 all the happiness has seeped out of Heidi and it's makes me feel deflated. I always cry when she quotes Evan saying 'Is there another truck coming to our driveway. A truck that will take mommy away?' That line in particular makes me want to cry. But the part that always makes me sob? 'You're mom isn't going anywhere- you're mum is staying right here. You're mom isn't going going anywhere- you're mom's staying right here. No matter what, I'll be here.' Just the pure emotion in her voice and the fact that she won't leave no matter what happens and that she'll still stick with him after everything.... it breaks me.

Favourite Lyric(s):
'Is there another truck coming to our driveway? A truck that will take mommy away.'
'You're mom isn't going anywhere- you're mum is staying right here. You're mom isn't going anywhere- you're mom's staying right here. No matter what, I'll be here.'

The little talk at the beginning of this song is so important, so beautiful and makes me sop proud of how far Evan has grown! It's the perfect ending! I also love the repetition of For Forever because I love that song and the calm, peace and serenity this harmonised version brings just makes my soul at ease. It's a truly satisfying end to the song.

Favourite Lyric(s):
'Dear Evan Hansen. today is going to be a good day and here's why. because today, today at least you're yo and that's enough.'
'We could be alright for forever this way.'

Thanks for reading! Feel free to comment your thoughts! Stay amazing!<|endoftext|>Now, Where Can I Get my Cumbia Fix? La Rockola 96.7 FM Is No More!

La Rockola 96.7 has not been for the past 2 months, but I have not noticed, figuring that the Ranchero music that currently dominates the station was just temporary every time I dialed into it.

But no, the Ranchero music is there to stay, for the time being, especially now that it's renamed "La Ranchera 96.7", to my absolute, utter, complete dismay.

 I'm like, really, we need another Ranchero music station?

I wouldn't have noticed this change because: 1) my dial is heavily tilted towards one of the public radio stations (89.3, 89.9, and 90.7) 2) my Spanish language comprehension still sucks 3) I really thought they were just going to play Cumbia eventually.

What the hell was La Rockola 96.7 FM?

La Rockola actually won OC Weekly's Best Radio station in 2012 and was described in the brief bit as "a heady mix of cumbias, salsa, the occasional quebradita and reams of sonidero."

It was a station that I got perfectly as I got on the 105 West and headed towards Santa Ana. Almost every time that I had work in and around Orange County, it would be time to tune into 96.7.

I thought of the station as loaded with Freshness. At least to me. Fresher than what appears to dominate Spanish language radio, which is slow, yawn-inducing male-dominated ballads usually incorporating an accordion.

What did La Rockola play? From what I think I Shazaamed specifically from them (either them or 90.7's lunch time World Music Cafe):

Here's more from their Twitter page and their La Estrella TV Page.

For about 8 years, I have been listening on/off to Spanish language radio in attempt to learn the language. I started off at KLOVE, not really not knowing any better. I even tried listening to Piolin on 101.9 when he was on, but some of my old co-workers, Mexican women, didn't really like him, so I kinda stopped listening to him and just kept with the the KLOVE. I developed a lot more taste and distaste as I've learned more of the language, and eventually moved on to stuff that the younger crowd might listen to like whatever was on what used to be Latino 96.3 and La Estrella 107.1.

I accidentally ran into La Rockola while attempting to find a radio station after 89.3 KPCC cuts after I reach PCH in Santa Monica. Ironically, I discovered that the music from 96.7 FM was not from Malibu, Thousand Oaks or wherever, but was from Orange County --- Santa Ana to be exact.

The discovery of this radio station was not an insignificant discovery as I Shazammed many a lunch hour away whenever I was within range. I never really really liked a lot of Spanish language music (and by "really really liked" I mean would actually seek out the music), till I discovered that station and Canto Tropical Saturdays on 90.7. However, this wasn't the first time I was really disappointed in a Spanish radio station being cut out. I used to listen to 93.9 Exitos after I noticed that one date I went on had put in on there, until it started having (and still appears to be having) its identity issues.

They played lots of pop Spanish, but it kinda beat the KLOVE and La Estrella 107.1 that I had been listening to for my own Spanish immersion.

I really hope that this is temporary and something else comes out. Hasta el proximo episode de Canta Tropical.

No comments:<|endoftext|>compare and share

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A. Price bundling.
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D. Price inflation.
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 reduces me to tears. When you contrast this song to Anybody Have A Map?, all the happiness has seeped out of Heidi and it's makes me feel deflated. I always cry when she quotes Evan saying 'Is there another truck coming to our driveway. A truck that will take mommy away?' That line in particular makes me want to cry. But the part that always makes me sob? 'You're mom isn't going anywhere- you're mum is staying right here. You're mom isn't going going anywhere- you're mom's staying right here. No matter what, I'll be here.' Just the pure emotion in her voice and the fact that she won't leave no matter what happens and that she'll still stick with him after everything.... it breaks me.

Favourite Lyric(s):
'Is there another truck coming to our driveway? A truck that will take mommy away.'
'You're mom isn't going anywhere- you're mum is staying right here. You're mom isn't going anywhere- you're mom's staying right here. No matter what, I'll be here.'

The little talk at the beginning of this song is so important, so beautiful and makes me sop proud of how far Evan has grown! It's the perfect ending! I also love the repetition of For Forever because I love that song and the calm, peace and serenity this harmonised version brings just makes my soul at ease. It's a truly satisfying end to the song.

Favourite Lyric(s):
'Dear Evan Hansen. today is going to be a good day and here's why. because today, today at least you're yo and that's enough.'
'We could be alright for forever this way.'

Thanks for reading! Feel free to comment your thoughts! Stay amazing!<|endoftext|>Now, Where Can I Get my Cumbia Fix? La Rockola 96.7 FM Is No More!

La Rockola 96.7 has not been for the past 2 months, but I have not noticed, figuring that the Ranchero music that currently dominates the station was just temporary every time I dialed into it.

But no, the Ranchero music is there to stay, for the time being, especially now that it's renamed "La Ranchera 96.7", to my absolute, utter, complete dismay.

 I'm like, really, we need another Ranchero music station?

I wouldn't have noticed this change because: 1) my dial is heavily tilted towards one of the public radio stations (89.3, 89.9, and 90.7) 2) my Spanish language comprehension still sucks 3) I really thought they were just going to play Cumbia eventually.

What the hell was La Rockola 96.7 FM?

La Rockola actually won OC Weekly's Best Radio station in 2012 and was described in the brief bit as "a heady mix of cumbias, salsa, the occasional quebradita and reams of sonidero."

It was a station that I got perfectly as I got on the 105 West and headed towards Santa Ana. Almost every time that I had work in and around Orange County, it would be time to tune into 96.7.

I thought of the station as loaded with Freshness. At least to me. Fresher than what appears to dominate Spanish language radio, which is slow, yawn-inducing male-dominated ballads usually incorporating an accordion.

What did La Rockola play? From what I think I Shazaamed specifically from them (either them or 90.7's lunch time World Music Cafe):

Here's more from their Twitter page and their La Estrella TV Page.

For about 8 years, I have been listening on/off to Spanish language radio in attempt to learn the language. I started off at KLOVE, not really not knowing any better. I even tried listening to Piolin on 101.9 when he was on, but some of my old co-workers, Mexican women, didn't really like him, so I kinda stopped listening to him and just kept with the the KLOVE. I developed a lot more taste and distaste as I've learned more of the language, and eventually moved on to stuff that the younger crowd might listen to like whatever was on what used to be Latino 96.3 and La Estrella 107.1.

I accidentally ran into La Rockola while attempting to find a radio station after 89.3 KPCC cuts after I reach PCH in Santa Monica. Ironically, I discovered that the music from 96.7 FM was not from Malibu, Thousand Oaks or wherever, but was from Orange County --- Santa Ana to be exact.

The discovery of this radio station was not an insignificant discovery as I Shazammed many a lunch hour away whenever I was within range. I never really really liked a lot of Spanish language music (and by "really really liked" I mean would actually seek out the music), till I discovered that station and Canto Tropical Saturdays on 90.7. However, this wasn't the first time I was really disappointed in a Spanish radio station being cut out. I used to listen to 93.9 Exitos after I noticed that one date I went on had put in on there, until it started having (and still appears to be having) its identity issues.

They played lots of pop Spanish, but it kinda beat the KLOVE and La Estrella 107.1 that I had been listening to for my own Spanish immersion.

I really hope that this is temporary and something else comes out. Hasta el proximo episode de Canta Tropical.

No comments:<|endoftext|>compare and share

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 EU's impact on global deforestation.

The five institutes that conducted the research are Vito, IIASA, Cicero, K.U. Leuven and IUCN-Netherlands.

Three reports are available:

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Source: Final report 'The impact of EU consumption on deforestation: Comprehensive analysis of the impact of EU consumption on deforestation'<|endoftext|>FIRST-PERSON: Darwin Day, a leap of faith By Kelly Boggs Feb 21, 2014 ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP) -- What did you do on Darwin Day 2014? If you are like me, you totally missed it. Someone had to call my attention to the celebration of all things evolutionary, after the Feb. 8 event had taken place. A little research allowed me to discover the website of the International Darwin Day Foundation (IDDF). According to the site: "Darwin Day is an international celebration of science and humanity held on or around February 12, the day that Charles Darwin was born on in 1809. Specifically, it celebrates the discoveries and life of Charles Darwin -- the man who first described biological evolution via natural selection with scientific rigor. More generally, Darwin Day expresses gratitude for the enormous benefits that scientific knowledge, acquired through human curiosity and ingenuity, has contributed to the advancement of humanity." The IDDF website encourages enthusiasts to ask elected officials for proclamations declaring Darwin Day a recognized and official celebration in their jurisdictions. You can even send a festive e-card from the IDDF site. One that caught my eye was a colorful depiction of the ascent of man with the encouragement, "On Darwin Day Let's Resolve to Evolve." A recent Pew poll on the American public's views on evolution found that 60 percent of Americans ascribe to the belief that "humans and other living things have evolved over time." However, among the number who accept the theory of evolution, 24 percent said that "a supreme being guided the evolution of living things for the purpose of creating humans and other life in the form it exists today." Intelligent Design theory postulates that an intelligent being, perhaps God, is the cause and orchestrator of the process of evolution. Given the Pew numbers, a majority of Americans, 57 percent, believe that a personal God or a supreme being is behind life as we know it. This does not sit well with evolution's purists who refuse to accept that anything other than material or energy shaped by chance over time has produced the world as we know it. Robert Stephens, co-founder of the Darwin Day program, is profiled in an interview on the IDDF website and is quoted saying: "For me, Humanism has its roots in ancient Greek philosophy and if the phenomenon of Christianity had not come along -- I think it is reasonable to suggest that Science and Humanism would have continued to developed naturally out of the ancient Greek culture. It seem reasonable, under this scenario, to suggest that the concept of evolution would have been developed much earlier than Darwin's theory in the 1850s -- and it is clear that an understanding of evolution destroys the myth of Adam and Eve, thereby also destroying the need for the myth of God having to send his only begotten son to redeem mankind from their sin...." According to Stephens, the emergence of Christianity delayed the discovery of evolution. He also makes it clear that evolution debunks any possibility of God. For evolution religionists like Stephens, the thought of an intelligent designer is utter foolishness. Bill Nye, best known as "the Science Guy," in his recent debate with Ken Ham rejected the very idea of Intelligent Design when he insisted that nature is "inconsistent with a top-down view." Ham, president of Answers in Genesis and the Creation Museum, accurately summed up the discord between ardent evolutionists and proponents of creationism and Intelligent Design during his debate with Nye: "The battle is really about authority. It's more than just science or evolution or creation. It's about who is the authority in this world, man or God?" In the end, those who ascribe to a belief in evolution, creationism or Intelligent Design all have to take a leap of faith. The scientific method can only be applied to independently observable, measureable events that can be repeated. Thus, it has its limits. When it comes to evolution, creationism or Intelligent Design, the scientific method cannot be applied, thus an ultimate truth will not be discovered in this life. Thus, each requires an element of belief, of faith. Let's say an adherent of evolution, a believer of creation and a proponent of Intelligent Design are walking together down a road when the trio comes across a turtle situated atop a fence post. The creationist and the Intelligent Design proponent both agree the turtle did not get to the top of the post by itself. Someone had to have placed it there. The evolutionist would argue the turtle could have come to rest on the fence any number of ways. Perhaps this particular turtle had mastered the art of climbing. Maybe an eagle scooped it up and dropped it on the post. The evolutionist might even suggest that floodwaters had risen to the height of the fence and deposited the turtle there. Perhaps even a massive gust of wind thrust the turtle atop the post. The evolutionist could posit hypotheses, seek to formulate theories and test them to see which could be more plausible. However, because none of three was present when the turtle found its way to the top the post, there is no way to know exactly how it got there. The adherents of evolution have more in common with creationists and Intelligent Design proponents than they are willing to admit. They even set aside a day to honor the chief prophet of their faith, Charles Darwin. --30-- Kelly Boggs is a weekly columnist for Baptist Press, director of the Louisiana Baptist Convention's office of public affairs, and editor of the Baptist Message (, newsjournal of the Louisiana Baptist Convention. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook ( and in your email ( Copyright (c) 2014 Southern Baptist Convention, Baptist Press 901 Commerce Street Nashville, TN 37203 Tel: 615.244.2355 Fax: 615.782.8736 email:<|endoftext|>The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about professional law.

A man, his brother and his friend all discuss murdering the man's neighbor because the neighbor took some shots at the man's dog but he missed. They agree on a plan. They decided on strychnine poisoning, which the friend told them how to get and they went and got it. When they asked the friend to go forward in poisoning the victim, he refused, saying, "I'm was only here for planning and advice, but I never intended to commit murder." The man and his brother took the poison to a meeting with the neighbor, but he wouldn't drink. They were caught and arrested. The statute requires an overt act for criminal conspiracy. Which of the following most accurately states the criminal responsibility of each of the three men?
A. The man and his brother have committed criminal conspiracy and attempted murder.
B. The man and his brother are guilty of conspiracy but not attempted murder.
C. The man and his brother are guilty of conspiracy and attempted murder, but the friend is guilty of nothing.
D. The man and his brother are guilty of conspiracy and attempted murder, and the friend is guilty of criminal conspiracy.
Answer: D<|endoftext|>AN: This is the final chapter. Vote on my page if you want there to be a second story which would take place in the current Soul Society. Thanks goes out to those of you who have supported me all the way and read my story, especially the reviewers who helped keep it alive. And with that I'll end this.

Chapter 14, Untitled

If it were night, the lack of light would be comfortable. If it were night, the stars would be a pleasant piercing gaze. And if it were night, regrets would flow endlessly till the ground collected a heavy puddle and absorbed the world's problems. But it wasn't night at all. A thick fog surrounded the area delivering huge grey clouds threatening to burst apart and send sheets of tears to the earth, or more specifically the service being held. And it began, the sky cried, its emotion dripped through the fog like bullets splattering on the grass and the people gathered together.

A deep voice droned over the crowd as they stood; staring down into the soil, rain collecting on the mahogany box below. No one had smiled this morning, and it was safe to assume no one would, for such a ceremony prohibits it. A part in life one wishes to never attend, a part of existence and the deadline of a timeline drawing to a close.

"It was too early." Silver eyes traveled to the clouds, lips parting for air, it was all suddenly suffocating. The whisper was unheard, but shared by the others. Soi couldn't watch as the booming voice concluded, meaning the earth would suddenly swallow that body whole. A heavy palm found its way to her shoulder, and she suddenly knew who it was. The taller woman remained silent, knowing the girl could use the comfort.

The rain fell harder into a soaking mess, blades collecting each drop with pleasure seeing as they had been deprived for a few days. A good majority of people left after that, for the shovels were at work completing the job, and there was no use catching a cold if they could avoid it, but Soi remained. She promised herself earlier she wouldn't cry which at this point seemed impossible. At least the rain would disguise it.

"How's yer head?"

"So yer memory's back?"

"Every single page,

 have a one-sided option to extend his stay by two years.

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A new study assesses the impact of EU consumption on global deforestation. It also surveys actions that could be taken to address the situation.

The study, which covers the period 1990–2008, examines how much the production, trade and consumption of soya, palm oil, cocoa and other commodities have contributed to deforestation. The analysis directly links deforestation in producer countries to consumption in consumer countries. The results show the amount of deforestation embodied in imports by commodity and by country.

The study finds that most of the goods associated with deforestation are consumed in the producer countries. The EU imports 35% of the total amount of goods traded internationally. For agricultural commodities, the EU imports and consumes 7% of total global consumption. Oil crops stand out as a major import commodity that contributes to the EU's impact on global deforestation.

The five institutes that conducted the research are Vito, IIASA, Cicero, K.U. Leuven and IUCN-Netherlands.

Three reports are available:

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Source: Final report 'The impact of EU consumption on deforestation: Comprehensive analysis of the impact of EU consumption on deforestation'<|endoftext|>FIRST-PERSON: Darwin Day, a leap of faith By Kelly Boggs Feb 21, 2014 ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP) -- What did you do on Darwin Day 2014? If you are like me, you totally missed it. Someone had to call my attention to the celebration of all things evolutionary, after the Feb. 8 event had taken place. A little research allowed me to discover the website of the International Darwin Day Foundation (IDDF). According to the site: "Darwin Day is an international celebration of science and humanity held on or around February 12, the day that Charles Darwin was born on in 1809. Specifically, it celebrates the discoveries and life of Charles Darwin -- the man who first described biological evolution via natural selection with scientific rigor. More generally, Darwin Day expresses gratitude for the enormous benefits that scientific knowledge, acquired through human curiosity and ingenuity, has contributed to the advancement of humanity." The IDDF website encourages enthusiasts to ask elected officials for proclamations declaring Darwin Day a recognized and official celebration in their jurisdictions. You can even send a festive e-card from the IDDF site. One that caught my eye was a colorful depiction of the ascent of man with the encouragement, "On Darwin Day Let's Resolve to Evolve." A recent Pew poll on the American public's views on evolution found that 60 percent of Americans ascribe to the belief that "humans and other living things have evolved over time." However, among the number who accept the theory of evolution, 24 percent said that "a supreme being guided the evolution of living things for the purpose of creating humans and other life in the form it exists today." Intelligent Design theory postulates that an intelligent being, perhaps God, is the cause and orchestrator of the process of evolution. Given the Pew numbers, a majority of Americans, 57 percent, believe that a personal God or a supreme being is behind life as we know it. This does not sit well with evolution's purists who refuse to accept that anything other than material or energy shaped by chance over time has produced the world as we know it. Robert Stephens, co-founder of the Darwin Day program, is profiled in an interview on the IDDF website and is quoted saying: "For me, Humanism has its roots in ancient Greek philosophy and if the phenomenon of Christianity had not come along -- I think it is reasonable to suggest that Science and Humanism would have continued to developed naturally out of the ancient Greek culture. It seem reasonable, under this scenario, to suggest that the concept of evolution would have been developed much earlier than Darwin's theory in the 1850s -- and it is clear that an understanding of evolution destroys the myth of Adam and Eve, thereby also destroying the need for the myth of God having to send his only begotten son to redeem mankind from their sin...." According to Stephens, the emergence of Christianity delayed the discovery of evolution. He also makes it clear that evolution debunks any possibility of God. For evolution religionists like Stephens, the thought of an intelligent designer is utter foolishness. Bill Nye, best known as "the Science Guy," in his recent debate with Ken Ham rejected the very idea of Intelligent Design when he insisted that nature is "inconsistent with a top-down view." Ham, president of Answers in Genesis and the Creation Museum, accurately summed up the discord between ardent evolutionists and proponents of creationism and Intelligent Design during his debate with Nye: "The battle is really about authority. It's more than just science or evolution or creation. It's about who is the authority in this world, man or God?" In the end, those who ascribe to a belief in evolution, creationism or Intelligent Design all have to take a leap of faith. The scientific method can only be applied to independently observable, measureable events that can be repeated. Thus, it has its limits. When it comes to evolution, creationism or Intelligent Design, the scientific method cannot be applied, thus an ultimate truth will not be discovered in this life. Thus, each requires an element of belief, of faith. Let's say an adherent of evolution, a believer of creation and a proponent of Intelligent Design are walking together down a road when the trio comes across a turtle situated atop a fence post. The creationist and the Intelligent Design proponent both agree the turtle did not get to the top of the post by itself. Someone had to have placed it there. The evolutionist would argue the turtle could have come to rest on the fence any number of ways. Perhaps this particular turtle had mastered the art of climbing. Maybe an eagle scooped it up and dropped it on the post. The evolutionist might even suggest that floodwaters had risen to the height of the fence and deposited the turtle there. Perhaps even a massive gust of wind thrust the turtle atop the post. The evolutionist could posit hypotheses, seek to formulate theories and test them to see which could be more plausible. However, because none of three was present when the turtle found its way to the top the post, there is no way to know exactly how it got there. The adherents of evolution have more in common with creationists and Intelligent Design proponents than they are willing to admit. They even set aside a day to honor the chief prophet of their faith, Charles Darwin. --30-- Kelly Boggs is a weekly columnist for Baptist Press, director of the Louisiana Baptist Convention's office of public affairs, and editor of the Baptist Message (, newsjournal of the Louisiana Baptist Convention. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook ( and in your email ( Copyright (c) 2014 Southern Baptist Convention, Baptist Press 901 Commerce Street Nashville, TN 37203 Tel: 615.244.2355 Fax: 615.782.8736 email:<|endoftext|>AN: This is the final chapter. Vote on my page if you want there to be a second story which would take place in the current Soul Society. Thanks goes out to those of you who have supported me all the way and read my story, especially the reviewers who helped keep it alive. And with that I'll end this.

Chapter 14, Untitled

If it were night, the lack of light would be comfortable. If it were night, the stars would be a pleasant piercing gaze. And if it were night, regrets would flow endlessly till the ground collected a heavy puddle and absorbed the world's problems. But it wasn't night at all. A thick fog surrounded the area delivering huge grey clouds threatening to burst apart and send sheets of tears to the earth, or more specifically the service being held. And it began, the sky cried, its emotion dripped through the fog like bullets splattering on the grass and the people gathered together.

A deep voice droned over the crowd as they stood; staring down into the soil, rain collecting on the mahogany box below. No one had smiled this morning, and it was safe to assume no one would, for such a ceremony prohibits it. A part in life one wishes to never attend, a part of existence and the deadline of a timeline drawing to a close.

"It was too early." Silver eyes traveled to the clouds, lips parting for air, it was all suddenly suffocating. The whisper was unheard, but shared by the others. Soi couldn't watch as the booming voice concluded, meaning the earth would suddenly swallow that body whole. A heavy palm found its way to her shoulder, and she suddenly knew who it was. The taller woman remained silent, knowing the girl could use the comfort.

The rain fell harder into a soaking mess, blades collecting each drop with pleasure seeing as they had been deprived for a few days. A good majority of people left after that, for the shovels were at work completing the job, and there was no use catching a cold if they could avoid it, but Soi remained. She promised herself earlier she wouldn't cry which at this point seemed impossible. At least the rain would disguise it.

"How's yer head?"

"So yer memory's back?"

"Every single page, but the final chapter was never finished."

"It's not the end you know."

"There's no such thing as a book without an author."

"Then help write it." Kukaku turned around, and headed


 technology and technology people. Remembering the broadest definition of the term is ‘the use of non-life to enhance life.’ That is technology. At one point, iron was considered cutting edge technology.

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Congress Shall Have the Power to Make War

According to Bill Clinton and his predecessor, the end of the Cold War would inaugurate an era of peace and tranquility—enforced by multinational coalitions more or less led by the United States. But the NATO bombing of Kosovo, ordered by President Clinton this week, shows precisely how disorderly—how opposed to the rule of law—this New World Order really is.

Clinton talks endlessly about his commitment to NATO and the international community, but glosses over his earlier, more fundamental commitment: his solemn pledge to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.

The Framers of the Constitution were determined not to grant the president an unfettered power to make war. Having just suffered at King George’s hands, they believed that vesting the executive with war-making power almost inevitably led to abuse. Thus they clearly wrote: Congress, not the President, shall have the power “To declare War, grant letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on Land and Water.” The President could act without the authority of Congress only to repel sudden attacks. In all other cases, Congress alone had the authority to declare a war.

Clearly, when it comes to war, supporters of presidential power turn a blind eye to the Constitution. Betting they can dodge the restrictions imposed by our national charter, they call the President’s exercise of force not war, but “police actions,” “surgical strikes,” or “limited engagements.” This is not constitutional scholarship but constitutional obfuscation. The Framers knew that minor military engagements could quickly escalate into major ones, so they sought to limit presidential power over “small” wars just as much as large ones. The “Letters of Marque and Reprisal” that they empowered Congress, but not the President, to grant referred to licensing government agents to take enemy ships or otherwise frustrate the enemy—the 18th century method of conducting a “limited engagement.”

If any ambiguities about war powers remained, Chief Justice John Marshall removed them in one of the earliest Supreme Court cases on this subject (Talbot v. Seeman, 1801). Congress alone, the court unanimously ruled, had the “whole powers of war,” whether that meant authorizing “general hostilities” or “partial war.” Much later, Justice Thurgood Marshall referred to this ruling and noted that “nothing in the 172 years since those words were written alters that fundamental constitutional postulate (Holtzman v. Schlesinger, 1973).”

To be sure, ignorance of the Constitution is not limited to Clinton. It was only a few weeks ago that Republicans were crowing about the supreme importance of the “rule of law” and the “sacred constitution.” At the time, many of them had no doubt about the exact meaning of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” a subject on which constitutional scholars are vexed. Yet when the Constitution and constitutional history speak plainly and with one voice about the power to declare war, few Republicans can be found willing to declare the President’s actions unconstitutional. Republicans, of course, were willing to ignore the rule of law when Reagan launched plainly unconstitutional military strikes against Grenada, Lebanon, Libya and other countries. Democrats also are all too willing to ignore the rule of law when it so suits them.

Only a handful of members of Congress like Senator Joe Biden (D-Del.) and Representative Tom Campbell (R-Calif.) hold fast to the Constitution, whatever the party of the President. Campbell has repeatedly tried to force the President and Congress to live up to their duties under the War Powers Resolution of 1973. Unfortunately, the War Powers Resolution, passed in 1973 in response to the quagmire of the Vietnam war, has been too weak to force Presidents to relinquish their illegally held war powers. Senator Biden, therefore, introduced legislation in July intended to strengthen the 1973 resolution. All those who truly hold sacred the rule of law and the Constitution should support the efforts of Campbell, Biden, and others to restore to Congress its rightful powers.

From Alexander T. Tabarrok
JUDGE AND JURY: American Tort Law on Trial

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Improving your posture will make you look tall and slim and will make you bust look bigger. Throw your shoulders back and arch your lower back. You don’t want poor posture, it says a lot about your personality.. When the iPhone launched in 2007, it took 74 days to reach the benchmark figure.Saturday’s iPad launch was in the United States only. The device is expected to go on sale in Canada near the end of May.Read more:Will you purchase an iPad when it’s released in Canada? Take our poll.Internet freedom: Should government have the ability to shut down the internet?The Egyptian government shut down access to the internet and the country’s cellphone data network early Friday, according to media reports. Internet and cellphone data service was unavailable throughout the country, making it impossible for news of the protests.

My first month on clomid was amazing and I felt great but as the months came the feeling has decreased. On a last ditch effort I started the supplements Calcium D Glucarate and Indole 3 Carbinol or I would have quit using clomid as I didn’t like the high anxious feeling and my doctor wouldn’t put me on estrogen blocker. It will be a little over a year now and the conbo is working great, not as good as the first month but it’s way better then it was before..

The choice Australians will make is a choice about the future, not about the past. If you voting for something that was nine months ago, you probably missing the bigger picture. Tony Jones took this as a heavy clue that polling day has been decided by the party and they will wait until May, the last moment to call a poll..

After the twins were born, my work colleagues chipped in to give us a gift certificate that we used to buy a double jogger stroller. Our house was 1 mile up the back side of a relatively steep hill. All spring, I walked those babies down and then back up the hill!.

I thinking of saving up and getting my grassroots then my c license.If you from Ontario there a bunch of certificates you have to get first before you can go for your C license. I hoping to start coaching u12 or whereabouts in the future.I know Little Kickers has a program for 7 12 called Greenway, so I going to try and work my way up to that.I find coaching highly rewarding and I super excited to begin my own coaching career.ImSimplyTheGreatest 23 points submitted 20 days agoI never understood the absolute lack of credit that Laurent Blanc has received. He ended Lyon 7 year title streak with Bordeaux in 2009.

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It possible some guys improve though. And I have faith in Westbrook raising the ceiling of a fast team that can play defense. We have to wait and see but I not ready to say the offense will be better or worse at this point.. I stated researching and reading online. In the paleo diet community there were a lot of similar stories to mine, and people were having success with changing the profile of their shoes. The idea was that by moving to shoes and sneakers with a lower or no heal rise and a wider toe box that your foot is returned into it’s originally intended position.

She also acknowledged that it is uncommon to find a testable amount of DNA on a spent cartridge casing and that the lab had never tested the chewing gum for DNA. Sultan also asked her if she had received a DNA profile for Hernandez co defendant Ernest Wallace to compare it with evidence in the case. She said she had not..

To all the new players or on the fence people I hope you don take all this negative feedback too close to heart. These people for the most part are the vocal minority. A couple hundred negative people when the player base is over tens of thousands if not more.

To me, she has found her voice and passion in this most creative outlet called writing.After you read this interview, I invite you to take a trip to some of her hubs. I don’t think I told them enough, also, I was always in a hurry to have everything perfect in my home and life, I forgot to stop and smell the roses. I guess I would like to teach the young Mothers that life passes so quickly and the little one will soon be gone from the nest, so teach them humility and to love all people regardless of race or gender preference and most specifically there is a God and he loves everyone.My secret passion, my dream job.My secret passion is to live on a plantation, be Scarlett O’Hara and make passionate love with Rhett Butler.

SubscriptionsGo to the Subscriptions Centre to manage your:My ProfileArgentina, Russia, the Ukraine, India, Viet Nam. That’s just a partial list of countries that have limited exports of wheat, rice, and

 completely. It should just (and should have always been) be referred to as technology and technology people. Remembering the broadest definition of the term is ‘the use of non-life to enhance life.’ That is technology. At one point, iron was considered cutting edge technology.

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Congress Shall Have the Power to Make War

According to Bill Clinton and his predecessor, the end of the Cold War would inaugurate an era of peace and tranquility—enforced by multinational coalitions more or less led by the United States. But the NATO bombing of Kosovo, ordered by President Clinton this week, shows precisely how disorderly—how opposed to the rule of law—this New World Order really is.

Clinton talks endlessly about his commitment to NATO and the international community, but glosses over his earlier, more fundamental commitment: his solemn pledge to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.

The Framers of the Constitution were determined not to grant the president an unfettered power to make war. Having just suffered at King George’s hands, they believed that vesting the executive with war-making power almost inevitably led to abuse. Thus they clearly wrote: Congress, not the President, shall have the power “To declare War, grant letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on Land and Water.” The President could act without the authority of Congress only to repel sudden attacks. In all other cases, Congress alone had the authority to declare a war.

Clearly, when it comes to war, supporters of presidential power turn a blind eye to the Constitution. Betting they can dodge the restrictions imposed by our national charter, they call the President’s exercise of force not war, but “police actions,” “surgical strikes,” or “limited engagements.” This is not constitutional scholarship but constitutional obfuscation. The Framers knew that minor military engagements could quickly escalate into major ones, so they sought to limit presidential power over “small” wars just as much as large ones. The “Letters of Marque and Reprisal” that they empowered Congress, but not the President, to grant referred to licensing government agents to take enemy ships or otherwise frustrate the enemy—the 18th century method of conducting a “limited engagement.”

If any ambiguities about war powers remained, Chief Justice John Marshall removed them in one of the earliest Supreme Court cases on this subject (Talbot v. Seeman, 1801). Congress alone, the court unanimously ruled, had the “whole powers of war,” whether that meant authorizing “general hostilities” or “partial war.” Much later, Justice Thurgood Marshall referred to this ruling and noted that “nothing in the 172 years since those words were written alters that fundamental constitutional postulate (Holtzman v. Schlesinger, 1973).”

To be sure, ignorance of the Constitution is not limited to Clinton. It was only a few weeks ago that Republicans were crowing about the supreme importance of the “rule of law” and the “sacred constitution.” At the time, many of them had no doubt about the exact meaning of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” a subject on which constitutional scholars are vexed. Yet when the Constitution and constitutional history speak plainly and with one voice about the power to declare war, few Republicans can be found willing to declare the President’s actions unconstitutional. Republicans, of course, were willing to ignore the rule of law when Reagan launched plainly unconstitutional military strikes against Grenada, Lebanon, Libya and other countries. Democrats also are all too willing to ignore the rule of law when it so suits them.

Only a handful of members of Congress like Senator Joe Biden (D-Del.) and Representative Tom Campbell (R-Calif.) hold fast to the Constitution, whatever the party of the President. Campbell has repeatedly tried to force the President and Congress to live up to their duties under the War Powers Resolution of 1973. Unfortunately, the War Powers Resolution, passed in 1973 in response to the quagmire of the Vietnam war, has been too weak to force Presidents to relinquish their illegally held war powers. Senator Biden, therefore, introduced legislation in July intended to strengthen the 1973 resolution. All those who truly hold sacred the rule of law and the Constitution should support the efforts of Campbell, Biden, and others to restore to Congress its rightful powers.

From Alexander T. Tabarrok
JUDGE AND JURY: American Tort Law on Trial

  • MyGovCost.org
  • FDAReview.org
  • OnPower.org
  • elindependent.org<|endoftext|>Precio De Botines Nike Magista 2015

Improving your posture will make you look tall and slim and will make you bust look bigger. Throw your shoulders back and arch your lower back. You don’t want poor posture, it says a lot about your personality.. When the iPhone launched in 2007, it took 74 days to reach the benchmark figure.Saturday’s iPad launch was in the United States only. The device is expected to go on sale in Canada near the end of May.Read more:Will you purchase an iPad when it’s released in Canada? Take our poll.Internet freedom: Should government have the ability to shut down the internet?The Egyptian government shut down access to the internet and the country’s cellphone data network early Friday, according to media reports. Internet and cellphone data service was unavailable throughout the country, making it impossible for news of the protests.

My first month on clomid was amazing and I felt great but as the months came the feeling has decreased. On a last ditch effort I started the supplements Calcium D Glucarate and Indole 3 Carbinol or I would have quit using clomid as I didn’t like the high anxious feeling and my doctor wouldn’t put me on estrogen blocker. It will be a little over a year now and the conbo is working great, not as good as the first month but it’s way better then it was before..

The choice Australians will make is a choice about the future, not about the past. If you voting for something that was nine months ago, you probably missing the bigger picture. Tony Jones took this as a heavy clue that polling day has been decided by the party and they will wait until May, the last moment to call a poll..

After the twins were born, my work colleagues chipped in to give us a gift certificate that we used to buy a double jogger stroller. Our house was 1 mile up the back side of a relatively steep hill. All spring, I walked those babies down and then back up the hill!.

I thinking of saving up and getting my grassroots then my c license.If you from Ontario there a bunch of certificates you have to get first before you can go for your C license. I hoping to start coaching u12 or whereabouts in the future.I know Little Kickers has a program for 7 12 called Greenway, so I going to try and work my way up to that.I find coaching highly rewarding and I super excited to begin my own coaching career.ImSimplyTheGreatest 23 points submitted 20 days agoI never understood the absolute lack of credit that Laurent Blanc has received. He ended Lyon 7 year title streak with Bordeaux in 2009.

Precio Botines Nike Magista

It possible some guys improve though. And I have faith in Westbrook raising the ceiling of a fast team that can play defense. We have to wait and see but I not ready to say the offense will be better or worse at this point.. I stated researching and reading online. In the paleo diet community there were a lot of similar stories to mine, and people were having success with changing the profile of their shoes. The idea was that by moving to shoes and sneakers with a lower or no heal rise and a wider toe box that your foot is returned into it’s originally intended position.

She also acknowledged that it is uncommon to find a testable amount of DNA on a spent cartridge casing and that the lab had never tested the chewing gum for DNA. Sultan also asked her if she had received a DNA profile for Hernandez co defendant Ernest Wallace to compare it with evidence in the case. She said she had not..

To all the new players or on the fence people I hope you don take all this negative feedback too close to heart. These people for the most part are the vocal minority. A couple hundred negative people when the player base is over tens of thousands if not more.

To me, she has found her voice and passion in this most creative outlet called writing.After you read this interview, I invite you to take a trip to some of her hubs. I don’t think I told them enough, also, I was always in a hurry to have everything perfect in my home and life, I forgot to stop and smell the roses. I guess I would like to teach the young Mothers that life passes so quickly and the little one will soon be gone from the nest, so teach them humility and to love all people regardless of race or gender preference and most specifically there is a God and he loves everyone.My secret passion, my dream job.My secret passion is to live on a plantation, be Scarlett O’Hara and make passionate love with Rhett Butler.

SubscriptionsGo to the Subscriptions Centre to manage your:My ProfileArgentina, Russia, the Ukraine, India, Viet Nam. That’s just a partial list of countries that have limited exports of wheat, rice, and other grains.The goal is to stop runaway food inflation, but limiting exports will, in fact, drive global food prices even higher. Speculators are the


 Make sure you have plenty of paper.

After the meeting

  1. Write up your minutes as soon as possible after the meeting, preferably on the same day, while your memory is fresh. You’re less likely to make mistakes then.

6 thoughts on “Business Writing Tip 43—More Minute-Taking Tips

  1. I wonder if anyone can give me some guidance around minutes and the correct protocol to record changes to an item that is ‘tabled’ at a meeting, but has not yet been approved. Currently, my board is tabling policies for consultation at one meeting and approving them at the next. Is it appropriate to minute that the ‘tabled’ item has been ‘amended’ if there is a change to the original tabled document? My thinking is that only an ‘approved’ item can be ‘amended’. Thoughts or suggestions?

  2. Hi Janice, I found some guidelines that say that papers presented to a meeting can be either adopted or received. Though it talks specifically of reports from committees and individuals, I would think that the same advice applies to policies that are tabled.

    “Reports from committees and individuals that are tabled at a meeting can be either adopted or received. A meeting adopts the report when it accepts the report’s findings or recommendations. A motion as such should be moved, for example, ‘That the report of the fundraising committee be adopted’.

    If the management committee does not agree with the report or needs more information or time for further decision-making at a later point, the meeting can receive the report; again via a formal motion, for example, ‘That the report be received’. Motions dealing with specific recommendations can be dealt with at a later meeting.”

    When they are received they are then open for amendment. Once the amendments have been made, the document would then be approved (as amended) and accepted. The url for the document is

    Hope this helps.
    Kind regards

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<|endoftext|>The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about high school mathematics.

What is the smallest prime whose digits sum to $19$?
A. 5
B. 11
C. 17
D. 199
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Huogo I Formula

Angelica Sinensis is available for sale Solaray - Dong Quai Angelica Sinensis, 550 mg, 100 capsules

Effects of huogu I formula (I) on correlated factors of bone regeneration in chickens with steroid-induced necrosis of femoral head.

The microenvironment of a femoral head recently undergone necrosis may differ from an adult femoral head.

"Forty-eight healthy female Leghorn chickens were randomly divided into control group, model group and Huogu I group, and each group consisted of 16 chickens. At the meantime of model establishment, chickens of the Huogu I group were administrated with decoction, while the model and control group with distilled water by gavage. At the 8th and 16th week after medication, blood samples were obtained for blood lipid detection while both sides of femoral head were harvested for the rest of examinations. .
Compared with the control group, serum levels of total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG) and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) in the model group rose significantly. Positive cell counting of BMP2, TGFβ(1), Smad4 and OPG in femoral head of the model group dropped prominently. Positive cell counting of Smad7 and RANKL increased dramatically. In contrast with the model group, levels of TC, TG and LDL-C in Huogu I group reduced significantly. Positive cell counting of BMP2, TGFβ(1), Smad4 and OPG in femoral head of the Huogu I group increased prominently. Indices of Smad7 and RANKL both decreased significantly. Especially at the 8th week, these variations were more significant.
Huogu I formula is effective in promoting repair of necrotic femoral head by regulating the expressions of BMP2, TGFβ(1), Smads and OPG/RANKL of osteoclast in femoral head."

"Huogu Ⅰ Formula (consisting of Poria Cocos, Atractylodes Rhizome, Codonopsis Pilosula, prepared Pinellia tuber, Radix Paeonia Rubra, Ramulus Cinnamoni, Angelica Sinensis, Ligustici Chuanxiong and prepared Rhizome Rehmannia) provided by Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, was decocted into solution which contained crude drug in 1 g/mL. Methyl prednisolone sondium succinate"

The model group refers to the osteonecrosis group, the control had no stimulation, and the Huogo I group is Huogo I +necrosis.

"Eight weeks after steroid administration, the model group showed several histomorphological changes as compared with the control group: thin trabecula, increased number of empty lacuna and adipocyte proliferation and hypertrophia. At the 16th week, collapsed bone trabeculae, necrosis accompanied by hyperplasia in some regions, increased empty lacuna were observed. Moreover, the fat area in marrow cavity was higher than that in the normal group. At the 8th and 16th week after treated by Huogu Ⅰ Formula, trabeculae were arranged in regular and compact shapes, large amount of osteoclast and few osteoclast distributed around them, and the empty lacuna rate and fat area in medullary channel were significantly lower than those in the model group"

"The expressions of BMP2 and TGFβ1 positive staining were observed in chondrocye and osteocyte of femoral head in the control group. At the 8th week, the expressions of BMP2 and TGFβ1 in the model group were significantly lower than that in the control group. Additionally, the difference was even more obvious at the 16th week. Compared with the model group, the expressions of BMP2 and
TGFβ1 in Huogu Ⅰ group were significantly higher. At the 8th week, the increasing trend of the two factors in Huogu Ⅰ group was drastic and even approximate to counterparts in the control group{but not greater than the control group which is what we would hope if Huogo I formula is height increasing}"

"Rhizoma Chuanxiong is effective in improving microcirculation and reducing the blood viscosity; Atractylodes Macrocephala Koidz, Angelica Sinensis, and prepared Pinellia Tuber possess similar effects and may improve the condition of hyperlipidemia and prevent fat from accumulating in marrow cavity."

"Angelica Sinensis possesses effects of up-regulating expressions of BMP2, cbfal, insulinlike growth factors (IGF), and other related genes of osteoblast{many of these genes are pro-chondrogenic also}. We believe that, on one hand, Huogu Ⅰ Formula acts on osteoblast and bone marrow stromal cell to enhance the expression of related genes of osteogenesis. On the other hand, it regulates the lipid metabolism and improves the condition of abnormal blood rheology, leading to the promotion of blood supply of femoral head."<-So Angelica Sinensis is the most promising compound.

Study to establish the role of JAK2 and SMAD1/5/8 pathways in the inhibition of hepcidin by polysaccharides from Angelica sinensis., states that Angelica Sinensis may inhibit the SMAD1/5/8 pathway.  Smad1/5/8 is the BMP pathway signaling.

Role of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins-7 (BMP-7) in the Renal Improvement Effect of DangGui (Angelica sinensis) in Type-1 Diabetic Rats., states that Angelica sinensis may directly activate BMP-7.

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Static compression on growth plates

Here's an image of the growth plates with and without load:

Strain-dependent recovery behavior of single chondrocytes.

Couldn't get full study.

Friday, December 18, 2009

Retinol-binding protein 4 is expressed in chondrocytes of developing mouse long bones: implications for a local role in formation of the secondary ossification center.

"Retinol-binding protein 4 (Rbp4) is the major carrier of retinol in the bloodstream, a retinoid whose metabolites influence osteogenesis, chondrogenesis and adipogenesis. Rbp4 is mainly produced in the liver where it mobilizes hepatic retinol stores to supply other tissues. Rbp4 was present in a variety of locations in developing embryonic and postnatal mouse hindlimbs. Rbp4 was present in a restricted population of epiphyseal chondrocytes and perichondral cells correlating to the future region of secondary ossification. With the onset of secondary ossification

 with the same initials, work out a code to identify which is which.
  2. Record your notes in bullet point format (not sentences and essay style) and leave lots of white space. Make sure you have plenty of paper.

After the meeting

  1. Write up your minutes as soon as possible after the meeting, preferably on the same day, while your memory is fresh. You’re less likely to make mistakes then.

6 thoughts on “Business Writing Tip 43—More Minute-Taking Tips

  1. I wonder if anyone can give me some guidance around minutes and the correct protocol to record changes to an item that is ‘tabled’ at a meeting, but has not yet been approved. Currently, my board is tabling policies for consultation at one meeting and approving them at the next. Is it appropriate to minute that the ‘tabled’ item has been ‘amended’ if there is a change to the original tabled document? My thinking is that only an ‘approved’ item can be ‘amended’. Thoughts or suggestions?

  2. Hi Janice, I found some guidelines that say that papers presented to a meeting can be either adopted or received. Though it talks specifically of reports from committees and individuals, I would think that the same advice applies to policies that are tabled.

    “Reports from committees and individuals that are tabled at a meeting can be either adopted or received. A meeting adopts the report when it accepts the report’s findings or recommendations. A motion as such should be moved, for example, ‘That the report of the fundraising committee be adopted’.

    If the management committee does not agree with the report or needs more information or time for further decision-making at a later point, the meeting can receive the report; again via a formal motion, for example, ‘That the report be received’. Motions dealing with specific recommendations can be dealt with at a later meeting.”

    When they are received they are then open for amendment. Once the amendments have been made, the document would then be approved (as amended) and accepted. The url for the document is

    Hope this helps.
    Kind regards

Add Your Feedback
<|endoftext|>After a little over a year away, Catz ‘N Dogz return to USA powerhouse Dirtybird with “Body,” a track that lives up to the “first track of the decade” pedestal. “Body” takes you on a  brief journey through funky acid soundscapes and sharply crafted drum patterns which are accompanied by Simon Black’s vocal contribution. Catz ‘N Dogz’ signature sound combined with Simon Black’s monologue results in an unforgettable song that only fits one label, Dirtybird.<|endoftext|>Monday, December 28, 2009

Huogo I Formula

Angelica Sinensis is available for sale Solaray - Dong Quai Angelica Sinensis, 550 mg, 100 capsules

Effects of huogu I formula (I) on correlated factors of bone regeneration in chickens with steroid-induced necrosis of femoral head.

The microenvironment of a femoral head recently undergone necrosis may differ from an adult femoral head.

"Forty-eight healthy female Leghorn chickens were randomly divided into control group, model group and Huogu I group, and each group consisted of 16 chickens. At the meantime of model establishment, chickens of the Huogu I group were administrated with decoction, while the model and control group with distilled water by gavage. At the 8th and 16th week after medication, blood samples were obtained for blood lipid detection while both sides of femoral head were harvested for the rest of examinations. .
Compared with the control group, serum levels of total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG) and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) in the model group rose significantly. Positive cell counting of BMP2, TGFβ(1), Smad4 and OPG in femoral head of the model group dropped prominently. Positive cell counting of Smad7 and RANKL increased dramatically. In contrast with the model group, levels of TC, TG and LDL-C in Huogu I group reduced significantly. Positive cell counting of BMP2, TGFβ(1), Smad4 and OPG in femoral head of the Huogu I group increased prominently. Indices of Smad7 and RANKL both decreased significantly. Especially at the 8th week, these variations were more significant.
Huogu I formula is effective in promoting repair of necrotic femoral head by regulating the expressions of BMP2, TGFβ(1), Smads and OPG/RANKL of osteoclast in femoral head."

"Huogu Ⅰ Formula (consisting of Poria Cocos, Atractylodes Rhizome, Codonopsis Pilosula, prepared Pinellia tuber, Radix Paeonia Rubra, Ramulus Cinnamoni, Angelica Sinensis, Ligustici Chuanxiong and prepared Rhizome Rehmannia) provided by Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, was decocted into solution which contained crude drug in 1 g/mL. Methyl prednisolone sondium succinate"

The model group refers to the osteonecrosis group, the control had no stimulation, and the Huogo I group is Huogo I +necrosis.

"Eight weeks after steroid administration, the model group showed several histomorphological changes as compared with the control group: thin trabecula, increased number of empty lacuna and adipocyte proliferation and hypertrophia. At the 16th week, collapsed bone trabeculae, necrosis accompanied by hyperplasia in some regions, increased empty lacuna were observed. Moreover, the fat area in marrow cavity was higher than that in the normal group. At the 8th and 16th week after treated by Huogu Ⅰ Formula, trabeculae were arranged in regular and compact shapes, large amount of osteoclast and few osteoclast distributed around them, and the empty lacuna rate and fat area in medullary channel were significantly lower than those in the model group"

"The expressions of BMP2 and TGFβ1 positive staining were observed in chondrocye and osteocyte of femoral head in the control group. At the 8th week, the expressions of BMP2 and TGFβ1 in the model group were significantly lower than that in the control group. Additionally, the difference was even more obvious at the 16th week. Compared with the model group, the expressions of BMP2 and
TGFβ1 in Huogu Ⅰ group were significantly higher. At the 8th week, the increasing trend of the two factors in Huogu Ⅰ group was drastic and even approximate to counterparts in the control group{but not greater than the control group which is what we would hope if Huogo I formula is height increasing}"

"Rhizoma Chuanxiong is effective in improving microcirculation and reducing the blood viscosity; Atractylodes Macrocephala Koidz, Angelica Sinensis, and prepared Pinellia Tuber possess similar effects and may improve the condition of hyperlipidemia and prevent fat from accumulating in marrow cavity."

"Angelica Sinensis possesses effects of up-regulating expressions of BMP2, cbfal, insulinlike growth factors (IGF), and other related genes of osteoblast{many of these genes are pro-chondrogenic also}. We believe that, on one hand, Huogu Ⅰ Formula acts on osteoblast and bone marrow stromal cell to enhance the expression of related genes of osteogenesis. On the other hand, it regulates the lipid metabolism and improves the condition of abnormal blood rheology, leading to the promotion of blood supply of femoral head."<-So Angelica Sinensis is the most promising compound.

Study to establish the role of JAK2 and SMAD1/5/8 pathways in the inhibition of hepcidin by polysaccharides from Angelica sinensis., states that Angelica Sinensis may inhibit the SMAD1/5/8 pathway.  Smad1/5/8 is the BMP pathway signaling.

Role of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins-7 (BMP-7) in the Renal Improvement Effect of DangGui (Angelica sinensis) in Type-1 Diabetic Rats., states that Angelica sinensis may directly activate BMP-7.

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Static compression on growth plates

Here's an image of the growth plates with and without load:

Strain-dependent recovery behavior of single chondrocytes.

Couldn't get full study.

Friday, December 18, 2009

Retinol-binding protein 4 is expressed in chondrocytes of developing mouse long bones: implications for a local role in formation of the secondary ossification center.

"Retinol-binding protein 4 (Rbp4) is the major carrier of retinol in the bloodstream, a retinoid whose metabolites influence osteogenesis, chondrogenesis and adipogenesis. Rbp4 is mainly produced in the liver where it mobilizes hepatic retinol stores to supply other tissues. Rbp4 was present in a variety of locations in developing embryonic and postnatal mouse hindlimbs. Rbp4 was present in a restricted population of epiphyseal chondrocytes and perichondral cells correlating to the future region of secondary ossification. With the onset of secondary ossification, Rbp4 was detected in chondrocytes of


The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about college computer science.

Let G = (V, E) be a finite directed acyclic graph with |E| > 0. Which of the following must be true?
I. G has a vertex with no incoming edge.
II. G has a vertex with no outgoing edge.
III. G has an isolated vertex, that is, one with neither an incoming edge nor an outgoing edge.
A. I only
B. II only
C. III only
D. I and II only
Answer: D<|endoftext|>’t escorted by anyone but our guide. On hands and knees, the men scrubbed the stone floor with worn-down bristle brushes. I saw a mouse, apparently fleeing from the slopping, soapy water, scurry down the corridor and slip into a crevice in the stone. No doubt this mouse came from the same genetic stock as the ones that must have scurried during Lev Gumilyov’s term of imprisonment, when he was locked up during the Yezhov terror that resulted in the execution of over a million people. Such is the background of Akhmatova’s poem—but one day soon, perhaps you’ll be able to stay in the Trotsky Suite, drink your champagne, and turn up the air-conditioning.

In Kresty Prison’s heyday, women lined up to give packages to the prisoners, standing in line, as Akhmatova says in “Requiem,” “for three hundred hours, / and where they never unbolted the door for me.” In the prison museum—yes, there’s a museum—I saw icons painted on Coke cans, historical photographs, contraband—such as a hollowed-out book to hold a knife—and what you might call crafts—a chess set, for example, made out of masticated bread beautifully sculpted into the warring armies. And then an example of the object that I found most moving of all, and still very much in use when I visited: a blowgun made of the little cardboard cylinders at the center of a toilet paper roll. Taped and glued together, the gun on display was over six feet long, the tube bent at a soft right angle at about the fourth foot: the prisoners wrote messages on scraps of paper, folded them up, inserted them in the gun, and blew them through the window bars. The right angle was for reaching windows around corners. It must take two men to handle a gun of this size, just to keep it from sagging or breaking apart. Whatever official policy the guards may have had toward these pipe-blown messages went unenforced: the parking lot was littered with them. I never learned if the men wrote their names and addresses on them so that the messages could be delivered, but something like that must have happened, for out in the parking lot, I saw several women—wives, girlfriends, mothers?—picking through hundreds of folded messages and putting a few of them in their purses.

My visit was almost a decade ago, but over the years, I’ve thought in a desultory way about why the image of those blowguns stays so fresh in my mind. Is it because, when I taught in a maximum security prison, Patuxent Institution, the prison guards would never have turned a blind eye to such activities? That kind of laxness would never have been tolerated. And on the prisoners’ side of the bars, I’d also spent a few days in jail myself, once for hitchhiking in Nebraska, the second time for stealing food in a grocery store. So I had some slight basis for fellow feeling with the prisoners, both as a teacher and an inmate. For a prisoner, the shutting of iron doors behind you, the clanging of metal on metal, felt a little like you'd been erased: all ties beyond the prison walls were cut off, felt far away, rendered weirdly irrelevant—which, of course, made you long for them that much more. The loneliness and desperation, as well as the fear of the other inmates that besets you, is one of the worst feelings I know. And so those toilet-paper blowguns were, for me, an emblem of our overwhelming need for communication—human breath blowing a message to the world. And the fact that they were made of such flimsy materials, materials whose purpose was connected to our most basic bodily functions, made me admire all the more the ingenuity that conceived and constructed them. It was an expression of common humanity, however absurd or desperate the feelings behind it, or however brutal the actions of the men who made them. For me, they represented an affirmative gesture and, out of a poverty of means, an instrument that expresses more about our essential nature, its animal and spiritual side, than that other, loftier instrument that the blowgun somewhat resembles: an object designed no less for communication, though of an artistic kind—a pipe or a flute.

Of course the archetypal flute was the one fashioned by Hermes and traded to Apollo in exchange for the caduceus. Apollo, the god of poetry, consummate musician of both the flute and the lyre, never had to take a shit—at least not in any of the myths I’ve read. Nor does he have to die, nor can any prison hold him. Which is perhaps why the toilet-paper-roll blowgun has such a strong hold on my imagination: I love its handmade nature, its aura of improvisation and bricolage, its embrace of recycled materials, its resolutely low-tech commitments in a world hurtling toward global corporate fascism. It suggests a kind of poetics based on these qualities, an oppositional poetics that isn’t simply a replication of the forces it’s opposing. Like Robinson Crusoe’s flute in Elizabeth Bishop’s “Crusoe in England,” it stresses the virtues of the homely, the homemade, but without being blind to the larger world. I doubt that Apollo would think much of such an instrument—tape and glue, the industrial processes that make toilet paper—it all seems a little too humanly involved to be of much interest on Mt. Olympus. In fact, the flute that Marsyas the satyr played in his famous contest with Apollo had belonged to Athena—that is, until she caught sight of her reflection in the water and hated the way the flute made her cheeks puff out. And so she threw it away, which is when Marsyas picked it up—man to the waist, goat below, no wonder puffed-out cheeks didn’t bother him. By the same token, animal-human humanity has clear affinities with the toilet-paper-roll blowgun.

This fancy is obviously not what the prisoners see in it, but the fact that a blowgun ended up in a museum that includes photographs of historic figures, as well as that exquisitely sculpted chess set made out of bread, suggests a surplus aura that goes beyond the obvious utilitarian purposes. The museum curator thought it was worth collecting and showing to tourists. And so the blowgun has about it a kind of artifactual antiquity, as if its presence in a museum gave it a shared pedigree with classical statues and great art. At the same time, it represents a counter-impulse to Apollo’s sacred music, a kind of punked-out vitality that has its own unique, and historically inflected, charge. If one of poetry’s traditional purposes is to bring humanity to the transcendent, another is to reach out to ordinary human beings and do what E. M. Forster said was the purpose of all art: “Only connect.”

Of course these purposes are complicated by darker cross-currents. One of them is the way Apollo takes his music making so seriously—so seriously, in fact, that when Marsyas challenges Apollo (now playing an even tonier instrument, the lyre) to a music contest and loses, the real concert turns out to be Marsyas’s screams as Apollo skins him alive. These screams turn Forster’s dictum inside out: Marsyas’s cries do indeed connect, but with ears sublimely indifferent to human suffering. The mythic vision of engaging Apollo in a divine music-making contest devolves into notes that would seem more appropriate for a toilet-paper-roll blowgun.

But it’s the dual nature of Akhmatova’s vision in”Requiem” that interests me. The poet casts herself as both Apollo and Marsyas—Apollo because of the transcendent poetic privilege she invokes to speak about collective suffering, Marsyas because she herself is the object lesson in what being skinned alive feels like. The implication that she is both torturer and tortured is heretical, and certainly repellent, but, I would argue, the main source of the poem’s power. It’s as if in the poem she overcomes her helplessness by wresting the initiative from Stalin, and refigures memory as the skinning knife that Apollo so effectively wields. In Part III, she writes, “No, it is not I, it is somebody else who is suffering. / I would not have been able to bear what happened . . . ” This radical dissociation intensifies in the next section in which she writes of her pre-Yezhov-terror self:

You should have been shown, you mocker,
Minion of all your friends,
Gay little sinner of Tsarskoye Selo,
What would happen in your life—
How three-hundredth in line, with a parcel,
You would stand

’t escorted by anyone but our guide. On hands and knees, the men scrubbed the stone floor with worn-down bristle brushes. I saw a mouse, apparently fleeing from the slopping, soapy water, scurry down the corridor and slip into a crevice in the stone. No doubt this mouse came from the same genetic stock as the ones that must have scurried during Lev Gumilyov’s term of imprisonment, when he was locked up during the Yezhov terror that resulted in the execution of over a million people. Such is the background of Akhmatova’s poem—but one day soon, perhaps you’ll be able to stay in the Trotsky Suite, drink your champagne, and turn up the air-conditioning.

In Kresty Prison’s heyday, women lined up to give packages to the prisoners, standing in line, as Akhmatova says in “Requiem,” “for three hundred hours, / and where they never unbolted the door for me.” In the prison museum—yes, there’s a museum—I saw icons painted on Coke cans, historical photographs, contraband—such as a hollowed-out book to hold a knife—and what you might call crafts—a chess set, for example, made out of masticated bread beautifully sculpted into the warring armies. And then an example of the object that I found most moving of all, and still very much in use when I visited: a blowgun made of the little cardboard cylinders at the center of a toilet paper roll. Taped and glued together, the gun on display was over six feet long, the tube bent at a soft right angle at about the fourth foot: the prisoners wrote messages on scraps of paper, folded them up, inserted them in the gun, and blew them through the window bars. The right angle was for reaching windows around corners. It must take two men to handle a gun of this size, just to keep it from sagging or breaking apart. Whatever official policy the guards may have had toward these pipe-blown messages went unenforced: the parking lot was littered with them. I never learned if the men wrote their names and addresses on them so that the messages could be delivered, but something like that must have happened, for out in the parking lot, I saw several women—wives, girlfriends, mothers?—picking through hundreds of folded messages and putting a few of them in their purses.

My visit was almost a decade ago, but over the years, I’ve thought in a desultory way about why the image of those blowguns stays so fresh in my mind. Is it because, when I taught in a maximum security prison, Patuxent Institution, the prison guards would never have turned a blind eye to such activities? That kind of laxness would never have been tolerated. And on the prisoners’ side of the bars, I’d also spent a few days in jail myself, once for hitchhiking in Nebraska, the second time for stealing food in a grocery store. So I had some slight basis for fellow feeling with the prisoners, both as a teacher and an inmate. For a prisoner, the shutting of iron doors behind you, the clanging of metal on metal, felt a little like you'd been erased: all ties beyond the prison walls were cut off, felt far away, rendered weirdly irrelevant—which, of course, made you long for them that much more. The loneliness and desperation, as well as the fear of the other inmates that besets you, is one of the worst feelings I know. And so those toilet-paper blowguns were, for me, an emblem of our overwhelming need for communication—human breath blowing a message to the world. And the fact that they were made of such flimsy materials, materials whose purpose was connected to our most basic bodily functions, made me admire all the more the ingenuity that conceived and constructed them. It was an expression of common humanity, however absurd or desperate the feelings behind it, or however brutal the actions of the men who made them. For me, they represented an affirmative gesture and, out of a poverty of means, an instrument that expresses more about our essential nature, its animal and spiritual side, than that other, loftier instrument that the blowgun somewhat resembles: an object designed no less for communication, though of an artistic kind—a pipe or a flute.

Of course the archetypal flute was the one fashioned by Hermes and traded to Apollo in exchange for the caduceus. Apollo, the god of poetry, consummate musician of both the flute and the lyre, never had to take a shit—at least not in any of the myths I’ve read. Nor does he have to die, nor can any prison hold him. Which is perhaps why the toilet-paper-roll blowgun has such a strong hold on my imagination: I love its handmade nature, its aura of improvisation and bricolage, its embrace of recycled materials, its resolutely low-tech commitments in a world hurtling toward global corporate fascism. It suggests a kind of poetics based on these qualities, an oppositional poetics that isn’t simply a replication of the forces it’s opposing. Like Robinson Crusoe’s flute in Elizabeth Bishop’s “Crusoe in England,” it stresses the virtues of the homely, the homemade, but without being blind to the larger world. I doubt that Apollo would think much of such an instrument—tape and glue, the industrial processes that make toilet paper—it all seems a little too humanly involved to be of much interest on Mt. Olympus. In fact, the flute that Marsyas the satyr played in his famous contest with Apollo had belonged to Athena—that is, until she caught sight of her reflection in the water and hated the way the flute made her cheeks puff out. And so she threw it away, which is when Marsyas picked it up—man to the waist, goat below, no wonder puffed-out cheeks didn’t bother him. By the same token, animal-human humanity has clear affinities with the toilet-paper-roll blowgun.

This fancy is obviously not what the prisoners see in it, but the fact that a blowgun ended up in a museum that includes photographs of historic figures, as well as that exquisitely sculpted chess set made out of bread, suggests a surplus aura that goes beyond the obvious utilitarian purposes. The museum curator thought it was worth collecting and showing to tourists. And so the blowgun has about it a kind of artifactual antiquity, as if its presence in a museum gave it a shared pedigree with classical statues and great art. At the same time, it represents a counter-impulse to Apollo’s sacred music, a kind of punked-out vitality that has its own unique, and historically inflected, charge. If one of poetry’s traditional purposes is to bring humanity to the transcendent, another is to reach out to ordinary human beings and do what E. M. Forster said was the purpose of all art: “Only connect.”

Of course these purposes are complicated by darker cross-currents. One of them is the way Apollo takes his music making so seriously—so seriously, in fact, that when Marsyas challenges Apollo (now playing an even tonier instrument, the lyre) to a music contest and loses, the real concert turns out to be Marsyas’s screams as Apollo skins him alive. These screams turn Forster’s dictum inside out: Marsyas’s cries do indeed connect, but with ears sublimely indifferent to human suffering. The mythic vision of engaging Apollo in a divine music-making contest devolves into notes that would seem more appropriate for a toilet-paper-roll blowgun.

But it’s the dual nature of Akhmatova’s vision in”Requiem” that interests me. The poet casts herself as both Apollo and Marsyas—Apollo because of the transcendent poetic privilege she invokes to speak about collective suffering, Marsyas because she herself is the object lesson in what being skinned alive feels like. The implication that she is both torturer and tortured is heretical, and certainly repellent, but, I would argue, the main source of the poem’s power. It’s as if in the poem she overcomes her helplessness by wresting the initiative from Stalin, and refigures memory as the skinning knife that Apollo so effectively wields. In Part III, she writes, “No, it is not I, it is somebody else who is suffering. / I would not have been able to bear what happened . . . ” This radical dissociation intensifies in the next section in which she writes of her pre-Yezhov-terror self:

You should have been shown, you mocker,
Minion of all your friends,
Gay little sinner of Tsarskoye Selo,
What would happen in your life—
How three-hundredth in line, with a parcel,
You would stand by the Kresty prison,
Your fiery tears
Burning through the New Year’s ice.,

And in these lines from Part IX, the apex of this split between torturing Apollo and suffering Marsyas reaches a climax, but also a kind of understanding:

And I’ve finally realized
That I must give in,
Overhearing myself
Raving as if it were somebody else.

In Epilogue II, she states explicitly this split between Apollo and Marsyas, but overcomes the split:

I will remember them always and everywhere,