[lace-chat] Re: Sparky's health - not lace related
Gentle Spiders all, Thank you for the kind words and advice that you have all sent me regarding the furball. Just to let you know that he had a second seizure on Saturday and what appeared to be a petti mal attack on sunday (pupils dialating and contracting, mild twitching). However, he has been attack free for 36 hours and starting to be more like his old self. We all joke that the list is an oracle of all knowledge but I now, personally, believe this to be true. If anyone has anything further to add then Mum, Dad and I would love you to email me directly as all the advice has been invaluable. Thank you very much. Regards Liz Beecher I'm http://journals.aol.com/thelacebee/thelacebee";>blogging now - see what it's all about To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Insane?
I forward, to my older step-grandchildren, some of the weirder URL's that sometimes show up on the lace-chat (the colour-test was the most recent one). The following came in response from the oldest of them (15+). Took me 15 seconds, so I suppose I'm legally insane, too :) From: V.R. check out this site, apparently i am legally insane according to cornell. http://people.cornell.edu/pages/slp29/insane.html - Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Right? Left?
I confess, I never properly learned my right from my left. While still in
kindergarten, I realized I had a "double jointed" thumb only on my left
hand, and I learned to "click" that thumb out of joint to tell which hand
was which. If you give me directions with "left" and "right" in them, and
pay close attention to my hands, to this day you might catch the little
flick of my left thumb that tells me which is which. ("Left" is the click
thumb, "right" is "the other one.")
For years I kept this secret, figuring everybody else "just knew" right
from left. Then the subject came up in my origami email list, and it turns
out there are dozens of us, mathematicians, physicists even, who use
various devices to remind them right from left. Then one day I found this
great quote:
Sigmund Freud (you might have heard of him), writing to a friend:
"I do not know whether it is obvious to other people which is their own or
other's right or left. In my case, I had to think which was my right; no
organic feeling told me. To make sure which was my right hand I used
quickly to make a few writing movements."
So I don't feel half so embarrassed about not "really" knowing right from
left any more!
Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA
alwen at i2k dot com
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[lace-chat] Going Home
The Rees family are going home! Our house was finished yesterday and formally handed over and we are starting to move things back in. Our youngest son has his last school exams on Thursday and we officially move home on Friday. Thank you to everyone for your support over the last 10 months - both the 'lacechat' and 'lace' have been a lifeline when things have been tough and given me something to think about away from the trauma here. Your wonderful gifts that have kept arriving have re-established my lace equipment and now I intend to really get some quality lace time! The next big task will be the garden but it will be fun as I can now do things that we couldn't do before with the trees that we had, but as they didn't survive I can now redo those gardens properly. I am very relieved that we haven't heard of any lacemakers badly affected by the California fires yet Sorry to cross post this but I wanted to get to everyone who has been there for us Thank you Jenny Rees Canberra Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Fwd: [lace-chat] Left or Right? VERY LONG
I've forwarded some of the left/right bits to Robin (who's not on chat) and here's her contribution: Begin forwarded message: From: "Panza, Robin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sidedness is something that fascinates me, and I've got some comments to add to the mix. I'm strongly left-handed and left-footed, but have very little eye or ear dominance. 1. I've heard of this right-turn phenomenon before. It's supposedly why fine jewelry is generally put to the right as you enter a store at a cosmetic counter (at least in the US). Those who bypass the make-up find themselves in the gold watches, where maybe they'll make an impulse purchase. However, that seems to be breaking down--fewer stores seem to use the traditional layout. If direction of turning is related to handedness, lefties will go opposite righties. Personally, I find I go right and pass counterclockwise around objects despite my left-handedness. If it's based on training (like which side of the road gets driven on in your country), you'd find a national correlation. I've even heard it suggested that it's due to the earth's rotation, like water spiralling down the bathtub drain. In that case, Ozzies and Africans should do the opposite. We could take a survey. Everybody watch yourselves--which way do you turn to get around an obstacle? Which side is dominant for you? And what country do you come from (and which side do they drive on)? 2. There are apparently three kinds of lefties. I've read a number of studies in which they take handedness into account. The papers all say that, among righthanders, they found a consistent pattern. However, there were three kinds of response from left-handers; roughly 1/3 did the opposite, 1/3 did the same, and 1/3 did something equivocal or intermediate or were inconsistent. For example, when asked a rhetorical question, righties looked in the same direction (don't remember which), 1/3 of lefties looked the same direction as righties, 1/3 looked the opposite direction, and 1/3 looked somewhere altogether different (like up or down) or looked a different direction each question. Since there are always fewer lefties in a study, there was never statistical significance to the left-handed responses and the researchers threw up their hands. 3. In studies of brain sidedness, some lefties have the same organization as righties (e.g., the speech center is on the "normal" side) and some have specialized brain centers reversed (probably the case for Mikki--her brain is "in backwards"). Some of those with "normal" organization apparently were oxygen-starved in very late pregnancy or during delivery (from complications). The theory is that the starvation prevented the left hemisphere from taking dominance at birth, so the right hemisphere stepped in. That's three kinds of lefties--backwards brains, oxygen-starved brains, and nobody-knows-why brains. Most papers discussing the causes of left-handedness refuse to consider the possibility that there are 3 distinct kinds of lefties, which probably have 3 different causes, and so they don't find a pattern--one will argue it can't be oxygen-starvation, because 2/3 of subjects didn't have that problem, another will argue it isn't backwards brains, because 2/3 of the subjects don't have that, and so forth. 4. Lefthandedness is not all-or-nothing, even without contrary training. There's what hand you *naturally* use for eating, writing, tools, etc. (which may or may not get trained out of somebody); which foot you lead with in walking and jumping, which ear or eye your brain gives priority to when they are sending conflicting information. There are also subtle things like which hand is "on top" when using a broom, or which way your eyes turn when you ponder something, and so on. Totally left-dominance in all criteria is apparently rare; most left-handers do at least some tasks the same as right-handers or ambiguously, and some right-handers do a few things left-wise. That makes it even harder to establish cause of handedness. 5. Another interesting thing is looking at frequency of left-handedness. In developed countries of today, it's consistently 10-15 percent. In remote, primitive cultures, it's the same. Looking at artworks going back through the Middle Ages into ancient Egypt, it's consistently 10-15 percent. In cultures where handedness is not an issue, it's 10-15%. In cultures where lefties are stoned to death, it's 10-15%. In cultures where they're considered highly honored, blessed by gods, it's 10-15%. In cultures where writing is important (since word recognition is on one side of the brain), and in cultures with no writing, or with non-linear communication, it's still 10-15%. There doesn't seem to be any way to select for or against lefties, they still make up about 10-15% of humans. This means there may not be an underlying genetic cause (despite the fact that handedness runs in families), or the gene
[lace-chat] Re: Fireworks
>Fireworks here, in South East London / Surrey have been on >sale ALL YEAR ROUND. We are disgusted by the fact that >every single weekend since June was have had fireworks going >off Here in Canada, or at least in Ontario, fireworks are permitted on May 24th and on Dominion Day July 1st. At all other times it is illegal to set them off. There are exceptions, but those are by permit only. The laws relating to pyrotechnics were seriously tightened up after several children had fingers blown off, bottoms blown up, (from carrying large firecrackers called cannons in their back pockets), eyes blinded, from crackers going off in their faces and some really nasty injuries that made politicians move to regulate their usage. The companies selling the fireworks in the UK are probably getting their own way now, but as soon as there is a public uproar about them as a danger rather than as a nuisance you'll probably get more politicians on the bandwagon to either ban or regulate them. Common sense doesn't seem to move them until a large number of adults, or a small number of children, are killed or injured. Noise bothering a whole neighborhood won't do it, money speaks louder than complaints, but when there are people killed or maimed something positive will get done. Sad, but that seems to be what it takes these days. Sharon Briggs in soggy wet Brampton, Ontario. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Left or Right?
Ruth said and the moving staircases in the major shops still show signs which say: "keep to the left so that others may pass". am I right in thinking the tube escalators in London have signs saying keep to the right so others may pass or is my memory faulty (more than possible) jenny barron Scotland To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] accents
>No, Noelene, Helene G. does not have a french accent - well, only ever so >slightly by the way she clips certain words. You would not pick up that she >was French just by listening to her. She is a "fair-dinkum aussie" by now >(Just like me!!) >And her slide show at Lace Day was very interesting, too! from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, Thanks, Liz!! Actually, most people cannot quite place where I come from. usually they *know* I'm not English, but they tend to ask whether I come from South Africa? Canada? Ireland? I have noticed, though, that for the last 10 years, the English themselves tend to say "Oh, you live in Australia, don't you?"...I'm not sure whether to take it as a compliment or not...:-) We did fool one, once. We arrived at a B&B in Berkshire (England)about 10 years ago. They had been told that one of us was French and the other one Australian. I came in first, and said "Hi, I'm Helene. Our friends booked a room for us" He shook my hand, then shook DH's and said "You must be the French one, then"!! I was very proud of myself!! Helene, the froggy from Melbourne http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] orange/hinge
I can't resist adding my pennys worth. I write terse verse, orange, hinge, I cringe! Maxine, A Kiwi, who has finally made a contribution to the long running debate ;-) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] orange/hinge
>Now I'm having nightmares about the poem which might include orange and door >hinge - wooe!!! How about something like this, Liz? How to squeeze an orange? Better use a door hinge "cause the tatting in your pocket Will not squeeze even a sock(et) Been reading all the answers to my innocent question. Gee, we do speak with different accents, don't we? Just imagine what the world would be if writing were phonetic!!! Helene, the froggy from Melbourne http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
