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Gloria Allred, the high-profile attorney who represented Tiger Wood's mistress Rachel Uchitel and the family of Nicole Brown during the O.J. Simpson murder trial, isn't letting Whoopi Goldberg's support for Mel Gibson go unquestioned.
In an open letter posted to Radar Online, Allred questioned the "View" host's public defense of the fallen action star in the wake of the release of a series of damaging audio tapes publicized by Oksana Grigorieva, his ex-girlfriend.
The missive focuses on why Grigorieva didn't go to the police after she was allegedly assaulted, a point that Goldberg made in a recent interview.
"Whoopi, the answer is that there are many reasons that women who have been battered do not immediately go to the police," she wrote in the message.
Allred pointed to several reasons for that, among them feelings of shock and financial dependence. But she argued that those were beside the point.
"Whoopi, as we say in the domestic violence movement, there is no excuse for abuse," the letter continues. "To that I will add there is also no excuse for others who do know know all of the facts to join in with a verbal attack on a victim," she wrote.
The letter closed with an appeal for Goldberg to use her status and visibility to further efforts to end domestic violence.
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We live in a complicated world. The world is more often gray, rather than a simple choice of either black or white. To eat an Oreo cookie or spreading Kraft mayonnaise on my sandwich is supporting the tobacco industry (both Oreos and Kraft are owned by the tobacco industry.) Is eating an Oreo a sin? That's what I mean by we live in a gray world.
Certainly some things are black or white, such as anything which clearly go against the teachings of Scripture. To kill someone is not only breaking the law, it is sin. But what about when I drive 40 mph in a 20 mph posted zone? I am clearly breaking the law, but is it a sin?
Years ago, as a music student, I was at a banquet of our school. I happened to sit at a table with several professors from the music department. In the course of the meal, I casually asked if anyone knew where I might be able to BORROW a copy of a popular cantata soundtrack to use as accompaniment with our small Hispanic church choir. You would have thought I had committed the unpardonable sin by even considering such an illegal thing! Everyone at the table became silent. Then one of my profs explained to me that doing so would be illegal and anybody doing so would be "breaking copyright laws" and could be held liable. End of the discussion. I continued to eat my apple pie but wondered to myself what harm there would be in our tiny Hispanic Church borrowing for a few weeks an expensive and unafordable soundtrack from one of the larger more wealthier churches in town who would have it gathering dust on some shelf? But since I didn't want to "sin" by "breaking the law" I did nothing more to pursue the matter. We ended up finding someone who could play the piano and used them instead.
May I ask you, the reader, a personal question? Have you ever made a song sheet for church, or made a copy of a song or CD and shared it with family or a friend? Have you ever reproduced copyrighted material in any form without the permission or license to do so? Have you ever projected on a wall a video, or printed out the words to a song and used them in a service without having written authorization to do so? Yes, I know what the laws say--to do so is a NO-NO, it is illegal--but is it a sin? And yes, I recognize that to do so subjects me to getting into trouble with the laws of the land. But again, am I sinning against God?
Maybe I have lived overseas for too many years, but the host culture where we live and serve does not regard copying and reproducing copyrighted materials as sinful. Everyone--and I mean everyone--does it all the time. There is little, to no regard, for all the strict laws that are so much a part of life in more developed parts of the world. Now I am NOT saying it is OK to do so. What I am asking is this a sin against God that needs to be repented of and confessed? Before you say yes, read on...
A wild guestimate would be that for every legitimate copy of Christian music (in all its forms) there are literally thousands of so called "illegitimate" copies floating around. Few of us even give it a second thought. There are no associated guilty feelings. Are all these tens of thousands of Christians guilty of sin? One could argue ignorance of sin is no excuse. Yet, if those participating in it are totally unaware of any wrong-doing, are they sinning? My American brothers for the most part would say, yes. They are stealing that which does not belong to them. But is using something the same thing as stealing it? If my car is "stolen" yet it is still sitting in my driveway, was it really stolen?
I am fully aware that a post like this sounds very odd to most of us coming from a Western mindset. We have been told that these kinds of things are wrong. To do them is to sin. But who is it telling us these things are sin? Isn't it our money-making, consumerism culture? If things aren't sold then the "sin" is that money isn't made. If money isn't made, we can't make more stuff! It is our society that has declared these things to be so.
Isn't everything that God gives to his Body freely given? Matthew 10 quotes Jesus as saying, "Freely you have received, freely give..." If it is meant to bless and edify the Body of Christ, should one "own" and charge money to others so that another can be "blessed?" Do we actually think we own what God has freely given to us for the benefit of his Body? Where did the commercialization of Christianity come from anyway? I truly wonder if Jesus were walking the earth today, would He not be spending a lot of time cleaning out today's temples who have made an industry out of his Word.
Now, I know that to take the above argument to its extreme would mean any of us could simply walk into another's house and "freely take" whatever we like. But what I am talking about are matters that are directly related to the building up of the Body of Christ; things like teaching materials, music, messages, songs, books, articles, media presentations, etc. As things stand, there are laws protecting these things, but I continue to wonder if this is what God intended from the beginning when He freely gave us all the gifts he has given.
If I write a song, is it my song or God's gift to his Body through me? Is it really mine to do with what I like: make money, sell, distribute, etc. Granted there is nothing inherently wrong with earning money, but to think it is MINE and not God's gift is what I am trying to correct. So what if everyone likes my song and uses it! It was a gift from God, I want it to be a blessing to all.
In Acts 8 Peter severely rebukes Simon the Magician because he wanted to "buy" the blessing Peter had. He rebukes Simon, "May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!" What God gives is done so freely. To charge, or think money is involved in any way, seems to go against the original plan of blessing God has for His Church. I don't believe we are to make money out of the Gospel that has been freely purchased for us by the blood of Christ.
So to conclude: the law says these things are wrong. Fine. One who breaks the law must be ready to answer for his/her actions and pay accordingly. But, we are not always sinning when we break the law. Just my 2-cents on what is still to me a highly questionable matter.


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Gian Carlo Menotti, composer
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Gian Carlo Menotti became the most-performed contemporary opera composer of his era. He stood alone on the American scene as the first to create American opera with so much appeal to audiences that it became established in permanent repertory. He adapted his natural Italian gift for operatic drama and performance to the requirements of the American stage and changing times. According to fellow composer Ned Rorem: "It is not opinion but fact that Menotti singlehandedly revitalized the concept of living opera for Americans...and violently altered the nature of lyric theater here and, by extension, throughout the world."
Menotti was born in the country town of Cadegliano on Lake Lugano in Italy. His father was a prosperous businessman and his mother, although she had nine other children, was a talented musician, and taught her young son the rudiments of music.
At age 10, Menotti wrote his first opera titled The Death of Pierrot, though it was never performed professionally. At age 13, when Menotti entered the Milan Conservatory, he had already written a second opera. In 1927, he came to the United States and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Rosario Scalero. Having received his diploma with honors from the Institute in 1933, Menotti began the libretto for his opera Amelia Goes to the Ball, an ebullient opera buffa, first staged in 1937 at Philadelphia's Academy of music by students of the Curtis Institute and then in New York with such success that the Metropolitan Opera accepted it for the following season.
Amelia was responsible for Menotti's receiving a commission from NBC for a radio opera. The comic opera, first broadcast in 1939, was The Old Man and the Thief, which was later performed on stage by the Philadelphia Opera Company.
It was, however, with The Medium that Menotti was established as one of the foremost composer-librettist of modern opera. The tragedy, about a fraudulent spiritualist caught between the worlds of reality, which she cannot understand, and of the supernatural, in which she doesn't believe, had a run of 211 performances at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on Broadway (1947-48) and was accompanied by a "curtain-raiser," a totally different one-act comedy The Telephone.
Menotti's first full length opera, The Consul, considered by many to be his greatest work, opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater March 15, 1950. This searing contemporary work describing the plight of political fugitives vainly trying to escape an unnamed police state but failing to obtain the necessary visa had an eight month run and received the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Award. It has since been translated into 12 languages and performed in more than 20 countries.
On Christmas Eve, 1951, the first opera written expressly for television, Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors was broadcast on NBC. The opera, influenced by Bosch's Adoration of the Magi, has become one of the most frequently performed of the 20th century.
The composer's next effort, The Saint of Bleecker Street, a serious drama set in contemporary New York, which opened in New York December 27, 1954, won the Drama Critics Circle Award for the best musical play of 1954 and the Pulitzer Prize for 1955. It also received a Music Critics Circle Award for the best opera.
Three years later, Menotti organized the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, staging old and new musical works. In 1977, he inaugurated the American counterpart of the festival in Charleston, South Carolina. Menotti was later replaced as director of the Spoletto Festival, due to differences in his approach to music.
Additional works evolved including The Death of the Bishop of Brindisi, a cantata about the Children's Crusade of 1212, commissioned by the Cincinnati Music Festival Association, and Le dernier sauvage, an opera which premiered in France and was later given a lavish production at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Operas for children are also included among his works. A Bride from Pluto, a humorous space opera was commissioned by the Kennedy Center. His Help, Help, the Globolinks!, which he considers "an opera in one act for children and those who like children," was commissioned in Hamburg.
In addition to his numerous operatic works, Menotti has enriched the artistic world with his ballets, including Sebastian; Errand into the Maze; and The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore orchestral works (Apocalypse), and Landscapes and Remembrances, a cantata to his own autobiographical words.
Menotti continued to compose--his most recent operas include Goya (1986) and The Singing Child (1993).
In addition to being awarded the Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime achievement in the arts, Menotti was also chosen as the 1991 "Musician of the Year" by Musical America. According to critical appraisal by H. Wiley Hitchcock, "Menotti combined the theatrical sense of a poplar playwright and a Pucciniesque musical vocabulary with an Italian love of liquid language and a humane interest in characters as real human beings. The result is opera more accessible than anyone else's at the time.


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August 31, 2013
During an interview with Newsmax Thursday, three-time presidential adviser Pat Buchanan joined the growing number of mainstream voices now specifically labeling the recent chemical attacks in Syria as a false flag.
"…First, this thing reeks of a false flag operation," said Buchanan. "I would not understand or comprehend that Bashar al-Assad, no matter how bad a man he may be, would be so stupid as to order a chemical weapons attack on civilians in his own country when the immediate consequence of which might be that he would be at war with the United States. So this reeks of a false flag operation."
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Throughout the course of the Syrian conflict, the Obama administration and its western allies have continually failed at their attempts to bring down the Assad government. Despite the administration's claims of an "undeniable" Assad chemical attack, US officials have continued to cast doubt on the evidence.
Evidence pointing to a rebel-backed false flag chemical attack to blame Assad has continued to pile up as public approval for a Syrian intervention crumbles. Not only did the British parliament vote down the Cameron government's attempts to intervene militarily, A Reuters poll from earlier this week found that 91 percent of Americans oppose military air strikes.
Just last Thursday, Al-Qaeda-backed Syrian rebels admitted to Associated Press correspondent Dale Gavlak that they had carried out the chemical attacks after being supplied the weapons from Saudi Arabia. The information backs up comments made by Syria's deputy foreign minister as well as multiple YouTube videos showing the US funded rebels launching chemical attacks with "Saudi factory" labeled weapons.
Ron Paul's statement calling the chemical attacks a false flag while on Fox News last Wednesday has seemingly opened the flood gates for other journalists to come forward with their similar findings. During an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News Friday, photojournalist Jonathan Alpeyrie, who was kidnapped and held captive by Syrian rebels for 81 days last April, said he also believed the recent chemical attack was a rebel backed false flag operation.
This coincides with the fact that Obama is now publicly on the same side as Al-Qaeda, as Anthony Gucciardi has broken down:
While the mainstream media has ridiculed and almost completely ignored the historical reality of false flag operations, prominent voices within the alternative news have been incremental in forcing the term into the public narrative by presenting documented examples of state-sponsored terror. The power structure has now admittedly begun to panic from what they themselves have deemed the "global political awakening."


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A native of nearby Elk Grove, Ho competed collegiately at UC Davis where she became one of the top gymnasts in Aggie history. During her career, she captured a total of 13 All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation honors, nine Gymnast of the Week awards, plus an Athlete of the Year nod in 2010. On the larger scene, she became the first Aggie to qualify for an NCAA regional three times, and the second to reach the region meet as an all-arounder in back-to-back years.
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Art Day brought an explosion of color and creative energy to an otherwise wet and dreary day on campus last November. More than 430 high school artists from Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma came to campus to practice and display their artistic talents.
"This has been great," said Whitney Beth, a teacher at Nevada (Mo.) High School, as her students were busy creating a colorful, life-sized mermaid on a mushroom. "This is an opportunity for our students to meet students from other schools who also enjoy art."
Rhona Shand, chair of the Art Department, marveled at the rapid growth of Art Day over its four-year history.
"We started with a half day and about 30 students," Shand said. "It's a reflection of the importance students place on art."
Shand said the event is designed to inspire students.
"It's purpose is to get kids thinking creatively," Shand said. "They're not all going to go on to be artists, but they are all going to need to be able to use creative thinking, whatever careers they choose."
Students at Art Day displayed their art and participated in a variety of events and competitions. Those included a self-portrait competition, construction of a 3-D project and a team competition based on this year's theme, "A fish out of water."
In the team competition, students were asked to design and create an environment in which one might find a fish out of water. The environments created by the student teams ranged from a train to a wedding chapel.
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C.J. Wilson hears the voices. How could he not? You hear them too, and you don't live inside C.J. Wilson's head. They're whispering that he can't get it done, that he isn't worth the $90 million he might earn in free agency. They're saying that he's nothing but Randy Wolf in New Age wrapping paper. Even his Phiten is moaning at him, "C... J... I don't have the magic powers anymore... You're on your own..."
And so we find C.J. Wilson tonight as a man at the end of one rope, making what could very well be his last start as a Texas Ranger (Derek Holland seems a good bet to pitch game seven, regardless of how Wilson does tonight), hoping that he might leap to a particularly lush other. He's got the regular-season swell strikeout totals, diminishing walks, wins and ERA for a big deal. But all that's vanished in the playoffs to date.
The series is tied 2-2; C.J. Wilson is 0-3 in his playoff starts so far.
Chris Carpenter will do his Chris Carpenter thing, and with all likelihood the Rangers will get their three or four runs but no more. So, yeah, C.J., it's on you. You hear. You know.
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Luca di Montezemolo returned to his office from Abu Dhabi today. His first action was to personally thank those working for the Formula 1 team who didn't go to the race. Just as he had congratulated their colleagues at the track, Montezemolo thanked them for all their work throughout the year, work which was fundamental in enabling the Scuderia to battle it out for the Championship to the end.
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ATHENS, Greece - The U.S. Women's National Team and its living legends realized their destiny Thursday with an overtime strike from Abby Wambach to defeat Brazil 2-1 in the Gold Medal Match at the 2004 Olympic Games and reclaim its place as the top team in the world. With the Athens Olympics serving as the last world championship event for some of the U.S. veterans, the match against Brazil was a dramatic dogfight. With Brazil attacking in waves early, the U.S. got a crucial goal on a blast from distance by 20-year-old Lindsay Tarpley on an assist by Brandi Chastain. Brazil tied the game in the 73rd minute, but Kristine Lilly served a perfect corner kick to Wambach to head home the winner in the 22nd minute of overtime. "This team never gave up and every single player made a difference," said veteran Mia Hamm after the game. "These guys deserve it. They always put the game first. They always thought about leaving a legacy and leaving a better place for all the young girls that are in the stands. I am so proud to be on this team. I'm just one person. America should be proud of this team. We are going to enjoy it." With the team earning the Gold Medal, U.S. Soccer has announced plans to stage a 10-game Fan Celebration Tour for the U.S. Women's National Team and their fans that will kick off on Sept. 25 at Frontier Field in Rochester, N.Y., the hometown of Wambach, the team's leading scoring in the Olympics with four goals. The tour marks one last chance for fans of the U.S. Women's National Team to see retiring players like Joy Fawcett, Julie Foudy and Hamm on the international soccer stage as they celebrate a legacy which includes two Women's World Cup championships, two Gold Medal victories and top three finishes in each of their seven FIFA world championship events. The remaining dates and venues on the tour will be released in the near future and fans are encouraged to log on to ussoccer.com to register to receive the latest ticketing information as it becomes available. The game winner came for an exhausted U.S. team in the 112th minute, when Wambach found enough energy to out-leap Monica on the Lilly corner kick and snap a header from 12 yards out that flew past Andreia. Brazil captain Juliana tried to head the ball off the line, but it popped off her head and into the roof of the net. Easily the biggest goal of Wambach's young international career, her four in the Olympics give her 18 goals in 24 games in 2004. "No words," said Wambach of her late goal-scoring heroics. "This is for them. It is for these players going through their last world championship: Brandi Chastain, Kristine Lilly, Joy Fawcett, Julie Foudy, Briana Scurry, Mia Hamm ... all these players that have done so much for this team. This is for them." With the Brazil attack coming in waves, the U.S. scored a huge goal to grab momentum in the 39th minute. The score started with Chastain stepping in to intercept a Brazil pass just outside the center circle and playing a quick ball ahead to Tarpley. Tarpley turned and dribbled down the center of the field before ripping a shot from 22 yards out that found its way between two Brazil defenders and past Andreia inside the left post for a 1-0 lead. The Gold Medal battle opened much like the two team's first meeting in opening round play on Aug. 14, with Brazil coming out with a ferocious attack, forcing the U.S. to match their intensity and play end-to-end from the opening whistle. Brazil had the majority of dangerous chances early on, with Rosana blasting a ball just over the crossbar from 25 yards out in the first minute. In the fifth minute, Elaine tested the U.S. defense by ripping a shot to the far post that Scurry dove to push wide. Brazil's Daniela had the next chance, sending a low shot from 35 yards out that skipped toward Briana Scurry, who made the easy save. Brazil put together a swift two-player breakaway in the 27th minute, with Pretinha and Marta running a give and go and carving through the U.S. back line, but midfielder Shannon Boxx came from behind on the play to intercept the final pass and clear it from danger. Minutes later, Brazil had a chance to equalize on a flurry in front of the U.S. goal that resulted from an incorrect call from referee Jenny Palmqvist. Joy Fawcett had ran down a through ball and tangled with Formiga in the box, before Formiga won the battle and touched a ball to the middle of the box. Scurry, who was lurking behind Fawcett, quickly scooped up the ball, and Palmqvist ruled that she had illegally handled a pass from Fawcett. On the resulting indirect free kick, Formiga touched it to Marta, whose shot into the wall was blocked by Lilly. The rebound fell to Daniela who attempted a shot that was blocked by Fawcett. The ball fell to the left of Fawcett, and before Kate Markgraf could clear the ball, Christiane pounced on the loose ball and sent it toward the upper left corner, but Scurry was there to parry it wide for a corner kick. Daniela had the first good scoring chance of the second half, sending a low blast to the far post from 24 yards out that Scurry had covered and watched roll wide left in the 56th minute. Lilly almost got her team-leading fourth goal of the tournament in the 72nd minute when she was crashing through the box and a Wambach cross from the right flank sailed over the head of Juliana and literally fell in her lap, but she wasn't able to strike the ball and Andreia came off her line to grab the ball out of harm's way. The U.S. held Brazil off until the 73rd minute, when an incredible individual run from Christiane through the U.S. half of the field took her into the left side of the penalty area, where she beat Fawcett and Markgraf to the endline before sending in a low cross. Guarding the near post, Scurry was able to get her left hand on the pass, but the ball slid into the path of Pretinha, who tapped it home from point-blank range. Buoyed by the equalizer, Brazil ratcheted up the intensity level in search of the game winner. A minute later, Christiane almost made it 2-1 with a laser from 23 yards out that clanged the boards just a foot wide of the right post. Christiane crushed the woodwork in the 78th minute, sending a shot between two U.S. defenders that rang the left post as Scurry scrambled to stop it. After working hard all match but with limited looks on goal, Wambach was almost the hero in the 85th minute when she beat her defender in the six-yard box and went airborne to try to head home a Cat Reddick free kick swerved in from the left side, but she missed it by inches and it sailed out for a goal kick. Brazil hit the post again in the 87th minute, as Pretinha got the ball at the top of the box, cut back to her left to escape three U.S. defenders and sent a shot that beat Scurry but smacked the left post. The rebound bounced off Scurry, who was lying on the turf, and was patiently cleared out by Markgraf. Each team had chances over the final few minutes, but neither team could find the back of the net. Forward Heather O'Reilly, the hero vs. Germany, came into the game for Tarpley at the start of overtime and provided much needed pace up top for the U.S. Both teams slowed the pace as overtime began, with neither side wanting to commit too many players into the attack. But Brazil picked up the pace midway through the first period of extra time, with Marta volleying a left-footed shot from the top of the box that was right at Scurry. Moments later, Daniela also sent a low shot on goal, but again it was directed at Scurry and she gobbled it up. The U.S. had its first good chance in the 101st minute, with Foudy sending a ball from the right flank that skipped past Daniela to Wambach, who turned and sent it just a few feet over the crossbar. Christiane had yet another scintillating touch toward goal, spinning around Christine Rampone at the corner of the box and rushing in alone but sending a poorly struck shot wide left of the goal in the 104th minute. The first opportunity in the second 15-minute period came on a Brazil free kick from 25 yards out that Formiga pushed far wide of the goal. After Wambach's tally in the 112th minute, the U.S. worked to kill off the clock by playing the ball deep into the corners or out of bounds.


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The United States and Iran have been on a collision course since the Iranian revolution in 1979, when elements of the newly proclaimed Islamic Republic took U.S. diplomats and Tehran embassy personnel hostage. U.S. relations with Iran have been bad ever since. The focus in recent years has been the Iranian program to develop a nuclear weapon, but the backdrop is Iran as a growing regional threat, not only to Israel and to U.S. and allied interests in the Persian Gulf region, but also to the many Sunni governments of the Gulf, which fear an increasingly powerful Shiite government in Tehran.
Meanwhile, Iran props up the Assad dictatorship in Syria, meddles in Lebanon through the Hezbollah militia, supports the radical Hamas regime in Gaza, and seeks to expand its divisive clout in neighboring Iraq, a task made easier by the decision of the Obama administration to end the deployment of U.S. combat forces there. The picture that emerges is of an Iran that is not so much aproblem but the problem of the broader Middle East, eclipsing even the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
The Iranian nuclear program is now variously estimated to be less than a year to three years away from a bomb, notwithstanding the U.N. Security Council-approved sanctions on Tehran, as well as tougher sanctions the United States and Europe have imposed. Iran also has a robust missile program underway. The Israeli vice prime minister recently disclosed that Tehran is working on a missile with a range of 6,200 miles, enough to reach the United States. Israel and other potential Middle East targets are already within range of Iranian missiles, as is Europe: The potential threat from Iran has served as a mainstay in the case for the deployment of a missile defense system in Europe, as well as Israel's system. Add a murky plot disclosed last year to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States by blowing up a Georgetown restaurant—a terrorist attack on American soil that would have killed many Americans—and you have a serious problem that is quickly growing worse.
What will the United States do in response? The situation in which the United States finds itself vis-à-vis Iran has acquired a logic of its own. And that logic points to U.S. military action against Iran within the next 12 months. It's not that attacking Iran is a good option; it's that all the other options are worse. Policymakers and commentators who think we will have other, pacific approaches are in my view mistaken. The only real hope is that the current much-expanded debate in the United States, Israel, and Europe over a military move against Iran—a marked change from just a few months ago, when even well-informed observers mostly dismissed the idea of a U.S. attack—will finally succeed in deterring Iran from pursuing its nuclear weapons program. The chances are slim.
Iranian persistence in pursuit of a nuclear weapon is the heart of the problem. Senior Obama administration officials arrived in 2009 thinking that a major part of the Iran problem was the lack of diplomacy in the George W. Bush administration. Obama's predecessor steadfastly rejected any opening toward Iran in the absence of evidence that Tehran was abandoning its nuclear weapons ambitions and complying with its obligations under U.N. Security Council resolutions. The Obama administration accordingly reached out to Iran. The implicit terms of the bargain were that, in exchange for compliance, Iran could look forward to an end to its international isolation and the milder sanctions then in place, renewal of diplomatic relations with the United States, and an opportunity for integration into the world economy and the investment (particularly for development of its oil resources) such a reopening would bring.
The assumptions underlying this policy change present a view of the world and an attendant approach to policymaking that characterize the Obama administration. The first element is the conviction that U.S. hostility can produce only hostility in return. Whatever may have justified American hostility in the first place, the result over time could only be a vicious circle. As George Mason's Colin Dueck has noted, a consistent theme of Obama's foreign policy has been accommodation—a gesture on the part of the United States toward its erstwhile adversaries in the hope of reciprocation and the emergence of a way out of the snare of mutual hostility.
A second element is the view of Iran as a rational actor. Put aside talk of "rogue states," let alone the old "axis of evil": The Iranian government would respond, in this view, to incentives positive and negative—carrots and sticks. If the cost of continuing its nuclear program is elevated and promises to keep mounting the longer Iran persists, and if the benefit from abandoning the program would be considerable in terms of reintegration into the world economy, one could reasonably expect Iran to give up its program.
The Obama administration's early overture to Iran was worth a try (though not to the point of turning its back on the Iranian "Green Revolution" movement that took to the streets following fraudulent elections in summer 2009). But Iran has not budged in the face of tightening sanctions, nor does it appear to value reentry into the world community as highly as the security gains it believes a nuclear weapon would provide. This does not necessarily make Iran "irrational"; it may simply mean that Iran's rulers calculate costs and benefits differently from Americans and Europeans.
In this context, the Western rumors of war in early 2012 could be construed in part as the last peaceable attempt to persuade Iran to change course. It appears to be failing. The Iranians want a nuke and appear to be pressing ahead as fast as they can.
The United States and its allies have said repeatedly that an Iranian nuclear weapon is "unacceptable." One must ask: Why? There are two responses to this question. The first is that the Iranian regime is so dangerous, internally unstable, and ideologically inflamed that it might use a nuclear weapon if it had one, specifically against Israel. If not a missile, then a suitcase. If not directly, then indirectly through surrogates closer at hand.
What, then, about Israel's undeclared but widely acknowledged nuclear arsenal, which would surely be unleashed in reprisal? Perhaps there are those in Iran who would be prepared to pay such a price for the destruction of the Jewish state. Surely the rhetoric of the Holocaust-denying Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling for the annihilation of Israel is not reassuring. Iran might well be deterred from using a nuclear weapon against Israel by the prospect of nuclear retaliation. But what are the chances that it won't be? Is one chance in five over the next 20 years an acceptable risk? Precise calculation of such a risk is impossible. Yet it may be worthwhile, even at considerable cost, to attempt to reduce the likelihood of a low-probability, high-impact event to zero at least for some period of time. This view is understandably more prevalent in Israel than among Americans—though if it's a suitcase that concerns you, Tel Aviv is not the only place about which you might be concerned.
A more common worry among American analysts is the possibility that if Iran gets the bomb, Saudi Arabia will want one as a deterrent. Perhaps Iran's neighbor Turkey will as well. From there, who knows? The fear is that Iran is the tipping point to a so-called polynuclear Middle East, which might easily extend into Central Asia. The stability of such a situation is highly open to question. If one state in the region goes on nuclear alert, all the other states will follow suit (as, likely, would the United States, Russia, and China). The regional nuclear arsenals in question will likely not be large, and each state will feel a certain "use 'em or lose 'em" pressure in fear of being attacked first. The chance of such fears leading to catastrophe—well, once again, it is incalculable, but it is not zero. Deterrence theory, even on the assumption that all of the states involved seek only to deter the others from attack, is not at all reassuring in such a scenario.
A polynuclear Middle East would be a potential second-order effect of an Iranian bomb. One could address it by trying to dissuade other states in the region from going nuclear through the extension of security guarantees. How credible they would be is another question. Would Saudi Arabia feel reassured under an American nuclear umbrella? A Pakistani nuclear umbrella? Would such an exercise in "extended deterrence" make sense to Americans?
Another undesirable second-order effect would be a nuclear-armed Iran's throwing its weight around regionally. The Iranian government's pernicious influence already extends well beyond its own people. An Iran that feels more secure, indeed immune from attack, would likely increase its demands on its neighbors. During the Cold War, the term "Finlandization" described a nominally independent state's devolution under pressure to a near-satrapy of the Soviet Union. How well would the Gulf states bear up under pressure from a nuclear-armed Iran? In 2010, certainly in response to the Iranian threat, the United States began to double the size of its naval base in tiny Bahrain, home to the 5th Fleet. How welcome a presence will the United States be if Iran has the bomb and "uses" it to coerce other states in the region?
The United States (and Israel) could still, presumably, try to deter Iran both from the actual use of a nuclear weapon and from its use as an instrument of coercive diplomacy. Articles and study groups have explored the possibility of living with a nuclear Iran. Unfortunately, they generally flow from the premise that the United States must seem strong and resolute to Iran. Exactly how strong and resolute the United States and its allies will seem once Iran, in defiance of the top foreign policy priority of the United States and its allies, has tested a nuclear weapon is a question that answers itself. There is already a broad perception in the Middle East, shared by Israel and its Sunni neighbors—whose intelligence services and senior officials seem to get along rather well on matters in their mutual interest—that U.S. influence in the region is declining. They suspect this is a matter of deliberate U.S. policy. Of course, not only in the Middle East now but also in other places at other times, U.S. influence has appeared to many to be on the wane until the United States has acted emphatically to demonstrate otherwise. The United States could do so now by preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. But without question, Iran's acquisition of a nuclear weapon would mark the effective end of U.S. credibility in the region (at least until the United States did something even more dramatic to reassert it).
As recently as a year ago, Israelis usually framed their concern about a nuclear Iran in terms of these two second-order effects: a neighborhood full of nukes and an emboldened Iran. It seemed to me then that there was a sense of hesitation on their part, almost embarrassment, about bringing up what was really foremost in their minds, which is the existential threat they believe an Iranian nuclear weapon poses to them. This was problematic, as I'm not sure a war over second-order effects is worth risking if the immediate danger of an Iranian nuclear weapon isn't self-evident.
By now, however, Israelis have found the—is it courage? forthrightness?—to speak up about the existential danger they personally perceive. I don't think an Iranian nuclear weapon poses an existential danger to the United States or most of the rest of our allies. Iran is not Nazi Germany. But one can hardly fault Israelis for taking Iran personally. And the fact that an Iranian nuclear weapon is more dangerous to Israel than to any other American ally does not mean Iran is or should be exclusively an Israeli problem. Iran, at this moment, may in fact be relatively weak, not strong, as the former head of Mossad, Efraim Halevy, contends. If the Iran-backed Assad regime in Syria collapses, it will be a serious blow to Iran's position. But an Iranian nuclear weapon would represent a substantial increase in the power of a dangerous regime. That's a matter the United States and its allies around the world cannot ignore and must not acquiesce in.
If you say something is unacceptable, you are either bluffing or are obliged to do what you can to stop it. Increasingly tight sanctions have not worked, nor blandishments. Western capitals have come round to interpreting Iranian offers to talk further on the subject, as Iran recently proposed, as playing for time while the weapons program enters a decisive stage. In fact, the recent experience of India and Pakistan going nuclear may suggest to Tehran that the quickest way out from under sanctions is nothing other than a nuclear test: Iran will be more powerful, and the world will have to adjust. What happens, then, when sanctions have not worked as time is running out?
Both the United States and Israel believe they have viable military options against Iran. Neither promises to be capable of destroying the Iranian nuclear program altogether. Degrading the program substantially, however, and delaying it potentially for years are within the realm of practical achievability. Obviously, the United States has vastly more military resources it could bring to bear on the task than does Israel. But Israel needs nothing material from the United States in order to attack Iran, nor does it need the permission of the United States.
Of course, the United States may be able to punish Israel for striking Iran against the wishes of the United States. We could, potentially, reduce military assistance to Israel, deny access to parts for weapons systems, scale back military and intelligence cooperation, or cease to protect Israel at the United Nations Security Council as the inevitable resolution condemning the attack comes forward. We could also, in advance, threaten Israel with any and all of these and other consequences. It would be surprising if the United States were not currently engaged in a policy of dual containment or "pivotal deterrence": We promise Israel that we will dissuade Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon while threatening Israel with abandonment if it acts on its own. Israel would have to be prepared to pay a price for taking military action, and it might be high.
But if Israel perceives a truly existential threat from the Iranian nuclear program, as it appears it does, then Israel may be willing to pay a very high price indeed and at the moment of truth, tell the United States as much. (Our subject here is not U.S. domestic politics, so we will bracket and set aside the question of the viability of the U.S. making good on its threat to punish Israel.) At some point—perhaps sooner, but at the latest as Israel's F-16s are, so to speak, revving on the tarmac—the United States must confront a very basic question: If someone is going to strike Iran, who should that be?
Sheerly from the point of view of military effectiveness, the answer must involve the United States. The Israelis know this. Our allies know this. We know it. And they know that we know, etc. Iran, once struck, will certainly want to respond. But even if the strike comes solely from Israel, will Iran confine its response to action against Israel? If not, then we are likely to find at a minimum our vital interests placed at risk. We would have to respond militarily to any attempt to, for example, shut down the Strait of Hormuz, to say nothing of an attack on a U.S. warship.
These considerations militate in favor of a U.S. decision to attack Iran should sanctions fail to dissuade the Iranians from further pursuit of a nuclear weapon. So does the fact that we already seem to have edged into a state of covert bellicosity with the Iranian government: dead scientists, mysterious explosions, Stuxnet. So does the regrettable fact that the threat of military force has entered our diplomacy only very recently; this has permitted the Iranians to dismiss the credibility of a military option, paradoxically increasing the likelihood of its necessity if we mean what we say when we say "unacceptable."
Of course Israel would rather see the United States attack Iran than do so on its own, and not only for reasons of military effectiveness. But if an unattacked Iran is a nuclear-armed Iran, the latter would amount to a crippling failure of U.S. policy (always an option, I suppose). If an attack takes place and the United States is uninvolved, we are nevertheless unlikely to avoid involvement in the ensuing conflict. Our collision with Iran is imminent.


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Say what you want about Miley Cyrus — but what she did tonight at the 2014 MTV VMAs was pretty outstanding.
A far cry from last year's VMAs, Miley brought a young homeless man named Jesse to the awards show this year. He accepted the pop star's moonman for Video of the Year for 'Wrecking Ball' on behalf of all of the homeless youth in our country.
"I'm accepting this award on behalf of the 1.6 million runaways and homeless youth in the United States, who are starving, lost, or scared for their lives right now," Jesse stated, his hands shaking as Miley unsuccessfully tried to choke back her tears. "I know this because I am one of these people."
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by Gary Aldrich - Volume 1 - Issue 12
In the battle to save young Elian Gonzalez from being sent back to Cuba, The Patrick Henry Center was one of the first organizations to lead, and to stand up and speak out on the evils of Communism, and why Elian should remain in the United States.
Win or lose, the Elian Gonzalez case has sparked the first serious discussion in recent years about the horrors of living in a Communist dictatorship. Sadly, Fidel Castro has used the same case to crack down on political dissidents.
Now, the Clinton Administration stands alone in its efforts to force young Elian back to a doubtful relationship, and a dark future. The Mayor of Miami has made a public statement today that if there is violence in Miami caused by Reno's insistence that Elian be seized and deported, the trouble will be on Reno's and Clinton's heads.
Attorneys for Elian Gonzalez's Miami family are vowing they will go to the Supreme Court if necessary to keep the 6-year-old boy in the United States. This follows news this week that U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore dismissed the family's lawsuit, siding with Janet Reno's decision to deliver Elian into the hands of Communist thugs.
The failure of Elian's father to visit his son after four months apart speaks volumes. Could he possibly want his son to remain in America? Or perhaps he realizes that the sacrifice his former wife made to get Elian to America should not be in vain.
In an interview that ABC News will not commit to prime time, Diane Sawyer refused to ask young Elian if he wanted to go back to Cuba, or stay with his loving relatives in Miami. Sawyer explained she knew Elian would answer that he wanted to stay. Characteristically, ABC News and Sawyer decided for America whether or not the truth should be told about Elian's real wishes.
"This idea that he could be reunited with his father like Attorney General Reno said is, I'm afraid, wishful thinking," attorney Spencer Eig said. "In Cuba, the history of politically prominent children is that they are segregated from their families, taken away and minded by the government to be exploited for propaganda purposes."
Meanwhile, Cuban Americans living in South Florida have vowed civil disturbance if federal marshals attempt to take Elian from his new home. Janet Reno could order a violent and dangerous confrontation, most likely upon orders from the Clinton White House.
Are we on the brink of another WACO? Will Reno place young Elian in harm's way to "save him?" Will Elian and his family suffer tear gas attacks if they refuse to come out?
The Patrick Henry Center will continue to do all that we can to ensure that young Elian does not meet this fate, however, the Clinton Administration seems determined to show citizens of this country who's boss! The well being of a single little boy means nothing, apparently.


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LONDON — The United Arab Emirates, it appears from the TV pictures, have quite a lot of sand.
So does Greece, if you can find it in between the cigarette butts discarded by tourists.
Great Britain, for that matter, has hundreds of miles of seaside sand — think St. Andrews, and the Chariots of Fire gang. That vast expanse they're running on isn't pavement, it's the town beach.
But when Dubai needed sand of just the right colour and consistency that would match the dunes, and never compact, to fill the bunkers of a Greg Norman-designed golf course, it sent away for it ... to Huntsville, Ont.
When Athens needed sand for the 2004 Olympics beach volleyball competition, the Hutcheson Sand and Mixes Co. of Huntsville found it, processed it and shipped it ... from Belgium.
By comparison, supplying sand for the London Olympics — 4,400 tons of it, for six practice courts and the main beach volleyball venue at the Horse Guards Parade — was less complicated.
Especially because Bob Clarke, the London Organizing Committee's volleyball manager, insisted it be from a local quarry. "In line with LOCOG's sustainability pledges," he said, "we wanted to source the sand from the U.K."
That mandate sent Todd Knapton, Hutcheson's VP of business development, on a scouting mission.
"We pulled out samples from all over the U.K., trying to find an appropriate source, and after a couple of months we did," he said. The quarry was in Godstone, Surrey. The sand is called Redhill 28.
"Beaches are basically a taboo, environmentally you can't take sand off a beach," Knapton said in a phone conversation Monday, "so we went to different quarries. Geographically, we just started narrowing it down, taking the colour as a physical property, the size [of the granules], the shape, angularity ... it's all washed and sized. There's a specific gradation set out that we designed for FIVB [International Volleyball Federation]."
"We don't want to scratch those beautiful bodies," said Bob Hutcheson, the company's founder.
Hutcheson's company first became involved with beach volleyball prior to the Goodwill Games in New York City, when it trucked sand from Huntsville to the Games site in Central Park.
It is now the exclusive contractor for supplying sand to major FIVB events. It previously used native sand only for the 2000 Olympics on Bondi Beach in Sydney, and is under contract to provide the surface for the its fifth Olympics, Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
The venue at Horse Guards, and the practice courts in St. James Park, had the advantage of a spectacular setting amid the iconic landmarks of London.
"It's like something out of Harry Potter, isn't it?" Knapton said. "But that was Bob Clarke's vision. He's pulled this thing together. It was his dream to have it there. I said Bob, put it on a beach somewhere, Brighton, and he said no, I want it right here. It was quite an undertaking, and I've got to go back on the 15th and take it all out."
Post-Olympics, the sand will be used by Volleyball England for training venues around the U.K.


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The "Sherlock Special" doesn't debut until January 1, but these photos of the Victoria-era episode are absolutely gorgeous and shine some light on the actors, the sets, and the plot of the special.
The photo gallery below shows the incredible work the set and costume designers put into this episode. Rich velvet fabrics, old-time carts and wagons, bustled dresses, even smoking pipes, all make this world into an elaborate tapestry of mystery and sophistication. Each character looks fantastic, especially Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch), Watson (Martin Freeman), and Mrs. Hudson (Una Stubbs).
Check out the official episode photos and synopsis below:
Sherlock – The Abominable Bride
Dr John Watson, meet Mr Sherlock Holmes. We"ve been here before – but what if this wasn"t the modern day but the late Victorian period? What if the world"s most famous consulting detective and his best friend lived in a Baker Street of steam trains, hansom cabs, top hats and frock-coats? Welcome to 'Sherlock" in 1895! Some things, though, remain reassuringly the same. Friendship, adventure and especially, MURDER…
Why is Thomas Ricoletti a little surprised to see his wife dressed in her old wedding gown? Because, just a few hours before, she took her own life… Mrs Ricoletti"s ghost now appears to be prowling the streets with an unslakeable thirst for revenge. From fog-shrouded Limehouse to the bowels of a ruined church, Holmes, Watson and their friends must use all their cunning to combat an enemy seemingly from beyond the grave and the final, shocking truth about… the Abominable Bride!
"Sherlock: The Abominable Bride" airs January 1, 2016 on PBS.


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April 16th Board of Aldermen Meeting
The Monday, April 16th "Sine Die" meeting of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen. This is the last meeting of the 2011-2012 session of the Board. The new session begins on April 17th. The main topic of debate at this meeting was a bill related to the pension system of city firefighters.


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Why you should buy the 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8:
You love America and everything it stands for. You break out in hives at the thought of restoring an old '71 Challenger, but still want to live life looking good, moving fast and bleeding red, white and blue. Your nickname was "Super Soul" or your last name is "Kowalski."
Why you shouldn't buy this car:
You hate America and everything it stands for. You are content living your life in a drab, vanilla coma, never once yearning to break free to live life the way it should be lived. You know, like it was thirty years ago. Also, you're a red commie liberal hippie who smells vaguely French. Comprendez-vous?
Suitability Parameters:
Speed Merchants: Yes
Fashion Victims: Yes
Treehuggers: No
Mack Daddies: Yes
Tuner Crowd: No
Hairdressers: No
Penny Pinchers: No
Euro Snobs: No
Working Stiffs: Yes
Technogeeks: No
Poseurs: Yes
Soccer Moms: No
Nascar Dads: Yes
Golfing Grandparents: No
Also Consider:
• 2008 Ford Mustang GT500
• 2008 Dodge Charger SRT8
• Waiting for the 2010 Chevy Camaro SS
• Waiting for the 2010 Ford Mustang GT500
• Sitting at home and drinking oil straight from a barrel.
• Manufacturer: Dodge
• Make: Challenger SRT8
• Model year: 2008
• Base Price: $37,320
• Price as Tested: $41,310
• Engine type: 6.1-liter SRT HEMI V8
• Horsepower: 425 @ 6,200 RPM
• Torque: 420 @ 4,800 RPM
• Transmission: 5-speed Automatic
• Curb Weight: 4,103 lbs
• LxWxH: 197.7" x 75.7" x 57"
• Wheelbase: 116"
• Tires: 245/45ZR20 - Front; 255/45ZR20 - Rear Performance Tires
• 0 - 60 mph: 5.13 seconds (as tested with onboard 0-to-60 meter)
• EPA Fuel economy city/highway: 13/18 MPG
• NHTSA crash test rating: *****
Also see:
• 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8, Part One
• 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8, Part Two
Photo Credit: Dane VanSlembrouck
Note to Hoonage-Seeking Readers: We're not done yet. More to come on Monday...


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StokeySue wrote:
Can any one recommend a dry tonic? They are all way too sweet , including Fevertree
I emailed Fevertree suggesting there was a market for an extra dry tonic (Mr Werner who makes Harrington gin agrees; his gin is nice but too much ginger for my taste) and they didn't bother to reply (presumably didn't bother to read it), just stuck me on their junk mail list, which I found so rude I'm tempted to boycott the beggars.
Lemon flavoured tonic is just
Zosherooney wrote:I do enjoy a gin and tonic. Used to wonder what others saw in them but my tastebuds have changed over the years. A friend recently introduced me to Bombay Sapphire (40 proof). It is lurverley ! Quite an oily spirit, with loads of flavour, much more so than common gin, so much so that I cannot add tonic to BS gin. It has to be drunk neat and in small amounts. Mr Z found a great deal at Muscat airport.......a 2 bottle carton of the stuff (47 proof !!! litre bottles) for £30.
Long may it last !!!!
The flavouring ingredients are all natural and are referred to as 'botanicals'. The type and quantity of each producer's botanicals vary according to their own closely guarded recipes; all are carefully selected and tested for purity and quality. All gins include juniper as an ingredient: other botanicals used are coriander, angelica, orange peel, lemon peel, cardamom, cinnamon, grains of paradise, cubeb berries and nutmeg. Typically a fine gin contains six to ten botanicals. Like all gins, London gin should have a predominant juniper flavour.
smitch wrote:I've been there! I lived in Plymouth for a short time 6 or 7 years ago. I'd totally forgotten about Plymouth gin though. That's another one I really like
I tried Bombay London Gin
Luca wrote:My father used to drink pink gin........... and only good gin and a couple of drops of Angostura were allowed. A different elderly relative, when told to stop drinking alcohol switched (occasionally) to Angostura and soda which she said made the transition easier! There were certainly more than a few drops though!
Zosherooney wrote:Treated us to Ophir Gin and Feverfew tonic yesterday - Boy ! what a different drink, it is almost not a G&T but tons better !!!! I could get too used to the wonderful taste....... Frightening
earthmaiden wrote:Zosh - and others - did you know that the Bombay Sapphire distillery was here and that you could visit? I didn't. http://distillery.bombaysapphire.com/
Wildie day out idea!
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RE-M3 "Mainsail" Liquid Engine
|RE-M3 "Mainsail" Liquid Engine
| Liquid fuel engine by
Rockomax Conglomerate
|Radial size
|13 000.00
|6.00 t
|Max. Temp.
|Impact Tolerance
|7 m/s
|Heavier Rocketry
|Unlock cost
|38 000
|Since version
|Part configuration
|Liquid fuel engine
|Maximum thrust
|(1 atm)
|1 379.03 kN
|1 500.00 kN
|(1 atm)
|285 s
|310 s
|Fuel consumption
| 98.68 /s
|Thrust vectoring
|2 °
|Testing Environments
|On the surface
|✓ Yes
|In the ocean
|✓ Yes
|On the launchpad
|✓ Yes
|In the atmosphere
|✓ Yes
|Sub orbital
|✓ Yes
|In an orbit
|✓ Yes
|On an escape
|✓ Yes
|× No
|Test by staging
|✓ Yes
|Manually testable
|✓ Yes
The Rockomax "Mainsail" Liquid Engine is one of the heaviest and most powerful large-diameter engines among the stock parts. It is usually used to provide thrust for larger rockets and lower stages. It is typically fueled by large diameter liquid fuel tanks like the Rockomax X200-32 Fuel Tank. Prior to version 0.23.5 it was the largest engine, as well as the one with the highest thrust. Those titles, however, are now held by the S3 KS-25x4 Engine Cluster.
The Mainsail is a common choice for lifting large stacks of liquid fuel tanks into orbit and beyond, or propelling large heavy lift vehicles. As of 1.0.4[outdated], this is one of four size 2 engines. The thrust vectoring also gives it good pitch and yaw control, greatly easing first stage stability, though care must be taken to not allow S.A.S. to tear the ship apart. The thrust-to-weight ratio of this engine is excellent. The specific impulse is also fairly good, though it can still consume large amounts of fuel.
The high thrust of this engine combined with thrust vectoring can destroy poorly built rockets in the middle of ascents. Throttling down or limiting the gimbaling is often recommended. Prior to version .22 the Mainsail would tend to quickly explode from overheating when run on maximum throttle and placed under a Rockomax Jumbo-64 Fuel Tank. Though this has been resolved, other parts may encounter the same bug. Placing a small strut or fuel tank between the engine and the Jumbo-64 will mitigate this.
Product description
|A monster of an engine for heavy lifting purposes, the Mainsail's power rivals that of entire small nations.
- Cost increased (850 → 5650), specific impulse increased (280-330 → 320-360)
- heatProduction reduced from 500 to 400, as a work around to heat transfer bugs with the Jumbo-64
- Renamed from LV-T30 Liquid Fuel Engine to Rockomax "Mainsail" Liquid Engine, thrust increased (1200 → 1500), mass decreased (7 → 6), new description
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Cell Therapy for Craniofacial Bone Defects
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01616953
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : June 12, 2012
Results First Posted : May 4, 2017
Last Update Posted : May 4, 2017
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|Condition or disease
|Cleft Palate Trauma
|Biological: Ixmyelocel-T Procedure: Autogenous Bone Grafting
|Phase 1 Phase 2
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|18 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Cell Therapy for Craniofacial Bone Defects
|Study Start Date :
|August 2012
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|June 2015
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|June 2015
Experimental: Ixmyelocel-T
iliac bone marrow aspirates are expanded ex vivo to enrich for adult multipotent cells (ixmyelocel-T) capable of regenerating bone and blood vessels and reducing inflammation. Following cell expansion, autologous ixmyelocel-T is then packaged and can be used as an autologous graft for treatment of bone defects.
Biological: Ixmyelocel-T
Twelve days after the bone marrow aspiration, alveolar grafting will be performed. Under local anesthesia, and possibly conscious intravenous sedation (depending on patient desire for sedation due to anxiety), alveolar grafting will be performed with the cell therapy (Ixmyelocel-T)
Other Name: bone repair cells
Active Comparator: Autogenous Bone Grafting
Alveolar grafting will be performed. Under local anesthesia, and possibly conscious intravenous sedation (depending on patient desire for sedation due to anxiety), alveolar grafting will be performed with an autogenous bone block harvested from an intraoral or extraoral site, according to standard of care.
Procedure: Autogenous Bone Grafting
Alveolar grafting will be performed. Under local anesthesia, and possibly conscious intravenous sedation (depending on patient desire for sedation due to anxiety), alveolar grafting will be performed with an autogenous bone block harvested from an intraoral or extraoral site, according to standard of care.
- Bone Regeneration [ Time Frame: 4 months ]The primary outcome variables for bone regeneration will be measured by histological and microcomputed tomographic (μCT) analyses at 4 months post-grafting.
- Implant Stabilization [ Time Frame: 10 months ]The ability of the dental implant fixtures to be loaded and remain stable for six months following implant loading (at 4 months) will be evaluated.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 60 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age range: 18 to 60 yrs
- Gender: Male and female
- Patients must be able and willing to follow study procedures and instructions.
- Patients must have read, understood and signed an informed consent for
Missing tooth criteria:
Patients missing at least one maxillary lateral incisor secondary to cleft lip and/or palate:
- with compromised bone support for installation of dental implant(s) ( > 3 mm deficiency in horizontal and/or vertical bone height)
- with adequate interdental arch space for dental implant restorations
- with bony continuity between cleft segments
- with adequate interproximal space (between adjacent teeth) for dental implant installation
Patients missing multiple (1-4 teeth) teeth secondary to trauma:
- in maxillary or mandibular anterior segments (second premolar to second premolar)
- with compromised bone support for installation of dental implant(s) ( > 3 mm deficiency in horizontal and/or vertical bone height)
- with adequate interdental arch space for dental implant restorations
Exclusion Criteria:
- Allergies or hypersensitivities to study related medications: dexamethasone, chlorhexidine, ibuprofen. For patients allergic to amoxicillin a comparable substitute antibiotic will be used.
- Hematologic disorders/ blood dyscrasias. Patients will have blood drawn for a complete blood count (CBC) test. Current University of Michigan Health System normal lab values are as follows: white blood count (WBC: 4.0-10.0 x103/cmm), red blood count (RBC: male 4.50-5.90 x103/cmm; female 3.90-5.30x103/cmm), hemoglobin (HgB: male 13-17.3gm/dl; female 12-16gm/dl), Hct (male 39-50.2%; female 35-48%), mean corpuscular volume (MCV: 80-100fl), mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH: 25-35 pg), mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC: 30-37%), red cell distribution width (RDW: 11.5-15.5%), Plt (150-450x103/cmm).
- Active infectious disease
- Liver or kidney dysfunction/failure- Patients will have blood drawn for serum laboratory tests, including creatinine, blood urea nitrogen, aspartate aminotransferase test (AST), alanine aminotransferase test (ALT), and bilirubin.
- All of these must be within normal limits for a patient to be included in the study.
Current University of Michigan Health System normal lab values are as follows: *Creatinine (male 0.7-1.3 mg/dl
- female 0.5-1.0 mg/dl)
- blood urea nitrogen (BUN: 8-20 mg/dl)
- Bilirubin (0.2-1.2 mg/dl).
- Laboratory values that will define normal renal and hepatic function, as well as criteria for exclusion of metabolic bone disease are consistent with those established by the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS).
- Normal clinical values will be used to help assure the health of all subjects in this trial.
- Potential subjects whose laboratory values fall outside the UMHS normal ranges will be required to have medical clearance from their primary care provider prior to participation.
- Endocrine disorders/dysfunctions (i.e uncontrolled Type I or II diabetes, glycosylated hemoglobin [HA1C > 7%})
- Cancer - The explicit definition of cancer used to exclude patients is consistent with that described by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health. According to NCI, cancer is any disease in which abnormal cells divide without control and invade nearby tissues (invasive disease). These include carcinomas, sarcomas, leukemias, and lymphomas. Any patient with a history of these invasive diseases will be excluded from the study.
- Patients who currently use bisphosphonates or have a history of bisphosphonate use will be excluded from the trial.
- Metabolic Bone Diseases- Patients with metabolic bone diseases such as Paget's disease, hypercalcemia, moderate to severe vitamin D3 abnormalities or any other metabolic bone disease including osteoporosis and osteoporotic fractures will be excluded. The following scale will be used to determine osteoporosis in patients who have had a bone mass density (BMD determination: Normal = T score at or above -1.0 standard deviation [SD]); Osteopenia = T score between -1.0 and -2.5 SD; Osteoporosis = T score at or below -2.5 SD.
- Pregnant women- Female patients who are of childbearing potential are excluded except those who are using hormonal or barrier methods of birth control (oral or parenteral contraceptives, diaphragm plus spermicide, or condoms). Pregnancy status will be determined with a urine test and patients who are pregnant, as determined by a positive test, will be excluded from the study
- Patients with congenital or metabolic bone disorders
- Subjects with co-morbid conditions that would affect the study outcome or interpretation of study results will be excluded
- Subjects on significant concomitant drug therapy for systemic conditions (i.e. cardiovascular disease, renal dysfunction) will not be included in the study. Occasional short term use (7-14 days) of analgesics or common cold medication is permitted. Such use of these medications will be reviewed and recorded by the Investigator.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01616953
|United States, Michigan
|Michigan Center for Oral Health Research
|Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48106
|Principal Investigator:
|Darnell Kaigler, DDS, PhD
|University of Michigan
|Responsible Party:
|Darnell Kaigler, Principal Investigator, University of Michigan
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01616953 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|June 12, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|May 4, 2017
|Last Update Posted:
|May 4, 2017
|Last Verified:
|March 2017
dental implants
Cleft Palate
Jaw Abnormalities
Jaw Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Maxillofacial Abnormalities
Craniofacial Abnormalities
Musculoskeletal Abnormalities
Stomatognathic Diseases
Mouth Abnormalities
Mouth Diseases
Stomatognathic System Abnormalities
Congenital Abnormalities
Central Nervous System Depressants
Physiological Effects of Drugs


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The growth rate of Stenoclada Spineless will vary greatly depending on soil type, sunlight, temperature and other factors. A few leaves are often trimmed prior to shipping to reduce transpiration and travel stress.
When you receive your new Euphorbia, there is no need to worry about planting right away. Your new plant can be stored for a while by simply placing it in a tray and moving it to a shady location, simply water when dry. This will give you plenty of time to select the ideal location for your new Euphorbia.