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John McCain: Pull the Trigger
John McCain and Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday had the following exchange over the news that Defense Secretary Robert Gates sent up a warning flare that Obama doesn't have a viable plan to prevent the mullahs from going nuclear:
MCCAIN: I didn't need a secret memo from Mr. Gates to ascertain that. We do not have a coherent policy. I think that's pretty obvious. We keep threatening sanctions. We keep, for well over a year now — in fact, including the previous administration — we keep threatening.
And obviously, we have not done anything that would in any way be viewed effective. Former secretary of state George Shultz once told me — he said, My old Marine drill instructor said never point a gun at somebody unless you're willing to pull the trigger.
We have to be willing to pull the trigger on significant sanctions. And then we have to make plans for whatever contingencies follow if those sanctions are not effective. … I believe that the Chinese and the Russians will not be particularly helpful.
So why don't we get our European allies together and let's impose sanctions from that aspect of it? Maybe that would embarrass somehow or force the Russians and Chinese to act in a more cooperative fashion.
WALLACE: So forget the U.N., just impose …
MCCAIN: Maybe not forget the U.N., but certainly go ahead and move forward with some serious, meaningful sanctions.
WALLACE: What are sanctions?
MCCAIN: Well, refined petroleum products is one. The other, I think, is stand up for the human rights of the people of Iran. Put the pictures of those people who were brutalizing and killing and torturing the demonstrators and the people who are standing up for their God-given rights. Make them famous. We did that in certain respects during the Cold War.
WALLACE: And what about military action?
MCCAIN: Well, I think, obviously, every contingency has to be on the table. I think that we — it's pretty clear that the Israelis cannot live with a nuclear-armed Iran. We saw news reports that the Syrians have moved Scud missiles into southern Lebanon. That is a serious escalatory move. Now Jerusalem and Tel Aviv are within range of Scud missiles.
So I think that we have to have contingency plans. But I do agree with most experts. Let's try to get the pressure on from all directions, tough, tough sanctions, and stand up for the people that want and obviously are demonstrating in the streets and are being brutalized in the prisons.
The fact that Gates's January memo was leaked now — following Obama's dog-and-pony nuclear summit show — suggests that someone in the administration is nervous that the Obami have made precious little progress in devising an alternative to its que sera, sera stance toward a nuclear-armed Iran. The choice comes down to this: Obama's mini-sanctions (which increasingly seem to be a slow walk to containment) or the toughest unilateral sanctions we can muster with a credible threat of military force if those sanctions don't succeed. Unfortunately, by downplaying the use of force (and let's be candid, Gates contributed to this by contributing his fair share of the bad-mouthing), such a threat is going to be all the more difficult to muster.
It's hard to escape the conclusion that the Obami have done an extremely effective job of eliminating or hampering the most serious options for thwarting Iran's nuclear ambitions. It may come as news to the Gray Lady's readers, but for Obama's conservative critics, it's hardly surprising that when a president is reluctant to flex America's "hard power," the world becomes a more dangerous place.
Mainstream Media Discovers Tom Campbell's Israel Issue
After Phil Klein and I have written about this for a week, the mainstream media, reporting on the Republican Senate primary in California, have finally discovered the controversy concerning Tom Campbell's record and rhetoric on Israel. The Los Angeles Times has now weighed in:
In a dispute that commingles foreign policy and a quest for political advantage, U.S.-Israel relations have taken an unexpectedly central role in the California race for Senate.
Rivals in the race for the Republican nomination are questioning whether former Rep. Tom Campbell is sufficiently supportive of Israel. They base their criticisms on his voting record, statements about a Palestinian homeland and capital, and some of his past associates.
After some back-and-forth regarding whether his rivals have dubbed him anti-Semitic (they say they have not) we learn that Campbell has rounded up former Secretary of State George Shultz to vouch for him. But then we get to the meat of the concern regarding Campbell's record:
Criticism of Campbell's voting record centers on efforts to reduce foreign aid for Israel. While in Congress, Campbell said, he supported military aid for Israel but twice sought to reduce economic aid. In the late 1990s, when foreign aid to other nations was being cut to help balance the budget, Israel's allocation was not affected. Campbell said he favored allowing the military aid to remain unchanged but supported slightly reducing economic aid.
A second instance occurred when he voted against giving Israel an additional $30 million in economic aid, which was to have been taken from funds set aside for the neediest nations, such as those in Africa. That money, he said, was on top of a $700-million aid request that he supported and an earlier $3-billion appropriation. . . Campbell also drew criticism in the past for saying that Jerusalem should be the shared capital of both Israel and a Palestinian state. He said in the interview that he stands by that view.
Now Campbell is back to admitting he did accept a contribution from convicted terrorist Sami Al-Arian. (He flatly denied it in his New Ledger interview yesterday.) The story now is:
His opponents also questioned Campbell's past associates, notably Sami Al-Arian, a former University of South Florida professor who pleaded guilty in 2006 to conspiring to help a terrorist organization. Al-Arian had donated $1,300 to Campbell's 2000 campaign for Senate. Campbell, who was the business school dean at UC Berkeley and now teaches at Chapman University, wrote a letter to the University of South Florida protesting its decision to fire Al-Arian over comments he made. He also visited Al-Arian's brother in jail.
Campbell said he did not know about Al-Arian's illegal activities at the time and said that if he had he would not have written the letter.
"None of that had come out," he said. Al-Arian was also photographed with George W. Bush during his first presidential campaign, Campbell noted.
(Al-Arian had, of course, been the subject of a 1994 documentary, had been under investigation for years before 2000, and had long spewed jihadist rhetoric.)
But on this one, the lede is buried, and perhaps with it Campbell's standing in the Jewish community:
"He's a brilliant gentlemen and an engaging personality, and I don't think he's particularly pro-Israel," said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, who has known Campbell since the 1980s. "I think there's enough there on the record that would send real alarms that this is someone who maybe doesn't fully understand, doesn't fully value or fully support a strong ongoing relationship with the state of Israel, an alliance with the state of Israel."
Campbell can whine all he likes that his rivals' attacks are "unacceptable" and "personally hurtful," but that probably isn't getting him anywhere. He is, however, reportedly to meet with representatives of AIPAC. Perhaps he can convince those Jewish leaders that his record is a stellar one on Israel, that his praise of Alison Weir (not mentioned in the Times report) is nothing, that his support of Al-Arian is also nothing, and that past rhetoric is not indicative of his views on Israel and a Palestinian state. Stranger things have happened. But first he should, on matters such as Sami Al-Arian, pick one story and stick to it.
The Fab Four Speak
Yesterday, George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger, and Sam Nunn repeated their arguments for complete nuclear disarmament in the Wall Street Journal. "With nuclear weapons more widely available, deterrence is decreasingly effective and increasingly hazardous," they write.
In this judgment the Fab Four of geopolitics are undoubtedly correct. During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union successfully deterred the other with mutual threats of annihilation. Today, we do not have a bipolar international system or even generally symmetric relations between ourselves and our adversaries. Dictators and autocrats seeking the ultimate weapon have big-power sponsors—China and Russia—and seem to believe they face weak and divided leaders in America and Europe. Unfortunately, there is no consensus in the West as to the nature of present nuclear threats or the means to deal with them. All this means that we cannot risk everything on the assumption that yesterday's concepts of deterrence apply to today's situation.
This argument is the intellectual foundation for the disarmament proposal made by Messrs. Shultz, Perry, Kissinger, and Nunn. Yet it is, coincidentally, also the best reason for the use of force. In both North Korea and Iran we face nations led by hard men who might not be amenable to Western notions of persuasion or reason and may, in some circumstances, be unafraid of the prospect of massive death.
As Kim Jong Il, the generally unpredictable leader of North Korea once said, "If we lose, I will destroy the world." And we all have read the millennial notions that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad propagates. When it comes to stopping the spread of nuclear weapons, we should all listen to the wisdom of the oft-ridiculed Dan Quayle. "People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history," he once said.
How we deal with really weird leaders of very dangerous states will depend on the exigencies of the moment, of course. Yet when we consider our options, we should remember that we got into today's perilous situation by adopting middle-of-the-road measures and accepting unpromising compromises. Therefore, enduring solutions may come only from the extremes of the political spectrum. Whatever one may think of the Shultz-Perry-Kissinger-Nunn proposal, it is a suggestion that will take decades to implement. In the meantime, we may have to accept their assumptions and be willing to disarm rogues the old fashioned way—by force.
ANNAPOLIS: What It All Means
Noah, what Annapolis reveals about the Bush administration may be nothing more than it has 14 months left — and that Condi Rice has gone native, as nearly all Secretaries of State (George Shultz being the only exception I can think of) do. That doesn't make her a fool or a narcissist, as you charge. It marks her, in the end, as a conventional foreign-policy thinker. And while she may have used her close relationship with Bush to allow her room to get to this point, she apparently did not push the president to move away from the architecture of his 2002 "vision of two states living side by side" — according to which that the United States will only recognize a Palestinian state that gives up terror as a weapon and is a democracy. That, as Bush's remarks this morning indicate, remains the framework for the administration's policy. Bush clearly likes his framework, and when Bush likes a policy, he tends not to alter it a whit.
Does this indicate a disastrous turn in American foreign policy, as some of those articles you cite (though not mine) indicate? I discern, in the end, very little change, despite the worries. The open evidence so far indicates that the low-expectations summit has in fact met its low expectations, with the "lots of other nations present" business proving essentially meaningless except as a bragging point for the diplomats who got them there and a shopping opportunity for them and their wives at outlet malls and Tysons Corner. That doesn't mean the State Department wouldn't like it otherwise. But that doesn't seem to be the story of this summit. If we've seen the worst of Annapolis — and I grant you we may not have; we won't know for a few days — I think we can actually breathe a sigh of relief.
Friedman's Folly
Thomas Friedman is the second- or third-best columnist at the New York Times. Admittedly that's damning with faint praise. But he does know a fair amount about the Middle East and some other topics, and even if he repeats himself far too often (especially on the need for ending oil dependency), and gets a lot of things wrong (such as his support for the Oslo Peace Process), and exaggerates in those areas where he's basically right (his support of globalization), I find him often worth a read, which is more than I can say for some of his colleagues. But in yesterday's newspaper, Friedman sounded more like a talk-radio blowhard than the Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign-affairs columnist for the Newspaper of Record. (Read his column free here.)
In yesterday's Times, Friedman went for cheap and easy populist point-scoring. He excoriated Iraqi parliamentarians for taking August off while our troops swelter in the Iraq heat wearing body armor. "Here's what I think of that: I think it's a travesty," he exclaimed—words you can easily imagine coming out of the mouth of Lou Dobbs or Bill O'Reilly or someone else not normally to be confused with Tom Friedman.
Charlie's Angle
Yesterday Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign announced the selection of Charles Hill, a career Foreign Service officer who retired from government life to teach diplomacy at Yale, as the candidate's chief foreign policy adviser. Hill is so admired by students that, as Scott Johnson notes at Power Line, one of them wrote a book about him: The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost.
The Plank's Bradford Plumer nevertheless attacks Hill, writing that he was "George Shultz's assistant back when the Reagan administration was orchestrating arms shipments to Iran in the 1980's." This bit of information—or rather spin—is completely irrelevant. Iran-Contra had its roots in Reagan's National Security Council, on which Hill never served. Hill was never charged with any crimes: the only charges the overzealous prosecutor could bring against him lay in a few dubious sentences in his equally dubious book.
I'd argue that Hill's connection to Shultz, the Republican Party's senior statesman, actually makes this appointment a shrewd move by Giuliani. Shultz was prescient on the subject of terrorism; he was and is a formidable policy intellect; he believed not in surrendering to our enemies, but in defeating them. Plus, the campaign's move links the candidate with Reagan, whose reputation, on the left and the right, is at a high.
And doesn't Hill's resume—posts in Zurich, Saigon, and on the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, a prominent position at an Ivy League university—suggest that he's exactly the kind of experienced, nuance-appreciating diplomat that the left wants running American foreign policy?


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A preliminary economic evaluation of percutaneous neuromuscular electrical stimulation in the treatment of hemiplegic shoulder pain
Til, Janine A. van and Renzenbrink, Gerbert J. and Groothuis, Karin and IJzerman, Maarten J. (2006) A preliminary economic evaluation of percutaneous neuromuscular electrical stimulation in the treatment of hemiplegic shoulder pain. Disability and Rehabilitation, 28 (10). 645 -651. ISSN 0963-8288
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Abstract: | Objective - The objective of this study was to compare the cost-effectiveness of various treatment modalities for hemiplegic shoulder pain. - Design - A stage II economic evaluation - Main outcome measures - Incremental cost effectiveness ratio of P-NMES, compared to slings and anti-inflammatory injections - Results. The incremental cost effectiveness ratio (ICER) of p-NMES, compared to anti-inflammatory injections is €6,061 (±3,285). The incremental cost of the first quality-adjusted life year after implantation of the P-NMES device compared to anti-inflammatory injections is €33,007 (±5,434). This decreases to ≈ €7,000 after 5 years, and to ≈ €5,000 after 10 survival years.
Conclusion. In this early evaluation, P-NMES seems to be cost-effective according to known guidelines. Treatment with P-NMES is recommended for patients with chronic HSP. |
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I would like to make cushions for the rails on my Hunter 260 stern rail seats. Does anyone have a pattern or suggestions on how to cut out the material so that it will conform to the curvature of the rails and not pucker, fold, and pinch? Any help appreciated.:)
I'm not too familiar with Hunter stern rail cushions, but I imagine the construction is no different than most. I don't believe you use a technique which would "pucker, fold & pinch" the fabric - rather, a three piece process using a piping edge for durability and better form. Here are two pics from the Hunter Owner's website . . . http://shop.hunterowners.com/emp/images/product/109.jpg http://shop.hunterowners.com/emp/ima...ductsm/140.jpg |
not the seat, the rail cushion
Thanks for your reply. What I am wanting to make are the cushions for the curved stern rail. These are made using 1" pipe insulation covered by a suitable material (sunbrella) and closed by a velcro strip. The reason I asked for a pattern is that the sunbrella material will not just wrap the foam insulation in the curved shape without puckering, wrinkling, or folding. You can see the cushion I am speaking of in the link photos you provided.
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Rail Back Cushions http://shop.hunterowners.com/emp/images/product/109.jpg Increase the comfort of your stern rail seats While stern rail seats are a terrific place to sit, the rail digging into your back can get uncomfortable. Make the comfort lasting with Stern Rail Back Cushions. These cushions are designed to compliment all Hunter factory installed stern rail seats. (Stern Rail Seat Cushions are sold separately - see link below.) The cushions fit snugly along the curve of the stern rail. They are covered with Sunbrella which makes them resistant to mildew, rot, and UV rays. Plus, they can be made in any color to match your existing canvas. The Sunbrella cover wraps around the rail cushion and closes along the bottom with velcro. The ends cinch up with small draw strings. These cushions will dramatically increase the comfort of your stern rail seats. Nevermind then . . . don't have a pattern (g). Good luck anyway. |
Get a piece of paper (I recommend freezer paper - available at any grocery store) and hold up under the rail (might need another pair of hands for this). Trace the shape of the rail, inside and outside curve. Then calculate the necessary width of the pattern (rail diameter + overlap for velcro + any seaming). From the CENTER LINE of the shape traced, add on the necessary width. TADA...you have a pattern. If you use freezer paper, you can then cut out the paper pattern and iron it onto the sunbrella fabric (the little bit of wax on the paper will melt and temporarily afix the pattern to the fabric, but will easily pull off when you are done cutting). Pattern will be sturdy enough to reuse several times. |
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Thanks for the idea on making the pattern and especially for the tip to use the freezer paper. I am off to Wallyworld. Hope you sail this weekend.
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The Conservatory Garden is Central Park's six-acre formal garden. It is divided into three smaller gardens, each with a distinct style: Italian, French, and English. The Garden's main entrance is through the Vanderbilt Gate, on Fifth Avenue between 104th and 105th Streets. This magnificent iron gate, made in Paris in 1894, originally stood before the Vanderbilt mansion at Fifth Avenue and 58th Street.
The Italianate center garden is composed of a large lawn surrounded by yew hedges and is bordered by two exquisite allées of spring-blooming pink and white crabapple trees. A 12-foot high jet fountain plays on the western end of the lawn, backed by tiered hedges and stairs that lead up to a wisteria pergola. On the walkway under the pergola are medallions inscribed with the names of the original 13 states.
The northern, French-style garden showcases parterres of germander and spectacular seasonal displays of spring tulips, and Korean chrysanthemums in autumn, all within an ellipse of Japanese holly. In the center is the charming Three Dancing Maidens fountain by German sculptor, Walter Schott. To the south is the very intimate English-style garden. There are five mixed borders of trees, shrubs and perennial plants, and five seasonal beds featuring spring bulbs that are followed by annual flower displays. A slope of woodland plants lines the western edge of this garden. At the center is sculptor Bessie Potter Vonnoh's lovely Frances Hodgeson Burnett Memorial Fountain, a tribute to the author of the children's book, The Secret Garden. The children — a girl and a boy, said to depict Mary and Dickon, the main characters from the classic — stand at one end of a small water lily pool.
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ANGELA TOWNSEND December 26, 2012 4:57amPeter Dunn is resigning as a Benalla Rural City councillor and will close the doors of his business next month to pursue other opportunities.
While remaining tight-lipped on his future plans, Cr Dunn has said he can further discuss his new direction by the end of January.
''It's been a privilege to serve the community as a solicitor and councillor,'' he said.
''As well as a member of the leadership team with the Warrenbayne Fire Brigade, with which I intend to continue my involvement.''
Cr Dunn said life as a councillor had been ''full of highs and lows, and surprises''.
''I think I've made a difference, although possibly not as much as I'd have liked to. There have been a lot of frustrations — sometimes it seems to be more the tail wagging the dog,'' he said.
''There's been some good decisions, but I don't think the post office has been the best one.
''I think we could have delivered a library-learning centre much quicker in other ways.''
On last week's VCAT ruling against council and in favour of the Royal Hotel increasing its electronic gaming machines to 30, Cr Dunn said, despite the costs — believed to be in excess of $60
At a 2011 council meeting to discuss the planning permit application for additional gaming machines, Cr Dunn said council recognised that for many people gaming is a bit of fun while out with friends or family.
''For others it sees basic needs such as putting food on the table being neglected.''
Benalla Rural City Mayor Barbara Alexander said she was sorry to receive the resignation of Cr Dunn.
''Cr Dunn brought with him more than seven years of experience as a Benalla Rural City councillor and we have lost a great deal of knowledge and expertise,'' she said.
''Cr Dunn has served as acting mayor and a term as mayor and has chaired several council committees. On behalf of the council, I wish him well in his future endeavours.''
''Those candidates who were unsuccessful at the general election and are still eligible to be elected will be included in the countback,'' he said.
The two remaining candidates are Ellen Crocker and Andrew Vale. The countback will take place at the Benalla Town Hall, Nunn St, Benalla at noon on Thursday, January 17.
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There are indications that members of the Plateau State House of Assembly may compel the state Governor, Jonah David Jang to pay striking Local government workers in the state.
This emerged Thursday at the plenary presided over by the Speaker of the House, John Clerk Dabwam, where members condemned in strong terms the high handedness being demonstrated by Jang in handling the dispute.
The Lawmakers, in separate remarks, described as undemocratic the way and manner the Governor was approaching the matter, stressing that, the "No Work No Pay" declared by Jang has never been implemented in any part of the world and wondered why the governor still insist on it.
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Glenn Childs: That might prove a bit difficult.
Peter: Not after she retires. Now, when I was in office, I investigated her for judicial bribes.
Glenn Childs: So use it, Peter. Why do you need me?
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Cary: (to Alicia and Will, before taking Alicia's deposition) This is funny, isn't it? All these connections. My old workplace, my old boss, my old coworker... and my new boss competing with your husband. And then there's you two and... your thing.
Will: Chicago. Shall we start?
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Alicia: I've... For what?
Cary: State's attorney has asked me to head up an inquiry to look into the leak of Mr. Childs' deposition. Now, I'm going to try and expedite this, Alicia, so that you don't have a cloud hanging over your head.
Alicia: (ironically) Thank you so much.
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Impact of hypertension on ventricular-arterial coupling and regional myocardial work at rest and during isometric exercise. | |
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BACKGROUND: To understand better the mechanism of left ventricular (LV) remodeling related to hypertension, it is important to evaluate LV function in relation to the changes in loading conditions. The aim of this study was to investigate changes in conventional ventricular-arterial coupling indexes, LV strain, and a new index reflecting regional myocardial work assessed noninvasively at rest and during isometric exercise in a random sample including participants with normal blood pressure and those with hypertension. METHODS: A total of 148 participants (53.4% women; mean age, 52.0 years; 39.2% with hypertension) underwent simultaneous echocardiographic and arterial data acquisition at rest and during increased afterload (handgrip exercise). End-systolic pressure was determined from the carotid pulse wave. Arterial elastance (Ea) and LV elastance (Ees) were calculated as end-systolic pressure/stroke volume and end-systolic pressure/end-systolic volume. Doppler tissue imaging and two-dimensional speckle tracking were used to derive LV longitudinal strain. Regional myocardial work (ejection work density [EWD]) was the area of the pressure-strain loop during ejection. RESULTS: At rest, with adjustments applied, Ees (3.06 vs 3.71 mm Hg/mL, P = .0003), Ea/Ees (0.54 vs 0.47, P = .002) and EWD (670 vs 802 Pa/m(2), P = .0001) differed significantly between participants with normal blood pressure and those with hypertension. During handgrip exercise, Ea and Ea/Ees significantly increased (P < .0001) in both groups. Doppler tissue imaging and two-dimensional LV strain decreased in participants with hypertension (P ≤ .008). Only in subjects with normal blood pressure EWD significantly increased (+14.7%, P = .0009). CONCLUSIONS: Although patients with hypertension compared with those with normal blood pressure have increased LV systolic stiffness and regional myocardial work to match arterial load at rest, they might have diminished cardiac reserve to increase myocardial performance, as estimated by EWD during isometric exercise. |
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Type: Journal Article; Randomized Controlled Trial; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Date: 2012-05-22 |
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Title: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography Volume: 25 ISSN: 1097-6795 ISO Abbreviation: J Am Soc Echocardiogr Publication Date: 2012 Aug |
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Monday, July 8
Future Bible Heroes, et al.
Future Bible Heroes' new album, Partygoing, sounds a bit like Magnetic Fields. Well, probably because FBH are Magnetic Fields, or about 90 percent of them anyway. Let us explain: Future Bible Heroes is one of the musical projects from The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt, the wittily literary and sagely musical main man who writes the tunes and words for the band. His buddy, Christopher Ewen, composes the instrumental backing tracks, and Claudia Gonson sings lead vocals. For this tour, the band will feature Gonson, Ewen and a couple of others, but Merritt has had to stay home and rest his ears, which are giving him problems. His trusty bandmates will give their all in their interpretations of the brazenly tuneful Partygoing songs, a somewhat schizoid batch of hyper-clubby disco-pop and morning-after ballads. --John Payne
Tuesday, July 9
Joe Santa Maria
The High School for Performing and Visual Arts in Houston has an impressive list of notable alumni, including Kendrick Scott, Walter Smith III, Helen Sung, Jason Moran, Robert Glasper and, for those who don't know who those people are, Beyoncé. Alto saxophonist Joe Santa Maria also went there, and though he is not as well-known as the others, his pedigree is apparent when sound comes out of his horn. Consider him one of the best saxophonists no one has heard about -- yet. He thinks music must be spiritually grounded, which makes sense when your last name is the same as Jesus' mom's. Santa Maria values trust, passion, beauty, freedom, excitement, joy, friendship and love. It's true, because he said so in an email. It's also true because that's how his music sounds. --Gary Fukushima
Wednesday, July 10
Queen Latifah, Roy Ayers
You might think you know Queen Latifah, but you really don't. The New Jersey native has moved far beyond her early days as a brassy, sassy, hip-hop diva and her later incarnation as a mainstream movie star, (stealing the spotlight in Chicago and carrying films like Bringing Down the House and Last Holiday). More recently, she has persuasively reinvented herself as a jazzy chanteuse on releases like The Dana Owens Album. Latifah's rich, warm voice is perfectly suited for such classic standards as "Lush Life" and "I Put a Spell on You" (which, coincidently, She & Him's Zooey Deschanel belted out two weeks ago at this same venue). Upping the ante tonight is an appearance by jazz-funk vibe legend Roy Ayers, best known for "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" and the slinky dance hit "Don't Stop the Feeling." --Falling James
Amadou & Mariam
Singer Mariam Doumbia and her husband, singer-guitarist Amadou Bagayoko, might both be blind but their music is unusually visual and colorful. Bagayoko plucks intricate riffs that sound like birds streaming against a sunny sky, as both he and Doumbia chant hypnotically ebullient melodies in Bambara, French and occasionally English. The Malian duo has worked with French world-music genius Manu Chao on their now-classic 2004 album, Dimanche à Bamako. On their latest release, Folila, they're joined by a small galaxy of indie-rock stars including Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner, Theophilus London, TV on the Radio's Kyp Malone and Santigold. As enjoyable as those guest contributions are, Amadou & Mariam don't really need the help, as their blend of voices already sounds intoxicatingly magical when woven together with Bagayoko's funky guitar lines. --Falling James
See also: The Immense Sweetness of Amadou & Mariam
Thursday, July 11
Lazaro Galarraga & Sitara Son
Ah, yeah baby, that sultry, slinky Cubano sound -- all those luxurious undulating melodies and irresistible rhythms combine to achieve a particularly rich, smoky, languorous brand of musical atmosphere, which, if executed properly, is nothing less than transportive. When Havana born-and-bred vocalist-dancer-percussion veteran Lazaro Galarraga and his most able Sitara Son sextet take the bandstand, you can bet the cumulative effect of their sinuous groove-wrangling is enough to send you into orbit. Galarraga began his professional life in Cuba circa 1962 with the then-newly minted Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba, and the subsequent decades of nonstop experience have elevated his style to a masterly level. These cats deliver Cuba's influential, mesmerizing tradition Cuban Son style with an exotic African twist, and this just-inaugurated every-second-Thursday gig guarantees a long, deliciously hot summer. --Jonny Whiteside
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There's a certain sound that's just perfect for spending a summer night by the sea, and Surfer Blood has found it between the spaces of Weezer's blue album and maybe the guitar solo from Teenage Fanclub's "The Concept." The group's new album, Pythons, is layer upon layer of fuzz and melody and then more fuzz, built from note one to make an appearance on a summer mixtape -- or mix ... zip? Mixvine? Snapmixogram? Whatever people do to obscurely suggest certain feelings with certain songs these days, Surfer Blood is ready to help. Tracks like "I Was Wrong" recall the other, darker and possibly best-of-all Weezer of the Pinkerton era, and there's a strange hint of darkness in the Vampire Weekend-y verses of "Squeezing Blood." Don't worry, though --the pop is always waiting to bubble up. --Chris Ziegler
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Effect of Gabapentin on Idiopathic Subjective Tinnitus
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The purpose of this study is to determine wether Gabapentin which is useful for treating neuropathic pains, is effective on idiopathic subjective tinnitus.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Subjective Tinnitus |
Drug: Gabapentin Drug: placebo |
Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator) Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Phase 2 Effect of Gabapentin on Idiopathic Subjective Tinnitus |
- Reduction in the sensation of Tinnitus by the patient or complete resolution of tinnitus;by the patient's scoring it from one to ten, before and after prescribing Gabapentin. [ Time Frame: two months ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Relieve of complications of tinnitus, such as sleep difficulties. [ Time Frame: two months ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
Estimated Enrollment: | 70 |
Study Start Date: | January 2007 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | October 2008 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | April 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Active Comparator: 1
Randomly,half of the subjects are given Gabapentin.
Drug: Gabapentin
Gabapentin, 600 mg bid for the first two weeks, increased to a maximum dose of 1800 mg per day during the next 6 weeks if necessary.
Other Name: Neurontine
Placebo Comparator: 2
Randomly,half of the subjects receive placebo.
Drug: placebo
placebo is given with the same definition as Gabapentin
Detailed Description:
Tinnitus is the perception of sound in the absence of acoustic stimulation. It can be subjective or objective. .
Despite numerous researches,no effective treatment for people who suffer from tinnitus has yet been stablished.
As there are many evidences suggesting that loss of inhibition in the central nervous system may be responsible for many aspects of auditory dysfunction,including tinnitus; and as Gabapentin (Neurontin), a gama-aminobutyric acid (GABA) analogue, is an effective medication in conditions where inhibition in the CNS is impaired; we guess that Gabapentin might be useful for treating idiopathic subjective tinnitus.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 75 Years |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- patients with subjective idiopathic tinnitus
Exclusion Criteria:
- tinnitus with known underlying cause
- pregnant women and patients younger than 18 or older than 75 years
- patients with impaired renal function
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00555776
Iran, Islamic Republic of | |
ENT department of Mashhad Azad medical university | |
Mashhad, Khorasan razavi, Iran, Islamic Republic of, 91786 56553 |
Principal Investigator: | Mahboobeh Adami Dehkordi, MD | ENT department of Mashhad azad university of mashhad |
Responsible Party: | Dr.Mahboobeh Adami Dehkordi, Assisstant professor |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00555776 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | Gaba-tinntus-145 |
Study First Received: | November 8, 2007 |
Last Updated: | January 5, 2009 |
Health Authority: | Iran: Ministry of Health |
Keywords provided by Islamic Azad University of Mashhad:
tinnitus gabapentin |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Tinnitus Ear Diseases Hearing Disorders Nervous System Diseases Neurologic Manifestations Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases Sensation Disorders Signs and Symptoms Gabapentin Analgesics Anti-Anxiety Agents Anti-Dyskinesia Agents Anticonvulsants Antimanic Agents Antiparkinson Agents |
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The .NET platform provides support for invoking web services. No additional tools or SDKs are needed. This platform is very easy to use.
To show you how easy it is to build a web services consumer application. I am going to drive you in the various stages to build an application which is going to translate a text in a pre-defined language. The translation will be realized by a call to the Web service of Altavista "BabelFish". This sample is written with Visual Studio C++ .NET 2003.
First of all, create a new Visual C++ Project using MFC application template and on MFC application wizard choose a dialog based application and press Finish button.
Modify the new dialog box to have a control ComboBox and 2 EditBox as presented below.
Add 3 members variables associated to each control.
CComboBox m_ctlLang; CString m_strSource; CEdit m_ctlResult;
If you have used the dialog box "Add Member Variable Wizard" you should see the code following in the member function DoDataExchange().
CDialog::DoDataExchange(pDX); DDX_Control(pDX, IDC_COMBO1, m_ctlLang); DDX_Text(pDX, IDC_EDIT1, m_strSource); DDX_Control(pDX, IDC_EDIT2, m_ctlResult);
It is necessary to initialize the control ComboBox in the member function OnInitDialog() in the following way:
// TODO: Add extra initialization here // Add translation modes to the ComboBox m_ctlLang.AddString("en_fr"); m_ctlLang.AddString("en_it"); m_ctlLang.AddString("en_de"); m_ctlLang.AddString("en_pt"); m_ctlLang.AddString("en_es"); m_ctlLang.AddString("fr_en"); m_ctlLang.AddString("it_en"); m_ctlLang.AddString("de_en"); m_ctlLang.AddString("pt_en"); m_ctlLang.AddString("es_en"); m_ctlLang.AddString("ru_en"); m_ctlLang.SetCurSel(0);
Now we are going to integrate the Web service into our application. We select in the Project menu the choice "Add Web Reference...". In the field of the dialog box which appears type the following url: "http://www.xmethods.net/sd/BabelFishService.ws dl " and click refresh or go button. The result which you have to obtain must be close to this one :
Now click the "Add Reference" button
By verifying in the Solution Explorer View you will notice that a file in the name of WebService.h was added in Header Files. This file contains a class and all the member functions describing the Web service.
We are going to add in our project all the necessities to use this service.
1st step : add the following code in the Header File of your dialog box:
#include "WebService.h" using namespace BabelFishService;
Then Create an Event Handler on the button Translate, put in comment the call to the function OnOK() and write the following code:
... // Initialize COM CoInitialize(NULL); // Create a pointer to Babel Fish Service CBabelFishService *fish = new CBabelFishService(); .../... // invoke Web Service HRESULT hr = fish->BabelFish(bstrMode,bstrSource,&bstrResult); if (FAILED(hr)) .../... else { // transfert response to a CString variable str = bstrResult; // copy texte translated to the EditBox m_ctlResult.SetWindowText((LPCSTR)str); } ... / ... // deleting the pointer to Babel Fish Service delete fish; // Uninitialize COM CoUninitialize(); .../...
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Star Trek: Starfleet Command Review
This game has a somewhat steep learning curve, you really have to understand all the myriad capabilities of your ship, as well as your enemy to survive and prosper, but for the dedicated Star Trek fan its well worth it
Space, the final frontier... these are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise.... so opened one of the most famous television shows in history, Star Trek. For years, the only way to play out the battles between the starships featured in that classic show was with paper board games, and among the best of those games was Star Fleet battles. It was only a matter of time before that gem of a game was transformed into a computer game. That game is, of course, Star Fleet Command. This game features tactical combat between starships, up to three ships per side.
The game is a direct descendent of the board game, and many of it's interfaces will be familiar to those who played that game. This system has sometimes been criticized for being to complex, but on the contrary, it's this complexity that makes the game so interesting. The level of detail for this game's ships it quite excellent.
As you open the game, you are offered a number of choices, such as the race you want to play, there are six different races to chose from, and each has its own unique ships and special weapons. You can chose to be the Federation, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, The Gorn Confederation, The Lyran Empire, and the Hydran Kingdom. A seventh race, the Orion pirates will appear in the game as a menace for you to deal with.
Once you pick your race (Federation is good to begin with), you can select either a duel or a campaign. you can play the tutorials only through the campaign menu. Duels are quick one on one games, good for maybe a few minutes diversion. The game include a "Rank" screen that will keep tract of the tutorials you complete, as well as the game ranks you earn, in addition to medals for special achievement. The tutorials show you, in excellent detail, how to arm your weapons, fire them, how to move, use your tractor beams, your boarding parties, describe Electronic counter measures, and all the other details a starship captain must understand to run their ship properly. Each race's tutorial is slightly different, the Federation tutorial is narrated by actor George Takai, who played Sulu in Star Trek.
Another interesting feature of this game is that each starship display is different depending on the race you choose. There are six totally different displays, that tell you the information you need to know about your ship. These are divided into subscreens that can be called up. The game also fully supports "Hotkeys" to avoid excessive mouse clicking.
Your starship appears as a detailed 3-d model, even though the game is played in two dimensions, and all the ship types are very detailed, and very faithful to the Star Trek movies. The camera angles can be easily changed using the function keys, so you can view head on, from overhead, the enemy's vantage point, or the camera can be locked forward.
Once you have selected your race, made up a name for yourself, your promoted to Lt Commander and given command of your first ship, a frigate. You can chose to play in three different eras, early, middle and late, and the era will determine ship types available, weapons upgrades, and possible refits to your ship. Your now ready to embark on your career as a starship captain.
The campaigns are a series of missions, and how you do in a battle determines your "prestige", a numerical value that can be used as money to buy ship upgrades, better vessels, and added marines, spare parts and transporter mines. Even if you deplete your prestige points completely, they still count towards achieving your next rank. The objective of the campaign is to survive until you reach the highest rank available to your race.
Each mission begins with a briefing of the mission objectives. Depending on where you are in your empire, or in alien space, determines the kind of mission you undertake. You can move about space strategically on a separate screen between missions, as well as refit and repair your ship at a spacedock if your within your own empire. Missions in your own space are usually escorting of freighters, protecting them from the orion pirates. In alien space, you will normally encounter ships of the opposing races, and sometimes space monsters. Other missions require the scanning of planets and asteroids, usually interrupted by hostile aliens.
After you achieve a certain level of points, you will be invited to join your fleet's special forces. This means that you get different, and usually much more difficult missions to undertake, but they make the game far more challenging.
The game's actually battles are lively and colorful. Each heavy weapon has it's own visual and sound effect, and all fleets have phasers, which are high energy focused beam weapons. Your ship and the enemy have energy 'shields" that protect you from damage up to a certain point. Once a shied is knocked down, your ship will start to take damage. The strength of the shielding is shown in two ways, as concentric rings (three being the best shielding) and colors, silver being the most powerful, tapering off to green, yellow, and finally red. When red, the shield is nearing collapse.
Your ship type has only a limited amount of energy, that must be divided between weapons, defenses, tractors, transporters, shield reinforcement, ecm., eccm, and movement. Many weapons can be overloaded, but that means they must be fired from extremely close range. As your ship takes damage, you suffer a power falloff, which you have the ability to repair in battle if you have enough spare parts to do the job. Different classes of ships carry differing amounts of parts, just as larger ships can carry more marines, transporter bombs, missiles and attack shuttles.
In battle, you will see that the speed of your ship effects its turning ability, as well as its class and size. There are often celestial hazards as well, such as asteroids, black holes, and nebulas, each having a differing effect on your ship's battle effectiveness.
Another facet of the game is that your bridge crew is represented as officers whose experience can have an effect on your maneuver, weapons, science, repair time and barding parties. You can "hire" better officers using prestige points, and who is available is determined by exactly where you are within your empire. The same is true for ship types, the best types are usually only found in your capital.
The background music is quite nice, but often stops during battles, but your weapons fire can be heard. When your ship or an enemy ship is damaged severely, it will trail smoke, and if the hull becomes to damaged, the ship will explode. You can also self destruct, but I can't see the advantage to that, since you can leave any battle from a subscreen. You can also disengage on map, as a red boarder signifying the sector is there, crossing it puts your ship into warp, and ends the mission. At that time a mission debriefing appears, critiquing your performance, and awarding (and sometimes subtracting) prestige points.
This game has a somewhat steep learning curve, you really have to understand all the myriad capabilities of your ship, as well as your enemy to survive and prosper, but for the dedicated Star Trek fan its well worth it. Even if you just enjoy a tough battle, this game comes through, and it has excellent multiplayer support as well as many mods. I highly recommend it.


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quite a bit better than haas/baghdatis, but davydenko's performance wasn't far off ...
But the rest of 06 AO was **** easy. Novak had to beat Berdych and Murray as well.
Fed had a tough qtr against Davy but then had total pushovers in the semi and final. Haas 4th round wasn't because Haas was playing well he was getting killed until Fed lost concentration and Haas got back into the match, but once it got down to fifth set Fed thumped him again.
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eh,no , not even close ... ferrer wasn't anywhere close to good form, having struggled vs almagro and almagro should have put him away in straights ;
roddick OTOH was , he had even taken fed to the brink at the YEC 2 months or so ago ...
fed hit 45 winners to 12 UEs vs roddick, roddick was 11 winners to 18 UEs
djok hit 30 winners to 16 UEs vs ferrer, ferrer was 11 winners to 32 UEs
no denying that djok was in the zone, but ferrer was wayyyyy worse than roddick
This is an incredibly weak argument on your behalf yet again. Novak and Federer play completely different brand of tennis. Novak is the greatest defender ever along with Nadal. When a player like that is in the zone there is no way Ferrer would do anything to win rallies. Ferrer's shots just kept coming back like a brick wall and this caused him to make more errors.
Fed v Roddick is a completely different match up with much shorter points. Federer plays attacking style and therefore he won more rally's by hitting winners.
I thought you would at least have known that instead of googling a stat sheet...
Oh and Ferrer is a known pusher so t have equal W with Roddick just goes to show how aweful Roddick played when his W stats are equal to a guy like Ferrer and Ferrer was playing the better defender. Factor in that 4 of Roddick's winners were aces and that leaves him with 7 winners in ground play
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well, then AO 2011 and AO 2008 were fed's worst AOs ; you are also 'nitpicking' by pointing out his losses to a peaking Novak there ...
fed would have beaten novak at 2009/2010 AO had they faced off and you know it ...
Didn't you say Federer played better in 2011 AO than 2013? Didn't you create a massive post about it from another googled stat sheet? Now all of a sudden 2011 was worse than 2013? You keep changing stations to suit yourself and it only makes you look weaker and weaker in terms of your tennis knowledge which was very small to begin with.
As for Fed beating Novak in 09, it wouldn't matter because he lost anyway. If Fed reached Novak in 2012 and 2013 he would've lost to him and you know it.
Face it Novak is without a doubt the AO GOAT. He is undefeated against top 4 since he himself became a top 4 player. Now you can argue all you want that his record against top 4 wouldn't be as good if he didn't lose in qtrs in 09 and 10 all you want, the fact is he is:
6W 0L vs top 4 opponents and adding an extra 2 losses to that doesn't really prove he can't beat top 4 opponents at AO. Fed otoh has had 7 opportunities and only won 1 of them. When he was in his peak in 2005 he had a great chance to prove himself there, but he blew it, trying a tweener on match point. The truth is, as soon as a top 4 player plays to their ranking against Fed at AO, they beat him.
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whatever, but the performance he put was atleast better than what ferrer or murray put up on those occasions; anyways it doesn't matter that much as fed faced better players in the previous rounds- davydenko, haas & then later in the final - baghdatis
What difference does it make? Fed smashed Kiefer in the remaining sets and in the end both got through VERY comfortably and were under no threat of losing whatsoever.
As for Fed facing better players in other rounds, you really shouldn't be mentioning Haas. In that form no way would he pull 2 sets against Novak in the form he was in when he won the AO titles. Fed was pretty poor by his standards in 2006 and the **** weak draw saved him from another defeat down under.
If Novak had that draw he would only potentially lose 1 set to Davydenko.
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2006 fed may not have beaten 2008/2011 novak but 2004/2005,2007,2010 fed definitely could ....
truth is the
difficulty level was around the same
, only fed has been a bit more consistent ....
Absolutely not in any way, shape or form except for ******* logic which you specialise in.
For one, Novak had to beat Nadal to win 2012 AO, any version of Fed at AO would've lost to Nadal in 2012 AO form, especially on plexicushion.
And he beat Federer to win 2 of his other AO titles.
Fed hasn't beaten any top 4 except JC Ferrero.
Anyone with any brain cells would agree that Novak had it much tougher and despite that still has won it 4 times and won 3 in a row. He is AO GOAT. Not Federer.
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After the Sept. 11 tragedy, "our schoolchildren wrapped the trees with crosses rather than yellow ribbons," said Bruce Modahl, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church and School, River Forest, Ill. Their response wasn't limited to the trees of River Forest. Thanks to Grace, an independent Lutheran congregation, Lutheran schools and congregations in New York have received more than $100,000 in aid. Grace decided to raise money soon after Sept. 11. Although some members gave sizable contributions, the bulk came from congregation and school chapel offerings, said Modahl, an ELCA pastor. Schoolchildren also wrote letters to area police and firefighters, and the kindergarten class created American flags with red-handprint stripes that were sold for $1 each. In all, Grace collected more than $53,000, which was matched by Aid Association for Lutherans and applied directly to relief efforts. Grace has close ties to Stephen Bouman, bishop of the Metropolitan New York Synod. He is a son of the congregation, and his parents and two brothers are still active members. As a result, the congregation and school asked Bouman to distribute the funds. They received word that their gift "jump-started [the church's] ability to offer the kind of support that's so necessary," Modahl said.
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