lot yet with the heat and my allotted time frames but we do some. We should get the results back next week. View attachment 304672View attachment 304673View attachment 304674

And just an update on Rig Dog..... she’s doing great! She’s very playful now and will speak for your attention.. she will bark at Duke until he consents for a little playtime. While we did put her on an adoption list, I really don’t think she will be going anywhere:)
I love the update. Steady is gorgeous. And I never ever tbought that Rig dog would be going anywhere. ??
 

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Very funny, but none of them are likely to be true, I'm sorry to say.

1. There was never any such law. The Rule of Thumb was likely a rough measurement of goods sold.
2. No. It is likely the word 'golf' originates from the Scots word 'goulf' meaning to cuff or hit. Which itself comes from the Dutch 'kolf'; a club or bat. The first woman player known was in 1552 and it was much later that men forced women out and some smarty-pants created the acronym GOLF for Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden as a joke.
3. No. The phrase is first recorded from 1866, long after bed ropes had been replaced by springs.
4. No. It is probably just from the idea that the first month (moon) of marriage is the sweetest.
5. Charles Churchill 1763.
"On all occasions next the chair,
" He stands for service of the mayor,
" And to instruct him how to use,
" His As and Bs, and Ps and Qs.
It just means to learn ones alphabet.
6. No. First mentioned in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", but probably much older, your 'whistle' was a name for your throat and if you had a dry thoat you would wet your whistle.
7. No. First mentioned in print in "Hobson's Choice" 1916. It just means an audacious theft as opposed to a safer crime committed during the hours of darkness.
8. There is no evidence to support this. Probably from the Romani word 'posh' which meant half and 'posh-kooroona' was half a crown, a lot of money back then.

Sorry to be a spoilsport, but I love etymology.
But I'll smile on Friday. :)
I love Heathers one better. ??
 

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