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Real blood pressure. Intermittently like that and then bottoms out to low 100’s, he intermittently tachycardic too.... pheo?

And people just can’t spell even when the word is right there in the same sentence🙄.

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Im Elternhaus lassen sich hervorragende Fotoshootings machen! #picturesoftheweek #animals #tiere #pets #cat #dog #dogs #chicken #flowers #nature #bloom #garden #mothersgarden (hier: Statzendorf, Niederösterreich, Austria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCUFrVdFcZQ/?igshid=pbfmi25pgxmj

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Tuje, palmy i basen pełen wody. W tej niezwykłej scenerii Karl Lagerfeld zaprezentował najnowszą kolekcje Chanel haute couture wiosna-lato. Stroje nawiązujące do stylu rokoko wyglądają tutaj niczym z bajki o księżniczkach.  Paryż, Francja, 22 stycznia 2019 rok. Fot. Christophe Ena/AP #zdjeciatygodnia #takingaphoto #instaphoto #picturesoftheweek #beautifulphotos #wyborcza #gazetawyborcza #paris #paryz #karllagerfeld Więcej zdjęć, które zachwyciły nas w tym tygodniu na http://bit.ly/2FPNPTJ

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Pictures of the week: Mars, mountains and mass

A round of our favourite pictures from the last seven days.

'The autumn walk'

Incredible ruby red colours glow in this breathtaking photo, taken at Padley Gorge in Derbyshire. This stunning photo is part of Photocrowd’s latest picture competition, celebrating this season’s astonishing beauty. (Image: Stuart Lilley Photography/Photocrowd.com)

The Nine Emperor Gods

Members of a Malaysian ethnic Chinese community perform a prayer during the Nine Emperor Gods Festival in Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, Asia. The Nine Emperor Gods Festival is a nine-day Taoist celebration beginning on the eve of 9th lunar month of the Chinese calendar. (Photo by Chris Jung/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Free Fall

Climber Jamie Smith is pictured mid-fall as he attempts a new route on Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa. This image was one of the crowned winners of this year’s adrenaline-charged photo contest held by Red Bull Illume. (Image:Red Bull Illume/Micky Wiswedel)

One Man And His Dog

Ted Houston and his dog Kermit, visited the beach as Hurricane Matthew approached the area in Palm Beach, United States. The hurricane was expected as a category 4 storm but has now weakened to category 3, which states ‘devastating damage will occur’. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Zombie Boy

Rick Genest, also known as ‘Zombie Boy’, was spotted in London this week to celebrate the launch of ‘Platform 15’ - Thorpe Park’s new Fright Nights scare maze, marking the 15th anniversary of the nation’s premiere Halloween event. (Photo: Rex)

Pampered Pooch

Little Lola Sunshine the dog wears Chanel outside Chanel show on day 8 of Paris Womens Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2017, in Paris, France. (Photo by Claudio Lavenia/Getty Images)

River Of Wines

Chinese workers spread steamed sorghum on the ground as they prepare it for the first fermentation to be used in locally made wine called baijiu at the Maopu Health Liquor Co. Distillery in Maotai, on the Chishui River, in Guizhou province, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

B-day Bash

Giraffes receiving special gifts at their morning feed during birthday celebrations at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. It’s been 100 years since the Zoo first opened its gates in Mosman on 7 October, 1916. (Photo by James D. Morgan/Getty Images)

Mission Complete

NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission completed one Mars year of science observations. A recent image from the craft shows a two-thousand-mile canyon system appears prominently across the middle of the image as a blue gash. The three tall Tharsis volcanoes appear near the left edge, dotted by white clouds forming as the winds flow over them. (Photo: Rex)

Peeking Pug

Pet owners bring their animals to be blessed at Mass every year on the day of Sao Francisco de Assis, Brazil's patron saint of animals in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by Cris Faga/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

River Dance

Swimmers perform a dragon dance in the Liu River to celebrate the National Day in Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China. Over 2,000 swimming enthusiasts swam and perform the dragon dance in the Liu River on the second day of 7-day National Day holiday. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

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Some interesting tidbits from the holiday weekend... 3 separate patients.

ACT- (activated clotting time). Abnormally high after a cardiac cath. Have never actually seen one this high!

Head CT: large embolic stroke with hemorrhagic conversion and large anoxic injury. Went for a hemi-crani.

EKG- a mess of st- elevations in a patient with a tandem heart, iabp, continuous dialysis and 3 pressors. They had “fixed” the RCA already... 👀

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Wine Spa, Blazing Lanterns And The Dubai Airshow: The Week In Photos -

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Pictures of the week: Pandas, Paris and Prince George

Our round-up of the best pictures from the last seven days.

Ello

An Emu that strayed into Saperon Ki Dhaani in Jaipur, India, was rescued by the residentsand is being guarded and fed by them in an empty plot. (Photo: Getty Images)

Light up

12,000 roses made of LED lights lit up a senior villa area transforming it into a sea of roses during an art exhibition in Shanghai, China. (Photo: Getty Images)

The Prince and his bubbles

Prince George of Cambridge plays with bubbles at a children's party for military families during the Royal Tour of Canada in Victoria, Canada. (Photo: Getty Images)

A symbol of the struggle

A seagull stands on the seawall on Redcar seafront in Redcar, United Kingdom. One year on since the SSI steel making plant at Redcar was mothballed, the town continues to feel the impact following the closure and the local economy struggles with the loss of so many well paid jobs. (Photo: Getty Images)

Dressed to impress

Riders prepare for ‘The Distinguished Gentleman's Ride’ through London to raise awareness and help fund a cure for prostate cancer. More than 50,000 smartly dressed gentlefolk in over 550 cities around the world straddled the saddles of their classic motorcycles to take part. (Photo: Getty Images)

Oopsie

A panda baby takes a tumble while on display to the public at Chengdu Research Base, China. (Photo: Getty Images)

‘Suspicious minds’

Elvis tribute artist Des Perenara relaxes in a cafe between performances during 'The Elvies' in Porthcawl, Wales. 'The Elvies' is an annual gathering of Elvis fans and tribute artists which takes place every September. (Photo: Getty Images)

Pink lady

The Eiffel Tower is illuminated with a pink light, as part of the 'Ruban Rose' event in Paris, France. (Photo: Getty Images)

Surf’s up

A surfing-savvy pooch rides a wave during the Surf Dog Competition in Huntington Beach, California. Dogs owners and their pets attend the competition from as far as Florida, Australia and Brazil. (Photo: Getty Images)

Scenes from Russia

Calming waters stream over the rocky terrain in this stunning image taken of the Baksan River in Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia. (Photo: Getty Images)

Risky business

A squirrel leaps forward during the 9th round of the FootGolf Italian Championship at Castel d'Aviano Golf Club in Italy. FootGolf is a sport played on golf courses, where players kick a soccer ball into a hole in as few shots as possible. (Photo: Getty Images)

Bed of flowers

A giant flower carpet stretched across the earth in Yanling County in Xuchang, Henan Province of China. The carpet takes up an area of 2,480 square meters, consisting of nearly three million flowers including carnation, asparagus myrioeladus and myosotis. (Photo: Getty Images)

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Lightbox - Pictures of the week: March 1st - 8th, 2013

Time magazine posts a segment called pictures of the week. This week Lightbox posted 65 photos containing topics of warfare in Haiti, Mali and Syria, to the businesses of the popes resignation.

It followed the celebrations all over the world on International Women's Day and the election day in Kenya.

It features photos of grieving Venezuelans due to their presidents death, after his battle with cancer finalized.

My favorite photos were from the Holi One Color Festival. Held in Cape town, South Africa.

Holi day was originally only an Indian celebration. It has been taken on all over the world to celebrate the beginning of spring. One of the most impressive festivals is held in Cape Town, South Africa. Here is an insight to the Holi One festival held last year in Cape Town. Festivals like this are popping up all over Europe and some states in America. Not all the festivals have traditional methods or rituals however what is continuous is mischievous behavior and colour.

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Time's PotW!

Today's Time Magazine Pictures of the Week are from Jan 13 - 20th. Enjoy; pics link through to their appearance on Time's site.

Incidentally, if you happen to enjoy seeing when my (now infrequent) updates popup on your dashboard: I'm considering moving over to Wordpress, where I'd probably expand the range of stuff that I post about, making it less of a themed blog. Although captions would probably still be the primary focus. And maybe pictures of food I make, because it seems like everyone has to have one of those.

If you have an opinion about that, do me a quick favor and leave a comment on this post (I have Disqus, which is supposed to let you do that--if not, I dunno, send me a message through the Ask A Question function). If you don't have an opinion, I hope you get diarrhea.

All pictures not owned by me. Hover your mouse over the images to get the alt-text.

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi makes like she's going to high-five supporters, but then leaves them hanging.

North Korean light filters in through filthy windowpanes. Pak Eunju stands by the window. The day is long, but it wanes. The year is long, and it has just begun. Kim Jong-Il is dead, and little has changed. She can think of nothing but her symbolic matryoshka: the goldfish in their plastic box; she in this room; this room in North Korea. Like the fish, she is captive in a bubble, an enclosure stranded in a universe of unbreathable atmosphere. There is physically nowhere she can go, she is too much a creature of this environment, and leaving, if the ones who watch her didn't do it first, would eventually kill her. Some days, she wishes the yellow goldfish's scales would fluff and grow into feathers, gills seal and eyes bead, fins elongate into airy wings, scrawny clawy legs sprout, thick gaping lips petrify and point into small chirping beak, and they would become canaries, flighty animals. Then they would drown under that water, but at least they would die in motion.

Indian soldiers from the Border Security Forces line up atop their sacred camels on the outskirts of town. They prepare themselves for the most deadly of tasks: Camel Polo.

During a farewell ceremony in Chengdu, Sichuan Province in China, the nefarious villain Pandamonium appeared with his Panderizer ray and turned the assembled populace into small stuffed animals. The Bamboozler, Pandamonium's arch-nemesis and erstwhile defender of Chengdu, was not available for comment.

After a spate of austerity measures which involved selling off military assets to cover budgets, the Greek army found itself without vehicles of war. Deprived of tanks and AA cannon, it had resorted to medieval machinery of war, but found that the cost of wood and trebuchet design to also be outside of its budget. Forced down to the bare bones, they resorted to recruiting the Bowling Ball Catapult Troops, here photographed during training exercises.

Giaccamo Belli, entranced by the pretty shinies in the Christmas tree in Vatican City, climbed up and now can't get back down.

New Delhi, India. Paramilitary troops investigate flickering lights they saw off the path to town. They follow them deeper, picking their way between trunks, mist curling at the gentle footpads that stalk beneath camel bodies. At one point, Sandeep says, "Hey; where are we?" and nobody knows. All senses of direction have evaporated, absorbed into the fog. The lights they followed twinkle out one by one, and the troops are left alone beneath a single canopy. Hanif swings a leg over, slides off his camel, and pats it; instinctively the camel kneels, lowers heavy lids, relaxes. Hanif follows suit beneath the tree. "My friends," he says, unbuttoning the regulation brass at his collar, slipping off his beret, loosening his belt, and resting at the foot of the trunk, "I think we're home."

Dusak Simocko of Slovakia in action during the men's 10km sprint individual event. At about km 3, a piston sprung loose; a sprocket overheated and tore through the weakened rubber coating like it was pantyhose; crank-shafts and springs peeled and pealed out with comical sproings and per-twangs, superheated vapor whistled out from miniscule broken seals at his joints. As the coating was shredded by unaccounted friction, a man made of brass and gears and watchworks, steam-powered, punked, was revealed. What am I? Dusak worried, still pumping back and forth rapidly deteriorating limbs. He had, after all, a mission to fulfill.

An Ethiopian Orthodox Christian female pilgrim is pictured at a mass before the annual festival of Timkat in Lalibela, Ethiopia which celebrates the returning of Bumba, the voracious god of spiders. This pilgrim and her child have already been cocooned in silk; at the peak of the festival, they will be fed to the giant spiders of the steppes.

Here's a bit of American folklore for you: back in 1831, Christopher Smith, the uncreatively-named blacksmith of a small town in Texas (it was called Town O' The Six-Times Blessed then, although now it's known more as an unassuming patch of dirt in the Texas plains), was a happily-married man with six young daughters, purtiest things you ever saw. Pressure began to build in those days, as the stage was set for the violent Texas Colonists' Revolt, and in those high times roving bandits were wild with passion. A posse of outlaws rode into Town O' The Six-Times Blessed and caused mighty havok in the square. Smith was taking his daughters for an outing that day, and the outlaws couldn't resist. By the time they rode off into the blood-red sunset, Smith was one blistered eye and six daughters poorer. Before a half-burned town still hot with flames he swore that day that he would kill every man who had rode into town and taken his daughters from him--and every man, woman and child who had stood by and watched it happen. Over the next three years he fulfilled his vow, and forty-seven people lay dead. The ringleader of the band he saved for last, torturing the poor soul with molten metal and all the secrets of pain a blacksmith knows for fifteen months without respite. At last, the law caught up with poor, deranged Christopher Smith, and he was hanged without much ceremony. Christopher's fiery corpse can still be seen sometimes riding the dirt paths between Liberty and El Paso. It is said that when the endtimes finally come, he will take his place beside the Four as the Horseshoeman of the Apocalypse.

This is what you don't know about the process of Gummi Bear manufacturing.

January 18: the 2012 Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne. Spain's Rafael Nadal versus Germany's Tommy Hass. Nadal has always been able to do this; it's what makes him such an unstoppable player. At a certain point in the ball's arc, the picture freezes. The moment thins like taffy into an infinitely long gummy thread, sweet and salty and just bitter enough. And the world goes black, everything that is not the sport and his direction is eliminated from the world. Nadal sees only the tiny asteroid of neon fuzz, and the path where he will command it to go. And for some reason he's never been able to filter out the ball guys just off the side of the court.

Private Xinjuan Ai! You think it's funny to fall asleep in line? This oughta wake you up!

The Royal Yacht Britannia, in dry dock at Forth Points in Edinburgh, Scotland, models its dainty legs for a magazine ad.

White bishop to G5, king in check.

At the Sharif Islamic Committee, a community center operated by the Muslim Brotherhood in a neighborhood of Cairo, Imperial Snowtroopers offer free health and education services.

The severe depletion of military camels due to the violence of Camel Polo and a whole mounted unit just straight up disappearing into the woods, the New Delhi Indian Border Security Force has had to cut back on transportation costs. It now requires all troops to carpool to work.

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