Помогите, пожалуйста.
У собаки - гипертериоз. Сдавали гормоны, T4 и T3 выше нормы в несколько раз.
Врач-практикант говорит, что единственный выход - операция. НО! Зоба у собаки нет... Скажите, пожалуйста, существует ли медикаментозное лечение?

dunno about the rest of you but I'll take the King any day over this guy. o.0

Just three dishes? Hmm...

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Today, I did a mascot gig at Shea Stadium for American Cancer Society Relay for Life. Of course, since the weather was good, I did some geocaches in the morning on my way to the gig. WHY?! (Did I hide a micro) and Don't Get Stumped! are both in Secaucus by the Mill Creek Marsh Trail. Very easy.

Then I crossed over to the Fordham section of the Bronx for Five of Diamonds. Now, that was a different experience. The cache was by the sidewalk at an auto repair shop. I got there and a helpful guy from the shop started directing me towards the cache. Wonder what tipped him off that I was looking for the cache. That was great because coordinates were soft. I found the cache and then had a brief conversation with the fellow.

After that, I navigated the congested streets of Fordham to Damian's place. Picked him up and went to Shea Stadium to meet up with the rest of our group: jbadger, foxwell, flykat, rapidtrabbit, jdpuppy, and jimwolf24. I especially wanted to do this gig because last year's gig at the same event was good and this is the last time we'll get to do this at Shea Stadium before it is torn down. (Citi Field, which is currently under construction next door, will be its replacement.) I wasn't disappointed. It was good. Lots of people. Good crowd and good interaction. We took turns going out in costume. I did the first shift in costume, escorted in the second shift, and did a short third shift in costume again.

After the gig, we made a quick stop just around the corner from the stadium for a geocache for jbadger. (It's one that I'd already found a week ago.) Then we went to Flushing Chinatown and had dinner at Sentosa. I had nasi lemak and ordered a lobak (shrimp and pork fritters) appetizer to share with the group.

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The Creolization of Roman Gaul: Examples from Divodurum Mediomatricorum.

Abstract: The political and cultural inclusion of provinces within the Roman Empire has
traditionally been described as Romanization, a form of acculturation. However, while
Romanization may have applicability in investigating the processes in which elites adopt
Roman norms, the concept is flawed when applied to the non-elite population. To address
and overcome these flaws, the concept of creolization—the merging of two cultures to
create a third culture—is used to explore the process through which the Gallic population
of Divodurum Mediomatricorum participated in the creation of a new Gallo-Roman
identity.

http://www.jasonstanford.com/davewitt/index.html

This coming Tuesday I start up my ASL class. I'm really looking forward to that.

Two weeks from now, Jason leaves town for the summer. That's going to be very strange.

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/ny-worstalbumcovers-pg,0,531818.photogallery

Safe for work

Polls are now closed. Final results are as follows:

Rubix 272, Acid Wolf 32
Horatio Shields 165, Sammy Samoyed 140
Bacon Tails 155, Bacon Heads 146
Sweet&Low/Equal/Splenda 155, Foxer 150
Kelton Raccoon 177, Rainrat 125
Kellogg Collie 192, Kiowolf 123
Dex 222, Alex 91
Soki 198, Pup (NV) 109
Avery 158, Spunky 153
Spark Fox 194, Jax 115


Congratulations to all the winners!! :)

Our next round of voting will begin on Monday, May 19th. It will consist of the following matchups:

* Big Blue Fox vs. Red Wolf
* Doe vs. Frost T. Wolf
* Jager vs. Kanu Lion
* Jafra vs. Renegade
* Lucky Coyote vs. Drakky
* Pen Collie vs. Crash the Dog
* Beef Jerky vs. Acid Horse
* Te vs. Nugget
* Foxglove vs. Kuddlepup
* SnowyBob vs. Damaron
* Loriana vs. RaptorRed
* Amran vs. Cassidy

Cold Stone has CINNAMON ice cream now.....

it was amazing!!

Now all they need is butterscotch ice cream and i'd be in heaven ^^

... то сегодня я получил письмо от моего канадского коллеги:

"...your team is going to LOSE!!!
You will now feel the power of the Canadian Juggernaut!!!! Russia will fall to the greatness of the Maple Leaf and drown in the sweet nectary syrup.

Heatley... Doan... Nash.... they are going to annhilate Russia.....

Мы собираемся убивать Вас!!!!!"

Россия, вперед!

Zomagaaawd new phone!!!

The number is 4083870879. I have a lot of numbers, but if you think I might not have yours (or may have lost it) please post it here, comments screened.

Also text messages and IMs are free to this phone, so freaking call/etc away.

I’m not really a “horse guy”, and I never watch horse racing. But today while visiting the family we watched the Preakness, and damn Big Brown is a gorgeous horse. It looked like he won without even really trying, and had a fun time in the process! Impressive!

I liked it. Saw it in DLP.

There is nothing after the credits.

Go see it. It's as worth seeing as much as the first one is not.

While gay people in probably the gayest place on Earth, San Francisco California, celebrate being able to marry their gay partners (along with Ellen DeGeneres getting teared up as her always screaming fanbase...screamed their asses off as usual after announcing she's getting married), guess who absolutely has to slap the bible down and piss all over everyone's happiness?

From the Cincinnati-based "Citizens for Community Values":

"Old and New Testaments clearly state God's intention for human sexuality: the monogamous, lifelong sexual union of one man and one woman. Any departure from that Divine order is a distortion of God's intention for human sexuality, including not only homosexual behavior, but also rape, incest and bestiality."

With a name like Citizens for Community Values, totally not religious at all! Right?... :|

What pisses me off the most about all of this is the fact that we all have our basic freedoms. I believe in what I want 'cause hey, I can. Religious types believe in their god because they can. Works for me 'cause hey, whatever makes you happy, right?

So how can a group of people with their own beliefs, tell another group of people that they don't agree to the point where they can -refuse- rights to others? That's a pretty big "unconstitutional" to me right there. Yet they're fighting it, even though it denies the basic freedoms of American citizens. At that point, we might as well just throw away the bill of rights and just put a bible in it's place. I might not agree with religion, but I'm not picketing the state house to get every church closed, I just don't practice it. Why can't it be the same on the religious side?

It's simple, all American citizens are allowed their rights. Some don't agree with them, like the second amendment. However, if you don't like it, don't buy a gun! Gay marriage, if you don't want gay marriage, don't get married to a dude. How hard is that?

Also comparing gay people to rape and bestiality. Class points right there. See also: "Control by fear". What's next, gay people kill children?

I got a mention on brainwashed.com's Brainwashed Radio Podcast recently...

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1306963/

More info and a pre-chewed sound bite at the link above.

Congratulations to

blissful_queen

on her Graduation.     All your hard work paid off sweetie im so happy for you.



*kiss kiss*

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ну шож из всех доступных досталась мне бюджетная микруха PCM1781 (24бит, 106дБ динамический диапазон) за 23 гривны. Для нее был сделан собственный стабилизатор источника питания на LM317L. После припайки ее у схему с пассивным пост-фильтром выяснилось что звучит она точно также как и TDA1543. Из статьи на англ. языке прочитанной побыстрячку стало ясно что для того чтобы реализовать все прелести PCM1781 нужно использовать активный пост-фильтр. Из CD-проигрывателя Technics SL-PG380A была извлечена микруха ОУ установленная туда в замен очень бюджетной какашки которую туда поставили на заводе так как по звучанию этот проигрыватель очень очевидно проигрывал первому ЦАПу на TDA1543 и там этот ОУ был просто не нужен. Итак пост-фильтр был сделан на современном ОУ с отличнейшими параметрами OPA2227 цена которого около 23 гривны
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc305/winfox/lj/IMGA5893.jpg
все резаки и коньдёры в фильтре были подобраны тщательнейшим образом по номиналам. И только после этого ЦАП PCM1781 стал звучать немного глубже по высоким частотам чем TDA1543. Вывод: старая TDAшка наверняка может звучать не хуже (с хорошим фильтром и преобразователем ток-напряжение на резаке), а может даже и лучше чем современная бюджетная микруха.
И только теперь наконец-то два мегадевайса встретились вместе! Мой ламповый усилитель для наушников отлично подошел под параметры ЦАПа (как видно на фото их размеры сходятся). Ламповый усилок (как и положено для хайэнда) собран исключительно на триодах: на входе 6Н23П, на выходе 6С19П-В по схеме без обратной связи. Все это дело питается очень низким анодным напряжением в 63 вольта (именно при этом напряжении линейность оказалась наилучшей). Как следствие этого, а также применения в нем не сладкозвучных ламп этот ламповик звучит строго, почти как транзисторный усилитель, но все-таки приятнее (заценялось на профессиональных наушниках)
Вообщем подарите мне 100 гривен на высококлассную микруху ЦАПа и за это я вам расскажу как оно звучит

She's out of the hospital (again), but having a lot of chest congestion.  Could be a bad cold, could be an effect of the operation, they don't know. Anyway, she's coughing a lot and having trouble sleeping.  She's eating again, though, which is a good thing.  Poor Dad sounds kind of tired of dealing with it all.

This afternoon the Girth & Mirth Indy Pride committee meets here to make plans.  I can't believe Pride is only a month away already.  :p