The plural of “roof,” for people too dumb to know that the real word is “roofs.”
It certainly is interesting to compare the shingles on those two rooves.
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The pituitary gland, or hypophysis, is an endocrine gland about the size of a pea that sits in a small, bony cavity (sella turcica) covered by a dural fold (diaphragma sellae) at the base of the brain. The pituitary fossa, in which the pituitary gland sits, is situated in the sphenoid bone in the middle cranial fossa at the base of the brain.
The pituitary gland secretes hormones regulating homeostasis, including trophic hormones that stimulate other endocrine glands. It is functionally connected to the hypothalamus by the median eminence.
The hypophysis is also the top cell of the suspensor in a dicot embryo, which will differentiate to form part of the root cap.
Sections
Located at the base of the brain, the pituitary is functionally linked to the hypothalamus. It is composed of two lobes: the adenohypophysis and neurohypophysis. The adenohypophysis, also referred to as the anterior pituitary is divided into anatomical regions known as the pars tuberalis and pars distalis. The neurohypophysis, also referred to as the posterior pituitary. The pituitary is functionally linked to the hypothalamus by the pituitary stalk, whereby hypothalamic releasing factors are released and in turn stimulate the release of pituitary hormones.
Anterior pituitary (Adenohypophysis)
The anterior lobe is derived from the oral ectoderm and is composed of glandular epithelium. The anterior pituitary is functionally linked to the hypothalamus via the hypophysial-portal vascular connection in the pituitary stalk. Through this vascular connection the hypothalamus integrates stimulatory and inhibitory central and peripheral signals to the five phenotypically distinct pituitary cell types.
The anterior pituitary synthesizes and secretes important endocrine hormones, such as ACTH, TSH, prolactin, growth hormone, endorphins, FSH, and LH. These hormones are released from the anterior pituitary under the influence of hypothalamic hormones. The hypothalamic hormones travel to the anterior lobe by way of a special capillary system, called the hypothalamic-hypophyseal portal system.
Posterior pituitary (Neurohypophysis)
The posterior lobe is derived from neuroectoderm. It is connected to the hypothalamus via the infundibulum or pituitary stalk, giving rise to the tuberoinfundibular pathway. Hormones are made in nerve cell bodies positioned in the hypothalamus, and these hormones are then transported down the nerve cell’s axons to the posterior pituitary.
The hormones secreted by the posterior pituitary are
* Oxytocin, where the majority is released from the paraventricular nucleus in the Hypothalamus
* Antidiuretic hormone (ADH, also known as vasopressin and AVP, arginine vasopressin), the majority of which is released from the supraoptic nucleus in the Hypothalamus
Oxytocin is the only pituitary hormone to create a positive feedback loop. For example, uterine contractions stimulate the release of oxytocin from the posterior pituitary, which in turn increases uterine contractions. This positive feedback loop continues until the baby is born.
Intermediate lobe
There is also a intermediate lobe in many animals. For instance in fish it is believed to control physiological colour change. In adult humans it is just a thin layer of cells between the anterior and posterior pituitary. The intermediate lobe produces melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH), although this function is often (imprecisely) attributed to the anterior pituitary.
Functions
The pituitary hormones help control some of the following body processes:
* Growth
* Blood pressure
* Some aspects of pregnancy and childbirth including stimulation of uterine contractions during childbirth
* Breast milk production
* Sex organ functions in both women and men
* Thyroid gland function
* The conversion of food into energy (metabolism)
* Water and osmolarity regulation in the body.
Pathology
Disorders involving the pituitary gland include:
Condition Direction Hormone
Acromegaly overproduction growth hormone
Growth hormone deficiency underproduction growth hormone
Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone overproduction vasopressin
Diabetes insipidus underproduction vasopressin
Sheehan syndrome underproduction prolactin
Pituitary adenoma overproduction any pituitary hormone
Hypopituitarism underproduction any pituitary hormone
Additional images
Location of the pituitary gland in the human brain
Pituitary and pineal glands
The arteries of the base of the brain.
Mesal aspect of a brain sectioned in the median sagittal plane.
Sagittal section of nose mouth, pharynx, and larynx.
The plural of “roof,” for people too dumb to know that the real word is “roofs.”
It certainly is interesting to compare the shingles on those two rooves.
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ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Former Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron plans to seek the Democratic nomination for the 1st Congressional District.
Vigil-Giron says she will announce her candidacy for the 1st District on Saturday afternoon in Albuquerque.
A New Mexico native, Vigil-Giron served her first term as secretary of state from 1987 to 1990, and then was elected in 1998 to a four-year term and re-elected in 2002.
She also has worked for the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce, the New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women and Public Service Company of New Mexico.
Vigil-Giron also is a past president of the National Association of Secretaries of State and a board member of the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies.
Mic 7:7 ¶ Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. 8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
2Cor. 4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
John Paul Jones
Considered by many as the “Father of the American Navy” Captain John Paul Jones fought his most notable battle on the night of September 23, 1779. he engaged H.M.S. ‘Serapis’ and the ‘Countess of Scarborough’ off the coast of England.
The ‘Serapis’ had superior fire power and Jones had to maneuver skillfully to bring his ship alongside and lash her to the ‘Serapis’. During the dreadful 3 1/2 hour fight on a millpond sea, the ‘Alliance’, part of Jones’ squadron, fired at the ‘Bonhomme Richard,’ holing her so badly that she later sank. Over half of the crews of the two ships, including Jones himself, were either killed or wounded and many men were horribly burned. After the Bonhomme Richard began taking on water and fires broke out on board, the British commander asked Jones if he had struck his flag. Jones replied, “I have not yet begun to fight!” In the end, it was the British commander who surrendered. Jones had to transfer his crew to the ‘Serapis’ and together with her sister ship the ‘Pallas’ which had captured the ‘Scarborough’ he sailed to the Texel in Holland with over 500 prisoners.
Standing just 5 foot 5 inches tall, Jones is remembered for his indomitable will, his unwillingness to consider surrender when the slightest hope of victory still burned. Throughout his naval career Jones promoted professional standards and training. Sailors of the United States Navy can do no better than to emulate the spirit behind John Paul Jones’s stirring declaration: “I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.”
The Bean Field
2Sa 23:8-12 ¶ These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.
9 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away:
10 He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.
11 And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.
12 But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.
After all of the Israelites had fled into the hillside, Shammah, literally stood his ground.
I can envision a man that would have at that very point raised high his sword and said the words, “I have not yet begun to fight…BRING IT!”
Defiance of the Enemy
Some of us, when the first defiance or opposition arises, we feel we are out of the Will of God. But we are in a Battle!
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (Eph. 6:12)
Opposition is going to happen, Offenses are going to happen, but as Jesus said, Woe unto them from whom offenses come! (Matt. 18:7)
In other words…Look out, we have not yet begun to fight!
Determination Not Enough
What I’m saying today goes beyond mere determination and self-will, I’m talking about involving the Divine Power of God in your situation. As powerful a victory as Shammah would have had, the scripture stated, “And the Lord wrought a great victory!”
If you feel like you’re on the losing side, maybe you are! We need to make sure we have God’s blessing and sanctioning in our battles.
Simply go to God and say, God, I need your intervention in my situation. I can’t face this battle alone.
When God’s divine hand shows up, you will without a doubt feel the emboldened power of the Holy Ghost come upon you and you will be able to say with confidence…I have not yet begun to fight.
Our Best Battles are NOT Behind Us
We need to lose the mindset that we have done all we can do.
In your heart of hearts can you honestly say you’ve done all you can do?
Can you say, like Paul, I have fought a good fight, I have kept the faith, I have finished my course?
If you’re still breathing, if you’re still struggling…then YOU HAVE NOT YET BEGUN TO FIGHT!
Generations to Come
Your best days and best battles are not behind you. You have an enemy that is not content to destroy just you but he wants to destroy generations of Apostolics to come!
We need moms and dads, grandpas and grandmas to once again pick up their spears, their bows and arrows, pick up their sword and shield and let the battle cry go forth…I HAVE NOT YET BEGUN TO FIGHT!
Future generations are relying on us to stay on the field until the very last enemy falls.
NEW YORK (AP) ― Barack Obama raised a staggering $32 million in January, cash aplenty to advertise all through the expensive Super Tuesday states and beyond. He was also running ads in more states than rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as the last two Democrats standing braced for Thursday night’s face-to-face debate in California.
Obama’s January haul was the most raised in one month by any candidate in the 2008 campaign.
The Illinois senator is advertising in 20 of the 22 states in play in the busiest day of the primary season — including California, the biggest delegate prize — and plans to begin running ads in seven more states that hold primaries or caucuses later in February. Clinton is advertising in 12 Super Tuesday states, including her home state of New York.
The Clinton campaign released two new 30-second ads it will run in those states emphasizing the senator’s tactics for dealing with a flagging economy. One features a plunging skydiver as an announcer proclaims “our economy could be heading into free fall.” The other shows her proclaiming a “can-do spirit” and vowing to “turn our economy around and build a new age of prosperity.”
Both ads suggest she is the most qualified to tackle economic challenges.
Barack and Clinton were facing off in Los Angeles’ Kodak Theater, home to the Academy Awards, in the first Democratic debate of the season to feature only two candidates. Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards bowed out Wednesday without endorsing either of his former rivals.
The stakes are high, and Clinton and Obama have been clashing in increasingly acrimonious terms.
Obama would become the first black president if nominated and elected; Clinton could be the first woman president.
The battles for both the Democratic and Republican nominations have focused more and more on the economy, which polls suggest now rivals the war in Iraq as the issue concerning most Americans.
A slump in homebuilding, a crisis in credit markets and rising fuel prices are threatening the U.S. economy with the first recession since 2001. Some economists suggest the economy may have already slipped into one, though few echo the “free fall” warning of the Clinton ad.
Although nearly two dozen states will vote on Super Tuesday — including delegate-rich California and New York — it is mathematically impossible for either candidate to seal the nomination.
Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said the Illinois senator attracted 170,000 new donors in January for a total of 650,000 overall. The $32 million raised in one month matches the campaign’s best three-month fundraising period in 2007.
“We think that the strength of our financial position and the number of donors does speak to financial sustainability if it ends up going through March and April,” Plouffe said of the possibility of a race stretching toward the summer’s nominating conventions. “We think we will have the financial resources to conduct vigorous campaigns in the states to come.”
Plouffe said Obama’s campaign had its best single fundraising period right after losing the New Hampshire primary to Clinton. In January, Obama won the Iowa caucuses and the South Carolina primary; Clinton won the New Hampshire primary and won the popular vote in the Nevada caucuses, though Obama won one more delegate. She also won popular votes in Michigan and Florida where the candidates did not campaign because no nominating delegates were at stake.
Obama and Clinton have been aggressive fundraisers: Both raised more than $100 million in 2007. While the Clinton campaign has not released its January totals, Obama’s results for the month were expected to eclipse hers.
Clinton spokesman Jay Carson said money is “one measure of a campaign. … It’s one of the most important markers in the period before actual voters start voting.”
“Once people start voting, that’s a more important measure of performance,” Carson said.
Both camps emphasize that accumulating delegates is more important than just winning states in the upcoming races.
Obama and Clinton are competing heavily for votes in California, the richest Feb. 5 prize in terms of delegates. Obama has also ventured into New York, forcing Clinton to play defense in a state that has elected her twice to the Senate.
Polls have shown Clinton ahead in both states, but with Obama eroding her margin, particularly in California, which has 370 delegates up for grabs. New York offers 232.
The only two Feb. 5 states Obama is not advertising in are Oklahoma and his home state of Illinois. Plouffe said the campaign also is set to begin radio and television ads Friday in states with contests between Feb. 9 and Feb. 12, including Louisiana, Washington, Nebraska, Maine, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
I love SDN. It is fun to chat with people, debate a little, and learn new things, all from people who could be my future colleagues. Sure I don’t agree with everyone, and there are some people that I would probably strongly dislike in real life. But I do like SDN, especially the cool chain of Texas threads we have going. But right now, I’m going to lay it out about what I think of applying to TMDSAS. Now that I’ve been through it, I think I have a right to an opinion. I’m annoyed at people who haven’t stating things they don’t know as fact. And I’m tired of lazy people. This getting into med school thing is for the rest of your life!!! I’m sorry if you might have to stay in and work on your personal statement instead of going out and partying, but you’re trying to get into medical school!!!! Cut the crap! Anyways, here’s my cut and dry ideas on TMDSAS.
Beginning of College: Start a journal where you write down every club, every award, ever little thing you might possibly want to include in any application/CV/resume ever. It will be a lot easier to remember later on. And if you don’t, I’ll almost guarantee you won’t remember every single thing.
Christmas before you apply: begin your personal statement. You have a nice break, just sit down and write the thing. Get a nice rough copy, start sending it to people and getting it evaluated.
Spring break: Finish up your personal statement. Again this is a REALLY nice break, almost zero stress time you can use. Suck it up and do it.
May 1 or when you’re done with finals, whichever comes last: Start the application. Once your PS is done, the rest is easy. Especially if you kept your journal! You don’t want to start until you’re done with finals because your grades do matter, and the first couple weeks don’t matter much.
When you’ve finished entering everything: wait one or two days, don’t look at the application at all. This will clear your mind. Then go back through, look at everything freshly, and check for completeness and errors. The person who will read this app won’t know you so you need to be clear and informative, but concise. The attitude “if they want to know more, they’ll interview me” isn’t really a safe one. They might just want to interview the 1000’s of other people who DID tell them everything they wanted to know.
Once you’ve, checked, rechecked, and triple checked your application: SUBMIT! YAY. Then do all those little things you’re supposed to do in the directions. Yeah, the directions are important. You should read them.
Once you’ve submitted: depending on how burnt out you feel, either do the secondaries that day, or the next. BUT DO THEM! Unless you’d rather put off medical school for a year rather than go to that school, do it! And if you think you’d like to put off medical school for a year, talk to all the people on SDN who didn’t match. If you’ve ever had something terrible happen to you that made your heart sink and made you doubt everything you’ve done in you life, yeah that’s about how I think people felt not matching.
The application and secondaries are not the time to wimp out. Write well, do the secondaries, and nail the interview. I’m not pulling this advice outta my behind, I did go through the application cycle, interviewed at every TMDSAS school, and got into 4. My advice isn’t golden, but I’ve gotten a lot of great advice from the pre-med advisor at A&M. I’ll be so bold as to say she is the best pre-med advisor anywhere. Seriously. And she’s really made me want to pass on my knowledge and advice I’ve gained from this whole crazy thing. So good luck applying! I’ll try to write some future stuff in more detail. If you have questions and you’d actually like my opinion, feel free to ask. I love to help.
p.s. I’m reading Complications by Atul Gawande. It is awesome and you should read it.
Mario Lanza (31 January 1921 – 7 October 1959) was an American tenor and Hollywood movie star who enjoyed success in the late 1940s and 1950s. His voice was considered by some to rival that of Enrico Caruso, whom Lanza portrayed in the 1951 film The Great Caruso. Lanza was able to sing all types of music. While his highly emotional style was not always universally praised by critics, he was immensely popular and his many recordings are still prized today.
Operatic career
Born Alfredo Arnold Cocozza in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was exposed to opera and singing at a young age, and by the age of 16 his vocal talent became apparent. Starting out in local operatic productions in Philadelphia, he later came to the attention of conductor Serge Koussevitzky, who provided young Cocozza with a full student scholarship to the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood in Massachusetts. Koussevitzky would later tell Lanza that, “Yours is a voice such as is heard once in a hundred years.”
His operatic debut, as Fenton in Otto Nicolai’s Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, was at Tanglewood on August 7, 1942, after studying with conductors Boris Goldovsky and Leonard Bernstein. It was here that Cocozza adopted the stage name Mario Lanza, which is the masculine version of his mother’s name. His performances at Tanglewood won him critical acclaim, with Noel Straus of The New York Times hailing the 21-year-old tenor as having “few equals among tenors of the day in terms of quality, warmth, and power.”
His operatic career was interrupted by World War II, when he was assigned to Special Services in the U.S. Army Air Corps. He appeared on the wartime shows On the Beam and Winged Victory while in the Air Corps. He also appeared in the film version of the latter (albeit as an unrecognizable member of the chorus).
He resumed his singing career in October 1945 on the CBS radio program Great Moments in Music, where he made six appearances singing various operatic selections. He later studied under Enrico Rosati for fifteen months, then embarked on an 86-concert tour of the United States, Canada and Mexico between July 1947 and May 1948 with George London and Frances Yeend. In April 1948, he sang Pinkerton in the New Orleans Opera’s Madama Butterfly (conducted by Walter Herbert) to great acclaim. A concert at the Hollywood Bowl brought Lanza to the attention of MGM’s Louis B. Mayer, who signed Lanza to a seven-year film contract with Metro Goldwyn Mayer. This would prove to be a turning point in the young singer’s career.
Film career
MGM’s contract with Lanza required him to commit to the studio for six months, and at first Lanza was able to combine his film career with his operatic one, singing two acclaimed performances as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly for the New Orleans Opera Association in April 1948. He also continued to perform in concert, both in solo appearances and as part of the Bel Canto Trio with George London and Frances Yeend. In May 1949, he made his first commercial recordings with RCA Victor. However, his first two starring films, That Midnight Kiss and The Toast of New Orleans, were very successful, as was his recording career, and Lanza’s fame increased dramatically.
In 1951, Lanza portrayed Enrico Caruso in The Great Caruso, which proved to be an astonishing success. At the same time, his popularity exposed Lanza to intense criticism by some music critics, including those who had praised his work years earlier.
Mario Lanza as Lt. Pinkerton and Kathryn Grayson as Cio-Cio San of Madama Butterfly in their 1950 picture The Toast of New Orleans.
Mario Lanza as Lt. Pinkerton and Kathryn Grayson as Cio-Cio San of Madama Butterfly in their 1950 picture The Toast of New Orleans.
In 1952, Lanza was dismissed by MGM after he had pre-recorded the songs for The Student Prince. The reason most frequently cited for his dismissal in the tabloid press at the time was that Lanza’s recurring weight problem had made it impossible for him to fit into the costumes of the Prince. However, as his biographers Cesari and Mannering have established, Lanza was not overweight at the beginning of the production, and it was, in fact, a disagreement with director Curtis Bernhardt over Lanza’s singing of one of the songs in the film that led to Lanza walking off the set. MGM refused to replace Bernhardt, and the film was subsequently made with actor Edmund Purdom miming to Lanza’s vocals. Ironically, the eventual director of the film was Richard Thorpe, the same man whom Lanza had pleaded with MGM to replace Bernhardt, and with whom the tenor had enjoyed an excellent working relationship on The Great Caruso.
Depressed by his dismissal, and with his self-confidence severely undermined, Lanza became a virtual recluse for more than a year, frequently seeking refuge in alcoholic binges. During this period Lanza also came very close to bankruptcy as a result of poor investment decisions made by his former manager, and his lavish spending habits left him owing about $250,000 in back taxes to the IRS.
He returned to an active film career in 1955 in Serenade. However, despite its strong musical content, it was not as successful as his previous films. Lanza then moved to Rome, Italy in May 1957, where he worked on the film Seven Hills of Rome and returned to live performing in a series of acclaimed concerts throughout Britain, Ireland and the European Continent. Despite failing health, which resulted in a number of cancellations during this period, Lanza continued to receive offers for operatic appearances, concerts, and films.
In late August 1958, he made a number of operatic recordings at the Rome Opera House for the soundtrack of what would turn out to be his final film, For the First Time. Here, he came into contact with the Artistic Director of the Rome Opera, Riccardo Vitale, who reportedly offered him the role of Canio in Pagliacci in the theater’s 1960/61 season. At the same time, however, his health continued to decline, with the tenor suffering from a variety of ailments, including phlebitis and acute high blood pressure. The old habits of overeating and crash dieting, coupled with his binge drinking, compounded his problems. The following year, in April 1959, Lanza suffered a minor heart attack, followed by double pneumonia in August. He died in Rome in October of that year at the age of 38 from a pulmonary embolism. His widow, Betty, moved back to Hollywood with their four children but used barbiturates to commit suicide five months later; Marc, the younger of their two sons died in 1993 of a heart attack at the age of 37.
Lanza’s short career covered opera, radio, concerts, recordings, and motion pictures. He was the first artist for RCA Victor Red Seal to receive a gold disc. He was also the first artist to sell two and half million albums. A highly influential artist, Lanza has been credited with inspiring the careers of successive generations of opera singers, including Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci and Jose Carreras, as well as those of singers with seemingly different backgrounds, and influences, his RCA Victor label-mate Elvis Presley being the most notable example. In 1994, tenor José Carreras paid tribute to Lanza in a worldwide concert tour, saying of him, “If I’m an opera singer, it’s thanks to Mario Lanza.”
Filmography
* Winged Victory, 1944 (uncredited chorus member)
* That Midnight Kiss, 1949
* The Toast of New Orleans, 1950
* The Great Caruso, 1951
* Because You’re Mine, 1952
* The Student Prince, 1954 (voice only, see article)
* Serenade, 1956
* Seven Hills of Rome, 1958
* For the First Time, 1959
Select recordings
* The Mario Lanza Collection RCA 1991
* Mario Lanza The Legendary Tenor RCA 1987
* The Great Caruso RCA 1989
* Mario! Lanza At His Best RCA 1995
* Mario Lanza Live at Hollywood Bowl: Historical Recordings (1947 & 1951) Gala 2000
* Mario Lanza Sings Songs from The Student Prince and The Desert Song RCA 1989
* Serenade/A Cavalcade of Show Tunes RCA 2004
* Mario Lanza: Opera Arias and Duets RCA 1999
* Christmas With Mario Lanza RCA 1987
* Mario Lanza: The American Caruso [Kultur Video] [1999] - A 1983 documentary hosted by Plácido Domingo.
Mario Lanza;
RCA Victor Studio Orchestra;
Constantine Callinicos, conductor
(May 18, 1950)
Mario Lanza (31 January 1921 — 7 October 1959) was an American tenor and Hollywood movie star who enjoyed success in the late 1940s and 1950s. His voice was considered by many to rival that of Enrico Caruso, whom Lanza portrayed in the 1951 film “The Great Caruso.” Lanza was able to sing all types of music. While his highly emotional style was not always universally praised by critics, he was immensely popular and his many recordings are still prized today.
Actor Justin Chambers, checked himself in to the psych ward at UCLA Medical Center this week. The actor’s publicist says he went in voluntarily because he is “exhausted and suffers from a sleeping disorder.”
Chambers who plays Dr. Alex Karev on “Grey’s Anatomy,” is the father of five in real life. That could get you exhausted fast.
Chambers was on the same ward where Britney is currently under a 72-hour psychiatric hold.
Got friends coming over for tonight’s nerd Superbowl? Before you sit in silence, eyes glued to ABC, check out Neatorama’s party ideas. Our favorites:
1. Refreshments: Airplane-sized bottles of liquor and mini packets of peanuts.
2. Decor: Luggage scattered all over the living room.
As for your pre-game playlist, save for DriveSHAFT your best bets are:
* Cass Elliot - “Make Your Own Kind Of Music” (iTunes)
* Patsy Cline - “Walking After Midnight” (iTunes)
* Petula Clark - “Downtown” (iTunes)
* Three Dog Night - “Shambala” (iTunes)
* Nirvana - “Scentless Apprentice” (iTunes)
Other recommended pre-show research includes this list of 5 Questions the Lost Writers Need to Answer (And Why They Won’t).
As for what you missed since May’s season flash-forward, there were some Verizon mobisodes that are part of the official Lost canon. The latest one gave us a headache.
Our favorite dumb theory: time on the island moves in reverse. That explains Richard…
The pituitary gland, or hypophysis, is an endocrine gland about the size of a pea that sits in a small, bony cavity (sella turcica) covered by a dural fold (diaphragma sellae) at the base of the brain. The pituitary fossa, in which the pituitary gland sits, is situated in the sphenoid bone in the middle cranial fossa at the base of the brain.
