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NEW YORK (AP) - Jon Bon Jovi has been with his band for more than 30 years, so he could be considered something of an expert when it comes to the durability of rock stars. Still, even Bon Jovi is mystified at how the senior set is dominating on the stage.
"I can't get over it," said Bon Jovi, who will perform next week with Paul McCartney, The Who, Bruce Springsteen and a host of other superstars at the 12-12-12 concert at Madison Square Garden to benefit victims of Superstorm Sandy.
"I'm (expletive) dying already and I'm gonna go out there and play four songs. How do they do it?" he said, joking. "The Who and (Mick) Jagger and McCartney. ... I'm not going to be that journeyman. ... I'm not going to be that 75-year-old guy doing 150 shows a year."
But at 50, he's not ready for early retirement either. Bon Jovi has a couple of songs in the upcoming Al Pacino film, "Stand Up Guys," and the band just completed their 12th studio album, "What About Now," set for release early next year. They also have a world tour kicking off in Connecticut on Feb. 9.
Bon Jovi was in a jovial mood when he sat down with The Associated Press last week to discuss his group's upcoming projects, but turned somber when he discussed some of the more painful events to hit him in 2012: The devastation caused in his home state of New Jersey by Superstorm Sandy and the recent troubles of his 19-year-old daughter, Stephanie Bongiovi, found unresponsive in her dorm room at an upstate New York college last month after an apparent heroin overdose. Still, he discussed it all with candor _ and optimism.
AP: What was the intent of releasing the single, album and tour in stages?
Bon Jovi: I know how to do it. It's as simple as that. ... New songs are why artists go on the road. That's why I go on the road. It's a three-prong play. Writing: You're intrigued. Recording: It brings it to life. And then you want to share it.
AP: Tell me about being part of the Jersey rocker pedigree.
Bon Jovi: Depends what day of the week that it is. Those are my roots. That truth helped us not fall into the trap of our peer group in the mid-80s. Being from New Jersey was actually a great asset, now that I'm a much older, wiser man. ... If you were to ask me about a mistake I have made, it's calling my fourth album,
New Jersey,' because for the first time in my life, we were compared to the E Street Band. I don't think we're anything like the E Street Band. There's a Jersey root there. I love the band. I grew up loving them. But I didn't want to sit up there telling (imitating Springsteen), `Jonny when I was 16 ...' Uh uh. There was a lot of guys jumping on that bandwagon. I didn't do that.
AP: Do you see similarities between you and Bruce Springsteen as philanthropists?
Bon Jovi: My philanthropy is no relation to anybody else's. None. My philanthropy and what we do at the foundation speaks for itself and has no relation to anyone's. I don't know what he does as a humanitarian. I have no clue. ... I'm talking about what I do at the Soul Kitchen (his community restaurant in New Jersey). It's a whole other level. It's millions of dollars in a foundation that does stuff.
AP: You seem to honestly care about people and not just the photo opp. You left London early to see the aftermath of Sandy. Why do you care so much?
Bon Jovi: That's a deep question without a simple answer. I throw gasoline and light the match on that photo opp guy. This was the argument in politics this year. Entitlements. I call them empowerments. If a guy doesn't have to worry so much on how he's going to have to get fed tonight, maybe he can concentrate on reading the book or going to get a job. Maybe his kids are going to be happier.
AP: With your daughter recently in the news, how do you go forward from there?
Bon Jovi: I didn't have any sisters. We bring home this girl the first day. Now what? Where's the manual? There was no manual. So you bring her up the best you can, you surround her with hugs and kisses and know that she may eventually fall down. I appreciate the outpouring of kindness in light of what happened in my household. I'm shocked as much as the next parent with this situation and had no idea. But then you surround them with best help and love and move on, and that's where we're at with it. Steph is a great kid. Great GPA. Cool school, Hamilton College up in Clinton, N.Y. Everything about it is idyllic. She was doing great. Then a sudden and steep decline. Hopefully, we caught it when we did and that's the end of it. But who knew? I've got three more to come.
AP: Sometimes kids just make bad decisions?
Bon Jovi: I hope so. I'm confident, but no one knows the future. It is what it is.
John Carucci covers entertainment for The Associated Press. Follow him at http:/ http://www.twitter.com/jcarucci_ap
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New research concludes that acupuncture is an "effective therapy for CVS (cerebrovascular vasospasm) after subarachnoid hemorrhage." A subarachnoid hemorrhage is bleeding between the brain and the tissues that cover it, often caused by an aneurysm. Cerebral vasospasm onset usually takes 4 - 10 days to develop following a subarachnoid hemorrhage. The cerebral blood vessel spasms may lead to vasoconstriction and subsequent cerebral ischemia, which causes necrosis and potentiates a stroke.
A total of sixty cases were divided into two groups of thirty. Group 1 received conventional treatment with nimodipine and group 2 received acupuncture combined with the conventional treatment. Nimodipine is a calcium channel blocker with selectivity for cerebral vasculature that binds to L-type voltage-gated calcium channels.
The total treatment time for both groups was three weeks. The acupuncture group received acupuncture at Baihui (GV20, Du20) and Fengchi (GB20). Baihui is located at the vertex midline, 8 cun posterior to the glabella. Baihui, translated as hundred meetings, is the meeting point of the governing channel with the urination bladder, gallbladder, liver and sanjiao channels. Baihui is also a Sea of Marrow point. Traditionally, Baihui is known to benefit the brain, quell the wind and clear the senses. Fengchi, translated as wind pool, is the meeting point of the sanjiao and gallbladder channels with the yang linking and yang motility vessels. It is located below the occiput between the sternomastoid and trapezius muscle origins. Fengchi is traditionally used to benefit the head, quell the wind and clear the senses. The Ming dynasty work, the Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, notes that combining Fengchi (GB20) with Baihui (Du20) is recommended for the treatment of head wind.
The researchers note that improvement in the acupuncture group "was superior to that in the conventional treatment group." Results were tabulated based on transcranial Doppler (TCD) and computed tomography perfusion (CT perfusion) findings. TCD measured significant blood flow improvement from acupuncture treatment to major blood vessels of the brain: the anterior cerebral artery (ACA), the middle cerebral artery (MCA), the posterior cerebral artery (PCA). CT perfusion recorded significant benefits from acupuncture treatment to cerebral blood flow (CBF), volume (CBV) and mean transit time (MTT). The researchers note, "Acupuncture at Baihui (GV 20) and Fengchi (GB 20) down-regulates the peak values or upregulates the valley values." In every parameter (ACA, MCA, PCA, CBF, CBV, MTT), the results achieved in the acupuncture plus medication group was superior to that of the conventional treatment only group.
Zhongguo Zhen Jiu. 2012 Mar;32(3):193-7. Observation of clinical efficacy of acupuncture for cerebral vasospasm after embolization of ruptured aneurysms]. Jiang YZ, Li C, Xu JY, Lu YZ, Xu R, Han B, Lu WH. Department of Neurosurgery, Wuxi Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital, Jiangsu Province, China.

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Defying U.N. warnings, North Korea on Tuesday conducted its third nuclear test in the remote, snowy northeast, taking a crucial step toward its goal of building a bomb small enough to be fitted on a missile capable of striking the United States.
North Korea said the atomic test was merely its "first response" to what it called U.S. threats, and said it will continue with unspecified "second and third measures of greater intensity" if Washington maintains its hostility.
The underground test, which set off powerful seismic waves, drew immediate condemnation from Washington, the U.N. and others. Even its only major ally, China, summoned the North's ambassador for a dressing-down.
President Barack Obama, who was scheduled to give a State of the Union address later Tuesday, said nuclear tests "do not make North Korea more secure." Instead, North Korea has "increasingly isolated and impoverished its people through its ill-advised pursuit of weapons of mass destruction," he said in a statement.
North Korea claimed the device was smaller than in previous tests; Seoul said it likely produced a bigger explosion.
The test was a defiant response to U.N. orders to shut down atomic activity or face more sanctions and international isolation. It will likely draw more sanctions from the United States and other countries at a time when North Korea is trying to rebuild its moribund economy and expand its engagement with the outside world.
Several U.N. resolutions bar North Korea from conducting nuclear or missile tests because the U.N. Security Council considers Pyongyang a would-be proliferator of weapons of mass destruction and its nuclear testing a threat to international peace and stability. North Korea dismisses that as a double standard, and claims the right to build nuclear weapons as a defense against the United States, which has been seen as enemy No. 1 since the 1950-53 Korean War. The U.S. stations more than 28,000 troops in South Korea to protect its ally.
Tuesday's test is North Korea's first since young leader Kim Jong Un took power of a country long estranged from the West. The test will likely be portrayed in North Korea as a strong move to defend the nation against foreign aggression, particularly from the U.S.
"The test was conducted in a safe and perfect way on a high level, with the use of a smaller and light A-bomb, unlike the previous ones, yet with great explosive power," North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency said, confirming speculation that seismic activity near Kilju around midday was a nuclear test.
North Korea was punished by more U.N. sanctions after a December launch of a rocket that the U.N. and Washington called a cover for a banned missile test. Pyongyang said it was a peaceful, and successful, bid to send a satellite into space.
The timing of the test is significant. It came hours before Obama's speech and only days before the Saturday birthday of Kim Jong Un's father, late leader Kim Jong Il, whose memory North Korean propaganda has repeatedly linked to the country's nuclear ambitions.
This year also marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean War, and in late February South Korean President-elect Park Geun-hye will be inaugurated.
In Pyongyang, where it was snowing Tuesday, North Koreans gathered around televisions to watch a 3 p.m. TV broadcast announcing the nuclear test.
The test shows the world that North Korea is a "nuclear weapons state that no one can irritate," Kim Mun Chol, a 42-year-old Pyongyang citizen, told The Associated Press in the North Korean capital. "Now we have nothing to be afraid of in the world."
The National Intelligence Service in Seoul told lawmakers that North Korea may conduct an additional nuclear test and test-launch a ballistic missile in response to U.N. talks about imposing more sanctions, according to the office of South Korean lawmaker Jung Chung-rae, who attended the private meeting. Analysts have also previously speculated that Pyongyang might conduct multiple tests, possibly of plutonium and uranium devices.
North Korea is estimated to have enough weaponized plutonium for four to eight bombs, according to American nuclear scientist Siegfried Hecker.
It wasn't immediately clear to outside experts whether the device exploded Tuesday was small enough to fit on a missile, and whether it was fueled by plutonium or highly enriched uranium. A successful test would take North Korean scientists a step closer to building a nuclear warhead that can reach U.S. shores —seen as the ultimate goal of North Korea's nuclear program.
In 2006, and 2009, North Korea is believed to have tested devices made of plutonium. But in 2010, Pyongyang revealed a program to enrich uranium, which would give the country a second source of bomb-making materials — a worrying development for the U.S. and its allies.
"This latest test and any further nuclear testing could provide North Korean scientists with additional information for nuclear warhead designs small enough to fit on top of its ballistic missiles," Daryl Kimball and Greg Thielmann wrote on the private Arms Control Association's blog. "However, it is likely that additional testing would be needed for North Korea to field either a plutonium or enriched uranium weapon."
Uranium would be a worry because plutonium facilities are large and produce detectable radiation, making it easier for outsiders to find and monitor. However, uranium centrifuges can be hidden from satellites, drones and nuclear inspectors in caves, tunnels and other hard-to-reach places. Highly enriched uranium also is easier than plutonium to engineer into a weapon.
Monitoring stations in South Korea detected an earthquake in the North with a magnitude of 4.9 and the South's Defense Ministry said that corresponds to an estimated explosive yield of 6-7 kilotons.
The yields of the North's 2006 and 2009 tests were estimated at 1 kiloton and 2 to 6 kilotons, respectively, spokesman Kim Min-seok said. By comparison, U.S. nuclear bombs that flattened Nagasaki and Hiroshima during World War II were estimated at 13 kilotons and 22 kilotons, respectively, Kim said.
The test is a product of North Korea's military-first, or songun, policy, and shows Kim Jong Un is running the country much as his father did, said Daniel Pinkston of the International Crisis Group think tank.
The decision to push ahead with a test will be a challenge to the U.N. Security Council, which recently punished Pyongyang for launching the December long-range rocket. In condemning that launch and imposing more sanctions on Pyongyang, the council had demanded a stop to future launches and ordered North Korea to respect a ban on nuclear activity — or face "significant action" by the U.N.
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon condemned the test in a statement. Japanese officials said they expected the Security Council to meet later to take up the nuclear test.
China expressed firm opposition to the test but called for a calm response by all sides. Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi summoned North Korea's ambassador and delivered a "stern representation" and demanded that North Korea "swiftly return to the correct channel of dialogue and negotiation," the ministry said in a statement.
The other part of a credible North Korean nuclear deterrent is its missile program. While it has capable short and medium-range missiles, it has struggled in tests of technology for long-range missiles needed to carry bombs to the United States, although it did launch the satellite in December.
North Korea isn't close to having a nuclear bomb it can use on the United States or its allies. Instead, Hecker said in a posting on Stanford University's website, "it wants to hold U.S. interests at risk of a nuclear attack to deter us from regime change and to create international leverage and diplomatic maneuvering room."


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Private equity firm Arcady Capital Co. has selected injection molder and toolmaker Mountain Molding LLC as its first investment in a portfolio focused on specialty manufacturing in the Midwest.
Mountain Molding, based in Longmont, Colo., is a contract molder providing parts for the medical-device and security industries among other businesses, said Jared Sprole, managing director of Arcady, in a Jan. 9 telephone interview.
Arcady opened in Wichita, Kan., in 2011, but was looking for the right opportunity for its first acquisition, Sprole said.
"We're patient," he said.
While Arcady management has experience in managing business with other private equity firms in the past, they established the company in the Midwest specifically to focus on small to midsize firms in the region that may have been overlooked by other equity groups operating in more traditional private equity hot spots on the East Coast, he said.
The company sees opportunities to invest in niche manufacturers that may be in their third generation of family ownership, but looking for outside help to finance continued growth.
In the case of Mountain Molding, the company has been in operation since 1976. President Don Cheyne was a partner in the firm, but needed funds for capital investments. He remains with the company and will lead day-to-day operations.
Arcady will look at firms outside the Midwest, but the bulk of its work will be Kansas and its surrounding states.
"There are a lot of companies around here that need access to outside capital to expand," Sprole said.
He expects Arcady will complete about two acquisitions per year. It will consider opportunities to invest with current management as well as deals that require new management. It is already looking at two other potential investments.
For Mountain Molding, Arcady partnered with management to complete the deal.
Arcady's investment strategy is based on finding small to midsize manufacturers with revenues of between $10 million and $50 million. It will target businesses with specialty niche manufacturing or technology, those with energy-related products or those in the food processes, medical and business services and distribution industries.


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New HIV infections have dropped more than 50 percent across 25 developing countries since 2001, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS reported on Tuesday. And, transmission of the virus from mothers to infants has decreased by 24 percent in just the past two years.
A big chunk of this progress has occurred in Africa, where the largest number of HIV-positive people live. Malawi, Namibia and Botswana have led the way with about 70 percent decreases in new infections over the past decade.
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Infections in the Middle East and the North Africa have increased by more than 35 percent over the past decade. And, HIV seems to be on the rise again in Eastern Europe and Central Asia after remaining steady for years.
"What we are having today is multiple epidemics," UNAIDS's Michel Sidibe said on Tuesday. "We don't have any more one epidemic."
For instance, new infections in China have nearly quadrupled since 2007, the report found. HIV prevalence is still generally low in China compared to that in many African countries, but China had nearly 40,000 new diagnoses in 2011, and the steady incline is concerning.
"There is a significant epidemic in men having sex with men in China, which happens in almost all of the major cities," Dr. Bernard Schwartlander, a director at UNAIDS, said Tuesday. "The Chinese are very pragmatic people. They have recognized the problem, and they have started a strong and proactive program to reach these populations."
Their getting more people on antiretroviral treatment, Schwartlander said. The drugs not only help keep infected people healthy, but they also reduce their risk of spreading the virus.
Just a few years ago, China had essential no services for preventing HIV among drug users. Now, they have one of the biggest programs for harm reduction, which includes needle exchange centers and methadone clinics.
"They are completely controlling the epidemic among people who are injecting drugs," Sidibe said. Even so, the epidemic is growing among homosexual men, he said, with over 30 percent of the new infections occurring among them.
To reverse this trend in China and other countries, Sidibe said that governments need to expand resources for populations most at risk. For instance, Brazil and Russia have spent about the same amount of money on stopping HIV. But Brazil focused on communities with the largest infection rates, and thus, it has made better progress than Russia.


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If H2 arose in the Middle East its presence in Africa could be explained by back-migration. I immediately was skeptical of this model because H2 is extant at frequencies of 5% among the Mbuti Pygmies. The Mbuti are relatively isolated genetically from the Bantu farmers who have come to dominate their region. If there was any group which represented the ancient genetic variation of Central Africa, it is likely the Mbuti.While the Mbuti are indeed fairly isolated, it is not right to think of them as a relic of African genetic variation. The distinction is crucial: while the Mbuti contain a large component of "ancient" (pre-farming) African genetic diversity, they are by no means pure, as can be seen by last year's comprehensive study on African variation.
In other words: the Mbuti are a good population to find ancient African variation in; but, they also have admixture with more recent populations, which may have served as a conduit for the introduction of extraneous genetic elements such as the inversion in question.
Getting back to the paper itself, the moral is clear: be doubtful of genetic age estimates for extremely old events (by which I mean anything predating the Neolithic).
This includes the age estimate in this study which is based on microsatellites. The long-term behavior of these markers is based pretty much on conjecture, as we normally have the ability to observe them only across a few (human) generations.
So, I'm not taking as granted the accuracy of the current paper's age estimate. Nonetheless, the study of the distribution of the inversion is quite useful. Its origin is probably in West Asia, a region which would explain its presence in both Europe and Africa.
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The Distribution and Most Recent Common Ancestor of the 17q21 Inversion in Humans
Michael P. Donnelly et al.
The polymorphic inversion on 17q21, sometimes called the microtubular associated protein tau (MAPT) inversion, is an ∼900 kb inversion found primarily in Europeans and Southwest Asians. We have identified 21 SNPs that act as markers of the inverted, i.e., H2, haplotype. The inversion is found at the highest frequencies in Southwest Asia and Southern Europe (frequencies of ∼30%); elsewhere in Europe, frequencies vary from less than 5%, in Finns, to 28%, in Orcadians. The H2 inversion haplotype also occurs at low frequencies in Africa, Central Asia, East Asia, and the Americas, though the East Asian and Amerindian alleles may be due to recent gene flow from Europe. Molecular evolution analyses indicate that the H2 haplotype originally arose in Africa or Southwest Asia. Though the H2 inversion has many fixed differences across the ∼900 kb, short tandem repeat polymorphism data indicate a very recent date for the most recent common ancestor, with dates ranging from 13,600 to 108,400 years, depending on assumptions and estimation methods. This estimate range is much more recent than the 3 million year age estimated by Stefansson et al. in 2005.


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And yet, somehow, by compiling all that material under one cover, it became more than the sum of its parts. I knew lots of gamers, myself included, who'd allowed this class or that spell from Gygax's columns into their AD&D campaigns without so much as a second thought. In aggregate, though, they all took on a different character. Things that never bothered me before suddenly did, when placed side by side with other options I hadn't allowed (or didn't like). The result was that Unearthed Arcana was the book that "broke" AD&D for me. It was a bridge too far and it contributed to my growing disillusionment with the game in the mid-80s.
One of the last of Gygax's columns previewing material that would eventually appear in UA was "Demi-Humans Get a Lift," which appeared in issue #95 (March 1985). In his characteristic way, he explains the purpose of his article thusly:
After long contemplation of the plight of dead-ended demi-human characters, and considerable badgering from players with same, it seemed a good plan to work up some new maximum levels for those demihumans with super-normal statistics -- and in a couple of cases just reward those with high stats across the board. Demi-humans were limited in the first place (in the original rules) because I conceived of a basically human-dominated world. Considering their other abilities, if most demi-humans were put on a par with humans in terms of levels they could attain, then there isn't much question who would be saying "Sir!" to whom. With that in mind, let's move along to the matter at hand.Once again, Gary makes it clear that, in his mind, demi-humans were always supposed to play second fiddle to humans, which is why he included level limits. One may argue that such limits do a poor job of discouraging the play of demi-humans, but there can be no question that that was the intention behind it.
Despite that, Gygax decides here to give in to "considerable badgering" from players of demi-human PCs and provide the means for demi-humans to reach higher levels of experience. He does this in two ways. First, he allows single-classed demi-humans to exceed the standard level cap by two. Multiclassed demi-humans must abide by the usual limits. Second, he allows demi-humans with exceptional ability scores, whether single or multiclassed, to achieve even higher levels. While I think the first change is reasonable, if unnecessary, the second more or less ensured that every demi-human PC from then on would have absurdly high ability scores. In my opinion, AD&D already had a problem with ability score inflation; these changes only further encouraged such bad behavior. The article also opened up for play several new demi-human races, such as deep gnomes and drow, both of which, in my opinion, are too powerful for use in an "ordinary" campaign.
Throughout the article, Gary makes a couple of asides that suggests that he himself doesn't much care for these rules changes but is allowing them because "the gamers have spoken." It's very odd and makes one wonder why, if he really was so opposed to these changes, he nevertheless went ahead and presented in them. The tone throughout is strange and he ends the piece by not only saying that these are the final, ultimate, never-to-be-changed-again, for-real-this-time alterations to demi-human level limits but also by suggesting demands for further power escalation are inevitable:
To put a cap on things, let us get something straight. Any statistics beyond those shown, for levels and ability scores alike, are virtually impossible. Spells and magic, even artifacts and relics, will not increase statistics beyond what is shown, and no further word is necessary. If some deity likes a character so much as to grant a higher statistic, then that deity should also like the character sufficiently to carry him or her off to another plane. (Rules for quasideities will, I suppose, now be in demand . . . sigh!)Even more than a quarter-century later, I find Gary's tone odd.


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At least some people with records of supporting liberty were elected: Sen. Jeff Flake in Arizona and U.S. Reps. Justin Amash and Kerry Bentivolio in Michigan and Thomas Massie in Kentucky.
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And voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington said yes to gay marriage; Minnesota defeated a proposed constitutional amendment that would have outlawed it.
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"When you have a $3.6 trillion federal government, that money will absolutely benefit some businesses. That's crony capitalism. It takes money from all of us and gives it to some," said Boaz. "Maybe a clean-energy or green-jobs company that has not already gone bankrupt might get that money. Similarly, if you're a defense contractor, you'd be in favor of Mitt Romney getting elected, because that would be good for your business. But it's all bad for the American economy to tax some people and then dole the money back out."
My hope for now: gridlock. People say they like bipartisanship, but bipartisanship usually means politicians conspire to take more of our money and freedom. Bipartisanship gave us the Department of Homeland Security, TSA, PATRIOT Act, Import-Export Bank, war on drug users, ethanol subsides, TARP, "No Child Left Behind," foreign wars and an ever-rising debt. When Democrats and Republicans come together, they put us deeper in debt.
Let's have some gridlock!
The outcome of this election is a sea of government with a few islands of freedom. Gay people are freer in a few states, and marijuana consumers in a couple more. But sadly, most of us will be victims of the ever-growing government spider web of higher taxes and freedom-killing rules.


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1-8. Enlil, foundation platform of heaven and earth, who holds the crook that makes the Land firm, whose beard flows over the mountains, who reveres his own divine powers -- Enlil, the everlasting shepherd of the Land, has addressed me, Šulgi, king of Urim, favourably, looking at me with wide-open eyes. In the overflowing of his heart, the lord bestowed the sceptre on me. 9-13. Everywhere the word of Enlil has brought benefits to me, who was specially crowned in brick-built Eridug; to me, who was invested with the lapis-lazuli diadem in Unug; to me, the beloved shepherd of Nanna, fit for the throne. When I bring firewood (?), he looks at me and speaks gladly to me. 14-22. I, Šulgi, the king whose name is very suitable for songs, intend to be praised in my prayers and hymns. At the command of my sister Ĝeštin-ana, my scholars and composers of …… have composed adab, tigi and malgatum hymns about my being the Nintur of all that is, about how wise I am in attending upon the gods, about how the god of intercession has given me favourable signs that years of abundance will elapse for me in due course. 23-30. They have composed šir-gida songs, royal praise poetry, šumunša, kunĝar and balbale compositions about how I carried warfare across the sea to the south, how I jerked up the hostile land of Elam as if it were grass by a gateway, how in the uplands I …… the people like grain, how I trekked the length of the mountains in battle, how I travel about indefatigably in the mountain uplands like an old donkey on the road, and about my expeditions ……. 31-38. They composed for me gigid and zamzam songs about my manual skill, ever reliable for the finest task of the scribal art; about my ability to unravel the calculating and reckoning of the waxing of the new moon; about my causing joy and happiness; about how I know exactly at what point to raise and lower the tigi and zamzam instruments, and how I have complete control of the plectra of the great stringed instruments; how I cannot be stopped by anything insurmountable, about my being a runner tireless when emerging from the race. 39-46. In the name of An, the pre-eminent king; and of Enlil, who never changes his utterances; and in the name of Suen, the brickwork of cities cursed by whom shall rise no more, and the people cursed by whom will get leprosy; and in the name of Utu, the constable of the gods: I swear no one has ever put anything mendacious about me in my hymns; no one has embellished my prayers with achievements that I have not matched; I, Šulgi, have never allowed exaggerated praise of power to be put in a song. 47-52. How I glisten like fine silver, how I am musical and eloquent in wisdom; how I, the shepherd, do everything to absolute perfection: may all this be commended in my kingship. Of all the lines that there are in my songs, none of them is false -- they are indeed true! 53-62. In the cult-places, let no one neglect the songs about me, whether they are adab, whether they are tigi or malgatum, šir-gida or praise of kingship, whether they are šumunša, kunĝar or balbale, whether they are gi-gid or zamzam -- so that they shall never pass out of memory and never lapse from people's mouths. Let them never cease to be sung in the shining E-kur! Let them be played for Enlil in his Shrine of the New Moon! When at the ešeš festival they serve the clear beer endlessly like water, may they be offered repeatedly before Enlil as he sits with Ninlil. 63-73. In future days, a man like myself whom Enlil shall call to the shepherdship of the Land …… my songs; let him see ……. Let him call upon my name in the beloved ……. …… that man, whenever my hymns 74-91. But if …… removes my name from my hymns, and …… his name, and does not call upon my name in brick-built E-kur, and if that man commits enmity and violence against the temple, then whether that man is a king or a governor, Enlil shall curse him ……. May enmity and violence come forth against him from the house of Enlil. Let him be given enmity as his companion. May an asag demon, as causer of the plague, deprive his city of contentment. Because of famine in years of hunger, may he find no favour in the eyes of the Land. May Ezina produce no grain in sheaves. May fair Nanibgal, Nisaba, make no clay covering for his grain piles. …… the troops ……. His chief merchant …… silver ……. May the hunger and the thirst of the gods …… the city during his reign …… grain. 92-110. …… riches, or bronze and silver vessels. May the creatures of his Land reach out for what is left over and not distributed. Famine ……. May he have to pay two shekels in his city for one sila of barley. May the people wield the hoe ……. Let that man be unable to touch the drinks and foods of his palace. May …… the great sin ……. Nanna, the king of Urim, shall clamp those who look upon the balaĝ and the sim, and who touch or look at …… bread. Their lives …… death ……. 111-151. The man who …… my hymns 152-154. I, Šulgi the noble, who have no opponent …… 155-173. I am Šulgi, the great musician, superintendent of the art of music. If …… favourable ……. My songs, lapsing from people's mouths and passing out of memory, neglected (?) in all the cult-places ……. …… his king ……, in the music-rooms of the gods …… 174-190. On the day when the destiny of the lands was determined, the king who in his arrogance ……, in luxuriance Enlil and Ninlil ……, …… for the life of Sumer and Akkad, …… justice for the Land, canals which he did not maintain ……, a city which he did not enlarge ……. The Great Mountain …… at their side …… great places. He did not …… the god of the palace. He …… to Enlil, and did not offer great gifts in the E-kur, and did not …… the door-sockets of the gods. …… songs. What he achieves with his praise, what he creatively decoratives with his words, the singer …… in his songs. 191-201. I, Šulgi the king ……, who cares for holy An, …… food offerings, who constantly attends upon Enlil ……, Nanna, …… the office of en; Ninurta, the ensi appointed by Enlil, has given me a club and a battle-mace from the E-šu-me-ša. Not since the seed of mankind was germinated, has Enlil ever before been able to give the sceptre of kingship to a king who could control the troops single-handed. As a lone donkey stallion, one who resists the weapons -- no king of the Land has ever turned against the weapons. 202-212. I did not lie in ambush, like a fierce cheetah, against the rebel and hostile lands, the aggressive foreign lands, in order to establish my renown as far as the horizon with the power of my master Enlil, and to transmit my lasting fame of victories to the distant future. I did not come out of a hole like a scorpion. Instead I left my main forces at my side, and went ahead of my scouts. As I repelled the tribal Gutians, the bandits of the hills, like a …… snake I made my fearsomeness reach afar. 213-219. No one can get near my inspired troops. Running quite alone into the foreign lands unknown to him, like a lion that has seized a wild cow in its claws, I tear its flesh apart. Like a solitary dragon I spread fear, as I proceed unflaggingly against the civilised towns and make them quiver like flames (?) at my frightful roaring. Spine-chilling yells and raging flames are cast at the hills. 220-239. For the rebel lands, the illiterate (?) ones that carry no emblems, my warfare is a horizon on which there are clouds, enveloping the twilight in fear. The mountains, where the forests do not grow as thick as thornbushes, where in the cult places of the rites of Inana (i.e. in battle) throw-stick and shield do not tumble to the earth in a great storm, where the combatants take no rest in the insistent bitterness of the fierce battle, where life-fluid and blood from both scoundrel and honest person ……, where no black ewes trek over the mountains like floating clouds, and corpses in reedbeds and crannies …… 240-257. May my hymns be in everyone's mouth; let the songs about me not pass from memory. So that the fame of my praise, the words which Enki composed about me, and which Ĝeštin-ana joyously speaks from the heart and broadcasts far and wide, shall never be forgotten, I have had them written down line by line in the House of the Wisdom of Nisaba in holy heavenly writing, as great works of scholarship. No one shall ever let any of it pass from memory ……. It shall not be forgotten, since indestructible heavenly writing has a lasting renown. The scribe should bring it to the singer, and can let him look at it, and with the wisdom and intelligence of Nisaba, let him read it to him as if from a lapis-lazuli tablet. Let my songs sparkle like silver in the lode! Let them be performed in all the cult-places, and let no one neglect them in the Shrine of the New Moon. In the music-rooms of Enlil and Ninlil and at the morning and evening meals of Nanna, let the sweet praise of me, Šulgi, be never-ending. |
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The BBC reports that the law dates back to 1988, "when a military government took power after crushing pro-democracy protests."
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If I want to begin giving my breastfed baby formula how should I start?
If you are using formula because you're not producing the amount your baby needs, nurse first. Then, give any pumped milk you have and make up the difference with formula as needed.
If you are weaning from one feeding at the breast or from breastfeeding altogether, you can begin to replace the desired amount of breastfeeding or pumping sessions with bottle feeds. To eliminate a feeding at the breast or a pumping session you should pump to comfort so you won't have problems with plugged ducts or mastitis.
As you eliminate breastfeeding sessions, your milk supply will decrease and your body will begin to adapt to produce enough milk to accommodate your new feeding schedule. Starting your breastfed baby on formula can cause some change in the frequency, color, and consistency of your baby's stools (or poop). Be sure to talk your doctor, though, if your baby is having trouble pooping. If your baby refuses formula alone, you can try mixing some of your pumped breast milk with formula to help the baby get used to the new taste.
Should I give my baby the bottle at first or should I have someone else do it?
If possible, you should have someone else give your little one the bottle at first. Why? Because babies can smell their mothers and they're used to receiving breast milk from mom, not a bottle. So try to have someone else — such as a caregiver or partner — give a breastfed baby the first bottle.
Also consider either being out of the house or out of sight when your baby takes that first bottle, since your little one will wonder why you're not the doing the feeding as usual. Depending on how your baby takes to the bottle, this arrangement may be necessary until he or she gets used to bottle feeding.
If your little one has a hard time adjusting to this new form of feeding, just be patient and keep trying.
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Date reviewed: February 2012
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Southern California will be broiling through the weekend, as a heat wave that has brought record-breaking temperatures continues, the Los Angeles Times says.
That's why the managers of California's power grid have issued a "flex alert" to customers.
They're asking that residents:
-- "Turn off all unnecessary lights."
-- "Postpone using appliances until after 6 p.m."
-- "Turn your air conditioner thermostat up to 78 degrees."
According to our colleagues at Southern California Public Radio, it's "the summer's first real electric test without the help of the San Onofre nuclear power plant due to safety concerns at that location. The twin-reactor generating station on the coast between San Diego and Los Angeles has been offline all year since a small radiation leak from a steam tube led to the discovery of more extensive problems."
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"Valleys and inland areas have been baking all week. Record-breaking highs for the date were recorded Thursday in several Southern California areas. Lancaster's 109 degrees broke a 1980 record of 106. The Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles also reported 109 and Sandberg in the Antelope Valley had 98. Several desert areas had their warmest lows for the date. Palm Springs reported a low of 89, 3 degrees above the 2003 record."
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A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X. However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.4.8, see the release notes for 7.4.8.
Fix error that allowed VACUUM to remove ctid chains too soon, and add more checking in code that follows ctid links
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Fix CHAR() to properly pad spaces to the specified length when using a multiple-byte character set (Yoshiyuki Asaba)
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Fix the sense of the test for read-only transaction in COPY
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Can you fathom the freaky awesomeness of this? I knew the kids would love it. We're having halloween for dinner tonight children! Someone out there in the intertubes suggested calling these terrifying edible creatures "Squiddlies" and I think that's a top name for them.
Just cut up your weiners, skewer a few bits of dried angel hair pasta or spaghetti through them and then boil until the spaghetti is cooked. Add sauce. Serve to delighted children, whilst adults look on in horror.
Here are some pictures to make your toes curl...
By the way, it makes eating spaghetti much easier for the wee ones too, because they can skewer the hot dog bit and of course all the spaghetti comes with it.
I always feel a little dirty when I eat a hotdog sausage (good dirty, but dirty non the less). They aren't exactly the most natural of food products, so I thought it would be best to see if we could recreate the Squiddly with a slightly more healthy food source.
I tried carrot chunks that I'd first microwaved for a couple of minutes, which made them just soft enough to skewer, but not so soft that they would disintegrate in the time the pasta took to cook.
With this I tried regular chunks of ham and that seemed to work just fine. They don't look quite as extra-terrestrial as the hotdogs, but the kids still loved them.
It's great being able to sit the kids down to help prepare this meal. They really enjoyed skewering the dried spaghetti through things and it kept them quiet for a good fifteen minutes. If I'd let them and we had the resources then I think they would have been happy to make enough of these to feed the whole city.
We'll have to try it with mushrooms, peppers and courgettes to see if they work too.


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First, let's just see how far we have come shall we? It started out with a plan:
We started piecing things together using some wainscoting and easy to assemble IKEA furniture:
Installed a new desktop out of a bifold door:
And installed some "finishing" touches so I could start moving in!
And move in I did!
First, my apologies for the photos. I am a bit picky when it comes to doing my best to get the brightest, happiest photos and this room is a dungeon. Zero natural light filtering in from anywhere. So I am struggling a bit with that... not just in photography but in general. Sigh...
This whole project was a giant two month splurge and save deal. We decided to bight the bullet on some pieces and then do our best to get creative and use what we have and purchase less expensive IKEA items to save in other areas. The point is to keep this piece forever, whether for my current blog/etsy biz or just to use as a craft/office space 20 years from now.
All sorts of things are going on in this giant project, as you had seen so far, I lined the drawers, added new hardware and added some decorative stripes to the magazine files.
I sat down and analyzed my storage needs. This was easy for me since I was really lacking and living without for a few months now, and living with piles of insanity. I knew exactly what I wanted to keep the area useful for me:
- Magazine files for my favorite inspirational reads and current shop catalogs
- A safe spot to rest my camera in-between uses
- A comfortable chair to support hours of sitting at a time
- Pictures of my little men
- Cord storage for all of my gadgets and devices
- Containers to keep my laminating and label sheets easy to access and protected
- Containers to better manage my mailing system; a place for "to do" and "to mail"
- File storage
- Media storage
- A receipt system
- Small desk accessory storage
- A clutter free desktop
- A calendar
- Lots of labels
- Task Lighting
I started by swapping out the temporary paper for some pretty, bold patterned fabric. I went with the Waverly Cross Section Charcoal, and just ironed under the edges so it sits nice and pretty on the desktop.
I really love that it's subtle with color, but still bold enough to add some playfulness and texture to the space.
Because the fabric is covered with floating plexi-glass {which I had cut to size at my local Ace Hardware store}, I can tuck all sorts of items under the plexi to keep them protected. Like this monthly calendar I will be referencing frequently:
Super slick!
By splurging on all of the cabinets and drawers, I was able to conceal some of the less sightly items. But you can take a peek just so you can see how I organized it:
I actually still have not installed the drawers or cabinets permanently. I wanted to try living with a couple arrangements first. I thought I would want the drawers higher initially, but later decided that putting them lower was the way to go {they can't go right next to the chair since we have holes drilled in the sides of the cabinet for cords to our scanner}.
The top cabinet has a fabric bin for me to toss my receipts in throughout the course of the week. Then, they get scanned in and filed, so everything is all corralled together.
The drawers were lined with wrapping paper. I just stuck it down with a couple of small pieces of double sided tape. Then, popped in some acrylic drawer organizers I already had from our last desk space, and things were working fab!
And the other side:
These cabinets hold my every day items. Notebooks, planner, address book, etc... The soft sided green bin is where I keep my camera when not in use and the blue boxes are for my "to do" and "to mail" items.
The bottom drawer holds all of my punches:
The floating shelf is a great way to store books I like to reference, my craft markers in a white vase and some added drawers for my laminating sheets and printing labels.
Speaking of labels, I made sure everything was all labeled and ready to go!
I have a tendency to get some pretty yucky back pain, especially when sitting for longer periods of time {which I definitely do when I write up a blog post or personalize a slew of Etsy orders}. I hit up my local habitat restore which intentions of recovering something and taking drab to fab, but I knew that nothing I would find there would offer me the daily support that I need to work. So I went with a simple gray nail head chair that I found on clearance about a month ago at HomeDecorators.com. Part of the reason I went with something more neutral is because I wanted something that would be versatile enough to also work in my bedroom, guest room, living room or family room, if I ever decide to switch things up {which seems to happen sometimes!}.
So now I am officially, as of yesterday, all moved in and smiling!
Here is the desk build project budget breakdown:
- Wainscoting: $40
- Expedit Shelves {x2}: $120
- Floating Shelf: $30
- Doors and Drawers: $150
- Desk: Free, reused a bifold door we already had
- Fabric: $15
- Melamine board and Crown Molding Topper: $25
- Knobs: $12
- Plexi-Glass topper: $18
- Puck Lights: $36
And, the price includes a lot of special features or "add ons" such as puck lights, fabric, doors, drawers and knobs, all of which the desk could still be functional without and give you some extra savings.
I am still debating on calling this project "complete". I think the drawer and doors are asking for some decorative molding. Or paint. But until that day comes, we are in love with what we have done so far! So so very in love.
Now that my "work" space is wrapped up, time to start brainstorming up a place to craft and create....
Pssst... I already swapped out the fabric for a new look. You can check it out here.


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These are uncertain times for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) following a decision by a federal appeals court invalidating President Obama's January 2012 recess appointments of three board members to the NLRB. In its ruling last month, the D.C. Circuit Court held that President Obama's appointments were unconstitutional because the Senate was not in recess when the appointments were made. Furthermore, the Court held that the NLRB's ruling in the case at issue on appeal was invalid because the Board did not have a quorum when it issued the ruling in light of the unconstitutionality of the three board members' appointments. The White House responded to the decision expressing disagreement and referring to it as "novel and unprecedented," while Republicans hailed it, in the words of House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), as "a victory for accountability in government . . . [that will hopefully] help employers and workers overcome excessive regulations." Unsurprisingly, the NLRB did not take kindly to the Appeals Court's decision, which lays the foundation for invalidating NLRB rulings issued over the course of the past year. NLRB Chairman Mark Gaston Pearce (D) responded by stating that the NLRB "believes that the President's position in the matter will ultimately be upheld." It appears that—at least for the time being—the NLRB will continue to conduct business as usual, evidenced by the Chairman's affirmation that the NLRB "will continue to perform [its] statutory duties and issue decisions" despite the Appeals Court's decision. Although the D.C. Circuit Court's decision does not go into effect until all appeal options are exhausted, it has already sparked a challenge in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to a rather controversial ruling by the NLRB in which it held that compulsory arbitration agreements, under which nonunionized employees waived their rights to file class action lawsuits against the employer, violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). In light of many of the NLRB's expansive and contentious rulings over the past year, it is likely that similar challenges will be forthcoming in an effort to throw out the NLRB's rulings based on a lack of quorum. The decision may also have implications for Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, who was also a recess appointment by President Obama during the same period as the NLRB appointments. The D.C. Circuit Court's decision has no direct effect on the validity of Cordray's appointment but could serve as precedent in holding his appointment to be invalid. Clearly the decision headed for the Supreme Court where, if upheld, will provide the basis for invalidating many of the NLRB's rulings since January 2012. This would be a welcome victory for employers who have expressed dismay at many—if not all—of the NLRB's unprecedented rulings over the past year. Of course, the decision could also be reversed if the high court disagrees with the D.C. Circuit's interpretation of the President's recess appointment power. In what is destined to be an otherwise tedious examination of what constitutes a "recess" of the Senate under the Constitution, a decision by the Supreme Court upholding the D.C. Circuit's decision will have many interesting implications relating not only to the NLRB, but also to the future of presidential recess appointments.
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Transmyocardial Revascularisation, a new medical breakthroughs in stem cell therapy performed at Apollo Hospitals.
Fortis Noida offers stem cells treatments as part of it's Orthopedics department, for arthritis, cartilage regeneration, bone regeneration, non healing wounds and chronic pain.
Trust based hospital that treats around 7,000 international patients a year. India's first JCI and comprehensive NABH accredited hospital.
Fortis Vasant Kunj offers stem cells treatments as part of it's Orthopedics department, for arthritis, cartilage regeneration, bone regeneration, non healing wounds and chronic pain.
This information is intended for general information only and should not be considered as medical advice on the part of Health-Tourism.com. Any decision on medical treatments, after-care or recovery should be done solely upon proper consultation and advice of a qualified physician.
What is bone regeneration?
This is a medical procedure that involves using a series of bone conduction and induction, with various cells in order to restore skeletal function.
Most bone injuries such as fractures heal without forming scar tissue. Bone is regenerated and the pre-existing properties are mostly restored. With time the newly formed bone is impossible to differentiate with the uninjured bone which is adjacent.
However, in some cases, the healing of fractures is impaired when the bone does not regenerate leading to fracture nonunion or delayed union. Moreover, some conditions treated in oral maxillofacial and orthopedic surgery require bone regeneration in large quantity. Examples include skeletal reconstruction of large bone defects which are caused by infection, trauma, skeletal abnormalities and tumor resection. In addition osteoporosis, atrophic nonunions and avascular necrosis also compromise the regenerative process.
There are four stages which are involved in successfully regenerating bone and other tissues. They are abbreviated as PASS.
The building of bone around implants which are placed in tooth sockets after tooth extractions.
To preserve the sockets for future implantation of prosthetics or false teeth
To fill bone defects after tooth extraction or cystectomy
To repair bone defects after reopening a wound
Presently there are various methods used to repair and regenerate bone tissue. These include
Th9is is a technique used for bone tissue reparation. Surgeons use existing gathered bone mass from a donor or another source and graft it to the section of bone being repaired. However, the amount of bone needed is very difficult to amass.
This is a technique that researchers have developed which repairs bone structure using marine and coral sponges as frames for bone tissue regeneration. These materials are ideal because they easily integrate into the existing bone structure. In addition, they greatly resemble bones in terms of composition and porosity (all are constructed with calcium carbonate).
Stem cells are very crucial in bone regeneration. The current approach involves directly delivering osteogenic cells to the regeneration site. This is done by using bone marrow aspirate harvested from the iliac crest which also has growth factors. The procedure is minimally invasive and enhances bone repair. The quality of stem cells varies significantly. This depends on:
The scaffold are prepared and crafted to fit the area to be repaired. The stem cells are also prepared. The procedure involves inserting the scaffold and stem cells into the damaged section. Over time, the bone tissue expands from the existing bone onto the scaffold. The stem cells are converted into bone cells.
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In a surprisingly close battle, Flo from Progressive Insurance beat Deltalina from Delta Airlines. But let's keep it real and take a second look at them, this time out of costume.
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