P Captivus

Penis captivus is an urban legend describing an event that allegedly happens in rare instances during heterosexual intercourse when the muscles in the vagina clamp down on the penis much more firmly than usual, making it impossible for the penis to withdraw from the vagina regardless of erection status.

The first report of the penis captivus sexual phenomenon can be found in an 1884 article by the fictitious Egerton Yorrick Davis in The Philadelphia Medical News. The article was later discovered to be a hoax perpetrated by Sir William Osler. Historians speculate that he was annoyed by an editorial published in the same journal by Dr. Theophilus Parvin, "An Uncommon Form of Vaginismus." Both men served on that respected journal's editorial board.
There is only one known report of penis captivus, in a letter to the British Medical Journal relating to an apparent case in 1947. According to the BMJ, this condition was otherwise unknown in the twentieth century.

Penis captivus should not be confused with the relatively common condition of vaginismus.

Champions League Final 2008: A personal note

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL

Man Utd 1-1 ChelseaMan Utd win 6-5 on penalties

By Phil McNulty( from http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/7406252.stm)

Man Utd won Europe's top club trophy for the third time

Manchester United won the Champions League by beating Chelsea 6-5 on penalties after a dramatic 1-1 draw.
Cristiano Ronaldo headed United in front after 26 minutes but Frank Lampard equalised before the interval.
Lampard and Didier Drogba hit the woodwork before the striker saw red in extra time for slapping Nemanja Vidic.
Ronaldo missed his penalty, but John Terry hit the post with a kick that would have won it for Chelsea and Edwin van der Sar saved from Nicolas Anelka.

It sparked wild celebrations for Sir Alex Ferguson and his players in the Moscow rain as United won Europe's elite trophy for the third time, a triumph made more poignant as it came 50 years on from the Munich air crash.

Ferguson had made it his mission to take the trophy back to Manchester this year in memory of those who died, and those who survived, in the tragedy in Munich in February 1958.
And it gave the 66-year-old Scot his second Champions League triumph, repeating the success against Bayern Munich in Barcelona in 1999.

Chelsea captain Terry had to be consoled by boss Avram Grant as he broke down in tears after missing the penalty that would have given his side the trophy.
He slipped in his run-up on turf made treacherous by a torrential downpour and sent his kick against the upright.

The penalty shoot-out capped a thrilling game with passages of play of the highest calibre, with United dominating the first half but Chelsea showing huge reserves of character, resilience and ability to dominate after the break.

United may have been fuelled by the fates, however, and they rode their luck before Sir Bobby Charlton - a survivor of the Munich disaster - joined the players in the ceremony as they went up to collect their medals.

The opening exchanges amounted to little more than sparring, but the game burst into life after 20 minutes following an aerial collision between Paul Scholes and Claude Makelele that left both players with a yellow card and the Manchester United veteran with a bloody nose.
Scenes in Manchester as United win

Ronaldo had been giving Michael Essien a torrid time, and his threat was transformed into tangible results after 26 minutes when he soared above the Chelsea defender to meet Wes Brown's cross and head his 42nd goal of the season.

Chelsea were almost gifted an equaliser in bizarre circumstances seven minutes later when Van der Sar was forced to claw away a header from his own defender, Rio Ferdinand, after Drogba forced Lampard's cross into the six-yard box.

Petr Cech somehow denied Manchester United a second in the 34th minute after a stunning move that swept from one end of the field to the other in an instant and left Chelsea exposed.
Wayne Rooney found Ronaldo with a raking pass, and his cross was delivered to perfection for Tevez, whose header was blocked by Cech - who then recovered to make a magnificent one-handed save from Michael Carrick's follow-up effort.

Tevez was denied again four minutes before the interval when he escaped the attentions of Makelele but could not slide in Rooney's low cross.
United were left to regret their missed chances when Chelsea took advantage of several slices of good fortune to equalise on the stroke of half-time.

Essien's shot was speculative at best, but two crucial deflections off Vidic and Ferdinand saw the ball fall kindly for Lampard, who slotted in a neat finish - and his celebration demonstrated that the goal was dedicated to the memory of his late mother Pat, who died in April.
Chelsea were transformed by the equaliser, passing with purpose and looking the more likely side.

And the much-debated Luzhniki Stadium pitch was suddenly starting to exert an influence, with both Ferdinand and Lampard suffering from cramp.
Drogba had been a peripheral figure for much of the game, but he produced a moment of brilliance with 13 minutes left when he curled a right-foot shot against the post from 25 yards.
There was a moment of history three minutes from the end of normal time when Ryan Giggs replaced Scholes to make his 759th appearance for United, beating the previous club record held by United legend Charlton, who was watching from the stands.

Terry slipped at the vital moment in the shoot-out
Chelsea boss Grant bizarrely left it until two minutes into extra-time to make his first change, sending on Salomon Kalou for the disappointing Florent Malouda.
The woodwork denied Chelsea again seconds later when a superbly disguised pass from Michael Ballack set up Lampard, but his shot rebounded to safety off the bar with Van der Sar beaten.
United were left cursing 10 minutes into extra time when Chelsea captain Terry headed off the line miraculously from Giggs after Patrice Evra had shown pace and strength to fashion the opening.

Rooney had suffered a frustrating evening, and he looked less than satisfied when he was hauled off as United introduced the pace and unpredictability of Nani.
Drogba was sent off four minutes from the end of extra time by Slovakian referee Lubos Michel for slapping Vidic after an ugly melee developed when Chelsea felt Tevez had been unsporting in returning the ball after a break for players to be treated for cramp.
Tevez and Carrick were on target for United as the shoot-out started, with Ballack and Juliano Belletti following suit for Chelsea.
Ronaldo then made a hash of his effort, stopping in his run-up before seeing his kick saved by Cech.

Lampard was successful from the spot and Owen Hargreaves scored under pressure before Ashley Cole's penalty took Chelsea to the brink of victory.
Nani scored to prolong the tension, but with defeat staring United in the face, Terry threw them a lifeline with his miss.
Substitutes Anderson and Kalou traded successful kicks before Giggs threw all the responsibility on Anelka as the shoot-out reached sudden death - and it proved too much for the striker, who saw his penalty palmed away by Van der Sar to crown United as kings of European football once again.
Man Utd: Van der Sar, Brown (Anderson 120), Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Hargreaves, Scholes (Giggs 87), Carrick, Ronaldo, Tevez, Rooney (Nani 101).Subs Not Used: Kuszczak, O'Shea, Fletcher, Silvestre.
Booked: Scholes, Ferdinand, Vidic, Tevez.
Goals: Ronaldo 26.
Chelsea: Cech, Essien, Carvalho, Terry, Ashley Cole, Ballack, Makelele (Belletti 120), Lampard, Joe Cole (Anelka 99), Drogba, Malouda (Kalou 92).Subs Not Used: Cudicini, Shevchenko, Obi, Alex.
Sent Off: Drogba (116).
Booked: Makelele, Carvalho, Ballack, Essien.
Goals: Lampard 45.
Man Utd win 6-5 on penalties
Att: 69,552
Ref: Lubos Michel (Slovakia).
BBC Sport Player Rater man of the match: Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo 7.80 (on 90 minutes).
Please note that you can still give the players marks out of 10 on BBC Sport's Player Rater after the match has finished. 

Upendra Devkota: Neurosurgeon

Dr Upendra’s brainchild

KUNDA DIXIT

In 1983, a young Nepali doctor got a scholarship to specialise in neurosurgery at the renowned Glasgow Neuroscience Institute. On his very first day, he found himself under the tutelage of the professor, Graham Teasdale.

Upendra Devkota remembers seeing famous surgeons from the United States and Canada being in awe of his professor.

But while he learnt the skills and craft of neurosurgery from his guru, Devkota would stay awake nights in Glasgow dreaming of one day building an institute as good in Nepal. It would take more than 20 years but that dream is finally coming true on 12 April when the National Institute of Neurological and Allied Sciences opens in Bansbari. And Devkota has invited Prof Sir Graham Teasdale to be guest of honour.

It is difficult to imagine that this construction site with bulldozers moving earth will be open for business in two weeks, but Devkota brushes aside skeptics. You can tell this is a labour of love for Nepal’s best-known neurosurgeon who on a recent morning was personally supervising the finishing touches: telling the foreman not to scratch the epoxy floor tiles, ordering the lift doors to be widened so beds can be wheeled in, directing carpenters to adjust the reception desk.

One third of the cost of the Rs 250 million hospital is financed through a bank loan for which Devkota has put up his family home as collateral. The hospital has three state-of-the-art operating theatres, a casualty ward and an ICU that can take 11 patients and 65 beds and besides treating patients will also be training Nepali neurosurgeons.

The hospital’s layout was designed by the Swiss consulting firm, Baumann, and every tiny detail is carefully planned to meet international standards. There is a central oxygen and compressed air supply for surgical instruments, the vital signs patients is transmitted to nurse stations on wireless systems and their CT scans can be downloaded in operation theatres. The waiting area for relatives is bright and relaxed and even has a multi-denominational prayer room.

Devkota has come a long way from his missionary high school in Gorkha where he was a classmate of Maoist ideologue Baburam Bhattarai. After returning to Nepal he has served at Norvic and Bir and did a brief stint as health minister after the royal takeover of October 2002. Asked why he returned to Nepal, Devkota replies: “My philosophy is that it is more satisfying to grow vegetables in your own garden than to buy them at Sainsbury." 

Baburam Bhattarai vs Upendra Devkota

this is an old article taken from nepali times

Class of 1970Destiny has brought the graduates of a small school in Gorkha together again.
THOMAS BELL and MAARTEN POST in GORKHA
From Issue #142 (25 April 03 - 01 May of nepali times

Once upon a time, 03)there was a school in Nepal where every student passed the SLC exams. It was the United Mission to Nepal’s Amar Jyoti Janata School in Gorkha, and it was a remarkable institution with remarkable students.

The class of 1970 stands out because its graduates have lived and led Nepal’s recent history. The chief ideologue of the Maoist movement, Baburam Bhattarai, and the health minister in the royal government, Upendra Devkota, were classmates. (In picture taken circa 1969, Bhattarai is at extreme left, and Devkota second from right.)

Today, in a dramatic instance of history coming full circle, the two are members of negotiating teams from opposite sides in proposed peace talks to end seven years of conflict.

“We were torch-bearers for our generation, extremely competitive,” says Devkota before his face darkens with the memory of his classmate. “You don’t say one person is better than another just because he got more marks in the SLC 30 years ago.”

Bhattarai came Board First and Devkota was Board Second in the 1970 SLC exams. The two have not met since Bhattarai went underground eight years ago. “He’s serving the old regime, I’m serving the new regime,” Baburam Bhattarai tells us, smiling. “We are in opposite camps.” Years ago they were in different camps too: Devkota and his friends from Bohoragau and Bhattarai and his friends from Kaplung were rivals.

Krishna Pokharel was in Baburam Bhattarai’s group. “Gradually Baburam and Upendra didn’t even want to talk to each other because Baburam wanted to stand first and Upendra was competition.” Devkota and Pokharel were leaders of different groups in school, while Bhattarai had has nose in his books and by all accounts was a serious student.

Pokharel recalls: “He (Baburam) was always afraid of the teachers, he wanted to be obedient…he was the most obedient student in the school.” Thomas Varghuese, who was principal of the school and his wife Mary who taught the boys Math, English and Science, both agree. “Baburam was extremely disciplined, very sharp and he had a phenomenal memory,” recalls Mary Varughuese, “Upendra was the more vocal one.” But both were eager to learn, and soaked everything in.

CLASSMATES: (From Left to Right) Baburam Bhattarai, Upendra Devkota and Krishna Pokharel pointing out the bullet holes in the wall of his school in Gorkha where Maoists tried to kill him two years ago.

The rivalry between the two groups took on a political dimension. The poet and TU lecturer Sita Ram Adhikary was two years senior, and remembers Upendra Devkota’s older brother as being attracted to communist ideology. In school, he says it was Devkota who appeared to be more influenced by communism than Bhattarai, and started a student union in school to oppose the authorities. Baburam, reportedly did not join the union. Surprisingly, Bhattarai who had a slight pro-Congress leaning in school went on to become a revolutionary, while the left-leaning Devkota is now a monarchist.

Upendra Devkota also rallied his friends against Christian activities at the missionary school. “Even in grade five, he used to say that it wasn’t proper to have to study the bible and go to church,” recalls Pokharel. “He called it religious imperialism, but I don’t think anybody at that time even knew what ‘imperialism’ meant. We used to say we were Nepali Congress and we liked BP Koirala just to oppose Upendra.”

After leaving school in 1970, the politics became more serious. Both Upendra Devkota and Baburam Bhattarai were passionate opponents of the Panchayat system, but differences remained. Pokharel, Devkota and Bhattarai went to Amrit Science College, now Amrit Campus. Bhattarai and Pokharel were roommates and remained close friends.

“In this period Devkota was still very interested in communism,” Pokharel recalls. “We used to discuss politics every day on the rooftop of the college. He believed that communism was the best political system for the poor.” But because communism did not guarantee personal freedom, Pokharel developed an antipathy towards it—a feeling that has lasted to this day. Baburam Bhattarai wasn’t particularly attracted by communism even then, but Pokharel says he was resolutely against absolute monarchy.

After college, the school friends went their separate ways. Sita Ram Adhikary returned to Gorkha to work as a teacher. But being a member of the Nepali Congress-affiliated Tarun Dal he was driven out for his anti-Panchayat activities in 1975. Upendra Devkota became a renowned neurosurgeon, studying and working in Britain and Hong Kong before returning to Nepal. Baburam Bhattarai went to Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi to study architecture and did his PhD in urban planning.

Baburam stayed in touch with his friend Krishna Pokharel in Kathmandu, writing letters that described his political journey. He was impressed by his meetings with BP and Girija Koirala, then living in exile in India. “BP Koirala is the most patriotic personality in Nepal,” he wrote, “Girija is the most revolutionary personality.” Later, at JNU when he heard that BP Koirala had accepted the result of the narrowly-endorsed referendum on the Panchayat system in 1980, Bhattarai became a communist. “I think Marxism is better,” Baburam wrote to Pokharel.

Krishna Pokharel disagreed with Baburam, and recalls: “I also wanted to defeat the Panchayat system, but I accepted the result of the referendum.” Bhattarai tried to persuade Pokharel to start teaching communism in school, but he refused. Their correspondence then tapered off.

After the 1990 Peoples’ Movement, ideological differences were briefly set aside. Baburam Bhattarai’s United Left Front formed a pragmatic alliance with the Nepali Congress, but differences quickly re-emerged and this was to have dramatic consequences for the classmates from Gorkha.

While Baburam Bhattarai and his Maoist comrades launched the ‘peoples war’ in February 1996, Krishna Pokharel took out a bi-weekly newspaper called Daraundi. It was strongly critical of the Maoists, and Pokharel wrote an open letter to his classmate and friend: “Our society has invested so much in you and what are you giving back? I have two friends who are doctors now. One is saving people and one is killing them.”

Bhattarai responded in the Maoist mouthpiece, Janadesh, calling his old friend a government servant and a reactionary, and threatening that the role of the ‘peoples war’ was to eliminate people like Krishna Pokharel. That threat was nearly carried out: on 24 January 2001 four Maoists armed with revolvers came to the teacher training college in Gorkha where Pokharel was conducting class. They fired three shots, which missed and Pokharel fought them off.

Sita Ram Adhikary was in Gorkha at the time to vote in the general election. “I heard the shots and ran to the school,” he recalls. “I advised Krishna to move to Kathmandu. “When there is a famine, save grain. When there is disorder, save yourself,” Adhikary told Pokharel, quoting a Nepali proverb. Krishna did go to Kathmandu, but within a year was back in Gorkha to carry on teaching.

While Pokharel was in Kathmandu he witnessed the chaos following the royal massacre. He met his old friend, Upendra Devkota who was now a famous neurosurgeon. “We talked about the palace incident, he had treated Crown Prince Dipendra when he was in a coma. He still had strong convictions, but he is a monarchist now.”

For his part, Adhikary is pained by the violence of the past seven years. “I hate it,” he says simply, “change comes from the mind not from the barrel of a gun.” But he also regrets the path his own party has taken. “I remained a kangresi throughout but I am sad about how our leaders have let us down, our party has lost its prestige.”

And what about his school friends? “Upendra is the best doctor I know. He cares for his duty. Baburam is a unique personality, very creative, and kind-hearted. But both are ambitious.” The batch of 1970 is having a class reunion picnic this weekend in Kathmandu, but Upendra Devkota is not planning to attend. Baburam did not know about the event, but said, “I’ll go if they invite me. I’m proud of my school.”

Republic Nepal

It’s one day since Nepal has gone republic. The dawn of republic is not an end to everything we Nepalese are striving for. but be patient instead for these CA members would do their best to achieve a prosperous Nepal, a unified Nepal.



Yesterday's memo

I started my day at 8:00 am in the morning for it was a public holiday. I got freshened up and sipped my regular tea. Sitting then in front of the tea, I was almost blown away. The whole nepali channels in the TV aired similar voice. I thought ganatantra has rocked this nation.

I planned to stay home and watch the whole episode in the TV itself. The day was developing with rising temperature. I certainly knew at that point of time that today is going to be a sunny day. Sitting idle in the chair and watching the episode, it ended with interruption. My friend dr. Ajay Dhakal accompanied by Dr. Surendra Kunwar came in. wow he yelled. He exclaimed what the hell I’ve put up sitting with my tummy facing up in this historic moment. He was certainly right. It kind of enticed me. Then in no time I finished my meal. Being ready with jeans and a cozy t-shirt , we ventured towards BICC.

The acronym BICC stands for birendra international convention center. The word in itself carries the name of a royal king. Let’s see what this constituent assembly members are going to do about it. We saw the swarm of people in the Chinese road. All of them chanting. All shouting the slogans of ganatantra. They cared not of themselves amidst the scorching sun, for they were restless to bring home republic. They looked to me like a husbands side of home in a marriage ceremony eagerly waiting to welcome the bride to a new home. What’s we call ‘Bhitrayaune’

Describing dr. ajay looked essential to me here. For he was all dressed up like a reporter. With a thin cotton t-shirt, a kind of like that madhesi people wear and the snickers, with canon digital camera swaying in his side, he was no less of a reporter. We carved in between these people. In no time we were in front of BICC main gate. Dr. Ajay was busy taking pictures. I glimpsed different kind of people there. Some of them dancing with the songs of republicism, others carrying flag , red flag with sickle and hammer. There were people up in the trees in front of standard chartered bank. Probably they didn’t want to miss a shot of whole episode.

We waited for hours, but all in vain. The first Constituent Assembly meeting was postponed. Tired, we returned back home at around 4:00 pm. Then again the same, sitting in front of TV. Finally the political leaders of 3 major parties came to a conclusion. It kind of ended the political dilemma at that point of time. If it would be late or other series of postponement then there certainly would have been an upheaval. People have almost started crying out.

At 8:20pm the meeting commenced. The stalemate was ended. The proposal for the republic was passed by home minister sitaula. It was passed to CA members. The result came out as predicted:560 ca member for republic vs 4 against it. Then what , don’t ask me. NEPAL HAD GONE REPUBLIC!!!!.
Let’s hope this brings sustainable peace in our country. People from different phase, economical strata, sex, caste, religion, place of origin, would be ensured of their right. It’s time for the king to walk out swiftly, otherwise he knows it for himself.
Long live republic, long live greater Nepal.